December 5, 2025 • 31 mins
In this #SwampWatch, Gary and Shannon dive into the latest political scandal involving Gavin’s so-called “testicles incident,” along with updates as Trump’s longtime architect gets pushed out. Then we uncover the secret economics behind top-tier college football programs—what’s really happening off the field? And finally, the debate heats up again over the proposed Dodger Stadium gondola, with new questions about cost, impact, and whether L.A. actually needs it.
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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 Well, apparently the Dodger Stadium gondola
has cleared another hurdle. We'll get into that. The secret
economy for top football schools in southern California. This is
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not news. It's been on the DL for decades. But yes,
there is a whole black market and currency that goes
on for young athletes. And it's been going on for
quite some time. Now we're talking about it now. It's
getting attention as you're seeing kind of the the trickle
(00:43):
down theory trickled down from from pro football recruits to
college football recruits, to high school football recruits to even
younger football recruits, and the money that changes hands in
those circles, it's wild. If you're in the game, you
know the game. If you've been around these schools there
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are many of them in southern California, you know how
it works. But it's involving younger and younger kids and
it is truly wild. Also, the Altadena Bear invasion, as
the media has been calling it. Here's the thing. Bears
have always lived there. Okay, it's the people. It's the
people that invaded the bear land, and that's what we're
(01:24):
dealing with, the interface of people in the Bears' homes essentially,
and coming up next we'll get into that kissing club
at the private LA school. I don't think we need
to make a federal case out of this, or even
a local or a state or a civil case out
of this. I think this is kids doing what kids do, unfortunately,
(01:44):
but we'll get into that as well. I told you
it was no politics, Friday, don't want to get into it.
Doesn't mean we're not going to mention politicians, because we will.
And we've got this thing called swamp Watch, so we'll
keep it fun.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
How about that not sree plant thing. Swamp watch politician
and a liar.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Here,
we got.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So what I'm not going anywhere so that you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Train the swap I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know, vans have always been gone with president, but
they're not stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Have the people voted for you with not swamp Watch?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They're all counteraed.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Okay, a lot of dad jokes to be made here,
But I've got two stories for you for swamp Watch.
One involves Trump, one involves Newsome. One is about a
ballroom and what is about testicles? And that's all I'm
gonna say, because the jokes are too easy. President Trump
has replaced the architect who told him that his plans
(02:53):
for the White House Ballroom were over the top.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You don't say that that's just bad business.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
How do you, as an architect who secures a contract
with Donald Trump President Trump or otherwise Donald Trump, and
tell him, knowing who he is, that his idea is
over the top, that's too much, that's just bad business.
(03:22):
Trump had feuded with the man. His name, His name
is James McCrary. The second. Now, Trump had personally selected
James to design this vanity project of the White House Ballroom,
and he wanted to supersize what is already a large ballroom.
But it's he wanted it Trump style. He wanted it
over the top. That's in his DNA. And this guy
(03:45):
kind of fought with him about it, so he was
basically shown the door. He, according to sources, urged Trump,
and this is so Rich urged Trump to exercise restraint.
He told Old Trump that the planned ninety thousand square
foot edition would overshadow the executive residence, which is only
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fifty five thousand square feet. In October, apparently is when
they had their falling out. Now, when reached for comment,
the White House spokesperson said, this it's a bunch of gobblybook.
As we begin to transition into the next stage of
development on the White House ball Room, the administration is
excited to share that the highly talented Shalom Baranas has
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joined the team of experts to carry out Trump's vision
on building what will be the greatest addition to the
White House since the Oval Office, the White House Ballroom.
So they are kind of hush hushing about the new architect.
This Shalom Baranis who has been hired. His firm designed
government buildings in DC for decades, including the GSA's national headquarters.
(04:55):
Now they are saying that the first guy is not
being replaced, that he will continue on the project as
of valuable consultant.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But we both know, I mean, we all.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Know that that that means he has been fired. This guy,
the guy that Trump handpicked, the first guy that's been fired,
is known for building Catholic churches.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
He told Trump that his vision for the ballroom risks
violating a basic architectural rule. Don't let an extension engulf
the building it's supposed to compliment interesting, but Trump forged ahead.
He wants to upsize the ballroom. He wants to turn
what was once supposed to be a five hundred seat
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room into one that will accommodate nine hundred and ninety
nine people. It must be some sort of fire hazard
thing that cuts off at a thousand, right, some sort
of rules that you got to put in more stuff
if it's this thousand. But he wants it to be
big enough to host a presidential inauguration. The cost of
this thing has gone from two hundred million to three
hundred million, but he says that his friends are going
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to cover the cost. Onto Gavin Newsom's ball issue. The
internet has gone nuts overnight, making front of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He's one of those guys who sits cross legged. This
is a thing.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't know, good dudes would have to chime in
on this, But most dudes I know sit with you know,
their spread leg open, you know, because there's stuff in
between the legs, right, there's dangly bits that need their
own space.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
They need to just live, they need to live their lives. Well, Elmer,
do they not.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Need to live their lives?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
They do?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And if you're crossing.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Your legs ouch, I would assume that they would get crushed.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And so did the internet. You gotta talk, you got
to talk.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You gotta talk?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh much? Do you so? Like, how does that work?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So you're sitting down, do you you have to use
your hands to talk? Like? No, kind of like wiggle
around more and then oh, I see and then he's
kind of bounce around all adjustment.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
The climate also has a big impact to the climate.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, right, Well, if you know, I heard I had
a roommate in college that would use that gold bond powder.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Gold bond?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah? I don't know. Listen, I don't know. I don't
have that stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
So uh but but like I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Go bound, No, you don't. Okay, what do you use?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Elmer? Just antrial?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Just for living their lives?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They see it gets swampy, right, he's a little swampy
down there.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
We don't need to know. I don't need you.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Oh my god, we're fourteen minutes into the swamp guys.
But apparently Gavin Newson had this event. It was a
speaking end of age engagement. And he is crossing his
legs and it's not just kind of it's it's a
pretty severe cross like it is even if you're tucking.
I don't know a lot of people commenting I've never
(07:58):
seen a man crush his to sticle is harder than
this dude. No one sits like that. Others speculated that
he feels emasculated and that's why he's sitting like that.
