January 5, 2026 • 32 mins
As rain finally moves through Southern California, Gary & Shannon look at what’s fallen, and what’s still to come, before diving into Week 18 of the NFL, the Chargers’ playoff outlook, and the chaos of Black Monday.
Gary previews his upcoming Baseball Fantasy Camp, sparking a conversation about baseball’s locker-room culture, before the hour pivots to actor Mickey Rourke facing eviction and the GoFundMe campaign launched by fans. The discussion widens into a candid look at GoFundMe itself: from genuine desperation to troubling scams, and whether crowdfunding has become an uncomfortable substitute for systems that should already be in place.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. A coach to look for
Pete Carroll shown the door this morning after one year
brought in dismal season, and now it looks like the
number one pick is yours. The last time the Raiders
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had the number one pick, JaMarcus Russell, one of the
biggest number one picked busts ever, famously was given film
to take home. Came back, was like, yeah, I watched it.
He was given blank tapes.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That's a good time.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Such a cute. I think it was like forty million
dollars guaranteed in a rookie deal. It was a disaster.
So hopefully the Raiders will we'll make a much better selection.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Kno works on the morning show. He didn't know what
he was going to do tonight first.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Monday night and went on, maybe I talked to his kids.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
He's ri said, I said, maybe introduce yourself to your
children for one thing.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm dad. But then he was like, wow, it was
probably a college basketball game on. So he's Tom Brady.
Now he's like, I'll find something else.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
To do.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
These.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Thing's been going on for well over an hour now.
Police have been chasing a stolen vehicle. They say it's
a newer Kia. It looks like right now, the guy
has parked on South Redondo Boulevard right near Edgewood Place,
and he'd gone through Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Hills
and was on Hollywood Boulevard, so tourists got to see
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a full on, you know, actual southern California car chase.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Do you remember when we did shots for your birthday
an hour ago and they had like cayenne in them
and yes, I did you have anything in your stomach coffee? Yeah?
Me too. I can feel the insides getting like o
up in there from like the cayenne, pepper, whatever was
in that immunity shot. It started it started to be
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pain a little bit, my stomach like it like it's
eating my insides.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I have some crackers, go put some M and ms
on it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, that's a good call, isn't it. I'm like, you know,
maybe that wasn't such a good idea. You know, Fireball
never did that to me. You say, you know what,
Fireball never hurt me. I'm sure it didn't well. The
wet weather is for the most part gone. As Amy
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mentioned there in the newscast, there was an expectation we
could see a few places with some showers today, but
for the most part we're seeing the rain move on.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The rest of the week should be relatively nice.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And it was an absolute mess for several days. Highway
one to one was shut down both directions up above
Santa Barbara because of months slides there above Galita. There
was flooding in Ventura in places like that because I
just and any pothole that you saw, say before last
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week's rain is now fifty times larger, and is they
are eating vehicles now because our infrastructure is absolutely trash.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But other than that, everything is great.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Your plants are going to love it and everything, I mean,
as long as it's not just a mud pit where
you planted your stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Coming up in Swamp Watch, we'll get into all the
latest about what's going on with Venezuela, what happened with
President Nicholas Mduro's court appearance today before a ninety two
year old judge, who, by the way, has like quite
a lot of lore as you would imagine, attached to him.
In terms of being unorthodox and taking nobs, stubborn as hell.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
And he kept I mean, I've only seen the notes
obviously his federal courts, so there's no cameras inside. But
the reporters that I've seen describing the events in court
have said he was yelling, basically not yelling, but he
was had to interrupt.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Maduro over and over again because.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
He asked, who are are you, Nicholas Maduro, and Madu,
not knowing how it's done in an American courtroom, just
starts launching into a soliloquy. Yeah is that the right word?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay, but yeah, apparently this judge has his own sense
of right from wrong. So that's always fun, because at
ninety two you only become more set in your ways.
I just kidding. If you're sixty two and we're like,
you know what, I know the law better than the law,
at ninety two, things get real interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He wrote the law exactly. We'll see where it goes
from here. We know that Maduro and his wife are
in vans, headed back to prison after their court appearance
this morning, and really the takeaway from this morning was
he and his wife said they're completely innocent. He reiterated
the fact that or A claimed that he is the
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still legitimate president of Venezuela, despite the fact that his
handpicked vice president has already taken the oath of office
and is calling herself the president.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So tell me about this long local nightmare of rain
falling from this and when it will end.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, I just want to point out, yes, it has
been a very wet season. October first is usually is
it October first that we start the considered the rainy season,
or I should say since October first, we've seen about
fourteen inches of rain. We usually don't see fourteen inches
of rain in a year, and we've seen fourteen inches
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of rain in just three months, so that's that is
great news. I mentioned that one oh one was shut downs.
Topanga Canyon had to be shut down between pch and
Grand View Drive. State Route thirty three up in Los Padres.
National Forest Route two from Newcomb's Ranch to State Route
one thirty eight also shut down.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
This is.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The public health advisories have gone out because as we see,
when it rains, all of our literal s goes down
the drain and goes out into the ocean. So if
you're out there taking advantage of the tasting waves.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Then you might want to keep your mouth closed.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So there is a chance of rain tomorrow, But then
we've got sunshine forecast for Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, and listen. Not to say that this is the
end of winter storms, obviously, but it is going to
be a nice couple of weeks, it looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So all right, it is Black Monday. We've got a
lot of firings to tell you about in Arizona and Cleveland,
in Vegas, in Atlanta. Also, you've got two Los Angeles
football teams in the playoffs. This bracket is going to
be wild. We'll get into it when we come back.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (06:48):
Jd Vance's house was broken.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Into in Cincinnati, question mark.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, he and his wife and kids. I guess they
were already on their way or they were it back
in DC. But some twenty six year old guy man
taken into custody. Secret Service agents that were there heard
him using a hammer to break several windows in the house.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Time out. He got close enough to the house to
break windows with a hammer. Wait, there's more. Yeah, he
vandalized a Secret Service vehicle on his way up the
driveway to get to the house to then bang the
windows out. What is that?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Why?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
There's Have you seen the ads for the new Secret
Service recruitment ads? See now thousand dollars hiring bonus there?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Really?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that has been a struggling outfit for quite a while.
Aren't they the guys that didn't pay the hookers in Colombia?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
In Cartagenia, Yes, you got to pay your hookers. I
mean that's textbook. If you don't know to pay your hookers,
how are you qualified to be in the Secret Service?
