March 12, 2025 • 29 mins
#SwampWatch: Canada and the EU swiftly retaliate against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. New car tech overwhelming. #Parenting w/ Justin Worsham: Think raising a baby is expensive? This new number will shock you/ Being a parent keeps the brain young – especially if you’ve got multiple kids.
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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. We've got warnings up in La
Malibu for the storm heading this way, Warnings about mudslides, debris.
They are calling in it an atmospheric river fueled storm.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, I love that kind.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yes, where you are, you know, if you're in the
Burnscar area, especially with the Palisades area this year in particular.
They say that we will get the brunt of the
rain tonight into the wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Few places with some rain. It's kind of spotty right now.
Down at San Diego, they had a band to go
through Ventura. Up in Santa Barbara, they had some rain
going through. So it hasn't come widespread, at least not yet.
It's been off and on here in Burbank. But they
said that late tonight into tomorrow morning, probably while we're sleeping,
as we're going to see the majority of the rainfall
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coming in tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
There's gonna be a sequel to this is spinal tap.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I thought I saw that the numbers. I'll go to eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Nineteen eighty four's music mockumentary getting a sequel. It's called
Spinal Tap two. The End continues. It will release in
theater September twelfth. The first teaser is available today. Christopher Guest,
Michael McKeon, Harry Shearer all reprising their roles.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
From the first films.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
In the new movie, the band will reunite for one
final concert after a fifteen year hiatus.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
That's cool, That'll be fun. That'll be a huge hit.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That will be a big hit. It's time for Swampwatch.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
The other side never quits, So what fuck what?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
I'm not going to anywhere. So that is how you
train the squad.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
What has been.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, Americans have always been gone act.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
They're not scrupid.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Who have the people voted for you? With no swamp watch?
They're all counteroid.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, uh, it's hard to keep up with everything that's
going on when it comes to the tariffs over the
last forty eight hours or so.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So here's a here's how we'll try to explain this.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The European Union and Canada have now both hit back
at Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs with their own tariffs.
They've announced tariffs on billions of dollars worth of products bourbon, motorcycles, makeup,
et cetera. And they have said that they will retaliate
even further if necessary. The European Union says that they
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have a two stage response that they're going to target
about twenty eight billion dollars of our products that we
send to them. Canada has announced a twenty five five
percent tariff on about twenty one billion dollars worth of
American goods. Now, the steel and aluminum tariffs went into
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about twenty five percent on all steel and aluminum tariffs
that went into effect at midnight last night, late whatever,
eleven hours ago, and the European leaders have been saying
that they would retaliate, but they've emphasized that a trade
war is going to hurt everybody, and they've been trying
to negotiate this some sort of an off ramp with
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the Trump administration, an off ramp that may simply look
like a pause the way it has with Mexico and
Canada over the last couple of months.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Looks like April first is when all of this will
get rolling or go into effect. Canada, by the way,
the largest steel supplier to the United States, said Wednesday
today it will place twenty five percent reciprocal tariffs on
steel products and raised taxes on a bunch of stuff
like tools, computers, surveys, display monitors, sports equipment, cast iron
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products as well.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So, I mean, at this point, Wall Street has been
sort of mixed today, at least not anywhere near as
negative as it was over the course of the last
few days.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The volatility is not helping much.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But one thing that did help was the inflation numbers
were actually lower in the month of January than I'm
sorry that in the month of February than they were
in the month of January, So the consumer price index
had a two point eight percent rise, and overall prices
in the economy when that number came out, that prompted
a jump in all three major indices this morning, but
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it has kind of settled back down. The Dow is
down only about fifteen points, the S and P five
hundred is up about twenty nine, and the Nasdaq has
gained a full percentage point.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's up one hundred and eighty four.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
New report is finding inflation starting to cool. Consumer Price
Index by point point zero point two percent last month,
right up to two point eight. No, I was just
going to say the expectation was three percent, which you
left out.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I did leave that part out.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You did, And then the Education Department was the other
slashing that we were going to get to. You and
I both thought that it was bigger. It was bigger
than it is. When I saw four thousand and change
employees that they were going to slash to two thousand
and change, I thought, when you think the Education Department,
you think of this like beast, right, does bureaucratic beast well?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Because the number of U what is it, two point
something million federal employees broken up amongst all these different agencies. Yeah,
I had assumed that the Department of Education was a bigger
just in sheer numbers of workers, and it's not. A
government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the
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legal fight over the detention of a Columbia University grad
stated to New Jersey or Louisiana, since that's where he
had been held. This is a guy who was on
campus at Columbia and was at the very least a
spokesperson for the pro Palestinian protesters, although there's still some
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discussion as to whether or not he was involved with them,
how much he organized them, if any, and what sort
of things he was suggesting these protesters say or Carrie
Sin's saying, and what contact he has with anybody in Hamas.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The guy's name is mak Mud Khalil.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
He's thirty.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
By the way, he's thirty.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And during a brief hearing, an attorney argued on behalf
of the Justice Department that the venue for the deportation
fight had to be moved to Louisiana or New Jersey.
The argument, according to Marco Rubio, is any non resident.
In this case, he is legal permanent resident, but not
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a citizen. He is allowed to reside in the United
States as a Green card holder, but Marco Rubio says,
if he's doing things that would have prevented him from
getting the green card in the first place, we should
be able to kick him out. The Immigration and Naturalization
Act says that any alien whose presence or activities in
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the United States that the Secretary of State has reasonable
grounds to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy
consequences for the United States, that person is rendered deportable.
And it's not a student visa that this guy was on.
