June 4, 2025 • 29 mins
#SWAMPWATCH / #WELLNESS – Peeing Just in Case. #PARENTING – Research shows most consider their dad a top life mentor / Why parents are asking their kids to help plan trips.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What Nothing, No, No, Were you thinking dirty thoughts?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I hope not, because this is a family showfusting. If
you want to be dirty, you got to wait till
the weekend podcast. Justin Wersham will be coming along. We'll
be talking parenting like we do on Wednesdays. Research showing
most considered their data top life mentor how could you
not good?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Or bad? How could you not? That's my question. You
could ask my kids. I don't think they if they
would say that I am. Of course you are. Yes,
you can text them both right now and have a reply.
I'm not going to have a.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Weird text with your kids I haven't talked to in
months and be like, do you think you're done?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You have to say who are your top three life mentors?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's a weird text to get randomly out of the
blue from me.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I agree, But I'm just saying you could check. Usually
we talk about other stuff. You could check if you
wanted to. Anyway, that's coming up with Justin Warson at
the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Hey, guys. Dave from Santa Clarita, you talk about the
internet listening to your talking and stuff, it also can
hear what you're thinking. I'm a banjo player and the
other day I was thinking to myself, I hadn't heard
the song, but I was thinking, how if I could
get the chords and the lyrics to the Eagles song
(01:27):
Take It Easy, that I could easily figure it out
of my banjo. Two seconds later, it popped up on
my Facebook and the lyrics crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's God, No, it's not Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Sometimes the universe listens and they provide you with the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's enough.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, we do have Washington News to get to. Unfortunately,
it's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm a cheat and alah and such a sour tasty
here we got. I was trying to take it easy.
Are done the other side never quit.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
So.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm not going anywhere So that the swap I can
imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
You knows have always been gone at president, but they're
not stupid.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Truth whether people voted for you with mass swamp watch.
They're all Canada.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hey, just a quick heads up locally about a mess
that is going to be a mess.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
There is a multiple vehicle crash involving a big rig
that is shut down southbound six oh five essentially just
north of Washington and the Pico area.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Uh. That is going to be a mess.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Of the afternoon, Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Trump
and a phone call that Russia is obligated to respond
to the big drone attack on behalf of Ukraine against
Russian bombers and airfields. There was a conversation, they said.
It lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes between President
Trump and President Putin. President Trump took to truth social
(03:17):
and said that we discussed the attack.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
This is what he wrote.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We discussed the attack on Russia's docked airplanes, docked airplane
by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been
taking place by both sides. He said it was a
good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to
immediate peace. He didn't say anything about pressure on from
(03:43):
the United States or allies against Russia in order to
try to get them to agree to a cease fire.
Or anything about what the next steps are. All he
said was this is not a conversation that will lead
to immediate peace.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, the hiring freezes the mass layoffs when it comes
to the federal workforce have obviously been in the headlines
in the past months.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But the hiring freeze is scheduled.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
To end on July fifteenth, so the government has begun
to consider how it will recruit workers moving forward. There
was a memo from the Office of Personnel Management that
one of the things that people are going to have
to do if they want a job in the federal
government is to write an essay in support of Trump's
executive orders. It's very North Korea. According to the memo,
(04:36):
and it is titled the Merit Hiring Plan. It will
require certain applicants to write four two hundred word essays
about their work ethics, skills, expertise, commitment to the Constitution,
and plans to advance the President's executive orders and policy priorities.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Wow, I have the essay questions.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
If you're curious, fire way number one, how is your
commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the
United States inspired you to pursue this role.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Within the federal government. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Number Two, in this role, how would you use your
skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Good? I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Number three, how would you help advance the President's executive
orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or
two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant
to you, and how would you implement them if hired?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But then the fourth one is how has a strong
workthodic work ethic contributed to professional, academic, or personal achievements.
Three out of those four questions are perfectly acceptable.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I don't like the idea that you have to do
weird hand stuff to get a job in the federal
government based on whatever administration is in powered. Right, But
we've all bsked our way through several, if not all,
essay questions to be okay to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I suppose the president is the best communicator that we
have in the White House.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Who is that?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre. She served
under two Democratic presidents, both Biden and Obama, and according
to a new book that she has coming out in
the fall, she has given up on the Democratic Party her.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Over every day.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Every day they trotted her out to pretend what was
happening wasn't happening, and to put her name and her
likeness behind it. We said it in real time as
it was happening. This poor woman.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Who's just trotted out with lies every day.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, they all are, to an extent Democrat or
Republican in the White House. But even more so when
she was constantly asked about Biden's mental acuity and she
had to lie and lie like I believe she was
kept out of the circle of trust.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I really do. I think there was definite plausible deniability.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
There, because the messaging is better if she doesn't know the.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yes, she knew, I mean we all knew.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
The book is called The Independent of Look Inside a
Broken White House Outside the party lines, and according to
the publisher, it's going to take readers through the betrayal
by the Democratic Party that prompted Joe Biden's decision to
get out of art.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
She should make money off that.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
She is expected to urge all of us to embrace
life as independence. She says, this is a broken two
party system. In a hard hitting yet hopeful critique, Karine
Jean Pierre defines what it means to be part of
the growing percentage of our fractured electorate that is independent. Now,
who is she most angry at? Why did she write
(07:35):
this book outside of the fact that, I mean she
was in the position and has probably some inside Who
is she most angry at those leaders in the Democratic
Party who weren't honest with her or others in the
party about what was really going on? Or is she
mad at Joe Biden or she mad at Jill Biden.
I mean, so she'll she'll make a bestseller list with
(07:58):
that book just simply because of who she was.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Gary and Shannon will continue, Do you pee?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Just in case I got to go right now? I mean,
you see a bathroom? Why pass it up? I'll tell
you why that might not be good for you when
we come back. Hey, it affects us. All stop laughing, like,
are they really going to Yes, we're really going to
talk about this. Part of that was for me. Oh wow,
I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh you didn't know.
