October 31, 2025 ⢠16 mins
Gary and Shannon put their partnership to the test â What would life be like without each other? Who would be the official replacement? Â Shannon also looks back on her time covering the Occupy protests at City Hall and the not-so-glamorous side of field reporting. Plus, we look back at another packed and successful News & Brews at BJâs in West Covina â great crowd, great conversations, and yes, great beer. Cheers to everyone who came out!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
IF I am six forty the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
That's uh, that's how you start your Saturday morning with
this thing just popping into your podcast. Q.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I guess sure.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It was a bit of a surprise for me, which
which part which you know, when I worked, I didn't
expect to be hit with this.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, you're in Nashville today, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I am a we're pretending I am question mark you are.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
How is your Halloween?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'm asking maybe I'm not even alive right now. That
would be maybe you're not. We don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It would be very interesting. What was it we were
going to say?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So if one of us dies today, the podcast still
goes out.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Last thing that Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
No, because we're going to do the show today you're dead. No, no, no,
I see what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In the event that you future.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
How eerie, if one of us is dead, it's not
just me that's on the block here, it's also you.
You could die, but it's more likely that that I die.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
In a plane crash.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's more likely that you die in an auto accident
on your way home.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, statistics, we don't have to get all specific.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm sad, I miss you. No, I don't want you
to go. I'm not doing the show on my own, son,
I'm here. How do you think that conversation will go?
Would you? Who are they going to try to put
with me?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh my gosh, you're not going to like any of them?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Tell me nope. Do you have an idea you've thought
about this? Oh? Yeah, really? Oh yeah, come on, give
it to me. No, give it to me.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's Halloween. Let's talk about Well, one of us is
dead and it's you or me in this Halloween esque story. No,
I'll tell you who I think should be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I saw this episode of The Love Boat once where
Carol Brady or whoever the actresses that played Carol Brady
was about to die or her husband convinced her that
she was about to die, so she was trying to
fix him up with all of these young and newbile.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
If my husband, after my death takes up with somebody,
I'll murder him. I will come back from heaven with
Saint Pete. I'll say, Saint Peter, I've got an errand
to run, and I'll go kill that MF or like
I will kill him.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I have a couple of issues with your premise on
the story about your husband taking up with someone after
you die and go to.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
He's not going to marry anybody else. He didn't even
want to marry me. That was a fight, so you know,
so I don't think he's going to marry any I
don't care about the sanctity of the holy matrimony of marriage, whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That is, blah blah blah. But if there's another.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Whore in my bed aside from me, I'm going to
have a problem. So one of the things that we do,
I think I got that betting stop it very early
on in h in the history of our show, which
is now ten plus years. I'll just say this, I
really like you with Marla. She is such a good persons,
just nice.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Why would why would she still like people?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Or I mean not that she would have to quit
TV because you can work people work, She.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Could do she could do both. She is a hard worker.
She's not afraid of that she's got a new baby.
Though you'd kind of be robbing that child of earth,
mother of the childhood. I don't want to do that,
you know, Baby Sloan doesn't want you to take away
moments with mom radio for television, yeah, but not for you,
not for this all this, and you didn't even wear anything.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And don't wearing my old shoes. You know, they make
new ones. So we this week did a news You.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Could also wash those shoes, they could they I just
I just washed a pair of Tina shoes. Yes, I'm
just going to hide my to hide them. You know,
you can put those dirty things up here.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And one of the things that people get to do
when we're at the news and Bruise is they get to,
first of all, they get to kind of see a
little bit about how.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Matt Smith I'll kill you in terms of if you die.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I just pick one, just pick one. No, no, And
what people don't quite you'd get fire me about you
would fire me.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That is not what I would do. I just think
that there would be other people that they.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Would try to pay you, is it, Fred Rogan.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I'm not saying any words, Roddy, and I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Petros would be too much.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You guys would get in a fight.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
If Petros and I would just be screaming the whole
time at nothing and everything, and it would just be
too much.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It'd be a lot of noise.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It would be way too much.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And one of the things I think people see when
we do our news and.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Marks Thompson's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
He'd be a very.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That would be good, that would be good for me?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Uh interesting. I don't know if I would use those words.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Really, I think you guys would pair well together. Yeah,
I don't know if I would say it's good for
me because he's a good person, you know what I mean.