This guy is a Green card holder. He is a
legal permanent resident, which is the highest category that you
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can be without being an actual citizen of the United States,
and can he can be deported if they established that
he belonged to this group that either endorses or espouses
terrorist activity, or that he is engaged in terrorist activity.
That's a far cry from just talking about your support
for Hamas or Palace.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's different than free speech. That takes it a step further,
and that's where the court is going to have to determine.
Is this that it doesn't matter what the speech is,
if it's in syndiari or has terroristic ties, or it
moves beyond free speech, then that portion of the.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Law kicks in.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
This has been the topic of several protests in places
like New York and La other cities. Susan Sarandon has
been on the scene there at the courthouse totally.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You just got to know what she's doing.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Told reporters that no matter where you stand on genocide,
freedom of speech is a right we all have, saying
wait a.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Minute, no matter where you stand on genocide.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, I know, And then she said, this is a
turning point in history and the freedom of this country,
no matter where you stand on genocide. Gary Hn Shannon
will continue. That's like Mark Gary is going on the
Today Show today and talking about victims justice and calling
Nathan Hawkman a showboater.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
How rich?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
How rich is that?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Okay, we have exciting things coming up this hour. First
of all, is the tech in your car becoming too much?
I think it's too much, and the majority of cars
it's too much. I miss the old you know, you
gotta crank, roll up and down the window you're talking about,
I know. And how sad when you could like fix
your car. You know, if you have like a bug
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or an old Chevy truck, you could fix that thing.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You can have the door panel off and you realign
the window with the little holder that's there in the
crank exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
And now these stupid ass computers come in.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We'll be back after Grandma goes to bingo.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Jeez, you're listening to Irian Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
One of the stories that we told you about yesterday
was that takeover of the train in Pakistan, an operation
to rescue four hundred and fifty hostages, has actually continued
now into its second day. Dozens of people have been killed,
but Pakistan security services say they've rescued about one hundred
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and ninety people being held hostage on a train after
militants blew up a rail line and launched the attack
on the Ja'afar Express. Officials said that about thirty of
the militants have been killed and that about one hundred
and thirty hostages are still being held on that train
in I believe it was actually in a tunnel. They're
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in a mountainous pass that they were on, So continues.
Tech in your car can be incredible.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It's gone nuts, really, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I think of like Tesla's with the full screen, bigger
than iPads or what have you, And how can not
not be distracting? How can people who are not who
have not grown up with technology and phones in their
hands and everything is online and classes and work and
all of the things. Those people are absolutely ready to
deal with that it's user friendly for them. But for
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people like I don't know, fifty years old or what happens.
You see, there's a learning curve there. We didn't have
TVs in our cars growing up, right, I don't know
how people who are seventy are jumping into a new
I mean handle woul didn't he say it was just
too crazy, it was too complicated. I mean people who are, say,
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who have not grown up with this jumping into one
of these things, it would be very overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Some of the stuff that I think that has come
into just about every car now is good. Like I
love the navigation software. It's available everywhere, whether it's on
your phone or in the car, it's available everywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think that's good.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
The stuff that I don't quite get and I've never
gotten used to, is the lane departure warning.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You know you're if you have it turned on. You
can turn them off a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
But if you're in your car and the thing just
starts beeping at you and you don't know why is
it beeping at you? And it's because there's a car
in your blind spot, or something like that that to
me is more jarring than a car in my blind
spot that's gonna surprise. So some of that stuff I
think is it drives me nuts. But other stuff is
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really really great. The automatic braking sometimes automatic condition avoidance
is great.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Many drivers say it's too much.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Right now, the share who had positive feelings about the
intuitiveness of their car's controls fell from seventy nine percent
ten years ago to fifty six percent now because ten
years ago twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
The new stuff was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It wasn't as advanced as it is now, and now
it may have gotten too advanced.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
When it comes to.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The dashboard display's screen interface is the layout of the
instrument panel that you can switch to seventeen different views.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, I think that the interaction is probably the most
important part of it, because now you're talking about you
can interact with your phone just with your fingertips right
in many cars, many vehicles now you have a touch
screen surface that you can do with just your hands.
But then you are not paying attention to the road.
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You're paying attention to the touch screen if you're doing
something while you're driving, And I think that's probably the
biggest concern.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I mean a couple things. The door handles. There was
an anecdote about a guy who was trying to start
as twenty twenty four Volkswagen ID four electric car using
his phone app and the car doors wouldn't open because
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sensor equipped handles were on the fritz in the cold,
it was fifteen degrees, so he ended up having to
shimmy into his car through the trunk.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
He said, just give me a normal door handle.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, the door handles that you have to play with
to press for them to open. Just get what's the
purpose of that. Just put on a freaking door handle.
The other my nephew, he just lost his car keys.
