December 31, 2025 • 30 mins
On this New Year's Eve episode of the Gary and Shannon Show, Gary and Shannon dive into the weirdness of the week leading up to the holiday. They discuss how it feels like a weird, gray time, and how everyone's just going through the motions. They also talk about their own highlights and lowlights of the year, and invite listeners to share theirs. Plus, they explore the history of New Year's resolutions, from ancient Romans to modern-day traditions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
What I am so confused with this week?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Every year it's jumbled, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's this weird malaise of just gray And are you
at work?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Are you not at work?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Even when you are at work, you're just kind of
going through the motions. I would assume if you had
a job where you did things, where you did things.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I feel like we often, at least in the last
couple of years, have had most of this week off anyway,
this week between Christmas and New Year's depending on when
the days fall. So it is weird because it feels
like it should be early January already, and within a
few hours it will be. But still it is that
it is discombobulating.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Discombobulating is a very good word. And then.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
My daughter's flying home today or flying away from home today,
depending on how you look at it. And it feels
like nobody should be traveling today for some reason, Like
for some reason, New Year's Eve should not be a
day that you get on an airplane, although plenty of
people will and it's probably going to be delightful, it's just.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
A it is a weird, weird time.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
So we're here today and we're gonna get ready for
New Year's the way that normal people do, which is
by sitting around talking to each other for four hours.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Also it sounds so excited, My goodness.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
We do have some stuff that we're going to talk
about today, which is kind of, you know, a look
back at the year of twenty twenty five, and we
want to we want your help as well, because we
want to know what is your highlight and low light
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But I don't want to hear about dead animals, no
data animals. I know, I am sorry your pet, your
pet past, but it's just going to make us all
so sad and I feel bad for your sadness and
it's awful. But let's do stuff like like, what's a
good example.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Of a low light?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, I would say something like the time I stubbed
my toe in the backyard while racing to grab more
Margarita mix, something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That would be a low light. I don't we don't
need past, like everybody has.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Death, like here's an idea.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The low light was when we were off and they
used weird shows to fill for us, and you turned
on the radio and you said, who are those people
that happened to me over the holidays? Where I turned
on KFI for the first time and I had no
idea who it was, who was on and it was
in It was at like seven after seven o'clock, and
(02:34):
I was like, for twenty years I've turned on KFI
and known exactly who it was, even fill In's or whatever,
I've known exactly who that. Oh, that's a you know,
Brian Suits, or that's uh, you know, uh, Mark Tops,
Mark Thompson, you know what have you?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Chris Mayer or whatever?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And I was like, who the It's like funny someone
in your house and You're like, who are you?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Stranger? That was a low light?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
This excuse me, excuse me, I know where the milk is.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Get the hell out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
So yes, let us know on the talk back, well,
your highlights and low lights of the year. And again, please,
you're not going to out death somebody. This is We're
not trying.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's not a competition.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
A competition. Everybody's got that lost part of it. And
that's just a way.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
To maybe we just do good things.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's probably fine.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, let's just do your highlight because I can't think
of a low light.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's like an acceptable low light, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, like my mom had cancer, but she is now
out of the woods. There, that's a highlight. It is
a highlight, but like you know, there's no but it's
a low light, you know, but it's good.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Now that was going to be mine that Shannon's mom
had cancer. Her mom.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh that you're oh okay, well, I mean you can piggyback.
I don't care none. Good job, Heather, you were there
for your mom.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You can do it together. See that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, let us know your highlights of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And you know what, Like I'm kind of into We've
got a story coming up about how resolutions have changed
over the years. I'm kind of interested in people if
you still do a New Year's resolution.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Some people are like, as this is something out of
the ordinary, because if it's like I'm going to work
out five days a week.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Not getting healthy, like, let us know, because sometimes they
can get a little creative.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Maybe you let yourself go a little bit, maybe, like,
you know what, I'm tired of working out five days
a week, right, I'm just gonna I'm gonna add ten pounds.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I doubt like that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I doubt if somebody spend a considerable amount of time
this year working out five days a week, that they would.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Feel that way they finally get tired of it. I
don't think so. I don't think that's how it works.
Just the grind.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You never feel bad about working out, you know what
I mean? Like you feel bad like okay, say I
have two ideas in my head. Number one idea, I
want to eat a box of cheese. It's this afternoon, Okay,
I want to eat a box of cheese.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I think this is great. I sit down and eat
the box of cheese.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's chances are I do not feel great after I've
done that. Idea Number two, I'm going to work out
this afternoon. Never do I work out this afternoon and
then go oh, I don't like that I did that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It is funny that the outlook going into both of
those things is very different, right, because you know, eating
a box of cheese it sounds awesome, and then you
know at the end it's not going to feel awesome.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
The other way is you know that working out, you're
gonna dread it until you first thing you do, and
then from that point to the end of it, you're
going to feel better and better and better.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And when it's overactly you feel great.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But it's getting over that hurdle in my mind because
my mind thinks I want the box of cheese.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's oh, you do want the box of cheese? It's yeah.
Is that you're the.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Voice in your mind tell you yeah, you are.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, and you're wearing a Bailer sweatshirt which is green
and gold, which makes me think of Packers coverlers, which
are also green gold, which makes me think of cheese.
So the whole thing is not good. Sorry, you're basically
a walking cheese advertisement.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
The weather today is going to deteriorate quickly. It's been
raining in a few places up in northern La County
along the coast as well. That will continue to spread
throughout throughout southern California today into tonight. In fact, the
forecasts I've seen said that the most significant amounts of
(06:30):
rain will probably be right smack in La County sometime
between six am and noon tomorrow, right in the middle
of the parade.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I have Bowl game news. Unfortunately, you wait what you
lost the vet yesterday?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I know, I saw it.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So you owe pizza?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay, Monday, I'll get your pizza. No, that's your birthday today.
