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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Gary and Shannon caf I Am six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. The reason I am dancing like
this is so that you don't have to see me.
This is my birthday present to you, me dancing here. Well,
you're a couple hundred minds.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I can totally tell you're standing up. It's the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Oh you can't, Hey, Gary, I just gotta tell you
the big conky shoes. I was trying to do my
eyebrows and I look like Uncle Leo on Seinfeld. Now
thanks to you. Oh my god, you made me laugh
so hard. I feel exactly the same way about Diane Keaton.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Hey, Gary, you stand strong, You be strong. You continue
wearing those speedos in.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The shower, You liberal person.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You never tamp down.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Love you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Have a good weekend, Gary, don't you ever?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Damn Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
In fact, you up.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
Mister.
Speaker 8 (01:03):
Oh my gosh, Gary, l m aoh, I can't believe
that comment you made about Rosie o'donald, but it was
spot on, dude. Congratulations for noticing.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Her, for noticing how do you not notice her?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I think people love the new you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I mean just the version.
Speaker 9 (01:25):
Yeah, okay, okay, someone else finally said it, and I
have to agree. Shandon, it's your laugh. You have that
infectious laugh. There's a bought from Big Bear. Sometimes you
say stuff that just makes you want to turn the
radio off, but then you laugh and it's like, okay,
I'll hang around enjoy.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I think that was any good overall. That was a compliment.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm going to take away the compliment.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, not the part where you say things that he
wants to do.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's true. I also don't like what I say many times.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
All Right, it's time for a swamp patch. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipops
here we got.
Speaker 10 (02:06):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
The other side never quits. So what.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
So that now you.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Drain the swap, I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 10 (02:20):
You know, Americans have always been going as they're not stupid.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
We haven't. People voted for you were not swamp Watch.
They're all countingoing. Well, it's over, and.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
I'm still here to take my sweet time on behalf
of the American people.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Because it was totally unacceptable.
Speaker 10 (02:47):
That you would try to jam this bill, Miss the
Speaker down the throat of the American people.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
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than eight hours of speaking. Did the Minority leader in
an attempt to delay the vote of the final vote
(03:15):
for the House on the one Big Beautiful Bill, President
Trump's signature legislation here in the second term.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Mike Johnson, the Speaker, predicted this morning he did have
the votes to pass the Republican's bill and would only
lose one or two GOP lawmakers ahead of this July
fourth deadline, not that it's a deadline self imposed deadline
he told reporters Mike Johnson did this morning, we'll get this.
We'll land this plane before July fourth.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Okay, Yeah, So they are voting right now and we'll
have an answer probably in the next several minutes about
whether or not this thing is passes. And like you said,
Mike Johnson believes he does have the votes similar to
the House, I'm sorry, similar to the Senate, but slightly
different is that they have a three vote swing one
(04:04):
way or the other. They can afford to lose three
votes and still get this thing passed that ended in
a tie in the Senate that had to be broken
by jd Vance. If they lose more than three Republicans
in the House, this thing goes down to defeat because
there is an odd number. Now the issue of all
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of the deadline of the July fourth, a completely artificial deadline.
That was something that President Trump said he wanted. He
said that a couple of weeks ago because of his
two week thing, and he thought, what a great idea
this would be part of the celebration of the fourth
of July, would be him signing this big, beautiful bill
that he says is going to benefit most of the
United states.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I think that you and I missed a huge opportunity.
Maybe I'm overestimating this, but I was reading an article
about who beat Anthony Wiener in New York member Anthony
Wiener to run for a New York City Council seat
in Lower Manhattan for the Democratic primary. It was a
(05:07):
state Assembly member who beat Anthony Weener. Now, when you
think about Anthony Wiener, you think about all of his
issues with sending pictures of his own genitals to you know,
underage women. Fifteen I believe was the last one he
got caught sending pictures too. He ran against and lost
(05:27):
to a man named in New York. He ran against
and lost to a man named Harvey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Wow, well, you couldn't really combine two worse names than
could you two worse.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Names in New York? In New York Harvey Epstein?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I mean, come on, how poetic is that that Anthony
Weiener lost to a guy named Harvey Epstein in New York?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That you can't write that?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Gosh, it's like Adolph Khan or Genghis Hitler or something
like that. That's a good name. The other big DC
event today, which was going to be overshadowed anyway by
the big beautiful bill, and the discussion in the House
was that President Trump was on the phone with Vladimir
Putin today. The Kremlin is the one that put out
(06:22):
some of the first information about the phone call itself
and said the very little progress was made in Donald
Trump's attempt to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
A Kremlin foreign policy aid said, Donald Trump once again
raised the question of an early cessation of hostilities, but
that Putin said Russia will not back down from its
(06:43):
war aims. He said, the conversation again, this is the
Russian guy said. The conversation was frank, business like and concrete,
and they also discussed Iran, the situation in the Middle East,
also in considerable detail. Now, the Pentagon announced this week
that it was going to pause the transfer of some
artillery rounds and air defenses to Ukraine because the US
(07:06):
needs to go through and say, okay, hold on a second,
we got to see how much we've still got left
in the warehouse. Basically, what stockpiles of weapons we need
to have on hand to prevent to make sure that
we have the ability to defend ourselves and if all
hell breaks loose, so because that has happened and is
(07:27):
note I mean, is now news Russia has intensified its
missile and drone attacks on Ukraine in the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All right, coming up next, we are going to get
into twin flames.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I was this.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is the dating right, the co work the soulmate.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It was dating man's terrorism is what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
These two people making money off people trying to find
their soulmate and would coach them to stay in toxic
at best sometimes and criminal at worst relationships just to
keep getting money from people who just wanted to find love.
Everyone just wants to find love, and the people that
(08:16):
capitalize off that want are awful. These two are probably
some of the worst of the worst, and now they're
being investigated by the law. We'll talk about it when
we come back.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
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Speaker 2 (08:36):
Hey guys, Shannon, it's your birthday today. Hell yeah, girl,
I have a great day. Happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I love that Enthusiastonzo.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's great. That guy likes his job apparently. Yeah, so weird.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Hi garynon Sharon, Happy birthday, tu third. I think I
leave little messages for you guys a lot. I'm a
lonely old lady. But I got to tell you how
happy I was to hear you both on the air today.
