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July 19, 2025 13 mins
Shannon and guest host Michael Monks dive into a casual chat about stocking-stuffer crystals from “Santa” (or was it the Fashion District?) turns into a hilarious exploration of chakras, tarot, yoga sculpt, and the blurred lines between spiritual enlightenment and total nonsense. Is it spiritual awakening for the two?

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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. Okay, so this is our
weekend podcast. Always great to start with an okay. So
that's a strong start. That is the sign of a
pro right, right, Michael Monks is with me? What do
we call this again?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Keana? It is the uh the Gas Weekend FI. Right,
that is the name of this podcast. Listen.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I don't do all the you know, the organizational things
on the show.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I can tell you're committed.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
I just kind of go along. I go with the flow.
What do you have there, Michael Monks? Well, you know
we were talking about crystals earlier in the week, and
are these your treasured crystals?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
These are freshly added crystals that I got is a
stocking stuffer at Christmas from the old spouse because you
knows I like I like the crystals, I like the
incense and the you know, the spiritual world.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
So these are not from Santa.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Santa Claus brought these via the universe, sent these to me.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh okay, so your spouse knows Santa enough to give
him the crystals and then Santa puts them in your stocking.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
The universe simply guided his hand to this box at
that time.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Okay, because Santa brings me like his own stuff, like
what well, like the Santa stuff, and then like my
spouse gives me stuff, but it's separate from Santa stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah. Well I've always weard that.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Your spouse and Santa like do it together. I guess
it's all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Are you that's fine?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Like whatever you the collusion is throwing you off? Anyway,
This is we talked on the show. I've been I've
been so excited to spend an hour with you every day. Wow, Well,
Gary's away. I know everyone's excited. I'm excited for him
to get back on Monday. You're excited for him to
get back.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I will miss you dearly, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
But you know what, We're still here. You're still here,
and I will be your news anchor for an early
early part of the show on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Call so everybody listen at five am.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, that's gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'm going to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, I'm going to put you on and I'm gonna
you know, work out and listen to you.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's is it gonna be fun or is it gonna
be boring?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I tend to be a little more sardonic when I
have the morning show.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I didn't tell you that story.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Somebody asked me when I said I was filling in
for Gary, is it gonna be fun or is it
gonna be boring? I was like, f you, like they
have to question whether it's gonna be fun with you
just set out to be boring.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
If there's anything it's Shannon, could you be a little
more boring.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Here's the thing with you and I. We're not gonna
be boring, right, No, No.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
We're gonna We're gonna walk up to the line. You're
gonna cross it. I'm gonna run back and testify against
you because I can't lose this job.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're going straight over that line with me.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I won't, you will. I will go to the line
you have. I try to make it comfortable for you
to break the law. But this is what I tell
all my friends. Love you, But when the s hits
the fan, I'm taking the deal and testifying against you. Wow,
I'm taking the deal.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I didn't see it as being that person.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh, absolutely safe your own skin. Life's too short. Everyone's
too vulnerable.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
You will be good in politics. Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
So yeah, we talked about crystals during one of the
segments and got a lot of reaction from people because
I think there are a lot of secret Tarot fans.
Sure now you look at me, and you might not assume.
You know, I don't wear the clothes that maybe you
associate with this type of interest. I don't speak that way.
I don't listen to the music. But I got into
Taro years ago, not as a user, but as an

(03:29):
occasional consumer of it. And then that led me to
crystals and staging and all that, and I got this
chakra gift, and I brought this chakra gift which I
had never opened. Oh, we kept it there because this
is These are crystals to I guess open your chakra,
and that's not something I'm familiar with. There's several chakras,
there are several crystals to go with each, so I
thought I would bring them in because you probably need