You want pizza? No, well then I'm saving it for
a later day to be determined.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
All right, then I'll DoD I'll get you like one
of those handwritten kidkoop.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, I want a pizza.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Like in February, after football is over and my depression
is set in firmly.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You don't know that I do every February. It hits.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
How how specific? Oh wow that is not now?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, big old thing too right?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Real?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes, yeah, that's so much right. My wife would have
killed me. I love the idea I wish of a baby.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't need to see the whole thing happened.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Gary Shannon kfi AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeart Radio app on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So glad you guys are live on the radio today.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I would say my low life was getting let go
from my job about three days.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And My highlight is our beautiful daughter, baby girl here.
We love you, thank you, Uh, we love you too.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know what, though that might be a gift getting
let go from your job, sometimes those are gifts you
don't know it at the time.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
That's a very positive spin on that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's true. I mean, that's what I keep telling myself because, uh,
because you know our because I know our time could
be up this year. So I keep starting to plant
the seeds of you know what, it might be a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I can write that book You've always wanted to write.
What book, the one.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That I've always wanted to write, the great American novel?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Really?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, do you have some just ideas sketched out? Please
don't say space Wars, or I will walk out.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Of this room.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
For real, for real, just And I only say that
because I want you to keep doing your movie careers.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Those are separate, separate endeavor novels.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Okay, good, Let someone else do the novels after the screenplay.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And then no, it has nothing to do with Space Wars.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You don't have that where you like start books in
your head, or you think about characters, You think about
lots and things.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Now I.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Fancied myself a creative writer at a time like high
school and early college. And then I just realized I
was just mimicking other things i'd seen. I didn't I
felt like it wasn't any There was no that can
be how it starts originality to it it? Yeah, and
some of the some artists say that they learned to
draw by tracing other people's work and then came with
(09:41):
their own style. So, I mean, I guess it's possible,
but no, I'm not a writer. Do you know Dolly Parton.
I've heard of Dolly Parton, Joline and I will always
love you in one day. Think about what you could do.
I could not do that, that's for sure. You haven't tried.
Governor k Newsom says the state has a prepositioned a
bunch of fire and rescue and emergency crews because of
(10:02):
our storms that are coming in. We do have evacuation
warnings for those burn areas, and we now know security
is going to be very tight around Gloria Molina Grand
Park downtown for tonight's New Year's E festivities. They're still
estimating it is going to be raining. I mean, it's
almost a guarantee that it will be raining downtown tonight
right around midnight. They're still estimating thirty thousand people would
(10:24):
be in downtown La tonight for the New Year's Eve
festivities that exist down there. So the LAPD says they're
going to be working with Sheriff's Department, Highway Patrol, other
law enforcement agencies, and even hiring private security to come
in keep an eye on the events. And in New York,
(10:45):
do you know they're doing swearing in zoraon Mondani will
become the new mayor at midnight, I think at midnight,
so just before midnight they're doing a swearing in ceremony form.
It's a private one in the old I think it's
City Hall subway station that hasn't been in use for
(11:06):
something like eighty years or something like that. They've kept
it open or they've kept it as sort of a
museum piece. I don't think you can go there on
a regular basis, but it still has some of the
original tile from the early twentieth century. So he's doing
his private ceremony there and then tomorrow afternoon, Bernie Sanders
is going to swear him in in the public ceremony
(11:27):
to become the new.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Maratha or City what goes on at a communist ceremony?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Is there a special rituals? A long time since we've said.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Everyone pass around their shared underwear or something.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh God, we've got a story coming out of the
La Times in the next hour. We've touched on this story,
but the La Times at a deep dive, probably on
a slow news week, and we'll take advantage of that.
This is about that La model, that beautiful young woman
who targeted rich old men to steal from them. They
kind of get into how exactly she did it. It's
a new fascination of mine. I started of watching another
(12:00):
one of these documentaries last night on Amazon called rom
Khan about women, successful women being taken by a swindler,
by a guy.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I mean, I'm gobbling.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Up this stuff part way because just like the men
in this story, the women and the documentaries I've watched
are all so smart and they're so successful and they're
not naive and it's just the power.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Of wanting love.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Or you're pointing to your penis, and that is true,
but it's not all about your penis.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's all about your penis, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Probably well for women it's not I know, which is
but they rob from from both of our species the
same way.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The gender, same species. Please do point to your penis
anymore in the New Year.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Well maybe that's a new resolution, all right, Jerry and
Shannon will continue in just a moment on this New
York the show. Reminder and let us know the best
parts your highlights. Yeah, we don't need to know your
low lights, but your highlights for the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And also, you're never gonna make the shots you don't take.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Thank you, Wayne, You're so welcome.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Reminder that we are taking your resolution, not a resolutions.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Well, before we get to the resolutions, how about you
just tell us your highlights for for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Gary, Gary, shine it, Shine it yao baby, nine o'clock
Party time show love that.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Well, just wanted to stay in love you guys, at
least nay da you too, And happy New Year too.
Pleasda just means you're happy all the time. So and
you guys make me fleasvida. So anyways, guys, have a
great show, Happy New York.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Thank you, New Year.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
God was traded to the LA Lakers, and we got
back Anthony Davis highlight just to be able to see.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Ye, I don't think we've ever gotten a Lakers hot
take on this show in ten years and ten years,
and you know what I like it maybe become the
Lakers show of record. We become the Lakers show record
in the new year, you and I.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
In that case, we'll have to Lebron James.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That was yesterday forty one. You know, that's about as
much as I know about the Lakers. But I can
turn a new page and I will start watching Lakers basketball.
I almost said baseball coming up. That's you know, that's
how little I know.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
See a good home run hitter.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
I mean love the show and love that you guys
are in still working and doing the show for us.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
You are one of the highlights of the year.
