May 5, 2025 • 18 mins
Let's go over #WhatsHappening! Movie tariffs, Diddy trial, severe weather, self-checkout removed at Target, Mayor Bass's pay cut, and a reality show about a conclave? The return of the landline: Kids use old-school technology to learn basic telephone etiquette. #TerrorInTheSkies and #MotivationalMonday.
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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 (00:08):
What Else is going on?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Time four? What's Happening?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (00:13):
As idly mentioned in earlier, a flurry of activity coming
from the White House where the President says he's imposing
one hundred percent tariff on movies produced outside the US.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He went on Truth Social yesterday to announce that he
had instructed the Department of Commerce and the US Trade
Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting the tariffs.
We talked about it in the first hour of the show.
If you missed it, catch the podcast where it gets
a little dicey when you're talking about intellectual property and
what you can tariff and what you cannot.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Yeah, they're gonna have a hard time.
Speaker 7 (00:43):
I mean, this is I don't know if it's similar
to the tariffs that we saw on foreign made automobiles,
but remember there were discussions about does an automobile count
as foreign made if fifty one percent of its of
its contents are foreign made? Or can you import foreign
parts to make vehicles and assemble them here in the
(01:05):
United States. This is going to be similar, but even
less clear because it's not a physical thing, especially not anymore.
It's not a physical thing often that you bring into
the country. Someone sends an email with a digitized version
of the film, and that's how it gets shown.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
So it's going to be even harder to figure out.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Jerry selection underway today and Diddy's case, the federal sex
trafficking trial of Sean Ditty Combs, prosecutors confirm they have
a star witness. He's facing life in prison on charges
including sex trafficking and racketeering. Apparently there was a plea
deal on the table that they scoffed at earlier this
week or last week. I should say, his ex girlfriend
(01:47):
Cassandra Ventura will take the stand. She's supposed to be
the star witness. She's the one that he was caught
on tape beating up apparently in the hotel there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's awful video.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I believe that his defense will be I'm a superstar
and I have sex with many women and it's all
consensual and drugs.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Don't forget that he was so whacked out that he
didn't know what was right and wrong. We've seen some
crazy spring weather.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh said, very seriously, You're like, don't.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Forget, don't forget all the drugs.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Very severe weather expected through parts of the South and
East through this week. Severe weather threat right now western
New Mexico all the way to Louisiana. About seven million
people under floodwatches because of potentially heavy rainfall. Fifty storm
reports across ten states just yesterday, including very damaging winds
and hail. Both the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico could
(02:41):
see one to two inches of rain, but there are
areas in northern Louisiana where they're expecting as much as
twelve inches of rain over the course of the next week.
My daughter texted me on Friday, craziest storm ever right
now in Texas, and she asked, does our car insurance
(03:01):
cover hail damage? Because apparently it was quite significant and
much larger than she's ever seen anywhere in California.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
She's twenty two two.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think I've ever heard a twenty two year
old asking about what it's car insurance covers. Self checkout
is no longer a thing at Target Target pulling the
plug on many self checkout machines because shoplifting. They're going
to limit it to customers with ten items or fewer.
(03:32):
If you've got a full cart, you'll have to go
through the staff checkout lane.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Question.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Yeah, if they can't police the self checkout because of shoplifting,
how are they going to police the self checkout lane
for the ten items or less?
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Hm, that seems weird.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know. I don't know how it works. Mayor
Karen Bass is going to take a pay cut. We
saw this.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Coming.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
She had talked about it before, but the said she's
going to take a pay cut and hold off on
scheduled raises for the staff because the city is looking
at about a billion dollars shortfall. So this is what
most budget watchers referred to as a drop in the
bucket for what needs to take place.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Remember last week when I talked.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
About the conclave and how I think it's going to
take on a reality show vibe, just because the last
time we did this was two thousand and five and
it was a very different world, and now everything is
just kind of playing out in real time on display.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's happening. Did you know the Cardinals are on social media?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They are, and they're very active right now on social media.
A huge contrast to what we saw with the last conclave.
