July 6, 2026 • 25 mins
HOUR 2 (07/06) - Gary & Shannon react to two bizarre animal attacks, discuss California's new FireSat technology that could detect wildfires from space, debate whether more free time really makes us happier, hear listeners' picks for America's World Cup anthem, continue counting down the happiest songs of all time, and explore why putting all of your happiness into one person—or one thing—is a recipe for disappointment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And we'll go through a list of some of the
scientifically proven to be happiest songs, at least in the
English language, probably, but also if Country Roads is not
your thing by John Denver. When the United States has
been winning these soccer matches, what do you think should
be played?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I think the song that should be played for the
soccer game should be Living in America by James Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I like it, but it's kind of hard for the
whole stadium to get together in song because all you're
going to say is living in America.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
And it doesn't build.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
It doesn't hard. Anybody knows.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Yeah, I was watching this video during the break just
a second ago, and it's funny because the beginning of
this is just a tribute to American infrastructure.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
Oh it is.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Yeah, this just did this?
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Just did a lot of people want to know what
happened to that just happened.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
FIFA has officially rejected Belgium's attempts to overturn full Ballugan's
World Cup suspensions.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Belgium doesn't have that Trump money.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
They ain't got that Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Belgium's the poor kid in class and we're richer. We
paid our way out of this trouble.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So our star striker will be on the pitch tonight
when USA takes on Belgium up in Seattle for our
round of sixteen match.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I love this story because animals are attacking, and this
kind of reminds me of what happened at your home.
Do we have the animal sounds? Oh Omer, this is
a hard ask. We haven't played it in a long time,
but we used to have this sounder with different animals
in it, like for when animals attack.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Oh look at that. You find that it's under the couch.
That is a big merge and not an animal.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I walked these woods out with mad.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
I've never seen anything wrong about timecat.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I know it makes it so hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I still say I was.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Under there with the old cheese at crumbs. That is
a big beever.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Oh beaver.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Remember that one commercial PI AI. You got to stop
doing that.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That was not Ai. Just so everybody's aware.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
A commercial pilot from California woke up in the middle
of the night in his hotel room in Denver.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
What did he wake up to? It was a swarm
of bats.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Now, first of all, the question is, yes, the bat
did bite his foot, and yes he did have to
undergo very expensive and lengthy rabies treatment. How did the
bats get into the room. According to this lawsuit, staff
did not adequately repair an opening below the room's air
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conditioning unit, through which the bats appeared to enter, forcing
the pilot to try to stuff the hole with a towel.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Apparently, they refused to provide the pilot with a new
room after he found the bats. Could you imagine that
you called down to the front desk, You're like, yeah,
I don't like to do this, but I need to
switch rooms.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Then trust me, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
My foot is bleeding from the bats that just swarmed
my room.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I found a hole and I had to shove a
towel into it, and still the bats they came and
tried to eat me.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
His medical expenses, he says, were one hundred and two
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You would think the pilot's union would have better coverage
than that pain and suffering. Of course, he's a married
father of one. He lives in Anaheim, Thankfully he did
not contract rabies.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
He woke up. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He woke up to a commotion at about two thirty
or three in the morning and realized there were multiple bats.
He couldn't tell how many flying around his room, so
he calls the hotel, calls the desk. They worked to
remove the bats, but they did not give him a
new room because it was in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Here's what I don't understand, and this is what I
would argue in court if I was arguing for Sheridan.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He went back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You don't go back to sleep if you're traumatized and
you were legitimately eaten by a bat on your foot.
