November 17, 2025 • 29 mins
Gary & Shannon break down the latest #SwampWatch bombshells — including Eric Swalwell eyeing a run for California governor and President Trump’s sudden pivot on the Epstein files. Then they dive into Time Magazine’s claim that the best years of your life may still be ahead, the rising cost (and rising family drama) of Thanksgiving turkeys, and why begging for five-star reviews might actually backfire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
More rain coming in today.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Expectation is it's been pouring actually in Santa Barbara County,
San Luis Obispo County. As it makes its way farther
down here to the south. We will see some rain
this afternoon, especially here in the valley, and it will
stay with us for a few hours today. Nowhere near
as heavy as we saw Friday night into Saturday, but
not out of the not out of the woods yet
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when it comes to the rain.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
So, Matt, where did you find this breaking political news?
Can we get some sort of fanfare or something like
something really exciting, because none would there was there was
somebody who called in to the UH.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
To the show.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Could you play that message that we got Garrett.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'd have to, I'd have to bleep it.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Oh he swore, he swore when he left that message.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, I mean, yes, do it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I just I want I want people to know what
he said so they can realize why I burned the
building down today.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You let me see if I can, let me just
make sure. Yeah, Okay, I'll get this. I hit that,
do a little beat beep, and it goes like this,
you be any more boring? Can you be any more boring?
Jesus Christ? And falling asleep?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Here?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You guys are horrible.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I mean, if you can call us a lot of things, boring,
isn't one of them?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Do you want maybe look in the effing mirror, sir?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know who's boring?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
You know who's bored? Boring people?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I thought you this is not this one.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You know who else is boring?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Eric Swallwell, it's where we start swamp watching.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm a politician, which means I'm cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Here we got.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So what I'm not going anywhere? So now you train the.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Squad, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened
by what has been.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You know, Americans have always been going as they're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the
truth whether people.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Voted for you were not. Swamp watch, they're.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
All countera uh Congressman Eric Swalwell, representing the Bay Area,
is expected to launch.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
His campaign for governor. It looks inevitable. A fundraising page
for his guberantorial campaign was posted before being taken down
quickly oops yesterday.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Allies have for weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Allies, that's a very loose term.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Have been circulating polling emphasizing his opening to run as
a more moderate art alternative to Katie Porter.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yoh, he had boring.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
He has been making overtures to labor groups and other
interest groups, of course, trying to court all of the money.
He has zero name recognition right for California. I think
people know him and definitely in the Bay Area they
know him. But side of that, he's expected to be
(03:45):
on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
That that's where he's going to announce his campaign.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Why would Well?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I know why Kimmel would do it, But man, here's
the fire brand that is Congressman Eric Swallwell, and none of.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
That is going to check until we get a leader
who is willing to go big on the issues we
take on, be bold and the solutions we offer and
do good in the way that we govern. Who wrote
I'm ready to solve these problems. I'm running for president
of the United States. It's official to say that, did it?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I forgot that he was and that he ran for president.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's I remember that. I remember that, and I remember, Wow,
what a big swing.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What does he have that he wants name?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Because to run for president like that when he did, obviously,
you just want your name to now resonate with people
because you've got something your eye on, something more feasible
for your political path.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I guess maybe this was it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, that'll be quite the fun the political The way
the Politico wrote wrote it up, there's urgency for Swallwell
to get in the race soon.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Urgency.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I'm like two other possible entrance, Rick Caruso or Tom Steyer.
He isn't wealthy, and we'll need to raise money quickly
to break through in a crowded field.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Urgency like you have to go to the bathroom. Urgency.
There's kind of urgency.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
There's Rallwell may have urgency. None of us have urgency.
None of us woke up this morning and said, you
know who we'd really like to see entered the California
governor's race.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Eric Swallwell, I would say there's urgency about a Rick Caruso.
I think there are people who would love to see
a guy like that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Even if it's just for elevating the conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, you know, you have the Katie Porters of.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
The world running and.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There's no conversation about California what it used to be,
what it was.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I was talking to a guy at the.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Mayo Clinic killed him, David, and David's from San Francisco
originally went to SI when my dad went there, went
to USF after and he was talking in such glowing
terms about San Francisco and so sad about what it
has become. And I was telling him, well, it's kind
and if it's kind of coming back a little bits,
you know, And what brought it back, what brought it
(06:04):
back was having the uncomfortable conversation in San Francisco of
this place is a cesspool because of all the progressive
leaders and the policies that you put in. You know,
you can have a heart and run a city at
the same time without being a dumbass and handing out
needles in Union Square.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And I think that they.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That was a hard conversation for San Francisco to have,
and it had it, and now it's coming back the whole.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
The same needs to be said for all of California.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But that conversation is never going to be have if
you have Katie Porter's bloated.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Ego just babbling.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And you know, I was just going to say a
really sexual term for her and Gavin Newsom in tandem
going after trumpet and running different campaigns.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But I didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But I didn't it was going to be really dirty.
