September 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Chirs Carlson: Ben Carlson Foundation – Annual Ben Did Go 10.0. #TerrorInTheSky – No Kids on First Class / LAX Engine Fire. KFI – Heather Brooker – Entertainment Report.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The biggest story of the day, the FBI and the
Governor of Utah have announced that a twenty two year
old has been picked up and is now in custody
in the shooting of Charlie Kirk earlier this week in Utah.
Apparently his father tipped off law enforcement and actually had
called a youth pastor at some point for some sort
(00:31):
of guidance. The suspect's father, by the way, a deputy
in the Washington County Sheriff's Department, served for more than
twenty seven years. The high speed rail project probably going
to get another billion dollars a year in funding through
the cap and Trade program for the next twenty years,
and it's money that will just disappear down a small
hole and fresco ever to be seen again.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
A boondoggle, i think, is what they've called.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That is a tech the high speed boondog is the
best way to put it. Last year we had the
pleasure of introducing you to the Ben Carlson Foundation, and
there they are back the Ben Carlson Foundation, named after
Newport Beach lifeguard Ben Carlson, who lost his life in
a rescue and was the first lifeguard from Newport Beach
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to die in the line of duty since since it
was formed, since lifeguards at Newport Beach became a thing
back in nineteen twenty three. Chris Carlson is joining us
from the Ben Carlson Foundation. Chris, thanks for taking time
for us.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Again, Gary, Andy, really appreciate the time today and look
forward to talking to you.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, what you guys, I know you guys have big
events that go on a lot, You have scholarships, etc.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What's on the plate for you guys? Now?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well, so this weekend is our big fundraiser. It's the
Bended Goades. The tenth year we've done it. It was
started by a good friend of Ben's and fellow Newport
Beach lifeguard, Spinster Purty. And this year we're going to
have one hundred and thirty paddlers going from Ablane on
to the Newport Beach Pier and this is to celebrate
(02:04):
Ben and to support our foundation, and it's just a
really terrific event. We're going to have one hundred and
thirty paddlers, support boats, and so far I looked at
this morning, our mighty cause fundraising is at four hundred
and twenty six thousand dollars. Wow, twice what we've ever done.
So it's spectacular. We're really excited.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I'll give everybody the address.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
They can go to Bencarlsonfoundation dot org for information about
the Ben did go.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You said this is the tenth one? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
This is the tenth one?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Again? Started by Spencer Purdy who in year one paddled
from He's a big wave surfer by the way lifeguard,
just a terrific human being and the first year he
wanted to do something for Ben in his memory, paddled
from Newport Beach to Avalon day two he ran a marathon.
Day three he paddled all the way back to Newport Beach.
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We settled it down a little bit, made it a
little bit easier. We're going to go downwind with the waves.
But it's still thirty miles in an incredible achievement.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Pretty mind.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah you said that just when we first started talking
to you. Just oh, you know, thirty miles from Avalon
to Newport Beach. This is a serious distance. I mean
I get tired thinking about doing that on the ferry.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It's really serious and you know, whether permitting we should
It should take about seven to eight hours. We're gonna
leave at six wow. We'll be arriving at about one
thirty two o'clock in the afternoon. We've got an after
party just south of the Newport Beach Pier. Friends, family
community invited. We'll have Wahu's Fish, Tacos, twenty Second Street Pizza.
(03:42):
It's going to be a real blast. But it's really
spectacular to see these paddlers coming in at that point
they line their boards up. It's just really it's a
terrific event.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I will say that is one of the classic images.
I know that's up on the website and I've seen
it before. Oh I'm asking and here for a second, Chris,
just a moment. This is the Ben Carlson hack. You're
wearing it wearing a Ben Carlson Foundation hair today, totally
by Curcy Stands.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Is that really a coincidence? I did not. I just
grabbed a hat this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Gary.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Are you full of it?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I am not full of wow, But I was gonna
say the image of all of those paddlers lined up
with their boards behind them or laid out in front
of them.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It is. It's an incredible image.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I also want to know for anybody who's doing this right,
you can't just if you're a paddler and you hear
this and you say, oh, I want to figure this out,
I want to go do this this weekend, you can't
do that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You've already qualified people for this, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Correct, you're well informed. Yes, we have a certification process
where we take people out for fifteen mile paddles under
the guidance of Fencer Purdy and Rob Williams and Mark
Shoe Line. And yeah, they've got to qualify. They've got
to go through three of those qualifiers or qualify in
another race like the like the Catalina Classic. And yeah,
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so this is pretty serious. We don't want to be
stretched out across Catalina Channel. We made sure that people
are vetted and ready to go.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Can you talk about the scholarship? Who gets this, who
qualifies for the scholarship?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, so we give three scholarships each year. We're at
twenty thousand dollars each for those, We've given out over
five hundred thousand scholarships and they go to student athletes
going to undergraduate programs who are former lifeguards or junior guards,
and they've got a great resume of both academic athletic.
(05:39):
We also are looking for people who have ended up
a great deal of independence that just haven't been coddled.
These people have been working their whole lives, and so
we're really looking for those people, those types of people
who shared the characteristics that my son Ben had. And
it's really terrific to go through that. You know, We've
we've heard so much bad news on this week regarding
(06:01):
Charlie Kirk and nine to eleven Remembrance, And I tell
you what, sometimes we lose hope in this world. But
to see we get about two hundred scholarship applicants and
to read through these and see what these kids are doing,
it's really an incredible opportunity to see the very best
(06:24):
in America. You know, really, it's really fantastic.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We say a lot on this show that some of
the best ways to deal with tragedy or frustration or
hurt is to get out of your head and do
something for somebody else, or in this case, at the
very least, go watch somebody do something for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
The place again to check it out, Bencarlsonfoundation dot org.
If you look across the top there there's the Ben
did Go button. You can click on that see all
the information about this event coming up this weekend.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Crazy exactly, and you can track us on GPS, on share,
dot common, dot com, forward slash m q k MC.
It's kind of cool to see the progress.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, it would be neat best luck to everybody out
there this weekend. That is an unbelievable accomplishment to do that.
Like you said, you're you're paddling thirty miles and this
is the easy version of it, the easy one.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Chris, Well, we really really appreciate you guys, thanks for
having us on. Well, appreciate a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Thanks for sharing Ben's story.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
This is this is an incredible, incredible foundation and we're
happy we could help out.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Thanks for your time today.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Thank you very much. Gary and Andy appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You bet again, Chris Carlson. There Ben's dad.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Bencarlsonfoundation dot org is where you can find all the information.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That's very cool, really awesome, very very cool.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
All right, when we come back a little bit of
terror in the skuys to get you ready for a
weekend's trip to the airport or wherever you're going.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Shannon's out today, She'll be back on Monday. She's actually
doing the show from Vegas on Monday because the Chargers
are in Vegas for Monday Night football. Let's go Chargers.
