November 13, 2025 • 27 mins
The U.S. government finally reopens after the longest shutdown in history — but at what cost? The CDC reports that over 42% of Americans over 20 are now obese, and a new study reveals how antidepressants are taking a serious toll on the younger generation’s sex lives.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
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 (00:09):
Well, Evey, when our kids come home that we you
see weird faces.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
In this firsh My gosh, Victor just came in here. Guys,
we haven't seen Victor in like a year.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
One Chip challenge Victor anytime we'd had weird food.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We had him do like four shots of fireball before
nine one day. I think it was during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Maybe not. It was me, Oh that made him do that,
or you should do.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It, or you tried to make me do it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We have several people that we challenged with that.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
A lot of people developed drinking problems during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's so funny because I started watching The Real Housewives
of Orange County again and they've got this thing this
season with fireball, and I'm like, girls, girls, girls. We
did this like five years ago. We were doing shots
of fireball in the middle of the day. It's a
little pass a, now, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Is there any such thing as like a high end
cinnamon whiskey?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, no, right, you got to just go fireball fireball is
I don't think. I don't get where people knock fireball.
It is a delicious treat that smells like Christmas. I
mean tastes like Christmas. Wait what I mean it'll kill you? Well, yeah,
it's sheer poison, but it does taste like the holidays.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Over the past seven weeks, the Democrats shut down as
inflicted massive harm. They caused twenty thousand flights to be
canceled or delayed. They departed so many times so late,
people were hurt so badly.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That was President Trump last night when he signed the
end of the government shutdown into law, which really just
means we're going to have another government shut down, likely
at the end of January, which is you know, that's
the way things go here. He also argued in favor
of doing away with the filibuster.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
If we had the filibuster terminated, this would never happen again.
And don't forget, we have another date coming up in
the not too distant future. We can never let this again,
and we should be able to pass great, really great legislation.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And again no one in the Senate agrees with him.
There Republicans in the Senate, led by John Thune, have said,
we're not doing away with the filibuster because we know
that in the event that Democrats controlled the Senate, they
are going to do just as much a potential evil
with it as we would, or however they want to
(02:25):
put it. But they know that that's not a good idea.
So we're done with our government shutdown. People will start
to get paid, SNAP benefits will go out. All of that.
The problem with the airports, though, is not going away
anytime soon. They have had more air traffic controllers head
back to work. That is good news, and in fact,
(02:48):
the FAA says they're going to keep their flight reductions
at six percent instead of what was supposed to be
eight percent today and then ten percent tomorrow, they're going
to keep them at six percent and they'll stay in
place while they assess the air traffic control system and
determine whether or when I should say it will return
(03:08):
to normal operations, although they have not yet provided a
timeline for them.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Here's maybe something to get Congress working on. I think
the takeaway for many of us is that one in
eight Americans is on SNAP benefits.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's huge.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's more than twelve percent of the US population relies
upon food stamps.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And one in three households in La County specifically.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Largely because the federal minimum wage remains at seven twenty
five an hour. Sure there's corruption, Sure there's people taking
advantage of the program. You're always going to find that
no matter as long as a government program exists, there
will be people to take advantage of it. However, the
federal minimum wage is at seven twenty five an hour.
(03:53):
It hasn't changed in sixteen years. That's a longer gap
than between raises and any other point since it was created
in thirty eight because of the Great Depression. By okay,
so just the cost of eggs alone, I do the
grocery shopping.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
If you do the.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Grocery shopping in your house, you know how ridiculous it
is to do the grocery shopping right now.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You cannot afford anything.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The cost of a dozen eggs has gone up one
hundred and twenty five percent since two thousand and nine.
One hundred and twenty five percent for eggs. That is
why something has to be done at the grocery store.
Something has to be done with Congress to enact either
higher federal minimum wage or get rid of the price
gouging that must be going on ever since inflation became
(04:42):
a major problem, what now, seven years ago something like that.
This is insane and we just put up with it.
It's like streaming services. We keep paying all the hikes
and we're not even paying attention. Someone needs to pay
attention to the grocery store because it hasn't gotten better.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's ridiculous. There is one Trump note I want to
throw in there. It's not Donald Trump note, but it's
a Trump note. Eighteen year old Kai Trump, his granddaughter,
is making her highly anticipated LPGA debut today. She's going
to be playing in the Anaka Tournament at the Pelican
(05:19):
Golf Club in bel Air, Florida. Today, host of Bionica Sorenstam,
Kai Trump has been to become what an influencer I
guess at eighteen? Golf player Vanessa Sorry, Kai Trump's mother,
Vanessa happens to be dating somebody named, oh, Tiger Woods.
So I think Kai is getting probably some good lessons
(05:40):
from some guy named Tiger.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So I thought this was going to start with you
trying to win points over with women. Here's a story
about the LGPGLBG, the Women's Golf Association ladies golf, all right,
And I was like, look at Gary trying to make
headway with women, and it comes back to a man
and teaching the woman how to play golf, like she
wouldn't be on tour if Tiger Woods wasn't her mom's boyfriend.
