August 7, 2025 • 32 mins
Tariffs up to 50% kick in worldwide, sparing few. Putin, Trump Plan to Meet as US Pushes to Include Zelenskiy. Cube Interview.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Says, are you just getting
to work now? Two minutes before your show? I said yes.
He said, okay, whatever Conway, which was a compliment. It
like started as a shaming and ended as what I
(00:21):
take as a compliment.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Did he think he was shaming you? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I don't know what his motive was. Maybe you know,
he's always trying to get people to work harder and smarter.
He is a whipcracker, A whip cracker, whipcracker.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, he is.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tie.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So today's the what's up with the old?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What's up with the old Dodger shirt?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Today?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, I got all excited about show. Hey, you know pitching,
and then is a thousandth hit? Was a home run?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Right, that's very cool.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I was exciting, and I just wanted to wear a
baggy T shirt today.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So those two things merged.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
The reason I because usually if you wear it, it's
like you're going to the game.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
This is right.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I know, I thought I went through your whole thought
process putting his shirt on. I was like, Gary's gonna
wonder why you're wearing it. I just like, if there's
a reason, because usually you don't just wear Dodger stuff,
to wear Dodgers stuff because it's not you. I went
through all of that in my head and decided, you
know what, who cares?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Who cares what he thinks? That was my internal dialogue.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'll take that. That's fine. You don't have to care.
I mean I about me.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I did a whole thirty two second caring.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But there was a moment where I was like, how
do I tell her there's no game today?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right? It's a travel day, right?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well I mean no, no, it's just a day off
because Toronto comes in.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, that's right, they're back.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Toronto comes in for weekend series.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
How are the Blue Jays?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh? Oh, god, bless you. There's another one coming.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There is another one coming in. I see it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, you can cover your mouth, monster, Oh okay, spewing
your tuberculosis all over.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Maybe it's not tuberculosis, it's pertussis.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That's what I have.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Okay, Are those the same things?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Ah, one is whooping cough and one is tuberculos Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Dude, whooping cough's no joke. I don't know about tuberculosis.
I know it's making a comeback, but.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But tuberculosis is three. It is peress. It's not pertussis
or purchases. You asked about how the Blue Jays are doing.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, record setting week series, I should say in Colorado
really well.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Colorado's awful. They beat Yes, they are.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
They beat the Rockies twenty to one yesterday in the
three game series. They outscored the Rockies forty five to
six in three games. The Blue Jays had sixty three
hits in that three game series.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Sixty three hit.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The Colorado Rockies are like the fluffers of Major League Baseball.
You go there to get fluffed for whatever next series
you have. You feel good about yourself, You feel ready
to go.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know what I mean. I wish there was another
way to say that. How was there another way to
say it? I don't think. I don't know exactly there
was no other way to say it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
President Trump overnight posted on truth Social all caps, it's midnight.
Billions of dollars in tariffs now flowing into the United
States of America. This is more than ninety countries. Now
have tariffs that snapped into place overnight. This latest escalation
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in the global trade war, where President Trump is trying
to almost single handedly reconfigure the way trade is done
throughout the world. He has said that the tariffs do
generate money, and in fact, new information does show about
one hundred and fifty two billion dollars did come in
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from tariffs in the month of July. Financial markets today
don't seem to be rattled by this too much, but
the president's policies do have some consequence that comes. A
bunch of businesses have warned they might not be able
to absorb the costs of importing stuff, their components, their supplies,
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et cetera, from different countries. So we've started to see
prices climb at least a bit. Of course, the latest
monthly measure of inflation shows things like appliances and clothing
and furnishings, those have all become more expensive. One of
the head heads I should say of economic research at
Fitch Ratings said the economy is just starting to see
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the effects of the tariff tariffs. They should say that
Trump announced back in spring, adding that these new ones
are in place and that we're going to start to
see that sort of magnified over the coming months. In general,
this new round of tariffs does not apply to stuff
that's been loaded onto ships before today. So those products
(05:01):
that are still technically in transit would a transit that is,
wouldn't be subject to these new traffs as long as
they come to the United States before early October. But
that also means that some of that stuff that's going
to be here for oh, I don't know, the largest
and most important shopping season of our year, could be
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subject to some of those higher tariffs.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Luckily for you, I've already secured your your gift for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes, that's all. That's very early.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Mm. Well, when you see it, you got to get it.
If tastes change between now and then, it's like a
good melon.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, when you're at the market and you see
a good melon and you squeeze it and you know
it's right.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You just have to.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Buy it, and you know to wait, do you buy
two always or just one?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, in uh, never mind, I don't want to ruin
the surprise. The White House today has pushed back claims
by the Kremlin that a meeting between Trump and Putin
had been agreed to with a location secured. We'll get
to that coming up next. Also, Kenna, who do you
have today? Tom Hanks? Tom Hanks coming in? Oh yes,
(06:16):
Tom Cruise Pete Davidson is he coming in to reveal
the sex of his baby?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Like, I don't know how you're going to follow up
ice Cube A little bit of a step down there.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't know how you follow that up, but I'm
glad it's not my job to follow that up.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
We had some great, great reactions to yesterday's interview that
we did with Yes ice Cube originally from Nwa et Cetera,
a great solo career actor movie producer.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
One of the most surreal moments is when it was like,
so we've got and I looked to my right, We've
got ice Cube here today?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What what just came out of my mouth?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I absolutely loved the ice Cube segment. I love you
guys chatting Gary, I love you guys.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Love ice Cube.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Was a good day. Got to hear IQ on the
station shanning.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You silly little white girl.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That was so cute, Such a white girl. Thanks Cube,
what's so big?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Ice Cube in the house?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yay? Yaya don DNA.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Anyways, ice Cube s done.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Ice Cube, what a great interview.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh much love hit him?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You forget how great it is to relive your youth.
And uh man, what a good man he is. What
a solid, solid good dude.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, you can go back and check it out on
the podcast. We're going to replay parts of it for
you here also at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So all right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Also coming up and update on our true Love It's
True Love Thursday. We are gonna have a little bit
of a boot camp for our male suitor.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Male suitor, I don't know. I haven't come up with
a good name. Good our candidate the guy around here.
