August 6, 2025 • 33 mins
#WHATSHAPPENING / Ice Cube joins Gary and Shannon to discuss – BIG3 Professional 3x on 3x Basketball League!
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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. Oh my goodness, it's Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Remember when we went through a phase of people that
were really mad at me saying it was Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh, we get them a lot. Oh really, I still
do get them.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes, Why do you think people get angry about February?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Februarybruary February.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
People think that you don't know what you're saying, or
when I say something like I'm a pilot, and they
think very seriously that I'm trying to impose myself on
other pilots. Yeah, it's part of you've got to know
the rules to break the rules, right.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And the beauty of the whole pilot story is that
your father in law is.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
A blue angel.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right, So that's what makes the story great, that you're
pretend piloting. Yeah, and the man who your wife has
held on a pedestal ural life is a blue angel.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That is the story you should just love and hold
with both hands.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And if people well, if people thought for just so
good much about it makes the story so good?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
What else is going on time for what's happening?
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Speaker 2 (01:41):
Operation Trojan Horse. There was a home Westlake.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Home depot that has been rated as many as sixteen
people reported to have been detained in what US Border
Patrol Sector Chief Greg Baveno call Operation Trojan Horse these
early warning raids that took place today. A day laborer said,
about six forty five in the morning, a yellow Penske
(02:07):
truck pulled up to the laborers who gathered in the
parking lot. The driver told them in Spanish he was
looking for workers. Several people gathered around the truck and
then someone rolled up the back and a bunch of
agents came out, jumped out, started chasing people and people scattered.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Water service there's an outage in Porter Ranch, Granada Hills,
impacting more than nine thousand LEDWP customers. They had their
water cut off today due to emergency repairs at a
local water pump station.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We saw in the News.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
There was a line of cars around the block for
water distribution there in Porter Ranch.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, so they're obviously telling people to conserve water. Due
to the severely restricted flow into the tank and other
connections in the service area, coupled with a high demand,
the tank was drained by this morning. They said it
could take fourteen to sixteen hours of excavation before the
even before they can even repair this thing.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
There's a study, uh about chat GPT from a watchdog
group and they say it's giving teenagers dangerous advice on drugs,
alcohol and suicide. But they're not getting into particulars. Unfortunately
for us, they say the Associated Press will not repeat
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the actual language of cheap chat GPT's drug or self
harm poems or suicide notes that it provided children because
that would just be too inflammatory for the AP to
record on.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm beginning to think that these news agencies are now
going out of their way to prompt these large language models.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
These AI come up with.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yes, Like you know, it starts out with I'm feeling
bad about myself or I feel sad, and then chat Gypt's.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Like get out there and fight, buddy, you still got
it in you. You're a good if I want to
kill my hate it. Yeah, okay, Well, you know people
are start talking.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
To somebody, and what do you think you're training chat
GPT to do when you're prompting it to be like that?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know, if you've got questions, kids, come to us.
We open it up. We all learned about hot rails together.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Earlier in the show, we talked about the disaster desk
and fires that are burning. A new study that was
published today in the medical journal JAMA or the Journal
of the American Medical Association, researchers said they analyzed data
on the numbers of deaths in the weeks just after
our big fires. They looked at the deaths from in
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La County from January fifth to February first, and they
estimated that there were more than four hundred and forty
more deaths that could be attributed to the fires compared
to the thirty one that we know that were caught
in the fire. They said, because it could be a
reflection of many factors, increased exposure to poor air quality,
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the exacerbation of heart or lung conditions, and the impact
of DeLay's interruptions in someone's access to necessary health care
during that period.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, if you're about my age, a piece of your
childhood is dying.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Claire's. Claire's has filed for bankruptcy. That's a erring place. Sure,
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
All sorts of accessories that would leave your ears, or
your hands or your wrists blue green, well whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's very cheap, but it was a delight. They have
twenty seven hundred and fifty stores. Claire's was the best.
You'd take your allowance.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You go to Claire's, you get some tacky and you
just it was cherished, cherished item.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We talked earlier about the guy who intervened in a
domestic violent situation, a well known actor, local actor from
back in Virginia. Now he was shot and killed, and
we have a bunch of more stories of people have
also intervened in situations like that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We'll do that, we come back.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
What do you watch it? What are you watching?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Now?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What are you watching?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We picked up the first few episodes of lee Anne
last night.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh, I gave that about ninety two seconds.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's awful.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well, it's like a nineteen ninety three sitcom.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's almost as if and it's funny that you mentioned
that because we were laughing about it last night.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's the laugh track.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean, it's just live studio audience, I think, but
the laughter, the laughter that is the writing on it,
the fact that Christian Johnson is in it. Who is
in Third Rock from the Sun, and that's what a
lot of people remember her from. There's just so many
sitcom tropes that are being and I really like Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I know you wanted to like it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It was Nucket, and I don't know what an appetite
there is, especially coming off the sex in the city.
Woman of a certain age looking for love again. I
don't know if there's an appetite for that. And I
hate to say that it makes me sound agist and
anti feminist, but no one wants to sit through like
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the depressing thing that's reality of if you have a
marriage that breaks up and you're in your late fifties,
early sixties, what have you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And you're dating again.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I mean, it's it can They're sure, there's great stories,
but it can be really hard and I don't know
if people want to sit down and be entertained by that.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And the funny thing, not the funny thing, the more
letdown of it is that we had some friends that
went and Sawly and Morgan do her stand up show
just in Thousand Oaks on Sunday nights, that it was
absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, well, you know, it's like when Riba did her sitcom,
nobody you loved Riba and then she did her sitcom
and you weren't into.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It and that was a successful show. You know, how
to say things that pissed me off?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Oh my god, that was hilarious. Shannon taking three old
time cliches and cherry picking parts and putting them together
into making her own cliche and then having Gary figure out.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
What she said.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
That was a funny Can you guys do that again?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That was not a bit. It was not a bit.
It was not a bit at all anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So the story out of Virginia was a night a
thirty five year old actor, a local actor who was
pretty well known in the community. He's out walking his
dog one day and he sees this couple arguing, younger
guy and a girl, and he tries to intervene to
prevent whatever's happening from becoming violent or if it had been.
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He tried to intervene, and the nineteen year old guy
shot him and then turned and shot him, shot and
killed him, and then shot himself. They were able to
donate the guy's organs, which is heartbreaking, but also you know,
some amount of silver lining and all this. But the
question was, have you ever been in situations like this?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And do you even think about that?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Like in that second where you're deciding am I gonna intervene? Yeah,
I gotta go? Sometimes you're not even deciding, you just go.
