May 11, 2026 • 30 mins
The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 3 (05.11) – A bomb threat hits Magic Mountain, Gen Z gets labeled “the cursed generation,” and somehow the White House is preparing to host a UFC fight on the lawn.• #WhatsHappening → an active bomb threat investigation unfolds at Six Flags Magic Mountain while California launches a new lawsuit against Meta• Savannah Guthrie lands a primetime Wordle game show adaptation → immediately leading Gary & Shannon into a spiral about five-letter words and repeat letters• Plus: the White House prepares for a massive UFC event on the South Lawn with thousands expected to attend• #SWAMPWATCH → Iran negotiations hit another wall as gas price fears continue growing
• Talk of suspending the federal gas tax resurfaces while politicians suddenly rediscover outrage over fuel prices• Then: a new think piece declares Gen Z “the cursed generation”
• Gary & Shannon break down the argument → COVID disruption, impossible housing costs, student debt, social media brain rot, and now AI threatening entry-level careers before they even begin• The bigger fear → younger workers doing everything they were told to do… only to feel overeducated, underpaid, and increasingly replaceable• And finally: Gen Z is now using apps to find compatible vacation partners because apparently even traveling requires emotional vetting now
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We saw how men if he came out, we'd love
to drop that challenge for the people in Lancaster as well.
We're going to be up at Bravery Brewing in Lancaster
to kick off Memorial Day weekend. That will be Friday, Friday,
May twenty second.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Plenty of parking, plenty of space. They have a beautiful
backyard there where we do the show. It's always a
gorgeous day. They have an incredible beer lineup, incredible pizza lineup.
It's just a fun time. That's why we've gone back
for seven years.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Kfipa is in the tank right now being brewed, so
they'll have it available for us when we get out there.
Did you put your little touch on it? I did
not get a chance to go up there. That was
last week and I couldn't go up on that desk.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He didn't sprinkle your special ingredient.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't know what that means. And the answer is no,
I did not got it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I didn't mean it to be weirds.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I meant like Extra Barley or like Paprika or something Brorica.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Okay, so there's two there's two shows. Okay, let me
just say the Magic Mountain thing. Magic Mountain right now,
La County Sheriff's Department is there. There was a threat
that was that they received this morning. Magic Mountain did
of specifically a bomb placed at a specific part of
the park. They haven't said what that was, but we
do know. You can see the helicopter shots. You heard
(01:34):
the report there in Heather's News of them going through
with one of the Bobcats trying to find if anything
is there. Chances are that it's not, but that's what
they've been doing. The park was supposed to open at
ten thirty. As of last check, it's still not opened.
I will say this. I mentioned Kiss Meets The Phantom
(01:54):
of the Park, that awful movie that came back and
came out in nineteen seventy eight. A year year later,
there was a Wonder Woman double episode called The Phantom
of the roller Coaster, which I think is the one
I was thinking of, where she has to save the
roller coaster from tearing apart because a guy was sort
(02:16):
of living in the bowels of the park and pretending
to be the phantom in that one.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
That was a two episode jaunt.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
The man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump at the
White House correspondence Dinners pleaded not guilty as arraignment was
this morning in federal court. Cole Allen, thirty one, orange jumpsuit, trousers,
handcuffed and shackled. His handcuffs attached to a chain around
his waist, clanked as he was led to the defense table.
Has a public defender. Those are client. Pleads not guilty
(02:46):
to all four counts as charged.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Still still blows my mind that this guy was not
shredded cheese on.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
The floor of that I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The seventeen Americans who were on board the hantavirus ship
have now arrived in the United States. The risk of
hantavirus to the general public is very, very low, according
to Admiral Brian Christina, doctor, Assistant Secretary for Health in
the Health and Human Services.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Triple digit heat is back warming trend continuing through today.
Temperatures in the eighties nineties triple digits some inland areas,
a shrinking marine layer, and a strengthening ridge of high
pressure will pave the way for the heat. The hottest
day is today.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Obviously Palm Springs is going to be the hottest area,
they said, potentially up around one hundred and ten in
Palm Springs, and then if you got to make that
drive from there to Phoenix, it doesn't cool down, also
one hundred and ten out there. Santa Clara County has
sued Meta of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, alleging it has profiled, sorry,
(03:56):
profited from Facebook and Instagram ads that promote scams in
violation of California law. This was just filed today. They
want restitution, they want civil damages, They want an order
to hit Meta from engaging in what they describe as
unfair business practices.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Wordle will become a game show on television. We mentioned
it earlier, Savannah Guthrie as the host. She said it
builds on the way the puzzle community engages with Wordle
every day, solving together, sharing wins, debating strategies, cheering one
another on. Sometimes we cheer each other on. Sometimes. I
(04:36):
think I said to Matt yesterday something like, I don't
know if your day is going to come back from
that disastrous Wordle.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh, I don't think I even finished yesterday. I may
still have that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He had like three of the letters on his first
try and didn't get it to the last one.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I guess it took me, didn't let me finish.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It didn't let you finish in well the day the
day expired.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I thought, Hey, but I didn't know about cheering one
another on. I don't know how much cheering one another
on is. It's kind of like ha ha.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Listen, they made a game out of scrabble. They made
a game out of you know, a big jackpot jokers.
Watse Is it just going to be like guess the
next letter? Like a wheel of fortune? And are they
all five letter words? Because it feels like we're kind
of reaching the limit of the number of five letter
words that exist in the English.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Sometimes they get a little too lucy goosey on what's
a word and what's not?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Walls is a five letter word?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yes it is. Gary.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I hate when they repeat letters.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah they always throws you off. Yeah, yeah, throws.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's more than one. It's the ban of my existence.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Sometimes I start off with a double O or something
just to you know, say hey, I'm watching you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
There is going to be a huge UFC event on
the lawn of the White House next month. Four thousand
people are going to be in the bleachers for this thing,
and the fight has begun to try to get your
hands on those tickets. There is a limited supply of tickets.
