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January 7, 2026 36 mins

Gary & Shannon kick off the hour with #SwampWatch, breaking down the seizure of a sanctions-busting oil tanker tied to Russia and Venezuela, new U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine tied to a potential ceasefire, and the latest developments in President Trump’s Venezuela oil strategy. 
The conversation shifts to Hollywood intrigue as Warner Bros. Discovery rejects a revised Paramount offer, fueling questions about debt, consolidation, and why Netflix still looms large. The show then welcomes Gary & Shannon’s new producer, before pivoting to #Parenting with Justin Worsham, where a shocking hair color delays the segment and forces listeners to Instagram. The hour wraps with a candid, hilarious, and slightly terrifying discussion about what happens when kids overhear things they absolutely weren’t meant to… and then use it against you.

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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 Following breaking news out of Minneapolis
women shot and killed by ice after I says trying
to run officers over in an active domestic terrorism video

(00:22):
from the scene, and not all of this is black
and white. We know every time there's an officer involves
shooting that there's a lot going on. There's a lot.
This does not happen in a vacuum. There's a lot
happening on the scene that we don't know about, a
lot of things that happened before the actual incident. So
we just don't know. That's why jumping to conclusions about
who's right and who's wrong is a dangerous territory to

(00:44):
be in in the moments following one of these. But
video from the scene does not appear to show or
it definitely appears to show a woman in suv leaving
the scene after officers say stop your vehicle, stop your car.
She's leaving, and that's when she is shot and killed
by the officer closest to the vehicle. It does not

(01:06):
appear she's in danger of running anybody over as she
attempts to leave the scene.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And like you said, it's hard to tell because there
are at least three officers that are right around the car,
and they appear to be on the driver's side. One
of them was walking up and telling her to get
out of the car too, and it looks like he
either reaches in or he goes to reach in. She
puts it in reverse just a couple of feet and
then takes off forward.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
And then the officer in front of the vehicle or
closest to the front of the vehicles the one who
fires the shot. We don't know what happened before then.
We don't know if this woman plowed through a crowd
to get to them. We don't know if she was
just simply an innocent bystander.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
We just don't know she did something to get the
attention of the officers in the first place. And that's
what we don't see, at least on the video that's
making the two different videos that I've seen, we don't
see what happened before that.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
We don't We have no idea. Doesn't look good, but again,
not a lot of context, so obviously doesn't look good.
It doesn't look good anytime anyone is shot and killed
in any circumstance. But it doesn't look good for ice
on the scene right now. But again, we don't know,
We have no idea. We're not going to jump to conclusions.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
In the meantime, it's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheat and a liar. And when
I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing the lollipops.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Here we got.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
The other side never quits.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
So what I'm not going anywhere?

Speaker 5 (02:34):
So that now you.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Train the squat, I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by what has been.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
You know, mervants have always been going. I'm not stupid.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Have the people voted for you with not swamp watch,
They're all gnaoed.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Foreign policies really dominating what's going on in Washington, d C.
The United States seized two sanctioned oil tankers within the
last say twenty four hours, back to back actions, one
of them in the North Atlantic and one of the Caribbean.
The one in the North Atlantic started in the Caribbean.
If you remember a couple of weeks ago, we told
you that the Coastguard had been trailing a sanctioned oil

(03:12):
tanker and trying to get on board, and for whatever reason,
this chase, very slow speed chase took two and a
half weeks basically to end. But overnight US European Command
announced the seizure of the merchant vessel Bela I for
violations of US sanctions. Just at A wrinkle into that

(03:33):
little mix is that it's flagged both under Russian and
Venezuelan flags, so that's going to draw Russia into all
of this. We did see, among other things, Secretary of
Energy Chris Wright talk about we tried diplomacy when it
came to Venezuela and getting Maduro out of there. And

(03:53):
now that Maduro's out, we have an obligation to I
think it was this is gackt word. We had an
obligation to take care of the oil reserves.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
President Trump is different.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
He's not a paper tiger.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
He's a tiger.

