November 13, 2025 • 29 mins
From storm evacuations and workplace drama at iHeart Media to revoked immigrant licenses and plunging math scores at UC San Diego — Gary and Shannon cover the headlines shaking up California this week.
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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 (00:10):
She put the lunch box.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
She put the dog in my lunchbox, and then I
had to wash the lunchbox.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're talking about a former coworker. I don't remember the
lunchboxing incident. Who would bring their dog in and then
put it in a place where you eat your food.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Somebody who thought they were being funny and cute.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
That's that's neither of those things.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
She wildly miscalculated her funniness and her cute.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Also, did she not realize that you never liked her?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I don't I did I listen?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
It's pretty obvious.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
The Justice Departments prosecutions of former FBI director call Me
and New York Attorney General Letitia James could face a
court hearing today that might cut the short cut the
short cut short all of the arguments. Lawyers for call
Me and Letitia James have asked the court to disqualify
Lindsay Halligan. She is the one that President Trump installed
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in September as the US Attorney for the Eastern District
of Virginia. Both call me and James are arguing that
she was illegally appointed and as a result, the indictments
she secured should be thrown out. In a few minutes,
we're going to talk more about the former chief of
staff for Gavin Newsom, arrested on federal charges that she
(01:25):
was stealing all kinds of money out of Javier Besserra's
state campaign account and tax evasion, among other things.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But first, can we have some scary music or something
like like scared, We're scared, it's scary.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Say something scary it's going to rain. I could turn
it up a little bit to make it work.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I feel like we need to do better than that.
I feel like that's okay. Listen to what happened to
me this morning. I was in the elevator and I
was coming up here to the fourth floor, and there
was a group of people who were about our age.
Looked very successful and capable and our age like you know,
like thirty five, forty five ish.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I love it. Thank you for that. I appreciate that
you're welcome.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And uh and uh.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
There was Michael McNee who does sales and he's in
the elevator as well, and he and I We're talking
about prize picks. And the group gets in and they say, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And uh and he goes, oh, I'm going to the
fifth floor. They go, so are we and he says,
oh what are you?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Who do you hear to see?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And they said, well, we're here for iHeartMedia. We're on
the podcast side. And then the fourth floor. How does
it comes up?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And that's my floor, but not podcast side floor, the.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Floor of the floor of the island of misfit toys.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You just got told you're not.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I got told I was obsolete. It was a twilight
Zone and I was the obsolete one. Going to the
fourth floor where people just go to die. There's like
seven of us that work on this floor.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Do you remember the Michael Douglas movie The Game Michael
Douglas Jean Penn.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Hell, Yeah, goes up to that office and it's just empty. Yeah,
He's like, where did everybody go?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Have you been up to the fifth floor recently? It
is full of life.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
They have There are cocktail waiters out there.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
People. Yes, I mean it is there.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
There's business being They walk along with orders.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
It's a hole to do.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
People up there in hard pants like in outfits, unlike
the people here where we just wear our pajamas and
run into you know, walls with our heads.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
In here, you know, in our padded rooms.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Not all the light seven of us, not all the
lights come on.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
There are doors that we are not to open. Not
open that door.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
They shut down half of this floor. They dry walled
off half of this floor from us.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And people in it.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And at one point in the elevator we're quiet.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You can hear them scratched.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
They all looked at me like, as I was getting
off on the fourth floor, like.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh, she's one of them.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
She did look rather pale.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And then they looked at my jacket, my rainbow bright.
It's my rainbow bright jacket. It's got a lot of
colors and it's fun if your prefrontal cortex isn't developed.
And I and I thought that.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They looked at my jacket and they were like, yeah,
fourth floor figures.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, she's one of.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Them, one of them padded room kids.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Anyway, did we finish the rain thing?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
We didn't start the rainbow on some story about scary music.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I think we're the coolest floor, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Listen, that's what we would say that's what we would say.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I think we're the funniest floor and the most charismatic floor.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Also things that those are nice things to say about
people who are in special places.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
No, I mean it, though. I think we really are funnier,
and I think we're real and present.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You haven't spent time up you're literally I can hear
in the background the air purifier to get rid of
the smell in your room, and you're talking about how
great our floors.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Can hear the other one.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Literally, you guys were like, something died in here, and
we don't know how to get the smell out.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
We don't know if it's a dead animal or if.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It was a person, or if it was yesterday's person
whose smell is lingered in today. You know what we're
dealing with on this floor, People that smell like dead animals,
people in sweats, and me and my special jacket bouncing
my head off a padded wall.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Touche.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Let's just own it, Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Up next, we'll give you a little rundown on what's
going on rain wise.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
This will be a big one.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We do expect to see some potential debris flows in
the burn areas so Pega Canyon Road is going to
be closed.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They call it to Pega Canyon the twenty three. So
if they call.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It, I don't know why, don't just lose it Panga
Canyon Road.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
That is exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I could just say to Penga Canyon. You could say
that it's a boulevard. That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You know what to say if you worked on the
fifth floor.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, maybe that's why they've relegated us to the Maybe
that down below.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That sounds like something from Strangers The down below?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It totally does.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
We are in the under what is it called the
is it the under outside down?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I like that. Ps.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We're also on the podcast side. Tell them about the podcast.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
If you miss any part of our show, you can
always check out the Cool Podcast by going on to
the any place you find your cool podcast. We prefer
the iHeartRadio app, but we'll let you go anywhere else.
