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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
In nineteen forty My father was born in forty one,
so we'll use that as an example. Nineteen forty one,
there was about a ninety percent chance that you were
going to earn more than your parents if you were
born in forty So baby boomers had a ninety percent
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chance of earning more than their parents did. If you're
born today, it's basically a fifty to fifty that you
would earn more than your parents did. Baby Boomers right
now hold more than eighty five trillion dollars in assets,
making them the richest generation that exists now.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Think of this.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Part of it is that, yes, they make up about
a fifth of our population here.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
In the United States, baby boomers, but.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
They hold more than half of corporate equities and mutual
fund shares. There's a couple issues that go into this.
One of them is just simply timing. They hit the
right waves at the right time in their lives. Americans
seventy five and older bought homes and invested in stocks
well before those things exploded in value. As an example,
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somebody who was born in nineteen forty, for example, would
be thirty at nineteen seventy and in nineteen seventy well,
nineteen seventy six, forty two thousand dollars was the median
home price in the first quarter of nineteen seventy six
forty two eight hundred dollars. Now, when you adjust for inflation,
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that's still about two hundred and forty two thousand dollars.
But could you imagine if the median home price today
was two hundred and forty two thousand dollars. The timing
of the Baby Boomers, when they grew up, when they
started getting their money, when they were in their highest
earning years, all hit perfectly for them to be the
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richest generation by far. The wealth of Baby Boomers is
just that reflection of favorable economic conditions during their work
term work times. They entered the labor force during the
decades of strong economic growth, rising productivity, relatively high wages
in their prime earning and saving years during the longest
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bull markets in the eighties and the nineties, as well
as the economic recovery that followed the Great Recession, they
faced lower tuition costs they had lower health care costs.
They fitted from favorable tax policies, including lower capital gains
tax rates. All of that stuff makes baby Boomers the
richest generation by far. The big thing is that a
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lot of older baby Boomers benefited from having access to
the defined benefit pension pension plans that working for a
private company. Very few private companies do pension plans anymore,
most of those are run through unions.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
But when the defined benefit pension.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Plans started going away, everybody started pouring moneys into four
to oh one case, giving people an avenue into the
stockholdings that they may not have had before. And as
of like I said, as of today, about half of
baby boomer wealth is tied up in cash, bonds, stocks,
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or mutual funds that are held directly or through the
retirement accounts or their financial holdings. And that accumulated eighty
five point four trillion dollars in well through this second
quarter is twice as much as Gen X and four
times more than millennials. Now, you could probably do the
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math and figure out, you know, you could extrapolate what
you think each of those generations is going to have
by the time they reach the age. You know, baby
boomers are somewhere between sixty five eighty five years old now,
and they have had obviously the opportunity to gather the
wealth to make it work for them in all of
their stock winnings, et cetera. But baby boomers themselves hit
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at exactly the right time. And I know that there's
you know, the old trope of your favorite fifteen year
old who's telling you.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, I didn't ask to be born.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, they didn't either, They just happened to hit the
money lottery when it comes to how they acquired their money,
making them the eighty five trillion dollars worth of richest
generation that we've seen in a long time. There is
an iconic thing that has developed over the last couple
of decades.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
As long as Costco's been in business.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They've had their dollar fifty hot dog and soda deal,
and the combo has never been more popular than on
its fortieth and aversary.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So this fiscal.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Year twenty twenty five, Costco set a new record. Costco
sold two hundred and forty five million hot dog combos.
I was just talking with my sister and my nephew
just a couple of days ago regarding food at the
Costco food court, and we're talking about the chicken bake,
we're talking about the pizza that's available, and all of
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that has gone up in price, but not the hot
dog soda deal of a dollar fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
A hot dog and soda at Costco is about the
same as a few servings of rice and beans, which
is probably, you know, the cheapest big amount of food
that you're going to be able to cook at home.
For example, and for a YouTuber, a guy named Kinsley
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goes by sur yacht on YouTube. He always said and
his videos, please do not try this at home. He's
gone to all fifty state capitals in thirty days, but
he has done this many food challenges and he says
this is absolutely the best deal on earth. He spent
more on gas getting to Costco than he did eating
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the Costco hot talk. And what makes it unique is
that Costco hasn't raised the price on this thing since
the eighties, even though we've seen the price of grab
and go meals just skyrocketing because of inflation. We just
did the story the other day about how McDonald's is
now out of a lot of people's price ranges down
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at the lower end of the income scale. If you
were to keep up with inflation, a Costco hotog and
soda combo would be about five bucks today, and it
would still be a relative bargain if it was five
bucks for a hot dog in an soda considering Trader
(07:01):
Joe's nineteen cent bananas have seen pressure from the outside
market forces, Annalys said the hot dog smell that comes
from a Costco food court is a constant reminder to people,
Oh yeah, they still sell buck fifty hot dogs and
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SODA's here. The hot dog combo has been a pretty
savvy move for Costco. You can see the profit margins
widen because you are going to go to Costco and
spend two or four or six hundred dollars without thinking
about it, and if you could.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
YouTube video called Maxonomics, a full channel, i should say
called Maxonomics, that calculates that Costco's members spend an average
of a dollar seventy five a minute when they shop
in a Costco warehouse. Costco clears in all of the
United States about a half a million in sales.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Did you hear about Taco Bell.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
They're going to release a Mountain Do Baja blast pie.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Good.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's oh, it's well aquamarine, well colored.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I do like a.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Key lime every once in a while. That's you do.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And you went turned down some mountain dew type flavoring
and your pie depends. I think you could get into that.
When I saw this piece of pie, I thought about
you right away. Hey guys, hey Gary, you're really such
a worst mac Kenny, too Big Max.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
You haven't met one dude in my life that could
not finish two of those little Big Max such a
worse pannywat.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
I said, Shannon couldn't finish two Big Max. That's true.
