August 4, 2025 • 31 mins
#SWAMPWATCH – Trump is expected to announce replacements for positions at the Federal Reserve and the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the coming days. There is also a discussion about whether Disney remains magical in the age of AI. AI tools are being used to assist in writing obituaries, while prominent figures are influencing some individuals to decline highly lucrative offers from Silicon Valley. Additionally, a Library of Things allows cardholders to come in for a book and leave with musical instruments, providing opportunities to try, learn, and create.
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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. Now Gary, when you subscribe
to the podcast, do you also get the special never
heard before weekend podcast common.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Commonly called the Gas Weekend Fix.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Does just show up in your cue, your darn tootin?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It does?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Wow? It just as they say in the podcast world,
it just populates.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Because I gotta say, the podcasts that we do for
the weekend, commonly known as Gas Weekend Fix, that gets
a lot of traction. People listen to that. It's a
little more, a lot more irreverent. It's a more off
the cuff. We have zero agenda. We just talk out
(00:53):
our ass and apparently people like it well.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The last weekends or two days ago, we recorded the
podcast The Weekend Fix, after your very long trip to Canton,
Ohio for the Pro Football Hall of Fame game, the
preseason game that the Chargers played in. And it's not
about the game itself, but just about that aspect of
(01:18):
what you do for work, because a lot of people
know that you work with the Chargers. But in this
we found out last week. Some people don't know exactly
what you do with the Chargers, so we kind of
explained what your job is doing radio sideline reporting for
their radio broad sideline reporting for the radio broadcast, but
also just the aspect of traveling to these different stadiums,
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what it's like. You know, you're on these charter flights
with the team, the team that you work with with
Matt and DJ and Rich and then who in the
Chargers organization do you liaise with? Is that the right word?
And so I think that because I think a lot
of people don't. You don't have to be a football
fan to enjoy that aspect of it. Because I've said
(02:02):
this before, one of the more compelling things about listening
to you and Matt and DJ talk about football is
that you guys love the game. You guys love watching you,
guys love analyzing you guys love the backstories on all
these guys. And that's what makes it compelling. So I
wanted to hear I mean, it was more for me
than probably for other people, but I wanted to hear
(02:25):
your aspect. What was it that makes it that exciting
for you? And it's all in that, It's all in
that gas weekend fix.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, I think that sometimes we like I don't even
remember the topic of many of our gas weekend fixes.
They're just that that magical.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, they're they're and they're not inconsequential, no, but it's
just more of a it's it's a less structured conversation
than even this mess.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yes, speaking of this mess. Eleven o'clock we dive into Washington.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
So what I'm not going anywhere So that now you
drain the squaw.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been gone
at but they're not stupid. A political flunder is when
a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Why have the people voting for you were not swamp
watch they're all countera well.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
President Trump suggested that the weaker than expected jobs report
on Friday was rigged, that the monthly revisions were concocted
this big brew haha. The Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, he ended up firing the head of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics who's been in there for a few years.
Her name was Erica mecintart for and suggested that those
numbers that came out on Friday, which said that there
were fewer jobs or fewer hirings than expected, was the
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result of her fudging the numbers somehow. So this was
him in response to a question about why he got rid.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Of I think her numbers were wrong, just like I
thought her numbers were wrong before the election.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Days before the election, she came out with these beautiful
numbers for Kamala.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I guess Biden slash Kamala, and she came out with
these beautiful numbers trying to get somebody else elected.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Now, the biggest issue is when it comes to revisions
of job numbers and when we get them, we being
in the media when we get them and are available
to everybody else. On that Friday morning, the first Friday
of the month, for the previous month, they also include
here's the numbers for hiring for the month of July,
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but here also the revised numbers for June and then
also for May. Because they just do it like an
like a pole, like you're taking a poll of business owners.
And I think it's around six hundred thousand or so workplaces.
Some of them do it by phone, some of them
do it by Internet, some of them still do it
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by facts. To give you an idea of how outdated
some of this this government work still is, but they
don't get a complete picture. I mean, we're literally talking
about the first Friday in August. We're supposed to have
all of the information from the month of July, and
what previous Bureau of Labor Statistics employees have said is
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we have because the original poll numbers are so inaccurate,
or can be so inaccurate, we need to go back
and revise over the course of a couple of months.
What the President was saying was last year, for example,
the total number of revisions was somewhere in the eight
hundred thousand mark, the number of how far off the
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original numbers were to what they eventually were revised to. Now,
the idea that eric Erica Mecintarfer, the idea that she's
doing it on purpose, is a stretch, and they would
have to come out and show some evidence that she
was doing it on purpose because in her position, she
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doesn't even have the ability to get into the raw
numbers and alter them. Basically, she puts a cover on
the report on that Thursday night before the Friday morning
report goes out. That's what she does. She doesn't skim
the numbers, she doesn't pad the numbers, she doesn't inflate
them or deflate them or disenthrall them in any way.
But because she's the one who was last touching the report,
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it's her ass on the line.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I don't think disenthrall can be used as a verb. No,
it has, Yeah, it has to be disenthrolling myself. Okay,
I don't want to spend all day doing disenthrall stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It takes a train that throws it off the tracks
and there's wreckage, and then I got to go through
it and I find the bodies, and then I got
to figure out how to put.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It back on.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What you have a weird job?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, there's a lot going on in my head.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
The other financial thing that went on is that Adrianna Kugler,
who is one of the Fed Reserve Open Committee members
who votes in favor or against interest rate changes she resigned.
Her term wasn't supposed to be up until January, I believe,
and didn't really give much of a reason why she's
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going to step down early. But this could mean that
Trump could appoint somebody I believe that would you know,
follow along his version of economics where he thinks that
the interest it should be dropped down. He's you know,
he's already called Jerome Powell too late, Powell, et cetera.