Just type in Gary and Shannon. We show up on
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the subscribe button. It'll populate right after the show. Oh,
(07:00):
we have their weekend fix all of that.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Also, didn't you want to invite Amy to our news
and Bruce?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Amy what are you doing tomorrow after your shift?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
By the way, he starts here at like three in
the morning.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Half.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Oh, I know I'm talking to Amy now.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I don't currently have any plans.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I would love it if you would.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
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Speaker 4 (07:26):
With my name on it.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yep, like a director's chair. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Really, I don't know if that. I'm just saying it
to you to try to get you out there. I
may have to eventually write on a blank piece of
paper your name and put it on a chair.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I'll see what I can do. I'll make that sign
right now.
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Speaker 1 (08:30):
Quick update from upstairs on the fifth floor where all
the party people are from the podcast side. They're having
a big meeting today, right and we just got word
from from the meeting that they just did their first
activity of the day and it was to build a
tower using mushrooms. I'm sorry, marsh marshmallows and spaghetti. It
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was a team building exercise to build a tower using
just spaghetti and marshmallows, which frankly, you and I would
can kill. Could you imagine if you.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Think of the team that would be built around, we.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Wouldn't need anybody else. Ps like you and I could
kill ah Mar a marshmallow and spaghetti tower. You know that. Ye,
Like we could build it like between my imagination and
your mechanical abilities. I mean, this tower would be incredible
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and it would be quick because we're efficient.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But nobody invited out.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Somebody asked, all right, So there are.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Some evacuation warnings set to go into effect tonight as
we get ready for our first real atmospheric river style
storm of the of the seat.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I would just hump the brakes on the atmospheric river.
It's gonna be like a day and a half of
maybe two inches of rain in southern California.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
My mom says, are getting hit hard up there.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, they've gotten like two and a half inches.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Overnight, she said.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The current forecast that I have here for the for
Burbank specifically is rain starts late tonight and continues through
Monday ooh, and then peaks back up on Thursday. So
is that what makes it?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
The river?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It starts up north, it comes down here, it goes away,
it comes back.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
It's kind of like a river flowing.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
No oh, but akain for Burbank.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
This is from Weather Underground.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
They said Burbank could get more than an inch of
rain tomorrow, two and a quarter inches of rain on Saturday,
another half inch or so on Sunday. So that's four
plus inches of rain just for the city of Burbank. Right,
So there is a chance that this thing is pretty
significant in terms of being the first big.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Storm of You clean out your gutters, you get your
gutter hose in there?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
What is it called a gutter.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
A root, gutter weasel? Yeah? Whatever, here's this, here's this specific.
I don't have gutters on my house.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
My husband got up there, did all the gutters, ripped
open the deck, got all the leaves out from under
the deck using his.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I got a.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Massaw it's called a oscillating saw it and he used
that and then he tried to tell me all about it.
And I did not care, and I didn't understand. It's
like telling me a story in Chinese, Like cool, I
don't I don't understand what you're talking about. I want
(11:36):
to understand. I don't have the tools in my toolbox
to understand.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Is it just the tool that's got a little blade
on it about that big and it goes like that.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I didn't look at it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
What do you mean you didn't look at I.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Purchased it and I wrapped it up and I put it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Under the tree. Show me the shape of what?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Like?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
How big was the box last Christmas? I know it
was last Christmas twelve years ago.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Do you remember what brand it was? What color was?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I won't even know what a brand. I couldn't name
one brand of saws other than husk Varna.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I doubt it was a husk Varna. But what color was?
You don't even know a color?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Aren't they all live there?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Are you? Are you there?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'm not out there when he's doing man's work.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You're just getting away.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Probably What the hell am I going to do out there?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Tell him he's doing it wrong? If you you know.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I don't play that game either. Huh uh huh.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
All right, well hold on, Are we done with the
rain thing?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
No, we just want to point out that the the
as of right now, the evacuation warnings are going into
effect tonight at six They will last.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It looks like through Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You're looking at Palisades fire, sunset fire, Hurst fire in
the Palisades, a Mandeville Canyon, the area of Silmar north
of the two ten Freeway. There's a slice of Hollywood
near Runyon Canyon Park. All of those under evacuation warnings
depending on how things go. And like I said earlier
to Penga, Canyon Boulevard will be closed down at about
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ten o'clock tonight, They're going to shut it down between
Pacific Coast Highway and Grand View Drive. That will stay
closed until conditions improve.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And don't worry.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
The La City Emergency Operations Center will be open starting
at six o'clock tonight and they'll be watching the football game.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I assume.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I know we have a fair amount of truck drivers
in our gas family, and I'd like to hear from them.
California is now going to revoke about seventeen thousand commercial
driver's license that were just handed out to people here illegally.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
How did this happen?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It was only light shed on this after a number
of tragic accidents involving drivers that do not have a
California driver license or it's expired, or they're not even
here legally.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
What are we doing? What are these companies doing?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It looks like we're directing the problem, but not before
a lot of tragedy hit.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Flight reductions in forty major US airports will be at
six percent. They'll stay at six percent. They were going
to go up to eight percent. The FAA says, now
that the government shutdown is over and some air traffic
controllers are starting to come back to work, this six
percent limit is going to stay in place while they
assess just basically a few times a day, whether the
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air traffic system can safely return to normal operations. They
have not provided a timeline. I saw that the CEO
of one of the airlines did say he expects things
to get right back to normal sooner than everybody else might.
