February 7, 2025 • 31 mins
Let's consider adopting a family through Facebook. Now, let's start discussing Sissy topics. We can also talk about the trigger warnings related to Shakespeare. There's a Super Bowl costume party at Gary's house. Are there messages that come off as creepy? We heard that Starbucks employees are facing backlash for writing messages on cups.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We asked you, what is that smell?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
LA Times did at least asking readers the sense that
remind them of Los Angeles?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And I thought, why.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Would you open up such a Pandora's box of what
is certain to be all nakeadive a lot of negative,
but they stuck with the positive. The first example they
gave was magnificent magnolias and wistful with steria.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I mean, right, there are scents and aromas that remind
me of spring.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I've never walked through LA and been like, smell those flowers.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The neighbors and the neighbors. Yeah, the neighbor's honeysuckle. Sure,
But then once I leave my backyard, I don't smell that.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You're also outside of LA as well, So you want
smell honeysuckle at third in spring?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't. Nature park right across the street. All you
smell is nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You you go hard against the Burbank Nature Park?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
What is it with that nature park? What do you
have against it? It's just such a fiasco. Who in
the fiasco who in Burbank City Hall was like, you
know what, we need nature in the middle of this
little triangle patch of land. We should not develop it.
We shouldn't put anything on there. We shouldn't put it parking.
Not even parking. We're just gonna have wood chips over
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what amounts to about a city block. So people don't
go there walk their dogs. That's the thing is people
from that apartment take their dogs over there, and there's
just probably seven acres of crap all over it. You
could you could turn this into action.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I'm sure you could go down to the Burbank City
Council and say, hey, I'd like to be the steward of.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The Burbank Nature Park. I want to be a docent,
I want to lead tours.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
If you want to enact, if you want change, you
should be a factor. You should be the change factor.
Buffalo Bill's quarterback Josh Allen won the MVP last night.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
For him. Good for him. I saw the meme going
around that you should get someone to look at you
the way Hayley Steinfeld looks at Josh Allen and it's
this beautiful, adoringce. She's they're they're engaged, looks at each
other like that. They know. The cameras are on, the
lights are on, they're all beautiful. But the response is
everybody who's a Bills fan looks at Josh Allen. There's
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that too. It's Josh Allen exactly. Your wife looks at
you that way. It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when
I'm not kissing babies.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Got the real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The other side never quits. I'm not going anywhere, so
the squad I can imagine what can be and be
unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, amans have always been gone at President, they're
not scrupid.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Have the people voted for you with not swamp watch.
They're all count of knowing. This, I think is arguably
the most important executive order that President Trump has talked
about in the last two weeks. He wrote on truth
Social Today that he's planning to sign an executive order
to promote plastic straws after Joe Biden tried to phase
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out single use plastics from government operations. He wrote on
Truth Social I will be signing an executive order next
week ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws which
don't work, and then in all caps, back to plastic.
This is like, you know your your grandpa, right.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
He's like, and what's with these paper straws. One day
I'm going to become president and I'm gonna make us
have plastic. It is true.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I do. I do miss the plastic straws.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
When I do have a paper straw, I don't like
that it disintegrates. I don't like that I feel like
I've got to be careful using it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It forces me to drink my bad, my bad drink faster.
You're bad drink. I mean, I'm trying to think of
the times that I have a juice or something. I
don't have it in juice. I have a drink when
I'm going through a drive through, let's say a drive shake.
You sure, And I got known to put down a milkshake,
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and I got a pound of milkshake that much faster
before my paper straw tocintegratees and you got.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
To get to a toilet because that's a lot of
dairy I have.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I have a problem with dairy the old shoes. Do
you have a problem with dairy? No, you know you
can age out a dairy. That was one of the
things that one of our callers said earlier this week
is there comes a time in a boy's life when
dairy doesn't agree with you anymore interesting. I think you
just get out of the habit of I don't drink milk, so,
I mean, I'm a big cheese fan, but I'm not
a milk person, So I guess there. I don't know
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what if I had a big, nice glass of milk.
Do you need me to bring up a block of
cheese on Sunday? Oh? I got plenty of cheese. You do,
You got sharp cheddar? You got sharp cheddar. My wife
had a hard time finding the cocktail wieners for the pie.
She did find some, O, thank god. O. Sorry. I
didn't realize how many dips have cream cheese in it.
(05:18):
Is that a problem?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But I'm going through like I'm gonna make a dip
for your party, and too many recipes have cream cheese,
and I think that's a blasphemy. I don't think that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I like a good onion dip, just a sour cream,
an onion and good night Irene.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
See hello plumbing. I was my sister in law got some.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
She said I had a craving for onion dip and
we were watching football games over on the holidays. I
hadn't had onion dip in a very long time.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I think onion dips and cheeseballs are kind of things
of the past that should never have been things of
the past. They should never have gone away.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I attacked that it did not know what is coming.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
President. President Trump is meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shagero Ishiba.
They will be actually holding a joint news conference here
in a few minutes at the White House. The podiums
are all set up, reporters are in the room. Japan's
Prime minister, they say, is looking to get personal connection
with Trump and to get some reassurance that Japan won't
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be hit with the tariffs that we've seen other countries
hit with or abandon the security guarantees that we have.