I like to surround myself with good people, and.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
He's a good person.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He is a good person.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do we think he's not a good person.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, I think he's a great per Do you think.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He's like one of those weird people that in their
private life has dungeons and weird stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No, No, I In fact, I think so he's one
of those guys who off the air is Mark Tomas.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That's who he is.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
There's nothing, there's nothing true different about him. I had
the opportunity to play poker with him, and he was
just as nice and pleasant and super friendly.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
For him and he laugh is so people.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
That he's never met before that he was just so
warm and welcome.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, he acts like he's not a big deal, and
he's a massive deal.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
He is a massive deal when you think about the
breadth of that guy's work.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Let me throw this out there, what about Ken Champeau.
We bring him back from the dead.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
He is not dead and be he would absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He would absolutely not want to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
He would get about there may have been like a
sliver of glimmer where he says, you.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Know, actually might be fun.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, and then a week into it, he's like, that
was gas. Thumost idea, that was gas.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, it was gas. Well. Sometimes like when a baby
smiles and you're like, is that baby smiling at me,
You're like, Nope, that's that's not a smile for you.
That would be Ken Champa's reaction to working with me
for one day again.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But I will not tell you any of the names.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Why not, because I think it's a silly exercise and
it's not important until after you perish.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
In all unveilable you're the one who perishes in this hypothetical.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You're right, I'm sorry, I'm the one, and I will
take that envelope.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So it's not anybody here.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I didn't say that. I just said I was not
going to confirm nor deny whatever names you were about
to spit out.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So what about?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You may have hit on a couple of the names.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Huh, I know, I did. How about? How about?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Part of it is because I would want you to know,
and I would think, listen, your husband, your husband will
be the same. I would want you to know, Oh
how great we are for you paired with somebody else. Yeah,
you go, Oh, man, I miss I do that all
the time. I miss the blank. I miss I do that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I do that all the time when you're not here.
Oh you do.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I you don't know how much I appreciate you when
you come back from vacation. I am loud and proud
about it. Now. That said, if Henry de Carlo came
in here, I may not feel the appreciation for you
as much.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
He's farther down the list. Not because I don't think
he'd be good. I just don't know if you can,
if you can match his deal?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
What do you mean match his deal.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Pay him what he's worth.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh that way, No, No, I can't. I can't pay him.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's more of a shot in the dark.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
He'd have to just do it out of the kindness
of his heart. We'd have to be a pro bono case.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
For which he's got a lot of kindness in his heart.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Marla too. We couldn't pay Marla, but she's worth clearly,
my god, would be a pittance.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
A pittance.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We got to find some homeless people to bring in here.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
To do the show. Who some homeless You did that
show many many years.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Ago, a homeless occupy. Why when our boss was like, hey, Shan,
I have this great idea. Whenever she wanted anything, she
called me Shan, Hey Shan, I've got this great idea.
Can you go. I had been covering the occupy protest
at City Hall, so covering the people pissing and crapping
(08:24):
into bottles and having sex in porta potties. It was
awful disgusting to.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
They were doing that. They were doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Right, I don't know. It's a different time. I could
have been I wasn't. But they had taken over all
the grass in downtown layer on City Hall and they
just lived there, and they were gross and they were squatters.
And my boss was like, hey, Shan, why don't you
go round up four of them and bring them in
and put them on the air and do a show
to occupy KFI right on the weekend, to.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Give them an opportunity because there was a lot of questions.
I remember from sitting in here anchoring the newscast, almost
every story would be, well, we're not quite sure what
their demands are.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
They're protesting, it's nationwide.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It was like they hated Wall Street, right, I hated
the rich.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So then what are you going to do about it?