Speaker 7 (04:05):
He wants to change the situation in Venezuela. There was
a lot of negotiation, a lot of offers, a lot
of ways to do this in a simpler fashion, more
voluntary fashion.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
They were not taken.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
We want to change the.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
Game in Venezuela, fix the country so it's a productive member.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Of the way, he did say a Goldmen Sacks Energy
conference near Miami today. Going forward, we will sell the
production that comes out of Venezuela into the marketplace, but
that the money would stay in Venezuela. There was an
offer I think of, was it thirty to fifty million
something like that barrels of oil that the United States
would take from seized tankers and then sell the oil.

(04:47):
But at this point that's the latest. When it comes
to Venezuela, it's going on there. The United States for
the first time did back a broad coalition of allies
of Ukraine and is vowing to provide security guarantees that
would include binding commitments if Russia attacks again. This is
the most significant shift away from Russia that we've seen

(05:09):
in the last several weeks. This pledge came at a
summit in Paris of a group called the Coalition of
the Willing, mostly European nations, to try to get some
guarantees to reassure Ukraine in the event of if they
come up with a ceasefire, then we and European nations
would come in and basically act as the friend at

(05:31):
the bar who prevents the fight from escalating.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Again.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
We're the ones standing in the middle with our arms
stretched out on each the other person's chest.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Quite possibly the favorite son of the week for President Trump,
Marc Rubio says he plans to meet with Danish officials
next week. After Trump doubled down on the intention to
take over Greenland that it is a territory of Denmark.
Since the capture of Maduro, Trump has revived the argument

(06:00):
meant that the US needs to control Greenland, the world's
largest island, because it's a security asset and as we
face rising threats from China and Russia, we need Greenland.
Greenland does not like this, if you're just catching up,
and so now they want an audience with Marco Rubio
kind of I think maybe for the first time, thinking

(06:21):
that this is a serious threat. You know that all
this talk about acquiring Greenland in the past has just
been a bunch of blathering, bloviating that now it seems
like after what they did in Venezuela, Greenland's like legitimately concerned.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, as I mentioned what Marco Rubio said on Saturday,
which is when speaking of President Trump, he might not
do uh No, it wasn't that. It was it was
a write up in a different publication. It was oh
Rich Lowry from the National Review. He doesn't do everything
he says he's going to do. But those things he
does do, he told you he was going to do. Right,

(06:58):
But you look at what Trump said. He says everything.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
He has rambling speeches that go on for two hours. Yes,
and ps. He's not the first president to talk about
acquiring Greenland. He's just the first one that is bombastic
enough to make it a potential reality.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Marco Rubio did say that the goal is obviously not
to use military action to get it. The goal would
be for the United States to literally buy Greenland from Denmark.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
They've not been our enemies.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
I don't know why we couldn't have some sort of
a financial deal that doesn't necessarily extend as far as ownership,
but that's the plan. I saw an article in the Atlantic.
This is a very long kind of a testicle washing
of Gavin Newsom that says, I get a lot of wash.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
It's just called the front Runner.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
It's not a glowing review of the I will say
it was handled pretty well by the writer, and I
wish I remember what it was, but I did pull
a piece of one paragraph out because I thought you'd
enjoy this. It describes Gavin Newsom his current trajectory politically,
which obviously is that he's going to run for president
and what that means. But this is what the writer

(08:17):
says in the Atlantic. He has some obvious advantages over
the likely competition as a heterosexual, white man from a
Catholic background. Nothing about his identity is electorally risky. He's tall,
six foot three and good looking in a faintly sinister way.
You can imagine him being played by Matthew McConaughey or

(08:38):
the vampire Dad from Twilight.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes, nailed it.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
It was really funny. It was really good, and he
talks about part of this. Part of the reason Gavenusom
sits down for an interview with this guy is because
he's pitching his book, the book that comes out next
month I think it is early February, and one of
the aspects is, Hey, I acknowledge my dad was good
friends with the Getties. I started my company with money

(09:04):
from the Getties. I got to vacation with the Getty
like he understands that part of it. He does, but
he still wants to play the card. But when I
was at home with my mom, Tessa, it was mac
and cheese and bad white bread kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
That sounds amazing if you're a child, mac and cheese
and bad white bread. Who had more than that? What
are we talking about?

