May 8, 2026 • 30 mins
The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 2 (05.08) – A global cruise ship outbreak sparks pandemic betting markets, California politics turns fully online-brained, and somehow Space Wars becomes a "legitimate" cinematic universe pitch.• Cruise ship chaos escalates → health officials worldwide scramble to track passengers after the hantavirus outbreak spreads across multiple countries
• Officials stress → this is NOT another COVID situation
• Still… the similarities are making people deeply uncomfortable• Federal raid at sea → 27 cruise ship workers detained and deported in a major CSAM investigation tied to multiple ships, including Disney Cruise Line
• Online confusion → passengers initially believed it was an ICE operation• California governor race tightens → new polling and prediction markets show momentum shifting after two straight debate nights
• Spencer Pratt continues dominating online attention in the LA mayor race
• Meanwhile → Karen Bass still leads traditionally while bettors react almost in real time to viral moments• Governor breakdown → Xavier Becerra stabilizes, Katie Porter struggles, and Republicans continue trying to sneak two candidates through California’s jungle primary• And finally… Space Wars
• Shannon unveils the expanding mythology of Bi-Ractar and Bumperpuss while Mark Rahner gives the project an unexpectedly serious cinematic breakdown
• One problem → there may already technically be a movie called Space Wars
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How about a little bit America? We got a little
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This is how we kick off Memorial Day weekend on
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Speaker 2 (01:24):
Good point. This is where we go. It's the least
we can do.
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And they make it nice and fun and easy to
honor the service.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Of our veterans.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And we do it every Memorial Day. And here's where
people start telling me it is Memorial Day, not Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I understand that, but.
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You get the gist. We will be there.
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Beer, Peace a show. Matt wrote, chaos. I don't know.
I love that he has confidence that we're going to
lose our minds. There have been some chaotic moments. There
had been exotic animals at Bravery Brewing.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, you had a camel basically in your pants one year.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh, I've got video. I don't have video. No, no,
somebody actually just sent me that picture again a few days.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, because I've got video, we could repost of the
picture of you and the camel. Remember you had carrots
in your hand or something, and the camel didn't want
the carrots.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And character was in my mouth, I remember, and I
leaned in and he took the carrot out of my mouth.
I thought he made a play for your nether region. Well,
I mean I didn't. I didn't have a carrot there,
but he was looking for it. He was taken. Also,
Kfipa is being brewed. They are always been so great
about providing a a libation for us. And listen, do
(02:57):
not sleep on that pizza that it is award winning
pizza in their pizza kitchen that was a product of COVID.
They had to serve food in order to have to
keep the tap room open. It is spectacular pizza. And
if that's all you go for, yeah, thousand worth it.
(03:18):
But we have another problem. Yes, we have a coronavirus problem.
We are going to have COVID again and we're all
going to be locked down. Wear your mask, don't touch anybody.
You know, I don't buy a Grandma.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I don't want to steal Elmer's stand up bit, so
I won't. But he has a great stand up idea
that he's work shopping through because Elmer and uh, it's
all about doing COVID right this time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, let's do it. What do you got?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, you're putting them on the spot now and I
kind of ruined the ramp up and all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So do you want to do it? You want to rewind?
And oh no, it's okay. Okay, I can. I can
give you the quick synopsis up said joke, go for it.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Yeah, So it's more about like the cruise and how
we're dealing with all these cruises coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh hey, Oscar, Oscar came in, so I waved he
tell you not to talk, Osar. We're doing stand up
right now. Oh okay. I don't know if he was
waving you off. He was just waving to say, hi, Okay.
So why do all the.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Worst things happen on cruises? We have the poop Cruise,
we have people missing on cruises, and we have the Titanic,
never forget.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I love that part.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Now there's a new infectious disease in town, and it's
got a scarier name, Home to Virus. Yeah, so this
time around, I want to do the pandemic right, So
I'm gonna take all the ppe loans and move out
(04:49):
of the country.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Who I mean, there's so much meat on that bone
of like doing a pandemic differently and right this time,
like all the fraud money, like he was mentioning that
you can collect.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Here's here's here's what to remember about this haunted virus thing.
The ship is off the coast of Africa. It's not
in Long Beach. The headlines New York Times thing literally
New York Times. Here's how freaked out you should be
about the haunt of virus cruise ship. That's all the
headline is. It doesn't tell you anything. You have to
read the article, which is fine you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
The article is the breaks tone means nothing to me.
I've been to this movie before. The article then says
you do not need to worry.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I remember looking at my computer in the old studio
and looking at the Associated Press and saying, huh, this
mystery illness in China and you sitting over there going
it's in China.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Relax people, pump y'all. Brace. Saying this boat is off
Africa means nil.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, what I mean is the this is a different
virus for among other things, pelotons come a long way.
There's plenty to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You'll find something to do. Oh my god, Pump the
breaks to remember the pump your breaks.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
All of it. Pump your book, Pump your breaks, people.
Hantavirus is not going to wipe us out. First of all,
the mortality rate is exceedingly high, which means that it's
hard to.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You say things like mortality rate. Listen, well, I'm just
not doing this again.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
There's a headline cruise ship illness period.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Let's not go any further.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Five people confirmed, five people confirmed.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
A numbers, A numbers. I'm not listening to you talk numbers.
Public health agencies here, not today.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
California, Georgia, and Arizona notified that some residents were among
But here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
CDC has activated it's twenty four to seven. Emergency Center
classified hantavirus as the lowest activation level. They say level
three and people lose their minds. Level is the lowest
activation level.
