October 20, 2025 • 32 mins
Gary’s Jeopardy question about a half-horse, half-man creature sends the show galloping straight back into Shannon’s new vertical short, Space Wars. Then it’s #SwampWatch with updates on the ongoing government shutdown, Trump’s clash with the Australian ambassador, and the Supreme Court’s latest gun rights debate. Later, they pay tribute to Jimmy Fallon’s late dog (also named Gary), breaks down nuisance homes in the Palisades, and ends with the NYT’s new vocabulary for bad news.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How are you feeling about that?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Feel fine?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I feel okay, Yeah, all right, I'm going to get
through this hour, but next the bottom of the next hour,
I'm gonna need.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
A little bit of motivation to get through the rest
of the week.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Really.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, Usually you're not somebody I worry about when it
comes to things like getting through the rest of the week.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You seem to be pretty.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, you put on your boots, you uh, you
strap in and you are ready to go to work
a five day work week. Are you becoming somebody who's
like em? I mean, that's fine. I just want to
know what we're dealing with.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Stay at home in my underpants, right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And that's fine. You can do that. You can broadcast
from home and you're underpants if you want.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
If Friday was a pants day, by the way, well,
Pink Lake, we established that, Pink Lake.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh that's right, that's right, Pink Lake.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
What's that's pants for you? It's pants for what's one
man's pants is another man's?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yes, Anyway, it's time for swamp Watch.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I'm a politician, which means I'm in a life and
when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Here
we got the real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
So what I'm not going anywhere, So train the swat.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
You know, Americans have always been going a president, but
they're not stupid.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Why have the people voted for you were not swamp watch.
They're all counting on well. Government shut down day twenty.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Republicans are pointing to the no Kings protest over the
weekend as just a publicity stunt.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
This is the way Speaker Mike Johnson referred to them.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
This was never about a solution, It was about creating
an issue. Now that Democrats have had their protest and
publicity stunts, I just prayed that they come to their
senses and end this shutdown and reopened the government this week.
Republicans are waiting, American people are waiting. We are ready
to act.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
They have scheduled yet another vote today two point thirty
This afternoon our time, the Senate is reconvening to vote
for an eleventh time on advancing a House past measure
that would fund the government and then the ongoing shutdown.
It's fallen short of the sixty votes needed to advance
in every vote so far. There's no indication that that
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has changed at all. John Thune, leader in a Senate
majority leader, is expected to bring up a bill this
week that would also pay federal employees and military service
members who have been staying on the job during the shutdown.
Advancing that legislation would require some support from Democrats, who
at this point, up to this point, I should say,
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have blocked long term defense spending from last week.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The Marine Corps has begun an investigation. The CHP says
shrapnel from our artillery shell fired during the live fire
demonstration touted by the White House that we talked about last.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Week struck a CHP cruiser.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
No injuries reported when the artillery round detonated overhead prematurely.
It was the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration for
the Marine Corpt. Camp Pendleton. At least one CHP patrol
vehicle on hand to help stop and divert traffic on
I five through the base during the demonstration was damaged.
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CHP Border Division chief saying this was an unusual and
concerning situation, a highly uncommon for any live fire or
explosive training activity to occur over an active freeway.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
They also said that once that was reported, the Marine
Corps shut down their live fire exercises once they got
a report that one of them had exploded prematurely.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't know, I'm sasty sort of calling BS on this.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm in the similar position because.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
This was something that Newsome was very critical about last weekend,
very critical of the planned to fire live munitions over
the interstate. We came down on the side of this happens,
and the Marine Corps knows what to do, knows how
to handle this. It's the two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
It's not about Trump. It's about celebrating the Marine Corps,
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and they know what they're doing, and so for this
to have gone awry in any way, it's just very convenient.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It's also an important point that type of artillery shell
is used to shoot over friendly forces.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I mean, they Marines.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Trust that with their lives that the guys behind them
are going to shoot the artillery over their heads to
the bad guys, and that they would safely be underneath
what would amount to an exploding warhead. So it's I
agree there's something going on there and I can't quite
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Done smell right?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I will wait for the Marine Corps version of exactly what.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Happens, like your pink leggings. Uh, how it doesn't smell right?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Ah? Got it? The officials.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The Israeli military says that Hamas has attacked Israeli soldiers
that breaks the ceasefire. The military said that its troops
came under fire from Hamas inside Southern Gaza. At least
two soldiers were killed. So the Israeli military said, you
don't get away with that. It struck dozens of Hamas targets.
A senior Egyptian official that was involved in the original
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ceasefire negotiation said round the clock contacts are underway to
de escalate all of this. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin
Nettan yahoo had directed his military to take strong action
against any ceasefire violations, but at this point hasn't threatened
to return to war, even though it probably feels like
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war when they're dropping gigantic bombs in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
There was a crowded press conference this morning with the
Australian Prime Minister there at the White House, where the
President kind of sparred with the Australian ambassador to the US.
This has not been a warm relationship between the two.
During this moment, an Australian reporter asked Trump if he
had any concerns with the Prime minister's administration, including the
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ambassador to the US his past comments, and Trump said
I don't know anything about him, apparently not realizing that
the guy was in the room. Trump then asked whether
the guy was still working for the Australian government, to
which the guy replied that the comments were made before
I took this position, mister President, and Trump says to him, well,
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I don't like you either, and I probably never will.
