December 2, 2025 • 28 mins
Gary and Shannon spotlight the community heroes fueling this year’s PastaThon success. Smart & Final District Manager Eric Fuchser joins the show to share how stores across Long Beach, the South Bay, and L.A. rallied to collect massive donations. Then Deanne Mendoza, Executive VP of Teacher Created Materials, brings along a standout student from the school that gathered the most pasta and sauce—celebrating the creativity, teamwork, and heart behind their big win. A feel-good episode full of community spirit and PastaThon pride.
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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):
We are live today all right at the Anaheim White
House Restaurant here in Anaheim for our fifteenth annual KFI
Pastathon Chef Bruno's charity, of course, Katerina's Club, provides more
than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids throughout
southern California who.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Are in need of a good hot meal.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We are going to talk with Bruno coming up later
in the show, a little bit more than we did
last night. We were actually on KTLA with him. They
invited us on to talk with Bruno and share Calvin
and Michael Olman about Katerina's Club and about the pastathon.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So Gary had this idea where he was going to
crack this joke on television last night and say that
the only reason he was there on set was to
be Bruno's translator. And I was like, no, no, no,
you can't do that anymore. Like we're going to get
in trouble for that, We're gonna get canceled.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I did the joke.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You did the joke, Well, you didn't say I'm here
because I'm his translator.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
You just did his voice.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
No, I did say it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh you did, yeah, because I said I thought the
only reason you guys wanted me here was to translate
for Bruno. I did the voice at the same time
that Bruno was saying something. And former producer Oscar said
that he had a hard time when he was watching
it on YouTube. He had a hard time figuring out
where Bruno's voice ended. In mind started.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, You're very good with voices.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks for noticing that. That's
the second thing you've noticed about me today. I appreciate
that your new sweater. Yes, that was the first.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, right, adult theater skills. I didn't do any crazy voices.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
In adult You're a really great actor, you really are.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Thank you. That's three things. Why are you doing this?
Because it's starting to get a little weird.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We are going to be broadcasting all of KFI is
going to be out here until eight o'clock tonight. As
a matter of fact, John Cobelt will be along at
one o'clock. Conway and his group will be here at
four o'clock.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
What time is going to be the John surprise.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh yes, it's gonna be in the three o'clock hour,
so probably maybe around three fifteen, all the way.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
To three forty five.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
You're not gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
So you guys that.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Are here, oh my god, definitely are gonna want to stay.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And let's you mentioned this earlier, one of the things
that John gracefully allows himself to be used in such
a way.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But but you, both of you actually.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Have had hands in sort of figuring out what is
the what is the craziest thing of the.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Moment that you could have John do it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You mentioned the first thing was that you had to
meet broccoli for the first time in his life.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yes, yes, that was years ago. It was a piece
of broccoli.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm just item it was somebody bid to have to
meet a piece of broccoli.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I'm continuing Shannon's tradition is really what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You if I started it, I think I think Terry
Railmer may have started.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Okay, okay, but but it's so much fun.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
But it's evolved. You.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You have gotten John to do things and wear things
I would never have dreamed up.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
There was a.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Bathroomth a series of robes, a Leopard robe.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
There was leopard pajamas.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Last year was like he was oh he was a pimp,
but he was dressed in leopard but he was a pimp.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
That was awful.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And then he also had a John hates reusable shopping bags.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
He's so he just refuses them.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
So I also gave him one of you know, so
it's just kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
A reusable shopping Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, they if they try to give him one at
the market, like, he'll leave all his groceries there after
he's purchased them before taking the reasonable badulous. It is ridiculous. Yeah,
he probably leaves his cart out too. He probably doesn't
take his cart back.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Oh didn't you hear his Costco story? He got upset
one time and he had a cart full of stuff
at Costco and I think it was taking too long
or something. He just left it there and he never
went back to con Last.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Year, we should have him dress up as something he's
never been. We should have him dress up as an adult.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Especially after this year. That would make a lot of sense.
Oh my god, they're gonna die.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What do you see? This is incredible?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We we you and I got a preview of that picture.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
His wife always comes to pastathon.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
She is gonna me and she'll never see you guys again.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Oh my god, never never, and he'll never have sex. Well,
you know that's their problem. I can't you know, I
can't choreograph everything.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
The way to help out is by coming out to
the Anaheim White House Restaurant. That's one of the ways
that you can help out. You can hang out and
be here. When John humiliates himself once again a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Later, he's the best. It's for the children. Get garried.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
For the children.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You're not doing anything we're talking about. You do something.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I'm here right now, all right. Do you guys see the.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Next year we should dress Gary up in something. We
even got applause outside for that one.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
What should it be? I mean the possibility.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
She's got her hand on her head like horns.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
What did you say, breasts?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Antlers?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh? The dress?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh oh, from Conway's party.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
You still have the white Halter's dress.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Do you have any idea the number of stains on
that dress?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
No, I'm gonna go throw up.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'll show you a picture she said out there in
the back. She said she wanted me to wear antlers.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, that's a that's a fetish, that's a that's a choice.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
That is we could put you in little antlers.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I was looking, you know, falling into the social media hole,
and they had footage from the nineteen fifty eight Christmas
Day football game, and the halftime show was cheerleaders, but
they weren't dressed in cheerleaders.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
They were dressed in like tights and.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Just like almost like like a brown leotard and they
had reined your antlers on and they were doing like
this and it was like they were in formation, pretending
they were deer on the field, and like that was
the halftime show in nineteen fifty eight, have as deer,
Like what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Is it better than what they're doing now?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
No, no, no, no, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Give me all the cowboy boots and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And the and the the you know, the the kicks.
