October 18, 2025 • 16 mins
Gary and Shannon celebrate a decade of chaos, caffeine, and KFI classics. From the early “fun bunny” years to Dodgers meltdowns and future retirement plans, it’s the unfiltered story of how the show became one of KFI’s longest-running, and most accidentally iconic duos!
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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):
Hey, welcome to the Gas Weekend Fix.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So that's what we've called it lately lately.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, but we could end up changing the name of it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You know. It's like it's like Apple and Apple plus HBO,
Max just Max, you know, all the things. We reserve
the right to just f around with it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You could go ahead and say it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I can, but I didn't think it was necessary to
use the entire word in that sentence.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I did in the.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
First thirty forty seconds. You want to ease into that one.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, yeah, And there's things I care about and that's
not one of them. Enough to die on the f hill?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know I would like to visit that hill?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I would? Yeah. So this is the segment that does
not appear during the week for good reason. So if you,
if you are a if you happen to be stumbling
across this, this is the kind of shit that you
cannot hear during the week.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But I get very uncomfortable when you swear.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's funny because you think I don't swear, and maybe
compared to you, I don't swear a whole uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It's like hearing my grandfather swear.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I probably heard him swear maybe twice in my whole life,
and it was like a damn or maybe one shit,
maybe one, but that was it.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I don't my grandparents. I'm sure they did swear, especially moms,
you know, Dick Dickerson and Dixie. I'm sure they did,
but they didn't. They never did around us.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I found myself watching baseball this week and my husband
was in the room and I stood up at one point.
It must have been in like the eighth inning. It
must have been a Dodger's bullpen meltdown or something. I
stood up out of my chair like I was doing
my crossword puzzle. Ew. I was like, in a safe space.
(01:58):
You know, I'm watching baseball, I'm doing a Crossford puzzle.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I stood up.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Did you have a calftan across your across your legs too?
Just keep it warm.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I may have had a blanky, I don't know, but
I stand up and the slew of profanity that came
out of my mouth watching a baseball game was shocking.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, I did that too, But I did that the
other night when the this would have been a week
ago now in the Phillies pitcher with bases loaded through
the ball to the backstop when he should have had
an easy play at first base. I got up and
I said, fuck, what are you fucking doing? What did
you throw that ball? The first I mean, it was
(02:38):
just yeah, And it was to the point where, listen,
my wife has lived with me for thirty years almost,
and she was taken aback by because I don't I
don't generally react like that too much of anything, right, and.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I definitely don't to baseball, and to the degree where
my husband still hasn't reacted to it, like we haven't
talked about it or addressed it, like that's how bad.
He didn't say anything in the moment. We just pretended
like it never happened. But I was loud, I was aggressive.
I think an MF or an acser. I think it
(03:11):
was really bad.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And he pulled out all the stops.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And nothing was addressed. And I don't know where it
came from, honestly, because I'm not that passionate and emotional
when it comes to baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, I don't know how you can't know what that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Was all about, was I Maybe I was hungry.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
This last weekend also marked the tenth anniversary of our show.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yes, maybe that's what it was about.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Maybe I was, you know, feeling nostalgic, and I didn't
know how to communicate that, so I just stood up
in the middle of a baseball game and said things
that would make my grandfather blush.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Did you think we would do ten years?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You know, we were talking about it earlier in the week,
I think, or I don't know if it was this week,
and I never I don't remember ever having a thought
of it not work working out, or how long is
this going to go for? Or anything like those things
didn't even cross my mind. Maybe it's because I was
(04:09):
super hyper focused on the excitement of just doing the
show and getting it off the ground, and there was
a lot of a lot of action going on and
a lot of what we want it to be and
what do you want to do? And I didn't stop
and think about the whole concept of it, like what
is this show? Or is it going to work? How
long are we going to do this for? I never
(04:30):
thought about any of those things.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
What do you think? What did you think I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I don't think I ever thought about it either, because
it seemed like whatever task was put right in front
of us. Because when we started the show, for the
if you don't know when we started the show, it
was only two hours long. It was from one o'clock
until three o'clock in the afternoon, which seems like a
million years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, that was the time when we got a ping
pong table and we had a huge office and we
put the ping pong table in our office and still
had room to spare, and we would just dick around
all day, like we'd get here in the morning and
we would play ping pong and we'd ping pong around,
ideas of what the show should be, and who do
we want. We'd play music, and ours was the party office,
(05:16):
and people like John and Ken would walk by and
be like, what the fuck are we doing around here?