I don't know why to sit like that, other than
if you're sitting like a dude open legged? Is that
too aggressive in twenty twenty five? Are you being too
much of a dude if you're just kind of spreading
(08:19):
out in your chair? You know?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I have no idea. But maybe his suit is a
little too tight.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Maybe he doesn't want to show the goods, so maybe
cross legs.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
If there's act showcase, you.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Know, interesting, Well, he's wearing a dark suit, so but
look at the leg it's like super tight, and.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What do you speculated? What are you insinuating that there's
not dangly bits? Yeah that need to be tucked correct?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Interesting, No, thankfully we'll never know, thank god, thankfully.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Coming up next, we'll move out of this awful politics
section that we just found ourselves in.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We will be talking about that kissing clube.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What's going on also the unruly black market for high
school athletes, specifically in southern California.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Poor Richie has the has the dumpster diving duties today
of going.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Through talk backs. There's some great.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Stuff left on the talk back feature. If you tap
that microphone, if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, you
can send us a message. Gary usually wades through it.
I don't because it's a it's it can be a
very dark place. Hit or miss, hit or miss.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Sometimes we are blessed with comments that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And right now we're in a miss.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We're in a miss. We're in a dark time.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Usually when Gary leaves, it gets pretty bad, which is why.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I don't look at them. But if you would like
to weigh in nicely.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, I mean, I don't really care about that, but
I mean, we're not going to play them if they're
filled with profanities of how much you hate me or
death threats and things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So those aren't going to be aired. You're wasting your time, babes.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
There is a story making news locally and it is
about a kissing club at a private LA school. And
this is all about the parents of an eight year
old girl who are suing a private school and area
in the area for allegedly failing to take action against
this kissing club. The parents say this was started by
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older students who would bully and sexually assault their daughter. Again,
she's an eight year old. Now, I didn't realize how
close and near and dear this was to the anecdotal story.
I remembered as a kid being an elementary school and
I remember there was this rumor that this kid, I
think he was a year older, was running around kissing
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girls on the play ground and he was doing it
at recess and lunch, and I remember being terrified and
hiding in the bathroom all recess in lunch because I
didn't want to go onto the playground, and you know,
there rumors that he was coming into the bathroom to
find girls and all this stuff, and it was like.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh gosh, no.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Now. I don't remember how that got taken care of,
but I assume what happened was the drama made its
way to somebody who was the recess person on duty
or some teacher administrator who probably took that kid into
the office and.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Said, hey, you got to stop doing this. This isn't cool.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Not all the girls were hiding in the bathroom like
I was. There were some girls that were taking part
in this, right, and it seems like this is kind
of the same story. The mother of this eight year
old girl says that she came forward to raise awareness
so that other families would not suffer. She said, just
because you send your kids to a prestigious private school
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doesn't mean they will necessarily be safe there. At the
time of the alleged bullying and sexual abuse, the child
was a seven year old student at Sierra Canyon School
in Chatsworth. This is a private college prep school for
students who are seven pre k through twelfth grade. They're
suing for unspecified damages and attorney fees. The kid no
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longer goes to the school. Siarah Kanyon has said, we
can't comment. It's active litigation, but we want to be
clear the allegations are untrue and do not accurately reflect
what occurred. They say that the bullying by older students,
including name calling, peeking through the bathroom stall, pressuring others
to commit the sexual acts during school hours, Several seven
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and eight year old female students would gather inside the
bathrooms to participate in the kissing club. This sounds like
kid Listen, I'm not one ever to tell you what
to do with your child.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I am not a parent.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I would never want anyone to tell me what to
do with my kid. I know that for sure, and
so never I never like to judge. I never like
to say yay or nay to anything anyone decides for
their child. This does sound like stuff that just goes
on with kids that are seven and eight testing boundaries
and figuring out how to interact together and figuring out
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who they are and what they are and what is
that and what is that and who has what and
all those things, right, That's kind of what it seems
to be. Unfortunately, that has been taken up to the
level of a lawsuit.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
It happened in my school too, up. Yeah, but it
was called booty Tag.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Tell me more.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I think that was also a hip hop group, Booty Tag.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Like these kids, these like these popular boys would run
around and like slap you know, girls and the butts
and during recess and it happened for like over a
year and they just got suspended and we never saw
them again. But it's like a group of like three
or four kids and like you know, they'd like chase
each other around and got they called a booty tag
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and like.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I'm sorry, it's not funny, but it is.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Yeah, But like we were kids though. That's the thing
I felt this Like, as you said, it's during those years,
formative years where you're like discovering like stuff, right.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And you see things on TV where it's like, oh,
I see boys kissing girls? Should I be kissing girls?
Should I be kissing boys? All of that's my normal?
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
This is so timely that you're talking about. This is
exactly what I'm dealing with, this kind of stuff with
my twelve year old too. In middle school. They all
they're they're talking about sexual stuff that is blowing my mind,
and I'm like, why do you know about this? Why
are you guys talking about these things? And they just
they all do. They're exposed to it on YouTube, on
social media, and they they're curious and you know, if
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nobody's putting boundaries around them, Yeah, it's happening a lot.
I was shocked at some of the stuff my daughter
was telling me.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, because the kids all have the phones and they're
seeing the humanity or lack thereof that that we've been
exposed to. We know that most of this stuff is banana,
but I'm sure kids go, is that real life?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Is that what I'm supposed to be doing? Is?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, No, it's crazy. My knees. I want to say
Lan junior high year, she's now in high school.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
She would tell me she's like, I'm not going to
go to the restauran until I get home because people
are like peeking in between. And I'm like, girl, that's
not healthy and it's obviously not safe. So I can
only imagine the anxiety that comes along with them.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know, they're just curious though at that age too,
or like you.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Know, I remember her saying that a kid got filmed
while taking a number two, like that type of thing
that's not uncomfortable, that needs.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
To be reported.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah, my god, it's wild out there for these kids.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's wild out there for these kid phone man, Yeah,
with a phone.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'm so thankful, so thankful that there were no phones.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (15:52):
Apparently a very heated meeting yesterday morning where people fought
about Frank mccart's gondola. The more you call it Frank
McCourt's gondola, the more you add fire.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
To the opposition of this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
If Frank McCourt wasn't attached to it, I don't know
if you'd have as much opposition just because of what
he represents in terms of money grabbing and the warring
out of Dodger Stadium, shall we say, But anyway, we'll
get into it. I wanted to talk about this story,
and I don't want to get into all the specifics
of it because I'm not trying to throw any I'm
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not trying to throw any bad energy on any family's name.