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Tonight Miguel Rojas Game seven home run bobblehead. Hell yeah,
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LA Sports. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Braves, first pitch,
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Speaker 2 (08:13):
I'm interested in watching that. The Braves have the best
record in baseball right now. Angels are also in Toronto
this afternoon they'll take on the Blue Jays. Have you
ever heard of the Wichita wind Surge.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I hadn't until this morning. The Wichita Wind Surge is
the Double A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, and whoever's
on that team hates the name.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I thought you were gonna tell me it was a
weather phenomena that has some sort of impact on Southern
California minor.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
League baseball team. Got it. The Wichita wind Surge hit
ten home runs last night against the Amarillo sod Poodles.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Stop it that one I've heard of before, the sod Poodles.
Since two thousand and five, there have only been four
minor league teams that have hit ten home runs in
a game, and since the nineteen since literally nineteen hundred,
there has been one major league team that hit ten
home runs in a game.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It was the Blue Jays back in eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Have you ever thought about getting in on a minor
league team?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Getting in on? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think John had a piece of a minor league team.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
He did remember them. We talked to him.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Pretty cool. He hit bobbleheads. There is a new Long
Beach team that's coming out, Yeah, the Long Beach Tide.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You can go out there. You could take batting practice.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Because I'm an owner, I don't know the how does
it work? How does it work? I think I don't
a lot of people have that's I do not know
how that works. If they're owned, they're not owned by
the major league clubs. I don't think. I have no
idea private owners. But then they have the affiliation with
the club. Lakers did drop another game to Okay, see
(09:51):
last night, this might be and by the way, everybody
believes this is the end of the Lakers season because
you're already starting to see like Lebron James twenty five
greatest career moments. They still have two games and they're
still they're already getting in there. What is the series at?
There are two? Nothing right now? Ooh.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I did see all of the video making the rounds
on social media of the Lakers making their case to
the refs after the game.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, yeah, JJ Reddick was very upset with the with
the officials.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I saw JJ Reddick doing a lot of the yammering
and Lebron doing a lot of the nodding at everything.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
JJ was saying, Yeah, I don't know what their complaint was.
What was the score? Oneh seven? Okay, So that's really
a game that you can blame on the refs, is it?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Ducks will host the Golden Knights tonight in Anaheim. That
series is tied at one to one.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I think I just mistakenly picked up the Nuggets pile
because I see that it says it starts with Florida
man dressed in red lace bra So I don't think
that's for me right now.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Well, the only it's a little premature Shannon.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
To continue the cruise ship story, not talking about hantavirus.
Federal officials down in San Diego detained and deported over
two dozen suspected cruise ship workers in a child sex
abuse material operation last month. This was initially rumored to
be an ice ray, that is not what they were doing.
But Customs Border Protection officers boarded eight different cruise ships
(11:21):
at the Port of San Diego Cruise Ship Terminal. Twenty
seven of the twenty eight people detained by the Feds
were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or
viewing of child sexual exploitation, and at least one of
the cruises as a cruise known for catering to children.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Shall we say that's all I'll say about that.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Did you know, by the way, speaking of cruise ships
and the haunt of virus and the whole deal, that
there are odds being set on the prediction markets.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Calshi's got a projection up for pandemic this year. Question mark.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's the number seventeen percent chance seventeen percent. Pump your braks.
Just pump your brakes on that.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And then haunt a virus outbreak this year question mark
twenty one point two percent chance, I just and then pandemic.
Haunt of virus pandemic in twenty twenty six nine percent chance.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Fly right, and so pump your break. The money says
we're good breaks.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Gary and Shannon will return. Yes, more of this, Mark Ronner,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I'm wide awake, Thank you very much. WHOA and what
do we owe? That pleasure coffee? We're working on that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
We have a fancy new coffee machine in the breakroom
and it's like something out of Star Trek the next generation.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And I use it as often as I possibly can.
And if you need to, you can take out a
second mortgage on that thing too. Is that right? Just
type in the right numbers. You got to know what
to do. Mark.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Have I talked you yet about space Wars?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, no, let it out and I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
We'll do it in the next segment.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I'll hurry. I have a goiter that I need drained,
so I'll be missing that. The world loves a goiter.
I think Mark Runner might get on board with space
warse getting a feeling it sounds right up my alley. Yeah,
I don't think this is a good idea.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
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Speaker 2 (13:29):
I sent this picture to your wife.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Pssh, she writes back, I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Gone for one day. It's one pop tart. No, it
was two. I haven't even eaten one yet.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It's not just the pop tart, it's the whole presentation,
those sweats, like, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
How dare well? How dare you?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The San Luis Obispo County sheriff has been back at
Paula Flores' house. Paula Flora, paul Flores's mother, Sandra I
believe is her name. This is the Kristen Smart case
from thirty years ago. The guy was convicted. He's in
jail for some reason. Sheriff's deputy showed back up to
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the family house in a Tascadero on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Remember, there was somebody trying to pedal the fact that
they thought there was chemical deposits in the soil that
show traces of decomposition.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Probably something to do with that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, they have said they haven't found anything yet. The
Sheriff's Department from San Luis Obispo County came out with
a comment this morning so they haven't found anything yet,
but that they will continue continue looking because they've never
found Kristin Smart's body and one of the beliefs beliefs
is that she is or she was buried, I should say,
(15:04):
in the family in the backyard of the family home. There.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The race for governor getting more competitive, two newly released
polls showing no clear favorite as voters begin to pay attention.