Like we're putting these two on the air? What the
hell are we doing?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Like why places all those fun bunnies right?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Because we were having a great time and.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was not a term of endearment by any.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Means, no, no, no, but anyway, we'd go on the
air for what felt like four minutes every day I
mean that two hour show blew by, and it would
today when you've got two hosts, even if you've got
one host for two hours, that is nothing. That is
no time at all with all the commercials and everything.
So that last How long did that last for?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That was about three months because in January of the
next year, in January twenty sixth, so just three months,
I guess it was three months later they expanded. We
expanded to three hours.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yes, that's right, we.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Were doing and at that point we were doing ten
to one.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And it was really uncomfortable when we made that transition
because it was one of those unfortunate things in radio
where the person who I had worked with for a
number of years and have great respect for and loved
his show was leaving, was told like that day that
his show was no longer and we were kind of
(06:31):
like walking in to do our show after his show,
and it was one of those, really the most uncomfortable
interactions I've had in a hallway at work, you know
where I'm where, I didn't know, you know where. I
didn't start the altercation with like Chris Little or something.
But it was just unfortunate. It was just unfortunate. So yeah,
(06:52):
so we we essentially gobbled up two shows.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah to a degree, to a degree over the course
of three months. Yeah, we did kinna gobble up three
shows or two shows. Yeah. But it's also the unfortunate
thing about this business is we know going into it
that there's no there's and I guess it's any business probably,
but there's no guarantee for tomorrow. There's no guarantee that
(07:18):
the company doesn't make some decision that they want to
flip formats or they think that we're morons, or they
realize we're morons or whatever, and they just they move
on from us.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean that's part that's part of why we probably
never thought how long is this going to last? Because
you go into these things going, well, it could you know,
it could last for a week or a year or
what have you. We have no control over that, We
have no idea.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, you just got to go and have fun with
whatever you're going to do and take pride in the
work that you're doing, hopefully and see if it, you know,
see if you can get what you want out of it. Yeah,
I mean, yeah, there's there's a lot looking back on it.
This is one of the longest running shows on KFI
in its history. Really, well, you don't have a whole
(08:02):
lot that that that are longer than ours. You've got
Handel and John and Ken, yeah, Conway, there you go.
And I guess you could count George Nori just because.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well there was just there were a lot of syndicated
programs on so you had Rushed and you had Doctor
Laura at least when I got here, right, so there
were only so that was twenty years ago, so that
I only have twenty years of frame of reference, which
is pretty good amount of time, I guess, But there
was I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Know, I know very little. I should know more about
the history of KFI. But you had like a Loman
and Barkley back in the day. You had, you know,
different versions of what KFI was, but you know, it
was music at one time, and it was not sports,
but it used The Dodgers used to run on KFI
(08:57):
for a long time. We've got on through different iterations.
I mean, the current iteration of being talk radio. It's
been that way since the eighties. But that doesn't mean
that the shows have been around since the eighties. Yeah,
So I mean that's a certain amount of pride that
we can take in that, but again, there's no guarantee
that it shows back up on Monday. You know, they
(09:18):
call us at home and they tell us, Hey, it's
a you know turn what we were talking about yesterday,
turning your key card or mail in your key card. Yeah, hey,
why don't you come take this key card out of
my pocket?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, I'm not driving in to give my key card
to these people. In fact, my lanyard broke on my
key card this last week, So now I just have
a naked key card here in my hand, and I
got to tell you I'm not making the drive in
here to give them this back.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, I'm pretty sure all they have to do is
what am I getting you from the file?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Exactly exactly?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And you have papers for me to sign docuent like,
send send them, send them to me electronically. There's no
reason to come into the office to get fired. But
if we did get fired, go on, we would still
do the show, right, we just move it to YouTube or.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Something some aspect of it. We'd have to. We would
have to, I mean, just well just out of habit
for nothing else. I mean, what would you do at
nine thirty in the morning on a Wednesday. If you
weren't doing this, Oh no.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Go down to MacArthur Park and figure out how to
buy heroin.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Hey guys, here I am again. I was struck out yesterday.