It is my fifty fifth wedding anniversary. My husband's in
memory care. I'm looking at a house full of stuff
(09:07):
that I've got to get rid of someday. Yeah, and
I'm really depressed, but you know what, you make me smile.
Thank you, Love you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Thank you. Happy anniversary.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
By the way, that's oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, glad we could be here. I mean right, no
one else is working.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, but you know what nothing, I mean, fifty
five years is something to be very proud of. Yeah,
you know that's that's very cool. And it's not what
year was that, seventy? Yeah, nineteen seventy. I bet her
dress was gorgeous. I love that. Those fashions, the wedding
(09:47):
fashions of the early seventies, Oh love that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Simple.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, it's simple, but you know they had this, They
had sleeves situations, there was lace, there were ribbons, there
were it was a whole thing over all, right, Not
like Diane Keaton hats.
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Speaker 1 (10:46):
So, yes, everybody wants love, and some people will go
to great lengths and sometimes people will hire matchmakers. That's
been going on since the dawn of time, and now
with this wonderful world of Internet, there are a lot
of people that are trying to capitalize on people's love
of love. Twin Flames was one of these groups. It
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was actually just a husband wife couple and they promote
their ability to help members achieve the fairy tale love
life of their dreams by finding their twin flame, your
romantic soulmate.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Twin Flames. You've probably seen the documentaries.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
They've been on all of the places, you know, Amazon
and Hulu, and there was a great podcast called twin
Flames I believe as well. The group offers paid workshops,
coaching services, and access to its online catalog of self
help style videos. Those if I remember, the way it
works is those are people who have been successful with
(11:49):
the workshops. The people who went to twin Flames to
find their twin flame, found it and then helped. It's
kind of like an MLM stype type of a pyramid.
Once you know, people buy in and they achieve their
twin flame, then they go on to coach other people.
See how it works trickles down, but the charge is hefty.
(12:11):
For the highest tier of access, you'll pay eight and
eighty eight dollars. You know, eight means a great deal,
especially to Chinese people. It's why you see so many
slot machines with eights surrounded instead of them.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Fung shwei thing or is it just in general.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It's a lucky number, I believe. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I shouldn't speak on it, But I do know the
number eight is important to certain cultures, and maybe it's
also I don't know, maybe there's something to be said
for that with internal flames and loves or twin flames
and loves. According to the belief system for twin flames,
everyone has a perfect person. This is designated by God,
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a person they're destined to be with, no matter the
current circumstances.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Is that a Bible thing, because that's not a Bible thing.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
According to the group's founders, Jeff and Shaliah Divine, that
soulmate may be unaware that they are the person's twin flame.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So then what you do is you kidnap them and
you keep them in a concrete bunker until they realize that, yeah,
they are the one that God has chosen for me.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's the most uncomfortable parts of all the documentaries about this.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
What I was kidding.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
No, when people are coached, Oh they just don't know
it yet, and they turn these people into stalkers the
man in this Jeff Divine, in one example, advise members
to continue romantically pursuing their designated soulmate even if that
person is married to someone else or not reciprocating the interest.
(13:46):
He said in one video, your twin flame may appear
to be with someone else, but it's just a lie,
and you can choose differently. The truth is your twin
flame is yours, and you are theirs eternally, and you
can be no one else else's and no one else
can be theirs.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So a lot of people in the articles and the
documentaries and the people that have been former members, they
say this is like a cult, and the pressure to
pursue to extreme lengths your twin flame is crazy. In
some cases, these two would have have their members cut
off family members. In some cases, restraining orders have been
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filed against their supposed soulmates. In twenty twenty three, twin
Flames issued a statement on its website, this is just
right after all the documentaries and the podcast came out.
I believe that it was so saddened that so much
effort had gone into taking swipes at the organization and
the community founded on love. But now Michigan prosecutors are
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launching a criminal investigation and they're digging up all the
information they want, all the deets, they want, all the receipts.
These are allegations they're pursuing that twin Flame uses coercive
control over its members.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It's like a freak off, but with love. Oh God,
I want to know how that restraining order hearing goes.
Where your honor.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
It's my twin flame, my twin flame.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
This is clearly my soulmate that God hath chosen for me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It says so not in the book embarrassing. Well, that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
When I was watching the documentaries that Amazon Netflix, you
can check it out, it's people again. It's always striking
to me these documentaries, whether it's someone swindled or for
love or money or whatever, that these are people that
are like you and I. They're not dumb people that
for whatever reason whatever need and it's usually a human
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need for connection, which is really sad. We all need
that and there's not a lot of that, or there's
less of that, it seems, with all of us on
our screens all the time and zoom and these and
these isolating things that we that that just the way
life it works. Now that these are just people that
are not dumb, people that want a connection and they'll
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go to great lengths to get it. And it's very
sad how they're bamboozled into this for just that basic
need of love.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
The thing that's not that I don't see very much
of in here in this story about this is the
money aspect? Is there a money aspect to it?
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I mean you got to pay for the membership usually,
But yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Why I said that. That's why the highest year is
eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's okay, that's what you meant by that, got it? Okay?
And then the multi level marketing, of course, is what
you were.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, and I remember watching the documentary they I think
they have payment plans, you know, if you.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Don't have the money. Oh man, Yeah, it's that kind
of a thing.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It's awful, like you're gonna lay away your your soulmate
quest good luck to be a.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Good investment if it was real.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But no, you shouldn't have to pay for love, Gary, Well,
pay for sex, but not for love.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's a good way to put it, I suppose. Okay,
we got tech talk with Mark Saltzman coming up. We
are also going to revisit the story and play some
of the talkbacks. Who did you invite on your honeymoon?
This new trend of people inviting not just their spouse, duh,
but kids or in laws or a group of friends
(17:25):
on what is supposed to be your honeymoon.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The House is past Trump's signature bill, sending it to
the President's deaf desk whoa president's desk as we speak.
