October 15, 2025 • 29 mins
Gary and Shannon kick off the show celebrating the Dodgers’ Game 2 win with Dodgers legend and host of Dodgers Talk, Steve Sax, breaking down Yamamoto’s standout performance and the rarity of a full-game pitching victory. Then, an argument over the perfect nap time spirals into storm talk, mysterious bodies in L.A.’s “rivers,” and the feel-good story of Seattle’s favorite fish, Humpy the Salmon. Plus, find out why walking backward might actually be the newest wellness trend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's the O two and a Swing at a Mess
and Yoshi Yama Moto.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
With his clown jewel as a Dodger. It is a
complete game.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He goes the distance and the Dodgers win Game two
by a score of five to one.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You know, Will Smith said he has never seen two
games like that pitched back to back as masterfully as
he saw between Blake Snell and Yama Moto.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Game it will have been nice and Blake Stell got
the complete game.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
But Steve Sachs is joining us, five time All Star
of course, longtime Dodger joining us, and he's doing a
lot of the coverage over on KLAC for the Morning
Show and all of that sort of stuff to celebrate
the Dodgers, of course going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Had a huge Game seven again in the NLCS against
the Mets, right with that to run single in Game seven.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Thank you Shannon for bringing that up.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I bring it up also because I was listening to
Tim Kades last night and he was talking about Oral
Herscheizer pitching three complete games.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I think in eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Wow, nobody pitches a complete game. To see it just
last night was amazing. So you don't see that anymore.
There's you know a lot of the saber metrics and
numbers involved don't allow that. But I think you might
see a sort of that bending a little bit, maybe
go more with the gut instinct in the really the
acumen of the manager in the dugout, I think really matters.
(01:38):
There's something about the celebration of the ability of a
single pitcher to throw yat Momoto had what one hundred
and ten eleven pitches last night. That's an amazing amount
of stamina that comes late in the season like this.
Why didn't Dave Roberts allow Blake Snell to do it
(01:58):
the night before? Well, well, that's the the gut instinct
of the manager. There could be some underlying reasons. You know,
we all know that Blake Snell just a few short
years ago, pitching against the Dodgers, had a no hitter
going in the sixth inning and they pull him out
when he's with Tampa and all of it, all of
a sudden, the team breaks down because it's a it's
a sense of renewment. For for the opposition to say, well,
(02:19):
that guy's gone, I got a new perspective now, and
they go out and they slaughter the team, you know,
leave them in.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I'm with you. I'm with you, Gary.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I believe in going on the trend, going on the momentum,
the feel of the game. The guy's been there for
practically three hours now, and he knows what the other
team is doing. But some of this contention about, you know,
letting a guy go out more and pitch more is is.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That, well, we've been through it.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
We've been through the line three times now, and they're
on to you, and so we better, we better change
it up a bit. I don't agree with that, because
pitchers don't pitch the same they don't sequence the hitters
the same way. The first, second, and third time through.
They changed that up, so it's not, you know, like
you're getting the same variety of pitches every single time.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
If you're into it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The Athletic put out a great story this morning about
the friendship between Yamamoto and Snell, how it developed over
pitching and fashion, and a great anecdote about how Yamamoto
kind of bowed to Snell as he came into the
dugout after Game one. But anyway, it's a great article
if you're into it. So the Dodgers have a two
to zero lead coming back to Dodger Stadium. This you
(03:22):
hope to get one away, at least one of them.
You got two of them. Is there any sort of
trepidation that they may fall into some bad pitching habits
with the bullpen at this point?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Or are we?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Are we looking good where you're feeling.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I think they're feeling great about it. The Dodgers have
been there, what thirteen fourteen years in a row. Now
they've got the experience, which is something you can't get
by any other way, by going in there and just
going through it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And they've done all that.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
They've got four number one starters, as I mentioned earlier,
and for most teams that's impossible. Most teams are trying
to get one significa. It started to be in that
first slot and then you get the guys down down
the line. But to have four guys that could be
a number one on any team is incredible. And so
that's where the strength lies. Kind of completely antithetical to
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what happened last year when they were struggling to find
a starting pitcher. It was all the bullpen that was
going to be the saviors for these guys. But it's
much easier to navigate through when you can have that
pitcher goblet those innings and really shut down the opposition
with that starting pitching staff. It's amazing as we look
at it now, especially if the offense is not performing
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the way it should be. I mean, five runs last
night obviously is a good thing, but the offense the
top half of the lineup has been I don't want
to say non existent, but I mean celebrating an RBI
single by show hey Otani as opposed to be a
couple of home runs per game kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's one of those, like Tim Kate said last night,
maybe it unlocked something for show. Heck, maybe you know
what I mean, maybe he breaks that slump with that.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And we've almost been kind of, you know, spoiled with
the the guy who hit fifty five jacks during the year,
and he's a phenomenal pitcher to boot, so it's crazy
how good he is. And you know this is going
to come up because you know, hitting goes in cycles,
and if the Dodgers are now starting to maybe come
out of that low cycle, that low ebb if you will,
and score five runs. I mean, we haven't seen the
(05:17):
monster blasts yet from from the guys that should do
it on this team, So that's still coming and that's
kind of a good that's kind.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Of good news.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, the timing seems to be working out well for
them to kind of Yes, they swept the Reds, but
they could very easily just as easily lost that wild
Card series.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Absolutely, they did.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well as they come into the NLCS, but it seems
like that offense is waking up, and for any opponent
that's terrifying.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, because you know, the pitching's not going anywhere. The's
going to be there and everybody's healthy, but you're seeing
you know, Taoscar Hernete has hit a couple of big
home runs, which is good, But this is all centered
around Otani. Remember, he changes the game just by being
in the lineup. They're trying to really load up around him,
and they're trying to load up the Dodgers uh to
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face left handed pitching, which affects the whole lineup and
that helps the right handed hitter.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So O Tani changes it just by being in the lineup.