He's twenty three years old. He's up in Chico, was
going to drive back home over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Lost his car keys. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And it's like a fob. It's a whole thing. Like you,
It's not just a it's not a key anymore for
most of us. Right, there's just certain things where it
used to be not a big deal, and it's suddenly
a big deal. I mean, the computer system in your
car could something could happen, It could short and suddenly
you can't drive the car.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
What.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, I mean there's there's obviously that that kind of
a concern, and repairing a computer price problem in.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Your car expensive.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You can't do that massive.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I mean when I my dad had a sixty five
Chevy pickup truck, and when you it's just it's just
a gorgeous, gorgeous thing to lift the hood on that
and there's a lot of room in that compartment. I mean,
there's just a lot of stuff in there that or
there's I shouldn't say there's not a lot of stuff
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in there that's extraneous.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You don't need any of it right, and you.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Can it's like going into auto shop where you open
up that hood, you can tell what everything is right,
and they're accessible to your point. Last year, a quarter
of car repairs involved a sensor recalibration, an additional cost
of six hundred dollars. So that's six hundred on top
of whatever your issue was with the car, just because
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it's computerized.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Well, windshield replacement, how many how many windshields now don't
just have the rearview mirror in it. It's that rear
view mirror on the opposite side, on the outside, has
a whole bunch of sensors and everything that are looking
at either traffic in front of you or the weather
conditions or if there's rain on the wind shoe on
the tesla.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
This is a question, is it does it cost more
for things like like you ran into something ran into you,
a fender bender or whatever, something on the road you're
on a road trip or whatever.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Is it more to fit parents? Yeah, because there's so
many sensors.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Not necessarily.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Okay, The problem with the repairing a tesla for a
lot of the people that I know that have them
is getting the parts. They don't make a whole lot
of extra parts for those things. So if you've got
to buy a bumper assembly or a door or something,
it's going to take a couple of weeks to get there,
Whereas if you're in a more common if you're in
a Honda Accord, they have them waiting in a warehouse.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Honda Accord bumpers in my garage.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Right, and they'll just put it on within three or
four days as opposed to two or three weeks.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
So okay, Coming up next, we've got parenting. We will
tell you just how much it costs to raise a baby. Also,
being a parent keeps your brain young, that's why you should.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Make another baby.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Ain't gonna happen. Come on, Gary Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
As we've been reporting to you.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Europe and Canada hitting back after Trump's tariffs on steel
and aluminum. The tariffs are twenty five percent on metals
that come into the US from any country in the world,
including our allies. They say that these will raise the
cost for US automakers and other industries. The move is
supported by many American steel and aluminum manufacturers. We should
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say the EU has announced it will impose counter tariffs
on US goods worth twenty eight billion dollars and everything
goes into effect at least at this point April one.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Ukrainian and Polish officials say arms deliveries to Ukraine have resumed.
The deliveries came today, a day after the administration lifted
at the suspension of military aid for Kiev, and Kremlin
spokesperson said that Moscow is waiting more information about the
proposal from the United States. Of course, they have signaled.
Ukrainians have signaled that they're open to a thirty day ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Again, the heaviest rain's going to hit tonight, late tonight
and tomorrow morning. Flood watch is in effect for twenty
four hours starting at six pm tonight, So there is
your storm watch alert. Justin worship as host of the
Dad podcast.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Hello, do you think you know how we have cold wars?
Is this going to be like a tariff war? Is
that going to be a.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Faly call them trade wars?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, So I was saying this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
In my lifetime, I can't remember there being this much
kerfuffle around a trade war. I'm sure they existed, but
we weren't paying attention. And now I just feel like
we have to pay attention of.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Speaking of the high cost to take medicine, a.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Center from a study from baby Center shows that raising
a baby can be pretty expensive. That in the first
year alone, you're talking about twenty grand.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Three and eighty four dollars on average, Which is what
did they say? They said it's fifteen percent of mom's
baby let expenses eat up half of what they bring in,
half of your income for your baby's first year. And
they're talking like we've been hearing about this decline and
birth rate, and this is the first kind of I
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don't even think that they're well, they do make the
connection here, but this is the first time I'm seeing
this connection. Is that I thought it was just like generationally,
that people like millennials were less interested in having families.
They were more career oriented and they wanted to live
a more nomadic lifestyle and have freedom.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
So therefore kids weren't a part of it.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
But now what we're trying to what we're starting to
see is that it's possible that there's more economic influence
because the birth rate in the US is declining, stem
like people are having less kids. There's more dual income
no kid type families than there were in the past.
I don't think they out like rake like or outnumber
the parents yet, but it's still it's rising and I
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think a lot of it has to do with the
costs well.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And I know that they make one point in here
that there's no national paid leave, there's no federal law
that requires paid leave for parents. But I've never worked
in a place where it wasn't offered. Yeah where I mean,
And that's just a matter of whether it's local law
or just a company policy.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
And when you look at like, we always love to
make fun of the Netherlands, right because there it's where
everybody is happy and they have the largest, the longest
paid national leave.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I think, who makes fun of people from the Netherlands.
I do you do like we would make fun of Canadians.
You make fun of the people from the Netherlands.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
A different.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Wooden shoes.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
She listens. I told you, she listens. What it's called
the gigs out my stud.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
You broadcast from solving.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Yeah, I'm spending defective American? Who I'm to take fun
of me?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Always?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Well, maybe maybe I'm talking to me in the Royal
Wee because I think it's just so funny that they
are always so happy and nobody seems to understand why.
And then the minute I bring up and say like
things even amongst friends, not just here, but when I
say amongst my friends, it's like, oh, well, they have
more paid apparently if I think they're like I thought
it was closer than nine oh maybe, and they have that.
I think it's nine months for a mom and six
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months for a dad is what they get in the Netherlands.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
I'll look that up before when we go in the
next break or whatever.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
But that the happier nations seem to have longer paid leave.
That is a federal thing, Like I don't know in
what instances it's actually paid by the federal government. I'm
sure that it has to be subsidized in some way,
shape or form. It's like a disabil for lack of
a better way opening.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, it's also a great tax coat in in Amsterdam.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Thirty percent of your gross salary can be paid out
tax free as non taxable allowance.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Wow, but you still got to be in the like
fifty percent of taxes. There's no way that they're You're
also just getting a third of their.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Beautiful there too nice waterways.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Shannon's planning a move and offended by me saying making
fun you're reading from.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The work for the commerce or something.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
He's doing another trip.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You gotta go. I stopped there on the way to Estoniacakes.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
That's like almost a ten year old fit now, A
long time ago, Gary Shadow were filling it on the
Morning show when I worked there and just mentioned about
going to Europe, and Gary evidently gets very upset whenever
she talks about her travels. Because he feels like his
children are sandbags and weigh him down from being.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Able to experience rooted in my deep jealous.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
And as a person who walks with children, I agree wholeheartedly.