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Seven grains?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'm sorry, did you? But did you die?

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (09:30):
It's a lengthy, lengthy article, but I picked that one
out because I thought you'd.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Like the I do like that physical characteristics.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yet again, Warner Brothers has rejected Paramount's revamped offer.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
We'll talk about that.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
See if we get anything new out of the ice
involved shooting in Minneapolis as well.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
We didn't talk about this. We were talking earlier about football,
of course, but York Jets. When an entire season without
an interception.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
No interceptions, you are tied with the Jets side with
the interceptions, all right, Well.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I am with that in my resume.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I mean that twenty twenty five season I tied the
New York Jets for the total number of interceptions.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think that Raheem Morris. Oh no, he was in Atlanta.
I think he may have lost. Anyway. They've tried to
revamp everything, well, the Jets. I don't even know why
I am addressing what's wrong with the Jets. We don't
have a long enough show for the Ironers. Nobody cares.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
I will say this.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Flags at all California state buildings are going to be
a half staff today. Governor Newsom declared today a day
of remembrance for the fires, the Palisades fire and they
eat and fire which started a year ago today. Nick
Reiner was scheduled to be rand on murder charges today
and the killing of his parents of course last month,
Rob and Michelle Reiner. But the defense attorney is now

(10:58):
off the case. Alan Jackson, the very high profile defense attorney,
took himself or was removed as the attorney, and in
fact they turned it over to public defenders. And that
means of course that the arraignment itself is put off
until I think they said March.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Is that right that I have that? I think March?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I think twenty third something of that nature.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, So that's what's going on in those stories.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Worry, I don't know, all right, So we have more
legal wranglings when it comes to Paramount's takeover bid with
Warner Brothers.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, once again, the Warner Brothers Discovery people have decided
that Netflix is going to be their girlfriend going or whatever,
their partner going forward. The Warner Brothers Discovery board advised
all their shareholders that the revised offer from Paramounts still
not as appealing.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Now.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
This was changed because Larry was the one who was
added on to that revised offer. Larry Ellison saying that
he was going to bankroll the whole thing and that
his money would be basically a guarantee. His son, David,
the CEO of Paramount, triggered a bidding more for Warner
Brothers Discovery last year when he made an unsolicited bid

(12:18):
for the assets of course Warner Brothers Discovery, led by
David Zaslov. The CEO then ran an auction process and
took Netflix's offer of about twenty seven seventy five per share.
Paramount had offered more than that. Paramount offered thirty bucks
a share and went public with that offer after Warner
Brothers said no. But the board continues to insist that

(12:41):
it's not just about the money and that the proposal
from Paramount is pretty much inferior. So they got some
concerns about debt financing, the conditions that were connected to
all of this, and that's why it appears they have
said that that as of right now, Warner Brothers Discovery
is telling the shareholders stick with the Netflix X plan.
It is a little less money, but it is going

(13:03):
to be a stronger way to go through the partnership
going forward.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
We have a new producer on the show.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Oh, we didn't even get to that part yet.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now we have had.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Did you write down a list of names? I think I.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Started crying a little bit the last time we had
a producer named of the show Keiana. Yeah, Keana, whose
name is Keiana. We called her Kana for up until
the month she left you we found out that her
name was pronounced Keiana. But in our defense, we are
shelter dogs. We have had this show on the air

(13:44):
for ten years, and I would wager we have had
that many producers.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, if you count ones.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
They love us and they leave us. Some of them
don't love us at all. They're just signed to the
show because it's a job, and this is one hundred
percent accurate.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
And they didn't like us in the first place.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
They did not, And that's okay, because we're not for everybody.
We know that, I at it. We're not so crazy
to think everyone likes us. Look at her, Okay, you
know what, We're more than to share appearance, say, look
at him. Your personality is not that bad.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Oh, perfectly acceptable.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
It's acceptable.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Appreciate that one, two, three, four, you're missing a lot.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Uh, and Matthew would be nine as of according to this.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Now, first out of the gate, we should get his
name right because we call him matt but I've seen
in different correspondence he goes by Matthew. I don't want
to f up like we did with Keana slash Keanaka.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
That's a good point.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
So, matt are you there or have you left already?