And I'll tell you in the break.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I don't know if I want to hear it.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But because I thought it was, was it that no.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
President Trump has changed his tune on the House and
whether or not the House should vote to compel the
Department of Justice to release the Epstein files. Last night,
he wrote on Truth Social House Republicans should vote to
release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide
and it's time to move on from this Democrat hoax. Tomorrow,
(07:28):
I believe, is when the vote is expected to take place,
with no idea what would what it would look like
in terms of a timeline release.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
For him saying this democratic hoax, he ran on releasing
these files. Pam Bondy swooped into office at the head
of the Justice Department with the hope that she would
release these files with all her binders on Capitol Hill,
and nothing came of it.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Now it's a democratic hoax. I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
When they ran on this, it was we're going to
expose all the Democrats whose names are in the files,
and now it's the Democrat I want this to be released,
And there's no there.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
There is this just both.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Sides of the political aisle using the zeitgeist that is
Jeffrey Epstein, and that's saga for their own benefit, knowing
there's nothing in there for either gain.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Because what are we going to hear. We're gonna hear
a bunch of names.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You're gonna powerful people, powerful people, not all dirt associated
with this dirt bat.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Jeffrey Epstein made a lot of people a lot of money.
Jeffrey Epstein did business and finance deals for a lot
of people who were not screwing little girls. And those
names are going to come out too, and they're going
to be muddy, just as much as the guys who
were on the jet to to child Sex Island.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
That's not the way to say it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You can't say child sex, you know, well, it's it's
it's child abuse.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's child abuse island.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Right, what did they call the island?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Epstein's I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't know. Our names are not in the file.
That's the important thing. They are not. Yeah, they are not.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
No, they're not.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We say, we don't ask the question.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I don't know what you do when you leave radically
say no.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
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Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, it's maybe time for some good news, don't you
think it would be nice?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
What he got there? He got some nuts there.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
A little bit of trail mix.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh, that's a little baby cup that looks like a
urine sample cup.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's a that's a very little bit of urine.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Where did you get that cup from next to the
bag of trail mix?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's better than a like a big twelve ounce tumbler
full of trail mixes.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Probably too much trail mix is good for you. Uh,
I mean, I'm not sure the M and m's are
the best, you know, thing for.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But yeah, I've been going on some real Eminem benders recently. Yeah,
I had those mini bags left over from Halloween, the
mini bags of Eminem's.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Those are Bologney and about four of them four.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I was gonna say, you gonna combine about five or
ten of them that make it make it makes me
feel better.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Time magazine is doing a series interviewing leaders in the
longevity field, and they talked to a professor of psychology
founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, a woman
by the name of Laura Carstensen. Yes, scary women can
be doctors, huh. And she says that her favorite lecture
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of the year is the one where she tells undergrads
at Stanford that, contrary to what they've been told and
believe that these are not the best years of their lives,
that they come much much later. My dad said that
to me when I was going off to college. He said,
these are going to be the best years of your life.
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And they were great years, but not the best. She says,
I look out at the sea of one hundred students
sitting in a classroom, and I love the look on
their faces.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
It's just relief. I can see it, because not only
are they.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
In the late teens and twenties, and those are the
worst times of our lives, the highest rates of loneliness, anxiety,
and depression. But people are constantly telling young people that
they're the best years. But see the people telling them that,
like my dad, were people who got out of college
and then got a job, got married, start having kids,
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had to be an adult at twenty two. Right away
you're done, you're responsible, and you're done thinking about what
you want for a while, and that's not the way
things are anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
There's also I would argue that at twenty twenty two,
twenty four, something like that, you're likely in your best
physical shape that you're going to be in, or that
you have the that's the healthiest you're going to be
for a lot of people. Whether you take advantage of that,
whether you capitalize on that you know stands to be seen,
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if you have the willingness to work for it or whatever.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
God I was so unhealthy, so unhealthy, but.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right, and I think about that too.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I mean, the way we would eat, the way we'd
not exercise, whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I don't think I made one healthful choice in my
early twenties, not one, not a one.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But if you if you had, would that have also
impacted how you feel today twenty years later, or you know,
I think about that a lot. But there are things
that make this time of life, wherever you happen to
be forty, fifty, sixty years old different.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
For a lot of people I know who have started
having grandkids, they are in heaven. I mean, they love
the idea of having grandkids. I don't. I'm not as
infatuated with that just yet. Maybe when it happens down
the road, I'll be like, oh, okay, yeah, I understand
what the draw was.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But now you have the benefit of experience.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
You know what to get excited about, what not to
get excited about. You know how to say, prepare for
vacations and things like that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You're in the best emotional shape of your life as
you get older. They have older people a sense of focus.
What matters. There's this juxtaposition, she says, a physical vitality
and emotional emotional richness. As we get older, we have
a better emotional experience, We're more satisfied with our relationships,
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We're at more peace with ourselves, which is really the goal.
You know, shut off your internal dialogue. If you have
it and just enjoy the moment. As you get older,
you stop caring about the small stuff that made you crazy.
This sounds lovely, doesn't it. The more you can just
be at peace and just roll with the punches, go
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with the flow. They said older people aren't happier, but
there is a significant reduction in anger and sadness and
fear and anxiety. So to me, that's a direct correlation
with being happier if you can eliminate those four.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
She also says that there is.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Pro social behavior increases as you get older, giving to
and doing things for other people. And part of that
may simply be because you have more stuff to give,
whether it's money or time or talent of some kind.
You have the ability to provide that with other people
and to give, so you're giving more, getting a bigger
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bang for your buck. And occasionally like this Laura Carstensen,
she says, if I'll be having a really bad day
and I think, boy, I have got to go help somebody.