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Ran a lot of Russian answers are spies. I believe
you think they are. I do.
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jeopardy question?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I do want my jeopardy question.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The guests are here for one thousand dollars. This old
fashioned type of fundraiser gets its name from the card
board containers of food guests bring to be auctioned off.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Guests bring food, This old.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Fashioned type of would you say, guests bring food boxes? Okay,
it's a box social.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Whatever?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Never, oh, whatever, I've never heard that term before.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Box social.
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Of course, offering subject to restrictions and change without notice,
but we hope.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Well, there is an article in the New York Times
about going to the bathroom just.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
In case pro voiding. Yes.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Arianna Smith is a professor of urology at the University
of Pennsylvania Pearlman School of Medicine. I think of Ariana
as like a young person's name, like a very young
person's name.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We have good friends who named their daughter Ariana, Yes,
after the Princess Disney princess. Isn't one of the Disney
princesses named Ariana?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Isn't snow White Ariana Ariana Aril.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yes, he was also a little Mermaid. But I think
Coriana is the name of it anyway. Uh, She says.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
An occasional just in case bathroom break won't do much harm,
but doing it several times a day can increase the
likelihood of bladder issues. You're disrupting the natural feedback loop
between your bladder and your brain. So if your brain
doesn't tell you you got a pee and you go pee,
it's screwing up the relationship between your bladder and your brain.
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Early this morning, I was dreaming, and I was dreaming
that I was peeing in the dream.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's never a good idea and I woke up and
this is probably like two in the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I woke up and I was like, whoa, I was
just dreaming I was peeing. And I was like, hey,
dumb ass, it's probably a sign you got a pee
on't you go pee?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So I did? You got up though? Yeah, okay, yeah,
well this is good, this is real.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I feel like this, but like I was seriously worried
for a moment there after I woke up.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I peed the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
After I was My problem is I was and I'm
not drinking, you know what I mean. Like I was like, oh, man,
have I approached the time in life where I've peed
the bed completely sober? Because I dreamt I was peeing,
Like that was a real.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Concern mine are always if I do have what would
they call it urgency whatever. If I feel like I
got to pee in the middle of the night and
I'm in that deep one of those deeper sleep cycles, yeah,
I don't immediately get up.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I have the dream that I can find the bathroom. Yeah,
but you can't. But it's awful, right.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Like it's there's like six inches worth of liquid on
the floor, or it's dirty, or it's.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Like there's somebody wild to me because you can pee anywhere,
you don't need a toilet. No, I mean none of
us really need a toilet. You need a toilet, but
you really can just whip it out and go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm assuming, right.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So yeah, but a gosh, there's such a fear there
that exists, just why you know, right before I go
to bed, always be you don't want to wake up
with that.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Dream of It's pretty common though, is it the idea
of like, hey, just before I go to bed.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I'm gonna get whatever's left in there, get it out
of it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But a lot of people they pass the bathroom, especially traveling.
If you're traveling, you never know where you're going to
see another pisser, right, Can.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I say that? I don't anyway?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You use it if you see one in the airport
or whatever, if there's one in the restaurant, even if
you have to go or not go, use it because
it's there.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Is that what your mom always told you? I don't
care if you have to go or not go. Maybe, Yeah,
I've never said that. I don't think I've ever said that,
And I know I'm not a big.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
True you're gonna end up pissing the bed. No, I'm
in fact, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Conway has been playing this promo for Conway about going
if you go to the bathroom on the airplane, there's
an urgency there.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
There's got to be, because those places are disgusting. I
do not got and I will.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I will plan fluids days ahead so that I do
not have to use an airport bathroom.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And I'm not trying. I mean, I'm flying.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
What's the most the longest flight I had back in September,
I went to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That's what three hours? I can I will, I will
hold it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Man. One of the fun things about working with the
with the Chargers is sharing an airplane bathroom with a
football team. A really peak dehydration is what you're aiming for.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Uh okay, you're cutting weight like you're a high school rush.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Good lord, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Hey, great news, guys. The toxic algae bloom is gone.
The toxic algae bloom I was killing animals. It was
killing and sickening sea lions and dolphins and pelicans and whales,
et cetera. Oh my, the san Pedro Marine Mammal Care
Center says the recent samples of ocean water do not
show any signs of that toxic demoic acid bloom, so
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that is good news.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So Trump and Putin allegedly talked. Trump says that Putin
told him very strongly in a phone call today that
he will respond to Ukraine's weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.
As this deadlock over the war drags on, Trump said
in a social media post that his lengthy call with
Putin was a good conversation, but not a conversation that
(15:08):
will lead to immediate peace. This was following the whole
two week proclamation that was made last week.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
If I'm not mistaken, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
More importantly, Justin Worsham.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Who cares about all this real politics and acid blooms.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Get out of his side note Curveball. Oh, his father's
theyre going to be weird for us. Do you consider
father's they weird?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah? Oh, because there's all three of us lost our dads. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I for me, I've chosen. I could I could tell
sublimately because until you said that, I have purposely not
like you know how like Freud says, there are no mistakes, right.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I think I've purposely chose not to think about.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
It dad, So that's yeah, but it's yeah, it's it
is different. And to add to it, my dad at
the cabin community he lived in, they he found out
that like forty some odd years ago they used to
do this fishing tournament on Father's Day weekend for kids,
and he thought that was a cool idea, Like he
found old photos of it from like forever ago, and
so he was like, I want to bring this back.