That is dumb dumb time. I mean, like I've met
a lot of dumb people that have probably known enough
to pay for their hookers. It should be part of
the aptitude test when you get into secrets servis you know,
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do you know how to work your gun? Do you
know how to you know, have someone's six? And can
you pay your hooker?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Like just basically just.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do you pay your hooker right? Or just do you
A or B?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, maybe you're not for us if you're not
going to.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Pay your hooker? The bracelet? What's going on with there?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Elmar gave me this bracelet. It's from the Dominican Republic's
Elmer and Diane.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
They do not have to give us gifts.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
They do not have to give us gifts.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So nice.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, no, And those are those that blue that stone
and it's like a really popular and.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Dominican What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I was going to look it up.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I do not have that answer. I'll find out, Okay,
find out.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Tim Walls is out.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota, one time vice presidential candidate,
is not going to run for reelection. Simply devastated, but
he's not resigning a lot of people have been asking
telling him to resign because of the current fraud investigations
that are going on in there. But wow, what what
an end to an incredible football season. Last night's Baltimore
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Pittsburgh game where first of all, Pittsburgh's kicker flubbed the
extra point, so Baltimore, instead of tying, could easily win
it with a with a field goal.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is Boswell that's the same, right? Boswell is a kicker
of the Steelers. Is he the happiest with that outcome?
Because he missed the extra point and then the other
kicker misses and oh my god, and I was.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Just I'm the Steelers to the North.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In my opinion, Mike to Rico is the best play
by play guy period, end of story. Sure, in my time.
I love Greg Papa on the radio. I love Mike
Trico on the television. And Mike Turrico talks games out
like nobody else, and he talks the final moments up
like nobody else. And the way he talked up this kick,
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about out the about the Ravens losing their kicker, the
most accurate kicker in NFL history, Justin Tucker. You know
him from the Massage Parlors.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I don't, but I don't agree.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh, how they went on this nationwide search and here's
this kid from Arizona and he was brought in for
moments like this, and he's talking up the history and
the story of this kid right up to that kick.
And then I mean, just you get chills watching that call,
even though you know the outcome, the way Tariko talks
it up to that, that that that ultimate point is
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just perfection.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And the key, which this is a short version of it,
but the key is he stopped talking.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean the greats know when yes to stop talking,
and it was just the crowd noise there in Pittsburgh
because it was a winner go home. You either are
in the playoffs or you're done. You know, other games
they were playing for like San Francisco Seattle and obviously
they're playing for the top seed in the NFC. But
the other team they're in the playoffs. Like we knew
that was a guaranteed you're still going into the playoffs.
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This one was the do or die.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
R in the division or go home? And how else
would this particular NFL season end? Then the way it did,
it was the perfect script ending.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
We do know that the Rams and the Chargers obviously
are in the playoffs, so.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The Rams get the Panthers. Now, the Panthers have beaten
the Rams this season, but let's not all sit here
and pretend that the Panthers belong in the playoffs. They don't.
What they belong in is the disaster that is their division.
You know, with a three way tie of eight and
nine with you know, the Panthers, the Bucks, and the Falcons.
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I mean, it is a dumpster division and everybody knows it.
They have no business being in the playoffs. That said,
the Rams look like hot garbage the last time we
saw them.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And the.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Carolina Panthers get home field advantage they which.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Means true thing in that place. It's like silly, silly stadium.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
But they're kicking everything off Saturday afternoon, one thirty kickoff
in Carolina.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Okay, then what's the next game on.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Saturday Saturday's evenings?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Game?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Is the Packers at the Bear?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Now that that is a showdown, That is a nice
old rivalry. Should be good. Now, the Packers are not
the Packers they were mid to late season. They have
ever since their rusher who they got from Max Crosby.
Not Max Crosby. Who am I thinking of anyway?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Big guy?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
He's huge, huge edge guy. Anyway, Why am i They
got him from the from the from the Cowboys. Why
am I blanking on his name? What an idiot? Anyway,
I got a lot going on. But ever since then,
the Packers have not been as great as they as
they were at the height of their of their brilliance
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this season. The Bears, on the other, I mean, I
don't know, the Bears look good on Sunday night and
that shootout with the Niners, I mean, make no mistake
about it. That quarterback has put up a season. I mean,
then the numbers show show the story. So there's just
two games on Saturday, two.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Games on Saturday. The first game on Sunday will be
Buffalo at Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's right, okay, and then the Niners Eagles.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Niners Eagles is the afternoon. And then the evening game
on Sunday is Chargers in New England to take on
the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And again for Mike, a weekend of football.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And then Monday.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Don't forget there's a Monday game because there's six games
in total. The Monday game will be Houston against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
What a gift this weekend is to the American people. Now,
usually I love Wildcard Weekend. I used to do what
I used to do. My husband would take me to
Vegas and just drop you off, drop me off at
the video poker bar at the Golden Nugget because it's
the old video poker bar at the Golden Nugget, right
next to the old sports book there, and you'd have
all the screens, four TVs right there, video poker, all
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the champagne that'll give you a headache for six weeks
right in front of you. And I just sit there
all day morning till evening and watch you can just
sleep peace and happiness.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Outside you see through there's no windows in the casino,
of course, but outside is the sun rising and then setting.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
About thirty thirty pm. I'm like, that cigarette looks good.
You know. It's one of those days. And then and
then I started working for the Chargers, and I haven't
had a Wildcard weekend like that since. But also I
couldn't take it anymore. But what a great weekend to
just do nothing but watch great games because these are
going to be great.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
When they had just the sixteen week season, I would
that would always fall on your seek birthday.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It was always the first weekend of January.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It was the nice thing. What do you want to do?
I just want to do. Just don't bother me.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Just don't bother me.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm going to I don't have any there's nothing to do.
There's no honey, none of just I'll just be alone.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Now, you've got a final weekend before or fantasy camp
to get ready.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But you're going to have the games on the whole time.
