December 19, 2025 • 31 mins
On today’s Gary and Shannon Show, we break down new updates in the Reiner case, including timeline concerns, hotel details, and questions surrounding the weapon. We also look ahead at incoming rain and hear from Hurricane Hunters flying missions over California. Reporter Michael Monks joins the show to talk about his audition for a holiday play, the rise of e-bike culture, and why the Burbank City Council is considering legal action.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And I couldn't listen to him anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
They did play one that I recognized, only I only
heard one Maclamore song last night in the football broadcast.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Ya, I mean you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Got to, you got to, you got to? Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So the true mark of making it in Hollywood, they say,
is not an oscar.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
No it's not. It's not a billboard with your face
on it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, no, no, it is getting the coconut cake for
the holidays from Tom Cruise. It's become so famous that
you saw this if you watched Hacks.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You saw it on Hacks.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's a It's an open secret in Hollywood that Tom
Cruise has a list of people he sends cake two,
this one specific coconut cake two around the holidays, and
a listers have bragged about receiving one of the coveted
coconut cakes. Some of the people who have gotten them
(01:08):
Alec Baldwin. Let's see Kristen Dunst.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know she she.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Christen dunts by the way, says like she says it
in many interviews, how like she gets the coconut cake.
It's it's a bragging right Glenn Powell, John Ham, John
Ham and Angela Bassett.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, all things, all of these Guess what we have
them cake?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Guess what we have the Tom Cruise have the Tom
Cruise Cake.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
They're not lying, they're not. They really have.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It right here. It's from Doan's Bakery over in Woodland Hills.
You can order it.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I guess they do nation wide delivery if that's what
you're into. Yeah, but this this Tom Cruise cake, white chocolate.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'm gonna get a bunt cake. I'm gonna get into it.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Get go for it you first.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That is sinful?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They said.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It's a moist, dense, sour cream bunt cake that sounds
great with chunks of white chocolate, rich cream cheese frosting,
generously sweet and toasted coconut flakes.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Tom Cruise knows how to do it. Are you looking
for the recipe? They got a recipe. Now, I just
want Tom to send someone else to make it for it.
So the reason that we.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Have this cake is because of our resident starlet, Heather Brooker.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Heather Brooker is a real working actress.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
In Hollywood and got her hands on this, because all
the Hollywood people can get their hands on this if
they are somebody, and Heather Brooker is somebody. And what
did she do with the Tom Cruise cake? She brought
it to this show. Did she bring it to I'm
any other show?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No feelings right now.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
She brought it to this show. She went out of
her way to do something nice for us.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's a really good cake.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Good.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I know this cake does not this job I do too.
I love this job. It's a good Friday, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It's a good Friday. Yeah? What No, nothing?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I just enjoy watching you eat, is that right? M
oh good?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
A couple of quick things to let you know. First
of all, it is what you learned this week on
the Gary and Channon Show. We'll do that a little
bit later in the show, so leave us a talkback message.
Tell us what you learned while you were listening to
our show this week. One of the things is that
new balance shoes are an indicator potentially of molestation.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Okay, okay, okay, No, not all new balances are for
child molesters. Only those magas white leather ones. But anything
that's like Joe Fresh Goods or Double Tabs or.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Shound.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah no, there's a difference between the Speakerhead New Balances
and Molester New Balances.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
A good point.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Everybody knows though, and which ones.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Very big, very very fast.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, no, I have names.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I don't know the names that he was talking about,
but I could I could pick out the difference between
I think Sneakerhead, New Balance and others.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah no, there's a there's a lot of great New
Balance is.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Literally wearing New Balances right now, he is.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, well, he's wearing the Fresh ones.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I hope you guys have a great Christmas acation, but
please don't use that canned show from iHeart Oh it's
really terrible. Can't you just play like best of Gary
and Shannon or some music for a couple of weeks
that would be much better music.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Thanks a lot, you have a great well listen if
you're going to be here next week. We're going to
be here next week. The only we're only taking Christmas
in the day after, so we do have some things
in the can, some fresh stuff, but we also will
be having we'll be playing some best of Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I want to eat this whole piece.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Okay, No one's going to take it away from you. Okay,
I'm worried about the sugar crash.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No one is wrong. There's no sugar crash.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
There's not no just tamper it with temperate, I should say,
with a little caffeine coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Okay, we was the last time you had a diet
coke running through your veins. It's been a bit a while.
Just think how jacked up you'd be if you got
one of them.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Is it a bad decision? Friday might be? Is how
it starts? Little ones? Little ones. As of right now,
the Twin Towers Correctional Facilities home to Nick Reiner, who
is accused of stabbing and killing his mother and father
just last weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, so already you're going to see this.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You're going to see the defense playbook play itself out
in the media. As we said, the arraignment is not
going to be till January seventh, But there's a vacuum
that exists. There are hungry minds for information about what
was going on in this home with this family, and
so today we're learning from probably a leak from the
(05:48):
defense team that Nick Reiner was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and
in the weeks leading up to the murder of his parents,
the meds he was taking reportedly made him erratic and dangerous.
And this is the defense you're going to hear. Two
sources told TMZ that Nick was under the care of
a psychiatrist for mental illness, that in the month before
(06:11):
the murders, Nick's behavior had gotten alarming, that he had
recently received care at an LA based rehab facility that
specializes in mental illness and substance abuse, to the tune
of by the Bye seventy thousand dollars a month. As
you can imagine, a lot of rich people go there.
(06:32):
The rehabs man, what a boondoggle. Some of them are great,
some of them are just to take money. Some of
them got to be careful. It is a wild industry.
TMZ says that they heard from their sources three to
four weeks before the murders, doctors changed Nick Reiner's meds
and he became even more erotic. That doctors were trying
(06:54):
to adjust the medications so Nick was stabilized, but they
say it wasn't working, and that once the meds were changed,
he was out of his head. They said that his
substance abuse was workinging. We're worsening the schizophrenia. This is
all laying down the foundation for the plea in January.