(16:10):
So he purposely got on the ho a board started
the saying my family would run it every year and
they're naming it after him.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh wow? Are they doing it on Father's Day?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
On father It's on Father's Day every year, and so
on this Father's Day, I will be hosting a raffle
that I used to co host with my dad, wearing
a T shirt that says the Jesse Warship.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Fishing God, you are going to be I'm going to
be a mask. Can you imagine? I have got it?
Just ugly cry like the winner.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
This is the court hoole boards take at number two
six zero one nine three.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's two six zero one. Can I give you a
bceetn't ask for yes. I don't know what's ever stopped
you before. This is true, but at least I'm asking.
I don't think that counts, but go for it.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I mean, consider the time that you've given on solicited
advice in these segments to me, sometimes hurtful.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I just don't think.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
No, no, she did it. She did it, did Gary,
she did it. Now she's got me begging for it.
Now she's good, she's got me begging for the.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I was just gonna say that to keep it together.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Imagine your dad's there.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I don't think my looking like the green ghost at
the end of Return of the Jedi when you've got.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But it's still living.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
He's still there. Like you wouldn't cry like that in
front of your dad.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Oh no, I would wrong. That's the advice and how
it ends on the show. That's answer.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
There's a new survey that says a lot of kids
believe that their dad is their top life mentor. Most
for those who grew up with a dad, seventy percent
said there was one of their greatest mentors in life.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
How could it not be?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And I say the same thing for moms as well,
how could your parents not be a top life mentor.
You're raised in the house, you think this is the
way some things are for some people have awful parents, Yes,
but still mentor is not. I mean you're looking to
your parents as an example of how to live good
or bad.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Well, there's I think maybe the difference would be top
influence in your life versus mentor mentor I meet somebody
that you'd want to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You're right.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
They also what I hear mentor is is also a
person who gives you that life advice, like they guide you.
And to me, this is I could only speak from
my perspective, is that I believe my dad's secret power
was this, Like he was the one of the This
is going to sound so dumb and maybe I will
cry and I'm sorry, But the most cliche, like the
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poetic thing he ever said to me was I was
in Alabama and I was having a rough week doing
stand up and I had called him to just kind
of vent and he gave me this advice. He said, Listen,
I've seen you do shows where if one little thing
like isn't to your liking or doesn't go the way
you think it will go. He said, you kind of
just you lose it, like you kind of start to
fall apart. He said, just go up there and have
fun and that's all you need to do, and that's
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normal advice. And then he ended it was saying there
is greatness in you don't get in its way.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And I was like, Star Wars, right, he's got to
be like Anakin Skywalker and I'm kind of like, yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
But let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I mean, they very similar.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
They give some examples in this. In this survey cup On,
one person said the most rogue thing my father has
ever done for me was during Hurricane Harvey, trudged through
the waters to come and get me. Another one said
he stopped working. Never did any He stopped working and
took care of me when I had a car act.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Some of us are morning differently. My dad taught.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Me about money and keeping it and being smart with
it and if you don't know what you're doing, hire
someone who knows what they're doing and save it and
those and I think that that is one of the
most valuable lessons because everybody needs it. I mean, I
love the Star Wars stuff, and it's true, and everyone
has greatness, not everyone. You have your own brand of greatness.
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I don't want to take away from your greatness. I
think you look to dad's for that kind of like structure.
You know, you can even throw in like a military
vibe to it, of routine and structure that that is
important for anybody to live their life.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Expectation throw that word in there too. Yeah, I think
not that moms don't have expectations, but that it might
be received differently from the father.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
The thing, the thing that I'm most proud of so
far in being a father is that both my kids
both made this kind of comment about I made the
joke about whenever they want something, they always go to
their mother, and they both said, well, it's because you're
more likely to say no. And then my older son said, well, yeah,
like you talked to mom about stuff, but if you
need like real life advice, you go to dad. And
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then my younger son was like yeah, yeah, yeah, And
I almost cried right there. I was like, to me,
that was like mission accomplished. That's I feel for me.
I feel like I've always tried to be the father
that my father was to me, and to be that
mentor to be somebody that because my dad knew stuff.
My dad had no performance background whatsoever, but gave me
so much life advice. When I told him I wanted
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to be a performer. About money, he said, you're not
going to know when your next paycheck is going to be,
so your thing in life is going to be about
minimizing your nut and keeping your expenses low so that
you can be mobile and fluid. That's exactly what he
told me when I was seventeen years old, and I said,
I wanted to be an actor like that, and he
was right to and a thing that he had no
clue about what he was.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Talking about, And what great advice other that he gave you,
because it's much easier to say, get a real job.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Exactly exactly, which was also, I think, kind of what
I would have expected from him.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But he was not. He was not like that. He
also said this.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I interviewed him on the podcast one time, and I
was like more of a stay at home dad, and
I often thought that he kind of thought that that
was silly or looked down on it. And when I
talked to him about it, he said, he goes no, Honestly,
I envy it, he goes. I grew up in a
time where as a husband, you were expected to just
go or make money, like that was your job.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
He goes.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
You live at a time if you liked it or not,
exactly that was what you did.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
He goes.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
You live in a time where you're as a couple
you can decide what are your strengths, and as a couple,
as a teen, you could decide who's going to be
the best person to do this job. He goes, I
would have loved to just been home with the kids,
like with you and even my stepbrother and stepsister, Like,
how was that a shock to you? It was very
much a shock. It was.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It was. It was a big time shock.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
And I'm sorry if I'm making this all about me,
but I think it's in the same vein of what
we're talking about in this survey is that even my grandfather,
who did not graduate high school, barely finished middle school,
was born in the Great Depression, and we were I
did this Father's Day episode of the podcast where I
was my grandfather, my dad, and me all talking about
our experiences as Dad's and my grandfather, who was just
this like stereotypical redneck character from Bonanza, like even went
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to high school.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
With ass from Bonanza.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
My grandfather Kelly, and so he you're so funny. So anyway,
he said, he goes, I said, what do you think
about parentsing today?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
And I just threw out just this lame question. And
my grandfather again not educated anything. He goes, I don't
know how people today can raise their kids. When I
grew up, we were on a farm and I didn't
know what my neighbors had or what they did, he goes.
