November 3, 2025 ā¢ 26 mins
Gary and Shannon kick off the show reacting to Elmerās brand-new āGodzillaā themed intro (letās just sayā¦ the world mightĀ notĀ be saved š
).Ā
Then, they dive straight into Dodgers fever as LA celebratesĀ back-to-backĀ World Series championships: with parade coverage live from the packed downtown streets thanks to KFIās own Michael Monks šā¾ļø.Ā
Shannon shares her chaotic travel story from Nashville with the Chargers, including a 3-hour LAX ground delay that she says could be theĀ first big signĀ of the ongoing government shutdown š¬šŗšø.
Then, they dive straight into Dodgers fever as LA celebratesĀ back-to-backĀ World Series championships: with parade coverage live from the packed downtown streets thanks to KFIās own Michael Monks šā¾ļø.Ā
Shannon shares her chaotic travel story from Nashville with the Chargers, including a 3-hour LAX ground delay that she says could be theĀ first big signĀ of the ongoing government shutdown š¬šŗšø.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
IF I am six forty the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. So, like in the
promo that you crafted and created because you are a
creative audio wizard, are we failing at saving the world?
Like what's happening there? Because it sounds like there's some
(00:22):
sort of Godzilla and he's bringing the world down, maybe
from Dodger Stadium, and we don't want to deal with
it or what.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I don't understand my role in it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You're on the money, You're on the team.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I'd like to redo it to where I save
the world.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I do.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I feel like I just don't care enough in that
and I want to care, like I want to save
the world from that monster.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Gotcha, you do care. I feel like you would save
the word.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I totally would, but for comedic purposes.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I was like, what if they don't?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yeah, So you're saying to me, the more interesting choice
is the better choice. But but it doesn't leave me.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, it doesn't leave me any sort of.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's no hope.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There's no hope, and you know what, that's not you
and that's not me. Olmer we're both hopeful people. I
agree we are, so I think in the next one
we kill the monster.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You're going to vanquish the monsters.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, there's a part too.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yamamoto's two coming to Kirk, broken back, Grumball bets.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hasard steps on the bag, the play from the worst.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm Dodgers cement their dynasty.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's the most awful call, like I'm sorry, uh, and
I would say, and I've talked to people I would
I apologize for making it personal.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But all season long, I couldn't do it. I could
not do it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Because he's like force saying his voice like he's.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Like forcing it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I don't know what it is, but I can't listen
to it. I listened to another feed. I'll listen to
the Spanish feed, and I don't know Spanish, but I
can't listen to that guy.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
There's a there's a forced to sing songiness to it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
But I mean, what a series I saw the video of,
Actually this is weird. The video of the radio call.
There's a camera in that booth even sitting next to
Rick Monday, and Rick Monday is just he's just not,
I mean, stone faced in that he's not really saying anything,
but you could.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Tell those guys were super excited.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Oh Rick Monday, I'd love to hear from now. No apologies,
I'm not a Dodgers fan. This was one of the
best world series we've ever seen. It had ever everything.
It had everything.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It had drama, it had superstars, it had the unlikely heroes.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It had Pahz which couldn't hit.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
An insert clever phrase here, you know, coming through with
the game saving catch. You know, all season you heard
you got pa Is and for defense, got he's hit,
not hitting for anything, and then all of a sudden
you need defense. And for all the people who nay
say Dave Roberts myself included all you left him in
too long or you know, he was masterful in managing personalities,
(03:16):
keeping the confidence up of a Shehn of Andy Paz, freaking.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Mickey Rojas is fifty seven years old, and I mean,
it's just incredible what Dave Roberts was able to do.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yes, there's talent, but then the guys that stepped up
that were struggling to be the saviors of the day
two games six and seven and on a double play.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The only thing it didn't have, and we almost got it,
uh in that extra inning game, in the first extra
inning game that went eighteen is the only thing this
didn't have was a position player pitching. Just about every
other aspect of the game was involved.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
There was a rush up to the mound.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Oh right, there was a yeah, well, I mean there
was more. I thought I saw it described is not
a bench clearing brawl, but more of an HR meeting
where everybody got talked to and that was about it.
I've never seen that in the games. I don't think
I've seen it in a World Series. I guarantee I've
never seen a bench is clear in a Game seven
of a World Series. It had the ground rule double
where the ball gets stuck. It had dropped balls, It
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had errors, It had brilliant defensive plays, It had plays
at the play.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I mean it just it just had something.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It had the starting pitcher who comes in in relief
late in the games to come and get the win.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
In Yamamoto's case, it had.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Game seven bringing you two innings from both teams where
they had loaded the bases and left everyone stranded.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
That is such a well, listen, I know that baseball
extra innings is not sudden death.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's not.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
There's you know, there's an opportunity for the home team
to always come back the next half inning. But there's
something that is so tense even about that, where if
Will Smith hits that home run in the top of
the eleventh, you know there's a chance for the Blue Jays,
they're not going to give up. And the first thing
that happens is vlad Guerrero gets up there and hits
(05:11):
a double down. He crushed that ball down the line. Yeah,
and then a sacrifice bunt.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Who does that anymore? Nobody does that anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I love it like we see it. They don't teach
it anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And for all the people go, oh, they're just trying
to hit home runs. They're trying to hit home runs. Well,
it worked in Game seven. It worked for the people. Know,
the Padres fans and the Mariners fans and the other
people go, oh, this is bad.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Dodgers are bad for baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
F and U you know what was bad for baseball
the twenty seventeen Astros, the cheating was bad for baseball.