That's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But you're going to drive out Sunday morning so you
can listen to the games on the radio. But Saturday,
do you have a final workout planned?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Finally, No, I think Thursday is the peak day.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Okay, Thursday.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Of the problem is I'm just gonna sit in a
car for six hours.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, it's hard to get in the zone when you're
gonna have a five hour drive five and a half
six six Okay, Sar.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I just I mean my hip flexors already don't like me.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Do you have a playlist ready to get you in
the mindset, like before you get out there on Monday morning,
Because Sunday you have like your orientation where you guys
all get together and you pretend to be friends and
nice and stuff. There is a specific because you know
your goal is not to make friends, right right, You're
not there to make friends.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
No friends.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, you're there to win no friends. There is a
specific album that I listened to when I go to
the field. I go to Scottsdale State and I go
and I walk around the outfield track just to move
it around.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, do you do it barefoot? No, barefoot might be
a good idea.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It's forty degrees.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Irwin James does that every stadium barefoot. You got to
ground yourself got to be one with the field. Interesting
and I guess also kind of a pro move. Like
guys see you walking around doing a lap barefoot? That's
like mind Efferry out the gate?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Interesting? Okay remember that walk around?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Nathaniel Ratlift and the Night Sweats I don't remember which
it's their second album. I think I have the The
Night Sweats.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah you never heard of that. No, I'm gonna check
them out though.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Nathaniel Ratlift and the Night Sweats the Future, m hmm,
it's an album from twenty one.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Mine's like meek Mill Dreams and Nightmares. That's my lap
song gets me in the zone, all.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Right, kicking your picking your shoes off?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
One we come back.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Biggy Rourke is looking for some what's with.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
These GoFundMe pages for people that have mismanaged their lives?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So the last time.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I saw Mickey Royke, it wasn't looking too good. No, listen,
you live your life, but I shouldn't have to compensate
you for bad decisions, right, isn't that what the healthcare
system for? Aren't we doing that already?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It's one way to put it.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
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Speaker 1 (17:28):
This is from the album you listen to Sounds very chill,
very grounded.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I smell sunsets and freshly cut grass, pine tar, oh nice, yeah,
and liniments.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Liniments. Yes, there's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Guys that are dipping into the old icy hot ah
by the week.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
If by the end of the week, are you gonna
take any nicotine pouches with you?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Any smelling salts?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Why?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh, just wondering if something happens that I need smelling salt.
So that's a I'm just wondering what your routine is
to get you going? Stuff to get you going.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
A little dynamic stretching, perhaps dynamic stretching, Yeah, okay, a
little warm up. We'll throw the ball, have a catch
if you will. Little slap bass some time in the cage.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
A slap at the what is it? Slap at the
what slap as? It's like slap ass, slap ass, scary.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
None of that, None of that. I don't think that happens.
You know what.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Another pro move is weird fantastic that people get out there.
You you take a lap barefoot in the grass by
the way, and then you just go up to hours
on the field, you start smacking their asses. I mean
that is how you set the tone. Some of those
guys and I'm here to run this.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Campers or coaches, coaches are all former mate.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't play, I don't care. They probably they would
probably enjoy a little smack ass ory, you know, get
their asses back in the game.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, hell yeah, Okay, Well, these very famous.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Guys, I'm not going to appreciate it if I walk,
I am.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
They were famous fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
To smacking hams or something.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm going to appreci I think they would appreciate it.
Don't say no right away a fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Let me, I just can I read this the way
it's written? Please? Oh.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Mickey Rourke entered American cinema like a force of nature, raw, fearless,
and utterly original in the late seventies and eighties. He
wasn't just a movie star. He was a symbol of
something rare, danger paired with vulnerability, toughness paired with heart.
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From Diner to Rumblefish to Nine and a.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Half Weeks, Rumblefish was a great book.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Mickey gave audiences performances that felt lived in, not performed,
and left a permanent mark on American film culture. Who
wrote this, Mickey's life never followed a safe or protected path.
At the height of his success, he stepped away from
Hollywood in search of truth and authenticity, choosing risk over comfort,
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boxing real and punishing, left lasting physical and emotional scars,
and the industry that once celebrated him moved on quickly.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Is someone from the ap just cutting and pasting this
to put him to the O bit bank?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's very possible. This is from his go it's not his.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
This is from the GoFundMe page that's been put up
for his agent by someone else. Whoever it was that
did this so that they're organizing the fundraiser to as
the assistant to Kimberly Hines, who's been Mickey Rourke's manager
for the last nine years. She has been directly involved
in overseeing Mickey's personal and professional affairs and is going
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to try to use the almost seventy four thousand dollars
that has been raised thus far to get him back
in to his house.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Now, something happened with this guy.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
That has forced his landlord to evict him. The last
thing he did was celebrity Big Brother.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
See that UK celebrity Big Brother UK. That is the
last stop on the road to Fallen Star, leading to eviction.
Signs point to eviction. Unfortunately, Mickey Rourke, he was in that.
He was in that sex movie, right, like in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Nine and a half weeks?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
What is it about? A bad relationship that's very sex involved?
I don't think I ever saw it. What's the nine
and a half weeks? And I thought that was about
a pregnancy? But that would be nine and a half months.
That was also a movie, right, I don't I don't
know if nine and a half months was an actual.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Oh, I may have and half weeks and thought that
was about a pregnancy. I think in the.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Length of the relationships Body Heat about that one.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's probably the same. That is sex movie. I think
that's what I'm thinking of, Debra, you should know all
the answers to this.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
You know, I watched that movie many, many, many many
years ago. I was really excited about it and it sucked.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Body Heat no weeks. Yeah, I don't know if I
ever saw Body Heat. I think I did. I think
I did. I don't remember. So what was nine and
a half weeks? Just a bad relationship basin, it wasn't there.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
And I remember her on the floor kind of hands
and knees and he was standing up. It was kind
of like a domineer.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Relationship.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, but the movie really was not It was not good.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I remember just being really really disappointed.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
There was a sequel called Another nine and a half Weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't think I saw this sequel. There was a sequel, yes, sir,
I know that. Yeah that now.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
A complaint filed in December accuses Mickey Rourke of owing
fifty nine thousand dollars in back rent at his home
here in La and he's told to pay the reindeo's
or move out within three days. That's a pretty good
if you're paying, if you're behind by fifty nine thousand
and only now you're being.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Told to move out.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That's some pretty good rent or protection laws that exist
here in La County.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He has turned down several roles in listen to these
films Forty eight Hours, Platoon, Top Gun, Beverly Hills, Cop,
The Untouchables, rain Man, Silence of the Lambs, pulp fiction.
See that's just bad decision making right there that leads
to eviction.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Why would they keep offering him those roles if he's
turning down great? Right, Like, wasn't he a great actor?