Every child is constantly hit with what somebody else has
and constantly confronted with a life that they want that
could be better than theirs. And he's like, I don't
(23:27):
like he's breaking down media theory. Yeah, and he doesn't
even have a high school diploma. Like, again, there's just
this benefit that I think hopefully a lot of us
And it seems like most of us get to have
as these guys that are wise in our life beyond
what you would expect them to be.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And I don't know why that is. It's interesting part
of its life experience. Sure you know.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
All right, why parents are asking kids to help plan trips.
This is an awful idea.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from kfi
Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Visit Anaheim commissioned to study, then asked about letting kids
help plan vacation.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I like it when I can predict you. Because I
saw this and I was like, oh, this seems like fun.
And then as soon as I thought that, in my head,
I'm like, I bet Gary's.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Gonna hate this. Gary's house.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Kids are lucky they have air to breathe right before
they are nineteen eighty day, And I love I would
have been the same freaking way I would have treated
my house like it was a prison.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I think I am pretty much the same way too.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
But the I don't something about the vacation idea because
and maybe it's because I'm I'm in the teenage quagmire
where my kids aren't jerks when we go on vacation.
But I just thought, I imagine this is born from
the idea that when you take a teenager just.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Like oh, I'm just sitting.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
There there on their phone, if you let them have
a buy in or some kind of steak in it,
then maybe see.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Them like, this is your money, you're the one who
works for it.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
They're lucky that they get to tell Well, I will
say this in terms of in terms of planning of it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Even say, when you take us to the casino, I'm
savvy enough.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I'm savvy enough to know stay on the walkway.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I'm going to plan where we go, right, but I'm
going to do it in a way that i'm I'm
I'm conscious of. There's got to be something for them
to enjoy. For example, people who take kids to Vegas
I think should be arrested and thrown in jail for
multiple presidential terms.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Like she just said, this is my.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Parents would take us to Tahoe and my dad is
again I would like to gamble, and my brother and
I we would just go to the arcade, you know,
but yes, stay on the walk.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
That's how that's how popular it was to take kids
to casinos.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's like a gym.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It didn't even occur to me as a child that
I would ever have any say in any sort of
vacation Like that's so ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I wouldn't take a kid also to Mexico, although I
say that now, I took an eighteen month old on
a cruise there, which is a huge city.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Get a tattoo, No, but he got dysentery. Everyone. But
if you go to a place.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
You got to have something for them to do, right,
and even a cruise ship can be kind of a
hit and miss thing because some of them have they
all have it now, it's but.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
To support your point, a lot of them said things
that they would like to do on their vacation to
be like meet a celebrity.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Which I was like, that's not.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Like most of the were like, and then higher percentages
were like they wanted to go to an amusement park
or the beach, you know what I mean. Like, it
seems like very stereotype. If my kid was to like
my older son, if he was to pick whatever we
were going to do, he would want to just basically
do a restaurant tour of whatever city we were in.
He would want to try if they had a Michelin
Star restaurant, he would want to try it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, he should get a job, more jobs.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, no, that's this one doesn't have a job. He's
a junior. He's a junior going.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Into so next year, two years from now, you're going
to start talking about senior trip of some kind.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Right, I don't know if you do that. I don't
do that.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I do not plan on providing a senior trip. Is
this a failure to STDs.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
For your kids? Some people do that?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
No, No, not like get that at home in the
South Padre Island. I mean like as a as a family,
you guys would go to a place of his choosing. Oh,
like we take a vacation because he graduated high school,
which I mean is not a giant. It's not like
he got a promotion to the C suite or anything.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
But to me, I feel like you did what you
should have done like that. Yeah, I don't know, Maybe
that makes me a jerk, but I remember.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Extravagant college and my mom and dad, but I think
was served by my mom paid for a trip for
me to go to Hawaii with a girlfriend, and I
remember being flabbergasted by that, like you're doing what like
and that was graduating college, you know, twenty two years
old if you were.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Taking aback because it's like, wow, you're on.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
The trip, going, am I going to come home?
Speaker 6 (28:00):
And they're gonna go, great, here's all your stuff in
the garage, there's a U haul.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, I mean that happened too, but still, you know,
it was really nice.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
As they drive As she drives, away there, just wife
and there.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I think it would be a fun exercise to ask
your kids what they would do if they could plan
their own vacation. That's a fun little dinner time exercise,
but it's actually doing the thing that.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
They're not tethered to. Is reality worse?
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Yeah, like you gave him a ram of hope only
so you could take it away from them.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
No children, before you go, why quick question?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
By the way, you said that your grandfather went to
high school Dan Blocker, the guy who played Sanza Bonanza.
Do you know how old he was when he died?
Dan Blocker sixty two? Probably forty three? Who Dan Blocker
was forty three when he died in the early seventies.
I just in hit my mind that guy was in
(28:52):
his sixties.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, I went on that show. When you said that,
I thought, well, it had to be on the show.
Hard forty three. Yeah, he lived a full life. He
really did his thing good. We dedicate today's show to
Dan Blocker. What did he eat? Everything? Clearly butter and steak.