President Trump is going to be handpicking most of the
(06:17):
four thousand spectators.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh that's funny. Oh boy, you don't get to go
to my party.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He gets to decide who's going to go.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
See all coming up next. We've got your chance at
one thousand dollars. That's exciting. Also, we will get into
swamp Watch and further ahead, the Cursed Generation. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
My daughter is smack in the middle of this, but
she's not part of the reason.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
She's thriving.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
She is, but we'll see what is there for her
when she's done with her schooling.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, she's in science.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Science is science isn't going anywhere?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, Ai'll never take over science, right, We'll see, can
go back home.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
She should be an astronaut, a dog walker.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That'd be pretty cool. Does she have an astronaut? Yeah,
I don't know if she's tall enough. Are there requirements?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You don't know if she's tall enough.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, is there a height requirement? No, check on that.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
We'll come back.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I we hit a vein on this whole Magic Mountain
bomb threat thing.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
How did we hit a vein?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, I mean like a good way, not like you
hit a vein and you're bleeding out. I mean we
hit a vein, like a vein of gold in that.
Those mid to late seventies were apparently rife with stories
about amusement park disasters. That Kiss meets the Phantom of
the Park movie, Yeah, the Wonder Woman double episode in
(07:56):
September of seventy eight, and then a movie in nineteen
seventy seven called roller Coaster, an American disaster suspense film
where somebody's targeting roller coasters for these bomb attacks. Oh really,
seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Was a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I guess that was such a weird that the movie
roller Coaster was a George Sagal movie started a young
Helen hunt among other people.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
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Speaker 1 (08:57):
The Energy Secretary Chris Wrights is he doesn't know what
gas prices are going to be. That's where we kick
off swamp Watch, which.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Means I'm a cheat and a liar and when I'm
not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So what I'm not going anywhere sorain the swat.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been gone
at president, but they're not stupid.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Why have the people voted for you were not swamp watch.
They're all counter knowing.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So there's a deadlock between the US and Iran, both
sides blaming each other. To talk about why no deal
has been reached. President Trump used the words totally unacceptable
to describe Iran's response to the latest US proposal to
end this conflict. So mentioned saw a screenshot from a
I think it was a chevron, which is higher. But
chevron up in nineteenth Avenue in Santa says go nine
(10:00):
dollars a gallon? So what are we doing? How is
this going to affect?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
US?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Energy Secretary Chris Wright went on Meet the Press yesterday,
said he is avoiding price predictions. When they said what
is going to happen with this, he said the US
is in a tremendous position, but said and admitted that
prices will continue to be this high as the conflict continues.
He said, we're by far the world's largest producer of oil,
(10:26):
where by far the world's largest producer of natural gas.
There's been no rise in the price of natural gas,
and that's the largest primary energy source for the United
States home heating for electric He said, gas and diesel
are up and they'll remain up while the conflicts in place.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Speaking of President Trump today, in an interview with CBS,
said he would love to suspend the federal gas tax.
This has been an issue in the California race for governor,
the question of whether or not you would to spend
the gas taxes for the state of California to try
to bring prices down immediately. But he told CBS, quote,
(11:06):
We're going to take off the gas tax for a
period of time, and when gas goes down, we let
it phase back. In last week, they said that this
was not under consideration. But Josh Holly, Senator out of
Missouri says he is going to introduce legislation today that
would suspend the eighteen point four cent per gallon tax.
(11:28):
It would require congressional approval, obviously, which is why they're
going to do it. The White House didn't say whether
he was the one. Sorry, the White House didn't say
whether Trump was the one that actually asked for this specifically,
or if this was Holly working on this independently.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I find it interesting the federal gas tax, as you mentioned,
eighteen point four cents a gallon has remained unchanged since
nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I would have assumed it was just went up like
all the other taxes on a regular basis. House Minority
Leader come A Keem Jeffries is mad at President Trump
over searching gas prices, but a few years ago, he
told Republicans don't play politics with the record prices at
the pump under former President Biden at the time, gas
(12:14):
prices have gone up about a buck fifty nationwide for
the nationwide average since we started bombing Iran at the
end of February, and we know here in California it's
it's much more than that. So in terms of what
is going on in the ongoing I guess negotiations to
try to bring into lasting piece. President Trump spoke to
(12:36):
reporters this morning from the White House about the enriched
uranium that is still part of our focus for any
sort of agreement. He said that they Iran Iran would
need help digging out the nuclear dust that was buried
after the bombing of the location. He said, it's buried
so deep they're not able to get to it, and
only two countries would be able to assist in the removal.
(12:58):
That's China and the United States, he said. President Trump
did that the response by Iran to a peace deal
was unreasonable.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
If there is another reason to love Billy Bob Thornton,
listen to what he said on a recent podcast. It
was the Howie man Dell Does Stuff podcast and Billy
Bob Thornton, who's seventy ps when did that happen? He
is seventy and he said he's never been one to
use his Hollywood platform, a celebrity status, to talk about politics.
And here's the quote. I don't know anything about politics.
(13:28):
I have no idea and the stuff that I do believe,
I don't want to force it down someone else's throat
because I'm not an expert on that. Amen, brother, he said,
I'm not really big on that. At awards shows, all
of a sudden you start talking about saving the Badgers
and stuff. He said, like rich if Ricky Gervais said,
you know, it's like you get your little award. An
f off.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
In terms of awards, he also said he doesn't care
about them anymore.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He's got plenty of them.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But I mean, that is so nice to hear a celebrity.
