November 22, 2025 • 15 mins
Tiffany Hobbs joins Gary on this weekend fix to talk work/ life/ and family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Am six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Well, here we go with this
is the Gas Weekend Fix. If you do not subscribe
to the podcast, but you're hearing this, it's because you
found it. The easiest way to subscribe to the Weekend
(00:21):
Fix is also to subscribe to the Gary and Shannon
Choe podcast. So anywhere you find the Gary and Shannon
Choll podcast, we prefer the iHeartRadio app, but you can
also get it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and Speaker
in all of these different platforms for podcasts, just type
in Gary and Shannon. You'll see our picture and you
can subscribe to it, leave a comment, rate the podcast.
(00:41):
Most importantly, share the podcast with other people, and we
try to drop these every Saturday for content that we
didn't have time to do, or we couldn't do, or
it's illegal for us to do on the air. Tiffany
Hobbs recently filled in for Shannon, and you hear her
five to seven on Saturdays here on KFI and filling
(01:03):
in other times of course all the time, and we're
glad to have you as part of the team.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But I wanted to use this opportunity to spend some
time talking about you because I don't think a lot
of people have the opportunity. We don't get to meet
a lot of people. We don't have a lot of friends. Yeah,
so it's nice when we do have friends to help
introduce them to others.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You consider me to be a friend, Gary, Why, oh
my gosh, you came to do the show I did.
No one else would come up. Very friendly gesture.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I appreciate that. But if you were the first person
we asked for this week that she was out of
one though, I think.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think I was maybe the only you.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Can talk to the producers we tell we asked many people.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh I was the only one who answered the call.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, maybe, But are you replied first?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, okay, at any rate? Happy to be here?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, first of all, we're getting into holiday season. What
about you have family holiday traditions or traditions.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We do very close to my mother, close to my
father as well, but really close to my mom and
I spend my holidays usually with my mom's side of
the family. And you know, we do the tree, we
do the gift exchange Thanksgiving. Of course, we come together
this year a little smaller. It's going to be about
three or four of us around the table. We're doing
takeout versus cooking. You we're catering this year, keeping it
(02:18):
keeping it light, keeping it easy. But just you know,
it's it's really about the togetherness. And it sounds cliche,
but we really just want to be together this year
and enjoy without all the fuss and the pressure. No
crazy games, no crazy conversations. Well with my mother and
my aunt. Perhaps they know I'm on radio, so but
it should be, it will be be. It'd be a
(02:39):
lovely time, lovely time.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas this year.
I don't. I'm not. I'm beyond the stuff. Like I'm
beyond the whole material stuff. It's nice, I like when
I receive gifts. That's not it. It's just I can't sit
down and put together a list of things that I
want to buy that I wouldn't just go out and
get by myself.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's the thing. I can think of a list. So
by the time time it's time for Christmas, I've already
bought the thing.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Right if I really want it. If I go start
looking for things I want to put on a list,
I'm like, I just buy now. Yea to click that
buy now button and I'm going to get it twenty
four hours later instead of waiting four weeks because I'm impatient.
But that's a different story. But I did say to her,
I just want to spend time with you and my
kids and just do that for Christmas. That's perfectly. I'm
(03:22):
totally fine if that was all we did for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What is a memorable gift? That is say, not clothing,
not shoes, not lotions and potions or anything that would
be typical that you've received in recent memory from anyone.
This a memorable gift.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
There are clothes. I know that you said no clothes,
but there are clothes that my wife has bought me
that I really like. Part of it is because I
know she wants me to wear that, or she thinks
I would look good in that, or whatever that I
think of those things. M I've gotten some great tools
(04:07):
from my wife. She plays into this little game that
I like to tinker around the house with some stuff,
and she also knows that if she gets the right tools,
maybe I'll fix the right thing.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Are they real? Told her? Are they plastic? That'd be
really cute.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I have a giant fake red flathead screwdriver that I
could use on my on my big wheel.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Your little apron. You know, it's cute. So stuff like.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That, Okay, But then again, that's some that's part of this.