Does it even a crush her mind about what could
have been?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
In high school?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I saw this dude that we were in the turnaround
where like everybody comes and pulls into the high school
beating on this chick and he was like the quarterback
for like the JV team, and nobody was doing anything
about it. And I rolled up and punched him in
the face and kind of took her away, but the judge.
The bad part was when the whole team, the whole
JV team chased me up to my car where I
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had to grab a tyr iron and be swinging it,
and the teachers came up and try to get me
in trouble very JV.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Of them, right, Hey, Gary and Shannon. Hey, back in
the day when I used to be a cable guy
in LA I had some rookie riding shotgun with me,
and in front of us, this couple started to beat
the crap out of each other in their car and
he started to get out of the truck to break
it up, and I was like, where are you going, dude,
that's a bad idea. As soon as you walk over there,
they're going to turn on you and we're all going
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to get involved. I said, you stay your ass in
this truck.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, that's that's what my especially if they're both going
at it, like if the wife's are own punches in
the husband. Yeah, you don't want to enter that dogfight, right,
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I can't imagine what Garyan Shannon Dawn here in Lake Forrest, Hey,
don Yeah. One day I was walking through the beautiful
Hanford mall full of all eighteen shoppers there when I
saw a big circle of people recording a guy getting
the s kick out of him and the mall cop
shadow boxing in the background. So I took the guys back,
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took him to the ground, and held them there until
he stopped.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Is there anything more annoying than a mall cop?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
A cop, I would argue, in any sort of capacity,
who's not a cop?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Somebody who's got.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't want to call it tactical uniform, just a
uniform of sorts. They may have a walkie talkie, they
may have that's usually it, right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They don't have a batons anymore on those guys.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
But like the ego of I have power, I've control
rollover a situation. I have jurisdiction, but you don't. You're
like a minimum wage guy and you think you've got power.
And usually kids are involved. Where you get to have
power over kids.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You're not preventing any crime. No, there's a guy that
there is a specific mall shopping center whatever you want
to call it, that's long and skinny near.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Where I live, and Strip Mall is. But it's bigger
than that.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I mean, there's some there's some pretty big stores, there
are some restaurants and all that sort of stuff. So
it's and it's a big, long, probably mile and a
half from one end, okay, And there's a guy that
rolls around in a security truck and it's a small
pickup truck, like miniature sized pickup truck with yellow flashers
on top of it, big security badge name on the
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side of it, and he is he's probably, if I
had to guess, mid to late fifties, probably eighty to
ninety pounds over what would be considered a healthy waight.
Uh does not look healthy at all if something were
to happen. He is not jumping out of the truck
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and giving foot chacks. He rolls around wearing uh, fingerless gloves,
like leather fingerless gloves, like he's driving lemons, and he's
got a giant cigar hanging out the window, and he
I kind of want.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, I kind of want rolls up about him the way.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
At the sporting goods store next to him, and he'll
roll past and then.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Slow way totally.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He'll just mean just watch you, and he'll like like
he's saying, I bet you got some contraband.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And does he have does he have any any snacks
in the cab? Oh, I guarantee you snacks empty funion
bags left.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, that's exactly the snack I was visualized.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So he smells like cigars and finance and what a
legend and he's been sitting in that cab, that truck.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'd love to get him on. I'd love to get
him on the show.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Hey, Gary and Shannon and Sean. I used to work
as a medic at Matgic Mountain back in the early
nineties and one day I was walking to watch and
there was a fight between away from the girlfriend and
I said in to break him up, and the guys
starts swinging on me. So I had to swing back
to defend myself. After I whipped his butt, I had
to render first aid to.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Him as well. Oh so yeah, I did my little.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Part that day.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Have a great one, Thank you. That's a twofer. What
a great job. Oh my gosh, the things he probably
is saying.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Where he's he he puts a smack down on the
guy and then then has to rip from the first
aid kitsitate him back to life. Let me get Let
me get that for you. That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I mean, that's a day, right, You kick the s
out of someone and then you bring him back to life.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That's like superhero stuff, all right. I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
What you're watching Wednesday when we come back, Gary and
Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Ams forty.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm beside my side yourself. I'm very excited, you know.
I'd say that twelve year old me is really happy.
You know, ice Cube is with us, and this is
not a joke.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
This is real.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This is real life that's happening to us right now.
And I'd say twelve year old me is super happy
because I mean, nineteen ninety two is big.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
For you and I, both of us. Do I call
Do I call you Cube? Mister Cube?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Call me Cube?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Cube? All right?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Does anybody call you by your given name?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (14:31):
Yeah, family, Yeah, pops, momsie, okay, yeah, we're not there yet,
but maybe by the end of the day, call me Cube.
Or you know, if somebody say, oh, shay, I'm looking
for a family member, or check.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Somebody's lost, somebody's lost you in a crowded place.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
Yeah yeah, I'm looking for you know, family member, or
somebody got a check for me.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I love I love the description of you. Every time
I see you, or your name or any of the
ventures that you've gotten into, they always refer to you
as multi hyphen it. Ice Cube started as a rapper,
obviously acting production obviously in a movie producing straight out
of Compton. It's two hundred million dollars or something like internationally. Right,
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you saw all of that, Right, you get to pocket
all of that or.
Speaker 11 (15:19):
I wish Universal got something to say about that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
But also a Big three basketball several years ago, eight
years ago or so, how did big three basketball.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Even become a thing? Where did it come out of
my brain? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Me and my partner Jeff Quin, it's we you know,
it wasn't enough basketball. Kobe had just scored sixty points
in his last game that I missed because I was
out of town.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Shooting a movie.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
I was, Yeah, I was peeled about it, you know,
and I couldn't see him play no more Like whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
What world was in that?
Speaker 11 (15:59):
I saw this guy for twenty years, paid money to
see him play, And I said, man, I know he
could still play, score sixty points in his last game.
Definitely could still play. And it was like, no, now
he's done. He's done, And I'm like, got to be
a place where guys can play when they still got it.