Just because I'm a celebrity doesn't mean I'm more informed
or informed period. Who am I to shove my thoughts
down somebody else's throat? All?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
When we come back. This is a this is a
rough time. There's a generation of young adults right now
that is dealing with mistakes that we adults made when
they were kids.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And I'll explain when we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You missed any part of our show, please go back
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Listening all these years, I finally saw pics of yours
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Speaker 1 (14:37):
Are they our picks or are they AI?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I do not know which ones he's referring to, but
he said, I assumed that being on radio, you had
faces for radio ugly. But you both break the mold.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay, So he saw the AI pictures of us or
the ones that Richie retouched, because we are not ugly.
I mean, what, Sorry that didn't come out right?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know I'm not.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You look great? Stop that you're so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
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Speaker 1 (15:12):
Marilyn Monks are up next. Marilyn Monks Monks and maryl
What do we call it now? Eminem what do we
call it now? Did we come up with a new
name for them?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No, it's just that you've you've added a different name
to it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Oh well, you like to mix it up. You don't
like to play favorites. I don't I mean, or you
don't understand alphabetical order.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Uhh is that how it's done?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Okay, So it's anti alphabetical order.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Anti order. It's like when chaos lives within the calm.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Because John and Ken did the alphabetical order thing right right,
So that laid out like you can't done.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It can be done duplicate what they've done, right they did.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Because we did an alphabetical order as well. Yes, also
some more artistics, right well, we went through acronyms, and
we just decided gas was better than SAG.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Do you remember the report that we got back from
the focus group regarding the name of the show.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I would love to hear everything from that ridigiousless ass focus.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I just remember the fourth point was it's easier to
say the name of a show if it starts with
a glottole stop.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
That's right, I remember you saying glottal stop. Yeah, it
was traumatizing. It stuck in my CROs What does that mean?
A glottle stop? It sounds like a medical issue.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It is a medical issue. Glottal stop is when you
stop air in your throat. The G sound to the
hard G that's you're making. A glottle stop is also
a glottale.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You make people have glottal stops all the time, and
all the time. You celebrate it. And that's why you
know it unless people people.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Call me g.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It sounds like that happens. It sounds like something people
suffer from. Like, do you suffer from glottal stop? Called
triple eight?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Late night lawyer causual?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, do you suffer from glottal stop? How long has
glottal stop been hurting?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You did your misothelioma, vaginal mesh, glottal stop?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Get caught in a doorway?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, with asbestos, and don't forget talcum powder.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
My daughter's twenty three.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, she graduated high school in twenty ninety seventeen nineteen
twenty twenty. She graduated in twenty twenty. You know what
that means. The last two months of her high school
career were an absolute flaming hot s show.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yep. My nephew, my oldest nephew, is the same age, ish.
But the problem is is, like, yeah, the last year
of high school is awful for them. He took a
gap year. It was a mess. But he and your
daughter are both thriving and doing really well. Yeah, but
they're the only ones I know that were really affected
at that last year of high school from COVID, And
they're both very successful in their young lives.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And part of it, I'm hoping is because they have
a resiliency that's built into them.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, that didn't he managed or he majored in construction
management and there's going to be jobs.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, that's that is a strong choice. But like him,
my daughter didn't have prom. She didn't have graduation. She did,
I mean, they did that stupid thing where we drove
through a park one time and like yet she had
to get out and take a picture against a step
and repeat and it was awful. It was awful. Listen,
I thought it was awful. She doesn't know what a
(18:40):
high school graduation feels like. So my wife and I
and her older brother, we all feel awful for her
because she didn't get to have that pomp and circumstance,
but she just she just had a different thing.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I couldn't stand my high school graduation. Has anyone ever
had a good time at a high school graduation? They're awful,
they're always hot, they're crowded, that they're.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Too too long. Now there is a there's an article
that talks about how COVID stole a lot of the
end of the high school career for those seniors that
graduated in twenty twenty, and in many cases stole their
first year of college if that's what they wanted to
do right away. And for a lot of people that
(19:19):
stayed home and tried to do the online learning thing
for a college education, especially your first year in college
was probably pretty tough. And now there's a discussion of
this sort of perfect storm of circumstances where all of
the socialization that hit the speed bump when you were
graduating high school or starting college, combined with the influx
(19:43):
of AI taking so many jobs. Now, the woman who
writes this up, writes a book about this specifically, is
Jodi Kantor, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times,
and she says that in her world journalism, AI is
taking thousands of jobs every year now, maybe not the
(20:06):
stand up reporters that you see or even those you know,
harder working investigative reporters, but stuff like editing and photography
and videography, all of that stuff is now being done
by computers. So especially in that world, there is a
closing door perhaps for all of these kids that thought
(20:27):
they were going to get jobs in their field of choice.