Final passage today overcoming, as we've reported to multiple setbacks
to approve his signature. May wanted it by July fourth,
and he got it.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
To eighteen to fourteen I believe was the final tally,
with a couple of seats that are still empty. But
all of this coming despite Hakim Jeffrey's delay tactics where
he used his free time basically to delay by about
nine plus hours the vote. The House was ready to
vote on this thing at about two thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It was eight hours and forty four minutes, breaking that record.
He called it a crime scene. The bill, it's eight
hundred and eighty seven pages. It includes tax breaks for
the rich, spending cuts medicaid. A big chunk of that
is going to be medicaid. A great number of people
get medicaid are going to have to go back to
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work or go to work to get that there is
a rollback of solar energy tax credits, new money for
national defense and deportations. It does not eliminate taxes on
Social Security benefits.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You know what's funny is these members of Congress were
quick with their statements. They have already written them up.
They knew this thing was going to pass. I've already
gotten four comments from members of California's congressional delegation about
the about the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill. It's Thursday,
so it means it's time for tech talk. I could
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do it with my mouth if you'd like. It's time
for tech talk. Mark Saltzman joins us. Mark, of course,
is the host of the tech it Out podcast Machines.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Are Getting Smarter.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
This is tech talk.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
There you go to you my sky net are Hey,
is it someone's birthday today? It is? Hey, Happy twenty
ninth dear.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Ah, Thank you Mark, you remembered.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 11 (19:47):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We've we all spend probably way too much money on
streaming services because we lose track of which accounts we
have and which ones we signed up for, or we
signed up for the free and then didn't cancel when
they started charging us. How do we how do we
trim back some of our streaming costs?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Right? Well, ironically, cord cutters were looking to save money
a couple of years ago by canceling their cable and
signing up for streaming services. But now it can cost
you more for streaming services. There's so many, and you
know that they keep going up in price, and or
they want more money to get rid of ads. So yeah,
I wrote an article on five things you can do
(20:26):
to lower your costs with streaming services. Some are kind
of no brainers, others might be a little hack if
you will. The first thing is to consider a lower tier.
For example, Netflix Premium is as much as twenty five
dollars now, and that lets you watch in four K
quality and on multiple devices and all that kind of stuff.
But for seven ninety nine, so less than a third
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of that, you can go with what's called the standard
with ads plan if you really don't mind ads here
and there. They're shorter and less frequent than cable TV ads,
but there's ads nonetheless, But for under eight bucks a month,
you may opt for that, and that's most of the
same content as well, including games. If you like those
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Netflix games which are getting kind of popular. So yeah,
just consider a lower tier or a service that charges less. Generally,
Apple TV, which I think has really high quality content,
may not have the selection of a Netflix or Amazon
Prime Video, but really good quality that's like under ten
bucks a month, and that's with no ads, so you know,
(21:31):
maybe be a bit selective. The second thing is to
take advantage of any promos or bundles that you may
hear about with your mobile carrier. I know T Mobile
offers some discounts on services like Apple TV, Door Dash
I think with their Dash Pass plan, which is like
an annual thing, they'll a for HBO Max for you,
(21:51):
which is good. So just do your homework. Just go
online and look for any deals or ask the company,
like your bank, your mobile phone provider if they offer
any discounts or freebes with streaming services. Chances are they do.
There's some really good ones out there. Another one is
so generally, if you really like a service, when you
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pay annually, you do save compared to paying monthly. But
why not pay by month? Binge what you want to watch, Like,
make a list and binge that and then cancel it
after a month or even Okay, even if it's two months,
it's still going to be less than a year. If
you're finding that you're not watching anything on I don't know,
(22:32):
Disney Plus, for example, then maybe it's time to cut
that as well and just go month by month. And
on that note, another tip is to split the service
with your good friends. Like maybe you will subscribe to
Netflix and your best stee will go with Apple TV
and just go to each other's home. You know, sharing
is scaring and just binge things together on somebody else's account. Yes,
(22:58):
you're watching one.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
More watching anyway.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Yeah, yeah, right, it's fun. There's ways you can do
it remotely, but I think it's more fun to just
you know, cut along a couch with a bowl of
popcorn and take advantage of each other's service. You both
don't need it, if you if you think about it, right,
if you're willing to share with a good friend or
a partner that doesn't live with it.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Gary, this is this is why.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I keep trying to that you guys should do it.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Hancel my subscriptions and then we can watch TV together
all afternoon, every afternoon, because.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
That's that's exactly what you want to do after spending
all day together an all night together.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Okay. The last tip is as the no brainer, which
is consider free services like Pluto TV to be. You're
not going to get like the best the latest Hollywood
blockbusters or the TV shows that everybody's buzzing about at
the office water cooler. But there's a lot of good content.
Pluto TV has not just on demand shows and movies,
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but live channels with an on screen guide. There's even
like for those of my age, unlike Shannon, there are
even like there's classic TV channels like the Three's Company
Channel right like it's it's great, like these retro shows,
the Mass Channel, and it just plays live TV one
episode after another with ads but freeze free. So those
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are a few suggestions.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, that was the one complaint I have. We have Hulu,
I believe with commercials, and as I'm trying to make
my way through The Bear, this season of The Bear,
got to stop every five or ten minutes and listen.
I know kids these days don't know what commercials are,
but that's what commercials are. And you gotta you know,
you mute it or whatever. You can't fast forward it.
(24:42):
It's just it's one of the annoyances that I thought
we were pasted in this world of technology.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
It is annoying. There is a no ads option that
costs more. Same with me. I was watching, so I
to me, a no brainer is Amazon Prime, which is
the service that gives you free shipping on millions of items.
You know, all the things that you get for Amazon Prime.
But with Amazon Prime Video, they started adding ads again.