That's part of the If I needed a tool that
I didn't have, I could, you know, save up and
buy it whatever. But I do like spending time with
it is nice, especially with the kids being older in
their twenties. It's it's not the same as it was
when they were ten and eight, I imagine, but it does
(04:55):
there's a whiff of that still in the air when
they're around. So that's that's kind of the nice.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Let me ask you this, and we didn't mention this
a little bit earlier, but you said you have your
Christmas tree up already. Is that customary or usually early?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It would be right around Thanksgiving that we would put
the tree up. It just happens to be that we're
going to be out of town and my wife wanted
to get a head start on it. I do believe
there is a certain aspect you talked about when we
were doing the show, you said that there's a belief
for a survey that suggests that people who put their
trees up early, the Christmas trees up early, are happier.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
They're happier.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't know if that's true, but it sure feels fun,
you know, because there is a certain amount of for
my family, at least I know, not everybody's like this.
For my family, holidays have always been a good, happy time.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Same outside of the rare time when you know, Grandma
dies or something and we have to celebrate Thanksgiving with
an empty seat or everybody goes through that, but generally,
my family's had happy holidays, so it's it is a
happy time for us.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's a nostalgic time, you know, you get all the
rim of your childhood if it was a good childhood,
and in your case, it sounds like it was for
me as well. And the studies, the research correlates to
that being indicative of how early you put your tree up,
how quickly you're trying to recapture those feelings of your childhood.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
My mom's siblings, so my aunts and uncles. Aunts and
uncle we would often spend Christmas together. And when I
look back on it. I obviously time shifts when you
get older, and you'd look back on things that I
seem to remember that Christmas was like a week long
(06:36):
thing where my cousins would come into town and everybody.
We'd be playing for days inside the house, outside the house,
on and on and on. We'd stay up late on
Christmas Eve, we'd peek through the blinds to try to
see Santa Claus. I remember that just being forever, days
and days and days of celebration, shaking.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The box, all of them, see what's in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Me, playing with the tinsel, you know, running around the tree,
all of that stuff. And now I know, as an
adult and a parent, the planning that it goes into
trying to coordinate a date for three or four families
is ridiculously hard. There's no way that those were week
(07:17):
long celebrations. It's likely that it was a day that
everybody who was in the same house at the same time.
But for me, as a kid, I remember being it
just felt like it went on forever and it was
such a happy, good time.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Anything about business now, all of your stores that put
out the Christmas ornamentation or Christmas decor in October, trying
to get you to partake in that. It's not about
necessarily the whimsy, but more what you're willing to consume
and how quickly. So there's been a bastardization of it.
All right, it's not good feeling, it's how much you're
(07:51):
willing to spend to get the feeling.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You grew up in LA. I did born in New York,
you said.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But Warne in New York. Grew up in LA. I
can remember a Christmas in New York as a toddler
with all the lights. I don't know if I'm creating
this memory, but I told my mother and she said
it's pretty accurate. I remember going down a street and
a stroller and seeing all the lights and the snow,
of course, and here not necessarily that weather, but definitely
(08:17):
its own charms in California.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And what were you like as a kid, oh.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Man talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Nerd?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I was. I was all of that. I was a
mixture of all of the characteristics. I was into my
into my schoolwork. I was into bugs. I was into sports,
huge animal person. I was into art. I was into
building and constructing. Anything that was creative, to be honest
and had me active. I'm also an only child, so
(08:48):
you know, the voices in my head, we're telling me
to do all these different things. Well, my friend, my friends. Yes,
but it was a wonderful childhood. I wouldn't trade it
for anything. It was lovely.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What part of La'd you grow up in?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Souther the South Bay? So Guardina? Mainly in Guardina? Ya,
are you familiar enough? No? Yeah, now you're all the
way out there away from the South Bay.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And then do you when you think of LA. I mean,
if you've been back to New York and yeah, traveled
around I have.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I have. My father's family is still there in New York.
His entire family there diehard New Yorkers, you know, giants,
fans and all of that. But in visiting again, there's
New York is unique for anyone who's visited. And at Christmas,
it just it's so it personifies the Christmas spirit. That's
why you have movies like Home Alone that are you know,
(09:45):
focused in that area of the country because you have
I think visually New York and Christmas are they're just together.