Cardinal Asal Kukuchi, Archbishop of Tokyo, posted a selfie on
a bus with other cardinals while they were en route
to pray in front of the tomb of Francis. This
was after his funeral back at the end of April.
(05:00):
But yeah, I mean Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York.
He's got about three hundred thousand followers on x He's
been posting daily videos describing his walkabouts around Rome, sharing
some of the locations of the meetings leading up to
the conclave. It's happening, guys. It's nothing as sacred.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Everything is postable, even what is supposed to be arguably
one of the most safely ceremonies in the entire history
of a planet. It didn't happen if it's not on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Good lord.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
All right, A couple things still, We're gonna try to
cram in here before the show wraps up. We've got
that story about kids using old school landlines to teach
telephone etiquette. Motivational Monday, We've got a tear in the
Skies and mixtape Monday.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
My god, Gary, I just don't know.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
I'm gonna have to go get a talk show shoehorn,
the cram it all into the.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
When's the last time you saw a shoehorn? This is
like my reference to Parker Center. It's a good let's
do better.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Okay, Sorry, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Nowadays, there's a reliance on cell phones, right, everybody's got one.
That some weird number like ninety four percent of Americans
over the age of fifteen I think have cell phones. Yeah,
And we were talking earlier in the show about sort
of lamenting the loss of phone etiquette that if you're
under the age of say, I want to say, like thirty,
(06:41):
you probably never developed those skills of phone etiquette of
having to make phone calls. I think back when I
was in elementary school or junior high, high school, something
like that, and we would do a fundraiser for whatever,
you're selling, chocolates for the band or something. You would
have to get on the phone and you'd have to
(07:03):
contact Grandma, Grandpa, maybe a couple of neighbors or family
friends or stuff like that and ask them if they'd
be willing to support you.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I remember going door to door for stuff like that.
I also remember thinking this is an awful idea. I'm eight,
who are even these people?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
But we've gotten.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Away from that very much so now, and to the
point where kids don't even know what old phones look
like in many cases, or why there's a core attached
like a rotary phone, why it's got to be stuck
on the wall, why you can't just walk around the
house with it. There is a push for some parents
(07:41):
of young kids, especially to use an old landline to
teach kids the very basics of phone etiquette.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Well, what's and I go back to my initial question
is why do you need a landline to teach phone etiquette?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
That's a good question. They said that, if nothing else,
the old school land line was easier to install. And
then again we're talking about if you're if you're thirty five,
and you're doing this with your kids, you may find
it easier to simply plug in a landline phone. I
don't know where you're going to find one, but to
plug in a landline phone and then to set up
(08:18):
a whole internet However, you would do it at your house.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I guess it's because you when it's a landline, you
don't know who the person's calling for a good point,
and you don't know who the person is. When your
landline rings, it rings, but you don't know who that
who it is on the other end, and you don't
know who they're trying to reach. It could be anybody.
It's a real freaking surprise box. So you pick up
(08:43):
the phone and you say in a polite way because
it could be the irs, It could be your grandmother,
it could be your friend Jessica from across the street.
But it could be any of these people. So you
have to respond like this, Hello. You can be You
can't pick up the phone and go what's what the
f do you want? Or like what's up Grandma?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Go?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Or yeah, go for Gary, Go for Gary. You have to.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Talk to somebody, at least initially, like they could be
a variety of people in the world.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yeah, that that I didn't think about.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
The idea that you don't have caller ID on I mean,
I remember that was a if you had a phone
that had a separate box that somehow had caller ID
still didn't tell you a name, but it would give
you a number.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
See, you didn't need all these things to stimulate your brain,
like candy crush. It was a stimulation when the phone rang,
because you didn't know what that phone call.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Was about or who it was for. Was it for you?
Was it for your brother? I don't know. Was it
for your mom? Is it your mom's friend?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Do you think to the phone?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Thing with the mail? The mail used to be what's
in the mailbox?
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Did you race to the phone when it would ring?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It depends. There were times when you you did not
want the phone to ring. There were times when you did.