That just kind of thought he was a great I
mean the he was.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He was a weird look at I mean he did
have the sort of leading man swagger for a while.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And then he got real big. He was great in
the movie about the Wrestler? Was it the Wrestler? Am
I thinking about the right thing? I think it was
called the Wrestler. He was outstanding in that, like a
guy playing down on his luck used to be a
big deals not anymore fighting like that rang true for me.
For him, he was outstanding. He should have won in that.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I loved him an Iron Man two and he played
the bad guy with the whips for arms. Yeah, and
he was cutting those cars up at the Monte Carlo
Grand Prix.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
But like, what did he go through physically? Because he
used to be kind of a slighter guy, right, and
then all of a sudden he was this big.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Puffy guy. Hey, h does things?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's true? That's true, And stop looking at me like that.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I didn't even you didn't even I wasn't looking anywhere. Uh.
He also was a boxer, literally and had some facework
done and now looks like he's been through it a
couple of times.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, he was offered and decline the role of Butch
Bruce Willis's role in pulp fiction.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Really, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
We will do Swamp Watch coming up at the top
of the hour, and there's a lot going on, a
lot of moving parts. When it comes to the extradition
of Venezuela's leader to the United States to face charges
and narco terrorism charges, we'll talk about that and this
emergence of Marco Rubio getting a lot of kudos for
(25:46):
his work not just as Secretary of State or National
Security advisor but sort of.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
An ever, what's.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
The word Swiss army knife, I guess when it comes
to sort of what's been going on with this administration
policies in the carib with more than five that's.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
What I what we need from you next week.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
So we were talking about Mickey Rourke and whatever happened
with him owing fifty nine thousand dollars in rent that
somebody set up a go Fundme page apparently set up
a friend of his who is also part of his
management team, and they've raised, like I said, almost seventy
four thousand dollars already on a go Fundme page. And
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we see the gofundmes pop up every once in a while.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Sometimes it's to.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Help a family after a providers has died or is
sick or something like that, to help people get through stuff,
or someone who's been victimized by a crime. A lot
of times they will somebody will set up a Go
Fundme page and we've seen him get ridiculously rich literally
based on the goodness of others giving money to these
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to these go fundme pages. But there's a whole push.
I mean, you go on there and one of the
one of the ways that you can go through to
see how to give money is browsed by categories, and
there's one that is just medical. Somebody can't afford to
pay for something or they need.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
A new Are there people that have money to throw
to give that do this, that go on GoFundMe and
just kind of look around.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I'm sure there are. I mean, and you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Wonder is it rife with scam artists? Well, yeah, you
donate twenty five dollars and then weave their way into
people's lives, and I were wondering cause my mind, my
mind has to go when there's something good, to the
darkest place, because you can't just have pure good and giving. Right,
there's good, there's always gonna be when you appear good
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in giving, there's always going to be bad actors that
take advantage of that.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Well, and on the other side, I mean you're talking
about the people who would use it as a way
to get in and get close to somebody. Right, what
if you just made a go fundme, I mean, if
you if you click on the medical thing.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I mean there are medical fundraisers.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
For uh Randy out of Ventura, help Randy get the
treatment he needs, Miracle for Micah.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
There's another one.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
A lot of these are especially like young people dealing
with cancer. There's but there's also dogs and cats and
people begging for money to get their dog the medical
care that they think that the dog needs, or that
the doctor tells them the dog needs. How do you
determine which of these is real and which one's not?
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How do you decide which picture to put up there?
There's gonna be the thumbnail to drive the fundraise. You
find the picture of your kid after they've gone through
cancer treatment or before they've got this is the cute
kid that's going through cancer?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Or do you say this is what happened?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
There's here's my bald nine year old and that you know,
no kids should have to go through that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
There is a.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
There's Can I if something happens with you, goes little
sideways and you find yourself destitute, can I write your
GoFundMe page?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But how do you det Okay? But how do you
do that?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
What do you mean how do I do it? Well?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Are you going to write it the way that they
wrote Mickey Rourke's Now it was a powerhouse of American
cinema in the early.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Eighties, Absolutely not going to be what it says about you.
It's going to say Gary Hoffman, two ends, provider of
laughs and insight and and smiles, needs help finding his
own smile again. And with your donation of anything else
(29:44):
dollars and forty cents anything helps, we can get that
smile back on Gary's face. Don't you want to see
Gary smile again? Question mark? I do period. I feel
like I feel like that's it, you know what I mean?
Not too big, not too much. I donate too, because
I'm only asking for six dollars and forty cents. And
(30:06):
imagine if everyone just gave six dollars and forty cents
where gary smile could be, It could be returned, where
it could be. You weren't listening. You weren't listening to
you gofund me. Yeah, you lost it. You provided so
many smiles, but you've lost your own because you're living
on the street. And then we're trying to get your
smile back.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
But what if I just blew it?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
What do you mean you blew it?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Why am I on the street? So you're ignoring that
part of it. I think that's what you think. People
want to know what led you to this? In the GoFundMe.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You're one of those people that reads obituaries and when
somebody dies young, you're like, how did they die? I
want to know? I want to know. That's awful.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
There is an article that GoFundMe actually does, provide a
list of tips for creating a successful viral fundraiser, how
to use GoFundMe. They include a really detailed story.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I bet GoFundMe has ai writers captivating content.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
It says, viral content leaves a lasting impression. The key
is that it evokes an emotion. Crowdfunding is often more
an emotional experience that can be both heart breaking and heartwarming.
The idea, though, there's the surveys we've seen before. About
forty percent of Americans say they would not be able
to pay a four hundred dollars medical bill. About forty
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percent one in three Americans lives with some medical debt.
About twenty six twenty five, twenty six million people said
to be uninsured the average three day hospital stay. The
average for a three day hospital stay is about thirty
thousand dollars. So crowdfunding has become a huge port, a
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huge part of what we now know of as the
healthcare system. And I mean dozens of examples of it
that are on cofundme right now.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So how about something up less? Okay, like what, I
don't know, it's your birthday. You're gonna go hit some
balls today. If you stretched like you're gonna be sore tomorrow,
I'm glad you're doing it early on.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, I'm not gonna be sor tomorrow, not from this.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But from a pitching machine. You haven't had you have
you used a pitching machine in a while.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
H you hit it velocity, That's true, but I don't
think I'll be sore.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I've done a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I know you've hit off a t yeah, but this
is a different beast.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
It's a machine. You'll be fine. It'll just be a
little sore. It's not like, you know, debilitating. I'm not
gonna have to write your GoFundMe tomorrow. All right, We'll
got the best of it. Gary lost his smile.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Gary Channel will continue after this. You've been listening to
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. A coach to look for
Pete Carroll shown the door this morning after one year
brought in dismal season, and now it looks like the
number one pick is yours. The last time the Raiders
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had the number one pick, JaMarcus Russell, one of the
biggest number one picked busts ever, famously was given film
to take home. Came back, was like, yeah, I watched it.