Speaker 4 (14:51):
I left.

Speaker 8 (14:53):
I didn't know the Keana pronunciation either. I just yeah,
I always called her key.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
He's already on our See.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
He did better though.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
He went straight for outside of the formal name.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
He went straight for the nickname, because you can't screw
up keeky.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, they they found it out that it was Keiky
on the Conway Show because everyone likes Conway. Sure, Like
that's just everyone wants to work for Conway, and we
get it. I would want to work for Conway too
if I was a producer. But but you can't. It's
the problem. But Keikey was keky on on the Conway Show.

(15:28):
And then and then we we didn't really know if
we could go with the nickname because we're not Tim
Conway Jr.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Right, can't take somebody else's name.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
No, But anyway, Matt, do you prefer Matt or Matthew?

Speaker 7 (15:42):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (15:43):
Matt Matthew feels formal.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Matthew feels formal because because I will say this, because
correspondence that Matt has given to us, he has signed
with matt Ah.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
But I have seen other people refer to Matt as Matthew. Right,
And I is.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
There a nickname you use that you feel comfortable with
us using? Is there a Kiky in the wings here
for you that we need to know about it?

Speaker 8 (16:08):
I feel like I still have to earn that, you know,
I still I still got to get in and earn
that nickname. Got to earn some trust. Still, you know,
show you guys, I'm in it. For the long haul here.
You know, you guys are not going to get rid
of me quickly.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Maddy two bags.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Wait, I want to go back to my love language,
which was not that. It was I am here for
the long haul. Like that warms my heart because we
haven't heard anyone say that.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
I mean they've Mom's had a lot of boyfriends.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Mom has had a lot of guys in and out
of here, and I've never heard one of them say
I want to stay. Usually they come in and they're
like they find out what Mom's really like yeah, and
they're like, tell me you had kids, the whole thing,
the whole thing. So that means a lot that Matt's
saying that to us, that he's here for the long haul.

(16:58):
I'm a little I'm a little gun. I thought that
Keana slash Keana slash Kiki was also here for the
long hol But I mean, I don't begrudge her anything.
She had an amazing opportunity, got to move home and
all that. But I think I shed tears because I
thought she was our forever owner and then and then
she wasn't. So I am going to reopen my heart

(17:20):
and and hope that is not stomped on, crust it
over easy, easy see. This is why you're only acceptable. Okay,
So Matt, just tell us a little bit about yourself.
For everybody, Matt will be the person that you bother
with everything you can find him when he decides to
become found, he'll let you know how to get a

(17:42):
hold of him. Do we still is there email that
we still use for a show or how does it work?

Speaker 8 (17:48):
I don't know the show email. But I'm not I'm
not prepared for this. You know I'm terrible on the
air as a producer. Okay, I don't think you're terrible.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well where are you from, man?

Speaker 9 (18:00):
I am from New York, from Long Island.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes, and that is and that will make no sense
to you and me because he is a diehard Miami
Dolphins fan.

Speaker 9 (18:11):
So that is definitely true. But that doesn't not not
a straight line there.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I also know that you love Shania Twain.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
Very true?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yes, then who thank you for doing the absolutely and
who doesn't I adore Shania Twain soundtrack of my life?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Really she's actually putting out?

Speaker 9 (18:29):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I didn't really is she actually?

Speaker 7 (18:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:33):
We got coming this year in a world tour allegedly.
Oh a world tour. Now, Shania Twain, she was with
Mutt Lang, Is that right? The producer her producer.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
She ended up until he left her for her best friend, right,
But then they swapped in the end.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
But wait what?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
And then yeah? And then no, and then Shania Twain
hooked up with the best friend's husband.