So now they're like, well, if you pay an extra
three bucks a month, will remove the ads. But I
(25:07):
still find they are less frequent but annoying nonetheless because
you are paying for that streaming service. But yeah, there
are options for no ads, but you just got to
cough up a bit more.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well what are you going to do to celebrate our
Independence Day?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Well, we had ours July versus Canada Day, so we
already did that earlier on. I'm just going to enjoy
a much quieter inbox because most of my work is
us facing. If you will. Oh, I wanted to just
give a quick shout out. Gary. You may remember last
week you allowed me to plug a contest for my
(25:43):
tech it Out Podcasters episode four hundred. The winner, by
the way, is a KFI fan. Oh great, it was
a randomly named out of one hundred and forty three entries.
Her name is Janelle Bautista and she's in Is it Tustin,
Orange County? Tustin? Is that? Am I saying it right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
She was randomly chosen by I use this website calculator
dot net. It's got a random number generator. She won
this Asus laptop for being just for listening to the show.
But she did give you guys a plug in her
I think it was an Instagram tag. People just had
to use the hashtag tech it out. So congratsitude Janelle.
(26:23):
She's listening right now.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well that's awesome and thanks for giving that away.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It was July first, eighteen sixty seven that Canada became
a country. It was in eighteen sixty seven that four
of Great Britain's North American colonies joined together as a
new country. Mark, how do you celebrate Canada Day?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
It's similar to you guys, we have fireworks and you know,
cookouts or barbecues. We just it was kind of low
key for us this year. We went to a friend's
place for a swim in a hot tub and just
a couple of drinks and yeah, just grilling up some food.
So it's similar, yeah, similar to what you guys do.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You didn't go to Ottawa to go to Parliament Hill.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I did not. I did not go to Ottawa with
Ryan Reynolds and Mike Myers and uh, yeah, I have
some poutine if you know what that is. Yeah, you
know what it's. Yeah, fries with the cheese, curds and gravy. No,
we did not go to Ottawa. But it's only a
three four hour drive from where I live. Actually, so
(27:26):
not so far.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Well, thanks, Happy Canada, Happy late Canada.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Today, Thank you, and happy fourth in July to you
and your listeners.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Mark, thank you, It was always Mark Saltzman. Make sure
you follow Mark on Twitter or x M a ARC
Underscore Saltsman. Mark Saltzman great for checking out podcast of
course and the great tech tips that he throws up
on there we come back. Who would you take on
your honeymoon? We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I am six four.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
How did I end up on this email list where
I'm getting every representative's response to the Big Beautiful Belgia
And how do I get off this mailing.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I don't know they got it somehow. I had a
bunch of them as well. Yeah, so Bashia Maniscalco has
stay Hungry? Is it me? And aren't you embarrassed? Aren't
you embarrassed? On Netflix? He's fun, It's very fun. Yeah,
it's your birthday today, so happy birthday. A lot of
people have been calling, leaving messages to say happy birthday
(28:33):
and trying to get a bunch of them on there.
But the other thing that we were talking about earlier
today was people who are following this new trend of
inviting family members with them on their honeymoon, and some
of them are a little disturbing.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Hey, Gary and Channon, we got married just the two
of us, are second marriage for both in Cawbo's and Lucas,
and we didn't invite a single soul purposely, so we
could just enjoy our wedding on the beach, just the
two of us. We hired our witnesses and had the
(29:15):
time of our lives and it was spectacular. My mom
was crushed, but she got over She.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Got over it. Yeah. No, fine, nobody.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I think that you're just seeing this more often than
than not, you know, I mean, maybe not more often
than not.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
But people are they don't. They don't have the traditional.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Values anymore around weddings and engagements and honeymoons. People don't
play by the same rules or any rules anymore.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Hy Garian Shannon. Who did I invite on my honeymoon?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
One too many people?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
My ex wife have a great Fourth of July, Mark,
thank you, Good morning, Gary and Shannon. Have birthday, Shannon.
Speaker 12 (30:03):
So after my wedding reception, everybody went over to the
same hotel. Come to find out, my parents got the
adjacent room next to us, and the bed had the
headboard up against that wall.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh it was a fun night. Yeah, Wait their headboard
or your headboard?
Speaker 12 (30:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I have follow up questions like who was it a
fun night for knowing your parents were next door? And
I hope you abandoned the bed in that situation.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Time to get a new room.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
There's so many follow ups.
Speaker 11 (30:37):
So going back to honeymoon's for a second. I'm going
to be taking my daughter on mine when we have
time to go. My husband and I got married in
December of twenty twenty three, and a couple weeks later
I found out I was nine weeks pregnant.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Wait, a minute.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
We did not get to go on our honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
The math on that, but she is a joy and I.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Couldn't be happier this year.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
And happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Oh that's great, Oh my goodness, thank you.
Speaker 13 (31:07):
Hi Gary, have a cannon.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I was invited with my two other sisters to go
to Las Vegas with my dad and his new wife
for their honeymoon.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
And I was only fifteen.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
My sisters were like eighteen and nineteen in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Very odd, very odd.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
We went through that a couple of weeks ago, I
think when I was saying that Vegas is not a
place for kids, and everybody argued that Vegas is totally
a place for kids and those kids are going to
grow up as degenerates.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well, you don't have to take your kids to the
casino with you. Not everybody is a raving liberal like
you that would bring.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
A child to the higout table.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I'd rather leave them and just stuck in a hotel
room somewhere in Vegas than on the casino floor.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
Happy birthday, Shannon. Well, my weird honeymoon story is twenty
eight years ago. We had friends of ours who got
married two months ahead of us in Bordighera, Italy. So
we decided to make our trip or honeymoon, a three
week trip to France and Italy. Wow, and we had
our husband's best friend tag along, so we were a
(32:14):
threesome for three weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I think it was a great time. I think, yeah,
I think that you could have chosen a different word.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I love that she did that and didn't even catch it.
Or maybe maybe that's exactly what she married week.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I guess I don't know what time is.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh my gosh, it's here already.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Can you believe it.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It's like a blimp trying to squeeze into a little
tiny hangar.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I think it's bigger than it was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Say that again, Elmer will isolate it. Go ahead, No,
you started it with the hangar. Okay, we'll do our
huge twelve o'clock hour. Strange Science is coming up as well.
Gary and Shannon will contin you right after this. You've
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Gary and Shannon caf I Am six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. The reason I am dancing like
this is so that you don't have to see me.