Why are you playing such hateful messages today? Listen, I've
just made this decision. I need to make sure that
I keep myself.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I need to remind myself of the things I'm happy about. Okay,
So if this guy thinks that I'm some fat slob
and can't eat, no, I am a way.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
If he said you were a panty waist.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh so he thinks.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I'm skinny or too skinny or too small to eat
too Big Max?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Is that what I don't quite I don't think.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think what he meant is that you're too proper.
You would probably only have.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I would mess up probably four big max I know that. Okay,
well you know that.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
But I think sometimes is that the.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Measure of a man is that where we are is
that's the measure of a man is how many big
MAXs know he would put to waste.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I think sometimes you come across as perfect, and I think.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You know that that's not I know that's not true.
Everybody poops their pants.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't know poop your pants. Did we already do
that money?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes, okay, you were still you're still high on that
monkey story.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
No, I was high on the key lime pie. That's
mountain dew, Baja blast, Like, what is how much sugar
do you think is in a slice of that?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
How much sugar?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Forty to fifty grams of sugar? I mean it, it
would be still loafed. Well, desserts on the fast food restaurant,
don't they're never really large, that's true, so I would
figure it would be small, but it'd be concentrated.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Maybe I have a question for you.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The about for perfect me or for panty waste me?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
The apple pie that you'd get in the sleeve at McDonald's.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Do they still have that?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I do not know, But again then again, I'm a
panty waste, right, not sure?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And would you consider that dessert or breakfast or just
a snack?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's a good point because it would be if you
were eating it first thing in the morning, I'd call
it a pastry.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
And there's exact breakfast exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, I really don't know how to clare, like,
how to classify it?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Is it a pastry? Is it a side?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
You know? Is it you get a big.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Mac and then a side of the of the warm
apple pie slash pastry slash puff thing?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Do you have to like that? I love the box,
I love the No. I mean, do you have to
put it in a label like that? You have to write?
Do you have to label it? Do you think you do?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's like a it's like a toaster pastry if you will,
or you know, the pop tart. You ate it early
enough in the morning, it's a breakfast pastry. But if
you ate it after dinner, that's a beautiful dessert.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I don't think I've ever had a pop tart as
a dessert.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Tonight is the night what other breakfast delights could also
serve as.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A don't donut, a bear claw? Do you heat up
a bear claw? Put a scoop of ice cream on
the top?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Stop, listen, it's just you are, isn't it the same
ingredient just reformulated into a pie of some kind, and
you just make this thing into a don't don't.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I was going to try to combine.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Now you got excited. You got excited. That's what happens
to luminaries. They get their creative juices flowing. They're coming
up with things like bear claw with ice cream on top,
and they get too excited. It's it's because you start
ide eating, you know what I mean, and it's almost
too much for you to to get out all at
the same time. Like, what else you got in there?
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You know you got the bear claw? What else you
want to go with? A cinnamon roll? You want to
throw a slight scoop of vanilla on a hot cinnamon roll?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yeah, damn right you do?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You want to take a sprinkled donut, throw a throw
a scoop of a chocolate.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
On the buckle in here for a second, all right,
I'm going to go buy a box of those old
fashioned glazed entimates donuts, the ones that have been on
the store shelf for about seven months at least at
least that if you dropped on your foot with cars,
at least several fractures.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, I like the chocolate ones, but okay, stay.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Away from the chocolate because it's not going to melt
the same way. It's not real chocolate. You get that
glazed donut, you put that on a plate, You stick
it in your microwave maybe twelve possibly fourteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You don't need you don't need a lot of microwave.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Take it out, scoop of some sort of adulta de leche,
triple caramel, some sort of just not just vanilla.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
But it was great.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Put it right in the hole, in the hole, Put
it in the hole.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And then eat that. What do you guys laugh? Then
you eat that donuts for dessert.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Heated donuts with ice cream as a dessert should be
a new thing.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
How come restaurants don't do that?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Because even if you took the donuts that were cooked,
you know, twenty hours previous.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You know, if you if you have a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And nearby is a little mom and pop donut shop,
right by the end of the afternoon, they're running thin
on the fresh ones, right so, and they don't want
to sell the stale ones. But if you took a
stale donut, popped it in that microwave, pop it in
that microwave, well the fourteen second maybe fourteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And then those scuba right in the hole, right in it, right,
that's where it goes. That's where it goes. I think
you're onto something. There's a lot of waste that goes on,
probably with donut shops, and if you were able to
repurpose that, if you're able to repurpose it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Feels like we're solving a lot of problems here.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
I think we are.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I mean, nobody asked for it.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What do you guys think would be the best donut
ice cream combination? If you were to put that ice
cream there with that donut, what flavor combination would you
go for? Don't try to don't try to do too
much with it. No, No, I'm overthinking it.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, I mean there's there's a couple I'm I'm a
partial to the old fashioned glaist. Yeah, I know, because
it also brings with it sort of an opportunity for
the melted ice cream to kind of get into the
nooks and the crane.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Okay, to stay with me here for one moment here
when I go.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I think no one has stayed with us for these
last five minutes.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
They've all turned away.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
But go on, old fashioned maple donut.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Old fashioned maple okay, all.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Right, with chocolate ice cream. Not too much. I know
you're a vanilla guy.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That would be that would be the limit for me.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
It's just a little bacon sprinkles on the top.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Now, okay, too much?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Too much?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You went too far.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I went too far. I know I went too far.