This was a guy who went on social media called
Trump the most destructive president in history. Trump then called
him nasty, said he's not the brightest bulb in the shed.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
How many bulbs are in a shed? Just the one?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Right? Don't you just have the one? And I guess
it's not very bright. Trying to keep to be people
low profile. What are you doing in that shed? You know,
I guess that's the question. What are you doing in
the shed? How many bulbs do you need? How bright
does that have to be? How big is your shed?
I'd love to put a shed in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Or what would you be doing?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I haven't decided yet. Would it be a she shed?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No, that's ridiculous. What is that even? What do you
want me to put like an easy bake oven in
there or something? What is a she shed?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
I wanted.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Okay, she shed down by the sea shore. I get it.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Alliteration. No, I just want to shed where I can.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Go in there and like I don't know, maybe maybe woodworking.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Do I build things?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Do you something I can work on, like a project
versus my shed?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We can think, we can think about it could be
a gym. It could be a gym. I hear what
you're saying.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I hear that.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
One more thing that is going on in DC. The
Supreme Court said today that it is going to consider
whether or not people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally
own guns.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Uh okay.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
The Trump administration had asked the court to revive this
case against a man in Texas charged with a felony
because he allegedly had a gun in his home and
acknowledged regularly smoking pot. Justice Department had appealed after a
lower court struck down a law that would bar people
from who use any illegal drugs from having guns. These
arguments probably come within the next couple of months, and
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then decision probably by early summer, usually the late June
I made.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So, I'm just I can't believe that you would ever
think of somebody who lars regularly smoke marijuana having a gun.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
That happens. It's a Tuesday that happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, did you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I can do that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
This is so funny. It's just the universe is so
aligned sometimes. I'm currently playing Connections and we talked about
Kevin Costner and horses and baseballs, and the topic is
horsing around for two hundred dollars. Britannica says this creature
in Greek mythology is the most obvious symbol of the
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oneness of horse and rider. It's a man, half man,
half horse. He's the man up top, the horse downstairs.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
The centaurs.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Sorry, oh sorry, horse mythology.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
How are you gonna survive in space Wars?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
What the does that have to do with Space Wars?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You have been cast as bumber puss, half man, half cat.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
How are you not flying on a pegasus or riding
But you should know the history of half man, half creatures.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You're not even in the same universe.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
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How are you even living through today if you're in Seattle? Like,
how is that city even coping with getting through this
work day? As they approach approach first pitch at five
oh eight, this is the closest they've ever been. I mean,
that's got to be so exciting and so hard to
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get through the day and get any sort.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Of work done.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And then in Seattle they'll just, depending on how it goes,
just say wow, we never it was never in the
cards for us, or of course we knew we were.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, they'll jump offs bridges, I don't know, Toronto.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The last time they were on the World Series they
won it nineteen ninety three, ninety two, ninety three.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I want to say ninety three ninety three. Carter was
hit that home run.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So it's a great story for the Mariners or the
blue Jays. Greater story for the Mariners. But blue Jays
haven't been back in a long time either. So Game
one will definitely be Friday. Game two will definitely be Saturday,
whether it's at Dodger Stadium or in Toronto.
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Dollars cartels and the amount of fentanyl that they've been
bringing into the United States has been curved significantly. In
June it was down forty two percent from the year before,
but in May, according to Customs and Border Protection, it's
down seventy percent from the year before. According to experts,
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this is not just because authorities are catching less fentinyl,
it's because cartels are not trafficking fentinyl into the United
States the way that they were before Statistics and law sorry.
A Resident Fellow in Law and Policy, Andrew Arthur from
Center for Immigration Study said statistics are a true reflection
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of the amount of drugs that are coming here. The
quantity of drugs is dropping because the Trump administration has
made it a priority, It has made the Mexican government
also make it a priority, and that the cartels have
been deliberately tapering off on the amount of fentanyl that
they're sending to the United States because they are scared
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about this.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
They do not want to get caught up in the
Trump policies.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
The measures to secure the border, of course, have hampered
fentanyl trafficking. Illegal crossings have plummeted since the administration deployed
thousands of troops to the border, removing legal pathways that
were created by the Biden administration. They've suspended access to
the asylum system, and mass deportations have also deterred a
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lot of the migration attempts that otherwise would have been made.
Thesumption is by immigration policies. So this appears to be working.
Question mark with a cautious amount of optimism in my voice,
that there has been a lowering in the amount of
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drugs illegal drugs that are coming into the United States
across the border.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It just depends which cartel is writing the hot hand.
From what I've read, is it the fentanyl cartel or
is it the cocaine cartel. And they've got different ways
of measuring who's getting their drugs into the United States.
And I think that we're seeing is progress on the
fentanyl front.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They are.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They're given into the cocaine front.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah. Well, we've talked in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
There are warring cartels and who's got the best ways
to get in and they don't always share information.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
This has also been played out in a bombing of
a police building in Tiwan. They said it was likely
meant as a warning and not a declaration of war
from a criminal organization a cartel. But there was an
attack on the Plias Tijuana station consisted of homemade bombs
that damaged three civilians in a squad car.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No people were injured.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
The Attorney General for Baja said the attack was a
response to the strong results from state officials who have
gone through recently and arrested the leaders of criminal organizations
and disrupted their activities, but said that state authorities will
not be deterred in continuing to investigate criminal activity.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Again. They used a drone to drop these bombs on
this police station.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I have some sad news. Can I have some sad news?