And he was a four pack of day smoker, probably
because everybody was yeah the good old you lost.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Weight, justin don't smoke? Oh all right, I did quit
and you made it past forty three.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Congrats to me. I'm gonna go on a trip and
I'm gonna plan that sucker.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Thank you as always, big, humongous twelve o'clock hours coming
up on Gary.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
What Nothing, No, No, Were you thinking dirty thoughts?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I hope not, because this is a family showfusting. If
you want to be dirty, you got to wait till
the weekend podcast. Justin Wersham will be coming along. We'll
be talking parenting like we do on Wednesdays. Research showing
most considered their data top life mentor how could you
not good?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Or bad? How could you not? That's my question. You
could ask my kids. I don't think they if they
would say that I am. Of course you are. Yes,
you can text them both right now and have a reply.
I'm not going to have a.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Weird text with your kids I haven't talked to in
months and be like, do you think you're done?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You have to say who are your top three life mentors?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's a weird text to get randomly out of the
blue from me.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I agree, But I'm just saying you could check. Usually
we talk about other stuff. You could check if you
wanted to. Anyway, that's coming up with Justin Warson at
the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Hey, guys. Dave from Santa Clarita, you talk about the
internet listening to your talking and stuff, it also can
hear what you're thinking. I'm a banjo player and the
other day I was thinking to myself, I hadn't heard
the song, but I was thinking, how if I could
get the chords and the lyrics to the Eagles song
(01:27):
Take It Easy, that I could easily figure it out
of my banjo. Two seconds later, it popped up on
my Facebook and the lyrics crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's God, No, it's not Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Sometimes the universe listens and they provide you with the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's enough.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, we do have Washington News to get to. Unfortunately,
it's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm a cheat and alah and such a sour tasty
here we got. I was trying to take it easy.
Are done the other side never quit.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
So.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm not going anywhere So that the swap I can
imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
You knows have always been gone at president, but they're
not stupid.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Truth whether people voted for you with mass swamp watch.
They're all Canada.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hey, just a quick heads up locally about a mess
that is going to be a mess.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
There is a multiple vehicle crash involving a big rig
that is shut down southbound six oh five essentially just
north of Washington and the Pico area.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Uh. That is going to be a mess.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Of the afternoon, Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Trump
and a phone call that Russia is obligated to respond
to the big drone attack on behalf of Ukraine against
Russian bombers and airfields. There was a conversation, they said.
It lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes between President
Trump and President Putin. President Trump took to truth social
(03:17):
and said that we discussed the attack.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
This is what he wrote.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We discussed the attack on Russia's docked airplanes, docked airplane
by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been
taking place by both sides. He said it was a
good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to
immediate peace. He didn't say anything about pressure on from
(03:43):
the United States or allies against Russia in order to
try to get them to agree to a cease fire.
Or anything about what the next steps are. All he
said was this is not a conversation that will lead
to immediate peace.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, the hiring freezes the mass layoffs when it comes
to the federal workforce have obviously been in the headlines
in the past months.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But the hiring freeze is scheduled.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
To end on July fifteenth, so the government has begun
to consider how it will recruit workers moving forward. There
was a memo from the Office of Personnel Management that
one of the things that people are going to have
to do if they want a job in the federal
government is to write an essay in support of Trump's
executive orders. It's very North Korea. According to the memo,
(04:36):
and it is titled the Merit Hiring Plan. It will
require certain applicants to write four two hundred word essays
about their work ethics, skills, expertise, commitment to the Constitution,
and plans to advance the President's executive orders and policy priorities.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Wow, I have the essay questions.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
If you're curious, fire way number one, how is your
commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the
United States inspired you to pursue this role.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Within the federal government. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Number Two, in this role, how would you use your
skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Good? I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Number three, how would you help advance the President's executive
orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or
two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant
to you, and how would you implement them if hired?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But then the fourth one is how has a strong
workthodic work ethic contributed to professional, academic, or personal achievements.
Three out of those four questions are perfectly acceptable.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I don't like the idea that you have to do
weird hand stuff to get a job in the federal
government based on whatever administration is in powered. Right, But
we've all bsked our way through several, if not all,
essay questions to be okay to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I suppose the president is the best communicator that we
have in the White House.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Who is that?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre. She served
under two Democratic presidents, both Biden and Obama, and according
to a new book that she has coming out in
the fall, she has given up on the Democratic Party her.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Over every day.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Every day they trotted her out to pretend what was
happening wasn't happening, and to put her name and her
likeness behind it. We said it in real time as
it was happening. This poor woman.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Who's just trotted out with lies every day.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, they all are, to an extent Democrat or
Republican in the White House. But even more so when
she was constantly asked about Biden's mental acuity and she
had to lie and lie like I believe she was
kept out of the circle of trust.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I really do. I think there was definite plausible deniability.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
There, because the messaging is better if she doesn't know the.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yes, she knew, I mean we all knew.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
The book is called The Independent of Look Inside a
Broken White House Outside the party lines, and according to
the publisher, it's going to take readers through the betrayal
by the Democratic Party that prompted Joe Biden's decision to
get out of art.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
She should make money off that.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
She is expected to urge all of us to embrace
life as independence. She says, this is a broken two
party system. In a hard hitting yet hopeful critique, Karine
Jean Pierre defines what it means to be part of
the growing percentage of our fractured electorate that is independent. Now,
who is she most angry at? Why did she write
(07:35):
this book outside of the fact that, I mean she
was in the position and has probably some inside Who
is she most angry at those leaders in the Democratic
Party who weren't honest with her or others in the
party about what was really going on? Or is she
mad at Joe Biden or she mad at Jill Biden.
I mean, so she'll she'll make a bestseller list with
(07:58):
that book just simply because of who she was.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Gary and Shannon will continue, Do you pee?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Just in case I got to go right now? I mean,
you see a bathroom? Why pass it up? I'll tell
you why that might not be good for you when
we come back. Hey, it affects us. All stop laughing, like,
are they really going to Yes, we're really going to
talk about this. Part of that was for me. Oh wow,
I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh you didn't know.
