September 25, 2025 • 31 mins
LA County report on Eaton, Palisades fires says "outdated policies, inconsistent practices" led to alert failure. Approval has been given for the Convention Center Expansion Project, preparing the facility for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. “Fijiwhara” Effect - when two hurricanes get too close together. 100-Year-Old Rations – what’s the weirdest food you’ve ever eaten?
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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):
Matthew McConaughey, there's an interview with him on television right now.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I read a story about him the other day.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
His dad died of a heart attack, I think in
his sixties, wild naked with his with Matthew McConaughey's mom.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
They had just got.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A way to go, and Matthew McConaughey tells this story
about he knew, you know, when he found out that
his dad had passed away. He rushes back from I
think he was in college at the time, and he
rushes back home and to be with mom. And as
they're wheeling dad's body out of the house, Mom grabs
the blanket that was over him because he's buck naked.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
They just did it, and.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Mom rips the sheet off of the dad and was like,
this is the way he wanted to go, not covered up,
This is how he wanted to go. And it was
his funniest sad like they're standing in the driveway with
tears in their eyes.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I would just like to point out that it was
you this time that interjected sex into the show.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hey, this is Thomas down in Rosarito, Mookie Wilson, New
York mets Gary kind of.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Sounded like you didn't know who Shannon was talking about.
She wasn't talking about Mookie Cannon. You definitely have some
sports wisdom. Go Blue. We are going to go and
take another world championship this year. It was everyone to know,
Go Blue.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It was a keyk Hernandez that said, we don't give
an f That was his postgame interview deal. And Big
Dumper there in Seattle, his thing is We're going to
win the whole fing thing. It's kind of like the
juxtaposition between I don't know, Will Clark and Key k
or Big Dumper and Bill Clinton on our Sineo's couch
(01:56):
and Gavin News. The rhetoric has heated up all around. Yeah,
you know, people are dropping f's here and there in
all arenas of life.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Cal Rawley is the catcher for the Seattle Mariners, who
are having a just spectacular season. Last night they clinched
the American League West. He hit two home runs last night,
his sixtieth climb on the right.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Catcher.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Sixty home runs, your MVP movement. Oh yeah, I'm not
sure he's going to get the MVP.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Aaron Judges put a strong vote in for that, But
this was him postgame.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I think last night, what I kept hearing from everybody
on this team was we got more work to do,
and it seems like this team was just even more
focused tonight.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I mean, uh, you know, I think most people he
said last night, you know, might as well win.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The whole thing, and the place just goes in say,
and I've not listened. I was there when they opened
what was Safeco Field is now T Mobile Park. That
that new Baseball's I it's twenty years old in Seattle.
It is a beautiful place. It holds about thirty eight thousand,
I think, close to.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The stadium it was. I love seeing that stadium. I
love seeing a game in that stadium.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I will absolutely root for the Mariners because I don't
have any other team that's gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Mookie Wilson, though, going back to Moukie, Wilson was the
guy that hit the ball that Buckner screwed up on
in this series, right eighty six?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Did he yeah he hit it? Yeah? Did he hit already?
Score on that play? He hit it. Didn't he hit it?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
I think he was that bad.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I think he hit it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I think you're right, all right, speaking of weakness,
weakness in our heads, speaking.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Of Bill Buckner, that guy, that poor guy.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Is he still with us? Yeah? No, he died.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I believe he did pass I'm I'll look it up please.
There was a several months long review by.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It Dead and nineteen. Yeah. Did we celebrate No, you
know we did celebrate here. No, I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Celebrate his life, the life and the play between the
legs ball just the one.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Anyway. He was a good player.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
He was a great player, but only remembered for that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Really month's long review by a company called the the
Crystal Group. I don't know if that's Stanley's or not,
but the Virginia based company did not identify a single
point of failure when it comes to La County's efforts
to warn and get people out of the way of
the eating fire back in January, there is the Board
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County Board of Supervisors is going to review this report.
In their meeting today, it said was this was not
intended to assess blame, not necessarily to point fingers at
who or what was responsible for the lack of warning
for the Eaten Fire, but rather to provide findings in
some recommendations for what happened. The evacuation notification system for
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La County did not work the way it was supposed to.
People who live west of Lake Avenue in Altadena got
alerts hours after the people east of Lake Avenue received them,
which may have contributed to some deaths, obviously a lot
of homes that were lost, et cetera. The evacuation orders
(05:26):
in the Palisades were also sent after some homes were
already burning. The board asked for this third party investigation
way back in January, I mean when there was literally
still smoldering going on in those areas.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
By the time of the ninety day.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Report that came out, the Crystal Group had conducted thirty
three interviews and anticipated doing eighteen more. They had done
six community listening sessions, one in each sorry three in
each of the two fire zones are initially spread, if
you remember, towards Sierra Madre, but then a change in
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the winds that January seventh night quickly pushed the flames
toward Altadena. That presented a much greater challenge for firefighters.
The topography was a lot tougher for them as well.
And again there's it's not it's not to say there
was one thing that caused the problem when it came
to evacuations and warnings. It was a series of weaknesses
(06:27):
their word that that led to all of this. But
this is one of those things that you cannot as
a county board of supervisors.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You cannot ignore this.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And thankfully some of the recommendations they came up with
in the preliminary reports have already been acted upon. But
standing around looking at each other like morons, it's not
a way to handle this. So hopefully there's some action
that comes out of this.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Somebody's not following the golden rule today, I mean the
golden rule adjacent silver rule. If you don't have anything
nice to say, all right, coming up, next.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Coming, you won't look at me when you accuse me
of wrongdoing one.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
The whole thing, isn't that crowd?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
That's great? Good for them.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'm excited for the Mariners. I love I love an underdog.