So there are some economic things that are going on
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here that he's going to have to deal with. The
Idea of firing somebody from Bureau of Labor statistics for
job numbers that you don't like is fine if you
can prove to the public that there was actual wrongdoing.
But at this point he's just alluding to it, as
he does so many times without actually offering much proof.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So transitive verbs, whole subset of problems.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, you have a you have a wild afternoon planned,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I forgot to tell you my swamp Watch related story
that happened at the Hall of Fame game when I
went to go say hi to Dean Spanos, owner of
the team, and I go up to I haven't seen
him yet the season.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So I get to and I have my arms outstretch
to give him a hug, like I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Kind of doing a running hug, and I'm running up
and all of a sudden, the head of security build
kind of stops me.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
He's like, ah, that's a that's a secret Service.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I go and I look over at Dean and he's
surrounded by guys who look homeless, but they all have the.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thing in their ear.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But they literally were They looked like middle school math teachers.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I mean, they.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Mismatched clothes and the whole bit, and they're surrounding them.
I'm like, that's the Secret Service. Of course they don't
pay their hookers, but it was.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Odd to me.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You think secret service, you think men in black suits, right,
you think like cleaned up, fresh haircuts, the whole thing.
That was the antithesis of what I saw. Turns out
Dean was talking to a member of the cabinet, the
secretary of the HUD, Secretary Scott Turner, and that's why
the Secret Service was there. But I was totally thrown off.
I'm like, that is the Secret Service anyway?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, that would have been a funnier story if you
ran up to the Cabinet secretary and you got tackled
by six secret services.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Such a better story. I was so pissed off I
got stopped.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You are in your sister's shed.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's always suspicious when someone has a shed, right, I
love the idea of a shed. I've asked my husband
repeatedly to build me a shed, and he just looks
at me with a blank look on his face, like,
what do you planning on doing in that shed?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I just think it'd be cool to have like a
shed out back where I could just go and do
shed stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I should he should call me. We could work on
getting a shed with a lock on the outside.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I'm not a kujo.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I should have been bolted up like a raby infested beast.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Oh it's not what I meant. That is what I meant.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, so I'm in.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm just in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You're no good way you were getting out of that.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We joked about this before, so, I mean our individual
histories run parallel in a really weird way. We grew
up in very similar areas. You know, a few miles
apart of a Highway one oh one north of San Francisco,
and didn't know each other. It turns out that through
high school we probably had people in the same circle
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of friends. I worked at a movie or I trained
at a movie theater where your brother was working, and
then I went back and opened up a movie theater
in my hometown. We both went to Chico different years,
so we found out.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I found out at my dad's funeral that my best
friend from childhood, her now husband, went to high school
with you.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, it's all very odd.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
And so just to continue the theme, outside of you know,
job locations in Chico and Sacramento and then Seattle and
then down to La my sister lives in Fulsome, just
a handful of blocks away from where your brother lives.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Right and he hasn't always lived there.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I mean he's lived in Citrus, Heites, and all sorts
of different places in Sacramento, but lives in Fulsom now
a few blocks from your sister. I was texting with
your wife about this earlier, and I said, it's so odd.
My brother is in a long term relationship right now,
but there's been times when he's been signal in recent
years he's not. But I thought, uh, it's just like us,
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where our brother and sister would end up like on
a date if he wasn't in a relationship.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
That is funny. Uh, it's completely plausible.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That's weird. When we did go to see a movie
last night, I said to my wife, Hey, we got
to keep an eye out for Andy. She goes, do
you really think he'd be here?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And I go he exactly. Okay, So AI.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
We are staying on all of the latest that comes
out of the AI world because it's gonna It's already
slapped us in the face with something we didn't even
see coming. I mean a I has been quietly working
to take over the world, and it feels like it has.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And now there's talk about Disney and if Disney is
still magic if AI is involved. Disney's never been magic. Okay,
here's a little secret. It's the illusion of magic.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah. This is one of those things that in Hollywood
they have yet to figure out, even though they've It's
been a part of the discussion for a couple of
years now is what are they going to do when
AI is used, especially by the larger production companies. Like
Disney when it comes to movie making. So as an example,
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Disney's been working on this live action version of Milana,
and in Milana correct me if I'm wrong, Maui is
voiced by I mean, at least in the animated version,
he's voiced by Dwayne Johnson. And what they wanted to
do was have the actor Dwayne Johnson play Maui. But
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the problem is either he's got scheduling conflicts or there
are days when they don't want to pay the Dwayne
Johnson rate and they're going to have a body double
fill in. Well, in this case, it happens to be
a cousin of Dwayne Johnson, who has also just yoked
six foot three, two fifty and he would fill in
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as the body double, and then they would use artificial
intelligence to basically make a deep fake of the Rock's
face and put it on the cousin. Now, allegedly this
saves money. I mean, it's one of the reasons why
they would do it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You gotta be careful, though, because if you're Disney using AI,
who's to stop someone who's not Disney from using AI
and making it look like Disney. And that's exactly the conundrum.
Hollywood has found it's in. They say, the deep fake
Dwayne Johnson is just one part of a broader technological
earthquake hitting Hollywood. Studios are scrambling how to fa figure
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out how to simultaneously use AI in the filmmaking process
and how to protect themselves against it.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
And I don't know how. I listen. I'm amazed at
how advanced AI is now compared to what it was
even a year ago, two years ago. But would you
be able to trying to think of an example, would you.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Be able to.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Mimic a certain filmmaker's style? Would you like a movie
Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Aaron Sorkin
type stuff? You be able to say to whatever machine,
whatever engine is creating your movie, I want this movie.