Speaker 11 (15:00):
My low light has been that I've been struggling financially
all year and not able to find stable work and
working my way through it with lyft driving and with
a bunch of other stuff about fee. My highlight is
my partner standing by me, working with me. We're working
together on things, so true love and also partnership. That
(15:21):
is my highlight.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I guess my feet suggestion came too early. It was
because your partner probably won't like you selling your feet
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
But I hear that you can get a lot of
money for that.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Hey, it's about another parts or other parts.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The idea like a shin.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You know you've got nice shins, Thank you, welcome.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Everything below my knee is probably pretty high, okay. The
term New Year's resolution first came in a Boston newspaper
back in eighteen thirteen. I love this, but there are
people who suggest diary entries that go well before that.
People have been practicing this concept of New Year's resolutions
(16:04):
long before that. English writer wrote a list of Bible
inspired pledges back in sixteen seventy one called Resolutions.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Historians trace this phenomenon even further back two thousand BC
before Jesus, when Babylonian celebrated the new year with a
twelve day springtime festival called Akitu. They marked the arrival
of the farming season by crowning a new king, thanking
deities for a bountiful harvest, resolving to return neighbors borrowed
(16:35):
agricultural equipment. How about that some of the first New
Year's resolutions were I'll bring that hoe back to Daniel
over there and the other plot of farm. I don't
know how to speak farm, but you know what I mean,
I'm going to return this hoe to my neighbor, right ho.
Alex mccrassin is a history professor at SMU Research focuses
(17:01):
on New Year's Observances. Academia is worth like a deep dive,
right Like who specializes in what Like Alexis goes to
work every day and solely focuses on the history of
New Year's observances.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Wow, that is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, I mean, I think it's also one of those
things where you find your niche of Like, for example,
if you became a sports historian and your specific i
mean granular level knowledge.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Was wild Card weekend period.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Just that, just that you could go even smaller than that,
you know, even even more nuanced, right.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Like it, since the AFC and NFC started playing each other,
since my Super Bowl era, the merger, you could you
could get Yeah, you could get more specific than that.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I mean, it's incredible how how specific can get anyway, Alexis,
who studies this every day, says it was ancient Romans
who first associated January first with New Year's resolutions. That
they celebrated the start of January by giving offerings to
the month's namesake, Janice.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Who is Janice?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Janis is the two faced god of beginnings and endings, oh,
and auspicious gifts to their loved ones. They would also
give like twigs from sacred trees. I'm sorry, I did
not get a branch to bring you this morning. I'll
bring you in one a branch on Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
How about that?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It was a day to make promises and offerings. That
that is the origin of the New Year's resolution. There
was also the medieval Vow of the Peacock. Have you
heard about Vow of the Peacock? This was an end
of Christmas season feast where knights renewed their vows of
chivalry by placing their hands on you. I'm sorry, by
(18:57):
placing their hands on a peacock. Okay, on you a peacock.
In a well documented in well documented diary entries from
the early eighteen hundred's John Quincy Adams, the sixth US President, Yes,
detailed spiritual reflections from from the past year and wishes
for the next one. We got peacocks in my neighborhood.
(19:19):
Should I go put my hands on them?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I think they're nre aren't they?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I think so too. I went touch one dirty?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Right? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I saw peacock yesterday when I was at a stop sign,
and the peacock was chasing three female peacocks, and the
female peacocks were running away. I wonder what that male
peacock wanted. He had his feathers out and everything.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I think I know what he wanted. Yeah, you're pointing
to it again.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It wasn't until the twentieth century that Americans began celebrating
New Year's as a holiday, making secular resolutions as a
part of it.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Do you have an is it is a weird thing?
I mean, I noticed that a lot of people like
to poop to pooh pooh New Year's. It's just a Thursday.
Why do we have to take a day off? You
don't have to do anything. Do You can work right
through whatever you want?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It seems to you know, you keep coming back to,
like settling things or making amends to neighbors. Old Farmers
Almanac in seventeen ninety two said it's a time to
settle accounts with your neighbors after the fall harvest craziness
right where you're.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Like do you have a hoe?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And your neighbor's like I got.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
A hoe, and you're like I need a hoe and
I got to get my harvest. And then you're like, oh,
I still got that guy's hoe.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
In my yard.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I think we should use the word plow just to oh, okay.
But you think about the ramping up of the holiday
season where you get from Labor Day, you got a
couple of holidays in October that you can observe or
not observe. November brings its holidays, I mean specifically American
holidays like Thanksgiving, Veterans Day, and things like that. Then
(20:54):
you've got what happens in December, which is every weekend
is busy with some sort of neighborhood get together, family
get together, travel, all of that, whether it's Hanka, Christmas,
if you do Quansa, whatever it is. It sort of
ramps up through December into this big finale, which is
(21:15):
New Year's Eve for some people, and then it's quiet.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I mean it is.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
January is such a weird dead zone weather wise. A
lot of times it's cold and people don't want to
go outside. And then there's very few holidays. You got
Martin Luther King, you got a holiday in the middle
of the month, but after that you really don't see
anything until basically, well, President's Day in February.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
But even that, I mean, why do you celebrate? How
do you celebrate President's Day?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I think I am going to stop eating M and m's.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Is that been a problem for a year? I feel
like a very severe problem. Okay, so two things are
happening right now. Number One, you're admitting something public. I
know that takes on accountability. Okay, that does explain some
of the.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Okay, easy, you don't need to say what it was
the chalk case on your lip, right, Okay, all right, we.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Need well that explains a lot about your chair.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I have two Jeopardy questions for you really quick. But today, Yeah,
this is about New Year's one of them I'm making up.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Okay, but you may have read this part of the.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Article the Times square ball dropped for the first time in.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
My son.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Told me something about that last night. I can't we don't.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Remember, dad, pah, nineteen oh four, Actually I think that
was the year.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
My No, it was nineteen oh seven, that was good.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
It was pretty close.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I was damn close.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Here's your next one, bottled up for one thousand dollars,
ring in the New Year with a bottle from this
champagne brand named for a Benedictine Monk.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Viv Clico no Don Perignon. Oh you were close.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I did not realize that.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Who was Viv Clico?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Vev Clico. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I think that's a place. I don't know if it's
a I don't know. I don't think it's a person.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Bubbles are delicious.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It's bubbles.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
When we come back, some of your twenty twenty five
year in review, the good, mostly the good.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It was founded by Philip Clico in Rance, France.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Oh, so vev is something about him?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I've been there.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Popes were once.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
PopEd there.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
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Speaker 4 (23:48):
On New Year's Eve, we decided we would take some
of your talkbacks today about highlights from twenty twenty five.