You're down at the front desk. You're making sure everybody
is awake in that hotel. I mean in terms of
the people who can help you get into a room
with no bats. You're not going Oh there's no there's
not another room. Okay, I guess I'll just plug this
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hole and go to sleep.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Dude, he drigged off to.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You go back in that little room back there behind
the office, and you grab me a pillow.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I'm sleeping on your couch out here.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
So yeah, when.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
People walk in and they go, why is that guy
sleeping on the couch. You can explain to them because
his bats, because his room is infested with bats. But
you're in room fourteen twenty two. It's right up the
yellow Oh no, no, no, no, no no. If there's bats in
this place, I am not staying in this hotel. Oh well,
there's not bats in the place, but there's bats in
his room.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, I agree with you. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
They did capture the bat and it did taste negative,
but you wait for.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That probably with the lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
He did not even discover the bite mark on his
foot until he flew back to Anaheim and was like, oh,
what's that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So that's what they told me, and by the internet
when I had bats in my house again, not bats,
I had a bat on multiple occasions that if.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You well it was also your own damn faults.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But if you touched the bat with your bare hands,
you wouldn't necessarily feel it bite you. That's what they
told me. Really, So get thick gardening gloves or whatever
you have.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Is that how your hands got all mangled like that?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yes? From the dogs, I mean from the bats. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Interesting, I've wondered that for a while.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
The other story was a woman from California, I grew
up in Sacramento on a hike with her boyfriend in
Little Big Econ State Forest, which is a park near Orlando,
right along the Econ Lacahatchie River. She was swimming in
about three feet of water when she was grabbed by
an allege it's a dumb ass, and they took both
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her arms and eventually her all over her.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, you don't, guys, don't go swimming and three feet
of water in Florida.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Okay, Okay, when we come back.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
You voice of reason, I mean.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
A bright mind to come up with that life lesson
firefighting from space. We'll talk about that, don't forget. Let
us know what what songs you want to hear after
the United States?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You want to hear number nine on the list, number nine.
I should give you the list so that you could
have the music ready to get.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
That would be.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Gloria Gainer Baby I Will Survive.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
That's considered a happy song.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, sounds to me like it's a torture song.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I can't wait till Taylor samples it in her Travis
cheated on me and we're getting a divorce album.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
A trevorce Yeah, you know it. You can use it.
You can use it, Taylor Call.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Does leisure time make us happy? And you were going
to be talking about about I just I talk about
it from time to time, about how we think we
know what's going to make us happy and we are wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, We're like to go back to the common theme
of this show. We're just big dumb animals, very very
rarely do we know what's really good for us.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Somebody wrote a comment on our social media over the weekend,
and I don't remember what it was, but it was
something to the effect of, you guys talk really well
about things I never want to hear about. That's the
new log life, yeah, or things like I never thought
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I would want to hear or that nobody is asking for.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
You guys talk well about it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Garian, Shannon, Stephanie and Columbus, Ohio and being in Ohio.
West Virginia is a gorgeous state. People don't realize just
how beautiful it is. But if there were to be
another song instead of Country Roads, I would like Blue
Sky by the Almond Brothers.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Okay, there's a couple.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I feel like there's some criteria that need to be met.
If you're going to do this as the theme for
the Wind, It's.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Got to have more build, it's got to have more tempo.
People got to know the lyrics. The Glearc's got to
be simple as me is the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, I mean the idea that I played for you
earlier in Atlanta when at the Braves game the organ
player plays about eight notes and then everyone in the
stadium picks up the song because they.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Know the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
This is gonna be a tougher sell it, all right,
But you can let us know. Leave us a message
on the talkback feature when you're listening on the app.
It's a little red button with a white microphone, and
you can leave us your suggestion about what the song
should be.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Wait, we don't have the thing with other stuff. You're
supposed to do everything all the time correctly. El Nino,
El Nino, See I can't do it. You want me
to just do that?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'll work on it. Yeah, you just move on and
see what I can do.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
El Nino is brewing guys, and they're saying that we're
going to be an uncharted territory. Extreme heat smothering the
eastern US over the July fourth weekend and Europe, by
the way, it was so temperate here it was so nice.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Particularly moist on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
It was sticky.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It was sticky for us and you know anybody outside
of California when I say it was particularly humand it
was probably about sixty five percent humidity.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Anyway, the El Nino, El Nino Nino is strengthening. That
wasn't the one I was thinking of. I think the
one I was thinking was El Chapo and then with
the chords.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, so if you're not watching on TV, Shannon literally
put her papers down on the desk in front of
her and did a little flu with her fingers to
show me what she meant. And the problem is I
knew exactly what she meant.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
She meant this good.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Between June of last year and this April, global average
surface tempts were about one point eight to two point
seven degrees above pre and Industrial revolution levels.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
What does that mean.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It means that there's a very high likelihood will be
breaking new global temperature records in a few months. We
did escape the oppressive heat this weekend. However, Tuesday through Thursday,
it's gonna get real up in here.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
It's July, yes, but it's gonna get all not temperate.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's gonna get all July on us.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's gonna get all July e ninety to one hundred
and three degrees across the inland areas. But the oceans, guys,
it's all about the oceans with the El Nino, and
they're getting hotter too.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The good news is that next no tomorrow, as a
matter of fact, there's a trio of satellites that are
going to launch and give firefighters more time to respond,
scientists more information about the fire prone regions around the world.