Let's talry about that weird play in Game one. Ay,
I've never.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Seen it before. I can't even explain it to you.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I love I feel like the Dodgers were robbed, and
I feel that part about baseball, I think, and they
got nothing for it. But I hit the line, but
I felt like the glove interference putting it over the
line meant it should have been a Grand Slam.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, you know inference catching the balls on page.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
But what they did talk about is is it a
home run if it's over the over the yellow line
or if it's on the yellow line.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think if it's out of the ballpark, it's a
home run.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
But there's so there was some discrepancy about that, and
like I said, I don't know what the rule is particularly,
and you know in that ballpark, whether if it's on
the line or over the line.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But I've never seen an eight what was it? It
was six two? Yeah, and then the one assisted.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, that's down to third base and tax on it.
But I've never seen one of those. You guys never saw.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Steve Sacks, haven't even seen never seen that. I got it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Just when you think he's made to play second base
I mean the radio thing, right, sure, hitting it out
of the heart.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, to do this all, oh man, I'll tell you
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
And you know I'm part of the broadcast team for
the Athletics up in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, and they I do the pre and post game.
I did some radio and TV with him as well.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I love that River Cat Stadium. Yeah, it's nice and quaint,
that's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
And so this is a team that is going to
be really exciting. I think people are in for a
treat when they see the young, controllable, right now offensive
talent on this team. Young guys Nick Kurt's going to win. Uh,
he's going to win the Rookie of the Year. Jacob Wilson,
who's from right here and west Lake, he's going to
be the runner up. And there's a lot of good
young players. They need some more pitching, but that's coming
(07:50):
along too. So the Athletics from July twenty fourth on
were one of the best teams in baseball.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
They just had a terrible start.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Always exciting to be excited with their farm system and
everything else.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Right, what a great pleasure. Thanks for coming in. Thanks
you so much. Thanks for having me appreciated walking around
the hallway.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Does it bother you how much Katsey calls you Saxy?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Oh No, I've known Tim for a long time and
I think he says it affectionately, So it's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I'll take it as a positive. Yeah, thanks for having
me on. Y'all appreciate with you. That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Game three, by the way, is tomorrow night, and you
can hear it all on KLA SEE, including the morning
show with Katzy and Saxy.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
There you got. I don't know if we can say it.
I know we show with this call him sex or not.
I know he calls him Saxy, but does he call
him Katzy Katsey? I think so. I think it's I
think it's a two way street. Okay.
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Speaker 3 (09:18):
Did you make go anywhere? An hour from now we're
going to Yeah, do what I did again? How did
you fare with the storm? Oh? I did just so
you concerning did you go home and watch Love on
the spectrum? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
There was a lot. There was a lot of wind.
I mean it was loud. I think I told you
there was something going on. There was something outside that
was catching the wind the night before last, and it
would woke me up every fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I couldn't figure out what it was.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
But it was also just faint enough where I didn't
have the gumption to get up and actually change the
outside circumstances to prevent the noise.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So I ask you this follow up question. How long
was your nap yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
About an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, it was too long. That's why you're waking up
every fifteen minutes with the wind. An hour and a
half's too long.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I don't like you dictating how long this time. I'm
not dictating.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I'm just saying it's going to be hard to sleep
if you take an hour and a half nap in
the afternoon and then there's a wind.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That's why you're waking up to it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Okay, that's all I mean, keep it, you know, forty
minutes something like that will be.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Better forty minutes. Who does that? What kind of animal
can Well?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They say the optimal times twenty, but I was giving you.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I'm doubling it for you. They the science want us
to get up. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, Like my wife is like, did you know the
optimal naptime is twenty minutes? You can get back out
there and clean the backyard, right, I go, No, I
didn't know that that is the optimal nap time.
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Speaker 4 (11:01):
But that was pretty good storm that rolled through first
significant rain of the water year that began, of course,
at the beginning of October, about two inches of rain,
and bell Air two inches, Beverly Hills inch and a
quarter downtown as much as three and a quarter inches
of rain in Woodland Hills as of yesterday afternoon. The
last time Downtown got more than an inch of rain
(11:23):
in a single day was sixteen years ago. Way up
in the San Gabriel Mountains, Opid's Camp got the biggest
with five and a half total inches of rainfall. Which
is surprising that we didn't for that amount of rain
at a time we haven't seen rain previously.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
It's pretty amazing. We didn't see.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
More mud slides and debris flows and things like that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
There were a.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Couple of which what I was, I was, which is
what I was expecting. Bodies in river beds. There was
one located in San Lana.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Gotta have one. We've got to have one body in
the river. They said one was found in the swift
waters near the MacArthur Boulevard where it crosses the river
in a fountain. The other way thing, here's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
If these were real rivers, La River, Santa Anna river bed, this,
all of this was true, you'd never find those bodies,
or would be days. The fact that you're finding the
bodies means there's.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
No river well water as fast as it comes up
will go down. Yeah, we're going to see that. There
was also a small dog that was rescued from the
area in the camera rio.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I guess what was its name.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
They have not said what the name of the dog was,
but they said it was a weird a small pug
or French bulldog mix, which means it was not the
cutest little guy three year old dog taken to the
camerio shelter. Dog was not microchips, so they're still looking
for whoever.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
The owner was.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Speaking of pets and we were just speaking of baseball.
Did you hear the story about Humpy the Salmon.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I saw you write that this morning. I didn't even
bother to look it up. Yet you didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I have not yet. Why Why are you Why are
you giving.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It because part of the reason you wanted to talk
about it is because you wanted to delight in seeing
my reaction to whoever or whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Humpy the Salmon is. Okay, Well, it's a nice story.
It's not I know, I bet it is. It's a
feel good story.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's it's maybe the reason why the maritors are on
a tear. No, it has nothing to do with Humpy.
It's not about sex. Don't be weird. Oh I'm it's
a good, feel good story for children. Actually, oh well nice.
So now you've ruined it. Now you've ruined the story
about Humpy the Salmon.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I've not ruined it.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Tomorrow Tomorrow, tomorrow, we are going to be live at
Bjay's Restaurant and Rue House in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
We would love to he.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Would join us as well for our latest news and Bruce,
We're going to be at the one of Beach Boulevard.