Not guilty by reason of insanity, And like we said earlier,
(07:19):
you can be mentally unhealthy and kill somebody but not
be able to use this defense. You have to prove
that at the time of the murder that he knew,
didn't know. I keep making that mistake, did not know
right from wrong. And that's going to be hard to
do because he left the scene, he hit his bloody clothes.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
We still know where the murder weapon is. He checked
into a hotel. He evaded. You know, you don't run.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Away from something where you're just like, this could be right,
this could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't know, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Let's assume you hang your you hang your little shingle out,
and you become a defense attorney. Yeah, is this the
kind of thing you would leak to the press to
try to.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Build that foundation. Yes, get the ball roll in before
I'm in court. Yeah, you're a dirty little defense attorney.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I've got to do this. I've got to create
momentum as soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's true because you're behind the eight ball anyway, because
the amount of publicity that's already been received previous.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I also being the most expensive defense attorney covering high
profile defendants in the land, and proof myself that this
is a family that doesn't think this kid is all bad.
I myself improve that this family's spending a lot of
money on my defense for him because they know he's
not a monster, that he's just mentally unwell. I mean,
(08:49):
this is all part of the all part of the
narrative that goes on behind the scenes, and unfortunately is
so easy to get out with the media cycle these days.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
There's a lot of takers, a lot of people pick
up that phone when you're gonna call. All right, storm
is actually coming in to southern California. Northern California's been
getting a lot of rain in the last couple of days.
We'll talk about why, what we can expect next week
for Christmas. And those hurricane hunters fly those planes into
the eyes of hurricanes. They're coming here to California not
(09:21):
because of our hurricanes, but because of our atmospheric river.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
We'll talk about that and we come back.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
We started the show with this news that came out
of the Northeast. Portuguese national Claudio Nev's Valente has been
identified as the suspect at the shooting at Brown University
last weekend, but also the shooting of a professor from MIT.
Apparently this guy may have gone to school with that
(09:54):
MIT professor back in Portugal in the nineties. We do
know that he did study at Brown univer twenty some
odd years ago, so we don't know exactly the motive,
why he targeted, what he targeted, or even who he
targeted with that MIT professor.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
We now know who's set up Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Brittany Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
No, Carl, I don't even get a Carl Weathers. I
don't know Carl Weathers. I don't know who is Carl
Weathers the actor.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Go on the act he died bro Well, but he
died recently, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, it's sure he died last year. Okay, it is.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Taylor Swift's mom. How did Taylor Swift's mom know Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Andrea Swift has revealed she's the one who set up
her daughter with Travis in a scene from the end
of an Era docu series. In the video, Andrea recalled
watching a viral clip from Travis's Heights podcast in which
he talks about going to one of Taylor's concerts and
(11:05):
being disappointed that he did not get to give Taylor
his phone number. Loving this earnest gesture and handsome face,
Andrea immediately called up the biggest Kansas City Chief fan
she knew to get her the details on Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
What's he all about? Is he a good guy? What's
the deal?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
After learning how much Travis loved his mom, Mama Kelsey Andrea,
Taylor's mom was all in, but first she had to
convince Taylor, and apparently it did take some convincing. She
had no clue who he was Taylor Swift. She says,
I'd been very non athlete because I'm not one. I've
always just been like, well, what would we talk about?
(11:47):
Taylor says her mom basically told her, you gotta start
doing something different. So she took her mom's advice, and
not only did she find that she and Travis had
plenty to talk about, she's actually super into football.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
She just needed the motivation, she said.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I became obsessed with him and therefore became obsessed with
learning about football. The greatest surprise of my life. That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
That is joy.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That is nice.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Nice to see joy and other people.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I love this love story. Now that the Chiefs are
out of the playoffs, but only only because tell me
more about the venue.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, we will see some rain next week. We're going
to see clear skies probably the next couple of days,
but there will be a pretty strong storm swystem that
comes through during the holiday.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
The changes are going to be get up.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Obviously in San Luis Obispo County, clouds and a slight
chance of rain expected Sunday and Monday. By Tuesday those increase.
We will see some rain expected. Wednesday is probably the
wettest day, so that's Christmas Eve. One to two inches
of rain across the coasts and valleys, maybe up to
four inches in the foothills and mountains.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
So that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Our friend Henry de Carlo over at KTLA had said
that the question now is how long does it last.
If Wednesday is the strongest day in terms of rainfall,
does it taper off by the time you open presents
on Christmas morning, because only heathens open them on Christmas Eve.
Snow level is expected to stay high, so that's not
going to be an issue necessarily, but.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
It will be. It will be wet. Now.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The leading climate institutions, including the Script's Institute of Oceanography
down at uc San Diego, are ramping up research because
of the strength of atmospheric rivers. They say that they've
been increasing and they want to see.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Why did you hear about the hurricane hunters heading to
California to check out our atmospheric rivers?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I'm excited to welcome these people.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
They fly in very special Oceana graphic get own it
special airplanes. I'll say that they can gather satellite They
can gather in information that other satellites wouldn't be able
to get. They have sensors that record the hurricanes for
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the most part, and will be able to record atmospheric
rivers as they fly in. They can also drop drop sondas.
I've never heard of that term before. It means it's
a small cylindrical parachuting instrument and as it falls, it
collects air temperature pressure, water, vapor, wind speed, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Where does it land, I will so they're able to
just pick these up wherever they land.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Huh, well, I'm sure it transmits so they can record
it as it goes. I don't know if it's an
expendable thing or it's got a little plaque on it
that says, if you find me, drop me in your
nearest mailbox and I'm guaranteed postage or something like that.