That has proven so true over and over and over
and over again. The more you wallow in yourself, the
worse you're going to feel. But if you could get
out of that and do something for someone.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It can be as simple as calling of a friend
a family member. I mean, like, how are you, what's
going on today? Yeah, and just gets you out of
your own head. They say that the sixties and seventies.
This psychologist says, the sixties and seventies are the peak
of life emotionally speaking. Now, it doesn't get worse significantly
as you get older than that, but that's where it
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levels off. Sixties and seventies emotionally is the peak. Oh,
that's good news. People have returned age. You still have
the future to look forward.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I do have the future look forward to.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But people have retired at that age, and like I said,
they do have grandkids. A lot of times that kind
of filter into the mix. Maybe they do have good
retirement t r Aja and trajanwealth dot com and they have,
you know, figured it out, figured out what needs to
be worried about what doesn't.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Guys, your turkey is gonna be forty percent more expensive
than a year ago.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's an expensive bird that's gonna make its way into
the conversation. It's gonna bring up family resentments. It's gonna
bring up who paid for this bird while I paid
for the bird last year. While you said you want
to cook the bird, Well you don't cook the bird. Right,
It's gonna be great. Remember if your family fights, go live.
We all want to see it, go Instagram live. I'm
(16:33):
going to Leanne Morgan's house because she's having briskett and.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
She didn't invite you.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We need to have a talk at some point about
how you view relationships with celebrities because we interview you
them and then sometimes you think that they like want
you in their lives.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Well, it's the vibe I totally got. There's just being
misread that. Yeah, okay, we got to change my plans
for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Then, like, we all know a guy who thinks everyone's
obsessed with him, right, don't let that be you.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
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Speaker 3 (17:14):
The Trump administration has expanded its immigration crackdown now to Charlotte,
North Carolina. There were border patrol agents that were sent
into the city over the weekend. City leaders said they
were abruptly informed about border patrol operations and have not
provided I'm sorry, and we're not provided notice of how
those operations would be conducted. The push to release the
(17:37):
Epstein Files has contributed to this split between Trump and
longtime alli ally that is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green out
of Georgia. Trump officially pulled his endorsement of her. In
a truth social post from Friday, said that Marjorie Taylor
Green had too had gone far left and is inviting
(17:57):
somebody to run against her. He called her a ranting
lunatic and said all she does is all caps, complain, complain, complain.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Well, she's an easy one to flip the switch on
right if she's your attack dog, like she was for
a long time for him, it works for him. But
when she falls into the alt right cradle of release
the Epstein Files, suddenly it's more convenient to call her
a crackpot. Luckily she lends herself to that.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It's weird she from what I know of her and
have read about her in the last couple of weeks.
While this has been going on, she's never changed her
position about the Epstein Files. She hasn't gone back and forth,
she hasn't vacillated. She's been hardcore, get it all out
in the open, tear down these powerful people who are victimized.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Right, and she's still saying that when Trump says, let's
move on.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And that's what I mean is that she's the one
who has been steady this whole time. Trump is the
one who ran on it, pulled back from it, right.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Ran on it, you know, and she did fall in
line when he pulled back, and that's her problem with him. Okay,
gobble gobble, Guys, that turkey is going to be ridiculously expensive.
Wholesale price is for a turkey up forty percent from
a year ago. It's a disaster at the grocery store
and it's been a disaster for like four years. It's
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insane how much everything is. Those opting for beef instead
of turkey, you'll pay more as well. Beef price is
fifteen percent higher than they were last year.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
RAN's making a brisket.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
So Leanne didn't invite you to her Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh no, but I know, right, But I'm just saying
she shared with us her We went.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Through this with Drew Barrymore.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
We went through this with with Rebecca Jarvis, who basically
filed the restraining order and hold on a second made
up some sort of excuse like she's on Good Morning
America to stop coming on the.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Show for a restraining order. It was not granted.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Because you would just slather your.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What non boundary accepting friendship over her whenever she'd come on.
We'd have Rebecca Jarvis on to talk about money, and you'd.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Be like, you're so smart. It's so nice talking to
someone who's so smart. Oh, you're so great.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And it was just too much for her and she
was she felt suffocated. It says it in the papers,
the court papers. That's why she never flies out to
California anymore. Yeah, because you were like, come in studio,
we'll pick you up from the airport. Where are you staying?
It got super weird. Canned vegetables are five.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Percent more Trying to avoid this with Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Canned vegetables are five percent more expensive compared to last year,
higher packaging costs from the steel and aluminum tariffs, et cetera.
The President did announce that he's going to be rolling
back tariffs that he imposed on beef, coffee, tropical fruits,
and some other commodities in an effort to combat those
prices that we've been talking about, those higher prices at
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the store. But that's not enough in terms of lowering
prices completely. Tariffs aren't the only reason that prices have
gone up. Obviously, some grocery store items have seen some decreases.
Egg prices have seen a decline from earlier this year.
Domestic wine is down one point two percent. Is that
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even noticeable because of a steady supply softening demand. I
think that's going to be sort of the trend in
terms of wine and beer, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Is there.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Because we've done these stories over and over again about
to decreasing demand, those are going to become cheaper. Buy
fresh produce rather than canned fruits or vegetables if you can.
That's one way to avoid the higher prices from the packaging.
