December 22, 2025 • 31 mins
Gary & Shannon run through What’s Happening, covering the stories making waves right now. They dive into #GasFantasy4Play, mixing laughs with listener imagination, and keep the energy going with #MotivationalMonday.
The hour also includes a classic Gary moment, as he shares how a garage-door project went sideways and left him with an injured finger — a reminder that DIY confidence can be dangerous.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Pretty sure it's AI generated. So I'm a little bit
I feel a little bit dirty because of that.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
But it is a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Channel that I found that just recreates all of the
greatest hip hop songs in the last twenty twenty five
years as nineteen fifties soul music.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh, that's right up your alley.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's fascinating. And again I think it's Oh, I've.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Seen it general, Oh, I have seen this. I saw
this a while back on Instagram. That's very popular. It's
definitely not like jazz and stuff soul.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, it's just I think it's a really creative And
again I.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Don't like it because it's so it is AI and
it's so fake and gross. That's why. Yeah, but that's okay.
It's it's okay to delight in some things. Just realize
that they are fake. You know, it's like the what
what was that?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
What else is going on?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't get it?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Time for what's happening.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I didn't say that the biggest Christmas storm in years
is coming. This week I did not do that strong
atmospheric storm expected to bring in what they said, copious
amounts of rain across much of the area, along with
very strong winds at times.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
This rainfall has already started.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's been going on in the Pacific Northwest for days now,
and it is making its way down the coast.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We do expect to see.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Tomorrow night is when we're going to see most widespread
rain throughout southern California. It's going to stick with us
through Wednesday. In fact, they're talking about this, it's not
just a strong storm. They're talking about it potentially being
a record setting storm for the amount of rain that
is forecast for Wednesday into Thursday. Floodwatch begins tomorrow afternoon
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and goes through Friday. It looks like and it's going
to stay up. Four to eight inches of rain over
the course of.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
A few days is what they're expecting.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The powerball jackpot is at one point six billion dollars,
one of the largest lottery prices in US history. No
ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday. Do you
want to know the balls? The numbers? What sure four, five,
twenty eight, fifty two, sixty nine and the red power
Ball of twenty Nobody guessed those.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So this will be the fifth largest for tonight's drawing.
The largest, of course, was the two point h four
billion that was won by the guy here.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Conway does good coverage on the power Ball. He gets
into it. Restaurants that are going to be open on
Christmas Day, Yeah, just in case the wife kicks you out,
you know, or you need a little me time with
something that's you know, you want to pull up too
to a Burger King and get a value meil and
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eat it by yourself in the car. Just a calm down,
a little trying to calm down a little bit, cry,
get away from the stress of the day.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're not giving any solids either. When it comes to
the football schedule, there's a lot of pointless games Christmas Day,
Christmas Day, Yeah, okay, So these are the restaurant chains
that will be open Christmas Day. Apple Bee's, RBI's, Burger King, Denny's, Domino's,
Duncan Ihop, Jack in the Box, McDonald's, Red Lobster, Cadoba, Starbucks,
waffle House, and Wendy's. Just in case.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The latest.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
When it comes to Paramount's attempt to take over Warner
Brothers Discovery. Oracle founder Larry Ellison has personally guaranteed more
than forty billion dollars to support Paramount's bid for Warner
Brothers Discovery. That's about a one hundred and eight billion
dollar offer. They are trying to take it out of
the hands of Netflix. Netflix has already approved the eighty
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two points seven billion dollar Sorry, Warner Brothers has already
approved the eighty two point seven billion from Netflix to
take it over.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The guy who created Call of Duty has reportedly died
in a car wreck over the weekend. Angelus Crest Highway
dangerous stretch of road. Vincent Zimpela CHP says it was
a single car crash about twelve forty five pm yesterday
afternoon near mile marker sixty two in Altadena area there
on Angelus Crest. Two people were involved in the crash.
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One of the victims pronounced dead. NBC's reporting that that
was Vincent, the guy who developed Call of Duty. They
say that they don't know much other than the car
was heading south when it veered off the road and
struck a concrete barrier, igniting a fire. He was repaired
or reportedly stuck inside the driver's seat. A passenger was ejected,
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later died at a hospital. No word on their identity. Awful,
Do we have any good stuff? Talk about good news?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
By the way, I we don't have any good news.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I'll find some good news. The Christmas play is turning
out to be quite the production. I think we should
get into a little bit about what's going on around here.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
You enjoy this.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I don't know why you think that I have done
anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's simply not that you've done anything wrong. It's that
you enjoy it. When it goes wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It hasn't gone wrong. I think it's great that people
want to be involved.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
They just want the cookies. I don't think they.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Want anything to do.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, I think people like being involved. It's something we
can all do. We can do it together, and we
can do it live. Those things are very rare these days.
And if you you know, I think that this is
a great thing. Sure. I mean, whenever you're dealing with
huge personalities, you know you have a bunch of stars,
you're going to have to deal with those personalities. And
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that's what you're learning that you're the director of this,
you're the producer of this, and you're learning now what
they have to go through and dealing with all these
personalities and stars and making sure everyone is taken care
of and feels good in their part and has a part.
And sometimes you have to say no and that sucks,
but that's part of being the boss of a production.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Got to coordinate everybody's contract writer. Somebody wants the green
m and ms. Other people don't want the right.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
We've got Deborah that can't have You know, meats is it?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
But you're not allergic to anything? Right, I don't know.
I'm not necessarily allergic. But my body doesn't handle dairy
very well.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
No dairy understandable, No meat, No dairy.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I know, I'm I'm I'm difficult.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
No no, no, you're not trust me. Yeah, there's much
worse out there.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
When we come back.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Our gast Fantasy for Play recap Big Game for Tonight.
Also Motivational Monday, A very Christmas y Motivational Monday.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Oh you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We will be here all today, tomorrow and Christmas Eve
on Wednesday. Join us. It's going to be a special
show on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It will be live.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
We are bringing the whole gang in here to do
our production, Gary's production of a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's ours.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, you write it, you do all the work on
it is your production. You do a fantastic job on it,
and you should get all the all the accolades. We
even have people that are not working on Christmas Eve
that are coming in to be in the play. And
that's really cool. That's really that makes me feel like
that holiday warm heart thing that people talk about.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Should we have a barrier for entry? Like everybody's got
to bring us something to share? No, I don't think so,
that's not what it's all about. It's about being together.
