July 14, 2025 • 29 mins
#SWAMPWATCH – SS failed, 9th shooter, North Korea and Russia are allies. Ken Paxton's divorce drama. TikTok video: slender, Japanese walking. TALKBACKS: Family Traditions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. It's important to keep up family traditions.
Makes you feel grounded, makes you feel good. I saw
this article last week about skinny Talk, and I'm not
on TikTok because I lose way too much time whenever
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I would peruse TikTok, or it would feed me the
videos that it knew that I wanted to see, and
so I just I've deleted the app a couple times.
I've got girlfriends who send me them all the time,
and I'm like, I don't have the TikTok, And you know,
it's I feel that like pressure that kids feel when
they're not part of something if they don't have a phone,
or they're not on a certain app, or they're not
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on Snap or.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What have you.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I kind of feel that, and so I'll get I'll
get TikTok again, and they'll like, you know, it's not
worth it to be in on the joke.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
All right, let's just say no.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But anyway, as is with tiktoks, they make their way
out of the app and into main other social media
that is not looked at nearly as much. But I
saw this skinny talk and I thought, aren't we done
with this? I thought we were in body positivity land.
And when I told Keiana I wanted to talk about it,
she found this article put it in the pile today
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and the headline is Traumatized millennials sound the alarm as
gen Z's dangerous y two K skinny diet trend takes
over TikTok, and I thought, that's exactly how I felt,
like a traumatized millennial. I was wondering last week, why
do I care about this? And then I thought, well,
because I lived through it. I lived through the skinny
trends and Kate Moss of the nineties and that being
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the ideal and it's awful, and the things that women
put their body through to achieve this ideal that is
for one percent of the population. I'm like, we're not
doing that again, are we. That's not a trend coming back.
It is that it all comes back, And it's not
just the skinny trend or being skinny. It's the things
you'll do to make your body that shouldn't be skinny
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be skinny. And it's It is traumatizing to think that
that's coming back. So anyway, we'll talk about that coming
up as well because it is very popular on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Eleven o'clock is when we dive into Washington.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So what I'm not going anywhere so that.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
You train the swap, I can imagine what can be
and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
You know, Americans have always been gone.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
At president, but they're not stupid.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Have that people voted for you were not swamp Watch,
They're all counter on swamp Watch.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
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the weekend, we got the report about the Secret Service
failing to prevent the assassination attempt against Donald Trump last
year at that campaign rally in Pennsylvania. This was a
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Senate Committee report accuses the Secret Service of a botched operation.
They highlight communication fumbles, the repeated denial of extra security
assets at the time when Trump was facing heightened threats
on his life. Documents shared by the Senate Committee show,
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you know, I'm not going to read all of the
weedy talk new details about the insufficient disciplinary.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Actions, but they screwed up. They screwed up. The Secret
Service screwed up.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
We hold the Secret Service on a pedestal, but sometimes
they failed to pay their hookers. Sometimes they failed to
prevent assassinations. They're going to screw up. We like to
believe that they are infallible. They are, and we knew
this report was coming, and hopefully there has been a
massive silkwood scrub there to figure out what went wrong
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in terms of preventing it from ever even being close
to happening in the future. There was another article in
over the weekend that came out, and the reason this
is being aired out now is because it's the anniversary, right,
It's the one year anniversary, and this article was fascinating
about the man who may have fired that ninth shot
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that incapacitated the shooter that day. You're not hearing a
lot about this guy, and I wonder why. His name's
Aaron zapp Zalapon. Excuse me, Aaron Zalapony. And he is
a Butler County swat team operator and he was there
that day. As gunfire erupted at the rally, Aaron glanced
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up and caught sight of the shooter's head and shoulders
jetting above the peak of that roofline. He was about
one hundred and fifteen yards away. So he snaps up
his rifley, lines the red dot of his scope with
the shooter's chin, and fires a single shot. The would
be assassin immediately jerks to his right slumps back. This
is what Aaron remembers. And that was over the volley
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of eight gun shots over five seconds that left Trump bloodied.
It was all over, Aaron remembers, thinking I just got you.
Aaron is a forty six year old Army combat veteran,
and he's convinced that his round struck that guy's rifle
and forced him to stop shooting. Public officials have called
it the ninth shot. His belief that he cuts short
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the assassination attempt has been echoed by the DA there
in Butler County, by the county School, a SWAT team commander,
and a congressman who investigated the events that day. But
one year later, we still don't know the name. Aaron
Zalapony should be a household name. The FBI is that
it found no evidence at the ninth shot hit that
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guy or his rifle. Come that guy because I don't,
I don't give I don't want to give it. Use
his name, take a shot an American president or several.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You don't get to have a name in my book.
But what is.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Certain is that that guy, who had additional AMMO and
an AR style rifle that was still operational, never fired again.