You know, they're they're perennial underdogs. I know, it's like
the Brewers a couple of years ago and now they're
old hat.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's like now they went a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, we've got Convention Center news. It looks like it's
going to get a big upgrade.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
What an iore that place is.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Isn't it finally signed off? Mayor Bass finally signed off
in this expansion. It's a lot of money that they
do not have, but I go for it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Have fun.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Coming up later, we will get to Priscilla Presley's latest memoir.
We've heard Michael Jackson called a lot of things, but
manipulative may be a new one, at least one talking
about adults. I've learned a bunch of things about different
people in the celebrity sphere from Priscilla Presley's memoir, including
the fact that she and Robert Kardashian were together and
(08:22):
close to marriage at one point. So all the salacious
details coming up later in the show.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
News came out that Starbucks is going to be closing
a bunch of stores, laying off about nine hundred people
in a one billion dollar restructuring plan. The CEO put
out a memo to employees this morning. They said the
cuts were part of a long term revamp Seahawks Cardinals
tonight for Thursday Night football, and just to put a
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button on that whole Bill Buckner thing.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Five five, then a dolarious ten inning. Can you believe
this call? Gave a shay Oh brother Korean two, Lucy Wilson.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Little roller up along first behind the bag.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It gets through.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But there comes night and the Mets with.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
If one picture is worth a thousand words, you have
seen about a million words.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
This is great. It was Ray Knight that scored on
that on that.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Plane, the Curse of the Bambino, and.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Then the Mets went on to win Game seventh. Just
through your head back and say.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well that's what the fourth of July, that's what was blamed.
It was blamed on.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Curse of the Bambino. I'm sorry if you don't know
about that. I know about okay. I just thought it
was funny that you would just yell it out.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I'm not going to explain it to you as a
grown man. That would be quite four ounce back, quite embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
All right, Well, there is this is your Fuji.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Warat that we're getting into, right, No, this is the
this is the convention center.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
We'll do who you are on next segment, what time
is it?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Could you tell me it's a curse of the bambianoio.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Briefly, did you see this thing about Roseanne Barr trying
to equate herself to Jimmy Kimmel and wondering why she's
not canceled and why she's not uncanceled. Listen, it's because
you're Roseanne bar Like. She's like, there's a double standard.
I don't know about that. You're Roseanne Barmber time it was,
I had to look it up. You bring up an
(10:33):
excellent point. It was about Valerie Jarrett at the time.
Oh it was an Obama advisor, and she tweeted something
to the effect of she's the child of the Muslim
Brotherhood and the planet of the Apes.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
She apologized, she said she.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Thought Valerie Jarrett was white, not black, a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
She's totally canceled and wondered why she wasn't given a
second chance. It's like, Roseanne Barr, You've had more second
chances than anybody else. Your first mishap was when you
grabbed your crotch, was it not?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah? And you were given and.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Anthem a second chance after that, and many chances you've
offended one too many times, Roseanne bar Furthermore, there's no
appetite for you anymore. You had your time to shine,
you had a show named Roseanne. It's time to move on.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, and then they brought, of course the show back
without her.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
But still, I mean, it's not like she didn't have
her time in the sun.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, and listen, it's there are so many other different
circumstances surrounding each one of those events. That's I don't
know if I want to get into a discussion about
Roseanne timely.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean, we are talking about the night.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It up like it was Yesterdaykie Wilson hit that hit
that ball, don't you.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Mean Mookie Betts? No?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Was he thought you? He thought you meant Mookie Wilson. Okay,
you were how old were you in nineteen eighty six?
You were six years old?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
But the Buckner play transcend.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I know, I yes that, But anyway, LA Mayor Karen
Bass has announced the two point six billion dollar Convention
Center expansion. She says the project's going to bring jobs.
Let me make sure you include the union part in
their union jobs growth, and a cleaner downtown Los Angeles,
(12:35):
he said. She said the expansion of the Convention Center
is much more than just another project. It's an investment
in the city of the economy and blood Bloa. It's
what politicians say.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We have said multiple times that this is a project
that has been under discussion for for a very long time,
and there are people who are already criticizing the two
point six billion dollar price tag on this. Listen, this
is a project that should have been done years ago
(13:07):
and probably would have had a smaller price tag at
the time. But when you get politicians together, all they
do is figure out which of their favorite groups.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Or unions is going to be getting the money.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Then we get down the road and we're stuck with
if you're going to fix this thing, it's going to
cost a pantload more than it was ten years ago
or fifteen years ago. The Convention Center. One of the
first stories I ever covered when I came to LA
was when President George W. Bush came to LA to
deliver a speech at the Convention Center. And I remember
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thinking to myself, this is the second largest city in
the in the United States, and this is the convention
center that they've got what.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
A toilet And that was what two thousand and four,
two and four. It hasn't been changed twenty one years later.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Now they're like, oh, I think this a good idea,
especially a.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Good time's aesthetic construction.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
My daughter had played what do you call it? Volleyball?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
There were a couple of volleyball turnas that she did
at the convention center as well, and it's just not
not what it should be compared to other major cities
in their convention apparati.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Can you believe we're just nine days away from the.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
October fi It's so.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Funny when you pretend like you don't, like you're not
excited about it.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
The Life of a Showgirl Taylor Swift's new album.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh I have tickets to the release party? Do you
really know? Why would you think? Again, there's a weird.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Part of me that is worried about I don't know
if I should be worried about you that you're gullible
with that stuff, or I should worry about me because
there's a part of you that actually believes that I
would have tickets to that the way you said really.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well, I'm also surprised when you and it happens more
often than not. Bring Megan Markel News to the show.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
So I'm trying not to put you in a box.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Okay, I suppose if we were to keep score, I
do have I think maybe two Megan Markle's stories to
your zero in ten years.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I think that's too too many. I know, I agree
now that I'm think about it.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Okay, Now can we do the Fujiwara?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Do you think that this is something dirty?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I mean the way you've been saying it, because you
kind of slow down your cadence and you say, have
you heard about the.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Fujiwara event or effect?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
See, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, we'll see what it is when we come back.
