July 6, 2026 • 23 mins
HOUR 3 (07/06) - Gary & Shannon get you ready for Team USA's World Cup showdown with Belgium, react to President Trump's comments on the overturned red card controversy, debate whether "Take Me Home, Country Roads" really deserves to be America's World Cup anthem, count down the happiest songs ever recorded, discuss why Queen's catalog is impossible to separate from Freddie Mercury's legacy, and explore why more Americans are becoming "late bloomers" later in life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M. Six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Time four. What's Happening?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
What Happening? FIFA has decided that Belgium can suck it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
FIFA dismissed Belgium's challenge over the eligibility of full Ballugan
over the soccer governing board decided to suspend his one
game suspension ahead of the World Cup Round of sixteen.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The Fuller in Belugan is fun to say, isn't it?
Fulgerin Fuller in Belugan. It sounds like a brand, like
a company, like have you seen that?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Maybe like a purse.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
They make watches?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, a watch this. Oh this is a fuller in Blugan.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Despite being dismissed against Bosni Herzegovina, he is available tonight
as the United States takes on.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Bell. They're going to need him.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
They're going to five pm.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's going to be great. I'm glad that Trump bought
us out of that trouble.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm glad somebody was very upset that you said that.
Oh wait, if you if you don't have proof, you
better not say it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh, really okay? Trump bought us out of that.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Spain Portugal will be the noon game today, like, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Because I because I ruined the sanctity of FIFA. Is
that is that right? Because we can go down the
list of why there is none.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
President Trump was in the White House today and actually
rang the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange
and the NASDAQ, an act that reflects how he has
tied his presidency to the stock market. And he said,
it's going to go up. I think the market's going
to go through the roof. He did many many things
this morning from the White House. He was right. The
(01:52):
Dow Jones Industrial Average is up right now about thirty
nine points. SMP and NASDAK also up about a percent.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Jersey got hit hard by the heat.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Sweltering multi day heat wave twenty feet twenty five people.
They're attributing their deaths to this over the Fourth of
July weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Are leading up to.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It as we would see. The health commissioner of their
New Jersey said many of the people were found in
homes without air conditioning, A few of them were outside
their residences, some on the street, some even in parked cars.
Thunderstorms Friday night and over the weekend blacked out about
three hundred thousand customers win gusts of up to eighty
(02:35):
miles an hour as part of that that toppled trees
and power lines making things even work.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
What's going on with Prince Harry? Is he not getting
along with the family still? He's not staying at Buckingham
Palace over the five day visit. There is this like
a Beckham's Oldest Sun situation where the family they're not talking.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, you and I don't have royalty in our families.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That we know of.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Apparently Harry is going there to start a five day
fizz a visit without his family, just him. He's leaving
Megan and the kids at home. Kids kid, yes, the question,
but the continue. The Duke of Sussex's spokesperson said he
had accepted an invitation to stay at Buckingham, but shortly
(03:22):
after Buckingham said that they would not be staying there
because he missed the deadline to respond to stay at
Dad's house.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Dad gave him a deadline. If I don't hear from
you by Thursday, you may not stay at Buckingham Palace,
and apparently he waited until Friday morning to text him back.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Do you remember the board game from the late nineteen
hundred's Quasar The Power of Quasar No, The Euclid Space
Telescope has spotted the oldest quasars. The quas quasars are
the brightest objects in the universe. The Space Telescope has
spotted the oldest quasars ever discovered. This has been a
(04:09):
cosmic mystery that has been puzzling scientists since the dawn
of time. Quasars are powered by super massive black holes
at the heart of early galaxies, gobbling up surrounding matter
in a colossal feeding frenzy, and they can shine trillions
of times brighter than the Sun. Because they are so
(04:29):
incredibly bright, scientists have been hunting for ancient quasars to
learn more about them, about the little understood infancy of
the universe. Anyway, study was published today and the international
team of astronomers announced they had discovered thirty one quasars,
including two oldest observed yet.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Quasar is also just fun to say.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I was just going to see if you could just
name thirty one quasars. That would be nice.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Hygari and Shannon. This is Happy and Brea. It should
be happy together from the Turtles. It's fun song, It's upbeat.