And the Wall Street Journal did this deep dive into
the black market for high school athletes, and it focuses
on a singular athlete and how his mom got wrapped
up in the real money that is out there. Four
families who have talented young football stars, and unfortunately it
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ends with mom dying in this story due to an
excessive lifestyle. I guess you could say, and I don't
want to mention the athlete in question, or his mother
or his family, because I don't think that they should
be used to make a point. I think the point
can be made without going through the horror that happened
to them, and in moving the sun around to make money.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But it's what happens, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It's why the rule I learned on the John and
Ken Show, whenever they say whatever's for the children, you
got to ask more questions. You see a a proposition
on the ballot that says for the children?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is it for the children?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Maybe do a little extra digging, because sometimes when you're
saying it's for the kids, it's an easy way to,
I don't know, hide what's really going on. And in
this case, with young talented athletes, it's not always for.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The benefit of the of the child of the kid.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's not always about making that kid's dream of playing
in the NFL a reality. Sometimes it's about making the
adults rich. Most of the time it's about making the
adults rich, and sometimes it's not even the adults in
the kids family. And that's what's going on. It's gone
on forever. As long as there have been professional sports anywhere,
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this has probably gone on. You know, a kid shows
a penchant for X, Y or z, and somebody outside
the family takes notice and wants to ride the coattails
all the way to the bank. But now it's being
made easier because of the Supreme Court decision that invalidated
NCAA rules on compensation of college athletes. I have long
(18:36):
said it's not right that college athletes get no money
from the amount of money they make their schools. That
is insane that college athletes would struggle, and there's always
a school of thought, are the people that raise their
hands and they go but they're getting an education. Okay,
let's put that aside. They barely have enough time if
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you're a college athlete to get said education because of
the demands of whatever program you're in, especially if you're
in a big school. So they're still making when you
look into the bottom line of what colleges make through
a football program.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It's gross how much money he's made, and the fact
that for so long those kids were making none of
that money is criminal in my opinion. But the Supreme
Court came about making that decision that invalidated NCAA rules
on compensation of college athletes. So in many states you
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have the arrival of the nil compensation. Most states will
make it so that an athlete can be compensated for name, image,
and likeness, and now most states have it for high
school athletes, and that is making the competition for these
students even more lucrative.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Parents are taking notice.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
The mother that the Wall Street Journal had profiled at
one point was shopping her son, who showed great promise
right away. I mean, his high school coaches were to say,
it was a no brainer. You knew this kid is
as soon as as he stepped onto the field he
was going to go the distance. So his mom knew
what was going on, saw the writing on the wall,
and so she started shopping him around, demanding X amount
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of dollars per month. I want this, I want six
thousand dollars a month. I want a house. Oh, and
I want a pool, and I want a car kind
of thing. And guess what that kind of thing works.
It is the black market for child athletes. She the
woman in question. The mother in question, shopped him from
school to school, demanding up to seventy two thousand dollars
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a year. According to court filings, public records, and interviews.
He joined at one point a club team that paid
thousands of dollars a weekend. Where's all this money coming from. Well,
mom knows it's there to be made, and she's right,
but it's coming from the programs. It's coming from the
donors to the programs. Everyone knows what everybody's doing. But
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it's wild how young these The money is filtered into
the ranks of even younger athletes, even you know, getting
into too middle school. These parents are being courted. I
remember doing a story when I was still a reporter,
so it had to be at least thirteen years ago
about and back then it was that kids in middle
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school were getting offers from college, I mean full rides
when they're eleven years old, twelve years old to college.
But back then you weren't talking openly about the money
being exchanged. What kind of money is filtering down silently,
but surely.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Cash.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
By the way, you don't want to trail this stuff.
Cash to these families to get these kids to commit
to these colleges that young. It's a very dark world.
It's luke and it works, and it's been going on
for a long time. It's just that now people are
taking notice. So the question, the obvious question is will
there be regulations on this? You know, it's kind of
like what we're seeing in the gambling world with prop bets.
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You knew that prop bets were to some degree fixed
for a while, but now it's just being exposed in
the recent lawsuit that you saw the FBI get in
on in terms of an NBA player throwing a game
or what have you. What regulations are to follow here,
you know, and it comes it's bad that comes out
of good, out of just wanting college athletes to get
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some money for the money they were making their schools,
has now trickled down into something that now needs all
these rules about it, or does it? Or too many
people making money so we don't need the rules.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
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Speaker 1 (22:55):
Just put a bow on the money for college prep athletes.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Story, you are in the thick of it.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Here, La and Orange County now have talent that rivals
Texas and Georgia.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You know this if you're in the game.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Scouts lineup to watch nationally ranked schools square off. Families
are relocating from all over the country to get a
better level of competition, to get scouts eyes on their kids,
and of course get more money down the line. Just
so you know what you're getting into. Mike Caspio is
an Orange County attorney who has negotiated million dollar nil deals, yes,
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million dollar deals for high school kids going into big colleges.
Northern California particular target for middleman street agents. They broker
deals between boosters and families. Hey, if you didn't know
all the money that was being made, maybe now you know.
Maybe now you know, you get a piece of the pie.
Just be careful with it because it does rip people apart.