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (15:53):
There may be a new well, there is a feature
on your smartphone that is new that can give you
longer battery life. We're going to talk about that coming
up with tech Talk and Mark Saltzman in the next hour.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Around this time, UCLA is no longer number one.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Ucla lost its top spot best public university in the
nation after eight years on the think at US News
and World Report rankings list. Berkeley took number one. Ucla
came in second. When you go down the list, you
got University of Michigan at number three, University of Virginia
and North Carolina at Chapel Hill tied at number four,
(16:35):
and then you see San Diego.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Took the number six slot.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Of all, we've been mentioning that Kimmel got fifteen million
plus views on YouTube. That number continues to go up
for his return show from Tuesday night six million on TV,
which gives you an idea of how social media has
changed the way things like.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
That are viewed.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
The bigger question is where is he a week from
No exactly, You're exactly right. But you had said that
you were gonna watch it, and then you realize, well,
you can just see it on Twitter and within moments.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And I didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I didn't even bother watching the whole monologue. I yeah,
I just saw parts of it.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
There was a play in the I think it was
a Tawny home run or something where my husband's like, oh, wait, wait,
do you see the replay? And I was like, man,
I don't need to wait and see the replay on TV.
I'll pull it up there. It is on Twitter within
within seconds.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
It's just a different way of consuming things.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Uh Iran has likely carried out an undeclared missile test,
according to his satellite photos.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Iran has not formally acknowledged.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This test at at a specific place, a pad that
has hosted other major launches. A single lawmaker in parliament
there in Iran did claim, without offering evidence, that Tehran
tested a possible ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh. I gotta get this. This is a good one.
You ready, bucalop oh uh, Shannon, that's he's referring to you. Yeah,
condescending cannon. The Curse of the Bambino.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We're talking about the curse of the Bambino. That's Babe Ruth, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Okay, Shannon. The Curse of the Bambino is about the Yankees,
the Mets.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Interesting, that's an interesting what's his name?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Okay, So let's go back one hundred years or further.
When the Red Sox sold the Bambino aka Babe Ruth
to the end of the Yankees. That is when the
Curse of the Bambino began for the Red Sox, sir, right,
and he was playing.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Eighty five eighty six year drought right.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Right in nineteen eighty six. The two teams in the
World Series.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Were the Mets and the Red Sox, right.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And it was the Mets who were home for Mookie
Welson Wilson who hit that roller through Buckner's legs, which
was is blamed on the curse of the Bambino because
how would that go through Buckner's legs? Otherwise it wouldn't.
He was a great first basement. That is why the
curse of the Bambino was brought up. It was just
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another reason why the Red Sox didn't win until two
thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I mean, I supposed ten ginger.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
But I really did.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I really appreciate you calling into correct me. Your horses
asked shut.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Here, get out of here.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I hate myself.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Off the bar, off the bar. Yeah, oh, I get
the guy at the end of the morning.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Johnny Ken used to say off the stage, that guy
is the guy.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
In the bar. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I don't know if I don't know if you know this,
but Mookie Betts played for the Mets, hence the name,
and he's the one who hit the guy in Bob
Buckner's feet. Just say it again, Shannon, do you know
what the Chinese do do you know what they do?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You know what the Chinese do with the buckners?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Do you know what the Fujiwara effect is. This is
gonna get this is gonna get toasty.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's named after doctor suka He Fujiwara, the chief of
the Central Meteorological Bureau in Japan. Shortly after the World
War that was the Great War.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It was the First World War. In nineteen twenty one, he.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Wrote a paper Garry Sorry, He wrote a paper describing
the motions of vortices in the water. Water vorteses think Shannon,
think whirlpools, little water.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Worlds that spin around.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The Fujiwara effect could play out in the Atlanta very
very soon. There are two developing storms out there, and
the Fujiwara effect occurs when two big storms like this
interact with each other. As of just yesterday morning, there
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was two tropical storms systems sorry, they're not tropical storms
yet that are meandering sort of in that southwest Atlantic
Ocean think of east of Dominican the Dominican Republic. When
and if these storms reach tropical status, one of them
would be Umberto the other one would be Imelda. Many
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weather models show potentially land impact. But the Fujiwara effect
is not very common in the Atlantic, but it can happen.
What happens when two storms or hurricanes spinning in the
same direction pass close enough to each other that they
begin to affect each other or worse, because they combined
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become a super hurricane.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And we call that the Curse of the Bambean, Shannon.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
This is the way it's written by USA today. A
good way to picture Fujiwara is to think of two
ice skaters who skate quickly toward each other, almost.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
On a collision course.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Then they grab hands as they're about to pass and
spin vigorously with one big circle.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I saw that and they join hands.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Was in the Cutting Edge, Shannon.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
That was actually in Blades of Glory.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Okay, I'm excited about this one.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Hundred topic to.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
What a great movie one hundred year old military rations
and the people who eat them. And you've brought this
story to the show. And you were kind of pooh
pooing this people. And I think that you're poo pooing
these people because you are these people. You see yourself,
and in poop pooing them, you're poo pooing you can.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
We stopped the poop poop.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Oh, I'm sorry, you're projecting.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I would also love to know, like, what's the weirdest
thing that you've eaten?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh, that's good. I would totally bet though.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
If I brought in a metal plate of one hundred
year military ration and I put it in front of you,
you would absolutely eat it and.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Have no problem with it. I knew, and that's one
of the things we love about you.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
If I knew that it was sealed the whole time. Yes, yeah,
I have confidence in the.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
It's all there weren't maggots in there.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, sealed technology. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Let us know what's the craziest thing that you've eaten?