Aaron Zalaponi shot was fired by a ten second pause
in gunfire that ended when the US Secret Service counter sniper.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Killed the guy.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But while all of the attention has been on the
Secret Service's most glaring security failure in my lifetime, we
haven't heard about this local officer. We haven't heard about
his quick, decisive action amid the chaos. It's been documented
in closed door interviews with congressional investigators and SWAT and
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all of that. But why wouldn't Trump have this guy
at the White House? I mean, when you look at
this guy too, his picture, Aaron's ala pony. It's not
a central casting. I mean, the guy's built like a
brick s house. He's exactly what you think of when
you think of protector. I don't know why they wouldn't
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hold this guy up and give him the respect in the.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Round of applause that he deserves. He says.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
He gets a smattering of emails from strangers, some text
messages from family friends, and a few people shaking his
hand at the gym, but that's about it. Aaron doesn't
seem mad about it, by the way, and he's a
supporter of Trump. He's just this is the way it is,
just doing my job. But it's odd in this era.
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Are we in the era of not holding people up anymore?
As heroes were too busy throwing sandbags on him, We're
too busy going after after all the bad things that
we hear about Secret Service is a failure. They're awful.
Why not highlight aaron story what he did that day?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, Gary and Shannon will continue. We've got a
story about me you ever. Ken Paxton, He's been in
politics forever. He's the age out there in Texas. He
had a wife that was a stand by her man wife,
one of those women who came out alongside him. There
was a podium, there was a I'm sorry I cheated
on my wife's situation, and she was right there standing
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by him. There's a flurry of these in recent years. Well,
that was one of these couples. Now they're finally getting
a divorce, and some people who know the details call
them disgusting and dirty.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Tell you what we know when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Ken Paxton has been in politics for quite some time.
He is the current Attorney general there in Texas, and
well he is running in the midterms, and it is
a complete mess there right now. This is running for
a Senate seat. But he's got bigger fish to fry
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than being out fundraised by Senator John Cornyn, who has
I think raised about three point five million during the
second quarter. Here has about eight point five million in
cash on hand, and he has a wide fundraising advantage
over his primary opponent, State Attorney General Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton,
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his wife has picked this time of strife to announce
she's filing for divorce. This is a couple that is
no stranger to scandal. She filed the papers on Thursday,
and in the court documents, Angela Paxton says she's filing
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for divorce on biblical grounds. Ooh, that seems to be
going straight to the top, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I don't even know what that means. They have been
married for thirty eight years.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
As I mentioned, Ken Paxton is currently in this ferocious
battle to unseat Senator John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary.
Angela Paxton herself is a state senator.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's all coming back to you now right.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
She wrote in a social media post that her decision
followed recent discoveries. She did not elaborate, but there have
been prior discoveries with this couple.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
In her divorce.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Filing, obtained by media outlets, she alleged that Ken Paxton,
the Jorney General, had committed adultery and that they stopped
living together around June of last year. She wrote in
a post on x I believe marriage is a sacred
covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation, but in light
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of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God,
or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to
remain in the marriage. He took to X to defend himself.
Did he assume accountability? Did he say I'm sorry? Did
he say I am a dog? No?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He blamed it on people who don't agree with him.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Politically cook Like every good politician, Ken Paxton blamed countless
political attacks in public scrutiny on the failing of his marriage.
He went on to say the two have decided to
start a new chapter in their lives. Hey, this is
a very far right, religious right, family values guy. Ken
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Paxton always has been, which is why it was weird
when he came out the first time with problems with
his wife. I mean not surprising. There's so much hypocrisy,
isn't there? How many times have we heard this story?
But he went on to say I could not be
more proud or grateful for the incredible family that God
is blessed us with. Blah blah blah. I ask for
your prayers and privacy at this time. This is one
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of the country's most most closely watched Senate primaries, by
the way, huge political stakes. Democrats are looking for more
races in which their candidates can be competitive, and they
see Ken Paxton as an easier target. For a number
of reasons, this is probably one of them. The National
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Republican Senatorial Committee has sharply criticized Paxson Paxton excuse me,
in a statement that offered a window into how bitter
this race could become, the communications director saying what Ken
Paxton has put his family through is truly repulsive and disgusting.
No one, wow, No one should have to endure what
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Angela Paxton has, and we pray for her as she
chooses to stand up for herself and her family.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Ooh, what did he do? Guys? What did he do?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
He earned a lot of recognition by frequently suing to
try to block the actions of Obama and Biden in
federal court. It was his name that rose to prominence
when Republicans would take on these Democratic presidents. And then
there were the scandals. He took office as Attorney General
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in twenty fifteen, but has faced a series of scandals since.
He requested three point three million in taxpayer dollars to
settle a whistleblower lawsuit with former staffers who accused him
of accepting bribes from a real estate developer and abusing
his office. So the Texas House responded by impeaching him
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in twenty twenty three. His wife, you'll remember this, This
is what I remember. His wife was present for the
Senate's impeachment trial because in that trial it came out
that he was accused of having an affair with a
woman who was hired by the real estate developer. The wife,
Angela Packson, was not allowed to vote in that Senate
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impeachment trial. He went on to be acquitted by the
Conservative Senate, where a political ally, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick,
presided over the trial.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
My god, what a mess.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Ps if things don't work out in Texas, sounds like
he would have a nice spot at LA's city Hall.