They might not be able to play eighty two games
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or one hundred games in the NBA back to backs
three or four, you know, three games of four nights,
but they can't still play, and that's kind of how
the you know, the ideas started to kind of germinate
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
When did you fall in love with basketball?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I mean, we don't need to go back to you know,
not to bring back to nineteen ninety two, but you know,
when the Lakers beat the SuperSonics, you.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Know, I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
The they had some good years. You forget about the
SuperSonics in the nineties. They had some good years. They
were able to contain Michael Jordan for a little bit there.
But when did you fall in love with the game?
Speaker 11 (16:55):
I fell in love with basketball when I was five
years old and my brothers were playing in the backyard.
He's nine years older than me, so they were playing
in the backyard and I couldn't play, and you know,
my mother was like, you'll get big enough one day.
You'll get big enough one day. And you know, one
day I got big enough I could actually be on
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the court with him and actually play, because they had
some super rough games back there. So that's when I
fell in love with the game. It was not being
able to play with the bigger kids in the backyard
is where it all started, and I've loved it ever since.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, what is that with older brothers and not being
able to be involved with all the stuff there, even
if it's stupid stuff, not cool stuff like that? Want
to be a part of it when you're told no,
you can't, that's what you want more than anything.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
My brother was in Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't want that, but I did
back then.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Yeah, just because you can't, they want, but yeah, they
you know. I used to come inside crying to my mother.
You're too little and you're knocked over, you know. Now
you know one day I was big enough. Then I
was big enough to beat them. So I really loved it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That was a good day.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Yeah, that was a good.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You guys are a Week nine is coming up this
weekend in the Big Three season for this and then
after that.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Is playoffs, playoffs championship.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, and this weekend all of the games are going
to be into it.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
Yes, we got four games for the price of one.
Get a chance to see the whole league. Everybody now
all fighting for you know, it's eight teams fighting for
those four spots to.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It is a party.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I've heard the stories about Into It Dome, I've heard
what goes on behind the scenes. I've heard about the
party suites. It is like the place to be in
Los Angeles right now.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
This is my first time going in, so I can't
wait to experience.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I haven't been in.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Ye have you heard have you heard the stories that
I've heard?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah? Few, Yeah, definitely, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
You know, we were, you know, definitely grateful that the
arena was available, and you know it's the newest arena
in the city, so you know, that's what these players deserve.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You have an architecture background, Yes, is it cool to
you to see something like that?
Speaker 11 (19:10):
Of course, you know, just to see you know, I'm
always in awe at, you know, the men that build
this kind of thing. You know, it's a you know,
it's it's always even when I'm on a movie. You know,
we do these big you know, stunts and these big
production set pieces, and I'm always amazed at the men
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that put this up in one week and tear it
down the next day and put something up else up.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
You know, It's it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Watching you come out of center field a game two
of the Dodgers Yankees World Series. I get chills thinking
about it. That was a quintessential Los Angeles moment. There
are a few people that embody los Angeles. You're one
of those people. What was it like for you, even
being who you are, to be able to do that
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and to represent the city like that on that day
living a dream?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You know, I grew up a Dodger fan. I remember.
Speaker 11 (20:13):
When Gibson hit the home run in the eighties, running
out the house screaming, you know, it's a trip. It
was like back then, it was me, it was Dre
sir Jinks. You know, it was all down the street
from my block watching the game. We all ran out
in the street. I just remember how how broke we
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were back then compared to you know, when Freddie Freeman
hit the home run and everybody's excited. I'm like, it's
a whole new day. But you know, being injected into
the game, like you know, being able to actually you know,
play and perform and represent LA and you know, it's
just one of those things you don't even dream of.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
It's so out there, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, since you also, this would have been a couple
of years ago to NASCAR at the coliseum.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You did a show there too, very cool.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I had some friends that went and saw that, and
so that was the greatest just gathering of you know,
you got Nascar on one side, you got an ice
Cube on the other, and they were just they love it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They they don't stop talking about.
Speaker 11 (21:15):
It was sweet, you know, in the coliseum. You never
think you're gonna see NASCAR in the coliseum, and it
was just a special day. And you know, I think
they got a great reception from that, you know, and
you know, just another thing you never count on.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
You know, it's just something that.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Dam you live in the dream though you Clyde Drexler
as a commissioner for the Big Three. Right now, we're
talking with ice Cube, by the way, who's a founder
of Big Three. Among that many other things that you've
done with your life, you've had the opportunity now to
meet some of the people. I mean, you mentioned Kobe.
You've met Kobe or you had met Kobe. You you
have this this life now where you get to see
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these people that, like you said, you know, back in
in the eighties, you watch Kirk Gibson hit this home
run and you're freaking out, and now you get to
see some of these.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
People that you grew up idolizing.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
And what's that? I mean, what's saying?
Speaker 11 (22:08):
I just go up and give them they props, let
them know how much of a fan I am. And
you know, just like I would do if I wasn't famous,
you know, just give them they props, let them know,
you know, what they meant to me growing up.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
And you know, just feeling great.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
That I got a chance to actually say that to them,
you know, speak to them.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
You know.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
It's not just a feeling that I, you know, have
in my heart, but I'm able to actually you know,
connect and I know some of these guys now, like
you know, we talked to Clyde Drexler almost every day.
You know, I see doctor j Iceman every every week.
You know, they you know, we know each other's families.
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And it's it's real cool to be able to just get,
you know, into a working relationship and a working environment
with some of these heroes.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
What's it?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like I mentioned, I started listening to your music when
I started paying attention to music, so like early nineties
and and and it opened my eyes to a whole
new world. And so I feel like when I see you.
I feel like you've been in my whole life because
nobody stops listening to Ice Cubes music, you know, like
you just it's just it's one of those things that endoors.
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It's it's I don't even want to say a cult
like following, because it was just instant, instant hits and
then it's all stayed. You must always get the feeling
that or people must always have the feeling that they
know you because you have been a big figure their
whole lives. If you're my age. So what's that like
when people just feel like they know you and they don't.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I mean, it's a little strange, but it feels good.
You know.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
It feels good that people feel like you part of
a family, like they've been knowing you forever, right, and.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You know, the reception is always warm.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
So it's always cool to be able to to have
a conversation. You know, they say they have things they
want to say to me. You know that they been
harboring their whole life and now they got a chance
to say it. So it feels good to be in
that position. You know, it's better than the other way around.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, but it's also from from disparate communities, and we
were talking. The two of us are from you know,
the super you know, north northern California, white, very white
bread northern California. But I remember who introduced me to
Straight out of Compton. I remember buying the cassette around yeah,
(24:35):
delivering Chinese food.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I mean yeah, more white than that.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
But listening to this, this whole new genre of music
and this whole new world opening up in front of us, well.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
You know, we thought it was going to be underground.