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Recut it, rescore it, redo it, but make it a
Steven Spielberg product or Steven spielbergerg like product. And it
bothers me that we're that close to it. You can
see with visual images now, whether it's videos or steal images,
AI can do that now, But would it be able
to do a full hour and forty five minute feature
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length film. Maybe it's just a matter of giving the
computer enough time to figure it out and produce it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, they can do all of it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It can take a movie that Disney has nothing to
do anything with and make it look like a Disney film.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That's just where we're headed.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's bothersome.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
You know, we're we're gonna go back to really appreciating
those hand drawn cartoons that Walt Disney made on cocktail napkins,
just like we're going to go back to the flip phones.
All this new stuff, all this polished fake stuff, We're
all gonna hate real quickly.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I think.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I hope so too many people are too lazy and
are just willing to eat the junk food that is,
you know, this content just hyped directly into their heads.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I know, all right, AI to write an obituary question.
We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, I wanted to do a quick before we get
to that.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Do you have a clock there? Do you have a
clock there? You clearly don't have a clock there.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Wow, I will.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That when I'm doing it, remote about nobody else.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
You, I kindly remind I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
We'll do your comment when we come back.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And I think we both came to the eventual point that, yeah,
but we wouldn't want to watch everybody else not be
healthier as we if we were able to maintain health,
to drink out of the chalice of youth or.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
What have you.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I think that is, you know, a common thief for
all the stories that are ever told, all the fictionalized,
I mean, obviously they're fictionalized of cases of people who
don't age when everybody else does, it ends up just
being sad. Yeah, pressing. I told you. I'm in the
middle of reading Project Hail Mary. It's coming out as
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a movie in the spring, I believe it is. And
there's an aspect to it that is this looming like
I know that something bad is coming and I can't
you know, you can't shake that. You're excited for what's
going on in the midst of the story, but you
know that there's something the gloomy that is looming in
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front of you, and it's I almost get that same
feeling when we were talking about that last week about
outliving everyone.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, it's hard enough sitting here with you every day,
watching you age at this At this rate.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I can't feel good.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I can't feel good about how good I feel right
watching what's happening before my very eyes.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Obituaries are awful to right. They are an honorific that
is designed to explain to people who may not have
known your loved one what their life was like. And
it's at times an awful task to write one. But
also I think you put it perfectly. It was a
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way for you to reflect and process through your dad's death.
And I don't know add color and texture to otherwise
was just a picture in the paper and a couple
of dates about date of birth and date of death.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
There are people who experienced great the same kind of
cathartic feeling by just writing things down in a journal
or what have you, And I felt like that was
a way.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Looking back on it, I'm like, yeah, that's kind of
what that was.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You're kind of like journaling about, you know, your father's
death or what have you.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And I think it's helpful.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I think it would be helpful for a lot of
people to write something down. I mean, even if it's
not going to be the printed obituary, but like writing
it down. It was very helpful for me personally. You know,
It's something that I will do again in a loss,
even if I'm not writing the obituary, because it helps
you go through things and how you're feeling and what
they did and thoughts of levity and love and all
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the things.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And I think there's that may be specific to your personality.
I mean you in that you have written and use
language and you talk and you communicate that way. Other
people might not feel that same way. I know people
have struggled with writing obituaries because what if you didn't
have a great relationship with this person, you know, and
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you're the one tasked with I don't know why you
would be tasked with it, but you are tasked with
kind of, for lack of a better term, cleaning up
what they left.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
We've done stories about people who have written obituaries about
awful family members, I mean just monsters of people, and
how they just put it out there. This person was
a monster, he was awful. I mean, they rise to
the level of being newsworthy because they're so rare. But
that's got to be cathartic in a way too.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, I guess that's a that's a question by the
way that's being asked of people now when you go
to a funeral home is whether or not they would
you would prefer AI write the obituary interesting than you
do it yourself, because it's I guess it's a service
that they would offer. Now you still you still have
to build up, you know, a history of this person
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and and feed that information into into AI so that
it can generate an obituary. But I just I mean,
that's I I understand if it's something like.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You want to, uh, hey, AI, I have a.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Peanut butter, mayonnaise up pickle and an orange, make me
lunch or something like that, I can understand that kind
of an idea for creativity or problem solving. But there's
there's some human things that we have to do that
we should not be giving up.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I do like the idea of following up some peanut
butter with an orange, because that way you get you know,
a little protein, you get some fat, you get the sweet,
and then you you know, it's a little palate cleanser
to get in that orange.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Do you know anybody with a grapefruit tree?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I do? I think my does my brother have a
grape fruit?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Now he has say, if your brother has a grapefruit tree,
I'm looking at one right now. And if he's in
that house, old.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Oh my god, Oh my god, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's not. I know he's not. I saw the neighbors yesterday,
so it's not. I but there's a huge grapefruit grapefruit
tree that's just over my sister's fence, and we picked
some yesterday. He asked picked some, and she peeled one
and sliced it up, and it was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I don't like grapefruits, but the last time I had one,
I was probably eight years old. They're very good. If
you're watching your figure like you are one to do.
Grapefruit's a good breakfast.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I think if.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
You when a boy begins to like this.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I know, especially the way to keep an eye on right.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And I don't want to end up in a hospital
like Menendez brother with rocks coming out of kidney stones?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Happened to everybody? Is that you or me?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I don't know, it's probably me, Oh that was me.