I went to Voodoo donut Land and that was too far. Yeah,
you don't need to go there, right, Keep it simple,
Keep it simple.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's so I think.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I think we go with the glazed and also the
cinnamon sugar type deal.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's also a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh oh, what about this? You get one of those
twisty donuts, you know, like the the long the twists
with the cinnamon and the sugar or just it's it's
just a sugar donut.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Maybe that's a twist.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And what you do is in each twist you put
a little baby scoop of vanilla and chocolate and something
that's different on each, a little each, little knot of
that twist.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, you neat holes. You need to put it in
the hole. You gotta have the hole in that hole.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
All right.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Big Area. You're not a fansy. You can't eat Big Max.
You're just not a pig like that guy.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Hold on, I didn't say, okay, I can, I can
eat too, Big Max.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Why is this is a hill?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You seem to want to die?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
By the way, this is all self imposed.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
I chop a lot banas.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
The menu was two quarter pounded with cheese, a large
order of fries, the chocolate shaken apple pie like you're
talking about, and I'd have that done before I got.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
To the top.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Yeah, the past.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yeah, listen, am.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I dated a guy in college from Los Banos.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
When I was dating my wife and living in Chico.
I would drive.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I'd make that drive and I would stop at the
Carls Junior in Uba City and I would get a
double Western bacon cheeseburger. I would get that giant Chicken
Club sandwich.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I would get a.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Large chocolate shake and new large doctor pepper and new upholstering,
two orders of fries.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Jesus, that's a lot of food.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Holy crap.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I go into a diabetic coma right around the time
I so much.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I like to speak fast food because I was twenty
two years old. What do you mean why so much?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
That's well, why so much at one time?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Like if I'm going to take a road trip, I'm
going to stop at like three different places and kind
of space it out.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
How annoying is that? Sorry?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
That sounded like I threw up, by the way, but
that was me laughing. It's not like.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
I had a friend when I was in my probably
late twenties. It's definitely before I had kids. So it's
mid to late twenties and he's like ten twelve years
older than me, and he we were it was before
an improv class, and I was eating two gigantic New
York slices of pepperoni pizza yum, and he's like two
and I go yeah, he goes, you know You're not
gonna be able to eat like that forever. And I
remember thinking like, what, Like, I didn't even think anything
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of it.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Today.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
If I had half of one of those slices, I'd
be like heartburn.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I looked that one of those slices, my ash would.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Grow three secs. Oh my god.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
It's my disappointment in your intestinal system and how it
can't handle male versus female.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Your gut grows, my ass grows.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
But it's more about that.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
It makes me feel not well like it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It doesn't feel as good as it used to.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Like it used to feel great to down a bunch
of pizza in French fries, and now I do that
and I feel like something's broken inside, Like is this
it is this? You start sweating like yes, but my
bodies you can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It's a warning sign.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
For your body.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
It is like three years ago I learned what meat
sweats were, like I always thought it was just a joke,
like one thing.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
That's why it's like I go visit my mom. She
eats like four almonds a day. Now I know why
you get to a certain age your body's like I
can't do it.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
My metabolism is like I think we're a one meal
a day guy. Right, so you know you're like an
older retired army general. Now even though you're forty six.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
You get one piece of bread, a pass of water,
maybe a couple of beans, and you're done.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
There's a friend out there that I think you might
be listening, but like I'm he eats like rice and apples,
and I'm so like awestruck at his discipline, Like that's
just what, Like this is what I eat. I don't
eat that much. And then I go home and I
have like a meal every once while. I was like,
I'll have a bunch of pizza, but and I'm just
like I can't. I don't know, Yeah, that's it, but
I feel it coming. Like I definitely feel my body
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has tried to tell me, like you need to stop,
you need to stop.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Let's shift down into fourth year, let's get out of fit.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
There was enough of us to have an intervention. We
would do it.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Now, that's not that's not true.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Justine Warsham joins us.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We talk about parenting issues and I want to know
what an americanism is, what it is that everybody's angry about.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Here's why. Now, First, what I saw it. I almost
brought that story in. There were like four or five
articles that were sort of trending recently about kids in
Australia that are losing their Australian accent because they spend
so much time on their tablets or phones watching American
YouTubers and influencers, so just by listening to that, they're
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losing their Australian accent. But what I thought was more
interesting was this woman who was responding to a survey
of ten thousand teachers for The Times, which found that
primary school children routinely say candy and diaper in England.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
So they don't say nappy and sweets. I think it's
the term. I got to reverse those, but you know
what I mean.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
So they're losing the colloquialisms of England, the original English language,
and they're adopting.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
They're saying things like dude and neat.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
And then my favorite two is that she says kids
are asking can I do this? Which I always thought
was like just correct grammar, because I was the one
who always got like correct correct because I was raised
by rednecks and so we just said can I do this?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
And you're like, well, I don't know, may you or
can you? And all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
That's just but that's global.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Is I mean, is there just a specific British thing
that they're upset that their kids are turning into Americans or.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Yeah, that's it, like they're just they're seeing that the
words like she goes, she has all these examples. There's normalcy, bangs,
reach out, takeouts, and the autocorrects on computers are now
changing where it's putting the it's taking the S out
and putting the Z and analyze the way we spell it. Yeah,
she removing the elegant you from favorite elegant.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
The only reason it's got a you is to make
it elegant.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, if you're but I mean you.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
But who listening to this has never heard Like if
you listen to someone with any kind of an English accent,
I would say, even if it's Cockney, you're probably like,
that's that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Like they if it's not cogny, if it's all.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
The others, they sound ten times more intelligent than you are.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
They're words.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
They're just better with words than what we are.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
So well, I guess if uh won't be the equivalent
for a California native non accented speaker, I don't want
my kid talking like that?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
Is it some like what would be like they're losing
things that make us California specific or or somebody comes
to California.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'd like it if I sent my kid to the
South and they came back with an accent.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I'd find this.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
I think a good Texan, a Tennessee accent that those yeah, great,
they are fantast.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Maybe your daughter comes back from Texas with an accent.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Oh, we can only too stubborn. Really, no, she would
never do that.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Really, she didn't even throw into like.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
A y'all not yet. I can't wait for that first
day though.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I think to eat from the housewives.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The one born in Jersey went to Paris for a
week and came back with some sort of European a
week and then kept it our whole life. Some people
they find their way into accents later in life.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
I noticed that when I would hang around my grandparents,
especially when my grandfather was still alive, like, I would
get a little Southern twang around him. Yeah, he liked
to say Frisco and taters. Those were the two words.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The accent my grandparents had was putting an R in
a flat a.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
They would say in the washing machine or the state
of Washington.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
My grandparents did that.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
There was a lot of ours that came from I
had what I thought were mashed potatoes in Nashville. I said,
these are the best potatoes. I got a little kick
in them. They're so good. It's cream potatoes. They were grits.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, that's good cream.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
That's how stupid I am. That's how California.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, you are pretty grits.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You're gonna have struggle to find grits on a menu
in California.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
They're so good, they are good.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I keep thinking, it's all the cream. It's all the.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Cream, guys.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
I have just so you could lose a little more
respect for me, I've taken to meal planning for my family.