(06:05):
That's what you insinuated that. I'm just saying, that's what
you insinuated. You started off on the right track, you
took a left turn into show there in this city.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
She didn't get in there because of her skills. She
got in their fort sponsorship exempt. Okay, So all right,
they're bringing some eyeballs to the new Aika tournament. So ouch,
no fatty, how I felt. Marco Rubio has a new
bumper sticker that says no fatty.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
This is kind of funny, right, Your obesity may determine
your visa status in this country.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
President Trump has signed into law that spending package ends
the government shutdown. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, has
said that he's going to hold a vote next week
on the whether or not to compel the Justice Department
to release all of the remaining Epstein files. Flight reductions
at airports will stay at six percent. Today. There will
(07:05):
be some weather delays. There's a bad weather back in
the Midwest and East, so we will see some weather delays,
but as we slowly get things back to normal when
it comes to air travel.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Coming up later this hour, as the stigma is removed
from mental illness as it should be. The most commonly
prescribed class of antidepressants, often prescribed to kids is now
coming with a warning about sexual dysfunction and the effects
that these SSRIs can have on your.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Kids are.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Not talked about and now being studied, and the studies
are not good.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Not good at all. We have a chance for you
to win one thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Now your chance to win one thousand dollars just enter
this nationwide keyword on our website money, that's money mony
why entering now at KFIAM six forty dot com, slash
cash Howard by game Accident Attorneys if you're hurting an accident,
Winning is everything called the winning Attorneys at Sweet James
one eight hundred nine million that's one eight hundred nine
(08:08):
million or sweet James dot com.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Again, the keyword money and why it goes on the
website an hour from now, we have another shot to
win a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So Marco Rubio told US consulates and embassies around the
world about changes to the visa process, specifically why foreigners
would be denied visas to the United States, and he
talked about the Trump administration directing visa officers to consider
(08:41):
obesity as a reason to deny visas.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It's not just obesity, but the State Department cable that
went out at the beginning of the month says, quote,
you must consider an applicant's health. Certain medical conditions, including
but not limited to, cardiovascular disease, rest buty diseases, cancers, diabetes,
metabolic disease, neurological diseases, mental health conditions can require hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of care, and suggests that
(09:09):
whatever consulate guts this cable should consider obesity in determining
whether or not to grant visas. It can cause sleep apnea,
it can cause high blood pressure, it can cause clinical depression, etc.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's kind of rich America saying we'll deny you because
of your obesity if you want to come to this country.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, do we do hold the title?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Do we not a little bit of hypocrisy there? Yes,
but about sixteen percent of adults worldwide. Worldwide, thirteen percent
qualify as obese. This would have been numbers from twenty
twenty two. In the United States, it's much closer to
thirty or forty percent.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I mean, how much of a problem is this?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I kind of look at this the way I look
at people that are clutching their pearls over transgender policies.
How many people are flooding the visa office that are
morbidly obese and want to come to the country for
healthcare because our healthcare system works so well as well,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's not like it's free healthcare for everybody.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I mean, that's kind of the way it works eventually
on the backs of people actually pay insurance. But you
know what I mean, how many how many people are
clawing to get in who are having huge health issues
that can't get them done In a country where healthcare works,
must much more.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Or would be paid for.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No questions ask h exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The State Department directive does apply to both temporary visa
holders like the H one B visas, as well as
immigrants that want permanent residents in the United States for
work or family related reasons. Certain humanitarian visa applicants like
refugees would be excluded, but as we've seen in the
last couple of well last several months, the Trump administration
(10:51):
has ended or is trying to end many of those programs.
So they're An immigration attorney in the UK has worked
as an immigration officer for the US said that the
consular officers around the world typically have significant discretion to
deny a visa based on their interpretation of the rules,
and said that this directive gives visa officers even more
(11:14):
reasons not to have to issue a visa to foreigners
who want to come to the United States.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
All right, when we come back, we will get into
how antidepressants may be destroying sex for adolescence in the future.
It's not like we were worried about your kids' sex
lives when they're seventeen, but.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Their hormones can almost overwhelm any medication in they're sixteen
seventeen sexteen seventeen, eighteen years old.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Just a specific number Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
says about forty two point four percent of Americans over
the age of twenty are considered obese forty two percent. No, yeah,
I'm not lying. What is thirteen percent around the world.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That sounds like a West Hollywood Personal Trainer scale.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Where they go you're you're right on the border of obese,
and it's like, sir, I am not obese.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
They're just trying to sell you a train.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
They're trying to sell you stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That's what I feel like that that forty two point
five percent, that's that can't be accurate.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
When tomorrow rolls around, we're gonna be live, well, we're
going to be live at luchun Or Brewing Company in
Chino Ills starting at nine o'clock is when the show begins.
We'll be out there until one and we would love
it if you would come and join us.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Did you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Real quick?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
No, no, I just hit the button wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All right, Well do when we come back.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Do you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Gosh, because it comes with a lesson that I have
to tell you about.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
A lesson that's my favorite kind of Jeopardy question, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The topic is colorful entertainment for four hundred dollars the answer.