We don't need the low lights unless it's directly connected
to your highlight. And there are some of those, like
you said, I mean, your mom went through some cancer
treatment and has got a clean bill now, so that's fantastic,
tied to the bad thing, but it's now a positive
good thing going into twenty twenty.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
This morning, my name is Wally from Lodei, California, and
my highlight for the year is receiving a total.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Hip replacement five months ago. And man, did it change
my life And just every day is a perfect day.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
And that also starts by listening to you guys every day.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Thank you have you new year.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, thank you. Although we didn't do the hip replacement.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
When something happens like that, you know, it really is
life changing, all right, Like it just your freedom to
move about.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's huge the relief.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yes, hey, Gary and Shannon Patrician sampedro I actually had
two highlights this year. One was getting a flight in
a vintage BT seventeen trainer plane from World War Two. Gary,
you're a pilot like me. You can look that up
flying over the beautiful hills of Chino. And then the
second was posted on seeing you guys again and meeting
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Head Brooker and running into kneel and just doing everything
and having fun for the kids. Oh and John two
in the furry.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I'm glad you brought up my load light.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
John and I actually thought John and the Furry was
going to be much worse. I thought it was going
to be like a head to toe situation, and I
did not want to see that. I did not want
that emblazoned on my brain. So thankfully it was just
I think the pause and the face and the tail.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
The tail was traumatic. And it was the way he
walked with the tail that I think is the problem
for all of that. Too proud of the tail, a
little too natural.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
The highlight of the year is I woke up for
thirty one straight days, and I guess the worst thing
that happened to me this year is I fell off
a roof.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
So very simple year. I want to hear more about that.
What does that mean? I woke up for thirty one
straight days. I'm that party. Oh I was happy.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'm still on the roof thing O.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Happy New Year, guests.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I am always grateful Forfi and for Gary and Shannon
every single day. I love you guys. My highlight of
twenty twenty.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
Five, yeah, it's not a personal one because the year
was just kind of like, eh, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
My highlight is Shannon's reaction to the pope that's white.
That's white smoke bro. Oh my gosh shows me every
single time. Even just thinking about it makes me laugh.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Happy New Year, an idiot, I remember, oh man, But
we did win.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It was a big one. That was a big one.
I don't know why we don't have that. We'd have
to go back and find that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Do we have to go back and find that?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah? That is Actually I'm ashamed that we did.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I'll have to find I'll go through and see if
we can find which day you were, like, we won?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Is American?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
We won?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That is white smoke bro.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
It was exciting, Yes it was, but I don't know
if it was that exciting it was.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It was a dark horse, Yes, Gary and Shon. Yes.
My highlights were.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Every damn news and Bruise I went.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
To even the one that Shannon didn't make out in
Chino that uh, Michael Monks and Justin Worsham went to
high light my low life.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Any news, and Bruise I didn't go to.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Is that Carl happy you guys happy to hear Carl
to get the Morning?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
And Kevin from Trila Vista, Kevin, I'm fifty one and
I had a skin cancer removed. Oh oh, back in July.
That's bad, but I'm skin cancer free going into the
new year.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Excellent cheers. Yes, did you keep it?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You're not allowed to keep it.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Why I've asked this to everybody that's gotten anything taken off,
Like do you get to keep it?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Like put it in a jar or put it on
the mantle. I fought that and I won.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I had stitches in my head when I was a kid,
and they let me keep those.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What happened to your head that you knew? And stitches
for you know what? I don't like to talk about it.
Come on, I don't like to talk about it. Do
you remember the Gus movies, the donkey that would kick
field goals? The Disney movies? Vaguely?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
There was a church in my town that was going
to show a donkey kicking a field goal movie.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
And this is already so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Our neighbor was going to take us, like us kids
and my cousins.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
And and when my aunt and uncle showed up at
the house with my cousins, I was excited to see them.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And I ran to the.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Door and tripped on a bag that had been placed
in front of the front door, and I hit my
head like on the corner of the door right here,
right here, and I started gushing blood out of my head.
So my mom and dad, who were going to go
out to dinner with my aunt and uncle, were all
dressed up and ready to go to dinner in this
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nice dinner and I think it was a New Year's
Eve or it was holiday ish something like that. And
my mom had this beautiful white blouse on and she
took me to the emergency room and I got blood
all over that blouse.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And they stitched up my head.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That is a really beautiful story.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
So and I remember there's a kid whose nose had
almost come off for someone they were I was a
low priority.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
To another angle on his door. This kid, yeah, he
felt much harder than I did.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I love that story for just the reason alone that
your mom loved you so much she put you in
her arms, didn't even think about the special occasion blouse
she was wearing and that you would ruin it, and
she didn't. She didn't say, oh, I need to change
out of this blouse or anything. She just was mom, yep,
right away. And that is beautiful. Now, did you see
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that the Donkey Man?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I still made it to the end of the Donkey Movie.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
You so you missed the first part?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Well, I mean so you saw him hit the field goal?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah, I saw him hit the game winner, right. I
think it was called Gus. I think Gus sounds about right.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, I saw him kick the winning.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
That's a really sweet story. Let us tell what your
highlights for twenty twenty five r. You can leave us
a talk back on the iHeart app and we'll get
to those throughout the show today when we come back.
