September 27, 2025 • 16 mins
Gary and Shannon take us on a hilarious trip down memory lane — all the way back to their college dorm rooms. Gary reveals the strange (and slightly embarrassing) reason he landed in the campus medical center, while Shannon spills the tea on her overzealous RA who may or may not have doubled as a narc. It’s a wild ride of awkward moments, questionable choices, and late-night dorm drama you won’t want to miss!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Okay, I don't have to get that excited.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I said to Gary, what are we going to do
with the podcast this morning? He's like housing.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Prowsing, I said.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And then and then like half an hour goes by
and we come in here and I'm like thinking of things,
and I go, what are we going to do? He's like,
I'm like, I thought that was a joke. He's like,
don't worry, I'll make it sexy.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well, I don't know about sexy, but let's let's full disclosure.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Is this about your wood? Is this about your friends?
Is this is about your fence again?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Are you trying to work in your fence as a
housing price upgrade to the home. No, this is a
new fence. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I don't know if you know, if you could tell
from that far away, but that's a Catalina.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Style, right.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You see that lettice work.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Those little those little strips of those are red oak.
As a matter of see those screws.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Those are five it's five with five five eighths, five
wits by five eights. Dude, I don't know how to
talk nails.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They're also not screws if they're nails, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Sex up housing?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
No, No, it's not sexing up houses.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
What are you going to do to it?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You and I are You and I are both fortunate
enough that we own homes.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, right, And.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean I think my name's on the papers.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I will find out soon. I don't know planned, I uh,
in full disclosure. I think our son is going to move.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Back in for a while, and I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I was just curious about your attitude towards housing and
places that you've lived. I don't care about housing prices.
That's not what I was just drying, but I was not.
We both grew up. I mean I went home to
my house when I was born. You went to an
orphanage and then and then went to a house.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
But you will you're in one house the entire time
you grew up.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
My mother still until college.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, I grew up in one house until I left
for college as well. My parents eventually retired and moved
to Central California, but but that was the only house
I knew growing up. And I know a lot of people.
My wife, for example, My wife was kind of a
military brat in that she was born in Washington State,
moved around through the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
She lived in Florida for a while, she.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Was in the Bay Area, she was in Alameda for
a while, and then went to UCLA and we moved
back to Washington. I mean, she moved all over the
place and never was in a house for more than
a couple of years at a time. And I've I've
always been fascinated by that because it's so different from you,
so different. Yeah, and the idea of I mean, the
comfort that I had, for example, in my bedroom, just
(02:51):
that it was my room.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It was always my room. I'd have to share with anybody.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I was lucky that way, but there the idea that
you're in a different room all the time and different
school all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I was.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I mean, I don't think I would have handled that well.
I don't know, because I.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
After invescent personality that your wife does, where she can
get along with everybody. You show up with that face
and it's an uphill battle. But then you were just kidding.
Then you went to college, kid, because I love Do
you live in the dorms? Yes, you know this, we
lived in them.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm asking the questions that other people ask.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We grew up in the near damn near the same town,
and then went to the same college and lived in
the same dorm. But you're much older than me.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
One of them that I lived in three different ones
because I was an r A.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But we both lived in Chasta because she were a
freaking nark that freaking told on my.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Ass and everybody, everybody that went to a California state school,
they all know those three.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Floor still remember our nark r Ra Janelle was her name,
And I remember her pull pouring out a handle of
tequila that she had found in one of our rooms
and just thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Where she poured out, like in the back in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And I just remember thinking, Janelle, waste not want not, Like,
even if you're going to take away the tequila from us,
put it to use, give it to a needy family
or something, give it to a shelter, why are you
going to pour perfectly good tequila down the drain? I
get it. She was like pouring it down and making
eye contact with us.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And it was teaching you a lesson, and it was.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That just wasn't going to work. You know, I'm eighteen
years old, Janelle. I'm not going to learn life lessons
from you. Like you're just wasting that tequila. Janelle.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's funny though, that the neighborhood right around Chasta Hall,
that that dorm that you lived in was those were
some really nice homesful. There were not a lot of
needy families nearby.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
She could have gotten found some.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
She could have gotten a lot fishes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, loaves and fishes? Am I thinking about what? Three fishes?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I think you're thinking of the three wise men?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Maybe not like a band. I don't know three fishes.
I don't think I was thinking of the three wise
bed I don't know that's usually front of my brain.
