December 24, 2025 • 33 mins
Gary & Shannon open with breaking traffic and weather concerns as flooding in Sun Valley shuts down parts of the 5 Freeway, creating major delays for commuters.
The hour then takes a festive turn as GAS presents A Christmas Carol 2025 — an original radio play reimagining the classic holiday tale with a modern twist.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We're seeing live pictures of Sun Valley.
There some serious flooding there. That's I five, Yes, it
is right there. There's some waves. That guy is also
standing on I five, but he was at the one.
(00:22):
Those are the big rig crashes there at the five
and one eighteen rough morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Everybody's going on the one eighteen. If you're headed five northbound,
they'll make you get off at the one. First of all,
if you're headed five north band and you go through
Sun Valley, you're going to be in the water. And
then if you make it through that very slowly, you'll
be forced off of I five into them.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So I'm not going home. Why would you? I mean,
you know what else is.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You're going to have all of the Christmas spirit you
can handle. Hey, you know, you sit in the car
for a while. You know what are you rushing home for? Anyway?
You know, family time. You're gonna have a lot of
family time. You can just sit in traffic and enjoy yourself.
Throw on the trumpets of Jesus and make a ride
out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Jesus, make a ride out.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, so we have actually a pretty serious thing that's
going on right now, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Just should we talk about like this?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, let me get a couple of these in here quick.
We're asking people what they're doing on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Hey, Christmas Eve, Garyan Shannon, you can't wait for the
Christmas Carol. I am currently going to do a little baking.
Get my lasagna ready. We're doing manna for tomorrow Christmas Eve.
I'll go to masts and then my dad and son
will be over tomorrow for Christmas. Like I said, we're
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going to do lasagna and artichokes and all that charcootery
arcot that you guys.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Hello here from Bullood City, Arizona, registered nurse going to
see patients on home health. That's very nice read joy
on Christmas Eve. I hope you guys are doing great
and stay safe there in California.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You're gonna make so many people's day that big Yes.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Good morning, fish, Merry Christmas, Darien.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Fish flying fish out here the air, flying.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Fish And it's Christmas Eve and I'm here in the
shop rebuilding a.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Runway lights, all the taxiways, all you know, electricians. Job
is never never finished here at the airport. So we
keep going and going and going and going. Merry Christmas,
thank you for all you do, and looking forward to
the new year.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Go don't gotta love it, you gotta do the I'm
gonna be he said, Long Beach.
Speaker 9 (02:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Guess where he's at. He's at an airport. I don't
know if Long Beach.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I'm gonna be flying out of there next week. So
get those run right lights working. I love that airport.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Could could you make sure the runway lights are working
please by the time I.
Speaker 10 (03:12):
The National Weather Service in Los Angeles OXNUG has issued
a flash flood morning for northern Los Angeles County in
southwestern California until noon Pacific standard time take ten fifty
three and Pacific standard time. Dunflow Radar indicated moderate rain
across the warn area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly as heavy rain over the mountains causes
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downstream flashed flooding through creeks and streams across the Antelope
Valley hazard flash flooding caused by heavy rain. Source train
spotters reported impact flash flooding of small creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets, and underpasses, as well as other
poorer drainage and low lying areas. Some locations that will
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experience flash flooding include the Lake Los Angeles act In, Pongdale, Lancaster,
Santa Clara, of Course, Hill Tyra, Blossom, Giano, Little Rocks,
Lake Pongdale, Elizabeth Lake, Lake, Hughes, Lanermon, deer View, Highlands,
sackling Back State Park, Highway one thirty eight between one
and the San Bernardino County line, and Highway one thirty
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eight between Creil and Lancaster. Turn around Don't brown went
encountering flooded roads, most flood deaths seccurring vehicles.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There you go. Is there a way?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Just ask on the air, is there a way to
get those and then record them or whatever and then
play them right before a break or in the beginning
of a break.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
The reason I'm asking I thought that there, No, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I just we were worried about never done your job this.
We've never done it, so we don't know. But usually,
like I usually they play during the like the beginning
of a break or whatever. We were just concerned that
that that it would come on during the play.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, make sure it doesn't. Opp Okay, I'll make it mind.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because we have like usually Gary and I won't care
at all, but like we have professional people coming in
who are legit rehearsing right now, yes, and I don't
want to f it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Up, so right, So yeah, so, uh, this whole thing,
it started out as a fun little goofy, Hey, we
have a show that we need to fill time with,
and you get deeper to the holidays, we need to
figure out, like we want to do something that's not
you know, death and destruction. Maybe it's fun. Maybe oh
you know we could do is we could do a
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radio play that we could then record and play as
part of the show that actually airs on the holiday.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, right, that would be be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And that's how it started. And I don't remember which
one we started with, whether it was a Christmas Carol
or It's a Wonderful Life, But we've kind of gone
back and forth with with them over the course of
now seven years, maybe seventy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Years, and.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So it's evolved into what we'll hear today.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right, Gary writes it and retweaks it and retools it
for the various people we've had coming and going through
the years. And this year, though, is the most star
studded production we've done with real actors and actresses, and
we have singers involved in this cast. And because there
isn't really a musical moment, we are going to kick
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off our Christmas celebration coming up next with three legit
trained singers that work here that are going to be
part of the production, and we're just going to We're
going to kick it off here.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I mean, it feels like I wanted to do this.
I don't know if this is the right analogy. I'm
going to try it.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Tell me if it's right.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I was going to do a show where I go, hey,
my dog can do tricks, and then I bring my
dog out and I go sit and then I sits
and I go up and he sits, and then I
go shake.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
He does this thing like oh that's cute.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And then somebody brings in a killer whale and they're like,
I can make a killer whale flip in the air
in front of everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Right, And I go, I was just gonna there is
a puppy we've essentially got like a team of border
Collie frisbee catching dogs and perform at halftime shows in
Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Coming in right, all right, frisbee catching dogs.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
When we got back, Gary and Shannon will continue Christmas
Carol's coming up later this hour as well.
Speaker 11 (07:33):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Hey, Gary and Shannon KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Welcome to Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We're gonna be doing a Christmas Carol, the Gary and
Shannon Chill version of a Christmas Carol coming up at
after the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 12 (07:58):
And your insane We We're alive on Instagram as well
at Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
We will keep an eye on what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
If you are in the car, stuck in the water,
turn it up, get ready, yeah, because this is this
is going to keep you entertained. There's not really much
we can tell you about the flooding on the roadways
except that it's flooded on the roadways and everywhere you go.