I remember when I was in high school, it was
a big deal to have your own line.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Yes, in your room, and that was like, oh, you
mean like your own separate phone number and everything.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, it was first to have your own phone in
your room, which was something that my parents did capitulate too.
But that was essentially the same thing as having your
own line in my house. Right. But the kids that
did have their own line, they were always kind of
like the dangerous crowd or like the spoiled or selling
(10:34):
uh no, but just like maybe a little faster, maybe
you know, a little faster stretching your nose up like that,
a little faster, you know, why do you need your
own phone number?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
As a teenage girl, like I said, come on, I'll
be selling something.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
But uh yeah, And I remember everyone had when they
were getting their own phones in the room, and they
were those see through phones.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Those were like the thing to get.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Oh, to see the internal workings of the fun Yeah,
those are in I found an old phone in my
parents closet one time, I mean like thirties forties old telephone, yeah,
and was able to hook it up to the phone
jack in my room and that was the phone I
had for months until I got a cheap o radio.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Check well in portable And this was all so exciting,
and it's like now, it's so funny because you think about, well,
of course it's exciting because you think about now you
can do whatever you want on your phone.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You have all this freedom.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But when the portable phone came out, you could take
the portable phone like to your room or whatever. And
was that a thing that you were allowed to join. Yeah,
so like you didn't have to stand in the kitchen
talking to your friend in front of like family coming
and going or whatever, you know, and you like the
freedom of being able to talk to your best friend
in your room and talk about like whatever was incredible.
(11:53):
Like that was that I can still feel the feeling
of that being a freedom.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And now can do god knows what and you never
even know about it.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Motivational Monday Tear in the Skies mixtape Monday Still to Come.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You never even know.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Candice called, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
There was an F one race hand crafted Sushi. What
in Miami?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I know Zen She handcrafted sushi made fresh daily at
Ralphs near the Dali Counter.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I thought that would be impressive that I knew that.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
That is impressive. Okay, it's good. It's time for Terror
in the Sky.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Flight Neronire. You're a glare at the day off.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Roger, get off my plane, Roger Rogers.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Let's our vector, Victor no is Eno. I haven't had
it with these mulkey pipe.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Snakes on this money. It's Gary and Shannon's Terror in.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The Skies on the Pulitzers are out, Keana, Did we
answer anything?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I don't think we did.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The pulitzers.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Do they do pulitzers for radio?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I don't know. I don't have all the answers.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
There was a group in Bolivia stranded in alligators.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
To me, there was a group in Bolivia.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
She was really worried that she missed a deadline or something.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
An alligator infested waters their plane was faced forced to
make an emergency landing. Five people found on top of
this small plane disappeared from radar of the Beny Department,
little county there sort of in central Bolivia. Three women
a child in their twenty nine year old pilot discovered
by fishermen in the Amazonas region. They said alligators swam
(13:40):
within ten feet of them, but the plane's fuel tank
was leaking into the water, and they think that the
alligators didn't like the fuel, so they stayed away from
the stayed away from the body of the AIRPA.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I have a question.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You're in a plane, it crashes, and you realize you're alive,
and then you get out and you're knee deep in
some sort of swamp, and then you see the alligators.
Do the alligators even phase you? You just survived a
plane crash.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
You think at that point you're indestructible.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I think so, I think, I'm like, what's up, alligator?
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Mario?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, right, I mean you.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Thank you for laughing. Kean, I appreciate that wasn't for you,
Yes it was.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It was it okay, But was it that for me?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I mean it's not the right sound.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
But you know, I think that they don't bother me.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I think if I'm just out for a walk and
I find myself in a swamp and there's a gator,
I'm like, oh s, I freak out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But if I just survive a plane crash.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
God has already smiled on you.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
God's not going to let me die from that gator.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
It's time for motivation. Try it again.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
It's time for motivational Monday. So if you you wouldn't mind,
would you go ahead and spend that wheel one more time?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Yeah? Reach over there something in the sports category. You
gotta stop.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Okay, it doesn't work randomly when you position the wheel
on the one that you want.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Why are you such an ra when it comes to
the wheel in the course rules and regulations.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
In the course of one day, a cab driver from Louisville,
Kentucky loses his job, his apartment, his car, his girlfriend, Anita.