He has a confidence that they'll be able to get
this thing back up and running.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
California plans to revoke seventeen thousand commercial driver's licenses given
to immigrants.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
The licenses are.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Revoked because DA officials discovered their expiration dates went past
when the drivers were illegally allowed to be in the
US based on DMV documents.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Major laps in paperwork what's the word?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Fatal truck crashes in Texas and Alabama earlier this year
highlight the questions like why the f do people have
driver's licenses? Commercial driver's license, who are here illegally. We
don't even know who these people are, and we're arming
them with trucks. Crash here in California involving an illegal
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immigrant truck driver last month killed three people.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Secretary of Transportation did impose restrictions on which people, which
immigrants specifically, can qualify for a commercial driver's license, and
said that California, among other states, I think there's five
others improperly we're issuing commercial driver licenses to non citizens.
But California is the only state that the Transportation Department
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has taken action against because it was the first one
where an audit was completed. The reviews in those other
states have been delayed by the government shutdown, but the
expectation is that all of them will have their audits completed,
and that could happen now. According to the state, they
said that this had nothing to do with the light
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that was shed upon that shined upon this by the
Trump administration. They're just, you know, completing their own paperwork.
Hey listen, I don't care who's responsible for I don't
care if the California State Department of Transportation doesn't want
to admit that pressure from the Trump administration is what
caused them to do this.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Just do it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Duffy said in September that investigators found one quarter of
the one hundred and forty five licenses they were reviewed
in California one quarter should not have been issued. He
cited a bunch of licenses that remained remained valid after
the driver's work permit expired, sometimes years after.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
So what's up with the trucking companies? Is it no
due diligence on that front.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Well, we have heard from a couple of people, Jesse
the trucker, one of those guys, the.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Guys truck or Jesse Hey, the non dimosolt drivers or
drivers coming out of other countries. And what they do
is they'll get them to work cheaper. The average paper
per mile for a driver right now's around fifty to
sixty cents a mile, and they'll count from other countries
and get made twenty eight to thirty cents a mile,
and they'll live in the truck. They'll get two or
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three drivers coming in live in one truck, and so
they're already cutting rates. And it's just most of all,
it is dangerous, very dangerous.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Two to three dudes living in the cab of one truck.
That sounds gamy. Maybe that's what's going on in the
other room. Where do you think there are people sleeping
in there? Is that probably what has caused the odor?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, what's going on with that?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Is it ah diminished at all?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
I think it's like mold. It smells like mold. Oh
that's a loss over right there.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Something you're gonna hey, remember us, remember the little people
when you get rich from the mold poisoning.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
The mold poisoning.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Newsom's office is that every one of the drivers whose
licenses are being revoked again there're seventeen thousand of them,
they do have valid work authorizations from the federal government.
So it's important to point out also that when this
came up, and we've seen these high profile accidents, including
the one here not too long ago they killed three people,
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Gavin Newsom squarely pointed a finger at the Biden administration
for allowing the people to get work visas in the
first place. That again doesn't change the story for me.
Just fix it, fix it, one more, fix.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It go ahead.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
That reminds me of the Gary Hoffman rule, which is
which is, if you don't like something that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Stoptop it.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I hear that voice in my head sometimes where it
just goes stop it, and I go, oh, okay, Gary.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
That's the only thing you say in my head. Stop it?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Stop?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Do I say it's slow everyone now Now it's exactly like,
stop it, no, stop it.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah. John Fetterman guys breaking news here. He has fallen
to the ground and smashed his face. Oh, Pennsylvania politician
transported to a hospital in Pittsburgh today. He sustained to
fall near his home on an early morning walk. He
was hospitalized, they say, out of an abundance of caution,
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and then further evaluation revealed a ventricular fibrillation flare up
that made him lightheaded, resulted in in him falling to
the ground and hitting his face with minor injuries or.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
As they see in a TV hospital drama v fib.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I got up.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Last night from the couch. I was watching Collapsed No,
but I did feel dizzy. I don't know why do
you think I have that?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Whatever he has, No, I think you just got up
from the couch after having sat there for a while.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I was watching the Eddie Murphy documentary on Netflix. Fabulous. Really,
it's really good. You forget how freaking normal of a dude.
Eddie Murphy is talk about no highs and lows, like
he's just a normal dude.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Which is not the original impression. Now from Eddie Murphy
delirious right, So to your.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Point, he says, watching delirious and raw, now he's like,
I don't know who that guy is. That's funny, but
you know, you think back when you were twenty years old.
If you did a stand up set when you were twenty,
you would look back at that guy and you'd be like,
That's how I thought about it, Like, who's that the
hell is she talking about?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We cannot do math. We simply can't do math.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
There is a new UC San Diego study that says
we have absolutely failed our kids in the last several years,
not over twenty years, last five years.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And I didn't have kids, obviously, but I feel like
that ship sailed with the whole common COREBS.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
This may be changing the way that math is done.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Why it may be part of it.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's just confusing things that are already confused.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
There was an extensive article in the New York Times
magazine about chatbot love and it's becoming less anecdotal and
more of a groundswell of this is the new way
to fall in love.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Spike Jones movie from now twelve years ago now with
Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Yeah, it's when you saw it,
it was like sciencefic. Nobody would fall for that, nobody
would do that.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Now it's weird.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's a Tuesday, and these are people who are everyday
normal people.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Let's I'm gonna pump the brakes on the word normal.