We're horn out.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
My filter goes down towards the end of the day,
like there are clear bi rhythms in my head in
the day and yesterday after the show, my wife and
I had to drive back down here into the valley
and then we're driving back up home and it's about
four thirty three. Sorry, it's like three thirty four o'clock.
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And as you drive back up the four or five
where it meets up again with the five Whip in
the north end of the valley. There you go through
this little tunnel because it goes under the lanes of
the five and you kind of meet match up bumper
to bumper traffic just stop and go crawling through that thing.
And people lay on their horns inside tunnel. Yeah, And
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I said to myself probably five times in my head. Yes,
I do have some internal dialogue in my head. What
is wrong with people? Why are you doing that? Why
are people honking their horn in a tunnel? What is
happening to humanity that this is so? Then I said
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out loud, is there nothing going on in these people's
lives that this is a source of excitement for them
to honk their horns in a tunnel? And my wife
did this slow turn to me. She said, Wow, that
(09:45):
was an a whole thing to say. I said, uh, yeah,
it probably was. I could have kept it all in
my head, but the filter had just worn down.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Now you probably don't know this, but being a woman,
I do, and I have worked with you for now
coming on ten years. Sure, I have your rhythms noted
in my calendar. And I don't know if you know
this but on the sixth into the seventh, you get
a little irritable of every every month that starts on
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the sixth. Toward the end of the show, the seventh
is when the irritability is definitely here. Okay, I have
it noted in my calendar. Why would irritable seventh? And
sometimes it starts on the sixth.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Because of my pyramid? Is that what it is? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You know, they say guys go through rhythms too, but
I just I'm ready for it. So I'm a little
kinder and gentler to you.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
By wearing a Dodger shirt. That doesn't help.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Thank you, you miscalculated.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
See for what you watch on Wednesday?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
And then the ice tea guy comes in.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Completely flushed Cube.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I really was looking forward to hearing what you had
to say The Hunting Wise.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I watched the first episode with.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
My jaw drop.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, and I wanted to hear more information about that show. Okay, Thursday,
you got it. Yeah, we will do that next edition.
Will totally do that.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Requests for your reviews of The Hunting Wise all.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right, I don't think he want to admire review, He
just wants to hear you say some words.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
One of the big stories internationally is that there is
at least some discussion. We don't know if it's been
agreed to officially or not, but some discussion of a
face to face meeting between Trump and Putin. A Kremlin
aide says a meeting like that could take place as
early as next week. Preparations for the meeting are said
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to be already underway, although it's difficult to say how
long they would take. The goal is to get together
sometime next week. We don't know where, we don't know
how exactly. Nobody has gotten that far, and apparently the
White House is kind of pushing back on this report.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, I guess the location was the point of contention.
A White House official said this morning no location has
been set for the meeting. The Kremlin had said that
there was a location secured.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Putin said the UAE United Arab Emirates would be a
suitable location for the meeting after welcoming their president to Moscow,
and earlier in the day, the former Russian ambassador to
Washington set a location had been agreed upon, but didn't
confirm where it would be taken place.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
How special, A White House special endvoye Steve Whitcoff. Remember
he had what was called the Productive meeting with Putin. He,
I guess floated the idea allegedly of it being between Putin, Trump,
and Zelenski, but that got poop pooed out the gate.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that the Kremlin
would be down with that, at least at this stage.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Well, then it would look like Trump is the guy
in the room, but he's the power player, you know,
waging some sort of truce between these two, and Putin's
not going to concede that he's not the power guy
in the room.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
And that's part of the dynamic of what we've seen
over the course of the last couple of years between
Putin and Trump, at least since Trump's been in office.
Is this, uh, a penis measuring contest? To be honest,
and just between these two people who believe that they
are the ones in control, they.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Should just take off their pants and get it over with, right.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
What an awful image that would be?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh, I was not the one who built the bridge
and started walking across it. I just joined the freaking parade.
And now I'm chastised.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Much more of a.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
You said, penis you could have said gules genital measuring contest.
You could have said genital. He said, penis, you opened
the door. You opened the door. Also, I watched South
Park again last night?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Is this the one with christinoam so awful?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It's so awful but so funny, but like they make
her face melt off and then they're.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Like boat talk, she needs botoks and like all.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
These little people come and they're like and then she
looks great.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Again, like a NASCAR picture. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
The Trump administration has been holding out on agreeing to
a summit with Putin, looking for a sign that he
was in fact series about a real ceasefire on the battlefield.
This commitment has raised questions about what, if anything, Putin
agreed to in those conversations with Steve Whitcoff, and exactly
what they talked about still unclear. But again that former
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foreign former ambassador I should say to the United States,
told reporters that Putin conveyed certain signals, but he didn't
go into detail. A lot of those signals could be
some more flexibility on the issue of how Land would
be divided up, how they could come up to some
sort of a piece deal where a chunk of Ukraine
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goes back to Russian property. If there is any sort
of progress, do they do they trade part of Crimea
or Crimea for that part of the eastern side of
Ukraine to become part of Russia. We just don't know,
and some of that stuff has yet to be figured out.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
The a lot of water issues going on, we'll tackle
that in the next hour. People being told to boil
water throughout the LADWP. Jurisdiction issues in Malibu as well.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Hey, guys, big woe from Honeite Beach, ding Dong with you.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
Hey, Shannon, did you know that if you if you
ever contract tuberculosis, you can never donate blood.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, ain't that some crap? Apparently it can linger in
the bone marrow.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
What the hell was that?
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Anyways, I guess I'm going to keep my blood and whatever. Okay,
have a great day, guys being gone with you make
good choice of Shannon, God knows you're not good at that.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Whoa dude, You will literally have tuberculosis and I'm the
one with the bad choices.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Hey, our interview with ice Cube is coming up next.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Hello Gay, Hello Shannon.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Hello, so disappointed yesterday when you didn't do what you're
watching Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I was hoping to.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Hear what would be good on the Telly.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Could you do what you watch on Wednesday today on Thursday?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Please? Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Thank you from the UK Psycho Naga.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I don't know what that meant.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
The reason we didn't do what you watching Wednesday yesterday
was because of this.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
You know, I'd say that twelve year old me is
really happy. You know, ice Cube is with us, and
this is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
This is real.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
This is real life that's happening to us right now.