He's grown tight. She has grown tired of his immaturity.
Realizing his limited prospects he decides to join this Man's army.
John Winger becomes a de facto leader of the ragtag
(15:48):
group of soldiers and motivates his disheartened platoon to get
them ready for graduation in nineteen eighty one's Stripes.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
We're all very different people.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
We're not wanted to see. We're not Spartans.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
We're Americans with a capital A.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Huh. You know what that means, do it?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every
decent country in the world.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
We are the wretched refuse.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I like that.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
We're underdog.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
We're mutts.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Here's proof noses cold.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Lovable than the mutt who saw.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Old Yeller, who cried when Old Yeller got shot at
the end, nobody.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Cried when Old Yeller got shot.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I'm sure I cried my eyes out. So we're all
dog faces, we're all very, very different, but there is
one thing that we all have in common. We were
all stupid enough to enlist in the army.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We're mutants.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
There's something wrong with us, something very very wrong with us,
something seriously wrong with us. We're soldiers. But we're American soldiers.
We've been taking ass for two hundred years.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
We're ten and one.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
We don't have to worry about whether or not we've practiced.
We don't have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
To have us hung. All we have to do is
to be the great American fighting.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Soldier that is inside each one of us.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Now, do what I do, and say what I say,
and make me.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Prop fall in, and then they go out. They do
the big on the paray ground, they do the big.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I never saw that is that where John Candy is
in it? The the cast list is pretty amazing.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
So you've got obviously Bill Murray, Sean Young knows she's
not John Laraquette, Harold Ramis, Timothy Bussfield, Bill Paston. There's
a bunch of great names in there. But again, it
would have been nineteen eighty one. You would have been zero.
When we come back mixtape Monday. What does it mean
(18:22):
to remaster an album and be a care if it's
that perfect? Or do you want a little bit of
dirt in your old room?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I think I was thinking of Private Benjamin. Yeah, okay,
I don't know, same era.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Oh, yeah, okay, not as funny. Ah, you've been listening
to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
What Else is going on?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Time four? What's Happening?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (00:13):
As idly mentioned in earlier, a flurry of activity coming
from the White House where the President says he's imposing
one hundred percent tariff on movies produced outside the US.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He went on Truth Social yesterday to announce that he
had instructed the Department of Commerce and the US Trade
Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting the tariffs.
We talked about it in the first hour of the show.
If you missed it, catch the podcast where it gets
a little dicey when you're talking about intellectual property and
what you can tariff and what you cannot.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Yeah, they're gonna have a hard time.
Speaker 7 (00:43):
I mean, this is I don't know if it's similar
to the tariffs that we saw on foreign made automobiles,
but remember there were discussions about does an automobile count
as foreign made if fifty one percent of its of
its contents are foreign made? Or can you import foreign
parts to make vehicles and assemble them here in the
(01:05):
United States. This is going to be similar, but even
less clear because it's not a physical thing, especially not anymore.
It's not a physical thing often that you bring into
the country. Someone sends an email with a digitized version
of the film, and that's how it gets shown.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
So it's going to be even harder to figure out.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Jerry selection underway today and Diddy's case, the federal sex
trafficking trial of Sean Ditty Combs, prosecutors confirm they have
a star witness. He's facing life in prison on charges
including sex trafficking and racketeering. Apparently there was a plea
deal on the table that they scoffed at earlier this
week or last week. I should say, his ex girlfriend
(01:47):
Cassandra Ventura will take the stand. She's supposed to be
the star witness. She's the one that he was caught
on tape beating up apparently in the hotel there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's awful video.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I believe that his defense will be I'm a superstar
and I have sex with many women and it's all
consensual and drugs.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Don't forget that he was so whacked out that he
didn't know what was right and wrong. We've seen some
crazy spring weather.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh said, very seriously, You're like, don't.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Forget, don't forget all the drugs.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Very severe weather expected through parts of the South and
East through this week. Severe weather threat right now western
New Mexico all the way to Louisiana. About seven million
people under floodwatches because of potentially heavy rainfall. Fifty storm
reports across ten states just yesterday, including very damaging winds
and hail. Both the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico could
(02:41):
see one to two inches of rain, but there are
areas in northern Louisiana where they're expecting as much as
twelve inches of rain over the course of the next week.