In twenty twenty one, MS Swift gave her fans Taylor's
version of Fearless and this album the.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Clue is in the clue, which is colorful.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Please? Was it this right? Please don't get this right.
Please don't get this right.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And the Beatles had the white album? Did she have
the Red album?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You're right?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yes, Okay, you better be done with that stuff. Get
it out of your system, because apparently Henry de Carlo
hates the whole Taylor Swift, Travis Kelcey, all the whole machine,
the whole thing. So if he comes in here next week,
gotta stay aware you do not mention it. Do not go there.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
He's got kids, right, He's got his kids old enough,
they're old enough to know this.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'm pretty sure he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
He doesn't like the whole the whole machine, the whole
pr machine, the whole excitement that all of that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Just don't even mention Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'll do not storm the Storm remix if you will.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Those speaking of Henry de Carlos late.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Tonight we will see heavy rain coming through late tonight
into tomorrow. Will not impact our news and Bruce at
Luchador Brewing Company in Chino Hills, but the City of
La has issued an evacuation warning for debrif loows possible
tonight through Sunday morning in some of the burn areas.
The Scars Topanga Canyon is going to be closed down
(14:32):
late tonight in anticipation of the storm. They're still doing
work on that and that La City Emergency Operations Center
scheduled to open at six o'clock tonight, so it will
be a wet, wet evening.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
There is an article in the New York Times and
the headline is this more teens are taking anti depressants.
Could it disrupt their sex lives for years?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Not?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Could it? It could is the headline.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
This was an awfully sad article. To make my way through.
There is a dysfunction labeled PSSD post SSRI sexual dysfunction,
a loss of sexuality that persists after someone is off
(15:17):
of their SSRIs. These selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. That's a
very common class of drug that's used for things like
depression and anxiety, and especially lately it's been more commonly
prescribed to very young children. I'm as young as eleven,
at least as the example in this article.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well yeah, okay, so we'll get into that some of
those examples. Marie is one of the girls who is highlighted.
She began taking the generic form of prozac when she
was fifteen. It's one of these SSRIs, and she says
I was in touch with initial sparks of sexual energy
relatively young. She remembers crushes going back to the age
of seven. Shortly before starting on the drug, she was
(16:02):
dazzled from a distance by a hockey player at school. Tall, funny, charismatic. Again,
she's fifteen, and she remembers the feeling of the butterflies
and the tummy, the whole bit. But when she went
on the medication, she felt the infatuation vanished quickly, and
then she said, she realized, I'm not even developing new
crushes now. She had no idea that this drug may
(16:23):
be in correlation with how she was feeling, or the
changes and how she was feeling, but.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
She does know she was never informed about the sexual
side effects.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
She was never told what may happen is you lose
interest in the opposite sex or whatever sex you're into.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Another example, kid at the age of nineteen wit just
really quick.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Marie, by the way, is thirty eight now and she's
been off psychiatric medication for more than six years. Still
no sexual desire. She says, it's an empty, dark space.
There's nothing there.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Nineteen year old Kale Boy was stressed out about moving
out of his family home starting college. He was prescribed
ssriyes and SNR eyes, which are norepinephrine reuptake in hibiters
and sexual dysfunction. He said, came with the pills. I'm
going to read specifically because these are descriptions I've never
(17:21):
heard before. Precarious erections and if he could actually reach them,
orgasms that felt like pleasureless abstractions. He's twenty three now,
he's been off the medications for a year and a
half and has what disappeared has not returned, and he's
asking himself, now, what if I have this for the
rest of my life. He's twenty three.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So we have talked about schizophrenia before and about how
people that are prescribed medications to handle that disorder and
disorders like it don't like taking them, don't like taking
the pills that make them normal, because then they don't
feel alive.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
One could argue that the highs and lows of life
are what make you feel quote unquote alive. Right, you
take away the highs and lows, you take away the
ceiling and the basement, which causes you know, the swings
of mania and depression and all the things, and you've
just got that baseline, which is fine. But if you're
(18:30):
used to operating on the highs and lows, and then
you've just got that baseline, I can see where you
wouldn't be sexually interested.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, and there may be I mean that's the kind
of the emotional aspect of it, right, You're just kind
of your life is just mid.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
But is how much of your sex drive is tied
to your emotions for women?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It's everything, right, And the chemical aspect of it, I mean,
there are hormones that when you're seventeen are absolutely raging
through your body. Does this if you're on these early
enough or like I mean, this kid is nineteen eighty
break it? Does it destroy it? I mean it stops it.
There's there's actually an incredibly disturbing study that comes up
(19:16):
in this article that we'll talk about next. That explains
the difference between I mean, there are reasons why, specifically
with a man, but there are reasons why you can't
get directions for whatever reason, physical trauma, other chemical problems
that have gone on either in your body or at birth,
you know, some genetic issue that's going on. But this, specifically,
(19:38):
this class of drugs, this SSRI class of drugs, does
something physiologically to the tissue of your organ that destroys it. Wow,
it can, all right, I should say it can't.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
six forty.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We're talking about this study that needs to be done
on whether or not antidepressant drugs in teenagers are suppressing
their sexual development and in some cases destroying it completely
to the point where it never comes back.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Prescriptions for the drugs have soared in this age group.