Will Cole Schreiber's in here. I mean, you talked about
it all morning long, that there's just all kinds of
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places that are going to be The valley.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Is going to be an absolute mess today. So hopefully
your Christmas Eve is somewhere else you do it, because
I don't love it? Like what am I gonna?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Okay, So we were doing our prep to get ready
for a Christmas Carol Gas version that Gary has written
for us. Every year, there's been some sort of iteration,
and we found out that there was a lot of
interest from legit actors and actresses in the building for
our production. And then, unbeknownst to me, it turns out
that three of our beloved stars of the program. Three
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are trained vocalists, and they are all professional singers in
their own right. There's well, Will's part of a chorus,
Heather is eas a shower.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Angelina joee, I.
Speaker 13 (09:23):
Haven't sung since the two thousand production of the Wizard
of Oz at the Hamilton, Ohio Rotary Club.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
How did I get pulled into this?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And Michael Monks there you go? So guys take it away, Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Just this is just a little something we threw together. Okay, ready, me.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
Me, me, me, counting is in?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I'm counting?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Is in? Ready?
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Am I?
Speaker 13 (09:43):
Tenor?
Speaker 14 (09:44):
And A one two three?
Speaker 15 (09:50):
Hark the herald aegelusey Glory to the new bond King,
Peacena and Mercy Mile, God and sinners reconciled. Joyfull nations
rise joy the triumph Father the sky.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We in the jolly host.
Speaker 15 (10:13):
Prow claim Christ is born in Bathhem on the herald
angel sing glory to the new born King.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
We wish you a merry Christmas. We wish you a
merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (10:29):
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new Year.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
The tidings we bring to.
Speaker 14 (10:34):
You and your King, good tidings of Christmas and a
happy new Year.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He of the blue Christmas boo, just thinking.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
About these sins of red.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Agree, Christmas tree won't be the same.
Speaker 16 (11:10):
Gear.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
Tang it home if you're not here with the meal
and windows, flea.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Memories, call.
Speaker 17 (11:31):
You with your christ Ristmas water.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Have a blue, blue, blue, Blue Christmas.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Three four, Take it away, monks.
Speaker 13 (11:47):
Hey, maybe I'll dye my hair.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Maybe I'll go somewhere. Maybe i'll get a car.
Speaker 13 (11:56):
Maybe i'll drive so.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Far they'll all track me. I'll bounce right back.
Speaker 14 (12:05):
Maybe i'll sleep real late. Maybe I'll lose some weight.
Maybe i'll clear my junk. Maybe I'll just get drunk
on upper wine. But me, I'll be just fine and dandy.
Speaker 15 (12:23):
Lord, it's like a hard candy Christmas. I'm barely getting
through tomorrow, but still won't let leg.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Sorrow bring me way down.
Speaker 18 (12:38):
What a bright time.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's the right time to rock the night away. Jingle
bell time.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
It's a swell.
Speaker 14 (12:48):
Time to go liden me one horse, le guinea up,
jingle horse, speak up your feet, jingle.
Speaker 18 (12:57):
Around the flow.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Nixed anda mingle and the jingle and fie, what is it?
Speaker 13 (13:04):
That's the jingle bell.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's the jingle bell. That's the jingle.
Speaker 16 (13:09):
Bell, right, you guys, is amazing. This is the best
thing ever.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
This is the best Christmas ever, you guys. Seriously, Oh
my god, I cry. I am crying. I am filled
with the spirit. Rudeolph is freaking at New Whites right now,
mock to Oh.
Speaker 15 (13:37):
My god, how sexy was Will Cols Driver about elephant?
Speaker 11 (13:42):
My god?
Speaker 15 (13:44):
Thank you guys, amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Don't go too far. You guys are all you guys
are all involved in the show. We will get into
the doing working here. I have no idea, My god,
I don't have a holiday.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I mean god, I feel like I should eat some cookies.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Like, I can't believe they can just do that, Like
they just did that. You know, it's like, how do
you guys sing a little something? And then they that
was a full production.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
That was incredible.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I'm very that'll that'll live on Instagram.
Speaker 18 (14:16):
Uh so you can go check it out at Gary
and Shanning. Yeah, that was happening. All I saw was
Gary recording with the biggest smile. He was the very
Chris Jenner with the camera you're.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Doing yes, Oh my god, it was so good.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
All right, when we come back, we'll discuss how this
is going to work out.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
We have some we actually have some stage management.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I think that needs to take place with the cast
for a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 19 (14:41):
We got everybody the updates and cookies. Oh and people
could start eating the cookies. Who's nobody brought to hot
chocolate this year? No, you can get some from the
machine out there, right.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I brought some kombucha for Debra. Oh that sounds great.
Wait what I missed that? I just said I brought
some kombucha for you. Oh that's right, thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Because I can't any of the cooks.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I can't. You can't eat any of them.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
And Gary.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But they're cookies, I know.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
But they're made with milk and butter, and I try
to try to be good.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm trying to think of ones that might not be
made with milk and butter.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
That's you're going to have a long time. My husband,
actually he will make He makes me.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Cookies and desserts because he loves you.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
My wife doesn't love you as much.
Speaker 20 (15:25):
I know.
Speaker 13 (15:25):
Okay, I get it.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That was incredible. I'm still coming down through that buzzy.
That holiday medley, that's pretty crazy. Something for everybody in there.
There was a song I've never heard before.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's always a nice thing is to be surprised by
Christmas music.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yea before I liked it too.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
There is a bunch going on today. Of course, we
have been watching the wind and the rain that has
rolled through. The heaviest of the storm is expected later
this afternoon, and so we will be on it throughout
the day today.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
There were some reports there was actually.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
A tornado warning that was issued last hour, just about
an hour ago, and anything like that comes up, we'll
definitely bring those to you. But well, we're on the
verge of the latest edition of A Christmas Carol. Yes, uh,
And I have not checked with the stage manager as
to who is here and who isn't here as if yet,
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but I believe based on my Channing's here, Ray Yeah,
and Amy and Deborah.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Eric's in the house. We already saw a.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Goose boy for our first segment here, Richie Will Does
everybody have a microphone?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
For our first segment here?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Shannon Michael, Michael's on, Mike, Michaels on, Mike Mike, Ready
to go?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Who's Christine?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
She's gonna call in later.