But but you want people like this. Sure, there was
a new report new you see San Diego faculty report
reveals that ditching standardized testing.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think the SATs and things like that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
COVID disruptions and grade inflation has triggered what they refer
to as a thirty fold spike in freshmen who need
remedial math classes. In the last five years, the number
of freshmen that needed remedial math increased from about one
(22:57):
in every one hundred incomings TOD to one in eight
And I'm not talking about even high level algebra stuff.
These are very basic questions that very few of our
kids are actually getting There is one class dedicated solely
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to elementary and middle school basics at the University of California,
San Diego. They are teaching elementary and middle school math basics.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
They said math, elementary and middle school. So fractions, percentages.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Count the bears, Yes, count all.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Of that basic stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, fractions can be difficult. This is one of the
five eighths.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Fan.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
This is one of the problems that I saw yesterday,
and that box is what you have to solve for.
It says seven plus two equals blank plus six.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
That's that's a problem.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Do you know the answer?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Three?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay, I'm just checking here, being very quiet there for
a second.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
No, that's it. That's not something that's like count the
bear stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Something like twenty five percent of kids could not get that.
I'm sorry, twenty five percent of incoming college freshmen could
not answer that correctly.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I think we're done. I think we're done as a people.
What what do you think the hold up there is?
Is it the way that the question is asked?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
What's the disconnect?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I mean, because that's obviously seven plus two is nine.
You look on the other side of the equals sign
there's a six, how do you get to nine from
six to add three?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Again, super basic algebra stuff, but so much that's just
simple addition. So I'm confused if we're we're not doing
simple edition. That makes no sense, right, Okay, incoming freshmen
in twenty twenty five, graduated high school in twenty I'm sorry,
(25:11):
started high school in twenty twenty twenty nineteen. Again, here's
where math. I'm clearly showing my inability to do fracing math.
We shut down schools for COVID and thought everybody was
going to be fine. Clearly it didn't happen. On top
(25:34):
of that, you had this influx of AI able to
do homework for people, right, you've got that, You've got
a lack of regular testing.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
We just don't do it the way we used to.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Everybody's on a chrome book, nobody's using pencil and paper
anymore for these We talked about that just last week,
about teachers that are upset that you can't do this.
You can't teach yourself the same way. If you're using
a computer.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
All the math is tough.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I remember there being a drop off just having summers off,
but that's for stuff like Pythagorean theorem or whatever. When
you have to remind yourself how to do things and
use that muscle again. Well, you're showing the remedial stuff
is just simple addition, Like there's no excuse for that.
You know, I understand the drop off for math once
(26:24):
you get into the more.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Algebra twos, the geometries, the trigonometries, all of that stuff
is calculus. I mean those are hard, and they're designed
to be hard, or I mean the classes, I should
say are designed to be hard. U see San Diego
report calls for an immediate institutional response to avoid setting
students up for failure and putting strain on the faculty.
(26:49):
You can't go from having no math, did I tried stupidly?
I tried a calculus for engineer's class, and.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I was a little arrogant. Yeah, I blew that class.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know though, it's a fun rite of passage when
you pick a class in college like that that you
can pick and you can rise to the occasion. It's
it's a good lesson to learn. And I think, I'm
glad you did that. I'm glad that you tried that.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
That was my That was a I don't remember if
I got a D plus or a C minus and
I did awful in that class, and again it didn't matter,
so I didn't reflect on what else I was doing.
But according to UCSD, to fix this crisis, they have
to stop relying on just the blanket overall high school
GPA and specifically look into math skills as a separate form, sorry,
(27:46):
a separate criteria for admissions.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Let me play Devil's advocate.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Do you when are they ever gonna need to do
any math whatsoever with the way things are done for us?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Matt, I agree with that, but I also think that
math is a barometer of how can I be a
barometer of how you train your mind.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Should train your muscles in your mind.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Absolutely, It's one of those things like math is like
the salad of education. You don't necessarily want it, but
you have to be able to eat a salad every
once in a while. And there are some people who
are just salad eaters. John Cobelt doesn't eat salads. My wife,
my wife, My wife is fine at math. She would
(28:32):
say she's not good at it. My daughter is one
of those people who has to use math all the
time for her work in chemistry. But I don't know
if she would say that she was gifted in it,
but that she's had to work at it. And to me,
that's sort of the barometer of math can be a
barometer of how willing you are to work, how willing
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you are to teach it.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I think it's easy for people to say it's not
my thing. I'm not a genius, so it's not my thing,
so I'm not going to do it. Like you're either
a genius at math or you're just not going to
do it because you're not a genius. Where most people
have to work at it, it doesn't come easy to
most people.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
When we come back swamp Watch, among other things, Gavin
Newsom's former chief of staff got caught up in a
federal indictment. Will explain what they accuse her of doing.