It's got a lot of parts.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That I can with great.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Songs again that people can build.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It's a wonderful song.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It should be just about perfect.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's time for swamp Watch.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
So what I'm not going anywhere, So.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Swah, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
What has been.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, Americans have always been gone with a president,
but they're not stupid. A political plunder is when a
politician actually tells the truth. We have the people voting
for you were nae. Swamp Watch. They're all counting on it.
Well before the President got on the airplane, the new
Air Force one, and headed towards Turkey. He's going out
there for the NATO summit. We'll get to in a
second this morning, he was asking quests or sorry, was
(06:09):
answering questions about the phone call that he made two
FIFA about the red card for America's striker, which meant
that he would have been suspended for today's game against Belgium.
And he says, listen, I'm a marketing guy. I know
they want to have the best teams play the best teams.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
No matter what happened. You have to let them use
their best players. And the game tonight's going to be amazing,
and we're going to have a full team and Belgium
is going to have a full team. And you know what,
if they beat us, then they can be really proud.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But he went on to say if they beat us
without our best striker, then they probably would shouldn't be
that proud.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, I mean, I celebrate getting out of that. I
don't care if anyone is paid off. I celebrate it.
I'm gonna watch this match tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You are turning a corner. I am so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So too. It's it's what ninety minutes, two hours at most.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It'll probably be closer to two fifteen.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Ah okay, and it's five pm, six pm, five five pm,
five pm.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think they're doing pregame coverage at three or something.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Look, in Seattle, the space needle is painted to look
like a old timey soccer ball.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
NFL Memes doesn't miss, but I felt like they missed
a little bit. First of all, they they put a
different They put this great I guess onus on the broadcast.
The broadcast to night better start like this, And it
was the Monday night football theme and it was an
overshot of lumen fields and it was all the fields
(07:58):
of like a Seattle play off, like a Seahawks playoff game,
and it was just like you could just feel the
energy in the music and Chris Collinsworth and Al Michaels
and it was just like it got me excited. And
then they and then NFL Memes put together a compilation
of like some really dirty hits, and it's like the
NFL knowing that Donald Trump will get us out of anything,
(08:19):
but it was like latest dirty hits, Like it was
like modern dirty hits, which are not dirty hits in
the NFL. They don't exist anymore. You can't even play defense.
But they should have done like the throwback real dirty hits,
you know, like that.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The old gray Oh my god, it's a beautiful day
in Seattle, eighty two degrees something like that, and they
were talking for them to that end of the atmosphere
at these games in Seattle. When the United States played
Australia there, y, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Nuts, Yes, it was. And I said it that day.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I said, you know, Seattle sports fans are not given
the credit they are, you know, And partly it's in
my head.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's because you think Seahawks stands.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But the fandom in Seattle is so strong and they
bring it and they did with that Australia match, and
it's gonna be next level tonight. I mean it will
rival the Mexico City crowd. That stadium was just built
for noise. And they are a very patriotic people in
(09:24):
the Northwest because for his Granola as they get a
reputation for there is a huge contingent of we love
America and in the state of Washington, and they turn
out there aren't going to be.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That manny Belgians there are there?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
How many Belgians are there?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Really?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I mean, isn't it just all open borders and full
of terrorists there? Anyway? And just kidding. That was a joke,
and it was a bad joke.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Don't get mad at me, everybody, all the Belgian listeners.
The president did say he's going because of Air Dewan.
He is headed towards the NATO summit and anchor a
Turkey he wants to sit down with Air Dewan. He
called the Turkish leader a friend and a respected leader,
and signaled that the close defense cooperation relationship we've had
(10:14):
could be on the horizon and could get even more close,
I suppose. But this is a shift in this relationship
between Washington and Turkey. A few years ago, if you remember,
they took in Turkey did a delivery of Russian air
defense systems, and we the United States, said, if that's
(10:37):
the case, when you don't get any of the new,
brand new sprank and F thirty five.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So just to put Belgium in comparison, it would easily
fit into the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's about the size of Maryland or Vermont.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So what's the population.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I don't know, I was looking out the size.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Let's see, Nation of Belgium population is eleven point nine people,
which is like Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Eleven point nine people. Or eleven point nine million. I'm sorry,
I say yeah, like that's not a lot, that's they
could barely feel a team.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Eleven point nine million people.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Which is also very similar to La County.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You may have forgotten over the weekend that I am
in the early stages of dementia.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I was hoping it. I was hoping it was the
best refresher course on me. All Right, the story Country Roads,
why we'll explain. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'm perfect. Elmer is good. I wouldn't say perfect. I
do like that you're pointed in that direction, that sarcasm.