The fact that they were named World Series champions bad
for baseball. The Dodgers this year, this series were good
for baseball. I had people myself included, watching that thing
start to finish and talking about it all the time
that never talk about baseball.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
You know, the other aspects of it that I think
is different from what we saw even last year with
the Yankees is I don't know anybody who hates any
member of the Dodgers. There's there's no bad guys, there's
no there's no bad characters, there's no I mean, you've
got like Freddie Freeman and Mookie Bett's good point, k
Hernandez who are all the they're happy, Smiley, they enjoy
(06:23):
what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Right, and it's a global team. That tis such a
great article about that. So uh, it just it was
a great time. I think it was fun to watch
something altogether as well. So the city of La celebrates today.
This is going to be a bigger parade, I think
than last year.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Shop dot MLB dot com just stole about three hundred
dollars worth of Michael Monks's money because he's wearing his
brand new blue satin Tommy Lasorda style Dodgers jacket out
on the streets.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I check in with Michael here just a moment he's
out there covering them.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Right, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
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Speaker 1 (07:07):
I gotta say I would not have hated losing to
the Blue Jays. What a classy organization the pitchers putting
Alex VESSI has number fifty one on their hats. I mean,
real class fan base as well.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Good, good manager, good coach, all of it.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I love the fact that there's three players I think
it's three right now, three players on the team whose
dad's played in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I think one of them didn't make the World Series roster.
I don't remember, but we were trying to come up
with the third name and I could not.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Be Dalton varshow yeah, Boba Schev Yeah, and Vlad Gerier junior.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh oh maybe I just couldn't go.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And then there was before there were other like seven.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, yoh, that's the one I couldn't come up with.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah.
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An hour from now, we have another shot for you
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to the old parade route because at about eleven o'clock
this morning, you're going to see the big celebration for
the Back to Back World Champ Dodgers parade through downtown.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Michael Monks. The festivities have already gone. I'm begun. I'm
sure people are lining up. What's happening? Do we have
Michael Monks?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No, don't worry, we'll get him. He's talking. Oh there
he is.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Hi, michaelbody there?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Can you hear us? Hmmm? Hi, Michael?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Can you hear them?
Speaker 8 (09:02):
I can?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh my god, I can't hear them? Now, wow, holy
hell my god. Okay, bought him down.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Right now. I have so been that reporter in the
field when there's technical problems, and I have lost it,
like I I.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
Almost almost just now, I have lost it. Like I
go from like, oh, I'm not here the Dodgers prayed
to like complete monster, like what the are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's the radio?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Why am I out here?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Like I've gone completely insane to where people didn't talk
to me for like weeks at a time.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
When I was a reporter, nobody wanted to look you
in the.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Not only does he hates the Dodgers. Okay, relaxed, I
don't hate cats.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He does not hate the dog.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You've been You've been very.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Very complimentary this rat listen.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I'm yeah, I am a Giants fan, born and bred, raised,
will always be.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You're not going to change that.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
But man, I love it when there's a good, when
there is a competition, when there's good, when when baseball
shows its true self as one of the more exciting
sports that you could that you could.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Be involved with. Four game sweep is boring.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Four game sweep is beat and it's nothing, means nothing
for the ratings, it's nothing to generate excitement for the game,
none of it. A seven game a seven game World
series that ends in the seventh game in extra innings.
That is absolute poetry. It's perfectly classic. That's the way
it should always be.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I was asking a sports insider what they thought about
the Giants sports insider and picking up the coach from Tennessee,
you know, the guy with no pro experience, And I said,
how do you think this is going to go? And
the sports insider said, not well, because you've got guys,
you know, you know, you got guys from from everywhere,
(11:00):
you know, Venezuela, dr or whatever, and you're out there
from Tennessee and you're like, all right, let's take an
extra batting practice, you know, like it's a completely different
world of college coaching and coaching grown men.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
But I was also talking to a sports insider and
not the same one, and he said, hey, at least
it's Buster Posey's choice. Like, as a Giants fan, Buster
Posey is probably on the Mount Rushmore for the team,
which is a crowded route Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But his opinion, right, who should take over this?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't know if that counts because Buster Posey is
from an earlier generation of the Mount Rushmore. Like, like
you have to know what resonates with people right now,
like with kids right now, you know, Buster Possey, You
and I think of him as twenty two years old, right,
but he's not that anymore. And like that's one of
the things about Dave Roberts is he just transcends. He
(11:52):
can talk to anybody, you know, he can coach for anybody.
He brings out the best and deals with all the personalities,
which is really what it is. How do you deal
with all the personalities and all the egos. And it's
a different ballgame from college, where they're still coachable, trainable.