Speaker 9 (18:55):
They were grieving together.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
They were grieving together.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
I bet.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Right, that's a country song.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
It is a country song. I love Shanaia Twain. I
love her music. She's beautiful, she's a great performer, all
of the things. So in the Miami Dolphins, you know,
I wish the best for Mike McDaniel, and I think
that they need to part ways with Tua.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
You know.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
Yeah, I think I'm finally there as long as they
keep McDaniel. You know, they made me bleed my heart
out for McDaniel, so they better keep them.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Did they clean house everybody else?

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Though?

Speaker 3 (19:30):
I mean now GM or anybody.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
The GM they got rid of, right.

Speaker 9 (19:33):
Chris Greer is gone. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
On Halloween, a lot of people felt that he was
the problem.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
Ooh yeah, twenty five years without a playoff win.

Speaker 9 (19:43):
He's a problem.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Have you seen a game in Miami? I have yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's a fun stadium, hard rock stadium.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
It always looks like they're having a great day.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
I had a great time watching the forty nine ers
lose the Super Bowl, the first one they lost to
the Chiefs. But it's a beautiful stadium. I always love
going there. Miami South Beach.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh my gosh, it's just nice support this, Matt, congratulations,
thanks for joining us, Thanks for being our next producer.

Speaker 9 (20:09):
Yes, thank you. I'm so happy to be here.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
So glad I begged for it and got it, and
that you guys are allowing me to be here. And
I am gonna, you know, earn that trust and get
better on the air and get better at it all.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
First thing you need to do is fire justin Warsham.
Why how would you say that? Because he's in the
room in there, Anie, Why would you do that?

Speaker 1 (20:31):
This is why I'm constantly having to apologize this, constantly
have to hire a new producers exactly.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
And now you know.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Of course, following that story out of Minneapolis, and if
we do get more information, we'll bring it to you.
But a woman has been shot and killed after an
ice involved shooting there in Minneapolis that she was apparently
considered a legal observer but was in her car. They
had ordered her to get out of the car and
she started to drive away and was shot it appears,

(21:06):
one time, and died as a result of that. Will
again get more details as they come about.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Justin Worsham walked in with a rainbow mohawk.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
We talk about, you know, Justin and good parenting and
the two children two can coexist.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Sure, you can be a great parent and have a
rainbow mohawk as a grown up.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
What's That's what we need to get to the bottom.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
The little girl in me wants to play princesses with you.
I love it. You said that you sometimes put sparkles.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
Sparkles, Yeah, that was part of the Initially the hairstylist
that did this to my head, she said for the
unveiling that I was going to do. She goes, I
think you need to sparkle a little bit. So there's
a spray bottle to push back.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Just on your classification of the hair dresser who did
it to your head. You walked in and said, give
me rain rainbow unicorn. Okay, and by the way, she
nailed it.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
She nailed it. It's really well done.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Really honestly, there was a.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Part of purple and blue and green and yellow and orange.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
If you want, I don't know this is I feel
like a yeah, you could take a photo of it.
I've learned that I have to like tilt my head
forward because the real show is on top.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Like that's the real show. This thing where you kind
of give them a little finger. I'll on camera.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
I'll just go live on Gary and Shannon's Instagram and
you can check.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
It out there.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
That is a deep, deep purple as well on the top.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
Right, Yeah, it's like a pastel purple on the side.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
So did they give you any idea as to when
it's going to come out.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
It's going to be here for a month because this
is a full, like permanent job. So what it was is,
I I'm the president of the Booster Club for the
show choir at my kids high school.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
I'm very important.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
So I said to the kids that I like, I
wanted it to be something fun to like encourage fundraising.
So I said, if each choir, like if one your
choir reaches seventy percent of your fundraising goal, you can
pick my hair color for a month, okay, And I.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Didn't think they would, honestly care.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Turns out I was wrong, and so the ore Treble
intermediate choir, known as the Decibels, they surpassed their growth.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
The things get better, Gary, but.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
You might want to get a cup because the other
one is sound Waves. That's the intermediate mixed choir. Of course,
they also made their goal. So the Decibel's voted and
they chose Rainbow Unicorn, and then the sound Waves chose
hot Pink.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
So in the month of February, I will have hot pink. Care.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
I just watched Pitch Perfect too.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
Oh so yeah, you know it's the same exact thing.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
I mean, we don't. It's show choir.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
I don't want to embarrass you, Shannon on the airwaves,
but that's a cappella and that's a very different thing.
Now in show choir, Western show choir, modern Western show choir,
it is common for you to have an a cappella
number within your competition set.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
So you know, you're not completely out of the ballpark,
but you know.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Definitely least in the post Glee era, yes, more common.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Weirdly enough, the TV show Glee was inspired by a
video of this high school's choir program.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Somebody said, finally put a face to that voice. Why
did I picture a young lazy stoner? Somebody else wrote
the time. Somebody wrote, you look hot, You're welcome. Turns
are cute and different.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Okay, you're turning around a little bit. I am now
front end of your hand. I forgot that. I forgot
for a minute that she was a videotaping this. And
it's always this is just the natural happening. When I
think I get told that I'm hot.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
People love it.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Let's just to stick to the parenting thing here. What
do you think this tells your kids? I don't know,
like message does this send to those guys?