Old stuff, crazy stuff. I don't care if you've eaten
snake or alligators.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Like any Hostess product, it's probably at least thirty years.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I've been around for it, right, Yeah, leave us a
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Speaker 5 (24:00):
Uh oh, shnon.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI.
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Speaker 3 (24:12):
Is that acceptable? Yeah? Just it looks good. I was
just gonna what is this one? I don't remember what
this one.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. I tell you what that guy
who called into correction and about the Curse of the
Vanbino not being about the Yankees really at all. It
was about the Boston Red Sox and the guy that
he didn't know that, what a jackass.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Well not only did he not know it, but he
called to correct.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, that's the best part. That's brave.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Brave is the right, Shannon, Sir, Listen, I can be corrected.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Like they know about sports, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
MSNBC has been reporting the former FBI director James Comy
is expected to be indicted on criminal charges soon. The
network reported that one part of the indictment might accuse
Comy of lying to Congress about whether he knew about
or authorized a leak to The Wall Street Journal for
an October twenty sixteen article about presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's
(25:25):
email use.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
There is a man named Nathan Abernathy, and he is
a food reviewer, and he got his hands on a
ration from Vietnam, a US military ration including canned pork slices,
tinned peaches, crackers, a pastry, and instant coffee that sounds delicious. Well,
the coffee creamer had congealed there was hard as steel.
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The pastry, he says, smelled like something orange with rancid
nuts in it.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
And when he.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Tried to probably open the can of peaches, it exploded.
What did that do?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It sprayed decades old fruit shrapnel into the ceiling. But
he did drink the coffee and nibble on the crackers.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
He said it wasn't too bad fruit shrapnel. The world
is full of people who collect weird stuff. Stephen Thomas
has eaten a British chocolate bar from nineteen forty three. Yea,
I've always been fascinated with those pictures of fast food
from that. You know, somebody buys a McDonald tamburger and
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puts it on a shelf for a year, and then they
take it out a year later, and it looks exactly
the same.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
As it did the day they bought it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
He has tasted century old beef from Second Burr War.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I don't know what that means, and two.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Point seven million YouTube viewers watch him munch on a
cracker from the American Civil War. Military field rations have
been around for a long time, obviously designed to survive
for years without refrigeration, they have sustained generations of soul.
I realized when I was cleaning out mom and Dad's house.
We found some old We found some old rations.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Gary. Yes, the Second Boer War is a conflict fought
between the British Empire and the Boar Republics over Britain's
influence on in Southern Africa.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So what years.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Eighteen ninety nine to nineteen oh two.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, American troops used to make fun of the MREs,
the meals ready to eat that were released in the
eighties that replaced the canned rations. Certain entrees were notorious,
ye great way. Certain entrees were notoriously cruel to soldiers.
(27:47):
Taste buds and bowels.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They called the smoked hot dogs the four fingers of death,
and the vegetable omelet the bomlet.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
That's rough because.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Sometimes you know, you like the way something tastes, but
you know it's just gonna, you know, not be good
for you. And in the hearing, he didn't like the
way it tastes, and it wasn't good for you.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Man in that department.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Military rations usually wind up on the open market because
countries will over produce meal kits and suppliers will sell
the surplus to individuals or online stores. You could find
the a military surplus stores. They always have some there.
Newer American rations will sell for as little as five
dollars a meal, but a Cold War dinner usually in
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cans that'll cost could cost you hundreds of dollars. For example,
a guy named Sean Cox was preparing to take his
kids camping when he remembered the MREs that he ate
back in the nineties when he was in the Marine
Corps Reserve, and he looked for him online. Found a
site called mreinfo dot com, where hundreds of enthusiasts collect
(28:53):
and trade military rations.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
I think somebody just found a hobby.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
On something to do this afternoon, they said.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
A microbiologist at North Carolina State said the chance of
contracting any food borne pathogen from MREs is low, especially
US mrs, because the military requires them to be sterilized
before ceiling.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Speaking of your hobbies, your wife was out of town
for a long weekend. She came home, and what did
she say when she saw the progress.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
On the fence. She said, it was good good. She
was very happy.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
See good, not great, things were level. Yeah, that was
that was my big concern.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
What else do you have to do to the fence?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I am now in the process of creating the Catalina lattice,
which is taking some time. Yeah, I had to buy
a little narrow gauge, a wide gauge staple gun. Are
you put in some quarter inch by three eighths inch staples?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Are you going to paint it? You are? Yeah? Please
don't gotta painted, are you?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Uh? We could seal it, We could stain it, but
we don't have to seal it.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's cedar.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, but you're gonna keep the natural look to it. Yeah,
it'll eventually gray out. I mean red wooden cedar will
gray out over time.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Are we gonna have a staining wood party over there?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I don't need people?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Oh so, I sorry, Elmer, I just got Yeah, you
just invited.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Because I sound sexy. Though still I would.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
See everyone's interjecting sex into the show. Oh except that guy.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Okay, okay sucks. He ruined it for everyone ruined. Let
us know, what's the craziest thing? Have you ever eaten?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
The old MREs like that or something that you found
in grandma and Grandpa's clause You're like, no, I don't mind.