That whistleblower lawsuit, right, all the bribes from real estate developers.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Think they can do no wrong, don't they? Anyway, we
are not.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Going to likely hear much about this divorce, about what
the Republican Senatorial Committee calls repulsive and disgusting their words
of what he's done to his wife. There was a
judge there in Colin County that has sealed all of this,
sealing all records relating to divorce proceedings. So the only
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way we're going to find out about what Ken Paxton did.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Is by a leak, or the wife talks or or
somebody talks.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
But it can't be good. Maybe it's just that the
affair continued. Maybe it's something very sanitized. Maybe they haven't
truly been man and wife for quite some time. But
to get that labeled disgusting and whatever the other word was,
I feel like there's some there there. Okay, when we
come back. TikTok Skinny, we're going through this again. We're
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going through the Kate Moss let's be skinny when we're
not skinny and put our body through impossible things.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Thing we shouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
That.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Also, something else big on TikTok Japanese walking. I don't
know about if this is just a Japanese thing. I
don't know if it's racist to call it Japanese walking.
It seems like it's just a specific type of Well,
I'll let you decide.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty coming.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Up in the next hour.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
AI is struggling with something specifically. We talk a lot
about what AI is great at. It can write songs.
It can be your boyfriend or girlfriend. It can help
you out with jobs. You can send AI to a
meeting to take notes for you. AI, as people who
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consume AI are finding out, does not know.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What an orgasm sounds like. There's no great way to
put that is there.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Audiobook actors are struggling with the rise of robot narrators.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But this is a problem to which I'm saying, how
often does this occur in books? Am I reading the
wrong books? I think I'm reading the wrong books.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I don't know if I've read many books where that
would be a problem. President Trump says the US would
help Europe send more weapons to Ukraine and is warning
that Russia would be hit by very severe tariffs if
there was no peace deal with Ukraine in fifty days.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He's holding Putin's feet.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
To the fire here because Putin hasn't been playing nicely,
has he. Trump does not like the chorus of Booze
he heard at his Young People's convention over the weekend.
When the speaker asked what they think about providing assistance
to Ukraine. So he once is over with, he ran
on making this all go away, bringing peace to this
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Russia Ukraine situation. We won't have to help Ukraine because
this will be done. But it hasn't been done, and
he's losing patience that he never had. So now he's
warning Russia of these severe tariffs. He's putting this fifty
day timeline on it. If there's no piece deal with
Ukraine in fifty days the severe tariffs hit, we wait
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and see what.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Putin has to say about that.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
All right, So TikTok, more people spend time on More
people spend more time I guess I should say on
TikTok than anywhere else. So when something big is on TikTok,
you can't.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Just be like, oh, that's just what the kids are. No,
it's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It's a big, big piece of the pie of the population.
And right now, why to k Skinny is a diet
trend that is sweeping TikTok. It's been around for quite
some time there it's only people like me olds that
are coming around to realizing it. But people like me
see this in our I think have an outsized alarm
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towards it. I think most people who see this go, okay,
it's just like any other TikTok trend. I see it,
and I'm like triggered. Right, I'm thinking about how everyone
when I was growing up, late nineties, early two thousands,
you know, this is when I was in my early twenties,
and everyone is trying to look like Kate Moss.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Everyone's trying to be skinny.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
If you have the body type to be skinny, fine,
that's great for you.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Do that, love that for you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But if you don't, it's so harmful to try and
attain that. Millennials who survived the actual Y two K
skinny craze are warning gen Z not to repeat history.
Kyla Kayla Kyla Uli is a millennial modeling content creator,
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and she's going viral for calling out the TikTok obsession
with Y two sk y two K skinny and that aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
She says it's.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Glamorizing the brutal body standards that dominated the late nineties
and early two thousands. She says her first thought was, no,
we can't go back there exactly. She says people don't
understand how dangerous it was to achieve this y two
K body, people starved themselves, they used drugs, they went
to the hospital, they did those extreme diets like that
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Lemon Cayenne thing, absolute extremes to look this way. If
you weren't born to be that frame, that's just it.
It'll put you in the hospital. She is a LA
based creator. She says she grew up modeling during the
era of the ultra low rise genes. She says, in
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the even lower self worth those low rise genes, man
oh Man, I was at Abercrombie. This is like, oh,
I don't know, six months ago or something like that,
maybe even longer. And I texted Gary's why Shannon I
go so because she's got a daughter who's young, right
in her early twenties.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I said, So, the.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Low cut, the low rise jeans, the ultra low rise
jeans are making a comeback.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
She's like, they're already here, because that's kind.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Of what you tie in with the star of yourself
to look skinny, because the low rise genes.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
They're cut low.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You know, your whole belly's just hanging out there, right,
and you see the born skinny people wearing them. No
one's going to look like that this woman, this influencer.
She says she started dieting at fourteen. Once I saw
photos of Jessica Simpson being called obese. I remember that
as well. She said she was frequently sent home from
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castings for being fat. Heroin Chic wasn't a cry for help,
it was a goal.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
She says.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I had both anorexia and bolimia, and I'm blessed to
be recovered, but not everyone is. And there's going to
be another wave of women who are destroying their bodies
to get thin when they were never intended to be
that body type. You look at the weight loss injections
like ozempic and you think, oh, that that's adding to it,
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because what was the body positivity of movement has made
way for people that don't even need ozempic to be
on GLP ones. A lot of people don't remember how
bad it is, she says, and the messages hit her.