Like I put a menu together for the whole week,
and then I pressed the meal the day beforehand.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Max if you oh no, I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Okay, that is not the bar that we are going
to return to to.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Decide about masculinity.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Here's here today.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
I didn't even think that that it was about being manly.
I thought it was just about being American.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Ear the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Justin Morson joined that you meal plan what is for
dinner tonight?
Speaker 9 (24:55):
Tonight is chicken fajitas that have been marinating for all right.
Trauma on Tuesday, I probably abound seven o'clock time, come
by for Blackstone.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
They're delicious.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
How to keep from yelling if your kid makes a mess.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Screw that kid, You should yell at them.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
You want to mess in your house?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
No, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
We are a soft people, and we say it all
the time. One of the things that we do as
intelligent language using creatures is come up with words and
phrases to I guess talk about how everything is too
effing easy these days.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You think needs a label. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You have to make up a thing that you then
cope with, right, so that you can brag to people
about how you cope with the thing that you made
up you have.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Doesn't it make the thing then seem like it has
more power if you give it an.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh sure, right, and that you have the strength the
inner power to overcome some sort of that you have
made up on your head about how bad your life is.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Oh my gosh, listen, life is. Life is going to
hit you in the face enough. You don't need to
invent things or name just everyday things for some a
hurdle that you need to get over It'll happen for you.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Give it time. And there are bad things that do
go on in this world. You don't need to make
them up in your head about your life, right. There
are plenty of people everybody knows people like this. Maybe
they're friends, probably family members, because I don't know why
you would be friends with people like this. But everything
has everything has to be an issue. Everything has to
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be such a heavy lift. I don't know if I
can make it. I am so busy. The kids' schedules
are so packed. We are struggling so hard with our budget,
which is a real thing. But the constant complaint about
the issues in your life that are either fixable or
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made up can be very frustrating for the people around you.
There is an article by Natutia Babe from the New
York Times.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Get it.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I know what you're trying to do, and I get it.
I will stop bitching about football. I realize it is
a first world problem to bitch about defense. I realize
I sound ridiculous, and I will stop doing that.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
That's not what I was going to say. People can't
deal with.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Stuff that goes on in the news, and I mean
stuff that even has so little consequence to their everyday life,
they have a hard time listen. There's plenty of people
who talk about politics when politics at a federal level
or even international level, has absolutely nothing to do with
their everyday life. They just want to be members of
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a team, and they want to be disgruntled. They know
that they are in the struggle. Plenty of people who
took place in the no Kings protests this weekend, for example,
have perfectly easy lives, and they want to have something
to complain about. So that's something that they do. Others
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when they talk about how frustrated they were that Joe
Biden was president because they didn't.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Feel like their voices were heard.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
They also had great, easy lives and their day to
day life was not impacted by those things. But you
might as well take on that mantle so that you
can say you have coped with this. So she says,
this is nittsuo Babe baba from the New York Times. Imagine,
(28:57):
I've handed you a very small, sorry, a very container
of very bad news. Are you resigned to doom or
do you spin up some cope? The noun, not the verb.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I get into trouble with this I think sometimes in
my life where I am a I want to find
a solution for things, like I want to find if
somebody comes to me and they're like, this awful thing happened,
and I'm like, Okay, well let's do.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
This, or you can do this, or why don't we
do this?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And then I get I've learned that not everybody wants
to hear that. They want to just have you listen
to the bad news and not cope with it, or
not go to the next step of finding a solution.
So I said, I think some people want to sit
in their bad news or at least not jump to
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the coping next step of that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, because that gives them a value.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I'm not even sure that's the right word.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Sometimes it makes them interesting, to be honest, and that's what.
That's all they've got to offer, is whatever struggle they
happen to be in, because they don't feel like whatever
they deserve the attention that you're giving them as a friend,
or whatever, they feel like they need to get even more. Well,
I'm in such a horrible place right now because my
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something something at work is I mean, how many times
have people complain about work and still love their job,
but it makes them more interesting if they complain about it.
When you ask somebody, how is your day at work, honey,
and they say something along the lines of, ugh, well
this guy did and then she did, and then they
(30:41):
said that, and we have to do and the project
is doing the first and all of this as opposed
to I love.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
What I do. I had a great day at work today.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And it's so funny you say that, because oftentimes you
know that'll be a question, how is work?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
It was great? It was and then you feel on interest.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Right now the thing that happened, And then I find
myself trying to come up with things like, well, what
that happened?