So this was an opportunity for them to kind of
give their side of.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It, right, And so this was what I got.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What year was it, twenty twelve? Maybe I had no
twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I had no experience hosting any sort of show, and
here I am with this block of time, like three
hours on a Saturday or something, with these homeless people
that I have given the address to and just hoped
that they would show up. I didn't know how they'd
get here. Twenty eleven, twenty eleven, I bought them subway
sandwiches because I thought that you should feed homeless, sure
(09:46):
that that would be a good.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Start, despite you went straight to one of the largest
corporations in food process.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I know, I didn't make enough money to buy like
nature made sandwiches by farmers just get the five dollars
foot log. I only had money for Corporate America. So
these people come in and they're eating the sandwiches in
the studio. You know, these studios are pretty contained. There's
(10:11):
no ventilation. Oh boy, those people smelled.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
They had been on the street for a couple of
weeks at that point from.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Me, and I just had to wrangle them into into
what I don't even know. I'm getting anxiety nut that
it's anxiety. I'm getting nervous thinking about the responsibility of
three hours. At the time, KFI was a big deal
and having three hours that I'm responsible for and to
get these mon homeless monkeys to dance. Luckily, there was
(10:43):
one woman who was a talker. She's a yapper.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
She's the one who came up with the ocupath.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh my god, it just gives me heart palpitations when
you say that, because I'm remembering how awkward it was.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I played that sound bite for.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I know you did years husband still says that because of.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
You, just just to remind you of the pain and
the turmoil.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Maybe we bring in some homeless again.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That would be fine.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
What would we do with them, I don't know, hire
them as a producer, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh, but we were going to talk about news and Bruce,
and then I got sidetracked about how what would happen
if we died?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So what does this have to do with Are you
going to say homeless people come to news and Bruce?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
No, I was shying people do I was going to
I didn't see any homeless there.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
This week, not this week, but it's happened.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
West Covina was a great crowd, turned out to be fans.
Those are great, great people.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Why would why do people go to that? Like, what
do you think? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I mean, other than they get to see It's not
even a perfect example of like what we do in
the commercial breaks, for example, except we do on the
air when we're doing the regular show during the week,
we do just kind of sit around and bs in
the commercial breaks, which is kind of what we do
at the News and Bruise can sit around and bs
in their commercial breaks.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I think they go because they listen to the show,
and they'll be in the area and it's a novelty
and they can go to a great place and have
drinks and have food and enjoy themselves in the middle
of the day and it's excuse to do so. I mean,
I would go to that if let me think of
a show I watch or listen to.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I heard a lot of clanking, but I didn't hear
any words come out about what.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I don't know if I go to any of the
shows I listen to, they just don't seem as fun
as we are.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well they're probably not, but it's really not. We get
people that.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Like, I love the John and Ken Show, but I
don't know if I watch.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It, there's a lot of I think the aspect that
struck me when we first did it and every time
we go out and do these is that people listen
a lot and they know a lot about us, a
lot more than we know about them, obviously, but I.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Feel like we know them because they know us so well.
And I know that that's doesn't make any sense. Well,
but I feel like they're like I feel like I've
met everyone at a news and Bruce already.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, because they're already friends. We don't have to well
convince them one way or the other. They either like
us or they don't.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They know all about our shortcomings. I should talk about me.
They know that I'm a mess, and they still like us.
They still seem to like us even though they know
all about the warts and well maybe not the words, but.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know what I mean, you've taken medications.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
People are still down to come hang out with us
after knowing us, and that goes a long way in
my book. And it's a family that doesn't want to
hang out with me and they know me.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's one of those things where everybody in the room
is doing the same thing. That's nice.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean they refer to we happen to do it
at the BJ's in West Covina, and that's that specifically
is one of their better locations to go watch a
game or to go yeah, you know, to do that
collective thing together is always fun.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I forgot how big their bar area is there. It
really is a good place to watch games. What I
was going to say that I'm excited about about people
that we met yesterday or the puppet guys that we
met towards the end. Yeah, I don't even know what's
going on. I think their shirt said puppetmasters dot com
or something of that.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You got so excited.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I did, and we got their contact information, and well,
you know why I got excited because because of you.
You love puppetry. You talk about it all the time.
How you wish you got your degree in puppetry. Oh,
You've brought it up several times over the last decade.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Right, But that generates a little bit of pain in me.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Why because I feel that I maybe it was a
missed opportunity.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Like never too late to be what you might have been.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And you've said that every single time I've brought up
the potential for getting a degree in puppetry.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Right, So here we are.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Maybe there's a maybe there's a road we have yet
to travel down.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I hope you didn't lose your life in the past
twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, No, I think you're still here.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Monday, Hey, subscribe to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It'd be weird, though, Honestly, if one of us dies,
are they going to take it down? I Ope, be
kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You need to promise me that if one of us dies,
are you.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Going to write down who if you die, who I
should replace you with?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'll tell I'll tell everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You're going to tell everybody. Yeah, we'll do it today
before we leave.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Okay, I mean i'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I just don't. I don't want to be weird. It's
like at your funeral when I go to your wife, I'm.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Like, Hey, did he give you a list of names?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
So back to me? Back to me.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Subscribe to the podcast anywhere you find podcasts. The most
important thing though, is comment rate the podcast and share
the podcast with other people.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That helps us out. And we'll see you on We'll
see you on Monday.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Mazel.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
That's uh, that's how you start your Saturday morning with
this thing just popping into your podcast. Q.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I guess sure.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It was a bit of a surprise for me, which
which part which you know, when I worked, I didn't
expect to be hit with this.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, you're in Nashville today, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I am a we're pretending I am question mark you are.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
How is your Halloween?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'm asking maybe I'm not even alive right now. That
would be maybe you're not. We don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It would be very interesting. What was it we were
going to say?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So if one of us dies today, the podcast still
goes out.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Last thing that Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
No, because we're going to do the show today you're dead. No, no, no,
I see what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In the event that you future.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
How eerie, if one of us is dead, it's not
just me that's on the block here, it's also you.