Two US Air Force Reserve WC one thirty j's will
be sorry, one of those, and then a Gulf Stream
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four will be available to these.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So they were expendable, right what the drop spondas, I
don't know if they are they were.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
If they are, I'm sure they are. I'm sure they just.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Michael Monks's Michael Monks has heard about our holiday production.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
We will be here Christmas Eve, by the way.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yes, So when you're like running around or you're doing
last minute stuff, you're seting the table, what have you,
we will be here because we want to get out
of all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Frankly, that's not why we're not trying to get away
from the laws a little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Why a little bit why it's just you speak for yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'll speak for you. It's a little bit why, it's
a very little accident.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Anyway, we will be here and we'll be doing a
Christmas production for you. Michael Monks has dabbled in theater
and he wanted to audition for it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
For a ruby tell him what it is before, because
I don't think he's he's been aware of what we've
done before.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So yeah, I think he only thinks about Michael Monks. Oh,
so we'll just let him put on whatever audition he
wants to.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Know we should do.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
We should do total Hollywood, where we just as the
casting directors, we just sit back and go.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I should we make them take off stuff?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
No, no, no, that that's past the old days. Those
are the old days, and we all get sick of
that of it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Okay, so wait, what are we supposed to do is
just sit back and not give any reaction.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, and make him feel uncomfortable or not necessarily uncomfortable,
but just don't give him anything back.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I've never auditioned for anything before. Okay, it's making me
nervous thinking about job application right where you got to
talk about yourself basically terrifying.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You just got to watch him audition. You're not auditioning, I.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Know, but I'm getting nervous for him. Don't be Okay,
he'll be fine.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KF
I am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Does anything get done starting now through Christmas? Does anything
like legit get done at work? Because I understand that
we have a lot of stuff to get to, but
I'm in it just like want. I want to have fun.
I would to a holiday that's such a people are
having their holiday parties.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I just feel like this is a fun time. And
I don't think anything real gets done at work now
until the new.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Year, right, and even then after the new year, you
got a full week of recovery or something like that, right,
I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'm working pretty hard here.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You see a January fifth, let's just do that.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You want, just do that?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
January fifth is when we start being serious again. But
that's your birthday. It's gonna be a serious day. Okay,
it's your birthday. Whatever you want every year every year?
Who's calling you? And why are you taking a call
or is it a text?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
It's wife?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh hi, Shannon, I will text her today. I told
my husband yesterday, we got a broken toilet. He goes,
that's your toilet. I go, okay, I see how we're
doing that.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Now. Was that who you called?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You called your brother the toilet.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
He's a plumber. A little bit of water around it.
Here's my issue. I've got a plumber that I used
years ago at the house.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Local guy. Don't remember. He was great, He was great.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I think he was a Gas family member too. And
I don't remember his name. And I don't want to
call a stranger plumber. And I can't remember this guy's name.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
With your toilet.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's leaking from where the back, the back right, the
bolts on the bottom. Oh yeah, so we're going to
tighten those up. My brother's advice, tighten those up, don't
tight to see how it goes. It's an old toilet,
though it's seen a lot of assau it's probably an
original word.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Are you leaning back on that thing like you take
it over?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Okay, come back, I'm serious that my leaning back?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You know what do you lean back?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Michael? Do you lean back? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Mike?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That is the big that can be a big problem. No,
Michael Monks has joined us. That was funny.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Reluctantly regrettably.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh you got somewhere better to be.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You know, I live in a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We just have the one toilet, so to hear you
talk about, Oh that's your toilet, sounds very fancy. However,
we did recently acquire a second cat that we rescued
from the good Row. Why because now we do have
a second bathroom. We've all started using the litter box.
Oh god, there's no leaking there. It's very absorbent.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Do you pee in the litter box that I have?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Beat in the little box? Oh? My god, like regular
and then you bury it?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Have you done it regularly?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I did it this morning.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Oh really fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Well, maybe that's what I'll do while my toilet's in disrepair.
I'll get myself a litter box and just start using
that because I can't get a flubber on the week
of Christmas.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
There's no way.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Five gallon home depot, bucket and Phillip.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I guess this is my path at least until January fifth.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
On a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
On a regular basis, we find a way to bring
the arts to our listeners rights and usually a holidays.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Gary has a background in theater. He has crafted numerous
plays for us to present you in the holidays, and
you do a wonderful job, really so well written.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Just two of them that we've cut two of them.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But they feel different because we have different They are
acted by different people all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Chris change the script change this year.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Michael Monks is upon us just like Christ, the birth
of Christ, and.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You just like that, as a matter of fact, a
virgin birth in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You are here and you wanted to audition for a role.
If I'm not mistaken, I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Coming on to talk about the paramount.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We're going to do that the next segment.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I feel a little bit on the spot here.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I told you you said you had an audition prepared,
that you were going to recite a Shakespearean sonnet. I said, great,
we'll do that at ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That is not what happened at all. She got most
of that right back her up on that. You said
that we were going to do a Christmas place monologue.
And then it sounded like the Christmas play wasn't happening
because we've seen no audition notices posted.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
We're all Union people here. We have to go through agents.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
This is not a union production.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Here's the important part about this. A. It's not approved
by SAG. After we were very clear. Second, if I
just start talking about this thing, willy nilly, we get
overwhelmed with people who say they feel left out, and
in all honesty, there aren't enough spots for everybody.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I learned that last year.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
One year. Stop, it is that true. You got left
out last year.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I was not part of the production last year. And
as I was sitting there doing all of the work.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, listening to this, I thought, next year, I'm going
to be in that play.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I did it last year.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I would love it if you were talented enough to
understand that there is a standard. I wanted to prove
to you that I could meet that. And so I'm
here's the here's the problem.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I said.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I am willing me, Michael Monks, I'm willing to audition
for the Christmas play at Gary and right now, because
there was no notice posted, I have no You think
I can just run out, willy nilly and just pull ships.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Is this a dagger which I see before me?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
It's handle told my hand, come let me clutch thee.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I had they not yet? I see these still, are
they not fatal vision? Sensible to feeling has to sight?
Are out there a dagger of the mind, a false
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creation proceeding from the heat breast brain? I see the
still yet as as this wish I now draw. That's
all I got.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's very good. I couldn't tear my eyes away from you.
That was really good.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Wow, Macbeth, right, Mac, Wow, I am impressed.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Now what part now you see?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now I'm seeing I'm seeing a love iron sharpman's iron
energy going on in here.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I got to theater, dudes.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Is that Shepherd number four worthy? Or am I playing Joseph? Joseph?