Clip there on the Instagram video that she put together
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as racked up more than two million views, and the
comment section became like a viral support group.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Somebody saying thank you, I'm glad someone said it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
They're trying to take us back there, raise your hand,
someone order if you've been victimized by y two k standards.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Now, that's the thing with trends, not everybody. You don't
need to follow every trend.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Just because low rise genes are in style and trendy
doesn't mean they can they're gonna you're gonna like them,
or they're gonna look good on you. You don't have
to do that. They come and go too, by the way.
But for people who view TikTok as the Bible and
this is becoming a thing, it just makes me nervous.
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Thought I thought we had made some headway with the
body positivity movement and being okay, just the way that
you are.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Those genes are awful too. They're hideous, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Coming up next, we will get into your family traditions.
There is an effort to keep these going, and there's scientific,
scientific proof of why you want to keep these going.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We were talking about family reunions, picnics, family gatherings, family
traditions and how important they are. Talked about the Walker
family that gathers on a hilltop family farm West Virginia.
Every July. They sleep and tents and trailers. Cousins are
all out there by the campfire eating biscuits and gravy
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French toast. In the morning they roast the marshmallows, and
the evening kids run around the parents catch up. Ginger
Walker's dad started the tradition more than fifty years ago.
She and her thirty six first cousins kept it going
after their parents died.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
She's seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now, her sons and the third generation take over the
rolls to make sure it continues for their kids and grandkids.
She says, we're passing the torch. Their tradition began with,
like I said, her dad starting it in nineteen seventy
two after her brother died. Her dad wanted to gather
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on the family farm because it was a place her
brother loved. They have returned since the purpose of memorializing
her brother evolved into simply wanting to be with family.
Attendance is dwindled from about two hundred about one hundred,
because you know, parents work, kids have the sports, all
of the things, but they keep it up. There was
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another story about a woman named Sarah. Sarah, her eight
siblings and their families meet at her parents home on
Bear Lake. It's the Idaho Utah border. Several days each
summer they are continuing this. They do have an Excel
spreadsheet with tabs assigning meal and cleaning duties. They try
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to limit organized activities like family relays and talent shows
to two or three a day. Gary's on one of
these types of a thing. I don't know if there's
a spreadsheet involved. Spreadsheets make me a little squirrellly. If
I go on a girl's trip and there's a spreadsheet
involved for the for the weekend, like where we're going
to eat cocktails, Where're going to go, I throw it
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out and I just go where I'm told. I don't
like being planned into a corner. You know, I'll go
along with anything. But Gary's on one of these trips.
I think he said it is like twenty seven family members.
They're all staying on Maui and different hotels or airbnbs
or whatever, and they've got a couple family activities. But
for the most part, people do their own thing and
then they get together when they can. We asked you
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what your family traditions or reunions or what it is
are and you let us know.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So let's hear that.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
This is Claire and I see I'm originally from more
Park and we're parked with fireworks on the third of July.
So every year for the last ten years, my mom
has had all of our friends, all of our family
over and we have barbecue, We do sparklers and little safe,
insane fireworks in the front yard, and then at nine
o'clock we all walk over to Mount Meadow's Park and
we watch the fireworks. And like I said, we'll be
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doing that for ten years. And it's is our little
family tradition.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Now, Hey, good morning, Shannon. The tradition that I have
with my kids they're adults. Every birthday morning I call
them and sing them Happy Birthday. It's just a routine.
It's a family thing we've been doing for years and
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Hey, this is Dell.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
This is my family tradition.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
We try to have as much booze as possible.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Their co I'm and join one right now, big old
tall bullet. But yeah, booze, booze and more booze.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Have a great take.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Hi, this is Linda and Santa Clarita. Our family tradition
is a Swedish sunshine cake. It's like a butter cake
that our mom used to make for us every year
on our birthday. And since my mom's been gone, I
make the sunshine cake for everyone in the family. Today
is my son's birthday, so he will have his sunshine
cake today. Love you guys. Good morning, Shannon.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I'm so glad I get to share this story. So
my father pretty cool guy, really cool guy, and he's
passed away as well. He passed away when I was
twenty and I'm in my fifties now. But he left
to snack on sewey sticks and all boil with salt
and pepper. And when we were little, for some reason
we had to make Santa instead of cookies. We made
him slowe sticks with all boil and salt and pepper,
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and they were gone Christmas morning. So my dad must
have been right san to love those things.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Funny Christmas tradition. When my kids were real little, I
would lay under the tree to connect the tree to
the Christmas tree stand, and quite interestingly enough, I would
find both the children come and lay under the tree
with me, thinking that's what you do. So years later,
one of the family traditions is when they are in
town and with their kids. We all lay under the
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Christmas tree for a little bit and look up and
see all the twinkling lights, and it's just a great remembrance.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That is the sweetest thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The reason why we are talking about this story is
there is a woman, Anika Shabra, who actually started a company.
It's called Root and Seed, a platform with tools to
help preserve traditions and family heritage. And she said something.
She said, the world feels a little upside down now,
and these traditions or these gatherings can provide a sense
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of belonging and consistency.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Listening to everybody else's traditions makes you feel that way,
doesn't it. I mean, how sweet is that laying on
the ground and looking up at the lights on the
Christmas tree?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Also?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Who else ran to Google to find out how to
make a Swedish sunshine cake? Does it get better than
a sunshine cake? My gosh?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I love that? All right? I want one right now?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
We will talk trending everything everyone is talking about. We
come back and also Ai has run into trouble in
the sex department. That's coming along in the next hour
as well.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
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AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. It's important to keep up family traditions.