It's about a Gary.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
This scary? No, not everything is about you.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, but you say it. I said scary, I said Gary.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
There are other Garys in this world, right, everybody knows,
and one of them has passed away.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Garry Coleman.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Now Gary still with us? No Gary Coleman instead?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, like a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Ten Why would you guess that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Sometimes you miss the news and sometimes it's a surprise
to you.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Gary Berghoff, Gary Carter.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
This is a dog named Gary.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Who would name their dog Gary?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That was my first question. The answer is Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh, the beloved family dog Gary has passed away. Gary
is a female dog. Was a female dog. Also interesting,
very interesting move. The dog Gary has been called unforgettable,
their first baby, therapist, a pillow, a big sister, a schoolmarm,
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a comedian, a party girl in a rebel, all rolled
into one. Gary was first introduced to Jimmy Fallon's Instagram
followers back in twenty twelve, so she's been a part
of the family for.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Over a decade. A female dog named Gary.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Long dog, I mean a long time dog.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, it's a nice long life. Gary's are hardy. They're
hardy people. You don't find a lot of pansies named Gary,
a lot of people named Gary that are just gonna
die early. It's a pretty hardy name, except for, of course,
Gary Coleman, who died pretty young.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I think he's in his fifties. Oh was he.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
He had had a lot of health issues, a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Of health issues his whole life.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
He died in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I have a girlfriend who texted me not long ago
that somebody had died, somebody who we went to high school.
Let's call him Bob. She texted me, Bob's sister died.
I text her back, Bob's sister died last year. She goes, oh,
I just saw the thing on facebooky. So now we
go back and forth telling each other that people have
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died that have died long ago. But this is like
what people do in this Senior Citizen home right, Like,
did you hear about who died?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's like he died a year ago.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Let me call dorothan ask us Dorothy died in nineteen
seventy six.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Damn it, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Gary and Shanna will continue.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
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Speaker 4 (18:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We are going to be talking about bad news on
a Monday. The headline reads and the New York Times.
Are you resigned to a world of bad news?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
To which I say, hell no.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Did you not hear the story about re Ray.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The effing dog or cat it was a cat, Freya
or the freaking German Shepherd? Do you not listen to
the show New York Times? Do you not hear all
the good news we provide you on the regular? Are
you not feeling the sunshine and the warmth from this show.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh it's one of your face. I feel it. Thank you,
somebody does.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You must also know how to play defense.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Oh see Elmer, this is when it's not about what
she's talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It's about football.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Uh, Pacific Palisades, let's talk about that disaster area instead.
The eight Pacific Palisades properties that have been declared public
nuisances have gotten the designation because they haven't cleared toxic
fire debris. One of them includes a mansion featured in
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HBO's Succession.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
It's one of those weird circumstances from that fire in
January where you had three or four other homes surrounding
this mansion that were left standing and this one was not.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We've talked about neighborhoods when fire comes through and in
the cruel way that fire works. Sometimes it'll take out
a home. It will leap frog right home over home
over home, and it will leave some completely untouched, while
it will destroy and take down to the foundation others.
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There are some people whose homes are habitable there in
the Palisades, but yet you can't move back in. I mean,
forget about the fact that there's no neighborhood, no services,
and you're living in a dystopian weird vibe type land.
But it's not safe when the toxic fire ruins remain,
even if it's across the street or down the street.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
There is the Board of Building and Safety Commissioners, this
five minter member committee that adjudicates these public nuisance cases,
and they voted that the fire debris at these eight
different properties is a public nuisance could pose a risk
to public health and safety. So they've said the owners
did not meet that October second deadline to clear the
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hazardous fire debris. So this vote now either makes them
do that to clean up the debris or move aside,
let the city come in and do it, clear the lot,
and then catch the bill.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
By the way, is there some sort of legal reason
why people didn't want the debris cleared.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I think it's probably just a money thing, just that
they were surprised by how much it would cost, or.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Because there's federal programs that would come on and clean
it up.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah, the Army Corps of Engineers was offered as one
of the options early on, and you could opt out
of it and do it yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And then people realized how much that cost, and they
opted out of that as well.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Could be I mean that would be one of the
I wouldn't be surprised if that was part of it.
The property owner pulled out of the Army Corps of
Engineer's plan, fearing that the contractors were not going to
be careful, that they would be inflexible, they might hazardly
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remove sections of this building that could be so palvaged.
But the property's owner did have a fair Plan policy
California Fair Plan Policy that would have provided basic fire
insurance for hi risk properties. Learned that a private debris
cleanup would be somewhere between a half a million and
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six hundred thousand dollars. So then they tried to go
back and say, wait a minute, we would like the
Army Corps to be in charge of this, but the
registration window had already closed. So now they're stuck in
that hard position of well, we should have done it
when we had the opportunity. Now it's going to cost
us a ridiculous amount of money. Maybe they're just trying
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to and then maybe they're trying to sell the property
now knowing full well that whoever buys it is.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Going to be responsible for cleaning it up.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Speaking of property.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And doing things on your own, have you thought about
maybe branching out into the underground world of fence building.
You just undercut all the big companies since you were
able to build your fence for so much, like a
fifteenth of what the big companies were going to charge.