There's no Joseph.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
This isn't about Jesus the Nativity.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh, then count me out, okay, right, Joseph Joseph energy.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Over here, Joseph energy. You can call me Big Joe.
Thanks for your time, and we'll call You'll call.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
It the.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I've got eight bars or sixteen bars of a show
tune as well music?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
No music, okay, Oh, I would love a little music.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Do you have show tunes? Is that? Do you need
a backing track?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I don't know, you know, Will Cole Schreiber's more of
the musical theater guy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Okay, this is an incredible Hollywood centric show. We've eaten
Tom Cruise's cake. We've had Michael put on a masterclass
of an audition from Shakespeare's Macbeth. We have an actress
coming on in the next two actresses coming on in
the next hour.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Do you have anything from the comedy world, something a
little lighterth I can do act one of American Psycho.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Can do Plaza sweet?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Sure, Okay, now.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
We'll do that for callbacks. Okay, that sounds like I'm
getting a callback.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
If he's definitely getting a callback, I'm like the producer
that would cave and be like, you have a bar.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Off the air. I sold her.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I told her we need to act like real casting
here where you just no reaction, no nothing, You just
say okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And then they leave and she totally lost. I can't
do it.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
She can't do it, she can't fake. All right, we
come back. The whole world has been watching this. Whether
or not Warner Brothers Discovery is going to be sold,
and if so, who gets it is a paramount?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Is it Netflix? And why the city of burb.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Bay they can get in the way of They're so
sweet when they try this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Arry Shannon will continue Michael Monks continues to join us.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It's Friday.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
What you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon
Show is coming up a little bit later in the show.
The jury, by the way, in the deliberations and the
Tyler Skaggs wrongful death trial against the Angels, they are
moving along. They did apparently send some questions to the
judge yesterday which makes it sound like thereaning towards financial
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penalties for the Angels. But when that story, when that
jury comes back in, we'll let you know what they decide.
Also a quick Hollywood story, Sony is going to take
control of Snoopy and Charlie Brown. The Japanese conglomerate Sony,
which obviously leads in movie production, video games, etc. Is
paying four hundred and fifty million dollars to double its
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steak in what's called Peanuts Holdings.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
The owner of the group of Snoopy.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And Friends, Michael Monks, is with us and when he
is not reciting Shakespeare impeccably, he is covering the news
for KFI News and this Warner Brothers Netflix deal continues
to rule the roost when it comes to news out
of the industry, and it looks like Burbank City Council
thought they would have a say in this. Bless their
hearts out of this play out. Look, this is a
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big deal. We know this is a big deal around
the world. If these companies get together, it means a
lot for entertainment. It also means a lot here locally
for the workforce. But even more locally. I mean, when
you look outside this window, what do you see studios?
You see studios. In fact, you see part of Warner
Brothers studios. And this is the city of Burbank. And
so for a city like that, which calls itself the
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media capital of the world, this isn't.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Just a global situation. This is a local economics situation.
So last week, council Member Constantine Anthony put out a
press release and says, at next week's meeting, I am
going to ask that the council direct the City Attorney's
office to evaluate what sort of litigation we might be
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able to initiate as a municipality, because there are entertainment
jobs at stake. You know, when something like NBC or
another studio studio ABC, well there is one called ABC,
but Studio one DF moves out of Burbank to say
Glengale or to Studio City. It doesn't mean a lot
for the workforce. You know, if you live in Tarzana,
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your commute isn't that impacted. Job is probably the same
as it always was. But for the local tax base
it does matter. This could be significantly different if a
lot of jobs are lost, and that is the concern
here that it will lower the amount of entertainment that
has produced. So the City of Burbank had its council
meeting this week. Councilman Anthony did in fact present this
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as an option. There was a lot of discussion. The
Burbank Chamber of Commerce opposes this as they represent business interests.
There were a lot of employees in the industry who
supported this motion. But there was one significant fact that
matters in this discussion as it relates to Burbank and
whatever it would like to do in this global situation,
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and City Attorney Joseph McDougall laid it out like this,
if Elmer has that side.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
So we don't have authority to file such an action.
The state action for unfair competition is Business and Professions
Code two hundred. It's the California Attorney General, Rob Bonta
that has authority to bring those actions, as well as
district attorneys and city attorneys for cities with a population
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of seven hundred and fifty thousand or more. There's four
of those, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco.
So we do not possess the authority to bring such
an action on our own, and I would have to
seek outside council even to provide memorandum to the council. Also,
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the memorandum that I provide, if I receive direction to provide,
that would be attorney client privilege. It would not be
shared with the public. It would just be advice to council.
At that point, I would consider it anticipated litigation and
would not be sharing legal strategy with the public.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
So basically it's like no.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
And some of the council members who do seem supportive
of the intention also said, maybe don't send out a
press release before we vet a little bit right, and
so they did it in an open meeting instead, where
it was very clearly shot down, not just because statutorily
the City of Burbank is not empowered to file such
antitrust legislation only for cities in California are Otherwise it's
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the state or the federal government that gets involved in
that sort of situation. It would be out of the
scope of the responsibility of a city attorney in Burbank. So,
like you said, I'd have to get a private, you know,
a law firm to come in and help us with this,
and it would be very expensive. So they ended up
deciding that they would write a strongly worded letter. I'm
just going to say that doesn't prevent them from coming
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up with a resolution or something, whereas we the City
of Burbank, Yeah, ended up being kind of what they
might call a nothing burger because this letter that they're
going to write to state and federal lawmakers that represent
Burbank is to say, please keep an eye on this
and let us know if there's anything that you feel
like you need to do.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
In case the situation gets out of hand and it
hurts us, we'll call you. Thank you. It was a
pleasure to audition, sir. I love your work.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That sounded heartfelt and genuine.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
I once played Ophelia in an all male version of Hamlet. Interesting,
weren't they all originally all male in the early two thousands. No, no,
I mean like in the fifteen hundreds. Yes, that was
the way of things in the early two thousands. When
we did this, it was shut down by police. Okay, well,
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the chances of our production being shut down by police
are very low.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I'm looking forward to this year's holiday play a lot,
okay some because we have real Thespians, Fespians, and gays.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Wait, you've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
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.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
And I couldn't listen to him anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
They did play one that I recognized, only I only
heard one Maclamore song last night in the football broadcast.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Ya, I mean you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Got to, you got to, you got to? Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So the true mark of making it in Hollywood, they say,
is not an oscar.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
No it's not. It's not a billboard with your face
on it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, no, no, it is getting the coconut cake for
the holidays from Tom Cruise. It's become so famous that
you saw this if you watched Hacks.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You saw it on Hacks.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's a It's an open secret in Hollywood that Tom
Cruise has a list of people he sends cake two,
this one specific coconut cake two around the holidays, and
a listers have bragged about receiving one of the coveted
coconut cakes. Some of the people who have gotten them
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Alec Baldwin. Let's see Kristen Dunst.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know she she.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Christen dunts by the way, says like she says it
in many interviews, how like she gets the coconut cake.