I'm no one. I don't think I'm not. Come on,
you're easy, you're party to your fund, your curing about stuff. Yeah,
all those are good things, very welcome.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I feel like there's yeah, what do we He hasn't
done anything wrong ever that you've caught me.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And here's the thing. Here's the other thing about Elmer. Yeah,
very early on, I felt like if I needed to
hide a body, Elmer would, no questions, ask, jump in
the back of the car with me.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I feel like that with all of you to be honest. Yeah,
but it took some time, especially Marker.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That's what I mean about. Wait, I got your back. Yeah,
do you already have a shovel and a bag alive
ready to go? Well, you need to keep that stuff
in the trunk, right, You never know when you're gonna
need it. That's an excellent point.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But I really do believe that I work with a
group of people that I could kill someone and they
would not batten eye question.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, would you kill one of us?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Oh the Country Roads by by John Denver, one of
the guys who co wrote it, by the way, not
John Bill. Bill Danoff said, this song has been everywhere.
It's just terrific. Who would have thought this thing came
out of a dirty, old hippie apartment in Georgetown would
be inspiring a soccer team. We sure didn't. They talked
(13:13):
about They didn't actually write it about Virginia. They tried
to get the word Massachusetts in there, and then Maryland
was also. I guess where they were actually driving when
they were writing these high af by the way, when
they were writing these lyrics, now the America. This did
not start this way. This was I don't know how
(13:36):
this came to be a final three, but the three
choices that the men's national team had come up with
that they would play at the end of a match
was either Country Roads by John Denver, Sweet Caroline by
Neil Diamond. That makes perfect too, and that's Traveled.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I've heard that internationally, but.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The British team, the English team apparently was using Sweet Caroline.
And then the third one was the one we played earlier.
That's on that list of happy songs. Bon Jovi's Living
on a Prayer, Yeah, and again starts out with some
labor issues and ends up living on a prayer.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But yeah, I mean, I've heard it in England, in
London there.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Country Roads. It seems to be an international favorite for America.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So the other thing about it, and I read this,
I think it was also an interview with Bill Danoff,
one of the co writers of the original song, was
that when it happened, when they first performed this song
in a dirty little bar in Georgetown or wherever it was,
(14:52):
it was so catchy so quickly that by the second
verse basically or by the second chorus, sorry, everybody was
singing along with them. And that's part of what makes
it sore. Alluring.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And that's why you have to chantageous.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You're to choose the right song. You gotta choose the
one that's gonna be contagious and easy to understand.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And do you want to hear more of.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The top ten happiest songs according to Science? Yes, Number
three on the list, it is the Beach Boys with
Good Vibrations. Number two, the song that you brought us
last week, the happiest song ever, Dancing Queen, that makes sense,
(15:35):
And then the number one happiest song according to Science
according to this neurosurgeon, Queen, don't stop me now, really,
I can't even bring it up in my head. Okay,
(15:56):
what happened to this show?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Your official for Dodger Baseball is another radio station five
seventy LA Sports. Tonight to back to back world champ
Dodgers take on the Rockies. First pitches at seven Tonight
is Freddie Freeman eighteenth inning walk Off Bobblehead Night. Get
it listen on AM five seventy LA Sports stream on
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(16:21):
The good news is after the America Soccer game, you
can pick up the Dodger game.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Right after that, are you gonna watch the game?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You have an outfit you wear for my when you
watch the World Cup? No, you don't just wear a scarf,
just a scarf. Nope, okay, but you'll like sit down
under your couch and watch the whole thing, right Or.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Do you make it sound like that, like I'm like,
that's a weird thing.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No, it's not weird.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's normal. You're a fan. Where else would I do
You've taken in the World Cup? Just do stuff around
the house? Walk around, pop in, pop out.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I'll probably sit. I think we have friend it's coming over.