And I'd say twelve of your old me super happy
because I mean, nineteen ninety two was big for you
and I, both of us.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Do I call Do I call you Cube? Mister Cube?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Call me Cube?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, Cube?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Does anybody call you by your given name?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (17:13):
Yeah, Family, yeah, pops, momsie okay, yeah, we're not there yet,
but maybe by the end of.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
The day, call me Cube.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Or you know, if somebody say, oh, Shay, I'm looking
for a family member, right or check.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Somebody's lost, somebody's lost you in a crowded place.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Yeah, yeah, I'm looking for you know, family member or
somebody got a check for me.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I love I love the description of you.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Every time I see you, or your name or any
of the ventures that you've gotten into, they always refer
to you as multi hyphen it. Ice Cube started as
a rapper, obviously acting production, obviously in a movie producing
straight out of continent. It's two hundred million dollars or
something like internationally, right you saw all of that?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Right to pocket all of that?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Or I wish universal got something to say about that?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
But also a Big three basketball? Yes, several years ago,
eight years ago or so? How did Big three basketball
even become a thing?
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Where did it come out of my brain? Yeah? Me
and my partner Jeff Quintin's we You know it wasn't
enough basketball. Kobe had just scored sixty points in his
last game that I missed because I was out of
town shooting a movie. I was, yeah, I was pe
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old about it, you know, and I couldn't see him
play no more like whoa whoa whoa whoa?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
What world was in it?
Speaker 10 (18:41):
I had saw this guy for twenty years, paid money
to see him play, and I said, man, I know
he could still play, score sixty points in his last game,
definitely could still play.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And it was like, no, no, he's done, he's done.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
I'm like, gotta be a place where guys can play
when they still got it. They might not be able
to play eighty two games or one hundred games in
the NBA back to backs three or four, you know,
three games of four nights, but they can't still play.
And that's kind of how the you know, the ideas
started to kind of germinate or whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
When did you fall in love with basketball?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I mean, we don't need to go back to you know,
not to bring back nineteen ninety two, but you know,
when the Lakers beat the SuperSonics, you know, I mean
the they had some good years. You forget about the
SuperSonics in the nineties. They had some good years. They
were able to contain Michael Jordan for a little bit there.
But when did you fall in love with the game?
Speaker 10 (19:37):
I fell in love with basketball when I was five
years old and my brothers were playing in the backyard.
He's nine years older than me, so they were playing
in the backyard and I couldn't play, and you know,
my mother was like, you'll get big enough one day,
You'll get big enough one day, And you know, one
day I got big enough, I could actually be on
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the court with him and actually play, because they had
some super rough games back there. So that's when I
fell in love with the game. It was not being
able to play with the bigger kids in the backyard
is where it all started, and I've loved it ever since.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, what is that with older brothers and not being
able to be involved with all the stuff there, even
if it's stupid stuff, not cool stuff like that, to
be a part of it when you're told no, you can't,
that's what you want more than anything.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
My brother was in Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Don't want that, but I did back then.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Yeah, just because you can't they want, but yeah, they
You know I used to come inside crying to my mother,
You too little, You're knocked over. You no, And you know,
one day I was big enough. Then I was big
enough to beat them, So I really loved it.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
That was a good day.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, that was a good.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You guys are a Week nine is coming up this
weekend in the Big Three season for this and then
after that.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Is playoffs, playoffs championship.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, and this weekend all of the games are going
to be into It.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
Yes, we got four games for the price of one.
Get a chance to see the whole league. Everybody now
all fighting for you know, it's eight teams fighting for
those four spots to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
It is a party.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I've heard the stories about Into It Dome. I've heard
what goes on behind the scenes. I've heard about the
party suites. It is like the place to be in
Los Angeles right now.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
This is my first time going in, so I can't
wait to experience.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Oh I haven't been in.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, have you heard my Have you heard the stories
that I've heard?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah? Few, Yeah, definitely definitely.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
You know, we were, you know, definitely grateful that the
arena was available. And you know it's the newest arena
in the in the city. So you know, that's what
these players deserve.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You have an architecture background, Yes, is it cool to
you to see something like that?
Speaker 10 (21:52):
Of course, you know, just to see you know, I'm
always in awe at you know, the men that build
this kind of thing. You know, it's you know, it's
always even when I'm on a movie. You know, we
do these big you know, stunts and these big production
set pieces, and I'm always amazed at the men that
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put this up in one week and tear it down
the next day and put something up else up.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
You know, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Watching you come out of center field at Game two
of the Dodgers Yankees World Series. I get chills thinking
about it. That was a quintessential Los Angeles moment. There
are a few people that embody Los Angeles. You're one
of those people. What was it like for you, even
being who you are, to be able to do that
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and to represent the city like that on that day,
living a dream.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You know, I grew up a Dodger fan. I remember.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
When Gibson hit the home run in the eighties, running
out the house, screaming, you know, the trip it was like.
Back then, it was me, it was Dreu, sir Jinks.
You know, it was all down the street from my
block watching the game. We all ran out the street.
I just remember how how broke we were back then
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compared to you know, when Freddie Freeman hits the home
run and everybody's excited. I'm like, it's a whole new day.
But you know, being injected into the game like you know,
being able to actually you know, play and perform and
represent LA and you know, it's just one of those
things you don't even dream of.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It is so out there, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, since you also this would have been a couple
of years ago to NASCAR at the Coliseum.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You did a show there too, very cool. I had
some friends that went and saw that.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
So that was the greatest just gathering of you know,
you got Nascar on one side, you got an ice
cube on the other, and they were just they love it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
They they don't stop talking about it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It was sweet, you know, in the coliseum.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
You never think gonna see Nascar in the coliseum and
it was just a special day. And you know, I
think they got a great reception from that, you know,
and you know, just another thing you never count on.
You know, It's just something that living a dream.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Hey, Shannon, I was wondering if your back is okay.
