May 8, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Okay, who had Barack Obama
out trumping Trump on the day that an American pope
was chosen?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Obama kind of made it about him with Chicago. Not really,
but yes, he said Michelle, and I said, our congratulations
to a fellow Chicagoan, his holiness, Pope Leo the fourteenth.
We will pray for him as he begins the sacred
work of leading the Catholic Church and setting an example
for so many, regardless of faith.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I will find this interesting, the first interview he does
with an English language station to hear him, To hear
a pope without an accent speaking unaccented English.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Very very true.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
This was a guy born in Chicago in nineteen fifty five,
started his religious journey at twenty two in Saint Louis,
where candidates often spend one or two years preparing to
enter the Augustine Order founded by a thirteenth century saint,
later twice elected Prior General, which is top leader of
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the Augustinians. After his time in Saint Louis. He went
to study at the Pontifical Saint Thomas Aquinas University, where
he was ordained in June of eighty two. Two years
later he was sent to Peru, where he spent much
of his time. He became a citizen of Peru in
twenty fifteen, went to Rome at the behest of Francis
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in twenty twenty three. The same time he assumed another title,
the Prefect of the Decastory for Bishops, which is a
very powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations,
one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church.
Well liked by everyone, seems to be quite affable, has
a sense of humor and peace is his thing as
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being a good priest of the Augustinian Order.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I hope, I hope that Saturday Night Live understands that
they have to bring back the super famous.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh I don't know this, you do.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's the Chicago guys that love Mike Dicka.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, aditional both working super fans.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh, that would be funny, that would be very funny.
George Went, Chris Farley dead.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't think George Went's still around either, But you've
got Joe Montana. You've got a bunch of different guys
that could potentially Mike Myers, Robert Smigel.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
The Vatican says Pope Leo the fourteenth will celebrate Mass
at the Sistine Chapel on Friday with the cardinals who
elected him. He's going to recite the Regina Koli prayer
on Sunday at Saint Peter's Basilica, and on Monday he's
going to meet with journalists at the Vatican. There are
people that are a little disappointed, as you can imagine
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that it is an American.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's too early to be disappointed the people. I don't
like America. Oh, that part of it, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But his first message was for world peace. That is
his bally Wick. That's that's an easy go to, so
I don't I don't blame him for that. I'd like
to see what the follow ups are. World peace is
kind of we all, well, the august Indians, they celebrate
peace as opposed to the Jesuits who focus on other
things like community, I think, and I don't remember what else,
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what else other things going on?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Time for what's happening, obviously that Pope Leo the fourteenth
news is going to dominate for the next few days.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There was a study that came.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Out that suggested that gas prices in California could reach
eight dollars a gallon by the beginning of next year.
Part of it is the Phillip sixty sixth refinery here
in la is set to close October of this year.
Valero's Benetia refinery expected to close in April of next
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year's And there is a con and of course, that
we would see a shortage of gasoline here in the
Great Golden State as a result of it. Remember it
was the beginning of last month, I believe it was.
A report came out and said this has nothing to
do with supply versus demand. It has everything to do
with legislative, bureaucratic b s.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I just freaked out a little bit. This is a
little too weird.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Remember yesterday, because I just picked up our jeopardy question
because we usually do that at the end of the segment.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Do you remember our jeopardy question yesterday? What the answer was?
And I got it wrong? It was Saint Augustine. No,
what it was, Florida. The town, Yeah, it was named
after Saint Augustine.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He listen, you can keep ignoring the God all you want.
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You will make impacts on your life.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Because this is the first pope of the Augustine Order
since the pope that created that order. Yeah it wasn't
Pope Augustine. It was Pope up Else. I forget his name, but.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, a moment there because your face changed and you
almost teared up.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, what are the odds? I don't know. That's insane.
That's not the word that I would use, But okay,
I think that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
When is the When have we ever brought up Saint
Augustine on this show?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And all of a sudden, the next day you get
an Augustinian pope synchronous? My god.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
LA City Council has approved slower speed limits near schools. Yesterday,
the unanimously approved are proposal to reduce speed limits from
twenty five down to fifteen miles an hour on three
hundred and forty three streets near two hundred and one schools.
Of course, the lower slower speeds would apply when kids
are arriving too or leaving from school.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Universal Studios is bringing the big screen to life this summer,
the debut of the Universal Mega movie Summer. It's going
to be a seasonal event running daily from June thirteenth
to August tenth.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Is this why they needed new people?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Potentially it's going to have immersive experiences based on Jurassic World, Rebirth, Jaws,
Back to the Future, Wicket.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And how to Train Your Dragon? Are think I do?
How do you train dragons?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, they're going to have a dragon and then you're
going to train it. Bill Gates is in the news.
He's going to give away all his money. He went
after I believe Elon Musk in this interview as well.
This is what they've always talked about when they founded
the Gates Foundation. They had always planned to just give
away their money, which you can do when you have
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two hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
He plans to distribute virtually all of his wealth, thank you,
I think he said. I think the number I saw
was ninety nine percent, which is very generous of him.