So we'll hear from her and see how her week was.
Of course we haven't heard from her since she got
back from Brazil. Of course the first time, the Chargers
played the Chiefs in Brazil, so we'll should.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Get the Chargers didn't play the Chiefs in Brazil. They
killed him. The Chargers obliterated the Chiefs in Brazil.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
There's a lot riding on that game, one a lot
riding on a huge game like that.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So I heard Taylor Swift cried.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I heard that that was such a surprise. A story
that we'll get into in Swamp Watch. Is President Trump
now saying Memphis is in his sights. He wants to
send the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee. He said, we
are going to Memphis, said that the city there is
deeply troubled, and he said that both Governor Bill Lee
(08:58):
of Tennessee Republican governor, and the mayor of Memphis, a
Democrat named Paul Young, are quote happy with the plan.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Did the President put on his blue Swede shoes and
he boarded the plane on his touchdown in the land
of the Delta Blues.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Mark Cohne got him? Is that right? Absolutely? It's uh,
it's time for terror in the skies. I don't know everything,
but I know I was pretty I'm really very impressed.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Bike is zero nier you.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Or alert the day?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Roger, get off my plane, Roger Rogers. Let's our victor,
Victor no is eno I have had with these mumpy
pipe snakes.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
On his money.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's Gary and Shannon's.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Terror in the skies on KFI.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, let's start with this southwest flight that left Burbank
just the other day.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The FAA says that this flight thirteen ninety four from
Burbank to Phoenix only supposed to be what is that
a thirty five minute flight? It is not long at all.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, if you got a tailwind, you can do it thirty.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
They said that it had to turn around one of
the engines failed. That is not good.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You need you need an engine you need you it
would be nice to have both of them, right, we
got it back. One is fine.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They actually ended up going back to Lax instead of
turn around to Bourbank.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's the worst part of this story.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Those people thought they were going to get to Vegas
and then they had to get to Vegas from Lax.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Listen, I just last week a nephew came down from
Bakersfield and he was flying to a wedding back east,
and he had never flown out of Burbank.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And I said, this is going to be change everything,
life change for you.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You're going to see that this can there can be
airports that work and outside of a little bit of
congestion right in the little drive to get into the
Burbank loop there, the hardest.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Thing is making that left turn off Hollywood Way. Yeah.
But once you're in, man, it's it's so easy.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Go hit the guy Fieri bar. Yeah, just walk on
over to your gate. You can actually go after they
start taxiing. That's like when you can get on the
plane at birth. You'd be that light.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You can wave them down.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, jump from that little mechanical staircase. Yes, we call
the dB Cooper FAA says that they will investigate, but
it's not going to be I mean, engines fails, that's
what happens, and that's why they put two of.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Them on there. You can have one.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
The other thing is that Emirates the airline is making
a big change to its first class cabin. Anyone who
books the first class cabin using Skywards miles can no
longer use it on kids aged eight and under.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I flew where was I going?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I remember I did fly first class once WHOA one
time one time, and there was a family in front
of my wife and I in first class.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
In this case, they were two seats on either side.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I think, so it's not a giant plane, but two
seats on either So my wife and I are sitting together,
and in front of us there was a couple with
a young daughter. And I would say she's probably five
or six. She's young enough to have an iPad in
front of her the whole time. And she was fine,
well behaved, I guess, as well behaved as you.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Can be when you're five or six years old.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But she was sitting next to dad, not mom, and
she clearly wanted to sit next to mom, not dad.
So She's reaching across the aisle all the time, and
she keeps grabbing Mom and Mom, I need this, and
I want I want my candy, or I want this,
or I can't get my eye.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You must have been irate.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It wasn't awful because I as a parent, I've been
through that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I give a lot of leeway when it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
If if I was in the back of the plane,
I was in first class, and again not a very
usual occurrence for me.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
This is a big day for you. So this was
a huge day for me.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I was taking full advantage of first class whatever I could.
And one of the things I wanted to do was,
I think in first class. I think, if you, if
you are willing to pay for first class, or you're
lucky enough to have somebody pay first class for you,
one of the perks of first class should be.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You get to vote somebody off the island. Oh, I
like this. You get one shot, one one per leg right.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Oh, each so you have an elimination each time the
plane takes off, right and Lance and Lance, Okay, you
have the option of removing one person.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Is it like.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Survivor, where like everybody kind of gets together and votes
on somebody or is there a competition.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I would just I would even say secret ballot, secret ballot.
You get about depending. Let's say you're flying east coast, right,
so five hour flight yep, I say, after the first hour,
they pass around a secret ballot and you just either
write the name or the seat number or some sort
of characteristic the lady in the red shirt whatever, the
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kid with the sticky hands right.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And then as soon as they hit that fifty percent mark.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
As soon as they are halfway to the destination, they
collect all the ballots, they make an announcement.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Ladies and gentlemen'll thank you for fine and ritz. We
appreciate the We don't know you have a lot of
choices in the RS. We thank you for coming to
do the credit card part. If you are a a
advantage miles of member, please don't forget to sign out.
We have a ninety four percent interest rate on this.
That's great.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I'm on I like, literally I'm feeling and feeling travel anxiety.
When you're doing that, you pop so good, just a yeah.
I'm like, I'm like, how long has it been since
I went to the bathroom? Did I did I lock
the door when I left. Today's ears pop just now,
so I'm yawning to try to get my ears unpopped.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
But then fifty percent of the way through, flight attendants
gather the ballots, and I mean, it's not that it
can't take that long. If there's a if there's a tie,
you you eliminate all of the others and you just
put those two or three people up and say four C,
four B.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
It's been great. And row seven, here's your parachute. Yeah,
bank you we have emergency exit. We have the road
next to the can all the way in the back.
You guys are sitting next to each I say, okay,
so they get to stay on the plane. I'm for
this the only thing, and I don't I don't mean
to yuck. You're young here to me an agitator then
is going to wait until the votes are cast to
(15:24):
then start being a monster?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well possibly, yeah, I mean that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, but you just got to sleep for the first
half of the flight and wake up and be drunken, belligerent.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I love this.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
I think this is a great idea, And honestly, the
only downside I can see is that there would be
far less content for terror in the sky.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, we could just have regular updates.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Once you get, you know, voted out of first class
a couple of times it shows up on your record,
you start getting a little notoriety.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I feel like Julie Chen Moonvez of Big Big Brother
fame should be contacted to host this. Potentially, I'm seeing
an opportunity for CBS primetime.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
First class to no class. That's one hundred. That's a
good one. Yeah, just expect the unexpected.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
There it is.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Whan won't shown me what a great shock classes a
great day. This guy happened as blue as a boy
can be. Memphis.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
It's funny. There's a on Apple Music. I pulled it up.