Speaker 13 (16:51):
Who is Christine? Someone's playing?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I haven't read it. I just go in.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I just get in there.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You know who Christine is? Did you see her name?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, it says Christine.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's got her last name Aguilera. No. No, Oh, I
get it, I get it, I get it, I get it.
You get jokes? Who is playing Christine?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Is what I meant?
Speaker 16 (17:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
No, I wish there was a way for me to
find out who's playing which part page two.
Speaker 13 (17:20):
There was a cast list on Oh, there is.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
A cast list. I didn't realize there was a castle.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Guys guys, guys, I am not a studier. I just
get in and I do it. That's that is not true.
You study all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I don't. Here we go right, grab a chair.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We'll share this one too, don't forget stick around. And
by the way, I don't know if anybody has taken
the ribbon and the plastic off of the cookie tray yet,
but the cookies.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Are now, cookies opened open, excellent wife.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Heather's never tasted your wife's cookies, so make sure she
gets in there.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So Heather is here, her daughter is here.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Heather Brooker's daughter, Channing is going to join us a
little bit later in the show. Yeah, and again, just
to some quick stage management issues here, everybody's on their
own for headphones.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
This is a radio station. We all have.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
You know, we're all adults. I mean most of us
are adults. I shouldn't say.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
All of us.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And then let's see. Richie had questions about who he is.
Should he play it ghoulishly because he's the ghost of
Christmas past?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I said no, just be Richie. Does anybody any any
other questions about any of the don't questions?
Speaker 13 (18:29):
I've got some notes.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Michael scrip Sorry, script is locked as of about seven
am business, so we're not going to be able to change.
I mean, listen, I will say this. You want to
improve some stuff in there, it's fine. I just have
to warn you we have this timed out pretty pretty detail.
Speaker 13 (18:47):
Have too much respect for the author to stray from
his divine words?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Which author? This author or Charles Dickens the general author.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Because there are some lines in here that are pulled
directly from a Christmas Carol. Well it's in the public
domain now, right, which is why we can do this
at all. I'm sure some of the music is going
to run into some issues, but that's how we're going
to do it. Okay, let's see and then just as
quick everybody knows the basics of a Christmas Carol. Scrooge
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is a you know, a Scrooge and gets visited by
the three spirits, and this time Shannon gets to play
Ebenezer slash.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm always Scrooge. I don't know why I'm filled with
so much Christmas spirit.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I got a quick technical questions. Yes, with the cues,
the sound right if you will?
Speaker 13 (19:38):
How much breathing room should I feel it?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Those let's give you? Okay, So straight out of the break.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Almer's going to give us a quick time check that
nobody will hear but you and I and he'll say
like ten seconds, and then whatever ends, you will say
your first line, which is.
Speaker 13 (19:57):
Welcome to Gary and Shannon's a Christmas ca garrel on
kf I.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And then you'll hear this, and then you'll hear that transition.
Speaker 13 (20:07):
Right now, and then I should start all right, chance, Well,
it's just very rare that the first rehearsal, the tech
performance and the opening night.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And here's the other part about it.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
If you screw up, we're all going to make fun
of you, I know, and that's part of why we.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Tart of it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
It brings us closer together as a family.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Follow your thespian gut, Yeah, follow your guts, show what everybody?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, that's the final note.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Have fun with it? Yeah, all right, a little too excited.
I want to say that I want you to tell
for yourself.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
For fun.
Speaker 13 (20:41):
I perform for love and I love all of you.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Thank you, We love you too. Did anybody bring champagne?
It feels like we need you.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We got and Jack Daniel great, that's a great combo
cow all right, that is really sour.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I know it is, but it's good. It's good for
your us being good. It's good. I'm beating so much sugar,
it's like it is good balance, It'll be good. I
want to make a drink called a Tennessee outhouse. Ah,
well done, Jack Daniels and kombucha. I think it might
taste good.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
All right, Well, when we come back, we refer to
them as staves. There are four staves in this show,
so four segments, and we'll get through all of it
when when we return.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
When we returned, Gary and Shannon chose a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
Welcome to Gary and Shannon's a Christmas Carol on KFI.
There are some things that never change. Love is one
of them, and in those places we find the most love,
we can often find the most frustration. As we've seen
for millennia, families can be both the greatest source of
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love and an endless well of frustration. Some of the
most heated and grievous dust ups occur around the holidays,
when our nerves are thin and our wallets thinner. But
even in times when Uncle Fred's farts sting your eyes
and Grandma's vodka Gimblet flavored kisses drown even the merriest
of us all. Everyone agrees that the world's most beloved
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Christmas story is Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. This is
not that, But when Dickens presented this little story to
the world one hundred and seventy five years ago, it
found an instant response in the hearts of people everywhere
realized it was their favorite fictional chronicle of what Christmas
is and what Christmas means to all the simple people
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of the earth. So, without further ado, and with the
spirit of the season coursing through our veins, we proudly
present Gary and Shannon's a Christmas Carol on KFI. First
a Land acknowledgment. We are on Land. Marley was dead,
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there was no doubt about it. After years of international
stardom as a reggae icon, a toe cancer spread to
his brain and he passed in a hospital in Miami.
But the spirit of Christmas still mister narrator, that's the
wrong Marley. This is the story of Jacob Marley, not Bob.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Marley, actually Michael Elmer. We're saying Gary Marley today. Not
sure if I put that in there, we might be
on the same script. I don't know, got it, got it.
Speaker 13 (23:36):
Gary Marley. I'll just adjust on the fly. Gary was dead,
there was no doubt about it. The register of his
burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker,
and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and Shannon Scrooge's
name was good upon change for anything she chose to
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put her hand to.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Old Gary was as dead as a door. You know,
just a second, I'm sorry, and we're gonna adjust on
the fly. Instead, We're just gonna say Gary's on vacation.
It just seems a little dark. Maybe easier to swallow,
so easier to explain to huge knew Gary was on vacation.
Speaker 13 (24:17):
Of course she did. Gary and Shannon were partners for years. Ah,
but she was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone
was Scrooge, squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner,
And once upon a time of all the good days
in the year. On Christmas Eve, Old Shnon Scrooge sat
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busy in her radio studio, a grim cheerless place, if
ever there was one. The door of Scrooge's studio was open,
that she might keep an eye on her boardop Elmer
Elmer Cratchit, who in a cold and dismal little studio
beyond worked on his ledgers.
Speaker 20 (25:02):
Twenty twenty one, twenty two. All I Want for Christmas
is You twenty three, twenty six, twenty nine, nine Carry
two eleven thirteen seventeen seven.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Mkemah wish come June. Yes, yes, Missus.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Scrooge, stop that infernal catterwalling.