You might need to take some advil. I know that
you do a lot of the heavy lifting on this
show for Gary. I hope you have a nice day.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Where did that come from? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That is so not the truth. I do none of
the lifting at all. I do none of the lifting.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Right now, here's part two of our interview with ice Cube.
You've had the opportunity now to meet some of the people.
I mean, you mentioned Kobe, You've met Kobe, you had
met Kobe. You you have this this life now where
you get to see these people that, like you said,
you know, back in the eighties, you watch Kirk Gibson
hit this home run and you're freaking out. And now
(25:09):
you get to see some of these people that you
grew up idolizing.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And what's that.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
I mean what I'm saying, I just go up and
give them they props and let them know how much
of a fan I am. And you know, just like
I would do if I wasn't famous, you know, just
give them they props, let them know, you know, what
they meant to me growing up, and you know, just
feeling great that I got a chance to actually say
that to them, you know, speak to them.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
It's not just a feeling that I, you know, have
in my heart, but I'm able to actually you know,
connect and and I know some of these guys now,
like you know, we talked to Clyde Drexler almost every day.
You know, I see doctor j Iceman every every week.
You know, they you know, we know each other's families,
(25:55):
and it's it's real cool to be able to just get,
you know, into a working relationship and a working environment
with some of these heroes.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
What's it like, I mentioned I started listening to your
music when I started paying attention to music, so like
early nineties and and and it opened my.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Eyes to a whole new world.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And so I feel like when I see you, I
feel like you've been in my whole life, because nobody
stops listening to Ice Cubes music, you know, like you
just it's just it's one of those things that endoors.
It's it's I don't even want to say a cult
like following, because it was just instant, instant hits, and
then it's all stayed. You must always get the feeling
(26:35):
that or people must always have the feeling that they
know you because you have been a big figure their
whole lives. If you're my age, So what's that like
when people just feel like they know you and they don't.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I mean, it's a little strange, but it feels good.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
You know, it feels good that people feel like you
part of a family, like they've been knowing you forever, right,
and you know, the the reception is always warm. So
it's always cool to be able to to have a conversation.
You know, they say they have things they want to
say to me. You know that they been harboring their
(27:12):
whole life and now they got a chance to say it.
So it feels good to be in that position. You know,
it's better than the other way around.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, but it's also from from disparate communities, and we
were talking with the two of us are from you know,
the super you know, north northern California, White, very white
northern California. But I remember who introduced me to straight
out of Compton. I remember buying the cassette around yeah, delivering.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Chinese food, I mean more white than that.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
But listening to this, this whole new genre of music
and this whole new world opening up in front of.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Us, well, you know, we thought it was going to
be underground. You know, when we did the music, we
never thought that it would, you know, get into the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Was that because you didn't think it would get radio play.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes, Yeah, we thought it was.
Speaker 10 (28:07):
See back then, they used to make all kind of
comedy records, you know, you would have a Eddie Murphy,
you know, comedy Red Fox, Richard Prior, and we thought,
we thought our records would live in those sections and
never make it to even the rap section or the
you know, hip hop, R and B whatever they wanted.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You were doing it for your friends.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah, we was basically trying to be neighborhood stars. You know.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
We was like, nobody cares about what's going on around here,
so let's just wrap about it and you know, maybe
we can get some love from our friends, you know,
on this style of music.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And it was just a total opposite. It just blew
up and we was on.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
This rise, like strapping yourself to a rocket and here
we go.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You've been able to handle all the success you you
have kept your head on your shoulders. You're probably the
same guy that you were starting out. How do you
do that?
Speaker 10 (29:07):
I made a promise to myself when I was young
that I would always recognize myself. You know, when I
look in the mirror, I didn't want to ever see
a different person. So I always just like be myself
and let the chips fall what they may. You know,
sometimes it works out for me, sometimes it don't. But
I'm fine with that, you know, as long as I
(29:28):
I'm happy with who I am and I'm not. You know,
I live out here, so I can't when you live
in Hollywood, you shouldn't go Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Put it that way.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
You know, you should know you know how to sidestep
some of the stuff that's out here.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Despite all of the stuff that you've done up to
this point, I mean, your future is just as big.
What kind of stuff are you working on for the
for the next chapter for you?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Oh man, you know, just you know, grow the league,
to grow the league. Also, so I have a major
tour that I'm about to start in September called the
Truth to Power for four Decades of Attitude Tour. So
it's great to be in the game forty years and
(30:15):
to you know, dig into my catalog a little bit.
On stage. This is the biggest production I've ever done
in my life, so I'm proud of it. We're working
on Last Friday, which is fourth installment of the Friday Franchi.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Oh my gosh. That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
And we got a lot of other movie projects in
different states of development.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Hell as they say.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, well, it's an awesome it's an honor to meet you.
It's just an absolute privilege. And like Shannon said, I
mean our knowledge of you goes back thirty years, which
is I mean crazy to think that we're that old.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You haven't aged at all.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I know, no, Honestly, I've been sitting here thinking the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Where did the time go?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
We heard that you were in the building, and we
heard we would have a shot at interviewing you, And
to be honest, I didn't let myself believe that that
was going to happen because I didn't want to get
excited and then real disappointed like a little kid.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
But then you came around the corner. Yeah, I'm a fool.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Ice cube again. Founder of Big Three Basketball League and
everything else.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
There's no time to list it all back.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Big three dot com the number three Big three dot
Com is where you're gonna find the information, including the
schedule for Saturday, those Big Four games at into a Dome.
The playoffs are next weekend. It's going to be an
absolute it's supposed to be just an absolute party down.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it anytime, every time.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Thank you awesome, Thank you Cube God. I called myself
out on it right away. Yeah, I didn't realize I
did that. I didn't realize I said any of that
last week.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
An idiot. No, it wasn't. It was cute. It's okay
to be impressed with people, Shannon. I'm very impressed by people.
Sometimes I think I'm too impressed by people. But ice
Cube gets it like that, like that's goods it. I
get it.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I think why we were playing it super cool all
day because the possibility was out there, and that's why
we didn't say anything because we didn't know if it
was going to happen or not for sure.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And then when it happened, you were like, I know,
I was such a dumb ass. Okay.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Gary and Shanna will continue right after this. You've been
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I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Says, are you just getting
to work now? Two minutes before your show? I said yes.