It's hard to separate them. The hotels go all out,
the decor is everywhere, it's all congested, you know, in
that one area or smaller area versus here. Everything's so
(10:06):
spread out, and that's okay, But New York has its
own way of doing Christmas.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Favorite place that you visited in the United States in.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The United States, Oh man, New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Really.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love New Orleans. I love the country. I love
any countryside. It doesn't have to necessarily be in the
southern part of this of the country. But it's just
expansive and beautifully, just harvested. You have all the foliage,
it's you have moss hanging from the trees. It's very romantic.
(10:38):
It's a very romantic place to be and the food
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I can't remember off the top of my head the
name of the author, but he writes novels about a
detective named Dave Robischow and they're all set in New Orleans.
Oh boy, it's gonna bother me. I'll think of it
before we end. But but it has always he took
He's always made New Orleans seem that way, the way
(11:02):
that you describe it, this romanticized historic. Yes, there's something
a little bit of light, a little bit of salt
in there, you know, there's a little bit of dark
that makes New Orleans kind of what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You have an interview with the vampire. It's set in
New Orleans, so there's a lot of whimsy and a
lot of lore. Ultimately, it's a really welcoming place. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I've never been to either New York or New Orleans?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
There are no new places that I've been to.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I've never been New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I've well, I've again when I said when you were
on the show, I said that my parents never flew anywhere.
That's James Lee Burke. Thank you for that. James Lee
Burke is the author.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We drove to New Mexico and I've driven through there
with my family on the way from Denver to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Okay, that's a drive.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It was a long drive.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh man, how many of you in a car?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Of the four of us, that was my wife and
the two kids. The reason we couldn't go the other way,
you know, back through Utah and down is because the Rockies,
the closed I seventy was closed through the Rockies because
of snow. So we had to go south to New
Mexico and then across and boy there is nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And boy are your arms there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Is nothing out there. No, But I prefer any place
where there's hot pine I've been to. I've been to
place like Chicago was a lot of fun. We went
there last summer for the last summer summer ago, summer
and a half ago whatever it was, for the Democratic Convention.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And Chicago has a lot of fun, beautiful, the Great Lakes,
great lakes, the rivers that go through town, the old
I'm a fan of history, but in California, you don't
have a lot of it, at least not the way
I think of it. We have some old buildings here,
and you've obviously got a Native American sites that are
in California that I've been to and explored, But you
(12:53):
don't have a building that's been around for more than
one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Not typically. And yeah, you have to travel a little
further east or southeast or northeast to see kind of
the origins of the United States because that's where it
all started, so fanned out from there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Uh. Been favorite place outside the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh, Man, I love the Bahamas. It's warm, it's it's
affordable for the most part, quick flight from Florida, and
it's just comfortable. It's just comfortable. You think about too much,
battle too much. It's small. I enjoy it, Harry.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Sorry, I don't get out.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I'm creating a list for you in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I've always I've always thought about it. It's not outside the
United States. I mean, I've been to Mexico. I've been
to Haiti like everybody else.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, I'm sure your missionary work, right.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The uh let's see, trying to think of other pop
I've been to Canada, Okay, I've been to the places
that are connected. Yeah, let's say that. But I've always
wanted to go to the Florida Keys.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And I don't know. There's something about it that is
is I get it that it's kind of like I've
heard it described in very negative ways. I don't want
to get I don't want to say them only because
I've never been there and it would be unfair for
me to characterize them. But talk about isolation. Yeah, you're
still in the United States of America, but you are
(14:19):
so isolated and some of those scenes, I mean, it
is deep in the Caribbean, so you get to have
some of that same culture, the same attitude, the same
kind of laid back and there's something about that that
is so appealing to me.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, you know, Tim Conway does the cruise. I think
that you with Shannon with gas should organize a trip
to the Florida.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Keys, Florida Keys. There we go burn it down in
the Florida Keys. It's possible. Well, listen, we're absolutely pleased
to have you on board. I know you've been here
for a while, but we've never had a chance to
sit down and discuss all of this stuff. So thanks
for filling in, and we'll definitely hear more from.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You, I hope so Gary, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I've Saturday is at five to seven on KFI Saturdays.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
With Tiffany five seven right here on KFI.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Thank you, Gary Hoffman, my friend, my buddy.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday, and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio ap
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Am six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Well, here we go with this
is the Gas Weekend Fix. If you do not subscribe
to the podcast, but you're hearing this, it's because you
found it. The easiest way to subscribe to the Weekend
(00:21):
Fix is also to subscribe to the Gary and Shannon
Choe podcast. So anywhere you find the Gary and Shannon
Choll podcast, we prefer the iHeartRadio app, but you can
also get it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and Speaker
in all of these different platforms for podcasts, just type
in Gary and Shannon. You'll see our picture and you
can subscribe to it, leave a comment, rate the podcast.