I don't go straight to wise men in the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then the kinds of absolute dirty, nasty broken down.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I went from Shasta Hall to a home on Second Avenue, Okay,
and it was awful. I mean I went there when
it was either my cousin or my nephew graduated from
Chico recently and wanted a shithole that was I mean,
it was just it's just an old home and there's
five of us girls that lived in that home. But
it was glorious at the time. It was great, and
(05:37):
you're not thinking like, oh, I need my own space
or I need this or that. It's just like, no know,
like now when kids move into the dorms and they
do these whole like design things and they spent all
this money, and I just remember it being such a
grab this couch from this old place my brother stayed in,
(05:58):
grabbed that chair from the garage in my parents'.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
House, and somebody was looking, Oh, I found it bottoman
on the street.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, looks the comforter from the spare room in the house.
Like it was just a ragtag furniture design, if you
want to call it. That time of your life. The
fact that people are like going shopping and having these
like matching rooms and girls are moving in together and
they're all designing their home, Like maybe there was a
(06:25):
world like that. Maybe sorority girls were like that back
when I was in college. I know I wasn't. I
was a homeless person with the roof.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And it's it's become so it's become a huge marketing
ploy for places like Walmart and Target and stuff like
that for to say it's back to school, help your
kids design their college dorm there.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Like wait and hold on a second. Yeah, they were
literally brick walls.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You couldn't you couldn't stick anything on there, like if
you had bad chewing gum, you might be able to
stick a poster on there.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Rickersonment or.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, they were bricked and it was very cold, very cold, uncomfortable,
but that's.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
It was fine. I wasn't there to be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, you're eighteen years old, right.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I was there to make bad decisions and you know,
end up in the ch go. I never ended up
in the health center. Did you ever?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You did?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, it was kind of burning a little bit chlamydia.
It was there was a.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh the only had some friends that ended up in
the health center with some questionable things, and like I
remember sitting in there like waiting for them and being like,
this is where you do not want to end up.
It's not a big deal. Like nobody sees me here,
if you like, look at people coming and going in
the health center and just like like what's going on there?
You know?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
No, I was it was my freshman year. I was
living in the dorm.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I was, and I had gone mountain biking with my
roommate and we had gone up to like spare hole
or something like that and came back down. I did
need stitches, but I didn't get them.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's the key.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Where's the scar. Let's see it. Let's see it off
them pants.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It's a bunch of it looks a little bunch of
different keloid stuff there.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's definitely a scar.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So I fell down off the bike.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You could say that's from like surgery I had when
you went to State or something.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Mcl pcl all died together. They're now braided in my knee.
But I fell off my bike and I hit some
It was in that creek bed rock, kind of like
super big rocks, and I tore open a flap of skin,
huge like quarter size, half dollar sized flap of skin
and rode the rest of the way home, which was
(08:37):
only probably ten minutes on the bike. It wasn't that bad.
But by the time I got home, my left leg, shoe,
everything's just covered in blood. So I go in the shower,
I wash off, which is not a hygienic place a
college dorm shower.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Basically giving yourself a staff infect just.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Right, just to inject it right in there, right, and
I taped it up just with the first aid kit
from the front the dorm.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I didn't think it was a big deal. The next
day it hurt really bad.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Totally infect that, I'm sure, But so then I went
to the health center. My ra Mark actually was a
nice guy, and he said, you should probably go get
that checked out.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So I went to the health.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Center and I'm sitting up on the exam table and
the nurse or whoever it was that came in saw it.
She's like, oh, that looks pretty bad. We need to
clean that out and then we can throw some tape
on it. It's already dead, so we're not going to
stitch it. It's just going to be a waste of stitches.
But well, we'll close it up and make sure that
it stays clean. So as I'm leaning over watching, she
(09:36):
takes out this big syringe full of saline and kind
of lifts the flap a little bit and starts squirting
it right in there, and I fainted.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I was gonna say little good night.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I woke up on the floor and I mean I'm
up on an exam table, so I'm three feet off
the floor, and then wham all the way down. And
she said, I don't know if this is true or not.