This launch from Vandenberg is the first phase in a
constellation they're calling fire Sat. Eventually there'll be fifty satellites
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in total, collect high resolution imagery of fires themselves and
conditions on the ground in many different places over every
twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
So that'll be good, all right, More of our happy songs?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Would you like to hear the next one on the list?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Do you think I should?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Okay? Number eight? Living on a Prayer.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Paul Pelosi back in the news.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Lady, Joe, what are we doing? He's eighty six years old.
You shouldn't be driving around, sir.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could face prosecution
for a hit and run. The Sheriff's office in Napa County.
So he crashed his brown convertible Friday afternoon into an
unoccupied parked vehicle.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
He waited around a while there in Yontville and then took.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Off briefly stopped.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I want to say yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
When I say waited around, awhile, I mean like ninety
seconds if that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Pelosi allegedly acknowledged that he hit something when the sheriff's
deputies did finally find him, but said he was unsure
about what he hit, so he continued driving.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, what are you going to say? Yeah, I took off,
I hit something and I got out of there.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Is that the defense? I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yes, I don't know. That's not my cocaine even though,
but maham's in your butt, Yeah, but it's not mine,
not my butt.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Sheriff said that he was tested and did not have
alcohol in his system.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Now he had eighty six and.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, exactly exactly. You don't need to have out. Somebody
said that to me. I think it was my husband
who said it. Well, he is it a drunk driving thing.
He doesn't need to be drinking. He is eighty sixty six.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Jordan Henderson, this was a weird thing following up from
last night's World Cup Mexico England, where England beat Mexico.
Jordan Henderson was a substitute yesterday on England's team and
at one point he got a yellow card with ever
actually being on the field. He was yelling something at
one of the referees and got a yellow card while
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standing on the sideline. But he is out of the
World Cup because after they celebrated their victory last night
over Mexico, he slipped while climbing over the advertising boards
during the celebration and strained his wrist. So he is
out of the competition. Spain Portugal at noon today they
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are in Dallas and of course Belgium. United States five
pm in Seattle tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The US men's team should play something from Johnny Cash
or Willie Nelson.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I can't really think of something catchy though.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
On the road again that would make sense from Willie Nelson, right,
this is the only one I thought of for Johnny Cash.
But again, lyrics are going to be the stumbling block
for this one. He asked me about Seen a Road
with so Much Dust and Sand, and I.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Said, I had a great biography on Johnny Cash. I
believe it was called The Man in Black. Either that
or Walked a Line a handful of years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Walk the Line was the movie, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But it was a god It was a great but
it wasn't an autobiography. I got to figure out the
name of it.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
But anyway, that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
There is a Yale psychology professor. Her name is Laurie Santos,
and she teaches a course called Psychology and the Good Life.
It became the most popular class on Yale's campus when
she first offered it in twenty eighteen. Now nearly one
in four students enroll in this. She says it's a
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sign of how many young people are searching for research
back strategies on how to help them feel better. There's
been new research done. Laurie doesn't have anything to do
with it, and it's used as a data from the
US Census Bureau's American Time Use Survey, and it has
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found that having more leisure time doesn't necessarily make people
more likely to rate their day is happy. It's that
like balanced day that you would think about an hour
or two of socializing, physical exercise, working. It's one of
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those things where it's like, if you're just eating ice cream,
what's the ice cream in your day?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You know you have a little meal, you have a
little veggie, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It makes things sweeter, right.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's like in the Hugh Grant movie about a boy,
Hugh Grant in the movie or the book if you
read that is a single well to do guy and
he's asked for how he accounts for his time and
he puts it into units. I do two units of exercise,
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a unit of reading. I do two units of a
walk around the block. I do And when you think
about that, that's really the most balanced you're You're checking
all the boxes in your in your head or in
your body for happiness.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Like weight watchers for happiness isn't there is the one
where you count points.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I don't think anything about weight watchers sounds happy. We
do not advertise for weight watchers. Shocker.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
No, that's true, but you know, I.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Mean, it's like it's it's it's it's filling all your
your tanks, right, just having leisure time where you think
that's gonna make me happy. Just sitting on my ass
all day doing nothing that's gonna make me happy. That
does not make you happy according to science.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, she also has a list of just a couple
of quick tweaks that can be made, so we'll talk
about that when we come back as well. How to
make sure that your leisure is making you happy.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
There is a crossover, by the way we have found it.