Have you thought about maybe taking your services underground and
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offering to build fences for like five grand instead of
fifteen grand, or six grand instead of fifteen grand, and
maybe started making money off of your after off your
free time.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
No, and I'll tell you why. Okay, here's why.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Once I build a fence for five thousand, I start
getting greedy, and I go, well, the next one I
could build for six and then the one after that
I could build for seven point two thousand.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You usually say that.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Way, No, I love that, But that's where I found
these people. The other people that wanted to build a
fence for fifteen. They had been successful down at the
five and six and seven thousand dollars level, so they
just kept moving it up.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wanted more and more and more greedy little monsters.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
As evidenced by the guy who quoted me fifteen thousand
and then after the used car. Pitch said I could
do it for nine zero point eight or nine eight
is what he said.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Then you can't do.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It out of here and literally leave my land, sir,
But what if you made a commitment not to get
greedy that marking it up for five times what it
is is enough?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Aren't I human? Don't I feel? Don't I feel I
have the same shortcomings as all my brethren.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I think that you would be okay with making you
know about five grand offense? And it's your labor too.
You have to get paid for your labor. Sure, your
fence was an act of love. You built that with love.
He built that like Grandma makes cookies.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Plenty of labor.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, but youan taste as good as ground is. Either
should have the same texture for the most part. But
did not take this.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You're more of a ficus guy. You like to no
on a ficus.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, there were a lot of fighters treats in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
New words for bad news, New.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Words for bad news. I love how we're just still
labeling everything in this land.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Got to have a label for it.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (25:20):
Game six would be on Halloween.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Friday. Yeah, whether it.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Would be in Toronto or Dodger Stadium would be the
question to be determined.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
And do they need a game six? I hope, I
hope they need.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You do well, that's because you're a huge fan.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Of the swapes all the time. It just seems like
it takes away some of the drama.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I think the fans would like it to be done
and for depending on who they are rooting for, right.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, you want your team to win. I just like
the drama of.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
This, like a little resistance. Yeah yeah, a little hard
to get just.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
A little bit, a little bit, not too much.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Not you just want to give it away for free,
you know, the cow punched in the face, but.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Romance, those utters a little bit for the milk, oh
as the oh.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Well, anyway, we are a soft people and we say
it all the time. One of the things that we
do as intelligent language using creatures is come up with
words and phrases to I guess talk about how everything
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is too effing easy these days.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
This thing needs a label. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You have to make up a thing that you then
cope with right, so that you can brag to people
about how you coped with the thing that you made
up you have.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Doesn't it make the thing then seem like it has
more power if you give it.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Oh, sure, right, And that you have the strength, the
inner power to overcome some sort of that you have
made up in your head about how bad your life is.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh my gosh, listen, life is. Life is going to
hit you in the face enough. You don't need to
invent things or name just everyday things for some a
hurdle that you need to get over. It'll happen for you.
Give it time. And there are bad things that do
go on in this world. You don't need to make
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them up in your head about your life.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Right.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
There are plenty of people everybody knows people like this.
Maybe they're friends, probably family members, because I don't know
why you would be friends with people like this. But
everything has everything has to be an issue. Everything has
to be such a heavy lift. I don't know if
I can make it. I am so busy. The kids'
schedules are so packed. We are struggle so hard with
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our budget, which is a real thing. But the constant
complaint about the issues in your life that are either
fixable or made up can be very frustrating for the
people around you. There is an article by Natutia A
Babe from the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Get it, I know what you're trying to do, and
I get it. I will stop bitching about football. I
realize it is a first world problem to bitch about defense.
I realize I sound ridiculous, and I will stop doing that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's not what I was going to say. People can't
deal with.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Stuff that goes on in the news, and I mean
stuff that even has so little consequence to their everyday life.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
They have a hard time. Listen.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
There's plenty of people who talk about politics when politics
at a federal level or even international level, has absolutely
nothing to do with their everyday life. They just want
to be members of a team, and they want to
be disgruntled. They know that they are in the struggle.
Plenty of people who took place in the no Kings
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protests this weekend, for example, have perfectly easy lives and
they want to have something to complain about.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So that's something that they do.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Others when they talk about how frustrated they were that
Joe Biden was president, because they didn't feel like their
voices were heard. They also had great, easy lives and
their day to day life was not impacted by those things.
But you might as well take on that mantle so
that you can say you have coped with this. So
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she says, this is niitsuo babe baby from the New
York Times. Imagine I've handed you a very small, sorry,
a very full container of very bad news. Are you
resigned to doom or do you spin up some cope
the noun, not the verb.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I get into trouble with this.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I think sometimes in my life where I am a
I want to find a solution for things, like I
want to find if somebody comes to me and they're like,
this awful thing happened, and I'm like, okay, well let's
do this, or you can do this, or why don't
we do this? And then I get I've learned that
not everybody wants to hear that. They want to just
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have you listen to the bad news and not cope
with it, or not go to the next step of
finding a solution. So I said, I think some people
want to sit in their bad news, or at least.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Not jump to the coping next step.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Of that, yeah, because that gives them a value. I'm
not even sure that's the right way.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Sometimes it makes them interesting, to be honest, and that's
that's all they've got to offer, is whatever struggle they
happened to be in. Because they don't feel like whatever
they deserve the attention that you're giving them as a
friend or whatever, they feel like they need to get
even more. Well, I'm in such a horrible place right
now because my something something at work is I mean,
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how many times have people complain about work and still
love their job? But it makes them more interesting if
they complain about it. When you ask somebody how is
your day at work? Uh, honey, and they say something
along the lines of ugh, well this guy did, and
then she did, and then they said that, and we
have to do and the project is doing the first
(31:45):
and all of this as opposed to I love what
I do.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I had a great day at work today.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
And it's so funny you say that, because oftentimes you
know that'll be a question how is work?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It was great?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
It was?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And then you feel on in interesting right now the
thing that happened. And then I find myself trying to
come up with things like, well, what that happened? Me off,
what did Gary do that was stupid? Wait, like something,
Just kidding, I never have to think about that one.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
How are you feeling about that?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Feel fine?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I feel okay, Yeah, all right, I'm going to get
through this hour, but next the bottom of the next hour,
I'm gonna need.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
A little bit of motivation to get through the rest
of the week.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Really.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, Usually you're not somebody I worry about when it
comes to things like getting through the rest of the week.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You seem to be pretty.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, you put on your boots, you uh, you
strap in and you are ready to go to work
a five day work week. Are you becoming somebody who's
like em? I mean, that's fine. I just want to
know what we're dealing with.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Stay at home in my underpants, right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And that's fine. You can do that. You can broadcast
from home and you're underpants if you want.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
If Friday was a pants day, by the way, well,
Pink Lake, we established that, Pink Lake.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh that's right, that's right, Pink Lake.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
What's that's pants for you? It's pants for what's one
man's pants is another man's?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yes, Anyway, it's time for swamp Watch.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I'm a politician, which means I'm in a life and
when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Here
we got the real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
So what I'm not going anywhere, So train the swat.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
You know, Americans have always been going a president, but
they're not stupid.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Why have the people voted for you were not swamp watch.