I need to see women as reindeer.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
When we come back, we're going to be talking about
Smart and Final. One of the great partners with KFI
and with Katerina's Club in terms of ways that you
can help out, not even here at the White House Restaurant,
but at any of the Smart and finals throughout southern
California and beyond. We'll talk about that. Oh, we didn't
even do this nice. We need an update on that.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The update are eleven AM totals. By the way, so
ten am we had one hundred and fifty nine thousand
as of just the top of the hour. We've added
another thirty thousand dollars where one hundred and eighty nine
thousand dollars and change one eighty nine and we have
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added over two and a half tons more pasta and sauce.
We're now at twenty eight thousand, five hundred and sixty
five pounds sauce from from people's hearts, their hearts.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, no, that's wonderful. I don't think I've ever seen
a jump like that in the middle of the day.
Two jumps like that from nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
More jumps when we come back.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Broadcasting live today from the Anaheim White House here in Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
As you heard Conway.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Say, we have already gotten the party started here.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
For Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
John Cobelt will be along shortly as well. This is
how we kick off our season here with KFI and
with Chef Bruno and Katerina's Glove and the Pastathon. This
is the fifteenth annual Postathon. Now this started very small,
and we'll have Bruno on to tell his story coming
up in the next hour. But now Bruno is up
defeating twenty five thousand kids a week.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
He has expanded.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Beyond beyond this location, beyond the boys and girls clubs.
They have delivery trucks, they have satellite kitchens. He has
taken what began as his mother saying don't let this
child go hungry, to not letting any child, but he
knows that it is hungry in Orange County go hungry.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And again, it wouldn't be possible not only without the
KFI listener who have been so generous over the course
of the last fifteen years, but also the corporate partners
that have come alongside and helped us generate interest, generate income,
generate facilities in a lot of places for this and
one of those great partners lately has been Smart and
Final Stores. Not only yes, big round of applause, because
(08:47):
not only can you go to any Smart and Final
store in southern California, Arizona Nevada. They have been great
partners for a long time with us. So thanks. Eric
Fuscher is joining us. He's a district manner for Smart
and Final. Thanks for coming bye, by the way, thanks
for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
So, Eric, tell us why you decided a partner with
pastas on what you like about it, what your stores are,
the people who work in your stores like about it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Wow, that's a loaded question. You know.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
We started this journey a long time ago partnering with KFI,
and I'll tell you Smart and Final is very known
for its generosity. Anything to do that has to do
with kids, feeding kids is near and dear to our hearts.
I'll just tell you we have twelve districts, and all
(09:34):
twelve districts between Northern California and Nevada Arizona are all
We're very competitive, so we try to one up each other.
So if anybody your listeners wants to go to any
of my stores in District twelve, please shoot down there
because I'm going to run away with this thing.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Long Beach, South Bay, Large South Bay.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
I have Covina, I've got Sampedro, some stores in La Okay.
So it's great, but the organization incredible We just love
partnering with the chef Bruno yourself. You know I twenty
five thousand kids a day. That's that's one point three
million kids a year. That's an incredible number. So anything
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we you do to support that. Our customers are so
generous and we just appreciate your listeners as well, So
we just are grateful to be a part of that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I would just like to say, because I have a
member up at the top of Smart and Final here,
this guy, I would just like to say that I
appreciate you for carrying the farmer John Dodger Dogs during
the pandemic. I bought in bulk from Smart and Final
and I had a dog. I went through a dark
(10:42):
time when I had Dodger Dogs for dinner pretty much
every night. I think it was May of twenty twenty.
But I appreciate that, no worries.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
I consider that a food group. So yes, especially after
this year, the last two years, so we're frilled for that.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I also I in the Smart and Final that I
go to, it's very clear to me that this especially
this time of year, when we talk about Katerina's Club,
when we talk about this this program with Pastathon, it's
different at checkout than if you go to some other
store and it's you know, something on the little keypad
that says, do you want to donate something to some
(11:18):
unnamed or quit you know a charity that you know recognize,
and a lot of people just you know, they go
past that, they bypass it. But this is an opportunity
and I think it hits differently for people because it
is a local charity, because it means something right away.
I mean in terms of the five dollars feeds five
people right away. That's got to feel different. It's got
to feel better for you sort of on the receiving
(11:38):
end of those those transactions.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Absolutely, our cashiers, they we share the story behind what
we do. We just don't tell them, hey, sell these.
We tell them the story and what it does and
the outcomes. And when you when you paint that picture
in their mind's eye, there's buy in. And then there
are greatest ambassadors. We have the most incredible cashiers. Uh,
they really care, you know. We we try to create
(12:05):
some incentives for them. There's a lot of recognition that
we give the top sellers. But we don't look at
it as just selling. We look at it as just
you know, it's part of something that we get to do,
not that we have to do. And our cashiers are
very fortunate to have a team that we have.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That's a really good way of looking at it. It's
the way we should all look at it. We get
to do it, we don't have to do We get.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Does it?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Do you get any complaints about the announcements that we
make in the Smart and Final store.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Because nobody's listening to us.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's the other part about it.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Sometimes it's better than music we play.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I read something somewhere at one point years ago where
it said, like the music that they pipe into grocery
stores is all to get you to buy more food.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, it's it's to make you hungrier.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And yeah, I started listening to it after I read that.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'm like, it's true.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's kind of like like soft raw kind of depressing,
makes you want to curl up in a blanket with
all of the crackers and the things.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Again, Eric, future district manager at Smart and Final in
that District twelve support District twelve.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Oh, any of our districts. Just go out to any
Smart and Final. There's great ads, great prices, but we
have great service as well.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's awesome pleasure to meet here, Eric, thanks for coming again.