It'll be it'll be a taco. I think we're doing
Belgian tacos tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Belgian tacos. What is even that?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Just?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh, okay, just to put a spin on it, I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (17:19):
During this mid year review, you will complete a core
skills assessment.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, this will be quick. I don't have any no skills,
no core skills.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Your evaluation is due.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Please focus on identifying two strengths and one development area
for your professional growth.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I've got some growth I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Reason job is crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Good lord, what are we?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Nine two strengths and a development area? I dare you
to just put down, like you know, undevelopment area, like
you know your ass or something that's an area develop right.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Working on a muscle definition in my upper back.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It's a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You want to play stupid games company.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Your brother is older than you, right, he's my age.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
He is a year younger than you, but yes, two,
no one, one year.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
There is something going on. They call it a late
bloomer syndrome. Please don't look that up. There's there are
actual there are actually theological late bloomer syndromes, and some
of it has to do with like delayed puberty for kids,
oh like late sixteen seventeen, eighteen years old as supposed
(18:57):
to send eleven twelve. Whatever it is. There's an irony
though that It struck me when I saw this that
there's an article in Fox that describes everybody is doing
things later in life and the things that we would
choose to do, things like getting your own apartment, maybe
buying your own house, buying a car, opening your bank account.
(19:19):
All the adulty things that we do, we tend to
do later now than we did forty or fifty years ago.
But I was reminded when I was searching for this
earlier today that there's also something going on physiologically where
that stuff, the physical stuff that happens to us, is
happening even earlier, where girls are starting puberty when they're
(19:44):
nine and ten and boys are starting younger, and a
lot of that depending on how you what you think,
or what the causes would be.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Does this have anything to do with the fact that
the chicken breast in the store is four times the
size the chicken breast was in the store when I
was growing up?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, okay, yeah, because I mean the kind of things those.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That we do to our foods, they're farming technologies, that's
a great way to put it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But we're putting all of these endocrine disruptors into our
foods and then wondering why our bodies are completely fighting
against us now. But there is something to be said
about the physiological aspect of our lives is getting just
pushing younger, but some of those more social or societal
(20:33):
things are pushing later. When did you buy what did
you buy your house?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
How old was I?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, thirty three right post marriage. Yes, mine also, but
I didn't wait till I was thirty three. I did
it when I was twenty five. I mean it was
this the house was this big. Yeah, it was this big.
But now I think thirty three is a much more
(21:02):
common age.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, my brother would be first bought, with a lot
of help from my parents, but they bought their first
house right after they were married, so my brother was
twenty seven six seven.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, that this whole thing is just it's an example
of how much more difficult priorities changed and priorities are different.
Priorities have changed people. The idea of living in one
house for the you know, you're going to find your
forever house or whatever and then stay there until you
retire and die, it just doesn't It doesn't hit the
same way for a lot of people because there was
(21:37):
so much mobility, and now you can do it by
renting apartments all over the country. You don't have to
do it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Always just seemed like it was like so almost like
constricting that you have buying a house, partly because it
was what my dad would preach, like, got to buy
a house, real estate. That's where you know it's a
good investment. You've got to do this, you got to
do that.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It'd be like, oh man, that means I'm like an adult.
It means like I'm really doing that thing, you know.
And also the idea of like putting down any sort
of roots, Like it was terrifying to me idea of
buying a house in my twenties.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It was like, oh my god, I couldn't think of it.
I did not want to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You could sell it, yeah, but I wasn't thinking financially minded,
partly because I didn't make any money.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well there's that too, I mean, that's that's kind of
the time.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Like I remember being twenty five up in Seattle before
the uh you know, when everyone was a mortgage broker
and everyone's like, you can totally buy a house, right,
And I was thinking, I know what I make and.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Death doesn't sound like that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's too good to be true. And it was low
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Speaker 3 (22:56):
Both Monks and Merrill coming up next. We'll see you,
Minyana Blessings.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
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Speaker 2 (23:03):
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Speaker 1 (23:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Time four. What's Happening?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
What Happening? FIFA has decided that Belgium can suck it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
FIFA dismissed Belgium's challenge over the eligibility of full Ballugan
over the soccer governing board decided to suspend his one
game suspension ahead of the World Cup Round of sixteen.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The Fuller in Belugan is fun to say, isn't it?