I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We do have a standoff. Deborah was just sending me
the latest information here. We do have a standoff. We
have our eyes on it's in a Costco parking lot
in Los Felis. And this is a guy who allegedly
made some criminal threats and led officers on a chase.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
He's driving, which makes this interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
A small bus looks like one of those buses that
picks up older people to go to the Older People
Center during the day.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That's the kind of little bus it looks like. And
he's about a twelve passenger sixteen passion.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Exactly, and he's just kind of sitting on this stoop
of where you would be letting in passengers. He's just
sitting on that like last step with you know, just
just sitting there talking officers who apparently all have their
as I'm looking at some pictures on the TV, all
have their guns drawn. There's obviously trying to make this
come to a resolution and talk to the guy. But
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so far he hasn't moved from that step there on
the little bus. As they have stopped the chase, they
have confronted him, so now it's just a bit of
a standoff situation. Don't know if he is armed with anything,
but they seem to have it under control as best
you could. Not knowing if he's armed with anything, all right,
we'll keep an eye on that one.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That twelve o'clock hour, the big, massive one that we
hit every day Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's upon us.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well, We're going to talk about what's happening, which basically
gets you set up for every conversation you're going to
have with everybody all day because you'll be fully caught
up on what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
We have made a grave miscalculation, by the way, when
we talk about people who listen that we assume that
people are listening like they're in the car driving around,
or maybe they're at home or on a walk or
something like that. You have to be careful because sometimes
we get people who are on their bikes.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Good morning Gary, Good morning Shannon.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Michael from Noroco. I gotta tell you that Phil.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Collins song right there is awesome, but I had one
little problem.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I'm on a bicycle with a set of headphones rolling.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Downhill and I'm trying to do the beat to that
drum was not easy to do. But I love that song.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Thank you for making my day.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Peace out, guys, see you that would be tough on
a bike. I'd fall over.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That's when you have to go away from the bongo
style with a full hand and just do fingers.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, you gotta clench your ass right because you can't
use the handlebars.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
What does that have to do with anything.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
For balance on the bike? Because you got to use
your hands.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
You clinch well? I mean no, no, no, hey, everybody's
got a thing, a thing. I don't want to know more.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
When's the last time you rode a bike with no hands?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Put yourself on the bike. And are you on the bike?
Do you feel the bike?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Now? You're gonna take your hands off? What are you clinching?
Aren't you clenching your thighs?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Your butt?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I feel like that would make you less.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Balanced.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
What do you like?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You tense up and it would throw everything off. You
got to relax, just let it flow, babe.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh my god. Okay. I love public libraries.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I know you do. I have not set foot in
a public libraries like since my kids were probably an elementary.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I guess I should say I used to like public libraries.
They've now become dungeons of homeless porn. But I love
the idea and if you have a good local public library.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I actually do in my town.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
One of the reasons, I mean not one of the reasons,
but it was a nice piece of frosting on the
cake to buy the home because it's just a nice,
you know, part of the community that would there's a
public library that's actually useful and where you can go,
and it's not a dungeon of porn the way that
some libraries have become. Yes, but at the Orange County
(27:13):
Public Library, they have a library of things, so it's
not just books. And a lot of people who use
libraries know this about libraries. It's not just books, it's movies,
it's music. And at Orange County it can be from
power tools to sewing machines to lawn games, musical instruments.
They have a vast catalog of items for temporary use.
(27:36):
And I was thinking about this when I was looking
at this article this morning. Is you know you were
just talking about how you're picking up golf, your wife
is picking up sewing.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'm trying to, you know, drink more water.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
We all have our things, and it's never too late
to try something new or get into something new, and
in fact it should happen later, right, Like that's how
we stay young is coming from like a beginner's mind
when it comes to sewing or golf or whatever it
is you're picking up. It's really beneficial to not dying inside.
(28:12):
To have something at every stage of life where it's
new to you, where you've got to learn how to
flex a new muscle.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And this is one easy, cheap way to do it.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You don't have to go buy a sewing machine or whatever.
You can rent one musical instrument is another thing. You
don't have to go buy something. You can take one
from the library and learn that way.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, And I mean it's great if people don't blow it,
but we're human beings dealing with human beings, and someone's
going to blow it. Someone's going to take advantage of this,
and they're going to ruin it if you check out,
Like if they don't think they have golf clubs, but
if they had golf clubs, you take a set of
clubs and you never turn it back in.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I mean, well, those are the one us set.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I mean, we are most most of the time, we
are a good people. And this has been going on
for This is not a new program. This has been
going on at libraries for a long time. I mean,
it might be new at Orange County, but for the
most part, people do use these things for what they're
meant to. Be sure, you're going to have the one
off a hole from time to time, but it's nice
that there still are these things.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
What's your next outside of drinking more water? What's the
next hobby you're going to get into it?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I really like the idea of picking up sewing.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I tried to pick up knitting years ago, and you know,
I didn't like the whole you make one mistake and
then you got to undo it, and the focusing and
the aware did I make a mistake? It just drove
me a little bit mad. So the knitting, wasn't it.
I paint from time to time. I get into a
(29:52):
phase We're all paint I've got like the canvases and
the paints and the brushes and the whole things.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I love the way you say that, too, because it
cracks me up what I paint from time to time.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I paint from time to time. I've got a couple
unfinished paintings that my husband has hung up in the
basement to remind me that I paint from time to
time and that I could finish those.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Any time, dear, anytime you want to.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
But I'm a big fan of starting something new, of
constantly like learning something new and not just.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Being boring and old. And you know, I.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Love reading, but you know, to just to get something
to get your mind thinking differently, I think is very
valuable in your entire life, for your entire life, of
just doing you know, something different.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, well we are on the Vergin. Where did the
rest of the show go?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
By the way, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Did you mean it? It feels like it's no, it's
already twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I know that's what I said. I said, the big
mass of twelve o'clock hour. Here it is slapping us
in the face.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Right still only seventy seven degrees here. I thought it
was going to be like one hundred and nine today.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I am shocked that it's seventy seven degrees in folsom
right now. Shocked in August fourth, Well, we're in the
middle of an ice age.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I heard it on the Conway show. You know, you
can learn a lot on that show. On The Conway Show,
I really like that show. I do really like that show.