Makes you feel grounded, makes you feel good. I saw
this article last week about skinny Talk, and I'm not
on TikTok because I lose way too much time whenever
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I would peruse TikTok, or it would feed me the
videos that it knew that I wanted to see, and
so I just I've deleted the app a couple times.
I've got girlfriends who send me them all the time,
and I'm like, I don't have the TikTok, And you know,
it's I feel that like pressure that kids feel when
they're not part of something if they don't have a phone,
or they're not on a certain app, or they're not
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on Snap or.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What have you.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I kind of feel that, and so I'll get I'll
get TikTok again, and they'll like, you know, it's not
worth it to be in on the joke.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
All right, let's just say no.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But anyway, as is with tiktoks, they make their way
out of the app and into main other social media
that is not looked at nearly as much. But I
saw this skinny talk and I thought, aren't we done
with this? I thought we were in body positivity land.
And when I told Keiana I wanted to talk about it,
she found this article put it in the pile today
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and the headline is Traumatized millennials sound the alarm as
gen Z's dangerous y two K skinny diet trend takes
over TikTok, and I thought, that's exactly how I felt,
like a traumatized millennial. I was wondering last week, why
do I care about this? And then I thought, well,
because I lived through it. I lived through the skinny
trends and Kate Moss of the nineties and that being
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the ideal and it's awful, and the things that women
put their body through to achieve this ideal that is
for one percent of the population. I'm like, we're not
doing that again, are we. That's not a trend coming back.
It is that it all comes back, And it's not
just the skinny trend or being skinny. It's the things
you'll do to make your body that shouldn't be skinny
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be skinny. And it's It is traumatizing to think that
that's coming back. So anyway, we'll talk about that coming
up as well because it is very popular on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Eleven o'clock is when we dive into Washington.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So what I'm not going anywhere so that.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
You train the swap, I can imagine what can be
and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
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Speaker 2 (02:34):
At president, but they're not stupid.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
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They're all counter on swamp Watch.
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the weekend, we got the report about the Secret Service
failing to prevent the assassination attempt against Donald Trump last
year at that campaign rally in Pennsylvania. This was a
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Senate Committee report accuses the Secret Service of a botched operation.
They highlight communication fumbles, the repeated denial of extra security
assets at the time when Trump was facing heightened threats
on his life. Documents shared by the Senate Committee show,
(03:28):
you know, I'm not going to read all of the
weedy talk new details about the insufficient disciplinary.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Actions, but they screwed up. They screwed up. The Secret
Service screwed up.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
We hold the Secret Service on a pedestal, but sometimes
they failed to pay their hookers. Sometimes they failed to
prevent assassinations. They're going to screw up. We like to
believe that they are infallible. They are, and we knew
this report was coming, and hopefully there has been a
massive silkwood scrub there to figure out what went wrong
(04:06):
in terms of preventing it from ever even being close
to happening in the future. There was another article in
over the weekend that came out, and the reason this
is being aired out now is because it's the anniversary, right,
It's the one year anniversary, and this article was fascinating
about the man who may have fired that ninth shot
(04:30):
that incapacitated the shooter that day. You're not hearing a
lot about this guy, and I wonder why. His name's
Aaron zapp Zalapon. Excuse me, Aaron Zalapony. And he is
a Butler County swat team operator and he was there
that day. As gunfire erupted at the rally, Aaron glanced
(04:50):
up and caught sight of the shooter's head and shoulders
jetting above the peak of that roofline. He was about
one hundred and fifteen yards away. So he snaps up
his rifley, lines the red dot of his scope with
the shooter's chin, and fires a single shot. The would
be assassin immediately jerks to his right slumps back. This
is what Aaron remembers. And that was over the volley
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of eight gun shots over five seconds that left Trump bloodied.
It was all over, Aaron remembers, thinking I just got you.
Aaron is a forty six year old Army combat veteran,
and he's convinced that his round struck that guy's rifle
and forced him to stop shooting. Public officials have called
it the ninth shot. His belief that he cuts short
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the assassination attempt has been echoed by the DA there
in Butler County, by the county School, a SWAT team commander,
and a congressman who investigated the events that day. But
one year later, we still don't know the name. Aaron
Zalapony should be a household name. The FBI is that
it found no evidence at the ninth shot hit that
(06:01):
guy or his rifle. Come that guy because I don't,
I don't give I don't want to give it. Use
his name, take a shot an American president or several.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You don't get to have a name in my book.
But what is.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Certain is that that guy, who had additional AMMO and
an AR style rifle that was still operational, never fired again.
Aaron Zalaponi shot was fired by a ten second pause
in gunfire that ended when the US Secret Service counter sniper.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Killed the guy.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But while all of the attention has been on the
Secret Service's most glaring security failure in my lifetime, we
haven't heard about this local officer. We haven't heard about
his quick, decisive action amid the chaos. It's been documented
in closed door interviews with congressional investigators and SWAT and
(06:59):
all of that. But why wouldn't Trump have this guy
at the White House? I mean, when you look at
this guy too, his picture, Aaron's ala pony. It's not
a central casting. I mean, the guy's built like a
brick s house. He's exactly what you think of when
you think of protector. I don't know why they wouldn't
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hold this guy up and give him the respect in the.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Round of applause that he deserves. He says.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
He gets a smattering of emails from strangers, some text
messages from family friends, and a few people shaking his
hand at the gym, but that's about it. Aaron doesn't
seem mad about it, by the way, and he's a
supporter of Trump. He's just this is the way it is,
just doing my job. But it's odd in this era.