You know when we did the music, we never thought
that it would, you know, get into the mainstream. And
it's any way.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Shape of form?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Is that because you didn't think it would get radio play?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yeah, yeah, we thought it was.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
See back then, they used to make all kind of
comedy records, you know, you would have a Eddie Murphy,
you know, comedy Red Fox, Richard Pryor, and we thought,
we thought our records would live in those sections and
never make it to even the rap section or the
you know, hip hop, R and B whatever they wanted.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You were doing it for your friends.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Yeah, we was basically trying to be neighborhood stars.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
You know.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
We was like, nobody cares about what's going on around here,
So let's just wrap about it, and you know, maybe
we can get some love from our friends, you know,
on this style of music.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
And it was just a total opposite. It just blew
up and we was on.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
This rise, like strapping yourself to a rocket, and here
we go.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You've been able to handle all the success. You have
kept your head on your shoulders. You're probably the same
guy that you were staring out.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
How do you do that?
Speaker 11 (26:02):
I made a promise to myself when I was young
that I would always recognize myself. You know, when I
look in the mirror, I didn't want to ever see
a different person. So I always just like be myself
and let the chips fall what they may. You know,
sometimes it works out for me.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Sometimes it don't.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
But I'm fine with that, you know, as long as
I I'm happy with who I am and I'm not.
You know, I live out here, so I can't when
you live in Hollywood, you shouldn't go Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Put it that way.
Speaker 11 (26:33):
You know, you should know you know how how to
sidestep some of the stuff that's out here.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Despite all of the stuff that you've done up to
this point, I mean, your future is just as big.
What kind of stuff are you working on for the
for the next chapter for you?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh man, you know, just you know, grow to league.
We want to grow the league.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
Also, I have a major tour that that I'm about
to start in September called the Truth to Power for
four Decades of Attitude Tour. So it's great to be
in the game forty years and to you know, dig
into my catalog a little bit.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
On stage.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
This is the biggest production I've ever done in my life,
so I'm proud of it. We're working on Last Friday,
which is fourth installment of the Friday Franchi.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh my gosh. That's exciting.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
And we got a lot of other movie projects in
different states of development.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Hell as they say.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, well, it's an awesome It's an honor to meet you.
It's just an absolute privilege. And like Shannon said, I
mean our knowledge of you goes back thirty years, which
is I mean crazy to think that we're that old.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You haven't aged at all.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I know, no, Honestly, I've been sitting here thinking the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Where did the time go?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
We heard that you were in the building, and we
heard we would have a shot at interviewing you. And
to be honest, I didn't let myself believe that that
was going to happen because I didn't want to get
excited and then real disappointed like a little kid.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
But and then you came around the corner. Yeah, I'm
a fool, cool ice cube again. Founder of Big Three
Basketball League and everything else. There's no time to list
it all back. Big three dot com the number three
Big three dot Com is where you're gonna find the information,
including the schedule for Saturday, those Big Four games at
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(28:31):
to be an absolute it's supposed to be just an
absolute party down.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, it's a good time. Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate
it anytime, every time. Thank you awesome, Thank you cube. Gary,
you said it. Gary Channer will be right back right
after this.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It really happens.
Speaker 12 (28:52):
Oh my god, Gary, sh You guys are the best
interviewers ever. Have an ice cube on the show. You
have Top John, you have top Tim Conway. You are
in the stratos fiere. Now they got to catch you
you guys got a bit.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That was fun. We got lucky, We got lucky.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oscar really really facilitated the whole thing. We just were like, oh,
look who's stopping by kind of thing, you know, Lucky.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
He also spent some time next door with Dodgers pregame.
Actually there are games coming up in was it ten
minutes or so, Yeah, so he was over there too.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That was really cool that game two World Series. It
was just like if you New York, we're West Coast,
we're la and ice cubes coming out of center field,
and this is us and we're going to own your asses.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And then we did how else? Who else? I mean
I thought of it.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I remember thinking that when we watched that, Yeah, thinking well,
of course who.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Else would you know? It was perfection? And who did
they have or whatever stupid silliness.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
We will put that up on its own on the website,
because that's going to listen.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
What a nice guy to zero pretense around for a
bunch of pictures and everything with people offered.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
In fact, it's not like we even you know, forced
him into taking pictures with us.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, that was really cool.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
And I did mention I the idea of ever meeting
that guy for the last thirty years. There's no way
that I would have ever thought that that that would
have happened. No, and I'm still in shock a little bit.
It's I did mention this. My cousin was the one
who first played for me straight out of Compton, and
(30:44):
then when I got a copy of it, when I
bought my own copy of it, I would listen to
it and again to make it as white bread Manse and.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Before the parental advisory label was it or did it
have it?
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Because it was one of those albums that you couldn't
play like with your parents, Oh no, God no, like
you had to like be uh, you had to be
cool about it.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, that's why my cousin. It wasn't my dad that
introduced me to it, was my cousin. But I was
driving around a nineteen seventy seven Volkswagen Rabbit delivering Chinese
food while listening to that. I mean, just as loud
as those two little five inch speakers could go, I know,
and when you hear those songs now you can go,
(31:29):
you know every single word.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I feel like it was banned at one point and
it was like extra special to get your hands on it.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
It may have been in northern California, it may have
been banned.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
But that's the other thing else.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
And they mentioned this in the movie Straight out of Compton,
just the idea that it wasn't It was not intended
necessarily for mass consumption. It was an attempt to get
the credibility, the notoriety, get a little bit of fame
within your neighborhood, and to be the most famous person
in your neighbors, which they achieved pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's weird that it wasn't your dad who turned you
on to that, right, He was all about Track nine.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
And a whole new world, by the way, That was
the other thing, is a whole new world that.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
When where we grew up, Yes, we didn't know anything
about it. The movies weren't out yet, y'all. There was
no existence.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
It's just not as you are insulated as a kid
so many times from different lives, lives and lifestyles and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
So all right, that was exciting. What do we do tomorrow?