Probably it's a little too late in the year to
be the best of the year. But mini Therapy Horses
that's coming up next.
Speaker 11 (30:31):
How did we.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Get mini therapy Horses?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
What I am so confused with this week?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Every year it's jumbled, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's this weird malaise of just gray And are you
at work?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Are you not at work?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Even when you are at work, you're just kind of
going through the motions. I would assume if you had
a job where you did things, where you did things.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I feel like we often, at least in the last
couple of years, have had most of this week off anyway,
this week between Christmas and New Year's depending on when
the days fall. So it is weird because it feels
like it should be early January already, and within a
few hours it will be. But still it is that
it is discombobulating.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Discombobulating is a very good word. And then.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
My daughter's flying home today or flying away from home today,
depending on how you look at it. And it feels
like nobody should be traveling today for some reason, Like
for some reason, New Year's Eve should not be a
day that you get on an airplane, although plenty of
people will and it's probably going to be delightful, it's just.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
A it is a weird, weird time.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
So we're here today and we're gonna get ready for
New Year's the way that normal people do, which is
by sitting around talking to each other for four hours.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Also it sounds so excited, My goodness.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
We do have some stuff that we're going to talk
about today, which is kind of, you know, a look
back at the year of twenty twenty five, and we
want to we want your help as well, because we
want to know what is your highlight and low light
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But I don't want to hear about dead animals, no
data animals. I know, I am sorry your pet, your
pet past, but it's just going to make us all
so sad and I feel bad for your sadness and
it's awful. But let's do stuff like like, what's a
good example.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Of a low light?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, I would say something like the time I stubbed
my toe in the backyard while racing to grab more
Margarita mix, something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That would be a low light. I don't we don't
need past, like everybody has.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Death, like here's an idea.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The low light was when we were off and they
used weird shows to fill for us, and you turned
on the radio and you said, who are those people
that happened to me over the holidays? Where I turned
on KFI for the first time and I had no
idea who it was, who was on and it was
in It was at like seven after seven o'clock, and
(02:34):
I was like, for twenty years I've turned on KFI
and known exactly who it was, even fill In's or whatever,
I've known exactly who that. Oh, that's a you know,
Brian Suits, or that's uh, you know, uh, Mark Tops,
Mark Thompson, you know what have you?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Chris Mayer or whatever?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And I was like, who the It's like funny someone
in your house and You're like, who are you?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Stranger? That was a low light?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
This excuse me, excuse me, I know where the milk is.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Get the hell out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
So yes, let us know on the talk back, well,
your highlights and low lights of the year. And again, please,
you're not going to out death somebody. This is We're
not trying.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's not a competition.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
A competition. Everybody's got that lost part of it. And
that's just a way.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
To maybe we just do good things.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's probably fine.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, let's just do your highlight because I can't think
of a low light.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's like an acceptable low light, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, like my mom had cancer, but she is now
out of the woods. There, that's a highlight. It is
a highlight, but like you know, there's no but it's
a low light, you know, but it's good.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Now that was going to be mine that Shannon's mom
had cancer. Her mom.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh that you're oh okay, well, I mean you can piggyback.
I don't care none. Good job, Heather, you were there
for your mom.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You can do it together. See that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, let us know your highlights of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And you know what, Like I'm kind of into We've
got a story coming up about how resolutions have changed
over the years. I'm kind of interested in people if
you still do a New Year's resolution.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Some people are like, as this is something out of
the ordinary, because if it's like I'm going to work
out five days a week.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Not getting healthy, like, let us know, because sometimes they
can get a little creative.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Maybe you let yourself go a little bit, maybe, like,
you know what, I'm tired of working out five days
a week, right, I'm just gonna I'm gonna add ten pounds.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I doubt like that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I doubt if somebody spend a considerable amount of time
this year working out five days a week, that they would.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Feel that way they finally get tired of it. I
don't think so. I don't think that's how it works.
Just the grind.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You never feel bad about working out, you know what
I mean? Like you feel bad like okay, say I
have two ideas in my head. Number one idea, I
want to eat a box of cheese. It's this afternoon, Okay,
I want to eat a box of cheese.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I think this is great. I sit down and eat
the box of cheese.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's chances are I do not feel great after I've
done that. Idea Number two, I'm going to work out
this afternoon. Never do I work out this afternoon and
then go oh, I don't like that I did that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It is funny that the outlook going into both of
those things is very different, right, because you know, eating
a box of cheese it sounds awesome, and then you
know at the end it's not going to feel awesome.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
The other way is you know that working out, you're
gonna dread it until you first thing you do, and
then from that point to the end of it, you're
going to feel better and better and better.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And when it's overactly you feel great.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But it's getting over that hurdle in my mind because
my mind thinks I want the box of cheese.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's oh, you do want the box of cheese? It's yeah.
Is that you're the.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Voice in your mind tell you yeah, you are.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, and you're wearing a Bailer sweatshirt which is green
and gold, which makes me think of Packers coverlers, which
are also green gold, which makes me think of cheese.
So the whole thing is not good. Sorry, you're basically
a walking cheese advertisement.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
The weather today is going to deteriorate quickly. It's been
raining in a few places up in northern La County
along the coast as well. That will continue to spread
throughout throughout southern California today into tonight. In fact, the
forecasts I've seen said that the most significant amounts of
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rain will probably be right smack in La County sometime
between six am and noon tomorrow, right in the middle
of the parade.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I have Bowl game news. Unfortunately, you wait what you
lost the vet yesterday?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I know, I saw it.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So you owe pizza?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay, Monday, I'll get your pizza. No, that's your birthday today.