If these whoppers are seventy five years old, I'll give
them a shot.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Nineteen forty two was a good year.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Matthew McConaughey, there's an interview with him on television right now.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I read a story about him the other day.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
His dad died of a heart attack, I think in
his sixties, wild naked with his with Matthew McConaughey's mom.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
They had just got.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A way to go, and Matthew McConaughey tells this story
about he knew, you know, when he found out that
his dad had passed away. He rushes back from I
think he was in college at the time, and he
rushes back home and to be with mom. And as
they're wheeling dad's body out of the house, Mom grabs
the blanket that was over him because he's buck naked.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
They just did it, and.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Mom rips the sheet off of the dad and was like,
this is the way he wanted to go, not covered up,
This is how he wanted to go. And it was
his funniest sad like they're standing in the driveway with
tears in their eyes.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I would just like to point out that it was
you this time that interjected sex into the show.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hey, this is Thomas down in Rosarito, Mookie Wilson, New
York mets Gary kind of.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Sounded like you didn't know who Shannon was talking about.
She wasn't talking about Mookie Cannon. You definitely have some
sports wisdom. Go Blue. We are going to go and
take another world championship this year. It was everyone to know,
Go Blue.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It was a keyk Hernandez that said, we don't give
an f That was his postgame interview deal. And Big
Dumper there in Seattle, his thing is We're going to
win the whole fing thing. It's kind of like the
juxtaposition between I don't know, Will Clark and Key k
or Big Dumper and Bill Clinton on our Sineo's couch
(01:56):
and Gavin News. The rhetoric has heated up all around. Yeah,
you know, people are dropping f's here and there in
all arenas of life.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Cal Rawley is the catcher for the Seattle Mariners, who
are having a just spectacular season. Last night they clinched
the American League West. He hit two home runs last night,
his sixtieth climb on the right.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Catcher.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Sixty home runs, your MVP movement. Oh yeah, I'm not
sure he's going to get the MVP.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Aaron Judges put a strong vote in for that, But
this was him postgame.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I think last night, what I kept hearing from everybody
on this team was we got more work to do,
and it seems like this team was just even more
focused tonight.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I mean, uh, you know, I think most people he
said last night, you know, might as well win.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The whole thing, and the place just goes in say,
and I've not listened. I was there when they opened
what was Safeco Field is now T Mobile Park. That
that new Baseball's I it's twenty years old in Seattle.
It is a beautiful place. It holds about thirty eight thousand,
I think, close to.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The stadium it was. I love seeing that stadium. I
love seeing a game in that stadium.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I will absolutely root for the Mariners because I don't
have any other team that's gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Mookie Wilson, though, going back to Moukie, Wilson was the
guy that hit the ball that Buckner screwed up on
in this series, right eighty six?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Did he yeah he hit it? Yeah? Did he hit already?
Score on that play? He hit it. Didn't he hit it?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
I think he was that bad.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I think he hit it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I think you're right, all right, speaking of weakness,
weakness in our heads, speaking.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Of Bill Buckner, that guy, that poor guy.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Is he still with us? Yeah? No, he died.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I believe he did pass I'm I'll look it up please.
There was a several months long review by.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It Dead and nineteen. Yeah. Did we celebrate No, you
know we did celebrate here. No, I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Celebrate his life, the life and the play between the
legs ball just the one.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Anyway. He was a good player.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
He was a great player, but only remembered for that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Really month's long review by a company called the the
Crystal Group. I don't know if that's Stanley's or not,
but the Virginia based company did not identify a single
point of failure when it comes to La County's efforts
to warn and get people out of the way of
the eating fire back in January, there is the Board
(04:39):
County Board of Supervisors is going to review this report.
In their meeting today, it said was this was not
intended to assess blame, not necessarily to point fingers at
who or what was responsible for the lack of warning
for the Eaten Fire, but rather to provide findings in
some recommendations for what happened. The evacuation notification system for
(05:03):
La County did not work the way it was supposed to.
People who live west of Lake Avenue in Altadena got
alerts hours after the people east of Lake Avenue received them,
which may have contributed to some deaths, obviously a lot
of homes that were lost, et cetera. The evacuation orders
(05:26):
in the Palisades were also sent after some homes were
already burning. The board asked for this third party investigation
way back in January, I mean when there was literally
still smoldering going on in those areas.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
By the time of the ninety day.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Report that came out, the Crystal Group had conducted thirty
three interviews and anticipated doing eighteen more. They had done
six community listening sessions, one in each sorry three in
each of the two fire zones are initially spread, if
you remember, towards Sierra Madre, but then a change in
(06:04):
the winds that January seventh night quickly pushed the flames
toward Altadena. That presented a much greater challenge for firefighters.
The topography was a lot tougher for them as well.
And again there's it's not it's not to say there
was one thing that caused the problem when it came
to evacuations and warnings. It was a series of weaknesses
(06:27):
their word that that led to all of this. But
this is one of those things that you cannot as
a county board of supervisors.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You cannot ignore this.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And thankfully some of the recommendations they came up with
in the preliminary reports have already been acted upon. But
standing around looking at each other like morons, it's not
a way to handle this. So hopefully there's some action
that comes out of this.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Somebody's not following the golden rule today, I mean the
golden rule adjacent silver rule. If you don't have anything
nice to say, all right, coming up, next.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Coming, you won't look at me when you accuse me
of wrongdoing one.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
The whole thing, isn't that crowd?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
That's great? Good for them.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'm excited for the Mariners. I love I love an underdog.