When we come back to Gary and Shannon. You've been
listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty nine am
to one pm every Monday through Friday, and anytime on
(29:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
She put the lunch box.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
She put the dog in my lunchbox, and then I
had to wash the lunchbox.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're talking about a former coworker. I don't remember the
lunchboxing incident. Who would bring their dog in and then
put it in a place where you eat your food.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Somebody who thought they were being funny and cute.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
That's that's neither of those things.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
She wildly miscalculated her funniness and her cute.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Also, did she not realize that you never liked her?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I don't I did I listen?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
It's pretty obvious.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
The Justice Departments prosecutions of former FBI director call Me
and New York Attorney General Letitia James could face a
court hearing today that might cut the short cut the
short cut short all of the arguments. Lawyers for call
Me and Letitia James have asked the court to disqualify
Lindsay Halligan. She is the one that President Trump installed
(01:03):
in September as the US Attorney for the Eastern District
of Virginia. Both call me and James are arguing that
she was illegally appointed and as a result, the indictments
she secured should be thrown out. In a few minutes,
we're going to talk more about the former chief of
staff for Gavin Newsom, arrested on federal charges that she
(01:25):
was stealing all kinds of money out of Javier Besserra's
state campaign account and tax evasion, among other things.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But first, can we have some scary music or something
like like scared, We're scared, it's scary.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Say something scary it's going to rain. I could turn
it up a little bit to make it work.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I feel like we need to do better than that.
I feel like that's okay. Listen to what happened to
me this morning. I was in the elevator and I
was coming up here to the fourth floor, and there
was a group of people who were about our age.
Looked very successful and capable and our age like you know,
like thirty five, forty five ish.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I love it. Thank you for that. I appreciate that
you're welcome.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And uh and uh.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
There was Michael McNee who does sales and he's in
the elevator as well, and he and I We're talking
about prize picks. And the group gets in and they say, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And uh and he goes, oh, I'm going to the
fifth floor. They go, so are we and he says,
oh what are you?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Who do you hear to see?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And they said, well, we're here for iHeartMedia. We're on
the podcast side. And then the fourth floor. How does
it comes up?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And that's my floor, but not podcast side floor, the.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Floor of the floor of the island of misfit toys.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You just got told you're not.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I got told I was obsolete. It was a twilight
Zone and I was the obsolete one. Going to the
fourth floor where people just go to die. There's like
seven of us that work on this floor.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Do you remember the Michael Douglas movie The Game Michael
Douglas Jean Penn.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Hell, Yeah, goes up to that office and it's just empty. Yeah,
He's like, where did everybody go?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Have you been up to the fifth floor recently? It
is full of life.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
They have There are cocktail waiters out there.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
People. Yes, I mean it is there.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
There's business being They walk along with orders.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
It's a hole to do.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
People up there in hard pants like in outfits, unlike
the people here where we just wear our pajamas and
run into you know, walls with our heads.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
In here, you know, in our padded rooms.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Not all the light seven of us, not all the
lights come on.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
There are doors that we are not to open. Not
open that door.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
They shut down half of this floor. They dry walled
off half of this floor from us.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And people in it.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And at one point in the elevator we're quiet.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You can hear them scratched.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
They all looked at me like, as I was getting
off on the fourth floor, like.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh, she's one of them.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
She did look rather pale.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And then they looked at my jacket, my rainbow bright.
It's my rainbow bright jacket. It's got a lot of
colors and it's fun if your prefrontal cortex isn't developed.
And I and I thought that.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They looked at my jacket and they were like, yeah,
fourth floor figures.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, she's one of.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Them, one of them padded room kids.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Anyway, did we finish the rain thing?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
We didn't start the rainbow on some story about scary music.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I think we're the coolest floor, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Listen, that's what we would say that's what we would say.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I think we're the funniest floor and the most charismatic floor.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Also things that those are nice things to say about
people who are in special places.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
No, I mean it, though. I think we really are funnier,
and I think we're real and present.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You haven't spent time up you're literally I can hear
in the background the air purifier to get rid of
the smell in your room, and you're talking about how
great our floors.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Can hear the other one.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Literally, you guys were like, something died in here, and
we don't know how to get the smell out.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
We don't know if it's a dead animal or if.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It was a person, or if it was yesterday's person
whose smell is lingered in today. You know what we're
dealing with on this floor, People that smell like dead animals,
people in sweats, and me and my special jacket bouncing
my head off a padded wall.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Touche.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Let's just own it, Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Up next, we'll give you a little rundown on what's
going on rain wise.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
This will be a big one.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We do expect to see some potential debris flows in
the burn areas so Pega Canyon Road is going to
be closed.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They call it to Pega Canyon the twenty three. So
if they call.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It, I don't know why, don't just lose it Panga
Canyon Road.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
That is exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I could just say to Penga Canyon. You could say
that it's a boulevard. That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You know what to say if you worked on the
fifth floor.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, maybe that's why they've relegated us to the Maybe
that down below.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That sounds like something from Strangers The down below?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It totally does.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
We are in the under what is it called the
is it the under outside down?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I like that. Ps.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We're also on the podcast side. Tell them about the podcast.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
If you miss any part of our show, you can
always check out the Cool Podcast by going on to
the any place you find your cool podcast. We prefer
the iHeartRadio app, but we'll let you go anywhere else.