They're all counting on well. Government shut down day twenty.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Republicans are pointing to the no Kings protest over the
weekend as just a publicity stunt.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
This is the way Speaker Mike Johnson referred to them.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
This was never about a solution, It was about creating
an issue. Now that Democrats have had their protest and
publicity stunts, I just prayed that they come to their
senses and end this shutdown and reopened the government this week.
Republicans are waiting, American people are waiting. We are ready
to act.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
They have scheduled yet another vote today two point thirty
This afternoon our time, the Senate is reconvening to vote
for an eleventh time on advancing a House past measure
that would fund the government and then the ongoing shutdown.
It's fallen short of the sixty votes needed to advance
in every vote so far. There's no indication that that
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has changed at all. John Thune, leader in a Senate
majority leader, is expected to bring up a bill this
week that would also pay federal employees and military service
members who have been staying on the job during the shutdown.
Advancing that legislation would require some support from Democrats, who
at this point, up to this point, I should say,
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have blocked long term defense spending from last week.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The Marine Corps has begun an investigation. The CHP says
shrapnel from our artillery shell fired during the live fire
demonstration touted by the White House that we talked about last.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Week struck a CHP cruiser.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
No injuries reported when the artillery round detonated overhead prematurely.
It was the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration for
the Marine Corpt. Camp Pendleton. At least one CHP patrol
vehicle on hand to help stop and divert traffic on
I five through the base during the demonstration was damaged.
(03:34):
CHP Border Division chief saying this was an unusual and
concerning situation, a highly uncommon for any live fire or
explosive training activity to occur over an active freeway.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
They also said that once that was reported, the Marine
Corps shut down their live fire exercises once they got
a report that one of them had exploded prematurely.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't know, I'm sasty sort of calling BS on this.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm in the similar position because.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
This was something that Newsome was very critical about last weekend,
very critical of the planned to fire live munitions over
the interstate. We came down on the side of this happens,
and the Marine Corps knows what to do, knows how
to handle this. It's the two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
It's not about Trump. It's about celebrating the Marine Corps,
(04:26):
and they know what they're doing, and so for this
to have gone awry in any way, it's just very convenient.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It's also an important point that type of artillery shell
is used to shoot over friendly forces.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I mean, they Marines.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Trust that with their lives that the guys behind them
are going to shoot the artillery over their heads to
the bad guys, and that they would safely be underneath
what would amount to an exploding warhead. So it's I
agree there's something going on there and I can't quite
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Done smell right?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I will wait for the Marine Corps version of exactly what.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Happens, like your pink leggings. Uh, how it doesn't smell right?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Ah? Got it? The officials.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The Israeli military says that Hamas has attacked Israeli soldiers
that breaks the ceasefire. The military said that its troops
came under fire from Hamas inside Southern Gaza. At least
two soldiers were killed. So the Israeli military said, you
don't get away with that. It struck dozens of Hamas targets.
A senior Egyptian official that was involved in the original
(05:43):
ceasefire negotiation said round the clock contacts are underway to
de escalate all of this. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin
Nettan yahoo had directed his military to take strong action
against any ceasefire violations, but at this point hasn't threatened
to return to war, even though it probably feels like
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war when they're dropping gigantic bombs in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
There was a crowded press conference this morning with the
Australian Prime Minister there at the White House, where the
President kind of sparred with the Australian ambassador to the US.
This has not been a warm relationship between the two.
During this moment, an Australian reporter asked Trump if he
had any concerns with the Prime minister's administration, including the
(06:33):
ambassador to the US his past comments, and Trump said
I don't know anything about him, apparently not realizing that
the guy was in the room. Trump then asked whether
the guy was still working for the Australian government, to
which the guy replied that the comments were made before
I took this position, mister President, and Trump says to him, well,
(06:54):
I don't like you either, and I probably never will.
This was a guy who went on social media called
Trump the most destructive president in history. Trump then called
him nasty, said he's not the brightest bulb in the shed.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
How many bulbs are in a shed? Just the one?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Right? Don't you just have the one? And I guess
it's not very bright. Trying to keep to be people
low profile. What are you doing in that shed? You know,
I guess that's the question. What are you doing in
the shed? How many bulbs do you need? How bright
does that have to be? How big is your shed?