You can just beat the you know you can as
opposed to dealing with grown men ego types of situations. Hey,
(12:13):
let's hold on to Michael if we can. I don't
want to cut them short and just put them on
for a minute. So can we do the next segment
with Michael?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Is everybody?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I'm going to say yes, Okay, thank you. I'm not
in charge of anything, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You're scheduling awesome, yeah'll make sure he's free. Let's do that.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
There are some other stuff where we get to the
Dodgers prey here in just a second, Senators, back on
Capitol Hill today. Government shutdown is in its thirty fourth day.
Over the weekend, there were almost one hundred staffing trigger
reports at FAA facilities, meaning that air traffic controllers had
to adjust to operations to maintain airspace safety. The Trump
(12:56):
administration's face to deadline today to brief a judge on
how it's going to fund the SNAP program because of
the government shut down and the lapse in funding that
was supposed to take place over the weekend. So there's
a lot of stuff that he is going on that
does not have to do with the Dodgers.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
The wedged ball rule is not a ground rule.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Double, thanks one thousand percent incorrect. The wedged ball.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Is a ground I wouldn't come at Gary with rule corrections.
He's pretty good with rules in every capacity of their existence.
He's a rule follower, and if he knows something, it's
the it's the rules for everything.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So I wouldn't come at him with that, right.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Michael Monks, I mean you would say also that the
wedged ball is a ground rule double.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
I think that the documents say so, and I think
that's all I have to contribute on that excellent page.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, so where are you? What's happening? It sounds like
it's already a freaking party.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Oh my gosh, it's been a party since about seven
o'clock this morning, and that really surprised me because folks
had to set up so early, and you know how
it is to get anywhere in Greater Los Angeles. I
talk to people who left their homes at four o'clock
this morning just to claim the prime real estate here
on Temple Street. And we are still more than an
(14:17):
hour away from this parade getting started.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
But these folks were here at.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
Six seven o'clock. Only in the past forty five minutes
or so have the sidewalks gotten that photographic image that
everybody wants to see, truly packed in like sardines. Now,
getting a little claustrophobic, getting a little anxious, throat closing
up a bit. But I'm going to continue to bring
in the latest from downtown.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I love it when you put yourself and your needs
aside for our needs.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Michael, not to mention how badly I have to pee
right now. Oh yeah, I know. It's the reporter cross
to bear.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You develop a camel like bladder at some point, now
La loves a sequel in this situation, and the sequel
was better than the original.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What is your vibe with the parade? Obviously people have
brought their children.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Do you think I, like a lot of people think
it's gonna be even bigger than it was last year.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
You know, I scoped out this place to shack up
for the morning because I'm right next to the County
building where i spend a lot of time, and I
know this marble block. It's about five feet high and
I've worked on it before after meetings, so I.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Know it's a good thing.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
But what it didn't anticipate was it's a good spot
for kids whose parents want them to be able to
see the parade, so they're like propped up next to it.
But he can't move my equipment or I'm going to
lose my spot, So we'll just deal with that. As
far as the vibe goes. Let me just say this,
Los Angeles is a globally important city. It's a place
everybody around the world knows. But what I like in
moments like this, just as an observer, is when you're
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reminded that at least also just a city, and it's
a place where people live, it's a place where people work,
and it's a place where these people's teams play. And
this team just happens to be really good, and so
it's just a fun reminder that this is just a place,
and all of these people are showing up in downtown
Los Angeles for their favorite baseball team. It's totally positive.
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Everybody's vibing, passing beach balls around. They tried to do
the way that didn't go as well, but everybody's clapping
when the firefighters go by, when the deputies go by,
when the police go by. I can only imagine how
loud it's going to be right here the moment the
Dodgers pass by.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Now, before today you said that you do want to
have children. Do you think that after today you'll feel
the same way I do.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
This doesn't bother me at all. I believe that children
are the future. Let's treat them well and let them.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I've gotten a report from my husband who took the
Gold Line downtown that the trains are loaded with Dodger fans.
A super great way to get downtown riding that metro.
This thing starts, It officially starts when Michael, how long
does it go.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Well, it's relatively short. I mean, for as long as
people have been waiting for this thing to get started.
It starts at around eleven and they expect that the
parade route will be completely finished by eleven forty five
and then the festivities will move over to Dodgers Stadium,
where I believe in event is scheduled to start a
little bit pass twelve. So a relatively short parade, just
to give folks that release that I know they need
(17:28):
after that historic Game seven victory. What a series it was,
and I know these folks are ready to celebrate, not
just for this parade, but until the next season starts.
And yes, the fans are predicting they'll be back here
again next year celebrating a third I.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Love the idea of a three paint. Now, talk to
me about the coolers. Are the coolers filled with medello?
Or is there a mitch? A lot of opportunity? What's
going on?
Speaker 8 (17:53):
There are not so many, But I'll tell you this.