We're talking about this list of happy songs, but also
Country Roads as sort of the anthem for the US
men's national team. Yes, there is a crossover because one
of the songs that was sort of a finalist to
be their anthem is on the list of the happiest songs. Oh,
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we're not at the bottom of next hour. We'll talk
about it, but we're in the midst of telling you
this story.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Oh I know what it is.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Because you got the email.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
No, Oh, okay, does it involve you. Nope, not at all,
your lure ego.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
No, my alter ego? No, okay, I don't know what
that means.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
It was only last week that we just.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
That we uh happy days that we learned about your
now bonzie, No, what's my alter ego?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Tiger? No, it's not that song. It's not the tiger.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Don't make me get her out again. Lori Santo's teaches
Psychology and the Good Life at Yale. She cites research
from another person from Berkeley which found it's hard to happy.
It's hard to enjoy a happy moment if you're fixated
on how happy you are. For example, she says, if
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you're on vacation in the perfect spot, are you're asking yourself?
Could this be better? Is this worth the money? And
then of course that doesn't make the vacation feel great
at all. Now we tend to be kind of anxious
about whether we're feeling happy, and that doesn't feel good.
Am I happy enough? Am I relaxing enough?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I do that. I do that on vacation.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Sometimes sometimes, and I'll catch myself.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Sure, And I think that's completely normal. A lot of
people do that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The second problem is that we think that the perfect
job or relationship or achievement makes us happier. All you
have to do is change something about your situation and
you'll automatically be happy.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You can't rely on one thing, or one person, or
one activity or one box check to make you happy.
It really is a conglomeration of things.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
For example, she recommends recognizing what you're feeling without adding
too much meaning to it, which is just She says,
if you're on vacation and the rains and you have
to change your plans, instead of being pissed off about
all of it you have no control over, just roll
with the punches.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What is pissed off over rain gonna get you? Where
is that gonna get.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
It's just gonna make you bitter and no one wants
to be around.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
It's not like it's gonna stop the rain.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
That's there are people who who do react very negatively
to things that are completely out of their.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Controls unfortunate for them because it's a waste of emotion.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, it's one thing to be upset, like, well, I
guess I'm not gonna be able to go to the whatever.
I'm not gonna go to the Dodger game because it's
the first one that's been rained out in twenty four
years or whatever.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
But okay, move on.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So what she says is, these are things that can
help you realize those leisurely times and how to sort
of benefit the most. A little bit of effort or
challenge is better than doing nothing. A little bit of effort,
so a puzzle as opposed to just or even reading,
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as opposed to just sitting and doing nothing in front
of television.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
We are built to exude effort.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It alerts our reward center in our brain, which goes
back to the cave man days of having to go
out and get food or what have you.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
A little bit of effort is.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Gonna trick our mind, or not even a trick, it's
just going to tell our mind we've accomplished something and
that's going to make us very happy, happier than an
extra cupcake. And it's weird to think that way because
you wouldn't as humans, we don't think that way. We're
like fu, extra cupcake, duh, cookcake. But no, it's that
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walk around the block that's going to trigger that dopamine
release in your mind.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
So we're built for motion, that's what we are. We're
also built for connection. And that's our second thing, which
is pretty much everything is better with a friend. Running errands,
invite a friend, look for opportunities for small moments of
those connection, chat with the clerk in the store or
somebody that you don't know, or it doesn't have to
be big and awkward or long or uncomfortable or any
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of that stuff. My wife said something to me yesterday.
I saw a friend walk by, and I didn't say
he was with his girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I didn't say anything. She goes, you never say anything
to anybody. Univer said hey, So.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We found some other friends, and I walked over and
an older couple that we met a couple of weeks ago,
and walked up and reintroduced.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Ourselves to Poor Matt was stranded at an airport overnight,
unable to get to us this morning. And you respond
to Matt. You didn't say like, hey, man, get here,
travel safely, like nothing. It's rude, Gary, It's rude to
not respond, especially when people are in turmoil.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Matt, Yes, we had a good conversation this morning. I
was just gonna.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Say yes, sure, but it comes across is super rude
when you don't respond to that text.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
He's just holding true to the Instagram reel about do
not disturb you know, it's rude.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Hold on you then, Now it's not going to mean
anything because it's after the fact.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
But when you go back and look at this conversation
in a couple of years, when you try to indict
me again for never having you responded, I'll be like, see,
it's I'm right there.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I didn't reply.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Oh I didn't see. You're not on this text that
I have.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Oh, oh, there's that took Pats. You're in the clear.