I have no idea. I mean, buckle up, buttercup.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Gary and Shannon will see you tomorrow. John Cobok coming
up next. Stay dry, everybody blessings.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show, you
can always hear us live on kf I am six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio ap
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Oh my goodness, it's Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Remember when we went through a phase of people that
were really mad at me saying it was Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh, we get them a lot. Oh really, I still
do get them.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes, Why do you think people get angry about February?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Februarybruary February.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
People think that you don't know what you're saying, or
when I say something like I'm a pilot, and they
think very seriously that I'm trying to impose myself on
other pilots. Yeah, it's part of you've got to know
the rules to break the rules, right.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And the beauty of the whole pilot story is that
your father in law is.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
A blue angel.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right, So that's what makes the story great, that you're
pretend piloting. Yeah, and the man who your wife has
held on a pedestal ural life is a blue angel.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That is the story you should just love and hold
with both hands.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And if people well, if people thought for just so
good much about it makes the story so good?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
What else is going on time for what's happening?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Oh do you have the thing over there?
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Speaker 2 (01:41):
Operation Trojan Horse. There was a home Westlake.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Home depot that has been rated as many as sixteen
people reported to have been detained in what US Border
Patrol Sector Chief Greg Baveno call Operation Trojan Horse these
early warning raids that took place today. A day laborer said,
about six forty five in the morning, a yellow Penske
(02:07):
truck pulled up to the laborers who gathered in the
parking lot. The driver told them in Spanish he was
looking for workers. Several people gathered around the truck and
then someone rolled up the back and a bunch of
agents came out, jumped out, started chasing people and people scattered.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Water service there's an outage in Porter Ranch, Granada Hills,
impacting more than nine thousand LEDWP customers. They had their
water cut off today due to emergency repairs at a
local water pump station.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We saw in the News.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
There was a line of cars around the block for
water distribution there in Porter Ranch.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, so they're obviously telling people to conserve water. Due
to the severely restricted flow into the tank and other
connections in the service area, coupled with a high demand,
the tank was drained by this morning. They said it
could take fourteen to sixteen hours of excavation before the
even before they can even repair this thing.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
There's a study, uh about chat GPT from a watchdog
group and they say it's giving teenagers dangerous advice on drugs,
alcohol and suicide. But they're not getting into particulars. Unfortunately
for us, they say the Associated Press will not repeat
(03:23):
the actual language of cheap chat GPT's drug or self
harm poems or suicide notes that it provided children because
that would just be too inflammatory for the AP to
record on.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm beginning to think that these news agencies are now
going out of their way to prompt these large language models.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
These AI come up with.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yes, Like you know, it starts out with I'm feeling
bad about myself or I feel sad, and then chat Gypt's.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Like get out there and fight, buddy, you still got
it in you. You're a good if I want to
kill my hate it. Yeah, okay, Well, you know people
are start talking.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
To somebody, and what do you think you're training chat
GPT to do when you're prompting it to be like that?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know, if you've got questions, kids, come to us.
We open it up. We all learned about hot rails together.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Earlier in the show, we talked about the disaster desk
and fires that are burning. A new study that was
published today in the medical journal JAMA or the Journal
of the American Medical Association, researchers said they analyzed data
on the numbers of deaths in the weeks just after
our big fires. They looked at the deaths from in
(04:34):
La County from January fifth to February first, and they
estimated that there were more than four hundred and forty
more deaths that could be attributed to the fires compared
to the thirty one that we know that were caught
in the fire. They said, because it could be a
reflection of many factors, increased exposure to poor air quality,
(04:55):
the exacerbation of heart or lung conditions, and the impact
of DeLay's interruptions in someone's access to necessary health care
during that period.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, if you're about my age, a piece of your
childhood is dying.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Claire's. Claire's has filed for bankruptcy. That's a erring place. Sure,
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
All sorts of accessories that would leave your ears, or
your hands or your wrists blue green, well whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's very cheap, but it was a delight. They have
twenty seven hundred and fifty stores. Claire's was the best.
You'd take your allowance.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You go to Claire's, you get some tacky and you
just it was cherished, cherished item.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We talked earlier about the guy who intervened in a
domestic violent situation, a well known actor, local actor from
back in Virginia. Now he was shot and killed, and
we have a bunch of more stories of people have
also intervened in situations like that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We'll do that, we come back.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
What do you watch it? What are you watching?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Now?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What are you watching?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We picked up the first few episodes of lee Anne
last night.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh, I gave that about ninety two seconds.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's awful.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well, it's like a nineteen ninety three sitcom.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's almost as if and it's funny that you mentioned
that because we were laughing about it last night.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's the laugh track.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean, it's just live studio audience, I think, but
the laughter, the laughter that is the writing on it,
the fact that Christian Johnson is in it. Who is
in Third Rock from the Sun, and that's what a
lot of people remember her from. There's just so many
sitcom tropes that are being and I really like Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I know you wanted to like it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It was Nucket, and I don't know what an appetite
there is, especially coming off the sex in the city.
Woman of a certain age looking for love again. I
don't know if there's an appetite for that. And I
hate to say that it makes me sound agist and
anti feminist, but no one wants to sit through like
(07:02):
the depressing thing that's reality of if you have a
marriage that breaks up and you're in your late fifties,
early sixties, what have you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And you're dating again.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I mean, it's it can They're sure, there's great stories,
but it can be really hard and I don't know
if people want to sit down and be entertained by that.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And the funny thing, not the funny thing, the more
letdown of it is that we had some friends that
went and Sawly and Morgan do her stand up show
just in Thousand Oaks on Sunday nights, that it was
absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, well, you know, it's like when Riba did her sitcom,
nobody you loved Riba and then she did her sitcom
and you weren't into.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It and that was a successful show. You know, how
to say things that pissed me off?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Oh my god, that was hilarious. Shannon taking three old
time cliches and cherry picking parts and putting them together
into making her own cliche and then having Gary figure out.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
What she said.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
That was a funny Can you guys do that again?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That was not a bit. It was not a bit.
It was not a bit at all anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So the story out of Virginia was a night a
thirty five year old actor, a local actor who was
pretty well known in the community. He's out walking his
dog one day and he sees this couple arguing, younger
guy and a girl, and he tries to intervene to
prevent whatever's happening from becoming violent or if it had been.
(08:30):
He tried to intervene, and the nineteen year old guy
shot him and then turned and shot him, shot and
killed him, and then shot himself. They were able to
donate the guy's organs, which is heartbreaking, but also you know,
some amount of silver lining and all this. But the
question was, have you ever been in situations like this?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And do you even think about that?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Like in that second where you're deciding am I gonna intervene? Yeah,
I gotta go? Sometimes you're not even deciding, you just go.