I like the food, I like the prices.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And I like it when Tim Conway does the show
He's back today.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
And I like it when there's some girls up in
that house. Call nine one one.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You
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heard before weekend podcast common.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Commonly called the Gas Weekend Fix.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Does just show up in your cue, your darn tootin?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It does?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Wow? It just as they say in the podcast world,
it just populates.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Because I gotta say, the podcasts that we do for
the weekend, commonly known as Gas Weekend Fix, that gets
a lot of traction. People listen to that. It's a
little more, a lot more irreverent. It's a more off
the cuff. We have zero agenda. We just talk out
(00:53):
our ass and apparently people like it well.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The last weekends or two days ago, we recorded the
podcast The Weekend Fix, after your very long trip to Canton,
Ohio for the Pro Football Hall of Fame game, the
preseason game that the Chargers played in. And it's not
about the game itself, but just about that aspect of
(01:18):
what you do for work, because a lot of people
know that you work with the Chargers. But in this
we found out last week. Some people don't know exactly
what you do with the Chargers, so we kind of
explained what your job is doing radio sideline reporting for
their radio broad sideline reporting for the radio broadcast, but
also just the aspect of traveling to these different stadiums,
(01:40):
what it's like. You know, you're on these charter flights
with the team, the team that you work with with
Matt and DJ and Rich and then who in the
Chargers organization do you liaise with? Is that the right word?
And so I think that because I think a lot
of people don't. You don't have to be a football
fan to enjoy that aspect of it. Because I've said
(02:02):
this before, one of the more compelling things about listening
to you and Matt and DJ talk about football is
that you guys love the game. You guys love watching you,
guys love analyzing you guys love the backstories on all
these guys. And that's what makes it compelling. So I
wanted to hear I mean, it was more for me
than probably for other people, but I wanted to hear
(02:25):
your aspect. What was it that makes it that exciting
for you? And it's all in that, It's all in
that gas weekend fix.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, I think that sometimes we like I don't even
remember the topic of many of our gas weekend fixes.
They're just that that magical.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, they're they're and they're not inconsequential, no, but it's
just more of a it's it's a less structured conversation
than even this mess.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yes, speaking of this mess. Eleven o'clock we dive into Washington.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
So what I'm not going anywhere So that now you
drain the squaw.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been gone
at but they're not stupid. A political flunder is when
a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Why have the people voting for you were not swamp
watch they're all countera well.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
President Trump suggested that the weaker than expected jobs report
on Friday was rigged, that the monthly revisions were concocted
this big brew haha. The Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, he ended up firing the head of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics who's been in there for a few years.
Her name was Erica mecintart for and suggested that those
numbers that came out on Friday, which said that there
were fewer jobs or fewer hirings than expected, was the
(04:13):
result of her fudging the numbers somehow. So this was
him in response to a question about why he got rid.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Of I think her numbers were wrong, just like I
thought her numbers were wrong before the election.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Days before the election, she came out with these beautiful
numbers for Kamala.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I guess Biden slash Kamala, and she came out with
these beautiful numbers trying to get somebody else elected.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Now, the biggest issue is when it comes to revisions
of job numbers and when we get them, we being
in the media when we get them and are available
to everybody else. On that Friday morning, the first Friday
of the month, for the previous month, they also include
here's the numbers for hiring for the month of July,
(04:58):
but here also the revised numbers for June and then
also for May. Because they just do it like an
like a pole, like you're taking a poll of business owners.
And I think it's around six hundred thousand or so workplaces.
Some of them do it by phone, some of them
do it by Internet, some of them still do it
(05:19):
by facts. To give you an idea of how outdated
some of this this government work still is, but they
don't get a complete picture. I mean, we're literally talking
about the first Friday in August. We're supposed to have
all of the information from the month of July, and
what previous Bureau of Labor Statistics employees have said is
(05:43):
we have because the original poll numbers are so inaccurate,
or can be so inaccurate, we need to go back
and revise over the course of a couple of months.
What the President was saying was last year, for example,
the total number of revisions was somewhere in the eight
hundred thousand mark, the number of how far off the
(06:07):
original numbers were to what they eventually were revised to. Now,
the idea that eric Erica Mecintarfer, the idea that she's
doing it on purpose, is a stretch, and they would
have to come out and show some evidence that she
was doing it on purpose because in her position, she
(06:29):
doesn't even have the ability to get into the raw
numbers and alter them. Basically, she puts a cover on
the report on that Thursday night before the Friday morning
report goes out. That's what she does. She doesn't skim
the numbers, she doesn't pad the numbers, she doesn't inflate
them or deflate them or disenthrall them in any way.
But because she's the one who was last touching the report,
(06:53):
it's her ass on the line.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I don't think disenthrall can be used as a verb. No,
it has, Yeah, it has to be disenthrolling myself. Okay,
I don't want to spend all day doing disenthrall stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It takes a train that throws it off the tracks
and there's wreckage, and then I got to go through
it and I find the bodies, and then I got
to figure out how to put.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It back on.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What you have a weird job?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, there's a lot going on in my head.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
The other financial thing that went on is that Adrianna Kugler,
who is one of the Fed Reserve Open Committee members
who votes in favor or against interest rate changes she resigned.
Her term wasn't supposed to be up until January, I believe,
and didn't really give much of a reason why she's
(07:45):
going to step down early. But this could mean that
Trump could appoint somebody I believe that would you know,
follow along his version of economics where he thinks that
the interest it should be dropped down. He's you know,
he's already called Jerome Powell too late, Powell, et cetera.
So there are some economic things that are going on
(08:07):
here that he's going to have to deal with. The
Idea of firing somebody from Bureau of Labor statistics for
job numbers that you don't like is fine if you
can prove to the public that there was actual wrongdoing.