Speaker 20 (25:29):
Yes, ma'am nine fifteen seventeen twenty one, Carry the one.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
All the Impudence Coast plays their idiotic Christmas carols earlier
and earlier every year.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
They've been playing this music since the fifth of July.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Elmer, Kratchit, turn off the damn Christmas music.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
But missus Scrooge, it's Christmas time.
Speaker 20 (25:56):
It's time to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior,
and in such a joyous time for all of us.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
A better way to celebrate than.
Speaker 17 (26:05):
Move an you carry? Oh, I love that Christmas. You're fired,
sure thing, Missus Scrooge.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Wait, on second thought, you're not fired yet. I need
to go down to the sales department, tell them to
get you the final copy for those commercials.
Speaker 20 (26:23):
Huh, but they're all expecting to leave the office early.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
For the holiday. Do I care about the holiday? I
want my commercial copy today.
Speaker 17 (26:36):
I just thought it being Christmas eve, ma'am Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You mentioned the word once more? Elmer cratch it and.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'll Merry Christmas, Shannon.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Merry Christmas, ommer merry Christmas. Will God save you? Shannon?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Seriously, bah, humbug Christmas?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
A humbug Shannon. Now, I'm sure you don't mean. I
mean it just exactly that.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Why are you so merry? Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Come now, missus scrooge. What right have you to be
dismal about Christmas?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Shannon?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
You're a mostly popular radio host.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me, but
I can but I can't help that I'm popular.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Wait, well, why did you come in here? You want
a Christmas gift?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Your uncle Gary is on vacation. Oh sorry, that's you.
I came to wish No, not you, that's Will it is.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Yeah, I came to wish you a merry Christmas, Shan.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
A merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
A lot of good.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Christmas is done for you. You got to work on Christmas.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time,
a kind for giving, charitable, pleasant time, just like holiday
magic at Disneyland, or shots at Dodger Stadium or shots
of Dodger Stadium from five thousand feet up. Christmas has
definitely never put a scrap of gold or silver in
my pocket. But I do believe it has done me
good and will do me good. And I say, God,
(28:05):
bless it, God bless Christmas.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Hoorah, Elmer.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Sorry, let me hear another sound out of you there,
elm or crouching and you'll keep your Christmas by losing
your situation.
Speaker 20 (28:18):
I'm not sure what that means.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I'll fire you so you can go celebrate Christmas jobless
with your family.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Duh, yes, ma'am. Oh, don't be angry, Shannon. I want
nothing from you. I ask nothing of you. Why can't
we be friends?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I'm sorry you feel that way. Well, I've tried. Merry
Christmas to you.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Good afternoon, seriously, bah humbug.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
And Merry Christmas to you Elmer and your family, Oh,
and to tiny Tim.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Same to you, Richie.
Speaker 20 (28:54):
But say, Will Will say, it's not perfect.
Speaker 16 (29:02):
I hope you become a signaler on your way home.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
That's really not nice, Elmer, What are you doing?
Speaker 20 (29:12):
I'm going to change the thermostat in the studio. See
it's so cold and that.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah, stop it right there.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
How can I complain to the boss about how cold
it is in here? If you turn up the thermostat,
maybe you should mix in in some.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Long pants into that wardrobe.
Speaker 20 (29:27):
I'm sorry, ma'am. My fingers are getting a little stiff
with the cold. It's hard to run the board with
stiff fingers.
Speaker 17 (29:37):
Studios hotline, Well, see who it is?
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Hello? I think it's Christine. I'm calling on behalf of
the Lobby Joe Foundation. We're a Canadian based foundation dedicated
to the freedom of all crustaceans and various arthropods. And
I was wondering I might speak to the host of
the radio show.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Oh, very good, ma'am, it's true. Who is it?
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Have I the pleasure of addressing Gary or Shannon?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Seriously?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Gary's been dead these seven years tonight. Wait, I mean
he's on vacation. I'm Scrooge s Channon Channing Street.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
And Scrooge at this season of the year. It's only
fitting that those who are more fortunate, with a more
developed limbic system should raise the fund to buy the
por some of meat and drink and tins of warmth
for lobsters. And right now in restaurants through North America
there are lobsters swimming and.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Pa Way, I remember you.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
You're that kuk who let out the lobster's circa twenty eighteen.
I think, aren't you a crustacean version of a progressive
da you know, let out all the criminals or lobsters
just in time for the holidays.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Well, there are plenty of restaurants, ma'am, and I feel like.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
In sushi houses. Yeah, those are still in operation, I
trust well.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I wish I could say they are not, but they are,
My lady, ah.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Glad to hear that.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I was afraid from what you said at first, that
someone was going to outlab butter because it can be
used to make that lobster taste.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
So good about a few of us. Upon change, you're
endeavoring to raise a fund for further provisions you see,
allowing not just crustaceans, but all of our animal brothers
and sisters to live lives without fear of being turned
into a bisk So what donation? Shall I put you down?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
For nothing?
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Oh? I see you wish to remain anonymous.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I wish to be left alone. You know what, lady,
you're a nutbag. You really think a lobster cares if
it becomes dinner. Elmer, hang up on.
Speaker 20 (31:35):
Her, Ah, Christine, I'm sorry, I couldn't help overhear.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
It, Elmer, hang up on her. And I would love
to give a donation. Elmer, Yes, ma'am. I look at
the time.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Now, it's too late for you to go talk to
the salespeople. They'll be closed up for Christmas, just like
other fools. Speaking of which, I suppose you'll want like
the entire day off tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
That would be so awesome. I mean, if that's okay
with you.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It's not okay. It's not very christ like, Elmer. Christ
never takes Christmas off. But I suppose I can't do
anything about it. If you don't get paid for a
day of work, you'd be so pissed.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Well, yeah, most people.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
But you do want to get paid for a day
of not working?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Come on, it's once a year.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Fine, let's just make sure you're here earlier. The next morning,
you understand like I want you here before Neil feels
in for handle.
Speaker 20 (32:40):
Oh, I will, I will indeed, good night, good night Shannon,
and a Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That what we're doing now, Seriously, everything is Merry Christmas, Jesus,
Mary and Joseph.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Marry Christmas, Elmer.
Speaker 13 (32:57):
Stay tuned for the next day of Gary and Shannon's
a Christmas Carol. When we hear Shannon Scrooge.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Say three spirits like whiskey, vodka and gin.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
Next on KFI.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We're seeing live pictures of Sun Valley.