Speaker 9 (31:07):
Me?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Off, what did Gary do? That was stupid? Wait, like
something just kidding. I never have to think about that.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
One crack myself. You've been listening to The Gary and
Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
In nineteen forty My father was born in forty one,
so we'll use that as an example. Nineteen forty one,
there was about a ninety percent chance that you were
going to earn more than your parents if you were
born in forty So baby boomers had a ninety percent
(00:30):
chance of earning more than their parents did. If you're
born today, it's basically a fifty to fifty that you
would earn more than your parents did. Baby Boomers right
now hold more than eighty five trillion dollars in assets,
making them the richest generation that exists now.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Think of this.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Part of it is that, yes, they make up about
a fifth of our population here.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
In the United States, baby boomers, but.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
They hold more than half of corporate equities and mutual
fund shares. There's a couple issues that go into this.
One of them is just simply timing. They hit the
right waves at the right time in their lives. Americans
seventy five and older bought homes and invested in stocks
well before those things exploded in value. As an example,
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somebody who was born in nineteen forty, for example, would
be thirty at nineteen seventy and in nineteen seventy well,
nineteen seventy six, forty two thousand dollars was the median
home price in the first quarter of nineteen seventy six
forty two eight hundred dollars. Now, when you adjust for inflation,
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that's still about two hundred and forty two thousand dollars.
But could you imagine if the median home price today
was two hundred and forty two thousand dollars. The timing
of the Baby Boomers, when they grew up, when they
started getting their money, when they were in their highest
earning years, all hit perfectly for them to be the
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richest generation by far. The wealth of Baby Boomers is
just that reflection of favorable economic conditions during their work
term work times. They entered the labor force during the
decades of strong economic growth, rising productivity, relatively high wages
in their prime earning and saving years during the longest
(02:30):
bull markets in the eighties and the nineties, as well
as the economic recovery that followed the Great Recession, they
faced lower tuition costs they had lower health care costs.
They fitted from favorable tax policies, including lower capital gains
tax rates. All of that stuff makes baby Boomers the
richest generation by far. The big thing is that a
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lot of older baby Boomers benefited from having access to
the defined benefit pension pension plans that working for a
private company. Very few private companies do pension plans anymore,
most of those are run through unions.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
But when the defined benefit pension.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Plans started going away, everybody started pouring moneys into four
to oh one case, giving people an avenue into the
stockholdings that they may not have had before. And as
of like I said, as of today, about half of
baby boomer wealth is tied up in cash, bonds, stocks,
(03:34):
or mutual funds that are held directly or through the
retirement accounts or their financial holdings. And that accumulated eighty
five point four trillion dollars in well through this second
quarter is twice as much as Gen X and four
times more than millennials. Now, you could probably do the
(03:55):
math and figure out, you know, you could extrapolate what
you think each of those generations is going to have
by the time they reach the age. You know, baby
boomers are somewhere between sixty five eighty five years old now,
and they have had obviously the opportunity to gather the
wealth to make it work for them in all of
their stock winnings, et cetera. But baby boomers themselves hit
(04:20):
at exactly the right time. And I know that there's
you know, the old trope of your favorite fifteen year
old who's telling you.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, I didn't ask to be born.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, they didn't either, They just happened to hit the
money lottery when it comes to how they acquired their money,
making them the eighty five trillion dollars worth of richest
generation that we've seen in a long time. There is
an iconic thing that has developed over the last couple
of decades.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
As long as Costco's been in business.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They've had their dollar fifty hot dog and soda deal,
and the combo has never been more popular than on
its fortieth and aversary.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So this fiscal.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Year twenty twenty five, Costco set a new record. Costco
sold two hundred and forty five million hot dog combos.
I was just talking with my sister and my nephew
just a couple of days ago regarding food at the
Costco food court, and we're talking about the chicken bake,
we're talking about the pizza that's available, and all of
(05:26):
that has gone up in price, but not the hot
dog soda deal of a dollar fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
A hot dog and soda at Costco is about the
same as a few servings of rice and beans, which
is probably, you know, the cheapest big amount of food
that you're going to be able to cook at home.
For example, and for a YouTuber, a guy named Kinsley
(05:58):
goes by sur yacht on YouTube. He always said and
his videos, please do not try this at home. He's
gone to all fifty state capitals in thirty days, but
he has done this many food challenges and he says
this is absolutely the best deal on earth. He spent
more on gas getting to Costco than he did eating
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the Costco hot talk. And what makes it unique is
that Costco hasn't raised the price on this thing since
the eighties, even though we've seen the price of grab
and go meals just skyrocketing because of inflation. We just
did the story the other day about how McDonald's is
now out of a lot of people's price ranges down
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at the lower end of the income scale. If you
were to keep up with inflation, a Costco hotog and
soda combo would be about five bucks today, and it
would still be a relative bargain if it was five
bucks for a hot dog in an soda considering Trader
(07:01):
Joe's nineteen cent bananas have seen pressure from the outside
market forces, Annalys said the hot dog smell that comes
from a Costco food court is a constant reminder to people,
Oh yeah, they still sell buck fifty hot dogs and
(07:21):
SODA's here. The hot dog combo has been a pretty
savvy move for Costco. You can see the profit margins
widen because you are going to go to Costco and
spend two or four or six hundred dollars without thinking
about it, and if you could.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
YouTube video called Maxonomics, a full channel, i should say
called Maxonomics, that calculates that Costco's members spend an average
of a dollar seventy five a minute when they shop
in a Costco warehouse. Costco clears in all of the
United States about a half a million in sales.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Did you hear about Taco Bell.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
They're going to release a Mountain Do Baja blast pie.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Good.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's oh, it's well aquamarine, well colored.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I do like a.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Key lime every once in a while. That's you do.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And you went turned down some mountain dew type flavoring
and your pie depends. I think you could get into that.
When I saw this piece of pie, I thought about
you right away. Hey guys, hey Gary, you're really such
a worst mac Kenny, too Big Max.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
You haven't met one dude in my life that could
not finish two of those little Big Max such a
worse pannywat.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
I said, Shannon couldn't finish two Big Max. That's true.