A Survey USA poll shows Hilton leading the field with
twenty percent support, Tom Steyer behind him at eighteen percent,
than Chad Bianco, then Javier Bessera. Interesting another survey, and again,
(15:33):
these surveys we've learned our lesson, haven't we for ten, eleven,
twelve years.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Take them with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Another one conducted by Evitterous for California Democratic Party paints
another picture. In that poll, Hilton and Bessera are tied
at eighteen percent. Very crowded, very unsettled contest, but fewer
voters now a peer undecided. People are making up their minds, We're.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Making their decisions and part of it is because ballots
are in their hands. We got ours just yesterday, day
before yesterday, So they're sitting on the kitchen island waiting
to be filled out.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Now, when does Gavin Newsome make his blessing on Hamar Besara?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm amazed that he hasn't done it. Whoever he's going
to choose, I'm amazed that he hasn't done it yet.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, it's going to be be Sarah.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's just going to be calculated as to when it's necessary,
when it's needed, probably.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
But the other thing is when do people start dropping out?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
When does Vira Goosa stop hacking up with an axe
the other Latino candidate we actually learn Mayhem.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
We're supposed to talk to Mayor Via Goosa in a
couple of days. I mean, here's the thing is, I
don't know interview is going to be The interview is
only good for a couple of days. We'll just say
that if you if you haven't come through in a
couple of days, there's no reason to talk to That's
what I was going to say is that the the
longer this goes on, the less likely he is to
have any sort of an impact I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Not gonna win, but he could have an impact. Like
the way he took swings at Bessara was pretty interesting.
The way he highlighted Biden's problems with Basera when he
did have that federal exposure, that name, that name recognition,
that the reason why he has a name recognition is
because he held that federal office.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Right now, I mean you mentioned the recent polls, it's
still pretty clear that when you look at the polling,
which is a lagging indicator, I mean, there are people
who've probably changed their minds. After two straight nights of debates,
Steve Hilton is still ahead by a full two and
a half points over Tom Steyer. And again, this is
the average of all of these poles put together, Steve
(17:46):
Hilton at eighteen point five, Stier at sixteen, Bianco at thirteen,
Besara at ten. And then the whole Katie Porter thing.
I saw you had another interview with her where she's
trying to soften this whole thing about the absolute monster
that she proved herself to be when she was yelling
at her staff members. Again, I'm not saying that that's
(18:07):
necessarily an automatic disqualifier, but is it is untoward for
a lot of people. A lot of people don't want
to vote for something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
She's got more things working against her than she has
working for her, unfortunately, the tone, the monster behavior, all
of that, and the just head in the sand positions
that she has. Now, when you look at the mayor's race,
when you look at cal she and poly market, the
prediction markets following the money here, it is exemplifying what
(18:40):
I think is going to be the case. And I've
said that before that Karen Bass is going to be
re elected mayor. Right now, she's at forty nine percent
above Spencer Pratt at thirty percent. That's according to Polymarket
cow She's got her at forty eight percent and Spencer
Prad at twenty nine percent. No matter how many great
points Spencer Pratt brings to the table, speaks like all
of us, like ordinary people. The passion he brings to it,
(19:02):
the emotion, the outsider impact that he has able to
throw rocks at a system that is broken is huge.
It's entertaining and it's refreshing, but it doesn't translate when
you think about the huge amounts of money that the
democratic machine is pouring into Karen Vass's reelection.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
He was able to raise more than she was, but
that was from the private donors. The machine, the machine
is a great word for it. The power that is
behind Karen Bass. It's the same machine that has pushed
Javio Biserra to the top and the governor's pay exactly. Well.
He did say an interesting thing. He was interviewed by CBS,
that is Spencer Pratt about what he expects coming up.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Everybody that texted me last night amazing congratulations are all Democrats.
So what people are confused on? The Democrats all are
behind me. It's just the socialists and the communists that
don't back me. But no, I'm confident I'm probably gonna
win with fifty one percent on June Seve.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's a little pie in the sky. I mean, the
thing that he has going for him is his grounded nature.
You said it. He uses language that we use when
we talk about the problems that exist in southern California,
the problems that exist specifically in the city of la
He doesn't sugarcoat it. He doesn't say things like people
who are unhoused or experiencing homelessness or any of that
(20:23):
BS jargon or any of that, and that I think
is his biggest that's one of the biggest things that
he's got going for him is he's not caught up
in all of that. Did you want to explain to
Mark what Space Wars is?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh? Yeah, bringing a Okay, So Space Wars is an
idea that I've had for years and I don't know
how it got started. I think it was definitely a
product of the pandemic when we were bored and just
thinking of things, and I had this idea. Ukraine was
in the news because of Ukraine and Russia, the conflict
(20:59):
to just be on. There was a Ukrainian fight song
and the chorus was by Ractar and it was very catchy.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
This this song that the Ukrainians would use. It's a
their independent song by Ractar. That's just kind of cling
on by Ractar. I don't know what that is. But
I don't know what klingon is.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I do not from Star Trek. See Mark, just a
second before you've what have I gotten myself into it?
I just I just Mark, if you have any love
or found any joy in either the Star Wars universe
or the Star Trek universe, or both, because they're not
they don't have to be even exclusive. Part of what
(21:40):
she's doing could hurt your feelings. I got a lot
of scar tissue built up. Let's just see this through
to the end.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Let's do it. So.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
By Ractar is the name of one of the heroes
of Space Wars. What I envision is a multi uh well,
it's a franchise. Really, you would have several movies is
maybe you know, seven or something like that. You would
go back and forth in time and things like that. Now,
Biractar is our hero. He is half human. His father
was Ukrainian. That's why his name is Biraktar. And his
(22:11):
mother is an alien and she is passed and that's
why he's half man, half alien.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
His name's Biraktar. Now his points sidekick.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We just said that his mother has passed. Yes, do
we know where his father is or is that? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Sorry, plotlight? So a half breed like mister Spock. Okay, yeah,
so that's the guy. That's the guy with the pointy airs.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Am I right?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
This is true?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, and bad haircut.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now his sidekick, biractar sidekick is mister bumber Puss. Mister
bumber Puss is half man, half cat. Now did you
see that movie Cats?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Uh? I did not because I was afraid of the
cat the holes. Yeah, I was screen.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I don't want cats being sexualized or any of that.