Any Smart and Final store around California, donate any amount
right there at the checkout, and it's all going to
go to Katarina's Club. Even in Arizona in the vat
if you're listening out there, you can make a difference
as well, and again, donate any amount.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It makes a big deal.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Hey, I got a.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Question about that whole thing you were just mentioning at
the check stand. You know, sometimes I get the little
message when I use my card, do you want to donate?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And it doesn't say that who you're donating to.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It just says like hunger or it just says like,
you know, toys or whatever, and there's no details. You
don't know who you're donating to. With Pastathon, you know exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Who you're donating to.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You're doting to Chef Bruno, you know exactly where that
money is going go to Smart and Final. You donate,
you know exactly what you're donating at checkout, and that's
the way.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Kfiam six forty dot com slash Pastathon for all the information,
not just how you can donate.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It Smart and.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Final, but all of our other great corporate partners. We'll
talk with the one of our show friends when we
come back as well, Show friends, Dm Mendoza, Oh from
Teacher Creative Materials.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
We've talked with her for the last several.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Years first Poston Friends.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yes, and it's great to have her back. We'll talk
more about the incredible.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Program that they run over there, but in the meantime.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This is the one day that really fuels the entire
program throughout the rest of the year when it comes
to feeding hungry kids that we don't always see here,
especially in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
We'd love to see you if you could come out
here at the Anaheim White House Restaurant. But if you can't,
go to KFIAM six forty dot com slash Pastathon and
you can donate there and you can also learn about
all the other different ways that you can help us
out with Pastathon this year.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
One of the one of the groups that has come
alongside KFI and Katerina's Club over the last several years
is Teacher Creative Materials and Dan Mendoza is executive vice
president for TCM like your sweatshirt, by the way, and
she has been a great partner with us because not
only did you guys get involved, you guys took this
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ball and ran with it in terms of kind of
setting up your own mini program, developing a way to
get the kids involved as well.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Competition is so much fun when you're doing it for
a good cause.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Competition for charity, Yeah is great.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So tell us about your pro first of all, tell
us about Teacher Creative Materials and what it is, and
so hello everybody, Teacher Creative Materials.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
We're an educational publishing company. We're coming up on our
fiftieth year. My mom and another teacher started it out
of our garage.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I didn't know that your mom started Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Oh cool, And so.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
We and we're a big Italian family, so we love
of the Katerinas Club Italian pasta. We think pasta fixes
a lot of problems growing.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Up, for sure it did.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
So we found this to be such a great synergy.
We've been a drop off location for last ten years
in Huntington Beach and then we run a department competition
between each of our departments across the country. And we
give away a golden Apple and today we are going
to actually match up to ten thousand dollars donation.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Wow, so they can be bringing that in. If you guys,
get go donate right now. That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You are in the unique position of one of our
partners who knows what it's like when children have a
hard time learning because of a basic need not being.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Met in terms of hunger. How hard it is for
kids to.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Go to school and actually focus on whatever the lesson
is that of that hour of that day, if you're hungry,
just doesn't happen. So when kids are fed, they're just
going to do better in school as well.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
When a base need isn't being met at home or
any place else, students are harder to reta It's harder
for students to retain information. And we find an education
if you stay curious, if you're awe seekers, then you
have a better lifelong learning experience. And so buy Chef
Bruno feeding so many kids than into those classrooms. They
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can pay attention, they can not worry about where their
next meal is going to come from. And schools are
doing breakfast and lunch and Chef Bruno is doing dinner.
So we are really appreciative, and all the teachers that
we work with that are making a difference every day
really appreciate this effort.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Explain how you get the different departments from all around
the like all throughout teacher creative materials, how you get
them involved and what their competition is.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
So we take it very seriously.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
We know that our employees work hard for their income,
so it's the only time we ever asked them to
dip back into their paycheck, and we love the idea
that it's for this very important cause. So our HR
department divides into different departments, so our warehouse, our sales team,
our marketing teams, our professional staff developers, our.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Content creators which are former teachers.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
They all run the competition throughout the entire month of
November and I get to come here and announce who
the Golden Apple winner is.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
They're listening right now to do it. Okay, So Drmorl,
we actually have one of those story.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Well I like that.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
So our winning department donated two hundred and twenty pounds.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Per person potion for.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Four three hundred and ninety one pounds, it's our warehouse.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wow, cheers to the warehouse my goodness, and.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
I'd love to share how much we actually are donating today.
In addition to matching the ten thousand, we actually have
collected over to our ten tons of pasta, So we
have two hundred thousand pounds.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
It's getting delivered directly to the Katerina's Love warehouse.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
The first time we came, we brought it all in
my trunk. Yeah. Yeah, so it's it's up that is
So that is something to be proud of.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
We we have a great city, We have a great community.
We have great schools. We have twelve schools that participated
this year.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Can I give them a shout out?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Absolutely?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Okay, because I know we're going to announce our winning
school too. But we have Circle View, Harbor View, Moffatt, Oakview,
Paton Elementary School, and Garden Grove, Seacliffe Elementary School, Dwyer
which was my alma mater, Macey View Middle School, Stacy
Middle School, Talbert Middle School, Vistaview Middle School, and a
national honor society in one of our high school districts.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, So when we come back, can you stick around
when we come back. We have a special guest from
the Winning School. We have a president in our midst.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Did you know this?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, you get on better behavior, okay, all right, we
will introduce the president of the Winning School when we
come back at the Anaheim White House. We are here
for our pasts on fifteenth year guys, and it's incredible
what our partners have been able to do. And it's
not just those massive donations, guys, that fuel the entire
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year for Chefruno. It is you coming by on your
lunch hour dropping off as little as five dollars. Five
dollars will feed a family of five. We can all
find five dollars, right, so let's do that.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Let's come by.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
They have a quick thing you can get quick in
quick out here.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Drive right by.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
You can dump off pasta or sauce, or five dollars
or ten dollars whatever you have, any cash in the
car in your wallet, happy to take it because it's
those little donations that go the furthest for Chef Brenow.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
And if you want a bigger ticket item, our auction
items are up on the website as well. Go to
kfi am six forty dot com slash pastathon.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It's not a competition.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But when John gets here, let him know that our
auction item is going for more than his auction.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Wow, we're going to rectify that.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's not a competition. But he said competition is great
for children.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
It's for the children, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Gary Channon will continue in just a moment.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It is a beautiful day too. We were blessed with it,
beautiful day. The sun is shining right down on Anheim
White House restaurant. We've got seating outside under the sunshine
with the beautifully decorated Christmas trees. A lot of people
taking advantage of the beautiful day out. There still plenty
of seats to see the disaster that John's gonna provide
for us in the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I mean, we have a source that has told us
about the surprise John will provide and you are not
gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But we're talking about something.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Unless you have problems with insomnia, it will keep you
awake at night.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
His wife's gonna kick him out of the house, is
what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yah, We may be breaking up a marriage, we may
be doing that.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
We have been joined by Dm Mendoza from Teacher Creative Materials,
who very generously just announced also a ten thousand dollars
matching donation. So if you're gonna make donations, now would
be a great time to double that money.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
So we appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
One of the things Teacher Created Materials has done is
created a healthy competition amongst children to donate and raise
as much pasta and sauce and money for kids in need.