They're just not that many jobs available anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, I just that may be true, and coupled with
it doesn't seem like there's a big will. You know,
we've talked about how there's not been as big of
a push to get a driver's license, to get a job,
to move out of the house, all the things that
we kind of couldn't wait to do, you know, twenty
years ago, thirty years ago, whatever it's it's now like
(20:58):
it's the antithesis of that. And I don't know how
much and we you know, when we first started the show,
there was a lot of talk about the climate at
that point being that people were waiting for the perfect job,
and we talked about how we worked a series of
crap jobs, or I mean we worked at radio stations,
lucky enough that we.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Worked, in our definition crap job, but like.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
They were awful, you know, like there was some really
overnight shifts and running the board for weird time slots
that we did because we just wanted a foot in
the door and we were happy to just work crap jobs,
but that they didn't want that. That was the talk
back then of waiting for the perfect job, and now
it just seems like.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I heard it don't really need to work. I heard
a great discussion about minimum wage and the the just
the overall philosophy of minimum wage, living wage, minimum wage, whatever,
whatever term you want to use. And what I found
most interestingly is the ask the question of yourself, when's
the last time you worked for minimum wage? The first
(22:00):
radio job I had and you were twenty nineteen nineteen,
So that's about when people age out of, or not
even age out, develop out of minimum wage jobs. It's
weird because in California our minimum wage is so high
compared to other places around the country. The idea of
(22:23):
minimum wage or living wage was never intended to minimum
wage was never intended to be a living wage. That
was never the plan. The only reason that they were
even setting a federal minimum wage or a state minimum
wage was to prevent you from being taken advantage of
in the absolute lowest rungs of the employment world. So
(22:47):
this feels like now it's much more common for someone
who's twenty five or twenty eight to still be working
minimum wage jobs, which granted again it's higher than it was,
but still that they don't progress the same way that
they used to. And part of it is because I
think what you're saying is, well, they're waiting to get
(23:07):
the one hundred and twelve thousand dollars a year job.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, the people that are waiting are not working minimum
wage jobs though, they're just loafing off parents and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
We're just and I hate when you say these things.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It makes I hear my grandfather's voice say they're just
too soft.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, I mean, there's no hardship. It sounds kind of nice.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I mean, how many kids these days have have never
walked to school on their own?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh, Grandpa, that's what I'm saying. I know, I know, Well,
in the things that it does for the traffic, everyone's
got to drop off their little child, they're a little darling,
right instead of walking.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Now you can't even buy them a fast e bike.
Amazon's not going to be selling e bikes that break
the California speed limit.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Are you gonna be okay? You know what you need.
You need a good nap, don't worry you having.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
At about an hour, you're listening to Gary and Shannon
on demand from KFI AM six forty. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Being a part of like the twenty to twenty seven
year old crowd who got really uh, the short end
of the stick with the COVID stuff. Me and my friends,
we all have college degrees, master's degrees, English computer sciences,
everything like that. There's all these jobs open, but none
of them are hiring. We all want to move out
(24:40):
of the home. We can't afford it. It really really sucks.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It does. Don't end me.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You you can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I don't know. You bought a house recently.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You don't need to move into You don't need to
buy a house to move out of your parents home. Well,
live an apartment like all of us did. Like all
of us did for like twenty years, on a mattress
on the floor. If you were lucky, you had a mattress,
sometimes a sleeping bag.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Would you ever.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Would you ever travel with somebody that's not a friend?
Would you travel with somebody you didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Know very well?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I don't like traveling with anybody. I don't like traveling. Uh,
I have a couple of friends. I have a couple friends. Well,
you don't travel a lot some people when you're traveling,
they like to do things their way. You like to
do things your way. It's very hard to travel with people.
Let's just say, you learn a lot about your partner
(25:45):
when you're in a new relationship if you travel, even
if you take a weekend away. You don't have to
go to Europe or anything like that, but you certainly
learn a lot about your partner or whatever, if you're
going to take an international trip, because it's it's a
given that things are going to come up. Oh, okay,
the trains are shut down for a strike. Well, how
are we going to get to the city center. You
(26:06):
learn how people manage unexpected challenges and hurdles and how
they roll with punches. Oh, you get to the hotel
and it turns out the reservation you made you got
screwed over. That hotel hasn't been an operation for two years.
What are you going to do? Now, how do you
handle it? Like these things you learn about people that said,
these speed dumps come up when you're traveling all the time.
(26:29):
It doesn't have to be a partner or whatever. Your family,
for instance, you love your family, but traveling with your
family would be a whole different ballgame. Like I'm more
careful about who I travel with probably than I am.
You know, well, I mean you just got to be
careful because people can try out to be complete nightmares
(26:50):
when they travel that you had no idea about.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
There's a study actually in the International Journal of Tourism Research.
I don't know if you get that. It looked at
a thousand social media posts. They surveyed five hundred travelers
who have partnered with strangers online to go on these trips.
I don't know if it's a romantic thing or just
an adventure thing. To try to figure it out, and
(27:14):
they came up with these four essential qualities to figure
out whether some random internet connection is somebody that you
would trust on a week long adventure through unfamiliar territory. Now,
and your point is, I mean, I think your point
is when you're in that unfamiliar territory, that's when a
lot of the testing can come.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm a big fan of group travel. You know, there's
travel companies where like I was telling my mom she
wants to go to Japan my dad died, and I said,
you're perfect for these group travel trips because you like strangers.
You never met a stranger, you know, she'll talk to anyone,
And that's different traveling with strangers, like in a group
setting or whatever, that's different. You're not sharing a room.
(27:58):
Usually sometimes you you gotta be go along to get
a long person. But that's different. I'm talking about like
traveling with you know, your buddy, you know Andy. Yeah,
you guys have a great time, but you don't know
what you'd be like if you traveled together. Would he
get into a bad mood about a bad croissant in
the morning and then just be anger all day?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Remember remember that awful cafe we went to this morning.
You're like, let it go, Andy, you know what I mean?
Like just little things like that.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
These are the four qualities, they say emotional intelligence if
you can stay calm under pressure, regulate your emotions, figure
out what other people's moods are. One of them is
The second thing is experience builds confidence. Yeah, travel somebody
who's been around before. Maybe not necessarily the place you're going, right,
(28:47):
but is okay in high pressure.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Unfamiliar situations.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Compatibility. You gotta have the same budget, same energy level,
same sleep schedule, same priorities.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
When you're trying to should always plan time I'm alone.