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Speaker 1 (08:33):
Ran a lot of Russian answers are spies. I believe
you think they are. I do.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
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Speaker 1 (08:41):
Exactly and boyfriend of Kerrie Bradshaw. Do you want your
jeopardy question?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I do want my jeopardy question.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The guests are here for one thousand dollars. This old
fashioned type of fundraiser gets its name from the card
board containers of food guests bring to be auctioned off.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Guests bring food, This old.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Fashioned type of would you say, guests bring food boxes? Okay,
it's a box social.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Whatever?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Never, oh, whatever, I've never heard that term before.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Box social.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
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Of course, offering subject to restrictions and change without notice,
but we hope.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Well, there is an article in the New York Times
about going to the bathroom just.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
In case pro voiding. Yes.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Arianna Smith is a professor of urology at the University
of Pennsylvania Pearlman School of Medicine. I think of Ariana
as like a young person's name, like a very young
person's name.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We have good friends who named their daughter Ariana, Yes,
after the Princess Disney princess. Isn't one of the Disney
princesses named Ariana?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Isn't snow White Ariana Ariana Aril.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yes, he was also a little Mermaid. But I think
Coriana is the name of it anyway. Uh, She says.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
An occasional just in case bathroom break won't do much harm,
but doing it several times a day can increase the
likelihood of bladder issues. You're disrupting the natural feedback loop
between your bladder and your brain. So if your brain
doesn't tell you you got a pee and you go pee,
it's screwing up the relationship between your bladder and your brain.
(10:59):
Early this morning, I was dreaming, and I was dreaming
that I was peeing in the dream.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's never a good idea and I woke up and
this is probably like two in the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I woke up and I was like, whoa, I was
just dreaming I was peeing. And I was like, hey,
dumb ass, it's probably a sign you got a pee
on't you go pee?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So I did? You got up though? Yeah, okay, yeah,
well this is good, this is real.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I feel like this, but like I was seriously worried
for a moment there after I woke up.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I peed the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
After I was My problem is I was and I'm
not drinking, you know what I mean. Like I was like, oh, man,
have I approached the time in life where I've peed
the bed completely sober? Because I dreamt I was peeing,
Like that was a real.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Concern mine are always if I do have what would
they call it urgency whatever. If I feel like I
got to pee in the middle of the night and
I'm in that deep one of those deeper sleep cycles, yeah,
I don't immediately get up.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I have the dream that I can find the bathroom. Yeah,
but you can't. But it's awful, right.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Like it's there's like six inches worth of liquid on
the floor, or it's dirty, or it's.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Like there's somebody wild to me because you can pee anywhere,
you don't need a toilet. No, I mean none of
us really need a toilet. You need a toilet, but
you really can just whip it out and go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm assuming, right.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So yeah, but a gosh, there's such a fear there
that exists, just why you know, right before I go
to bed, always be you don't want to wake up
with that.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Dream of It's pretty common though, is it the idea
of like, hey, just before I go to bed.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I'm gonna get whatever's left in there, get it out
of it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But a lot of people they pass the bathroom, especially traveling.
If you're traveling, you never know where you're going to
see another pisser, right, Can.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I say that? I don't anyway?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You use it if you see one in the airport
or whatever, if there's one in the restaurant, even if
you have to go or not go, use it because
it's there.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Is that what your mom always told you? I don't
care if you have to go or not go. Maybe, Yeah,
I've never said that. I don't think I've ever said that,
And I know I'm not a big.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
True you're gonna end up pissing the bed. No, I'm
in fact, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Conway has been playing this promo for Conway about going
if you go to the bathroom on the airplane, there's
an urgency there.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
There's got to be, because those places are disgusting. I
do not got and I will.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I will plan fluids days ahead so that I do
not have to use an airport bathroom.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And I'm not trying. I mean, I'm flying.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
What's the most the longest flight I had back in September,
I went to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That's what three hours? I can I will, I will
hold it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Man. One of the fun things about working with the
with the Chargers is sharing an airplane bathroom with a
football team. A really peak dehydration is what you're aiming for.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Uh okay, you're cutting weight like you're a high school rush.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Good lord, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Hey, great news, guys. The toxic algae bloom is gone.
The toxic algae bloom I was killing animals. It was
killing and sickening sea lions and dolphins and pelicans and whales,
et cetera. Oh my, the san Pedro Marine Mammal Care
Center says the recent samples of ocean water do not
show any signs of that toxic demoic acid bloom, so
(14:45):
that is good news.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So Trump and Putin allegedly talked. Trump says that Putin
told him very strongly in a phone call today that
he will respond to Ukraine's weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.
As this deadlock over the war drags on, Trump said
in a social media post that his lengthy call with
Putin was a good conversation, but not a conversation that
(15:08):
will lead to immediate peace. This was following the whole
two week proclamation that was made last week.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
If I'm not mistaken, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
More importantly, Justin Worsham.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Who cares about all this real politics and acid blooms.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Get out of his side note Curveball. Oh, his father's
theyre going to be weird for us. Do you consider
father's they weird?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah? Oh, because there's all three of us lost our dads. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I for me, I've chosen. I could I could tell
sublimately because until you said that, I have purposely not
like you know how like Freud says, there are no mistakes, right.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I think I've purposely chose not to think about.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
It dad, So that's yeah, but it's yeah, it's it
is different. And to add to it, my dad at
the cabin community he lived in, they he found out
that like forty some odd years ago they used to
do this fishing tournament on Father's Day weekend for kids,
and he thought that was a cool idea, Like he
found old photos of it from like forever ago, and
so he was like, I want to bring this back.