Easy to get to right off. The four o five
show goes from nine until one. They'll get you in
there right at nine o'clock so that you can grab
your first bloody Mary or a cup of coffee or
sweet pig pizza or however you want to It.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
All sounds good. Just a boom boom boom, just like that.
I mean, start the day off with the coffee, then
maybe a water. What you want to do is you
want to do the water first, then the coffee, then
the bloody Mary. Yeah, I think okay, and then wait
like forty five minutes, put in your pizza order, get
(14:31):
the pizza, and then order a beer. Right, And I
mean that sounds to me like planned out. I think
I've done some serious planning for everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Come on out.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
We have some stuff that we're going to be given away,
stuff that we give away specifically to the people who
are in the building. So that's why you're going to
want to be there again at BJ's Restaurant in brew
House tomorrow in Huntington Beach from nine to one.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Up next, Humpy the Salmon is that where we're going to.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, now, I want you to hear the story, and
I want everyone that heard me talk about Humpy the
Salmon to hear the story.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So if you're in the car, I want to get
to it right away. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
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Speaker 1 (15:20):
It's called Elmer. It's called Guardian the Lonely and Great God,
but fans not as Goblin.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Okay, I'm a google it. It's a great Korean drama.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Here in the market day fifteen now of our government shutdown,
delaying the announcement of the annual Social Security cost of
living adjustment, tens of millions of people would be watching
for that originally scheduled for today, the twenty twenty four
Social Security COLA announcement will now be October twenty fourth.
It is timed to the September Consumer Price Index report,
(15:51):
which also has not yet been released.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
All right, it is Game three of the ALCS tonight,
first pitch five A.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The bluest guys you've ever.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Seen and senior it is the Blue Jays at the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Seattle leads to nothing.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Seattle Mariners the closest they have ever been in franchise
history to the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Very exciting.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The entire city of Seattle is paralyzed in excitement, anticipation,
and fear.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
The last time was when they won one hundred and
sixteen games in that two thousand and one season.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Right, So here is a fun story, and you don't
need to be into baseball at all to delight in it.
So Seattle Mariners began putting on the salmon run at
the beginning of the twenty twenty four season. So last year,
you know, it's a way to keep the crowd into
the games. They do these fun little gimmicks. If you've
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been out to the ballpark, every team does them.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Oh, is this like the President's running in Washington exactly?
Nationals games.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, mascot brought in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, the Milwaukee Wiener run all of it. They trot
these fun things out. The kids delight in it. You've
had sixteen sixteen dollars beers. You delight in it. Anyway,
So the Mariner started putting on the Salmon run because
salmon are a big deal up there. Obviously in the
beginning of the twenty twenty four season, so the race
had been run in all one hundred and sixty two
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regular season can you lower the volume on this? Sorry,
I get compared when I'm reading and listening to words.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The race had been run in all one hundred and
sixty two regular season home run games. King Salmon is
one of the characters who runs. King Salmon runs in
a crown and a cape, and King Salmon had one
roughly one third of the races, as had Silver. Silver's
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dressed as the tech bro stereotype of Seattle with a
head set on a tablet in his hand.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
And then there's Sakey. Sakey is like the.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Personification of grunge, but a fish, so like the Nirvana deal.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He's got a plaid shirt and a nos ring. Good
marketing and then and then there's Humpy.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Humpy is the slow, clumsy salmon mascot with a life
preserver around his waist. Now Humpy never would win the race.
Even Victor Roebliss outfielder had to win under his belt,
beating all four usual contestants to the finish line on
a whim. Afterward, Victor Robliss outfielder said, well, I didn't
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want Humpy to win, so it was a thing Humpy
never won.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Poor Humpy with his life preserver beaten out by.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
The grunge dude and the King Salmon and Silver Salmon,
the tech bro. Humpy wouldn't win. He couldn't win. Sometimes
he lagged behind the group. Sometimes he got off to
a strong start, only to be distracted by something shiny
in the crowd. At least once, Humph he was tackled
by another mascot. So he had never won. So Game
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five on Friday night, I stayed up on the East
coastal two am watching this thing. Everybody in the West
coast stayed up till eleven watching this thing. It went
the distance, but it was just the fourth inning, Game five,
Friday night, and it's Sam and Race number one sixty
seven and it went down as a previous one sixty
six had for Humpy.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Humpy lost the race.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That should have been it right until maybe a possible
return to the Alcs. But the Mariners and the Tigers
were going blow for blow for blow. This was not
going to be a TKO. After Leo Revas's pinch hit
birthday single tied the game, the scoring stopped. The ninth
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inning comes and goes, the game is still tied. Extra
innings roll around, and in the middle of the fourteenth
there was a second stretch. Fun fact, when it goes
to the fourteenth, there's a second seventh inning stretch in
the fourteenth the fifteenth then incomes, Oh, my goodness, one
is this thing going to be over? And it was
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Tyler Thompson, the Mariner's director of marketing and game entertainment,
who had an idea. He says, we're trying to do
everything anything we can to reignite this tired crowd and
get the Mariners a win. We made a decision to
send back out the salmon run. So they make their
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way into left field, Silver and Sakey and King and
Humpy and Silver and Sakey and King. They get tangled
up Humpy for the first time in his life, takes advantage,
blasts through the A gap and takes the finish line.
The Mariner Moose, the mascot for the Mariners, immediately scoops
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up Humpy and celebration.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
The park erupts.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
People lost their freaking minds in the dugout. The Mariners dugout.
Multiple players got up in cheered Brian wu punching the
air and celebration. He called Humpy's win the moment of
the year. Of course, the rest is history. They went
on to win that game and send the Mariners within
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the closest distance to the World Series they have ever been.
And now they're up to games that they stole from
the Blue James in Toronto. As they come back home
and there is great belief and all over Seattle that
it's Humpy that was the key here.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
So does he win tonight? No? When they win the race? No,
I don't think so. You don't think so, I don't
think so. You only use a Humpy win when you
need one. Wow, Oho, this.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Is James here. I don't know if many people know
this unless you live in Alaska have been fishing there.
But Humpy is a slang term for the pink salmon.