He was given blank tapes.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That's a good time.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Such a cute. I think it was like forty million
dollars guaranteed in a rookie deal. It was a disaster.
So hopefully the Raiders will we'll make a much better selection.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Kno works on the morning show. He didn't know what
he was going to do tonight first.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Monday night and went on, maybe I talked to his kids.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
He's ri said, I said, maybe introduce yourself to your
children for one thing.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm dad. But then he was like, wow, it was
probably a college basketball game on. So he's Tom Brady.
Now he's like, I'll find something else.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
To do.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
These.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Thing's been going on for well over an hour now.
Police have been chasing a stolen vehicle. They say it's
a newer Kia. It looks like right now, the guy
has parked on South Redondo Boulevard right near Edgewood Place,
and he'd gone through Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Hills
and was on Hollywood Boulevard, so tourists got to see
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a full on, you know, actual southern California car chase.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Do you remember when we did shots for your birthday
an hour ago and they had like cayenne in them
and yes, I did you have anything in your stomach coffee? Yeah?
Me too. I can feel the insides getting like o
up in there from like the cayenne, pepper, whatever was
in that immunity shot. It started it started to be
(02:00):
pain a little bit, my stomach like it like it's
eating my insides.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I have some crackers, go put some M and ms
on it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, that's a good call, isn't it. I'm like, you know,
maybe that wasn't such a good idea. You know, Fireball
never did that to me. You say, you know what,
Fireball never hurt me. I'm sure it didn't well. The
wet weather is for the most part gone. As Amy
(02:30):
mentioned there in the newscast, there was an expectation we
could see a few places with some showers today, but
for the most part we're seeing the rain move on.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The rest of the week should be relatively nice.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And it was an absolute mess for several days. Highway
one to one was shut down both directions up above
Santa Barbara because of months slides there above Galita. There
was flooding in Ventura in places like that because I
just and any pothole that you saw, say before last
(03:02):
week's rain is now fifty times larger, and is they
are eating vehicles now because our infrastructure is absolutely trash.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But other than that, everything is great.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Your plants are going to love it and everything, I mean,
as long as it's not just a mud pit where
you planted your stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Coming up in Swamp Watch, we'll get into all the
latest about what's going on with Venezuela, what happened with
President Nicholas Mduro's court appearance today before a ninety two
year old judge, who, by the way, has like quite
a lot of lore as you would imagine, attached to him.
In terms of being unorthodox and taking nobs, stubborn as hell.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
And he kept I mean, I've only seen the notes
obviously his federal courts, so there's no cameras inside. But
the reporters that I've seen describing the events in court
have said he was yelling, basically not yelling, but he
was had to interrupt.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Maduro over and over again because.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
He asked, who are are you, Nicholas Maduro, and Madu,
not knowing how it's done in an American courtroom, just
starts launching into a soliloquy. Yeah is that the right word?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay, but yeah, apparently this judge has his own sense
of right from wrong. So that's always fun, because at
ninety two you only become more set in your ways.
I just kidding. If you're sixty two and we're like,
you know what, I know the law better than the law,
at ninety two, things get real interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He wrote the law exactly. We'll see where it goes
from here. We know that Maduro and his wife are
in vans, headed back to prison after their court appearance
this morning, and really the takeaway from this morning was
he and his wife said they're completely innocent. He reiterated
the fact that or A claimed that he is the
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still legitimate president of Venezuela, despite the fact that his
handpicked vice president has already taken the oath of office
and is calling herself the president.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So tell me about this long local nightmare of rain
falling from this and when it will end.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, I just want to point out, yes, it has
been a very wet season. October first is usually is
it October first that we start the considered the rainy season,
or I should say since October first, we've seen about
fourteen inches of rain. We usually don't see fourteen inches
of rain in a year, and we've seen fourteen inches
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of rain in just three months, so that's that is
great news. I mentioned that one oh one was shut downs.
Topanga Canyon had to be shut down between pch and
Grand View Drive. State Route thirty three up in Los Padres.
National Forest Route two from Newcomb's Ranch to State Route
one thirty eight also shut down.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
This is.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The public health advisories have gone out because as we see,
when it rains, all of our literal s goes down
the drain and goes out into the ocean. So if
you're out there taking advantage of the tasting waves.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Then you might want to keep your mouth closed.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So there is a chance of rain tomorrow, But then
we've got sunshine forecast for Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, and listen. Not to say that this is the
end of winter storms, obviously, but it is going to
be a nice couple of weeks, it looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So all right, it is Black Monday. We've got a
lot of firings to tell you about in Arizona and Cleveland,
in Vegas, in Atlanta. Also, you've got two Los Angeles
football teams in the playoffs. This bracket is going to
be wild. We'll get into it when we come back.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Jd Vance's house was broken.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Into in Cincinnati, question mark.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, he and his wife and kids. I guess they
were already on their way or they were it back
in DC. But some twenty six year old guy man
taken into custody. Secret Service agents that were there heard
him using a hammer to break several windows in the house.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Time out. He got close enough to the house to
break windows with a hammer. Wait, there's more. Yeah, he
vandalized a Secret Service vehicle on his way up the
driveway to get to the house to then bang the
windows out. What is that?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Why?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
There's Have you seen the ads for the new Secret
Service recruitment ads? See now thousand dollars hiring bonus there?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Really?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that has been a struggling outfit for quite a while.
Aren't they the guys that didn't pay the hookers in Colombia?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
In Cartagenia, Yes, you got to pay your hookers. I
mean that's textbook. If you don't know to pay your hookers,
how are you qualified to be in the Secret Service?