You know, they're they're perennial underdogs. I know, it's like
the Brewers a couple of years ago and now they're
old hat.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's like now they went a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, we've got Convention Center news. It looks like it's
going to get a big upgrade.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
What an iore that place is.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Isn't it finally signed off? Mayor Bass finally signed off
in this expansion. It's a lot of money that they
do not have, but I go for it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Have fun.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
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Speaker 1 (07:59):
Coming up later, we will get to Priscilla Presley's latest memoir.
We've heard Michael Jackson called a lot of things, but
manipulative may be a new one, at least one talking
about adults. I've learned a bunch of things about different
people in the celebrity sphere from Priscilla Presley's memoir, including
the fact that she and Robert Kardashian were together and
(08:22):
close to marriage at one point. So all the salacious
details coming up later in the show.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
News came out that Starbucks is going to be closing
a bunch of stores, laying off about nine hundred people
in a one billion dollar restructuring plan. The CEO put
out a memo to employees this morning. They said the
cuts were part of a long term revamp Seahawks Cardinals
tonight for Thursday Night football, and just to put a
(08:49):
button on that whole Bill Buckner thing.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Five five, then a dolarious ten inning. Can you believe
this call? Gave a shay Oh brother Korean two, Lucy Wilson.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Little roller up along first behind the bag.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It gets through.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But there comes night and the Mets with.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
If one picture is worth a thousand words, you have
seen about a million words.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
This is great. It was Ray Knight that scored on
that on that.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Plane, the Curse of the Bambino, and.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Then the Mets went on to win Game seventh. Just
through your head back and say.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well that's what the fourth of July, that's what was blamed.
It was blamed on.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Curse of the Bambino. I'm sorry if you don't know
about that. I know about okay. I just thought it
was funny that you would just yell it out.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I'm not going to explain it to you as a
grown man. That would be quite four ounce back, quite embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
All right, Well, there is this is your Fuji.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Warat that we're getting into, right, No, this is the
this is the convention center.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
We'll do who you are on next segment, what time
is it?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Could you tell me it's a curse of the bambianoio.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Briefly, did you see this thing about Roseanne Barr trying
to equate herself to Jimmy Kimmel and wondering why she's
not canceled and why she's not uncanceled. Listen, it's because
you're Roseanne bar Like. She's like, there's a double standard.
I don't know about that. You're Roseanne Barmber time it was,
I had to look it up. You bring up an
(10:33):
excellent point. It was about Valerie Jarrett at the time.
Oh it was an Obama advisor, and she tweeted something
to the effect of she's the child of the Muslim
Brotherhood and the planet of the Apes.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
She apologized, she said she.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Thought Valerie Jarrett was white, not black, a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
She's totally canceled and wondered why she wasn't given a
second chance. It's like, Roseanne Barr, You've had more second
chances than anybody else. Your first mishap was when you
grabbed your crotch, was it not?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah? And you were given and.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Anthem a second chance after that, and many chances you've
offended one too many times, Roseanne bar Furthermore, there's no
appetite for you anymore. You had your time to shine,
you had a show named Roseanne. It's time to move on.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, and then they brought, of course the show back
without her.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
But still, I mean, it's not like she didn't have
her time in the sun.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, and listen, it's there are so many other different
circumstances surrounding each one of those events. That's I don't
know if I want to get into a discussion about
Roseanne timely.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean, we are talking about the night.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It up like it was Yesterdaykie Wilson hit that hit
that ball, don't you.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Mean Mookie Betts? No?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Was he thought you? He thought you meant Mookie Wilson. Okay,
you were how old were you in nineteen eighty six?
You were six years old?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
But the Buckner play transcend.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I know, I yes that, But anyway, LA Mayor Karen
Bass has announced the two point six billion dollar Convention
Center expansion. She says the project's going to bring jobs.
Let me make sure you include the union part in
their union jobs growth, and a cleaner downtown Los Angeles,
(12:35):
he said. She said the expansion of the Convention Center
is much more than just another project. It's an investment
in the city of the economy and blood Bloa. It's
what politicians say.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We have said multiple times that this is a project
that has been under discussion for for a very long time,
and there are people who are already criticizing the two
point six billion dollar price tag on this. Listen, this
is a project that should have been done years ago
(13:07):
and probably would have had a smaller price tag at
the time. But when you get politicians together, all they
do is figure out which of their favorite groups.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Or unions is going to be getting the money.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Then we get down the road and we're stuck with
if you're going to fix this thing, it's going to
cost a pantload more than it was ten years ago
or fifteen years ago. The Convention Center. One of the
first stories I ever covered when I came to LA
was when President George W. Bush came to LA to
deliver a speech at the Convention Center. And I remember
(13:40):
thinking to myself, this is the second largest city in
the in the United States, and this is the convention
center that they've got what.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
A toilet And that was what two thousand and four,
two and four. It hasn't been changed twenty one years later.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Now they're like, oh, I think this a good idea,
especially a.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Good time's aesthetic construction.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
My daughter had played what do you call it? Volleyball?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
There were a couple of volleyball turnas that she did
at the convention center as well, and it's just not
not what it should be compared to other major cities
in their convention apparati.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Can you believe we're just nine days away from the.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
October fi It's so.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Funny when you pretend like you don't, like you're not
excited about it.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
The Life of a Showgirl Taylor Swift's new album.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh I have tickets to the release party? Do you
really know? Why would you think? Again, there's a weird.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Part of me that is worried about I don't know
if I should be worried about you that you're gullible
with that stuff, or I should worry about me because
there's a part of you that actually believes that I
would have tickets to that the way you said really.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well, I'm also surprised when you and it happens more
often than not. Bring Megan Markel News to the show.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
So I'm trying not to put you in a box.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Okay, I suppose if we were to keep score, I
do have I think maybe two Megan Markle's stories to
your zero in ten years.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I think that's too too many. I know, I agree
now that I'm think about it.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Okay, Now can we do the Fujiwara?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Do you think that this is something dirty?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I mean the way you've been saying it, because you
kind of slow down your cadence and you say, have
you heard about the.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Fujiwara event or effect?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
See, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, we'll see what it is when we come back.