What do you want them to bring a sock or something?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well? It's just that, Sae.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's about being together.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It is about being together.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Should all wear like holiday pajamas? A salesperson very Christmas? Okay,
so you have a little bit of the spirit. I
too can have a little bit of the spirit.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But it's weird. Just so you know, I feel a
little off balance because of whatever you've got going on.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Weirdo tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, oh my god, I know, I've been watching all
the porn all day long.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Explained that I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I've been watching all the football porn on social media.
You know, Chargers win. Chargers have quietly won seven of
their last eight games. Defense is playing lights out, justin
Herbert's playing like he's a superhero and has no injuries.
In fact, he's playing more physical than when he's not injured.
And then the forty nine ers have no reason to
be where they're at, fighting for the number one seed
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in the NFC. Is a go to Indianapolis Knight to
take on Philip Rivers, question Mark what and the Indianapolis Colts.
They're fighting for a spot, a wild card spot in
the playoffs. A lot going on, a lot of excitement here,
there's a college football you were well, you were speaking.
They just ripped the jersey off of one guy and
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changed his number. Why, I have no idea. This is
the famous Idaho Potato Bowl. I love Idaho potatoes at.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
The Boise States Field. So it's blue, but Washington State.
That guy that just caught the ball, number zero Freeman.
He was wearing a jersey that had him as number eighteen,
and they took it. They took it off, and I don't,
I don't. Did he receive a punt, the return of
punt wearing, the other jersey runs off, and then they
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ripped that one off of him and underneath it is
the number zero jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Elmer, how did we do this week when it came
to our guest Fantasy four play?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Okay? So, uh Shannon, so sorry you did not get
any right?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Get any right?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
It was xxxx not the good.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Can you remember what games we picked? It was like,
tell me what games we picked? So, yeah, the Tampa
Bay Carolina because I could not believe Baker threw that pick,
like I heard that. We were like getting ready to
leave the stadium and somebody said the Panthers beat the
Bucks and I said, what, Baker's never lost to the
Panthers ever since they traded him in twenty twenty two.
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And they throws a pick to end it like that awful.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yeah, And then it was like, uh, well, skipping through
the Vikings and Giants.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Vikings, Giants, Yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
It was like the Vikings one, even though I was
like Giants and you know what else? It was like
Patriots and uh.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh yeah last night's game Patriots.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, and the Ravens yeah, and the Patriots one, which
is awesome, but you went with you know, I did.
The crazy one was the Chiefs and the Titans because
you were going ham on like we were all joking
on the Titans, and it's like that ended up winning.
So that was crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Everybody lost that one.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
No, Richie won. Richie got that one.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He did. Yeah, what point of the game did Garner
Minshew come out? Was he playing well at all? Like?
I didn't see anything about that game. I mean, part
of the beauty is being able to travel with the
Chargers and be on the Sideline's cool. But you've missed
I miss like all the other games, So I have
no idea what happened.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
He only had eight attempted passes.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I don't know if that that doesn't tell you a
whole lot, considering Chris Oladokin only had sixteen attempted passes.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But so he played the first part.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He was three for eight and he had about fifteen
yards when he got hurt.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So not great early it was true, what did you do?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Me?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah? How did we do?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Shannon sucks?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
No, yeah, he did great? You went three three correct?
Speaker 8 (12:01):
One?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Not correct?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I went too correct than too wrong and Ritchie three correct,
one not correct.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So you're nice job. Oh my god, I love it
so much.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And then tonight, I mean I made the joke earlier
that they're going to carry Philip Rivers off the field.
I was saying it if if he wins, if the
Colts are able to beat the forty nine ers, they're
going to carry him off the field. But you also
made the point they may carry him off the field regardless.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, they're not going to carry him off the field.
It's not a win in they're in situation for the Colts.
They're going to need more help to get into the playoffs,
but they need to win to they need to win.
They have to win, but more needs to happen for
them to get in the playoffs. At this point, they
are a team on the outside looking in, and I
must say it doesn't look good for them because in
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the AFC, you've got aside from the division leaders, you've
got one, two, three teams aside from the division leaders
who have ten or eleven wins, and the Colts have eight.
So it doesn't even look like they could get a
wild card in case something happened to one of those teams.
Where you know, disaster strikes and they I don't know,
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they lose both and you went out. It's it's it's
a tough road.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That is crazy, the difference between the AFC and NFC.
The AFC, there's only two guaranteed playoff teams right now,
the Broncos and the Patriots. Everybody else is fighting for
the five other spots, is it? So this is just
the what it started out.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
They only have eight wins. Like I said, they only
have eight wins, so yeah, Jaguars, Steelers, Chargers, Bills, Texas
all have more than that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
This has been a weird, weird football season.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, it's been great. I mean you've talked about, we've
talked about we've named games. Oh that's the game of
the week. Oh that's the game of the year. Like
every week it's been instant classics.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, and it's been fun to watch, and it's been
fun to even as a the more casual fan, I
think it's easy to get involved in all of it.
So tonight's game just after five o'clock, of course, the
forty nine Ers are in Indianapolis to take on the Colts.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Helmed by a weathered but happy Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Forty nine ers on a four game win streak right
now too.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
When we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
A Motivational Monday, a Christmas edition Motivational Monday, also very familiar.