I think it is fair that it's the It shouldn't
she should be burdened with at least a bag of
flour or some eggs that she has to care for,
like it's a junior.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Year in high school again.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And listen, you and I may both be older than Shannon,
but because of the benefit of having squeezed out a
couple of kids, we're smarter.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We are smarter.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Science will prove it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Gary Channon will so much.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Just belief in your eye.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
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Speaker 3 (23:37):
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Speaker 1 (23:43):
Being a parent keeps the brain young, so says science.
Justin Worsham, hosts of the Dad podcast, is with us.
His hips don't live, They've been worked on, spelled those.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
To a physical therapist, did some blood.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's a whole thing strong hips. So what's what's the
deal with this? Is it just because your brain has
to stay active when you've got kids, especially multiple actually
just the multitasker, the entire your whole life.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Yeah, they did multiple brain studies in Britain and they
showed that when they looked at the not only there
was a direct correlation between people who didn't have kids
and people who had kids, but also even more to
support their evidence was the more kids you had, the
longer your brain stayed active.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
And it was because of use.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Like to me, there was my r pediatrician gave the
kids this kind of speech when we went in there
and saying, you gotta watch how much time you spend
playing video games, and she said the reason is is
because if you spend most of your time playing video games,
then the neurons in your brain that are used for
playing video games become very strong and very open and
can fire fast.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
But you're neglecting the other parts of your brain, like
your hips.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Like your hips, you need to get out there and
do some pilates, boys, and so you have to do
these other things so that you're well rounded in that area.
And so with parents, because so much of your life
is about social connection with kids, and the more kids
you have, so those parts of your brain.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
But the thing that blew my brain, my brain, was.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
That it's also your motor function is more like grip
strength is something that they actually use to assess your
motor ability because you're that part of the frontal cortex
of your brain controls how hard you can squeeze your hand.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Well, you've you've tried to hold kids down, haven't you. Yeah,
of course that's but.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
I guess I guess what I'm saying not to be
a wet blanket on your humor, but what I'm saying
is that I never would have thought that you having
a stronger frontal stronger frontal cortex.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Not my verbal cortex obviously, but.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
For motor skills because of kids, would make my grip
strength stronger later on in life Like that, that's fascinating
to me.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Am I done.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah, No, I think you're right, because there is there's
no gen there's no great connection.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
You should not have children.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
I don't think you understand deal with frustration and anchor.
They just also no more puppies for you, Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Caregiving is the highly sensory process involving coordinated movements. The
holding the cradle and defeeding the children can engage multiple
sensory systems, but obviously you're using muscles with that as well.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Just uh, my wife used to have.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
This very specific way that she would hold one of
the kids on her hip.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yes, and it.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Looks like they're like making a half moon shape out
of their back and I don't understand how that works.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And she.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Would talk about that, of course, I mean that made
her that strengthened whatever that side. I mean she would
switch from side to side, but she would talk about
that being a very specific feeling of that was strengthened.
Especially as the kids grow from you know, eight pounds
up to.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Eighty pounds. I don't know when to stop it crazy
whatever they grow to. I don't know how big number
one in number too, I know which one was.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Impressed me too, that my wife could literally carry a
child like a toddler around all day at like a
theme park. Right, But when it comes to taking four
or five bags of groceries, can you get these big guys.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
This is not a ruffles counseling.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
This is not why I'm not even gonna look at
you for the rest of the overdone.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I thought we had some time here.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Can we unpack what I just said? Do I need?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Not a great idea?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
She done enough, she unloaded two kids, and now you
want her to unload four or five bags of groceries.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
So many times I defend you with her, and now
you're gonna jump on the bandwagon.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
She wants to be safe too.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I'm trying to protect you. See this, I'm helping you.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
I'm gonna go next door and start my apology tour
the world, but especially my wife. I wasn't saying it
was bad. I just was like, it was interesting to me.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Why is that the kids?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
She carried the kids, and she carried the kids on
her hip.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
She my grocery shop.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I'm sure this doesn't argument.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
But I about to breastfeed.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Okay, you've taught her to. I'm sure she would find
that interesting. Also, let's get her on the horn.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Let's care also an awful idea I never want to
hear I taught my wife how to breastfeed.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Again, well, I had a good run.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
You can see why that.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I do think you have a good sitcom pitch. Justin Worsham,
the world's first male lactation consultant.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I could see.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
That coming up.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
No, WB, everybody's going to use that talkback feature right now,
and you're gonna get blown up on how many people,
how many guys know how.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
To teach ala? I have never done that.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I know, I just did a child, But in my head,
I can't think of anything that would be more infuriating
than than my husband telling me how to make that
s work.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
And I almost said the real word like.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That to me sounds like the worst version of calm
down I've.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Ever heard you do it. That is actual weaponized mansplain.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Yeah, the onion was to write an article about man splaining.
They would use my life example.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That'll land on a dateline with Keith Morrison talking about
your life.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
This is why she is my soulmate because she found
it amusing. That's like she doesn't look at this.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
It's like you'd have to.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I'm never coming back here again.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
You know we love you.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
I know.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
That's why it makes it so Inferiod.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Twelve o'clock hour is coming up next. Gary and Shannon
will continue.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Right after.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We've got warnings up in La
Malibu for the storm heading this way, Warnings about mudslides, debris.