Some heroin today.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I mean, it would be it'd be interesting, but I
hope that doesn't happen. I mean, who knows. Wow, wouldn't
this be prescient? What if we get fired this next week?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Then people will play this The La Times, the Daily News,
the Orange County Register, all of the trade magazines they'll
play this or all.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Of the trade magazine.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
How many trade magazines exists in radio these days?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Too?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well, you surprised me with one the other day. I'd
never even heard of. You sent me an article about
the company, and it was from something I'd never even
seen before. Now it's not to say that it's a
you know, a widely publicized or even well read a website,
but you know it's something that's out there. Well, you know,
(11:13):
ten more, Let's do ten more.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
No, you're gonna you'll be.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
In your fifties by then, you'll be deep into your fifties.
Holy cow, we'd be like you'd be like waist deep
in your fifties.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Hello, I'm not working with you when I've got to
like wipe your ass.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If you think I'm that guy that would ever admit
that you needed to wipe me, I just.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Don't want to wipe you.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Just what.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'm glad we're let me sit in my own stew
for a while and.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Sho what does it smell? It is the other thing.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I bring some air freshener.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Bring a handler, like, bring somebody who will take you
to the bathroom and wipe you.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And I'll bring my second wife. She'll be able to
help out.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh you think you're going to get a second one
to agree to.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That, Well, I know the first one won't, so I know.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I know.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm just betting at that point this will be.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The girl you meet on the Golden Bachelor probably.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh that's right, Yeah, I gotta do that. I gotta
start planning for that.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
No, I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna retire
before I'm before I'm sixty.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
No one wants to hear a lady yelling at him
right now. They don't want to hear me yelling at them.
You know, what do you want to what do you
want to hear in fifteen years?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know what? That is a good point, right, You
should probably hang it.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Out because like you're, what.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Fifty two and I'm done listening to your old ass.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You stopped listening ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
That's why the show has not been canceled yet. You
stopped listening. The moment you listened, you'd be they'd be like,
what what is she doing?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well? What are you doing this weekend? You have a
family reunion?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I am in Central California. We have a family reunion.
We're going to it's been it's really the first one
we've had probably since mom and dad passed. It's Mom's
side of the family. So maybe I find my second
wife there, are you?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, that's not out of the realm. There are some
questions when you look at your family portraits.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
But the family tree is very not a whole lot
of branches.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Not many.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, what was I gonna say? Is there going to
be a moment where like people are pouring out their
forties for the parents?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No? Okay, actually I don't know. I don't know how
that's going to work. It's my mom's sister, my wonderful aunt.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
She is wonderful who's.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Handling this this weekend and has planned it all.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, you're having hot dogs and beans, right, hot dogs
and beans the main amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
That is so cool.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I don't know how cool that is.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What are you gonna what are you going to bring?
Are you going to bring anything?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, my wife made some pulled pork, perfect, and I
don't know if we're going to take that to the
park for the reunion, if we're going to bring it
back here and have it at the house later exactly
how it's going to go.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
But yeah, what you're going to do with your pulled pork?
You know, your wife make some pulled pork. You know,
you got to be judicious with it. Yeah, I can't
just throw it around for everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I like to keep my hands on my pulled pork.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right, and you should, you should.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You should know the chain of custody on your pulled
pork firm grip right. All right, Well, it's funny because
we listen to this, This is funny. You'll get a
kick out of this. So producer Matt Or were coming
in here. He's like, okay, so we could talk about
this and we could do that we could do that,
we could pull a segment from the show. At some
point I was like, eh, he's like, yeah, we'll probably
have enough content. And I want to be like, oh,
(14:30):
you think this is going to have content? Were you
looking for content in this?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah? We don't really play in content in these parts.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
No, we just talked about our ass for about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Hey, and some people apparently listen to that.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You appreciate it all from shows that have value to them.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know, value, they have structure, they all things.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And I feel bad that we're like, welcome to our
you know, special ed class.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Here's some fingerpaint.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, please don't drink it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
All right, we'll see you on Monday. Have a great
family reunion, Thank you very much. Don't hook up with
a cousin.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hey, no guarantees, but oh you're going.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
To do it a second cousin? Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh sure, yeah, I mean at least every everybody's got boundaries, right, Yeah.
If you listen to the podcast, we greatly appreciate it.