My daughter texted me on Friday, craziest storm ever right
now in Texas, and she asked, does our car insurance
(03:01):
cover hail damage? Because apparently it was quite significant and
much larger than she's ever seen anywhere in California.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
She's twenty two two.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think I've ever heard a twenty two year
old asking about what it's car insurance covers. Self checkout
is no longer a thing at Target Target pulling the
plug on many self checkout machines because shoplifting. They're going
to limit it to customers with ten items or fewer.
(03:32):
If you've got a full cart, you'll have to go
through the staff checkout lane.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Question.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Yeah, if they can't police the self checkout because of shoplifting,
how are they going to police the self checkout lane
for the ten items or less?
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Hm, that seems weird.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know. I don't know how it works. Mayor
Karen Bass is going to take a pay cut. We
saw this.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Coming.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
She had talked about it before, but the said she's
going to take a pay cut and hold off on
scheduled raises for the staff because the city is looking
at about a billion dollars shortfall. So this is what
most budget watchers referred to as a drop in the
bucket for what needs to take place.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Remember last week when I talked.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
About the conclave and how I think it's going to
take on a reality show vibe, just because the last
time we did this was two thousand and five and
it was a very different world, and now everything is
just kind of playing out in real time on display.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's happening. Did you know the Cardinals are on social media?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They are, and they're very active right now on social media.
A huge contrast to what we saw with the last conclave.
Cardinal Asal Kukuchi, Archbishop of Tokyo, posted a selfie on
a bus with other cardinals while they were en route
to pray in front of the tomb of Francis. This
was after his funeral back at the end of April.
(05:00):
But yeah, I mean Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York.
He's got about three hundred thousand followers on x He's
been posting daily videos describing his walkabouts around Rome, sharing
some of the locations of the meetings leading up to
the conclave. It's happening, guys. It's nothing as sacred.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Everything is postable, even what is supposed to be arguably
one of the most safely ceremonies in the entire history
of a planet. It didn't happen if it's not on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Good lord.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
All right, A couple things still, We're gonna try to
cram in here before the show wraps up. We've got
that story about kids using old school landlines to teach
telephone etiquette. Motivational Monday, We've got a tear in the
Skies and mixtape Monday.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
My god, Gary, I just don't know.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
I'm gonna have to go get a talk show shoehorn,
the cram it all into the.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
When's the last time you saw a shoehorn? This is
like my reference to Parker Center. It's a good let's
do better.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Okay, Sorry, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Nowadays, there's a reliance on cell phones, right, everybody's got one.
That some weird number like ninety four percent of Americans
over the age of fifteen I think have cell phones. Yeah,
And we were talking earlier in the show about sort
of lamenting the loss of phone etiquette that if you're
under the age of say, I want to say, like thirty,
(06:41):
you probably never developed those skills of phone etiquette of
having to make phone calls. I think back when I
was in elementary school or junior high, high school, something
like that, and we would do a fundraiser for whatever,
you're selling, chocolates for the band or something. You would
have to get on the phone and you'd have to
(07:03):
contact Grandma, Grandpa, maybe a couple of neighbors or family
friends or stuff like that and ask them if they'd
be willing to support you.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I remember going door to door for stuff like that.