What a great lesson to provide and what a great
competition and learning about people in your community that don't have.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
What you have.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So the competition is among area schools who can raise
the most pasta and sauce and we have the winner
here today from Seacliff Elementary. It is Madam President Mia.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Thank you the President Mia. What does it mean first
of all for you and your your schoolmates to be
the leaders when it comes to these donations that you've
been able.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
To gather, Well, it just feels so good to help
those and I think everybody at our school just loves
it and it's very competitive. We all love that because
you need some competitive once in a while.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, all the time. Really, I think you I love
a competition.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So what do you guys do? When do you start
raising pasta and sauce? Is it like the beginning of
the school year, to.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Be honest, like a month after the beginning of the
school year.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Let me start right.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That makes sense because you got to get in there,
You got to get settled and then start the start
the fight.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Off, do you get to go into each classroom? How
do how do you tell everybody else in the school
what you're doing?
Speaker 9 (23:13):
So, like my student council, we all like go to
other classes and we like we love to highlight the
pasta on to them, say bring pasta, guys, bring pasta
and sauce.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
To use that face. I totally raise a lot of
possum sauce for that face.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh my god, she's like, I mean business.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
They ran a competition by the grades as well, so
they may get competitive by schools and then competitive by grades.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Okay, okay, is it third graders? Are they scrappy?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
They all schools are.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Just third graders have nothing to lose.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh my gosh, they're no longer kindergarteners, but they're nowhere.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Near the top yet souris Man. Third graders, tell.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Us about yourself. What do you what's your favorite subject
in school?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I love to read and write.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
I love to like listen to books about fantasy and stuff.
And I do musical theater.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Oh you know Gary Dous theater as well.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Again, we've discussed this not in front of the children.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And you have a production coming up. You're gonna be
Dorothy Wait what jealous?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Good lest she is going to be the Wizard of Us.
She's in January.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, that is fantastic. Is this what you want to
do when you, you know, grow up more?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't want to say you're not growing up, because
you are, but you could be more, you could be taller.
You'll get there. I'm making it worse. Go on your
turn for a question.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
What are you reading right now?
Speaker 9 (24:42):
I'm reading a Lost Cities okay, Keeper of the Lost Cities.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Brilliant series. I love it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, it's like one of those series where you don't
want to do anything but read the books.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
Literally, I was like reading on the way here, I'm.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Like, had to finish this chapter bringing in the car
with you. That's where you know you have a good book.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Those are good, okay, madam, resident Mia is the winner
there are it is the class listening right now?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Is your classes, to be honest, I don't know. Yeah,
we don't know they are. I'm not going around the
school saying are you listening?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
We should?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, you should, I should.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You want to. That's how you're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We also are competitive, Mia, and we would like you
to start forcing the rest of the student body to
listen to this show nine to one. You know, maybe
have a teacher put it on in the class. I mean,
what's better fractions or this?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
What's this?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
What's math? What's fifth grade math?
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Fifth grade math is like decimals and fractions of the
show awful?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Who's cheering for fractions?
Speaker 8 (25:40):
Nobody?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I couldn't do anything with a fraction finished. Decimals were
like it's stern. Fractions were like no, no, the decimals
were cool.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The fractions five bits, fractions no, I hated five.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Eights, five hs.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
It's awful, six seven, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Thanks Dad, Thanks Dad, well Mia, thank you so thank you. Dan,
appreciate it as we do every year. This is an
incredible donation.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, Dan Mendoza again, Teacher creative materials.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
President Mia from from.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The Winning school things totals down.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I have these totals down from eleven.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
O'clock Dan's totals too.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
We are going to get incredible.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
We are going to get more. Yes, tell us about
the totals for the schools.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That was so Miya.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
You want to share with what cea cliff did?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
So we donated four and two pounds?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Wow, what's five eighth such that I'm kidding that in public? Right,
I'm not coming to do math.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Guys right there, we should have told you there is
no math.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Very cool, all right, Okay, well we come back. We've
got Chef Bruno that's going to join.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Us in the next hour.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
He's going to tell us how the pastathon began. It's
a great story if you haven't heard it, about Mama Katerina.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
And about how Bruno himself didn't really know about the
hungry kids in Orange County and now is.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Taken off with the help of Michelle and postathon, and
how important this day, the singular day is for the
entire year.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
For these kids.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
So thank you for being here. And we've got plenty
of room. If you're listening to the car stop on by.
We'd love to see you.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
A reminder that Teacher Creative Materials just announced their ten
thousand dollars matching donations, so if you're going to give,
now would be a great time to make that money
go even farther. You can go to KFIAM six forty
dot com slash postathon. One more quick thing, just a
big thank you to the Hilton Anaheim for our postathon accommodations.