Does it even a crush her mind about what could
have been?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
In high school?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I saw this dude that we were in the turnaround
where like everybody comes and pulls into the high school
beating on this chick and he was like the quarterback
for like the JV team, and nobody was doing anything
about it. And I rolled up and punched him in
the face and kind of took her away, but the judge.
The bad part was when the whole team, the whole
JV team chased me up to my car where I
(09:25):
had to grab a tyr iron and be swinging it,
and the teachers came up and try to get me
in trouble very JV.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Of them, right, Hey, Gary and Shannon. Hey, back in
the day when I used to be a cable guy
in LA I had some rookie riding shotgun with me,
and in front of us, this couple started to beat
the crap out of each other in their car and
he started to get out of the truck to break
it up, and I was like, where are you going, dude,
that's a bad idea. As soon as you walk over there,
they're going to turn on you and we're all going
(09:52):
to get involved. I said, you stay your ass in
this truck.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, that's that's what my especially if they're both going
at it, like if the wife's are own punches in
the husband. Yeah, you don't want to enter that dogfight, right,
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I can't imagine what Garyan Shannon Dawn here in Lake Forrest, Hey,
don Yeah. One day I was walking through the beautiful
Hanford mall full of all eighteen shoppers there when I
saw a big circle of people recording a guy getting
the s kick out of him and the mall cop
shadow boxing in the background. So I took the guys back,
(10:28):
took him to the ground, and held them there until
he stopped.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Is there anything more annoying than a mall cop?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
A cop, I would argue, in any sort of capacity,
who's not a cop?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Somebody who's got.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't want to call it tactical uniform, just a
uniform of sorts. They may have a walkie talkie, they
may have that's usually it, right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They don't have a batons anymore on those guys.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
But like the ego of I have power, I've control
rollover a situation. I have jurisdiction, but you don't. You're
like a minimum wage guy and you think you've got power.
And usually kids are involved. Where you get to have
power over kids.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You're not preventing any crime. No, there's a guy that
there is a specific mall shopping center whatever you want
to call it, that's long and skinny near.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Where I live, and Strip Mall is. But it's bigger
than that.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I mean, there's some there's some pretty big stores, there
are some restaurants and all that sort of stuff. So
it's and it's a big, long, probably mile and a
half from one end, okay, And there's a guy that
rolls around in a security truck and it's a small
pickup truck, like miniature sized pickup truck with yellow flashers
on top of it, big security badge name on the
(11:46):
side of it, and he is he's probably, if I
had to guess, mid to late fifties, probably eighty to
ninety pounds over what would be considered a healthy waight.
Uh does not look healthy at all if something were
to happen. He is not jumping out of the truck
(12:06):
and giving foot chacks. He rolls around wearing uh, fingerless gloves,
like leather fingerless gloves, like he's driving lemons, and he's
got a giant cigar hanging out the window, and he
I kind of want.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, I kind of want rolls up about him the way.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
At the sporting goods store next to him, and he'll
roll past and then.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Slow way totally.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He'll just mean just watch you, and he'll like like
he's saying, I bet you got some contraband.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And does he have does he have any any snacks
in the cab? Oh, I guarantee you snacks empty funion
bags left.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, that's exactly the snack I was visualized.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So he smells like cigars and finance and what a
legend and he's been sitting in that cab, that truck.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'd love to get him on. I'd love to get
him on the show.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Hey, Gary and Shannon and Sean. I used to work
as a medic at Matgic Mountain back in the early
nineties and one day I was walking to watch and
there was a fight between away from the girlfriend and
I said in to break him up, and the guys
starts swinging on me. So I had to swing back
to defend myself. After I whipped his butt, I had
to render first aid to.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Him as well. Oh so yeah, I did my little.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Part that day.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Have a great one, Thank you. That's a twofer. What
a great job. Oh my gosh, the things he probably
is saying.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Where he's he he puts a smack down on the
guy and then then has to rip from the first
aid kitsitate him back to life. Let me get Let
me get that for you. That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I mean, that's a day, right, You kick the s
out of someone and then you bring him back to life.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That's like superhero stuff, all right. I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
What you're watching Wednesday when we come back, Gary and
Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Ams forty.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm beside my side yourself. I'm very excited, you know.
I'd say that twelve year old me is really happy.
You know, ice Cube is with us, and this is
not a joke.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
This is real.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This is real life that's happening to us right now.
And I'd say twelve year old me is super happy
because I mean, nineteen ninety two is big.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
For you and I, both of us. Do I call
Do I call you Cube? Mister Cube?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Call me Cube?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Cube? All right?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Does anybody call you by your given name?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (14:31):
Yeah, family, Yeah, pops, momsie, okay, yeah, we're not there yet,
but maybe by the end of the day, call me Cube.
Or you know, if somebody say, oh, shay, I'm looking
for a family member, or check.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Somebody's lost, somebody's lost you in a crowded place.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
Yeah yeah, I'm looking for you know, family member, or
somebody got a check for me.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I love I love the description of you. Every time
I see you, or your name or any of the
ventures that you've gotten into, they always refer to you
as multi hyphen it. Ice Cube started as a rapper,
obviously acting production obviously in a movie producing straight out
of Compton. It's two hundred million dollars or something like internationally. Right,
(15:16):
you saw all of that, Right, you get to pocket
all of that or.
Speaker 11 (15:19):
I wish Universal got something to say about that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
But also a Big three basketball several years ago, eight
years ago or so, how did big three basketball.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Even become a thing? Where did it come out of
my brain? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Me and my partner Jeff Quin, it's we you know,
it wasn't enough basketball. Kobe had just scored sixty points
in his last game that I missed because I was
out of town.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Shooting a movie.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
I was, Yeah, I was peeled about it, you know,
and I couldn't see him play no more Like whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
What world was in that?
Speaker 11 (15:59):
I saw this guy for twenty years, paid money to
see him play, And I said, man, I know he
could still play, score sixty points in his last game.
Definitely could still play. And it was like, no, now
he's done. He's done, And I'm like, got to be
a place where guys can play when they still got it.
They might not be able to play eighty two games
(16:22):
or one hundred games in the NBA back to backs
three or four, you know, three games of four nights,
but they can't still play, and that's kind of how
the you know, the ideas started to kind of germinate
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
When did you fall in love with basketball?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I mean, we don't need to go back to you know,
not to bring back to nineteen ninety two, but you know,
when the Lakers beat the SuperSonics, you.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Know, I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
The they had some good years. You forget about the
SuperSonics in the nineties. They had some good years. They
were able to contain Michael Jordan for a little bit there.