Speaker 6 (24:43):
They my older son, I don't think this is I
hope this isn't going to make him sound homophobic. I
know he's not, but I was. I didn't know what
it was when they voted for it. I go, I
guess the Desermals want rainbow unicorn. I don't do you
know what that is? He goes, Yeah, people are gonna
think you're gay. But that's all right.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
I still love you, dad. That's what the say.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
Seventeen year old said the fourteen year old is completely indifferent.
They looked at it like I came and I brought
him lunch after I did it at school because they
were gonna have rehearsal them all this stuff, and so
I saw him there and they both had like a whoa.
But they weren't embarrassed to be I'm really lucky like
my teenage sons, as much as they probably should, they
are not embarrassed by my presence. They always come up
and give me a hug and stuff, even around their friends.

(25:21):
They know I'll cry if they don't.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Not that comments on social media should they.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Mean everything to make it they mean everything.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
But everyone loves you and your hair.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Oh thanks, that's great.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah that I'll be honest, I don't hate it as
much as I thought I would, which is because you
don't have to look at it.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
I probably looked at it more in the last seven
minutes that you have all day.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
For sure.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
Like there were two drivers that I caught do like
a triple take at me at a stoplight that I
was almost like, what is their deal? And then I
looked at my when I checked the rearview mirror after leaving.
Is that my real estate.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Is that the guy that I saw in the shopping cart,
the dude I would pay to see you push that
shopping cart.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
If your picture on it, you can, I'll take a
picture of it.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
It's already happened. It's already happened. This week.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
There is a recommendation to shave the sides to make
the mohawk really stand out.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
This part here, Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
The pastel purple is what makes it the really the unicorn.
Otherwise it's just a rainbow. So it's that's what I
have learned. When you give a Google of rainbow unicorn hair,
there's if you have really long What she wanted to
do if you have really long hair is it's like
it's a lot of pastel purple with some like almost
iridescent rainbow effect that looks more magical. But she said,
the more pronounced rainbow is going to be more entertaining.

(26:39):
I will also say, you picked out a perfect.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Shirt to I know what I'm doing. I know what
I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Are now calling for you to do something with your hair?

Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's like, let's take off that hat.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
What do we got to do? What's going on to.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Look at all that material. You could really do something
with all.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
That hair, so much visual on radio, this is what
we do it.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
What if you've got a certain number of followers on
the Instagram or something like what and then you can
people could vote to pick.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Your hair color.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Maybe in a week or two. Okay, yeah, we'll revisit them.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
You think we're going to forget the week? Is that
what you're hoping for? Because I will not will be
your next wed.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
You did not get permission for that?

Speaker 4 (27:18):
For what?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
What if your wife doesn't let you in the home. Well,
that's what the backyard's for. That's what this mild winter
is for the kids moved out. Man, there's extra rooms.
That's how.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
There is an interesting, uh dilemma that you have brought
to us as outside of hair color, my kid is
threatening to tell my mother in law what I said
about her.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, unless I pay up.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Talk about smart blackmailing kid early in lifeainly awesome.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Keep an eye on that kid.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am sixty.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
If it does, I'm going to be ignorant to it.
Like I immediately.