That would only leave him with two billion dollars. And
I don't know how a guy's going to scrape by
with two bees.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
We've got strange science headed your way at the bottom
of the hour, and this one piqud our interest.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We talked about what we'd be talking about today, that
the chemistry of the smoke signals at the Vatican and
how that all works. And we can touch on that
even though we've gone through all the black smoke and
then the white smoke, and we've got the new Pope
in the whole bit. But there's another article for Strange
Science that you've got to hear. It's all about what
we're going to eat after the apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Fascinating stuff there.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Would you like your Jeopardy question for today a prescient
time of the show.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Let's see if this is going to be something important
as well. It could be.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Here's the other thing about yesterday's Jeopardy question. It wasn't
even just yesterday's Jeopardy question. It was from Saturday, and
our jeopardy question was lame yesterday. And Keana dug that
thing out of the trash. It was crumpled up, and
she brought it to me because it was kind of
(08:04):
like papal related and the jeopardy question yesterday was no good.
She dug that thing out of the trash, brought it
to us, and then it became the future.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I had a good feeling. Yeah, that's the Holy Spirit,
that is the Holy Spirit. That's exactly what that is,
using messengers, right, all right?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So anyway, today's the fifteen hundred's four four hundred dollars.
In fifteen twenty eight, weavers in Kent, England went back
back bananas when a Cardinal Woolsey moved the main trading
port for this sheep product. Well, comes from a sheep, Gary,
(08:51):
what is wool Yes, that's an awful clue. It was awful.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And why are they papal? What do you mean there
was a cardinal? Didn't you say it was a Cardinal Wolsey?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah? Why does everything have to do with the pope?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Because of God? How did they they wrote that?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
They wrote that calendar a year ago, right, and I
know they knew that on May eighteen?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
He's powerful? All right? Wow?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Speaking of which, Speaking of which, Okay, the Angels won yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Angels beat the Blue Jays five to four. Oh my god.
And the blue Jays are Canadian? Right? Yeah? Yeah, I
don't get that part. Well, America won today. Oh my gosh.
You hear about a Canadian pope? Neither did I.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (09:49):
We have a new Pope, surprise, the first American Pope,
your two hundred and sixty seventh Pope. There there's other
news that we have failed to get to. I heard
John On talking out in the hallway, and one of
the stories I wanted to get to today was Karen
Bass blaming everybody for the fire response but herself. Did
you hear that audio from that meeting? My goodness, gracious,
(10:13):
the ego, the head in the sand, the lack of
any sort of accountability at this stage is incredible.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I'll compare it to we'll come back and do it
because we're gonna give away some money. But I will
compare it to something I heard from Bernie Sanders yesterday too.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And I know they're different.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I mean, they're different politicians, but it points to a
symptom that we've talked about before many times when it
comes to politicians.
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Speaker 3 (11:20):
I didn't if I moving on?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So, Karen Bass.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Has put blame on the city's mishandling of the fires
on everyone but herself. She called out the LA Department
of Water and Power. She called out the fire department
chief for the LA City. She called out the insurance industry.
She was talking at the Milkin Institute's twentieth Annual Global
Conference yesterday, called a panel called Rising Strong LA's Path
(11:50):
to Recovery. Now, is Karen Bass physically responsible for what
happened in the Palisades?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
No, she couldn't be spitler ste.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Just a little bit of accountability of Hey, we all
know I screwed up.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I shouldn't have gone on that trip.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just one time, just saying that one time, just saying, hey,
I saw that forecast. It was awful hindsight twenty twenty.
But I should not have gone. I should have been
here for La that would go so far, even at
this stage in the game.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
She said that the rebuilding has gone very fast. She's
I'm going to repeat that again. She said, the rebuilding
has been going very fast. Speak to anyone who has
lived in that area or is still currently impacted by
what's going on in the area, and they will tell
you they can't see it. And if anybody should see it,
it's the people who it impacts immediately, and they have
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not been able to.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
See it well. The permitting process alone.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Also again, it's one of those things that you can
your from your post in La City Hall. You can
probably imagine that you think things are going well because
people are telling you that the Emperor has no clothes,
They're telling you, I'm sorry, They're telling you the Emperor
does have closed, when in fact she doesn't. She says
(13:11):
that the city issued its first permits to rebuild within
two months at about two hundred people in the pipeline.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Now that's it. How many two hundred that's it.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That's ridiculous. The city plans to move things along by
waving permitting fees.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
She said.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
She talked about that in the State of the City
address in April, but there have been thirty seven thirty
seven greenlit permits, thirty seven. There's no understanding of who
she is and what she is saying. Bernie Sanders recently
was asked about in an interview that I heard last night.