I'm doing another story for later today after the Dodger
celebration starts to die down a little bit for me,
and it's about the significant drop in cannabis sales in
California and in Los Angeles specifically in some efforts that
the government is trying to do to help. I'm telling
you the sales picked up today.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I have a hot tip.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The government isn't no business and should have no business
in the cannabis market, you know, the legal cannabis.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Also it's too expensive.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Well, what they saw was an opportunity to make some
tax money, and now they're not getting as much as.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
They had, right, so people have gone underground.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Did you think the weed understanding down here is underground?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
They didn't buy it from the overpriced you know, hit
and puff down the street.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I don't know. This eight year old next to me
just try to sell me a bag.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You think that's not legit? I don't know.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
It was a little CD honestly.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
We will check back in with Michael throughout the morning.
Thanks man, appreciate it. You got it, Michael.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Mugs.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
They're down on the on the streets and down town
LA for this paraid picking up a bag apparently a bag.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Have you ever gone to I mean, I know you
covered the I'm not a parade person. You covered the kings,
the King's spread that was a great story like that was.
I mean, Robin and Don Martin had like some sort
of weird faith in me that did not exist in
real life. But like I heard, Petros and money were
gone somewhere. The Kings win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He calls me, He's like, I'm gonna need you to
host the parade tomorrow with Rich Marada. And I'm like,
what klac what, Like, I don't know hockey to save
my life. Well, I stayed up all night and I
learned hockey. I watched so much hockey for hours and
hours and hours. I learned Russian, like I really did
put everything into it. And we did that parade and
(19:50):
it was so much fun and it was so great.
And we were right above Staple Center. I'm watching it
like from a from a rooftop kind of thing, watching
it go by, and Vic Brick was on the floats
and it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It was. It was a great time. But no, I've
never gone to the parade.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
As you know, as a fan, I'm not a big
fan of seas of humanity. And as I get older
it gets worse with me in crowds. I just don't
enjoy a crowd.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But you went to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's a crowd.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It was.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
It is probably different. It was I planned event that's
going on.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And you've got to where I sit, you know, in
Los Felis, there's a lot of there's a lot of
air up there at the top deck where you don't
feel claustrophobic.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
All right, we'll come back.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I Am six forty.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
About an hour from now is when that Dodger parade
is going to start downtown La. Michael Monks is down there.
We'll be checking in with him throughout the show today.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Government shut down hit me last night. There was a
number of ground now it's getting serious ground stops and
ground delays. Newark LaGuardia O'Hare lax. So the Chargers played
in Nashville yesterday and we were getting ready to take off,
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had already kind of been delayed about an hour on
the tarmac getting ready to take off, and they said, oops, lax,
ground delay. We'll let you know in two hours where
we're at. So we were on the tarmac for about
three hours in Nashville, and there were stories as I
was looking at Twitter to see where everyone else was
same kind of thing. Delays were from about an hour
to about two hours for most flights coming into lax
(21:39):
And this is what happened in twenty nineteen when you
just had delays everywhere, when the air traffic controller shortage
brought this thing to a head. It doesn't seem like
Trump is in any mood to change his position on this.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Some of the sixty minutes.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I didn't watch a whole interview, but I saw some
of the highlights that he did on sixty minutes, and
he seemed very hands off with the whole thing, basically
just saying, well, that's for Congress to deal with. Yeah,
And I mean, he obviously would want the government to work,
but it doesn't sound like he's pulling or throwing around
(22:20):
any of his weight in terms of trying to put
pressure on politicians to come to the table and get
this thing done.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, because if he did, it would be done right
away if he did throw his weight.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
We're in our thirty fourth day now with the government shutdown.
The record for the longest shutdown is likely going to
be broken a couple of days from now because there's
zero sign of any sort of end to all of
this you mentioned the FAA facilities, There were ninety eight
staffing trigger reports at different FAA facilities, including airports, because
(22:52):
air traffic controllers had to adjust operations to maintain airspace safety.
That meant, in some cases those ground stops, delaying flights,
rerouting flights, things like that.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
The other big issue is that on.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Friday, two separate federal judges ruled that the administration must
use an emergency fund to help pay for SNAP benefits,
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the fancy way to say
food stamps for more than forty million people. It's not enough.
(23:26):
By the way, this emergency account of about five and
a quarter billion dollars is not enough to cover the
full benefits for the month of November, because that would
be about nine billions, so maybe about halfway through the
month basically, And in this case, the administration did say
(23:47):
today that it will provide some partial food stamp benefits
as they get in deeper into this. I saw something
also that just blew me away.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
There are about three.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Million households three million, three and a quarter million households
in La County, according to the La Times. About a
million households in La County are on EBT. A third
of homes in LA County.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, I heard you heard Conway talking about the number
forty two million or something.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Forty two million nationwide.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That sounds and he's, as he said, sounds a lot
of people.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
That is an ax ton of people.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
And thirty one percent of LA County if that number is,
If that's right, thirty one percent of LA County is
on food stamps. We are we are broken. We have
We've broken something. We can't sustain a thirty one percent
ratio with thirty one percent of people receiving food stamps
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in any portion of this country. That should be absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
What's the threshold?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I don't know, but I'm saying that is shocking. I
never would have guessed it was there.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well, especially when you don't see it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
True.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
But I mean, I drive around. It's not like I'm
immune to seeing neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Drive from where you live here.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Sometimes I stop and get a coffee, Okay, I stop
and grab some Tamali's off of the road, do you.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yes, people they sell coolers full of them and they keep them.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay, I buy Tomali's. I'm a man of the people.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I am a man of the people. Sometimes I buy
my drugs in certain areas.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
How I want to Molly. That sounds real good, like
a green chili with some sauce.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I'll throw down on the order.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh, that sounds good.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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IF I am six forty the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. So, like in the
promo that you crafted and created because you are a
creative audio wizard, are we failing at saving the world?