This is my birthday present to you, me dancing here. Well,
you're a couple hundred minds.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I can totally tell you're standing up. It's the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Oh you can't, Hey, Gary, I just gotta tell you
the big conky shoes. I was trying to do my
eyebrows and I look like Uncle Leo on Seinfeld. Now
thanks to you. Oh my god, you made me laugh
so hard. I feel exactly the same way about Diane Keaton.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Hey, Gary, you stand strong, You be strong. You continue
wearing those speedos in.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The shower, You liberal person.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You never tamp down.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Love you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Have a good weekend, Gary, don't you ever?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Damn Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
In fact, you up.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
Mister.
Speaker 8 (01:03):
Oh my gosh, Gary, l m aoh, I can't believe
that comment you made about Rosie o'donald, but it was
spot on, dude. Congratulations for noticing.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Her, for noticing how do you not notice her?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I think people love the new you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I mean just the version.
Speaker 9 (01:25):
Yeah, okay, okay, someone else finally said it, and I
have to agree. Shandon, it's your laugh. You have that
infectious laugh. There's a bought from Big Bear. Sometimes you
say stuff that just makes you want to turn the
radio off, but then you laugh and it's like, okay,
I'll hang around enjoy.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I think that was any good overall. That was a compliment.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm going to take away the compliment.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, not the part where you say things that he
wants to do.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's true. I also don't like what I say many times.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
All Right, it's time for a swamp patch. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipops
here we got.
Speaker 10 (02:06):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
The other side never quits. So what.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
So that now you.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Drain the swap, I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 10 (02:20):
You know, Americans have always been going as they're not stupid.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
We haven't. People voted for you were not swamp Watch.
They're all countingoing. Well, it's over, and.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
I'm still here to take my sweet time on behalf
of the American people.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Because it was totally unacceptable.
Speaker 10 (02:47):
That you would try to jam this bill, Miss the
Speaker down the throat of the American people.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's how King Jeffreys, that's where we start. Swamp Watch
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than eight hours of speaking. Did the Minority leader in
an attempt to delay the vote of the final vote
(03:15):
for the House on the one Big Beautiful Bill, President
Trump's signature legislation here in the second term.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Mike Johnson, the Speaker, predicted this morning he did have
the votes to pass the Republican's bill and would only
lose one or two GOP lawmakers ahead of this July
fourth deadline, not that it's a deadline self imposed deadline
he told reporters Mike Johnson did this morning, we'll get this.
We'll land this plane before July fourth.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Okay, Yeah, So they are voting right now and we'll
have an answer probably in the next several minutes about
whether or not this thing is passes. And like you said,
Mike Johnson believes he does have the votes similar to
the House, I'm sorry, similar to the Senate, but slightly
different is that they have a three vote swing one
(04:04):
way or the other. They can afford to lose three
votes and still get this thing passed that ended in
a tie in the Senate that had to be broken
by jd Vance. If they lose more than three Republicans
in the House, this thing goes down to defeat because
there is an odd number. Now the issue of all
(04:25):
of the deadline of the July fourth, a completely artificial deadline.
That was something that President Trump said he wanted. He
said that a couple of weeks ago because of his
two week thing, and he thought, what a great idea
this would be part of the celebration of the fourth
of July, would be him signing this big, beautiful bill
that he says is going to benefit most of the
United states.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I think that you and I missed a huge opportunity.
Maybe I'm overestimating this, but I was reading an article
about who beat Anthony Wiener in New York member Anthony
Wiener to run for a New York City Council seat
in Lower Manhattan for the Democratic primary. It was a
(05:07):
state Assembly member who beat Anthony Weener. Now, when you
think about Anthony Wiener, you think about all of his
issues with sending pictures of his own genitals to you know,
underage women. Fifteen I believe was the last one he
got caught sending pictures too. He ran against and lost
(05:27):
to a man named in New York. He ran against
and lost to a man named Harvey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Wow, well, you couldn't really combine two worse names than
could you two worse.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Names in New York? In New York Harvey Epstein?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I mean, come on, how poetic is that that Anthony
Weiener lost to a guy named Harvey Epstein in New York?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That you can't write that?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Gosh, it's like Adolph Khan or Genghis Hitler or something
like that. That's a good name. The other big DC
event today, which was going to be overshadowed anyway by
the big beautiful bill, and the discussion in the House
was that President Trump was on the phone with Vladimir
Putin today. The Kremlin is the one that put out
(06:22):
some of the first information about the phone call itself
and said the very little progress was made in Donald
Trump's attempt to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
A Kremlin foreign policy aid said, Donald Trump once again
raised the question of an early cessation of hostilities, but
that Putin said Russia will not back down from its
(06:43):
war aims. He said, the conversation again, this is the
Russian guy said. The conversation was frank, business like and concrete,
and they also discussed Iran, the situation in the Middle East,
also in considerable detail. Now, the Pentagon announced this week
that it was going to pause the transfer of some
artillery rounds and air defenses to Ukraine because the US
(07:06):
needs to go through and say, okay, hold on a second,
we got to see how much we've still got left
in the warehouse. Basically, what stockpiles of weapons we need
to have on hand to prevent to make sure that
we have the ability to defend ourselves and if all
hell breaks loose, so because that has happened and is
(07:27):
note I mean, is now news Russia has intensified its
missile and drone attacks on Ukraine in the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All right, coming up next, we are going to get
into twin flames.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I was this.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is the dating right, the co work the soulmate.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It was dating man's terrorism is what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
These two people making money off people trying to find
their soulmate and would coach them to stay in toxic
at best sometimes and criminal at worst relationships just to
keep getting money from people who just wanted to find love.
Everyone just wants to find love, and the people that
(08:16):
capitalize off that want are awful. These two are probably
some of the worst of the worst, and now they're
being investigated by the law. We'll talk about it when
we come back.
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Speaker 2 (08:36):
Hey guys, Shannon, it's your birthday today. Hell yeah, girl,
I have a great day. Happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I love that Enthusiastonzo.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's great. That guy likes his job apparently. Yeah, so weird.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Hi garynon Sharon, Happy birthday, tu third. I think I
leave little messages for you guys a lot. I'm a
lonely old lady. But I got to tell you how
happy I was to hear you both on the air today.