(16:10):
So he purposely got on the ho a board started
the saying my family would run it every year and
they're naming it after him.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh wow? Are they doing it on Father's Day?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
On father It's on Father's Day every year, and so
on this Father's Day, I will be hosting a raffle
that I used to co host with my dad, wearing
a T shirt that says the Jesse Warship.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Fishing God, you are going to be I'm going to
be a mask. Can you imagine? I have got it?
Just ugly cry like the winner.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
This is the court hoole boards take at number two
six zero one nine three.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's two six zero one. Can I give you a
bceetn't ask for yes. I don't know what's ever stopped
you before. This is true, but at least I'm asking.
I don't think that counts, but go for it.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I mean, consider the time that you've given on solicited
advice in these segments to me, sometimes hurtful.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I just don't think.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
No, no, she did it. She did it, did Gary,
she did it. Now she's got me begging for it.
Now she's good, she's got me begging for the.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I was just gonna say that to keep it together.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Imagine your dad's there.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I don't think my looking like the green ghost at
the end of Return of the Jedi when you've got.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But it's still living.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
He's still there. Like you wouldn't cry like that in
front of your dad.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Oh no, I would wrong. That's the advice and how
it ends on the show. That's answer.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
There's a new survey that says a lot of kids
believe that their dad is their top life mentor. Most
for those who grew up with a dad, seventy percent
said there was one of their greatest mentors in life.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
How could it not be?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And I say the same thing for moms as well,
how could your parents not be a top life mentor.
You're raised in the house, you think this is the
way some things are for some people have awful parents, Yes,
but still mentor is not. I mean you're looking to
your parents as an example of how to live good
or bad.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Well, there's I think maybe the difference would be top
influence in your life versus mentor mentor I meet somebody
that you'd want to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You're right.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
They also what I hear mentor is is also a
person who gives you that life advice, like they guide you.
And to me, this is I could only speak from
my perspective, is that I believe my dad's secret power
was this, Like he was the one of the This
is going to sound so dumb and maybe I will
cry and I'm sorry, But the most cliche, like the
(18:54):
poetic thing he ever said to me was I was
in Alabama and I was having a rough week doing
stand up and I had called him to just kind
of vent and he gave me this advice. He said, Listen,
I've seen you do shows where if one little thing
like isn't to your liking or doesn't go the way
you think it will go. He said, you kind of
just you lose it, like you kind of start to
fall apart. He said, just go up there and have
fun and that's all you need to do, and that's
(19:16):
normal advice. And then he ended it was saying there
is greatness in you don't get in its way.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And I was like, Star Wars, right, he's got to
be like Anakin Skywalker and I'm kind of like, yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
But let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I mean, they very similar.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
They give some examples in this. In this survey cup On,
one person said the most rogue thing my father has
ever done for me was during Hurricane Harvey, trudged through
the waters to come and get me. Another one said
he stopped working. Never did any He stopped working and
took care of me when I had a car act.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Some of us are morning differently. My dad taught.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Me about money and keeping it and being smart with
it and if you don't know what you're doing, hire
someone who knows what they're doing and save it and
those and I think that that is one of the
most valuable lessons because everybody needs it. I mean, I
love the Star Wars stuff, and it's true, and everyone
has greatness, not everyone. You have your own brand of greatness.
(20:08):
I don't want to take away from your greatness. I
think you look to dad's for that kind of like structure.
You know, you can even throw in like a military
vibe to it, of routine and structure that that is
important for anybody to live their life.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Expectation throw that word in there too. Yeah, I think
not that moms don't have expectations, but that it might
be received differently from the father.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
The thing, the thing that I'm most proud of so
far in being a father is that both my kids
both made this kind of comment about I made the
joke about whenever they want something, they always go to
their mother, and they both said, well, it's because you're
more likely to say no. And then my older son said, well, yeah,
like you talked to mom about stuff, but if you
need like real life advice, you go to dad. And
(20:56):
then my younger son was like yeah, yeah, yeah, And
I almost cried right there. I was like, to me,
that was like mission accomplished. That's I feel for me.
I feel like I've always tried to be the father
that my father was to me, and to be that
mentor to be somebody that because my dad knew stuff.
My dad had no performance background whatsoever, but gave me
so much life advice. When I told him I wanted
(21:18):
to be a performer. About money, he said, you're not
going to know when your next paycheck is going to be,
so your thing in life is going to be about
minimizing your nut and keeping your expenses low so that
you can be mobile and fluid. That's exactly what he
told me when I was seventeen years old, and I said,
I wanted to be an actor like that, and he
was right to and a thing that he had no
clue about what he was.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Talking about, And what great advice other that he gave you,
because it's much easier to say, get a real job.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Exactly exactly, which was also, I think, kind of what
I would have expected from him.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But he was not. He was not like that. He
also said this.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I interviewed him on the podcast one time, and I
was like more of a stay at home dad, and
I often thought that he kind of thought that that
was silly or looked down on it. And when I
talked to him about it, he said, he goes no, Honestly,
I envy it, he goes. I grew up in a
time where as a husband, you were expected to just
go or make money, like that was your job.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
He goes.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
You live at a time if you liked it or not,
exactly that was what you did.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
He goes.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
You live in a time where you're as a couple
you can decide what are your strengths, and as a couple,
as a teen, you could decide who's going to be
the best person to do this job. He goes, I
would have loved to just been home with the kids,
like with you and even my stepbrother and stepsister, Like,
how was that a shock to you? It was very
much a shock. It was.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It was. It was a big time shock.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
And I'm sorry if I'm making this all about me,
but I think it's in the same vein of what
we're talking about in this survey is that even my grandfather,
who did not graduate high school, barely finished middle school,
was born in the Great Depression, and we were I
did this Father's Day episode of the podcast where I
was my grandfather, my dad, and me all talking about
our experiences as Dad's and my grandfather, who was just
this like stereotypical redneck character from Bonanza, like even went
(22:54):
to high school.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
With ass from Bonanza.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
My grandfather Kelly, and so he you're so funny. So anyway,
he said, he goes, I said, what do you think
about parentsing today?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
And I just threw out just this lame question. And
my grandfather again not educated anything. He goes, I don't
know how people today can raise their kids. When I
grew up, we were on a farm and I didn't
know what my neighbors had or what they did, he goes.