They have the very best of Mark Cohne s An
a times. It's just this song probably the song.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Like Live in Memphis, Live in Memphis Acoustic twelve inch
dance Remax Oh oh yeah, oh always, just like the
Tears for Fears release.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Uh. You know. Amazing that he went to Memphis, And
I'm glad because it wouldn't have happened had he walked
in Cleveland. It just wouldn't have had the same.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Cleveland does not feel the same as memonth. It does
not up next all of our entertainment stuff. Heather Brooker
is going to join us, and I know you're a
big entertainment guy as well, So we'll talk about a
couple of well many things that are going on in
the world of entery.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Tayman also a big Heather Broker guy. There you go,
big fan.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
A swamp Watch comes along at the top of the hour.
We'll talk more about walking in Memphis, the new plans
for President Trump to send National guards men and women
into Memphis to try to cut down on crime. Also
the hula hoop retreat. Let me have a hula hoop anymore? Anyway,
I don't think they may keep I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I keep mine in the house. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I didn't like bring it with it a plastic one
or do you have one of the new metal one.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It's a metal one. It's it's in titanium.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yeah, I have one, but that's just my daughter recently
was into Hulu. Oh I Sally, it's plastic.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Great core work.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh yeah, you do it at any time after the
age of say twenty five, you try to hula hoop
four times and you feel it the next day like
somebody has been punching you in and about the guts.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
How would you see those ads for those that extra
size equipment that has like a It's like you put
it around your waist and there's a string.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And a ball.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
It's a string and a ball and you just swing
your hips around and circle your waist and you try
to swing the ball around your waist and yeah yeah,
and they say it gives you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Abs and you look so cool. Obviously.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Andy Reestmeyer has joined us in for Shannon today, and
Heather Brooker has joined us to talk about some entertainment
stuff that's going on. Let's let's just get the you know,
elephant in the room.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Is that the what did you call me?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, no, Wow.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
I will jump over this table and knock you out.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The Downtown Abbey Grand Finale.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
I know you've been dying for this a movie. It's
a movie. It's the movie, the Grand Finale.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And everybody was clamoring for this.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Everyone clamoring is an understatement.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Let me just tell you, Okay.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I first of all have to say I've been up
since two in the morning working on KFI News. So
I don't know what might happen today, but let's get crazy.
This sounds like I.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Literally, I'm actually I was gonna go home, but then
I heard and I was like, I gotta stay here.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
They watched the drama unfold. Speaking of drama, down Ton Abbey,
the Grand Finale is low stakes drama with high fashion,
and it is everything that we wanted in the beautiful
conclusion to the Crawley family story. I went to a
special screening where they brought out Alan Leech, who plays
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Tom the Driver. Everyone went crazy for it. Everyone's crying
in the theater. No spoilers, everybody, but if you're a
fan of the series, if you've enjoyed the movies, you
will I'm fairly certain enjoy the way this sort of
wraps everybody up.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Again?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Not to spoil too much, but at the end, does
it turn out that Bob Newhart was dreaming the whole
Everyone dies?
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Everyone dies?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Now.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I'm, for one, just sad that the Queen didn't live
long enough to see this, because I'm sure loved it.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Don't you think.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Could you imagine her just sitting with her little cup
of tea and all her core gies watching the Crawley
Famiurbon whatever a gin lady, that's true. Well, I know
you're gonna go see it, Gary, so you're going.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
To cry in the theater like everybody else.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
If I'm gonna cry on the weight of the theater
because if someone forces me to go watch that movie,
I will be in tears.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Well go and see it. It's really good. Or maybe
just wait till it comes out on streaming in like
probably a.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Couple of weeks. Wait, spinal tap.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Spinal tap is okay, Now this is exciting.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
This one goes to eleven.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
All right.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I have been watching the trailer over and over again.
I cannot believe they've got all the original cast members
back together're still alive, Michael McCann, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer,
and of course Rob Briner is still there. The originally
Remember was a mockumentary style film, very Christopher Guest style film,
which you know, I love all of those kinds of
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movies where they have seemed very provised in the moment,
you know. And they're back. They're going on more rock
bandy adventures. This British rock band. It's fun, it's silly.
Even the titles Spinal Tap to the end continues.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Which is is Goofy Downton Abbey, the Grand Finale.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Just two very different genres, two different genres.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
But it's good. It's good.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I am excited for that because I remember that was
such a moment. It's when the first time I saw
Spinal Tap, and then the subsequent ninety nine times that
I saw, of course, just absolutely iconic for us.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
I rewatchability, and I think if you're a fan of
the original one, you will definitely enjoy this one as well.
It's a it's you know, fun down memory lane and
watching the guys who are clearly older just have a
good time.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Forty one years later, is that right?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yes, I'm surprised that it took them this long to
do a sequel, yeah, or do another one.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
I mean, I think maybe they have anything else to do.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well, also, maybe they you know, I think part of
it is that it's you couldn't do it five years later,
ten years It was so unique that trying to do
it right away might have been too I mean there's
not enough of a gap.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I mean I remember as a kid seeing it, not
understanding what parody was.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, Like I didn't even thought they were real.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I just well, I couldn't wrap my head around. I
mean I probably was like five years old, yeah, you know,
but I truly couldn't understand like what I was seeing.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And I think once, oh, get it, and you unlocked
that world of sarcasm.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's right, snark and it was beautiful, Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Coming back, so that one you're going to see, I.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Will see that.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
When come back, we'll talk about Emmy's They're coming up
this weekend here in La. We'll talk about who we
can expect to see, including the host all that sort.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Of including me.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You're hosting the Emmys this year. No, no, I'm just going
to be there.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I thought you were going to cry.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Therefore, I'm about to because I'm reliving this weekend at
the Greek These or where I saw the Goo Goo Dolls.
I was at a show the Goo Goo Dolls and
Dashboard Confessional when most of the city was at Oasis.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, I just.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Think that there might have been a sense of like,
couldn't triggers to go to Oasis. So here we are
at the Goo Goo dolls. And I don't know that
Johnny Resnick didn't feel that vibe. Oh really he does.
I know he's not an l A guy.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He's a Buffalo dude.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
He used to live here. He's written some songs about
how he doesn't like La. It felt like a very
LA crowd. There was a time when the opener said,
you guys are just gonna sit the whole time.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
I know, honestly, I wouldn't mind a little goo goo
doll moment.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
By the way, on my own volition, went to goo
over Oasis. I love him well, I know you love
him if you use the term goo man.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, are you a are you go ahead?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yes? Just a go ahead.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Uh. Heather Brook and Disdain joined Andy and Me and
Right and me. We were getting a lot of emails.