As you can imagine. Heather Brooker is joining us because
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we do have our weekend entertainment or that we did not.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Get to when she joined us earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
If you missed any part of Heather's reporting earlier, you
missed part of the show and don't do that. Subscribe
to the podcast because if you missed it, you missed
Heather's favorite roles that she's played in Hollywood, and some
of them may involve sex stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So there's that.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
What is your damage, Heather, I.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
This is entertaining the news, Heather, Yes, should I want
to engage in some entertainment possibilities this weekend?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
What is on the table?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Well, this is kind of an unusual time in Hollywood,
especially what's happening at the box office. There's not a
lot of big movies coming out. Most of the studios
are holding their bigger titles for the week of Christmas,
the week before Christmas. So this weekend you've got a
couple of options. One of them is Five Nights at
fred Ease two. Now, this movie, when it first came out,
(25:02):
the first one was very, very popular. Josh Hutcherson stars
with some homicidal animatronic creatures. Uh, and it's not getting
great reviews. I think a lot of the general consensus
is that one was enough. But these guys they're back.
You know how Hollywood is. They make a little money,
they're like, let's do it again. So they're back with
(25:23):
these crazy like do you remember, do you remember what
I mean? You know what I'm talking. Did you see
Five Nights at Freddy's one, the original one?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And I it's such a blind spot for me.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I remember looking it up what it's all about back
when it came out a couple of years ago, because
it was wildly popular and instantly forgetting.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Now I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Now you know how they could Chuck E cheesey have
those animatronic creatures and you know it's it's it's similar
to those types of like old timey pizza joints that
had the animatronic characters. There's mouths would just flap open
and play weird music. So these though in this movie
are murderers and they are killers. And mckinna Grace is
(26:01):
in this movie. Matthew Lellard Andkeet Ulric is in it
as well. So if you want a little jump scare
to get your holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's Freddy's like Chuck E Cheese in another part of
the country.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
No, I don't. It's not a real place. Oh okay, yeah,
it's a it's a made up place. It's pulled similarly
from like like a Chuck E Cheese type of place.
So yeah, but it's if you want to get something
scared on, if you like a little jump scare. Apparently
there's a lot of jump scares in this one. There's
a lot of a lot of fun to be had
if you enjoy a thriller or two. That is not
(26:37):
my particular taste. What is my taste? Hello, everybody is
merrily We roll along. This is a musical that was
very successful on Broadway, starring Lindsay Mendez, Katie Rose Clark,
Jonathan Groff, and Daniel Radcliffe aka Harry Potter. And this
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musical was very successful and and so now they are
releasing it in theaters on film. It is a filmed
stage production, so it's not like a live action retelling
of the story. So if you enjoy watching a movie
about the of a theater show, you will enjoy this.
If you didn't get to Broadway to see them perform,
they are all award the cast was award winning. It's
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definitely gonna be worth your time to get.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Maybe that's what Gary's taking his wife too for their anniversary,
you know.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Apparently he was at the Disney thing last night.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yes, they were, They were there.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I didn't see him. I saw Elmer, and I saw
Michael Munks, and I saw Oliver and Oscar I think
I saw in a distance, but I was embarrassed when
I saw Oscar because I was like hoveling in a
corner eating a bunch of like bread and cream cheese,
and I was like, I don't want my boss to
see me. Sadly was my Yeah, the one with jalapeno,
(27:51):
the pull apart bread. But Chris and Channing had gone
on in Credit coaster and I'm too scared of roller coasters.
So I was literally like sitting in a corner shoveling
food face and I was like, is.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
That my boss over there? Oh my god, I'm embarrassing.
I never liked to see my bosses in the wild,
Like I don't know, I was not into it.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Because you're afraid that they're going to be like you're
a real human.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You never know what to say, you're doo and it's
awkward and I don't know. Day I remember going to
some of those like years ago and like totally doing
what you did, like seeing a boss and then just
kind of like going, yeah, hiding around the corner.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And be like I'm I really do have friends. I probably.
I mean, it just looked like it was really pitiful,
just sitting there eating by myself.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You know, you have a couple of cocktails at Downtown Disney,
you see the boss.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You don't know what you're gonna say, what you're gonna say.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I did see John Peak, though, and I was like, hey,
and I went in to give him a hug, like
we were asked.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I would have no idea what to do in that situation.
And I think he was like, ma'am right right, We're
not like I would have. I would have the same reaction.
I've been like, should I hug him or not? Are
we on that level?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I don't know. It would have been awkward. Get in
my eyes, I'm a hugger.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I will hung anybody if he.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Is though, like that's the perfect person to be was not?
He was not.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's good to note noted we will not be hugging him.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Maybe it was just me and I was wearing a
giant Christmas hat with stitch ears and his stitch face on.
Oh boy, I might have frightened him coming out of
the dark. Did he know who you were?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You said both his names out loud like that.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Okay he did say oh hi. Hother he did he oh, okay,
that's good, with just like a slight hint of fear
in his eyes, but it's okay. I kind of forced
myself on him like I do in the wild, which
is also why you don't necessarily want to see your boss.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I think last year or the year before, I forget
and when our new boss, like the boss of all boss,
like the president, right, you know. Yet Paul was there
and I didn't know him that well. And I saw
him at like you know, the walk from like where
you park and then you go to walk through Downtown
Disney to get there, so it's kind of a walk,
right and h And I saw Paul Corvineo, who's like
(29:55):
the new big big boss, and I said hi to him,
and then I was like, oh, and now we're gonna
be walking like that whole Downtown Disney stretch, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
And You're like, what am I gonna talk about?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Because I because we always think that we need to
be like entertainers and on and you know, all the
things like entertaining and stuff, and we don't. Nobody wants
that from us, you know, certainly they don't.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
They don't want that. They don't want that.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
They do, they do.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
But he was totally cool and.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
His wife was totally cool and she was there and
it was not a big thing at all, but you know,
you do feel this this need to fill the vacuum
when you see the both in the.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Newsroom this morning too. And he for sure does not
know who I am. I was like, hey, how are
you And he was like, why is this person talking
to me?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
So yeah, So that was so much fun last night.
It was so great to see everybody out and about
and having a lot of fun at Disney Disney Holidays.
If you get a chance to go, and you know,
little thanks to Coast for an iHeart for including us in.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That, it's always a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
So, as far as the movies goes, I highly recommend
merely we go along. If you want something thrillery, go
and see Freddy's too. There's a couple of really great
options for you at the movies.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
All right, coming up next, thank you, Heather Brooker. We
will give you a pair of tickets to Monday night Football.