Fulgerin Fuller in Belugan. It sounds like a brand, like
a company, like have you seen that?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Maybe like a purse.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
They make watches?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, a watch this. Oh this is a fuller in Blugan.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Despite being dismissed against Bosni Herzegovina, he is available tonight
as the United States takes on.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Bell. They're going to need him.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
They're going to five pm.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's going to be great. I'm glad that Trump bought
us out of that trouble.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm glad somebody was very upset that you said that.
Oh wait, if you if you don't have proof, you
better not say it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh, really okay? Trump bought us out of that.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Spain Portugal will be the noon game today, like, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Because I because I ruined the sanctity of FIFA. Is
that is that right? Because we can go down the
list of why there is none.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
President Trump was in the White House today and actually
rang the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange
and the NASDAQ, an act that reflects how he has
tied his presidency to the stock market. And he said,
it's going to go up. I think the market's going
to go through the roof. He did many many things
this morning from the White House. He was right. The
(01:52):
Dow Jones Industrial Average is up right now about thirty
nine points. SMP and NASDAK also up about a percent.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Jersey got hit hard by the heat.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Sweltering multi day heat wave twenty feet twenty five people.
They're attributing their deaths to this over the Fourth of
July weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Are leading up to.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It as we would see. The health commissioner of their
New Jersey said many of the people were found in
homes without air conditioning, A few of them were outside
their residences, some on the street, some even in parked cars.
Thunderstorms Friday night and over the weekend blacked out about
three hundred thousand customers win gusts of up to eighty
(02:35):
miles an hour as part of that that toppled trees
and power lines making things even work.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
What's going on with Prince Harry? Is he not getting
along with the family still? He's not staying at Buckingham
Palace over the five day visit. There is this like
a Beckham's Oldest Sun situation where the family they're not talking.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, you and I don't have royalty in our families.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That we know of.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Apparently Harry is going there to start a five day
fizz a visit without his family, just him. He's leaving
Megan and the kids at home. Kids kid, yes, the question,
but the continue. The Duke of Sussex's spokesperson said he
had accepted an invitation to stay at Buckingham, but shortly
(03:22):
after Buckingham said that they would not be staying there
because he missed the deadline to respond to stay at
Dad's house.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Dad gave him a deadline. If I don't hear from
you by Thursday, you may not stay at Buckingham Palace,
and apparently he waited until Friday morning to text him back.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Do you remember the board game from the late nineteen
hundred's Quasar The Power of Quasar No, The Euclid Space
Telescope has spotted the oldest quasars. The quas quasars are
the brightest objects in the universe. The Space Telescope has
spotted the oldest quasars ever discovered. This has been a
(04:09):
cosmic mystery that has been puzzling scientists since the dawn
of time. Quasars are powered by super massive black holes
at the heart of early galaxies, gobbling up surrounding matter
in a colossal feeding frenzy, and they can shine trillions
of times brighter than the Sun. Because they are so
(04:29):
incredibly bright, scientists have been hunting for ancient quasars to
learn more about them, about the little understood infancy of
the universe. Anyway, study was published today and the international
team of astronomers announced they had discovered thirty one quasars,
including two oldest observed yet.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Quasar is also just fun to say.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I was just going to see if you could just
name thirty one quasars. That would be nice.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Hygari and Shannon. This is Happy and Brea. It should
be happy together from the Turtles. It's fun song, It's upbeat.
It's got a lot of parts.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That I can with great.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Songs again that people can build.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It's a wonderful song.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It should be just about perfect.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's time for swamp Watch.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
So what I'm not going anywhere, So.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Swah, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
What has been.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, Americans have always been gone with a president,
but they're not stupid. A political plunder is when a
politician actually tells the truth. We have the people voting
for you were nae. Swamp Watch. They're all counting on it.