They're the ugliest hook jaw right, look at things with
a big hump like a camel fish.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yes, just thought i'd throw that in there.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's why the slow, clumsy one was named Humpy exactly.
He's not the king salmon. He's not the silver salmon,
not the sack guy, not the sack guy. He's the
salmon nobody wants and never wins. And he won, and
he is the reason why the Mariners are now looking
at the World Series from the closer distance than ever before.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
That's a good story. It's a good story, right.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I didn't realize that they ran it twice. I mean
i'd heard about that. I have never seen it obviously.
I haven't seen a game yeah in there since they've
been doing it.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
But what a cool call for the marketing team, Like,
oh my god, everyone's so quiet.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
You'll send him back out.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Let's send him out, and they send him out and
the place goes not like I get chills thinking about
making that decision to do something stupid like that.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That gets everybody back in it and they win. Like
how cool.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI Ams.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
The Israeli military is saying today that one of the
bodies handed over by Hamas as part of the ceasefire
deal wasn't even an Israeli hostage. Gaza's health ministry said
it received forty five additional bodies of Palestinians from Israel,
which is part of this handover. But the bodies of
now ninety Palestinians have been transferred unclear whether they died
(23:26):
in Israeli custody or were taken from Gaza by Israeli
troops while searching for hostages. But again, one of the
supposed Israeli hostages returned by Hamas wasn't an Israeli It's
going to add some complications to the ongoing attempts at
a ceasefire. A couple of wellness things that we saw.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I'm glad you mentioned health because we are going to
be talking about health. You chose this story, I believe
to give us something to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I will credit Matt with this one. So Matt gave
us something to look forward to the summer.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Of all of us, Yes, has decided that even Grandma
and Grandpa needs some good news.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Really forward to in the future. Thanks Matty's very nice.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
New research shows that people often reach their all around
mental and emotional peak at about sixty not in their twenties.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So definitely not your physical peak, right unless you want
it to be. Maybe I maybe ramp up, Yeah you could,
but mental and emotional peak. So that's good. You figured
it all out. You don't get all haired, you don't
get all stressed out. You're just like, eh, it is
what it is.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
But it's funny because quick thinking will slow down with age,
experienced judgment and emotional balance are the things that get better.
So between forty and sixty five, most adults show the
best mix of intelligence, stability, and decision making.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Wow, I can't wait till you start really honing your emotions,
you know, and that you start taking time before you
make a decision. That's going to be great. That's something
to look forward to as your friend. I'm kidding, I'm
being facetious. I know what you're doing because Gary has
a very good handle on his emotions and his decision making.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Oh can we Oh, we're going to talk about it.
Maybe I'll go the other way for you.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Maybe you maybe since you're so stable mentally and emotionally,
s just hits the fan at sixty, like maybe you're
just become a free wheels come demon of gremlin decisions
and I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
What if?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Like that's your what if that's your like midlife crisis
where you just freaking.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Lose it at sixty. Sixty is midlife.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Maybe we're living longer. Guess sixty is the new fifty.
You thought you were out of the woods. Guess what
you're not. You may be in a gutter by sixty one.
A lot can happen between now and then. Trust me,
Yeah they said that, Uh where did it go?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Oh uh oh?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Physically yeah, physical strength and and cognitive abilities like the
reading like processing speed can decline steadily after your mid twenties.
It's funny that they if you were if you were
to plot each one of these things quick thinking, experience, judgment,
emotional balance and then figure out where it peaks for you,
(26:20):
Like where each one of those different qualities would peak
for you between twenty and sixty. There's one of those
things that's always in the lead, right, But they're never
the same, you know, and then they deteriorate or they
change over the course of your years based on your
life experience. Whatever situations you find yourself in, et cetera.
(26:41):
A which of those quote muscles that you're using the most,
but that physical strength is the thing that goes away
after your mid twenties.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
There's a new twist on your old routine of taking
a walk backward walking.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
I did this not for well his purposes, but I
did this while I was a tour guide for summer
orientation at Chico State.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I didn't know you did that. Yeah, you know what,
I learned something new about you every day. Yesterday I
learned about stink and thinking. Today I learned that you
were a tour guide.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It can increase your hamstring flexibility, strength and under used muscles,
and it challenges the mind because your body's adjusting to
a new movement.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
All very true.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
And not only are you walking backwards your intent of
ten twelve people adults and you know, incoming students and
stuff and answering questions, so you're not only trying to
navigate what you can't see behind you, but also answering
questions about school and did you get paid.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
For that job?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah? How much do they pay you? It was like
a minimum wage thing. Oh yeah, that's cool, what a
cool gig.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Was that great?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Did that notice? Just go out to ras like, hey,
if you want to earn some extra money.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
It was open to everybody, but you had to take
a full It was a full semester class to learn
everything on Chico, on the history of the buildings, on that.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
How many different types of flora and fauna exist on
the campus.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
One hundred and forty seven. But that was in nineteen ninety.
Stop it you just had that at the ready, just
made that up. Oh, I totally bought that.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
But there is a whole I mean they imported plants
from all over I was.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, the bidwells were very much into the flora and
the fauna, and they received gifts from all over the
world in that thing.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
They called it the monkey monkey pod tree or the
monkey yeah tree or something like that. There are a
couple of those that don't exist anywhere else in North America.