You know, you can plant together activities, but make sure
there's enough time where you can have downtime alone because
it's very important.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And then the last thing was the responsibility. You can
carry your weight, stick to the plans, contribute useful ideas.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You're not just a lump being dragged along the whole.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Time, right, And you know I have girlfriends. I travel
with him by the time. You know, we've taken so
many little trips together that we know each other's piccadillos
or what we need or what we want, like, oh,
you just need a loone time right.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Now, like you know the law. Yeah, and the alone time.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh, she just needs taco bell, you know, like you
learn each each person's like thing.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
You need to feed it.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, did you bring the peda chips?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Of course I brought the peda chips. All right, Monks
and merrill up next, We'll see you tomorrow. Stay drive
everybody blessings this ISFI. You've been listening to The Gary
and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You can always hear us live on kf I Am
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
We saw how men if he came out, we'd love
to drop that challenge for the people in Lancaster as well.
We're going to be up at Bravery Brewing in Lancaster
to kick off Memorial Day weekend. That will be Friday, Friday,
May twenty second.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Plenty of parking, plenty of space. They have a beautiful
backyard there where we do the show. It's always a
gorgeous day. They have an incredible beer lineup, incredible pizza lineup.
It's just a fun time. That's why we've gone back
for seven years.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Kfipa is in the tank right now being brewed, so
they'll have it available for us when we get out there.
Did you put your little touch on it? I did
not get a chance to go up there. That was
last week and I couldn't go up on that desk.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He didn't sprinkle your special ingredient.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't know what that means. And the answer is no,
I did not got it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I didn't mean it to be weirds.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I meant like Extra Barley or like Paprika or something Brorica.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Okay, so there's two there's two shows. Okay, let me
just say the Magic Mountain thing. Magic Mountain right now,
La County Sheriff's Department is there. There was a threat
that was that they received this morning. Magic Mountain did
of specifically a bomb placed at a specific part of
the park. They haven't said what that was, but we
do know. You can see the helicopter shots. You heard
(01:34):
the report there in Heather's News of them going through
with one of the Bobcats trying to find if anything
is there. Chances are that it's not, but that's what
they've been doing. The park was supposed to open at
ten thirty. As of last check, it's still not opened.
I will say this. I mentioned Kiss Meets The Phantom
(01:54):
of the Park, that awful movie that came back and
came out in nineteen seventy eight. A year year later,
there was a Wonder Woman double episode called The Phantom
of the roller Coaster, which I think is the one
I was thinking of, where she has to save the
roller coaster from tearing apart because a guy was sort
(02:16):
of living in the bowels of the park and pretending
to be the phantom in that one.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
That was a two episode jaunt.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
The man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump at the
White House correspondence Dinners pleaded not guilty as arraignment was
this morning in federal court. Cole Allen, thirty one, orange jumpsuit, trousers,
handcuffed and shackled. His handcuffs attached to a chain around
his waist, clanked as he was led to the defense table.
Has a public defender. Those are client. Pleads not guilty
(02:46):
to all four counts as charged.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Still still blows my mind that this guy was not
shredded cheese on.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
The floor of that I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The seventeen Americans who were on board the hantavirus ship
have now arrived in the United States. The risk of
hantavirus to the general public is very, very low, according
to Admiral Brian Christina, doctor, Assistant Secretary for Health in
the Health and Human Services.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Triple digit heat is back warming trend continuing through today.
Temperatures in the eighties nineties triple digits some inland areas,
a shrinking marine layer, and a strengthening ridge of high
pressure will pave the way for the heat. The hottest
day is today.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Obviously Palm Springs is going to be the hottest area,
they said, potentially up around one hundred and ten in
Palm Springs, and then if you got to make that
drive from there to Phoenix, it doesn't cool down, also
one hundred and ten out there. Santa Clara County has
sued Meta of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, alleging it has profiled, sorry,
(03:56):
profited from Facebook and Instagram ads that promote scams in
violation of California law. This was just filed today. They
want restitution, they want civil damages, They want an order
to hit Meta from engaging in what they describe as
unfair business practices.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Wordle will become a game show on television. We mentioned
it earlier, Savannah Guthrie as the host. She said it
builds on the way the puzzle community engages with Wordle
every day, solving together, sharing wins, debating strategies, cheering one
another on. Sometimes we cheer each other on. Sometimes. I
(04:36):
think I said to Matt yesterday something like, I don't
know if your day is going to come back from
that disastrous Wordle.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh, I don't think I even finished yesterday. I may
still have that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He had like three of the letters on his first
try and didn't get it to the last one.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I guess it took me, didn't let me finish.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It didn't let you finish in well the day the
day expired.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I thought, Hey, but I didn't know about cheering one
another on. I don't know how much cheering one another
on is. It's kind of like ha ha.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Listen, they made a game out of scrabble. They made
a game out of you know, a big jackpot jokers.
Watse Is it just going to be like guess the
next letter? Like a wheel of fortune? And are they
all five letter words? Because it feels like we're kind
of reaching the limit of the number of five letter
words that exist in the English.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Sometimes they get a little too lucy goosey on what's
a word and what's not?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Walls is a five letter word?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yes it is. Gary.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I hate when they repeat letters.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah they always throws you off. Yeah, yeah, throws.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's more than one. It's the ban of my existence.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Sometimes I start off with a double O or something
just to you know, say hey, I'm watching you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
There is going to be a huge UFC event on
the lawn of the White House next month. Four thousand
people are going to be in the bleachers for this thing,
and the fight has begun to try to get your
hands on those tickets. There is a limited supply of tickets.