This will not be this will not be random out
of nowhere. You'll know this one pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Wonderful.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh and then are you going to ask me about
Mike Roge door opener?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, we'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
The NFL has suspended Denzel Perriman for two games for
repeated violations of playing rules. Oh, I'm sorry, because he
plays physical and he tackles. He was penalized yesterday in
the second quarter for unnecessary roughness. Actually, Harbor. I saw
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Harbaugh go up to him on the sideline and said,
what happened next time, don't put your helmet down. Two
games is severe? Is severe.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I don't think I saw what the problem was. Is
putting his helmet down is more of a danger to
himself because it was a helmet to helmet. Oh, so
it was like, don't leave you to your helmet.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't think I've ever heard of somebody being two.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Games for that in playoff season, getting to playoff season,
you're going to suspend him for the last two games
of the season.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
If I'm not mistaken, the Union will appeal and he'll
probably get it knocked down to one game.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But still, that's wow, that's awful and blowney.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
President Trump is scheduled to make an announcement from Florida
about one thirty this afternoon. He's been meeting, we know,
with the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and State. We
do know according to the White House, the announcement today
at about one point thirty, like I said, would be
alongside the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsef and Secretary of
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the Navy John Feelin and has still no specific information
about what exactly they're going to talk about, but you
would imagine that this would have something to do with
oil tanker seizures in international waters. We know that there
was another one that was seized on Saturday, and the
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Coastguard has been following or pursuing a third oil tanker.
As of early this morning, that was the last report,
so I we'll see if that is in fact what
they're going to be talking about. Internationally, a Russian general
has been killed by one of those pesky car bombs.
Russia's Investigative Committee said that a Lieutenant General Fanilarvarov died
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after an explosive device fitted in his car exploded in
what appeared to be a suspected assassination by Ukrainians. He
was the head of the Department of Operational Training for
the Russian Armed Forces, just recently promoted by Vladimir Putin.
Was known to have been close to Russia's Chief of
the Defense Staff, guy named Valerie Gerasimov.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
That is if you are if you're scoring at home.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And Barry Manilow came out today with information he is
been recently diagnosed with lung cancer and some January concert
dates are going to have to be rescheduled in order
for him to have surgery. Don't know quite what the
nature of the surgery is, but he put a statement
on Instagram that said that an MRI scan detected a
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cancerous spot on one of his lungs after he suffered
a lengthy about a bronchitis while he was doing a
residency in out in Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So would you like to do your motivational Monday?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Would I listen? We try to get things. This is
going to be a rough week for some people for
whatever reasons, but it also is going to be a
great week for some people because of the Christmas holiday.
And maybe you've already got your time off, maybe your
time off is coming and you're looking forward to it.
This is an opportunity for us to kind of point
our needles all in the right direction. I love pointing
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our needles, finding our true north, finding our true North.
And one of the great stories that we all are
aware of and accustomed to and most of us enjoy.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Nanook of the North, No, but close north By Northwest.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Very funny that you should say that, because who starred
in north By Northwest?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
An older actor.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
His name was He's been in everything and Merrick, What
we want? Mary? You want the Moon?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Jimmy Stewart never mind, Sorry, you had a blank look
on your face. Jimmy Stuart in north By Northwest. Yes,
but before that, he was also in What are We
playing with Today? What do you got going on? You
have football on your brain. I do not.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Everything else is blocked out.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, I'm not thinking about black and white movies right now.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
In your eyes, it's a color lie. It's a wonderful lie.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Right, Well, I knew that. It just seemed a little
too on the note he plays George Bailey. What else
was everything, Jimmy Stewart everything. George is planning a world
tour before he ships off to college, and that's where
he meets Mary, Mary who's loved him since they were
both kids. But when George's father dies from a stroke,
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George has to postpone his travel. He's got to settle
the family business, the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
One of the.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Board members, the mean guy Harry Henry Potter, owns most
of the town.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I liked him best in Rear Window. That's a great one,
great movie.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Henry Potter's trying to dissolve the Bailey Building and loan
and George, George lets him have it in the board meeting.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
What does that get? This a discontented, lazy rabble instead.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Of a thrifty working class.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
And all because a few starry eye dreamers like Peter
Bailey stir them up and fill their head with a
lot of impossible ideas. Now I said a matter of.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Just a minute.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Now, hold on a minute. Now, you're right when you
say my father was no business man. I know that
why he ever started this cheap pannyany building alone, I'll
never know. But neither you nor anybody else can say
anything against his character because his whole life was by
in the twenty five years since he and Uncle Billy
started this thing, he never once thought of himself. And
that right, Uncle Billy. He didn't save enough money to
send Harry to school, let alone me, but he did
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help a few people get out of your slums, mister Potter.
And what's wrong with that body here? You're all businessman here?
Don't make them better citizens, doesn't make them better customers.
You said that, what you say this a minute ago?
They had to wait and save their money, and before
they even thought of a decent home. Wait for what
until their children grow up and leave them until they're
so old and broke them down that you know how
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long it takes a working man to say five thousand dollars.
Just remember this, mister Potter, that this rabble you're talking about,
they do most of the working and paying and living
and dying in this community. Well, is it too much
to have them work and pay and live and die
in a couple of decent rooms in a bath anyway,
my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him,
but to you, a warp frustrated old man their cattle. Well,
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in my book he died a much richer man than
you'll ever be. I'm not interested in your book.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I'm talking about the building and loan.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I know very well what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
You're talking about something you can't get your fingers on,
and that's galling you. That's what you're talking about. I know. Well,
I've said too much. You're the board here. You do
what you want with this thing. There's just one thing more, though.
This town needs this measly one horse institution, if only
to have someplace where people can come without crawling. The plotter.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
That's a great role in my defense, and it's not
a defense, but to understand where I'm coming from in
my ignorance. The last movie Jimmy Stewart appeared in was
made the year I was born.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh yeah, I'm not blaming.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
He was in everything in the thirties and forties and fifties,
and in that last movie he appeared in. He appeared
in the movie as the old man. That was his character.
You know I'm not in I'm not an actor. You're
an actor, You've got a great encyclopedic, but you love
knowledge of movies. Yeah, but I like movies that were
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made in like the nineties, you know, like that's my
I'm not a good like historic movie history person. Like
I've never seen Citizen Kane. I've never seen everything I
say right now forward is going to make you unhappy.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So no, I'm not unhappy. I just you know what
I look forward to.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I look forward to you experiencing those movies for the
first time.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Lucky you should I do that, go back and experience all.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Those Yeah, some of them don't translate. Well, some of
them aren't. You know they were. They were considered masterpieces
in the fifties. But they're like this is it, that's all. Yeah,
we come a long way.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
The last movie that I watched with this preamble was
The Bridge Over River Kwai, and I learned I got
no joy out of that. It was a slog and
I understand. I understand it was important for cinematic history.