Yeah about that mistake.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Grammar's not my I just write.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
But the Emmys are coming up, The twenty twenty five
Emmy Awards are coming up this weekend Sunday night. As
a matter of fact, five o'clock streaming on Paramount Plus.
You'll also see him on CBS. Of course, there's a
couple of obvious winners. I think we talked to well Adolescence,
I mean adolescence. Whatever it's nominated for, it should win every.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
The Little Boy is the main nomination that I know
really for camera work or I don't know about this.
There might be but I'm almost positive he's nominated for
Supporting Actor.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Which is crazy because I know that he wasn't the
main actor, but probably, depending on whatever rules they use
for the Emmys, could have qualified as the actor lead actor. Yeah,
but so some of what we know best drama series
and or The Diplomat, the of Us, Paradise, The Pit, Severance,
Slow Horses, and The White Lotus.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
What's your favorite out of all those? I mean those
are I.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Mean I tried to get into the Pit. I maybe
you know on Man out Here. I just was like,
I feel like we've seen this. This is like twenty
four but in an er.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Room, but I without Keefer, without the Keif. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I really liked White Lotus. I really like what they're
doing with that show. It has a beautiful build to it,
the mystery of it every season gets more and more interesting.
The cast this year was incredible. I like White Lotus,
but for all the marbles you think, yeah, yeah, I'm
with you on that.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I think Severance is just like such a prestige drama
that I can't see it's the newer thing, especially comparatively.
And I think White Lotus is like, I know, I
liked it too. It sounds like you liked it. I
think there was a lot of like, uh, sort of
started to fizzle out over the last two seasons.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Well, the thing that I've noticed what happens a lot
of times with these juggernaut shows that get all this award,
you know, awards and attention and nominations, they end up
not really winning that many Like every year or every
show it seems like, oh, such and such has twenty
five nominations and they're gonna win it all, and then
they win like maybe one.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I wonder if there's a timing aspect of it, when
the difference between when nominations are announced versus when the
voting for the final winner is actually, you know, something
could be super hot. Adolescents, as an example, in March
and April was just burning up Netflix. Yeah, servers over
and Netflix were melting because people were watching that thing.
(26:36):
And now people have to be reminded, Hey, remember you
were obsessed with that show a couple of months ago.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
That's that for your consideration campaign stuff. It's crazy. Well,
you noticed, remind.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
People for the Oscars, A lot of your Oscar contenders
come out in the fall because they know that that's
when it's going to be fresh on people's mind for
the Oscar voting in the spring. So I think there
is something to that.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I do.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
You think Severance has a really good shot, But I
think Severance has still so much more to give over
the next couple of seasons that we may see it
get awarded more down the road. Even though it has
twenty seven nominations. That's insane.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
The Best Comedy series Abbott Elementary, The Bear Hacks. Nobody
wants this, only murders in the building, shrinking the studio
and what we do in the shadows. The reason I
don't want the Studio to win outside of seth Rogen
is Hollywood doesn't need any more masturbatory television shows about itself.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
And that is exactly why it's gonna win. I know
they love themselves self. Flagellation is the name.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Of the game. Have you seen it already?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Watch the Dramatic I got about through five episodes, I think,
and that was too many.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Well, hey, it's already winning some awards. It already won
quite a few at the Creative Arts Emmys last weekend,
and there's a lot of like the inside jokes that
the winners were making on the stage from the show,
like they're thinking South Silverstein, which is a made up
kind of character in the show. I think the Studio
has a good chance of winning. My own personal favorite
(28:08):
would be Hacks. I love that show so much. Jeane
Smart is incredible, Hannah Imbinder brilliant. That's my personal favorite.
And the Bear being in the comedy category will forever
be confounding.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah, mystify.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yeah, But I'm okay with the Studio if for the
very reason that we just finally get to like throw
on all the love for the Smokehouse. It's like I
need that place to do as well as it can
possibly do, so let's let's.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Push it all the way. Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And then the host this year is going to be
comedian Nate Bargatsy. Yes, what a minute that guy's.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Having I know, and honestly so well deserved. Similar to
Leanne who we've talked about who has a Netflix show now,
Nate Barghesti I feel like has been one of those
under the radar comics that in the past few years,
especially since TikTok you know, hit and social media hit,
he has just guy rocketed. I think he's so funny.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And he's not new to the business now. The thing is,
he's new to a lot of people's awareness. Yeah, but
he's been i mean, working at working at stand up
comedy for two decades.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
And very similar to Jerry Seinfeld. He loves the art
of comedy, the art of writing a joke, finding where
that where that perfect pause is. I've heard many interviews
with him where he says he studies and knows where
the pause is and where to get off the road
if it's not going well.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What I love about him, we talked about it. We've
both seen him do shows here in La He the
name of his tour that he's on right now is
the Big Dumb Eyes Tour. It's also the name of
a book that he wrote or co wrote. He's not
the smartest, he's not the sharpest. He's not, admittedly, I mean,
he'll tell he'll tell you that, but he understands the
(29:53):
art of that storytelling, telling of the comedy, and it's
it's to me, it's fascinating to hear someone like that
who knows his own limitations. He doesn't know how space works,
like he doesn't know the difference between a vacuum like
the vacuum of space and how our atmosphere on earthworks,
But he knows how to tell a story about a
(30:15):
Starbucks order. Yeah, that everybody can relate to absolutely, using
very simple language and the cadence and like you said,
the pauses and the punchline and the tags.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's incredible to see that guy work.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Well, one thing, I'm sorry, Andy, one thing he's doing
this year is he is he has one hundred thousand
dollars that he's giving to a charity, And for every
actor that goes over the forty five second speech, he's
taking one thousand.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Dollars away from the charity.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
And for every actor that comes in under that forty
five second speech, he'll add it back. So that's a
fun little twist for everybody to watch, and you know,
play along at home, and don't say you don't watch
the Emmy's People, because you do.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Absolutely, And I love that he's a rare comic, or
at least performer in this era who has appeal on
a map level almost sort of old school letterman Lenno Seinfeld,
where middle of the country likes him, coasts like him.
This is the guy who in the old days would
become a late night host. Yeah, for sure, and I
think that that's really nice to see, especially in a
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world that's so divided. Right guys, Kumbai ya is what
we're all set in here.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I want to say really quickly.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Make sure at some point today that Keana gets to
talk about Demons Layer. We didn't get to talk to it.