Just type in Gary and Shannon. We show up on
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the subscribe button. It'll populate right after the show. Oh,
(07:00):
we have their weekend fix all of that.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Also, didn't you want to invite Amy to our news
and Bruce?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Amy what are you doing tomorrow after your shift?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
By the way, he starts here at like three in
the morning.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Half.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Oh, I know I'm talking to Amy now.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I don't currently have any plans.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I would love it if you would.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
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Chino Hills to Luchiador Brown. You don't have to answer now,
you can keep it as a surprise. But Lucidoor Brewing
Company has a seat specifically set aside for Amy.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
With my name on it.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yep, like a director's chair. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Really, I don't know if that. I'm just saying it
to you to try to get you out there. I
may have to eventually write on a blank piece of
paper your name and put it on a chair.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I'll see what I can do. I'll make that sign
right now.
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Speaker 1 (08:30):
Quick update from upstairs on the fifth floor where all
the party people are from the podcast side. They're having
a big meeting today, right and we just got word
from from the meeting that they just did their first
activity of the day and it was to build a
tower using mushrooms. I'm sorry, marsh marshmallows and spaghetti. It
(08:52):
was a team building exercise to build a tower using
just spaghetti and marshmallows, which frankly, you and I would
can kill. Could you imagine if you.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Think of the team that would be built around, we.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Wouldn't need anybody else. Ps like you and I could
kill ah Mar a marshmallow and spaghetti tower. You know that. Ye,
Like we could build it like between my imagination and
your mechanical abilities. I mean, this tower would be incredible
(09:26):
and it would be quick because we're efficient.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But nobody invited out.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Somebody asked, all right, So there are.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Some evacuation warnings set to go into effect tonight as
we get ready for our first real atmospheric river style
storm of the of the seat.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I would just hump the brakes on the atmospheric river.
It's gonna be like a day and a half of
maybe two inches of rain in southern California.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
My mom says, are getting hit hard up there.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, they've gotten like two and a half inches.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Overnight, she said.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The current forecast that I have here for the for
Burbank specifically is rain starts late tonight and continues through
Monday ooh, and then peaks back up on Thursday. So
is that what makes it?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
The river?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
It starts up north, it comes down here, it goes away,
it comes back.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
It's kind of like a river flowing.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
No oh, but akain for Burbank.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
This is from Weather Underground.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
They said Burbank could get more than an inch of
rain tomorrow, two and a quarter inches of rain on Saturday,
another half inch or so on Sunday. So that's four
plus inches of rain just for the city of Burbank. Right,
So there is a chance that this thing is pretty
significant in terms of being the first big.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Storm of You clean out your gutters, you get your
gutter hose in there?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
What is it called a gutter.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
A root, gutter weasel? Yeah? Whatever, here's this, here's this specific.
I don't have gutters on my house.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
My husband got up there, did all the gutters, ripped
open the deck, got all the leaves out from under
the deck using his.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I got a.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Massaw it's called a oscillating saw it and he used
that and then he tried to tell me all about it.
And I did not care, and I didn't understand. It's
like telling me a story in Chinese, Like cool, I
don't I don't understand what you're talking about. I want
(11:36):
to understand. I don't have the tools in my toolbox
to understand.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Is it just the tool that's got a little blade
on it about that big and it goes like that.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I didn't look at it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
What do you mean you didn't look at I.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Purchased it and I wrapped it up and I put it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Under the tree. Show me the shape of what?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Like?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
How big was the box last Christmas? I know it
was last Christmas twelve years ago.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Do you remember what brand it was? What color was?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I won't even know what a brand. I couldn't name
one brand of saws other than husk Varna.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I doubt it was a husk Varna. But what color was?
You don't even know a color?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Aren't they all live there?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Are you? Are you there?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'm not out there when he's doing man's work.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You're just getting away.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Probably What the hell am I going to do out there?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Tell him he's doing it wrong? If you you know.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I don't play that game either. Huh uh huh.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
All right, well hold on, Are we done with the
rain thing?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
No, we just want to point out that the the
as of right now, the evacuation warnings are going into
effect tonight at six They will last.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It looks like through Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You're looking at Palisades fire, sunset fire, Hurst fire in
the Palisades, a Mandeville Canyon, the area of Silmar north
of the two ten Freeway. There's a slice of Hollywood
near Runyon Canyon Park. All of those under evacuation warnings
depending on how things go. And like I said earlier
to Penga, Canyon Boulevard will be closed down at about
(13:09):
ten o'clock tonight, They're going to shut it down between
Pacific Coast Highway and Grand View Drive. That will stay
closed until conditions improve.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And don't worry.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
The La City Emergency Operations Center will be open starting
at six o'clock tonight and they'll be watching the football game.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I assume.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I know we have a fair amount of truck drivers
in our gas family, and I'd like to hear from them.
California is now going to revoke about seventeen thousand commercial
driver's license that were just handed out to people here illegally.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
How did this happen?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It was only light shed on this after a number
of tragic accidents involving drivers that do not have a
California driver license or it's expired, or they're not even
here legally.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
What are we doing? What are these companies doing?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It looks like we're directing the problem, but not before
a lot of tragedy hit.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Flight reductions in forty major US airports will be at
six percent. They'll stay at six percent. They were going
to go up to eight percent. The FAA says, now
that the government shutdown is over and some air traffic
controllers are starting to come back to work, this six
percent limit is going to stay in place while they
assess just basically a few times a day, whether the
(14:33):
air traffic system can safely return to normal operations. They
have not provided a timeline. I saw that the CEO
of one of the airlines did say he expects things
to get right back to normal sooner than everybody else might.