That is dumb dumb time. I mean, like I've met
a lot of dumb people that have probably known enough
to pay for their hookers. It should be part of
the aptitude test when you get into secrets servis you know,
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do you know how to work your gun? Do you
know how to you know, have someone's six? And can
you pay your hooker?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Like just basically just.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do you pay your hooker right? Or just do you
A or B?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, maybe you're not for us if you're not
going to.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Pay your hooker? The bracelet? What's going on with there?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Elmar gave me this bracelet. It's from the Dominican Republic's
Elmer and Diane.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
They do not have to give us gifts.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
They do not have to give us gifts.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So nice.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, no, And those are those that blue that stone
and it's like a really popular and.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Dominican What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I was going to look it up.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I do not have that answer. I'll find out, Okay,
find out.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Tim Walls is out.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota, one time vice presidential candidate,
is not going to run for reelection. Simply devastated, but
he's not resigning a lot of people have been asking
telling him to resign because of the current fraud investigations
that are going on in there. But wow, what what
an end to an incredible football season. Last night's Baltimore
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Pittsburgh game where first of all, Pittsburgh's kicker flubbed the
extra point, so Baltimore, instead of tying, could easily win
it with a with a field goal.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is Boswell that's the same, right? Boswell is a kicker
of the Steelers. Is he the happiest with that outcome?
Because he missed the extra point and then the other
kicker misses and oh my god, and I was.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Just I'm the Steelers to the North.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In my opinion, Mike to Rico is the best play
by play guy period, end of story. Sure, in my time.
I love Greg Papa on the radio. I love Mike
Trico on the television. And Mike Turrico talks games out
like nobody else, and he talks the final moments up
like nobody else. And the way he talked up this kick,
(09:59):
about out the about the Ravens losing their kicker, the
most accurate kicker in NFL history, Justin Tucker. You know
him from the Massage Parlors.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I don't, but I don't agree.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh, how they went on this nationwide search and here's
this kid from Arizona and he was brought in for
moments like this, and he's talking up the history and
the story of this kid right up to that kick.
And then I mean, just you get chills watching that call,
even though you know the outcome, the way Tariko talks
it up to that, that that that ultimate point is
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just perfection.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And the key, which this is a short version of it,
but the key is he stopped talking.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean the greats know when yes to stop talking,
and it was just the crowd noise there in Pittsburgh
because it was a winner go home. You either are
in the playoffs or you're done. You know, other games
they were playing for like San Francisco Seattle and obviously
they're playing for the top seed in the NFC. But
the other team they're in the playoffs. Like we knew
that was a guaranteed you're still going into the playoffs.
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This one was the do or die.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
R in the division or go home? And how else
would this particular NFL season end? Then the way it did,
it was the perfect script ending.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
We do know that the Rams and the Chargers obviously
are in the playoffs, so.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The Rams get the Panthers. Now, the Panthers have beaten
the Rams this season, but let's not all sit here
and pretend that the Panthers belong in the playoffs. They don't.
What they belong in is the disaster that is their division.
You know, with a three way tie of eight and
nine with you know, the Panthers, the Bucks, and the Falcons.
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I mean, it is a dumpster division and everybody knows it.
They have no business being in the playoffs. That said,
the Rams look like hot garbage the last time we
saw them.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And the.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Carolina Panthers get home field advantage they which.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Means true thing in that place. It's like silly, silly stadium.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
But they're kicking everything off Saturday afternoon, one thirty kickoff
in Carolina.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Okay, then what's the next game on.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Saturday Saturday's evenings?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Game?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Is the Packers at the Bear?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Now that that is a showdown, That is a nice
old rivalry. Should be good. Now, the Packers are not
the Packers they were mid to late season. They have
ever since their rusher who they got from Max Crosby.
Not Max Crosby. Who am I thinking of anyway?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Big guy?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
He's huge, huge edge guy. Anyway, Why am i They
got him from the from the from the Cowboys. Why
am I blanking on his name? What an idiot? Anyway,
I got a lot going on. But ever since then,
the Packers have not been as great as they as
they were at the height of their of their brilliance
(13:01):
this season. The Bears, on the other, I mean, I
don't know, the Bears look good on Sunday night and
that shootout with the Niners, I mean, make no mistake
about it. That quarterback has put up a season. I mean,
then the numbers show show the story. So there's just
two games on Saturday, two.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Games on Saturday. The first game on Sunday will be
Buffalo at Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's right, okay, and then the Niners Eagles.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Niners Eagles is the afternoon. And then the evening game
on Sunday is Chargers in New England to take on
the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And again for Mike, a weekend of football.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And then Monday.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Don't forget there's a Monday game because there's six games
in total. The Monday game will be Houston against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
What a gift this weekend is to the American people. Now,
usually I love Wildcard Weekend. I used to do what
I used to do. My husband would take me to
Vegas and just drop you off, drop me off at
the video poker bar at the Golden Nugget because it's
the old video poker bar at the Golden Nugget, right
next to the old sports book there, and you'd have
all the screens, four TVs right there, video poker, all
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the champagne that'll give you a headache for six weeks
right in front of you. And I just sit there
all day morning till evening and watch you can just
sleep peace and happiness.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Outside you see through there's no windows in the casino,
of course, but outside is the sun rising and then setting.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
About thirty thirty pm. I'm like, that cigarette looks good.
You know. It's one of those days. And then and
then I started working for the Chargers, and I haven't
had a Wildcard weekend like that since. But also I
couldn't take it anymore. But what a great weekend to
just do nothing but watch great games because these are
going to be great.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
When they had just the sixteen week season, I would
that would always fall on your seek birthday.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It was always the first weekend of January.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It was the nice thing. What do you want to do?
I just want to do. Just don't bother me.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Just don't bother me.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm going to I don't have any there's nothing to do.
There's no honey, none of just I'll just be alone.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Now, you've got a final weekend before or fantasy camp
to get ready.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But you're going to have the games on the whole time.