Around two million twelve to seventeen year olds in this
country are on SSRIs.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
A couple things about this. There have been no really
reliable stuff. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I was just going to say that that rate has
climbed sixty nine percent since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's terrifying. It should be terrifying to people, to parents.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
That's less than ten years and it's up seventy percent
that these things are being handed out.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah. Yeah, and something like one in one in eight
people have at some point taken these antidepressant, anti anxiety
any medications. Reliable data about this kind of impact on
sexual function, a sexual desire, etc. Has never been done because, well,
(21:11):
for a couple reasons, but biggest issue is that pharmaceutical
companies are the ones that fund the research on this,
and they are not in any rush or financial interest
in finding out how well or how poorly patients do
down the line. They're taking the immediate impact. This is
similar to what we've said about GLP ones. Yeah, they work,
(21:33):
and they can get you to lose weight quickly and
that can reduce a lot of the other problems that
you may be having. But long term down the road,
what kind of an impact is this going to have
on your body? Now? One study that was done by
doctor Irwin Goldstein University California, San Diego. He says he
sees about seventy new patients each year for a rectile dysfunction,
(21:56):
and one of the big things that he did one
point was he tried to figure out what's going on
when it comes to men who are impotent, and he talked,
We're not talking about sixty five year olds, I'm talking
about sixteen year olds. He took one group who traced
their impotence to taking an SSRI. The one group ranged
(22:20):
in age from sixteen to forty three. They had been
off the medicine. And then there were two comparison groups.
One of them had physical trauma like a motocross accident,
bike seat injury, kicked in the crotch, and the other
group was made up of men over fifty diagnosed with
things like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, et cetera. In
(22:41):
that first group, again this is the younger people who
had been on SSRIs. He did an ultrasound of the
tissue in the penis. It was black, indicating excess collagen,
pervasive scarring in there. And again these are not injuries,
these are results of these young men apparently on the SSRIs.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's not just penises.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
There was one parent named Ruth in one of these
studies that reported that a couple decades ago, her daughter
was prescribed Zoloft, also an SSRI. She was eleven She
was prescribed by a psychiatrist after a humiliating incident at
school after feeling out of sorts and anxious, just pulling
(23:27):
the car over. Briefly, what eleven year old female doesn't
have a bad day at school that leaves them feeling
out of sorts and anxious.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's peak time, middle school.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It's awful for everybody, and the psychiatrist prescribes her Zoloft. Anyway,
Mom Ruth says, I guess I thought it was a
good thing. She spoke of her naivete at the time,
her blind trust in the doctor. Her daughter wound up
staying on the drug for a decade, and over the
past few years only Ruth has learned from her daughter
(23:57):
about the sexual side effect. She still lives with her.
Horogynous zones don't work. It's not just the effect on
the penis, it is on women as well.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
They just don't work anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
So there's a couple of things to wrap this up.
There's a couple of things that doctors are struggling with.
One of them is and I think this is ridiculous.
But one of the arguments has been doctors don't want
to talk to an eleven year old or a twelve
year old or a thirteen year old about the potential
sexual side effects because a they can't they don't know
(24:34):
what that is. They don't know going forward. What if they.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Don't know what that is, then they shouldn't be Well,
it's not my business.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
But then the doctors say they're walking into a minefield
if they try to discuss this with a child about
the potential future impacts. The other thing is some doctors
say this has nothing to do with the drug itself.
It has to do with the underlying condition that brings
them to a psychiatrist to ask them about. You know,
why would they be prescribed anti anxiety antidepression medicine in
(25:06):
the first place. They're saying that their sexual desire is
more tied to what the problem is with the brain
than it is whatever is going on with medication.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
But how did you fix that?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
The damage is done, whether it's in the actual rogenus
zone or it's in your head, the damage is done.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
There is a weird thing. Obviously, these drugs are designed
to sort of blunt the high end and the low
end right, and this as their sexual function declines. Because
it's blunting that high end, we assume everything is going
to be high end when it comes to that sort
of activity, but the pleasure seeking declines as well. So
(25:48):
not only are they not able to experience that.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
They're not looking for it, they're not looking for it
and there's no drive.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Some of the quotes from these people in this article
are like, I guess it's just not part of me, right,
oh my god, which is a weird thing for people
who have a normal drive to think about it.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I guess I'll just deal with your mood swings. You
can just stay off there. You just come in here
and you just fly off the handle one day and
oppress the next day, and I'll just deal with it.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I bring it because I care about a lot of
highs and lows to this.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
But it's a mess and lot my god. You never
know what you're going to get.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You know what you're going to get tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, news and bruise, damn right.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Luchen Or Brewing Company, Chino Hills.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Boom be out there, why yeah, just because if you're
not there, it's ridiculous because it could be our last
news and bruise of the year. I think it is.
It is, and who knows what next? Year May bring.