President Trump is going to be handpicking most of the
(06:17):
four thousand spectators.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh that's funny. Oh boy, you don't get to go
to my party.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He gets to decide who's going to go.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
See all coming up next. We've got your chance at
one thousand dollars. That's exciting. Also, we will get into
swamp Watch and further ahead, the Cursed Generation. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
My daughter is smack in the middle of this, but
she's not part of the reason.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
She's thriving.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
She is, but we'll see what is there for her
when she's done with her schooling.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, she's in science.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Science is science isn't going anywhere?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, Ai'll never take over science, right, We'll see, can
go back home.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
She should be an astronaut, a dog walker.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That'd be pretty cool. Does she have an astronaut? Yeah,
I don't know if she's tall enough. Are there requirements?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You don't know if she's tall enough.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, is there a height requirement? No, check on that.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
We'll come back.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I we hit a vein on this whole Magic Mountain
bomb threat thing.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
How did we hit a vein?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, I mean like a good way, not like you
hit a vein and you're bleeding out. I mean we
hit a vein, like a vein of gold in that.
Those mid to late seventies were apparently rife with stories
about amusement park disasters. That Kiss meets the Phantom of
the Park movie, Yeah, the Wonder Woman double episode in
(07:56):
September of seventy eight, and then a movie in nineteen
seventy seven called roller Coaster, an American disaster suspense film
where somebody's targeting roller coasters for these bomb attacks. Oh really,
seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Was a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I guess that was such a weird that the movie
roller Coaster was a George Sagal movie started a young
Helen hunt among other people.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
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Speaker 1 (08:57):
The Energy Secretary Chris Wrights is he doesn't know what
gas prices are going to be. That's where we kick
off swamp Watch, which.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Means I'm a cheat and a liar and when I'm
not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So what I'm not going anywhere sorain the swat.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been gone
at president, but they're not stupid.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Why have the people voted for you were not swamp watch.
They're all counter knowing.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So there's a deadlock between the US and Iran, both
sides blaming each other. To talk about why no deal
has been reached. President Trump used the words totally unacceptable
to describe Iran's response to the latest US proposal to
end this conflict. So mentioned saw a screenshot from a
I think it was a chevron, which is higher. But
chevron up in nineteenth Avenue in Santa says go nine
(10:00):
dollars a gallon? So what are we doing? How is
this going to affect?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
US?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Energy Secretary Chris Wright went on Meet the Press yesterday,
said he is avoiding price predictions. When they said what
is going to happen with this, he said the US
is in a tremendous position, but said and admitted that
prices will continue to be this high as the conflict continues.
He said, we're by far the world's largest producer of oil,
(10:26):
where by far the world's largest producer of natural gas.
There's been no rise in the price of natural gas,
and that's the largest primary energy source for the United
States home heating for electric He said, gas and diesel
are up and they'll remain up while the conflicts in place.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Speaking of President Trump today, in an interview with CBS,
said he would love to suspend the federal gas tax.
This has been an issue in the California race for governor,
the question of whether or not you would to spend
the gas taxes for the state of California to try
to bring prices down immediately. But he told CBS, quote,
(11:06):
We're going to take off the gas tax for a
period of time, and when gas goes down, we let
it phase back. In last week, they said that this
was not under consideration. But Josh Holly, Senator out of
Missouri says he is going to introduce legislation today that
would suspend the eighteen point four cent per gallon tax.
(11:28):
It would require congressional approval, obviously, which is why they're
going to do it. The White House didn't say whether
he was the one. Sorry, the White House didn't say
whether Trump was the one that actually asked for this specifically,
or if this was Holly working on this independently.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I find it interesting the federal gas tax, as you mentioned,
eighteen point four cents a gallon has remained unchanged since
nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I would have assumed it was just went up like
all the other taxes on a regular basis. House Minority
Leader come A Keem Jeffries is mad at President Trump
over searching gas prices, but a few years ago, he
told Republicans don't play politics with the record prices at
the pump under former President Biden at the time, gas
(12:14):
prices have gone up about a buck fifty nationwide for
the nationwide average since we started bombing Iran at the
end of February, and we know here in California it's
it's much more than that. So in terms of what
is going on in the ongoing I guess negotiations to
try to bring into lasting piece. President Trump spoke to
(12:36):
reporters this morning from the White House about the enriched
uranium that is still part of our focus for any
sort of agreement. He said that they Iran Iran would
need help digging out the nuclear dust that was buried
after the bombing of the location. He said, it's buried
so deep they're not able to get to it, and
only two countries would be able to assist in the removal.
(12:58):
That's China and the United States, he said. President Trump
did that the response by Iran to a peace deal
was unreasonable.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
If there is another reason to love Billy Bob Thornton,
listen to what he said on a recent podcast. It
was the Howie man Dell Does Stuff podcast and Billy
Bob Thornton, who's seventy ps when did that happen? He
is seventy and he said he's never been one to
use his Hollywood platform, a celebrity status, to talk about politics.
And here's the quote. I don't know anything about politics.
(13:28):
I have no idea and the stuff that I do believe,
I don't want to force it down someone else's throat
because I'm not an expert on that. Amen, brother, he said,
I'm not really big on that. At awards shows, all
of a sudden you start talking about saving the Badgers
and stuff. He said, like rich if Ricky Gervais said,
you know, it's like you get your little award. An
f off.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
In terms of awards, he also said he doesn't care
about them anymore.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He's got plenty of them.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But I mean, that is so nice to hear a celebrity.
Just because I'm a celebrity doesn't mean I'm more informed
or informed period. Who am I to shove my thoughts
down somebody else's throat? All?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
When we come back. This is a this is a
rough time. There's a generation of young adults right now
that is dealing with mistakes that we adults made when
they were kids.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And I'll explain when we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You missed any part of our show, please go back
and check out the podcast. In fact, anywhere you find podcasts,
just type in Gary and Shannon. You'll see our picture,
which Jay says he had never seen. He sent an email.
Listening all these years, I finally saw pics of yours
and Shannon's faces.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Are they our picks or are they AI?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I do not know which ones he's referring to, but
he said, I assumed that being on radio, you had
faces for radio ugly. But you both break the mold.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay, So he saw the AI pictures of us or
the ones that Richie retouched, because we are not ugly.