It opens this weekend and she saw it and she
has some good thoughts on it. So even though I
will be with the K pop things, no different. It's
another totally new Demons Slayer. I'm going to be at
home sleeping, but I will be listening later.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
When you talk about it. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
He as always swamp watch when we come back to
Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
The biggest story of the day, the FBI and the
Governor of Utah have announced that a twenty two year
old has been picked up and is now in custody
in the shooting of Charlie Kirk earlier this week in Utah.
Apparently his father tipped off law enforcement and actually had
called a youth pastor at some point for some sort
(00:31):
of guidance. The suspect's father, by the way, a deputy
in the Washington County Sheriff's Department, served for more than
twenty seven years. The high speed rail project probably going
to get another billion dollars a year in funding through
the cap and Trade program for the next twenty years,
and it's money that will just disappear down a small
hole and fresco ever to be seen again.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
A boondoggle, i think, is what they've called.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That is a tech the high speed boondog is the
best way to put it. Last year we had the
pleasure of introducing you to the Ben Carlson Foundation, and
there they are back the Ben Carlson Foundation, named after
Newport Beach lifeguard Ben Carlson, who lost his life in
a rescue and was the first lifeguard from Newport Beach
(01:20):
to die in the line of duty since since it
was formed, since lifeguards at Newport Beach became a thing
back in nineteen twenty three. Chris Carlson is joining us
from the Ben Carlson Foundation. Chris, thanks for taking time
for us.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Again, Gary, Andy, really appreciate the time today and look
forward to talking to you.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, what you guys, I know you guys have big
events that go on a lot, You have scholarships, etc.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What's on the plate for you guys? Now?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well, so this weekend is our big fundraiser. It's the
Bended Goades. The tenth year we've done it. It was
started by a good friend of Ben's and fellow Newport
Beach lifeguard, Spinster Purty. And this year we're going to
have one hundred and thirty paddlers going from Ablane on
to the Newport Beach Pier and this is to celebrate
(02:04):
Ben and to support our foundation, and it's just a
really terrific event. We're going to have one hundred and
thirty paddlers, support boats, and so far I looked at
this morning, our mighty cause fundraising is at four hundred
and twenty six thousand dollars. Wow, twice what we've ever done.
So it's spectacular. We're really excited.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I'll give everybody the address.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
They can go to Bencarlsonfoundation dot org for information about
the Ben did go.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You said this is the tenth one? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
This is the tenth one?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Again? Started by Spencer Purdy who in year one paddled
from He's a big wave surfer by the way lifeguard,
just a terrific human being and the first year he
wanted to do something for Ben in his memory, paddled
from Newport Beach to Avalon day two he ran a marathon.
Day three he paddled all the way back to Newport Beach.
(02:59):
We settled it down a little bit, made it a
little bit easier. We're going to go downwind with the waves.
But it's still thirty miles in an incredible achievement.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Pretty mind.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah you said that just when we first started talking
to you. Just oh, you know, thirty miles from Avalon
to Newport Beach. This is a serious distance. I mean
I get tired thinking about doing that on the ferry.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It's really serious and you know, whether permitting we should
It should take about seven to eight hours. We're gonna
leave at six wow. We'll be arriving at about one
thirty two o'clock in the afternoon. We've got an after
party just south of the Newport Beach Pier. Friends, family
community invited. We'll have Wahu's Fish, Tacos, twenty Second Street Pizza.
(03:42):
It's going to be a real blast. But it's really
spectacular to see these paddlers coming in at that point
they line their boards up. It's just really it's a
terrific event.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I will say that is one of the classic images.
I know that's up on the website and I've seen
it before. Oh I'm asking and here for a second, Chris,
just a moment. This is the Ben Carlson hack. You're
wearing it wearing a Ben Carlson Foundation hair today, totally
by Curcy Stands.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Is that really a coincidence? I did not. I just
grabbed a hat this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Gary.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Are you full of it?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I am not full of wow, But I was gonna
say the image of all of those paddlers lined up
with their boards behind them or laid out in front
of them.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It is. It's an incredible image.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I also want to know for anybody who's doing this right,
you can't just if you're a paddler and you hear
this and you say, oh, I want to figure this out,
I want to go do this this weekend, you can't
do that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You've already qualified people for this, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Correct, you're well informed. Yes, we have a certification process
where we take people out for fifteen mile paddles under
the guidance of Fencer Purdy and Rob Williams and Mark
Shoe Line. And yeah, they've got to qualify. They've got
to go through three of those qualifiers or qualify in
another race like the like the Catalina Classic. And yeah,
(05:00):
so this is pretty serious. We don't want to be
stretched out across Catalina Channel. We made sure that people
are vetted and ready to go.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Can you talk about the scholarship? Who gets this, who
qualifies for the scholarship?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, so we give three scholarships each year. We're at
twenty thousand dollars each for those, We've given out over
five hundred thousand scholarships and they go to student athletes
going to undergraduate programs who are former lifeguards or junior guards,
and they've got a great resume of both academic athletic.
(05:39):
We also are looking for people who have ended up
a great deal of independence that just haven't been coddled.
These people have been working their whole lives, and so
we're really looking for those people, those types of people
who shared the characteristics that my son Ben had. And
it's really terrific to go through that. You know, We've
we've heard so much bad news on this week regarding
(06:01):
Charlie Kirk and nine to eleven Remembrance, And I tell
you what, sometimes we lose hope in this world. But
to see we get about two hundred scholarship applicants and
to read through these and see what these kids are doing,
it's really an incredible opportunity to see the very best
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in America. You know, really, it's really fantastic.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We say a lot on this show that some of
the best ways to deal with tragedy or frustration or
hurt is to get out of your head and do
something for somebody else, or in this case, at the
very least, go watch somebody do something for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
The place again to check it out, Bencarlsonfoundation dot org.
If you look across the top there there's the Ben
did Go button. You can click on that see all
the information about this event coming up this weekend.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Crazy exactly, and you can track us on GPS, on share,
dot common, dot com, forward slash m q k MC.
It's kind of cool to see the progress.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, it would be neat best luck to everybody out
there this weekend. That is an unbelievable accomplishment to do that.
Like you said, you're you're paddling thirty miles and this
is the easy version of it, the easy one.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Chris, Well, we really really appreciate you guys, thanks for
having us on. Well, appreciate a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Thanks for sharing Ben's story.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
This is this is an incredible, incredible foundation and we're
happy we could help out.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Thanks for your time today.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Thank you very much. Gary and Andy appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You bet again, Chris Carlson. There Ben's dad.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Bencarlsonfoundation dot org is where you can find all the information.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That's very cool, really awesome, very very cool.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
All right, when we come back a little bit of
terror in the skuys to get you ready for a
weekend's trip to the airport or wherever you're going.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Shannon's out today, She'll be back on Monday. She's actually
doing the show from Vegas on Monday because the Chargers
are in Vegas for Monday Night football. Let's go Chargers.