We may not even be here.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Amy King is going to have an update on the
news right after this. You've been listening to the Gary
and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on
KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm every
Monday through Friday, and anytime I'm on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
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 (00:09):
Well, Evey, when our kids come home that we you
see weird faces.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
In this firsh My gosh, Victor just came in here. Guys,
we haven't seen Victor in like a year.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
One Chip challenge Victor anytime we'd had weird food.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We had him do like four shots of fireball before
nine one day. I think it was during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Maybe not. It was me, Oh that made him do that,
or you should do.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It, or you tried to make me do it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We have several people that we challenged with that.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
A lot of people developed drinking problems during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's so funny because I started watching The Real Housewives
of Orange County again and they've got this thing this
season with fireball, and I'm like, girls, girls, girls. We
did this like five years ago. We were doing shots
of fireball in the middle of the day. It's a
little pass a, now, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Is there any such thing as like a high end
cinnamon whiskey?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, no, right, you got to just go fireball fireball is
I don't think. I don't get where people knock fireball.
It is a delicious treat that smells like Christmas. I
mean tastes like Christmas. Wait what I mean it'll kill you? Well, yeah,
it's sheer poison, but it does taste like the holidays.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Over the past seven weeks, the Democrats shut down as
inflicted massive harm. They caused twenty thousand flights to be
canceled or delayed. They departed so many times so late,
people were hurt so badly.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That was President Trump last night when he signed the
end of the government shutdown into law, which really just
means we're going to have another government shut down, likely
at the end of January, which is you know, that's
the way things go here. He also argued in favor
of doing away with the filibuster.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
If we had the filibuster terminated, this would never happen again.
And don't forget, we have another date coming up in
the not too distant future. We can never let this again,
and we should be able to pass great, really great legislation.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And again no one in the Senate agrees with him.
There Republicans in the Senate, led by John Thune, have said,
we're not doing away with the filibuster because we know
that in the event that Democrats controlled the Senate, they
are going to do just as much a potential evil
with it as we would, or however they want to
(02:25):
put it. But they know that that's not a good idea.
So we're done with our government shutdown. People will start
to get paid, SNAP benefits will go out. All of that.
The problem with the airports, though, is not going away
anytime soon. They have had more air traffic controllers head
back to work. That is good news, and in fact,
(02:48):
the FAA says they're going to keep their flight reductions
at six percent instead of what was supposed to be
eight percent today and then ten percent tomorrow, they're going
to keep them at six percent and they'll stay in
place while they assess the air traffic control system and
determine whether or when I should say it will return
(03:08):
to normal operations, although they have not yet provided a
timeline for them.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Here's maybe something to get Congress working on. I think
the takeaway for many of us is that one in
eight Americans is on SNAP benefits.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's huge.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's more than twelve percent of the US population relies
upon food stamps.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And one in three households in La County specifically.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Largely because the federal minimum wage remains at seven twenty
five an hour. Sure there's corruption, Sure there's people taking
advantage of the program. You're always going to find that
no matter as long as a government program exists, there
will be people to take advantage of it. However, the
federal minimum wage is at seven twenty five an hour.
(03:53):
It hasn't changed in sixteen years. That's a longer gap
than between raises and any other point since it was created
in thirty eight because of the Great Depression. By okay,
so just the cost of eggs alone, I do the
grocery shopping.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
If you do the.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Grocery shopping in your house, you know how ridiculous it
is to do the grocery shopping right now.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You cannot afford anything.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The cost of a dozen eggs has gone up one
hundred and twenty five percent since two thousand and nine.
One hundred and twenty five percent for eggs. That is
why something has to be done at the grocery store.
Something has to be done with Congress to enact either
higher federal minimum wage or get rid of the price
gouging that must be going on ever since inflation became
(04:42):
a major problem, what now, seven years ago something like that.
This is insane and we just put up with it.
It's like streaming services. We keep paying all the hikes
and we're not even paying attention. Someone needs to pay
attention to the grocery store because it hasn't gotten better.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's ridiculous. There is one Trump note I want to
throw in there. It's not Donald Trump note, but it's
a Trump note. Eighteen year old Kai Trump, his granddaughter,
is making her highly anticipated LPGA debut today. She's going
to be playing in the Anaka Tournament at the Pelican
(05:19):
Golf Club in bel Air, Florida. Today, host of Bionica Sorenstam,
Kai Trump has been to become what an influencer I
guess at eighteen? Golf player Vanessa Sorry, Kai Trump's mother,
Vanessa happens to be dating somebody named, oh, Tiger Woods.
So I think Kai is getting probably some good lessons
(05:40):
from some guy named Tiger.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So I thought this was going to start with you
trying to win points over with women. Here's a story
about the LGPGLBG, the Women's Golf Association ladies golf, all right,
And I was like, look at Gary trying to make
headway with women, and it comes back to a man
and teaching the woman how to play golf, like she
wouldn't be on tour if Tiger Woods wasn't her mom's boyfriend.