It's it's a bragging right Glenn Powell, John Ham, John
Ham and Angela Bassett.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, all things, all of these Guess what we have
them cake?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Guess what we have the Tom Cruise have the Tom
Cruise Cake.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
They're not lying, they're not. They really have.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It right here. It's from Doan's Bakery over in Woodland Hills.
You can order it.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I guess they do nation wide delivery if that's what
you're into. Yeah, but this this Tom Cruise cake, white chocolate.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'm gonna get a bunt cake. I'm gonna get into it.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Get go for it you first.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That is sinful?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They said.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It's a moist, dense, sour cream bunt cake that sounds
great with chunks of white chocolate, rich cream cheese frosting,
generously sweet and toasted coconut flakes.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Tom Cruise knows how to do it. Are you looking
for the recipe? They got a recipe. Now, I just
want Tom to send someone else to make it for it.
So the reason that we.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Have this cake is because of our resident starlet, Heather Brooker.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Heather Brooker is a real working actress.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
In Hollywood and got her hands on this, because all
the Hollywood people can get their hands on this if
they are somebody, and Heather Brooker is somebody. And what
did she do with the Tom Cruise cake? She brought
it to this show. Did she bring it to I'm
any other show?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No feelings right now.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
She brought it to this show. She went out of
her way to do something nice for us.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's a really good cake.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Good.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I know this cake does not this job I do too.
I love this job. It's a good Friday, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It's a good Friday. Yeah? What No, nothing?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I just enjoy watching you eat, is that right? M
oh good?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
A couple of quick things to let you know. First
of all, it is what you learned this week on
the Gary and Channon Show. We'll do that a little
bit later in the show, so leave us a talkback message.
Tell us what you learned while you were listening to
our show this week. One of the things is that
new balance shoes are an indicator potentially of molestation.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Okay, okay, okay, No, not all new balances are for
child molesters. Only those magas white leather ones. But anything
that's like Joe Fresh Goods or Double Tabs or.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Shound.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah no, there's a difference between the Speakerhead New Balances
and Molester New Balances.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
A good point.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Everybody knows though, and which ones.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Very big, very very fast.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, no, I have names.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I don't know the names that he was talking about,
but I could I could pick out the difference between
I think Sneakerhead, New Balance and others.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah no, there's a there's a lot of great New
Balance is.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Literally wearing New Balances right now, he is.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, well, he's wearing the Fresh ones.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I hope you guys have a great Christmas acation, but
please don't use that canned show from iHeart Oh it's
really terrible. Can't you just play like best of Gary
and Shannon or some music for a couple of weeks
that would be much better music.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Thanks a lot, you have a great well listen if
you're going to be here next week. We're going to
be here next week. The only we're only taking Christmas
in the day after, so we do have some things
in the can, some fresh stuff, but we also will
be having we'll be playing some best of Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I want to eat this whole piece.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Okay, No one's going to take it away from you. Okay,
I'm worried about the sugar crash.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No one is wrong. There's no sugar crash.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
There's not no just tamper it with temperate, I should say,
with a little caffeine coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Okay, we was the last time you had a diet
coke running through your veins. It's been a bit a while.
Just think how jacked up you'd be if you got
one of them.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Is it a bad decision? Friday might be? Is how
it starts? Little ones? Little ones. As of right now,
the Twin Towers Correctional Facilities home to Nick Reiner, who
is accused of stabbing and killing his mother and father
just last weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, so already you're going to see this.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You're going to see the defense playbook play itself out
in the media. As we said, the arraignment is not
going to be till January seventh, But there's a vacuum
that exists. There are hungry minds for information about what
was going on in this home with this family, and
so today we're learning from probably a leak from the
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defense team that Nick Reiner was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and
in the weeks leading up to the murder of his parents,
the meds he was taking reportedly made him erratic and dangerous.
And this is the defense you're going to hear. Two
sources told TMZ that Nick was under the care of
a psychiatrist for mental illness, that in the month before
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the murders, Nick's behavior had gotten alarming, that he had
recently received care at an LA based rehab facility that
specializes in mental illness and substance abuse, to the tune
of by the Bye seventy thousand dollars a month. As
you can imagine, a lot of rich people go there.
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The rehabs man, what a boondoggle. Some of them are great,
some of them are just to take money. Some of
them got to be careful. It is a wild industry.
TMZ says that they heard from their sources three to
four weeks before the murders, doctors changed Nick Reiner's meds
and he became even more erotic. That doctors were trying
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to adjust the medications so Nick was stabilized, but they
say it wasn't working, and that once the meds were changed,
he was out of his head. They said that his
substance abuse was workinging. We're worsening the schizophrenia. This is
all laying down the foundation for the plea in January.