(13:47):
He was asked about the Fight the Oligarchy tour that.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
He's been on. You've seen him do these different events.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He was out at Coachell a couple of weekends ago,
and he's been using private jet to get from one
group to another, right one rally to another, ten twenty
thirty thousand people at a time. And the question was,
is that really fighting the oligarchy? You're trying to talk
to the to the normal people when you're jet setting
thousands of miles at a time on a private plane,
(14:15):
And he said, well, there's no other way to talk
to that many people. It's just this outsized view of
their own importance, arrogance.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, I just covered in it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
And it's politicians of all stripes. I mean, it's politicians
as low. I shouldn't say low, but I mean in
terms of representative size, the mayor of la a senator
from the state of Vermont.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You can't.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You can't have that outsized importance, like that outsized view
of your own importance and have any ability to relate
to anybody, right, I mean representing Who do they think
they are?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's not like God picked them to deliver the news
that a new pope had been chosen. It's not like
God sent a message yesterday telling them it would be
a pope of the Saint Augustine order.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I see what you do.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
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by the way, to God, also to nurses and teachers,
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
All right, what you would eat after the apocalypse? And
no it's not pop tarts and cup of noodles. We'll
tell you about it in Strange Science when we come back.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That I don't know. Yeah, it's not for strange science.
God needs a break. Yeah, strange sience.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, let's start with the just make it popy.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The science, but make it religious.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Right the papal pyrotechnics that we have seen. Of course,
conclave lasted just a little more than twenty four hours
as the cardinals elected a successor to take over from
Pope Francis. We know, of course, that it is going
to be Pope Leo, the fourteenth cardinal, born and raised
in Chicago, of all places, spent a lot of time
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in Peru, but he was announced this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Right as the show started. Bro, that's white smoke. I
can't believe I said that. Actually, I think, to be clear,
I think it was that's white smoke. Bro.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
We'll have to go back in my defense. You said
it was black smoke or you couldn't tell.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I couldn't tell.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Because I and I clearly saw it white. And that's
when I had to emphatically say that's white smoke. Bro.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
The sun was.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Behind the chimney, so I didn't have a good It's okay,
bad lighting.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
That's bad lighting. Sorry. When you're closer to God, like
this one right here, you'll see the right colors has
already removed the scales from your eyes. Is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So anyway, Popolo the fourteenth announced when the white smoke
came out of the chimney at the Sistine Chapel today,
but that was after at least three rounds of black smoke.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Black smoke is the easiest to make. According to scientists,
It is a mix of potassium percolate, an thrascing anthracine,
and sulfur. In this reaction, the potassium percolate is the
oxygen oxygen rich oxidizer. That's a fun thing to say.
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A roll at for equently serves in fireworks. Actually, it's
very safe. It gives easily up to oxygen, and so
it's a quick thing. Now the white smoke more challenging.
There's a reason why they wait till the end.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well, and think about what we've talked before about fires, wildfires,
and you see black smoke, that usually is an indication
that it's active fire. I thought the symbolism was interesting
because if you get early on a fire, the smoke
tends to be black, as it's more active. When it
gets sprayed down, when it's less active, that's when the
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smoke turns gray and often white.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Black involves fuel, right exactly. So there you go. So
now you know the chemistry. You can wow all your
friends at cocktail hour. Hey, do you guys know how
they make that black smoke?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The zinc chloride, the immuni ammonium chloride, of the reasons
why you see the.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
White smoke.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
They now have a recipe that calls for potassium chlorate, lactose,
just common sugar, and a type of pine rosin sometimes
known as Greek pitch, and then they throw that in
there and that's why the white comes out. This is
a fun story though, this one about there used to
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be a.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Show on TV.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I think it was a History channel that used to
do this program called I believe it's called After People
or After Human Yeah, and it was let's assume that
something happened and humanity was wiped out, not animals, not
all animal life, but just humans.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And it was a.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Show that would basically describe what would happen a month
after life on Earth without humans a year and ten
years and describe what how plants and animals would overtake,
you know, major cities and things like that.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Where are we on that Soviet spacecraft that's hurtling towards
Earth and we don't know where it's going to land
and it weighs eleven pounds the brief for two inches.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, I believe it's Saturday. Is still the day there?
Saturday is the day.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Look up Cosmos two eight four I think is the
name of the spacecraft. They may have narrowed it down
a little bit. As we get closer to it, they'll
have a better uh, because I haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They've been very quiet about it today, haven't they.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You know what today they have been quiet about it.
