July 10, 2025 • 27 mins
Michael Monks joins Shannon to discuss some of his stories from City Hall, as a reporter for KFI. Reminiscing about 1980s nicknames.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
if I Am six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The problem with having.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So many nephews is that you know they grow up
and they don't. You know, they used to be six.
They did, they used to be six and eight.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And it's hard to because I'm sure you buy presents
on occasion for them it's a birthday or if it's Christmas.
And you think I don't know anything about you, Like
if I don't know how old you are, how am
I gonna know what your interests are?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Like?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The very basic thing I should know about my nieces
and nephews is their age. But like I, they're about
to A couple of them are like going to be
seniors at my old high school.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I makes me feel awful.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You know what makes me feel less awful about not
knowing enough about each and their individual personalities is that
my aunts and uncles could not tell you. I mean,
I've got an aunt and uncle that could totally tell
you who I am to a tea, But a lot
of them, you know, they don't know who the hell
I am. You know, because they don't live in the
same area or what have you.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
They love you, yeah, but they don't know if you
are the childless uncle or aunt. It's it's a different
world because there's a certain time I suppose, I don't
know when, but then you watch it happen as you age,
you hung out with your cousins. I would imagine at
some point you had a great relationship with your cousins
and then suddenly you don't, right Like I don't really
(01:27):
even know my cousins anymore. I see them on Facebook,
but it's not like we're playing in the backyard anymore.
And their parents, my uncle or my aunt, I don't
see them much anymore. There used to be a time
where when the family got together, it was that family, right,
But then those families have families, and then you just
don't have to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Happens, and it doesn't mean you're a bad person for
not keeping tabs or keeping clothes.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I love them, you know, And when they come out
and visit, the kids come out and visit, we have
I show them a great time. We spend time together.
I was always fun to play with the yard with
the kids. Now they're too old to play in the yard.
And I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You give them money.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
That's what you did, and that's what I do.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's the only thing I can think of is here's
here's twenty or forty dollars at Christmas. I'll see you
next year.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Cheap Uncle Michael. It's cheap.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Uncle Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Only gave me twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think I might have given them fifty dollars Amazon
cal That's cool, that's good, that's an acceptable thing.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I was a little chea like.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hannon, a handful of peanuts.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I gave them some La stuff from the Santi Alley
this past Christmas.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
That's that's cheap.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Santi.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Ali's great. It's one of the first. Michael Monks has
joined us every Oh yeah, I'm not Gary. By the way,
Gary and Shannon show and I have been promising a
treat this whole show, and the treat is that we
listen to you. Everybody has asked for more Michael Monks
in our lives, and I heard you and I have
provided that for you. I have provided this service for you.
(02:52):
It is the Monks. He is here for the whole hour.
Keana has labeled at the Power Hour. I don't know
if that is going to be a thing, but.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
We use our powers for good will we or evil.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Gary's good at keeping you mostly on track, and I
am very susceptible to your magic.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That what it is, it gets the fun word for it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But Michael Munks covers everything in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
He is.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
He used to be kind of just left in a
hole in City Hall. You know, I still have that key.
I don't know if you were in the room. Were
you in the room?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And yeah, the media in which I loved. You know,
I love old buildings. I'm a big historic preservation guy,
and I love City Hall. It's just one of the
most beautiful buildings I've ever been in. And they have
all those old doors. Yes, and a media room.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
When I was a reporter, uh, and I got that
key to that room. I thought it was the coolest thing.
It's it's kind of a blackout zone in that room.
It's kind of hard to get a signal. From what
I remember back with my Nokia phone, it was very
hard to get anybody get any signal out or what
have you. But but what a cool assignment anyway. So
(03:59):
then then the newsroom was gutted and and we have
four people left and Michael Monks cannot be at City
Hall all the time the way it used to be.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But you're still covering it like you're you're in that
little room.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, I don't miss their meetings, and sometimes I'm still
able to get down there, but mostly I'm here. It's
all virtual now. It's like you to physically don't there,
but the thing that you know, you have to make
up for it. You have to make I have to
make more calls, you have to make more calls corner somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The benefit of going to city council meetings was, uh,
there are a couple doors and that kind of buttress
the City Hall horseshoe where they all sit, and what
you were able to do is just walk up to
the city council member and follow them through one of
those doors in the back room there and then badger
them with whatever you wanted to badger them with. And
(04:47):
there was no escape really because media was and was
allowed back there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So you can't do that virtually, but these days.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's like they don't really let you do it as
much exactly now physically. So there is a press room
and there are different, but it has been almost abandoned.
It's kind of all of the message board. Like with
the thumb tacks, it's a lot of jokes about Mayor
Vian Wava. That's like how data ghost. I'm sorry, I'm
Van Wave's sheriff viaa Gosa exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, So like it was like that's a very dated
reference and it's like yellowing. So when I was in
there and like I toss a banana peel in the trash,
like I wonder if I should take that to a
different trash.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Can they did clean the trash? I noticed when I
would come in.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's like, okay, so I can throw stuff away when
I'm hanging out here in the office. But it is
a cool experience because it is that throwback, because you
can imagine there was a time where every outlet had
somebody in there. Because city Hall is so much news happens.
That's why I was so great grateful to get that assignment,
because so much news happens in city Hall, not just
(05:52):
at the big council meeting, but in those little committee
I love a committee meeting because that's when you get
stuffed really before anybody else is paying attention.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You know what you're looking for. It's like bargain shopping.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I will look through documents all day to find a
good story to tell our listeners. And luckily, we still
can't like you. And I've got relationships with some of
the press people. Some of the council people clearly don't
like our outlet. They never even gave me a chance
to build any type of professional rapport with them to
ask questions.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I mean, this is the nastiest thing. You don't lie.