Maybe plan your meal in advance, look for private label
or store brands over name brands.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Shop early, get out there, you know, make.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Those Thanksgiving decisions before you actually get to Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Should businesses out for five star reviews? There is a
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Speaker 4 (22:07):
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Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's starting to rain here in Burbanks, So in the
valley we're starting to get some of this rain that
has going to be making its way through the second
of the storm's series of storms that.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
People are beside themselves because of the rain. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I was talking to Ronnie in the lunch room and
he said, it's like it's ten am all day. I
don't know what to do. He says, Do I have
vacu you more? Do I take the dogs outside? The
dogs don't want to go outside.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I do not like it when the dogs do not
like to go outside. Why not because I feel bad
for them. Then if they don't want to go outside
because they don't want their feet wet, or they don't
want to get wet when the rain, maybe you could get.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Him little booty, little rain booties. You can put him
on his little pause, his little bean. What do you
what does Michael Monks call.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Him toe beans?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Get little booties? Is that a thing?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That is a thing?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Unfortunately, maybe Peter would enjoy that. What does your wife
stand on the on the parel for dogs?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Find it hard to believe she'd go for the booties?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Okay, but he does not like to go outside when
it rains.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
This is the first time I've noticed it, But it
was I mean it was raining very hard, so I'll
say that.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
So where does he go do his business?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, I got to take him out, so I gotta
get him outside. Oh, once he gets outside, he's fine.
But you can't just put them. Yeah he's stubborn, yes, stubborn. Well,
how stubborn can he be? He's about six pounds you
pick him up? No, No, he's twenty two and he
is a boat anchor if he wants to be.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Oh, he can just do dead weight on.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Dead low weight. It is hard to move.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yes, you gotta take him for a walk, and he
doesn't want to go anymore. He'll just he just puts down,
put down, gear up, butt down. You can't drag him either, Yeah,
probably not advised.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
You should be able to lift twenty two pounds off
the floor.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I can, but again it's not just it's not a
twenty two pound dumbell. It's a twenty two pound thing
that doesn't want to be lifted up off the floor.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Okay, So like his energy is down down easy. The
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that business or to recommend that business in the future.
Authors told participants imagine that they had shopped at a
dollar store, and while they were usually satisfied with the
discount retailer, on several occasions they bought products that were
damaged or maybe didn't work as expected.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And then they divided those people into two groups.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Half of them got an email where the retailer asked
them to leave a review which would be displayed on
the website, and the other half received an email saying,
if you like our product, please leave a five star
review which will be displayed on our website. The participants
were then told that they'd be entered into a lottery
with a chance to win a gift card, and authors
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asked if they wanted the gift card to be from
the retailer or the competitor. So if you got the
unconditional request, which is just put a review please, they
would go back to that retailer and would asked to
get the gift card from the retailer. But if you
were asked specifically to bump it up to a five
star review. These people said that they would get the
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gift card from somewhere else. They rated the likelihood of
visiting the market again in the next month, the likelihood
of recommending the market to a friend. Have you ever
written a review on Yelp or Google?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
No, I, but I know people who do.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I will look at them, depending on it.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You know, a business I've never been to or something
like that.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I will look at them, but you just got to
take them with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's a hard party.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I don't know if they're real. I don't know if
it's AI.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I don't know if it's a company that pays people
to write their reviews.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I noticed, specifically on Yelp, when you just go on Yelp,
type in your business, find it, and you look, you're
looking at the reviews. It's Yelp chooses which ones they
put up top. But you can sort them by you know,
most recent or something like that, and they'll go in
chronological order, which I think is a much more accurate
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way to see exactly what's going on in that place.
Because I don't know what sort of algorithm Yelp uses
to figure out what which ones they're going to put
to the top, which ones they are.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
It's been a while since we looked at our yelp reviews.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Boy, you think that's a good idea? Ah, yes, there are.
There is a Yelp four K five.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
We fell into that at some point discovering that and
started reading the reviews. They're long winded, humbling. Uh yeah, yeah,
so see it here and think we're wonderful. Let's just
let's just get that out of the way. It's not
like we need to be humbled to the tune of
you know, yeah, the slaughter that is Yelp on our
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show telling me I'm a d wad doesn't really.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Can you be any more boring? Yeah? I bet you.
We could be more boring, sir, We probably could be.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Yeah, stick around a big boring hour.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
There is a developing story that just came in a
short time ago. David Richardson, who had headed up FEMA
as acting chief for several months, has resigned. Washington Post
is among those reporting that Richardson second person this year
to step into the post. The first of them, Acting
chief Cameron Hamilton, was ousted by Christy Noam after saying
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in a congressional hearing that he did not support the
administration's proposal to eliminate the agency. But then there was
controversy around David Richardson almost as soon as he took office.
In his first staff meeting, he told staff he was
going to run right over anyone that resists changes and
that all delegation of authority in the agency is immediately suspended.
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He wanted all of it. In one staff meeting, he
joked he didn't know hurricane season had started, and that
was reported. If you remember that the FEMA chief didn't know.
He then had to come out and say it was
just a joke. It's just that nobody thought it was funny.
That's why everybody lost their minds about it. So David
Richardson out as the current or i should say, previous
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head of FEMA.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Alright, already, twelve o'clock it is. It is twelve o'clock. Elmer,
did you hear that it is twelve o'clock?