You could die, but it's more likely that that I die.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
In a plane crash.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's more likely that you die in an auto accident
on your way home.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, statistics, we don't have to get all specific.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm sad, I miss you. No, I don't want you
to go. I'm not doing the show on my own, son,
I'm here. How do you think that conversation will go?
Would you? Who are they going to try to put
with me?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh my gosh, you're not going to like any of them?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Tell me nope. Do you have an idea you've thought
about this? Oh? Yeah, really? Oh yeah, come on, give
it to me. No, give it to me.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's Halloween. Let's talk about Well, one of us is
dead and it's you or me in this Halloween esque story. No,
I'll tell you who I think should be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I saw this episode of The Love Boat once where
Carol Brady or whoever the actresses that played Carol Brady
was about to die or her husband convinced her that
she was about to die, so she was trying to
fix him up with all of these young and newbile.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
If my husband, after my death takes up with somebody,
I'll murder him. I will come back from heaven with
Saint Pete. I'll say, Saint Peter, I've got an errand
to run, and I'll go kill that MF or like
I will kill him.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I have a couple of issues with your premise on
the story about your husband taking up with someone after
you die and go to.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
He's not going to marry anybody else. He didn't even
want to marry me. That was a fight, so you know,
so I don't think he's going to marry any I
don't care about the sanctity of the holy matrimony of marriage, whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That is, blah blah blah. But if there's another.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Whore in my bed aside from me, I'm going to
have a problem. So one of the things that we do,
I think I got that betting stop it very early
on in h in the history of our show, which
is now ten plus years. I'll just say this, I
really like you with Marla. She is such a good persons,
just nice.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Why would why would she still like people?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Or I mean not that she would have to quit
TV because you can work people work, She.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Could do she could do both. She is a hard worker.
She's not afraid of that she's got a new baby.
Though you'd kind of be robbing that child of earth,
mother of the childhood. I don't want to do that,
you know, Baby Sloan doesn't want you to take away
moments with mom radio for television, yeah, but not for you,
not for this all this, and you didn't even wear anything.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And don't wearing my old shoes. You know, they make
new ones. So we this week did a news You.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Could also wash those shoes, they could they I just
I just washed a pair of Tina shoes. Yes, I'm
just going to hide my to hide them. You know,
you can put those dirty things up here.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And one of the things that people get to do
when we're at the news and Bruise is they get to,
first of all, they get to kind of see a
little bit about how.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Matt Smith I'll kill you in terms of if you die.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I just pick one, just pick one. No, no, And
what people don't quite you'd get fire me about you
would fire me.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That is not what I would do. I just think
that there would be other people that they.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Would try to pay you, is it, Fred Rogan.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I'm not saying any words, Roddy, and I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Petros would be too much.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You guys would get in a fight.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
If Petros and I would just be screaming the whole
time at nothing and everything, and it would just be
too much.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It'd be a lot of noise.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It would be way too much.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And one of the things I think people see when
we do our news and.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Marks Thompson's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
He'd be a very.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That would be good, that would be good for me?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Uh interesting. I don't know if I would use those words.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Really, I think you guys would pair well together. Yeah,
I don't know if I would say it's good for
me because he's a good person, you know what I mean.