You want pizza? No, well then I'm saving it for
a later day to be determined.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
All right, then I'll DoD I'll get you like one
of those handwritten kidkoop.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, I want a pizza.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Like in February, after football is over and my depression
is set in firmly.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You don't know that I do every February. It hits.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
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Speaker 2 (07:20):
How how specific? Oh wow that is not now?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, big old thing too right?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Real?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes, yeah, that's so much right. My wife would have
killed me. I love the idea I wish of a baby.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't need to see the whole thing happened.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Gary Shannon kfi AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeart Radio app on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So glad you guys are live on the radio today.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I would say my low life was getting let go
from my job about three days.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And My highlight is our beautiful daughter, baby girl here.
We love you, thank you, Uh, we love you too.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know what, though that might be a gift getting
let go from your job, sometimes those are gifts you
don't know it at the time.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
That's a very positive spin on that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's true. I mean, that's what I keep telling myself because, uh,
because you know our because I know our time could
be up this year. So I keep starting to plant
the seeds of you know what, it might be a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I can write that book You've always wanted to write.
What book, the one.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That I've always wanted to write, the great American novel?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Really?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, do you have some just ideas sketched out? Please
don't say space Wars, or I will walk out.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Of this room.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
For real, for real, just And I only say that
because I want you to keep doing your movie careers.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Those are separate, separate endeavor novels.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Okay, good, Let someone else do the novels after the screenplay.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And then no, it has nothing to do with Space Wars.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You don't have that where you like start books in
your head, or you think about characters, You think about
lots and things.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Now I.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Fancied myself a creative writer at a time like high
school and early college. And then I just realized I
was just mimicking other things i'd seen. I didn't I
felt like it wasn't any There was no that can
be how it starts originality to it it? Yeah, and
some of the some artists say that they learned to
draw by tracing other people's work and then came with
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their own style. So, I mean, I guess it's possible,
but no, I'm not a writer. Do you know Dolly Parton.
I've heard of Dolly Parton, Joline and I will always
love you in one day. Think about what you could do.
I could not do that, that's for sure. You haven't tried.
Governor k Newsom says the state has a prepositioned a
bunch of fire and rescue and emergency crews because of
(10:02):
our storms that are coming in. We do have evacuation
warnings for those burn areas, and we now know security
is going to be very tight around Gloria Molina Grand
Park downtown for tonight's New Year's E festivities. They're still
estimating it is going to be raining. I mean, it's
almost a guarantee that it will be raining downtown tonight
right around midnight. They're still estimating thirty thousand people would
(10:24):
be in downtown La tonight for the New Year's Eve
festivities that exist down there. So the LAPD says they're
going to be working with Sheriff's Department, Highway Patrol, other
law enforcement agencies, and even hiring private security to come
in keep an eye on the events. And in New York,
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do you know they're doing swearing in zoraon Mondani will
become the new mayor at midnight, I think at midnight,
so just before midnight they're doing a swearing in ceremony form.
It's a private one in the old I think it's
City Hall subway station that hasn't been in use for
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something like eighty years or something like that. They've kept
it open or they've kept it as sort of a
museum piece. I don't think you can go there on
a regular basis, but it still has some of the
original tile from the early twentieth century. So he's doing
his private ceremony there and then tomorrow afternoon, Bernie Sanders
is going to swear him in in the public ceremony
(11:27):
to become the new.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Maratha or City what goes on at a communist ceremony?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Is there a special rituals? A long time since we've said.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Everyone pass around their shared underwear or something.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh God, we've got a story coming out of the
La Times in the next hour. We've touched on this story,
but the La Times at a deep dive, probably on
a slow news week, and we'll take advantage of that.
This is about that La model, that beautiful young woman
who targeted rich old men to steal from them. They
kind of get into how exactly she did it. It's
a new fascination of mine. I started of watching another
(12:00):
one of these documentaries last night on Amazon called rom
Khan about women, successful women being taken by a swindler,
by a guy.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I mean, I'm gobbling.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Up this stuff part way because just like the men
in this story, the women and the documentaries I've watched
are all so smart and they're so successful and they're
not naive and it's just the power.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Of wanting love.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Or you're pointing to your penis, and that is true,
but it's not all about your penis.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's all about your penis, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Probably well for women it's not I know, which is
but they rob from from both of our species the
same way.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The gender, same species. Please do point to your penis
anymore in the New Year.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Well maybe that's a new resolution, all right, Jerry and
Shannon will continue in just a moment on this New
York the show. Reminder and let us know the best
parts your highlights. Yeah, we don't need to know your
low lights, but your highlights for the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And also, you're never gonna make the shots you don't take.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Thank you, Wayne, You're so welcome.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (13:23):
Reminder that we are taking your resolution, not a resolutions.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Well, before we get to the resolutions, how about you
just tell us your highlights for for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Gary, Gary, shine it, Shine it yao baby, nine o'clock
Party time show love that.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Well, just wanted to stay in love you guys, at
least nay da you too, And happy New Year too.
Pleasda just means you're happy all the time. So and
you guys make me fleasvida. So anyways, guys, have a
great show, Happy New York.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Thank you, New Year.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
God was traded to the LA Lakers, and we got
back Anthony Davis highlight just to be able to see.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Ye, I don't think we've ever gotten a Lakers hot
take on this show in ten years and ten years,
and you know what I like it maybe become the
Lakers show of record. We become the Lakers show record
in the new year, you and I.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
In that case, we'll have to Lebron James.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That was yesterday forty one. You know, that's about as
much as I know about the Lakers. But I can
turn a new page and I will start watching Lakers basketball.
I almost said baseball coming up. That's you know, that's
how little I know.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
See a good home run hitter.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
I mean love the show and love that you guys
are in still working and doing the show for us.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
You are one of the highlights of the year.