I'd love to put a shed in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Or what would you be doing?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I haven't decided yet. Would it be a she shed?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No, that's ridiculous. What is that even? What do you
want me to put like an easy bake oven in
there or something? What is a she shed?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
I wanted.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Okay, she shed down by the sea shore. I get it.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Alliteration. No, I just want to shed where I can.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Go in there and like I don't know, maybe maybe woodworking.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Do I build things?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Do you something I can work on, like a project
versus my shed?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We can think, we can think about it could be
a gym. It could be a gym. I hear what
you're saying.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I hear that.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
One more thing that is going on in DC. The
Supreme Court said today that it is going to consider
whether or not people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally
own guns.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Uh okay.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
The Trump administration had asked the court to revive this
case against a man in Texas charged with a felony
because he allegedly had a gun in his home and
acknowledged regularly smoking pot. Justice Department had appealed after a
lower court struck down a law that would bar people
from who use any illegal drugs from having guns. These
arguments probably come within the next couple of months, and
(08:51):
then decision probably by early summer, usually the late June
I made.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So, I'm just I can't believe that you would ever
think of somebody who lars regularly smoke marijuana having a gun.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
That happens. It's a Tuesday that happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, did you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I can do that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
This is so funny. It's just the universe is so
aligned sometimes. I'm currently playing Connections and we talked about
Kevin Costner and horses and baseballs, and the topic is
horsing around for two hundred dollars. Britannica says this creature
in Greek mythology is the most obvious symbol of the
(09:36):
oneness of horse and rider. It's a man, half man,
half horse. He's the man up top, the horse downstairs.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
The centaurs.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Sorry, oh sorry, horse mythology.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
How are you gonna survive in space Wars?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
What the does that have to do with Space Wars?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You have been cast as bumber puss, half man, half cat.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
How are you not flying on a pegasus or riding
But you should know the history of half man, half creatures.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You're not even in the same universe.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
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How are you even living through today if you're in Seattle? Like,
how is that city even coping with getting through this
work day? As they approach approach first pitch at five
oh eight, this is the closest they've ever been. I mean,
that's got to be so exciting and so hard to
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get through the day and get any sort.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Of work done.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And then in Seattle they'll just, depending on how it goes,
just say wow, we never it was never in the
cards for us, or of course we knew we were.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, they'll jump offs bridges, I don't know, Toronto.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The last time they were on the World Series they
won it nineteen ninety three, ninety two, ninety three.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I want to say ninety three ninety three. Carter was
hit that home run.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So it's a great story for the Mariners or the
blue Jays. Greater story for the Mariners. But blue Jays
haven't been back in a long time either. So Game
one will definitely be Friday. Game two will definitely be Saturday,
whether it's at Dodger Stadium or in Toronto.
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Dollars cartels and the amount of fentanyl that they've been
bringing into the United States has been curved significantly. In
June it was down forty two percent from the year before,
but in May, according to Customs and Border Protection, it's
down seventy percent from the year before. According to experts,
(12:47):
this is not just because authorities are catching less fentinyl,
it's because cartels are not trafficking fentinyl into the United
States the way that they were before Statistics and law sorry.
A Resident Fellow in Law and Policy, Andrew Arthur from
Center for Immigration Study said statistics are a true reflection
(13:10):
of the amount of drugs that are coming here. The
quantity of drugs is dropping because the Trump administration has
made it a priority, It has made the Mexican government
also make it a priority, and that the cartels have
been deliberately tapering off on the amount of fentanyl that
they're sending to the United States because they are scared
(13:30):
about this.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
They do not want to get caught up in the
Trump policies.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
The measures to secure the border, of course, have hampered
fentanyl trafficking. Illegal crossings have plummeted since the administration deployed
thousands of troops to the border, removing legal pathways that
were created by the Biden administration. They've suspended access to
the asylum system, and mass deportations have also deterred a
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lot of the migration attempts that otherwise would have been made.
Thesumption is by immigration policies. So this appears to be working.
Question mark with a cautious amount of optimism in my voice,
that there has been a lowering in the amount of
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drugs illegal drugs that are coming into the United States
across the border.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It just depends which cartel is writing the hot hand.
From what I've read, is it the fentanyl cartel or
is it the cocaine cartel. And they've got different ways
of measuring who's getting their drugs into the United States.
And I think that we're seeing is progress on the
fentanyl front.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They are.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They're given into the cocaine front.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah. Well, we've talked in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
There are warring cartels and who's got the best ways
to get in and they don't always share information.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
This has also been played out in a bombing of
a police building in Tiwan. They said it was likely
meant as a warning and not a declaration of war
from a criminal organization a cartel. But there was an
attack on the Plias Tijuana station consisted of homemade bombs
that damaged three civilians in a squad car.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No people were injured.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
The Attorney General for Baja said the attack was a
response to the strong results from state officials who have
gone through recently and arrested the leaders of criminal organizations
and disrupted their activities, but said that state authorities will
not be deterred in continuing to investigate criminal activity.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Again. They used a drone to drop these bombs on
this police station.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I have some sad news. Can I have some sad news?