(06:05):
That's what you insinuated that. I'm just saying, that's what
you insinuated. You started off on the right track, you
took a left turn into show there in this city.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
She didn't get in there because of her skills. She
got in their fort sponsorship exempt. Okay, So all right,
they're bringing some eyeballs to the new Aika tournament. So ouch,
no fatty, how I felt. Marco Rubio has a new
bumper sticker that says no fatty.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
This is kind of funny, right, Your obesity may determine
your visa status in this country.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
President Trump has signed into law that spending package ends
the government shutdown. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, has
said that he's going to hold a vote next week
on the whether or not to compel the Justice Department
to release all of the remaining Epstein files. Flight reductions
at airports will stay at six percent. Today. There will
(07:05):
be some weather delays. There's a bad weather back in
the Midwest and East, so we will see some weather delays,
but as we slowly get things back to normal when
it comes to air travel.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Coming up later this hour, as the stigma is removed
from mental illness as it should be. The most commonly
prescribed class of antidepressants, often prescribed to kids is now
coming with a warning about sexual dysfunction and the effects
that these SSRIs can have on your.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Kids are.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Not talked about and now being studied, and the studies
are not good.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Not good at all. We have a chance for you
to win one thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Now your chance to win one thousand dollars just enter
this nationwide keyword on our website money, that's money mony
why entering now at KFIAM six forty dot com, slash
cash Howard by game Accident Attorneys if you're hurting an accident,
Winning is everything called the winning Attorneys at Sweet James
one eight hundred nine million that's one eight hundred nine
(08:08):
million or sweet James dot com.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Again, the keyword money and why it goes on the
website an hour from now, we have another shot to
win a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So Marco Rubio told US consulates and embassies around the
world about changes to the visa process, specifically why foreigners
would be denied visas to the United States, and he
talked about the Trump administration directing visa officers to consider
(08:41):
obesity as a reason to deny visas.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It's not just obesity, but the State Department cable that
went out at the beginning of the month says, quote,
you must consider an applicant's health. Certain medical conditions, including
but not limited to, cardiovascular disease, rest buty diseases, cancers, diabetes,
metabolic disease, neurological diseases, mental health conditions can require hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of care, and suggests that
(09:09):
whatever consulate guts this cable should consider obesity in determining
whether or not to grant visas. It can cause sleep apnea,
it can cause high blood pressure, it can cause clinical depression, etc.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's kind of rich America saying we'll deny you because
of your obesity if you want to come to this country.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, do we do hold the title?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Do we not a little bit of hypocrisy there? Yes,
but about sixteen percent of adults worldwide. Worldwide, thirteen percent
qualify as obese. This would have been numbers from twenty
twenty two. In the United States, it's much closer to
thirty or forty percent.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I mean, how much of a problem is this?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I kind of look at this the way I look
at people that are clutching their pearls over transgender policies.
How many people are flooding the visa office that are
morbidly obese and want to come to the country for
healthcare because our healthcare system works so well as well,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's not like it's free healthcare for everybody.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I mean, that's kind of the way it works eventually
on the backs of people actually pay insurance. But you
know what I mean, how many how many people are
clawing to get in who are having huge health issues
that can't get them done In a country where healthcare works,
must much more.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Or would be paid for.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No questions ask h exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The State Department directive does apply to both temporary visa
holders like the H one B visas, as well as
immigrants that want permanent residents in the United States for
work or family related reasons. Certain humanitarian visa applicants like
refugees would be excluded, but as we've seen in the
last couple of well last several months, the Trump administration
(10:51):
has ended or is trying to end many of those programs.
So they're An immigration attorney in the UK has worked
as an immigration officer for the US said that the
consular officers around the world typically have significant discretion to
deny a visa based on their interpretation of the rules,
and said that this directive gives visa officers even more
(11:14):
reasons not to have to issue a visa to foreigners
who want to come to the United States.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
All right, when we come back, we will get into
how antidepressants may be destroying sex for adolescence in the future.
It's not like we were worried about your kids' sex
lives when they're seventeen, but.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Their hormones can almost overwhelm any medication in they're sixteen
seventeen sexteen seventeen, eighteen years old.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Just a specific number Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
says about forty two point four percent of Americans over
the age of twenty are considered obese forty two percent. No, yeah,
I'm not lying. What is thirteen percent around the world.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That sounds like a West Hollywood Personal Trainer scale.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Where they go you're you're right on the border of obese,
and it's like, sir, I am not obese.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
They're just trying to sell you a train.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
They're trying to sell you stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That's what I feel like that that forty two point
five percent, that's that can't be accurate.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
When tomorrow rolls around, we're gonna be live, well, we're
going to be live at luchun Or Brewing Company in
Chino Ills starting at nine o'clock is when the show begins.
We'll be out there until one and we would love
it if you would come and join us.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Did you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Real quick?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
No, no, I just hit the button wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All right, Well do when we come back.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Do you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Gosh, because it comes with a lesson that I have
to tell you about.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
A lesson that's my favorite kind of Jeopardy question, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The topic is colorful entertainment for four hundred dollars the answer.
In twenty twenty one, MS Swift gave her fans Taylor's
version of Fearless and this album the.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Clue is in the clue, which is colorful.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Please? Was it this right? Please don't get this right.