(07:52):
Are we in the era of not holding people up anymore?
As heroes were too busy throwing sandbags on him, We're
too busy going after after all the bad things that
we hear about Secret Service is a failure. They're awful.
Why not highlight aaron story what he did that day?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, Gary and Shannon will continue. We've got a
story about me you ever. Ken Paxton, He's been in
politics forever. He's the age out there in Texas. He
had a wife that was a stand by her man wife,
one of those women who came out alongside him. There
was a podium, there was a I'm sorry I cheated
on my wife's situation, and she was right there standing
(08:31):
by him. There's a flurry of these in recent years. Well,
that was one of these couples. Now they're finally getting
a divorce, and some people who know the details call
them disgusting and dirty.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Tell you what we know when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Ken Paxton has been in politics for quite some time.
He is the current Attorney general there in Texas, and
well he is running in the midterms, and it is
a complete mess there right now. This is running for
a Senate seat. But he's got bigger fish to fry
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than being out fundraised by Senator John Cornyn, who has
I think raised about three point five million during the
second quarter. Here has about eight point five million in
cash on hand, and he has a wide fundraising advantage
over his primary opponent, State Attorney General Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton,
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his wife has picked this time of strife to announce
she's filing for divorce. This is a couple that is
no stranger to scandal. She filed the papers on Thursday,
and in the court documents, Angela Paxton says she's filing
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for divorce on biblical grounds. Ooh, that seems to be
going straight to the top, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I don't even know what that means. They have been
married for thirty eight years.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
As I mentioned, Ken Paxton is currently in this ferocious
battle to unseat Senator John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary.
Angela Paxton herself is a state senator.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's all coming back to you now right.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
She wrote in a social media post that her decision
followed recent discoveries. She did not elaborate, but there have
been prior discoveries with this couple.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
In her divorce.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Filing, obtained by media outlets, she alleged that Ken Paxton,
the Jorney General, had committed adultery and that they stopped
living together around June of last year. She wrote in
a post on x I believe marriage is a sacred
covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation, but in light
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of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God,
or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to
remain in the marriage. He took to X to defend himself.
Did he assume accountability? Did he say I'm sorry? Did
he say I am a dog? No?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He blamed it on people who don't agree with him.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Politically cook Like every good politician, Ken Paxton blamed countless
political attacks in public scrutiny on the failing of his marriage.
He went on to say the two have decided to
start a new chapter in their lives. Hey, this is
a very far right, religious right, family values guy. Ken
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Paxton always has been, which is why it was weird
when he came out the first time with problems with
his wife. I mean not surprising. There's so much hypocrisy,
isn't there? How many times have we heard this story?
But he went on to say I could not be
more proud or grateful for the incredible family that God
is blessed us with. Blah blah blah. I ask for
your prayers and privacy at this time. This is one
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of the country's most most closely watched Senate primaries, by
the way, huge political stakes. Democrats are looking for more
races in which their candidates can be competitive, and they
see Ken Paxton as an easier target. For a number
of reasons, this is probably one of them. The National
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Republican Senatorial Committee has sharply criticized Paxson Paxton excuse me,
in a statement that offered a window into how bitter
this race could become, the communications director saying what Ken
Paxton has put his family through is truly repulsive and disgusting.
No one, wow, No one should have to endure what
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Angela Paxton has, and we pray for her as she
chooses to stand up for herself and her family.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Ooh, what did he do? Guys? What did he do?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
He earned a lot of recognition by frequently suing to
try to block the actions of Obama and Biden in
federal court. It was his name that rose to prominence
when Republicans would take on these Democratic presidents. And then
there were the scandals. He took office as Attorney General
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in twenty fifteen, but has faced a series of scandals since.
He requested three point three million in taxpayer dollars to
settle a whistleblower lawsuit with former staffers who accused him
of accepting bribes from a real estate developer and abusing
his office. So the Texas House responded by impeaching him
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in twenty twenty three. His wife, you'll remember this, This
is what I remember. His wife was present for the
Senate's impeachment trial because in that trial it came out
that he was accused of having an affair with a
woman who was hired by the real estate developer. The wife,
Angela Packson, was not allowed to vote in that Senate
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impeachment trial. He went on to be acquitted by the
Conservative Senate, where a political ally, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick,
presided over the trial.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
My god, what a mess.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Ps if things don't work out in Texas, sounds like
he would have a nice spot at LA's city Hall.
That whistleblower lawsuit, right, all the bribes from real estate developers.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Think they can do no wrong, don't they? Anyway, we
are not.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Going to likely hear much about this divorce, about what
the Republican Senatorial Committee calls repulsive and disgusting their words
of what he's done to his wife. There was a
judge there in Colin County that has sealed all of this,
sealing all records relating to divorce proceedings. So the only
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way we're going to find out about what Ken Paxton did.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Is by a leak, or the wife talks or or
somebody talks.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
But it can't be good. Maybe it's just that the
affair continued. Maybe it's something very sanitized. Maybe they haven't
truly been man and wife for quite some time. But
to get that labeled disgusting and whatever the other word was,
I feel like there's some there there. Okay, when we
come back. TikTok Skinny, we're going through this again. We're
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going through the Kate Moss let's be skinny when we're
not skinny and put our body through impossible things.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Thing we shouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
That.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Also, something else big on TikTok Japanese walking. I don't
know about if this is just a Japanese thing. I
don't know if it's racist to call it Japanese walking.