But when did you fall in love with the game?
Speaker 11 (16:55):
I fell in love with basketball when I was five
years old and my brothers were playing in the backyard.
He's nine years older than me, so they were playing
in the backyard and I couldn't play, and you know,
my mother was like, you'll get big enough one day.
You'll get big enough one day. And you know, one
day I got big enough I could actually be on
(17:15):
the court with him and actually play, because they had
some super rough games back there. So that's when I
fell in love with the game. It was not being
able to play with the bigger kids in the backyard
is where it all started, and I've loved it ever since.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, what is that with older brothers and not being
able to be involved with all the stuff there, even
if it's stupid stuff, not cool stuff like that? Want
to be a part of it when you're told no,
you can't, that's what you want more than anything.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
My brother was in Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't want that, but I did
back then.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Yeah, just because you can't, they want, but yeah, they
you know. I used to come inside crying to my mother.
You're too little and you're knocked over, you know. Now
you know one day I was big enough. Then I
was big enough to beat them. So I really loved it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That was a good day.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Yeah, that was a good.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You guys are a Week nine is coming up this
weekend in the Big Three season for this and then
after that.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Is playoffs, playoffs championship.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, and this weekend all of the games are going
to be into it.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
Yes, we got four games for the price of one.
Get a chance to see the whole league. Everybody now
all fighting for you know, it's eight teams fighting for
those four spots to.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It is a party.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I've heard the stories about Into It Dome, I've heard
what goes on behind the scenes. I've heard about the
party suites. It is like the place to be in
Los Angeles right now.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
This is my first time going in, so I can't
wait to experience.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I haven't been in.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Ye have you heard have you heard the stories that
I've heard?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah? Few, Yeah, definitely, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
You know, we were, you know, definitely grateful that the
arena was available, and you know it's the newest arena
in the city, so you know, that's what these players deserve.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You have an architecture background, Yes, is it cool to
you to see something like that?
Speaker 11 (19:10):
Of course, you know, just to see you know, I'm
always in awe at, you know, the men that build
this kind of thing. You know, it's a you know,
it's it's always even when I'm on a movie. You know,
we do these big you know, stunts and these big
production set pieces, and I'm always amazed at the men
(19:33):
that put this up in one week and tear it
down the next day and put something up else up.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
You know, It's it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Watching you come out of center field a game two
of the Dodgers Yankees World Series. I get chills thinking
about it. That was a quintessential Los Angeles moment. There
are a few people that embody los Angeles. You're one
of those people. What was it like for you, even
being who you are, to be able to do that
(20:04):
and to represent the city like that on that day
living a dream?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You know, I grew up a Dodger fan. I remember.
Speaker 11 (20:13):
When Gibson hit the home run in the eighties, running
out the house screaming, you know, it's a trip. It
was like back then, it was me, it was Dre
sir Jinks. You know, it was all down the street
from my block watching the game. We all ran out
in the street. I just remember how how broke we
(20:33):
were back then compared to you know, when Freddie Freeman
hit the home run and everybody's excited. I'm like, it's
a whole new day. But you know, being injected into
the game, like you know, being able to actually you know,
play and perform and represent LA and you know, it's
just one of those things you don't even dream of.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
It's so out there, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, since you also, this would have been a couple
of years ago to NASCAR at the coliseum.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You did a show there too, very cool.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I had some friends that went and saw that, and
so that was the greatest just gathering of you know,
you got Nascar on one side, you got an ice
Cube on the other, and they were just they love it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They they don't stop talking about.
Speaker 11 (21:15):
It was sweet, you know, in the coliseum. You never
think you're gonna see NASCAR in the coliseum, and it
was just a special day. And you know, I think
they got a great reception from that, you know, and
you know, just another thing you never count on.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
You know, it's just something that.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Dam you live in the dream though you Clyde Drexler
as a commissioner for the Big Three. Right now, we're
talking with ice Cube, by the way, who's a founder
of Big Three. Among that many other things that you've
done with your life, you've had the opportunity now to
meet some of the people. I mean, you mentioned Kobe.
You've met Kobe or you had met Kobe. You you
have this this life now where you get to see
(21:56):
these people that, like you said, you know, back in
in the eighties, you watch Kirk Gibson hit this home
run and you're freaking out, and now you get to
see some of these.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
People that you grew up idolizing.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
And what's that? I mean, what's saying?
Speaker 11 (22:08):
I just go up and give them they props, let
them know how much of a fan I am. And
you know, just like I would do if I wasn't famous,
you know, just give them they props, let them know,
you know, what they meant to me growing up.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
And you know, just feeling great.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
That I got a chance to actually say that to them,
you know, speak to them.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
You know.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
It's not just a feeling that I, you know, have
in my heart, but I'm able to actually you know,
connect and I know some of these guys now, like
you know, we talked to Clyde Drexler almost every day.
You know, I see doctor j Iceman every every week.
You know, they you know, we know each other's families.
(22:50):
And it's it's real cool to be able to just get,
you know, into a working relationship and a working environment
with some of these heroes.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
What's it?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like I mentioned, I started listening to your music when
I started paying attention to music, so like early nineties
and and and it opened my eyes to a whole
new world. And so I feel like when I see you.
I feel like you've been in my whole life because
nobody stops listening to Ice Cubes music, you know, like
you just it's just it's one of those things that endoors.
(23:20):
It's it's I don't even want to say a cult
like following, because it was just instant, instant hits and
then it's all stayed. You must always get the feeling
that or people must always have the feeling that they
know you because you have been a big figure their
whole lives. If you're my age. So what's that like
when people just feel like they know you and they don't.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I mean, it's a little strange, but it feels good.
You know.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
It feels good that people feel like you part of
a family, like they've been knowing you forever, right, and.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You know, the reception is always warm.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
So it's always cool to be able to to have
a conversation. You know, they say they have things they
want to say to me. You know that they been
harboring their whole life and now they got a chance
to say it. So it feels good to be in
that position. You know, it's better than the other way around.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, but it's also from from disparate communities, and we
were talking. The two of us are from you know,
the super you know, north northern California, white, very white
bread northern California. But I remember who introduced me to
Straight out of Compton. I remember buying the cassette around yeah,
(24:35):
delivering Chinese food.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I mean yeah, more white than that.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
But listening to this, this whole new genre of music
and this whole new world opening up in front of us, well.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
You know, we thought it was going to be underground.