I also remember thinking this is an awful idea. I'm eight,
who are even these people?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
But we've gotten.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Away from that very much so now, and to the
point where kids don't even know what old phones look
like in many cases, or why there's a core attached
like a rotary phone, why it's got to be stuck
on the wall, why you can't just walk around the
house with it. There is a push for some parents
(07:41):
of young kids, especially to use an old landline to
teach kids the very basics of phone etiquette.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Well, what's and I go back to my initial question
is why do you need a landline to teach phone etiquette?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
That's a good question. They said that, if nothing else,
the old school land line was easier to install. And
then again we're talking about if you're if you're thirty five,
and you're doing this with your kids, you may find
it easier to simply plug in a landline phone. I
don't know where you're going to find one, but to
plug in a landline phone and then to set up
(08:18):
a whole internet However, you would do it at your house.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I guess it's because you when it's a landline, you
don't know who the person's calling for a good point,
and you don't know who the person is. When your
landline rings, it rings, but you don't know who that
who it is on the other end, and you don't
know who they're trying to reach. It could be anybody.
It's a real freaking surprise box. So you pick up
(08:43):
the phone and you say in a polite way because
it could be the irs, It could be your grandmother,
it could be your friend Jessica from across the street.
But it could be any of these people. So you
have to respond like this, Hello. You can be You
can't pick up the phone and go what's what the
f do you want? Or like what's up Grandma?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Go?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Or yeah, go for Gary, Go for Gary. You have to.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Talk to somebody, at least initially, like they could be
a variety of people in the world.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yeah, that that I didn't think about.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
The idea that you don't have caller ID on I mean,
I remember that was a if you had a phone
that had a separate box that somehow had caller ID
still didn't tell you a name, but it would give
you a number.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
See, you didn't need all these things to stimulate your brain,
like candy crush. It was a stimulation when the phone rang,
because you didn't know what that phone call.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Was about or who it was for. Was it for you?
Was it for your brother? I don't know. Was it
for your mom? Is it your mom's friend?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Do you think to the phone?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Thing with the mail? The mail used to be what's
in the mailbox?
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Did you race to the phone when it would ring?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It depends. There were times when you you did not
want the phone to ring. There were times when you did.
I remember when I was in high school, it was
a big deal to have your own line.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Yes, in your room, and that was like, oh, you
mean like your own separate phone number and everything.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, it was first to have your own phone in
your room, which was something that my parents did capitulate too.
But that was essentially the same thing as having your
own line in my house. Right. But the kids that
did have their own line, they were always kind of
like the dangerous crowd or like the spoiled or selling
(10:34):
uh no, but just like maybe a little faster, maybe
you know, a little faster stretching your nose up like that,
a little faster, you know, why do you need your
own phone number?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
As a teenage girl, like I said, come on, I'll
be selling something.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
But uh yeah, And I remember everyone had when they
were getting their own phones in the room, and they
were those see through phones.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Those were like the thing to get.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Oh, to see the internal workings of the fun Yeah,
those are in I found an old phone in my
parents closet one time, I mean like thirties forties old telephone, yeah,
and was able to hook it up to the phone
jack in my room and that was the phone I
had for months until I got a cheap o radio.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Check well in portable And this was all so exciting,
and it's like now, it's so funny because you think about, well,
of course it's exciting because you think about now you
can do whatever you want on your phone.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You have all this freedom.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But when the portable phone came out, you could take
the portable phone like to your room or whatever. And
was that a thing that you were allowed to join. Yeah,
so like you didn't have to stand in the kitchen
talking to your friend in front of like family coming
and going or whatever, you know, and you like the
freedom of being able to talk to your best friend
in your room and talk about like whatever was incredible.