She said she caught me kind of so I kind
of like slowly fell as opposed to just a full
on heada case.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
But man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Gonna say, I'm surprised you didn't faint from the shock
on the way home. I guess it was just adrenaline
at that point. But this is a good story to
know about you because it explains why you won't go
to the doctor for anything, because I'm afraid preventative. No, no, no,
even for preventative, because like your leg is split open
(10:28):
and covered in blood, and you still won't go to
the doctor. So it's good to know that it's just
like a blanket no doctor thing.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Just it's not no doctor. It's just as few doctors
as as possible.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They don't need to find out everything about me. I
like that. I like to keep secrets. So anyway, then
I moved.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
One of the things I was gonna say about houses
and the and the houses that we lived in right
after college, especially at a place like Chico and I
know there's other campuses that are like this. This the
town itself, the city itself is usually grows up with
a campus something like that, because Chico, I think had
been there for one hundred and it was eighteen eighties
or something like that when the first campus opened. But
(11:13):
some of those homes were built in the thirties and forties.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So the architecture is.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Amazing, some of them, and you're nineteen years old and
you cannot appreciate any of it, and then you go back.
I mean, I think about the houses that some of
my friends lived.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
In, craftsman homes, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Crafts I mean, there's places here in Pasadena, for example.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Pasadena has a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
They have some of those same style homes in Chico.
They're a little bit smaller, but the build quality is
right off down.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
There's some good ones Jefferson Area.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's just that you've got, you know, an inch and
a half floorboards that are now completely soaked in urine
and beer.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So they're just they're just awful.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, I didn't live in one of those homes. I
lived in the ones that were just put up with plywood,
pretty much slaped some pain on those babies.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
And the wish is that the landlord has enough wherewithal
to replace the carpet every once.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
In a while.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
My brother, so, I moved out right when I was eighteen.
I went to the dorms, I went. I lived in
a couple of houses after that, and then I moved
to Sacramento started my full time job.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Did you ever go back home for a summer? Yeah?
Or Okay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Went back for a summer the summer that I guess
it was my last summer when I interned with Fox
Sports Bay Area, when I first started my first sideline
job interning.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And then my brother though he went to Chico for
a little bit, he went to Butte College, and then
he moved back in with my parents when he was
about twenty four and stayed there for a couple of
years before he moved out for good. Everyone has their
different their different ways of doing things, you.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Know well, And I feel bad for people who are
in their twenties right now. I mean in California, Well,
in cal it's unbelievable now and it can.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Be overwhelming to think about leaving like your family where
you grew up and all of that and how's that going.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
To work out?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well? I would say a school or a job lined up.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I would say it's overwhelming for people like us, because
I think you and I have the same kind of
attitude about that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But there are other people who are like, take me anywhere.
I don't care. Well, I want the adventure, I want
the excitement about it. I don't. I don't have enough ties.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No, But if you're twenty four and you have no
job and no savings, you're not gonna that's overwhelming, right,
Like at least I would have thought so. I remember
thinking moving to Seattle. If if I didn't have my
parents as a net for me, I would have never
left California moved to Seattle at twenty five or twenty
(13:44):
four net like that they were financially net because you know,
you didn't make any money as a news reporter. I
think I was. I don't know, I don't remember what
I was making, but it was like not barely for
rent and food and all that. And then you know,
without my parents doing first and last month's rent, I
never would have gone to Seattle. I never would have
(14:06):
moved to lay. It would have taken a long time
for me to save up that kind of money. It
was insurmountable at the time to save three thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
That was like okay, Well, earlier this week I said
the comment when Justin was in the studio. We were
talking about kind of money, and I said, you you
only learn about money when you don't have it, Like
you only learn about respecting it, finding it, budgeting it
only when you don't have it. That's when it becomes
a priority. Because if you're flush with money the whole time,
(14:35):
you never pay attention. I how many times you just
go to a grocery store whatever, and you just PLoP
down your card and you never even look at the total, right,
I mean that's and I know that that's.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's your phone and the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They make it even easy.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Things people that have to watch, people have to watch
or tapping things. The last thing I want is the
Apple Watch. Like, who needs another scream? I know, I said,
like you know, I know it sound like Dixie. I
totally agree with you, but like you already you're already
addicted to your phone. Now you want something else to
what what do you need that?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Here's one of the things.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Possibly need that for for one second to know who's
calling you one second before to look at your cat,
like one second before you get even bad your calories
or your calories like you're if you're using it for
nutrition or what whatever the hell text messages. It takes
you one second to pick up your phone.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's the thing that destroys me, is I get mad
when people are we're talking and have a conversation and
the phone buzzes and they can't keep eye contact, right,
they have to go wait because they're big, dumb animals
and they can't figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Now. The other option is when it's on, when it's
the wrist.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And they get the little buzz Oh yeah, my husband,
you're not important.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I'm mid conversation. He'll look down his watch and I
just want to take my fist and put it right
into his throat, but I don't. Is I want to
make sure I'm on those house papers.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
First one of these days, all right, see Sea Housing price.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Okay, I don't have to get that excited.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I said to Gary, what are we going to do
with the podcast this morning? He's like housing.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Prowsing, I said.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And then and then like half an hour goes by
and we come in here and I'm like thinking of things,
and I go, what are we going to do? He's like,
I'm like, I thought that was a joke. He's like,
don't worry, I'll make it sexy.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well, I don't know about sexy, but let's let's full disclosure.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Is this about your wood? Is this about your friends?