I mean, what, Sorry that didn't come out right?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know I'm not.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You look great? Stop that you're so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (15:12):
Marilyn Monks are up next. Marilyn Monks Monks and maryl
What do we call it now? Eminem what do we
call it now? Did we come up with a new
name for them?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No, it's just that you've you've added a different name
to it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Oh well, you like to mix it up. You don't
like to play favorites. I don't I mean, or you
don't understand alphabetical order.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Uhh is that how it's done?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Okay, So it's anti alphabetical order.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Anti order. It's like when chaos lives within the calm.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Because John and Ken did the alphabetical order thing right right,
So that laid out like you can't done.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It can be done duplicate what they've done, right they did.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Because we did an alphabetical order as well. Yes, also
some more artistics, right well, we went through acronyms, and
we just decided gas was better than SAG.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Do you remember the report that we got back from
the focus group regarding the name of the show.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I would love to hear everything from that ridigiousless ass focus.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I just remember the fourth point was it's easier to
say the name of a show if it starts with
a glottole stop.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
That's right, I remember you saying glottal stop. Yeah, it
was traumatizing. It stuck in my CROs What does that mean?
A glottle stop? It sounds like a medical issue.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It is a medical issue. Glottal stop is when you
stop air in your throat. The G sound to the
hard G that's you're making. A glottle stop is also
a glottale.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You make people have glottal stops all the time, and
all the time. You celebrate it. And that's why you
know it unless people people.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Call me g.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It sounds like that happens. It sounds like something people
suffer from. Like, do you suffer from glottal stop? Called
triple eight?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Late night lawyer causual?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, do you suffer from glottal stop? How long has
glottal stop been hurting?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You did your misothelioma, vaginal mesh, glottal stop?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Get caught in a doorway?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, with asbestos, and don't forget talcum powder.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
My daughter's twenty three.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, she graduated high school in twenty ninety seventeen nineteen
twenty twenty. She graduated in twenty twenty. You know what
that means. The last two months of her high school
career were an absolute flaming hot s show.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yep. My nephew, my oldest nephew, is the same age, ish.
But the problem is is, like, yeah, the last year
of high school is awful for them. He took a
gap year. It was a mess. But he and your
daughter are both thriving and doing really well. Yeah, but
they're the only ones I know that were really affected
at that last year of high school from COVID, And
they're both very successful in their young lives.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And part of it, I'm hoping is because they have
a resiliency that's built into them.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, that didn't he managed or he majored in construction
management and there's going to be jobs.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, that's that is a strong choice. But like him,
my daughter didn't have prom. She didn't have graduation. She did,
I mean, they did that stupid thing where we drove
through a park one time and like yet she had
to get out and take a picture against a step
and repeat and it was awful. It was awful. Listen,
I thought it was awful. She doesn't know what a
(18:40):
high school graduation feels like. So my wife and I
and her older brother, we all feel awful for her
because she didn't get to have that pomp and circumstance,
but she just she just had a different thing.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I couldn't stand my high school graduation. Has anyone ever
had a good time at a high school graduation? They're awful,
they're always hot, they're crowded, that they're.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Too too long. Now there is a there's an article
that talks about how COVID stole a lot of the
end of the high school career for those seniors that
graduated in twenty twenty, and in many cases stole their
first year of college if that's what they wanted to
do right away. And for a lot of people that
(19:19):
stayed home and tried to do the online learning thing
for a college education, especially your first year in college
was probably pretty tough. And now there's a discussion of
this sort of perfect storm of circumstances where all of
the socialization that hit the speed bump when you were
graduating high school or starting college, combined with the influx
(19:43):
of AI taking so many jobs. Now, the woman who
writes this up, writes a book about this specifically, is
Jodi Kantor, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times,
and she says that in her world journalism, AI is
taking thousands of jobs every year now, maybe not the
(20:06):
stand up reporters that you see or even those you know,
harder working investigative reporters, but stuff like editing and photography
and videography, all of that stuff is now being done
by computers. So especially in that world, there is a
closing door perhaps for all of these kids that thought
(20:27):
they were going to get jobs in their field of choice.
They're just not that many jobs available anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, I just that may be true, and coupled with
it doesn't seem like there's a big will. You know,
we've talked about how there's not been as big of
a push to get a driver's license, to get a job,
to move out of the house, all the things that
we kind of couldn't wait to do, you know, twenty
years ago, thirty years ago, whatever it's it's now like
(20:58):
it's the antithesis of that. And I don't know how
much and we you know, when we first started the show,
there was a lot of talk about the climate at
that point being that people were waiting for the perfect job,
and we talked about how we worked a series of
crap jobs, or I mean we worked at radio stations,
lucky enough that we.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Worked, in our definition crap job, but like.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
They were awful, you know, like there was some really
overnight shifts and running the board for weird time slots
that we did because we just wanted a foot in
the door and we were happy to just work crap jobs,
but that they didn't want that. That was the talk
back then of waiting for the perfect job, and now
it just seems like.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I heard it don't really need to work. I heard
a great discussion about minimum wage and the the just
the overall philosophy of minimum wage, living wage, minimum wage, whatever,
whatever term you want to use. And what I found
most interestingly is the ask the question of yourself, when's
the last time you worked for minimum wage? The first
(22:00):
radio job I had and you were twenty nineteen nineteen,
So that's about when people age out of, or not
even age out, develop out of minimum wage jobs. It's
weird because in California our minimum wage is so high
compared to other places around the country. The idea of
(22:23):
minimum wage or living wage was never intended to minimum
wage was never intended to be a living wage. That
was never the plan. The only reason that they were
even setting a federal minimum wage or a state minimum
wage was to prevent you from being taken advantage of
in the absolute lowest rungs of the employment world. So
(22:47):
this feels like now it's much more common for someone
who's twenty five or twenty eight to still be working
minimum wage jobs, which granted again it's higher than it was,
but still that they don't progress the same way that
they used to. And part of it is because I
think what you're saying is, well, they're waiting to get
(23:07):
the one hundred and twelve thousand dollars a year job.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, the people that are waiting are not working minimum
wage jobs though, they're just loafing off parents and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
We're just and I hate when you say these things.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It makes I hear my grandfather's voice say they're just
too soft.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, I mean, there's no hardship. It sounds kind of nice.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I mean, how many kids these days have have never
walked to school on their own?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh, Grandpa, that's what I'm saying. I know, I know, Well,
in the things that it does for the traffic, everyone's
got to drop off their little child, they're a little darling,
right instead of walking.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Now you can't even buy them a fast e bike.