Like what's happening there? Because it sounds like there's some
(00:22):
sort of Godzilla and he's bringing the world down, maybe
from Dodger Stadium, and we don't want to deal with
it or what.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I don't understand my role in it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You're on the money, You're on the team.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I'd like to redo it to where I save
the world.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I do.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I feel like I just don't care enough in that
and I want to care, like I want to save
the world from that monster.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Gotcha, you do care. I feel like you would save
the word.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I totally would, but for comedic purposes.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I was like, what if they don't?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yeah, So you're saying to me, the more interesting choice
is the better choice. But but it doesn't leave me.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, it doesn't leave me any sort of.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's no hope.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There's no hope, and you know what, that's not you
and that's not me. Olmer we're both hopeful people. I
agree we are, so I think in the next one
we kill the monster.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You're going to vanquish the monsters.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, there's a part too.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yamamoto's two coming to Kirk, broken back, Grumball bets.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hasard steps on the bag, the play from the worst.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm Dodgers cement their dynasty.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's the most awful call, like I'm sorry, uh, and
I would say, and I've talked to people I would
I apologize for making it personal.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But all season long, I couldn't do it. I could
not do it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Because he's like force saying his voice like he's.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Like forcing it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I don't know what it is, but I can't listen
to it. I listened to another feed. I'll listen to
the Spanish feed, and I don't know Spanish, but I
can't listen to that guy.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
There's a there's a forced to sing songiness to it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
But I mean, what a series I saw the video of,
Actually this is weird. The video of the radio call.
There's a camera in that booth even sitting next to
Rick Monday, and Rick Monday is just he's just not,
I mean, stone faced in that he's not really saying anything,
but you could.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Tell those guys were super excited.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Oh Rick Monday, I'd love to hear from now. No apologies,
I'm not a Dodgers fan. This was one of the
best world series we've ever seen. It had ever everything.
It had everything.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It had drama, it had superstars, it had the unlikely heroes.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It had Pahz which couldn't hit.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
An insert clever phrase here, you know, coming through with
the game saving catch. You know, all season you heard
you got pa Is and for defense, got he's hit,
not hitting for anything, and then all of a sudden
you need defense. And for all the people who nay
say Dave Roberts myself included all you left him in
too long or you know, he was masterful in managing personalities,
(03:16):
keeping the confidence up of a Shehn of Andy Paz, freaking.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Mickey Rojas is fifty seven years old, and I mean,
it's just incredible what Dave Roberts was able to do.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yes, there's talent, but then the guys that stepped up
that were struggling to be the saviors of the day
two games six and seven and on a double play.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The only thing it didn't have, and we almost got it,
uh in that extra inning game, in the first extra
inning game that went eighteen is the only thing this
didn't have was a position player pitching. Just about every
other aspect of the game was involved.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
There was a rush up to the mound.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Oh right, there was a yeah, well, I mean there
was more. I thought I saw it described is not
a bench clearing brawl, but more of an HR meeting
where everybody got talked to and that was about it.
I've never seen that in the games. I don't think
I've seen it in a World Series. I guarantee I've
never seen a bench is clear in a Game seven
of a World Series. It had the ground rule double
where the ball gets stuck. It had dropped balls, It
(04:18):
had errors, It had brilliant defensive plays, It had plays
at the play.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I mean it just it just had something.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It had the starting pitcher who comes in in relief
late in the games to come and get the win.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
In Yamamoto's case, it had.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Game seven bringing you two innings from both teams where
they had loaded the bases and left everyone stranded.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
That is such a well, listen, I know that baseball
extra innings is not sudden death.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's not.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
There's you know, there's an opportunity for the home team
to always come back the next half inning. But there's
something that is so tense even about that, where if
Will Smith hits that home run in the top of
the eleventh, you know there's a chance for the Blue Jays,
they're not going to give up. And the first thing
that happens is vlad Guerrero gets up there and hits
(05:11):
a double down. He crushed that ball down the line. Yeah,
and then a sacrifice bunt.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Who does that anymore? Nobody does that anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I love it like we see it. They don't teach
it anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And for all the people go, oh, they're just trying
to hit home runs. They're trying to hit home runs. Well,
it worked in Game seven. It worked for the people. Know,
the Padres fans and the Mariners fans and the other
people go, oh, this is bad.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Dodgers are bad for baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
F and U you know what was bad for baseball
the twenty seventeen Astros, the cheating was bad for baseball.