I used to lie.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I used to lie to get people because we had
these massive flags that said KFI was in blazing bright orange,
you know, and if somebody was reticent to talk to us,
I would just lie and be like, you know what, listen,
I just started working there. I don't really like it either,
but just tell me talking about that. I mean, I
was awful, but that's what reporters have to do. We're
hateful little liarn people. Well, one of us is, but
(06:41):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
No. I was told that early on, like, look, yes
you are, Yeah, you totally are.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Whose voice is that, all of us together, that is
the voice of good.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Fallen Angel, stay out of it, Heather. I was told
that early on that some people will not like KFI
because some of the commentary. You know, the host is
not always friendly, but rightfully so like do some introspection. Sure,
I bucked that advice very blatantly. I have a KFI backpack,
(07:11):
I have the KFI mic flag, I have a KFI hoodie,
and whenever I could have it all on at the
same time and feel all of my powers, I want
them to know exactly who's asking that question.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Good for you? Do you just like that stuff because
it was free.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I'm glad that the jacket was free. I'm glad that
the backpack was free. But these letters mean something even still.
KFI has history, KFI is powerful. I'm grateful to represent
it out on the streets, and I want them to
know that when I'm asking a question, their answer is
going to be broadcast to some of the most informed
people in southern California.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So they better take a moment to think about what
they're going to say.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
When it is.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
True, it is true, and if they're unfamiliar, which I
think a lot of them are these days, with what
those letters mean. Yeah, you're out there letting them know absolutely,
Michael f and Monks, that's right.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Don't get it twisted. I'm the I and KFI Gary
and Shanda will continue.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Julie is not a girl on a car in a video,
but Tawny definitely is.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
She was on White Snakes.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That is this love Here I go again to my
Favorites nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You can have more than how many favorites can you have?
From White Snake?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You're right, you're right, you're right, and I check out here.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
She died in twenty twenty one in Newport Beach, fifty
nine years old.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yeah, well, I didn't you know I was speaking more generally.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
She began using the nickname Tawny at the age of
twelve on her own initiative. She knew at twelve she
was going to be a pin up girl, a live
dancing pin up girl. At twelve, Julie was like, you
know what, I see something bigger for myself that doesn't
involve my name being Julie.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What kind of name will get me half naked on
a sports car?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That was the goal with the name that actually makes
me angry because We talked about this last week, nicknames,
whether we had nicknames, and I said, when I was
about twelve, I was trying to make Mikey a thing
and it just was not working.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And your biological father is named Mickey, and.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I would rather have been like a Mickey Mickey Monks
won't work. It's too close to the Disney mascot, right.
But if I had like a two syllable last name
with Mickey, it would have been amazing. I'm upset that
some kids are able to say this is my like
it's not bestowed upon them. What we talked about nephews.
I have a nephew whose nickname has stuck because we
(09:38):
gave it to him at birth. And it's Bubby, okay,
and now he's fifteen on mom.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Is he a big kid?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, but he plays sports and he's good. But his
name is Bubby Monks and that's a good name.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's a great name.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Gary wanted to go by the name Phonsie as a kid,
and he told his parents he wanted to be Phonsie
and they just they they would not do it, They
would not call him.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Got a good last name For a silly last nickname,
you can.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Have a whimsical first name if you have last name.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So maybe not Fonzi, but if his name were Fuzzy Hoffman,
I'd want to hear what Fuzzy Hoffman is.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't want to talk to a Fuzzy Hoffman every day?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm gonna have to strike that Vito pocket veto Fuzzy.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
And Shannon, Yeah no, and all new Fuzzy and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
No Elmer. Do you have a nickname?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I was gonna say, my best friend's nickname is actually Phonsie. Yeah, no, Alfonso.
We call him fons I appreciate his name. His name
is Fonzo like Alfonso, but you call him Fonsie. Yeah,
oh Fonsie. Yeah, wasn't wasn't that?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Sure, but I think Alfonso. I think that's a common thing.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah, but the Happy Days is that?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
So people named Alfonso?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Was that different demo? I think?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Was that the Fonza's full name?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
No, Fonsa Relli.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Oh it's a last name. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I
just don't. You can't take up. I can't be babe, monks.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh well you want babe now?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You know I can't be. It's available.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You made it sound like Babe was in the hopper
like that was a possibility.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Could have been.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
If we're giving away Pansie, why can't I be Babe Monks?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Mikey, Babe Monks, I don't see that.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You know what, for the rest of the show, I'd
like you to call me babe, but not in a
flirtatious way, but in a very serious, authentic way, because
that's my new name.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You're forty five years old. I don't think that's appropriate
to say on the air.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
You cannot give yourself a nickname, and it cannot be babe.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Babe Monks.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I don't mean to come from a place of no
If people left and right are taking the name Phonsie
in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five, you're
telling me I can't.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Be Babe Monks. All right, Babe, it is babe. It
is forget the mickey thing. I see.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
This is a power hour, Keana, this is a power
hour with Michael Monks. I just knew we haven't gotten
to a shred of local news.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
There's a lot and there's some important stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Are we going to get to the ball place with
all of this?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Babe?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
We are in the men's midst of our Michael Monks
Power Hour, as we refer to him now as a
babe babe has joined us.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Did someone call for me, No, We're just we're.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Trying it on. We're trying to see if this nickname,
the nickname is going to stick.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Look if, like I said before the break, if people
can just hijack the name Fonsie for themselves that I'm
taking babe.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I mean, and you know what, we tried it.