But it does give life to mister bumber Puss because
he does appear to be just as much man as
he is cat.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
And I don't mean that in a sexual way at all.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
No. Does he give himself tongue baths like you? No,
absolutely not. Is that forbidden on the bridge.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
He's just not that dude, like he's bad ass, like
bumber Puss.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Will f you up. Not a house cat. We're not
saying house cat. This is like a wild bobcat cat,
a big jungle cat. But he walks on too. He
walks on too.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
He does not walk on.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Does he use a toilet or a litter box?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You never see him go to the bathroom, just like
your grandpa that woke up in a three piece suit.
You think that man used the bathroom? No, you never
see it.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You don't need to interesting anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So it's all about fighting for peace among the planets,
and every planet brings something different to the whole fight,
like it's a different war zone. There's a forest planet
which I scouted up in the Redwood's National Park last week.
There's a desert planet. Let I scouted to Death Valley.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Oh, so you can write these trips off on your
taxes I.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Already have, okay.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And they also have different vehicles, right, Like there's different apparatus.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
You need to fight a war on the forest.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Planet as opposed to the desert planet. So you can
see the ability for like merch and different Like this
is gonna make us so much money.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh, just ask George Lucas merch is where it's at.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Okay, I know Lucas Valley. I'm from that area.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You'll do great at this. So so what do you say? Oh,
I'm in Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
What do you need me to do?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You get an assistant producer, credit or creative.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So you have poo poo this for seven to nine years.
So I'm not talking to you about it for seven
when we get into granular assignments. But Mark, what I
what I look for is like ideas for scripts when
it comes to like conflicts and like a starting point,
like I think we need to start the FIRS chapter
(25:01):
or whatever, Like I know, I haven't figured out the
name for like each type of like situation that's gonna
have each a.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Movie, you know, like, does the big cat get a hairball? Ever? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He doesn't deal with the things of ordinary cats. He's
mister bumber Puss, so he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Die from kidney trouble at the age of fourteen.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
He doesn't need organs.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
This conversation will continue. I can't wait a lot of armor,
a lot Gary and Shannon will be right back. I think.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'm also going in alone, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Channel eleven was just doing a story about a bear
cub making friends with a big husky.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I had a bear in my backyard last night. And
she was not a baby. Oh, she was massive, and
she was looking into this. Usually they just walked by
in the backyard because it's trash night, sevenpence of trash out.
And we had also grilled salmon last night. Okay, when
I say we, I mean my husband had grilled salmon.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I ate the salmon.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But she was just slowly walking through the backyard and
she was a big girl, love big girl, and she's
looking around and she looked in the sliding glass door.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
And made eye contact like that is a first.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
And she had a shaved head.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It's like that shaved ass on the Bear and the
John Candy movie The Great Outdoors.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
This one had like a shaved head, like your gray hair.
I don't know something. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I didn't ask her question, do you mean an actual
shaved head or what happened at the salon? I don't
It looked like it was either shaved or she had
lost some hair up top, or it was gray.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I don't know, to bears go gray. It was a
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
But then she she rambled around, and thankfully I was like,
she's coming in this sliding glass if she wanted to.
But I don't think so, because that is an American
vision window sliding glass door. It's thick and strong.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I do have a COVID update.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Why why are you doing that?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I know people who say they lost their sense of
smell and taste after COVID. Remember when Chris and Carlos
said he couldn't run five miles anymore, hmm, because he
couldn't taste. It was like he was like before COVID,
I ran by meles.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Now I run three and I get tired.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I was like, Chris, come on, like, I get it exactly.
The University of Nottingham has designed what they say is
an intensely flavored gum that acts like physiotherapy for your
sensory nerves, specifically your smell and your taste that after
about to six weeks of daily chewing of this super
(27:51):
strength chewing gum, you relearn how to taste and smell things.
That sounds silly. It sounds like something that you buy
at a circus. It reminds me did you ever have
Gatorade gum? Yeah, oh my gosh, the best, Oh my gosh,
and Little League practice.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I remember it being that much.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Of any There was something about it that it was
just that was back to Space Wars. Will Coleschreiber came
down here and basically shook his head at me.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
He tried to warn me off.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
He tried to warn Mark Runner off, and then I
was like, what's your deal? You don't like Space Wars
and Will Coleschreiber was like, that's entertaining.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Like ha.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
He basically patted me on the head and I said,
We'll have fun talking about Trouble on the five. When
I'm sitting on my mountain of money me with Mark
Ranner there at the top of money hill, right.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Mark, He was outraged when I suggested that Star Wars
might be kind of stupid.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Well was that a little too far? Hey, guys, but
their lightsabers away.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
No, I'll say this, there's no reason you should know
about my other talented mister Ripley identities. But I'm also
a comic book writer, and I've written a bunch of
like the Edgar Rice Burrows John Carter of Mars stuff.
If I can do Tars Tarkas, I can do your
Space Wars.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Hell, yeah, you can do my Space Wars. See that's
where it begins.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, comic books.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I should warn you though, there's a comic book about
a space cat captain, Captain Ginger.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You might Ginger is also Mark. Literally a movie called
Space Wars that we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Have to do.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's a stupid little thing. It's a legal hurdle. We're
gonna have to get over a legal Schmiegel. We got this.
Do you think there were movies called Titanic before the Titanic?
Probably we're just gonna blow all the other Space Wars
out of the water. We play the bumber Puss song
that a I wrote this little Diddy AI came up
with them half cat this cat swag. That's a good show.