Speaker 5 (29:05):
You know what that means.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It means it's a big Friday or big Friday, big
twelve o'clock hour?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Monday?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Is it Monday? Already?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
It is?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
It is? Where has the time gone?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I don't know, but I need a heating pad.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
More rain coming in today.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Expectation is it's been pouring actually in Santa Barbara County,
San Luis Obispo County. As it makes its way farther
down here to the south. We will see some rain
this afternoon, especially here in the valley, and it will
stay with us for a few hours today. Nowhere near
as heavy as we saw Friday night into Saturday, but
not out of the not out of the woods yet
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when it comes to the rain.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
So, Matt, where did you find this breaking political news?
Can we get some sort of fanfare or something like
something really exciting, because none would there was there was
somebody who called in to the UH.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
To the show.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Could you play that message that we got Garrett.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'd have to, I'd have to bleep it.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Oh he swore, he swore when he left that message.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, I mean, yes, do it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I just I want I want people to know what
he said so they can realize why I burned the
building down today.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You let me see if I can, let me just
make sure. Yeah, Okay, I'll get this. I hit that,
do a little beat beep, and it goes like this,
you be any more boring? Can you be any more boring?
Jesus Christ? And falling asleep?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Here?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You guys are horrible.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I mean, if you can call us a lot of things, boring,
isn't one of them?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Do you want maybe look in the effing mirror, sir?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know who's boring?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
You know who's bored? Boring people?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I thought you this is not this one.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You know who else is boring?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Eric Swallwell, it's where we start swamp watching.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm a politician, which means I'm cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Here we got.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So what I'm not going anywhere? So now you train the.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Squad, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened
by what has been.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You know, Americans have always been going as they're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the
truth whether people.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Voted for you were not. Swamp watch, they're.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
All countera uh Congressman Eric Swalwell, representing the Bay Area,
is expected to launch.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
His campaign for governor. It looks inevitable. A fundraising page
for his guberantorial campaign was posted before being taken down
quickly oops yesterday.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Allies have for weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Allies, that's a very loose term.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Have been circulating polling emphasizing his opening to run as
a more moderate art alternative to Katie Porter.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yoh, he had boring.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
He has been making overtures to labor groups and other
interest groups, of course, trying to court all of the money.
He has zero name recognition right for California. I think
people know him and definitely in the Bay Area they
know him. But side of that, he's expected to be
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on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
That that's where he's going to announce his campaign.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Why would Well?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I know why Kimmel would do it, But man, here's
the fire brand that is Congressman Eric Swallwell, and none of.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
That is going to check until we get a leader
who is willing to go big on the issues we
take on, be bold and the solutions we offer and
do good in the way that we govern. Who wrote
I'm ready to solve these problems. I'm running for president
of the United States. It's official to say that, did it?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I forgot that he was and that he ran for president.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's I remember that. I remember that, and I remember, Wow,
what a big swing.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What does he have that he wants name?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Because to run for president like that when he did, obviously,
you just want your name to now resonate with people
because you've got something your eye on, something more feasible
for your political path.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I guess maybe this was it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, that'll be quite the fun the political The way
the Politico wrote wrote it up, there's urgency for Swallwell
to get in the race soon.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Urgency.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I'm like two other possible entrance, Rick Caruso or Tom Steyer.
He isn't wealthy, and we'll need to raise money quickly
to break through in a crowded field.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Urgency like you have to go to the bathroom. Urgency.
There's kind of urgency.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
There's Rallwell may have urgency. None of us have urgency.
None of us woke up this morning and said, you
know who we'd really like to see entered the California
governor's race.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Eric Swallwell, I would say there's urgency about a Rick Caruso.
I think there are people who would love to see
a guy like that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Even if it's just for elevating the conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, you know, you have the Katie Porters of.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
The world running and.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There's no conversation about California what it used to be,
what it was.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I was talking to a guy at the.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Mayo Clinic killed him, David, and David's from San Francisco
originally went to SI when my dad went there, went
to USF after and he was talking in such glowing
terms about San Francisco and so sad about what it
has become. And I was telling him, well, it's kind
and if it's kind of coming back a little bits,
you know, And what brought it back, what brought it
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back was having the uncomfortable conversation in San Francisco of
this place is a cesspool because of all the progressive
leaders and the policies that you put in. You know,
you can have a heart and run a city at
the same time without being a dumbass and handing out
needles in Union Square.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And I think that they.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That was a hard conversation for San Francisco to have,
and it had it, and now it's coming back the whole.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
The same needs to be said for all of California.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But that conversation is never going to be have if
you have Katie Porter's bloated.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Ego just babbling.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And you know, I was just going to say a
really sexual term for her and Gavin Newsom in tandem
going after trumpet and running different campaigns.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But I didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But I didn't it was going to be really dirty.
And I'll tell you in the break.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I don't know if I want to hear it.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But because I thought it was, was it that no.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
President Trump has changed his tune on the House and
whether or not the House should vote to compel the
Department of Justice to release the Epstein files. Last night,
he wrote on Truth Social House Republicans should vote to
release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide
and it's time to move on from this Democrat hoax. Tomorrow,
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I believe, is when the vote is expected to take place,
with no idea what would what it would look like
in terms of a timeline release.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
For him saying this democratic hoax, he ran on releasing
these files. Pam Bondy swooped into office at the head
of the Justice Department with the hope that she would
release these files with all her binders on Capitol Hill,
and nothing came of it.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Now it's a democratic hoax. I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
When they ran on this, it was we're going to
expose all the Democrats whose names are in the files,
and now it's the Democrat I want this to be released,
And there's no there.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
There is this just both.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Sides of the political aisle using the zeitgeist that is
Jeffrey Epstein, and that's saga for their own benefit, knowing
there's nothing in there for either gain.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Because what are we going to hear. We're gonna hear
a bunch of names.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You're gonna powerful people, powerful people, not all dirt associated
with this dirt bat.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Jeffrey Epstein made a lot of people a lot of money.