Kean and I were in here calling you, babe to
see how it felt. It felt right, and the break fell. Okay,
I think he liked it. You know, when you were
throwing your temper tantrum over where to find a pen,
you know, we said, babe, calm down. A whole thing
of pens right behind you.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Babe.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I'm trying to do a good job, not just for
you to get it, but for the people of southern California.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I get it, babe. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Did you want to play some of our friends?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I do. Let's see a lot of people have.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I was surprised to find how many people know of
the White Snake dancer.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh yeah, Michelle sent me a bunch of texts about this.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I mean, like we got she was.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The singer's girlfriend, David Cloverdale. She wrote she was married
to an angel's picture Chuck Finley.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
She was arrested for.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Attacking That was Joan on That transam in that video
for White Snake was Tawny Katan.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
So this guy and by the way, according to the
talkback option, his.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Name is Cubby. Oh cool, cool man.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And you know he kind of ties two topics that
we've explored together to take together because.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I see you as a cubby more than a cubby.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Like I said, I have a nephew, bubby if I
were cubby Monks like little cubstick great, like a little
forget a little baby reporter.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's want to put him in.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Your in your babe reporter.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Would you say, no, Cubby is what worked for me?
Oh name babe. If that's what you want, that's what
we'll run with.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I'm fine with it. The cubby Monks does not.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Do you think your husband's going to be upset that
now people are calling you babe all the time.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Is that going to be a problem? Are we causing problems?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
At home he calls me, meet me Tito.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Okay, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well, my this goes back. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
You know, he speaks Spanish first language, and you can
add ito to mean little to a lot of different things.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So it's a term of endearment. But it's a play
on what my I do.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I guess I do have a nickname, and I just
completely forgot because this goes back to my brother's first baby,
Mama Ah, who one day changed her name on God,
this is so terrible, say on the radio. But she
changed her name on Facebook to t T. And I
was laughing at that. I was, I mean, I love
the girl.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What her name was?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
It like cat Trista, and loved Trista.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
But one day name changed on Facebook, and I was
making fun of her for doing this as an adult,
deciding that a nickname was now public, made up, owned
on her own, and I thought, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What does that mean something in another No, it was just.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Kind of an is my name now? And I told
my baby they were then much younger, my niece and
nephew to call me Mimi and they still.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh my god. So the t T thing is long gone,
but the meme.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Stuff, oh, so she went back to yeah, yeah, right,
but but my spouse calls me that's funny. Yeah, So
I guess I've been wrong this whole hour. I apologize everyone.
I do have a nickname, so I can't I'm God,
I'm me Me.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I kind of feel like I like Babe better than
me me or Cubby Cubby.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah. Well, we'll have to workshop this. I think that
we focus group it and figure out what the people want.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'm feeling, you know, because it's not just about Michael Monks,
it's about your people.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You can't turn it down.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Hannie was also married to a Los Angeles Angels picture.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Michelle said, I mean, so people had just called in
with all of this great knowledge, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Chuck Finley, Well, she was local. I mean she died
in Orange County. Of course people know, and and she
played a very big role. She played a big role
for you to bring her up, Babe.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Honestly, I was speaking gen.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
White Sake videos and thinking about her in your private time.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I wanted that lead singer's hair.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
But I mean, she was important in a lot of
formative years for people in southern California and the world.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Speaking of nicknames, so my husband, who was born as
Wheeler decided he was going to change his name when
he was like five because he wanted to be like
Davy Crockett. So he said he wouldn't answer to anything
other than Davy.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
So this he's fifty eight.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
His name is Dakes.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
His mom allowed it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You know, a five year old to say this is
my name now is a powerful thing.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
One of my nephews, Brendan, who's the oldest, went through
a stage when he was about seven. I want to
say where He said, my name is not Brendan, my
name is Brandon. And I said to him because I
always talked to my nephews like they were adults, even
though it's wildly inappropriate, but I believe you should talk
to children as adults.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
This is why I don't have even the youngest.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I said, Brendan, if you're going to change your name,
you can't change it to Brandon. Okay, it's way too close.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Half of the.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
People call you Brandon. Anyway, let's let's let's do something different.
And that phase lasted about seven minutes. But you gotta
you get to think out of the outside the box,
you know, like babe, Yeah, that's stickin' that is sticking.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Babe Monk's Babe monks k if I news.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I don't know if you should use it professionally, but.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It's the only reason to have a nickname is for
the world to know it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I keep thinking about Babe Paley the Social Lighte every
time I say that.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I've long dreamed of being a social lte. See. I
think I would be great at that.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Okay, Hey, Shannon, this is christ minible type of mayor protam. Hey.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I kind of like the old Mickey and Shannon.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
So if Gary ever takes off, that might be a
new duel.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, I do too, Mickey and Shannon's.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I like Mickey slash Babe because I listened to your
show on Sunday, and while I loved it, it was
very buttoned up.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It was not Babe.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It was Michael Monks, Michael Monks, and it was very
serious and I loved it for that, but my heart
was crying out for babe is what it was doing.
I wanted more Babe. I wanted the Babe that we're
having here today. I wanted that on Sunday instead all
that news. Well, I just like, stop telling me about
people who blew off their fingers on the fourth of
(19:08):
July and tell me more stories about Babe and Mimi Sita.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I did share the couch story in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
So what I try to do on the show runs
on Saturday Night, Michael Mounks reports and occasionally replays in
the two o'clock hour on Sunday, like this weekend. It
will do that again seven o'clock Live on Saturday Night
and then Sunday replay it too. I tell a little
bit of fun or some interviews come on, but.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
It's a news It's a recap of the weekend news.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Don't understand that.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I don't. By the way, what are we gonna call you?
It can't just be Mickey and shann you know what.