That's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But you're going to drive out Sunday morning so you
can listen to the games on the radio. But Saturday,
do you have a final workout planned?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Finally, No, I think Thursday is the peak day.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Okay, Thursday.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Of the problem is I'm just gonna sit in a
car for six hours.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, it's hard to get in the zone when you're
gonna have a five hour drive five and a half
six six Okay, Sar.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I just I mean my hip flexors already don't like me.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Do you have a playlist ready to get you in
the mindset, like before you get out there on Monday morning,
Because Sunday you have like your orientation where you guys
all get together and you pretend to be friends and
nice and stuff. There is a specific because you know
your goal is not to make friends, right right, You're
not there to make friends.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
No friends.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, you're there to win no friends. There is a
specific album that I listened to when I go to
the field. I go to Scottsdale State and I go
and I walk around the outfield track just to move
it around.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, do you do it barefoot? No, barefoot might be
a good idea.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It's forty degrees.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Irwin James does that every stadium barefoot. You got to
ground yourself got to be one with the field. Interesting
and I guess also kind of a pro move. Like
guys see you walking around doing a lap barefoot? That's
like mind Efferry out the gate?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Interesting? Okay remember that walk around?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Nathaniel Ratlift and the Night Sweats I don't remember which
it's their second album. I think I have the The
Night Sweats.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah you never heard of that. No, I'm gonna check
them out though.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Nathaniel Ratlift and the Night Sweats the Future, m hmm,
it's an album from twenty one.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Mine's like meek Mill Dreams and Nightmares. That's my lap
song gets me in the zone, all.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Right, kicking your picking your shoes off?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
One we come back.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Biggy Rourke is looking for some what's with.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
These GoFundMe pages for people that have mismanaged their lives?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So the last time.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I saw Mickey Royke, it wasn't looking too good. No, listen,
you live your life, but I shouldn't have to compensate
you for bad decisions, right, isn't that what the healthcare
system for? Aren't we doing that already?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It's one way to put it.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
This is from the album you listen to Sounds very chill,
very grounded.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I smell sunsets and freshly cut grass, pine tar, oh nice, yeah,
and liniments.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Liniments. Yes, there's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Guys that are dipping into the old icy hot ah
by the week.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
If by the end of the week, are you gonna
take any nicotine pouches with you?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Any smelling salts?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Why?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh, just wondering if something happens that I need smelling salt.
So that's a I'm just wondering what your routine is
to get you going? Stuff to get you going.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
A little dynamic stretching, perhaps dynamic stretching, Yeah, okay, a
little warm up. We'll throw the ball, have a catch
if you will. Little slap bass some time in the cage.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
A slap at the what is it? Slap at the
what slap as? It's like slap ass, slap ass, scary.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
None of that, None of that. I don't think that happens.
You know what.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Another pro move is weird fantastic that people get out there.
You you take a lap barefoot in the grass by
the way, and then you just go up to hours
on the field, you start smacking their asses. I mean
that is how you set the tone. Some of those
guys and I'm here to run this.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Campers or coaches, coaches are all former mate.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't play, I don't care. They probably they would
probably enjoy a little smack ass ory, you know, get
their asses back in the game.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, hell yeah, Okay, Well, these very famous.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Guys, I'm not going to appreciate it if I walk,
I am.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
They were famous fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
To smacking hams or something.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm going to appreci I think they would appreciate it.
Don't say no right away a fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Let me, I just can I read this the way
it's written? Please? Oh.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Mickey Rourke entered American cinema like a force of nature, raw, fearless,
and utterly original in the late seventies and eighties. He
wasn't just a movie star. He was a symbol of
something rare, danger paired with vulnerability, toughness paired with heart.
(19:40):
From Diner to Rumblefish to Nine and a.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Half Weeks, Rumblefish was a great book.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Mickey gave audiences performances that felt lived in, not performed,
and left a permanent mark on American film culture. Who
wrote this, Mickey's life never followed a safe or protected path.
At the height of his success, he stepped away from
Hollywood in search of truth and authenticity, choosing risk over comfort,
(20:07):
boxing real and punishing, left lasting physical and emotional scars,
and the industry that once celebrated him moved on quickly.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Is someone from the ap just cutting and pasting this
to put him to the O bit bank?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's very possible. This is from his go it's not his.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
This is from the GoFundMe page that's been put up
for his agent by someone else. Whoever it was that
did this so that they're organizing the fundraiser to as
the assistant to Kimberly Hines, who's been Mickey Rourke's manager
for the last nine years. She has been directly involved
in overseeing Mickey's personal and professional affairs and is going
(20:49):
to try to use the almost seventy four thousand dollars
that has been raised thus far to get him back
in to his house.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Now, something happened with this guy.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
That has forced his landlord to evict him. The last
thing he did was celebrity Big Brother.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
See that UK celebrity Big Brother UK. That is the
last stop on the road to Fallen Star, leading to eviction.
Signs point to eviction. Unfortunately, Mickey Rourke, he was in that.
He was in that sex movie, right, like in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Nine and a half weeks?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
What is it about? A bad relationship that's very sex involved?
I don't think I ever saw it. What's the nine
and a half weeks? And I thought that was about
a pregnancy? But that would be nine and a half months.
That was also a movie, right, I don't I don't
know if nine and a half months was an actual.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Oh, I may have and half weeks and thought that
was about a pregnancy. I think in the.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Length of the relationships Body Heat about that one.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's probably the same. That is sex movie. I think
that's what I'm thinking of, Debra, you should know all
the answers to this.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
You know, I watched that movie many, many, many many
years ago. I was really excited about it and it sucked.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Body Heat no weeks. Yeah, I don't know if I
ever saw Body Heat. I think I did. I think
I did. I don't remember. So what was nine and
a half weeks? Just a bad relationship basin, it wasn't there.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
And I remember her on the floor kind of hands
and knees and he was standing up. It was kind
of like a domineer.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Relationship.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, but the movie really was not It was not good.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I remember just being really really disappointed.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
There was a sequel called Another nine and a half Weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't think I saw this sequel. There was a sequel, yes, sir,
I know that. Yeah that now.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
A complaint filed in December accuses Mickey Rourke of owing
fifty nine thousand dollars in back rent at his home
here in La and he's told to pay the reindeo's
or move out within three days. That's a pretty good
if you're paying, if you're behind by fifty nine thousand
and only now you're being.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Told to move out.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That's some pretty good rent or protection laws that exist
here in La County.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He has turned down several roles in listen to these
films Forty eight Hours, Platoon, Top Gun, Beverly Hills, Cop,
The Untouchables, rain Man, Silence of the Lambs, pulp fiction.
See that's just bad decision making right there that leads
to eviction.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Why would they keep offering him those roles if he's
turning down great? Right, Like, wasn't he a great actor?
That just kind of thought he was a great I
mean the he was.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He was a weird look at I mean he did
have the sort of leading man swagger for a while.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And then he got real big. He was great in
the movie about the Wrestler? Was it the Wrestler? Am
I thinking about the right thing? I think it was
called the Wrestler. He was outstanding in that, like a
guy playing down on his luck used to be a
big deals not anymore fighting like that rang true for me.