Well before the President got on the airplane, the new
Air Force one, and headed towards Turkey. He's going out
there for the NATO summit. We'll get to in a
second this morning, he was asking quests or sorry, was
(06:09):
answering questions about the phone call that he made two
FIFA about the red card for America's striker, which meant
that he would have been suspended for today's game against Belgium.
And he says, listen, I'm a marketing guy. I know
they want to have the best teams play the best teams.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
No matter what happened. You have to let them use
their best players. And the game tonight's going to be amazing,
and we're going to have a full team and Belgium
is going to have a full team. And you know what,
if they beat us, then they can be really proud.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But he went on to say if they beat us
without our best striker, then they probably would shouldn't be
that proud.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, I mean, I celebrate getting out of that. I
don't care if anyone is paid off. I celebrate it.
I'm gonna watch this match tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You are turning a corner. I am so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So too. It's it's what ninety minutes, two hours at most.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It'll probably be closer to two fifteen.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Ah okay, and it's five pm, six pm, five five pm,
five pm.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think they're doing pregame coverage at three or something.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Look, in Seattle, the space needle is painted to look
like a old timey soccer ball.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
NFL Memes doesn't miss, but I felt like they missed
a little bit. First of all, they they put a
different They put this great I guess onus on the broadcast.
The broadcast to night better start like this, And it
was the Monday night football theme and it was an
overshot of lumen fields and it was all the fields
(07:58):
of like a Seattle play off, like a Seahawks playoff game,
and it was just like you could just feel the
energy in the music and Chris Collinsworth and Al Michaels
and it was just like it got me excited. And
then they and then NFL Memes put together a compilation
of like some really dirty hits, and it's like the
NFL knowing that Donald Trump will get us out of anything,
(08:19):
but it was like latest dirty hits, Like it was
like modern dirty hits, which are not dirty hits in
the NFL. They don't exist anymore. You can't even play defense.
But they should have done like the throwback real dirty hits,
you know, like that.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The old gray Oh my god, it's a beautiful day
in Seattle, eighty two degrees something like that, and they
were talking for them to that end of the atmosphere
at these games in Seattle. When the United States played
Australia there, y, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Nuts, Yes, it was. And I said it that day.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I said, you know, Seattle sports fans are not given
the credit they are, you know, And partly it's in
my head.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's because you think Seahawks stands.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But the fandom in Seattle is so strong and they
bring it and they did with that Australia match, and
it's gonna be next level tonight. I mean it will
rival the Mexico City crowd. That stadium was just built
for noise. And they are a very patriotic people in
(09:24):
the Northwest because for his Granola as they get a
reputation for there is a huge contingent of we love
America and in the state of Washington, and they turn
out there aren't going to be.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That manny Belgians there are there?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
How many Belgians are there?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Really?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I mean, isn't it just all open borders and full
of terrorists there? Anyway? And just kidding. That was a joke,
and it was a bad joke.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Don't get mad at me, everybody, all the Belgian listeners.
The president did say he's going because of Air Dewan.
He is headed towards the NATO summit and anchor a
Turkey he wants to sit down with Air Dewan. He
called the Turkish leader a friend and a respected leader,
and signaled that the close defense cooperation relationship we've had
(10:14):
could be on the horizon and could get even more close,
I suppose. But this is a shift in this relationship
between Washington and Turkey. A few years ago, if you remember,
they took in Turkey did a delivery of Russian air
defense systems, and we the United States, said, if that's
(10:37):
the case, when you don't get any of the new,
brand new sprank and F thirty five.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So just to put Belgium in comparison, it would easily
fit into the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's about the size of Maryland or Vermont.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So what's the population.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I don't know, I was looking out the size.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Let's see, Nation of Belgium population is eleven point nine people,
which is like Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Eleven point nine people. Or eleven point nine million. I'm sorry,
I say yeah, like that's not a lot, that's they
could barely feel a team.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Eleven point nine million people.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Which is also very similar to La County.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You may have forgotten over the weekend that I am
in the early stages of dementia.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I was hoping it. I was hoping it was the
best refresher course on me. All Right, the story Country Roads,
why we'll explain. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'm perfect. Elmer is good. I wouldn't say perfect. I
do like that you're pointed in that direction, that sarcasm.