(29:58):
So this is like the maybe the Tokyo Drift movie.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
This will be down the line where we do the
origin story of mister bumber Puss and how he became
badass because like he's laid back, he'll be explain but
like he's also badass. Well it plays into his roots.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's brutes. Yeah, Gary, there's a backstory. Oh there's a
big backstory. Well, well shut your mouth. You don't give
an f You miss any part of our show. Please
go back and check out the podcast. You don't have
to listen.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
When I'm accepting my oscar, I expect you to give
a detailed traffic report on how bad it is in Hollywood.
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Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay, this is nostalgia. We are going back to Bravery Brewing.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
How about a little bit America? We got a little
America in there for me. Yeah, let's get it.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This is how we kick off Memorial Day weekend on
The Gary and Shannon Show. We go to Bravery Brewing
that I would say honors veterans like no brewery I
have ever seen honor veterans before.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Good point. This is where we go. It's the least
we can do.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And they make it nice and fun and easy to
honor the service.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Of our veterans.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And we do it every Memorial Day. And here's where
people start telling me it is Memorial Day, not Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I understand that, but.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You get the gist. We will be there.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Live at Bravery Brewing Friday, May twenty second. Join us
nine to noon, Special morning News, Chaos, Laughs.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Beer, Peace a show. Matt wrote, chaos. I don't know.
I love that he has confidence that we're going to
lose our minds. There have been some chaotic moments. There
had been exotic animals at Bravery Brewing.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, you had a camel basically in your pants one year.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh, I've got video. I don't have video. No, no,
somebody actually just sent me that picture again a few days.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, because I've got video, we could repost of the
picture of you and the camel. Remember you had carrots
in your hand or something, and the camel didn't want
the carrots.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And character was in my mouth, I remember, and I
leaned in and he took the carrot out of my mouth.
I thought he made a play for your nether region. Well,
I mean I didn't. I didn't have a carrot there,
but he was looking for it. He was taken. Also,
Kfipa is being brewed. They are always been so great
about providing a a libation for us. And listen, do
(02:57):
not sleep on that pizza that it is award winning
pizza in their pizza kitchen that was a product of COVID.
They had to serve food in order to have to
keep the tap room open. It is spectacular pizza. And
if that's all you go for, yeah, thousand worth it.
(03:18):
But we have another problem. Yes, we have a coronavirus problem.
We are going to have COVID again and we're all
going to be locked down. Wear your mask, don't touch anybody.
You know, I don't buy a Grandma.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I don't want to steal Elmer's stand up bit, so
I won't. But he has a great stand up idea
that he's work shopping through because Elmer and uh, it's
all about doing COVID right this time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, let's do it. What do you got?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, you're putting them on the spot now and I
kind of ruined the ramp up and all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So do you want to do it? You want to rewind?
And oh no, it's okay. Okay, I can. I can
give you the quick synopsis up said joke, go for it.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Yeah, So it's more about like the cruise and how
we're dealing with all these cruises coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh hey, Oscar, Oscar came in, so I waved he
tell you not to talk, Osar. We're doing stand up
right now. Oh okay. I don't know if he was
waving you off. He was just waving to say, hi, Okay.
So why do all the.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Worst things happen on cruises? We have the poop Cruise,
we have people missing on cruises, and we have the Titanic,
never forget.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I love that part.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Now there's a new infectious disease in town, and it's
got a scarier name, Home to Virus. Yeah, so this
time around, I want to do the pandemic right, So
I'm gonna take all the ppe loans and move out
(04:49):
of the country.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Who I mean, there's so much meat on that bone
of like doing a pandemic differently and right this time,
like all the fraud money, like he was mentioning that
you can collect.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Here's here's here's what to remember about this haunted virus thing.
The ship is off the coast of Africa. It's not
in Long Beach. The headlines New York Times thing literally
New York Times. Here's how freaked out you should be
about the haunt of virus cruise ship. That's all the
headline is. It doesn't tell you anything. You have to
read the article, which is fine you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
The article is the breaks tone means nothing to me.
I've been to this movie before. The article then says
you do not need to worry.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I remember looking at my computer in the old studio
and looking at the Associated Press and saying, huh, this
mystery illness in China and you sitting over there going
it's in China.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Relax people, pump y'all. Brace. Saying this boat is off
Africa means nil.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, what I mean is the this is a different
virus for among other things, pelotons come a long way.
There's plenty to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You'll find something to do. Oh my god, Pump the
breaks to remember the pump your breaks.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
All of it. Pump your book, Pump your breaks, people.
Hantavirus is not going to wipe us out. First of all,
the mortality rate is exceedingly high, which means that it's
hard to.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You say things like mortality rate. Listen, well, I'm just
not doing this again.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
There's a headline cruise ship illness period.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Let's not go any further.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Five people confirmed, five people confirmed.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
A numbers, A numbers. I'm not listening to you talk numbers.
Public health agencies here, not today.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
California, Georgia, and Arizona notified that some residents were among
But here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
CDC has activated it's twenty four to seven. Emergency Center
classified hantavirus as the lowest activation level. They say level
three and people lose their minds. Level is the lowest
activation level.
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Speaker 1 (07:54):
Tonight Miguel Rojas Game seven home run bobblehead. Hell yeah,
your official home for Dodger Baseball. AM five to seventy
LA Sports. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Braves, first pitch,
seven o'clock. Listen on AM five seventy LA Sports and
streaming on the iHeartRadio app live from the galpin Ford
Broadcast boot.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I'm interested in watching that. The Braves have the best
record in baseball right now. Angels are also in Toronto
this afternoon they'll take on the Blue Jays. Have you
ever heard of the Wichita wind Surge.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I hadn't until this morning. The Wichita Wind Surge is
the Double A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, and whoever's
on that team hates the name.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I thought you were gonna tell me it was a
weather phenomena that has some sort of impact on Southern
California minor.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
League baseball team. Got it. The Wichita wind Surge hit
ten home runs last night against the Amarillo sod Poodles.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Stop it that one I've heard of before, the sod Poodles.