(00:41):
Most importantly, share the podcast with other people, and we
try to drop these every Saturday for content that we
didn't have time to do, or we couldn't do, or
it's illegal for us to do on the air. Tiffany
Hobbs recently filled in for Shannon, and you hear her
five to seven on Saturdays here on KFI and filling
(01:03):
in other times of course all the time, and we're
glad to have you as part of the team.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But I wanted to use this opportunity to spend some
time talking about you because I don't think a lot
of people have the opportunity. We don't get to meet
a lot of people. We don't have a lot of friends. Yeah,
so it's nice when we do have friends to help
introduce them to others.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You consider me to be a friend, Gary, Why, oh
my gosh, you came to do the show I did.
No one else would come up. Very friendly gesture.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I appreciate that. But if you were the first person
we asked for this week that she was out of
one though, I think.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think I was maybe the only you.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Can talk to the producers we tell we asked many people.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh I was the only one who answered the call.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, maybe, But are you replied first?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, okay, at any rate? Happy to be here?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, first of all, we're getting into holiday season. What
about you have family holiday traditions or traditions.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We do very close to my mother, close to my
father as well, but really close to my mom and
I spend my holidays usually with my mom's side of
the family. And you know, we do the tree, we
do the gift exchange Thanksgiving. Of course, we come together
this year a little smaller. It's going to be about
three or four of us around the table. We're doing
takeout versus cooking. You we're catering this year, keeping it
(02:18):
keeping it light, keeping it easy. But just you know,
it's it's really about the togetherness. And it sounds cliche,
but we really just want to be together this year
and enjoy without all the fuss and the pressure. No
crazy games, no crazy conversations. Well with my mother and
my aunt. Perhaps they know I'm on radio, so but
it should be, it will be be. It'd be a
(02:39):
lovely time, lovely time.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas this year.
I don't. I'm not. I'm beyond the stuff. Like I'm
beyond the whole material stuff. It's nice, I like when
I receive gifts. That's not it. It's just I can't sit
down and put together a list of things that I
want to buy that I wouldn't just go out and
get by myself.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's the thing. I can think of a list. So
by the time time it's time for Christmas, I've already
bought the thing.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Right if I really want it. If I go start
looking for things I want to put on a list,
I'm like, I just buy now. Yea to click that
buy now button and I'm going to get it twenty
four hours later instead of waiting four weeks because I'm impatient.
But that's a different story. But I did say to her,
I just want to spend time with you and my
kids and just do that for Christmas. That's perfectly. I'm
(03:22):
totally fine if that was all we did for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What is a memorable gift? That is say, not clothing,
not shoes, not lotions and potions or anything that would
be typical that you've received in recent memory from anyone.
This a memorable gift.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
There are clothes. I know that you said no clothes,
but there are clothes that my wife has bought me
that I really like. Part of it is because I
know she wants me to wear that, or she thinks
I would look good in that, or whatever that I
think of those things. M I've gotten some great tools
(04:07):
from my wife. She plays into this little game that
I like to tinker around the house with some stuff,
and she also knows that if she gets the right tools,
maybe I'll fix the right thing.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Are they real? Told her? Are they plastic? That'd be
really cute.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I have a giant fake red flathead screwdriver that I
could use on my on my big wheel.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Your little apron. You know, it's cute. So stuff like.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That, Okay, But then again, that's some that's part of this.