I didn't feel it was important circa two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, those aren't for everybody.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
No, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Don't forget this Wednesday, a special production of a Christmas Carol.
Gary has written the play to kind of personalize it.
There are people here that will fit all the roles.
People coming in on Christmas Eve who aren't even working
that day to be part of the production. So when
you're running around doing things in the house, or running errands,
last minute touches, or just hanging out at the house,
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turn us on. The production will be on Wednesday, Christmas Eve,
live and human guaranteed. That sounds so creepy when you
say it, live and human. Yeah, what are the options
after that's a dead human? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
My wife on Saturday said, hey, you notice the garage
door doesn't go up all the way And I said, what, Yeah,
I guess I mean now that you pointed out, yeah,
it could go a little further. So there are controls
on your garage door, at least one that was put
up thirty years ago. It's just a little screwhead basically,
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and you could turn it half a turn and it
would go up an extra six inches. So you turn
a full turn that goes up another foot or something
like that. And I was trying to adjust the garage
door by opening the garage door and adjusting the thing,
and then closing it, and then opening the garage door
and adjusting a little bit more, and apparently I blew
the motor out on the garage door opener. It was
(25:16):
a one third horse power. It's not that powerful. It's
one of the weaker ones that you can get. It's
a wide door, so it's not that heavy. Plusitor's a
spring on. Anyway, I blew up the garage door opener basically,
and I had to get a new one.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So I found the one that I wanted.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I had to drive down here into the valley to
get it early yesterday morning, and then I spent four
hours I think it was installed, taking down the old
garage door opener and installing the new garage door opener,
and on behalf of myself and everybody, I think me
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because it is so much different, it's so much quieter,
it's such a huge it's amazing the difference that it makes. Again,
a thirty year old chain driven clanging loud.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
The door is all creak.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It really makes a huge difference when your garage door
has a working situation.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It is true, but I was totally intimidated by the
idea of taking down a garage door opener and putting
up a new one. But they all of this has
become so much easier than if if I had done
this ten years ago, I would it would have come
with a giant booklet on how to install it, and
you would have read the whole I would have read
the whole stupid thing because I'm a stupid rule follower
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and I hate it.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
No it's good.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No, it's not good because it takes out any sort
of creativity or a critical thinking that I have if
I just follow the rules that somebody translated from Chinese
into English. Oh, I'm sure I'm going to nail it.
But now I think I already deleted with the YouTube.
Before YouTube, I mean, instead of YouTube, you can this.
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It did come with an instruction booklet, like a maintenance booklet.
Here's what this flashing light means on your garage door.
So there was a QR code on the cover of it,
and you just snap that QR code, hold your phone
over it, and it opens up an app or downloads
an app called I think it's called build or built
(27:23):
bilt something like that. You type in whatever the model
number is on whatever you have, and it shows you
step by step video instructions on how to do it.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I don't mean like a twenty five minute YouTube video.
I mean it shows you step one, open the box,
press here when you're ready, and then you click through.
It was so easy to put that thing up well,
and I think those videos are great.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And you know it, I said, you know, my husband
has fixed various things around the house. He fixed the dryer,
which I thought was impressive, a number of things, electrical things,
all the things. I remember I told you last week
about I think my toilet's leaking. And I said to
him yesterday, I said, hey, do you have the number
(28:13):
of that plumber we used years ago? I really liked him.
He was great. He did some work on the faucet
and he goes, no, I have no idea, and I go, okay,
I just you know, I really liked that guy. And
he's like, well, I took a look at it and
it's not really leaking. And there's a couple places where
it could be leaking from a couple you know, it
could be the lid itself. Are you leaning back? I
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was like, Gary asked me that I'll just sit there
and lean back like, oh, I'm just going to take
a load off on the toilet. And then he looked
at me like, well, you know, it's a perfectly plausible question.
And I said no, and then he said and I go, well,
I just I don't even know who to call it.
He goes, no, No, I'm putting in the new toilet. And
(28:57):
I'm like, oh, f because I'm really happy with what
YouTube has provided in terms of home improvement guidance. Sure,
but there are some things that seem like would be
a disaster if if if it didn't go as smoothly
as other things have gone.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And that's the fear.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And uh, and I'm worried about this one. But my brother,
But my brother's a plumber. My brother replaced our other
toilet in like five minutes, by the way, Yeah, while
talking to us the whole time. He's like, oh, yeah, bye, broh,
did you see that b rh new toilet in? It
was ridiculous And it's fine. But this is what he does. Yeah,
(29:41):
I mean he does it. He probably does it four
or five times a week. Your husband does it four
or five times in a lifetime. You don't see Andy
going to practice law on his spare time just because
I can. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I saw it on YouTube, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Exactly, I saw a few. Good man, I'll tell me, I.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Have confidence in your husband. That's the thing is he's
patient enough to do it slowly.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
This is true.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's the people who think they can do it, they
do it too fast. They forget that, Oh, he'll take
his time. Wax ring is all jacked up or whatever. Yeah,
and you don't even have to use wax rings anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
But the good news is because he's gonna do it,
it probably won't get done for another three calendar years.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
It's so mean.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Bhi, Gary Shannon, Gary.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
Jimmy Stewart was not in north By North Well, boy,
it was Carrie.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
People are losing theirs.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
Also in my one of my favorite movies, Arsenic and
Old Lace. He was also in the Bishop's Wife and
countless numerous other movies. But Jimmy Stewart was not in
the north By Northwest Blew Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Guys, that's what I Christmas saying it with authority, even.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Come on, confidence, I do that all the time. I'm
wrong about ninety seven percent of what I say. We
got yeah, one message. It was all in caps, thirty
north By Northwest, good about thirty talk backs? Did we really?
As soon as I got that all caps, I was like,
all the floodgates are open, ladies and gentlemen, all right?