It is my fifty fifth wedding anniversary. My husband's in
memory care. I'm looking at a house full of stuff
(09:07):
that I've got to get rid of someday. Yeah, and
I'm really depressed, but you know what, you make me smile.
Thank you, Love you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Thank you. Happy anniversary.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
By the way, that's oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, glad we could be here. I mean right, no
one else is working.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, but you know what nothing, I mean, fifty
five years is something to be very proud of. Yeah,
you know that's that's very cool. And it's not what
year was that, seventy? Yeah, nineteen seventy. I bet her
dress was gorgeous. I love that. Those fashions, the wedding
(09:47):
fashions of the early seventies, Oh love that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Simple.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, it's simple, but you know they had this, They
had sleeves situations, there was lace, there were ribbons, there
were it was a whole thing over all, right, Not
like Diane Keaton hats.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
But like.
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Speaker 1 (10:46):
So, yes, everybody wants love, and some people will go
to great lengths and sometimes people will hire matchmakers. That's
been going on since the dawn of time, and now
with this wonderful world of Internet, there are a lot
of people that are trying to capitalize on people's love
of love. Twin Flames was one of these groups. It
(11:10):
was actually just a husband wife couple and they promote
their ability to help members achieve the fairy tale love
life of their dreams by finding their twin flame, your
romantic soulmate.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Twin Flames. You've probably seen the documentaries.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
They've been on all of the places, you know, Amazon
and Hulu, and there was a great podcast called twin
Flames I believe as well. The group offers paid workshops,
coaching services, and access to its online catalog of self
help style videos. Those if I remember, the way it
works is those are people who have been successful with
(11:49):
the workshops. The people who went to twin Flames to
find their twin flame, found it and then helped. It's
kind of like an MLM stype type of a pyramid.
Once you know, people buy in and they achieve their
twin flame, then they go on to coach other people.
See how it works trickles down, but the charge is hefty.
(12:11):
For the highest tier of access, you'll pay eight and
eighty eight dollars. You know, eight means a great deal,
especially to Chinese people. It's why you see so many
slot machines with eights surrounded instead of them.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Fung shwei thing or is it just in general.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It's a lucky number, I believe. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I shouldn't speak on it, But I do know the
number eight is important to certain cultures, and maybe it's
also I don't know, maybe there's something to be said
for that with internal flames and loves or twin flames
and loves. According to the belief system for twin flames,
everyone has a perfect person. This is designated by God,
(12:53):
a person they're destined to be with, no matter the
current circumstances.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Is that a Bible thing, because that's not a Bible thing.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
According to the group's founders, Jeff and Shaliah Divine, that
soulmate may be unaware that they are the person's twin flame.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So then what you do is you kidnap them and
you keep them in a concrete bunker until they realize that, yeah,
they are the one that God has chosen for me.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's the most uncomfortable parts of all the documentaries about this.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
What I was kidding.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
No, when people are coached, Oh they just don't know
it yet, and they turn these people into stalkers the
man in this Jeff Divine, in one example, advise members
to continue romantically pursuing their designated soulmate even if that
person is married to someone else or not reciprocating the interest.
(13:46):
He said in one video, your twin flame may appear
to be with someone else, but it's just a lie,
and you can choose differently. The truth is your twin
flame is yours, and you are theirs eternally, and you
can be no one else else's and no one else
can be theirs.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So a lot of people in the articles and the
documentaries and the people that have been former members, they
say this is like a cult, and the pressure to
pursue to extreme lengths your twin flame is crazy. In
some cases, these two would have have their members cut
off family members. In some cases, restraining orders have been
(14:26):
filed against their supposed soulmates. In twenty twenty three, twin
Flames issued a statement on its website, this is just
right after all the documentaries and the podcast came out.
I believe that it was so saddened that so much
effort had gone into taking swipes at the organization and
the community founded on love. But now Michigan prosecutors are
(14:49):
launching a criminal investigation and they're digging up all the
information they want, all the deets, they want, all the receipts.
These are allegations they're pursuing that twin Flame uses coercive
control over its members.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It's like a freak off, but with love. Oh God,
I want to know how that restraining order hearing goes.
Where your honor.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
It's my twin flame, my twin flame.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
This is clearly my soulmate that God hath chosen for me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It says so not in the book embarrassing. Well, that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
When I was watching the documentaries that Amazon Netflix, you
can check it out, it's people again. It's always striking
to me these documentaries, whether it's someone swindled or for
love or money or whatever, that these are people that
are like you and I. They're not dumb people that
for whatever reason whatever need and it's usually a human
(15:49):
need for connection, which is really sad. We all need
that and there's not a lot of that, or there's
less of that, it seems, with all of us on
our screens all the time and zoom and these and
these isolating things that we that that just the way
life it works. Now that these are just people that
are not dumb, people that want a connection and they'll
(16:10):
go to great lengths to get it. And it's very
sad how they're bamboozled into this for just that basic
need of love.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
The thing that's not that I don't see very much
of in here in this story about this is the
money aspect? Is there a money aspect to it?
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I mean you got to pay for the membership usually,
But yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Why I said that. That's why the highest year is
eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's okay, that's what you meant by that, got it? Okay?
And then the multi level marketing, of course, is what
you were.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, and I remember watching the documentary they I think
they have payment plans, you know, if you.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Don't have the money. Oh man, Yeah, it's that kind
of a thing.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It's awful, like you're gonna lay away your your soulmate
quest good luck to be a.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Good investment if it was real.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But no, you shouldn't have to pay for love, Gary, Well,
pay for sex, but not for love.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's a good way to put it, I suppose. Okay,
we got tech talk with Mark Saltzman coming up. We
are also going to revisit the story and play some
of the talkbacks. Who did you invite on your honeymoon?
This new trend of people inviting not just their spouse, duh,
but kids or in laws or a group of friends
(17:25):
on what is supposed to be your honeymoon.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The House is past Trump's signature bill, sending it to
the President's deaf desk whoa president's desk as we speak.