But that was an that was a blast.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The worst part was learning the monkey puzzle tree. Maybe, oh,
the monkey face trail. That's an upper bidwell, that's the
way up there. The worst part was learning how to
tell people to schedule their classes. It's native to Chile
and Argentina. Oh, how to schedule their classes.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah, like requirements for different majors. We were in charge
of in charge of communication and I think Physical science
or something. Very very few people went in for physical science,
but I had to be up on all of the
graduation requirements for those majors so that incoming freshmen knew
how to plan.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Just didn't hand them a pamphlet and say planning your
classes like everybody else. Nice your dumbassah, no, wonder your
cheeko state.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I have a lot to say about this Katie Porter
thing because I've there's something I've recognized finally about people's
reactions to what Katie Porter is and does.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I can't wait. Gary Shannon will continue a reminder tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Our news and brews were live at Bjay's Restaurant and
brew House in Huntington Beach, the one on Beach Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
We will see you out there. We'll be back right
after this.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's the O two and a Swing at a Mess
and Yoshi Yama Moto.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
With his clown jewel as a Dodger. It is a
complete game.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He goes the distance and the Dodgers win Game two
by a score of five to one.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You know, Will Smith said he has never seen two
games like that pitched back to back as masterfully as
he saw between Blake Snell and Yama Moto.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Game it will have been nice and Blake Stell got
the complete game.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
But Steve Sachs is joining us, five time All Star
of course, longtime Dodger joining us, and he's doing a
lot of the coverage over on KLAC for the Morning
Show and all of that sort of stuff to celebrate
the Dodgers, of course going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Had a huge Game seven again in the NLCS against
the Mets, right with that to run single in Game seven.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Thank you Shannon for bringing that up.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I bring it up also because I was listening to
Tim Kades last night and he was talking about Oral
Herscheizer pitching three complete games.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I think in eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Wow, nobody pitches a complete game. To see it just
last night was amazing. So you don't see that anymore.
There's you know a lot of the saber metrics and
numbers involved don't allow that. But I think you might
see a sort of that bending a little bit, maybe
go more with the gut instinct in the really the
acumen of the manager in the dugout, I think really matters.
(01:38):
There's something about the celebration of the ability of a
single pitcher to throw yat Momoto had what one hundred
and ten eleven pitches last night. That's an amazing amount
of stamina that comes late in the season like this.
Why didn't Dave Roberts allow Blake Snell to do it
(01:58):
the night before? Well, well, that's the the gut instinct
of the manager. There could be some underlying reasons. You know,
we all know that Blake Snell just a few short
years ago, pitching against the Dodgers, had a no hitter
going in the sixth inning and they pull him out
when he's with Tampa and all of it, all of
a sudden, the team breaks down because it's a it's
a sense of renewment. For for the opposition to say, well,
(02:19):
that guy's gone, I got a new perspective now, and
they go out and they slaughter the team, you know,
leave them in.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I'm with you. I'm with you, Gary.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I believe in going on the trend, going on the momentum,
the feel of the game. The guy's been there for
practically three hours now, and he knows what the other
team is doing. But some of this contention about, you know,
letting a guy go out more and pitch more is is.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That, well, we've been through it.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
We've been through the line three times now, and they're
on to you, and so we better, we better change
it up a bit. I don't agree with that, because
pitchers don't pitch the same they don't sequence the hitters
the same way. The first, second, and third time through.
They changed that up, so it's not, you know, like
you're getting the same variety of pitches every single time.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
If you're into it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The Athletic put out a great story this morning about
the friendship between Yamamoto and Snell, how it developed over
pitching and fashion, and a great anecdote about how Yamamoto
kind of bowed to Snell as he came into the
dugout after Game one. But anyway, it's a great article
if you're into it. So the Dodgers have a two
to zero lead coming back to Dodger Stadium. This you
(03:22):
hope to get one away, at least one of them.
You got two of them. Is there any sort of
trepidation that they may fall into some bad pitching habits
with the bullpen at this point?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Or are we?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Are we looking good where you're feeling.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I think they're feeling great about it. The Dodgers have
been there, what thirteen fourteen years in a row. Now
they've got the experience, which is something you can't get
by any other way, by going in there and just
going through it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And they've done all that.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
They've got four number one starters, as I mentioned earlier,
and for most teams that's impossible. Most teams are trying
to get one significa. It started to be in that
first slot and then you get the guys down down
the line. But to have four guys that could be
a number one on any team is incredible. And so
that's where the strength lies. Kind of completely antithetical to
(04:13):
what happened last year when they were struggling to find
a starting pitcher. It was all the bullpen that was
going to be the saviors for these guys. But it's
much easier to navigate through when you can have that
pitcher goblet those innings and really shut down the opposition
with that starting pitching staff. It's amazing as we look
at it now, especially if the offense is not performing
(04:34):
the way it should be. I mean, five runs last
night obviously is a good thing, but the offense the
top half of the lineup has been I don't want
to say non existent, but I mean celebrating an RBI
single by show hey Otani as opposed to be a
couple of home runs per game kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's one of those, like Tim Kate said last night,
maybe it unlocked something for show. Heck, maybe you know
what I mean, maybe he breaks that slump with that.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And we've almost been kind of, you know, spoiled with
the the guy who hit fifty five jacks during the year,
and he's a phenomenal pitcher to boot, so it's crazy
how good he is. And you know this is going
to come up because you know, hitting goes in cycles,
and if the Dodgers are now starting to maybe come
out of that low cycle, that low ebb if you will,
and score five runs. I mean, we haven't seen the
(05:17):
monster blasts yet from from the guys that should do
it on this team, So that's still coming and that's
kind of a good that's kind.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Of good news.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, the timing seems to be working out well for
them to kind of Yes, they swept the Reds, but
they could very easily just as easily lost that wild
Card series.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Absolutely, they did.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well as they come into the NLCS, but it seems
like that offense is waking up, and for any opponent
that's terrifying.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, because you know, the pitching's not going anywhere. The's
going to be there and everybody's healthy, but you're seeing
you know, Taoscar Hernete has hit a couple of big
home runs, which is good, But this is all centered
around Otani. Remember, he changes the game just by being
in the lineup. They're trying to really load up around him,
and they're trying to load up the Dodgers uh to
(06:02):
face left handed pitching, which affects the whole lineup and
that helps the right handed hitter.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So O Tani changes it just by being in the lineup.
Let's talry about that weird play in Game one. Ay,
I've never.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Seen it before. I can't even explain it to you.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I love I feel like the Dodgers were robbed, and
I feel that part about baseball, I think, and they
got nothing for it. But I hit the line, but
I felt like the glove interference putting it over the
line meant it should have been a Grand Slam.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, you know inference catching the balls on page.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
But what they did talk about is is it a
home run if it's over the over the yellow line
or if it's on the yellow line.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think if it's out of the ballpark, it's a
home run.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
But there's so there was some discrepancy about that, and
like I said, I don't know what the rule is particularly,
and you know in that ballpark, whether if it's on
the line or over the line.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But I've never seen an eight what was it? It
was six two? Yeah, and then the one assisted.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, that's down to third base and tax on it.