That won the Oscar? Did it not? North By Northwest?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I don't know. I'm not going to say anything.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
The two of them were both together in a Philadelphia story.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I wouldn't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Now you know nothing. Now you're like, I don't know anything,
don't ask me my name.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Whose show is next?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I don't know, could be anybody, John Cobalt show coming
up next. We'll stay drive everybody lessens.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Pretty sure it's AI generated. So I'm a little bit
I feel a little bit dirty because of that.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
But it is a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Channel that I found that just recreates all of the
greatest hip hop songs in the last twenty twenty five
years as nineteen fifties soul music.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh, that's right up your alley.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's fascinating. And again I think it's Oh, I've.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Seen it general, Oh, I have seen this. I saw
this a while back on Instagram. That's very popular. It's
definitely not like jazz and stuff soul.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, it's just I think it's a really creative And
again I.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Don't like it because it's so it is AI and
it's so fake and gross. That's why. Yeah, but that's okay.
It's it's okay to delight in some things. Just realize
that they are fake. You know, it's like the what
what was that?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
What else is going on?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't get it?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Time for what's happening.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I didn't say that the biggest Christmas storm in years
is coming. This week I did not do that strong
atmospheric storm expected to bring in what they said, copious
amounts of rain across much of the area, along with
very strong winds at times.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
This rainfall has already started.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's been going on in the Pacific Northwest for days now,
and it is making its way down the coast.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We do expect to see.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Tomorrow night is when we're going to see most widespread
rain throughout southern California. It's going to stick with us
through Wednesday. In fact, they're talking about this, it's not
just a strong storm. They're talking about it potentially being
a record setting storm for the amount of rain that
is forecast for Wednesday into Thursday. Floodwatch begins tomorrow afternoon
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and goes through Friday. It looks like and it's going
to stay up. Four to eight inches of rain over
the course of.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
A few days is what they're expecting.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The powerball jackpot is at one point six billion dollars,
one of the largest lottery prices in US history. No
ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday. Do you
want to know the balls? The numbers? What sure four, five,
twenty eight, fifty two, sixty nine and the red power
Ball of twenty Nobody guessed those.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So this will be the fifth largest for tonight's drawing.
The largest, of course, was the two point h four
billion that was won by the guy here.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Conway does good coverage on the power Ball. He gets
into it. Restaurants that are going to be open on
Christmas Day, Yeah, just in case the wife kicks you out,
you know, or you need a little me time with
something that's you know, you want to pull up too
to a Burger King and get a value meil and
(03:02):
eat it by yourself in the car. Just a calm down,
a little trying to calm down a little bit, cry,
get away from the stress of the day.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're not giving any solids either. When it comes to
the football schedule, there's a lot of pointless games Christmas Day,
Christmas Day, Yeah, okay, So these are the restaurant chains
that will be open Christmas Day. Apple Bee's, RBI's, Burger King, Denny's, Domino's,
Duncan Ihop, Jack in the Box, McDonald's, Red Lobster, Cadoba, Starbucks,
waffle House, and Wendy's. Just in case.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The latest.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
When it comes to Paramount's attempt to take over Warner
Brothers Discovery. Oracle founder Larry Ellison has personally guaranteed more
than forty billion dollars to support Paramount's bid for Warner
Brothers Discovery. That's about a one hundred and eight billion
dollar offer. They are trying to take it out of
the hands of Netflix. Netflix has already approved the eighty
(03:59):
two points seven billion dollar Sorry, Warner Brothers has already
approved the eighty two point seven billion from Netflix to
take it over.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The guy who created Call of Duty has reportedly died
in a car wreck over the weekend. Angelus Crest Highway
dangerous stretch of road. Vincent Zimpela CHP says it was
a single car crash about twelve forty five pm yesterday
afternoon near mile marker sixty two in Altadena area there
on Angelus Crest. Two people were involved in the crash.
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One of the victims pronounced dead. NBC's reporting that that
was Vincent, the guy who developed Call of Duty. They
say that they don't know much other than the car
was heading south when it veered off the road and
struck a concrete barrier, igniting a fire. He was repaired
or reportedly stuck inside the driver's seat. A passenger was ejected,
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later died at a hospital. No word on their identity. Awful,
Do we have any good stuff? Talk about good news?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
By the way, I we don't have any good news.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I'll find some good news. The Christmas play is turning
out to be quite the production. I think we should
get into a little bit about what's going on around here.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
You enjoy this.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I don't know why you think that I have done
anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's simply not that you've done anything wrong. It's that
you enjoy it. When it goes wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It hasn't gone wrong. I think it's great that people
want to be involved.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
They just want the cookies. I don't think they.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Want anything to do.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, I think people like being involved. It's something we
can all do. We can do it together, and we
can do it live. Those things are very rare these days.
And if you you know, I think that this is
a great thing. Sure. I mean, whenever you're dealing with
huge personalities, you know you have a bunch of stars,
you're going to have to deal with those personalities. And
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that's what you're learning that you're the director of this,
you're the producer of this, and you're learning now what
they have to go through and dealing with all these
personalities and stars and making sure everyone is taken care
of and feels good in their part and has a part.
And sometimes you have to say no and that sucks,
but that's part of being the boss of a production.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Got to coordinate everybody's contract writer. Somebody wants the green
m and ms. Other people don't want the right.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
We've got Deborah that can't have You know, meats is it?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
But you're not allergic to anything? Right, I don't know.
I'm not necessarily allergic. But my body doesn't handle dairy
very well.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
No dairy understandable, No meat, No dairy.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I know, I'm I'm I'm difficult.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
No no, no, you're not trust me. Yeah, there's much
worse out there.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
When we come back.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Our gast Fantasy for Play recap Big Game for Tonight.
Also Motivational Monday, A very Christmas y Motivational Monday.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Oh you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We will be here all today, tomorrow and Christmas Eve
on Wednesday. Join us. It's going to be a special
show on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It will be live.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
We are bringing the whole gang in here to do
our production, Gary's production of a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's ours.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, you write it, you do all the work on
it is your production. You do a fantastic job on it,
and you should get all the all the accolades. We
even have people that are not working on Christmas Eve
that are coming in to be in the play. And
that's really cool. That's really that makes me feel like
that holiday warm heart thing that people talk about.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Should we have a barrier for entry? Like everybody's got
to bring us something to share? No, I don't think so,
that's not what it's all about. It's about being together.