But at this point he's just alluding to it, as
he does so many times without actually offering much proof.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So transitive verbs, whole subset of problems.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, you have a you have a wild afternoon planned,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I forgot to tell you my swamp Watch related story
that happened at the Hall of Fame game when I
went to go say hi to Dean Spanos, owner of
the team, and I go up to I haven't seen
him yet the season.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So I get to and I have my arms outstretch
to give him a hug, like I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Kind of doing a running hug, and I'm running up
and all of a sudden, the head of security build
kind of stops me.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
He's like, ah, that's a that's a secret Service.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I go and I look over at Dean and he's
surrounded by guys who look homeless, but they all have the.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thing in their ear.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But they literally were They looked like middle school math teachers.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I mean, they.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Mismatched clothes and the whole bit, and they're surrounding them.
I'm like, that's the Secret Service. Of course they don't
pay their hookers, but it was.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Odd to me.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You think secret service, you think men in black suits, right,
you think like cleaned up, fresh haircuts, the whole thing.
That was the antithesis of what I saw. Turns out
Dean was talking to a member of the cabinet, the
secretary of the HUD, Secretary Scott Turner, and that's why
the Secret Service was there. But I was totally thrown off.
I'm like, that is the Secret Service anyway?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, that would have been a funnier story if you
ran up to the Cabinet secretary and you got tackled
by six secret services.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Such a better story. I was so pissed off I
got stopped.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You are in your sister's shed.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's always suspicious when someone has a shed, right, I
love the idea of a shed. I've asked my husband
repeatedly to build me a shed, and he just looks
at me with a blank look on his face, like,
what do you planning on doing in that shed?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I just think it'd be cool to have like a
shed out back where I could just go and do
shed stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I should he should call me. We could work on
getting a shed with a lock on the outside.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I'm not a kujo.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I should have been bolted up like a raby infested beast.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Oh it's not what I meant. That is what I meant.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, so I'm in.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm just in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You're no good way you were getting out of that.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We joked about this before, so, I mean our individual
histories run parallel in a really weird way. We grew
up in very similar areas. You know, a few miles
apart of a Highway one oh one north of San Francisco,
and didn't know each other. It turns out that through
high school we probably had people in the same circle
(11:04):
of friends. I worked at a movie or I trained
at a movie theater where your brother was working, and
then I went back and opened up a movie theater
in my hometown. We both went to Chico different years,
so we found out.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I found out at my dad's funeral that my best
friend from childhood, her now husband, went to high school
with you.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, it's all very odd.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
And so just to continue the theme, outside of you know,
job locations in Chico and Sacramento and then Seattle and
then down to La my sister lives in Fulsome, just
a handful of blocks away from where your brother lives.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Right and he hasn't always lived there.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I mean he's lived in Citrus, Heites, and all sorts
of different places in Sacramento, but lives in Fulsom now
a few blocks from your sister. I was texting with
your wife about this earlier, and I said, it's so odd.
My brother is in a long term relationship right now,
but there's been times when he's been signal in recent
years he's not. But I thought, uh, it's just like us,
(12:10):
where our brother and sister would end up like on
a date if he wasn't in a relationship.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
That is funny. Uh, it's completely plausible.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That's weird. When we did go to see a movie
last night, I said to my wife, Hey, we got
to keep an eye out for Andy. She goes, do
you really think he'd be here?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And I go he exactly. Okay, So AI.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
We are staying on all of the latest that comes
out of the AI world because it's gonna It's already
slapped us in the face with something we didn't even
see coming. I mean a I has been quietly working
to take over the world, and it feels like it has.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And now there's talk about Disney and if Disney is
still magic if AI is involved. Disney's never been magic. Okay,
here's a little secret. It's the illusion of magic.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah. This is one of those things that in Hollywood
they have yet to figure out, even though they've It's
been a part of the discussion for a couple of
years now is what are they going to do when
AI is used, especially by the larger production companies. Like
Disney when it comes to movie making. So as an example,
(13:35):
Disney's been working on this live action version of Milana,
and in Milana correct me if I'm wrong, Maui is
voiced by I mean, at least in the animated version,
he's voiced by Dwayne Johnson. And what they wanted to
do was have the actor Dwayne Johnson play Maui. But
(14:01):
the problem is either he's got scheduling conflicts or there
are days when they don't want to pay the Dwayne
Johnson rate and they're going to have a body double
fill in. Well, in this case, it happens to be
a cousin of Dwayne Johnson, who has also just yoked
six foot three, two fifty and he would fill in
(14:21):
as the body double, and then they would use artificial
intelligence to basically make a deep fake of the Rock's
face and put it on the cousin. Now, allegedly this
saves money. I mean, it's one of the reasons why
they would do it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You gotta be careful, though, because if you're Disney using AI,
who's to stop someone who's not Disney from using AI
and making it look like Disney. And that's exactly the conundrum.
Hollywood has found it's in. They say, the deep fake
Dwayne Johnson is just one part of a broader technological
earthquake hitting Hollywood. Studios are scrambling how to fa figure
(15:00):
out how to simultaneously use AI in the filmmaking process
and how to protect themselves against it.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
And I don't know how. I listen. I'm amazed at
how advanced AI is now compared to what it was
even a year ago, two years ago. But would you
be able to trying to think of an example, would you.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Be able to.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Mimic a certain filmmaker's style? Would you like a movie
Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Aaron Sorkin
type stuff? You be able to say to whatever machine,
whatever engine is creating your movie, I want this movie.
(15:48):
Recut it, rescore it, redo it, but make it a
Steven Spielberg product or Steven spielbergerg like product. And it
bothers me that we're that close to it. You can
see with visual images now, whether it's videos or steal images,
AI can do that now, But would it be able
to do a full hour and forty five minute feature
(16:10):
length film. Maybe it's just a matter of giving the
computer enough time to figure it out and produce it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, they can do all of it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It can take a movie that Disney has nothing to
do anything with and make it look like a Disney film.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That's just where we're headed.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's bothersome.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
You know, we're we're gonna go back to really appreciating
those hand drawn cartoons that Walt Disney made on cocktail napkins,
just like we're going to go back to the flip phones.