So we'll hear from her and see how her week was.
Of course we haven't heard from her since she got
back from Brazil. Of course the first time, the Chargers
played the Chiefs in Brazil, so we'll should.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Get the Chargers didn't play the Chiefs in Brazil. They
killed him. The Chargers obliterated the Chiefs in Brazil.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
There's a lot riding on that game, one a lot
riding on a huge game like that.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So I heard Taylor Swift cried.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I heard that that was such a surprise. A story
that we'll get into in Swamp Watch. Is President Trump
now saying Memphis is in his sights. He wants to
send the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee. He said, we
are going to Memphis, said that the city there is
deeply troubled, and he said that both Governor Bill Lee
(08:58):
of Tennessee Republican governor, and the mayor of Memphis, a
Democrat named Paul Young, are quote happy with the plan.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Did the President put on his blue Swede shoes and
he boarded the plane on his touchdown in the land
of the Delta Blues.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Mark Cohne got him? Is that right? Absolutely? It's uh,
it's time for terror in the skies. I don't know everything,
but I know I was pretty I'm really very impressed.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Bike is zero nier you.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Or alert the day?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Roger, get off my plane, Roger Rogers. Let's our victor,
Victor no is eno I have had with these mumpy
pipe snakes.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
On his money.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's Gary and Shannon's.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Terror in the skies on KFI.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, let's start with this southwest flight that left Burbank
just the other day.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The FAA says that this flight thirteen ninety four from
Burbank to Phoenix only supposed to be what is that
a thirty five minute flight? It is not long at all.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, if you got a tailwind, you can do it thirty.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
They said that it had to turn around one of
the engines failed. That is not good.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You need you need an engine you need you it
would be nice to have both of them, right, we
got it back. One is fine.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They actually ended up going back to Lax instead of
turn around to Bourbank.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's the worst part of this story.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Those people thought they were going to get to Vegas
and then they had to get to Vegas from Lax.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Listen, I just last week a nephew came down from
Bakersfield and he was flying to a wedding back east,
and he had never flown out of Burbank.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And I said, this is going to be change everything,
life change for you.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You're going to see that this can there can be
airports that work and outside of a little bit of
congestion right in the little drive to get into the
Burbank loop there, the hardest.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Thing is making that left turn off Hollywood Way. Yeah.
But once you're in, man, it's it's so easy.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Go hit the guy Fieri bar. Yeah, just walk on
over to your gate. You can actually go after they
start taxiing. That's like when you can get on the
plane at birth. You'd be that light.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You can wave them down.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, jump from that little mechanical staircase. Yes, we call
the dB Cooper FAA says that they will investigate, but
it's not going to be I mean, engines fails, that's
what happens, and that's why they put two of.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Them on there. You can have one.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
The other thing is that Emirates the airline is making
a big change to its first class cabin. Anyone who
books the first class cabin using Skywards miles can no
longer use it on kids aged eight and under.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I flew where was I going?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I remember I did fly first class once WHOA one
time one time, and there was a family in front
of my wife and I in first class.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
In this case, they were two seats on either side.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I think, so it's not a giant plane, but two
seats on either So my wife and I are sitting together,
and in front of us there was a couple with
a young daughter. And I would say she's probably five
or six. She's young enough to have an iPad in
front of her the whole time. And she was fine,
well behaved, I guess, as well behaved as you.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Can be when you're five or six years old.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But she was sitting next to dad, not mom, and
she clearly wanted to sit next to mom, not dad.
So She's reaching across the aisle all the time, and
she keeps grabbing Mom and Mom, I need this, and
I want I want my candy, or I want this,
or I can't get my eye.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You must have been irate.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It wasn't awful because I as a parent, I've been
through that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I give a lot of leeway when it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
If if I was in the back of the plane,
I was in first class, and again not a very
usual occurrence for me.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
This is a big day for you. So this was
a huge day for me.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I was taking full advantage of first class whatever I could.
And one of the things I wanted to do was,
I think in first class. I think, if you, if
you are willing to pay for first class, or you're
lucky enough to have somebody pay first class for you,
one of the perks of first class should be.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You get to vote somebody off the island. Oh, I
like this. You get one shot, one one per leg right.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Oh, each so you have an elimination each time the
plane takes off, right and Lance and Lance, Okay, you
have the option of removing one person.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Is it like.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Survivor, where like everybody kind of gets together and votes
on somebody or is there a competition.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I would just I would even say secret ballot, secret ballot.
You get about depending. Let's say you're flying east coast, right,
so five hour flight yep, I say, after the first hour,
they pass around a secret ballot and you just either
write the name or the seat number or some sort
of characteristic the lady in the red shirt whatever, the
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kid with the sticky hands right.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And then as soon as they hit that fifty percent mark.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
As soon as they are halfway to the destination, they
collect all the ballots, they make an announcement.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Ladies and gentlemen'll thank you for fine and ritz. We
appreciate the We don't know you have a lot of
choices in the RS. We thank you for coming to
do the credit card part. If you are a a
advantage miles of member, please don't forget to sign out.
We have a ninety four percent interest rate on this.
That's great.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I'm on I like, literally I'm feeling and feeling travel anxiety.
When you're doing that, you pop so good, just a yeah.
I'm like, I'm like, how long has it been since
I went to the bathroom? Did I did I lock
the door when I left. Today's ears pop just now,
so I'm yawning to try to get my ears unpopped.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
But then fifty percent of the way through, flight attendants
gather the ballots, and I mean, it's not that it
can't take that long. If there's a if there's a tie,
you you eliminate all of the others and you just
put those two or three people up and say four C,
four B.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
It's been great. And row seven, here's your parachute. Yeah,
bank you we have emergency exit. We have the road
next to the can all the way in the back.
You guys are sitting next to each I say, okay,
so they get to stay on the plane. I'm for
this the only thing, and I don't I don't mean
to yuck. You're young here to me an agitator then
is going to wait until the votes are cast to
(15:24):
then start being a monster?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well possibly, yeah, I mean that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, but you just got to sleep for the first
half of the flight and wake up and be drunken, belligerent.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I love this.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
I think this is a great idea, And honestly, the
only downside I can see is that there would be
far less content for terror in the sky.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, we could just have regular updates.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Once you get, you know, voted out of first class
a couple of times it shows up on your record,
you start getting a little notoriety.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I feel like Julie Chen Moonvez of Big Big Brother
fame should be contacted to host this. Potentially, I'm seeing
an opportunity for CBS primetime.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
First class to no class. That's one hundred. That's a
good one. Yeah, just expect the unexpected.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
There it is.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Whan won't shown me what a great shock classes a
great day. This guy happened as blue as a boy
can be. Memphis.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
It's funny. There's a on Apple Music. I pulled it up.