They are calling in it an atmospheric river fueled storm.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, I love that kind.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yes, where you are, you know, if you're in the
Burnscar area, especially with the Palisades area this year in particular.
They say that we will get the brunt of the
rain tonight into the wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Few places with some rain. It's kind of spotty right now.
Down at San Diego, they had a band to go
through Ventura. Up in Santa Barbara, they had some rain
going through. So it hasn't come widespread, at least not yet.
It's been off and on here in Burbank. But they
said that late tonight into tomorrow morning, probably while we're sleeping,
as we're going to see the majority of the rainfall
(01:00):
coming in tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
There's gonna be a sequel to this is spinal tap.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I thought I saw that the numbers. I'll go to eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Nineteen eighty four's music mockumentary getting a sequel. It's called
Spinal Tap two. The End continues. It will release in
theater September twelfth. The first teaser is available today. Christopher Guest,
Michael McKeon, Harry Shearer all reprising their roles.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
From the first films.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
In the new movie, the band will reunite for one
final concert after a fifteen year hiatus.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
That's cool, That'll be fun. That'll be a huge hit.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That will be a big hit. It's time for Swampwatch.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
The other side never quits, So what fuck what?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
I'm not going to anywhere. So that is how you
train the squad.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
What has been.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, Americans have always been gone act.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
They're not scrupid.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Who have the people voted for you? With no swamp watch?
They're all counteroid.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, uh, it's hard to keep up with everything that's
going on when it comes to the tariffs over the
last forty eight hours or so.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So here's a here's how we'll try to explain this.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The European Union and Canada have now both hit back
at Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs with their own tariffs.
They've announced tariffs on billions of dollars worth of products bourbon, motorcycles, makeup,
et cetera. And they have said that they will retaliate
even further if necessary. The European Union says that they
(02:50):
have a two stage response that they're going to target
about twenty eight billion dollars of our products that we
send to them. Canada has announced a twenty five five
percent tariff on about twenty one billion dollars worth of
American goods. Now, the steel and aluminum tariffs went into
(03:10):
about twenty five percent on all steel and aluminum tariffs
that went into effect at midnight last night, late whatever,
eleven hours ago, and the European leaders have been saying
that they would retaliate, but they've emphasized that a trade
war is going to hurt everybody, and they've been trying
to negotiate this some sort of an off ramp with
(03:32):
the Trump administration, an off ramp that may simply look
like a pause the way it has with Mexico and
Canada over the last couple of months.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Looks like April first is when all of this will
get rolling or go into effect. Canada, by the way,
the largest steel supplier to the United States, said Wednesday
today it will place twenty five percent reciprocal tariffs on
steel products and raised taxes on a bunch of stuff
like tools, computers, surveys, display monitors, sports equipment, cast iron
(04:05):
products as well.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So, I mean, at this point, Wall Street has been
sort of mixed today, at least not anywhere near as
negative as it was over the course of the last
few days.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The volatility is not helping much.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But one thing that did help was the inflation numbers
were actually lower in the month of January than I'm
sorry that in the month of February than they were
in the month of January, So the consumer price index
had a two point eight percent rise, and overall prices
in the economy when that number came out, that prompted
a jump in all three major indices this morning, but
(04:42):
it has kind of settled back down. The Dow is
down only about fifteen points, the S and P five
hundred is up about twenty nine, and the Nasdaq has
gained a full percentage point.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's up one hundred and eighty four.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
New report is finding inflation starting to cool. Consumer Price
Index by point point zero point two percent last month,
right up to two point eight. No, I was just
going to say the expectation was three percent, which you
left out.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I did leave that part out.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You did, And then the Education Department was the other
slashing that we were going to get to. You and
I both thought that it was bigger. It was bigger
than it is. When I saw four thousand and change
employees that they were going to slash to two thousand
and change, I thought, when you think the Education Department,
you think of this like beast, right, does bureaucratic beast well?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Because the number of U what is it, two point
something million federal employees broken up amongst all these different agencies. Yeah,
I had assumed that the Department of Education was a bigger
just in sheer numbers of workers, and it's not. A
government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the
(05:56):
legal fight over the detention of a Columbia University grad
stated to New Jersey or Louisiana, since that's where he
had been held. This is a guy who was on
campus at Columbia and was at the very least a
spokesperson for the pro Palestinian protesters, although there's still some
(06:17):
discussion as to whether or not he was involved with them,
how much he organized them, if any, and what sort
of things he was suggesting these protesters say or Carrie
Sin's saying, and what contact he has with anybody in Hamas.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The guy's name is mak Mud Khalil.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
He's thirty.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
By the way, he's thirty.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And during a brief hearing, an attorney argued on behalf
of the Justice Department that the venue for the deportation
fight had to be moved to Louisiana or New Jersey.
The argument, according to Marco Rubio, is any non resident.
In this case, he is legal permanent resident, but not
(07:02):
a citizen. He is allowed to reside in the United
States as a Green card holder, but Marco Rubio says,
if he's doing things that would have prevented him from
getting the green card in the first place, we should
be able to kick him out. The Immigration and Naturalization
Act says that any alien whose presence or activities in
(07:25):
the United States that the Secretary of State has reasonable
grounds to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy
consequences for the United States, that person is rendered deportable.
And it's not a student visa that this guy was on.
This guy is a Green card holder. He is a
legal permanent resident, which is the highest category that you
(07:47):
can be without being an actual citizen of the United States,
and can he can be deported if they established that
he belonged to this group that either endorses or espouses
terrorist activity, or that he is engaged in terrorist activity.