There some serious flooding there. That's I five, Yes, it
is right there. There's some waves. That guy is also
standing on I five, but he was at the one.
(00:22):
Those are the big rig crashes there at the five
and one eighteen rough morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Everybody's going on the one eighteen. If you're headed five northbound,
they'll make you get off at the one. First of all,
if you're headed five north band and you go through
Sun Valley, you're going to be in the water. And
then if you make it through that very slowly, you'll
be forced off of I five into them.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So I'm not going home. Why would you? I mean,
you know what else is.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You're going to have all of the Christmas spirit you
can handle. Hey, you know, you sit in the car
for a while. You know what are you rushing home for? Anyway?
You know, family time. You're gonna have a lot of
family time. You can just sit in traffic and enjoy yourself.
Throw on the trumpets of Jesus and make a ride
out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Jesus, make a ride out.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, so we have actually a pretty serious thing that's
going on right now, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Just should we talk about like this?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, let me get a couple of these in here quick.
We're asking people what they're doing on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Hey, Christmas Eve, Garyan Shannon, you can't wait for the
Christmas Carol. I am currently going to do a little baking.
Get my lasagna ready. We're doing manna for tomorrow Christmas Eve.
I'll go to masts and then my dad and son
will be over tomorrow for Christmas. Like I said, we're
(01:44):
going to do lasagna and artichokes and all that charcootery
arcot that you guys.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Hello here from Bullood City, Arizona, registered nurse going to
see patients on home health. That's very nice read joy
on Christmas Eve. I hope you guys are doing great
and stay safe there in California.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You're gonna make so many people's day that big Yes.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Good morning, fish, Merry Christmas, Darien.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Fish flying fish out here the air, flying.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Fish And it's Christmas Eve and I'm here in the
shop rebuilding a.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Runway lights, all the taxiways, all you know, electricians. Job
is never never finished here at the airport. So we
keep going and going and going and going. Merry Christmas,
thank you for all you do, and looking forward to
the new year.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Go don't gotta love it, you gotta do the I'm
gonna be he said, Long Beach.
Speaker 9 (02:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Guess where he's at. He's at an airport. I don't
know if Long Beach.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I'm gonna be flying out of there next week. So
get those run right lights working. I love that airport.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Could could you make sure the runway lights are working
please by the time I.
Speaker 10 (03:12):
The National Weather Service in Los Angeles OXNUG has issued
a flash flood morning for northern Los Angeles County in
southwestern California until noon Pacific standard time take ten fifty
three and Pacific standard time. Dunflow Radar indicated moderate rain
across the warn area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly as heavy rain over the mountains causes
(03:35):
downstream flashed flooding through creeks and streams across the Antelope
Valley hazard flash flooding caused by heavy rain. Source train
spotters reported impact flash flooding of small creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets, and underpasses, as well as other
poorer drainage and low lying areas. Some locations that will
(03:57):
experience flash flooding include the Lake Los Angeles act In, Pongdale, Lancaster,
Santa Clara, of Course, Hill Tyra, Blossom, Giano, Little Rocks,
Lake Pongdale, Elizabeth Lake, Lake, Hughes, Lanermon, deer View, Highlands,
sackling Back State Park, Highway one thirty eight between one
and the San Bernardino County line, and Highway one thirty
(04:19):
eight between Creil and Lancaster. Turn around Don't brown went
encountering flooded roads, most flood deaths seccurring vehicles.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There you go. Is there a way?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Just ask on the air, is there a way to
get those and then record them or whatever and then
play them right before a break or in the beginning
of a break.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
The reason I'm asking I thought that there, No, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I just we were worried about never done your job this.
We've never done it, so we don't know. But usually,
like I usually they play during the like the beginning
of a break or whatever. We were just concerned that
that that it would come on during the play.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, make sure it doesn't. Opp Okay, I'll make it mind.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because we have like usually Gary and I won't care
at all, but like we have professional people coming in
who are legit rehearsing right now, yes, and I don't
want to f it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Up, so right, So yeah, so, uh, this whole thing,
it started out as a fun little goofy, Hey, we
have a show that we need to fill time with,
and you get deeper to the holidays, we need to
figure out, like we want to do something that's not
you know, death and destruction. Maybe it's fun. Maybe oh
you know we could do is we could do a
(05:44):
radio play that we could then record and play as
part of the show that actually airs on the holiday.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, right, that would be be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And that's how it started. And I don't remember which
one we started with, whether it was a Christmas Carol
or It's a Wonderful Life, But we've kind of gone
back and forth with with them over the course of
now seven years, maybe seventy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Years, and.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So it's evolved into what we'll hear today.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right, Gary writes it and retweaks it and retools it
for the various people we've had coming and going through
the years. And this year, though, is the most star
studded production we've done with real actors and actresses, and
we have singers involved in this cast. And because there
isn't really a musical moment, we are going to kick
(06:35):
off our Christmas celebration coming up next with three legit
trained singers that work here that are going to be
part of the production, and we're just going to We're
going to kick it off here.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I mean, it feels like I wanted to do this.
I don't know if this is the right analogy. I'm
going to try it.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Tell me if it's right.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I was going to do a show where I go, hey,
my dog can do tricks, and then I bring my
dog out and I go sit and then I sits
and I go up and he sits, and then I
go shake.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
He does this thing like oh that's cute.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And then somebody brings in a killer whale and they're like,
I can make a killer whale flip in the air
in front of everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Right, And I go, I was just gonna there is
a puppy we've essentially got like a team of border
Collie frisbee catching dogs and perform at halftime shows in
Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Coming in right, all right, frisbee catching dogs.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
When we got back, Gary and Shannon will continue Christmas
Carol's coming up later this hour as well.
Speaker 11 (07:33):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Hey, Gary and Shannon KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Welcome to Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We're gonna be doing a Christmas Carol, the Gary and
Shannon Chill version of a Christmas Carol coming up at
after the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 12 (07:58):
And your insane We We're alive on Instagram as well
at Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
We will keep an eye on what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
If you are in the car, stuck in the water,
turn it up, get ready, yeah, because this is this
is going to keep you entertained. There's not really much
we can tell you about the flooding on the roadways
except that it's flooded on the roadways and everywhere you go.