Is this is about your fence again?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Are you trying to work in your fence as a
housing price upgrade to the home. No, this is a
new fence. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I don't know if you know, if you could tell
from that far away, but that's a Catalina.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Style, right.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You see that lettice work.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Those little those little strips of those are red oak.
As a matter of see those screws.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Those are five it's five with five five eighths, five
wits by five eights. Dude, I don't know how to
talk nails.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They're also not screws if they're nails, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Sex up housing?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
No, No, it's not sexing up houses.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
What are you going to do to it?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You and I are You and I are both fortunate
enough that we own homes.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, right, And.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean I think my name's on the papers.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I will find out soon. I don't know planned, I uh,
in full disclosure. I think our son is going to move.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Back in for a while, and I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I was just curious about your attitude towards housing and
places that you've lived. I don't care about housing prices.
That's not what I was just drying, but I was not.
We both grew up. I mean I went home to
my house when I was born. You went to an
orphanage and then and then went to a house.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
But you will you're in one house the entire time
you grew up.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
My mother still until college.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, I grew up in one house until I left
for college as well. My parents eventually retired and moved
to Central California, but but that was the only house
I knew growing up. And I know a lot of people.
My wife, for example, My wife was kind of a
military brat in that she was born in Washington State,
moved around through the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
She lived in Florida for a while, she.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Was in the Bay Area, she was in Alameda for
a while, and then went to UCLA and we moved
back to Washington. I mean, she moved all over the
place and never was in a house for more than
a couple of years at a time. And I've I've
always been fascinated by that because it's so different from you,
so different. Yeah, and the idea of I mean, the
comfort that I had, for example, in my bedroom, just
(02:51):
that it was my room.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It was always my room. I'd have to share with anybody.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I was lucky that way, but there the idea that
you're in a different room all the time and different
school all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I was.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I mean, I don't think I would have handled that well.
I don't know, because I.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
After invescent personality that your wife does, where she can
get along with everybody. You show up with that face
and it's an uphill battle. But then you were just kidding.
Then you went to college, kid, because I love Do
you live in the dorms? Yes, you know this, we
lived in them.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm asking the questions that other people ask.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We grew up in the near damn near the same town,
and then went to the same college and lived in
the same dorm. But you're much older than me.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
One of them that I lived in three different ones
because I was an r A.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But we both lived in Chasta because she were a
freaking nark that freaking told on my.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Ass and everybody, everybody that went to a California state school,
they all know those three.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Floor still remember our nark r Ra Janelle was her name,
And I remember her pull pouring out a handle of
tequila that she had found in one of our rooms
and just thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Where she poured out, like in the back in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And I just remember thinking, Janelle, waste not want not, Like,
even if you're going to take away the tequila from us,
put it to use, give it to a needy family
or something, give it to a shelter, why are you
going to pour perfectly good tequila down the drain? I
get it. She was like pouring it down and making
eye contact with us.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And it was teaching you a lesson, and it was.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That just wasn't going to work. You know, I'm eighteen
years old, Janelle. I'm not going to learn life lessons
from you. Like you're just wasting that tequila. Janelle.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's funny though, that the neighborhood right around Chasta Hall,
that that dorm that you lived in was those were
some really nice homesful. There were not a lot of
needy families nearby.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
She could have gotten found some.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
She could have gotten a lot fishes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, loaves and fishes? Am I thinking about what? Three fishes?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I think you're thinking of the three wise men?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Maybe not like a band. I don't know three fishes.
I don't think I was thinking of the three wise
bed I don't know that's usually front of my brain.