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Babe takes up so much space in this room.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
There's only space enough for Shannon that remains, and I'm
okay with that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
We've reached the end of the third of four segments
together and not one lick of news.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI A sixty.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I was letting the song play because I can't nail
down who it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Is Hillary Duff.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Hillary Duff, like two thousand and five.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Is definitely after Lucy McGuire.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
We're Lizzie McGuire.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Okay, never knew the Disney Girls.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I loved Lizzie McGuire, all those h out of that anyway,
Shannon and Michael Monks here today. Tomorrow, by the way,
the Dodgers take on the Giants in San Francisco first Pitch,
seven fifteen. Listen to all Dodger games on AM five
seventy LA Sports live from the gallupin motors Broadcast Booth,
and stream all Dodgers games in AHD on the iHeartRadio
(20:41):
app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Five games up
from the Giants. The Dodgers are despite their six game
losing streak. The hell is going on? Where's the offense?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Where are the bets? You want to be an Angels fan, now,
don't you know? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
No, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
No, I mean they're I let you be ridiculous and
talk about the Angels off the air, but let's not
be ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
My apologies. It's okay, yeah, oh you know I am.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You know what I do though? Do you know I
do love though? As Angels fans. Angels fans are really
great people. That is really great people, which is why
I'm surprised you're one of them.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
No. Wow, as you told.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Me one time, Shannon, you are beautiful outside.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You did it. It was so sweet. It was really mice.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Oh I did say that. Yeah, that was to suggest
that you were.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
But Angels fans are really like good salt of the earth.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
People get.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Because the Dodgers fans and I don't want to, you know,
obviously they're they're there. The Dodgers are for you, and
they do and they do it in my neighborhood and
they you know, when they won the series last fall,
Downtown where I live was an absolute nightmares. Like I
don't like celebrations like that. I just don't like celebrations
like that. And I'm not taking it away from you.
(21:55):
I'm just not joining it.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I love a.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Little roll of the dice when it comes to Dodger
Stadium on an opening day, you know, I love the
feeling like you know, seven out of ten, I might
leave with a neck tattoo.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I don't know how the day is going to go
great with the next But between Dodger fans and Angels fans.
We're really covered in terms of people who will will
murder people for you and just go the extra mind.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You see a lot of sports cities, the major sports
cities across the country when you're traveling for football during
the NFL season.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Is LA the best sports city?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
No, only because we have so much going on here.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
There are cities where all they have is the NFL, right,
and they really do bleed for their team. It's it's
all they had, the one show in town.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I guess Milwaukee has an NBA team and a major
league team, but green Bay's a different city.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well yeah, green Bay is the history alone in green Bay.
But yes, you're right, it's exactly right. I mean, it's
a co op type of a situation with that team,
and you know there's just Kansas City is another place.
But really, in Los Angeles, Dodgers fans Lakers fans, you're
not going to get better fans. But in terms of
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the way it is all a city talks about or
feels about, that's not Los Angeles, just because we have
so much else going on.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Michael Monks is among us.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I am, and by the way, I'm not as good
as Gary in a lot of ways, but particularly specifically
in playing the talkbacks.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I'm not used to this ballme.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I don't listen to them.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I can play them, but like on Saturday nights, I've
got a great audience who plays with me, and it
gives me informed takes or criticizes something counter something we say.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But you all have been hilarious in these talkbacks, and
I'm just not fast enough to play them. About the nicknames,
you're sharing a lot of great stories about nicknames. A
lot of people know Tawny from the White Snake videos
are getting a lot of great stories about that. I
wish I were quicker on the draw here, but to
edit you have to edit them, yeah, so that you
know they're cut for link. But also some of you
(23:56):
are mean, you use foul language. And I love a
lot of the nicknames stories and the nickname suggestions that
are also really coming in, But we will have to
save those because I am not as technically savvy here
in the in the Throne.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I can't. I don't have the time when I'm
here on my own to go through and edit it all.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, because you know, sometimes it'll start like a nice
message like hey, this is Susan and Tustin and I
love his new you am at first, I hate it exactly.
It starts off nicely and you don't know where it's
gonna get.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You don't want to get fired, and we already may
get fired for the lack of content in this hour
long conversation.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Hey don't know what you're talking about, babe. I think
it's been full of content.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Chuckfull, chock full thanks to some of you who sent in.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Is there going to be any topics in this particular hour?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So I'm actually gonna I guess I'm gonna come in
tomorrow too, and we're going to be stronger.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yeah, more focus.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I had this idea on Tuesday. I was like, you
know what, we need more Michael Monks in our lives.
I feel like a crazy person after spending four hours
talking to myself in a padded room, quite literally. So
you have been kind enough to join us for the
ten o'clock hour while Gary is out, and we will
talk about local news and we'll get into it. But
I think you know, day one, we had to get
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to learn to know your new name.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
The ya yas out.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
We got to get the ya yas out.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm going to do this. I'm going to get some
of these talkbacks. I'm going to edit them together because
we'll just briefly tomorrow. Briefly, I promised we visits the
topics related specifically to nicknames, how they come about? Cubby
did come right back? Okay, you mentioned a guy named
Cubby was talking about something completely different.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Beat nickname says that.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The memory of a goldfish, which you're supposed to have.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You haven't forgotten my new nickname.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
No, babe, I could not. It's etched in my soul.
But I will not remember that we talked about Tawny Katan.
I will not remember about nicknames out of than babe.
So I look forward to this fun little time capsule
you're planting in the sand.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It's going to be fun. Yes, it's a little offensive
that you send this. This was the most special hour
of my lifetime and it was nothing but a fling
for you.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
No no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I think I'm just some kind of exotic dancer that
you can pay off and slap on the bottom and
send her out the door.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yes, you're right, Yes, you pay for them to leave. Remember, kids,
you don't pay for their company. You pay for them
to leave.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
What you're paying for is a hard stop.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, and look at that. Our time is up.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
My I'm so sorry to everyone listening and to everyone
here at KFI who greenlit this.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You are so much fun.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And I will say on behalf of everybody that it
has been a fun hour.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It has gone by like it was thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And so we look forward to tomorrow and we will
tackle some real Los Angeles news.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
When you come back, go enjoy your day.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I will have a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Do whatever Babe Monks does.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Babe out all right.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
When we come back, Trump talked about imposing a fifty
percent tariff on Brazil QE the coffee hoarding era for
all of us. We'll get into that. Also coming up
in the next hour. A news Scott Peterson mystery. Here's
the mystery. Why are people trying to free Scott Peterson?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Why?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Now?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Why?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
The Innocence Project may have some answers for you on why.