Amazon's not going to be selling e bikes that break
the California speed limit.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Are you gonna be okay? You know what you need.
You need a good nap, don't worry you having.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
At about an hour, you're listening to Gary and Shannon
on demand from KFI AM six forty. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Being a part of like the twenty to twenty seven
year old crowd who got really uh, the short end
of the stick with the COVID stuff. Me and my friends,
we all have college degrees, master's degrees, English computer sciences,
everything like that. There's all these jobs open, but none
of them are hiring. We all want to move out
(24:40):
of the home. We can't afford it. It really really sucks.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It does. Don't end me.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You you can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I don't know. You bought a house recently.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You don't need to move into You don't need to
buy a house to move out of your parents home. Well,
live an apartment like all of us did. Like all
of us did for like twenty years, on a mattress
on the floor. If you were lucky, you had a mattress,
sometimes a sleeping bag.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Would you ever.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Would you ever travel with somebody that's not a friend?
Would you travel with somebody you didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Know very well?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I don't like traveling with anybody. I don't like traveling. Uh,
I have a couple of friends. I have a couple friends. Well,
you don't travel a lot some people when you're traveling,
they like to do things their way. You like to
do things your way. It's very hard to travel with people.
Let's just say, you learn a lot about your partner
(25:45):
when you're in a new relationship if you travel, even
if you take a weekend away. You don't have to
go to Europe or anything like that, but you certainly
learn a lot about your partner or whatever, if you're
going to take an international trip, because it's it's a
given that things are going to come up. Oh, okay,
the trains are shut down for a strike. Well, how
are we going to get to the city center. You
(26:06):
learn how people manage unexpected challenges and hurdles and how
they roll with punches. Oh, you get to the hotel
and it turns out the reservation you made you got
screwed over. That hotel hasn't been an operation for two years.
What are you going to do? Now, how do you
handle it? Like these things you learn about people that said,
these speed dumps come up when you're traveling all the time.
(26:29):
It doesn't have to be a partner or whatever. Your family,
for instance, you love your family, but traveling with your
family would be a whole different ballgame. Like I'm more
careful about who I travel with probably than I am.
You know, well, I mean you just got to be
careful because people can try out to be complete nightmares
(26:50):
when they travel that you had no idea about.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
There's a study actually in the International Journal of Tourism Research.
I don't know if you get that. It looked at
a thousand social media posts. They surveyed five hundred travelers
who have partnered with strangers online to go on these trips.
I don't know if it's a romantic thing or just
an adventure thing. To try to figure it out, and
(27:14):
they came up with these four essential qualities to figure
out whether some random internet connection is somebody that you
would trust on a week long adventure through unfamiliar territory. Now,
and your point is, I mean, I think your point
is when you're in that unfamiliar territory, that's when a
lot of the testing can come.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm a big fan of group travel. You know, there's
travel companies where like I was telling my mom she
wants to go to Japan my dad died, and I said,
you're perfect for these group travel trips because you like strangers.
You never met a stranger, you know, she'll talk to anyone,
And that's different traveling with strangers, like in a group
setting or whatever, that's different. You're not sharing a room.
(27:58):
Usually sometimes you you gotta be go along to get
a long person. But that's different. I'm talking about like
traveling with you know, your buddy, you know Andy. Yeah,
you guys have a great time, but you don't know
what you'd be like if you traveled together. Would he
get into a bad mood about a bad croissant in
the morning and then just be anger all day?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Remember remember that awful cafe we went to this morning.
You're like, let it go, Andy, you know what I mean?
Like just little things like that.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
These are the four qualities, they say emotional intelligence if
you can stay calm under pressure, regulate your emotions, figure
out what other people's moods are. One of them is
The second thing is experience builds confidence. Yeah, travel somebody
who's been around before. Maybe not necessarily the place you're going, right,
(28:47):
but is okay in high pressure.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Unfamiliar situations.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Compatibility. You gotta have the same budget, same energy level,
same sleep schedule, same priorities.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
When you're trying to should always plan time I'm alone.
You know, you can plant together activities, but make sure
there's enough time where you can have downtime alone because
it's very important.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And then the last thing was the responsibility. You can
carry your weight, stick to the plans, contribute useful ideas.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You're not just a lump being dragged along the whole.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Time, right, And you know I have girlfriends. I travel
with him by the time. You know, we've taken so
many little trips together that we know each other's piccadillos
or what we need or what we want, like, oh,
you just need a loone time right.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Now, like you know the law. Yeah, and the alone time.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh, she just needs taco bell, you know, like you
learn each each person's like thing.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
You need to feed it.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, did you bring the peda chips?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Of course I brought the peda chips. All right, Monks
and merrill up next, We'll see you tomorrow. Stay drive
everybody blessings this ISFI. You've been listening to The Gary
and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You can always hear us live on kf I Am
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