(03:50):
a complete reset. Oh spiritually, really well, I think. So
I find that.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I went to Core Power Yoga sculpt yesterday at three
thirty and I killed it.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
No one's questioning, no one's questioning your physical prowess. I
just think you dance a little close to the sun.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Sometimes my chakras feel good.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I'll tell you that they do. Are you talking about
your core abdominals?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I could do better on that chakra. I don't know where.
I don't know anything.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Teach me.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I don't know anything about them either.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
So I know that my.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yoga matt has little circles to delineate where my chakras are.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh, they do. That's a fancy matt.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
I like yoga, but I haven't.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Seen I'm kind of a poser, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah. Well, that's how it starts, right, you know. You
start with the novelty. Oh, I'm an Aquarius, and I'll
buy a candle that says Aquarius on it, you know,
and then it gets deeper. It's a gateway drug, the
novelty things. And so I'm full on cocaine user at
this point in this stuff. I'm a hardcore user. Cut
that out, Keena, that people are got misinterpreted.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Cocaine any more.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Kids, We're both from the nineties, and and that was
a time when you could and you can't anymore.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh yeah, I'm sure you spent most of the late
nineties and a k hole.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
I well, anyway, tell me about the chakras.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Here's what we'll do, because I don't think we have
time to learn all about chakras together, because I can't
teach you because I don't know either. But they came
with what this is seven chakras are seven crystals, So.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
We're just basically playing with rocks.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
No what I'm curious about. Well, we'll do it this way. Look,
it's AM radio.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
You didn't google is like?

Speaker 3 (05:18):
They come with these cards.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
So.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Host you're not doing any legwork. You just show up
with your rocks and you expect all the work to
be done for you.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
And the checks keep rolling in, don't they All Right?
I want you to look at these seven crystals. They're
all different colors, listeners, And then I don't want you
just to pick at random. I want to know wish
crystal is talking to you, Shannon Farren, What are you feeling?
Wish one? Are you feeling today?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
To me?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
This clear colored crystal? Yes, I want you to hold
that in your hand and let me see what card
that corresponds to. And that looks to me.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'd be like chanting or humming.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Or we will, We absolutely will should I say something.
I think that is. I'm having a hard time figuring
out which one. Oh yeah, I got it, I got it,
I got it. That's the crown chakra. Oh that crystal
for that for my head. The location is the top
of the head man and the chant. Yeah, I am fearless.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I am fearless.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I am fearless.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Say it, I say okay, I am fearless. I am fearless.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
With all chakras working together, your life as a whole
becomes a spiritual experience. Complete balance creates complete connection. The
cosmic energy that gives you life is offered back to
the universe, and your ego is surrendered and released with
the energy of the crown chakra, letting go of all fear.
Put it on your head.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Hm.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Okay. Now the crystal is placed on your head and
you can hold it there if you need, or you
can balance it like a.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Princess, balance my chakra's balance.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Say I am fearles, I am fearless. I fear nothing,
I fear nothing.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
I am powerful.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I am powerful.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
I am the woman.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I am what the woman?

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Okayna number.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
See see.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
So our next stop, I believe, is the seven depths
of Hell.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay, wait, you pick, you pick.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
You want me to pick one?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, and I'll do the thing.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Okay, yeah, let me see. I like that there are
I'm leaning towards a blue one and a purple one,
which I think is described as I'm gonna go with
blue is very much associated with my home state, so
I'm gonna go against it and pick the purple one.
The indigo, all right.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
The indigo? All right? Okay. This is the third eye chakra, which.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Is interesting because I have four eyes. Okay, sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry. My apologies. Holy place
chaks it is.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Do you know where the location of the third eye
chakra is?

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Is it between my eyes on the forehead? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
If you went to Core Power yesterday, you'd know this shit.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Do they preach it you at core Power? I mean,
it's not just to work on. It's like a cult.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's yoga. Have you ever been to yoga?