He has a confidence that they'll be able to get
this thing back up and running.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
California plans to revoke seventeen thousand commercial driver's licenses given
to immigrants.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
The licenses are.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Revoked because DA officials discovered their expiration dates went past
when the drivers were illegally allowed to be in the
US based on DMV documents.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Major laps in paperwork what's the word?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Fatal truck crashes in Texas and Alabama earlier this year
highlight the questions like why the f do people have
driver's licenses? Commercial driver's license, who are here illegally. We
don't even know who these people are, and we're arming
them with trucks. Crash here in California involving an illegal
(15:42):
immigrant truck driver last month killed three people.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Secretary of Transportation did impose restrictions on which people, which
immigrants specifically, can qualify for a commercial driver's license, and
said that California, among other states, I think there's five
others improperly we're issuing commercial driver licenses to non citizens.
But California is the only state that the Transportation Department
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has taken action against because it was the first one
where an audit was completed. The reviews in those other
states have been delayed by the government shutdown, but the
expectation is that all of them will have their audits completed,
and that could happen now. According to the state, they
said that this had nothing to do with the light
(16:29):
that was shed upon that shined upon this by the
Trump administration. They're just, you know, completing their own paperwork.
Hey listen, I don't care who's responsible for I don't
care if the California State Department of Transportation doesn't want
to admit that pressure from the Trump administration is what
caused them to do this.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Just do it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Duffy said in September that investigators found one quarter of
the one hundred and forty five licenses they were reviewed
in California one quarter should not have been issued. He
cited a bunch of licenses that remained remained valid after
the driver's work permit expired, sometimes years after.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
So what's up with the trucking companies? Is it no
due diligence on that front.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Well, we have heard from a couple of people, Jesse
the trucker, one of those guys, the.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Guys truck or Jesse Hey, the non dimosolt drivers or
drivers coming out of other countries. And what they do
is they'll get them to work cheaper. The average paper
per mile for a driver right now's around fifty to
sixty cents a mile, and they'll count from other countries
and get made twenty eight to thirty cents a mile,
and they'll live in the truck. They'll get two or
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three drivers coming in live in one truck, and so
they're already cutting rates. And it's just most of all,
it is dangerous, very dangerous.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Two to three dudes living in the cab of one truck.
That sounds gamy. Maybe that's what's going on in the
other room. Where do you think there are people sleeping
in there? Is that probably what has caused the odor?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, what's going on with that?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Is it ah diminished at all?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
I think it's like mold. It smells like mold. Oh
that's a loss over right there.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Something you're gonna hey, remember us, remember the little people
when you get rich from the mold poisoning.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
The mold poisoning.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Newsom's office is that every one of the drivers whose
licenses are being revoked again there're seventeen thousand of them,
they do have valid work authorizations from the federal government.
So it's important to point out also that when this
came up, and we've seen these high profile accidents, including
the one here not too long ago they killed three people,
(18:41):
Gavin Newsom squarely pointed a finger at the Biden administration
for allowing the people to get work visas in the
first place. That again doesn't change the story for me.
Just fix it, fix it, one more, fix.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It go ahead.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
That reminds me of the Gary Hoffman rule, which is
which is, if you don't like something that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Stoptop it.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I hear that voice in my head sometimes where it
just goes stop it, and I go, oh, okay, Gary.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
That's the only thing you say in my head. Stop it?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Stop?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Do I say it's slow everyone now Now it's exactly like,
stop it, no, stop it.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah. John Fetterman guys breaking news here. He has fallen
to the ground and smashed his face. Oh, Pennsylvania politician
transported to a hospital in Pittsburgh today. He sustained to
fall near his home on an early morning walk. He
was hospitalized, they say, out of an abundance of caution,
(19:53):
and then further evaluation revealed a ventricular fibrillation flare up
that made him lightheaded, resulted in in him falling to
the ground and hitting his face with minor injuries or.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
As they see in a TV hospital drama v fib.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I got up.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Last night from the couch. I was watching Collapsed No,
but I did feel dizzy. I don't know why do
you think I have that?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Whatever he has, No, I think you just got up
from the couch after having sat there for a while.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I was watching the Eddie Murphy documentary on Netflix. Fabulous. Really,
it's really good. You forget how freaking normal of a dude.
Eddie Murphy is talk about no highs and lows, like
he's just a normal dude.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Which is not the original impression. Now from Eddie Murphy
delirious right, So to your.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Point, he says, watching delirious and raw, now he's like,
I don't know who that guy is. That's funny, but
you know, you think back when you were twenty years old.
If you did a stand up set when you were twenty,
you would look back at that guy and you'd be like,
That's how I thought about it, Like, who's that the
hell is she talking about?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We cannot do math. We simply can't do math.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
There is a new UC San Diego study that says
we have absolutely failed our kids in the last several years,
not over twenty years, last five years.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And I didn't have kids, obviously, but I feel like
that ship sailed with the whole common COREBS.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
This may be changing the way that math is done.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Why it may be part of it.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's just confusing things that are already confused.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
There was an extensive article in the New York Times
magazine about chatbot love and it's becoming less anecdotal and
more of a groundswell of this is the new way
to fall in love.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Spike Jones movie from now twelve years ago now with
Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Yeah, it's when you saw it,
it was like sciencefic. Nobody would fall for that, nobody
would do that.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Now it's weird.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's a Tuesday, and these are people who are everyday
normal people.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Let's I'm gonna pump the brakes on the word normal.