Since two thousand and five, there have only been four
minor league teams that have hit ten home runs in
a game, and since the nineteen since literally nineteen hundred,
there has been one major league team that hit ten
home runs in a game.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It was the Blue Jays back in eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Have you ever thought about getting in on a minor
league team?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Getting in on? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think John had a piece of a minor league team.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
He did remember them. We talked to him.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Pretty cool. He hit bobbleheads. There is a new Long
Beach team that's coming out, Yeah, the Long Beach Tide.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You can go out there. You could take batting practice.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Because I'm an owner, I don't know the how does
it work? How does it work? I think I don't
a lot of people have that's I do not know
how that works. If they're owned, they're not owned by
the major league clubs. I don't think. I have no
idea private owners. But then they have the affiliation with
the club. Lakers did drop another game to Okay, see
(09:51):
last night, this might be and by the way, everybody
believes this is the end of the Lakers season because
you're already starting to see like Lebron James twenty five
greatest career moments. They still have two games and they're
still they're already getting in there. What is the series at?
There are two? Nothing right now? Ooh.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I did see all of the video making the rounds
on social media of the Lakers making their case to
the refs after the game.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, yeah, JJ Reddick was very upset with the with
the officials.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I saw JJ Reddick doing a lot of the yammering
and Lebron doing a lot of the nodding at everything.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
JJ was saying, Yeah, I don't know what their complaint was.
What was the score? Oneh seven? Okay, So that's really
a game that you can blame on the refs, is it?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Ducks will host the Golden Knights tonight in Anaheim. That
series is tied at one to one.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I think I just mistakenly picked up the Nuggets pile
because I see that it says it starts with Florida
man dressed in red lace bra So I don't think
that's for me right now.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Well, the only it's a little premature Shannon.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
To continue the cruise ship story, not talking about hantavirus.
Federal officials down in San Diego detained and deported over
two dozen suspected cruise ship workers in a child sex
abuse material operation last month. This was initially rumored to
be an ice ray, that is not what they were doing.
But Customs Border Protection officers boarded eight different cruise ships
(11:21):
at the Port of San Diego Cruise Ship Terminal. Twenty
seven of the twenty eight people detained by the Feds
were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or
viewing of child sexual exploitation, and at least one of
the cruises as a cruise known for catering to children.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Shall we say that's all I'll say about that.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Did you know, by the way, speaking of cruise ships
and the haunt of virus and the whole deal, that
there are odds being set on the prediction markets.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Calshi's got a projection up for pandemic this year. Question mark.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's the number seventeen percent chance seventeen percent. Pump your braks.
Just pump your brakes on that.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And then haunt a virus outbreak this year question mark
twenty one point two percent chance, I just and then pandemic.
Haunt of virus pandemic in twenty twenty six nine percent chance.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Fly right, and so pump your break. The money says
we're good breaks.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Gary and Shannon will return. Yes, more of this, Mark Ronner,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I'm wide awake, Thank you very much. WHOA and what
do we owe? That pleasure coffee? We're working on that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
We have a fancy new coffee machine in the breakroom
and it's like something out of Star Trek the next generation.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And I use it as often as I possibly can.
And if you need to, you can take out a
second mortgage on that thing too. Is that right? Just
type in the right numbers. You got to know what
to do. Mark.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Have I talked you yet about space Wars?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, no, let it out and I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
We'll do it in the next segment.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I'll hurry. I have a goiter that I need drained,
so I'll be missing that. The world loves a goiter.
I think Mark Runner might get on board with space
warse getting a feeling it sounds right up my alley. Yeah,
I don't think this is a good idea.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (13:29):
I sent this picture to your wife.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Pssh, she writes back, I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Gone for one day. It's one pop tart. No, it
was two. I haven't even eaten one yet.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It's not just the pop tart, it's the whole presentation,
those sweats, like, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
How dare well? How dare you?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The San Luis Obispo County sheriff has been back at
Paula Flores' house. Paula Flora, paul Flores's mother, Sandra I
believe is her name. This is the Kristen Smart case
from thirty years ago. The guy was convicted. He's in
jail for some reason. Sheriff's deputy showed back up to
(14:25):
the family house in a Tascadero on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Remember, there was somebody trying to pedal the fact that
they thought there was chemical deposits in the soil that
show traces of decomposition.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Probably something to do with that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, they have said they haven't found anything yet. The
Sheriff's Department from San Luis Obispo County came out with
a comment this morning so they haven't found anything yet,
but that they will continue continue looking because they've never
found Kristin Smart's body and one of the beliefs beliefs
is that she is or she was buried, I should say,
(15:04):
in the family in the backyard of the family home. There.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The race for governor getting more competitive, two newly released
polls showing no clear favorite as voters begin to pay attention.
A Survey USA poll shows Hilton leading the field with
twenty percent support, Tom Steyer behind him at eighteen percent,
than Chad Bianco, then Javier Bessera. Interesting another survey, and again,
(15:33):
these surveys we've learned our lesson, haven't we for ten, eleven,
twelve years.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Take them with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Another one conducted by Evitterous for California Democratic Party paints
another picture. In that poll, Hilton and Bessera are tied
at eighteen percent. Very crowded, very unsettled contest, but fewer
voters now a peer undecided. People are making up their minds, We're.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Making their decisions and part of it is because ballots
are in their hands. We got ours just yesterday, day
before yesterday, So they're sitting on the kitchen island waiting
to be filled out.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Now, when does Gavin Newsome make his blessing on Hamar Besara?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm amazed that he hasn't done it. Whoever he's going
to choose, I'm amazed that he hasn't done it yet.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, it's going to be be Sarah.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's just going to be calculated as to when it's necessary,
when it's needed, probably.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
But the other thing is when do people start dropping out?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
When does Vira Goosa stop hacking up with an axe
the other Latino candidate we actually learn Mayhem.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
We're supposed to talk to Mayor Via Goosa in a
couple of days. I mean, here's the thing is, I
don't know interview is going to be The interview is
only good for a couple of days. We'll just say
that if you if you haven't come through in a
couple of days, there's no reason to talk to That's
what I was going to say is that the the
longer this goes on, the less likely he is to
have any sort of an impact I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Not gonna win, but he could have an impact. Like
the way he took swings at Bessara was pretty interesting.