Speaker 11 (15:00):
My low light has been that I've been struggling financially
all year and not able to find stable work and
working my way through it with lyft driving and with
a bunch of other stuff about fee. My highlight is
my partner standing by me, working with me. We're working
together on things, so true love and also partnership. That
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is my highlight.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I guess my feet suggestion came too early. It was
because your partner probably won't like you selling your feet
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
But I hear that you can get a lot of
money for that.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Hey, it's about another parts or other parts.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The idea like a shin.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You know you've got nice shins, Thank you, welcome.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Everything below my knee is probably pretty high, okay. The
term New Year's resolution first came in a Boston newspaper
back in eighteen thirteen. I love this, but there are
people who suggest diary entries that go well before that.
People have been practicing this concept of New Year's resolutions
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long before that. English writer wrote a list of Bible
inspired pledges back in sixteen seventy one called Resolutions.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Historians trace this phenomenon even further back two thousand BC
before Jesus, when Babylonian celebrated the new year with a
twelve day springtime festival called Akitu. They marked the arrival
of the farming season by crowning a new king, thanking
deities for a bountiful harvest, resolving to return neighbors borrowed
(16:35):
agricultural equipment. How about that some of the first New
Year's resolutions were I'll bring that hoe back to Daniel
over there and the other plot of farm. I don't
know how to speak farm, but you know what I mean,
I'm going to return this hoe to my neighbor, right ho.
Alex mccrassin is a history professor at SMU Research focuses
(17:01):
on New Year's Observances. Academia is worth like a deep dive,
right Like who specializes in what Like Alexis goes to
work every day and solely focuses on the history of
New Year's observances.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Wow, that is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, I mean, I think it's also one of those
things where you find your niche of Like, for example,
if you became a sports historian and your specific i
mean granular level knowledge.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Was wild Card weekend period.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Just that, just that you could go even smaller than that,
you know, even even more nuanced, right.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Like it, since the AFC and NFC started playing each other,
since my Super Bowl era, the merger, you could you
could get Yeah, you could get more specific than that.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I mean, it's incredible how how specific can get anyway, Alexis,
who studies this every day, says it was ancient Romans
who first associated January first with New Year's resolutions. That
they celebrated the start of January by giving offerings to
the month's namesake, Janice.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Who is Janice?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Janis is the two faced god of beginnings and endings, oh,
and auspicious gifts to their loved ones. They would also
give like twigs from sacred trees. I'm sorry, I did
not get a branch to bring you this morning. I'll
bring you in one a branch on Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
How about that?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It was a day to make promises and offerings. That
that is the origin of the New Year's resolution. There
was also the medieval Vow of the Peacock. Have you
heard about Vow of the Peacock? This was an end
of Christmas season feast where knights renewed their vows of
chivalry by placing their hands on you. I'm sorry, by
(18:57):
placing their hands on a peacock. Okay, on you a peacock.
In a well documented in well documented diary entries from
the early eighteen hundred's John Quincy Adams, the sixth US President, Yes,
detailed spiritual reflections from from the past year and wishes
for the next one. We got peacocks in my neighborhood.
(19:19):
Should I go put my hands on them?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I think they're nre aren't they?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I think so too. I went touch one dirty?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Right? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I saw peacock yesterday when I was at a stop sign,
and the peacock was chasing three female peacocks, and the
female peacocks were running away. I wonder what that male
peacock wanted. He had his feathers out and everything.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I think I know what he wanted. Yeah, you're pointing
to it again.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It wasn't until the twentieth century that Americans began celebrating
New Year's as a holiday, making secular resolutions as a
part of it.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Do you have an is it is a weird thing?
I mean, I noticed that a lot of people like
to poop to pooh pooh New Year's. It's just a Thursday.
Why do we have to take a day off? You
don't have to do anything. Do You can work right
through whatever you want?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It seems to you know, you keep coming back to,
like settling things or making amends to neighbors. Old Farmers
Almanac in seventeen ninety two said it's a time to
settle accounts with your neighbors after the fall harvest craziness
right where you're.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Like do you have a hoe?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And your neighbor's like I got.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
A hoe, and you're like I need a hoe and
I got to get my harvest. And then you're like, oh,
I still got that guy's hoe.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
In my yard.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I think we should use the word plow just to oh, okay.
But you think about the ramping up of the holiday
season where you get from Labor Day, you got a
couple of holidays in October that you can observe or
not observe. November brings its holidays, I mean specifically American
holidays like Thanksgiving, Veterans Day, and things like that. Then
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you've got what happens in December, which is every weekend
is busy with some sort of neighborhood get together, family
get together, travel, all of that, whether it's Hanka, Christmas,
if you do Quansa, whatever it is. It sort of
ramps up through December into this big finale, which is
(21:15):
New Year's Eve for some people, and then it's quiet.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I mean it is.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
January is such a weird dead zone weather wise. A
lot of times it's cold and people don't want to
go outside. And then there's very few holidays. You got
Martin Luther King, you got a holiday in the middle
of the month, but after that you really don't see
anything until basically, well, President's Day in February.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
But even that, I mean, why do you celebrate? How
do you celebrate President's Day?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I think I am going to stop eating M and m's.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Is that been a problem for a year? I feel
like a very severe problem. Okay, so two things are
happening right now. Number One, you're admitting something public. I
know that takes on accountability. Okay, that does explain some
of the.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Okay, easy, you don't need to say what it was
the chalk case on your lip, right, Okay, all right, we.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Need well that explains a lot about your chair.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I have two Jeopardy questions for you really quick. But today, Yeah,
this is about New Year's one of them I'm making up.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Okay, but you may have read this part of the.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Article the Times square ball dropped for the first time in.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
My son.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Told me something about that last night. I can't we don't.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Remember, dad, pah, nineteen oh four, Actually I think that
was the year.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
My No, it was nineteen oh seven, that was good.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
It was pretty close.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I was damn close.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Here's your next one, bottled up for one thousand dollars,
ring in the New Year with a bottle from this
champagne brand named for a Benedictine Monk.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Viv Clico no Don Perignon. Oh you were close.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I did not realize that.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Who was Viv Clico?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Vev Clico. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I think that's a place. I don't know if it's
a I don't know. I don't think it's a person.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Bubbles are delicious.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It's bubbles.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
When we come back, some of your twenty twenty five
year in review, the good, mostly the good.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It was founded by Philip Clico in Rance, France.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Oh, so vev is something about him?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I've been there.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Popes were once.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
PopEd there.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
On New Year's Eve, we decided we would take some
of your talkbacks today about highlights from twenty twenty five.