But I've never seen one of those. You guys never saw.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Steve Sacks, haven't even seen never seen that. I got it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Just when you think he's made to play second base
I mean the radio thing, right, sure, hitting it out
of the heart.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, to do this all, oh man, I'll tell you
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
And you know I'm part of the broadcast team for
the Athletics up in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, and they I do the pre and post game.
I did some radio and TV with him as well.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I love that River Cat Stadium. Yeah, it's nice and quaint,
that's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
And so this is a team that is going to
be really exciting. I think people are in for a
treat when they see the young, controllable, right now offensive
talent on this team. Young guys Nick Kurt's going to win. Uh,
he's going to win the Rookie of the Year. Jacob Wilson,
who's from right here and west Lake, he's going to
be the runner up. And there's a lot of good
young players. They need some more pitching, but that's coming
(07:50):
along too. So the Athletics from July twenty fourth on
were one of the best teams in baseball.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
They just had a terrible start.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Always exciting to be excited with their farm system and
everything else.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Right, what a great pleasure. Thanks for coming in. Thanks
you so much. Thanks for having me appreciated walking around
the hallway.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Does it bother you how much Katsey calls you Saxy?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Oh No, I've known Tim for a long time and
I think he says it affectionately, So it's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I'll take it as a positive. Yeah, thanks for having
me on. Y'all appreciate with you. That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Game three, by the way, is tomorrow night, and you
can hear it all on KLA SEE, including the morning
show with Katzy and Saxy.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
There you got. I don't know if we can say it.
I know we show with this call him sex or not.
I know he calls him Saxy, but does he call
him Katzy Katsey? I think so. I think it's I
think it's a two way street. Okay.
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Speaker 3 (09:18):
Did you make go anywhere? An hour from now we're
going to Yeah, do what I did again? How did
you fare with the storm? Oh? I did just so
you concerning did you go home and watch Love on
the spectrum? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
There was a lot. There was a lot of wind.
I mean it was loud. I think I told you
there was something going on. There was something outside that
was catching the wind the night before last, and it
would woke me up every fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I couldn't figure out what it was.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
But it was also just faint enough where I didn't
have the gumption to get up and actually change the
outside circumstances to prevent the noise.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So I ask you this follow up question. How long
was your nap yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
About an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, it was too long. That's why you're waking up
every fifteen minutes with the wind. An hour and a
half's too long.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I don't like you dictating how long this time. I'm
not dictating.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I'm just saying it's going to be hard to sleep
if you take an hour and a half nap in
the afternoon and then there's a wind.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That's why you're waking up to it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Okay, that's all I mean, keep it, you know, forty
minutes something like that will be.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Better forty minutes. Who does that? What kind of animal
can Well?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They say the optimal times twenty, but I was giving you.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I'm doubling it for you. They the science want us
to get up. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, Like my wife is like, did you know the
optimal naptime is twenty minutes? You can get back out
there and clean the backyard, right, I go, No, I
didn't know that that is the optimal nap time.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
It's a lie, complete lie, brought to you by Get
off your Ass dot com something big, Get off your end.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
But that was pretty good storm that rolled through first
significant rain of the water year that began, of course,
at the beginning of October, about two inches of rain,
and bell Air two inches, Beverly Hills inch and a
quarter downtown as much as three and a quarter inches
of rain in Woodland Hills as of yesterday afternoon. The
last time Downtown got more than an inch of rain
(11:23):
in a single day was sixteen years ago. Way up
in the San Gabriel Mountains, Opid's Camp got the biggest
with five and a half total inches of rainfall. Which
is surprising that we didn't for that amount of rain
at a time we haven't seen rain previously.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
It's pretty amazing. We didn't see.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
More mud slides and debris flows and things like that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
There were a.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Couple of which what I was, I was, which is
what I was expecting. Bodies in river beds. There was
one located in San Lana.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Gotta have one. We've got to have one body in
the river. They said one was found in the swift
waters near the MacArthur Boulevard where it crosses the river
in a fountain. The other way thing, here's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
If these were real rivers, La River, Santa Anna river bed, this,
all of this was true, you'd never find those bodies,
or would be days. The fact that you're finding the
bodies means there's.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
No river well water as fast as it comes up
will go down. Yeah, we're going to see that. There
was also a small dog that was rescued from the
area in the camera rio.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I guess what was its name.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
They have not said what the name of the dog was,
but they said it was a weird a small pug
or French bulldog mix, which means it was not the
cutest little guy three year old dog taken to the
camerio shelter. Dog was not microchips, so they're still looking
for whoever.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
The owner was.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Speaking of pets and we were just speaking of baseball.
Did you hear the story about Humpy the Salmon.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I saw you write that this morning. I didn't even
bother to look it up. Yet you didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I have not yet. Why Why are you Why are
you giving.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It because part of the reason you wanted to talk
about it is because you wanted to delight in seeing
my reaction to whoever or whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Humpy the Salmon is. Okay, Well, it's a nice story.
It's not I know, I bet it is. It's a
feel good story.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's it's maybe the reason why the maritors are on
a tear. No, it has nothing to do with Humpy.
It's not about sex. Don't be weird. Oh I'm it's
a good, feel good story for children. Actually, oh well nice.
So now you've ruined it. Now you've ruined the story
about Humpy the Salmon.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I've not ruined it.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Tomorrow Tomorrow, tomorrow, we are going to be live at
Bjay's Restaurant and Rue House in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
We would love to he.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Would join us as well for our latest news and Bruce,
We're going to be at the one of Beach Boulevard.
Easy to get to right off. The four o five
show goes from nine until one. They'll get you in
there right at nine o'clock so that you can grab
your first bloody Mary or a cup of coffee or
sweet pig pizza or however you want to It.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
All sounds good. Just a boom boom boom, just like that.