Please don't get this right.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And the Beatles had the white album? Did she have
the Red album?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You're right?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yes, Okay, you better be done with that stuff. Get
it out of your system, because apparently Henry de Carlo
hates the whole Taylor Swift, Travis Kelcey, all the whole machine,
the whole thing. So if he comes in here next week,
gotta stay aware you do not mention it. Do not go there.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
He's got kids, right, He's got his kids old enough,
they're old enough to know this.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'm pretty sure he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
He doesn't like the whole the whole machine, the whole
pr machine, the whole excitement that all of that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Just don't even mention Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'll do not storm the Storm remix if you will.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Those speaking of Henry de Carlos late.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Tonight we will see heavy rain coming through late tonight
into tomorrow. Will not impact our news and Bruce at
Luchador Brewing Company in Chino Hills, but the City of
La has issued an evacuation warning for debrif loows possible
tonight through Sunday morning in some of the burn areas.
The Scars Topanga Canyon is going to be closed down
(14:32):
late tonight in anticipation of the storm. They're still doing
work on that and that La City Emergency Operations Center
scheduled to open at six o'clock tonight, so it will
be a wet, wet evening.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
There is an article in the New York Times and
the headline is this more teens are taking anti depressants.
Could it disrupt their sex lives for years?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Not?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Could it? It could is the headline.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
This was an awfully sad article. To make my way through.
There is a dysfunction labeled PSSD post SSRI sexual dysfunction,
a loss of sexuality that persists after someone is off
(15:17):
of their SSRIs. These selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. That's a
very common class of drug that's used for things like
depression and anxiety, and especially lately it's been more commonly
prescribed to very young children. I'm as young as eleven,
at least as the example in this article.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well yeah, okay, so we'll get into that some of
those examples. Marie is one of the girls who is highlighted.
She began taking the generic form of prozac when she
was fifteen. It's one of these SSRIs, and she says
I was in touch with initial sparks of sexual energy
relatively young. She remembers crushes going back to the age
of seven. Shortly before starting on the drug, she was
(16:02):
dazzled from a distance by a hockey player at school. Tall, funny, charismatic. Again,
she's fifteen, and she remembers the feeling of the butterflies
and the tummy, the whole bit. But when she went
on the medication, she felt the infatuation vanished quickly, and
then she said, she realized, I'm not even developing new
crushes now. She had no idea that this drug may
(16:23):
be in correlation with how she was feeling, or the
changes and how she was feeling, but.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
She does know she was never informed about the sexual
side effects.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
She was never told what may happen is you lose
interest in the opposite sex or whatever sex you're into.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Another example, kid at the age of nineteen wit just
really quick.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Marie, by the way, is thirty eight now and she's
been off psychiatric medication for more than six years. Still
no sexual desire. She says, it's an empty, dark space.
There's nothing there.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Nineteen year old Kale Boy was stressed out about moving
out of his family home starting college. He was prescribed
ssriyes and SNR eyes, which are norepinephrine reuptake in hibiters
and sexual dysfunction. He said, came with the pills. I'm
going to read specifically because these are descriptions I've never
(17:21):
heard before. Precarious erections and if he could actually reach them,
orgasms that felt like pleasureless abstractions. He's twenty three now,
he's been off the medications for a year and a
half and has what disappeared has not returned, and he's
asking himself, now, what if I have this for the
rest of my life. He's twenty three.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So we have talked about schizophrenia before and about how
people that are prescribed medications to handle that disorder and
disorders like it don't like taking them, don't like taking
the pills that make them normal, because then they don't
feel alive.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
One could argue that the highs and lows of life
are what make you feel quote unquote alive. Right, you
take away the highs and lows, you take away the
ceiling and the basement, which causes you know, the swings
of mania and depression and all the things, and you've
just got that baseline, which is fine. But if you're
(18:30):
used to operating on the highs and lows, and then
you've just got that baseline, I can see where you
wouldn't be sexually interested.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, and there may be I mean that's the kind
of the emotional aspect of it, right, You're just kind
of your life is just mid.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
But is how much of your sex drive is tied
to your emotions for women?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It's everything, right, And the chemical aspect of it, I mean,
there are hormones that when you're seventeen are absolutely raging
through your body. Does this if you're on these early
enough or like I mean, this kid is nineteen eighty
break it? Does it destroy it? I mean it stops it.
There's there's actually an incredibly disturbing study that comes up
(19:16):
in this article that we'll talk about next. That explains
the difference between I mean, there are reasons why, specifically
with a man, but there are reasons why you can't
get directions for whatever reason, physical trauma, other chemical problems
that have gone on either in your body or at birth,
you know, some genetic issue that's going on. But this, specifically,
(19:38):
this class of drugs, this SSRI class of drugs, does
something physiologically to the tissue of your organ that destroys it. Wow,
it can, all right, I should say it can't.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
six forty.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We're talking about this study that needs to be done
on whether or not antidepressant drugs in teenagers are suppressing
their sexual development and in some cases destroying it completely
to the point where it never comes back.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Prescriptions for the drugs have soared in this age group.