I'm no one. I don't think I'm not. Come on,
you're easy, you're party to your fund, your curing about stuff. Yeah,
all those are good things, very welcome.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I feel like there's yeah, what do we He hasn't
done anything wrong ever that you've caught me.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And here's the thing. Here's the other thing about Elmer. Yeah,
very early on, I felt like if I needed to
hide a body, Elmer would, no questions, ask, jump in
the back of the car with me.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I feel like that with all of you to be honest. Yeah,
but it took some time, especially Marker.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That's what I mean about. Wait, I got your back. Yeah,
do you already have a shovel and a bag alive
ready to go? Well, you need to keep that stuff
in the trunk, right, You never know when you're gonna
need it. That's an excellent point.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But I really do believe that I work with a
group of people that I could kill someone and they
would not batten eye question.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, would you kill one of us?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Oh the Country Roads by by John Denver, one of
the guys who co wrote it, by the way, not
John Bill. Bill Danoff said, this song has been everywhere.
It's just terrific. Who would have thought this thing came
out of a dirty, old hippie apartment in Georgetown would
be inspiring a soccer team. We sure didn't. They talked
(13:13):
about They didn't actually write it about Virginia. They tried
to get the word Massachusetts in there, and then Maryland
was also. I guess where they were actually driving when
they were writing these high af by the way, when
they were writing these lyrics, now the America. This did
not start this way. This was I don't know how
(13:36):
this came to be a final three, but the three
choices that the men's national team had come up with
that they would play at the end of a match
was either Country Roads by John Denver, Sweet Caroline by
Neil Diamond. That makes perfect too, and that's Traveled.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I've heard that internationally, but.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The British team, the English team apparently was using Sweet Caroline.
And then the third one was the one we played earlier.
That's on that list of happy songs. Bon Jovi's Living
on a Prayer, Yeah, and again starts out with some
labor issues and ends up living on a prayer.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But yeah, I mean, I've heard it in England, in
London there.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Country Roads. It seems to be an international favorite for America.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So the other thing about it, and I read this,
I think it was also an interview with Bill Danoff,
one of the co writers of the original song, was
that when it happened, when they first performed this song
in a dirty little bar in Georgetown or wherever it was,
(14:52):
it was so catchy so quickly that by the second
verse basically or by the second chorus, sorry, everybody was
singing along with them. And that's part of what makes
it sore. Alluring.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And that's why you have to chantageous.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You're to choose the right song. You gotta choose the
one that's gonna be contagious and easy to understand.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And do you want to hear more of.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The top ten happiest songs according to Science? Yes, Number
three on the list, it is the Beach Boys with
Good Vibrations. Number two, the song that you brought us
last week, the happiest song ever, Dancing Queen, that makes sense,
(15:35):
And then the number one happiest song according to Science
according to this neurosurgeon, Queen, don't stop me now, really,
I can't even bring it up in my head. Okay,
(15:56):
what happened to this show?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Your official for Dodger Baseball is another radio station five
seventy LA Sports. Tonight to back to back world champ
Dodgers take on the Rockies. First pitches at seven Tonight
is Freddie Freeman eighteenth inning walk Off Bobblehead Night. Get
it listen on AM five seventy LA Sports stream on
the iHeartRadio app live from the gallopin Ford Broadcast Booth.
(16:21):
The good news is after the America Soccer game, you
can pick up the Dodger game.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Right after that, are you gonna watch the game?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You have an outfit you wear for my when you
watch the World Cup? No, you don't just wear a scarf,
just a scarf. Nope, okay, but you'll like sit down
under your couch and watch the whole thing, right Or.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Do you make it sound like that, like I'm like,
that's a weird thing.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No, it's not weird.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's normal. You're a fan. Where else would I do
You've taken in the World Cup? Just do stuff around
the house? Walk around, pop in, pop out.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I'll probably sit. I think we have friend it's coming over.