Why are you playing such hateful messages today? Listen, I've
just made this decision. I need to make sure that
I keep myself.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I need to remind myself of the things I'm happy about. Okay,
So if this guy thinks that I'm some fat slob
and can't eat, no, I am a way.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
If he said you were a panty waist.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh so he thinks.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I'm skinny or too skinny or too small to eat
too Big Max?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Is that what I don't quite I don't think.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think what he meant is that you're too proper.
You would probably only have.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I would mess up probably four big max I know that. Okay,
well you know that.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
But I think sometimes is that the.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Measure of a man is that where we are is
that's the measure of a man is how many big
MAXs know he would put to waste.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I think sometimes you come across as perfect, and I think.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You know that that's not I know that's not true.
Everybody poops their pants.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't know poop your pants. Did we already do
that money?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes, okay, you were still you're still high on that
monkey story.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
No, I was high on the key lime pie. That's
mountain dew, Baja blast, Like, what is how much sugar
do you think is in a slice of that?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
How much sugar?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Forty to fifty grams of sugar? I mean it, it
would be still loafed. Well, desserts on the fast food restaurant,
don't they're never really large, that's true, so I would
figure it would be small, but it'd be concentrated.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Maybe I have a question for you.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The about for perfect me or for panty waste me?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
The apple pie that you'd get in the sleeve at McDonald's.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Do they still have that?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I do not know, But again then again, I'm a
panty waste, right, not sure?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And would you consider that dessert or breakfast or just
a snack?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's a good point because it would be if you
were eating it first thing in the morning, I'd call
it a pastry.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
And there's exact breakfast exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, I really don't know how to clare, like,
how to classify it?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Is it a pastry? Is it a side?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
You know? Is it you get a big.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Mac and then a side of the of the warm
apple pie slash pastry slash puff thing?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Do you have to like that? I love the box,
I love the No. I mean, do you have to
put it in a label like that? You have to write?
Do you have to label it? Do you think you do?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's like a it's like a toaster pastry if you will,
or you know, the pop tart. You ate it early
enough in the morning, it's a breakfast pastry. But if
you ate it after dinner, that's a beautiful dessert.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I don't think I've ever had a pop tart as
a dessert.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Tonight is the night what other breakfast delights could also
serve as.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A don't donut, a bear claw? Do you heat up
a bear claw? Put a scoop of ice cream on
the top?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Stop, listen, it's just you are, isn't it the same
ingredient just reformulated into a pie of some kind, and
you just make this thing into a don't don't.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I was going to try to combine.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Now you got excited. You got excited. That's what happens
to luminaries. They get their creative juices flowing. They're coming
up with things like bear claw with ice cream on top,
and they get too excited. It's it's because you start
ide eating, you know what I mean, and it's almost
too much for you to to get out all at
the same time. Like, what else you got in there?
(12:34):
You know you got the bear claw? What else you
want to go with? A cinnamon roll? You want to
throw a slight scoop of vanilla on a hot cinnamon roll?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yeah, damn right you do?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You want to take a sprinkled donut, throw a throw
a scoop of a chocolate.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
On the buckle in here for a second, all right,
I'm going to go buy a box of those old
fashioned glazed entimates donuts, the ones that have been on
the store shelf for about seven months at least at
least that if you dropped on your foot with cars,
at least several fractures.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, I like the chocolate ones, but okay, stay.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Away from the chocolate because it's not going to melt
the same way. It's not real chocolate. You get that
glazed donut, you put that on a plate, You stick
it in your microwave maybe twelve possibly fourteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You don't need you don't need a lot of microwave.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Take it out, scoop of some sort of adulta de leche,
triple caramel, some sort of just not just vanilla.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
But it was great.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Put it right in the hole, in the hole, Put
it in the hole.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And then eat that. What do you guys laugh? Then
you eat that donuts for dessert.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Heated donuts with ice cream as a dessert should be
a new thing.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
How come restaurants don't do that?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Because even if you took the donuts that were cooked,
you know, twenty hours previous.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You know, if you if you have a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And nearby is a little mom and pop donut shop,
right by the end of the afternoon, they're running thin
on the fresh ones, right so, and they don't want
to sell the stale ones. But if you took a
stale donut, popped it in that microwave, pop it in
that microwave, well the fourteen second maybe fourteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And then those scuba right in the hole, right in it, right,
that's where it goes. That's where it goes. I think
you're onto something. There's a lot of waste that goes on,
probably with donut shops, and if you were able to
repurpose that, if you're able to repurpose it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Feels like we're solving a lot of problems here.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
I think we are.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I mean, nobody asked for it.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What do you guys think would be the best donut
ice cream combination? If you were to put that ice
cream there with that donut, what flavor combination would you
go for? Don't try to don't try to do too
much with it. No, No, I'm overthinking it.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, I mean there's there's a couple I'm I'm a
partial to the old fashioned glaist. Yeah, I know, because
it also brings with it sort of an opportunity for
the melted ice cream to kind of get into the
nooks and the crane.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Okay, to stay with me here for one moment here
when I go.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I think no one has stayed with us for these
last five minutes.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
They've all turned away.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
But go on, old fashioned maple donut.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Old fashioned maple okay, all.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Right, with chocolate ice cream. Not too much. I know
you're a vanilla guy.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That would be that would be the limit for me.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
It's just a little bacon sprinkles on the top.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Now, okay, too much?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Too much?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You went too far.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I went too far. I know I went too far.