The way he highlighted Biden's problems with Basera when he
did have that federal exposure, that name, that name recognition,
that the reason why he has a name recognition is
because he held that federal office.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Right now, I mean you mentioned the recent polls, it's
still pretty clear that when you look at the polling,
which is a lagging indicator, I mean, there are people
who've probably changed their minds. After two straight nights of debates,
Steve Hilton is still ahead by a full two and
a half points over Tom Steyer. And again, this is
the average of all of these poles put together, Steve
(17:46):
Hilton at eighteen point five, Stier at sixteen, Bianco at thirteen,
Besara at ten. And then the whole Katie Porter thing.
I saw you had another interview with her where she's
trying to soften this whole thing about the absolute monster
that she proved herself to be when she was yelling
at her staff members. Again, I'm not saying that that's
(18:07):
necessarily an automatic disqualifier, but is it is untoward for
a lot of people. A lot of people don't want
to vote for something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
She's got more things working against her than she has
working for her, unfortunately, the tone, the monster behavior, all
of that, and the just head in the sand positions
that she has. Now, when you look at the mayor's race,
when you look at cal she and poly market, the
prediction markets following the money here, it is exemplifying what
(18:40):
I think is going to be the case. And I've
said that before that Karen Bass is going to be
re elected mayor. Right now, she's at forty nine percent
above Spencer Pratt at thirty percent. That's according to Polymarket
cow She's got her at forty eight percent and Spencer
Prad at twenty nine percent. No matter how many great
points Spencer Pratt brings to the table, speaks like all
of us, like ordinary people. The passion he brings to it,
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the emotion, the outsider impact that he has able to
throw rocks at a system that is broken is huge.
It's entertaining and it's refreshing, but it doesn't translate when
you think about the huge amounts of money that the
democratic machine is pouring into Karen Vass's reelection.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
He was able to raise more than she was, but
that was from the private donors. The machine, the machine
is a great word for it. The power that is
behind Karen Bass. It's the same machine that has pushed
Javio Biserra to the top and the governor's pay exactly. Well.
He did say an interesting thing. He was interviewed by CBS,
that is Spencer Pratt about what he expects coming up.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Everybody that texted me last night amazing congratulations are all Democrats.
So what people are confused on? The Democrats all are
behind me. It's just the socialists and the communists that
don't back me. But no, I'm confident I'm probably gonna
win with fifty one percent on June Seve.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's a little pie in the sky. I mean, the
thing that he has going for him is his grounded nature.
You said it. He uses language that we use when
we talk about the problems that exist in southern California,
the problems that exist specifically in the city of la
He doesn't sugarcoat it. He doesn't say things like people
who are unhoused or experiencing homelessness or any of that
(20:23):
BS jargon or any of that, and that I think
is his biggest that's one of the biggest things that
he's got going for him is he's not caught up
in all of that. Did you want to explain to
Mark what Space Wars is?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh? Yeah, bringing a Okay, So Space Wars is an
idea that I've had for years and I don't know
how it got started. I think it was definitely a
product of the pandemic when we were bored and just
thinking of things, and I had this idea. Ukraine was
in the news because of Ukraine and Russia, the conflict
(20:59):
to just be on. There was a Ukrainian fight song
and the chorus was by Ractar and it was very catchy.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
This this song that the Ukrainians would use. It's a
their independent song by Ractar. That's just kind of cling
on by Ractar. I don't know what that is. But
I don't know what klingon is.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I do not from Star Trek. See Mark, just a
second before you've what have I gotten myself into it?
I just I just Mark, if you have any love
or found any joy in either the Star Wars universe
or the Star Trek universe, or both, because they're not
they don't have to be even exclusive. Part of what
(21:40):
she's doing could hurt your feelings. I got a lot
of scar tissue built up. Let's just see this through
to the end.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Let's do it. So.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
By Ractar is the name of one of the heroes
of Space Wars. What I envision is a multi uh well,
it's a franchise. Really, you would have several movies is
maybe you know, seven or something like that. You would
go back and forth in time and things like that. Now,
Biractar is our hero. He is half human. His father
was Ukrainian. That's why his name is Biraktar. And his
(22:11):
mother is an alien and she is passed and that's
why he's half man, half alien.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
His name's Biraktar. Now his points sidekick.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We just said that his mother has passed. Yes, do
we know where his father is or is that? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Sorry, plotlight? So a half breed like mister Spock. Okay, yeah,
so that's the guy. That's the guy with the pointy airs.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Am I right?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
This is true?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, and bad haircut.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now his sidekick, biractar sidekick is mister bumber Puss. Mister
bumber Puss is half man, half cat. Now did you
see that movie Cats?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Uh? I did not because I was afraid of the
cat the holes. Yeah, I was screen.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I don't want cats being sexualized or any of that.
But it does give life to mister bumber Puss because
he does appear to be just as much man as
he is cat.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
And I don't mean that in a sexual way at all.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
No. Does he give himself tongue baths like you? No,
absolutely not. Is that forbidden on the bridge.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
He's just not that dude, like he's bad ass, like
bumber Puss.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Will f you up. Not a house cat. We're not
saying house cat. This is like a wild bobcat cat,
a big jungle cat. But he walks on too. He
walks on too.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
He does not walk on.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Does he use a toilet or a litter box?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You never see him go to the bathroom, just like
your grandpa that woke up in a three piece suit.