That's a far cry from just talking about your support
for Hamas or Palace.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's different than free speech. That takes it a step further,
and that's where the court is going to have to determine.
Is this that it doesn't matter what the speech is,
if it's in syndiari or has terroristic ties, or it
moves beyond free speech, then that portion of the.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Law kicks in.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
This has been the topic of several protests in places
like New York and La other cities. Susan Sarandon has
been on the scene there at the courthouse totally.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You just got to know what she's doing.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Told reporters that no matter where you stand on genocide,
freedom of speech is a right we all have, saying
wait a.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Minute, no matter where you stand on genocide.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, I know, And then she said, this is a
turning point in history and the freedom of this country,
no matter where you stand on genocide. Gary Hn Shannon
will continue. That's like Mark Gary is going on the
Today Show today and talking about victims justice and calling
Nathan Hawkman a showboater.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
How rich?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
How rich is that?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Okay, we have exciting things coming up this hour. First
of all, is the tech in your car becoming too much?
I think it's too much, and the majority of cars
it's too much. I miss the old you know, you
gotta crank, roll up and down the window you're talking about,
I know. And how sad when you could like fix
your car. You know, if you have like a bug
(09:39):
or an old Chevy truck, you could fix that thing.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You can have the door panel off and you realign
the window with the little holder that's there in the
crank exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
And now these stupid ass computers come in.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We'll be back after Grandma goes to bingo.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Jeez, you're listening to Irian Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
One of the stories that we told you about yesterday
was that takeover of the train in Pakistan, an operation
to rescue four hundred and fifty hostages, has actually continued
now into its second day. Dozens of people have been killed,
but Pakistan security services say they've rescued about one hundred
(10:25):
and ninety people being held hostage on a train after
militants blew up a rail line and launched the attack
on the Ja'afar Express. Officials said that about thirty of
the militants have been killed and that about one hundred
and thirty hostages are still being held on that train
in I believe it was actually in a tunnel. They're
(10:46):
in a mountainous pass that they were on, So continues.
Tech in your car can be incredible.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It's gone nuts, really, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I think of like Tesla's with the full screen, bigger
than iPads or what have you, And how can not
not be distracting? How can people who are not who
have not grown up with technology and phones in their
hands and everything is online and classes and work and
all of the things. Those people are absolutely ready to
deal with that it's user friendly for them. But for
(11:19):
people like I don't know, fifty years old or what happens.
You see, there's a learning curve there. We didn't have
TVs in our cars growing up, right, I don't know
how people who are seventy are jumping into a new
I mean handle woul didn't he say it was just
too crazy, it was too complicated. I mean people who are, say,
(11:41):
who have not grown up with this jumping into one
of these things, it would be very overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Some of the stuff that I think that has come
into just about every car now is good. Like I
love the navigation software. It's available everywhere, whether it's on
your phone or in the car, it's available everywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think that's good.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
The stuff that I don't quite get and I've never
gotten used to, is the lane departure warning.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You know you're if you have it turned on. You
can turn them off a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
But if you're in your car and the thing just
starts beeping at you and you don't know why is
it beeping at you? And it's because there's a car
in your blind spot, or something like that that to
me is more jarring than a car in my blind
spot that's gonna surprise. So some of that stuff I
think is it drives me nuts. But other stuff is
(12:33):
really really great. The automatic braking sometimes automatic condition avoidance
is great.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Many drivers say it's too much.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Right now, the share who had positive feelings about the
intuitiveness of their car's controls fell from seventy nine percent
ten years ago to fifty six percent now because ten
years ago twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
The new stuff was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It wasn't as advanced as it is now, and now
it may have gotten too advanced.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
When it comes to.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The dashboard display's screen interface is the layout of the
instrument panel that you can switch to seventeen different views.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, I think that the interaction is probably the most
important part of it, because now you're talking about you
can interact with your phone just with your fingertips right
in many cars, many vehicles now you have a touch
screen surface that you can do with just your hands.
But then you are not paying attention to the road.
(13:32):
You're paying attention to the touch screen if you're doing
something while you're driving, And I think that's probably the
biggest concern.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I mean a couple things. The door handles. There was
an anecdote about a guy who was trying to start
as twenty twenty four Volkswagen ID four electric car using
his phone app and the car doors wouldn't open because
(14:00):
sensor equipped handles were on the fritz in the cold,
it was fifteen degrees, so he ended up having to
shimmy into his car through the trunk.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
He said, just give me a normal door handle.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, the door handles that you have to play with
to press for them to open. Just get what's the
purpose of that. Just put on a freaking door handle.
The other my nephew, he just lost his car keys.