What do you want them to bring a sock or something?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well? It's just that, Sae.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's about being together.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It is about being together.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Should all wear like holiday pajamas? A salesperson very Christmas? Okay,
so you have a little bit of the spirit. I
too can have a little bit of the spirit.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But it's weird. Just so you know, I feel a
little off balance because of whatever you've got going on.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Weirdo tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, oh my god, I know, I've been watching all
the porn all day long.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Explained that I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I've been watching all the football porn on social media.
You know, Chargers win. Chargers have quietly won seven of
their last eight games. Defense is playing lights out, justin
Herbert's playing like he's a superhero and has no injuries.
In fact, he's playing more physical than when he's not injured.
And then the forty nine ers have no reason to
be where they're at, fighting for the number one seed
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in the NFC. Is a go to Indianapolis Knight to
take on Philip Rivers, question Mark what and the Indianapolis Colts.
They're fighting for a spot, a wild card spot in
the playoffs. A lot going on, a lot of excitement here,
there's a college football you were well, you were speaking.
They just ripped the jersey off of one guy and
(09:19):
changed his number. Why, I have no idea. This is
the famous Idaho Potato Bowl. I love Idaho potatoes at.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
The Boise States Field. So it's blue, but Washington State.
That guy that just caught the ball, number zero Freeman.
He was wearing a jersey that had him as number eighteen,
and they took it. They took it off, and I don't,
I don't. Did he receive a punt, the return of
punt wearing, the other jersey runs off, and then they
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ripped that one off of him and underneath it is
the number zero jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Elmer, how did we do this week when it came
to our guest Fantasy four play?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Okay? So, uh Shannon, so sorry you did not get
any right?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Get any right?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
It was xxxx not the good.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Can you remember what games we picked? It was like,
tell me what games we picked? So, yeah, the Tampa
Bay Carolina because I could not believe Baker threw that pick,
like I heard that. We were like getting ready to
leave the stadium and somebody said the Panthers beat the
Bucks and I said, what, Baker's never lost to the
Panthers ever since they traded him in twenty twenty two.
(10:31):
And they throws a pick to end it like that awful.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yeah, And then it was like, uh, well, skipping through
the Vikings and Giants.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Vikings, Giants, Yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
It was like the Vikings one, even though I was
like Giants and you know what else? It was like
Patriots and uh.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh yeah last night's game Patriots.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, and the Ravens yeah, and the Patriots one, which
is awesome, but you went with you know, I did.
The crazy one was the Chiefs and the Titans because
you were going ham on like we were all joking
on the Titans, and it's like that ended up winning.
So that was crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Everybody lost that one.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
No, Richie won. Richie got that one.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He did. Yeah, what point of the game did Garner
Minshew come out? Was he playing well at all? Like?
I didn't see anything about that game. I mean, part
of the beauty is being able to travel with the
Chargers and be on the Sideline's cool. But you've missed
I miss like all the other games, So I have
no idea what happened.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
He only had eight attempted passes.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I don't know if that that doesn't tell you a
whole lot, considering Chris Oladokin only had sixteen attempted passes.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But so he played the first part.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He was three for eight and he had about fifteen
yards when he got hurt.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So not great early it was true, what did you do?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Me?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah? How did we do?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Shannon sucks?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
No, yeah, he did great? You went three three correct?
Speaker 8 (12:01):
One?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Not correct?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I went too correct than too wrong and Ritchie three correct,
one not correct.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So you're nice job. Oh my god, I love it
so much.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And then tonight, I mean I made the joke earlier
that they're going to carry Philip Rivers off the field.
I was saying it if if he wins, if the
Colts are able to beat the forty nine ers, they're
going to carry him off the field. But you also
made the point they may carry him off the field regardless.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, they're not going to carry him off the field.
It's not a win in they're in situation for the Colts.
They're going to need more help to get into the playoffs,
but they need to win to they need to win.
They have to win, but more needs to happen for
them to get in the playoffs. At this point, they
are a team on the outside looking in, and I
must say it doesn't look good for them because in
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the AFC, you've got aside from the division leaders, you've
got one, two, three teams aside from the division leaders
who have ten or eleven wins, and the Colts have eight.
So it doesn't even look like they could get a
wild card in case something happened to one of those teams.
Where you know, disaster strikes and they I don't know,
(13:16):
they lose both and you went out. It's it's it's
a tough road.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That is crazy, the difference between the AFC and NFC.
The AFC, there's only two guaranteed playoff teams right now,
the Broncos and the Patriots. Everybody else is fighting for
the five other spots, is it? So this is just
the what it started out.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
They only have eight wins. Like I said, they only
have eight wins, so yeah, Jaguars, Steelers, Chargers, Bills, Texas
all have more than that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
This has been a weird, weird football season.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, it's been great. I mean you've talked about, we've
talked about we've named games. Oh that's the game of
the week. Oh that's the game of the year. Like
every week it's been instant classics.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, and it's been fun to watch, and it's been
fun to even as a the more casual fan, I
think it's easy to get involved in all of it.
So tonight's game just after five o'clock, of course, the
forty nine Ers are in Indianapolis to take on the Colts.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Helmed by a weathered but happy Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Forty nine ers on a four game win streak right
now too.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
When we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
A Motivational Monday, a Christmas edition Motivational Monday, also very familiar.
This will not be this will not be random out
of nowhere. You'll know this one pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Wonderful.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh and then are you going to ask me about
Mike Roge door opener?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, we'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
The NFL has suspended Denzel Perriman for two games for
repeated violations of playing rules. Oh, I'm sorry, because he
plays physical and he tackles. He was penalized yesterday in
the second quarter for unnecessary roughness. Actually, Harbor. I saw
(15:09):
Harbaugh go up to him on the sideline and said,
what happened next time, don't put your helmet down. Two
games is severe? Is severe.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I don't think I saw what the problem was. Is
putting his helmet down is more of a danger to
himself because it was a helmet to helmet. Oh, so
it was like, don't leave you to your helmet.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't think I've ever heard of somebody being two.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Games for that in playoff season, getting to playoff season,
you're going to suspend him for the last two games
of the season.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
If I'm not mistaken, the Union will appeal and he'll
probably get it knocked down to one game.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But still, that's wow, that's awful and blowney.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
President Trump is scheduled to make an announcement from Florida
about one thirty this afternoon. He's been meeting, we know,
with the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and State. We
do know according to the White House, the announcement today
at about one point thirty, like I said, would be
alongside the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsef and Secretary of
(16:15):
the Navy John Feelin and has still no specific information
about what exactly they're going to talk about, but you
would imagine that this would have something to do with
oil tanker seizures in international waters. We know that there
was another one that was seized on Saturday, and the
(16:36):
Coastguard has been following or pursuing a third oil tanker.