Not guilty by reason of insanity, And like we said earlier,
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you can be mentally unhealthy and kill somebody but not
be able to use this defense. You have to prove
that at the time of the murder that he knew,
didn't know. I keep making that mistake, did not know
right from wrong. And that's going to be hard to
do because he left the scene, he hit his bloody clothes.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
We still know where the murder weapon is. He checked
into a hotel. He evaded. You know, you don't run.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Away from something where you're just like, this could be right,
this could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't know, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Let's assume you hang your you hang your little shingle out,
and you become a defense attorney. Yeah, is this the
kind of thing you would leak to the press to
try to.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Build that foundation. Yes, get the ball roll in before
I'm in court. Yeah, you're a dirty little defense attorney.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I've got to do this. I've got to create
momentum as soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's true because you're behind the eight ball anyway, because
the amount of publicity that's already been received previous.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I also being the most expensive defense attorney covering high
profile defendants in the land, and proof myself that this
is a family that doesn't think this kid is all bad.
I myself improve that this family's spending a lot of
money on my defense for him because they know he's
not a monster, that he's just mentally unwell. I mean,
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this is all part of the all part of the
narrative that goes on behind the scenes, and unfortunately is
so easy to get out with the media cycle these days.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
There's a lot of takers, a lot of people pick
up that phone when you're gonna call. All right, storm
is actually coming in to southern California. Northern California's been
getting a lot of rain in the last couple of days.
We'll talk about why, what we can expect next week
for Christmas. And those hurricane hunters fly those planes into
the eyes of hurricanes. They're coming here to California not
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because of our hurricanes, but because of our atmospheric river.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
We'll talk about that and we come back.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
We started the show with this news that came out
of the Northeast. Portuguese national Claudio Nev's Valente has been
identified as the suspect at the shooting at Brown University
last weekend, but also the shooting of a professor from MIT.
Apparently this guy may have gone to school with that
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MIT professor back in Portugal in the nineties. We do
know that he did study at Brown univer twenty some
odd years ago, so we don't know exactly the motive,
why he targeted, what he targeted, or even who he
targeted with that MIT professor.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
We now know who's set up Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Brittany Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
No, Carl, I don't even get a Carl Weathers. I
don't know Carl Weathers. I don't know who is Carl
Weathers the actor.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Go on the act he died bro Well, but he
died recently, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, it's sure he died last year. Okay, it is.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Taylor Swift's mom. How did Taylor Swift's mom know Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Andrea Swift has revealed she's the one who set up
her daughter with Travis in a scene from the end
of an Era docu series. In the video, Andrea recalled
watching a viral clip from Travis's Heights podcast in which
he talks about going to one of Taylor's concerts and
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being disappointed that he did not get to give Taylor
his phone number. Loving this earnest gesture and handsome face,
Andrea immediately called up the biggest Kansas City Chief fan
she knew to get her the details on Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
What's he all about? Is he a good guy? What's
the deal?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
After learning how much Travis loved his mom, Mama Kelsey Andrea,
Taylor's mom was all in, but first she had to
convince Taylor, and apparently it did take some convincing. She
had no clue who he was Taylor Swift. She says,
I'd been very non athlete because I'm not one. I've
always just been like, well, what would we talk about?
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Taylor says her mom basically told her, you gotta start
doing something different. So she took her mom's advice, and
not only did she find that she and Travis had
plenty to talk about, she's actually super into football.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
She just needed the motivation, she said.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I became obsessed with him and therefore became obsessed with
learning about football. The greatest surprise of my life. That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
That is joy.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That is nice.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Nice to see joy and other people.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I love this love story. Now that the Chiefs are
out of the playoffs, but only only because tell me
more about the venue.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, we will see some rain next week. We're going
to see clear skies probably the next couple of days,
but there will be a pretty strong storm swystem that
comes through during the holiday.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
The changes are going to be get up.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Obviously in San Luis Obispo County, clouds and a slight
chance of rain expected Sunday and Monday. By Tuesday those increase.
We will see some rain expected. Wednesday is probably the
wettest day, so that's Christmas Eve. One to two inches
of rain across the coasts and valleys, maybe up to
four inches in the foothills and mountains.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
So that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Our friend Henry de Carlo over at KTLA had said
that the question now is how long does it last.
If Wednesday is the strongest day in terms of rainfall,
does it taper off by the time you open presents
on Christmas morning, because only heathens open them on Christmas Eve.
Snow level is expected to stay high, so that's not
going to be an issue necessarily, but.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
It will be. It will be wet. Now.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The leading climate institutions, including the Script's Institute of Oceanography
down at uc San Diego, are ramping up research because
of the strength of atmospheric rivers. They say that they've
been increasing and they want to see.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Why did you hear about the hurricane hunters heading to
California to check out our atmospheric rivers?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I'm excited to welcome these people.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
They fly in very special Oceana graphic get own it
special airplanes. I'll say that they can gather satellite They
can gather in information that other satellites wouldn't be able
to get. They have sensors that record the hurricanes for
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the most part, and will be able to record atmospheric
rivers as they fly in. They can also drop drop sondas.
I've never heard of that term before. It means it's
a small cylindrical parachuting instrument and as it falls, it
collects air temperature pressure, water, vapor, wind speed, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Where does it land, I will so they're able to
just pick these up wherever they land.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Huh, well, I'm sure it transmits so they can record
it as it goes. I don't know if it's an
expendable thing or it's got a little plaque on it
that says, if you find me, drop me in your
nearest mailbox and I'm guaranteed postage or something like that.