But but we could use your subscription. We could use
you following us. You leave your comments on the podcast
wherever you find them, but most importantly, share the podcast
with somebody that you love or that you hate.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, that's probably more app This is such a joke.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All right, bye, see you Monday. You've been listening to
the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us
live on kf I AM six forty nine am to
one pm every Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
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):
Hey, welcome to the Gas Weekend Fix.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So that's what we've called it lately lately.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, but we could end up changing the name of it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You know. It's like it's like Apple and Apple plus HBO,
Max just Max, you know, all the things. We reserve
the right to just f around with it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You could go ahead and say it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I can, but I didn't think it was necessary to
use the entire word in that sentence.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I did in the.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
First thirty forty seconds. You want to ease into that one.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, yeah, And there's things I care about and that's
not one of them. Enough to die on the f hill?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know I would like to visit that hill?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I would? Yeah. So this is the segment that does
not appear during the week for good reason. So if you,
if you are a if you happen to be stumbling
across this, this is the kind of shit that you
cannot hear during the week.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But I get very uncomfortable when you swear.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's funny because you think I don't swear, and maybe
compared to you, I don't swear a whole uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It's like hearing my grandfather swear.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I probably heard him swear maybe twice in my whole life,
and it was like a damn or maybe one shit,
maybe one, but that was it.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I don't my grandparents. I'm sure they did swear, especially moms,
you know, Dick Dickerson and Dixie. I'm sure they did,
but they didn't. They never did around us.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I found myself watching baseball this week and my husband
was in the room and I stood up at one point.
It must have been in like the eighth inning. It
must have been a Dodger's bullpen meltdown or something. I
stood up out of my chair like I was doing
my crossword puzzle. Ew. I was like, in a safe space.
(01:58):
You know, I'm watching baseball, I'm doing a Crossford puzzle.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I stood up.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Did you have a calftan across your across your legs too?
Just keep it warm.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I may have had a blanky, I don't know, but
I stand up and the slew of profanity that came
out of my mouth watching a baseball game was shocking.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, I did that too, But I did that the
other night when the this would have been a week
ago now in the Phillies pitcher with bases loaded through
the ball to the backstop when he should have had
an easy play at first base. I got up and
I said, fuck, what are you fucking doing? What did
you throw that ball? The first I mean, it was
(02:38):
just yeah, And it was to the point where, listen,
my wife has lived with me for thirty years almost,
and she was taken aback by because I don't I
don't generally react like that too much of anything, right, and.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I definitely don't to baseball, and to the degree where
my husband still hasn't reacted to it, like we haven't
talked about it or addressed it, like that's how bad.
He didn't say anything in the moment. We just pretended
like it never happened. But I was loud, I was aggressive.
I think an MF or an acser. I think it
(03:11):
was really bad.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And he pulled out all the stops.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And nothing was addressed. And I don't know where it
came from, honestly, because I'm not that passionate and emotional
when it comes to baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, I don't know how you can't know what that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Was all about, was I Maybe I was hungry.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
This last weekend also marked the tenth anniversary of our show.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yes, maybe that's what it was about.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Maybe I was, you know, feeling nostalgic, and I didn't
know how to communicate that, so I just stood up
in the middle of a baseball game and said things
that would make my grandfather blush.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Did you think we would do ten years?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You know, we were talking about it earlier in the week,
I think, or I don't know if it was this week,
and I never I don't remember ever having a thought
of it not work working out, or how long is
this going to go for? Or anything like those things
didn't even cross my mind. Maybe it's because I was
(04:09):
super hyper focused on the excitement of just doing the
show and getting it off the ground, and there was
a lot of a lot of action going on and
a lot of what we want it to be and
what do you want to do? And I didn't stop
and think about the whole concept of it, like what
is this show? Or is it going to work? How
long are we going to do this for? I never
(04:30):
thought about any of those things.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
What do you think? What did you think I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I don't think I ever thought about it either, because
it seemed like whatever task was put right in front
of us. Because when we started the show, for the
if you don't know when we started the show, it
was only two hours long. It was from one o'clock
until three o'clock in the afternoon, which seems like a
million years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, that was the time when we got a ping
pong table and we had a huge office and we
put the ping pong table in our office and still
had room to spare, and we would just dick around
all day, like we'd get here in the morning and
we would play ping pong and we'd ping pong around,
ideas of what the show should be, and who do
we want. We'd play music, and ours was the party office,
(05:16):
and people like John and Ken would walk by and
be like, what the fuck are we doing around here?