As of early this morning, that was the last report,
so I we'll see if that is in fact what
they're going to be talking about. Internationally, a Russian general
has been killed by one of those pesky car bombs.
Russia's Investigative Committee said that a Lieutenant General Fanilarvarov died
(17:00):
after an explosive device fitted in his car exploded in
what appeared to be a suspected assassination by Ukrainians. He
was the head of the Department of Operational Training for
the Russian Armed Forces, just recently promoted by Vladimir Putin.
Was known to have been close to Russia's Chief of
the Defense Staff, guy named Valerie Gerasimov.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
That is if you are if you're scoring at home.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And Barry Manilow came out today with information he is
been recently diagnosed with lung cancer and some January concert
dates are going to have to be rescheduled in order
for him to have surgery. Don't know quite what the
nature of the surgery is, but he put a statement
on Instagram that said that an MRI scan detected a
(17:46):
cancerous spot on one of his lungs after he suffered
a lengthy about a bronchitis while he was doing a
residency in out in Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So would you like to do your motivational Monday?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Would I listen? We try to get things. This is
going to be a rough week for some people for
whatever reasons, but it also is going to be a
great week for some people because of the Christmas holiday.
And maybe you've already got your time off, maybe your
time off is coming and you're looking forward to it.
This is an opportunity for us to kind of point
our needles all in the right direction. I love pointing
(18:19):
our needles, finding our true north, finding our true North.
And one of the great stories that we all are
aware of and accustomed to and most of us enjoy.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Nanook of the North, No, but close north By Northwest.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Very funny that you should say that, because who starred
in north By Northwest?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
An older actor.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
His name was He's been in everything and Merrick, What
we want? Mary? You want the Moon?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Jimmy Stewart never mind, Sorry, you had a blank look
on your face. Jimmy Stuart in north By Northwest. Yes,
but before that, he was also in What are We
playing with Today? What do you got going on? You
have football on your brain. I do not.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Everything else is blocked out.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, I'm not thinking about black and white movies right now.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
In your eyes, it's a color lie. It's a wonderful lie.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Right, Well, I knew that. It just seemed a little
too on the note he plays George Bailey. What else
was everything, Jimmy Stewart everything. George is planning a world
tour before he ships off to college, and that's where
he meets Mary, Mary who's loved him since they were
both kids. But when George's father dies from a stroke,
(19:43):
George has to postpone his travel. He's got to settle
the family business, the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
One of the.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Board members, the mean guy Harry Henry Potter, owns most
of the town.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I liked him best in Rear Window. That's a great one,
great movie.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Henry Potter's trying to dissolve the Bailey Building and loan
and George, George lets him have it in the board meeting.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
What does that get? This a discontented, lazy rabble instead.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Of a thrifty working class.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
And all because a few starry eye dreamers like Peter
Bailey stir them up and fill their head with a
lot of impossible ideas. Now I said a matter of.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Just a minute.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Now, hold on a minute. Now, you're right when you
say my father was no business man. I know that
why he ever started this cheap pannyany building alone, I'll
never know. But neither you nor anybody else can say
anything against his character because his whole life was by
in the twenty five years since he and Uncle Billy
started this thing, he never once thought of himself. And
that right, Uncle Billy. He didn't save enough money to
send Harry to school, let alone me, but he did
(20:50):
help a few people get out of your slums, mister Potter.
And what's wrong with that body here? You're all businessman here?
Don't make them better citizens, doesn't make them better customers.
You said that, what you say this a minute ago?
They had to wait and save their money, and before
they even thought of a decent home. Wait for what
until their children grow up and leave them until they're
so old and broke them down that you know how
(21:12):
long it takes a working man to say five thousand dollars.
Just remember this, mister Potter, that this rabble you're talking about,
they do most of the working and paying and living
and dying in this community. Well, is it too much
to have them work and pay and live and die
in a couple of decent rooms in a bath anyway,
my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him,
but to you, a warp frustrated old man their cattle. Well,
(21:34):
in my book he died a much richer man than
you'll ever be. I'm not interested in your book.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I'm talking about the building and loan.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I know very well what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
You're talking about something you can't get your fingers on,
and that's galling you. That's what you're talking about. I know. Well,
I've said too much. You're the board here. You do
what you want with this thing. There's just one thing more, though.
This town needs this measly one horse institution, if only
to have someplace where people can come without crawling. The plotter.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
That's a great role in my defense, and it's not
a defense, but to understand where I'm coming from in
my ignorance. The last movie Jimmy Stewart appeared in was
made the year I was born.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh yeah, I'm not blaming.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
He was in everything in the thirties and forties and fifties,
and in that last movie he appeared in. He appeared
in the movie as the old man. That was his character.
You know I'm not in I'm not an actor. You're
an actor, You've got a great encyclopedic, but you love
knowledge of movies. Yeah, but I like movies that were
(22:44):
made in like the nineties, you know, like that's my
I'm not a good like historic movie history person. Like
I've never seen Citizen Kane. I've never seen everything I
say right now forward is going to make you unhappy.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So no, I'm not unhappy. I just you know what
I look forward to.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I look forward to you experiencing those movies for the
first time.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Lucky you should I do that, go back and experience all.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Those Yeah, some of them don't translate. Well, some of
them aren't. You know they were. They were considered masterpieces
in the fifties. But they're like this is it, that's all. Yeah,
we come a long way.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
The last movie that I watched with this preamble was
The Bridge Over River Kwai, and I learned I got
no joy out of that. It was a slog and
I understand. I understand it was important for cinematic history.
I didn't feel it was important circa two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, those aren't for everybody.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
No, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Don't forget this Wednesday, a special production of a Christmas Carol.