Speaker 6 (27:58):
I did it on Monday morning, and I had to
go show a couple properties that afternoon, and the first
person who like professionally saw me like, she walked up.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
I did not know this person.

Speaker 6 (28:07):
They were coming to one of my listings, and she
was like, she goes, oh, I like the hair.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
And I just.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
Explained to everybody what there's one person that I showed
a house to, and I could tell that he was
not interested in the listing I was showing. I didn't
explain it to him. That's so Misha, if you're out
there listening, I'm sorry, man.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
You could just.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Say I lost a bet yeh or won a bet?

Speaker 4 (28:26):
I mean you want.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
The whole thing was to generate more da.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
I just wanted, yes, I wanted that was the real.
Real thing is.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
I just wanted the kids to be able to laugh
at my expense and have some fun while they're trying
to fundraise like that.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Do not do this, do not do this.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
If I lived in Burbank and if I went to
the Ralphs that has your picture on the thing, I
would bring a set of markers and I would correct
the picture so it looks like the real justice.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
Some of the kids know that I'm the Ralph shopping
cart guy here in Burbank, and they've asked if I
was going.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
To update my aunt now.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
I might update the goofy picture of me with my
hair sticking up when I do it next year. But
those says are like planned a year out and I
can't change it without paying thousands and thousands of dollars.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
But yeah, all right, so here we go.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
This is a fun story because I love the idea
of getting caught.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
By your own kids, isn't it fun?

Speaker 2 (29:12):
There's a dear care and feeding slate has a care
and feeding column, and the question posed is seven year
old daughter close to my mother in law and this
is the woman writing in the mother in law stayed
with us over the Christmas holiday. It was the experience
was extremely trying. So a few days ago, up on

(29:33):
the phone with my sister, I blew off some steam
and I told her all the ways that mother in
law was the quintessential mother in law from hell. I
was unaware that my seven year old daughter was in earshot.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
Again worth repeating seven year old daughter very huge fan
of grandma, like really tight with this grandma. So now
the seven year old is upset or thinks that she
mom hates Nana. She wanted a hoverboard for Christmas. Mom
didn't get her one because it's dangerous. Now she's threatening
to tell Grandma what I really think of her unless

(30:04):
I buy her. And I love this kid. Man, this
kid's gonna be fine in life. I really think so.
Very few things are going to work out for this
kid about this seven year did you guys ever like either?
Did you get black I've never gotten blackmailed for my kids,
and they have so much, like so much leverage on me.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
No blackmail.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
I can't say it on the ripe. How I'm dumb?

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Do you think I am with your hands?

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Well, here's the thing. I will tell you that.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
We have your hands.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Sorry that didn't give it a deserve.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
I can tell you I've talked a lot of crap
about my mother in law, but I don't think that
that would be the thing that it would be.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
It's probably things i've said about her.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
She is delightful.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
No, she is not. No, you well you probably have
met both, to be honest. But my here's the thing.
My mom is, my real mom is kind of shy
and she's very introverted. My that mom, very extroverted, probably
would have told two or three dirty jokes, like I
definitely think my stepmom and Shannon could have a good
time having some drinks together, for sure. But my mother

(31:09):
in law, if you get her, you've met my mother
in law, because I remember now being nervous, and I
have the visual in my head. It was at some
we were at Bruise Brothers, and you guys happen to
be there hanging out.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
She was delightful.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah, in five minutes she is.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
But you get past that ten minute threshold and oh
my god, you just want to you want to.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Drug her yourself quick. Oh it's horrible. Would your kids?

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Do your kids know you feel that way?