He's twenty three years old. He's up in Chico, was
going to drive back home over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Lost his car keys. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And it's like a fob. It's a whole thing. Like you,
It's not just a it's not a key anymore for
most of us. Right, there's just certain things where it
used to be not a big deal, and it's suddenly
a big deal. I mean, the computer system in your
car could something could happen, It could short and suddenly
you can't drive the car.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
What.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, I mean there's there's obviously that that kind of
a concern, and repairing a computer price problem in.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Your car expensive.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You can't do that massive.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I mean when I my dad had a sixty five
Chevy pickup truck, and when you it's just it's just
a gorgeous, gorgeous thing to lift the hood on that
and there's a lot of room in that compartment. I mean,
there's just a lot of stuff in there that or
there's I shouldn't say there's not a lot of stuff
(15:25):
in there that's extraneous.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You don't need any of it right, and you.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Can it's like going into auto shop where you open
up that hood, you can tell what everything is right,
and they're accessible to your point. Last year, a quarter
of car repairs involved a sensor recalibration, an additional cost
of six hundred dollars. So that's six hundred on top
of whatever your issue was with the car, just because
(15:50):
it's computerized.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Well, windshield replacement, how many how many windshields now don't
just have the rearview mirror in it. It's that rear
view mirror on the opposite side, on the outside, has
a whole bunch of sensors and everything that are looking
at either traffic in front of you or the weather
conditions or if there's rain on the wind shoe on
the tesla.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
This is a question, is it does it cost more
for things like like you ran into something ran into you,
a fender bender or whatever, something on the road you're
on a road trip or whatever.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Is it more to fit parents? Yeah, because there's so
many sensors.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Not necessarily.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Okay, The problem with the repairing a tesla for a
lot of the people that I know that have them
is getting the parts. They don't make a whole lot
of extra parts for those things. So if you've got
to buy a bumper assembly or a door or something,
it's going to take a couple of weeks to get there,
Whereas if you're in a more common if you're in
a Honda Accord, they have them waiting in a warehouse.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Honda Accord bumpers in my garage.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Right, and they'll just put it on within three or
four days as opposed to two or three weeks.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
So okay, Coming up next, we've got parenting. We will
tell you just how much it costs to raise a baby. Also,
being a parent keeps your brain young, that's why you should.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Make another baby.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Ain't gonna happen. Come on, Gary Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
As we've been reporting to you.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Europe and Canada hitting back after Trump's tariffs on steel
and aluminum. The tariffs are twenty five percent on metals
that come into the US from any country in the world,
including our allies. They say that these will raise the
cost for US automakers and other industries. The move is
supported by many American steel and aluminum manufacturers. We should
(17:46):
say the EU has announced it will impose counter tariffs
on US goods worth twenty eight billion dollars and everything
goes into effect at least at this point April one.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Ukrainian and Polish officials say arms deliveries to Ukraine have resumed.
The deliveries came today, a day after the administration lifted
at the suspension of military aid for Kiev, and Kremlin
spokesperson said that Moscow is waiting more information about the
proposal from the United States. Of course, they have signaled.
Ukrainians have signaled that they're open to a thirty day ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Again, the heaviest rain's going to hit tonight, late tonight
and tomorrow morning. Flood watch is in effect for twenty
four hours starting at six pm tonight, So there is
your storm watch alert. Justin worship as host of the
Dad podcast.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Hello, do you think you know how we have cold wars?
Is this going to be like a tariff war? Is
that going to be a.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Faly call them trade wars?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, So I was saying this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
In my lifetime, I can't remember there being this much
kerfuffle around a trade war. I'm sure they existed, but
we weren't paying attention. And now I just feel like
we have to pay attention of.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Speaking of the high cost to take medicine, a.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Center from a study from baby Center shows that raising
a baby can be pretty expensive. That in the first
year alone, you're talking about twenty grand.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Three and eighty four dollars on average, Which is what
did they say? They said it's fifteen percent of mom's
baby let expenses eat up half of what they bring in,
half of your income for your baby's first year. And
they're talking like we've been hearing about this decline and
birth rate, and this is the first kind of I
(19:41):
don't even think that they're well, they do make the
connection here, but this is the first time I'm seeing
this connection. Is that I thought it was just like generationally,
that people like millennials were less interested in having families.
They were more career oriented and they wanted to live
a more nomadic lifestyle and have freedom.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
So therefore kids weren't a part of it.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
But now what we're trying to what we're starting to
see is that it's possible that there's more economic influence
because the birth rate in the US is declining, stem
like people are having less kids. There's more dual income
no kid type families than there were in the past.
I don't think they out like rake like or outnumber
the parents yet, but it's still it's rising and I
(20:19):
think a lot of it has to do with the
costs well.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And I know that they make one point in here
that there's no national paid leave, there's no federal law
that requires paid leave for parents. But I've never worked
in a place where it wasn't offered. Yeah where I mean,
And that's just a matter of whether it's local law
or just a company policy.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
And when you look at like, we always love to
make fun of the Netherlands, right because there it's where
everybody is happy and they have the largest, the longest
paid national leave.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I think, who makes fun of people from the Netherlands.
I do you do like we would make fun of Canadians.
You make fun of the people from the Netherlands.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
A different.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Wooden shoes.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
She listens. I told you, she listens. What it's called
the gigs out my stud.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
You broadcast from solving.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Yeah, I'm spending defective American? Who I'm to take fun
of me?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Always?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Well, maybe maybe I'm talking to me in the Royal
Wee because I think it's just so funny that they
are always so happy and nobody seems to understand why.
And then the minute I bring up and say like
things even amongst friends, not just here, but when I
say amongst my friends, it's like, oh, well, they have
more paid apparently if I think they're like I thought
it was closer than nine oh maybe, and they have that.
I think it's nine months for a mom and six
(21:41):
months for a dad is what they get in the Netherlands.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
I'll look that up before when we go in the
next break or whatever.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
But that the happier nations seem to have longer paid leave.
That is a federal thing, Like I don't know in
what instances it's actually paid by the federal government. I'm
sure that it has to be subsidized in some way,
shape or form. It's like a disabil for lack of
a better way opening.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, it's also a great tax coat in in Amsterdam.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Thirty percent of your gross salary can be paid out
tax free as non taxable allowance.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Wow, but you still got to be in the like
fifty percent of taxes. There's no way that they're You're
also just getting a third of their.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Beautiful there too nice waterways.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Shannon's planning a move and offended by me saying making
fun you're reading from.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The work for the commerce or something.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
He's doing another trip.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You gotta go. I stopped there on the way to Estoniacakes.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
That's like almost a ten year old fit now, A
long time ago, Gary Shadow were filling it on the
Morning show when I worked there and just mentioned about
going to Europe, and Gary evidently gets very upset whenever
she talks about her travels. Because he feels like his
children are sandbags and weigh him down from being.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Able to experience rooted in my deep jealous.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
And as a person who walks with children, I agree wholeheartedly.