Final passage today overcoming, as we've reported to multiple setbacks
to approve his signature. May wanted it by July fourth,
and he got it.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
To eighteen to fourteen I believe was the final tally,
with a couple of seats that are still empty. But
all of this coming despite Hakim Jeffrey's delay tactics where
he used his free time basically to delay by about
nine plus hours the vote. The House was ready to
vote on this thing at about two thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It was eight hours and forty four minutes, breaking that record.
He called it a crime scene. The bill, it's eight
hundred and eighty seven pages. It includes tax breaks for
the rich, spending cuts medicaid. A big chunk of that
is going to be medicaid. A great number of people
get medicaid are going to have to go back to
(18:36):
work or go to work to get that there is
a rollback of solar energy tax credits, new money for
national defense and deportations. It does not eliminate taxes on
Social Security benefits.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You know what's funny is these members of Congress were
quick with their statements. They have already written them up.
They knew this thing was going to pass. I've already
gotten four comments from members of California's congressional delegation about
the about the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill. It's Thursday,
so it means it's time for tech talk. I could
(19:11):
do it with my mouth if you'd like. It's time
for tech talk. Mark Saltzman joins us. Mark, of course,
is the host of the tech it Out podcast Machines.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Are Getting Smarter.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
This is tech talk.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
There you go to you my sky net are Hey,
is it someone's birthday today? It is? Hey, Happy twenty
ninth dear.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Ah, Thank you Mark, you remembered.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 11 (19:47):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We've we all spend probably way too much money on
streaming services because we lose track of which accounts we
have and which ones we signed up for, or we
signed up for the free and then didn't cancel when
they started charging us. How do we how do we
trim back some of our streaming costs?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Right? Well, ironically, cord cutters were looking to save money
a couple of years ago by canceling their cable and
signing up for streaming services. But now it can cost
you more for streaming services. There's so many, and you
know that they keep going up in price, and or
they want more money to get rid of ads. So yeah,
I wrote an article on five things you can do
(20:26):
to lower your costs with streaming services. Some are kind
of no brainers, others might be a little hack if
you will. The first thing is to consider a lower tier.
For example, Netflix Premium is as much as twenty five
dollars now, and that lets you watch in four K
quality and on multiple devices and all that kind of stuff.
But for seven ninety nine, so less than a third
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of that, you can go with what's called the standard
with ads plan if you really don't mind ads here
and there. They're shorter and less frequent than cable TV ads,
but there's ads nonetheless, But for under eight bucks a month,
you may opt for that, and that's most of the
same content as well, including games. If you like those
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Netflix games which are getting kind of popular. So yeah,
just consider a lower tier or a service that charges less. Generally,
Apple TV, which I think has really high quality content,
may not have the selection of a Netflix or Amazon
Prime Video, but really good quality that's like under ten
bucks a month, and that's with no ads, so you know,
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maybe be a bit selective. The second thing is to
take advantage of any promos or bundles that you may
hear about with your mobile carrier. I know T Mobile
offers some discounts on services like Apple TV, Door Dash
I think with their Dash Pass plan, which is like
an annual thing, they'll a for HBO Max for you,
(21:51):
which is good. So just do your homework. Just go
online and look for any deals or ask the company,
like your bank, your mobile phone provider if they offer
any discounts or freebes with streaming services. Chances are they do.
There's some really good ones out there. Another one is
so generally, if you really like a service, when you
(22:11):
pay annually, you do save compared to paying monthly. But
why not pay by month? Binge what you want to watch, Like,
make a list and binge that and then cancel it
after a month or even Okay, even if it's two months,
it's still going to be less than a year. If
you're finding that you're not watching anything on I don't know,
(22:32):
Disney Plus, for example, then maybe it's time to cut
that as well and just go month by month. And
on that note, another tip is to split the service
with your good friends. Like maybe you will subscribe to
Netflix and your best stee will go with Apple TV
and just go to each other's home. You know, sharing
is scaring and just binge things together on somebody else's account. Yes,
(22:58):
you're watching one.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
More watching anyway.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Yeah, yeah, right, it's fun. There's ways you can do
it remotely, but I think it's more fun to just
you know, cut along a couch with a bowl of
popcorn and take advantage of each other's service. You both
don't need it, if you if you think about it, right,
if you're willing to share with a good friend or
a partner that doesn't live with it.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Gary, this is this is why.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I keep trying to that you guys should do it.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Hancel my subscriptions and then we can watch TV together
all afternoon, every afternoon, because.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
That's that's exactly what you want to do after spending
all day together an all night together.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Okay. The last tip is as the no brainer, which
is consider free services like Pluto TV to be. You're
not going to get like the best the latest Hollywood
blockbusters or the TV shows that everybody's buzzing about at
the office water cooler. But there's a lot of good content.
Pluto TV has not just on demand shows and movies,
(23:56):
but live channels with an on screen guide. There's even
like for those of my age, unlike Shannon, there are
even like there's classic TV channels like the Three's Company
Channel right like it's it's great, like these retro shows,
the Mass Channel, and it just plays live TV one
episode after another with ads but freeze free. So those
(24:18):
are a few suggestions.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, that was the one complaint I have. We have Hulu,
I believe with commercials, and as I'm trying to make
my way through The Bear, this season of The Bear,
got to stop every five or ten minutes and listen.
I know kids these days don't know what commercials are,
but that's what commercials are. And you gotta you know,
you mute it or whatever. You can't fast forward it.
(24:42):
It's just it's one of the annoyances that I thought
we were pasted in this world of technology.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
It is annoying. There is a no ads option that
costs more. Same with me. I was watching, so I
to me, a no brainer is Amazon Prime, which is
the service that gives you free shipping on millions of items.
You know, all the things that you get for Amazon Prime.
But with Amazon Prime Video, they started adding ads again.