Will Cole Schreiber's in here. I mean, you talked about
it all morning long, that there's just all kinds of
(08:33):
places that are going to be The valley.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Is going to be an absolute mess today. So hopefully
your Christmas Eve is somewhere else you do it, because
I don't love it? Like what am I gonna?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Okay, So we were doing our prep to get ready
for a Christmas Carol Gas version that Gary has written
for us. Every year, there's been some sort of iteration,
and we found out that there was a lot of
interest from legit actors and actresses in the building for
our production. And then, unbeknownst to me, it turns out
that three of our beloved stars of the program. Three
(09:10):
are trained vocalists, and they are all professional singers in
their own right. There's well, Will's part of a chorus,
Heather is eas a shower.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Angelina joee, I.
Speaker 13 (09:23):
Haven't sung since the two thousand production of the Wizard
of Oz at the Hamilton, Ohio Rotary Club.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
How did I get pulled into this?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And Michael Monks there you go? So guys take it away, Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Just this is just a little something we threw together. Okay, ready, me.
Speaker 13 (09:40):
Me, me, me, counting is in?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I'm counting?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Is in? Ready?
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Am I?
Speaker 13 (09:43):
Tenor?
Speaker 14 (09:44):
And A one two three?
Speaker 15 (09:50):
Hark the herald aegelusey Glory to the new bond King,
Peacena and Mercy Mile, God and sinners reconciled. Joyfull nations
rise joy the triumph Father the sky.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We in the jolly host.
Speaker 15 (10:13):
Prow claim Christ is born in Bathhem on the herald
angel sing glory to the new born King.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
We wish you a merry Christmas. We wish you a
merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (10:29):
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new Year.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
The tidings we bring to.
Speaker 14 (10:34):
You and your King, good tidings of Christmas and a
happy new Year.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He of the blue Christmas boo, just thinking.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
About these sins of red.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Agree, Christmas tree won't be the same.
Speaker 16 (11:10):
Gear.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
Tang it home if you're not here with the meal
and windows, flea.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Memories, call.
Speaker 17 (11:31):
You with your christ Ristmas water.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Have a blue, blue, blue, Blue Christmas.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Three four, Take it away, monks.
Speaker 13 (11:47):
Hey, maybe I'll dye my hair.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Maybe I'll go somewhere. Maybe i'll get a car.
Speaker 13 (11:56):
Maybe i'll drive so.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Far they'll all track me. I'll bounce right back.
Speaker 14 (12:05):
Maybe i'll sleep real late. Maybe I'll lose some weight.
Maybe i'll clear my junk. Maybe I'll just get drunk
on upper wine. But me, I'll be just fine and dandy.
Speaker 15 (12:23):
Lord, it's like a hard candy Christmas. I'm barely getting
through tomorrow, but still won't let leg.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Sorrow bring me way down.
Speaker 18 (12:38):
What a bright time.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's the right time to rock the night away. Jingle
bell time.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
It's a swell.
Speaker 14 (12:48):
Time to go liden me one horse, le guinea up,
jingle horse, speak up your feet, jingle.
Speaker 18 (12:57):
Around the flow.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Nixed anda mingle and the jingle and fie, what is it?
Speaker 13 (13:04):
That's the jingle bell.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's the jingle bell. That's the jingle.
Speaker 16 (13:09):
Bell, right, you guys, is amazing. This is the best
thing ever.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
This is the best Christmas ever, you guys. Seriously, Oh
my god, I cry. I am crying. I am filled
with the spirit. Rudeolph is freaking at New Whites right now,
mock to Oh.
Speaker 15 (13:37):
My god, how sexy was Will Cols Driver about elephant?
Speaker 11 (13:42):
My god?
Speaker 15 (13:44):
Thank you guys, amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Don't go too far. You guys are all you guys
are all involved in the show. We will get into
the doing working here. I have no idea, My god,
I don't have a holiday.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I mean god, I feel like I should eat some cookies.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Like, I can't believe they can just do that, Like
they just did that. You know, it's like, how do
you guys sing a little something? And then they that
was a full production.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
That was incredible.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I'm very that'll that'll live on Instagram.
Speaker 18 (14:16):
Uh so you can go check it out at Gary
and Shanning. Yeah, that was happening. All I saw was
Gary recording with the biggest smile. He was the very
Chris Jenner with the camera you're.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Doing yes, Oh my god, it was so good.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
All right, when we come back, we'll discuss how this
is going to work out.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
We have some we actually have some stage management.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I think that needs to take place with the cast
for a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 19 (14:41):
We got everybody the updates and cookies. Oh and people
could start eating the cookies. Who's nobody brought to hot
chocolate this year? No, you can get some from the
machine out there, right.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I brought some kombucha for Debra. Oh that sounds great.
Wait what I missed that? I just said I brought
some kombucha for you. Oh that's right, thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Because I can't any of the cooks.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I can't. You can't eat any of them.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
And Gary.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But they're cookies, I know.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
But they're made with milk and butter, and I try
to try to be good.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm trying to think of ones that might not be
made with milk and butter.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
That's you're going to have a long time. My husband,
actually he will make He makes me.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Cookies and desserts because he loves you.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
My wife doesn't love you as much.
Speaker 20 (15:25):
I know.
Speaker 13 (15:25):
Okay, I get it.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That was incredible. I'm still coming down through that buzzy.
That holiday medley, that's pretty crazy. Something for everybody in there.
There was a song I've never heard before.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's always a nice thing is to be surprised by
Christmas music.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yea before I liked it too.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
There is a bunch going on today. Of course, we
have been watching the wind and the rain that has
rolled through. The heaviest of the storm is expected later
this afternoon, and so we will be on it throughout
the day today.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
There were some reports there was actually.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
A tornado warning that was issued last hour, just about
an hour ago, and anything like that comes up, we'll
definitely bring those to you. But well, we're on the
verge of the latest edition of A Christmas Carol. Yes, uh,
And I have not checked with the stage manager as
to who is here and who isn't here as if yet,
(16:26):
but I believe based on my Channing's here, Ray Yeah,
and Amy and Deborah.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Eric's in the house. We already saw a.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Goose boy for our first segment here, Richie Will Does
everybody have a microphone?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
For our first segment here?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Shannon Michael, Michael's on, Mike, Michaels on, Mike Mike, Ready
to go?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Who's Christine?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
She's gonna call in later.
Speaker 13 (16:51):
Who is Christine? Someone's playing?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I haven't read it. I just go in.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I just get in there.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You know who Christine is? Did you see her name?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, it says Christine.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's got her last name Aguilera. No. No, Oh, I
get it, I get it, I get it, I get it.