The fact that they were named World Series champions bad
for baseball. The Dodgers this year, this series were good
for baseball. I had people myself included, watching that thing
start to finish and talking about it all the time
that never talk about baseball.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
You know, the other aspects of it that I think
is different from what we saw even last year with
the Yankees is I don't know anybody who hates any
member of the Dodgers. There's there's no bad guys, there's
no there's no bad characters, there's no I mean, you've
got like Freddie Freeman and Mookie Bett's good point, k
Hernandez who are all the they're happy, Smiley, they enjoy
(06:23):
what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Right, and it's a global team. That tis such a
great article about that. So uh, it just it was
a great time. I think it was fun to watch
something altogether as well. So the city of La celebrates today.
This is going to be a bigger parade, I think
than last year.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Shop dot MLB dot com just stole about three hundred
dollars worth of Michael Monks's money because he's wearing his
brand new blue satin Tommy Lasorda style Dodgers jacket out
on the streets.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I check in with Michael here just a moment he's
out there covering them.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
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Speaker 1 (07:07):
I gotta say I would not have hated losing to
the Blue Jays. What a classy organization the pitchers putting
Alex VESSI has number fifty one on their hats. I mean,
real class fan base as well.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Good, good manager, good coach, all of it.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I love the fact that there's three players I think
it's three right now, three players on the team whose
dad's played in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I think one of them didn't make the World Series roster.
I don't remember, but we were trying to come up
with the third name and I could not.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Be Dalton varshow yeah, Boba Schev Yeah, and Vlad Gerier junior.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh oh maybe I just couldn't go.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And then there was before there were other like seven.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, yoh, that's the one I couldn't come up with.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah.
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An hour from now, we have another shot for you
to win one thousand dollars. Well, let's head on out
to the old parade route because at about eleven o'clock
this morning, you're going to see the big celebration for
the Back to Back World Champ Dodgers parade through downtown.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Michael Monks. The festivities have already gone. I'm begun. I'm
sure people are lining up. What's happening? Do we have
Michael Monks?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No, don't worry, we'll get him. He's talking. Oh there
he is.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Hi, michaelbody there?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Can you hear us? Hmmm? Hi, Michael?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Can you hear them?
Speaker 8 (09:02):
I can?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh my god, I can't hear them? Now, wow, holy
hell my god. Okay, bought him down.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Right now. I have so been that reporter in the
field when there's technical problems, and I have lost it,
like I I.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
Almost almost just now, I have lost it. Like I
go from like, oh, I'm not here the Dodgers prayed
to like complete monster, like what the are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's the radio?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Why am I out here?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Like I've gone completely insane to where people didn't talk
to me for like weeks at a time.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
When I was a reporter, nobody wanted to look you
in the.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Not only does he hates the Dodgers. Okay, relaxed, I
don't hate cats.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He does not hate the dog.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You've been You've been very.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Very complimentary this rat listen.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I'm yeah, I am a Giants fan, born and bred, raised,
will always be.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You're not going to change that.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
But man, I love it when there's a good, when
there is a competition, when there's good, when when baseball
shows its true self as one of the more exciting
sports that you could that you could.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Be involved with. Four game sweep is boring.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Four game sweep is beat and it's nothing, means nothing
for the ratings, it's nothing to generate excitement for the game,
none of it. A seven game a seven game World
series that ends in the seventh game in extra innings.
That is absolute poetry. It's perfectly classic. That's the way
it should always be.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I was asking a sports insider what they thought about
the Giants sports insider and picking up the coach from Tennessee,
you know, the guy with no pro experience, And I said,
how do you think this is going to go? And
the sports insider said, not well, because you've got guys,
you know, you know, you got guys from from everywhere,
(11:00):
you know, Venezuela, dr or whatever, and you're out there
from Tennessee and you're like, all right, let's take an
extra batting practice, you know, like it's a completely different
world of college coaching and coaching grown men.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
But I was also talking to a sports insider and
not the same one, and he said, hey, at least
it's Buster Posey's choice. Like, as a Giants fan, Buster
Posey is probably on the Mount Rushmore for the team,
which is a crowded route Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But his opinion, right, who should take over this?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't know if that counts because Buster Posey is
from an earlier generation of the Mount Rushmore. Like, like
you have to know what resonates with people right now,
like with kids right now, you know, Buster Possey, You
and I think of him as twenty two years old, right,
but he's not that anymore. And like that's one of
the things about Dave Roberts is he just transcends. He
(11:52):
can talk to anybody, you know, he can coach for anybody.
He brings out the best and deals with all the personalities,
which is really what it is. How do you deal
with all the personalities and all the egos. And it's
a different ballgame from college, where they're still coachable, trainable.
You can just beat the you know you can as
opposed to dealing with grown men ego types of situations. Hey,
(12:13):
let's hold on to Michael if we can. I don't
want to cut them short and just put them on
for a minute. So can we do the next segment
with Michael?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Is everybody?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I'm going to say yes, Okay, thank you. I'm not
in charge of anything, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You're scheduling awesome, yeah'll make sure he's free. Let's do that.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
There are some other stuff where we get to the
Dodgers prey here in just a second, Senators, back on
Capitol Hill today. Government shutdown is in its thirty fourth day.