It seems like it's just a specific type of Well,
I'll let you decide.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty coming.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Up in the next hour.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
AI is struggling with something specifically. We talk a lot
about what AI is great at. It can write songs.
It can be your boyfriend or girlfriend. It can help
you out with jobs. You can send AI to a
meeting to take notes for you. AI, as people who
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consume AI are finding out, does not know.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What an orgasm sounds like. There's no great way to
put that is there.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Audiobook actors are struggling with the rise of robot narrators.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But this is a problem to which I'm saying, how
often does this occur in books? Am I reading the
wrong books? I think I'm reading the wrong books.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I don't know if I've read many books where that
would be a problem. President Trump says the US would
help Europe send more weapons to Ukraine and is warning
that Russia would be hit by very severe tariffs if
there was no peace deal with Ukraine in fifty days.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He's holding Putin's feet.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
To the fire here because Putin hasn't been playing nicely,
has he. Trump does not like the chorus of Booze
he heard at his Young People's convention over the weekend.
When the speaker asked what they think about providing assistance
to Ukraine. So he once is over with, he ran
on making this all go away, bringing peace to this
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Russia Ukraine situation. We won't have to help Ukraine because
this will be done. But it hasn't been done, and
he's losing patience that he never had. So now he's
warning Russia of these severe tariffs. He's putting this fifty
day timeline on it. If there's no piece deal with
Ukraine in fifty days the severe tariffs hit, we wait
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and see what.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Putin has to say about that.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
All right, So TikTok, more people spend time on More
people spend more time I guess I should say on
TikTok than anywhere else. So when something big is on TikTok,
you can't.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Just be like, oh, that's just what the kids are. No,
it's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It's a big, big piece of the pie of the population.
And right now, why to k Skinny is a diet
trend that is sweeping TikTok. It's been around for quite
some time there it's only people like me olds that
are coming around to realizing it. But people like me
see this in our I think have an outsized alarm
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towards it. I think most people who see this go, okay,
it's just like any other TikTok trend. I see it,
and I'm like triggered. Right, I'm thinking about how everyone
when I was growing up, late nineties, early two thousands,
you know, this is when I was in my early twenties,
and everyone is trying to look like Kate Moss.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Everyone's trying to be skinny.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
If you have the body type to be skinny, fine,
that's great for you.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Do that, love that for you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But if you don't, it's so harmful to try and
attain that. Millennials who survived the actual Y two K
skinny craze are warning gen Z not to repeat history.
Kyla Kayla Kyla Uli is a millennial modeling content creator,
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and she's going viral for calling out the TikTok obsession
with Y two sk y two K skinny and that aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
She says it's.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Glamorizing the brutal body standards that dominated the late nineties
and early two thousands. She says her first thought was, no,
we can't go back there exactly. She says people don't
understand how dangerous it was to achieve this y two
K body, people starved themselves, they used drugs, they went
to the hospital, they did those extreme diets like that
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Lemon Cayenne thing, absolute extremes to look this way. If
you weren't born to be that frame, that's just it.
It'll put you in the hospital. She is a LA
based creator. She says she grew up modeling during the
era of the ultra low rise genes. She says, in
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the even lower self worth those low rise genes, man
oh Man, I was at Abercrombie. This is like, oh,
I don't know, six months ago or something like that,
maybe even longer. And I texted Gary's why Shannon I
go so because she's got a daughter who's young, right
in her early twenties.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I said, So, the.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Low cut, the low rise jeans, the ultra low rise
jeans are making a comeback.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
She's like, they're already here, because that's kind.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Of what you tie in with the star of yourself
to look skinny, because the low rise genes.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
They're cut low.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You know, your whole belly's just hanging out there, right,
and you see the born skinny people wearing them. No
one's going to look like that this woman, this influencer.
She says she started dieting at fourteen. Once I saw
photos of Jessica Simpson being called obese. I remember that
as well. She said she was frequently sent home from
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castings for being fat. Heroin Chic wasn't a cry for help,
it was a goal.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
She says.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I had both anorexia and bolimia, and I'm blessed to
be recovered, but not everyone is. And there's going to
be another wave of women who are destroying their bodies
to get thin when they were never intended to be
that body type. You look at the weight loss injections
like ozempic and you think, oh, that that's adding to it,
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because what was the body positivity of movement has made
way for people that don't even need ozempic to be
on GLP ones. A lot of people don't remember how
bad it is, she says, and the messages hit her.
Clip there on the Instagram video that she put together
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as racked up more than two million views, and the
comment section became like a viral support group.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Somebody saying thank you, I'm glad someone said it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
They're trying to take us back there, raise your hand,
someone order if you've been victimized by y two k standards.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Now, that's the thing with trends, not everybody. You don't
need to follow every trend.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Just because low rise genes are in style and trendy
doesn't mean they can they're gonna you're gonna like them,
or they're gonna look good on you. You don't have
to do that. They come and go too, by the way.