This is KFI.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
And we'll go through a list of some of the
scientifically proven to be happiest songs, at least in the
English language, probably, but also if Country Roads is not
your thing by John Denver. When the United States has
been winning these soccer matches, what do you think should
be played?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I think the song that should be played for the
soccer game should be Living in America by James Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I like it, but it's kind of hard for the
whole stadium to get together in song because all you're
going to say is living in America.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
And it doesn't build.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
It doesn't hard. Anybody knows.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Yeah, I was watching this video during the break just
a second ago, and it's funny because the beginning of
this is just a tribute to American infrastructure.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
Oh it is.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Yeah, this just did this?
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Just did a lot of people want to know what
happened to that just happened.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
FIFA has officially rejected Belgium's attempts to overturn full Ballugan's
World Cup suspensions.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Belgium doesn't have that Trump money.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
They ain't got that Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Belgium's the poor kid in class and we're richer. We
paid our way out of this trouble.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So our star striker will be on the pitch tonight
when USA takes on Belgium up in Seattle for our
round of sixteen match.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I love this story because animals are attacking, and this
kind of reminds me of what happened at your home.
Do we have the animal sounds? Oh Omer, this is
a hard ask. We haven't played it in a long time,
but we used to have this sounder with different animals
in it, like for when animals attack.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Oh look at that. You find that it's under the couch.
That is a big merge and not an animal.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I walked these woods out with mad.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
I've never seen anything wrong about timecat.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I know it makes it so hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I still say I was.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Under there with the old cheese at crumbs. That is
a big beever.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Oh beaver.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Remember that one commercial PI AI. You got to stop
doing that.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That was not Ai. Just so everybody's aware.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
A commercial pilot from California woke up in the middle
of the night in his hotel room in Denver.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
What did he wake up to? It was a swarm
of bats.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Now, first of all, the question is, yes, the bat
did bite his foot, and yes he did have to
undergo very expensive and lengthy rabies treatment. How did the
bats get into the room. According to this lawsuit, staff
did not adequately repair an opening below the room's air
(03:11):
conditioning unit, through which the bats appeared to enter, forcing
the pilot to try to stuff the hole with a towel.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Apparently, they refused to provide the pilot with a new
room after he found the bats. Could you imagine that
you called down to the front desk, You're like, yeah,
I don't like to do this, but I need to
switch rooms.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Then trust me, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
My foot is bleeding from the bats that just swarmed
my room.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I found a hole and I had to shove a
towel into it, and still the bats they came and
tried to eat me.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
His medical expenses, he says, were one hundred and two
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You would think the pilot's union would have better coverage
than that pain and suffering. Of course, he's a married
father of one. He lives in Anaheim, Thankfully he did
not contract rabies.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
He woke up. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He woke up to a commotion at about two thirty
or three in the morning and realized there were multiple bats.
He couldn't tell how many flying around his room, so
he calls the hotel, calls the desk. They worked to
remove the bats, but they did not give him a
new room because it was in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Here's what I don't understand, and this is what I
would argue in court if I was arguing for Sheridan.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He went back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You don't go back to sleep if you're traumatized and
you were legitimately eaten by a bat on your foot.
You're down at the front desk. You're making sure everybody
is awake in that hotel. I mean in terms of
the people who can help you get into a room
with no bats. You're not going Oh there's no there's
not another room. Okay, I guess I'll just plug this
(04:56):
hole and go to sleep.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Dude, he drigged off to.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You go back in that little room back there behind
the office, and you grab me a pillow.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I'm sleeping on your couch out here.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
So yeah, when.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
People walk in and they go, why is that guy
sleeping on the couch. You can explain to them because
his bats, because his room is infested with bats. But
you're in room fourteen twenty two. It's right up the
yellow Oh no, no, no, no, no no. If there's bats in
this place, I am not staying in this hotel. Oh well,
there's not bats in the place, but there's bats in
his room.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, I agree with you. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
They did capture the bat and it did taste negative,
but you wait for.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That probably with the lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
He did not even discover the bite mark on his
foot until he flew back to Anaheim and was like, oh,
what's that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So that's what they told me, and by the internet
when I had bats in my house again, not bats,
I had a bat on multiple occasions that if.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You well it was also your own damn faults.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But if you touched the bat with your bare hands,
you wouldn't necessarily feel it bite you. That's what they
told me. Really, So get thick gardening gloves or whatever
you have.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Is that how your hands got all mangled like that?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yes? From the dogs, I mean from the bats. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Interesting, I've wondered that for a while.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
The other story was a woman from California, I grew
up in Sacramento on a hike with her boyfriend in
Little Big Econ State Forest, which is a park near Orlando,
right along the Econ Lacahatchie River. She was swimming in
about three feet of water when she was grabbed by
an allege it's a dumb ass, and they took both
(06:53):
her arms and eventually her all over her.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, you don't, guys, don't go swimming and three feet
of water in Florida.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Okay, Okay, when we come back.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
You voice of reason, I mean.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
A bright mind to come up with that life lesson
firefighting from space. We'll talk about that, don't forget. Let
us know what what songs you want to hear after
the United States?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You want to hear number nine on the list, number nine.