You get jokes? Who is playing Christine?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Is what I meant?
Speaker 16 (17:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
No, I wish there was a way for me to
find out who's playing which part page two.
Speaker 13 (17:20):
There was a cast list on Oh, there is.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
A cast list. I didn't realize there was a castle.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Guys guys, guys, I am not a studier. I just
get in and I do it. That's that is not true.
You study all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I don't. Here we go right, grab a chair.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We'll share this one too, don't forget stick around. And
by the way, I don't know if anybody has taken
the ribbon and the plastic off of the cookie tray yet,
but the cookies.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Are now, cookies opened open, excellent wife.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Heather's never tasted your wife's cookies, so make sure she
gets in there.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So Heather is here, her daughter is here.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Heather Brooker's daughter, Channing is going to join us a
little bit later in the show. Yeah, and again, just
to some quick stage management issues here, everybody's on their
own for headphones.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
This is a radio station. We all have.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
You know, we're all adults. I mean most of us
are adults. I shouldn't say.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
All of us.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And then let's see. Richie had questions about who he is.
Should he play it ghoulishly because he's the ghost of
Christmas past?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I said no, just be Richie. Does anybody any any
other questions about any of the don't questions?
Speaker 13 (18:29):
I've got some notes.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Michael scrip Sorry, script is locked as of about seven
am business, so we're not going to be able to change.
I mean, listen, I will say this. You want to
improve some stuff in there, it's fine. I just have
to warn you we have this timed out pretty pretty detail.
Speaker 13 (18:47):
Have too much respect for the author to stray from
his divine words?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Which author? This author or Charles Dickens the general author.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Because there are some lines in here that are pulled
directly from a Christmas Carol. Well it's in the public
domain now, right, which is why we can do this
at all. I'm sure some of the music is going
to run into some issues, but that's how we're going
to do it. Okay, let's see and then just as
quick everybody knows the basics of a Christmas Carol. Scrooge
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is a you know, a Scrooge and gets visited by
the three spirits, and this time Shannon gets to play
Ebenezer slash.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm always Scrooge. I don't know why I'm filled with
so much Christmas spirit.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I got a quick technical questions. Yes, with the cues,
the sound right if you will?
Speaker 13 (19:38):
How much breathing room should I feel it?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Those let's give you? Okay, So straight out of the break.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Almer's going to give us a quick time check that
nobody will hear but you and I and he'll say
like ten seconds, and then whatever ends, you will say
your first line, which is.
Speaker 13 (19:57):
Welcome to Gary and Shannon's a Christmas ca garrel on
kf I.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And then you'll hear this, and then you'll hear that transition.
Speaker 13 (20:07):
Right now, and then I should start all right, chance, Well,
it's just very rare that the first rehearsal, the tech
performance and the opening night.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And here's the other part about it.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
If you screw up, we're all going to make fun
of you, I know, and that's part of why we.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Tart of it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
It brings us closer together as a family.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Follow your thespian gut, Yeah, follow your guts, show what everybody?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, that's the final note.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Have fun with it? Yeah, all right, a little too excited.
I want to say that I want you to tell
for yourself.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
For fun.
Speaker 13 (20:41):
I perform for love and I love all of you.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Thank you, We love you too. Did anybody bring champagne?
It feels like we need you.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We got and Jack Daniel great, that's a great combo
cow all right, that is really sour.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I know it is, but it's good. It's good for
your us being good. It's good. I'm beating so much sugar,
it's like it is good balance, It'll be good. I
want to make a drink called a Tennessee outhouse. Ah,
well done, Jack Daniels and kombucha. I think it might
taste good.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
All right, Well, when we come back, we refer to
them as staves. There are four staves in this show,
so four segments, and we'll get through all of it
when when we return.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
When we returned, Gary and Shannon chose a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
Welcome to Gary and Shannon's a Christmas Carol on KFI.
There are some things that never change. Love is one
of them, and in those places we find the most love,
we can often find the most frustration. As we've seen
for millennia, families can be both the greatest source of
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love and an endless well of frustration. Some of the
most heated and grievous dust ups occur around the holidays,
when our nerves are thin and our wallets thinner. But
even in times when Uncle Fred's farts sting your eyes
and Grandma's vodka Gimblet flavored kisses drown even the merriest
of us all. Everyone agrees that the world's most beloved
(22:21):
Christmas story is Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. This is
not that, But when Dickens presented this little story to
the world one hundred and seventy five years ago, it
found an instant response in the hearts of people everywhere
realized it was their favorite fictional chronicle of what Christmas
is and what Christmas means to all the simple people
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of the earth. So, without further ado, and with the
spirit of the season coursing through our veins, we proudly
present Gary and Shannon's a Christmas Carol on KFI. First
a Land acknowledgment. We are on Land. Marley was dead,
(23:05):
there was no doubt about it. After years of international
stardom as a reggae icon, a toe cancer spread to
his brain and he passed in a hospital in Miami.
But the spirit of Christmas still mister narrator, that's the
wrong Marley. This is the story of Jacob Marley, not Bob.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Marley, actually Michael Elmer. We're saying Gary Marley today. Not
sure if I put that in there, we might be
on the same script. I don't know, got it, got it.
Speaker 13 (23:36):
Gary Marley. I'll just adjust on the fly. Gary was dead,
there was no doubt about it. The register of his
burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker,
and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and Shannon Scrooge's
name was good upon change for anything she chose to
(23:57):
put her hand to.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Old Gary was as dead as a door. You know,
just a second, I'm sorry, and we're gonna adjust on
the fly. Instead, We're just gonna say Gary's on vacation.
It just seems a little dark. Maybe easier to swallow,
so easier to explain to huge knew Gary was on vacation.
Speaker 13 (24:17):
Of course she did. Gary and Shannon were partners for years. Ah,
but she was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone
was Scrooge, squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner,
And once upon a time of all the good days
in the year. On Christmas Eve, Old Shnon Scrooge sat
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busy in her radio studio, a grim cheerless place, if
ever there was one. The door of Scrooge's studio was open,
that she might keep an eye on her boardop Elmer
Elmer Cratchit, who in a cold and dismal little studio
beyond worked on his ledgers.
Speaker 20 (25:02):
Twenty twenty one, twenty two. All I Want for Christmas
is You twenty three, twenty six, twenty nine, nine Carry
two eleven thirteen seventeen seven.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Mkemah wish come June. Yes, yes, Missus.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Scrooge, stop that infernal catterwalling.