Two US Air Force Reserve WC one thirty j's will
be sorry, one of those, and then a Gulf Stream
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four will be available to these.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So they were expendable, right what the drop spondas, I
don't know if they are they were.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
If they are, I'm sure they are. I'm sure they just.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Michael Monks's Michael Monks has heard about our holiday production.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
We will be here Christmas Eve, by the way.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yes, So when you're like running around or you're doing
last minute stuff, you're seting the table, what have you,
we will be here because we want to get out
of all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Frankly, that's not why we're not trying to get away
from the laws a little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Why a little bit why it's just you speak for yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'll speak for you. It's a little bit why, it's
a very little accident.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Anyway, we will be here and we'll be doing a
Christmas production for you. Michael Monks has dabbled in theater
and he wanted to audition for it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
For a ruby tell him what it is before, because
I don't think he's he's been aware of what we've
done before.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So yeah, I think he only thinks about Michael Monks. Oh,
so we'll just let him put on whatever audition he
wants to.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Know we should do.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
We should do total Hollywood, where we just as the
casting directors, we just sit back and go.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I should we make them take off stuff?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
No, no, no, that that's past the old days. Those
are the old days, and we all get sick of
that of it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Okay, so wait, what are we supposed to do is
just sit back and not give any reaction.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, and make him feel uncomfortable or not necessarily uncomfortable,
but just don't give him anything back.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I've never auditioned for anything before. Okay, it's making me
nervous thinking about job application right where you got to
talk about yourself basically terrifying.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You just got to watch him audition. You're not auditioning, I.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Know, but I'm getting nervous for him. Don't be Okay,
he'll be fine.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KF
I am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Does anything get done starting now through Christmas? Does anything
like legit get done at work? Because I understand that
we have a lot of stuff to get to, but
I'm in it just like want. I want to have fun.
I would to a holiday that's such a people are
having their holiday parties.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I just feel like this is a fun time. And
I don't think anything real gets done at work now
until the new.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Year, right, and even then after the new year, you
got a full week of recovery or something like that, right,
I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'm working pretty hard here.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You see a January fifth, let's just do that.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You want, just do that?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
January fifth is when we start being serious again. But
that's your birthday. It's gonna be a serious day. Okay,
it's your birthday. Whatever you want every year every year?
Who's calling you? And why are you taking a call
or is it a text?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
It's wife?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh hi, Shannon, I will text her today. I told
my husband yesterday, we got a broken toilet. He goes,
that's your toilet. I go, okay, I see how we're
doing that.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Now. Was that who you called?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You called your brother the toilet.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
He's a plumber. A little bit of water around it.
Here's my issue. I've got a plumber that I used
years ago at the house.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Local guy. Don't remember. He was great, He was great.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I think he was a Gas family member too. And
I don't remember his name. And I don't want to
call a stranger plumber. And I can't remember this guy's name.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
With your toilet.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's leaking from where the back, the back right, the
bolts on the bottom. Oh yeah, so we're going to
tighten those up. My brother's advice, tighten those up, don't
tight to see how it goes. It's an old toilet,
though it's seen a lot of assau it's probably an
original word.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Are you leaning back on that thing like you take
it over?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Okay, come back, I'm serious that my leaning back?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You know what do you lean back?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Michael? Do you lean back? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Mike?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That is the big that can be a big problem. No,
Michael Monks has joined us. That was funny.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Reluctantly regrettably.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh you got somewhere better to be.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You know, I live in a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We just have the one toilet, so to hear you
talk about, Oh that's your toilet, sounds very fancy. However,
we did recently acquire a second cat that we rescued
from the good Row. Why because now we do have
a second bathroom. We've all started using the litter box.
Oh god, there's no leaking there. It's very absorbent.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Do you pee in the litter box that I have?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Beat in the little box? Oh? My god, like regular
and then you bury it?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Have you done it regularly?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I did it this morning.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Oh really fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Well, maybe that's what I'll do while my toilet's in disrepair.
I'll get myself a litter box and just start using
that because I can't get a flubber on the week
of Christmas.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
There's no way.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Five gallon home depot, bucket and Phillip.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I guess this is my path at least until January fifth.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
On a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
On a regular basis, we find a way to bring
the arts to our listeners rights and usually a holidays.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Gary has a background in theater. He has crafted numerous
plays for us to present you in the holidays, and
you do a wonderful job, really so well written.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Just two of them that we've cut two of them.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But they feel different because we have different They are
acted by different people all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Chris change the script change this year.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Michael Monks is upon us just like Christ, the birth
of Christ, and.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You just like that, as a matter of fact, a
virgin birth in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You are here and you wanted to audition for a role.
If I'm not mistaken, I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Coming on to talk about the paramount.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We're going to do that the next segment.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I feel a little bit on the spot here.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I told you you said you had an audition prepared,
that you were going to recite a Shakespearean sonnet. I said, great,
we'll do that at ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That is not what happened at all. She got most
of that right back her up on that. You said
that we were going to do a Christmas place monologue.
And then it sounded like the Christmas play wasn't happening
because we've seen no audition notices posted.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
We're all Union people here. We have to go through agents.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
This is not a union production.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Here's the important part about this. A. It's not approved
by SAG. After we were very clear. Second, if I
just start talking about this thing, willy nilly, we get
overwhelmed with people who say they feel left out, and
in all honesty, there aren't enough spots for everybody.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I learned that last year.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
One year. Stop, it is that true. You got left
out last year.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I was not part of the production last year. And
as I was sitting there doing all of the work.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, listening to this, I thought, next year, I'm going
to be in that play.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I did it last year.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I would love it if you were talented enough to
understand that there is a standard. I wanted to prove
to you that I could meet that. And so I'm
here's the here's the problem.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I said.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I am willing me, Michael Monks, I'm willing to audition
for the Christmas play at Gary and right now, because
there was no notice posted, I have no You think
I can just run out, willy nilly and just pull ships.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Is this a dagger which I see before me?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
It's handle told my hand, come let me clutch thee.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I had they not yet? I see these still, are
they not fatal vision? Sensible to feeling has to sight?
Are out there a dagger of the mind, a false
(22:57):
creation proceeding from the heat breast brain? I see the
still yet as as this wish I now draw. That's
all I got.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's very good. I couldn't tear my eyes away from you.
That was really good.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Wow, Macbeth, right, Mac, Wow, I am impressed.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Now what part now you see?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now I'm seeing I'm seeing a love iron sharpman's iron
energy going on in here.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I got to theater, dudes.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Is that Shepherd number four worthy? Or am I playing Joseph? Joseph?
There's no Joseph.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
This isn't about Jesus the Nativity.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh, then count me out, okay, right, Joseph Joseph energy.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Over here, Joseph energy. You can call me Big Joe.