Like we're putting these two on the air? What the
hell are we doing?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Like why places all those fun bunnies right?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Because we were having a great time and.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was not a term of endearment by any.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Means, no, no, no, but anyway, we'd go on the
air for what felt like four minutes every day I
mean that two hour show blew by, and it would
today when you've got two hosts, even if you've got
one host for two hours, that is nothing. That is
no time at all with all the commercials and everything.
So that last How long did that last for?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That was about three months because in January of the
next year, in January twenty sixth, so just three months,
I guess it was three months later they expanded. We
expanded to three hours.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yes, that's right, we.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Were doing and at that point we were doing ten
to one.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And it was really uncomfortable when we made that transition
because it was one of those unfortunate things in radio
where the person who I had worked with for a
number of years and have great respect for and loved
his show was leaving, was told like that day that
his show was no longer and we were kind of
(06:31):
like walking in to do our show after his show,
and it was one of those, really the most uncomfortable
interactions I've had in a hallway at work, you know
where I'm where, I didn't know, you know where. I
didn't start the altercation with like Chris Little or something.
But it was just unfortunate. It was just unfortunate. So yeah,
(06:52):
so we we essentially gobbled up two shows.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah to a degree, to a degree over the course
of three months. Yeah, we did kinna gobble up three
shows or two shows. Yeah. But it's also the unfortunate
thing about this business is we know going into it
that there's no there's and I guess it's any business probably,
but there's no guarantee for tomorrow. There's no guarantee that
(07:18):
the company doesn't make some decision that they want to
flip formats or they think that we're morons, or they
realize we're morons or whatever, and they just they move
on from us.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean that's part that's part of why we probably
never thought how long is this going to last? Because
you go into these things going, well, it could you know,
it could last for a week or a year or
what have you. We have no control over that, We
have no idea.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, you just got to go and have fun with
whatever you're going to do and take pride in the
work that you're doing, hopefully and see if it, you know,
see if you can get what you want out of it. Yeah,
I mean, yeah, there's there's a lot looking back on it.
This is one of the longest running shows on KFI
in its history. Really, well, you don't have a whole
(08:02):
lot that that that are longer than ours. You've got
Handel and John and Ken, yeah, Conway, there you go.
And I guess you could count George Nori just because.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well there was just there were a lot of syndicated
programs on so you had Rushed and you had Doctor
Laura at least when I got here, right, so there
were only so that was twenty years ago, so that
I only have twenty years of frame of reference, which
is pretty good amount of time, I guess, But there
was I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Know, I know very little. I should know more about
the history of KFI. But you had like a Loman
and Barkley back in the day. You had, you know,
different versions of what KFI was, but you know, it
was music at one time, and it was not sports,
but it used The Dodgers used to run on KFI
(08:57):
for a long time. We've got on through different iterations.
I mean, the current iteration of being talk radio. It's
been that way since the eighties. But that doesn't mean
that the shows have been around since the eighties. Yeah,
So I mean that's a certain amount of pride that
we can take in that, but again, there's no guarantee
that it shows back up on Monday. You know, they
(09:18):
call us at home and they tell us, Hey, it's
a you know turn what we were talking about yesterday,
turning your key card or mail in your key card. Yeah, hey,
why don't you come take this key card out of
my pocket?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, I'm not driving in to give my key card
to these people. In fact, my lanyard broke on my
key card this last week, So now I just have
a naked key card here in my hand, and I
got to tell you I'm not making the drive in
here to give them this back.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, I'm pretty sure all they have to do is
what am I getting you from the file?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Exactly exactly?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And you have papers for me to sign docuent like,
send send them, send them to me electronically. There's no
reason to come into the office to get fired. But
if we did get fired, go on, we would still
do the show, right, we just move it to YouTube or.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Something some aspect of it. We'd have to. We would
have to, I mean, just well just out of habit
for nothing else. I mean, what would you do at
nine thirty in the morning on a Wednesday. If you
weren't doing this, Oh no.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Go down to MacArthur Park and figure out how to
buy heroin.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Hey guys, here I am again. I was struck out yesterday.