For him, he was outstanding. He should have won in that.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I loved him an Iron Man two and he played
the bad guy with the whips for arms. Yeah, and
he was cutting those cars up at the Monte Carlo
Grand Prix.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
But like, what did he go through physically? Because he
used to be kind of a slighter guy, right, and
then all of a sudden he was this big.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Puffy guy. Hey, h does things?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's true? That's true, And stop looking at me like that.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I didn't even you didn't even I wasn't looking anywhere. Uh.
He also was a boxer, literally and had some facework
done and now looks like he's been through it a
couple of times.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, he was offered and decline the role of Butch
Bruce Willis's role in pulp fiction.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Really, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
We will do Swamp Watch coming up at the top
of the hour, and there's a lot going on, a
lot of moving parts. When it comes to the extradition
of Venezuela's leader to the United States to face charges
and narco terrorism charges, we'll talk about that and this
emergence of Marco Rubio getting a lot of kudos for
(25:46):
his work not just as Secretary of State or National
Security advisor but sort of.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
An ever, what's.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
The word Swiss army knife, I guess when it comes
to sort of what's been going on with this administration
policies in the carib with more than five that's.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
What I what we need from you next week.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
So we were talking about Mickey Rourke and whatever happened
with him owing fifty nine thousand dollars in rent that
somebody set up a go Fundme page apparently set up
a friend of his who is also part of his
management team, and they've raised, like I said, almost seventy
four thousand dollars already on a go Fundme page. And
(26:27):
we see the gofundmes pop up every once in a while.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Sometimes it's to.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Help a family after a providers has died or is
sick or something like that, to help people get through stuff,
or someone who's been victimized by a crime. A lot
of times they will somebody will set up a Go
Fundme page and we've seen him get ridiculously rich literally
based on the goodness of others giving money to these
(26:56):
to these go fundme pages. But there's a whole push.
I mean, you go on there and one of the
one of the ways that you can go through to
see how to give money is browsed by categories, and
there's one that is just medical. Somebody can't afford to
pay for something or they need.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
A new Are there people that have money to throw
to give that do this, that go on GoFundMe and
just kind of look around.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I'm sure there are. I mean, and you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Wonder is it rife with scam artists? Well, yeah, you
donate twenty five dollars and then weave their way into
people's lives, and I were wondering cause my mind, my
mind has to go when there's something good, to the
darkest place, because you can't just have pure good and giving. Right,
there's good, there's always gonna be when you appear good
(27:49):
in giving, there's always going to be bad actors that
take advantage of that.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Well, and on the other side, I mean you're talking
about the people who would use it as a way
to get in and get close to somebody. Right, what
if you just made a go fundme, I mean, if
you if you click on the medical thing.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I mean there are medical fundraisers.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
For uh Randy out of Ventura, help Randy get the
treatment he needs, Miracle for Micah.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
There's another one.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
A lot of these are especially like young people dealing
with cancer. There's but there's also dogs and cats and
people begging for money to get their dog the medical
care that they think that the dog needs, or that
the doctor tells them the dog needs. How do you
determine which of these is real and which one's not?
(28:39):
How do you decide which picture to put up there?
There's gonna be the thumbnail to drive the fundraise. You
find the picture of your kid after they've gone through
cancer treatment or before they've got this is the cute
kid that's going through cancer?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Or do you say this is what happened?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
There's here's my bald nine year old and that you know,
no kids should have to go through that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
There is a.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
There's Can I if something happens with you, goes little
sideways and you find yourself destitute, can I write your
GoFundMe page?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But how do you det Okay? But how do you
do that?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
What do you mean how do I do it? Well?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Are you going to write it the way that they
wrote Mickey Rourke's Now it was a powerhouse of American
cinema in the early.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Eighties, Absolutely not going to be what it says about you.
It's going to say Gary Hoffman, two ends, provider of
laughs and insight and and smiles, needs help finding his
own smile again. And with your donation of anything else
(29:44):
dollars and forty cents anything helps, we can get that
smile back on Gary's face. Don't you want to see
Gary smile again? Question mark? I do period. I feel
like I feel like that's it, you know what I mean?
Not too big, not too much. I donate too, because
I'm only asking for six dollars and forty cents. And
(30:06):
imagine if everyone just gave six dollars and forty cents
where gary smile could be, It could be returned, where
it could be. You weren't listening. You weren't listening to
you gofund me. Yeah, you lost it. You provided so
many smiles, but you've lost your own because you're living
on the street. And then we're trying to get your
smile back.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
But what if I just blew it?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
What do you mean you blew it?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Why am I on the street? So you're ignoring that
part of it. I think that's what you think. People
want to know what led you to this? In the GoFundMe.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You're one of those people that reads obituaries and when
somebody dies young, you're like, how did they die? I
want to know? I want to know. That's awful.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
There is an article that GoFundMe actually does, provide a
list of tips for creating a successful viral fundraiser, how
to use GoFundMe. They include a really detailed story.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I bet GoFundMe has ai writers captivating content.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
It says, viral content leaves a lasting impression. The key
is that it evokes an emotion. Crowdfunding is often more
an emotional experience that can be both heart breaking and heartwarming.
The idea, though, there's the surveys we've seen before. About
forty percent of Americans say they would not be able
to pay a four hundred dollars medical bill. About forty
(31:27):
percent one in three Americans lives with some medical debt.
About twenty six twenty five, twenty six million people said
to be uninsured the average three day hospital stay. The
average for a three day hospital stay is about thirty
thousand dollars. So crowdfunding has become a huge port, a
(31:47):
huge part of what we now know of as the
healthcare system. And I mean dozens of examples of it
that are on cofundme right now.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So how about something up less? Okay, like what, I
don't know, it's your birthday. You're gonna go hit some
balls today. If you stretched like you're gonna be sore tomorrow,
I'm glad you're doing it early on.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, I'm not gonna be sor tomorrow, not from this.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But from a pitching machine. You haven't had you have
you used a pitching machine in a while.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
H you hit it velocity, That's true, but I don't
think I'll be sore.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I've done a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I know you've hit off a t yeah, but this
is a different beast.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
It's a machine. You'll be fine. It'll just be a
little sore. It's not like, you know, debilitating. I'm not
gonna have to write your GoFundMe tomorrow. All right, We'll
got the best of it. Gary lost his smile.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
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