I think it is fair that it's the It shouldn't
she should be burdened with at least a bag of
flour or some eggs that she has to care for,
like it's a junior.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Year in high school again.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And listen, you and I may both be older than Shannon,
but because of the benefit of having squeezed out a
couple of kids, we're smarter.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We are smarter.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Science will prove it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Gary Channon will so much.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Just belief in your eye.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
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Speaker 3 (23:37):
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Speaker 1 (23:43):
Being a parent keeps the brain young, so says science.
Justin Worsham, hosts of the Dad podcast, is with us.
His hips don't live, They've been worked on, spelled those.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
To a physical therapist, did some blood.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's a whole thing strong hips. So what's what's the
deal with this? Is it just because your brain has
to stay active when you've got kids, especially multiple actually
just the multitasker, the entire your whole life.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Yeah, they did multiple brain studies in Britain and they
showed that when they looked at the not only there
was a direct correlation between people who didn't have kids
and people who had kids, but also even more to
support their evidence was the more kids you had, the
longer your brain stayed active.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
And it was because of use.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Like to me, there was my r pediatrician gave the
kids this kind of speech when we went in there
and saying, you gotta watch how much time you spend
playing video games, and she said the reason is is
because if you spend most of your time playing video games,
then the neurons in your brain that are used for
playing video games become very strong and very open and
can fire fast.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
But you're neglecting the other parts of your brain, like
your hips.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Like your hips, you need to get out there and
do some pilates, boys, and so you have to do
these other things so that you're well rounded in that area.
And so with parents, because so much of your life
is about social connection with kids, and the more kids
you have, so those parts of your brain.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
But the thing that blew my brain, my brain, was.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
That it's also your motor function is more like grip
strength is something that they actually use to assess your
motor ability because you're that part of the frontal cortex
of your brain controls how hard you can squeeze your hand.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Well, you've you've tried to hold kids down, haven't you. Yeah,
of course that's but.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
I guess I guess what I'm saying not to be
a wet blanket on your humor, but what I'm saying
is that I never would have thought that you having
a stronger frontal stronger frontal cortex.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Not my verbal cortex obviously, but.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
For motor skills because of kids, would make my grip
strength stronger later on in life Like that, that's fascinating
to me.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Am I done.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah, No, I think you're right, because there is there's
no gen there's no great connection.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
You should not have children.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
I don't think you understand deal with frustration and anchor.
They just also no more puppies for you, Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Caregiving is the highly sensory process involving coordinated movements. The
holding the cradle and defeeding the children can engage multiple
sensory systems, but obviously you're using muscles with that as well.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Just uh, my wife used to have.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
This very specific way that she would hold one of
the kids on her hip.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yes, and it.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Looks like they're like making a half moon shape out
of their back and I don't understand how that works.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And she.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Would talk about that, of course, I mean that made
her that strengthened whatever that side. I mean she would
switch from side to side, but she would talk about
that being a very specific feeling of that was strengthened.
Especially as the kids grow from you know, eight pounds
up to.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Eighty pounds. I don't know when to stop it crazy
whatever they grow to. I don't know how big number
one in number too, I know which one was.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Impressed me too, that my wife could literally carry a
child like a toddler around all day at like a
theme park. Right, But when it comes to taking four
or five bags of groceries, can you get these big guys.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
This is not a ruffles counseling.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
This is not why I'm not even gonna look at
you for the rest of the overdone.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I thought we had some time here.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Can we unpack what I just said? Do I need?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Not a great idea?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
She done enough, she unloaded two kids, and now you
want her to unload four or five bags of groceries.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
So many times I defend you with her, and now
you're gonna jump on the bandwagon.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
She wants to be safe too.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I'm trying to protect you. See this, I'm helping you.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
I'm gonna go next door and start my apology tour
the world, but especially my wife. I wasn't saying it
was bad. I just was like, it was interesting to me.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Why is that the kids?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
She carried the kids, and she carried the kids on
her hip.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
She my grocery shop.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I'm sure this doesn't argument.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
But I about to breastfeed.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Okay, you've taught her to. I'm sure she would find
that interesting. Also, let's get her on the horn.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Let's care also an awful idea I never want to
hear I taught my wife how to breastfeed.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Again, well, I had a good run.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
You can see why that.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I do think you have a good sitcom pitch. Justin Worsham,
the world's first male lactation consultant.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I could see.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
That coming up.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
No, WB, everybody's going to use that talkback feature right now,
and you're gonna get blown up on how many people,
how many guys know how.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
To teach ala? I have never done that.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I know, I just did a child, But in my head,
I can't think of anything that would be more infuriating
than than my husband telling me how to make that
s work.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
And I almost said the real word like.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That to me sounds like the worst version of calm
down I've.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Ever heard you do it. That is actual weaponized mansplain.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Yeah, the onion was to write an article about man splaining.
They would use my life example.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That'll land on a dateline with Keith Morrison talking about
your life.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
This is why she is my soulmate because she found
it amusing. That's like she doesn't look at this.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
It's like you'd have to.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I'm never coming back here again.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
You know we love you.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
I know.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
That's why it makes it so Inferiod.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Twelve o'clock hour is coming up next. Gary and Shannon
will continue.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Right after.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
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Speaker 3 (29:46):
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