I mean, start the day off with the coffee, then
maybe a water. What you want to do is you
want to do the water first, then the coffee, then
the bloody Mary. Yeah, I think okay, and then wait
like forty five minutes, put in your pizza order, get
(14:31):
the pizza, and then order a beer. Right, And I
mean that sounds to me like planned out. I think
I've done some serious planning for everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Come on out.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
We have some stuff that we're going to be given away,
stuff that we give away specifically to the people who
are in the building. So that's why you're going to
want to be there again at BJ's Restaurant in brew
House tomorrow in Huntington Beach from nine to one.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Up next, Humpy the Salmon is that where we're going to.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, now, I want you to hear the story, and
I want everyone that heard me talk about Humpy the
Salmon to hear the story.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So if you're in the car, I want to get
to it right away. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It's called Elmer. It's called Guardian the Lonely and Great God,
but fans not as Goblin.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Okay, I'm a google it. It's a great Korean drama.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Here in the market day fifteen now of our government shutdown,
delaying the announcement of the annual Social Security cost of
living adjustment, tens of millions of people would be watching
for that originally scheduled for today, the twenty twenty four
Social Security COLA announcement will now be October twenty fourth.
It is timed to the September Consumer Price Index report,
(15:51):
which also has not yet been released.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
All right, it is Game three of the ALCS tonight,
first pitch five A.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The bluest guys you've ever.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Seen and senior it is the Blue Jays at the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Seattle leads to nothing.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Seattle Mariners the closest they have ever been in franchise
history to the World Series.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Very exciting.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The entire city of Seattle is paralyzed in excitement, anticipation,
and fear.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
The last time was when they won one hundred and
sixteen games in that two thousand and one season.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Right, So here is a fun story, and you don't
need to be into baseball at all to delight in it.
So Seattle Mariners began putting on the salmon run at
the beginning of the twenty twenty four season. So last year,
you know, it's a way to keep the crowd into
the games. They do these fun little gimmicks. If you've
(16:53):
been out to the ballpark, every team does them.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Oh, is this like the President's running in Washington exactly?
Nationals games.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, mascot brought in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, the Milwaukee Wiener run all of it. They trot
these fun things out. The kids delight in it. You've
had sixteen sixteen dollars beers. You delight in it. Anyway,
So the Mariner started putting on the Salmon run because
salmon are a big deal up there. Obviously in the
beginning of the twenty twenty four season, so the race
had been run in all one hundred and sixty two
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regular season can you lower the volume on this? Sorry,
I get compared when I'm reading and listening to words.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The race had been run in all one hundred and
sixty two regular season home run games. King Salmon is
one of the characters who runs. King Salmon runs in
a crown and a cape, and King Salmon had one
roughly one third of the races, as had Silver. Silver's
(17:56):
dressed as the tech bro stereotype of Seattle with a
head set on a tablet in his hand.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
And then there's Sakey. Sakey is like the.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Personification of grunge, but a fish, so like the Nirvana deal.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He's got a plaid shirt and a nos ring. Good
marketing and then and then there's Humpy.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Humpy is the slow, clumsy salmon mascot with a life
preserver around his waist. Now Humpy never would win the race.
Even Victor Roebliss outfielder had to win under his belt,
beating all four usual contestants to the finish line on
a whim. Afterward, Victor Robliss outfielder said, well, I didn't
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want Humpy to win, so it was a thing Humpy
never won.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Poor Humpy with his life preserver beaten out by.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
The grunge dude and the King Salmon and Silver Salmon,
the tech bro. Humpy wouldn't win. He couldn't win. Sometimes
he lagged behind the group. Sometimes he got off to
a strong start, only to be distracted by something shiny
in the crowd. At least once, Humph he was tackled
by another mascot. So he had never won. So Game
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five on Friday night, I stayed up on the East
coastal two am watching this thing. Everybody in the West
coast stayed up till eleven watching this thing. It went
the distance, but it was just the fourth inning, Game five,
Friday night, and it's Sam and Race number one sixty
seven and it went down as a previous one sixty
six had for Humpy.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Humpy lost the race.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That should have been it right until maybe a possible
return to the Alcs. But the Mariners and the Tigers
were going blow for blow for blow. This was not
going to be a TKO. After Leo Revas's pinch hit
birthday single tied the game, the scoring stopped. The ninth
(19:46):
inning comes and goes, the game is still tied. Extra
innings roll around, and in the middle of the fourteenth
there was a second stretch. Fun fact, when it goes
to the fourteenth, there's a second seventh inning stretch in
the fourteenth the fifteenth then incomes, Oh, my goodness, one
is this thing going to be over? And it was
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Tyler Thompson, the Mariner's director of marketing and game entertainment,
who had an idea. He says, we're trying to do
everything anything we can to reignite this tired crowd and
get the Mariners a win. We made a decision to
send back out the salmon run. So they make their
(20:27):
way into left field, Silver and Sakey and King and
Humpy and Silver and Sakey and King. They get tangled
up Humpy for the first time in his life, takes advantage,
blasts through the A gap and takes the finish line.
The Mariner Moose, the mascot for the Mariners, immediately scoops
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up Humpy and celebration.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
The park erupts.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
People lost their freaking minds in the dugout. The Mariners dugout.
Multiple players got up in cheered Brian wu punching the
air and celebration. He called Humpy's win the moment of
the year. Of course, the rest is history. They went
on to win that game and send the Mariners within
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the closest distance to the World Series they have ever been.
And now they're up to games that they stole from
the Blue James in Toronto. As they come back home
and there is great belief and all over Seattle that
it's Humpy that was the key here.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
So does he win tonight? No? When they win the race? No,
I don't think so. You don't think so, I don't
think so. You only use a Humpy win when you
need one. Wow, Oho, this.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Is James here. I don't know if many people know
this unless you live in Alaska have been fishing there.
But Humpy is a slang term for the pink salmon.
They're the ugliest hook jaw right, look at things with
a big hump like a camel fish.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yes, just thought i'd throw that in there.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's why the slow, clumsy one was named Humpy exactly.