I don't go straight to wise men in the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then the kinds of absolute dirty, nasty broken down.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I went from Shasta Hall to a home on Second Avenue, Okay,
and it was awful. I mean I went there when
it was either my cousin or my nephew graduated from
Chico recently and wanted a shithole that was I mean,
it was just it's just an old home and there's
five of us girls that lived in that home. But
it was glorious at the time. It was great, and
(05:37):
you're not thinking like, oh, I need my own space
or I need this or that. It's just like, no know,
like now when kids move into the dorms and they
do these whole like design things and they spent all
this money, and I just remember it being such a
grab this couch from this old place my brother stayed in,
(05:58):
grabbed that chair from the garage in my parents'.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
House, and somebody was looking, Oh, I found it bottoman
on the street.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, looks the comforter from the spare room in the house.
Like it was just a ragtag furniture design, if you
want to call it. That time of your life. The
fact that people are like going shopping and having these
like matching rooms and girls are moving in together and
they're all designing their home, Like maybe there was a
(06:25):
world like that. Maybe sorority girls were like that back
when I was in college. I know I wasn't. I
was a homeless person with the roof.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And it's it's become so it's become a huge marketing
ploy for places like Walmart and Target and stuff like
that for to say it's back to school, help your
kids design their college dorm there.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Like wait and hold on a second. Yeah, they were
literally brick walls.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You couldn't you couldn't stick anything on there, like if
you had bad chewing gum, you might be able to
stick a poster on there.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Rickersonment or.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, they were bricked and it was very cold, very cold, uncomfortable,
but that's.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
It was fine. I wasn't there to be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, you're eighteen years old, right.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I was there to make bad decisions and you know,
end up in the ch go. I never ended up
in the health center. Did you ever?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You did?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, it was kind of burning a little bit chlamydia.
It was there was a.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh the only had some friends that ended up in
the health center with some questionable things, and like I
remember sitting in there like waiting for them and being like,
this is where you do not want to end up.
It's not a big deal. Like nobody sees me here,
if you like, look at people coming and going in
the health center and just like like what's going on there?
You know?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
No, I was it was my freshman year. I was
living in the dorm.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I was, and I had gone mountain biking with my
roommate and we had gone up to like spare hole
or something like that and came back down. I did
need stitches, but I didn't get them.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's the key.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Where's the scar. Let's see it. Let's see it off
them pants.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It's a bunch of it looks a little bunch of
different keloid stuff there.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's definitely a scar.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So I fell down off the bike.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You could say that's from like surgery I had when
you went to State or something.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Mcl pcl all died together. They're now braided in my knee.
But I fell off my bike and I hit some
It was in that creek bed rock, kind of like
super big rocks, and I tore open a flap of skin,
huge like quarter size, half dollar sized flap of skin
and rode the rest of the way home, which was
(08:37):
only probably ten minutes on the bike. It wasn't that bad.
But by the time I got home, my left leg, shoe,
everything's just covered in blood. So I go in the shower,
I wash off, which is not a hygienic place a
college dorm shower.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Basically giving yourself a staff infect just.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Right, just to inject it right in there, right, and
I taped it up just with the first aid kit
from the front the dorm.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I didn't think it was a big deal. The next
day it hurt really bad.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Totally infect that, I'm sure, But so then I went
to the health center. My ra Mark actually was a
nice guy, and he said, you should probably go get
that checked out.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So I went to the health.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Center and I'm sitting up on the exam table and
the nurse or whoever it was that came in saw it.
She's like, oh, that looks pretty bad. We need to
clean that out and then we can throw some tape
on it. It's already dead, so we're not going to
stitch it. It's just going to be a waste of stitches.
But well, we'll close it up and make sure that
it stays clean. So as I'm leaning over watching, she
(09:36):
takes out this big syringe full of saline and kind
of lifts the flap a little bit and starts squirting
it right in there, and I fainted.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I was gonna say little good night.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I woke up on the floor and I mean I'm
up on an exam table, so I'm three feet off
the floor, and then wham all the way down. And
she said, I don't know if this is true or not.
She said she caught me kind of so I kind
of like slowly fell as opposed to just a full
on heada case.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
But man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Gonna say, I'm surprised you didn't faint from the shock
on the way home. I guess it was just adrenaline
at that point. But this is a good story to
know about you because it explains why you won't go
to the doctor for anything, because I'm afraid preventative. No, no, no,
even for preventative, because like your leg is split open
(10:28):
and covered in blood, and you still won't go to
the doctor. So it's good to know that it's just
like a blanket no doctor thing.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Just it's not no doctor. It's just as few doctors
as as possible.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They don't need to find out everything about me. I
like that. I like to keep secrets. So anyway, then
I moved.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
One of the things I was gonna say about houses
and the and the houses that we lived in right
after college, especially at a place like Chico and I
know there's other campuses that are like this. This the
town itself, the city itself is usually grows up with
a campus something like that, because Chico, I think had
been there for one hundred and it was eighteen eighties
or something like that when the first campus opened. But
(11:13):
some of those homes were built in the thirties and forties.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So the architecture is.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Amazing, some of them, and you're nineteen years old and
you cannot appreciate any of it, and then you go back.