I should give you the list so that you could
have the music ready to get.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
That would be.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Gloria Gainer Baby I Will Survive.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
That's considered a happy song.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, sounds to me like it's a torture song.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I can't wait till Taylor samples it in her Travis
cheated on me and we're getting a divorce album.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
A trevorce Yeah, you know it. You can use it.
You can use it, Taylor Call.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Does leisure time make us happy? And you were going
to be talking about about I just I talk about
it from time to time, about how we think we
know what's going to make us happy and we are wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, We're like to go back to the common theme
of this show. We're just big dumb animals, very very
rarely do we know what's really good for us.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Somebody wrote a comment on our social media over the weekend,
and I don't remember what it was, but it was
something to the effect of, you guys talk really well
about things I never want to hear about. That's the
new log life, yeah, or things like I never thought
(08:51):
I would want to hear or that nobody is asking for.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
You guys talk well about it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Garian, Shannon, Stephanie and Columbus, Ohio and being in Ohio.
West Virginia is a gorgeous state. People don't realize just
how beautiful it is. But if there were to be
another song instead of Country Roads, I would like Blue
Sky by the Almond Brothers.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Okay, there's a couple.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I feel like there's some criteria that need to be met.
If you're going to do this as the theme for
the Wind, It's.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Got to have more build, it's got to have more tempo.
People got to know the lyrics. The Glearc's got to
be simple as me is the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, I mean the idea that I played for you
earlier in Atlanta when at the Braves game the organ
player plays about eight notes and then everyone in the
stadium picks up the song because they.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Know the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
This is gonna be a tougher sell it, all right,
But you can let us know. Leave us a message
on the talkback feature when you're listening on the app.
It's a little red button with a white microphone, and
you can leave us your suggestion about what the song
should be.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Wait, we don't have the thing with other stuff. You're
supposed to do everything all the time correctly. El Nino,
El Nino, See I can't do it. You want me
to just do that?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'll work on it. Yeah, you just move on and
see what I can do.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
El Nino is brewing guys, and they're saying that we're
going to be an uncharted territory. Extreme heat smothering the
eastern US over the July fourth weekend and Europe, by
the way, it was so temperate here it was so nice.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Particularly moist on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
It was sticky.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It was sticky for us and you know anybody outside
of California when I say it was particularly humand it
was probably about sixty five percent humidity.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Anyway, the El Nino, El Nino Nino is strengthening. That
wasn't the one I was thinking of. I think the
one I was thinking was El Chapo and then with
the chords.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, so if you're not watching on TV, Shannon literally
put her papers down on the desk in front of
her and did a little flu with her fingers to
show me what she meant. And the problem is I
knew exactly what she meant.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
She meant this good.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Between June of last year and this April, global average
surface tempts were about one point eight to two point
seven degrees above pre and Industrial revolution levels.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
What does that mean.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It means that there's a very high likelihood will be
breaking new global temperature records in a few months. We
did escape the oppressive heat this weekend. However, Tuesday through Thursday,
it's gonna get real up in here.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
It's July, yes, but it's gonna get all not temperate.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's gonna get all July on us.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's gonna get all July e ninety to one hundred
and three degrees across the inland areas. But the oceans, guys,
it's all about the oceans with the El Nino, and
they're getting hotter too.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The good news is that next no tomorrow, as a
matter of fact, there's a trio of satellites that are
going to launch and give firefighters more time to respond,
scientists more information about the fire prone regions around the world.