We'll follow the money when we come back to Gary
and Shannon.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
if I Am six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The problem with having.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So many nephews is that you know they grow up
and they don't. You know, they used to be six.
They did, they used to be six and eight.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And it's hard to because I'm sure you buy presents
on occasion for them it's a birthday or if it's Christmas.
And you think I don't know anything about you, Like
if I don't know how old you are, how am
I gonna know what your interests are?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Like?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The very basic thing I should know about my nieces
and nephews is their age. But like I, they're about
to A couple of them are like going to be
seniors at my old high school.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I makes me feel awful.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You know what makes me feel less awful about not
knowing enough about each and their individual personalities is that
my aunts and uncles could not tell you. I mean,
I've got an aunt and uncle that could totally tell
you who I am to a tea, But a lot
of them, you know, they don't know who the hell
I am. You know, because they don't live in the
same area or what have you.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
They love you, yeah, but they don't know if you
are the childless uncle or aunt. It's it's a different
world because there's a certain time I suppose, I don't
know when, but then you watch it happen as you age,
you hung out with your cousins. I would imagine at
some point you had a great relationship with your cousins
and then suddenly you don't, right Like I don't really
(01:27):
even know my cousins anymore. I see them on Facebook,
but it's not like we're playing in the backyard anymore.
And their parents, my uncle or my aunt, I don't
see them much anymore. There used to be a time
where when the family got together, it was that family, right,
But then those families have families, and then you just
don't have to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Happens, and it doesn't mean you're a bad person for
not keeping tabs or keeping clothes.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I love them, you know, And when they come out
and visit, the kids come out and visit, we have
I show them a great time. We spend time together.
I was always fun to play with the yard with
the kids. Now they're too old to play in the yard.
And I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You give them money.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
That's what you did, and that's what I do.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's the only thing I can think of is here's
here's twenty or forty dollars at Christmas. I'll see you
next year.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Cheap Uncle Michael. It's cheap.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Uncle Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Only gave me twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think I might have given them fifty dollars Amazon
cal That's cool, that's good, that's an acceptable thing.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I was a little chea like.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hannon, a handful of peanuts.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I gave them some La stuff from the Santi Alley
this past Christmas.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
That's that's cheap.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Santi.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Ali's great. It's one of the first. Michael Monks has
joined us every Oh yeah, I'm not Gary. By the way,
Gary and Shannon show and I have been promising a
treat this whole show, and the treat is that we
listen to you. Everybody has asked for more Michael Monks
in our lives, and I heard you and I have
provided that for you. I have provided this service for you.
(02:52):
It is the Monks. He is here for the whole hour.
Keana has labeled at the Power Hour. I don't know
if that is going to be a thing, but.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
We use our powers for good will we or evil.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Gary's good at keeping you mostly on track, and I
am very susceptible to your magic.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That what it is, it gets the fun word for it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But Michael Munks covers everything in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
He is.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
He used to be kind of just left in a
hole in City Hall. You know, I still have that key.
I don't know if you were in the room. Were
you in the room?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And yeah, the media in which I loved. You know,
I love old buildings. I'm a big historic preservation guy,
and I love City Hall. It's just one of the
most beautiful buildings I've ever been in. And they have
all those old doors. Yes, and a media room.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
When I was a reporter, uh, and I got that
key to that room. I thought it was the coolest thing.
It's it's kind of a blackout zone in that room.
It's kind of hard to get a signal. From what
I remember back with my Nokia phone, it was very
hard to get anybody get any signal out or what
have you. But but what a cool assignment anyway. So
(03:59):
then then the newsroom was gutted and and we have
four people left and Michael Monks cannot be at City
Hall all the time the way it used to be.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But you're still covering it like you're you're in that
little room.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, I don't miss their meetings, and sometimes I'm still
able to get down there, but mostly I'm here. It's
all virtual now. It's like you to physically don't there,
but the thing that you know, you have to make
up for it. You have to make I have to
make more calls, you have to make more calls corner somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The benefit of going to city council meetings was, uh,
there are a couple doors and that kind of buttress
the City Hall horseshoe where they all sit, and what
you were able to do is just walk up to
the city council member and follow them through one of
those doors in the back room there and then badger
them with whatever you wanted to badger them with. And
(04:47):
there was no escape really because media was and was
allowed back there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So you can't do that virtually, but these days.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's like they don't really let you do it as
much exactly now physically. So there is a press room
and there are different, but it has been almost abandoned.
It's kind of all of the message board. Like with
the thumb tacks, it's a lot of jokes about Mayor
Vian Wava. That's like how data ghost. I'm sorry, I'm
Van Wave's sheriff viaa Gosa exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, So like it was like that's a very dated
reference and it's like yellowing. So when I was in
there and like I toss a banana peel in the trash,
like I wonder if I should take that to a
different trash.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Can they did clean the trash? I noticed when I
would come in.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's like, okay, so I can throw stuff away when
I'm hanging out here in the office. But it is
a cool experience because it is that throwback, because you
can imagine there was a time where every outlet had
somebody in there. Because city Hall is so much news happens.
That's why I was so great grateful to get that assignment,
because so much news happens in city Hall, not just
(05:52):
at the big council meeting, but in those little committee
I love a committee meeting because that's when you get
stuffed really before anybody else is paying attention.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You know what you're looking for. It's like bargain shopping.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I will look through documents all day to find a
good story to tell our listeners. And luckily, we still
can't like you. And I've got relationships with some of
the press people. Some of the council people clearly don't
like our outlet. They never even gave me a chance
to build any type of professional rapport with them to
ask questions.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I mean, this is the nastiest thing. You don't lie.