Every child is constantly hit with what somebody else has
and constantly confronted with a life that they want that
could be better than theirs. And he's like, I don't
(23:27):
like he's breaking down media theory. Yeah, and he doesn't
even have a high school diploma. Like, again, there's just
this benefit that I think hopefully a lot of us
And it seems like most of us get to have
as these guys that are wise in our life beyond
what you would expect them to be.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And I don't know why that is. It's interesting part
of its life experience. Sure you know.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
All right, why parents are asking kids to help plan trips.
This is an awful idea.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from kfi
Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Visit Anaheim commissioned to study, then asked about letting kids
help plan vacation.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I like it when I can predict you. Because I
saw this and I was like, oh, this seems like fun.
And then as soon as I thought that, in my head,
I'm like, I bet Gary's.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Gonna hate this. Gary's house.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Kids are lucky they have air to breathe right before
they are nineteen eighty day, And I love I would
have been the same freaking way I would have treated
my house like it was a prison.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I think I am pretty much the same way too.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
But the I don't something about the vacation idea because
and maybe it's because I'm I'm in the teenage quagmire
where my kids aren't jerks when we go on vacation.
But I just thought, I imagine this is born from
the idea that when you take a teenager just.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Like oh, I'm just sitting.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
There there on their phone, if you let them have
a buy in or some kind of steak in it,
then maybe see.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Them like, this is your money, you're the one who
works for it.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
They're lucky that they get to tell Well, I will
say this in terms of in terms of planning of it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Even say, when you take us to the casino, I'm
savvy enough.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I'm savvy enough to know stay on the walkway.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I'm going to plan where we go, right, but I'm
going to do it in a way that i'm I'm
I'm conscious of. There's got to be something for them
to enjoy. For example, people who take kids to Vegas
I think should be arrested and thrown in jail for
multiple presidential terms.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Like she just said, this is my.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Parents would take us to Tahoe and my dad is
again I would like to gamble, and my brother and
I we would just go to the arcade, you know,
but yes, stay on the walk.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
That's how that's how popular it was to take kids
to casinos.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's like a gym.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It didn't even occur to me as a child that
I would ever have any say in any sort of
vacation Like that's so ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I wouldn't take a kid also to Mexico, although I
say that now, I took an eighteen month old on
a cruise there, which is a huge city.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Get a tattoo, No, but he got dysentery. Everyone. But
if you go to a place.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
You got to have something for them to do, right,
and even a cruise ship can be kind of a
hit and miss thing because some of them have they
all have it now, it's but.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
To support your point, a lot of them said things
that they would like to do on their vacation to
be like meet a celebrity.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Which I was like, that's not.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Like most of the were like, and then higher percentages
were like they wanted to go to an amusement park
or the beach, you know what I mean. Like, it
seems like very stereotype. If my kid was to like
my older son, if he was to pick whatever we
were going to do, he would want to just basically
do a restaurant tour of whatever city we were in.
He would want to try if they had a Michelin
Star restaurant, he would want to try it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, he should get a job, more jobs.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, no, that's this one doesn't have a job. He's
a junior. He's a junior going.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Into so next year, two years from now, you're going
to start talking about senior trip of some kind.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Right, I don't know if you do that. I don't
do that.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I do not plan on providing a senior trip. Is
this a failure to STDs.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
For your kids? Some people do that?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
No, No, not like get that at home in the
South Padre Island. I mean like as a as a family,
you guys would go to a place of his choosing. Oh,
like we take a vacation because he graduated high school,
which I mean is not a giant. It's not like
he got a promotion to the C suite or anything.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
But to me, I feel like you did what you
should have done like that. Yeah, I don't know, Maybe
that makes me a jerk, but I remember.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Extravagant college and my mom and dad, but I think
was served by my mom paid for a trip for
me to go to Hawaii with a girlfriend, and I
remember being flabbergasted by that, like you're doing what like
and that was graduating college, you know, twenty two years
old if you were.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Taking aback because it's like, wow, you're on.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
The trip, going, am I going to come home?
Speaker 6 (28:00):
And they're gonna go, great, here's all your stuff in
the garage, there's a U haul.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, I mean that happened too, but still, you know,
it was really nice.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
As they drive As she drives, away there, just wife
and there.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I think it would be a fun exercise to ask
your kids what they would do if they could plan
their own vacation. That's a fun little dinner time exercise,
but it's actually doing the thing that.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
They're not tethered to. Is reality worse?
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Yeah, like you gave him a ram of hope only
so you could take it away from them.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
No children, before you go, why quick question?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
By the way, you said that your grandfather went to
high school Dan Blocker, the guy who played Sanza Bonanza.
Do you know how old he was when he died?
Dan Blocker sixty two? Probably forty three? Who Dan Blocker
was forty three when he died in the early seventies.
I just in hit my mind that guy was in
(28:52):
his sixties.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, I went on that show. When you said that,
I thought, well, it had to be on the show.
Hard forty three. Yeah, he lived a full life. He
really did his thing good. We dedicate today's show to
Dan Blocker. What did he eat? Everything? Clearly butter and steak.
And he was a four pack of day smoker, probably
because everybody was yeah the good old you lost.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Weight, justin don't smoke? Oh all right, I did quit
and you made it past forty three.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Congrats to me. I'm gonna go on a trip and
I'm gonna plan that sucker.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Thank you as always, big, humongous twelve o'clock hours coming
up on Gary.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
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