But for people who view TikTok as the Bible and
this is becoming a thing, it just makes me nervous.
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Thought I thought we had made some headway with the
body positivity movement and being okay, just the way that
you are.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Those genes are awful too. They're hideous, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Coming up next, we will get into your family traditions.
There is an effort to keep these going, and there's scientific,
scientific proof of why you want to keep these going.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We were talking about family reunions, picnics, family gatherings, family
traditions and how important they are. Talked about the Walker
family that gathers on a hilltop family farm West Virginia.
Every July. They sleep and tents and trailers. Cousins are
all out there by the campfire eating biscuits and gravy
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French toast. In the morning they roast the marshmallows, and
the evening kids run around the parents catch up. Ginger
Walker's dad started the tradition more than fifty years ago.
She and her thirty six first cousins kept it going
after their parents died.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
She's seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now, her sons and the third generation take over the
rolls to make sure it continues for their kids and grandkids.
She says, we're passing the torch. Their tradition began with,
like I said, her dad starting it in nineteen seventy
two after her brother died. Her dad wanted to gather
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on the family farm because it was a place her
brother loved. They have returned since the purpose of memorializing
her brother evolved into simply wanting to be with family.
Attendance is dwindled from about two hundred about one hundred,
because you know, parents work, kids have the sports, all
of the things, but they keep it up. There was
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another story about a woman named Sarah. Sarah, her eight
siblings and their families meet at her parents home on
Bear Lake. It's the Idaho Utah border. Several days each
summer they are continuing this. They do have an Excel
spreadsheet with tabs assigning meal and cleaning duties. They try
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to limit organized activities like family relays and talent shows
to two or three a day. Gary's on one of
these types of a thing. I don't know if there's
a spreadsheet involved. Spreadsheets make me a little squirrellly. If
I go on a girl's trip and there's a spreadsheet
involved for the for the weekend, like where we're going
to eat cocktails, Where're going to go, I throw it
(25:52):
out and I just go where I'm told. I don't
like being planned into a corner. You know, I'll go
along with anything. But Gary's on one of these trips.
I think he said it is like twenty seven family members.
They're all staying on Maui and different hotels or airbnbs
or whatever, and they've got a couple family activities. But
for the most part, people do their own thing and
then they get together when they can. We asked you
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what your family traditions or reunions or what it is
are and you let us know.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So let's hear that.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
This is Claire and I see I'm originally from more
Park and we're parked with fireworks on the third of July.
So every year for the last ten years, my mom
has had all of our friends, all of our family
over and we have barbecue, We do sparklers and little safe,
insane fireworks in the front yard, and then at nine
o'clock we all walk over to Mount Meadow's Park and
we watch the fireworks. And like I said, we'll be
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doing that for ten years. And it's is our little
family tradition.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Now, Hey, good morning, Shannon. The tradition that I have
with my kids they're adults. Every birthday morning I call
them and sing them Happy Birthday. It's just a routine.
It's a family thing we've been doing for years and
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Hey, this is Dell.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
This is my family tradition.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
We try to have as much booze as possible.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Their co I'm and join one right now, big old
tall bullet. But yeah, booze, booze and more booze.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Have a great take.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Hi, this is Linda and Santa Clarita. Our family tradition
is a Swedish sunshine cake. It's like a butter cake
that our mom used to make for us every year
on our birthday. And since my mom's been gone, I
make the sunshine cake for everyone in the family. Today
is my son's birthday, so he will have his sunshine
cake today. Love you guys. Good morning, Shannon.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I'm so glad I get to share this story. So
my father pretty cool guy, really cool guy, and he's
passed away as well. He passed away when I was
twenty and I'm in my fifties now. But he left
to snack on sewey sticks and all boil with salt
and pepper. And when we were little, for some reason
we had to make Santa instead of cookies. We made
him slowe sticks with all boil and salt and pepper,
(27:58):
and they were gone Christmas morning. So my dad must
have been right san to love those things.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Funny Christmas tradition. When my kids were real little, I
would lay under the tree to connect the tree to
the Christmas tree stand, and quite interestingly enough, I would
find both the children come and lay under the tree
with me, thinking that's what you do. So years later,
one of the family traditions is when they are in
town and with their kids. We all lay under the
(28:23):
Christmas tree for a little bit and look up and
see all the twinkling lights, and it's just a great remembrance.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That is the sweetest thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The reason why we are talking about this story is
there is a woman, Anika Shabra, who actually started a company.
It's called Root and Seed, a platform with tools to
help preserve traditions and family heritage. And she said something.
She said, the world feels a little upside down now,
and these traditions or these gatherings can provide a sense
(28:55):
of belonging and consistency.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Listening to everybody else's traditions makes you feel that way,
doesn't it. I mean, how sweet is that laying on
the ground and looking up at the lights on the
Christmas tree?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Also?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Who else ran to Google to find out how to
make a Swedish sunshine cake? Does it get better than
a sunshine cake? My gosh?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I love that? All right? I want one right now?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
We will talk trending everything everyone is talking about. We
come back and also Ai has run into trouble in
the sex department. That's coming along in the next hour
as well.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
You can always hear us live on KFIAM six forty
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