Thanks for your time, and we'll call You'll call.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
It the.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I've got eight bars or sixteen bars of a show
tune as well music?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
No music, okay, Oh, I would love a little music.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Do you have show tunes? Is that? Do you need
a backing track?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I don't know, you know, Will Cole Schreiber's more of
the musical theater guy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Okay, this is an incredible Hollywood centric show. We've eaten
Tom Cruise's cake. We've had Michael put on a masterclass
of an audition from Shakespeare's Macbeth. We have an actress
coming on in the next two actresses coming on in
the next hour.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Do you have anything from the comedy world, something a
little lighterth I can do act one of American Psycho.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Can do Plaza sweet?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Sure, Okay, now.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
We'll do that for callbacks. Okay, that sounds like I'm
getting a callback.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
If he's definitely getting a callback, I'm like the producer
that would cave and be like, you have a bar.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Off the air. I sold her.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I told her we need to act like real casting
here where you just no reaction, no nothing, You just
say okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And then they leave and she totally lost. I can't
do it.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
She can't do it, she can't fake. All right, we
come back. The whole world has been watching this. Whether
or not Warner Brothers Discovery is going to be sold,
and if so, who gets it is a paramount?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Is it Netflix? And why the city of burb.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Bay they can get in the way of They're so
sweet when they try this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Arry Shannon will continue Michael Monks continues to join us.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It's Friday.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
What you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon
Show is coming up a little bit later in the show.
The jury, by the way, in the deliberations and the
Tyler Skaggs wrongful death trial against the Angels, they are
moving along. They did apparently send some questions to the
judge yesterday which makes it sound like thereaning towards financial
(26:01):
penalties for the Angels. But when that story, when that
jury comes back in, we'll let you know what they decide.
Also a quick Hollywood story, Sony is going to take
control of Snoopy and Charlie Brown. The Japanese conglomerate Sony,
which obviously leads in movie production, video games, etc. Is
paying four hundred and fifty million dollars to double its
(26:22):
steak in what's called Peanuts Holdings.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
The owner of the group of Snoopy.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And Friends, Michael Monks, is with us and when he
is not reciting Shakespeare impeccably, he is covering the news
for KFI News and this Warner Brothers Netflix deal continues
to rule the roost when it comes to news out
of the industry, and it looks like Burbank City Council
thought they would have a say in this. Bless their
hearts out of this play out. Look, this is a
(26:49):
big deal. We know this is a big deal around
the world. If these companies get together, it means a
lot for entertainment. It also means a lot here locally
for the workforce. But even more locally. I mean, when
you look outside this window, what do you see studios?
You see studios. In fact, you see part of Warner
Brothers studios. And this is the city of Burbank. And
so for a city like that, which calls itself the
(27:12):
media capital of the world, this isn't.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Just a global situation. This is a local economics situation.
So last week, council Member Constantine Anthony put out a
press release and says, at next week's meeting, I am
going to ask that the council direct the City Attorney's
office to evaluate what sort of litigation we might be
(27:34):
able to initiate as a municipality, because there are entertainment
jobs at stake. You know, when something like NBC or
another studio studio ABC, well there is one called ABC,
but Studio one DF moves out of Burbank to say
Glengale or to Studio City. It doesn't mean a lot
for the workforce. You know, if you live in Tarzana,
(27:57):
your commute isn't that impacted. Job is probably the same
as it always was. But for the local tax base
it does matter. This could be significantly different if a
lot of jobs are lost, and that is the concern
here that it will lower the amount of entertainment that
has produced. So the City of Burbank had its council
meeting this week. Councilman Anthony did in fact present this
(28:17):
as an option. There was a lot of discussion. The
Burbank Chamber of Commerce opposes this as they represent business interests.
There were a lot of employees in the industry who
supported this motion. But there was one significant fact that
matters in this discussion as it relates to Burbank and
whatever it would like to do in this global situation,
(28:39):
and City Attorney Joseph McDougall laid it out like this,
if Elmer has that side.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
So we don't have authority to file such an action.
The state action for unfair competition is Business and Professions
Code two hundred. It's the California Attorney General, Rob Bonta
that has authority to bring those actions, as well as
district attorneys and city attorneys for cities with a population
(29:08):
of seven hundred and fifty thousand or more. There's four
of those, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco.
So we do not possess the authority to bring such
an action on our own, and I would have to
seek outside council even to provide memorandum to the council. Also,
(29:32):
the memorandum that I provide, if I receive direction to provide,
that would be attorney client privilege. It would not be
shared with the public. It would just be advice to council.
At that point, I would consider it anticipated litigation and
would not be sharing legal strategy with the public.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
So basically it's like no.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
And some of the council members who do seem supportive
of the intention also said, maybe don't send out a
press release before we vet a little bit right, and
so they did it in an open meeting instead, where
it was very clearly shot down, not just because statutorily
the City of Burbank is not empowered to file such
antitrust legislation only for cities in California are Otherwise it's
(30:13):
the state or the federal government that gets involved in
that sort of situation. It would be out of the
scope of the responsibility of a city attorney in Burbank. So,
like you said, I'd have to get a private, you know,
a law firm to come in and help us with this,
and it would be very expensive. So they ended up
deciding that they would write a strongly worded letter. I'm
just going to say that doesn't prevent them from coming
(30:34):
up with a resolution or something, whereas we the City
of Burbank, Yeah, ended up being kind of what they
might call a nothing burger because this letter that they're
going to write to state and federal lawmakers that represent
Burbank is to say, please keep an eye on this
and let us know if there's anything that you feel
like you need to do.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
In case the situation gets out of hand and it
hurts us, we'll call you. Thank you. It was a
pleasure to audition, sir. I love your work.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That sounded heartfelt and genuine.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
I once played Ophelia in an all male version of Hamlet. Interesting,
weren't they all originally all male in the early two thousands. No, no,
I mean like in the fifteen hundreds. Yes, that was
the way of things in the early two thousands. When
we did this, it was shut down by police. Okay, well,
(31:25):
the chances of our production being shut down by police
are very low.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I'm looking forward to this year's holiday play a lot,
okay some because we have real Thespians, Fespians, and gays.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Wait, you've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
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.
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