You know when we did the music, we never thought
that it would, you know, get into the mainstream. And
it's any way.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Shape of form?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Is that because you didn't think it would get radio play?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yeah, yeah, we thought it was.
Speaker 11 (25:02):
See back then, they used to make all kind of
comedy records, you know, you would have a Eddie Murphy,
you know, comedy Red Fox, Richard Pryor, and we thought,
we thought our records would live in those sections and
never make it to even the rap section or the
you know, hip hop, R and B whatever they wanted.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You were doing it for your friends.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Yeah, we was basically trying to be neighborhood stars.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
You know.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
We was like, nobody cares about what's going on around here,
So let's just wrap about it, and you know, maybe
we can get some love from our friends, you know,
on this style of music.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
And it was just a total opposite. It just blew
up and we was on.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
This rise, like strapping yourself to a rocket, and here
we go.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You've been able to handle all the success. You have
kept your head on your shoulders. You're probably the same
guy that you were staring out.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
How do you do that?
Speaker 11 (26:02):
I made a promise to myself when I was young
that I would always recognize myself. You know, when I
look in the mirror, I didn't want to ever see
a different person. So I always just like be myself
and let the chips fall what they may. You know,
sometimes it works out for me.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Sometimes it don't.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
But I'm fine with that, you know, as long as
I I'm happy with who I am and I'm not.
You know, I live out here, so I can't when
you live in Hollywood, you shouldn't go Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Put it that way.
Speaker 11 (26:33):
You know, you should know you know how how to
sidestep some of the stuff that's out here.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Despite all of the stuff that you've done up to
this point, I mean, your future is just as big.
What kind of stuff are you working on for the
for the next chapter for you?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh man, you know, just you know, grow to league.
We want to grow the league.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
Also, I have a major tour that that I'm about
to start in September called the Truth to Power for
four Decades of Attitude Tour. So it's great to be
in the game forty years and to you know, dig
into my catalog a little bit.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
On stage.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
This is the biggest production I've ever done in my life,
so I'm proud of it. We're working on Last Friday,
which is fourth installment of the Friday Franchi.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh my gosh. That's exciting.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
And we got a lot of other movie projects in
different states of development.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Hell as they say.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, well, it's an awesome It's an honor to meet you.
It's just an absolute privilege. And like Shannon said, I
mean our knowledge of you goes back thirty years, which
is I mean crazy to think that we're that old.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You haven't aged at all.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I know, no, Honestly, I've been sitting here thinking the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Where did the time go?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
We heard that you were in the building, and we
heard we would have a shot at interviewing you. And
to be honest, I didn't let myself believe that that
was going to happen because I didn't want to get
excited and then real disappointed like a little kid.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
But and then you came around the corner. Yeah, I'm
a fool, cool ice cube again. Founder of Big Three
Basketball League and everything else. There's no time to list
it all back. Big three dot com the number three
Big three dot Com is where you're gonna find the information,
including the schedule for Saturday, those Big Four games at
into a Dome. The playoffs are next weekend. It's going
(28:31):
to be an absolute it's supposed to be just an
absolute party down.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, it's a good time. Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate
it anytime, every time. Thank you awesome, Thank you cube. Gary,
you said it. Gary Channer will be right back right
after this.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It really happens.
Speaker 12 (28:52):
Oh my god, Gary, sh You guys are the best
interviewers ever. Have an ice cube on the show. You
have Top John, you have top Tim Conway. You are
in the stratos fiere. Now they got to catch you
you guys got a bit.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That was fun. We got lucky, We got lucky.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oscar really really facilitated the whole thing. We just were like, oh,
look who's stopping by kind of thing, you know, Lucky.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
He also spent some time next door with Dodgers pregame.
Actually there are games coming up in was it ten
minutes or so, Yeah, so he was over there too.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That was really cool that game two World Series. It
was just like if you New York, we're West Coast,
we're la and ice cubes coming out of center field,
and this is us and we're going to own your asses.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And then we did how else? Who else? I mean
I thought of it.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I remember thinking that when we watched that, Yeah, thinking well,
of course who.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Else would you know? It was perfection? And who did
they have or whatever stupid silliness.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
We will put that up on its own on the website,
because that's going to listen.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
What a nice guy to zero pretense around for a
bunch of pictures and everything with people offered.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
In fact, it's not like we even you know, forced
him into taking pictures with us.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, that was really cool.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
And I did mention I the idea of ever meeting
that guy for the last thirty years. There's no way
that I would have ever thought that that that would
have happened. No, and I'm still in shock a little bit.
It's I did mention this. My cousin was the one
who first played for me straight out of Compton, and
(30:44):
then when I got a copy of it, when I
bought my own copy of it, I would listen to
it and again to make it as white bread Manse and.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Before the parental advisory label was it or did it
have it?
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Because it was one of those albums that you couldn't
play like with your parents, Oh no, God no, like
you had to like be uh, you had to be
cool about it.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, that's why my cousin. It wasn't my dad that
introduced me to it, was my cousin. But I was
driving around a nineteen seventy seven Volkswagen Rabbit delivering Chinese
food while listening to that. I mean, just as loud
as those two little five inch speakers could go, I know,
and when you hear those songs now you can go,
(31:29):
you know every single word.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I feel like it was banned at one point and
it was like extra special to get your hands on it.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
It may have been in northern California, it may have
been banned.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
But that's the other thing else.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
And they mentioned this in the movie Straight out of Compton,
just the idea that it wasn't It was not intended
necessarily for mass consumption. It was an attempt to get
the credibility, the notoriety, get a little bit of fame
within your neighborhood, and to be the most famous person
in your neighbors, which they achieved pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's weird that it wasn't your dad who turned you
on to that, right, He was all about Track nine.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
And a whole new world, by the way, That was
the other thing, is a whole new world that.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
When where we grew up, Yes, we didn't know anything
about it. The movies weren't out yet, y'all. There was
no existence.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
It's just not as you are insulated as a kid
so many times from different lives, lives and lifestyles and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
So all right, that was exciting. What do we do tomorrow?
I have no idea. I mean, buckle up, buttercup.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Gary and Shannon will see you tomorrow. John Cobok coming
up next. Stay dry, everybody blessings.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
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