But but you want people like this. Sure, there was
a new report new you see San Diego faculty report
reveals that ditching standardized testing.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think the SATs and things like that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
COVID disruptions and grade inflation has triggered what they refer
to as a thirty fold spike in freshmen who need
remedial math classes. In the last five years, the number
of freshmen that needed remedial math increased from about one
(22:57):
in every one hundred incomings TOD to one in eight
And I'm not talking about even high level algebra stuff.
These are very basic questions that very few of our
kids are actually getting There is one class dedicated solely
(23:20):
to elementary and middle school basics at the University of California,
San Diego. They are teaching elementary and middle school math basics.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
They said math, elementary and middle school. So fractions, percentages.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Count the bears, Yes, count all.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Of that basic stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, fractions can be difficult. This is one of the
five eighths.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Fan.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
This is one of the problems that I saw yesterday,
and that box is what you have to solve for.
It says seven plus two equals blank plus six.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
That's that's a problem.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Do you know the answer?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Three?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay, I'm just checking here, being very quiet there for
a second.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
No, that's it. That's not something that's like count the
bear stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Something like twenty five percent of kids could not get that.
I'm sorry, twenty five percent of incoming college freshmen could
not answer that correctly.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I think we're done. I think we're done as a people.
What what do you think the hold up there is?
Is it the way that the question is asked?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
What's the disconnect?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I mean, because that's obviously seven plus two is nine.
You look on the other side of the equals sign
there's a six, how do you get to nine from
six to add three?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Again, super basic algebra stuff, but so much that's just
simple addition. So I'm confused if we're we're not doing
simple edition. That makes no sense, right, Okay, incoming freshmen
in twenty twenty five, graduated high school in twenty I'm sorry,
(25:11):
started high school in twenty twenty twenty nineteen. Again, here's
where math. I'm clearly showing my inability to do fracing math.
We shut down schools for COVID and thought everybody was
going to be fine. Clearly it didn't happen. On top
(25:34):
of that, you had this influx of AI able to
do homework for people, right, you've got that, You've got
a lack of regular testing.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
We just don't do it the way we used to.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Everybody's on a chrome book, nobody's using pencil and paper
anymore for these We talked about that just last week,
about teachers that are upset that you can't do this.
You can't teach yourself the same way. If you're using
a computer.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
All the math is tough.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I remember there being a drop off just having summers off,
but that's for stuff like Pythagorean theorem or whatever. When
you have to remind yourself how to do things and
use that muscle again. Well, you're showing the remedial stuff
is just simple addition, Like there's no excuse for that.
You know, I understand the drop off for math once
(26:24):
you get into the more.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Algebra twos, the geometries, the trigonometries, all of that stuff
is calculus. I mean those are hard, and they're designed
to be hard, or I mean the classes, I should
say are designed to be hard. U see San Diego
report calls for an immediate institutional response to avoid setting
students up for failure and putting strain on the faculty.
(26:49):
You can't go from having no math, did I tried stupidly?
I tried a calculus for engineer's class, and.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I was a little arrogant. Yeah, I blew that class.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know though, it's a fun rite of passage when
you pick a class in college like that that you
can pick and you can rise to the occasion. It's
it's a good lesson to learn. And I think, I'm
glad you did that. I'm glad that you tried that.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
That was my That was a I don't remember if
I got a D plus or a C minus and
I did awful in that class, and again it didn't matter,
so I didn't reflect on what else I was doing.
But according to UCSD, to fix this crisis, they have
to stop relying on just the blanket overall high school
GPA and specifically look into math skills as a separate form, sorry,
(27:46):
a separate criteria for admissions.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Let me play Devil's advocate.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Do you when are they ever gonna need to do
any math whatsoever with the way things are done for us?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Matt, I agree with that, but I also think that
math is a barometer of how can I be a
barometer of how you train your mind.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Should train your muscles in your mind.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Absolutely, It's one of those things like math is like
the salad of education. You don't necessarily want it, but
you have to be able to eat a salad every
once in a while. And there are some people who
are just salad eaters. John Cobelt doesn't eat salads. My wife,
my wife, My wife is fine at math. She would
(28:32):
say she's not good at it. My daughter is one
of those people who has to use math all the
time for her work in chemistry. But I don't know
if she would say that she was gifted in it,
but that she's had to work at it. And to me,
that's sort of the barometer of math can be a
barometer of how willing you are to work, how willing
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you are to teach it.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I think it's easy for people to say it's not
my thing. I'm not a genius, so it's not my thing,
so I'm not going to do it. Like you're either
a genius at math or you're just not going to
do it because you're not a genius. Where most people
have to work at it, it doesn't come easy to
most people.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
When we come back swamp Watch, among other things, Gavin
Newsom's former chief of staff got caught up in a
federal indictment. Will explain what they accuse her of doing.
When we come back to Gary and Shannon. You've been
listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always
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