A bunch of our team was able to stay there
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last night so they could get up early and make
all of this happen today. Multimillion dollar renovation there at
the Hilton Anaheim new dining, new rooms with views of
the Disneyland Fireworks. They have a big rooftop terrace up
there with its own pool. The Perfect oc Getaway starts
at Hilton Anaheimhotel dot com. Our big noon noon totals
(28:06):
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Don't forget to remember us when you're on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Gary Shannon will continue right after this. You've been listening
to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
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 KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
We are live today all right at the Anaheim White
House Restaurant here in Anaheim for our fifteenth annual KFI
Pastathon Chef Bruno's charity, of course, Katerina's Club, provides more
than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids throughout
southern California who.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Are in need of a good hot meal.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We are going to talk with Bruno coming up later
in the show, a little bit more than we did
last night. We were actually on KTLA with him. They
invited us on to talk with Bruno and share Calvin
and Michael Olman about Katerina's Club and about the pastathon.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So Gary had this idea where he was going to
crack this joke on television last night and say that
the only reason he was there on set was to
be Bruno's translator. And I was like, no, no, no,
you can't do that anymore. Like we're going to get
in trouble for that, We're gonna get canceled.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I did the joke.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You did the joke, Well, you didn't say I'm here
because I'm his translator.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
You just did his voice.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
No, I did say it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh you did, yeah, because I said I thought the
only reason you guys wanted me here was to translate
for Bruno. I did the voice at the same time
that Bruno was saying something. And former producer Oscar said
that he had a hard time when he was watching
it on YouTube. He had a hard time figuring out
where Bruno's voice ended. In mind started.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, You're very good with voices.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks for noticing that. That's
the second thing you've noticed about me today. I appreciate
that your new sweater. Yes, that was the first.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, right, adult theater skills. I didn't do any crazy voices.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
In adult You're a really great actor, you really are.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Thank you. That's three things. Why are you doing this?
Because it's starting to get a little weird.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We are going to be broadcasting all of KFI is
going to be out here until eight o'clock tonight. As
a matter of fact, John Cobelt will be along at
one o'clock. Conway and his group will be here at
four o'clock.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
What time is going to be the John surprise.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh yes, it's gonna be in the three o'clock hour,
so probably maybe around three fifteen, all the way.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
To three forty five.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
You're not gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
So you guys that.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Are here, oh my god, definitely are gonna want to stay.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And let's you mentioned this earlier, one of the things
that John gracefully allows himself to be used in such
a way.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But but you, both of you actually.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Have had hands in sort of figuring out what is
the what is the craziest thing of the.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Moment that you could have John do it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You mentioned the first thing was that you had to
meet broccoli for the first time in his life.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yes, yes, that was years ago. It was a piece
of broccoli.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm just item it was somebody bid to have to
meet a piece of broccoli.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I'm continuing Shannon's tradition is really what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You if I started it, I think I think Terry
Railmer may have started.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Okay, okay, but but it's so much fun.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
But it's evolved. You.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You have gotten John to do things and wear things
I would never have dreamed up.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
There was a.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Bathroomth a series of robes, a Leopard robe.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
There was leopard pajamas.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Last year was like he was oh he was a pimp,
but he was dressed in leopard but he was a pimp.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
That was awful.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And then he also had a John hates reusable shopping bags.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
He's so he just refuses them.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
So I also gave him one of you know, so
it's just kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
A reusable shopping Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, they if they try to give him one at
the market, like, he'll leave all his groceries there after
he's purchased them before taking the reasonable badulous. It is ridiculous. Yeah,
he probably leaves his cart out too. He probably doesn't
take his cart back.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Oh didn't you hear his Costco story? He got upset
one time and he had a cart full of stuff
at Costco and I think it was taking too long
or something. He just left it there and he never
went back to con Last.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Year, we should have him dress up as something he's
never been. We should have him dress up as an adult.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Especially after this year. That would make a lot of sense.
Oh my god, they're gonna die.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What do you see? This is incredible?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We we you and I got a preview of that picture.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
His wife always comes to pastathon.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
She is gonna me and she'll never see you guys again.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Oh my god, never never, and he'll never have sex. Well,
you know that's their problem. I can't you know, I
can't choreograph everything.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
The way to help out is by coming out to
the Anaheim White House Restaurant. That's one of the ways
that you can help out. You can hang out and
be here. When John humiliates himself once again a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Later, he's the best. It's for the children. Get garried.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
For the children.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You're not doing anything we're talking about. You do something.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I'm here right now, all right. Do you guys see the.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Next year we should dress Gary up in something. We
even got applause outside for that one.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
What should it be? I mean the possibility.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
She's got her hand on her head like horns.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
What did you say, breasts?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Antlers?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh? The dress?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh oh, from Conway's party.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
You still have the white Halter's dress.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Do you have any idea the number of stains on
that dress?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
No, I'm gonna go throw up.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'll show you a picture she said out there in
the back. She said she wanted me to wear antlers.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, that's a that's a fetish, that's a that's a choice.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
That is we could put you in little antlers.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I was looking, you know, falling into the social media hole,
and they had footage from the nineteen fifty eight Christmas
Day football game, and the halftime show was cheerleaders, but
they weren't dressed in cheerleaders.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
They were dressed in like tights and.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Just like almost like like a brown leotard and they
had reined your antlers on and they were doing like
this and it was like they were in formation, pretending
they were deer on the field, and like that was
the halftime show in nineteen fifty eight, have as deer,
Like what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Is it better than what they're doing now?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
No, no, no, no, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Give me all the cowboy boots and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And the and the the you know, the the kicks.
I need to see women as reindeer.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
When we come back, we're going to be talking about
Smart and Final. One of the great partners with KFI
and with Katerina's Club in terms of ways that you
can help out, not even here at the White House Restaurant,
but at any of the Smart and finals throughout southern
California and beyond. We'll talk about that. Oh, we didn't
even do this nice. We need an update on that.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The update are eleven AM totals. By the way, so
ten am we had one hundred and fifty nine thousand
as of just the top of the hour. We've added
another thirty thousand dollars where one hundred and eighty nine
thousand dollars and change one eighty nine and we have
(06:59):
added over two and a half tons more pasta and sauce.