So now they're like, well, if you pay an extra
three bucks a month, will remove the ads. But I
(25:07):
still find they are less frequent but annoying nonetheless because
you are paying for that streaming service. But yeah, there
are options for no ads, but you just got to
cough up a bit more.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well what are you going to do to celebrate our
Independence Day?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Well, we had ours July versus Canada Day, so we
already did that earlier on. I'm just going to enjoy
a much quieter inbox because most of my work is
us facing. If you will. Oh, I wanted to just
give a quick shout out. Gary. You may remember last
week you allowed me to plug a contest for my
(25:43):
tech it Out Podcasters episode four hundred. The winner, by
the way, is a KFI fan. Oh great, it was
a randomly named out of one hundred and forty three entries.
Her name is Janelle Bautista and she's in Is it Tustin,
Orange County? Tustin? Is that? Am I saying it right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
She was randomly chosen by I use this website calculator
dot net. It's got a random number generator. She won
this Asus laptop for being just for listening to the show.
But she did give you guys a plug in her
I think it was an Instagram tag. People just had
to use the hashtag tech it out. So congratsitude Janelle.
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She's listening right now.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well that's awesome and thanks for giving that away.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It was July first, eighteen sixty seven that Canada became
a country. It was in eighteen sixty seven that four
of Great Britain's North American colonies joined together as a
new country. Mark, how do you celebrate Canada Day?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
It's similar to you guys, we have fireworks and you know,
cookouts or barbecues. We just it was kind of low
key for us this year. We went to a friend's
place for a swim in a hot tub and just
a couple of drinks and yeah, just grilling up some food.
So it's similar, yeah, similar to what you guys do.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You didn't go to Ottawa to go to Parliament Hill.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I did not. I did not go to Ottawa with
Ryan Reynolds and Mike Myers and uh, yeah, I have
some poutine if you know what that is. Yeah, you
know what it's. Yeah, fries with the cheese, curds and gravy. No,
we did not go to Ottawa. But it's only a
three four hour drive from where I live. Actually, so
(27:26):
not so far.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Well, thanks, Happy Canada, Happy late Canada.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Today, Thank you, and happy fourth in July to you
and your listeners.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Mark, thank you, It was always Mark Saltzman. Make sure
you follow Mark on Twitter or x M a ARC
Underscore Saltsman. Mark Saltzman great for checking out podcast of
course and the great tech tips that he throws up
on there we come back. Who would you take on
your honeymoon? We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I am six four.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
How did I end up on this email list where
I'm getting every representative's response to the Big Beautiful Belgia
And how do I get off this mailing.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I don't know they got it somehow. I had a
bunch of them as well. Yeah, so Bashia Maniscalco has
stay Hungry? Is it me? And aren't you embarrassed? Aren't
you embarrassed? On Netflix? He's fun, It's very fun. Yeah,
it's your birthday today, so happy birthday. A lot of
people have been calling, leaving messages to say happy birthday
(28:33):
and trying to get a bunch of them on there.
But the other thing that we were talking about earlier
today was people who are following this new trend of
inviting family members with them on their honeymoon, and some
of them are a little disturbing.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Hey, Gary and Channon, we got married just the two
of us, are second marriage for both in Cawbo's and Lucas,
and we didn't invite a single soul purposely, so we
could just enjoy our wedding on the beach, just the
two of us. We hired our witnesses and had the
(29:15):
time of our lives and it was spectacular. My mom
was crushed, but she got over She.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Got over it. Yeah. No, fine, nobody.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I think that you're just seeing this more often than
than not, you know, I mean, maybe not more often
than not.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
But people are they don't. They don't have the traditional.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Values anymore around weddings and engagements and honeymoons. People don't
play by the same rules or any rules anymore.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Hy Garian Shannon. Who did I invite on my honeymoon?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
One too many people?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
My ex wife have a great Fourth of July, Mark,
thank you, Good morning, Gary and Shannon. Have birthday, Shannon.
Speaker 12 (30:03):
So after my wedding reception, everybody went over to the
same hotel. Come to find out, my parents got the
adjacent room next to us, and the bed had the
headboard up against that wall.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh it was a fun night. Yeah, Wait their headboard
or your headboard?
Speaker 12 (30:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I have follow up questions like who was it a
fun night for knowing your parents were next door? And
I hope you abandoned the bed in that situation.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Time to get a new room.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
There's so many follow ups.
Speaker 11 (30:37):
So going back to honeymoon's for a second. I'm going
to be taking my daughter on mine when we have
time to go. My husband and I got married in
December of twenty twenty three, and a couple weeks later
I found out I was nine weeks pregnant.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Wait, a minute.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
We did not get to go on our honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
The math on that, but she is a joy and I.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Couldn't be happier this year.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
And happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Oh that's great, Oh my goodness, thank you.
Speaker 13 (31:07):
Hi Gary, have a cannon.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I was invited with my two other sisters to go
to Las Vegas with my dad and his new wife
for their honeymoon.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
And I was only fifteen.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
My sisters were like eighteen and nineteen in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Very odd, very odd.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
We went through that a couple of weeks ago, I
think when I was saying that Vegas is not a
place for kids, and everybody argued that Vegas is totally
a place for kids and those kids are going to
grow up as degenerates.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well, you don't have to take your kids to the
casino with you. Not everybody is a raving liberal like
you that would bring.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
A child to the higout table.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I'd rather leave them and just stuck in a hotel
room somewhere in Vegas than on the casino floor.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
Happy birthday, Shannon. Well, my weird honeymoon story is twenty
eight years ago. We had friends of ours who got
married two months ahead of us in Bordighera, Italy. So
we decided to make our trip or honeymoon, a three
week trip to France and Italy. Wow, and we had
our husband's best friend tag along, so we were a
(32:14):
threesome for three weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I think it was a great time. I think, yeah,
I think that you could have chosen a different word.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I love that she did that and didn't even catch it.
Or maybe maybe that's exactly what she married week.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I guess I don't know what time is.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh my gosh, it's here already.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Can you believe it.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It's like a blimp trying to squeeze into a little
tiny hangar.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I think it's bigger than it was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Say that again, Elmer will isolate it. Go ahead, No,
you started it with the hangar. Okay, we'll do our
huge twelve o'clock hour. Strange Science is coming up as well.
Gary and Shannon will contin you right after this. You've
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