I used to lie.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I used to lie to get people because we had
these massive flags that said KFI was in blazing bright orange,
you know, and if somebody was reticent to talk to us,
I would just lie and be like, you know what, listen,
I just started working there. I don't really like it either,
but just tell me talking about that. I mean, I
was awful, but that's what reporters have to do. We're
hateful little liarn people. Well, one of us is, but
(06:41):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
No. I was told that early on, like, look, yes
you are, Yeah, you totally are.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Whose voice is that, all of us together, that is
the voice of good.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Fallen Angel, stay out of it, Heather. I was told
that early on that some people will not like KFI
because some of the commentary. You know, the host is
not always friendly, but rightfully so like do some introspection. Sure,
I bucked that advice very blatantly. I have a KFI backpack,
(07:11):
I have the KFI mic flag, I have a KFI hoodie,
and whenever I could have it all on at the
same time and feel all of my powers, I want
them to know exactly who's asking that question.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Good for you? Do you just like that stuff because
it was free.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I'm glad that the jacket was free. I'm glad that
the backpack was free. But these letters mean something even still.
KFI has history, KFI is powerful. I'm grateful to represent
it out on the streets, and I want them to
know that when I'm asking a question, their answer is
going to be broadcast to some of the most informed
people in southern California.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So they better take a moment to think about what
they're going to say.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
When it is.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
True, it is true, and if they're unfamiliar, which I
think a lot of them are these days, with what
those letters mean. Yeah, you're out there letting them know absolutely,
Michael f and Monks, that's right.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Don't get it twisted. I'm the I and KFI Gary
and Shanda will continue.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Julie is not a girl on a car in a video,
but Tawny definitely is.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
She was on White Snakes.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That is this love Here I go again to my
Favorites nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You can have more than how many favorites can you have?
From White Snake?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You're right, you're right, you're right, and I check out here.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
She died in twenty twenty one in Newport Beach, fifty
nine years old.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yeah, well, I didn't you know I was speaking more generally.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
She began using the nickname Tawny at the age of
twelve on her own initiative. She knew at twelve she
was going to be a pin up girl, a live
dancing pin up girl. At twelve, Julie was like, you
know what, I see something bigger for myself that doesn't
involve my name being Julie.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What kind of name will get me half naked on
a sports car?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That was the goal with the name that actually makes
me angry because We talked about this last week, nicknames,
whether we had nicknames, and I said, when I was
about twelve, I was trying to make Mikey a thing
and it just was not working.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And your biological father is named Mickey, and.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I would rather have been like a Mickey Mickey Monks
won't work. It's too close to the Disney mascot, right.
But if I had like a two syllable last name
with Mickey, it would have been amazing. I'm upset that
some kids are able to say this is my like
it's not bestowed upon them. What we talked about nephews.
I have a nephew whose nickname has stuck because we
(09:38):
gave it to him at birth. And it's Bubby, okay,
and now he's fifteen on mom.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Is he a big kid?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, but he plays sports and he's good. But his
name is Bubby Monks and that's a good name.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's a great name.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Gary wanted to go by the name Phonsie as a kid,
and he told his parents he wanted to be Phonsie
and they just they they would not do it, They
would not call him.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Got a good last name For a silly last nickname,
you can.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Have a whimsical first name if you have last name.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So maybe not Fonzi, but if his name were Fuzzy Hoffman,
I'd want to hear what Fuzzy Hoffman is.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't want to talk to a Fuzzy Hoffman every day?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm gonna have to strike that Vito pocket veto Fuzzy.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
And Shannon, Yeah no, and all new Fuzzy and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
No Elmer. Do you have a nickname?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I was gonna say, my best friend's nickname is actually Phonsie. Yeah, no, Alfonso.
We call him fons I appreciate his name. His name
is Fonzo like Alfonso, but you call him Fonsie. Yeah,
oh Fonsie. Yeah, wasn't wasn't that?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Sure, but I think Alfonso. I think that's a common thing.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah, but the Happy Days is that?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
So people named Alfonso?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Was that different demo? I think?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Was that the Fonza's full name?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
No, Fonsa Relli.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Oh it's a last name. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I
just don't. You can't take up. I can't be babe, monks.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh well you want babe now?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You know I can't be. It's available.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You made it sound like Babe was in the hopper
like that was a possibility.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Could have been.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
If we're giving away Pansie, why can't I be Babe Monks?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Mikey, Babe Monks, I don't see that.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You know what, for the rest of the show, I'd
like you to call me babe, but not in a
flirtatious way, but in a very serious, authentic way, because
that's my new name.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You're forty five years old. I don't think that's appropriate
to say on the air.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
You cannot give yourself a nickname, and it cannot be babe.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Babe Monks.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I don't mean to come from a place of no
If people left and right are taking the name Phonsie
in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five, you're
telling me I can't.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Be Babe Monks. All right, Babe, it is babe. It
is forget the mickey thing. I see.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
This is a power hour, Keana, this is a power
hour with Michael Monks. I just knew we haven't gotten
to a shred of local news.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
There's a lot and there's some important stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Are we going to get to the ball place with
all of this?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Babe?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
We are in the men's midst of our Michael Monks
Power Hour, as we refer to him now as a
babe babe has joined us.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Did someone call for me, No, We're just we're.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Trying it on. We're trying to see if this nickname,
the nickname is going to stick.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Look if, like I said before the break, if people
can just hijack the name Fonsie for themselves that I'm
taking babe.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I mean, and you know what, we tried it.
Kean and I were in here calling you, babe to
see how it felt. It felt right, and the break fell. Okay,
I think he liked it. You know, when you were
throwing your temper tantrum over where to find a pen,
you know, we said, babe, calm down. A whole thing
of pens right behind you.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Babe.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I'm trying to do a good job, not just for
you to get it, but for the people of southern California.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I get it, babe. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Did you want to play some of our friends?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I do. Let's see a lot of people have.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I was surprised to find how many people know of
the White Snake dancer.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh yeah, Michelle sent me a bunch of texts about this.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I mean, like we got she was.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The singer's girlfriend, David Cloverdale. She wrote she was married
to an angel's picture Chuck Finley.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
She was arrested for.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Attacking That was Joan on That transam in that video
for White Snake was Tawny Katan.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
So this guy and by the way, according to the
talkback option, his.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Name is Cubby. Oh cool, cool man.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And you know he kind of ties two topics that
we've explored together to take together because.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I see you as a cubby more than a cubby.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Like I said, I have a nephew, bubby if I
were cubby Monks like little cubstick great, like a little
forget a little baby reporter.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's want to put him in.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Your in your babe reporter.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Would you say, no, Cubby is what worked for me?