That's part of the If I needed a tool that
I didn't have, I could, you know, save up and
buy it whatever. But I do like spending time with
it is nice, especially with the kids being older in
their twenties. It's it's not the same as it was
when they were ten and eight, I imagine, but it does
(04:55):
there's a whiff of that still in the air when
they're around. So that's that's kind of the nice.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Let me ask you this, and we didn't mention this
a little bit earlier, but you said you have your
Christmas tree up already. Is that customary or usually early?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It would be right around Thanksgiving that we would put
the tree up. It just happens to be that we're
going to be out of town and my wife wanted
to get a head start on it. I do believe
there is a certain aspect you talked about when we
were doing the show, you said that there's a belief
for a survey that suggests that people who put their
trees up early, the Christmas trees up early, are happier.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
They're happier.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't know if that's true, but it sure feels fun,
you know, because there is a certain amount of for
my family, at least I know, not everybody's like this.
For my family, holidays have always been a good, happy time.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Same outside of the rare time when you know, Grandma
dies or something and we have to celebrate Thanksgiving with
an empty seat or everybody goes through that, but generally,
my family's had happy holidays, so it's it is a
happy time for us.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's a nostalgic time, you know, you get all the
rim of your childhood if it was a good childhood,
and in your case, it sounds like it was for
me as well. And the studies, the research correlates to
that being indicative of how early you put your tree up,
how quickly you're trying to recapture those feelings of your childhood.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
My mom's siblings, so my aunts and uncles. Aunts and
uncle we would often spend Christmas together. And when I
look back on it. I obviously time shifts when you
get older, and you'd look back on things that I
seem to remember that Christmas was like a week long
(06:36):
thing where my cousins would come into town and everybody.
We'd be playing for days inside the house, outside the house,
on and on and on. We'd stay up late on
Christmas Eve, we'd peek through the blinds to try to
see Santa Claus. I remember that just being forever, days
and days and days of celebration, shaking.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The box, all of them, see what's in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Me, playing with the tinsel, you know, running around the tree,
all of that stuff. And now I know, as an
adult and a parent, the planning that it goes into
trying to coordinate a date for three or four families
is ridiculously hard. There's no way that those were week
(07:17):
long celebrations. It's likely that it was a day that
everybody who was in the same house at the same time.
But for me, as a kid, I remember being it
just felt like it went on forever and it was
such a happy, good time.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Anything about business now, all of your stores that put
out the Christmas ornamentation or Christmas decor in October, trying
to get you to partake in that. It's not about
necessarily the whimsy, but more what you're willing to consume
and how quickly. So there's been a bastardization of it.
All right, it's not good feeling, it's how much you're
(07:51):
willing to spend to get the feeling.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You grew up in LA. I did born in New York,
you said.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But Warne in New York. Grew up in LA. I
can remember a Christmas in New York as a toddler
with all the lights. I don't know if I'm creating
this memory, but I told my mother and she said
it's pretty accurate. I remember going down a street and
a stroller and seeing all the lights and the snow,
of course, and here not necessarily that weather, but definitely
(08:17):
its own charms in California.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And what were you like as a kid, oh.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Man talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Nerd?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I was. I was all of that. I was a
mixture of all of the characteristics. I was into my
into my schoolwork. I was into bugs. I was into sports,
huge animal person. I was into art. I was into
building and constructing. Anything that was creative, to be honest
and had me active. I'm also an only child, so
(08:48):
you know, the voices in my head, we're telling me
to do all these different things. Well, my friend, my friends. Yes,
but it was a wonderful childhood. I wouldn't trade it
for anything. It was lovely.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What part of La'd you grow up in?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Souther the South Bay? So Guardina? Mainly in Guardina? Ya,
are you familiar enough? No? Yeah, now you're all the
way out there away from the South Bay.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And then do you when you think of LA. I mean,
if you've been back to New York and yeah, traveled
around I have.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I have. My father's family is still there in New York.
His entire family there diehard New Yorkers, you know, giants,
fans and all of that. But in visiting again, there's
New York is unique for anyone who's visited. And at Christmas,
it just it's so it personifies the Christmas spirit. That's
why you have movies like Home Alone that are you know,
(09:45):
focused in that area of the country because you have
I think visually New York and Christmas are they're just together.