We're now at twenty eight thousand, five hundred and sixty
five pounds sauce from from people's hearts, their hearts.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, no, that's wonderful. I don't think I've ever seen
a jump like that in the middle of the day.
Two jumps like that from nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
More jumps when we come back.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Broadcasting live today from the Anaheim White House here in Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
As you heard Conway.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Say, we have already gotten the party started here.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
For Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
John Cobelt will be along shortly as well. This is
how we kick off our season here with KFI and
with Chef Bruno and Katerina's Glove and the Pastathon. This
is the fifteenth annual Postathon. Now this started very small,
and we'll have Bruno on to tell his story coming
up in the next hour. But now Bruno is up
defeating twenty five thousand kids a week.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
He has expanded.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Beyond beyond this location, beyond the boys and girls clubs.
They have delivery trucks, they have satellite kitchens. He has
taken what began as his mother saying don't let this
child go hungry, to not letting any child, but he
knows that it is hungry in Orange County go hungry.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And again, it wouldn't be possible not only without the
KFI listener who have been so generous over the course
of the last fifteen years, but also the corporate partners
that have come alongside and helped us generate interest, generate income,
generate facilities in a lot of places for this and
one of those great partners lately has been Smart and
Final Stores. Not only yes, big round of applause, because
(08:47):
not only can you go to any Smart and Final
store in southern California, Arizona Nevada. They have been great
partners for a long time with us. So thanks. Eric
Fuscher is joining us. He's a district manner for Smart
and Final. Thanks for coming bye, by the way, thanks
for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
So, Eric, tell us why you decided a partner with
pastas on what you like about it, what your stores are,
the people who work in your stores like about it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Wow, that's a loaded question. You know.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
We started this journey a long time ago partnering with KFI,
and I'll tell you Smart and Final is very known
for its generosity. Anything to do that has to do
with kids, feeding kids is near and dear to our hearts.
I'll just tell you we have twelve districts, and all
(09:34):
twelve districts between Northern California and Nevada Arizona are all
We're very competitive, so we try to one up each other.
So if anybody your listeners wants to go to any
of my stores in District twelve, please shoot down there
because I'm going to run away with this thing.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Long Beach, South Bay, Large South Bay.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
I have Covina, I've got Sampedro, some stores in La Okay.
So it's great, but the organization incredible We just love
partnering with the chef Bruno yourself. You know I twenty
five thousand kids a day. That's that's one point three
million kids a year. That's an incredible number. So anything
(10:14):
we you do to support that. Our customers are so
generous and we just appreciate your listeners as well, So
we just are grateful to be a part of that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I would just like to say, because I have a
member up at the top of Smart and Final here,
this guy, I would just like to say that I
appreciate you for carrying the farmer John Dodger Dogs during
the pandemic. I bought in bulk from Smart and Final
and I had a dog. I went through a dark
(10:42):
time when I had Dodger Dogs for dinner pretty much
every night. I think it was May of twenty twenty.
But I appreciate that, no worries.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
I consider that a food group. So yes, especially after
this year, the last two years, so we're frilled for that.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I also I in the Smart and Final that I
go to, it's very clear to me that this especially
this time of year, when we talk about Katerina's Club,
when we talk about this this program with Pastathon, it's
different at checkout than if you go to some other
store and it's you know, something on the little keypad
that says, do you want to donate something to some
(11:18):
unnamed or quit you know a charity that you know recognize,
and a lot of people just you know, they go
past that, they bypass it. But this is an opportunity
and I think it hits differently for people because it
is a local charity, because it means something right away.
I mean in terms of the five dollars feeds five
people right away. That's got to feel different. It's got
to feel better for you sort of on the receiving
(11:38):
end of those those transactions.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Absolutely, our cashiers, they we share the story behind what
we do. We just don't tell them, hey, sell these.
We tell them the story and what it does and
the outcomes. And when you when you paint that picture
in their mind's eye, there's buy in. And then there
are greatest ambassadors. We have the most incredible cashiers. Uh,
they really care, you know. We we try to create
(12:05):
some incentives for them. There's a lot of recognition that
we give the top sellers. But we don't look at
it as just selling. We look at it as just
you know, it's part of something that we get to do,
not that we have to do. And our cashiers are
very fortunate to have a team that we have.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That's a really good way of looking at it. It's
the way we should all look at it. We get
to do it, we don't have to do We get.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Does it?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Do you get any complaints about the announcements that we
make in the Smart and Final store.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Because nobody's listening to us.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's the other part about it.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Sometimes it's better than music we play.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I read something somewhere at one point years ago where
it said, like the music that they pipe into grocery
stores is all to get you to buy more food.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, it's it's to make you hungrier.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And yeah, I started listening to it after I read that.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'm like, it's true.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's kind of like like soft raw kind of depressing,
makes you want to curl up in a blanket with
all of the crackers and the things.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Again, Eric, future district manager at Smart and Final in
that District twelve support District twelve.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Oh, any of our districts. Just go out to any
Smart and Final. There's great ads, great prices, but we
have great service as well.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's awesome pleasure to meet here, Eric, thanks for coming again.