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I do yoga at home.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Okay, I'm gonna take you with me.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
I'd love to.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
I'm good at that. That would be great.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm good at it.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
You're coming with me. I go in Pasadena.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
I know where Pasadena is.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Okay, great, all right. So this is the center of
your forehead.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
You were right, the third eye chakra, the chakra of
transcendence and imagination.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
This begins. Wait, let me do a voice. This begins, Hello, sir,
I didn't know what kind of voice to do.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Something spiritual? No, no, think about, think about. There's incense
burning and there's like some far Eastern instrument playing.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Okay, yeah, we need you should have brought incense. Okay,
next time.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
This begins to move you into true spiritual connection through focus, understanding,
and intuition. As it deals with the mind in balance
can cause both apathy or over analyzing thought. Balance allows
experience with all views and states of consciousness with the

(09:24):
collective world. M h.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
M hm.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Is there a chant on the back?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yes, repeat after me, I will I am connected, I
am connected, I am connected.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
I am connected.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
I am connected.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I am connected.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
S viereness, s viereness e.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
El cuerpo e, el cuerpo, lo save lo salvee amen.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
See you get a little bit of spirituality, a little
bit of elementary Spanish in this podcast. This is excellent.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Stop.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I almost said kulo, and then I thought, no, We'll
go with amen.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Is that I was trying to use. But yeah, I
tell my kids.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, you tell your who my kitty? Oh you're kitty.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
I think you said your kid. I was like, you
can't call your spouse that.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's not right.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
He's been called that by others as he really the kid.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Does bother him.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
No, he thinks it's funny.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, good?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, absolutely, so I feel uh connected?

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Do you feel connected?

Speaker 3 (10:35):
I feel fearless if you're okay.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
So, so it's funny. I mean it's not really. My
husband makes fun of me when I say things are
a sign or things are you know, the universe is
talking all these things. He's like, no, that's just coincidence.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Or what have you. But it's fine. He lets me,
you know, believe in my chakras.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
But when you first got off the elevator here and
you went into KFI, this is when we had our
old entroans, when I first started working here twenty years ago.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Next week, Wow, are they gonna do something for you
like they did handle.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Anyway, you walked into KFI and there was this huge
it took up the whole wall in the lobby, and
it was this huge billboard. It was billboard sized billboard
on the wall and it was black with white block
lettering and it was one word fearless.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Ooh, I've seen that symbol in the in the news
booth where the news anchors broadcast.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, it used to be an actual billboard on the
five somewhere. We said billboards everywhere twenty years ago. But Robin,
our program director at the time, who is responsible for
all of our jobs, she wanted it in the like
the lobby, like right when you walk out, right when
you walk into KFI.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
It was just this massive sign that yeah, fearless. And
I thought that was so cool.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
And you pulled that card today.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I pulled that card today.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
That's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
See there are chakras.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
No they're doing you know what, people like your husband
or somebody. My spouse is not into it either. He
just is supportive if they think it's coincidence or whatever.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Where did he gets Are those rocks from like skid row?

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Like we don't even know if it's from the fashion
districy it's real chakras?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
No, these are well, it's it's a novelty it's in.
These are real rocks. We bought it at a shop
in Santi Alley.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh, I thought Santa brought this to you.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Santi brought it to me.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
You know what, your Christmas is fucked up like I don't.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
If you live in downtown LA, you don't get gifts
from Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Santa brings his own stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Second of all, like your spouse in Santa are not
in cahoots. And third of all, there's no Santee Santi Claus.
I understand Santi Ali.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
But that's yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
If you live downtown, you're sullying Santa.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah. I don't think he needs any help with that.
I've seen that guy eat wow.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
You know it is July, Christmas and July.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
But I would be remiss if I didn't remind you
that Santa's watching and listening and feeling and words hurt.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Michael, Well, you and I are.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
You need have to feel connected with I'm connected.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
I'm connected.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Did you pick up your chakra rock and hold it
I'm connected? Did you chant to it? Did you put
it next to your lips.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
And say connected?

Speaker 2 (13:15):
That sounds like a Catholic mass. We're going to hell.
We need to end this.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Gary is going to be really pissed or we're both
burning and hell when he returns.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Let us proclaim the mystery of faith. It's been fun, Shannon.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Hey, it has been a dream. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
We will see you on Monday.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You
can always hear us live on kf I AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.

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