I like to surround myself with good people, and.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
He's a good person.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He is a good person.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do we think he's not a good person.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, I think he's a great per Do you think.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He's like one of those weird people that in their
private life has dungeons and weird stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No, No, I In fact, I think so he's one
of those guys who off the air is Mark Tomas.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That's who he is.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
There's nothing, there's nothing true different about him. I had
the opportunity to play poker with him, and he was
just as nice and pleasant and super friendly.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
For him and he laugh is so people.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
That he's never met before that he was just so
warm and welcome.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, he acts like he's not a big deal, and
he's a massive deal.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
He is a massive deal when you think about the
breadth of that guy's work.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Let me throw this out there, what about Ken Champeau.
We bring him back from the dead.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
He is not dead and be he would absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He would absolutely not want to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
He would get about there may have been like a
sliver of glimmer where he says, you.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Know, actually might be fun.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, and then a week into it, he's like, that
was gas. Thumost idea, that was gas.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, it was gas. Well. Sometimes like when a baby
smiles and you're like, is that baby smiling at me,
You're like, Nope, that's that's not a smile for you.
That would be Ken Champa's reaction to working with me
for one day again.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But I will not tell you any of the names.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Why not, because I think it's a silly exercise and
it's not important until after you perish.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
In all unveilable you're the one who perishes in this hypothetical.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You're right, I'm sorry, I'm the one, and I will
take that envelope.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So it's not anybody here.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I didn't say that. I just said I was not
going to confirm nor deny whatever names you were about
to spit out.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So what about?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You may have hit on a couple of the names.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Huh, I know, I did. How about? How about?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Part of it is because I would want you to know,
and I would think, listen, your husband, your husband will
be the same. I would want you to know, Oh
how great we are for you paired with somebody else. Yeah,
you go, Oh, man, I miss I do that all
the time. I miss the blank. I miss I do that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I do that all the time when you're not here.
Oh you do.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I you don't know how much I appreciate you when
you come back from vacation. I am loud and proud
about it. Now. That said, if Henry de Carlo came
in here, I may not feel the appreciation for you
as much.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
He's farther down the list. Not because I don't think
he'd be good. I just don't know if you can,
if you can match his deal?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
What do you mean match his deal.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Pay him what he's worth.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh that way, No, No, I can't. I can't pay him.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's more of a shot in the dark.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
He'd have to just do it out of the kindness
of his heart. We'd have to be a pro bono case.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
For which he's got a lot of kindness in his heart.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Marla too. We couldn't pay Marla, but she's worth clearly,
my god, would be a pittance.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
A pittance.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We got to find some homeless people to bring in here.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
To do the show. Who some homeless You did that
show many many years.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Ago, a homeless occupy. Why when our boss was like, hey, Shan,
I have this great idea. Whenever she wanted anything, she
called me Shan, Hey Shan, I've got this great idea.
Can you go. I had been covering the occupy protest
at City Hall, so covering the people pissing and crapping
(08:24):
into bottles and having sex in porta potties. It was
awful disgusting to.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
They were doing that. They were doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Right, I don't know. It's a different time. I could
have been I wasn't. But they had taken over all
the grass in downtown layer on City Hall and they
just lived there, and they were gross and they were squatters.
And my boss was like, hey, Shan, why don't you
go round up four of them and bring them in
and put them on the air and do a show
to occupy KFI right on the weekend, to.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Give them an opportunity because there was a lot of questions.
I remember from sitting in here anchoring the newscast, almost
every story would be, well, we're not quite sure what
their demands are.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
They're protesting, it's nationwide.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It was like they hated Wall Street, right, I hated
the rich.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So then what are you going to do about it?
So this was an opportunity for them to kind of
give their side of.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It, right, And so this was what I got.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What year was it, twenty twelve? Maybe I had no
twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I had no experience hosting any sort of show, and
here I am with this block of time, like three
hours on a Saturday or something, with these homeless people
that I have given the address to and just hoped
that they would show up. I didn't know how they'd
get here. Twenty eleven, twenty eleven, I bought them subway
sandwiches because I thought that you should feed homeless, sure
(09:46):
that that would be a good.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Start, despite you went straight to one of the largest
corporations in food process.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I know, I didn't make enough money to buy like
nature made sandwiches by farmers just get the five dollars
foot log. I only had money for Corporate America. So
these people come in and they're eating the sandwiches in
the studio. You know, these studios are pretty contained. There's
(10:11):
no ventilation. Oh boy, those people smelled.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
They had been on the street for a couple of
weeks at that point from.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Me, and I just had to wrangle them into into
what I don't even know. I'm getting anxiety nut that
it's anxiety. I'm getting nervous thinking about the responsibility of
three hours. At the time, KFI was a big deal
and having three hours that I'm responsible for and to
get these mon homeless monkeys to dance. Luckily, there was
(10:43):
one woman who was a talker. She's a yapper.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
She's the one who came up with the ocupath.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh my god, it just gives me heart palpitations when
you say that, because I'm remembering how awkward it was.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I played that sound bite for.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I know you did years husband still says that because of.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
You, just just to remind you of the pain and
the turmoil.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Maybe we bring in some homeless again.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That would be fine.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
What would we do with them, I don't know, hire
them as a producer, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh, but we were going to talk about news and Bruce,
and then I got sidetracked about how what would happen
if we died?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So what does this have to do with Are you
going to say homeless people come to news and Bruce?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
No, I was shying people do I was going to
I didn't see any homeless there.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
This week, not this week, but it's happened.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
West Covina was a great crowd, turned out to be fans.