It's hard to separate them. The hotels go all out,
the decor is everywhere, it's all congested, you know, in
that one area or smaller area versus here. Everything's so
(10:06):
spread out, and that's okay, But New York has its
own way of doing Christmas.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Favorite place that you visited in the United States in.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The United States, Oh man, New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Really.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love New Orleans. I love the country. I love
any countryside. It doesn't have to necessarily be in the
southern part of this of the country. But it's just
expansive and beautifully, just harvested. You have all the foliage,
it's you have moss hanging from the trees. It's very romantic.
(10:38):
It's a very romantic place to be and the food
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I can't remember off the top of my head the
name of the author, but he writes novels about a
detective named Dave Robischow and they're all set in New Orleans.
Oh boy, it's gonna bother me. I'll think of it
before we end. But but it has always he took
He's always made New Orleans seem that way, the way
(11:02):
that you describe it, this romanticized historic. Yes, there's something
a little bit of light, a little bit of salt
in there, you know, there's a little bit of dark
that makes New Orleans kind of what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You have an interview with the vampire. It's set in
New Orleans, so there's a lot of whimsy and a
lot of lore. Ultimately, it's a really welcoming place. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I've never been to either New York or New Orleans?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
There are no new places that I've been to.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I've never been New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I've well, I've again when I said when you were
on the show, I said that my parents never flew anywhere.
That's James Lee Burke. Thank you for that. James Lee
Burke is the author.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We drove to New Mexico and I've driven through there
with my family on the way from Denver to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Okay, that's a drive.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It was a long drive.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh man, how many of you in a car?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Of the four of us, that was my wife and
the two kids. The reason we couldn't go the other way,
you know, back through Utah and down is because the Rockies,
the closed I seventy was closed through the Rockies because
of snow. So we had to go south to New
Mexico and then across and boy there is nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And boy are your arms there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Is nothing out there. No, But I prefer any place
where there's hot pine I've been to. I've been to
place like Chicago was a lot of fun. We went
there last summer for the last summer summer ago, summer
and a half ago whatever it was, for the Democratic Convention.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And Chicago has a lot of fun, beautiful, the Great Lakes,
great lakes, the rivers that go through town, the old
I'm a fan of history, but in California, you don't
have a lot of it, at least not the way
I think of it. We have some old buildings here,
and you've obviously got a Native American sites that are
in California that I've been to and explored, But you
(12:53):
don't have a building that's been around for more than
one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Not typically. And yeah, you have to travel a little
further east or southeast or northeast to see kind of
the origins of the United States because that's where it
all started, so fanned out from there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Uh. Been favorite place outside the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh, Man, I love the Bahamas. It's warm, it's it's
affordable for the most part, quick flight from Florida, and
it's just comfortable. It's just comfortable. You think about too much,
battle too much. It's small. I enjoy it, Harry.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Sorry, I don't get out.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I'm creating a list for you in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I've always I've always thought about it. It's not outside the
United States. I mean, I've been to Mexico. I've been
to Haiti like everybody else.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, I'm sure your missionary work, right.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The uh let's see, trying to think of other pop
I've been to Canada, Okay, I've been to the places
that are connected. Yeah, let's say that. But I've always
wanted to go to the Florida Keys.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And I don't know. There's something about it that is
is I get it that it's kind of like I've
heard it described in very negative ways. I don't want
to get I don't want to say them only because
I've never been there and it would be unfair for
me to characterize them. But talk about isolation. Yeah, you're
still in the United States of America, but you are
(14:19):
so isolated and some of those scenes, I mean, it
is deep in the Caribbean, so you get to have
some of that same culture, the same attitude, the same
kind of laid back and there's something about that that
is so appealing to me.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, you know, Tim Conway does the cruise. I think
that you with Shannon with gas should organize a trip
to the Florida.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Keys, Florida Keys. There we go burn it down in
the Florida Keys. It's possible. Well, listen, we're absolutely pleased
to have you on board. I know you've been here
for a while, but we've never had a chance to
sit down and discuss all of this stuff. So thanks
for filling in, and we'll definitely hear more from.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You, I hope so Gary, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I've Saturday is at five to seven on KFI Saturdays.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
With Tiffany five seven right here on KFI.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Thank you, Gary Hoffman, my friend, my buddy.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You
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