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (31:31):
Okay, so yeah, I'm not shy. I can't you see her,
I can't shut up like I don't I don't mix
my words. I don't want go back that. It's weirdly enough,
it's taken a transition. I'm really glad my mother in
law can't listen to this. It's taken a turn as
of late because I manage all of my mother in
law's finances and pay her bills and everything for her,
and I have more patience for my mother in law

(31:52):
than my wife has for her. Mother at this stage
in the in the situation. So, I mean you've only
known her for well, I guess you've known her.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
There for twenty eight years.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yeah, but your wife has known her for longer than that.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yes, she's got another dynamic between them is probably different.
Like my in laws came over for Christmas and when
they were there for three or four days, and there
is a difference between the way they interact with me
and they interact.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
With their daughter.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
And I have patients where other family members do not
have the same amount of patients that I do.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Because you didn't write. I didn't grow up.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
You didn't grow up with it, so you don't carry
all this historic baggage with you exactly. I knew them
when I met her, and that's it. I don't know
anything about the past. I don't know what they were
like when she was a teenager or a child. I
don't know any of that stuff. She tells me, but
I didn't witness it. So my take on it is
is different. Whether I like it or she likes it
or not, it's just different. Here's the heartbreaking wound that

(32:51):
you have accidentally reopened for me. It comes up from
time to time. Is that whenever you you inevitably talk
about this. And the first person that ruined it for
me was a comic, Keith highth I used to open
four on the road and he said, well, you know
that you've already screwed up, right, And I was like, what,
he goes, everybody complains about their parents, So you've already
screwed up your kids. You just don't know what it
is yet and you're probably never going to tell you

(33:11):
And having this conversation, I'm like, can you imagine my sons,
because I can't imagine my son's complaining to their spouse
about me or their dear mother.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
With sons.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
No, I don't complain.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
They don't. Sons do not complain. It's the daughters, the
daughters and mother. Mothers and daughters always have a thing.
Sons don't complain. Really, I don't not in my experience.
In fact, if I find if in my in my
real life long ago, if I was out in my
single life, I should say my real life that in

(33:46):
my real single life, if I met some guy who
did not get along with his mom, that was a
huge red flag really, because traditionally that's a mark of
a good guy. He takes care of his mom, cares
about his mom.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
That's why Leonardo DiCaprio brought his mom.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
To That guy's got mom issues. That's that's that's a problem.
That's probably a problem that's need to be sorted out
by a professional. You know what I mean, You know,
because they don't complain. Men usually do not complain about
their parents, not about their mothers specifically.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
But I don't think you're right. I mean I have.
I think I've complained about all of them in some way,
shape or form. But I mean I also love them all, dear.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
The love comes across when you talk about your parents
much more than any sort of complaint.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
Really, I always worry that I say about all the
horrible things my dad did that's on the borderline abusive.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
When I thought he was a great dad, like he was,
he was the best.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
But yeah, okay, good, all right, Maybe you're fine.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Your kids adore you.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
But here's the other part that I know you guys
already made fun of me because I've been I don't
know why, I've been daydreaming a lot about my son's
being married and like picturing the wedding.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Because you did that for yourself. You went into high school.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
I know to get married.

Speaker 6 (34:54):
I know my son has got a new girl that
he's interested, very excited.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
I am, you're like, are going to be blushing?

Speaker 4 (35:01):
This is this is how embarrassing it is. Guys, I
have waited.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
I've decided that when they get married, that's when I
can be affectionate towards their girlfriend. And I have to
wait until they're married, and then I.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Could give hugs and I can be like, welcome to
the family. We can have holidays together.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
I'm thinking p and ees, but they may be too
big for your figure.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
I have to learn what that means. Look it up.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Especially with the rainbow hair.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
It's all speeches of the wedding. Doesn't that sound fun?
It's gonna be great.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Shannon was only gonna do dry January and she's lasted
all year. This hair thing could go Goodias.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Like tattoos, I just needed one.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Justin worship.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
There is a developing story out of the Pacific Palisades.
Spencer Pratt has been very vocal about the criticisms of
city and state leadership.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
After Pratt needs attention like tinker bells.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Spencer Pratt is apparently running from mayor. Of course, the
announcement of course he is.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
I believe him.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
He's an ass clown.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
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