We've got that around the corner. What's happening, We've got
the nine news nuggets. You need to know, and we
will relive the Cowboys playoffs run.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It was a quick one.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
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 Well, apparently the Dodger Stadium gondola
has cleared another hurdle. We'll get into that. The secret
economy for top football schools in southern California. This is
(00:21):
not news. It's been on the DL for decades. But yes,
there is a whole black market and currency that goes
on for young athletes. And it's been going on for
quite some time. Now we're talking about it now. It's
getting attention as you're seeing kind of the the trickle
(00:43):
down theory trickled down from from pro football recruits to
college football recruits, to high school football recruits to even
younger football recruits, and the money that changes hands in
those circles, it's wild. If you're in the game, you
know the game. If you've been around these schools there
(01:03):
are many of them in southern California, you know how
it works. But it's involving younger and younger kids and
it is truly wild. Also, the Altadena Bear invasion, as
the media has been calling it. Here's the thing. Bears
have always lived there. Okay, it's the people. It's the
people that invaded the bear land, and that's what we're
(01:24):
dealing with, the interface of people in the Bears' homes essentially,
and coming up next we'll get into that kissing club
at the private LA school. I don't think we need
to make a federal case out of this, or even
a local or a state or a civil case out
of this. I think this is kids doing what kids do, unfortunately,
(01:44):
but we'll get into that as well. I told you
it was no politics, Friday, don't want to get into it.
Doesn't mean we're not going to mention politicians, because we will.
And we've got this thing called swamp Watch, so we'll
keep it fun.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
How about that not sree plant thing. Swamp watch politician
and a liar.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Here,
we got.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So what I'm not going anywhere so that you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Train the swap I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know, vans have always been gone with president, but
they're not stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Have the people voted for you with not swamp Watch?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They're all counteraed.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Okay, a lot of dad jokes to be made here,
But I've got two stories for you for swamp Watch.
One involves Trump, one involves Newsome. One is about a
ballroom and what is about testicles? And that's all I'm
gonna say, because the jokes are too easy. President Trump
has replaced the architect who told him that his plans
(02:53):
for the White House Ballroom were over the top.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You don't say that that's just bad business.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
How do you, as an architect who secures a contract
with Donald Trump President Trump or otherwise Donald Trump, and
tell him, knowing who he is, that his idea is
over the top, that's too much, that's just bad business.
(03:22):
Trump had feuded with the man. His name, His name
is James McCrary. The second. Now, Trump had personally selected
James to design this vanity project of the White House Ballroom,
and he wanted to supersize what is already a large ballroom.
But it's he wanted it Trump style. He wanted it
over the top. That's in his DNA. And this guy
(03:45):
kind of fought with him about it, so he was
basically shown the door. He, according to sources, urged Trump,
and this is so Rich urged Trump to exercise restraint.
He told Old Trump that the planned ninety thousand square
foot edition would overshadow the executive residence, which is only
(04:07):
fifty five thousand square feet. In October, apparently is when
they had their falling out. Now, when reached for comment,
the White House spokesperson said, this it's a bunch of gobblybook.
As we begin to transition into the next stage of
development on the White House ball Room, the administration is
excited to share that the highly talented Shalom Baranas has
(04:30):
joined the team of experts to carry out Trump's vision
on building what will be the greatest addition to the
White House since the Oval Office, the White House Ballroom.
So they are kind of hush hushing about the new architect.
This Shalom Baranis who has been hired. His firm designed
government buildings in DC for decades, including the GSA's national headquarters.
(04:55):
Now they are saying that the first guy is not
being replaced, that he will continue on the project as
of valuable consultant.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But we both know, I mean, we all.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Know that that that means he has been fired. This guy,
the guy that Trump handpicked, the first guy that's been fired,
is known for building Catholic churches.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
He told Trump that his vision for the ballroom risks
violating a basic architectural rule. Don't let an extension engulf
the building it's supposed to compliment interesting, but Trump forged ahead.
He wants to upsize the ballroom. He wants to turn
what was once supposed to be a five hundred seat
(05:37):
room into one that will accommodate nine hundred and ninety
nine people. It must be some sort of fire hazard
thing that cuts off at a thousand, right, some sort
of rules that you got to put in more stuff
if it's this thousand. But he wants it to be
big enough to host a presidential inauguration. The cost of
this thing has gone from two hundred million to three
hundred million, but he says that his friends are going
(05:59):
to cover the cost. Onto Gavin Newsom's ball issue. The
internet has gone nuts overnight, making front of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He's one of those guys who sits cross legged. This
is a thing.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't know, good dudes would have to chime in
on this, But most dudes I know sit with you know,
their spread leg open, you know, because there's stuff in
between the legs, right, there's dangly bits that need their
own space.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
They need to just live, they need to live their lives. Well, Elmer,
do they not.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Need to live their lives?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
They do?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And if you're crossing.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Your legs ouch, I would assume that they would get crushed.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And so did the internet. You gotta talk, you got
to talk.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You gotta talk?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh much? Do you so? Like, how does that work?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So you're sitting down, do you you have to use
your hands to talk? Like? No, kind of like wiggle
around more and then oh, I see and then he's
kind of bounce around all adjustment.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
The climate also has a big impact to the climate.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, right, Well, if you know, I heard I had
a roommate in college that would use that gold bond powder.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Gold bond?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah? I don't know. Listen, I don't know. I don't
have that stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
So uh but but like I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Go bound, No, you don't. Okay, what do you use?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Elmer? Just antrial?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Just for living their lives?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They see it gets swampy, right, he's a little swampy
down there.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
We don't need to know. I don't need you.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Oh my god, we're fourteen minutes into the swamp guys.
But apparently Gavin Newson had this event. It was a
speaking end of age engagement. And he is crossing his
legs and it's not just kind of it's it's a
pretty severe cross like it is even if you're tucking.
I don't know a lot of people commenting I've never
(07:58):
seen a man crush his to sticle is harder than
this dude. No one sits like that. Others speculated that
he feels emasculated and that's why he's sitting like that.