All this new stuff, all this polished fake stuff, We're
all gonna hate real quickly.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I think.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I hope so too many people are too lazy and
are just willing to eat the junk food that is,
you know, this content just hyped directly into their heads.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I know, all right, AI to write an obituary question.
We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, I wanted to do a quick before we get
to that.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Do you have a clock there? Do you have a
clock there? You clearly don't have a clock there.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Wow, I will.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That when I'm doing it, remote about nobody else.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
You, I kindly remind I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
We'll do your comment when we come back.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And I think we both came to the eventual point that, yeah,
but we wouldn't want to watch everybody else not be
healthier as we if we were able to maintain health,
to drink out of the chalice of youth or.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
What have you.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I think that is, you know, a common thief for
all the stories that are ever told, all the fictionalized,
I mean, obviously they're fictionalized of cases of people who
don't age when everybody else does, it ends up just
being sad. Yeah, pressing. I told you. I'm in the
middle of reading Project Hail Mary. It's coming out as
(18:07):
a movie in the spring, I believe it is. And
there's an aspect to it that is this looming like
I know that something bad is coming and I can't
you know, you can't shake that. You're excited for what's
going on in the midst of the story, but you
know that there's something the gloomy that is looming in
(18:27):
front of you, and it's I almost get that same
feeling when we were talking about that last week about
outliving everyone.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, it's hard enough sitting here with you every day,
watching you age at this At this rate.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I can't feel good.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I can't feel good about how good I feel right
watching what's happening before my very eyes.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Obituaries are awful to right. They are an honorific that
is designed to explain to people who may not have
known your loved one what their life was like. And
it's at times an awful task to write one. But
also I think you put it perfectly. It was a
(19:15):
way for you to reflect and process through your dad's death.
And I don't know add color and texture to otherwise
was just a picture in the paper and a couple
of dates about date of birth and date of death.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
There are people who experienced great the same kind of
cathartic feeling by just writing things down in a journal
or what have you, And I felt like that was
a way.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Looking back on it, I'm like, yeah, that's kind of
what that was.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You're kind of like journaling about, you know, your father's
death or what have you.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And I think it's helpful.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I think it would be helpful for a lot of
people to write something down. I mean, even if it's
not going to be the printed obituary, but like writing
it down. It was very helpful for me personally. You know,
It's something that I will do again in a loss,
even if I'm not writing the obituary, because it helps
you go through things and how you're feeling and what
they did and thoughts of levity and love and all
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the things.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And I think there's that may be specific to your personality.
I mean you in that you have written and use
language and you talk and you communicate that way. Other
people might not feel that same way. I know people
have struggled with writing obituaries because what if you didn't
have a great relationship with this person, you know, and
(20:40):
you're the one tasked with I don't know why you
would be tasked with it, but you are tasked with
kind of, for lack of a better term, cleaning up
what they left.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
We've done stories about people who have written obituaries about
awful family members, I mean just monsters of people, and
how they just put it out there. This person was
a monster, he was awful. I mean, they rise to
the level of being newsworthy because they're so rare. But
that's got to be cathartic in a way too.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, I guess that's a that's a question by the
way that's being asked of people now when you go
to a funeral home is whether or not they would
you would prefer AI write the obituary interesting than you
do it yourself, because it's I guess it's a service
that they would offer. Now you still you still have
to build up, you know, a history of this person
(21:28):
and and feed that information into into AI so that
it can generate an obituary. But I just I mean,
that's I I understand if it's something like.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You want to, uh, hey, AI, I have a.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Peanut butter, mayonnaise up pickle and an orange, make me
lunch or something like that, I can understand that kind
of an idea for creativity or problem solving. But there's
there's some human things that we have to do that
we should not be giving up.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I do like the idea of following up some peanut
butter with an orange, because that way you get you know,
a little protein, you get some fat, you get the sweet,
and then you you know, it's a little palate cleanser
to get in that orange.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Do you know anybody with a grapefruit tree?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I do? I think my does my brother have a
grape fruit?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Now he has say, if your brother has a grapefruit tree,
I'm looking at one right now. And if he's in
that house, old.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Oh my god, Oh my god, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's not. I know he's not. I saw the neighbors yesterday,
so it's not. I but there's a huge grapefruit grapefruit
tree that's just over my sister's fence, and we picked
some yesterday. He asked picked some, and she peeled one
and sliced it up, and it was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I don't like grapefruits, but the last time I had one,
I was probably eight years old. They're very good. If
you're watching your figure like you are one to do.
Grapefruit's a good breakfast.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I think if.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
You when a boy begins to like this.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I know, especially the way to keep an eye on right.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And I don't want to end up in a hospital
like Menendez brother with rocks coming out of kidney stones?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Happened to everybody? Is that you or me?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I don't know, it's probably me, Oh that was me.