He said, okay, whatever Conway, which was a compliment. It
like started as a shaming and ended as what I
(00:21):
take as a compliment.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Did he think he was shaming you? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I don't know what his motive was. Maybe you know,
he's always trying to get people to work harder and smarter.
He is a whipcracker, A whip cracker, whipcracker.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, he is.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tie.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So today's the what's up with the old?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What's up with the old Dodger shirt?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Today?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, I got all excited about show. Hey, you know pitching,
and then is a thousandth hit? Was a home run?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Right, that's very cool.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I was exciting, and I just wanted to wear a
baggy T shirt today.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So those two things merged.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
The reason I because usually if you wear it, it's
like you're going to the game.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
This is right.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I know, I thought I went through your whole thought
process putting his shirt on. I was like, Gary's gonna
wonder why you're wearing it. I just like, if there's
a reason, because usually you don't just wear Dodger stuff,
to wear Dodgers stuff because it's not you. I went
through all of that in my head and decided, you
know what, who cares?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Who cares what he thinks? That was my internal dialogue.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'll take that. That's fine. You don't have to care.
I mean I about me.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I did a whole thirty two second caring.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But there was a moment where I was like, how
do I tell her there's no game today?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right? It's a travel day, right?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well I mean no, no, it's just a day off
because Toronto comes in.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, that's right, they're back.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Toronto comes in for weekend series.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
How are the Blue Jays?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh? Oh, god, bless you. There's another one coming.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There is another one coming in. I see it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, you can cover your mouth, monster, Oh okay, spewing
your tuberculosis all over.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Maybe it's not tuberculosis, it's pertussis.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That's what I have.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Okay, Are those the same things?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Ah, one is whooping cough and one is tuberculos Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Dude, whooping cough's no joke. I don't know about tuberculosis.
I know it's making a comeback, but.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But tuberculosis is three. It is peress. It's not pertussis
or purchases. You asked about how the Blue Jays are doing.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, record setting week series, I should say in Colorado
really well.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Colorado's awful. They beat Yes, they are.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
They beat the Rockies twenty to one yesterday in the
three game series. They outscored the Rockies forty five to
six in three games. The Blue Jays had sixty three
hits in that three game series.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Sixty three hit.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The Colorado Rockies are like the fluffers of Major League Baseball.
You go there to get fluffed for whatever next series
you have. You feel good about yourself, You feel ready
to go.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know what I mean. I wish there was another
way to say that. How was there another way to
say it? I don't think. I don't know exactly there
was no other way to say it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
President Trump overnight posted on truth Social all caps, it's midnight.
Billions of dollars in tariffs now flowing into the United
States of America. This is more than ninety countries. Now
have tariffs that snapped into place overnight. This latest escalation
(03:36):
in the global trade war, where President Trump is trying
to almost single handedly reconfigure the way trade is done
throughout the world. He has said that the tariffs do
generate money, and in fact, new information does show about
one hundred and fifty two billion dollars did come in
(03:56):
from tariffs in the month of July. Financial markets today
don't seem to be rattled by this too much, but
the president's policies do have some consequence that comes. A
bunch of businesses have warned they might not be able
to absorb the costs of importing stuff, their components, their supplies,
(04:17):
et cetera, from different countries. So we've started to see
prices climb at least a bit. Of course, the latest
monthly measure of inflation shows things like appliances and clothing
and furnishings, those have all become more expensive. One of
the head heads I should say of economic research at
Fitch Ratings said the economy is just starting to see
(04:39):
the effects of the tariff tariffs. They should say that
Trump announced back in spring, adding that these new ones
are in place and that we're going to start to
see that sort of magnified over the coming months. In general,
this new round of tariffs does not apply to stuff
that's been loaded onto ships before today. So those products
(05:01):
that are still technically in transit would a transit that is,
wouldn't be subject to these new traffs as long as
they come to the United States before early October. But
that also means that some of that stuff that's going
to be here for oh, I don't know, the largest
and most important shopping season of our year, could be
(05:21):
subject to some of those higher tariffs.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Luckily for you, I've already secured your your gift for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes, that's all. That's very early.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Mm. Well, when you see it, you got to get it.
If tastes change between now and then, it's like a
good melon.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, when you're at the market and you see
a good melon and you squeeze it and you know
it's right.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You just have to.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Buy it, and you know to wait, do you buy
two always or just one?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, in uh, never mind, I don't want to ruin
the surprise. The White House today has pushed back claims
by the Kremlin that a meeting between Trump and Putin
had been agreed to with a location secured. We'll get
to that coming up next. Also, Kenna, who do you
have today? Tom Hanks? Tom Hanks coming in? Oh yes,
(06:16):
Tom Cruise Pete Davidson is he coming in to reveal
the sex of his baby?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Like, I don't know how you're going to follow up
ice Cube A little bit of a step down there.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't know how you follow that up, but I'm
glad it's not my job to follow that up.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
We had some great, great reactions to yesterday's interview that
we did with Yes ice Cube originally from Nwa et Cetera,
a great solo career actor movie producer.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
One of the most surreal moments is when it was like,
so we've got and I looked to my right, We've
got ice Cube here today?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What what just came out of my mouth?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I absolutely loved the ice Cube segment. I love you
guys chatting Gary, I love you guys.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Love ice Cube.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Was a good day. Got to hear IQ on the
station shanning.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You silly little white girl.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That was so cute, Such a white girl. Thanks Cube,
what's so big?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Ice Cube in the house?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yay? Yaya don DNA.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Anyways, ice Cube s done.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Ice Cube, what a great interview.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh much love hit him?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You forget how great it is to relive your youth.
And uh man, what a good man he is. What
a solid, solid good dude.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, you can go back and check it out on
the podcast. We're going to replay parts of it for
you here also at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So all right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Also coming up and update on our true Love It's
True Love Thursday. We are gonna have a little bit
of a boot camp for our male suitor.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Male suitor, I don't know. I haven't come up with
a good name. Good our candidate the guy around here.