I don't know why to sit like that, other than
if you're sitting like a dude open legged? Is that
too aggressive in twenty twenty five? Are you being too
much of a dude if you're just kind of spreading
(08:19):
out in your chair? You know?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I have no idea. But maybe his suit is a
little too tight.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Maybe he doesn't want to show the goods, so maybe
cross legs.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
If there's act showcase, you.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Know, interesting, Well, he's wearing a dark suit, so but
look at the leg it's like super tight, and.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What do you speculated? What are you insinuating that there's
not dangly bits? Yeah that need to be tucked correct?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Interesting, No, thankfully we'll never know, thank god, thankfully.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Coming up next, we'll move out of this awful politics
section that we just found ourselves in.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We will be talking about that kissing clube.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What's going on also the unruly black market for high
school athletes, specifically in southern California.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Poor Richie has the has the dumpster diving duties today
of going.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Through talk backs. There's some great.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Stuff left on the talk back feature. If you tap
that microphone, if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, you
can send us a message. Gary usually wades through it.
I don't because it's a it's it can be a
very dark place. Hit or miss, hit or miss.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Sometimes we are blessed with comments that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And right now we're in a miss.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We're in a miss. We're in a dark time.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Usually when Gary leaves, it gets pretty bad, which is why.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I don't look at them. But if you would like
to weigh in nicely.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, I mean, I don't really care about that, but
I mean, we're not going to play them if they're
filled with profanities of how much you hate me or
death threats and things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So those aren't going to be aired. You're wasting your time, babes.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
There is a story making news locally and it is
about a kissing club at a private LA school. And
this is all about the parents of an eight year
old girl who are suing a private school and area
in the area for allegedly failing to take action against
this kissing club. The parents say this was started by
(10:29):
older students who would bully and sexually assault their daughter. Again,
she's an eight year old. Now, I didn't realize how
close and near and dear this was to the anecdotal story.
I remembered as a kid being an elementary school and
I remember there was this rumor that this kid, I
think he was a year older, was running around kissing
(10:50):
girls on the play ground and he was doing it
at recess and lunch, and I remember being terrified and
hiding in the bathroom all recess in lunch because I
didn't want to go onto the playground, and you know,
there rumors that he was coming into the bathroom to
find girls and all this stuff, and it was like.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh gosh, no.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Now. I don't remember how that got taken care of,
but I assume what happened was the drama made its
way to somebody who was the recess person on duty
or some teacher administrator who probably took that kid into
the office and.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Said, hey, you got to stop doing this. This isn't cool.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Not all the girls were hiding in the bathroom like
I was. There were some girls that were taking part
in this, right, and it seems like this is kind
of the same story. The mother of this eight year
old girl says that she came forward to raise awareness
so that other families would not suffer. She said, just
because you send your kids to a prestigious private school
(11:45):
doesn't mean they will necessarily be safe there. At the
time of the alleged bullying and sexual abuse, the child
was a seven year old student at Sierra Canyon School
in Chatsworth. This is a private college prep school for
students who are seven pre k through twelfth grade. They're
suing for unspecified damages and attorney fees. The kid no
(12:09):
longer goes to the school. Siarah Kanyon has said, we
can't comment. It's active litigation, but we want to be
clear the allegations are untrue and do not accurately reflect
what occurred. They say that the bullying by older students,
including name calling, peeking through the bathroom stall, pressuring others
to commit the sexual acts during school hours, Several seven
(12:33):
and eight year old female students would gather inside the
bathrooms to participate in the kissing club. This sounds like
kid Listen, I'm not one ever to tell you what
to do with your child.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I am not a parent.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I would never want anyone to tell me what to
do with my kid. I know that for sure, and
so never I never like to judge. I never like
to say yay or nay to anything anyone decides for
their child. This does sound like stuff that just goes
on with kids that are seven and eight testing boundaries
and figuring out how to interact together and figuring out
(13:10):
who they are and what they are and what is
that and what is that and who has what and
all those things, right, That's kind of what it seems
to be. Unfortunately, that has been taken up to the
level of a lawsuit.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
It happened in my school too, up. Yeah, but it
was called booty Tag.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Tell me more.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I think that was also a hip hop group, Booty Tag.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Like these kids, these like these popular boys would run
around and like slap you know, girls and the butts
and during recess and it happened for like over a
year and they just got suspended and we never saw
them again. But it's like a group of like three
or four kids and like you know, they'd like chase
each other around and got they called a booty tag
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and like.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I'm sorry, it's not funny, but it is.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Yeah, But like we were kids though. That's the thing
I felt this Like, as you said, it's during those years,
formative years where you're like discovering like stuff, right.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And you see things on TV where it's like, oh,
I see boys kissing girls? Should I be kissing girls?
Should I be kissing boys? All of that's my normal?
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
This is so timely that you're talking about. This is
exactly what I'm dealing with, this kind of stuff with
my twelve year old too. In middle school. They all
they're they're talking about sexual stuff that is blowing my mind,
and I'm like, why do you know about this? Why
are you guys talking about these things? And they just
they all do. They're exposed to it on YouTube, on
social media, and they they're curious and you know, if
(14:41):
nobody's putting boundaries around them, Yeah, it's happening a lot.
I was shocked at some of the stuff my daughter
was telling me.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, because the kids all have the phones and they're
seeing the humanity or lack thereof that that we've been
exposed to. We know that most of this stuff is banana,
but I'm sure kids go, is that real life?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Is that what I'm supposed to be doing? Is?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, No, it's crazy. My knees. I want to say
Lan junior high year, she's now in high school.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
She would tell me she's like, I'm not going to
go to the restauran until I get home because people
are like peeking in between. And I'm like, girl, that's
not healthy and it's obviously not safe. So I can
only imagine the anxiety that comes along with them.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know, they're just curious though at that age too,
or like you.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Know, I remember her saying that a kid got filmed
while taking a number two, like that type of thing
that's not uncomfortable, that needs.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
To be reported.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah, my god, it's wild out there for these kids.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's wild out there for these kid phone man, Yeah,
with a phone.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'm so thankful, so thankful that there were no phones.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Apparently a very heated meeting yesterday morning where people fought
about Frank mccart's gondola. The more you call it Frank
McCourt's gondola, the more you add fire.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
To the opposition of this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
If Frank McCourt wasn't attached to it, I don't know
if you'd have as much opposition just because of what
he represents in terms of money grabbing and the warring
out of Dodger Stadium, shall we say, But anyway, we'll
get into it. I wanted to talk about this story,
and I don't want to get into all the specifics
of it because I'm not trying to throw any I'm
(16:33):
not trying to throw any bad energy on any family's name.