Those are great, great people.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Why would why do people go to that? Like, what
do you think? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I mean, other than they get to see It's not
even a perfect example of like what we do in
the commercial breaks, for example, except we do on the
air when we're doing the regular show during the week,
we do just kind of sit around and bs in
the commercial breaks, which is kind of what we do
at the News and Bruise can sit around and bs
in their commercial breaks.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I think they go because they listen to the show,
and they'll be in the area and it's a novelty
and they can go to a great place and have
drinks and have food and enjoy themselves in the middle
of the day and it's excuse to do so. I mean,
I would go to that if let me think of
a show I watch or listen to.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I heard a lot of clanking, but I didn't hear
any words come out about what.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I don't know if I go to any of the
shows I listen to, they just don't seem as fun
as we are.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well they're probably not, but it's really not. We get
people that.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Like, I love the John and Ken Show, but I
don't know if I watch.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It, there's a lot of I think the aspect that
struck me when we first did it and every time
we go out and do these is that people listen
a lot and they know a lot about us, a
lot more than we know about them, obviously, but I.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Feel like we know them because they know us so well.
And I know that that's doesn't make any sense. Well,
but I feel like they're like I feel like I've
met everyone at a news and Bruce already.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, because they're already friends. We don't have to well
convince them one way or the other. They either like
us or they don't.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They know all about our shortcomings. I should talk about me.
They know that I'm a mess, and they still like us.
They still seem to like us even though they know
all about the warts and well maybe not the words, but.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know what I mean, you've taken medications.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
People are still down to come hang out with us
after knowing us, and that goes a long way in
my book. And it's a family that doesn't want to
hang out with me and they know me.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's one of those things where everybody in the room
is doing the same thing. That's nice.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean they refer to we happen to do it
at the BJ's in West Covina, and that's that specifically
is one of their better locations to go watch a
game or to go yeah, you know, to do that
collective thing together is always fun.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I forgot how big their bar area is there. It
really is a good place to watch games. What I
was going to say that I'm excited about about people
that we met yesterday or the puppet guys that we
met towards the end. Yeah, I don't even know what's
going on. I think their shirt said puppetmasters dot com
or something of that.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You got so excited.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I did, and we got their contact information, and well,
you know why I got excited because because of you.
You love puppetry. You talk about it all the time.
How you wish you got your degree in puppetry. Oh,
You've brought it up several times over the last decade.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Right, But that generates a little bit of pain in me.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Why because I feel that I maybe it was a
missed opportunity.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Like never too late to be what you might have been.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And you've said that every single time I've brought up
the potential for getting a degree in puppetry.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Right, So here we are.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Maybe there's a maybe there's a road we have yet
to travel down.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I hope you didn't lose your life in the past
twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, No, I think you're still here.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Monday, Hey, subscribe to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It'd be weird, though, Honestly, if one of us dies,
are they going to take it down? I Ope, be
kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You need to promise me that if one of us dies,
are you.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Going to write down who if you die, who I
should replace you with?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'll tell I'll tell everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You're going to tell everybody. Yeah, we'll do it today
before we leave.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Okay, I mean i'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I just don't. I don't want to be weird. It's
like at your funeral when I go to your wife, I'm.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Like, Hey, did he give you a list of names?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
So back to me? Back to me.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Subscribe to the podcast anywhere you find podcasts. The most
important thing though, is comment rate the podcast and share
the podcast with other people.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That helps us out. And we'll see you on We'll
see you on Monday.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Mazel.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
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