Over the weekend, there were almost one hundred staffing trigger
reports at FAA facilities, meaning that air traffic controllers had
to adjust to operations to maintain airspace safety. The Trump
(12:56):
administration's face to deadline today to brief a judge on
how it's going to fund the SNAP program because of
the government shut down and the lapse in funding that
was supposed to take place over the weekend. So there's
a lot of stuff that he is going on that
does not have to do with the Dodgers.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Good morning, Gary.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
The wedged ball rule is not a ground rule.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Double, thanks one thousand percent incorrect. The wedged ball.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Is a ground I wouldn't come at Gary with rule corrections.
He's pretty good with rules in every capacity of their existence.
He's a rule follower, and if he knows something, it's
the it's the rules for everything.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So I wouldn't come at him with that, right.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Michael Monks, I mean you would say also that the
wedged ball is a ground rule double.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
I think that the documents say so, and I think
that's all I have to contribute on that excellent page.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, so where are you? What's happening? It sounds like
it's already a freaking party.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Oh my gosh, it's been a party since about seven
o'clock this morning, and that really surprised me because folks
had to set up so early, and you know how
it is to get anywhere in Greater Los Angeles. I
talk to people who left their homes at four o'clock
this morning just to claim the prime real estate here
on Temple Street. And we are still more than an
(14:17):
hour away from this parade getting started.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
But these folks were here at.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
Six seven o'clock. Only in the past forty five minutes
or so have the sidewalks gotten that photographic image that
everybody wants to see, truly packed in like sardines. Now,
getting a little claustrophobic, getting a little anxious, throat closing
up a bit. But I'm going to continue to bring
in the latest from downtown.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I love it when you put yourself and your needs
aside for our needs.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Michael, not to mention how badly I have to pee
right now. Oh yeah, I know. It's the reporter cross
to bear.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You develop a camel like bladder at some point, now
La loves a sequel in this situation, and the sequel
was better than the original.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What is your vibe with the parade? Obviously people have
brought their children.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Do you think I, like a lot of people think
it's gonna be even bigger than it was last year.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
You know, I scoped out this place to shack up
for the morning because I'm right next to the County
building where i spend a lot of time, and I
know this marble block. It's about five feet high and
I've worked on it before after meetings, so I.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Know it's a good thing.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
But what it didn't anticipate was it's a good spot
for kids whose parents want them to be able to
see the parade, so they're like propped up next to it.
But he can't move my equipment or I'm going to
lose my spot, So we'll just deal with that. As
far as the vibe goes. Let me just say this,
Los Angeles is a globally important city. It's a place
everybody around the world knows. But what I like in
moments like this, just as an observer, is when you're
(15:51):
reminded that at least also just a city, and it's
a place where people live, it's a place where people work,
and it's a place where these people's teams play. And
this team just happens to be really good, and so
it's just a fun reminder that this is just a place,
and all of these people are showing up in downtown
Los Angeles for their favorite baseball team. It's totally positive.
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Everybody's vibing, passing beach balls around. They tried to do
the way that didn't go as well, but everybody's clapping
when the firefighters go by, when the deputies go by,
when the police go by. I can only imagine how
loud it's going to be right here the moment the
Dodgers pass by.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Now, before today you said that you do want to
have children. Do you think that after today you'll feel
the same way I do.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
This doesn't bother me at all. I believe that children
are the future. Let's treat them well and let them.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I've gotten a report from my husband who took the
Gold Line downtown that the trains are loaded with Dodger fans.
A super great way to get downtown riding that metro.
This thing starts, It officially starts when Michael, how long
does it go.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Well, it's relatively short. I mean, for as long as
people have been waiting for this thing to get started.
It starts at around eleven and they expect that the
parade route will be completely finished by eleven forty five
and then the festivities will move over to Dodgers Stadium,
where I believe in event is scheduled to start a
little bit pass twelve. So a relatively short parade, just
to give folks that release that I know they need
(17:28):
after that historic Game seven victory. What a series it was,
and I know these folks are ready to celebrate, not
just for this parade, but until the next season starts.
And yes, the fans are predicting they'll be back here
again next year celebrating a third I.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Love the idea of a three paint. Now, talk to
me about the coolers. Are the coolers filled with medello?
Or is there a mitch? A lot of opportunity? What's
going on?
Speaker 8 (17:53):
There are not so many, But I'll tell you this.
I'm doing another story for later today after the Dodger
celebration starts to die down a little bit for me,
and it's about the significant drop in cannabis sales in
California and in Los Angeles specifically in some efforts that
the government is trying to do to help. I'm telling
you the sales picked up today.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I have a hot tip.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The government isn't no business and should have no business
in the cannabis market, you know, the legal cannabis.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Also it's too expensive.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Well, what they saw was an opportunity to make some
tax money, and now they're not getting as much as.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
They had, right, so people have gone underground.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Did you think the weed understanding down here is underground?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
They didn't buy it from the overpriced you know, hit
and puff down the street.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I don't know. This eight year old next to me
just try to sell me a bag.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You think that's not legit? I don't know.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
It was a little CD honestly.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
We will check back in with Michael throughout the morning.