I mean, I think about the houses that some of
my friends lived.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
In, craftsman homes, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Crafts I mean, there's places here in Pasadena, for example.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Pasadena has a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
They have some of those same style homes in Chico.
They're a little bit smaller, but the build quality is
right off down.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
There's some good ones Jefferson Area.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's just that you've got, you know, an inch and
a half floorboards that are now completely soaked in urine
and beer.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So they're just they're just awful.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, I didn't live in one of those homes. I
lived in the ones that were just put up with plywood,
pretty much slaped some pain on those babies.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
And the wish is that the landlord has enough wherewithal
to replace the carpet every once.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
In a while.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
My brother, so, I moved out right when I was eighteen.
I went to the dorms, I went. I lived in
a couple of houses after that, and then I moved
to Sacramento started my full time job.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Did you ever go back home for a summer? Yeah?
Or Okay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Went back for a summer the summer that I guess
it was my last summer when I interned with Fox
Sports Bay Area, when I first started my first sideline
job interning.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And then my brother though he went to Chico for
a little bit, he went to Butte College, and then
he moved back in with my parents when he was
about twenty four and stayed there for a couple of
years before he moved out for good. Everyone has their
different their different ways of doing things, you.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Know well, And I feel bad for people who are
in their twenties right now. I mean in California, Well,
in cal it's unbelievable now and it can.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Be overwhelming to think about leaving like your family where
you grew up and all of that and how's that going.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
To work out?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well? I would say a school or a job lined up.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I would say it's overwhelming for people like us, because
I think you and I have the same kind of
attitude about that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But there are other people who are like, take me anywhere.
I don't care. Well, I want the adventure, I want
the excitement about it. I don't. I don't have enough ties.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No, But if you're twenty four and you have no
job and no savings, you're not gonna that's overwhelming, right,
Like at least I would have thought so. I remember
thinking moving to Seattle. If if I didn't have my
parents as a net for me, I would have never
left California moved to Seattle at twenty five or twenty
(13:44):
four net like that they were financially net because you know,
you didn't make any money as a news reporter. I
think I was. I don't know, I don't remember what
I was making, but it was like not barely for
rent and food and all that. And then you know,
without my parents doing first and last month's rent, I
never would have gone to Seattle. I never would have
(14:06):
moved to lay. It would have taken a long time
for me to save up that kind of money. It
was insurmountable at the time to save three thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
That was like okay, Well, earlier this week I said
the comment when Justin was in the studio. We were
talking about kind of money, and I said, you you
only learn about money when you don't have it, Like
you only learn about respecting it, finding it, budgeting it
only when you don't have it. That's when it becomes
a priority. Because if you're flush with money the whole time,
(14:35):
you never pay attention. I how many times you just
go to a grocery store whatever, and you just PLoP
down your card and you never even look at the total, right,
I mean that's and I know that that's.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's your phone and the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They make it even easy.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Things people that have to watch, people have to watch
or tapping things. The last thing I want is the
Apple Watch. Like, who needs another scream? I know, I said,
like you know, I know it sound like Dixie. I
totally agree with you, but like you already you're already
addicted to your phone. Now you want something else to
what what do you need that?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Here's one of the things.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Possibly need that for for one second to know who's
calling you one second before to look at your cat,
like one second before you get even bad your calories
or your calories like you're if you're using it for
nutrition or what whatever the hell text messages. It takes
you one second to pick up your phone.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's the thing that destroys me, is I get mad
when people are we're talking and have a conversation and
the phone buzzes and they can't keep eye contact, right,
they have to go wait because they're big, dumb animals
and they can't figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Now. The other option is when it's on, when it's
the wrist.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And they get the little buzz Oh yeah, my husband,
you're not important.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I'm mid conversation. He'll look down his watch and I
just want to take my fist and put it right
into his throat, but I don't. Is I want to
make sure I'm on those house papers.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
First one of these days, all right, see Sea Housing price.
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