I went to Voodoo donut Land and that was too far. Yeah,
you don't need to go there, right, Keep it simple,
Keep it simple.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's so I think.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I think we go with the glazed and also the
cinnamon sugar type deal.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's also a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh oh, what about this? You get one of those
twisty donuts, you know, like the the long the twists
with the cinnamon and the sugar or just it's it's
just a sugar donut.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Maybe that's a twist.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And what you do is in each twist you put
a little baby scoop of vanilla and chocolate and something
that's different on each, a little each, little knot of
that twist.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, you neat holes. You need to put it in
the hole. You gotta have the hole in that hole.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
All right.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Big Area. You're not a fansy. You can't eat Big Max.
You're just not a pig like that guy.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Hold on, I didn't say, okay, I can, I can
eat too, Big Max.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Why is this is a hill?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You seem to want to die?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
By the way, this is all self imposed.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
I chop a lot banas.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
The menu was two quarter pounded with cheese, a large
order of fries, the chocolate shaken apple pie like you're
talking about, and I'd have that done before I got.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
To the top.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Yeah, the past.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yeah, listen, am.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I dated a guy in college from Los Banos.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
When I was dating my wife and living in Chico.
I would drive.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I'd make that drive and I would stop at the
Carls Junior in Uba City and I would get a
double Western bacon cheeseburger. I would get that giant Chicken
Club sandwich.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I would get a.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Large chocolate shake and new large doctor pepper and new upholstering,
two orders of fries.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Jesus, that's a lot of food.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Holy crap.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I go into a diabetic coma right around the time
I so much.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I like to speak fast food because I was twenty
two years old. What do you mean why so much?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
That's well, why so much at one time?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Like if I'm going to take a road trip, I'm
going to stop at like three different places and kind
of space it out.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
How annoying is that? Sorry?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
That sounded like I threw up, by the way, but
that was me laughing. It's not like.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
I had a friend when I was in my probably
late twenties. It's definitely before I had kids. So it's
mid to late twenties and he's like ten twelve years
older than me, and he we were it was before
an improv class, and I was eating two gigantic New
York slices of pepperoni pizza yum, and he's like two
and I go yeah, he goes, you know You're not
gonna be able to eat like that forever. And I
remember thinking like, what, Like, I didn't even think anything
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of it.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Today.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
If I had half of one of those slices, I'd
be like heartburn.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I looked that one of those slices, my ash would.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Grow three secs. Oh my god.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
It's my disappointment in your intestinal system and how it
can't handle male versus female.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Your gut grows, my ass grows.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
But it's more about that.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
It makes me feel not well like it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It doesn't feel as good as it used to.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Like it used to feel great to down a bunch
of pizza in French fries, and now I do that
and I feel like something's broken inside, Like is this
it is this? You start sweating like yes, but my
bodies you can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It's a warning sign.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
For your body.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
It is like three years ago I learned what meat
sweats were, like I always thought it was just a joke,
like one thing.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
That's why it's like I go visit my mom. She
eats like four almonds a day. Now I know why
you get to a certain age your body's like I
can't do it.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
My metabolism is like I think we're a one meal
a day guy. Right, so you know you're like an
older retired army general. Now even though you're forty six.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
You get one piece of bread, a pass of water,
maybe a couple of beans, and you're done.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
There's a friend out there that I think you might
be listening, but like I'm he eats like rice and apples,
and I'm so like awestruck at his discipline, Like that's
just what, Like this is what I eat. I don't
eat that much. And then I go home and I
have like a meal every once while. I was like,
I'll have a bunch of pizza, but and I'm just
like I can't. I don't know, Yeah, that's it, but
I feel it coming. Like I definitely feel my body
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has tried to tell me, like you need to stop,
you need to stop.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Let's shift down into fourth year, let's get out of fit.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
There was enough of us to have an intervention. We
would do it.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Now, that's not that's not true.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Justine Warsham joins us.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We talk about parenting issues and I want to know
what an americanism is, what it is that everybody's angry about.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Here's why. Now, First, what I saw it. I almost
brought that story in. There were like four or five
articles that were sort of trending recently about kids in
Australia that are losing their Australian accent because they spend
so much time on their tablets or phones watching American
YouTubers and influencers, so just by listening to that, they're
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losing their Australian accent. But what I thought was more
interesting was this woman who was responding to a survey
of ten thousand teachers for The Times, which found that
primary school children routinely say candy and diaper in England.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
So they don't say nappy and sweets. I think it's
the term. I got to reverse those, but you know
what I mean.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
So they're losing the colloquialisms of England, the original English language,
and they're adopting.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
They're saying things like dude and neat.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
And then my favorite two is that she says kids
are asking can I do this? Which I always thought
was like just correct grammar, because I was the one
who always got like correct correct because I was raised
by rednecks and so we just said can I do this?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
And you're like, well, I don't know, may you or
can you? And all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
That's just but that's global.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Is I mean, is there just a specific British thing
that they're upset that their kids are turning into Americans or.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Yeah, that's it, like they're just they're seeing that the
words like she goes, she has all these examples. There's normalcy, bangs,
reach out, takeouts, and the autocorrects on computers are now
changing where it's putting the it's taking the S out
and putting the Z and analyze the way we spell it. Yeah,
she removing the elegant you from favorite elegant.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
The only reason it's got a you is to make
it elegant.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, if you're but I mean you.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
But who listening to this has never heard Like if
you listen to someone with any kind of an English accent,
I would say, even if it's Cockney, you're probably like,
that's that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Like they if it's not cogny, if it's all.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
The others, they sound ten times more intelligent than you are.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
They're words.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
They're just better with words than what we are.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
So well, I guess if uh won't be the equivalent
for a California native non accented speaker, I don't want
my kid talking like that?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
Is it some like what would be like they're losing
things that make us California specific or or somebody comes
to California.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'd like it if I sent my kid to the
South and they came back with an accent.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I'd find this.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
I think a good Texan, a Tennessee accent that those yeah, great,
they are fantast.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Maybe your daughter comes back from Texas with an accent.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Oh, we can only too stubborn. Really, no, she would
never do that.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Really, she didn't even throw into like.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
A y'all not yet. I can't wait for that first
day though.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I think to eat from the housewives.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The one born in Jersey went to Paris for a
week and came back with some sort of European a
week and then kept it our whole life. Some people
they find their way into accents later in life.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
I noticed that when I would hang around my grandparents,
especially when my grandfather was still alive, like, I would
get a little Southern twang around him. Yeah, he liked
to say Frisco and taters. Those were the two words.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The accent my grandparents had was putting an R in
a flat a.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
They would say in the washing machine or the state
of Washington.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
My grandparents did that.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
There was a lot of ours that came from I
had what I thought were mashed potatoes in Nashville. I said,
these are the best potatoes. I got a little kick
in them. They're so good. It's cream potatoes. They were grits.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, that's good cream.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
That's how stupid I am. That's how California.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, you are pretty grits.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You're gonna have struggle to find grits on a menu
in California.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
They're so good, they are good.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I keep thinking, it's all the cream. It's all the.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Cream, guys.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
I have just so you could lose a little more
respect for me, I've taken to meal planning for my family.