You think that man used the bathroom? No, you never
see it.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You don't need to interesting anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So it's all about fighting for peace among the planets,
and every planet brings something different to the whole fight,
like it's a different war zone. There's a forest planet
which I scouted up in the Redwood's National Park last week.
There's a desert planet. Let I scouted to Death Valley.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Oh, so you can write these trips off on your
taxes I.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Already have, okay.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And they also have different vehicles, right, Like there's different apparatus.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
You need to fight a war on the forest.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Planet as opposed to the desert planet. So you can
see the ability for like merch and different Like this
is gonna make us so much money.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh, just ask George Lucas merch is where it's at.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Okay, I know Lucas Valley. I'm from that area.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You'll do great at this. So so what do you say? Oh,
I'm in Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
What do you need me to do?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You get an assistant producer, credit or creative.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So you have poo poo this for seven to nine years.
So I'm not talking to you about it for seven
when we get into granular assignments. But Mark, what I
what I look for is like ideas for scripts when
it comes to like conflicts and like a starting point,
like I think we need to start the FIRS chapter
(25:01):
or whatever, Like I know, I haven't figured out the
name for like each type of like situation that's gonna
have each a.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Movie, you know, like, does the big cat get a hairball? Ever? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He doesn't deal with the things of ordinary cats. He's
mister bumber Puss, so he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Die from kidney trouble at the age of fourteen.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
He doesn't need organs.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
This conversation will continue. I can't wait a lot of armor,
a lot Gary and Shannon will be right back. I think.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'm also going in alone, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Channel eleven was just doing a story about a bear
cub making friends with a big husky.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I had a bear in my backyard last night. And
she was not a baby. Oh, she was massive, and
she was looking into this. Usually they just walked by
in the backyard because it's trash night, sevenpence of trash out.
And we had also grilled salmon last night. Okay, when
I say we, I mean my husband had grilled salmon.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I ate the salmon.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But she was just slowly walking through the backyard and
she was a big girl, love big girl, and she's
looking around and she looked in the sliding glass door.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
And made eye contact like that is a first.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
And she had a shaved head.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It's like that shaved ass on the Bear and the
John Candy movie The Great Outdoors.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
This one had like a shaved head, like your gray hair.
I don't know something. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I didn't ask her question, do you mean an actual
shaved head or what happened at the salon? I don't
It looked like it was either shaved or she had
lost some hair up top, or it was gray.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I don't know, to bears go gray. It was a
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
But then she she rambled around, and thankfully I was like,
she's coming in this sliding glass if she wanted to.
But I don't think so, because that is an American
vision window sliding glass door. It's thick and strong.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I do have a COVID update.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Why why are you doing that?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I know people who say they lost their sense of
smell and taste after COVID. Remember when Chris and Carlos
said he couldn't run five miles anymore, hmm, because he
couldn't taste. It was like he was like before COVID,
I ran by meles.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Now I run three and I get tired.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I was like, Chris, come on, like, I get it exactly.
The University of Nottingham has designed what they say is
an intensely flavored gum that acts like physiotherapy for your
sensory nerves, specifically your smell and your taste that after
about to six weeks of daily chewing of this super
(27:51):
strength chewing gum, you relearn how to taste and smell things.
That sounds silly. It sounds like something that you buy
at a circus. It reminds me did you ever have
Gatorade gum? Yeah, oh my gosh, the best, Oh my gosh,
and Little League practice.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I remember it being that much.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Of any There was something about it that it was
just that was back to Space Wars. Will Coleschreiber came
down here and basically shook his head at me.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
He tried to warn me off.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
He tried to warn Mark Runner off, and then I
was like, what's your deal? You don't like Space Wars
and Will Coleschreiber was like, that's entertaining.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Like ha.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
He basically patted me on the head and I said,
We'll have fun talking about Trouble on the five. When
I'm sitting on my mountain of money me with Mark
Ranner there at the top of money hill, right.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Mark, He was outraged when I suggested that Star Wars
might be kind of stupid.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Well was that a little too far? Hey, guys, but
their lightsabers away.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
No, I'll say this, there's no reason you should know
about my other talented mister Ripley identities. But I'm also
a comic book writer, and I've written a bunch of
like the Edgar Rice Burrows John Carter of Mars stuff.
If I can do Tars Tarkas, I can do your
Space Wars.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Hell, yeah, you can do my Space Wars. See that's
where it begins.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, comic books.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I should warn you though, there's a comic book about
a space cat captain, Captain Ginger.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You might Ginger is also Mark. Literally a movie called
Space Wars that we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Have to do.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's a stupid little thing. It's a legal hurdle. We're
gonna have to get over a legal Schmiegel. We got this.
Do you think there were movies called Titanic before the Titanic?
Probably we're just gonna blow all the other Space Wars
out of the water. We play the bumber Puss song
that a I wrote this little Diddy AI came up
with them half cat this cat swag. That's a good show.
(29:58):
So this is like the maybe the Tokyo Drift movie.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
This will be down the line where we do the
origin story of mister bumber Puss and how he became
badass because like he's laid back, he'll be explain but
like he's also badass. Well it plays into his roots.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's brutes. Yeah, Gary, there's a backstory. Oh there's a
big backstory. Well, well shut your mouth. You don't give
an f You miss any part of our show. Please
go back and check out the podcast. You don't have
to listen.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
When I'm accepting my oscar, I expect you to give
a detailed traffic report on how bad it is in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
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Speaker 1 (30:45):
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