It's about a Gary.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
This scary? No, not everything is about you.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, but you say it. I said scary, I said Gary.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
There are other Garys in this world, right, everybody knows,
and one of them has passed away.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Garry Coleman.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Now Gary still with us? No Gary Coleman instead?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, like a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Ten Why would you guess that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Sometimes you miss the news and sometimes it's a surprise
to you.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Gary Berghoff, Gary Carter.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
This is a dog named Gary.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Who would name their dog Gary?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That was my first question. The answer is Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh, the beloved family dog Gary has passed away. Gary
is a female dog. Was a female dog. Also interesting,
very interesting move. The dog Gary has been called unforgettable,
their first baby, therapist, a pillow, a big sister, a schoolmarm,
(16:45):
a comedian, a party girl in a rebel, all rolled
into one. Gary was first introduced to Jimmy Fallon's Instagram
followers back in twenty twelve, so she's been a part
of the family for.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Over a decade. A female dog named Gary.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Long dog, I mean a long time dog.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, it's a nice long life. Gary's are hardy. They're
hardy people. You don't find a lot of pansies named Gary,
a lot of people named Gary that are just gonna
die early. It's a pretty hardy name, except for, of course,
Gary Coleman, who died pretty young.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I think he's in his fifties. Oh was he.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
He had had a lot of health issues, a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Of health issues his whole life.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
He died in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I have a girlfriend who texted me not long ago
that somebody had died, somebody who we went to high school.
Let's call him Bob. She texted me, Bob's sister died.
I text her back, Bob's sister died last year. She goes, oh,
I just saw the thing on facebooky. So now we
go back and forth telling each other that people have
(17:56):
died that have died long ago. But this is like
what people do in this Senior Citizen home right, Like,
did you hear about who died?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's like he died a year ago.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Let me call dorothan ask us Dorothy died in nineteen
seventy six.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Damn it, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Gary and Shanna will continue.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
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Speaker 4 (18:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We are going to be talking about bad news on
a Monday. The headline reads and the New York Times.
Are you resigned to a world of bad news?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
To which I say, hell no.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Did you not hear the story about re Ray.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The effing dog or cat it was a cat, Freya
or the freaking German Shepherd? Do you not listen to
the show New York Times? Do you not hear all
the good news we provide you on the regular? Are
you not feeling the sunshine and the warmth from this show.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh it's one of your face. I feel it. Thank you,
somebody does.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You must also know how to play defense.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Oh see Elmer, this is when it's not about what
she's talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It's about football.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Uh, Pacific Palisades, let's talk about that disaster area instead.
The eight Pacific Palisades properties that have been declared public
nuisances have gotten the designation because they haven't cleared toxic
fire debris. One of them includes a mansion featured in
(19:37):
HBO's Succession.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
It's one of those weird circumstances from that fire in
January where you had three or four other homes surrounding
this mansion that were left standing and this one was not.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We've talked about neighborhoods when fire comes through and in
the cruel way that fire works. Sometimes it'll take out
a home. It will leap frog right home over home
over home, and it will leave some completely untouched, while
it will destroy and take down to the foundation others.
(20:11):
There are some people whose homes are habitable there in
the Palisades, but yet you can't move back in. I mean,
forget about the fact that there's no neighborhood, no services,
and you're living in a dystopian weird vibe type land.
But it's not safe when the toxic fire ruins remain,
even if it's across the street or down the street.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
There is the Board of Building and Safety Commissioners, this
five minter member committee that adjudicates these public nuisance cases,
and they voted that the fire debris at these eight
different properties is a public nuisance could pose a risk
to public health and safety. So they've said the owners
did not meet that October second deadline to clear the
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hazardous fire debris. So this vote now either makes them
do that to clean up the debris or move aside,
let the city come in and do it, clear the lot,
and then catch the bill.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
By the way, is there some sort of legal reason
why people didn't want the debris cleared.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I think it's probably just a money thing, just that
they were surprised by how much it would cost, or.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Because there's federal programs that would come on and clean
it up.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah, the Army Corps of Engineers was offered as one
of the options early on, and you could opt out
of it and do it yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And then people realized how much that cost, and they
opted out of that as well.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Could be I mean that would be one of the
I wouldn't be surprised if that was part of it.
The property owner pulled out of the Army Corps of
Engineer's plan, fearing that the contractors were not going to
be careful, that they would be inflexible, they might hazardly
(21:55):
remove sections of this building that could be so palvaged.
But the property's owner did have a fair Plan policy
California Fair Plan Policy that would have provided basic fire
insurance for hi risk properties. Learned that a private debris
cleanup would be somewhere between a half a million and
(22:17):
six hundred thousand dollars. So then they tried to go
back and say, wait a minute, we would like the
Army Corps to be in charge of this, but the
registration window had already closed. So now they're stuck in
that hard position of well, we should have done it
when we had the opportunity. Now it's going to cost
us a ridiculous amount of money. Maybe they're just trying
(22:37):
to and then maybe they're trying to sell the property
now knowing full well that whoever buys it is.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Going to be responsible for cleaning it up.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Speaking of property.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And doing things on your own, have you thought about
maybe branching out into the underground world of fence building.
You just undercut all the big companies since you were
able to build your fence for so much, like a
fifteenth of what the big companies were going to charge.
Have you thought about maybe taking your services underground and
(23:09):
offering to build fences for like five grand instead of
fifteen grand, or six grand instead of fifteen grand, and
maybe started making money off of your after off your
free time.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
No, and I'll tell you why. Okay, here's why.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Once I build a fence for five thousand, I start
getting greedy, and I go, well, the next one I
could build for six and then the one after that
I could build for seven point two thousand.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You usually say that.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Way, No, I love that, But that's where I found
these people. The other people that wanted to build a
fence for fifteen. They had been successful down at the
five and six and seven thousand dollars level, so they
just kept moving it up.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wanted more and more and more greedy little monsters.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
As evidenced by the guy who quoted me fifteen thousand
and then after the used car. Pitch said I could
do it for nine zero point eight or nine eight
is what he said.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Then you can't do.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It out of here and literally leave my land, sir,
But what if you made a commitment not to get
greedy that marking it up for five times what it
is is enough?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Aren't I human? Don't I feel? Don't I feel I
have the same shortcomings as all my brethren.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I think that you would be okay with making you
know about five grand offense? And it's your labor too.