Speaker 20 (25:29):
Yes, ma'am nine fifteen seventeen twenty one, Carry the one.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
All the Impudence Coast plays their idiotic Christmas carols earlier
and earlier every year.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
They've been playing this music since the fifth of July.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Elmer, Kratchit, turn off the damn Christmas music.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
But missus Scrooge, it's Christmas time.
Speaker 20 (25:56):
It's time to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior,
and in such a joyous time for all of us.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
A better way to celebrate than.
Speaker 17 (26:05):
Move an you carry? Oh, I love that Christmas. You're fired,
sure thing, Missus Scrooge.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Wait, on second thought, you're not fired yet. I need
to go down to the sales department, tell them to
get you the final copy for those commercials.
Speaker 20 (26:23):
Huh, but they're all expecting to leave the office early.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
For the holiday. Do I care about the holiday? I
want my commercial copy today.
Speaker 17 (26:36):
I just thought it being Christmas eve, ma'am Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You mentioned the word once more? Elmer cratch it and.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'll Merry Christmas, Shannon.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Merry Christmas, ommer merry Christmas. Will God save you? Shannon?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Seriously, bah, humbug Christmas?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
A humbug Shannon. Now, I'm sure you don't mean. I
mean it just exactly that.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Why are you so merry? Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Come now, missus scrooge. What right have you to be
dismal about Christmas?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Shannon?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
You're a mostly popular radio host.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me, but
I can but I can't help that I'm popular.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Wait, well, why did you come in here? You want
a Christmas gift?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Your uncle Gary is on vacation. Oh sorry, that's you.
I came to wish No, not you, that's Will it is.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Yeah, I came to wish you a merry Christmas, Shan.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
A merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
A lot of good.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Christmas is done for you. You got to work on Christmas.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time,
a kind for giving, charitable, pleasant time, just like holiday
magic at Disneyland, or shots at Dodger Stadium or shots
of Dodger Stadium from five thousand feet up. Christmas has
definitely never put a scrap of gold or silver in
my pocket. But I do believe it has done me
good and will do me good. And I say, God,
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bless it, God bless Christmas.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Hoorah, Elmer.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Sorry, let me hear another sound out of you there,
elm or crouching and you'll keep your Christmas by losing
your situation.
Speaker 20 (28:18):
I'm not sure what that means.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I'll fire you so you can go celebrate Christmas jobless
with your family.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Duh, yes, ma'am. Oh, don't be angry, Shannon. I want
nothing from you. I ask nothing of you. Why can't
we be friends?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I'm sorry you feel that way. Well, I've tried. Merry
Christmas to you.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Good afternoon, seriously, bah humbug.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
And Merry Christmas to you Elmer and your family, Oh,
and to tiny Tim.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Same to you, Richie.
Speaker 20 (28:54):
But say, Will Will say, it's not perfect.
Speaker 16 (29:02):
I hope you become a signaler on your way home.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
That's really not nice, Elmer, What are you doing?
Speaker 20 (29:12):
I'm going to change the thermostat in the studio. See
it's so cold and that.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah, stop it right there.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
How can I complain to the boss about how cold
it is in here? If you turn up the thermostat,
maybe you should mix in in some.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Long pants into that wardrobe.
Speaker 20 (29:27):
I'm sorry, ma'am. My fingers are getting a little stiff
with the cold. It's hard to run the board with
stiff fingers.
Speaker 17 (29:37):
Studios hotline, Well, see who it is?
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Hello? I think it's Christine. I'm calling on behalf of
the Lobby Joe Foundation. We're a Canadian based foundation dedicated
to the freedom of all crustaceans and various arthropods. And
I was wondering I might speak to the host of
the radio show.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Oh, very good, ma'am, it's true. Who is it?
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Have I the pleasure of addressing Gary or Shannon?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Seriously?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Gary's been dead these seven years tonight. Wait, I mean
he's on vacation. I'm Scrooge s Channon Channing Street.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
And Scrooge at this season of the year. It's only
fitting that those who are more fortunate, with a more
developed limbic system should raise the fund to buy the
por some of meat and drink and tins of warmth
for lobsters. And right now in restaurants through North America
there are lobsters swimming and.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Pa Way, I remember you.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
You're that kuk who let out the lobster's circa twenty eighteen.
I think, aren't you a crustacean version of a progressive
da you know, let out all the criminals or lobsters
just in time for the holidays.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Well, there are plenty of restaurants, ma'am, and I feel like.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
In sushi houses. Yeah, those are still in operation, I
trust well.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I wish I could say they are not, but they are,
My lady, ah.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Glad to hear that.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I was afraid from what you said at first, that
someone was going to outlab butter because it can be
used to make that lobster taste.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
So good about a few of us. Upon change, you're
endeavoring to raise a fund for further provisions you see,
allowing not just crustaceans, but all of our animal brothers
and sisters to live lives without fear of being turned
into a bisk So what donation? Shall I put you down?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
For nothing?
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Oh? I see you wish to remain anonymous.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I wish to be left alone. You know what, lady,
you're a nutbag. You really think a lobster cares if
it becomes dinner. Elmer, hang up on.
Speaker 20 (31:35):
Her, Ah, Christine, I'm sorry, I couldn't help overhear.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
It, Elmer, hang up on her. And I would love
to give a donation. Elmer, Yes, ma'am. I look at
the time.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Now, it's too late for you to go talk to
the salespeople. They'll be closed up for Christmas, just like
other fools. Speaking of which, I suppose you'll want like
the entire day off tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
That would be so awesome. I mean, if that's okay
with you.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It's not okay. It's not very christ like, Elmer. Christ
never takes Christmas off. But I suppose I can't do
anything about it. If you don't get paid for a
day of work, you'd be so pissed.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Well, yeah, most people.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
But you do want to get paid for a day
of not working?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Come on, it's once a year.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Fine, let's just make sure you're here earlier. The next morning,
you understand like I want you here before Neil feels
in for handle.
Speaker 20 (32:40):
Oh, I will, I will indeed, good night, good night Shannon,
and a Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That what we're doing now, Seriously, everything is Merry Christmas, Jesus,
Mary and Joseph.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Marry Christmas, Elmer.
Speaker 13 (32:57):
Stay tuned for the next day of Gary and Shannon's
a Christmas Carol. When we hear Shannon Scrooge.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Say three spirits like whiskey, vodka and gin.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
Next on KFI.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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