Maybe they know something that they're not telling us.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Maybe this we wouldn't get a new pope and then boom,
it's all over.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Would we maybe may.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Be listen it's not our design. It is not what
you would eat after the apocalypse. What we may eat
come Sunday.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (20:46):
The city of Chicago produced a pope before they produced
a quarterback who through for four thousand yards. Time take
it to get picked new Pope two days Shadoor Sanders
three days. Wow, we got a new pope before Aaron
Rodgers made his decision.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Again. I think they.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I think Saturday and Live has to bring back Saturday
Night Live has to bring back Bill Swirsky. Super fans
talk about Dica and to talk about Pope Leo, and
that would be a be a huge move on their part. Guys,
keep it, keep it relevant. Over there, would you have
so good? One of the other big stories today came
out of Washington, d C. President Trump announced a trade agreement,
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a huge trade deal with the United Kingdom. He wrote
today on Truth Social The agreement with the UK is
a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship
between the United States and the United Kingdom for many
years to come. They held a held a news conference
there in the Oval Office to make the announcement. He
was flanked by some British representatives but also the economic
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team that he's been working with.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Somebody has put the pope speech as dubbed over the
Pope's speech like bad lip reading and still can't believe
the Pope said this during his first speech. God bless
you all, except those for who live in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
You may have more Super Bowls, but f the packers.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So good. I caught him so easily amused by NFL memes.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Organizers of the Golden Globes have came out with a
huge announcement. They're going to introduce a best Podcast category
starting next year for the eighty third Golden Globe Awards
Best Podcast.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
There's already podcast awards.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
To Keana's point that she made on The Conway Show
yesterday when they spoke about this.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Top twenty five podcasts is what they're going to choose
from and then make six nominations out of those twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Cool What You'd eat after the apocalypse If a global
catastrophe disrupted international trade and fuel supplies, what would our
survival hinge on get ready for this list.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Are you sitting down and are you on a toilet?
The diet would be of peas.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Let me point out that they will not be using
toilets after the apocalypse.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Holes in the ground if you're lucky, water, if you've
dug it, If you've dug it, peas, sugar beets.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Spinach, and potatoes.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Wow, my husband picks peas out of chow man.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That's how much he likes peas.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Well, he may be one of the first to go.
Then if he will, he will be one of the first.
They said of the crops that they studied, Peas would
require the least land area to provide the protein and
food energy needs of one person. Peas would love peas.
I could eat peas all the time. I'm a big
peas fan. They're also talking about different kinds of apocalypse.
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Sees would produce different results to this question, because, for example,
a pea would survive a catastrophe where the climate is
similar to today's.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But not nuclear winter. Not nuclear winter no that scenario.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Nuclear winter would be soot that's caused from these large
scale nuclear explosions to block sunlight and cool the planet.
Would shorten the growing season lower the average temperature. And
in that case, they said, sugar beets and spinach would
take the lead, both of those hardy spinach.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I gottah, hey my spinach. You know what I mean.
I can't just eat raw spinach like a Popeye.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I gotta have some garlic, some olive oil, all the
stuff that the apocalypse has gotten rid of.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
And even Popeye's spinach most of the time was canned.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Might it be so pissed if the apocalypse comes and
I don't get wiped out?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
If you're stuck, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Could you imagine just sitting there alone like the guy
in Twilight Zone with no glasses, all those books and peas,
But you wouldn't have the books.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Just outside the city, they say. They're talking about that
being the peas and the beetroot. Sorry, the peas, the beats,
and the spinach would be inner cities stuff where you've
got like garden building, top gardens and rooftop gardens and
stuff like that. But they said, outside the city, you
could still use some of the industrial farming methods that
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we have developed over the years if there's enough land,
et cetera. And you could probably get by with a
bunch of potatoes.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
That's the last time you saw a rooftop garden in
the city. Any city, Name a city, city, name a city,
any city.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I saw him in Nashville, Oh did you? Yeah, in
people's homes.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Tops of apartment buildings and things like that. Wow, potatoes
can feed people using minimal land. They said they can
be sensitive to frost, but obviously that would be bad
if there was a nuclear winter.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But did you ever see that?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Did you ever see that documentary about Matt Damon When
he went to Mars, he was able to live on
potatoes for a long time before they rescued him and
brought him back so that he could make another born movie.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The Martian.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I think that's what they called it. Yeah, because he
was there for a while. He was there for a
year or two, but potatoes and lived on potatoes for
quite a while until they caused him gastrointest.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Hey did he talk to the potatoes like Tom Hanks
did in that documentary about him and the volleyball?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I believe so, Yeah, because Tom Hanks almost died in
that plane crash.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Tom Hanks almost died in in several things. He almost
got aids. Remember when he almost got AIDS. Did he
get the aids?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You think so? Well? I don't know. He saw the
movie right, but he didn't die from the AIDS. He
was also a cowboy at one point. Remember when Jenny
left him and came back with AIDS and a child?
I do, Do you remember that? Thanks for the spoiler alert.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
They also say researchers said that their methodology about food
after the apocalypse could help cities worldwide assess their food
security and try to develop land and land use policies
that will boost resilience in the event that the end.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Meg Ryan never tried to kill Tom Hanks. Oh that
was Billy cre What I saw that movie with the orgasm?
Is that what she was doing? Okay? John Cobalt Show
coming up next.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
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Speaker 2 (27:11):
Don't want to miss any part of this. You want
to miss the part where Shannon goes, oh, that's white
smoke bro. That's white smoke bro. This is why you
don't choose an American pope. Case in point. See you tomorrow,
Stay dry. Everybody list things you've been listening to the
(27:31):
Gary and Shannon Show.