You have to get paid for your labor. Sure, your
fence was an act of love. You built that with love.
He built that like Grandma makes cookies.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Plenty of labor.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, but youan taste as good as ground is. Either
should have the same texture for the most part. But
did not take this.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You're more of a ficus guy. You like to no
on a ficus.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, there were a lot of fighters treats in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
New words for bad news, New.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Words for bad news. I love how we're just still
labeling everything in this land.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Got to have a label for it.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Game six would be on Halloween.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Friday. Yeah, whether it.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Would be in Toronto or Dodger Stadium would be the
question to be determined.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
And do they need a game six? I hope, I
hope they need.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You do well, that's because you're a huge fan.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Of the swapes all the time. It just seems like
it takes away some of the drama.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I think the fans would like it to be done
and for depending on who they are rooting for, right.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, you want your team to win. I just like
the drama of.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
This, like a little resistance. Yeah yeah, a little hard
to get just.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
A little bit, a little bit, not too much.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Not you just want to give it away for free,
you know, the cow punched in the face, but.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Romance, those utters a little bit for the milk, oh
as the oh.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Well, anyway, we are a soft people and we say
it all the time. One of the things that we
do as intelligent language using creatures is come up with
words and phrases to I guess talk about how everything
(26:41):
is too effing easy these days.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
This thing needs a label. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You have to make up a thing that you then
cope with right, so that you can brag to people
about how you coped with the thing that you made
up you have.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Doesn't it make the thing then seem like it has
more power if you give it.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Oh, sure, right, And that you have the strength, the
inner power to overcome some sort of that you have
made up in your head about how bad your life is.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh my gosh, listen, life is. Life is going to
hit you in the face enough. You don't need to
invent things or name just everyday things for some a
hurdle that you need to get over. It'll happen for you.
Give it time. And there are bad things that do
go on in this world. You don't need to make
(27:35):
them up in your head about your life.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Right.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
There are plenty of people everybody knows people like this.
Maybe they're friends, probably family members, because I don't know
why you would be friends with people like this. But
everything has everything has to be an issue. Everything has
to be such a heavy lift. I don't know if
I can make it. I am so busy. The kids'
schedules are so packed. We are struggle so hard with
(28:02):
our budget, which is a real thing. But the constant
complaint about the issues in your life that are either
fixable or made up can be very frustrating for the
people around you. There is an article by Natutia A
Babe from the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Get it, I know what you're trying to do, and
I get it. I will stop bitching about football. I
realize it is a first world problem to bitch about defense.
I realize I sound ridiculous, and I will stop doing that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's not what I was going to say. People can't
deal with.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Stuff that goes on in the news, and I mean
stuff that even has so little consequence to their everyday life.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
They have a hard time. Listen.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
There's plenty of people who talk about politics when politics
at a federal level or even international level, has absolutely
nothing to do with their everyday life. They just want
to be members of a team, and they want to
be disgruntled. They know that they are in the struggle.
Plenty of people who took place in the no Kings
(29:18):
protests this weekend, for example, have perfectly easy lives and
they want to have something to complain about.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So that's something that they do.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Others when they talk about how frustrated they were that
Joe Biden was president, because they didn't feel like their
voices were heard. They also had great, easy lives and
their day to day life was not impacted by those things.
But you might as well take on that mantle so
that you can say you have coped with this. So
(29:53):
she says, this is niitsuo babe baby from the New
York Times. Imagine I've handed you a very small, sorry,
a very full container of very bad news. Are you
resigned to doom or do you spin up some cope
the noun, not the verb.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I get into trouble with this.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I think sometimes in my life where I am a
I want to find a solution for things, like I
want to find if somebody comes to me and they're like,
this awful thing happened, and I'm like, okay, well let's
do this, or you can do this, or why don't
we do this? And then I get I've learned that
not everybody wants to hear that. They want to just
(30:35):
have you listen to the bad news and not cope
with it, or not go to the next step of
finding a solution. So I said, I think some people
want to sit in their bad news, or at least.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Not jump to the coping next step.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Of that, yeah, because that gives them a value. I'm
not even sure that's the right way.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Sometimes it makes them interesting, to be honest, and that's
that's all they've got to offer, is whatever struggle they
happened to be in. Because they don't feel like whatever
they deserve the attention that you're giving them as a
friend or whatever, they feel like they need to get
even more. Well, I'm in such a horrible place right
now because my something something at work is I mean,
(31:23):
how many times have people complain about work and still
love their job? But it makes them more interesting if
they complain about it. When you ask somebody how is
your day at work? Uh, honey, and they say something
along the lines of ugh, well this guy did, and
then she did, and then they said that, and we
have to do and the project is doing the first
(31:45):
and all of this as opposed to I love what
I do.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I had a great day at work today.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
And it's so funny you say that, because oftentimes you
know that'll be a question how is work?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It was great?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
It was?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And then you feel on in interesting right now the
thing that happened. And then I find myself trying to
come up with things like, well, what that happened? Me off,
what did Gary do that was stupid? Wait, like something,
Just kidding, I never have to think about that one.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Myself. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
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