Some heroin today.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I mean, it would be it'd be interesting, but I
hope that doesn't happen. I mean, who knows. Wow, wouldn't
this be prescient? What if we get fired this next week?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Then people will play this The La Times, the Daily News,
the Orange County Register, all of the trade magazines they'll
play this or all.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Of the trade magazine.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
How many trade magazines exists in radio these days?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Too?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well, you surprised me with one the other day. I'd
never even heard of. You sent me an article about
the company, and it was from something I'd never even
seen before. Now it's not to say that it's a
you know, a widely publicized or even well read a website,
but you know it's something that's out there. Well, you know,
(11:13):
ten more, Let's do ten more.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
No, you're gonna you'll be.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
In your fifties by then, you'll be deep into your fifties.
Holy cow, we'd be like you'd be like waist deep
in your fifties.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Hello, I'm not working with you when I've got to
like wipe your ass.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If you think I'm that guy that would ever admit
that you needed to wipe me, I just.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Don't want to wipe you.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Just what.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'm glad we're let me sit in my own stew
for a while and.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Sho what does it smell? It is the other thing.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I bring some air freshener.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Bring a handler, like, bring somebody who will take you
to the bathroom and wipe you.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And I'll bring my second wife. She'll be able to
help out.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh you think you're going to get a second one
to agree to.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That, Well, I know the first one won't, so I know.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I know.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm just betting at that point this will be.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The girl you meet on the Golden Bachelor probably.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh that's right, Yeah, I gotta do that. I gotta
start planning for that.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
No, I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna retire
before I'm before I'm sixty.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
No one wants to hear a lady yelling at him
right now. They don't want to hear me yelling at them.
You know, what do you want to what do you
want to hear in fifteen years?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know what? That is a good point, right, You
should probably hang it.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Out because like you're, what.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Fifty two and I'm done listening to your old ass.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
You stopped listening ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
That's why the show has not been canceled yet. You
stopped listening. The moment you listened, you'd be they'd be like,
what what is she doing?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well? What are you doing this weekend? You have a
family reunion?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I am in Central California. We have a family reunion.
We're going to it's been it's really the first one
we've had probably since mom and dad passed. It's Mom's
side of the family. So maybe I find my second
wife there, are you?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, that's not out of the realm. There are some
questions when you look at your family portraits.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
But the family tree is very not a whole lot
of branches.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Not many.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, what was I gonna say? Is there going to
be a moment where like people are pouring out their
forties for the parents?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No? Okay, actually I don't know. I don't know how
that's going to work. It's my mom's sister, my wonderful aunt.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
She is wonderful who's.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Handling this this weekend and has planned it all.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, you're having hot dogs and beans, right, hot dogs
and beans the main amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
That is so cool.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I don't know how cool that is.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What are you gonna what are you going to bring?
Are you going to bring anything?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, my wife made some pulled pork, perfect, and I
don't know if we're going to take that to the
park for the reunion, if we're going to bring it
back here and have it at the house later exactly
how it's going to go.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
But yeah, what you're going to do with your pulled pork?
You know, your wife make some pulled pork. You know,
you got to be judicious with it. Yeah, I can't
just throw it around for everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I like to keep my hands on my pulled pork.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right, and you should, you should.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You should know the chain of custody on your pulled
pork firm grip right. All right, Well, it's funny because
we listen to this, This is funny. You'll get a
kick out of this. So producer Matt Or were coming
in here. He's like, okay, so we could talk about
this and we could do that we could do that,
we could pull a segment from the show. At some
point I was like, eh, he's like, yeah, we'll probably
have enough content. And I want to be like, oh,
(14:30):
you think this is going to have content? Were you
looking for content in this?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah? We don't really play in content in these parts.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
No, we just talked about our ass for about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Hey, and some people apparently listen to that.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You appreciate it all from shows that have value to them.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know, value, they have structure, they all things.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And I feel bad that we're like, welcome to our
you know, special ed class.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Here's some fingerpaint.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, please don't drink it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
All right, we'll see you on Monday. Have a great
family reunion, Thank you very much. Don't hook up with
a cousin.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hey, no guarantees, but oh you're going.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
To do it a second cousin? Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh sure, yeah, I mean at least every everybody's got boundaries, right, Yeah.
If you listen to the podcast, we greatly appreciate it.
But but we could use your subscription. We could use
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Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, that's probably more app This is such a joke.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All right, bye, see you Monday. You've been listening to
the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us
live on kf I AM six forty nine am to
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