They have the very best of Mark Cohne s An
a times. It's just this song probably the song.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Like Live in Memphis, Live in Memphis Acoustic twelve inch
dance Remax Oh oh yeah, oh always, just like the
Tears for Fears release.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Uh. You know. Amazing that he went to Memphis, And
I'm glad because it wouldn't have happened had he walked
in Cleveland. It just wouldn't have had the same.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Cleveland does not feel the same as memonth. It does
not up next all of our entertainment stuff. Heather Brooker
is going to join us, and I know you're a
big entertainment guy as well, So we'll talk about a
couple of well many things that are going on in
the world of entery.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Tayman also a big Heather Broker guy. There you go,
big fan.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
A swamp Watch comes along at the top of the hour.
We'll talk more about walking in Memphis, the new plans
for President Trump to send National guards men and women
into Memphis to try to cut down on crime. Also
the hula hoop retreat. Let me have a hula hoop anymore? Anyway,
I don't think they may keep I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I keep mine in the house. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I didn't like bring it with it a plastic one
or do you have one of the new metal one.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It's a metal one. It's it's in titanium.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yeah, I have one, but that's just my daughter recently
was into Hulu. Oh I Sally, it's plastic.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Great core work.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh yeah, you do it at any time after the
age of say twenty five, you try to hula hoop
four times and you feel it the next day like
somebody has been punching you in and about the guts.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
How would you see those ads for those that extra
size equipment that has like a It's like you put
it around your waist and there's a string.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And a ball.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
It's a string and a ball and you just swing
your hips around and circle your waist and you try
to swing the ball around your waist and yeah yeah,
and they say it gives you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Abs and you look so cool. Obviously.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Andy Reestmeyer has joined us in for Shannon today, and
Heather Brooker has joined us to talk about some entertainment
stuff that's going on. Let's let's just get the you know,
elephant in the room.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Is that the what did you call me?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, no, Wow.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
I will jump over this table and knock you out.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The Downtown Abbey Grand Finale.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
I know you've been dying for this a movie. It's
a movie. It's the movie, the Grand Finale.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And everybody was clamoring for this.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Everyone clamoring is an understatement.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Let me just tell you, Okay.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I first of all have to say I've been up
since two in the morning working on KFI News. So
I don't know what might happen today, but let's get crazy.
This sounds like I.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Literally, I'm actually I was gonna go home, but then
I heard and I was like, I gotta stay here.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
They watched the drama unfold. Speaking of drama, down Ton Abbey,
the Grand Finale is low stakes drama with high fashion,
and it is everything that we wanted in the beautiful
conclusion to the Crawley family story. I went to a
special screening where they brought out Alan Leech, who plays
(19:27):
Tom the Driver. Everyone went crazy for it. Everyone's crying
in the theater. No spoilers, everybody, but if you're a
fan of the series, if you've enjoyed the movies, you
will I'm fairly certain enjoy the way this sort of
wraps everybody up.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Again?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Not to spoil too much, but at the end, does
it turn out that Bob Newhart was dreaming the whole
Everyone dies?
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Everyone dies?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Now.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I'm, for one, just sad that the Queen didn't live
long enough to see this, because I'm sure loved it.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Don't you think.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Could you imagine her just sitting with her little cup
of tea and all her core gies watching the Crawley
Famiurbon whatever a gin lady, that's true. Well, I know
you're gonna go see it, Gary, so you're going.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
To cry in the theater like everybody else.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
If I'm gonna cry on the weight of the theater
because if someone forces me to go watch that movie,
I will be in tears.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Well go and see it. It's really good. Or maybe
just wait till it comes out on streaming in like
probably a.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Couple of weeks. Wait, spinal tap.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Spinal tap is okay, Now this is exciting.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
This one goes to eleven.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
All right.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I have been watching the trailer over and over again.
I cannot believe they've got all the original cast members
back together're still alive, Michael McCann, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer,
and of course Rob Briner is still there. The originally
Remember was a mockumentary style film, very Christopher Guest style film,
which you know, I love all of those kinds of
(20:58):
movies where they have seemed very provised in the moment,
you know. And they're back. They're going on more rock
bandy adventures. This British rock band. It's fun, it's silly.
Even the titles Spinal Tap to the end continues.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Which is is Goofy Downton Abbey, the Grand Finale.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Just two very different genres, two different genres.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
But it's good. It's good.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I am excited for that because I remember that was
such a moment. It's when the first time I saw
Spinal Tap, and then the subsequent ninety nine times that
I saw, of course, just absolutely iconic for us.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
I rewatchability, and I think if you're a fan of
the original one, you will definitely enjoy this one as well.
It's a it's you know, fun down memory lane and
watching the guys who are clearly older just have a
good time.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Forty one years later, is that right?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yes, I'm surprised that it took them this long to
do a sequel, yeah, or do another one.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
I mean, I think maybe they have anything else to do.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well, also, maybe they you know, I think part of
it is that it's you couldn't do it five years later,
ten years It was so unique that trying to do
it right away might have been too I mean there's
not enough of a gap.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I mean I remember as a kid seeing it, not
understanding what parody was.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, Like I didn't even thought they were real.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I just well, I couldn't wrap my head around. I
mean I probably was like five years old, yeah, you know,
but I truly couldn't understand like what I was seeing.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And I think once, oh, get it, and you unlocked
that world of sarcasm.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's right, snark and it was beautiful, Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Coming back, so that one you're going to see, I.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Will see that.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
When come back, we'll talk about Emmy's They're coming up
this weekend here in La. We'll talk about who we
can expect to see, including the host all that sort.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Of including me.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You're hosting the Emmys this year. No, no, I'm just going
to be there.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I thought you were going to cry.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Therefore, I'm about to because I'm reliving this weekend at
the Greek These or where I saw the Goo Goo Dolls.
I was at a show the Goo Goo Dolls and
Dashboard Confessional when most of the city was at Oasis.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, I just.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Think that there might have been a sense of like,
couldn't triggers to go to Oasis. So here we are
at the Goo Goo dolls. And I don't know that
Johnny Resnick didn't feel that vibe. Oh really he does.
I know he's not an l A guy.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He's a Buffalo dude.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
He used to live here. He's written some songs about
how he doesn't like La. It felt like a very
LA crowd. There was a time when the opener said,
you guys are just gonna sit the whole time.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
I know, honestly, I wouldn't mind a little goo goo
doll moment.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
By the way, on my own volition, went to goo
over Oasis. I love him well, I know you love
him if you use the term goo man.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, are you a are you go ahead?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yes? Just a go ahead.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Uh. Heather Brook and Disdain joined Andy and Me and
Right and me. We were getting a lot of emails.