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This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Okay, who had Barack Obama
out trumping Trump on the day that an American pope
was chosen?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Obama kind of made it about him with Chicago. Not really,
but yes, he said Michelle, and I said, our congratulations
to a fellow Chicagoan, his holiness, Pope Leo the fourteenth.
We will pray for him as he begins the sacred
work of leading the Catholic Church and setting an example
for so many, regardless of faith.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I will find this interesting, the first interview he does
with an English language station to hear him, To hear
a pope without an accent speaking unaccented English.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Very very true.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
This was a guy born in Chicago in nineteen fifty five,
started his religious journey at twenty two in Saint Louis,
where candidates often spend one or two years preparing to
enter the Augustine Order founded by a thirteenth century saint,
later twice elected Prior General, which is top leader of
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the Augustinians. After his time in Saint Louis. He went
to study at the Pontifical Saint Thomas Aquinas University, where
he was ordained in June of eighty two. Two years
later he was sent to Peru, where he spent much
of his time. He became a citizen of Peru in
twenty fifteen, went to Rome at the behest of Francis
(01:34):
in twenty twenty three. The same time he assumed another title,
the Prefect of the Decastory for Bishops, which is a
very powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations,
one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church.
Well liked by everyone, seems to be quite affable, has
a sense of humor and peace is his thing as
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being a good priest of the Augustinian Order.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I hope, I hope that Saturday Night Live understands that
they have to bring back the super famous.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh I don't know this, you do.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's the Chicago guys that love Mike Dicka.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, aditional both working super fans.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh, that would be funny, that would be very funny.
George Went, Chris Farley dead.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't think George Went's still around either, But you've
got Joe Montana. You've got a bunch of different guys
that could potentially Mike Myers, Robert Smigel.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
The Vatican says Pope Leo the fourteenth will celebrate Mass
at the Sistine Chapel on Friday with the cardinals who
elected him. He's going to recite the Regina Koli prayer
on Sunday at Saint Peter's Basilica, and on Monday he's
going to meet with journalists at the Vatican. There are
people that are a little disappointed, as you can imagine
(02:56):
that it is an American.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's too early to be disappointed the people. I don't
like America. Oh, that part of it, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But his first message was for world peace. That is
his bally Wick. That's that's an easy go to, so
I don't I don't blame him for that. I'd like
to see what the follow ups are. World peace is
kind of we all, well, the august Indians, they celebrate
peace as opposed to the Jesuits who focus on other
things like community, I think, and I don't remember what else,
(03:24):
what else other things going on?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Time for what's happening, obviously that Pope Leo the fourteenth
news is going to dominate for the next few days.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There was a study that came.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Out that suggested that gas prices in California could reach
eight dollars a gallon by the beginning of next year.
Part of it is the Phillip sixty sixth refinery here
in la is set to close October of this year.
Valero's Benetia refinery expected to close in April of next
(03:58):
year's And there is a con and of course, that
we would see a shortage of gasoline here in the
Great Golden State as a result of it. Remember it
was the beginning of last month, I believe it was.
A report came out and said this has nothing to
do with supply versus demand. It has everything to do
with legislative, bureaucratic b s.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I just freaked out a little bit. This is a
little too weird.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Remember yesterday, because I just picked up our jeopardy question
because we usually do that at the end of the segment.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Do you remember our jeopardy question yesterday? What the answer was?
And I got it wrong? It was Saint Augustine. No,
what it was, Florida. The town, Yeah, it was named
after Saint Augustine.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He listen, you can keep ignoring the God all you want.
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You will make impacts on your life.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Because this is the first pope of the Augustine Order
since the pope that created that order. Yeah it wasn't
Pope Augustine. It was Pope up Else. I forget his name, but.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, a moment there because your face changed and you
almost teared up.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, what are the odds? I don't know. That's insane.
That's not the word that I would use, But okay,
I think that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
When is the When have we ever brought up Saint
Augustine on this show?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And all of a sudden, the next day you get
an Augustinian pope synchronous? My god.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
LA City Council has approved slower speed limits near schools. Yesterday,
the unanimously approved are proposal to reduce speed limits from
twenty five down to fifteen miles an hour on three
hundred and forty three streets near two hundred and one schools.
Of course, the lower slower speeds would apply when kids
are arriving too or leaving from school.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Universal Studios is bringing the big screen to life this summer,
the debut of the Universal Mega movie Summer. It's going
to be a seasonal event running daily from June thirteenth
to August tenth.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Is this why they needed new people?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Potentially it's going to have immersive experiences based on Jurassic World, Rebirth, Jaws,
Back to the Future, Wicket.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And how to Train Your Dragon? Are think I do?
How do you train dragons?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, they're going to have a dragon and then you're
going to train it. Bill Gates is in the news.
He's going to give away all his money. He went
after I believe Elon Musk in this interview as well.