Oh name babe. If that's what you want, that's what
we'll run with.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I'm fine with it. The cubby Monks does not.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Do you think your husband's going to be upset that
now people are calling you babe all the time.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Is that going to be a problem? Are we causing problems?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
At home he calls me, meet me Tito.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Okay, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well, my this goes back. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
You know, he speaks Spanish first language, and you can
add ito to mean little to a lot of different things.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So it's a term of endearment. But it's a play
on what my I do.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I guess I do have a nickname, and I just
completely forgot because this goes back to my brother's first baby,
Mama Ah, who one day changed her name on God,
this is so terrible, say on the radio. But she
changed her name on Facebook to t T. And I
was laughing at that. I was, I mean, I love
the girl.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What her name was?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
It like cat Trista, and loved Trista.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
But one day name changed on Facebook, and I was
making fun of her for doing this as an adult,
deciding that a nickname was now public, made up, owned
on her own, and I thought, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What does that mean something in another No, it was just.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Kind of an is my name now? And I told
my baby they were then much younger, my niece and
nephew to call me Mimi and they still.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh my god. So the t T thing is long gone,
but the meme.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Stuff, oh, so she went back to yeah, yeah, right,
but but my spouse calls me that's funny. Yeah, So
I guess I've been wrong this whole hour. I apologize everyone.
I do have a nickname, so I can't I'm God,
I'm me Me.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I kind of feel like I like Babe better than
me me or Cubby Cubby.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah. Well, we'll have to workshop this. I think that
we focus group it and figure out what the people want.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'm feeling, you know, because it's not just about Michael Monks,
it's about your people.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You can't turn it down.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Hannie was also married to a Los Angeles Angels picture.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Michelle said, I mean, so people had just called in
with all of this great knowledge, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Chuck Finley, Well, she was local. I mean she died
in Orange County. Of course people know, and and she
played a very big role. She played a big role
for you to bring her up, Babe.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Honestly, I was speaking gen.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
White Sake videos and thinking about her in your private time.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I wanted that lead singer's hair.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
But I mean, she was important in a lot of
formative years for people in southern California and the world.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Speaking of nicknames, so my husband, who was born as
Wheeler decided he was going to change his name when
he was like five because he wanted to be like
Davy Crockett. So he said he wouldn't answer to anything
other than Davy.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
So this he's fifty eight.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
His name is Dakes.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
His mom allowed it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You know, a five year old to say this is
my name now is a powerful thing.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
One of my nephews, Brendan, who's the oldest, went through
a stage when he was about seven. I want to
say where He said, my name is not Brendan, my
name is Brandon. And I said to him because I
always talked to my nephews like they were adults, even
though it's wildly inappropriate, but I believe you should talk
to children as adults.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
This is why I don't have even the youngest.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I said, Brendan, if you're going to change your name,
you can't change it to Brandon. Okay, it's way too close.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Half of the.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
People call you Brandon. Anyway, let's let's let's do something different.
And that phase lasted about seven minutes. But you gotta
you get to think out of the outside the box,
you know, like babe, Yeah, that's stickin' that is sticking.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Babe Monk's Babe monks k if I news.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I don't know if you should use it professionally, but.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It's the only reason to have a nickname is for
the world to know it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I keep thinking about Babe Paley the Social Lighte every
time I say that.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I've long dreamed of being a social lte. See. I
think I would be great at that.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Okay, Hey, Shannon, this is christ minible type of mayor protam. Hey.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I kind of like the old Mickey and Shannon.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
So if Gary ever takes off, that might be a
new duel.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, I do too, Mickey and Shannon's.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I like Mickey slash Babe because I listened to your
show on Sunday, and while I loved it, it was
very buttoned up.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It was not Babe.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It was Michael Monks, Michael Monks, and it was very
serious and I loved it for that, but my heart
was crying out for babe is what it was doing.
I wanted more Babe. I wanted the Babe that we're
having here today. I wanted that on Sunday instead all
that news. Well, I just like, stop telling me about
people who blew off their fingers on the fourth of
(19:08):
July and tell me more stories about Babe and Mimi Sita.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I did share the couch story in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
So what I try to do on the show runs
on Saturday Night, Michael Mounks reports and occasionally replays in
the two o'clock hour on Sunday, like this weekend. It
will do that again seven o'clock Live on Saturday Night
and then Sunday replay it too. I tell a little
bit of fun or some interviews come on, but.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
It's a news It's a recap of the weekend news.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Don't understand that.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I don't. By the way, what are we gonna call you?
It can't just be Mickey and shann you know what.