We're horn out.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
My filter goes down towards the end of the day,
like there are clear bi rhythms in my head in
the day and yesterday after the show, my wife and
I had to drive back down here into the valley
and then we're driving back up home and it's about
four thirty three. Sorry, it's like three thirty four o'clock.
(08:40):
And as you drive back up the four or five
where it meets up again with the five Whip in
the north end of the valley. There you go through
this little tunnel because it goes under the lanes of
the five and you kind of meet match up bumper
to bumper traffic just stop and go crawling through that thing.
And people lay on their horns inside tunnel. Yeah, And
(09:02):
I said to myself probably five times in my head. Yes,
I do have some internal dialogue in my head. What
is wrong with people? Why are you doing that? Why
are people honking their horn in a tunnel? What is
happening to humanity that this is so? Then I said
(09:23):
out loud, is there nothing going on in these people's
lives that this is a source of excitement for them
to honk their horns in a tunnel? And my wife
did this slow turn to me. She said, Wow, that
(09:45):
was an a whole thing to say. I said, uh, yeah,
it probably was. I could have kept it all in
my head, but the filter had just worn down.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Now you probably don't know this, but being a woman,
I do, and I have worked with you for now
coming on ten years. Sure, I have your rhythms noted
in my calendar. And I don't know if you know
this but on the sixth into the seventh, you get
a little irritable of every every month that starts on
(10:18):
the sixth. Toward the end of the show, the seventh
is when the irritability is definitely here. Okay, I have
it noted in my calendar. Why would irritable seventh? And
sometimes it starts on the sixth.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Because of my pyramid? Is that what it is? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You know, they say guys go through rhythms too, but
I just I'm ready for it. So I'm a little
kinder and gentler to you.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
By wearing a Dodger shirt. That doesn't help.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Thank you, you miscalculated.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
See for what you watch on Wednesday?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
And then the ice tea guy comes in.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Completely flushed Cube.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I really was looking forward to hearing what you had
to say The Hunting Wise.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I watched the first episode with.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
My jaw drop.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, and I wanted to hear more information about that show. Okay, Thursday,
you got it. Yeah, we will do that next edition.
Will totally do that.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Requests for your reviews of The Hunting Wise all.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right, I don't think he want to admire review, He
just wants to hear you say some words.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
One of the big stories internationally is that there is
at least some discussion. We don't know if it's been
agreed to officially or not, but some discussion of a
face to face meeting between Trump and Putin. A Kremlin
aide says a meeting like that could take place as
early as next week. Preparations for the meeting are said
(11:51):
to be already underway, although it's difficult to say how
long they would take. The goal is to get together
sometime next week. We don't know where, we don't know
how exactly. Nobody has gotten that far, and apparently the
White House is kind of pushing back on this report.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, I guess the location was the point of contention.
A White House official said this morning no location has
been set for the meeting. The Kremlin had said that
there was a location secured.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Putin said the UAE United Arab Emirates would be a
suitable location for the meeting after welcoming their president to Moscow,
and earlier in the day, the former Russian ambassador to
Washington set a location had been agreed upon, but didn't
confirm where it would be taken place.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
How special, A White House special endvoye Steve Whitcoff. Remember
he had what was called the Productive meeting with Putin. He,
I guess floated the idea allegedly of it being between Putin, Trump,
and Zelenski, but that got poop pooed out the gate.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that the Kremlin
would be down with that, at least at this stage.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Well, then it would look like Trump is the guy
in the room, but he's the power player, you know,
waging some sort of truce between these two, and Putin's
not going to concede that he's not the power guy
in the room.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
And that's part of the dynamic of what we've seen
over the course of the last couple of years between
Putin and Trump, at least since Trump's been in office.
Is this, uh, a penis measuring contest? To be honest,
and just between these two people who believe that they
are the ones in control, they.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Should just take off their pants and get it over with, right.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
What an awful image that would be?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh, I was not the one who built the bridge
and started walking across it. I just joined the freaking parade.
And now I'm chastised.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Much more of a.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
You said, penis you could have said gules genital measuring contest.
You could have said genital. He said, penis, you opened
the door. You opened the door. Also, I watched South
Park again last night?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Is this the one with christinoam so awful?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It's so awful but so funny, but like they make
her face melt off and then they're.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Like boat talk, she needs botoks and like all.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
These little people come and they're like and then she
looks great.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Again, like a NASCAR picture. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
The Trump administration has been holding out on agreeing to
a summit with Putin, looking for a sign that he
was in fact series about a real ceasefire on the battlefield.
This commitment has raised questions about what, if anything, Putin
agreed to in those conversations with Steve Whitcoff, and exactly
what they talked about still unclear. But again that former
(14:43):
foreign former ambassador I should say to the United States,
told reporters that Putin conveyed certain signals, but he didn't
go into detail. A lot of those signals could be
some more flexibility on the issue of how Land would
be divided up, how they could come up to some
sort of a piece deal where a chunk of Ukraine
(15:03):
goes back to Russian property. If there is any sort
of progress, do they do they trade part of Crimea
or Crimea for that part of the eastern side of
Ukraine to become part of Russia. We just don't know,
and some of that stuff has yet to be figured out.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
The a lot of water issues going on, we'll tackle
that in the next hour. People being told to boil
water throughout the LADWP. Jurisdiction issues in Malibu as well.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Hey, guys, big woe from Honeite Beach, ding Dong with you.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
Hey, Shannon, did you know that if you if you
ever contract tuberculosis, you can never donate blood.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, ain't that some crap? Apparently it can linger in
the bone marrow.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
What the hell was that?
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Anyways, I guess I'm going to keep my blood and whatever. Okay,
have a great day, guys being gone with you make
good choice of Shannon, God knows you're not good at that.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Whoa dude, You will literally have tuberculosis and I'm the
one with the bad choices.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Hey, our interview with ice Cube is coming up next.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Hello Gay, Hello Shannon.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Hello, so disappointed yesterday when you didn't do what you're
watching Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I was hoping to.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Hear what would be good on the Telly.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Could you do what you watch on Wednesday today on Thursday?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Please? Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Thank you from the UK Psycho Naga.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I don't know what that meant.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
The reason we didn't do what you watching Wednesday yesterday
was because of this.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
You know, I'd say that twelve year old me is
really happy. You know, ice Cube is with us, and
this is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
This is real.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
This is real life that's happening to us right now.