This is what they've always talked about when they founded
the Gates Foundation. They had always planned to just give
away their money, which you can do when you have
(06:44):
two hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
He plans to distribute virtually all of his wealth, thank you,
I think he said. I think the number I saw
was ninety nine percent, which is very generous of him.
That would only leave him with two billion dollars. And
I don't know how a guy's going to scrape by
with two bees.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
We've got strange science headed your way at the bottom
of the hour, and this one piqud our interest.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We talked about what we'd be talking about today, that
the chemistry of the smoke signals at the Vatican and
how that all works. And we can touch on that
even though we've gone through all the black smoke and
then the white smoke, and we've got the new Pope
in the whole bit. But there's another article for Strange
Science that you've got to hear. It's all about what
we're going to eat after the apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Fascinating stuff there.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Would you like your Jeopardy question for today a prescient
time of the show.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Let's see if this is going to be something important
as well. It could be.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Here's the other thing about yesterday's Jeopardy question. It wasn't
even just yesterday's Jeopardy question. It was from Saturday, and
our jeopardy question was lame yesterday. And Keana dug that
thing out of the trash. It was crumpled up, and
she brought it to me because it was kind of
(08:04):
like papal related and the jeopardy question yesterday was no good.
She dug that thing out of the trash, brought it
to us, and then it became the future.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I had a good feeling. Yeah, that's the Holy Spirit,
that is the Holy Spirit. That's exactly what that is,
using messengers, right, all right?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So anyway, today's the fifteen hundred's four four hundred dollars.
In fifteen twenty eight, weavers in Kent, England went back
back bananas when a Cardinal Woolsey moved the main trading
port for this sheep product. Well, comes from a sheep, Gary,
(08:51):
what is wool Yes, that's an awful clue. It was awful.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And why are they papal? What do you mean there
was a cardinal? Didn't you say it was a Cardinal Wolsey?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah? Why does everything have to do with the pope?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Because of God? How did they they wrote that?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
They wrote that calendar a year ago, right, and I
know they knew that on May eighteen?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
He's powerful? All right? Wow?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Speaking of which, Speaking of which, Okay, the Angels won yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Angels beat the Blue Jays five to four. Oh my god.
And the blue Jays are Canadian? Right? Yeah? Yeah, I
don't get that part. Well, America won today. Oh my gosh.
You hear about a Canadian pope? Neither did I.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
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Speaker 1 (09:49):
We have a new Pope, surprise, the first American Pope,
your two hundred and sixty seventh Pope. There there's other
news that we have failed to get to. I heard
John On talking out in the hallway, and one of
the stories I wanted to get to today was Karen
Bass blaming everybody for the fire response but herself. Did
you hear that audio from that meeting? My goodness, gracious,
(10:13):
the ego, the head in the sand, the lack of
any sort of accountability at this stage is incredible.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I'll compare it to we'll come back and do it
because we're gonna give away some money. But I will
compare it to something I heard from Bernie Sanders yesterday too.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And I know they're different.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I mean, they're different politicians, but it points to a
symptom that we've talked about before many times when it
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I didn't if I moving on?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So, Karen Bass.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Has put blame on the city's mishandling of the fires
on everyone but herself. She called out the LA Department
of Water and Power. She called out the fire department
chief for the LA City. She called out the insurance industry.
She was talking at the Milkin Institute's twentieth Annual Global
Conference yesterday, called a panel called Rising Strong LA's Path
(11:50):
to Recovery. Now, is Karen Bass physically responsible for what
happened in the Palisades?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
No, she couldn't be spitler ste.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Just a little bit of accountability of Hey, we all
know I screwed up.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I shouldn't have gone on that trip.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just one time, just saying that one time, just saying, hey,
I saw that forecast. It was awful hindsight twenty twenty.
But I should not have gone. I should have been
here for La that would go so far, even at
this stage in the game.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
She said that the rebuilding has gone very fast. She's
I'm going to repeat that again. She said, the rebuilding
has been going very fast. Speak to anyone who has
lived in that area or is still currently impacted by
what's going on in the area, and they will tell
you they can't see it. And if anybody should see it,
it's the people who it impacts immediately, and they have
(12:44):
not been able to.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
See it well. The permitting process alone.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Also again, it's one of those things that you can
your from your post in La City Hall. You can
probably imagine that you think things are going well because
people are telling you that the Emperor has no clothes,
They're telling you, I'm sorry, They're telling you the Emperor
does have closed, when in fact she doesn't. She says
(13:11):
that the city issued its first permits to rebuild within
two months at about two hundred people in the pipeline.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Now that's it. How many two hundred that's it.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That's ridiculous. The city plans to move things along by
waving permitting fees.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
She said.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
She talked about that in the State of the City
address in April, but there have been thirty seven thirty
seven greenlit permits, thirty seven. There's no understanding of who
she is and what she is saying. Bernie Sanders recently
was asked about in an interview that I heard last night.