Around two million twelve to seventeen year olds in this
country are on SSRIs.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
A couple things about this. There have been no really
reliable stuff. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I was just going to say that that rate has
climbed sixty nine percent since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's terrifying. It should be terrifying to people, to parents.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
That's less than ten years and it's up seventy percent
that these things are being handed out.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah. Yeah, and something like one in one in eight
people have at some point taken these antidepressant, anti anxiety
any medications. Reliable data about this kind of impact on
sexual function, a sexual desire, etc. Has never been done because, well,
(21:11):
for a couple reasons, but biggest issue is that pharmaceutical
companies are the ones that fund the research on this,
and they are not in any rush or financial interest
in finding out how well or how poorly patients do
down the line. They're taking the immediate impact. This is
similar to what we've said about GLP ones. Yeah, they work,
(21:33):
and they can get you to lose weight quickly and
that can reduce a lot of the other problems that
you may be having. But long term down the road,
what kind of an impact is this going to have
on your body? Now? One study that was done by
doctor Irwin Goldstein University California, San Diego. He says he
sees about seventy new patients each year for a rectile dysfunction,
(21:56):
and one of the big things that he did one
point was he tried to figure out what's going on
when it comes to men who are impotent, and he talked,
We're not talking about sixty five year olds, I'm talking
about sixteen year olds. He took one group who traced
their impotence to taking an SSRI. The one group ranged
(22:20):
in age from sixteen to forty three. They had been
off the medicine. And then there were two comparison groups.
One of them had physical trauma like a motocross accident,
bike seat injury, kicked in the crotch, and the other
group was made up of men over fifty diagnosed with
things like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, et cetera. In
(22:41):
that first group, again this is the younger people who
had been on SSRIs. He did an ultrasound of the
tissue in the penis. It was black, indicating excess collagen,
pervasive scarring in there. And again these are not injuries,
these are results of these young men apparently on the SSRIs.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's not just penises.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
There was one parent named Ruth in one of these
studies that reported that a couple decades ago, her daughter
was prescribed Zoloft, also an SSRI. She was eleven She
was prescribed by a psychiatrist after a humiliating incident at
school after feeling out of sorts and anxious, just pulling
(23:27):
the car over. Briefly, what eleven year old female doesn't
have a bad day at school that leaves them feeling
out of sorts and anxious.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's peak time, middle school.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It's awful for everybody, and the psychiatrist prescribes her Zoloft. Anyway,
Mom Ruth says, I guess I thought it was a
good thing. She spoke of her naivete at the time,
her blind trust in the doctor. Her daughter wound up
staying on the drug for a decade, and over the
past few years only Ruth has learned from her daughter
(23:57):
about the sexual side effect. She still lives with her.
Horogynous zones don't work. It's not just the effect on
the penis, it is on women as well.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
They just don't work anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
So there's a couple of things to wrap this up.
There's a couple of things that doctors are struggling with.
One of them is and I think this is ridiculous.
But one of the arguments has been doctors don't want
to talk to an eleven year old or a twelve
year old or a thirteen year old about the potential
sexual side effects because a they can't they don't know
(24:34):
what that is. They don't know going forward. What if they.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Don't know what that is, then they shouldn't be Well,
it's not my business.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
But then the doctors say they're walking into a minefield
if they try to discuss this with a child about
the potential future impacts. The other thing is some doctors
say this has nothing to do with the drug itself.
It has to do with the underlying condition that brings
them to a psychiatrist to ask them about. You know,
why would they be prescribed anti anxiety antidepression medicine in
(25:06):
the first place. They're saying that their sexual desire is
more tied to what the problem is with the brain
than it is whatever is going on with medication.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
But how did you fix that?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
The damage is done, whether it's in the actual rogenus
zone or it's in your head, the damage is done.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
There is a weird thing. Obviously, these drugs are designed
to sort of blunt the high end and the low
end right, and this as their sexual function declines. Because
it's blunting that high end, we assume everything is going
to be high end when it comes to that sort
of activity, but the pleasure seeking declines as well. So
(25:48):
not only are they not able to experience that.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
They're not looking for it, they're not looking for it
and there's no drive.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Some of the quotes from these people in this article
are like, I guess it's just not part of me, right,
oh my god, which is a weird thing for people
who have a normal drive to think about it.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I guess I'll just deal with your mood swings. You
can just stay off there. You just come in here
and you just fly off the handle one day and
oppress the next day, and I'll just deal with it.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I bring it because I care about a lot of
highs and lows to this.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
But it's a mess and lot my god. You never
know what you're going to get.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You know what you're going to get tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, news and bruise, damn right.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Luchen Or Brewing Company, Chino Hills.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Boom be out there, why yeah, just because if you're
not there, it's ridiculous because it could be our last
news and bruise of the year. I think it is.
It is, and who knows what next? Year May bring.
We may not even be here.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Amy King is going to have an update on the
news right after this. You've been listening to the Gary
and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on
KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm every
Monday through Friday, and anytime I'm on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
Gary and Shannon News
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Ruthie's Table 4
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.