Like I put a menu together for the whole week,
and then I pressed the meal the day beforehand.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Max if you oh no, I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Okay, that is not the bar that we are going
to return to to.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Decide about masculinity.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Here's here today.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
I didn't even think that that it was about being manly.
I thought it was just about being American.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Ear the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Justin Morson joined that you meal plan what is for
dinner tonight?
Speaker 9 (24:55):
Tonight is chicken fajitas that have been marinating for all right.
Trauma on Tuesday, I probably abound seven o'clock time, come
by for Blackstone.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
They're delicious.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
How to keep from yelling if your kid makes a mess.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Screw that kid, You should yell at them.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
You want to mess in your house?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
No, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
We are a soft people, and we say it all
the time. One of the things that we do as
intelligent language using creatures is come up with words and
phrases to I guess talk about how everything is too
effing easy these days.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You think needs a label. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You have to make up a thing that you then
cope with, right, so that you can brag to people
about how you cope with the thing that you made
up you have.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Doesn't it make the thing then seem like it has
more power if you give it an.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh sure, right, and that you have the strength the
inner power to overcome some sort of that you have
made up on your head about how bad your life is.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Oh my gosh, listen, life is. Life is going to
hit you in the face enough. You don't need to
invent things or name just everyday things for some a
hurdle that you need to get over It'll happen for you.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Give it time. And there are bad things that do
go on in this world. You don't need to make
them up in your head about your life, right. There
are plenty of people everybody knows people like this. Maybe
they're friends, probably family members, because I don't know why
you would be friends with people like this. But everything
has everything has to be an issue. Everything has to
(26:50):
be such a heavy lift. I don't know if I
can make it. I am so busy. The kids' schedules
are so packed. We are struggling so hard with our budget,
which is a real thing. But the constant complaint about
the issues in your life that are either fixable or
(27:11):
made up can be very frustrating for the people around you.
There is an article by Natutia Babe from the New
York Times.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Get it.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I know what you're trying to do, and I get it.
I will stop bitching about football. I realize it is
a first world problem to bitch about defense. I realize
I sound ridiculous, and I will stop doing that.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
That's not what I was going to say. People can't
deal with.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Stuff that goes on in the news, and I mean
stuff that even has so little consequence to their everyday life,
they have a hard time listen. There's plenty of people
who talk about politics when politics at a federal level
or even international level, has absolutely nothing to do with
their everyday life. They just want to be members of
(28:07):
a team, and they want to be disgruntled. They know
that they are in the struggle. Plenty of people who
took place in the no Kings protests this weekend, for example,
have perfectly easy lives, and they want to have something
to complain about. So that's something that they do. Others
(28:29):
when they talk about how frustrated they were that Joe
Biden was president because they didn't.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Feel like their voices were heard.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
They also had great, easy lives and their day to
day life was not impacted by those things. But you
might as well take on that mantle so that you
can say you have coped with this. So she says,
this is nittsuo Babe baba from the New York Times. Imagine,
(28:57):
I've handed you a very small, sorry, a very container
of very bad news. Are you resigned to doom or
do you spin up some cope? The noun, not the verb.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I get into trouble with this I think sometimes in
my life where I am a I want to find
a solution for things, like I want to find if
somebody comes to me and they're like, this awful thing happened,
and I'm like, Okay, well let's do.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
This, or you can do this, or why don't we
do this?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And then I get I've learned that not everybody wants
to hear that. They want to just have you listen
to the bad news and not cope with it, or
not go to the next step of finding a solution.
So I said, I think some people want to sit
in their bad news or at least not jump to
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the coping next step of that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, because that gives them a value.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I'm not even sure that's the right word.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Sometimes it makes them interesting, to be honest, and that's what.
That's all they've got to offer, is whatever struggle they
happen to be in, because they don't feel like whatever
they deserve the attention that you're giving them as a friend,
or whatever, they feel like they need to get even more. Well,
I'm in such a horrible place right now because my
(30:21):
something something at work is I mean, how many times
have people complain about work and still love their job,
but it makes them more interesting if they complain about it.
When you ask somebody, how is your day at work, honey,
and they say something along the lines of, ugh, well
this guy did and then she did, and then they
(30:41):
said that, and we have to do and the project
is doing the first and all of this as opposed
to I love.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
What I do. I had a great day at work today.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And it's so funny you say that, because oftentimes you
know that'll be a question, how is work?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
It was great? It was and then you feel on interest.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Right now the thing that happened, And then I find
myself trying to come up with things like, well, what
that happened?
Speaker 9 (31:07):
Me?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Off, what did Gary do? That was stupid? Wait, like
something just kidding. I never have to think about that.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
One crack myself. You've been listening to The Gary and
Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
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