And the Wall Street Journal did this deep dive into
the black market for high school athletes, and it focuses
on a singular athlete and how his mom got wrapped
up in the real money that is out there. Four
families who have talented young football stars, and unfortunately it
(16:57):
ends with mom dying in this story due to an
excessive lifestyle. I guess you could say, and I don't
want to mention the athlete in question, or his mother
or his family, because I don't think that they should
be used to make a point. I think the point
can be made without going through the horror that happened
to them, and in moving the sun around to make money.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But it's what happens, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It's why the rule I learned on the John and
Ken Show, whenever they say whatever's for the children, you
got to ask more questions. You see a a proposition
on the ballot that says for the children?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is it for the children?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Maybe do a little extra digging, because sometimes when you're
saying it's for the kids, it's an easy way to,
I don't know, hide what's really going on. And in
this case, with young talented athletes, it's not always for.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The benefit of the of the child of the kid.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's not always about making that kid's dream of playing
in the NFL a reality. Sometimes it's about making the
adults rich. Most of the time it's about making the
adults rich, and sometimes it's not even the adults in
the kids family. And that's what's going on. It's gone
on forever. As long as there have been professional sports anywhere,
(18:15):
this has probably gone on. You know, a kid shows
a penchant for X, Y or z, and somebody outside
the family takes notice and wants to ride the coattails
all the way to the bank. But now it's being
made easier because of the Supreme Court decision that invalidated
NCAA rules on compensation of college athletes. I have long
(18:36):
said it's not right that college athletes get no money
from the amount of money they make their schools. That
is insane that college athletes would struggle, and there's always
a school of thought, are the people that raise their
hands and they go but they're getting an education. Okay,
let's put that aside. They barely have enough time if
(18:59):
you're a college athlete to get said education because of
the demands of whatever program you're in, especially if you're
in a big school. So they're still making when you
look into the bottom line of what colleges make through
a football program.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It's gross how much money he's made, and the fact
that for so long those kids were making none of
that money is criminal in my opinion. But the Supreme
Court came about making that decision that invalidated NCAA rules
on compensation of college athletes. So in many states you
(19:38):
have the arrival of the nil compensation. Most states will
make it so that an athlete can be compensated for name, image,
and likeness, and now most states have it for high
school athletes, and that is making the competition for these
students even more lucrative.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Parents are taking notice.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
The mother that the Wall Street Journal had profiled at
one point was shopping her son, who showed great promise
right away. I mean, his high school coaches were to say,
it was a no brainer. You knew this kid is
as soon as as he stepped onto the field he
was going to go the distance. So his mom knew
what was going on, saw the writing on the wall,
and so she started shopping him around, demanding X amount
(20:23):
of dollars per month. I want this, I want six
thousand dollars a month. I want a house. Oh, and
I want a pool, and I want a car kind
of thing. And guess what that kind of thing works.
It is the black market for child athletes. She the
woman in question. The mother in question, shopped him from
school to school, demanding up to seventy two thousand dollars
(20:44):
a year. According to court filings, public records, and interviews.
He joined at one point a club team that paid
thousands of dollars a weekend. Where's all this money coming from. Well,
mom knows it's there to be made, and she's right,
but it's coming from the programs. It's coming from the
donors to the programs. Everyone knows what everybody's doing. But
(21:10):
it's wild how young these The money is filtered into
the ranks of even younger athletes, even you know, getting
into too middle school. These parents are being courted. I
remember doing a story when I was still a reporter,
so it had to be at least thirteen years ago
about and back then it was that kids in middle
(21:32):
school were getting offers from college, I mean full rides
when they're eleven years old, twelve years old to college.
But back then you weren't talking openly about the money
being exchanged. What kind of money is filtering down silently,
but surely.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Cash.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
By the way, you don't want to trail this stuff.
Cash to these families to get these kids to commit
to these colleges that young. It's a very dark world.
It's luke and it works, and it's been going on
for a long time. It's just that now people are
taking notice. So the question, the obvious question is will
there be regulations on this? You know, it's kind of
like what we're seeing in the gambling world with prop bets.
(22:13):
You knew that prop bets were to some degree fixed
for a while, but now it's just being exposed in
the recent lawsuit that you saw the FBI get in
on in terms of an NBA player throwing a game
or what have you. What regulations are to follow here,
you know, and it comes it's bad that comes out
of good, out of just wanting college athletes to get
(22:36):
some money for the money they were making their schools,
has now trickled down into something that now needs all
these rules about it, or does it? Or too many
people making money so we don't need the rules.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Just put a bow on the money for college prep athletes.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Story, you are in the thick of it.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Here, La and Orange County now have talent that rivals
Texas and Georgia.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You know this if you're in the game.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Scouts lineup to watch nationally ranked schools square off. Families
are relocating from all over the country to get a
better level of competition, to get scouts eyes on their kids,
and of course get more money down the line. Just
so you know what you're getting into. Mike Caspio is
an Orange County attorney who has negotiated million dollar nil deals, yes,
(23:34):
million dollar deals for high school kids going into big colleges.
Northern California particular target for middleman street agents. They broker
deals between boosters and families. Hey, if you didn't know
all the money that was being made, maybe now you know.
Maybe now you know, you get a piece of the pie.
Just be careful with it because it does rip people apart.
As you can imagine. Heather Brooker is joining us because
(23:57):
we do have our weekend entertainment or that we did not.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Get to when she joined us earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
If you missed any part of Heather's reporting earlier, you
missed part of the show and don't do that. Subscribe
to the podcast because if you missed it, you missed
Heather's favorite roles that she's played in Hollywood, and some
of them may involve sex stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So there's that.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
What is your damage, Heather, I.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
This is entertaining the news, Heather, Yes, should I want
to engage in some entertainment possibilities this weekend?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
What is on the table?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Well, this is kind of an unusual time in Hollywood,
especially what's happening at the box office. There's not a
lot of big movies coming out. Most of the studios
are holding their bigger titles for the week of Christmas,
the week before Christmas. So this weekend you've got a
couple of options. One of them is Five Nights at
fred Ease two. Now, this movie, when it first came out,
(25:02):
the first one was very, very popular. Josh Hutcherson stars
with some homicidal animatronic creatures. Uh, and it's not getting
great reviews. I think a lot of the general consensus
is that one was enough. But these guys they're back.