Jeffrey Epstein did business and finance deals for a lot
of people who were not screwing little girls. And those
names are going to come out too, and they're going
to be muddy, just as much as the guys who
were on the jet to to child Sex Island.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
That's not the way to say it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You can't say child sex, you know, well, it's it's
it's child abuse.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's child abuse island.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Right, what did they call the island?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Epstein's I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I don't know. Our names are not in the file.
That's the important thing. They are not. Yeah, they are not.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
No, they're not.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We say, we don't ask the question.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I don't know what you do when you leave radically
say no.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, it's maybe time for some good news, don't you
think it would be nice?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
What he got there? He got some nuts there.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
A little bit of trail mix.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh, that's a little baby cup that looks like a
urine sample cup.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's a that's a very little bit of urine.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Where did you get that cup from next to the
bag of trail mix?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's better than a like a big twelve ounce tumbler
full of trail mixes.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Probably too much trail mix is good for you. Uh,
I mean, I'm not sure the M and m's are
the best, you know, thing for.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But yeah, I've been going on some real Eminem benders recently. Yeah,
I had those mini bags left over from Halloween, the
mini bags of Eminem's.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Those are Bologney and about four of them four.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I was gonna say, you gonna combine about five or
ten of them that make it make it makes me
feel better.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Time magazine is doing a series interviewing leaders in the
longevity field, and they talked to a professor of psychology
founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, a woman
by the name of Laura Carstensen. Yes, scary women can
be doctors, huh. And she says that her favorite lecture
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of the year is the one where she tells undergrads
at Stanford that, contrary to what they've been told and
believe that these are not the best years of their lives,
that they come much much later. My dad said that
to me when I was going off to college. He said,
these are going to be the best years of your life.
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And they were great years, but not the best. She says,
I look out at the sea of one hundred students
sitting in a classroom, and I love the look on
their faces.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
It's just relief. I can see it, because not only
are they.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
In the late teens and twenties, and those are the
worst times of our lives, the highest rates of loneliness, anxiety,
and depression. But people are constantly telling young people that
they're the best years. But see the people telling them that,
like my dad, were people who got out of college
and then got a job, got married, start having kids,
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had to be an adult at twenty two. Right away
you're done, you're responsible, and you're done thinking about what
you want for a while, and that's not the way
things are anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
There's also I would argue that at twenty twenty two,
twenty four, something like that, you're likely in your best
physical shape that you're going to be in, or that
you have the that's the healthiest you're going to be
for a lot of people. Whether you take advantage of that,
whether you capitalize on that you know stands to be seen,
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if you have the willingness to work for it or whatever.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
God I was so unhealthy, so unhealthy, but.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right, and I think about that too.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I mean, the way we would eat, the way we'd
not exercise, whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I don't think I made one healthful choice in my
early twenties, not one, not a one.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But if you if you had, would that have also
impacted how you feel today twenty years later, or you know,
I think about that a lot. But there are things
that make this time of life, wherever you happen to
be forty, fifty, sixty years old different.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
For a lot of people I know who have started
having grandkids, they are in heaven. I mean, they love
the idea of having grandkids. I don't. I'm not as
infatuated with that just yet. Maybe when it happens down
the road, I'll be like, oh, okay, yeah, I understand
what the draw was.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But now you have the benefit of experience.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
You know what to get excited about, what not to
get excited about. You know how to say, prepare for
vacations and things like that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You're in the best emotional shape of your life as
you get older. They have older people a sense of focus.
What matters. There's this juxtaposition, she says, a physical vitality
and emotional emotional richness. As we get older, we have
a better emotional experience, We're more satisfied with our relationships,
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We're at more peace with ourselves, which is really the goal.
You know, shut off your internal dialogue. If you have
it and just enjoy the moment. As you get older,
you stop caring about the small stuff that made you crazy.
This sounds lovely, doesn't it. The more you can just
be at peace and just roll with the punches, go
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with the flow. They said older people aren't happier, but
there is a significant reduction in anger and sadness and
fear and anxiety. So to me, that's a direct correlation
with being happier if you can eliminate those four.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
She also says that there is.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Pro social behavior increases as you get older, giving to
and doing things for other people. And part of that
may simply be because you have more stuff to give,
whether it's money or time or talent of some kind.
You have the ability to provide that with other people
and to give, so you're giving more, getting a bigger
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bang for your buck. And occasionally like this Laura Carstensen,
she says, if I'll be having a really bad day
and I think, boy, I have got to go help somebody.
That has proven so true over and over and over
and over again. The more you wallow in yourself, the
worse you're going to feel. But if you could get
out of that and do something for someone.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It can be as simple as calling of a friend
a family member. I mean, like, how are you, what's
going on today? Yeah, and just gets you out of
your own head. They say that the sixties and seventies.