And I'd say twelve of your old me super happy
because I mean, nineteen ninety two was big for you
and I, both of us.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Do I call Do I call you Cube? Mister Cube?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Call me Cube?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, Cube?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Does anybody call you by your given name?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (17:13):
Yeah, Family, yeah, pops, momsie okay, yeah, we're not there yet,
but maybe by the end of.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
The day, call me Cube.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Or you know, if somebody say, oh, Shay, I'm looking
for a family member, right or check.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Somebody's lost, somebody's lost you in a crowded place.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Yeah, yeah, I'm looking for you know, family member or
somebody got a check for me.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I love I love the description of you.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Every time I see you, or your name or any
of the ventures that you've gotten into, they always refer
to you as multi hyphen it. Ice Cube started as
a rapper, obviously acting production, obviously in a movie producing
straight out of continent. It's two hundred million dollars or
something like internationally, right you saw all of that?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Right to pocket all of that?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Or I wish universal got something to say about that?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
But also a Big three basketball? Yes, several years ago,
eight years ago or so? How did Big three basketball
even become a thing?
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Where did it come out of my brain? Yeah? Me
and my partner Jeff Quintin's we You know it wasn't
enough basketball. Kobe had just scored sixty points in his
last game that I missed because I was out of
town shooting a movie. I was, yeah, I was pe
(18:35):
old about it, you know, and I couldn't see him
play no more like whoa whoa whoa whoa?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
What world was in it?
Speaker 10 (18:41):
I had saw this guy for twenty years, paid money
to see him play, and I said, man, I know
he could still play, score sixty points in his last game,
definitely could still play.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And it was like, no, no, he's done, he's done.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
I'm like, gotta be a place where guys can play
when they still got it. They might not be able
to play eighty two games or one hundred games in
the NBA back to backs three or four, you know,
three games of four nights, but they can't still play.
And that's kind of how the you know, the ideas
started to kind of germinate or whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
When did you fall in love with basketball?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I mean, we don't need to go back to you know,
not to bring back nineteen ninety two, but you know,
when the Lakers beat the SuperSonics, you know, I mean
the they had some good years. You forget about the
SuperSonics in the nineties. They had some good years. They
were able to contain Michael Jordan for a little bit there.
But when did you fall in love with the game?
Speaker 10 (19:37):
I fell in love with basketball when I was five
years old and my brothers were playing in the backyard.
He's nine years older than me, so they were playing
in the backyard and I couldn't play, and you know,
my mother was like, you'll get big enough one day,
You'll get big enough one day, And you know, one
day I got big enough, I could actually be on
(19:57):
the court with him and actually play, because they had
some super rough games back there. So that's when I
fell in love with the game. It was not being
able to play with the bigger kids in the backyard
is where it all started, and I've loved it ever since.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, what is that with older brothers and not being
able to be involved with all the stuff there, even
if it's stupid stuff, not cool stuff like that, to
be a part of it when you're told no, you can't,
that's what you want more than anything.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
My brother was in Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Don't want that, but I did back then.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Yeah, just because you can't they want, but yeah, they
You know I used to come inside crying to my mother,
You too little, You're knocked over. You no, And you know,
one day I was big enough. Then I was big
enough to beat them, So I really loved it.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
That was a good day.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, that was a good.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You guys are a Week nine is coming up this
weekend in the Big Three season for this and then
after that.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Is playoffs, playoffs championship.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, and this weekend all of the games are going
to be into It.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
Yes, we got four games for the price of one.
Get a chance to see the whole league. Everybody now
all fighting for you know, it's eight teams fighting for
those four spots to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
It is a party.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I've heard the stories about Into It Dome. I've heard
what goes on behind the scenes. I've heard about the
party suites. It is like the place to be in
Los Angeles right now.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
This is my first time going in, so I can't
wait to experience.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Oh I haven't been in.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, have you heard my Have you heard the stories
that I've heard?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah? Few, Yeah, definitely definitely.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
You know, we were, you know, definitely grateful that the
arena was available. And you know it's the newest arena
in the in the city. So you know, that's what
these players deserve.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You have an architecture background, Yes, is it cool to
you to see something like that?
Speaker 10 (21:52):
Of course, you know, just to see you know, I'm
always in awe at you know, the men that build
this kind of thing. You know, it's you know, it's
always even when I'm on a movie. You know, we
do these big you know, stunts and these big production
set pieces, and I'm always amazed at the men that
(22:15):
put this up in one week and tear it down
the next day and put something up else up.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
You know, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Watching you come out of center field at Game two
of the Dodgers Yankees World Series. I get chills thinking
about it. That was a quintessential Los Angeles moment. There
are a few people that embody Los Angeles. You're one
of those people. What was it like for you, even
being who you are, to be able to do that
(22:45):
and to represent the city like that on that day,
living a dream.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You know, I grew up a Dodger fan. I remember.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
When Gibson hit the home run in the eighties, running
out the house, screaming, you know, the trip it was like.
Back then, it was me, it was Dreu, sir Jinks.
You know, it was all down the street from my
block watching the game. We all ran out the street.
I just remember how how broke we were back then
(23:16):
compared to you know, when Freddie Freeman hits the home
run and everybody's excited. I'm like, it's a whole new day.
But you know, being injected into the game like you know,
being able to actually you know, play and perform and
represent LA and you know, it's just one of those
things you don't even dream of.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It is so out there, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, since you also this would have been a couple
of years ago to NASCAR at the Coliseum.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You did a show there too, very cool. I had
some friends that went and saw that.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
So that was the greatest just gathering of you know,
you got Nascar on one side, you got an ice
cube on the other, and they were just they love it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
They they don't stop talking about it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It was sweet, you know, in the coliseum.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
You never think gonna see Nascar in the coliseum and
it was just a special day. And you know, I
think they got a great reception from that, you know,
and you know, just another thing you never count on.
You know, It's just something that living a dream.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Hey, Shannon, I was wondering if your back is okay.