Any Smart and Final store around California, donate any amount
right there at the checkout, and it's all going to
go to Katarina's Club. Even in Arizona in the vat
if you're listening out there, you can make a difference
as well, and again, donate any amount.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It makes a big deal.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Hey, I got a.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Question about that whole thing you were just mentioning at
the check stand. You know, sometimes I get the little
message when I use my card, do you want to donate?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And it doesn't say that who you're donating to.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It just says like hunger or it just says like,
you know, toys or whatever, and there's no details. You
don't know who you're donating to. With Pastathon, you know exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Who you're donating to.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You're doting to Chef Bruno, you know exactly where that
money is going go to Smart and Final. You donate,
you know exactly what you're donating at checkout, and that's
the way.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Kfiam six forty dot com slash Pastathon for all the information,
not just how you can donate.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It Smart and.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Final, but all of our other great corporate partners. We'll
talk with the one of our show friends when we
come back as well, Show friends, Dm Mendoza, Oh from
Teacher Creative Materials.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
We've talked with her for the last several.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Years first Poston Friends.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yes, and it's great to have her back. We'll talk
more about the incredible.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Program that they run over there, but in the meantime.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This is the one day that really fuels the entire
program throughout the rest of the year when it comes
to feeding hungry kids that we don't always see here,
especially in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
We'd love to see you if you could come out
here at the Anaheim White House Restaurant. But if you can't,
go to KFIAM six forty dot com slash Pastathon and
you can donate there and you can also learn about
all the other different ways that you can help us
out with Pastathon this year.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
One of the one of the groups that has come
alongside KFI and Katerina's Club over the last several years
is Teacher Creative Materials and Dan Mendoza is executive vice
president for TCM like your sweatshirt, by the way, and
she has been a great partner with us because not
only did you guys get involved, you guys took this
(15:27):
ball and ran with it in terms of kind of
setting up your own mini program, developing a way to
get the kids involved as well.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Competition is so much fun when you're doing it for
a good cause.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Competition for charity, Yeah is great.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So tell us about your pro first of all, tell
us about Teacher Creative Materials and what it is, and
so hello everybody, Teacher Creative Materials.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
We're an educational publishing company. We're coming up on our
fiftieth year. My mom and another teacher started it out
of our garage.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I didn't know that your mom started Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Oh cool, And so.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
We and we're a big Italian family, so we love
of the Katerinas Club Italian pasta. We think pasta fixes
a lot of problems growing.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Up, for sure it did.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
So we found this to be such a great synergy.
We've been a drop off location for last ten years
in Huntington Beach and then we run a department competition
between each of our departments across the country. And we
give away a golden Apple and today we are going
to actually match up to ten thousand dollars donation.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Wow, so they can be bringing that in. If you guys,
get go donate right now. That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You are in the unique position of one of our
partners who knows what it's like when children have a
hard time learning because of a basic need not being.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Met in terms of hunger. How hard it is for
kids to.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Go to school and actually focus on whatever the lesson
is that of that hour of that day, if you're hungry,
just doesn't happen. So when kids are fed, they're just
going to do better in school as well.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
When a base need isn't being met at home or
any place else, students are harder to reta It's harder
for students to retain information. And we find an education
if you stay curious, if you're awe seekers, then you
have a better lifelong learning experience. And so buy Chef
Bruno feeding so many kids than into those classrooms. They
(17:21):
can pay attention, they can not worry about where their
next meal is going to come from. And schools are
doing breakfast and lunch and Chef Bruno is doing dinner.
So we are really appreciative, and all the teachers that
we work with that are making a difference every day
really appreciate this effort.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Explain how you get the different departments from all around
the like all throughout teacher creative materials, how you get
them involved and what their competition is.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
So we take it very seriously.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
We know that our employees work hard for their income,
so it's the only time we ever asked them to
dip back into their paycheck, and we love the idea
that it's for this very important cause. So our HR
department divides into different departments, so our warehouse, our sales team,
our marketing teams, our professional staff developers, our.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Content creators which are former teachers.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
They all run the competition throughout the entire month of
November and I get to come here and announce who
the Golden Apple winner is.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
They're listening right now to do it. Okay, So Drmorl,
we actually have one of those story.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Well I like that.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
So our winning department donated two hundred and twenty pounds.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Per person potion for.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Four three hundred and ninety one pounds, it's our warehouse.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wow, cheers to the warehouse my goodness, and.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
I'd love to share how much we actually are donating today.
In addition to matching the ten thousand, we actually have
collected over to our ten tons of pasta, So we
have two hundred thousand pounds.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
It's getting delivered directly to the Katerina's Love warehouse.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
The first time we came, we brought it all in
my trunk. Yeah. Yeah, so it's it's up that is
So that is something to be proud of.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
We we have a great city, We have a great community.
We have great schools. We have twelve schools that participated
this year.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Can I give them a shout out?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Absolutely?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Okay, because I know we're going to announce our winning
school too. But we have Circle View, Harbor View, Moffatt, Oakview,
Paton Elementary School, and Garden Grove, Seacliffe Elementary School, Dwyer
which was my alma mater, Macey View Middle School, Stacy
Middle School, Talbert Middle School, Vistaview Middle School, and a
national honor society in one of our high school districts.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, So when we come back, can you stick around
when we come back. We have a special guest from
the Winning School. We have a president in our midst.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Did you know this?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, you get on better behavior, okay, all right, we
will introduce the president of the Winning School when we
come back at the Anaheim White House. We are here
for our pasts on fifteenth year guys, and it's incredible
what our partners have been able to do. And it's
not just those massive donations, guys, that fuel the entire
(19:58):
year for Chefruno. It is you coming by on your
lunch hour dropping off as little as five dollars. Five
dollars will feed a family of five. We can all
find five dollars, right, so let's do that.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Let's come by.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
They have a quick thing you can get quick in
quick out here.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Drive right by.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
You can dump off pasta or sauce, or five dollars
or ten dollars whatever you have, any cash in the
car in your wallet, happy to take it because it's
those little donations that go the furthest for Chef Brenow.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
And if you want a bigger ticket item, our auction
items are up on the website as well. Go to
kfi am six forty dot com slash pastathon.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It's not a competition.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But when John gets here, let him know that our
auction item is going for more than his auction.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Wow, we're going to rectify that.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's not a competition. But he said competition is great
for children.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
It's for the children, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Gary Channon will continue in just a moment.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It is a beautiful day too. We were blessed with it,
beautiful day. The sun is shining right down on Anheim
White House restaurant. We've got seating outside under the sunshine
with the beautifully decorated Christmas trees. A lot of people
taking advantage of the beautiful day out. There still plenty
of seats to see the disaster that John's gonna provide
for us in the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I mean, we have a source that has told us
about the surprise John will provide and you are not
gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But we're talking about something.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Unless you have problems with insomnia, it will keep you
awake at night.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
His wife's gonna kick him out of the house, is
what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yah, We may be breaking up a marriage, we may
be doing that.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
We have been joined by Dm Mendoza from Teacher Creative Materials,
who very generously just announced also a ten thousand dollars
matching donation. So if you're gonna make donations, now would
be a great time to double that money.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
So we appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
One of the things Teacher Created Materials has done is
created a healthy competition amongst children to donate and raise
as much pasta and sauce and money for kids in need.