This psychologist says, the sixties and seventies are the peak
of life emotionally speaking. Now, it doesn't get worse significantly
as you get older than that, but that's where it
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levels off. Sixties and seventies emotionally is the peak. Oh,
that's good news. People have returned age. You still have
the future to look forward.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I do have the future look forward to.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But people have retired at that age, and like I said,
they do have grandkids. A lot of times that kind
of filter into the mix. Maybe they do have good
retirement t r Aja and trajanwealth dot com and they have,
you know, figured it out, figured out what needs to
be worried about what doesn't.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Guys, your turkey is gonna be forty percent more expensive
than a year ago.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's an expensive bird that's gonna make its way into
the conversation. It's gonna bring up family resentments. It's gonna
bring up who paid for this bird while I paid
for the bird last year. While you said you want
to cook the bird, Well you don't cook the bird. Right,
It's gonna be great. Remember if your family fights, go live.
We all want to see it, go Instagram live. I'm
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going to Leanne Morgan's house because she's having briskett and.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
She didn't invite you.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We need to have a talk at some point about
how you view relationships with celebrities because we interview you
them and then sometimes you think that they like want
you in their lives.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Well, it's the vibe I totally got. There's just being
misread that. Yeah, okay, we got to change my plans
for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Then, like, we all know a guy who thinks everyone's
obsessed with him, right, don't let that be you.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
The Trump administration has expanded its immigration crackdown now to Charlotte,
North Carolina. There were border patrol agents that were sent
into the city over the weekend. City leaders said they
were abruptly informed about border patrol operations and have not
provided I'm sorry, and we're not provided notice of how
those operations would be conducted. The push to release the
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Epstein Files has contributed to this split between Trump and
longtime alli ally that is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green out
of Georgia. Trump officially pulled his endorsement of her. In
a truth social post from Friday, said that Marjorie Taylor
Green had too had gone far left and is inviting
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somebody to run against her. He called her a ranting
lunatic and said all she does is all caps, complain, complain, complain.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Well, she's an easy one to flip the switch on
right if she's your attack dog, like she was for
a long time for him, it works for him. But
when she falls into the alt right cradle of release
the Epstein Files, suddenly it's more convenient to call her
a crackpot. Luckily she lends herself to that.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It's weird she from what I know of her and
have read about her in the last couple of weeks.
While this has been going on, she's never changed her
position about the Epstein Files. She hasn't gone back and forth,
she hasn't vacillated. She's been hardcore, get it all out
in the open, tear down these powerful people who are victimized.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Right, and she's still saying that when Trump says, let's
move on.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And that's what I mean is that she's the one
who has been steady this whole time. Trump is the
one who ran on it, pulled back from it, right.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Ran on it, you know, and she did fall in
line when he pulled back, and that's her problem with him. Okay,
gobble gobble, Guys, that turkey is going to be ridiculously expensive.
Wholesale price is for a turkey up forty percent from
a year ago. It's a disaster at the grocery store
and it's been a disaster for like four years. It's
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insane how much everything is. Those opting for beef instead
of turkey, you'll pay more as well. Beef price is
fifteen percent higher than they were last year.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
RAN's making a brisket.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
So Leanne didn't invite you to her Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh no, but I know, right, But I'm just saying
she shared with us her We went.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Through this with Drew Barrymore.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
We went through this with with Rebecca Jarvis, who basically
filed the restraining order and hold on a second made
up some sort of excuse like she's on Good Morning
America to stop coming on the.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Show for a restraining order. It was not granted.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Because you would just slather your.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What non boundary accepting friendship over her whenever she'd come on.
We'd have Rebecca Jarvis on to talk about money, and you'd.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Be like, you're so smart. It's so nice talking to
someone who's so smart. Oh, you're so great.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And it was just too much for her and she
was she felt suffocated. It says it in the papers,
the court papers. That's why she never flies out to
California anymore. Yeah, because you were like, come in studio,
we'll pick you up from the airport. Where are you staying?
It got super weird. Canned vegetables are five.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Percent more Trying to avoid this with Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Canned vegetables are five percent more expensive compared to last year,
higher packaging costs from the steel and aluminum tariffs, et cetera.
The President did announce that he's going to be rolling
back tariffs that he imposed on beef, coffee, tropical fruits,
and some other commodities in an effort to combat those
prices that we've been talking about, those higher prices at
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the store. But that's not enough in terms of lowering
prices completely. Tariffs aren't the only reason that prices have
gone up. Obviously, some grocery store items have seen some decreases.
Egg prices have seen a decline from earlier this year.
Domestic wine is down one point two percent. Is that
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even noticeable because of a steady supply softening demand. I
think that's going to be sort of the trend in
terms of wine and beer, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Is there.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Because we've done these stories over and over again about
to decreasing demand, those are going to become cheaper. Buy
fresh produce rather than canned fruits or vegetables if you can.
That's one way to avoid the higher prices from the packaging.