You know how Hollywood is. They make a little money,
they're like, let's do it again. So they're back with
(25:23):
these crazy like do you remember, do you remember what
I mean? You know what I'm talking. Did you see
Five Nights at Freddy's one, the original one?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And I it's such a blind spot for me.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I remember looking it up what it's all about back
when it came out a couple of years ago, because
it was wildly popular and instantly forgetting.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Now I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Now you know how they could Chuck E cheesey have
those animatronic creatures and you know it's it's it's similar
to those types of like old timey pizza joints that
had the animatronic characters. There's mouths would just flap open
and play weird music. So these though in this movie
are murderers and they are killers. And mckinna Grace is
(26:01):
in this movie. Matthew Lellard Andkeet Ulric is in it
as well. So if you want a little jump scare
to get your holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's Freddy's like Chuck E Cheese in another part of
the country.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
No, I don't. It's not a real place. Oh okay, yeah,
it's a it's a made up place. It's pulled similarly
from like like a Chuck E Cheese type of place.
So yeah, but it's if you want to get something
scared on, if you like a little jump scare. Apparently
there's a lot of jump scares in this one. There's
a lot of a lot of fun to be had
if you enjoy a thriller or two. That is not
(26:37):
my particular taste. What is my taste? Hello, everybody is
merrily We roll along. This is a musical that was
very successful on Broadway, starring Lindsay Mendez, Katie Rose Clark,
Jonathan Groff, and Daniel Radcliffe aka Harry Potter. And this
(26:58):
musical was very successful and and so now they are
releasing it in theaters on film. It is a filmed
stage production, so it's not like a live action retelling
of the story. So if you enjoy watching a movie
about the of a theater show, you will enjoy this.
If you didn't get to Broadway to see them perform,
they are all award the cast was award winning. It's
(27:21):
definitely gonna be worth your time to get.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Maybe that's what Gary's taking his wife too for their anniversary,
you know.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Apparently he was at the Disney thing last night.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yes, they were, They were there.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I didn't see him. I saw Elmer, and I saw
Michael Munks, and I saw Oliver and Oscar I think
I saw in a distance, but I was embarrassed when
I saw Oscar because I was like hoveling in a
corner eating a bunch of like bread and cream cheese,
and I was like, I don't want my boss to
see me. Sadly was my Yeah, the one with jalapeno,
(27:51):
the pull apart bread. But Chris and Channing had gone
on in Credit coaster and I'm too scared of roller coasters.
So I was literally like sitting in a corner shoveling
food face and I was like, is.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
That my boss over there? Oh my god, I'm embarrassing.
I never liked to see my bosses in the wild,
Like I don't know, I was not into it.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Because you're afraid that they're going to be like you're
a real human.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You never know what to say, you're doo and it's
awkward and I don't know. Day I remember going to
some of those like years ago and like totally doing
what you did, like seeing a boss and then just
kind of like going, yeah, hiding around the corner.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And be like I'm I really do have friends. I probably.
I mean, it just looked like it was really pitiful,
just sitting there eating by myself.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You know, you have a couple of cocktails at Downtown Disney,
you see the boss.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You don't know what you're gonna say, what you're gonna say.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I did see John Peak, though, and I was like, hey,
and I went in to give him a hug, like
we were asked.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I would have no idea what to do in that situation.
And I think he was like, ma'am right right, We're
not like I would have. I would have the same reaction.
I've been like, should I hug him or not? Are
we on that level?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I don't know. It would have been awkward. Get in
my eyes, I'm a hugger.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I will hung anybody if he.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Is though, like that's the perfect person to be was not?
He was not.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's good to note noted we will not be hugging him.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Maybe it was just me and I was wearing a
giant Christmas hat with stitch ears and his stitch face on.
Oh boy, I might have frightened him coming out of
the dark. Did he know who you were?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You said both his names out loud like that.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Okay he did say oh hi. Hother he did he oh, okay,
that's good, with just like a slight hint of fear
in his eyes, but it's okay. I kind of forced
myself on him like I do in the wild, which
is also why you don't necessarily want to see your boss.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I think last year or the year before, I forget
and when our new boss, like the boss of all boss,
like the president, right, you know. Yet Paul was there
and I didn't know him that well. And I saw
him at like you know, the walk from like where
you park and then you go to walk through Downtown
Disney to get there, so it's kind of a walk,
right and h And I saw Paul Corvineo, who's like
(29:55):
the new big big boss, and I said hi to him,
and then I was like, oh, and now we're gonna
be walking like that whole Downtown Disney stretch, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
And You're like, what am I gonna talk about?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Because I because we always think that we need to
be like entertainers and on and you know, all the
things like entertaining and stuff, and we don't. Nobody wants
that from us, you know, certainly they don't.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
They don't want that. They don't want that.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
They do, they do.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
But he was totally cool and.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
His wife was totally cool and she was there and
it was not a big thing at all, but you know,
you do feel this this need to fill the vacuum
when you see the both in the.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Newsroom this morning too. And he for sure does not
know who I am. I was like, hey, how are
you And he was like, why is this person talking
to me?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
So yeah, So that was so much fun last night.
It was so great to see everybody out and about
and having a lot of fun at Disney Disney Holidays.
If you get a chance to go, and you know,
little thanks to Coast for an iHeart for including us in.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That, it's always a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
So, as far as the movies goes, I highly recommend
merely we go along. If you want something thrillery, go
and see Freddy's too. There's a couple of really great
options for you at the movies.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
All right, coming up next, thank you, Heather Brooker. We
will give you a pair of tickets to Monday night Football.
We've got that around the corner. What's happening, We've got
the nine news nuggets. You need to know, and we
will relive the Cowboys playoffs run.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It was a quick one.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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