(13:47):
He was asked about the Fight the Oligarchy tour that.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
He's been on. You've seen him do these different events.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He was out at Coachell a couple of weekends ago,
and he's been using private jet to get from one
group to another, right one rally to another, ten twenty
thirty thousand people at a time. And the question was,
is that really fighting the oligarchy? You're trying to talk
to the to the normal people when you're jet setting
thousands of miles at a time on a private plane,
(14:15):
And he said, well, there's no other way to talk
to that many people. It's just this outsized view of
their own importance, arrogance.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, I just covered in it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
And it's politicians of all stripes. I mean, it's politicians
as low. I shouldn't say low, but I mean in
terms of representative size, the mayor of la a senator
from the state of Vermont.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You can't.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You can't have that outsized importance, like that outsized view
of your own importance and have any ability to relate
to anybody, right, I mean representing Who do they think
they are?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's not like God picked them to deliver the news
that a new pope had been chosen. It's not like
God sent a message yesterday telling them it would be
a pope of the Saint Augustine order.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I see what you do.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Hey, we wanted to We wanted to say thank you,
by the way, to God, also to nurses and teachers,
which also are from God.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
All right, what you would eat after the apocalypse? And
no it's not pop tarts and cup of noodles. We'll
tell you about it in Strange Science when we come back.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That I don't know. Yeah, it's not for strange science.
God needs a break. Yeah, strange sience.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, let's start with the just make it popy.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The science, but make it religious.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Right the papal pyrotechnics that we have seen. Of course,
conclave lasted just a little more than twenty four hours
as the cardinals elected a successor to take over from
Pope Francis. We know, of course, that it is going
to be Pope Leo, the fourteenth cardinal, born and raised
in Chicago, of all places, spent a lot of time
(16:44):
in Peru, but he was announced this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Right as the show started. Bro, that's white smoke. I
can't believe I said that. Actually, I think, to be clear,
I think it was that's white smoke. Bro.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
We'll have to go back in my defense. You said
it was black smoke or you couldn't tell.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I couldn't tell.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Because I and I clearly saw it white. And that's
when I had to emphatically say that's white smoke. Bro.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
The sun was.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Behind the chimney, so I didn't have a good It's okay,
bad lighting.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
That's bad lighting. Sorry. When you're closer to God, like
this one right here, you'll see the right colors has
already removed the scales from your eyes. Is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So anyway, Popolo the fourteenth announced when the white smoke
came out of the chimney at the Sistine Chapel today,
but that was after at least three rounds of black smoke.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Black smoke is the easiest to make. According to scientists,
It is a mix of potassium percolate, an thrascing anthracine,
and sulfur. In this reaction, the potassium percolate is the
oxygen oxygen rich oxidizer. That's a fun thing to say.
(17:59):
A roll at for equently serves in fireworks. Actually, it's
very safe. It gives easily up to oxygen, and so
it's a quick thing. Now the white smoke more challenging.
There's a reason why they wait till the end.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well, and think about what we've talked before about fires, wildfires,
and you see black smoke, that usually is an indication
that it's active fire. I thought the symbolism was interesting
because if you get early on a fire, the smoke
tends to be black, as it's more active. When it
gets sprayed down, when it's less active, that's when the
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smoke turns gray and often white.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Black involves fuel, right exactly. So there you go. So
now you know the chemistry. You can wow all your
friends at cocktail hour. Hey, do you guys know how
they make that black smoke?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The zinc chloride, the immuni ammonium chloride, of the reasons
why you see the.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
White smoke.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
They now have a recipe that calls for potassium chlorate, lactose,
just common sugar, and a type of pine rosin sometimes
known as Greek pitch, and then they throw that in
there and that's why the white comes out. This is
a fun story though, this one about there used to
(19:15):
be a.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Show on TV.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I think it was a History channel that used to
do this program called I believe it's called After People
or After Human Yeah, and it was let's assume that
something happened and humanity was wiped out, not animals, not
all animal life, but just humans.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And it was a.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Show that would basically describe what would happen a month
after life on Earth without humans a year and ten
years and describe what how plants and animals would overtake,
you know, major cities and things like that.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Where are we on that Soviet spacecraft that's hurtling towards
Earth and we don't know where it's going to land
and it weighs eleven pounds the brief for two inches.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, I believe it's Saturday. Is still the day there?
Saturday is the day.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Look up Cosmos two eight four I think is the
name of the spacecraft. They may have narrowed it down
a little bit. As we get closer to it, they'll
have a better uh, because I haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They've been very quiet about it today, haven't they.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You know what today they have been quiet about it.