What a great lesson to provide and what a great
competition and learning about people in your community that don't have.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
What you have.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So the competition is among area schools who can raise
the most pasta and sauce and we have the winner
here today from Seacliff Elementary. It is Madam President Mia.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Thank you the President Mia. What does it mean first
of all for you and your your schoolmates to be
the leaders when it comes to these donations that you've
been able.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
To gather, Well, it just feels so good to help
those and I think everybody at our school just loves
it and it's very competitive. We all love that because
you need some competitive once in a while.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, all the time. Really, I think you I love
a competition.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So what do you guys do? When do you start
raising pasta and sauce? Is it like the beginning of
the school year, to.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Be honest, like a month after the beginning of the
school year.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Let me start right.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That makes sense because you got to get in there,
You got to get settled and then start the start
the fight.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Off, do you get to go into each classroom? How
do how do you tell everybody else in the school
what you're doing?
Speaker 9 (23:13):
So, like my student council, we all like go to
other classes and we like we love to highlight the
pasta on to them, say bring pasta, guys, bring pasta
and sauce.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
To use that face. I totally raise a lot of
possum sauce for that face.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh my god, she's like, I mean business.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
They ran a competition by the grades as well, so
they may get competitive by schools and then competitive by grades.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Okay, okay, is it third graders? Are they scrappy?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
They all schools are.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Just third graders have nothing to lose.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh my gosh, they're no longer kindergarteners, but they're nowhere.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Near the top yet souris Man. Third graders, tell.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Us about yourself. What do you what's your favorite subject
in school?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I love to read and write.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
I love to like listen to books about fantasy and stuff.
And I do musical theater.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Oh you know Gary Dous theater as well.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Again, we've discussed this not in front of the children.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And you have a production coming up. You're gonna be
Dorothy Wait what jealous?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Good lest she is going to be the Wizard of Us.
She's in January.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, that is fantastic. Is this what you want to
do when you, you know, grow up more?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't want to say you're not growing up, because
you are, but you could be more, you could be taller.
You'll get there. I'm making it worse. Go on your
turn for a question.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
What are you reading right now?
Speaker 9 (24:42):
I'm reading a Lost Cities okay, Keeper of the Lost Cities.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Brilliant series. I love it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, it's like one of those series where you don't
want to do anything but read the books.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
Literally, I was like reading on the way here, I'm.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Like, had to finish this chapter bringing in the car
with you. That's where you know you have a good book.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Those are good, okay, madam, resident Mia is the winner
there are it is the class listening right now?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Is your classes, to be honest, I don't know. Yeah,
we don't know they are. I'm not going around the
school saying are you listening?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
We should?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, you should, I should.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You want to. That's how you're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We also are competitive, Mia, and we would like you
to start forcing the rest of the student body to
listen to this show nine to one. You know, maybe
have a teacher put it on in the class. I mean,
what's better fractions or this?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
What's this?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
What's math? What's fifth grade math?
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Fifth grade math is like decimals and fractions of the
show awful?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Who's cheering for fractions?
Speaker 8 (25:40):
Nobody?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I couldn't do anything with a fraction finished. Decimals were
like it's stern. Fractions were like no, no, the decimals
were cool.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The fractions five bits, fractions no, I hated five.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Eights, five hs.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
It's awful, six seven, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Thanks Dad, Thanks Dad, well Mia, thank you so thank you. Dan,
appreciate it as we do every year. This is an
incredible donation.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, Dan Mendoza again, Teacher creative materials.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
President Mia from from.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The Winning school things totals down.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I have these totals down from eleven.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
O'clock Dan's totals too.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
We are going to get incredible.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
We are going to get more. Yes, tell us about
the totals for the schools.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That was so Miya.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
You want to share with what cea cliff did?
Speaker 9 (26:28):
So we donated four and two pounds?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Wow, what's five eighth such that I'm kidding that in public? Right,
I'm not coming to do math.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Guys right there, we should have told you there is
no math.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Very cool, all right, Okay, well we come back. We've
got Chef Bruno that's going to join.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Us in the next hour.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
He's going to tell us how the pastathon began. It's
a great story if you haven't heard it, about Mama Katerina.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
And about how Bruno himself didn't really know about the
hungry kids in Orange County and now is.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Taken off with the help of Michelle and postathon, and
how important this day, the singular day is for the
entire year.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
For these kids.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
So thank you for being here. And we've got plenty
of room. If you're listening to the car stop on by.
We'd love to see you.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
A reminder that Teacher Creative Materials just announced their ten
thousand dollars matching donations, so if you're going to give,
now would be a great time to make that money
go even farther. You can go to KFIAM six forty
dot com slash postathon. One more quick thing, just a
big thank you to the Hilton Anaheim for our postathon accommodations.
A bunch of our team was able to stay there
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last night so they could get up early and make
all of this happen today. Multimillion dollar renovation there at
the Hilton Anaheim new dining, new rooms with views of
the Disneyland Fireworks. They have a big rooftop terrace up
there with its own pool. The Perfect oc Getaway starts
at Hilton Anaheimhotel dot com. Our big noon noon totals
(28:06):
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Don't forget to remember us when you're on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Gary Shannon will continue right after this. You've been listening
to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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