(11:53):
Like that was that I can still feel the feeling
of that being a freedom.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And now can do god knows what and you never
even know about it.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Motivational Monday Tear in the Skies mixtape Monday Still to Come.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You never even know.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Candice called, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
There was an F one race hand crafted Sushi. What
in Miami?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I know Zen She handcrafted sushi made fresh daily at
Ralphs near the Dali Counter.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I thought that would be impressive that I knew that.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
That is impressive. Okay, it's good. It's time for Terror
in the Sky.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Flight Neronire. You're a glare at the day off.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Roger, get off my plane, Roger Rogers.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Let's our vector, Victor no is Eno. I haven't had
it with these mulkey pipe.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Snakes on this money. It's Gary and Shannon's Terror in.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The Skies on the Pulitzers are out, Keana, Did we
answer anything?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I don't think we did.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The pulitzers.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Do they do pulitzers for radio?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I don't know. I don't have all the answers.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
There was a group in Bolivia stranded in alligators.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
To me, there was a group in Bolivia.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
She was really worried that she missed a deadline or something.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
An alligator infested waters their plane was faced forced to
make an emergency landing. Five people found on top of
this small plane disappeared from radar of the Beny Department,
little county there sort of in central Bolivia. Three women
a child in their twenty nine year old pilot discovered
by fishermen in the Amazonas region. They said alligators swam
(13:40):
within ten feet of them, but the plane's fuel tank
was leaking into the water, and they think that the
alligators didn't like the fuel, so they stayed away from
the stayed away from the body of the AIRPA.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I have a question.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You're in a plane, it crashes, and you realize you're alive,
and then you get out and you're knee deep in
some sort of swamp, and then you see the alligators.
Do the alligators even phase you? You just survived a
plane crash.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
You think at that point you're indestructible.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I think so, I think, I'm like, what's up, alligator?
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Mario?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, right, I mean you.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Thank you for laughing. Kean, I appreciate that wasn't for you,
Yes it was.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It was it okay, But was it that for me?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I mean it's not the right sound.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
But you know, I think that they don't bother me.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I think if I'm just out for a walk and
I find myself in a swamp and there's a gator,
I'm like, oh s, I freak out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But if I just survive a plane crash.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
God has already smiled on you.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
God's not going to let me die from that gator.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
It's time for motivation. Try it again.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
It's time for motivational Monday. So if you you wouldn't mind,
would you go ahead and spend that wheel one more time?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Yeah? Reach over there something in the sports category. You
gotta stop.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Okay, it doesn't work randomly when you position the wheel
on the one that you want.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Why are you such an ra when it comes to
the wheel in the course rules and regulations.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
In the course of one day, a cab driver from Louisville,
Kentucky loses his job, his apartment, his car, his girlfriend, Anita.
He's grown tight. She has grown tired of his immaturity.
Realizing his limited prospects he decides to join this Man's army.
John Winger becomes a de facto leader of the ragtag
(15:48):
group of soldiers and motivates his disheartened platoon to get
them ready for graduation in nineteen eighty one's Stripes.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
We're all very different people.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
We're not wanted to see. We're not Spartans.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
We're Americans with a capital A.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Huh. You know what that means, do it?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every
decent country in the world.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
We are the wretched refuse.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I like that.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
We're underdog.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
We're mutts.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Here's proof noses cold.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Lovable than the mutt who saw.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Old Yeller, who cried when Old Yeller got shot at
the end, nobody.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Cried when Old Yeller got shot.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I'm sure I cried my eyes out. So we're all
dog faces, we're all very, very different, but there is
one thing that we all have in common. We were
all stupid enough to enlist in the army.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We're mutants.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
There's something wrong with us, something very very wrong with us,
something seriously wrong with us. We're soldiers. But we're American soldiers.
We've been taking ass for two hundred years.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
We're ten and one.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
We don't have to worry about whether or not we've practiced.
We don't have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
To have us hung. All we have to do is
to be the great American fighting.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Soldier that is inside each one of us.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Now, do what I do, and say what I say,
and make me.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Prop fall in, and then they go out. They do
the big on the paray ground, they do the big.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I never saw that is that where John Candy is
in it? The the cast list is pretty amazing.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
So you've got obviously Bill Murray, Sean Young knows she's
not John Laraquette, Harold Ramis, Timothy Bussfield, Bill Paston. There's
a bunch of great names in there. But again, it
would have been nineteen eighty one. You would have been zero.
When we come back mixtape Monday. What does it mean
(18:22):
to remaster an album and be a care if it's
that perfect? Or do you want a little bit of
dirt in your old room?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I think I was thinking of Private Benjamin. Yeah, okay,
I don't know, same era.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Oh, yeah, okay, not as funny. Ah, you've been listening
to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
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