It'll be it'll be a taco. I think we're doing
Belgian tacos tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Belgian tacos. What is even that?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Just?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh, okay, just to put a spin on it, I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
During this mid year review, you will complete a core
skills assessment.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, this will be quick. I don't have any no skills,
no core skills.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Your evaluation is due.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Please focus on identifying two strengths and one development area
for your professional growth.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I've got some growth I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Reason job is crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Good lord, what are we?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Nine two strengths and a development area? I dare you
to just put down, like you know, undevelopment area, like
you know your ass or something that's an area develop right.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Working on a muscle definition in my upper back.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It's a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You want to play stupid games company.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Your brother is older than you, right, he's my age.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
He is a year younger than you, but yes, two,
no one, one year.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
There is something going on. They call it a late
bloomer syndrome. Please don't look that up. There's there are
actual there are actually theological late bloomer syndromes, and some
of it has to do with like delayed puberty for kids,
oh like late sixteen seventeen, eighteen years old as supposed
(18:57):
to send eleven twelve. Whatever it is. There's an irony
though that It struck me when I saw this that
there's an article in Fox that describes everybody is doing
things later in life and the things that we would
choose to do, things like getting your own apartment, maybe
buying your own house, buying a car, opening your bank account.
(19:19):
All the adulty things that we do, we tend to
do later now than we did forty or fifty years ago.
But I was reminded when I was searching for this
earlier today that there's also something going on physiologically where
that stuff, the physical stuff that happens to us, is
happening even earlier, where girls are starting puberty when they're
(19:44):
nine and ten and boys are starting younger, and a
lot of that depending on how you what you think,
or what the causes would be.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Does this have anything to do with the fact that
the chicken breast in the store is four times the
size the chicken breast was in the store when I
was growing up?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, okay, yeah, because I mean the kind of things those.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That we do to our foods, they're farming technologies, that's
a great way to put it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But we're putting all of these endocrine disruptors into our
foods and then wondering why our bodies are completely fighting
against us now. But there is something to be said
about the physiological aspect of our lives is getting just
pushing younger, but some of those more social or societal
(20:33):
things are pushing later. When did you buy what did
you buy your house?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
How old was I?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, thirty three right post marriage. Yes, mine also, but
I didn't wait till I was thirty three. I did
it when I was twenty five. I mean it was
this the house was this big. Yeah, it was this big.
But now I think thirty three is a much more
(21:02):
common age.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, my brother would be first bought, with a lot
of help from my parents, but they bought their first
house right after they were married, so my brother was
twenty seven six seven.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, that this whole thing is just it's an example
of how much more difficult priorities changed and priorities are different.
Priorities have changed people. The idea of living in one
house for the you know, you're going to find your
forever house or whatever and then stay there until you
retire and die, it just doesn't It doesn't hit the
same way for a lot of people because there was
(21:37):
so much mobility, and now you can do it by
renting apartments all over the country. You don't have to
do it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Always just seemed like it was like so almost like
constricting that you have buying a house, partly because it
was what my dad would preach, like, got to buy
a house, real estate. That's where you know it's a
good investment. You've got to do this, you got to
do that.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It'd be like, oh man, that means I'm like an adult.
It means like I'm really doing that thing, you know.
And also the idea of like putting down any sort
of roots, Like it was terrifying to me idea of
buying a house in my twenties.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It was like, oh my god, I couldn't think of it.
I did not want to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You could sell it, yeah, but I wasn't thinking financially minded,
partly because I didn't make any money.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well there's that too, I mean, that's that's kind of
the time.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Like I remember being twenty five up in Seattle before
the uh you know, when everyone was a mortgage broker
and everyone's like, you can totally buy a house, right,
And I was thinking, I know what I make and.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Death doesn't sound like that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's too good to be true. And it was low
and beild all right. Reminder Dodgers taken on the Rockies
tonight your home for Dodger Baseball's AM five seventy l
like Sports. Freddie Freeman eighteenth inning walk off Bobblehead tonight,
so listen on AM five seventy l like sports stream
on the iHeartRadio app live from the galpin Ford broadcast.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Both Monks and Merrill coming up next. We'll see you,
Minyana Blessings.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
This is KFI.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
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