We don't need the low lights unless it's directly connected
to your highlight. And there are some of those, like
you said, I mean, your mom went through some cancer
treatment and has got a clean bill now, so that's fantastic,
tied to the bad thing, but it's now a positive
good thing going into twenty twenty.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
This morning, my name is Wally from Lodei, California, and
my highlight for the year is receiving a total.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Hip replacement five months ago. And man, did it change
my life And just every day is a perfect day.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
And that also starts by listening to you guys every day.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Thank you have you new year.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, thank you. Although we didn't do the hip replacement.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
When something happens like that, you know, it really is
life changing, all right, Like it just your freedom to
move about.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's huge the relief.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yes, hey, Gary and Shannon Patrician sampedro I actually had
two highlights this year. One was getting a flight in
a vintage BT seventeen trainer plane from World War Two. Gary,
you're a pilot like me. You can look that up
flying over the beautiful hills of Chino. And then the
second was posted on seeing you guys again and meeting
(25:01):
Head Brooker and running into kneel and just doing everything
and having fun for the kids. Oh and John two
in the furry.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I'm glad you brought up my load light.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
John and I actually thought John and the Furry was
going to be much worse. I thought it was going
to be like a head to toe situation, and I
did not want to see that. I did not want
that emblazoned on my brain. So thankfully it was just
I think the pause and the face and the tail.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
The tail was traumatic. And it was the way he
walked with the tail that I think is the problem
for all of that. Too proud of the tail, a
little too natural.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
The highlight of the year is I woke up for
thirty one straight days, and I guess the worst thing
that happened to me this year is I fell off
a roof.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
So very simple year. I want to hear more about that.
What does that mean? I woke up for thirty one
straight days. I'm that party. Oh I was happy.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'm still on the roof thing O.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Happy New Year, guests.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I am always grateful Forfi and for Gary and Shannon
every single day. I love you guys. My highlight of
twenty twenty.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
Five, yeah, it's not a personal one because the year
was just kind of like, eh, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
My highlight is Shannon's reaction to the pope that's white.
That's white smoke bro. Oh my gosh shows me every
single time. Even just thinking about it makes me laugh.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Happy New Year, an idiot, I remember, oh man, But
we did win.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It was a big one. That was a big one.
I don't know why we don't have that. We'd have
to go back and find that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Do we have to go back and find that?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah? That is Actually I'm ashamed that we did.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I'll have to find I'll go through and see if
we can find which day you were, like, we won?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Is American?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
We won?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That is white smoke bro.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
It was exciting, Yes it was, but I don't know
if it was that exciting it was.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It was a dark horse, Yes, Gary and Shon. Yes.
My highlights were.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Every damn news and Bruise I went.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
To even the one that Shannon didn't make out in
Chino that uh, Michael Monks and Justin Worsham went to
high light my low life.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Any news, and Bruise I didn't go to.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Is that Carl happy you guys happy to hear Carl
to get the Morning?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
And Kevin from Trila Vista, Kevin, I'm fifty one and
I had a skin cancer removed. Oh oh, back in July.
That's bad, but I'm skin cancer free going into the
new year.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Excellent cheers. Yes, did you keep it?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You're not allowed to keep it.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Why I've asked this to everybody that's gotten anything taken off,
Like do you get to keep it?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Like put it in a jar or put it on
the mantle. I fought that and I won.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I had stitches in my head when I was a kid,
and they let me keep those.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What happened to your head that you knew? And stitches
for you know what? I don't like to talk about it.
Come on, I don't like to talk about it. Do
you remember the Gus movies, the donkey that would kick
field goals? The Disney movies? Vaguely?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
There was a church in my town that was going
to show a donkey kicking a field goal movie.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
And this is already so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Our neighbor was going to take us, like us kids
and my cousins.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
And and when my aunt and uncle showed up at
the house with my cousins, I was excited to see them.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And I ran to the.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Door and tripped on a bag that had been placed
in front of the front door, and I hit my
head like on the corner of the door right here,
right here, and I started gushing blood out of my head.
So my mom and dad, who were going to go
out to dinner with my aunt and uncle, were all
dressed up and ready to go to dinner in this
(29:00):
nice dinner and I think it was a New Year's
Eve or it was holiday ish something like that. And
my mom had this beautiful white blouse on and she
took me to the emergency room and I got blood
all over that blouse.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And they stitched up my head.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That is a really beautiful story.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
So and I remember there's a kid whose nose had
almost come off for someone they were I was a
low priority.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
To another angle on his door. This kid, yeah, he
felt much harder than I did.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I love that story for just the reason alone that
your mom loved you so much she put you in
her arms, didn't even think about the special occasion blouse
she was wearing and that you would ruin it, and
she didn't. She didn't say, oh, I need to change
out of this blouse or anything. She just was mom, yep,
right away. And that is beautiful. Now, did you see
(29:56):
that the Donkey Man?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I still made it to the end of the Donkey Movie.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
You so you missed the first part?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Well, I mean so you saw him hit the field goal?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah, I saw him hit the game winner, right. I
think it was called Gus. I think Gus sounds about right.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, I saw him kick the winning.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
That's a really sweet story. Let us tell what your
highlights for twenty twenty five r. You can leave us
a talk back on the iHeart app and we'll get
to those throughout the show today when we come back.
Probably it's a little too late in the year to
be the best of the year. But mini Therapy Horses
that's coming up next.
Speaker 11 (30:31):
How did we.
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Speaker 4 (30:33):
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