This launch from Vandenberg is the first phase in a
constellation they're calling fire Sat. Eventually there'll be fifty satellites
(12:59):
in total, collect high resolution imagery of fires themselves and
conditions on the ground in many different places over every
twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
So that'll be good, all right, More of our happy songs?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Would you like to hear the next one on the list?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Do you think I should?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Okay? Number eight? Living on a Prayer.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Paul Pelosi back in the news.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Lady, Joe, what are we doing? He's eighty six years old.
You shouldn't be driving around, sir.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could face prosecution
for a hit and run. The Sheriff's office in Napa County.
So he crashed his brown convertible Friday afternoon into an
unoccupied parked vehicle.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
He waited around a while there in Yontville and then took.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Off briefly stopped.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I want to say yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
When I say waited around, awhile, I mean like ninety
seconds if that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Pelosi allegedly acknowledged that he hit something when the sheriff's
deputies did finally find him, but said he was unsure
about what he hit, so he continued driving.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, what are you going to say? Yeah, I took off,
I hit something and I got out of there.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Is that the defense? I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yes, I don't know. That's not my cocaine even though,
but maham's in your butt, Yeah, but it's not mine,
not my butt.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Sheriff said that he was tested and did not have
alcohol in his system.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Now he had eighty six and.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, exactly exactly. You don't need to have out. Somebody
said that to me. I think it was my husband
who said it. Well, he is it a drunk driving thing.
He doesn't need to be drinking. He is eighty sixty six.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Jordan Henderson, this was a weird thing following up from
last night's World Cup Mexico England, where England beat Mexico.
Jordan Henderson was a substitute yesterday on England's team and
at one point he got a yellow card with ever
actually being on the field. He was yelling something at
one of the referees and got a yellow card while
(15:05):
standing on the sideline. But he is out of the
World Cup because after they celebrated their victory last night
over Mexico, he slipped while climbing over the advertising boards
during the celebration and strained his wrist. So he is
out of the competition. Spain Portugal at noon today they
(15:29):
are in Dallas and of course Belgium. United States five
pm in Seattle tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The US men's team should play something from Johnny Cash
or Willie Nelson.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I can't really think of something catchy though.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
On the road again that would make sense from Willie Nelson, right,
this is the only one I thought of for Johnny Cash.
But again, lyrics are going to be the stumbling block
for this one. He asked me about Seen a Road
with so Much Dust and Sand, and I.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Said, I had a great biography on Johnny Cash. I
believe it was called The Man in Black. Either that
or Walked a Line a handful of years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Walk the Line was the movie, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But it was a god It was a great but
it wasn't an autobiography. I got to figure out the
name of it.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
But anyway, that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
There is a Yale psychology professor. Her name is Laurie Santos,
and she teaches a course called Psychology and the Good Life.
It became the most popular class on Yale's campus when
she first offered it in twenty eighteen. Now nearly one
in four students enroll in this. She says it's a
(16:41):
sign of how many young people are searching for research
back strategies on how to help them feel better. There's
been new research done. Laurie doesn't have anything to do
with it, and it's used as a data from the
US Census Bureau's American Time Use Survey, and it has
(17:03):
found that having more leisure time doesn't necessarily make people
more likely to rate their day is happy. It's that
like balanced day that you would think about an hour
or two of socializing, physical exercise, working. It's one of
(17:26):
those things where it's like, if you're just eating ice cream,
what's the ice cream in your day?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You know you have a little meal, you have a
little veggie, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It makes things sweeter, right.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's like in the Hugh Grant movie about a boy,
Hugh Grant in the movie or the book if you
read that is a single well to do guy and
he's asked for how he accounts for his time and
he puts it into units. I do two units of exercise,
(18:00):
a unit of reading. I do two units of a
walk around the block. I do And when you think
about that, that's really the most balanced you're You're checking
all the boxes in your in your head or in
your body for happiness.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Like weight watchers for happiness isn't there is the one
where you count points.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I don't think anything about weight watchers sounds happy. We
do not advertise for weight watchers. Shocker.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
No, that's true, but you know, I.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Mean, it's like it's it's it's it's filling all your
your tanks, right, just having leisure time where you think
that's gonna make me happy. Just sitting on my ass
all day doing nothing that's gonna make me happy. That
does not make you happy according to science.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, she also has a list of just a couple
of quick tweaks that can be made, so we'll talk
about that when we come back as well. How to
make sure that your leisure is making you happy.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
There is a crossover, by the way we have found it.