Gary has written the play to kind of personalize it.
There are people here that will fit all the roles.
People coming in on Christmas Eve who aren't even working
that day to be part of the production. So when
you're running around doing things in the house, or running errands,
last minute touches, or just hanging out at the house,
(24:14):
turn us on. The production will be on Wednesday, Christmas Eve,
live and human guaranteed. That sounds so creepy when you
say it, live and human. Yeah, what are the options
after that's a dead human? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
My wife on Saturday said, hey, you notice the garage
door doesn't go up all the way And I said, what, Yeah,
I guess I mean now that you pointed out, yeah,
it could go a little further. So there are controls
on your garage door, at least one that was put
up thirty years ago. It's just a little screwhead basically,
(24:53):
and you could turn it half a turn and it
would go up an extra six inches. So you turn
a full turn that goes up another foot or something
like that. And I was trying to adjust the garage
door by opening the garage door and adjusting the thing,
and then closing it, and then opening the garage door
and adjusting a little bit more, and apparently I blew
the motor out on the garage door opener. It was
(25:16):
a one third horse power. It's not that powerful. It's
one of the weaker ones that you can get. It's
a wide door, so it's not that heavy. Plusitor's a
spring on. Anyway, I blew up the garage door opener basically,
and I had to get a new one.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So I found the one that I wanted.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I had to drive down here into the valley to
get it early yesterday morning, and then I spent four
hours I think it was installed, taking down the old
garage door opener and installing the new garage door opener,
and on behalf of myself and everybody, I think me
(25:54):
because it is so much different, it's so much quieter,
it's such a huge it's amazing the difference that it makes. Again,
a thirty year old chain driven clanging loud.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
The door is all creak.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It really makes a huge difference when your garage door
has a working situation.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It is true, but I was totally intimidated by the
idea of taking down a garage door opener and putting
up a new one. But they all of this has
become so much easier than if if I had done
this ten years ago, I would it would have come
with a giant booklet on how to install it, and
you would have read the whole I would have read
the whole stupid thing because I'm a stupid rule follower
(26:38):
and I hate it.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
No it's good.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No, it's not good because it takes out any sort
of creativity or a critical thinking that I have if
I just follow the rules that somebody translated from Chinese
into English. Oh, I'm sure I'm going to nail it.
But now I think I already deleted with the YouTube.
Before YouTube, I mean, instead of YouTube, you can this.
(27:02):
It did come with an instruction booklet, like a maintenance booklet.
Here's what this flashing light means on your garage door.
So there was a QR code on the cover of it,
and you just snap that QR code, hold your phone
over it, and it opens up an app or downloads
an app called I think it's called build or built
(27:23):
bilt something like that. You type in whatever the model
number is on whatever you have, and it shows you
step by step video instructions on how to do it.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I don't mean like a twenty five minute YouTube video.
I mean it shows you step one, open the box,
press here when you're ready, and then you click through.
It was so easy to put that thing up well,
and I think those videos are great.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And you know it, I said, you know, my husband
has fixed various things around the house. He fixed the dryer,
which I thought was impressive, a number of things, electrical things,
all the things. I remember I told you last week
about I think my toilet's leaking. And I said to
him yesterday, I said, hey, do you have the number
(28:13):
of that plumber we used years ago? I really liked him.
He was great. He did some work on the faucet
and he goes, no, I have no idea, and I go, okay,
I just you know, I really liked that guy. And
he's like, well, I took a look at it and
it's not really leaking. And there's a couple places where
it could be leaking from a couple you know, it
could be the lid itself. Are you leaning back? I
(28:37):
was like, Gary asked me that I'll just sit there
and lean back like, oh, I'm just going to take
a load off on the toilet. And then he looked
at me like, well, you know, it's a perfectly plausible question.
And I said no, and then he said and I go, well,
I just I don't even know who to call it.
He goes, no, No, I'm putting in the new toilet. And
(28:57):
I'm like, oh, f because I'm really happy with what
YouTube has provided in terms of home improvement guidance. Sure,
but there are some things that seem like would be
a disaster if if if it didn't go as smoothly
as other things have gone.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And that's the fear.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And uh, and I'm worried about this one. But my brother,
But my brother's a plumber. My brother replaced our other
toilet in like five minutes, by the way, Yeah, while
talking to us the whole time. He's like, oh, yeah, bye, broh,
did you see that b rh new toilet in? It
was ridiculous And it's fine. But this is what he does. Yeah,
(29:41):
I mean he does it. He probably does it four
or five times a week. Your husband does it four
or five times in a lifetime. You don't see Andy
going to practice law on his spare time just because
I can. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I saw it on YouTube, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Exactly, I saw a few. Good man, I'll tell me, I.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Have confidence in your husband. That's the thing is he's
patient enough to do it slowly.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
This is true.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's the people who think they can do it, they
do it too fast. They forget that, Oh, he'll take
his time. Wax ring is all jacked up or whatever. Yeah,
and you don't even have to use wax rings anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
But the good news is because he's gonna do it,
it probably won't get done for another three calendar years.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
It's so mean.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Bhi, Gary Shannon, Gary.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
Jimmy Stewart was not in north By North Well, boy,
it was Carrie.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
People are losing theirs.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
Also in my one of my favorite movies, Arsenic and
Old Lace. He was also in the Bishop's Wife and
countless numerous other movies. But Jimmy Stewart was not in
the north By Northwest Blew Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Guys, that's what I Christmas saying it with authority, even.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Come on, confidence, I do that all the time. I'm
wrong about ninety seven percent of what I say. We
got yeah, one message. It was all in caps, thirty
north By Northwest, good about thirty talk backs? Did we really?
As soon as I got that all caps, I was like,
all the floodgates are open, ladies and gentlemen, all right?
That won the Oscar? Did it not? North By Northwest?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I don't know. I'm not going to say anything.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
The two of them were both together in a Philadelphia story.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I wouldn't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Now you know nothing. Now you're like, I don't know anything,
don't ask me my name.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Whose show is next?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I don't know, could be anybody, John Cobalt show coming
up next. We'll stay drive everybody lessens.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
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