Maybe they know something that they're not telling us.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Maybe this we wouldn't get a new pope and then boom,
it's all over.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Would we maybe may.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Be listen it's not our design. It is not what
you would eat after the apocalypse. What we may eat
come Sunday.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The city of Chicago produced a pope before they produced
a quarterback who through for four thousand yards. Time take
it to get picked new Pope two days Shadoor Sanders
three days. Wow, we got a new pope before Aaron
Rodgers made his decision.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Again. I think they.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I think Saturday and Live has to bring back Saturday
Night Live has to bring back Bill Swirsky. Super fans
talk about Dica and to talk about Pope Leo, and
that would be a be a huge move on their part. Guys,
keep it, keep it relevant. Over there, would you have
so good? One of the other big stories today came
out of Washington, d C. President Trump announced a trade agreement,
(21:24):
a huge trade deal with the United Kingdom. He wrote
today on Truth Social The agreement with the UK is
a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship
between the United States and the United Kingdom for many
years to come. They held a held a news conference
there in the Oval Office to make the announcement. He
was flanked by some British representatives but also the economic
(21:45):
team that he's been working with.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Somebody has put the pope speech as dubbed over the
Pope's speech like bad lip reading and still can't believe
the Pope said this during his first speech. God bless
you all, except those for who live in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
You may have more Super Bowls, but f the packers.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So good. I caught him so easily amused by NFL memes.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Organizers of the Golden Globes have came out with a
huge announcement. They're going to introduce a best Podcast category
starting next year for the eighty third Golden Globe Awards
Best Podcast.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
There's already podcast awards.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
To Keana's point that she made on The Conway Show
yesterday when they spoke about this.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Top twenty five podcasts is what they're going to choose
from and then make six nominations out of those twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Cool What You'd eat after the apocalypse If a global
catastrophe disrupted international trade and fuel supplies, what would our
survival hinge on get ready for this list.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Are you sitting down and are you on a toilet?
The diet would be of peas.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Let me point out that they will not be using
toilets after the apocalypse.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Holes in the ground if you're lucky, water, if you've
dug it, If you've dug it, peas, sugar beets.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Spinach, and potatoes.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Wow, my husband picks peas out of chow man.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That's how much he likes peas.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Well, he may be one of the first to go.
Then if he will, he will be one of the first.
They said of the crops that they studied, Peas would
require the least land area to provide the protein and
food energy needs of one person. Peas would love peas.
I could eat peas all the time. I'm a big
peas fan. They're also talking about different kinds of apocalypse.
(23:47):
Sees would produce different results to this question, because, for example,
a pea would survive a catastrophe where the climate is
similar to today's.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But not nuclear winter. Not nuclear winter no that scenario.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Nuclear winter would be soot that's caused from these large
scale nuclear explosions to block sunlight and cool the planet.
Would shorten the growing season lower the average temperature. And
in that case, they said, sugar beets and spinach would
take the lead, both of those hardy spinach.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I gottah, hey my spinach. You know what I mean.
I can't just eat raw spinach like a Popeye.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I gotta have some garlic, some olive oil, all the
stuff that the apocalypse has gotten rid of.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
And even Popeye's spinach most of the time was canned.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Might it be so pissed if the apocalypse comes and
I don't get wiped out?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
If you're stuck, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Could you imagine just sitting there alone like the guy
in Twilight Zone with no glasses, all those books and peas,
But you wouldn't have the books.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Just outside the city, they say. They're talking about that
being the peas and the beetroot. Sorry, the peas, the beats,
and the spinach would be inner cities stuff where you've
got like garden building, top gardens and rooftop gardens and
stuff like that. But they said, outside the city, you
could still use some of the industrial farming methods that
(25:10):
we have developed over the years if there's enough land,
et cetera. And you could probably get by with a
bunch of potatoes.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
That's the last time you saw a rooftop garden in
the city. Any city, Name a city, city, name a city,
any city.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I saw him in Nashville, Oh did you? Yeah, in
people's homes.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Tops of apartment buildings and things like that. Wow, potatoes
can feed people using minimal land. They said they can
be sensitive to frost, but obviously that would be bad
if there was a nuclear winter.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But did you ever see that?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Did you ever see that documentary about Matt Damon When
he went to Mars, he was able to live on
potatoes for a long time before they rescued him and
brought him back so that he could make another born movie.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The Martian.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I think that's what they called it. Yeah, because he
was there for a while. He was there for a
year or two, but potatoes and lived on potatoes for
quite a while until they caused him gastrointest.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Hey did he talk to the potatoes like Tom Hanks
did in that documentary about him and the volleyball?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I believe so, Yeah, because Tom Hanks almost died in
that plane crash.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Tom Hanks almost died in in several things. He almost
got aids. Remember when he almost got AIDS. Did he
get the aids?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You think so? Well? I don't know. He saw the
movie right, but he didn't die from the AIDS. He
was also a cowboy at one point. Remember when Jenny
left him and came back with AIDS and a child?
I do, Do you remember that? Thanks for the spoiler alert.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
They also say researchers said that their methodology about food
after the apocalypse could help cities worldwide assess their food
security and try to develop land and land use policies
that will boost resilience in the event that the end.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Meg Ryan never tried to kill Tom Hanks. Oh that
was Billy cre What I saw that movie with the orgasm?
Is that what she was doing? Okay? John Cobalt Show
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