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Babe takes up so much space in this room.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
There's only space enough for Shannon that remains, and I'm
okay with that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
We've reached the end of the third of four segments
together and not one lick of news.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI A sixty.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I was letting the song play because I can't nail
down who it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Is Hillary Duff.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Hillary Duff, like two thousand and five.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Is definitely after Lucy McGuire.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
We're Lizzie McGuire.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Okay, never knew the Disney Girls.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I loved Lizzie McGuire, all those h out of that anyway,
Shannon and Michael Monks here today. Tomorrow, by the way,
the Dodgers take on the Giants in San Francisco first Pitch,
seven fifteen. Listen to all Dodger games on AM five
seventy LA Sports live from the gallupin motors Broadcast Booth,
and stream all Dodgers games in AHD on the iHeartRadio
(20:41):
app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Five games up
from the Giants. The Dodgers are despite their six game
losing streak. The hell is going on? Where's the offense?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Where are the bets? You want to be an Angels fan, now,
don't you know? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
No, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
No, I mean they're I let you be ridiculous and
talk about the Angels off the air, but let's not
be ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
My apologies. It's okay, yeah, oh you know I am.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You know what I do though? Do you know I
do love though? As Angels fans. Angels fans are really
great people. That is really great people, which is why
I'm surprised you're one of them.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
No. Wow, as you told.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Me one time, Shannon, you are beautiful outside.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You did it. It was so sweet. It was really mice.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Oh I did say that. Yeah, that was to suggest
that you were.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
But Angels fans are really like good salt of the earth.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
People get.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Because the Dodgers fans and I don't want to, you know,
obviously they're they're there. The Dodgers are for you, and
they do and they do it in my neighborhood and
they you know, when they won the series last fall,
Downtown where I live was an absolute nightmares. Like I
don't like celebrations like that. I just don't like celebrations
like that. And I'm not taking it away from you.
(21:55):
I'm just not joining it.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I love a.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Little roll of the dice when it comes to Dodger
Stadium on an opening day, you know, I love the
feeling like you know, seven out of ten, I might
leave with a neck tattoo.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I don't know how the day is going to go
great with the next But between Dodger fans and Angels fans.
We're really covered in terms of people who will will
murder people for you and just go the extra mind.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You see a lot of sports cities, the major sports
cities across the country when you're traveling for football during
the NFL season.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Is LA the best sports city?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
No, only because we have so much going on here.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
There are cities where all they have is the NFL, right,
and they really do bleed for their team. It's it's
all they had, the one show in town.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I guess Milwaukee has an NBA team and a major
league team, but green Bay's a different city.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well yeah, green Bay is the history alone in green Bay.
But yes, you're right, it's exactly right. I mean, it's
a co op type of a situation with that team,
and you know there's just Kansas City is another place.
But really, in Los Angeles, Dodgers fans Lakers fans, you're
not going to get better fans. But in terms of
(23:07):
the way it is all a city talks about or
feels about, that's not Los Angeles, just because we have
so much else going on.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Michael Monks is among us.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I am, and by the way, I'm not as good
as Gary in a lot of ways, but particularly specifically
in playing the talkbacks.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I'm not used to this ballme.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I don't listen to them.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I can play them, but like on Saturday nights, I've
got a great audience who plays with me, and it
gives me informed takes or criticizes something counter something we say.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But you all have been hilarious in these talkbacks, and
I'm just not fast enough to play them. About the nicknames,
you're sharing a lot of great stories about nicknames. A
lot of people know Tawny from the White Snake videos
are getting a lot of great stories about that. I
wish I were quicker on the draw here, but to
edit you have to edit them, yeah, so that you
know they're cut for link. But also some of you
(23:56):
are mean, you use foul language. And I love a
lot of the nicknames stories and the nickname suggestions that
are also really coming in, But we will have to
save those because I am not as technically savvy here
in the in the Throne.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I can't. I don't have the time when I'm
here on my own to go through and edit it all.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, because you know, sometimes it'll start like a nice
message like hey, this is Susan and Tustin and I
love his new you am at first, I hate it exactly.
It starts off nicely and you don't know where it's
gonna get.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You don't want to get fired, and we already may
get fired for the lack of content in this hour
long conversation.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Hey don't know what you're talking about, babe. I think
it's been full of content.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Chuckfull, chock full thanks to some of you who sent in.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Is there going to be any topics in this particular hour?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So I'm actually gonna I guess I'm gonna come in
tomorrow too, and we're going to be stronger.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yeah, more focus.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I had this idea on Tuesday. I was like, you
know what, we need more Michael Monks in our lives.
I feel like a crazy person after spending four hours
talking to myself in a padded room, quite literally. So
you have been kind enough to join us for the
ten o'clock hour while Gary is out, and we will
talk about local news and we'll get into it. But
I think you know, day one, we had to get
(25:10):
to learn to know your new name.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
The ya yas out.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
We got to get the ya yas out.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm going to do this. I'm going to get some
of these talkbacks. I'm going to edit them together because
we'll just briefly tomorrow. Briefly, I promised we visits the
topics related specifically to nicknames, how they come about? Cubby
did come right back? Okay, you mentioned a guy named
Cubby was talking about something completely different.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Beat nickname says that.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The memory of a goldfish, which you're supposed to have.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You haven't forgotten my new nickname.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
No, babe, I could not. It's etched in my soul.
But I will not remember that we talked about Tawny Katan.
I will not remember about nicknames out of than babe.
So I look forward to this fun little time capsule
you're planting in the sand.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It's going to be fun. Yes, it's a little offensive
that you send this. This was the most special hour
of my lifetime and it was nothing but a fling
for you.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
No no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I think I'm just some kind of exotic dancer that
you can pay off and slap on the bottom and
send her out the door.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yes, you're right, Yes, you pay for them to leave. Remember, kids,
you don't pay for their company. You pay for them
to leave.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
What you're paying for is a hard stop.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, and look at that. Our time is up.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
My I'm so sorry to everyone listening and to everyone
here at KFI who greenlit this.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You are so much fun.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And I will say on behalf of everybody that it
has been a fun hour.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It has gone by like it was thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And so we look forward to tomorrow and we will
tackle some real Los Angeles news.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
When you come back, go enjoy your day.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I will have a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Do whatever Babe Monks does.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Babe out all right.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
When we come back, Trump talked about imposing a fifty
percent tariff on Brazil QE the coffee hoarding era for
all of us. We'll get into that. Also coming up
in the next hour. A news Scott Peterson mystery. Here's
the mystery. Why are people trying to free Scott Peterson?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Why?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Now?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Why?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
The Innocence Project may have some answers for you on why.
We'll follow the money when we come back to Gary
and Shannon.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
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