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
There may be a new well, there is a feature
on your smartphone that is new that can give you
longer battery life. We're going to talk about that coming
up with tech Talk and Mark Saltzman in the next hour.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Around this time, UCLA is no longer number one.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Ucla lost its top spot best public university in the
nation after eight years on the think at US News
and World Report rankings list. Berkeley took number one. Ucla
came in second. When you go down the list, you
got University of Michigan at number three, University of Virginia
and North Carolina at Chapel Hill tied at number four,
(16:35):
and then you see San Diego.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Took the number six slot.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Of all, we've been mentioning that Kimmel got fifteen million
plus views on YouTube. That number continues to go up
for his return show from Tuesday night six million on TV,
which gives you an idea of how social media has
changed the way things like.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
That are viewed.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
The bigger question is where is he a week from
No exactly, You're exactly right. But you had said that
you were gonna watch it, and then you realize, well,
you can just see it on Twitter and within moments.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And I didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I didn't even bother watching the whole monologue. I yeah,
I just saw parts of it.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
There was a play in the I think it was
a Tawny home run or something where my husband's like, oh, wait, wait,
do you see the replay? And I was like, man,
I don't need to wait and see the replay on TV.
I'll pull it up there. It is on Twitter within
within seconds.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
It's just a different way of consuming things.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Uh Iran has likely carried out an undeclared missile test,
according to his satellite photos.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Iran has not formally acknowledged.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This test at at a specific place, a pad that
has hosted other major launches. A single lawmaker in parliament
there in Iran did claim, without offering evidence, that Tehran
tested a possible ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh. I gotta get this. This is a good one.
You ready, bucalop oh uh, Shannon, that's he's referring to you. Yeah,
condescending cannon. The Curse of the Bambino.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We're talking about the curse of the Bambino. That's Babe Ruth, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Okay, Shannon. The Curse of the Bambino is about the Yankees,
the Mets.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Interesting, that's an interesting what's his name?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Okay, So let's go back one hundred years or further.
When the Red Sox sold the Bambino aka Babe Ruth
to the end of the Yankees. That is when the
Curse of the Bambino began for the Red Sox, sir, right,
and he was playing.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Eighty five eighty six year drought right.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Right in nineteen eighty six. The two teams in the
World Series.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Were the Mets and the Red Sox, right.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And it was the Mets who were home for Mookie
Welson Wilson who hit that roller through Buckner's legs, which
was is blamed on the curse of the Bambino because
how would that go through Buckner's legs? Otherwise it wouldn't.
He was a great first basement. That is why the
curse of the Bambino was brought up. It was just
(19:10):
another reason why the Red Sox didn't win until two
thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I mean, I supposed ten ginger.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
But I really did.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I really appreciate you calling into correct me. Your horses
asked shut.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Here, get out of here.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I hate myself.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Off the bar, off the bar. Yeah, oh, I get
the guy at the end of the morning.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Johnny Ken used to say off the stage, that guy
is the guy.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
In the bar. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I don't know if I don't know if you know this,
but Mookie Betts played for the Mets, hence the name,
and he's the one who hit the guy in Bob
Buckner's feet. Just say it again, Shannon, do you know
what the Chinese do do you know what they do?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You know what the Chinese do with the buckners?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Do you know what the Fujiwara effect is. This is
gonna get this is gonna get toasty.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's named after doctor suka He Fujiwara, the chief of
the Central Meteorological Bureau in Japan. Shortly after the World
War that was the Great War.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It was the First World War. In nineteen twenty one, he.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Wrote a paper Garry Sorry, He wrote a paper describing
the motions of vortices in the water. Water vorteses think Shannon,
think whirlpools, little water.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Worlds that spin around.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The Fujiwara effect could play out in the Atlanta very
very soon. There are two developing storms out there, and
the Fujiwara effect occurs when two big storms like this
interact with each other. As of just yesterday morning, there
(21:16):
was two tropical storms systems sorry, they're not tropical storms
yet that are meandering sort of in that southwest Atlantic
Ocean think of east of Dominican the Dominican Republic. When
and if these storms reach tropical status, one of them
would be Umberto the other one would be Imelda. Many
(21:37):
weather models show potentially land impact. But the Fujiwara effect
is not very common in the Atlantic, but it can happen.
What happens when two storms or hurricanes spinning in the
same direction pass close enough to each other that they
begin to affect each other or worse, because they combined
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become a super hurricane.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And we call that the Curse of the Bambean, Shannon.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
This is the way it's written by USA today. A
good way to picture Fujiwara is to think of two
ice skaters who skate quickly toward each other, almost.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
On a collision course.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Then they grab hands as they're about to pass and
spin vigorously with one big circle.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I saw that and they join hands.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Was in the Cutting Edge, Shannon.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
That was actually in Blades of Glory.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Okay, I'm excited about this one.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Hundred topic to.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
What a great movie one hundred year old military rations
and the people who eat them. And you've brought this
story to the show. And you were kind of pooh
pooing this people. And I think that you're poo pooing
these people because you are these people. You see yourself,
and in poop pooing them, you're poo pooing you can.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
We stopped the poop poop.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Oh, I'm sorry, you're projecting.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I would also love to know, like, what's the weirdest
thing that you've eaten?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh, that's good. I would totally bet though.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
If I brought in a metal plate of one hundred
year military ration and I put it in front of you,
you would absolutely eat it and.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Have no problem with it. I knew, and that's one
of the things we love about you.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
If I knew that it was sealed the whole time. Yes, yeah,
I have confidence in the.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
It's all there weren't maggots in there.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, sealed technology. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Let us know what's the craziest thing that you've eaten?