Yeah about that mistake.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Grammar's not my I just write.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
But the Emmys are coming up, The twenty twenty five
Emmy Awards are coming up this weekend Sunday night. As
a matter of fact, five o'clock streaming on Paramount Plus.
You'll also see him on CBS. Of course, there's a
couple of obvious winners. I think we talked to well Adolescence,
I mean adolescence. Whatever it's nominated for, it should win every.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
The Little Boy is the main nomination that I know
really for camera work or I don't know about this.
There might be but I'm almost positive he's nominated for
Supporting Actor.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Which is crazy because I know that he wasn't the
main actor, but probably, depending on whatever rules they use
for the Emmys, could have qualified as the actor lead actor. Yeah,
but so some of what we know best drama series
and or The Diplomat, the of Us, Paradise, The Pit, Severance,
Slow Horses, and The White Lotus.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
What's your favorite out of all those? I mean those
are I.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Mean I tried to get into the Pit. I maybe
you know on Man out Here. I just was like,
I feel like we've seen this. This is like twenty
four but in an er.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Room, but I without Keefer, without the Keif. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I really liked White Lotus. I really like what they're
doing with that show. It has a beautiful build to it,
the mystery of it every season gets more and more interesting.
The cast this year was incredible. I like White Lotus,
but for all the marbles you think, yeah, yeah, I'm
with you on that.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I think Severance is just like such a prestige drama
that I can't see it's the newer thing, especially comparatively.
And I think White Lotus is like, I know, I
liked it too. It sounds like you liked it. I
think there was a lot of like, uh, sort of
started to fizzle out over the last two seasons.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Well, the thing that I've noticed what happens a lot
of times with these juggernaut shows that get all this award,
you know, awards and attention and nominations, they end up
not really winning that many Like every year or every
show it seems like, oh, such and such has twenty
five nominations and they're gonna win it all, and then
they win like maybe one.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I wonder if there's a timing aspect of it, when
the difference between when nominations are announced versus when the
voting for the final winner is actually, you know, something
could be super hot. Adolescents, as an example, in March
and April was just burning up Netflix. Yeah, servers over
and Netflix were melting because people were watching that thing.
(26:36):
And now people have to be reminded, Hey, remember you
were obsessed with that show a couple of months ago.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
That's that for your consideration campaign stuff. It's crazy. Well,
you noticed, remind.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
People for the Oscars, A lot of your Oscar contenders
come out in the fall because they know that that's
when it's going to be fresh on people's mind for
the Oscar voting in the spring. So I think there
is something to that.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I do.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
You think Severance has a really good shot, But I
think Severance has still so much more to give over
the next couple of seasons that we may see it
get awarded more down the road. Even though it has
twenty seven nominations. That's insane.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
The Best Comedy series Abbott Elementary, The Bear Hacks. Nobody
wants this, only murders in the building, shrinking the studio
and what we do in the shadows. The reason I
don't want the Studio to win outside of seth Rogen
is Hollywood doesn't need any more masturbatory television shows about itself.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
And that is exactly why it's gonna win. I know
they love themselves self. Flagellation is the name.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Of the game. Have you seen it already?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Watch the Dramatic I got about through five episodes, I think,
and that was too many.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Well, hey, it's already winning some awards. It already won
quite a few at the Creative Arts Emmys last weekend,
and there's a lot of like the inside jokes that
the winners were making on the stage from the show,
like they're thinking South Silverstein, which is a made up
kind of character in the show. I think the Studio
has a good chance of winning. My own personal favorite
(28:08):
would be Hacks. I love that show so much. Jeane
Smart is incredible, Hannah Imbinder brilliant. That's my personal favorite.
And the Bear being in the comedy category will forever
be confounding.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah, mystify.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yeah, But I'm okay with the Studio if for the
very reason that we just finally get to like throw
on all the love for the Smokehouse. It's like I
need that place to do as well as it can
possibly do, so let's let's.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Push it all the way. Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And then the host this year is going to be
comedian Nate Bargatsy. Yes, what a minute that guy's.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Having I know, and honestly so well deserved. Similar to
Leanne who we've talked about who has a Netflix show now,
Nate Barghesti I feel like has been one of those
under the radar comics that in the past few years,
especially since TikTok you know, hit and social media hit,
he has just guy rocketed. I think he's so funny.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And he's not new to the business now. The thing is,
he's new to a lot of people's awareness. Yeah, but
he's been i mean, working at working at stand up
comedy for two decades.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
And very similar to Jerry Seinfeld. He loves the art
of comedy, the art of writing a joke, finding where
that where that perfect pause is. I've heard many interviews
with him where he says he studies and knows where
the pause is and where to get off the road
if it's not going well.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What I love about him, we talked about it. We've
both seen him do shows here in La He the
name of his tour that he's on right now is
the Big Dumb Eyes Tour. It's also the name of
a book that he wrote or co wrote. He's not
the smartest, he's not the sharpest. He's not, admittedly, I mean,
he'll tell he'll tell you that, but he understands the
(29:53):
art of that storytelling, telling of the comedy, and it's
it's to me, it's fascinating to hear someone like that
who knows his own limitations. He doesn't know how space works,
like he doesn't know the difference between a vacuum like
the vacuum of space and how our atmosphere on earthworks,
But he knows how to tell a story about a
(30:15):
Starbucks order. Yeah, that everybody can relate to absolutely, using
very simple language and the cadence and like you said,
the pauses and the punchline and the tags.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's incredible to see that guy work.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Well, one thing, I'm sorry, Andy, one thing he's doing
this year is he is he has one hundred thousand
dollars that he's giving to a charity, And for every
actor that goes over the forty five second speech, he's
taking one thousand.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Dollars away from the charity.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
And for every actor that comes in under that forty
five second speech, he'll add it back. So that's a
fun little twist for everybody to watch, and you know,
play along at home, and don't say you don't watch
the Emmy's People, because you do.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Absolutely, And I love that he's a rare comic, or
at least performer in this era who has appeal on
a map level almost sort of old school letterman Lenno Seinfeld,
where middle of the country likes him, coasts like him.
This is the guy who in the old days would
become a late night host. Yeah, for sure, and I
think that that's really nice to see, especially in a
(31:14):
world that's so divided. Right guys, Kumbai ya is what
we're all set in here.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I want to say really quickly.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Make sure at some point today that Keana gets to
talk about Demons Layer. We didn't get to talk to it.
It opens this weekend and she saw it and she
has some good thoughts on it. So even though I
will be with the K pop things, no different. It's
another totally new Demons Slayer. I'm going to be at
home sleeping, but I will be listening later.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
When you talk about it. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
He as always swamp watch when we come back to
Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
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Speaker 2 (31:46):
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