We're talking about this list of happy songs, but also
Country Roads as sort of the anthem for the US
men's national team. Yes, there is a crossover because one
of the songs that was sort of a finalist to
be their anthem is on the list of the happiest songs. Oh,
(19:22):
we're not at the bottom of next hour. We'll talk
about it, but we're in the midst of telling you
this story.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Oh I know what it is.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Because you got the email.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
No, Oh, okay, does it involve you. Nope, not at all,
your lure ego.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
No, my alter ego? No, okay, I don't know what
that means.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
It was only last week that we just.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
That we uh happy days that we learned about your
now bonzie, No, what's my alter ego?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Tiger? No, it's not that song. It's not the tiger.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Don't make me get her out again. Lori Santo's teaches
Psychology and the Good Life at Yale. She cites research
from another person from Berkeley which found it's hard to happy.
It's hard to enjoy a happy moment if you're fixated
on how happy you are. For example, she says, if
(20:23):
you're on vacation in the perfect spot, are you're asking yourself?
Could this be better? Is this worth the money? And
then of course that doesn't make the vacation feel great
at all. Now we tend to be kind of anxious
about whether we're feeling happy, and that doesn't feel good.
Am I happy enough? Am I relaxing enough?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I do that. I do that on vacation.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Sometimes sometimes, and I'll catch myself.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Sure, And I think that's completely normal. A lot of
people do that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The second problem is that we think that the perfect
job or relationship or achievement makes us happier. All you
have to do is change something about your situation and
you'll automatically be happy.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You can't rely on one thing, or one person, or
one activity or one box check to make you happy.
It really is a conglomeration of things.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
For example, she recommends recognizing what you're feeling without adding
too much meaning to it, which is just She says,
if you're on vacation and the rains and you have
to change your plans, instead of being pissed off about
all of it you have no control over, just roll
with the punches.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What is pissed off over rain gonna get you? Where
is that gonna get.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
It's just gonna make you bitter and no one wants
to be around.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
It's not like it's gonna stop the rain.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
That's there are people who who do react very negatively
to things that are completely out of their.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Controls unfortunate for them because it's a waste of emotion.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, it's one thing to be upset, like, well, I
guess I'm not gonna be able to go to the whatever.
I'm not gonna go to the Dodger game because it's
the first one that's been rained out in twenty four
years or whatever.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
But okay, move on.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So what she says is, these are things that can
help you realize those leisurely times and how to sort
of benefit the most. A little bit of effort or
challenge is better than doing nothing. A little bit of effort,
so a puzzle as opposed to just or even reading,
(22:21):
as opposed to just sitting and doing nothing in front
of television.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
We are built to exude effort.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It alerts our reward center in our brain, which goes
back to the cave man days of having to go
out and get food or what have you.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
A little bit of effort is.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Gonna trick our mind, or not even a trick, it's
just going to tell our mind we've accomplished something and
that's going to make us very happy, happier than an
extra cupcake. And it's weird to think that way because
you wouldn't as humans, we don't think that way. We're
like fu, extra cupcake, duh, cookcake. But no, it's that
(23:03):
walk around the block that's going to trigger that dopamine
release in your mind.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
So we're built for motion, that's what we are. We're
also built for connection. And that's our second thing, which
is pretty much everything is better with a friend. Running errands,
invite a friend, look for opportunities for small moments of
those connection, chat with the clerk in the store or
somebody that you don't know, or it doesn't have to
be big and awkward or long or uncomfortable or any
(23:28):
of that stuff. My wife said something to me yesterday.
I saw a friend walk by, and I didn't say
he was with his girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I didn't say anything. She goes, you never say anything
to anybody. Univer said hey, So.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We found some other friends, and I walked over and
an older couple that we met a couple of weeks ago,
and walked up and reintroduced.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Ourselves to Poor Matt was stranded at an airport overnight,
unable to get to us this morning. And you respond
to Matt. You didn't say like, hey, man, get here,
travel safely, like nothing. It's rude, Gary, It's rude to
not respond, especially when people are in turmoil.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Matt, Yes, we had a good conversation this morning. I
was just gonna.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Say yes, sure, but it comes across is super rude
when you don't respond to that text.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
He's just holding true to the Instagram reel about do
not disturb you know, it's rude.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Hold on you then, Now it's not going to mean
anything because it's after the fact.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
But when you go back and look at this conversation
in a couple of years, when you try to indict
me again for never having you responded, I'll be like, see,
it's I'm right there.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I didn't reply.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Oh I didn't see. You're not on this text that
I have.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Oh, oh, there's that took Pats. You're in the clear.
This is KFI.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to noon every Monday through Friday, and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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