Old stuff, crazy stuff. I don't care if you've eaten
snake or alligators.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Like any Hostess product, it's probably at least thirty years.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I've been around for it, right, Yeah, leave us a
talkback message. When you're listening on the app, hit that
little microphone button and that message comes in.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Uh oh, shnon.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI.
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Is that acceptable? Yeah? Just it looks good. I was
just gonna what is this one? I don't remember what
this one.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. I tell you what that guy
who called into correction and about the Curse of the
Vanbino not being about the Yankees really at all. It
was about the Boston Red Sox and the guy that
he didn't know that, what a jackass.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Well not only did he not know it, but he
called to correct.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, that's the best part. That's brave.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Brave is the right, Shannon, Sir, Listen, I can be corrected.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Like they know about sports, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
MSNBC has been reporting the former FBI director James Comy
is expected to be indicted on criminal charges soon. The
network reported that one part of the indictment might accuse
Comy of lying to Congress about whether he knew about
or authorized a leak to The Wall Street Journal for
an October twenty sixteen article about presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's
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email use.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
There is a man named Nathan Abernathy, and he is
a food reviewer, and he got his hands on a
ration from Vietnam, a US military ration including canned pork slices,
tinned peaches, crackers, a pastry, and instant coffee that sounds delicious. Well,
the coffee creamer had congealed there was hard as steel.
(25:50):
The pastry, he says, smelled like something orange with rancid
nuts in it.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
And when he.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Tried to probably open the can of peaches, it exploded.
What did that do?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It sprayed decades old fruit shrapnel into the ceiling. But
he did drink the coffee and nibble on the crackers.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
He said it wasn't too bad fruit shrapnel. The world
is full of people who collect weird stuff. Stephen Thomas
has eaten a British chocolate bar from nineteen forty three. Yea,
I've always been fascinated with those pictures of fast food
from that. You know, somebody buys a McDonald tamburger and
(26:30):
puts it on a shelf for a year, and then they
take it out a year later, and it looks exactly
the same.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
As it did the day they bought it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
He has tasted century old beef from Second Burr War.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I don't know what that means, and two.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Point seven million YouTube viewers watch him munch on a
cracker from the American Civil War. Military field rations have
been around for a long time, obviously designed to survive
for years without refrigeration, they have sustained generations of soul.
I realized when I was cleaning out mom and Dad's house.
We found some old We found some old rations.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Gary. Yes, the Second Boer War is a conflict fought
between the British Empire and the Boar Republics over Britain's
influence on in Southern Africa.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So what years.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Eighteen ninety nine to nineteen oh two.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, American troops used to make fun of the MREs,
the meals ready to eat that were released in the
eighties that replaced the canned rations. Certain entrees were notorious,
ye great way. Certain entrees were notoriously cruel to soldiers.
(27:47):
Taste buds and bowels.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They called the smoked hot dogs the four fingers of death,
and the vegetable omelet the bomlet.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
That's rough because.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Sometimes you know, you like the way something tastes, but
you know it's just gonna, you know, not be good
for you. And in the hearing, he didn't like the
way it tastes, and it wasn't good for you.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Man in that department.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Military rations usually wind up on the open market because
countries will over produce meal kits and suppliers will sell
the surplus to individuals or online stores. You could find
the a military surplus stores. They always have some there.
Newer American rations will sell for as little as five
dollars a meal, but a Cold War dinner usually in
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cans that'll cost could cost you hundreds of dollars. For example,
a guy named Sean Cox was preparing to take his
kids camping when he remembered the MREs that he ate
back in the nineties when he was in the Marine
Corps Reserve, and he looked for him online. Found a
site called mreinfo dot com, where hundreds of enthusiasts collect
(28:53):
and trade military rations.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
I think somebody just found a hobby.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
On something to do this afternoon, they said.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
A microbiologist at North Carolina State said the chance of
contracting any food borne pathogen from MREs is low, especially
US mrs, because the military requires them to be sterilized
before ceiling.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Speaking of your hobbies, your wife was out of town
for a long weekend. She came home, and what did
she say when she saw the progress.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
On the fence. She said, it was good good. She
was very happy.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
See good, not great, things were level. Yeah, that was
that was my big concern.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
What else do you have to do to the fence?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I am now in the process of creating the Catalina lattice,
which is taking some time. Yeah, I had to buy
a little narrow gauge, a wide gauge staple gun. Are
you put in some quarter inch by three eighths inch staples?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Are you going to paint it? You are? Yeah? Please
don't gotta painted, are you?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Uh? We could seal it, We could stain it, but
we don't have to seal it.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's cedar.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, but you're gonna keep the natural look to it. Yeah,
it'll eventually gray out. I mean red wooden cedar will
gray out over time.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Are we gonna have a staining wood party over there?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I don't need people?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Oh so, I sorry, Elmer, I just got Yeah, you
just invited.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Because I sound sexy. Though still I would.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
See everyone's interjecting sex into the show. Oh except that guy.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Okay, okay sucks. He ruined it for everyone ruined. Let
us know, what's the craziest thing? Have you ever eaten?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
The old MREs like that or something that you found
in grandma and Grandpa's clause You're like, no, I don't mind.
If these whoppers are seventy five years old, I'll give
them a shot.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Nineteen forty two was a good year.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
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