He's not the king salmon. He's not the silver salmon,
not the sack guy, not the sack guy. He's the
salmon nobody wants and never wins. And he won, and
he is the reason why the Mariners are now looking
at the World Series from the closer distance than ever before.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
That's a good story. It's a good story, right.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I didn't realize that they ran it twice. I mean
i'd heard about that. I have never seen it obviously.
I haven't seen a game yeah in there since they've
been doing it.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
But what a cool call for the marketing team, Like,
oh my god, everyone's so quiet.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
You'll send him back out.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Let's send him out, and they send him out and
the place goes not like I get chills thinking about
making that decision to do something stupid like that.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That gets everybody back in it and they win. Like
how cool.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI Ams.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
The Israeli military is saying today that one of the
bodies handed over by Hamas as part of the ceasefire
deal wasn't even an Israeli hostage. Gaza's health ministry said
it received forty five additional bodies of Palestinians from Israel,
which is part of this handover. But the bodies of
now ninety Palestinians have been transferred unclear whether they died
(23:26):
in Israeli custody or were taken from Gaza by Israeli
troops while searching for hostages. But again, one of the
supposed Israeli hostages returned by Hamas wasn't an Israeli It's
going to add some complications to the ongoing attempts at
a ceasefire. A couple of wellness things that we saw.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I'm glad you mentioned health because we are going to
be talking about health. You chose this story, I believe
to give us something to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I will credit Matt with this one. So Matt gave
us something to look forward to the summer.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Of all of us, Yes, has decided that even Grandma
and Grandpa needs some good news.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Really forward to in the future. Thanks Matty's very nice.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
New research shows that people often reach their all around
mental and emotional peak at about sixty not in their twenties.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So definitely not your physical peak, right unless you want
it to be. Maybe I maybe ramp up, Yeah you could,
but mental and emotional peak. So that's good. You figured
it all out. You don't get all haired, you don't
get all stressed out. You're just like, eh, it is
what it is.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
But it's funny because quick thinking will slow down with age,
experienced judgment and emotional balance are the things that get better.
So between forty and sixty five, most adults show the
best mix of intelligence, stability, and decision making.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Wow, I can't wait till you start really honing your emotions,
you know, and that you start taking time before you
make a decision. That's going to be great. That's something
to look forward to as your friend. I'm kidding, I'm
being facetious. I know what you're doing because Gary has
a very good handle on his emotions and his decision making.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Oh can we Oh, we're going to talk about it.
Maybe I'll go the other way for you.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Maybe you maybe since you're so stable mentally and emotionally,
s just hits the fan at sixty, like maybe you're
just become a free wheels come demon of gremlin decisions
and I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
What if?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Like that's your what if that's your like midlife crisis
where you just freaking.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Lose it at sixty. Sixty is midlife.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Maybe we're living longer. Guess sixty is the new fifty.
You thought you were out of the woods. Guess what
you're not. You may be in a gutter by sixty one.
A lot can happen between now and then. Trust me,
Yeah they said that, Uh where did it go?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Oh uh oh?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Physically yeah, physical strength and and cognitive abilities like the
reading like processing speed can decline steadily after your mid twenties.
It's funny that they if you were if you were
to plot each one of these things quick thinking, experience, judgment,
emotional balance and then figure out where it peaks for you,
(26:20):
Like where each one of those different qualities would peak
for you between twenty and sixty. There's one of those
things that's always in the lead, right, But they're never
the same, you know, and then they deteriorate or they
change over the course of your years based on your
life experience. Whatever situations you find yourself in, et cetera.
(26:41):
A which of those quote muscles that you're using the most,
but that physical strength is the thing that goes away
after your mid twenties.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
There's a new twist on your old routine of taking
a walk backward walking.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
I did this not for well his purposes, but I
did this while I was a tour guide for summer
orientation at Chico State.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I didn't know you did that. Yeah, you know what,
I learned something new about you every day. Yesterday I
learned about stink and thinking. Today I learned that you
were a tour guide.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It can increase your hamstring flexibility, strength and under used muscles,
and it challenges the mind because your body's adjusting to
a new movement.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
All very true.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
And not only are you walking backwards your intent of
ten twelve people adults and you know, incoming students and
stuff and answering questions, so you're not only trying to
navigate what you can't see behind you, but also answering
questions about school and did you get paid.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
For that job?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah? How much do they pay you? It was like
a minimum wage thing. Oh yeah, that's cool, what a
cool gig.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Was that great?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Did that notice? Just go out to ras like, hey,
if you want to earn some extra money.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
It was open to everybody, but you had to take
a full It was a full semester class to learn
everything on Chico, on the history of the buildings, on that.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
How many different types of flora and fauna exist on
the campus.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
One hundred and forty seven. But that was in nineteen ninety.
Stop it you just had that at the ready, just
made that up. Oh, I totally bought that.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
But there is a whole I mean they imported plants
from all over I was.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, the bidwells were very much into the flora and
the fauna, and they received gifts from all over the
world in that thing.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
They called it the monkey monkey pod tree or the
monkey yeah tree or something like that. There are a
couple of those that don't exist anywhere else in North America.
But that was an that was a blast.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The worst part was learning the monkey puzzle tree. Maybe, oh,
the monkey face trail. That's an upper bidwell, that's the
way up there. The worst part was learning how to
tell people to schedule their classes. It's native to Chile
and Argentina. Oh, how to schedule their classes.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah, like requirements for different majors. We were in charge
of in charge of communication and I think Physical science
or something. Very very few people went in for physical science,
but I had to be up on all of the
graduation requirements for those majors so that incoming freshmen knew
how to plan.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Just didn't hand them a pamphlet and say planning your
classes like everybody else. Nice your dumbassah, no, wonder your
cheeko state.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I have a lot to say about this Katie Porter
thing because I've there's something I've recognized finally about people's
reactions to what Katie Porter is and does.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I can't wait. Gary Shannon will continue a reminder tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Our news and brews were live at Bjay's Restaurant and
brew House in Huntington Beach, the one on Beach Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
We will see you out there. We'll be back right
after this.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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