Thanks man, appreciate it. You got it, Michael.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Mugs.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
They're down on the on the streets and down town
LA for this paraid picking up a bag apparently a bag.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Have you ever gone to I mean, I know you
covered the I'm not a parade person. You covered the kings,
the King's spread that was a great story like that was.
I mean, Robin and Don Martin had like some sort
of weird faith in me that did not exist in
real life. But like I heard, Petros and money were
gone somewhere. The Kings win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He calls me, He's like, I'm gonna need you to
host the parade tomorrow with Rich Marada. And I'm like,
what klac what, Like, I don't know hockey to save
my life. Well, I stayed up all night and I
learned hockey. I watched so much hockey for hours and
hours and hours. I learned Russian, like I really did
put everything into it. And we did that parade and
(19:50):
it was so much fun and it was so great.
And we were right above Staple Center. I'm watching it
like from a from a rooftop kind of thing, watching
it go by, and Vic Brick was on the floats
and it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It was. It was a great time. But no, I've
never gone to the parade.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
As you know, as a fan, I'm not a big
fan of seas of humanity. And as I get older
it gets worse with me in crowds. I just don't
enjoy a crowd.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But you went to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's a crowd.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It was.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
It is probably different. It was I planned event that's
going on.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And you've got to where I sit, you know, in
Los Felis, there's a lot of there's a lot of
air up there at the top deck where you don't
feel claustrophobic.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
All right, we'll come back.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
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Speaker 5 (20:41):
About an hour from now is when that Dodger parade
is going to start downtown La. Michael Monks is down there.
We'll be checking in with him throughout the show today.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Government shut down hit me last night. There was a
number of ground now it's getting serious ground stops and
ground delays. Newark LaGuardia O'Hare lax. So the Chargers played
in Nashville yesterday and we were getting ready to take off,
(21:13):
had already kind of been delayed about an hour on
the tarmac getting ready to take off, and they said, oops, lax,
ground delay. We'll let you know in two hours where
we're at. So we were on the tarmac for about
three hours in Nashville, and there were stories as I
was looking at Twitter to see where everyone else was
same kind of thing. Delays were from about an hour
to about two hours for most flights coming into lax
(21:39):
And this is what happened in twenty nineteen when you
just had delays everywhere, when the air traffic controller shortage
brought this thing to a head. It doesn't seem like
Trump is in any mood to change his position on this.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Some of the sixty minutes.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I didn't watch a whole interview, but I saw some
of the highlights that he did on sixty minutes, and
he seemed very hands off with the whole thing, basically
just saying, well, that's for Congress to deal with. Yeah,
And I mean, he obviously would want the government to work,
but it doesn't sound like he's pulling or throwing around
(22:20):
any of his weight in terms of trying to put
pressure on politicians to come to the table and get
this thing done.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, because if he did, it would be done right
away if he did throw his weight.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
We're in our thirty fourth day now with the government shutdown.
The record for the longest shutdown is likely going to
be broken a couple of days from now because there's
zero sign of any sort of end to all of
this you mentioned the FAA facilities, There were ninety eight
staffing trigger reports at different FAA facilities, including airports, because
(22:52):
air traffic controllers had to adjust operations to maintain airspace safety.
That meant, in some cases those ground stops, delaying flights,
rerouting flights, things like that.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
The other big issue is that on.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Friday, two separate federal judges ruled that the administration must
use an emergency fund to help pay for SNAP benefits,
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the fancy way to say
food stamps for more than forty million people. It's not enough.
(23:26):
By the way, this emergency account of about five and
a quarter billion dollars is not enough to cover the
full benefits for the month of November, because that would
be about nine billions, so maybe about halfway through the
month basically, And in this case, the administration did say
(23:47):
today that it will provide some partial food stamp benefits
as they get in deeper into this. I saw something
also that just blew me away.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
There are about three.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Million households three million, three and a quarter million households
in La County, according to the La Times. About a
million households in La County are on EBT. A third
of homes in LA County.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, I heard you heard Conway talking about the number
forty two million or something.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Forty two million nationwide.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That sounds and he's, as he said, sounds a lot
of people.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
That is an ax ton of people.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
And thirty one percent of LA County if that number is,
If that's right, thirty one percent of LA County is
on food stamps. We are we are broken. We have
We've broken something. We can't sustain a thirty one percent
ratio with thirty one percent of people receiving food stamps
(24:54):
in any portion of this country. That should be absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
What's the threshold?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I don't know, but I'm saying that is shocking. I
never would have guessed it was there.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well, especially when you don't see it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
True.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
But I mean, I drive around. It's not like I'm
immune to seeing neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Drive from where you live here.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Sometimes I stop and get a coffee, Okay, I stop
and grab some Tamali's off of the road, do you.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yes, people they sell coolers full of them and they keep them.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay, I buy Tomali's. I'm a man of the people.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I am a man of the people. Sometimes I buy
my drugs in certain areas.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
How I want to Molly. That sounds real good, like
a green chili with some sauce.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I'll throw down on the order.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh, that sounds good.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
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