I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We do have a standoff. Deborah was just sending me
the latest information here. We do have a standoff. We
have our eyes on it's in a Costco parking lot
in Los Felis. And this is a guy who allegedly
made some criminal threats and led officers on a chase.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
He's driving, which makes this interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
A small bus looks like one of those buses that
picks up older people to go to the Older People
Center during the day.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That's the kind of little bus it looks like. And
he's about a twelve passenger sixteen passion.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Exactly, and he's just kind of sitting on this stoop
of where you would be letting in passengers. He's just
sitting on that like last step with you know, just
just sitting there talking officers who apparently all have their
as I'm looking at some pictures on the TV, all
have their guns drawn. There's obviously trying to make this
come to a resolution and talk to the guy. But
(24:10):
so far he hasn't moved from that step there on
the little bus. As they have stopped the chase, they
have confronted him, so now it's just a bit of
a standoff situation. Don't know if he is armed with anything,
but they seem to have it under control as best
you could. Not knowing if he's armed with anything, all right,
we'll keep an eye on that one.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That twelve o'clock hour, the big, massive one that we
hit every day Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's upon us.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well, We're going to talk about what's happening, which basically
gets you set up for every conversation you're going to
have with everybody all day because you'll be fully caught
up on what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
We have made a grave miscalculation, by the way, when
we talk about people who listen that we assume that
people are listening like they're in the car driving around,
or maybe they're at home or on a walk or
something like that. You have to be careful because sometimes
we get people who are on their bikes.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Good morning Gary, Good morning Shannon.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Michael from Noroco. I gotta tell you that Phil.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Collins song right there is awesome, but I had one
little problem.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I'm on a bicycle with a set of headphones rolling.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Downhill and I'm trying to do the beat to that
drum was not easy to do. But I love that song.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Thank you for making my day.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Peace out, guys, see you that would be tough on
a bike. I'd fall over.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That's when you have to go away from the bongo
style with a full hand and just do fingers.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Well, you gotta clench your ass right because you can't
use the handlebars.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
What does that have to do with anything.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
For balance on the bike? Because you got to use
your hands.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
You clinch well? I mean no, no, no, hey, everybody's
got a thing, a thing. I don't want to know more.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
When's the last time you rode a bike with no hands?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Put yourself on the bike. And are you on the bike?
Do you feel the bike?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Now? You're gonna take your hands off? What are you clinching?
Aren't you clenching your thighs?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Your butt?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I feel like that would make you less.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Balanced.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
What do you like?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You tense up and it would throw everything off. You
got to relax, just let it flow, babe.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh my god. Okay. I love public libraries.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I know you do. I have not set foot in
a public libraries like since my kids were probably an elementary.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I guess I should say I used to like public libraries.
They've now become dungeons of homeless porn. But I love
the idea and if you have a good local public library.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I actually do in my town.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
One of the reasons, I mean not one of the reasons,
but it was a nice piece of frosting on the
cake to buy the home because it's just a nice,
you know, part of the community that would there's a
public library that's actually useful and where you can go,
and it's not a dungeon of porn the way that
some libraries have become. Yes, but at the Orange County
(27:13):
Public Library, they have a library of things, so it's
not just books. And a lot of people who use
libraries know this about libraries. It's not just books, it's movies,
it's music. And at Orange County it can be from
power tools to sewing machines to lawn games, musical instruments.
They have a vast catalog of items for temporary use.
(27:36):
And I was thinking about this when I was looking
at this article this morning. Is you know you were
just talking about how you're picking up golf, your wife
is picking up sewing.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'm trying to, you know, drink more water.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
We all have our things, and it's never too late
to try something new or get into something new, and
in fact it should happen later, right, Like that's how
we stay young is coming from like a beginner's mind
when it comes to sewing or golf or whatever it
is you're picking up. It's really beneficial to not dying inside.
(28:12):
To have something at every stage of life where it's
new to you, where you've got to learn how to
flex a new muscle.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And this is one easy, cheap way to do it.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You don't have to go buy a sewing machine or whatever.
You can rent one musical instrument is another thing. You
don't have to go buy something. You can take one
from the library and learn that way.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, And I mean it's great if people don't blow it,
but we're human beings dealing with human beings, and someone's
going to blow it. Someone's going to take advantage of this,
and they're going to ruin it if you check out,
Like if they don't think they have golf clubs, but
if they had golf clubs, you take a set of
clubs and you never turn it back in.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I mean, well, those are the one us set.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I mean, we are most most of the time, we
are a good people. And this has been going on
for This is not a new program. This has been
going on at libraries for a long time. I mean,
it might be new at Orange County, but for the
most part, people do use these things for what they're
meant to. Be sure, you're going to have the one
off a hole from time to time, but it's nice
that there still are these things.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
What's your next outside of drinking more water? What's the
next hobby you're going to get into it?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I really like the idea of picking up sewing.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I tried to pick up knitting years ago, and you know,
I didn't like the whole you make one mistake and
then you got to undo it, and the focusing and
the aware did I make a mistake? It just drove
me a little bit mad. So the knitting, wasn't it.
I paint from time to time. I get into a
(29:52):
phase We're all paint I've got like the canvases and
the paints and the brushes and the whole things.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I love the way you say that, too, because it
cracks me up what I paint from time to time.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I paint from time to time. I've got a couple
unfinished paintings that my husband has hung up in the
basement to remind me that I paint from time to
time and that I could finish those.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Any time, dear, anytime you want to.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
But I'm a big fan of starting something new, of
constantly like learning something new and not just.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Being boring and old. And you know, I.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Love reading, but you know, to just to get something
to get your mind thinking differently, I think is very
valuable in your entire life, for your entire life, of
just doing you know, something different.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, well we are on the Vergin. Where did the
rest of the show go?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
By the way, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Did you mean it? It feels like it's no, it's
already twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I know that's what I said. I said, the big
mass of twelve o'clock hour. Here it is slapping us
in the face.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Right still only seventy seven degrees here. I thought it
was going to be like one hundred and nine today.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I am shocked that it's seventy seven degrees in folsom
right now. Shocked in August fourth, Well, we're in the
middle of an ice age.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I heard it on the Conway show. You know, you
can learn a lot on that show. On The Conway Show,
I really like that show. I do really like that show.
I like the food, I like the prices.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And I like it when Tim Conway does the show
He's back today.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
And I like it when there's some girls up in
that house. Call nine one one.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
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