You might need to take some advil. I know that
you do a lot of the heavy lifting on this
show for Gary. I hope you have a nice day.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Where did that come from? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That is so not the truth. I do none of
the lifting at all. I do none of the lifting.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Right now, here's part two of our interview with ice Cube.
You've had the opportunity now to meet some of the people.
I mean, you mentioned Kobe, You've met Kobe, you had
met Kobe. You you have this this life now where
you get to see these people that, like you said,
you know, back in the eighties, you watch Kirk Gibson
hit this home run and you're freaking out. And now
(25:09):
you get to see some of these people that you
grew up idolizing.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And what's that.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
I mean what I'm saying, I just go up and
give them they props and let them know how much
of a fan I am. And you know, just like
I would do if I wasn't famous, you know, just
give them they props, let them know, you know, what
they meant to me growing up, and you know, just
feeling great that I got a chance to actually say
that to them, you know, speak to them.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
It's not just a feeling that I, you know, have
in my heart, but I'm able to actually you know,
connect and and I know some of these guys now,
like you know, we talked to Clyde Drexler almost every day.
You know, I see doctor j Iceman every every week.
You know, they you know, we know each other's families,
(25:55):
and it's it's real cool to be able to just get,
you know, into a working relationship and a working environment
with some of these heroes.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
What's it like, I mentioned I started listening to your
music when I started paying attention to music, so like
early nineties and and and it opened my.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Eyes to a whole new world.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And so I feel like when I see you, I
feel like you've been in my whole life, because nobody
stops listening to Ice Cubes music, you know, like you
just it's just it's one of those things that endoors.
It's it's I don't even want to say a cult
like following, because it was just instant, instant hits, and
then it's all stayed. You must always get the feeling
(26:35):
that or people must always have the feeling that they
know you because you have been a big figure their
whole lives. If you're my age, So what's that like
when people just feel like they know you and they don't.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I mean, it's a little strange, but it feels good.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
You know, it feels good that people feel like you
part of a family, like they've been knowing you forever, right,
and you know, the the reception is always warm. So
it's always cool to be able to to have a conversation.
You know, they say they have things they want to
say to me. You know that they been harboring their
(27:12):
whole life and now they got a chance to say it.
So it feels good to be in that position. You know,
it's better than the other way around.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, but it's also from from disparate communities, and we
were talking with the two of us are from you know,
the super you know, north northern California, White, very white
northern California. But I remember who introduced me to straight
out of Compton. I remember buying the cassette around yeah, delivering.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Chinese food, I mean more white than that.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
But listening to this, this whole new genre of music
and this whole new world opening up in front of.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Us, well, you know, we thought it was going to
be underground. You know, when we did the music, we
never thought that it would, you know, get into the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Was that because you didn't think it would get radio play.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes, Yeah, we thought it was.
Speaker 10 (28:07):
See back then, they used to make all kind of
comedy records, you know, you would have a Eddie Murphy,
you know, comedy Red Fox, Richard Prior, and we thought,
we thought our records would live in those sections and
never make it to even the rap section or the
you know, hip hop, R and B whatever they wanted.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You were doing it for your friends.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah, we was basically trying to be neighborhood stars. You know.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
We was like, nobody cares about what's going on around here,
so let's just wrap about it and you know, maybe
we can get some love from our friends, you know,
on this style of music.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And it was just a total opposite. It just blew
up and we was on.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
This rise, like strapping yourself to a rocket and here
we go.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You've been able to handle all the success you you
have kept your head on your shoulders. You're probably the
same guy that you were starting out. How do you
do that?
Speaker 10 (29:07):
I made a promise to myself when I was young
that I would always recognize myself. You know, when I
look in the mirror, I didn't want to ever see
a different person. So I always just like be myself
and let the chips fall what they may. You know,
sometimes it works out for me, sometimes it don't. But
I'm fine with that, you know, as long as I
(29:28):
I'm happy with who I am and I'm not. You know,
I live out here, so I can't when you live
in Hollywood, you shouldn't go Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Put it that way.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
You know, you should know you know how to sidestep
some of the stuff that's out here.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Despite all of the stuff that you've done up to
this point, I mean, your future is just as big.
What kind of stuff are you working on for the
for the next chapter for you?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Oh man, you know, just you know, grow the league,
to grow the league. Also, so I have a major
tour that I'm about to start in September called the
Truth to Power for four Decades of Attitude Tour. So
it's great to be in the game forty years and
(30:15):
to you know, dig into my catalog a little bit.
On stage. This is the biggest production I've ever done
in my life, so I'm proud of it. We're working
on Last Friday, which is fourth installment of the Friday Franchi.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Oh my gosh. That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
And we got a lot of other movie projects in
different states of development.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Hell as they say.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, well, it's an awesome it's an honor to meet you.
It's just an absolute privilege. And like Shannon said, I
mean our knowledge of you goes back thirty years, which
is I mean crazy to think that we're that old.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You haven't aged at all.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I know, no, Honestly, I've been sitting here thinking the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Where did the time go?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
We heard that you were in the building, and we
heard we would have a shot at interviewing you, And
to be honest, I didn't let myself believe that that
was going to happen because I didn't want to get
excited and then real disappointed like a little kid.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
But then you came around the corner. Yeah, I'm a fool.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Ice cube again. Founder of Big Three Basketball League and
everything else.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
There's no time to list it all back.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Big three dot com the number three Big three dot
Com is where you're gonna find the information, including the
schedule for Saturday, those Big Four games at into a Dome.
The playoffs are next weekend. It's going to be an
absolute it's supposed to be just an absolute party down.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it anytime, every time.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Thank you awesome, Thank you Cube God. I called myself
out on it right away. Yeah, I didn't realize I
did that. I didn't realize I said any of that
last week.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
An idiot. No, it wasn't. It was cute. It's okay
to be impressed with people, Shannon. I'm very impressed by people.
Sometimes I think I'm too impressed by people. But ice
Cube gets it like that, like that's goods it. I
get it.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I think why we were playing it super cool all
day because the possibility was out there, and that's why
we didn't say anything because we didn't know if it
was going to happen or not for sure.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And then when it happened, you were like, I know,
I was such a dumb ass. Okay.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Gary and Shanna will continue right after this. You've been
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