Maybe plan your meal in advance, look for private label
or store brands over name brands.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Shop early, get out there, you know, make.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Those Thanksgiving decisions before you actually get to Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Should businesses out for five star reviews? There is a
hidden risk with doing so, we'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It's starting to rain here in Burbanks, So in the
valley we're starting to get some of this rain that
has going to be making its way through the second
of the storm's series of storms that.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
People are beside themselves because of the rain. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I was talking to Ronnie in the lunch room and
he said, it's like it's ten am all day. I
don't know what to do. He says, Do I have
vacu you more? Do I take the dogs outside? The
dogs don't want to go outside.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I do not like it when the dogs do not
like to go outside. Why not because I feel bad
for them. Then if they don't want to go outside
because they don't want their feet wet, or they don't
want to get wet when the rain, maybe you could get.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Him little booty, little rain booties. You can put him
on his little pause, his little bean. What do you
what does Michael Monks call.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Him toe beans?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Get little booties? Is that a thing?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That is a thing?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Unfortunately, maybe Peter would enjoy that. What does your wife
stand on the on the parel for dogs?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Find it hard to believe she'd go for the booties?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Okay, but he does not like to go outside when
it rains.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
This is the first time I've noticed it, But it
was I mean it was raining very hard, so I'll
say that.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
So where does he go do his business?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, I got to take him out, so I gotta
get him outside. Oh, once he gets outside, he's fine.
But you can't just put them. Yeah he's stubborn, yes, stubborn. Well,
how stubborn can he be? He's about six pounds you
pick him up? No, No, he's twenty two and he
is a boat anchor if he wants to be.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Oh, he can just do dead weight on.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Dead low weight. It is hard to move.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yes, you gotta take him for a walk, and he
doesn't want to go anymore. He'll just he just puts down,
put down, gear up, butt down. You can't drag him either, Yeah,
probably not advised.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
You should be able to lift twenty two pounds off
the floor.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I can, but again it's not just it's not a
twenty two pound dumbell. It's a twenty two pound thing
that doesn't want to be lifted up off the floor.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Okay, So like his energy is down down easy. The
hidden risk of requesting a five star review.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Recent study researchers found that customers can get turned off
if a business specifically asks for a positive review. I
do because they think that the company or business or
whatever is trying to manipulate them, because you know why
they are, they would be less likely to buy from
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that business or to recommend that business in the future.
Authors told participants imagine that they had shopped at a
dollar store, and while they were usually satisfied with the
discount retailer, on several occasions they bought products that were
damaged or maybe didn't work as expected.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And then they divided those people into two groups.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Half of them got an email where the retailer asked
them to leave a review which would be displayed on
the website, and the other half received an email saying,
if you like our product, please leave a five star
review which will be displayed on our website. The participants
were then told that they'd be entered into a lottery
with a chance to win a gift card, and authors
(25:38):
asked if they wanted the gift card to be from
the retailer or the competitor. So if you got the
unconditional request, which is just put a review please, they
would go back to that retailer and would asked to
get the gift card from the retailer. But if you
were asked specifically to bump it up to a five
star review. These people said that they would get the
(25:59):
gift card from somewhere else. They rated the likelihood of
visiting the market again in the next month, the likelihood
of recommending the market to a friend. Have you ever
written a review on Yelp or Google?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
No, I, but I know people who do.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I will look at them, depending on it.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You know, a business I've never been to or something
like that.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I will look at them, but you just got to
take them with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's a hard party.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I don't know if they're real. I don't know if
it's AI.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I don't know if it's a company that pays people
to write their reviews.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I noticed, specifically on Yelp, when you just go on Yelp,
type in your business, find it, and you look, you're
looking at the reviews. It's Yelp chooses which ones they
put up top. But you can sort them by you know,
most recent or something like that, and they'll go in
chronological order, which I think is a much more accurate
(26:50):
way to see exactly what's going on in that place.
Because I don't know what sort of algorithm Yelp uses
to figure out what which ones they're going to put
to the top, which ones they are.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
It's been a while since we looked at our yelp reviews.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Boy, you think that's a good idea? Ah, yes, there are.
There is a Yelp four K five.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
We fell into that at some point discovering that and
started reading the reviews. They're long winded, humbling. Uh yeah, yeah,
so see it here and think we're wonderful. Let's just
let's just get that out of the way. It's not
like we need to be humbled to the tune of
you know, yeah, the slaughter that is Yelp on our
(27:37):
show telling me I'm a d wad doesn't really.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Can you be any more boring? Yeah? I bet you.
We could be more boring, sir, We probably could be.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Yeah, stick around a big boring hour.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
There is a developing story that just came in a
short time ago. David Richardson, who had headed up FEMA
as acting chief for several months, has resigned. Washington Post
is among those reporting that Richardson second person this year
to step into the post. The first of them, Acting
chief Cameron Hamilton, was ousted by Christy Noam after saying
(28:12):
in a congressional hearing that he did not support the
administration's proposal to eliminate the agency. But then there was
controversy around David Richardson almost as soon as he took office.
In his first staff meeting, he told staff he was
going to run right over anyone that resists changes and
that all delegation of authority in the agency is immediately suspended.
(28:33):
He wanted all of it. In one staff meeting, he
joked he didn't know hurricane season had started, and that
was reported. If you remember that the FEMA chief didn't know.
He then had to come out and say it was
just a joke. It's just that nobody thought it was funny.
That's why everybody lost their minds about it. So David
Richardson out as the current or i should say, previous
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head of FEMA.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Alright, already, twelve o'clock it is. It is twelve o'clock. Elmer,
did you hear that it is twelve o'clock?
Speaker 5 (29:05):
You know what that means.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It means it's a big Friday or big Friday, big
twelve o'clock hour?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Monday?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Is it Monday? Already?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
It is?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
It is? Where has the time gone?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I don't know, but I need a heating pad.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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