He the prime minister faces the challenge of navigating these
views that allies take advantage of the United States while
they don't actually pay enough for the cost of American
Military Assistance. Oh my god, look at there's Tim Kates.
(06:42):
He's in the hallway. What's he doing there? He is there,
he is everybody, it's Tim Kates. Well what's he doing?
What do you mean what is he doing?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
He's getting ready for Dodger baseball. He's getting ready for
the next season of writer football, I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Sho hey and catchers. He counts. Report that new guy,
the other new guy.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
The other new guy. You know, got a lot going on,
write Tim Kates.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And then the other big, the other big headline out
of DC is almost all of the US Agency for
International Development employees are going to be off the job.
Employee associations, the unions trying to go to federal courts
to roll back this swift dismantling of us AID and
much of a bunch of its programs worldwide. All right,
(07:34):
how about we adopt a family? Coming up, We're going
to adopt a family on Facebook. Okay, we'll explain. Wait,
we're going to like, we're not going to Oh, I
just mean, we got me real excited. We should not
do that. No, nope, let's not shut the door on that. Well,
we'll discuss it. Maybe we get a family.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty as.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, yes, somebody's talking about your Valentine's Day, right.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Shannon's monologue about Valentine's Day does not make her sound
like a terrible person at all. She is a breath
of fresh air. However, she had to go on and
on because she is a woman. Everybody expects a woman
who says, don't get me anything to be setting a trap.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, it's not.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
She had to go on a little bit about it,
so we didn't think that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, no, no, no, I really really don't. I it is
not a trap. I'm too old for traps. Traps are
what I would have done twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's a mind thing, right, eight out of that? Come on,
what so you don't have anything planned for Valentine's Day?
Like there's you know the card. Yeah, I'll get a card.
You should say Happy Valentine's Day. I'll write something nice
in there. You get chatchypet to put something in there
for you, something creative.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
No, I'm a very good writer. I can express my
my feelings. That's fine, Okay, I wrote you a nice
birthday card. Once I wrote you guys a nice wedding card.
Oh really, yeah, where is that?
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Speaker 1 (09:59):
You don't need to say everything's a great idea. I
just took a motren. I'll be fine for four more hours.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
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you're right.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Alliteration on the map on the map. Excuse me for
a nap for twelve hundred dollars, with dense traffic and
no lights, an intersection at Mescal Square can be a
mess in this capital of Ethiopia.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh oh, what is addis Ababa? Holyes, are you serious
right now? You heard me? You heard me? How do
you know that? Because it's the capital of Ethiopia and
it's alliteration. So I got to think of two words
(10:53):
that start with the same letter color me impressed my theory.
He looks at them before? How am I look at it?
You are the ones who have control of them? You
you know the chain of customers to see here before
I do. Yeah, but Keana, he's such a rule follower.
He would never do that. I will. I know enough
to know that he would not do it. Give you
this Addis Ababa was just in the Agency, that TV
(11:19):
show with Michael Fassbender about the CIA.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, so, but that's not something that would come up
in a show that you would have ready to go
in your brain. You must have had prior exposure to
oh something, you must know something. At some point, You
learned something.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
At some point there was learning. You knew that before
you heard it in the agency. I don't know if
I I did know it before I heard it in
the agency, but because it was more recent, it it
it was moved.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Don't don't make it move to the front of your
don't don't denigrate your intelligence. That's a very impressive thing
to know, and I am impressed.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So good for you. Yeah, but you guys still don't
I believe that you knew that. And I'm a half
week and a cheater. Well you'll have to deal with
that in another day. How do I How do I
adopt a family on Facebook?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right, it's just I just pick people and say you're adopted. Now,
let's see here to do? This is quite the lengthy article.
How do I get to where I adopt a family?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Did you know twenty seven percent of American adults have
cut off contact with a family member.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yet, you know what, we've actually talked about that bookre
we have, uh and it it at times worries me
for humanity and at other times at the I guess
at this on the flip side of that, I am very,
very lucky to have the family that I have.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well, there is a Facebook group and it's called Surrogate
Grandparents USA. It's a place where older and younger Americans
can connect over a mute need for family, they say.
Many of the posts read like tiny, tragic personal ads.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Here are a few.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
We want grandparents who want to have pizza nights with us,
attend baseball and basketball games, have ice cream dates, take
bike rides, just generally have fun with us and our boys.
Here's another one. My children need more than just me
to love them. I can't be their mama, daddy, aunt, uncle, grandma,
and grandpa forever. We joke about it, but it's true,
and it sits as a pit in my stomach. Here's
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another from the other side, one lonely grandma. Here I
would love to share affection and attention with a nearby family.
Donna Scora is sixty eight. She's a retired paralegal from Florida.
She created Surrogate Grandparents USA in twenty fifteen. She says
everybody needs some kind of support system emotionally.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Some members of the group of Lost loved Ones, some
have never had families of their own. But they say
it's like a refuge for the estranged, and it's not
just a growing problem in the US, but worldwide. The
sounds like be careful sounds That's what I'm reading. As
much as I want to say, this is wonderful for
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people who seek connection and a familial connection in that way.
Just be careful because for as many people that want
their kids to have more love in their lives, there
are awful criminals like that woman's squatter that took advantage
of the cancer patient and Malibu.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Just be careful. I would I think I would do this.
I would totally do it. I mean if I don't
know if anybody likes us, that's the but I think
my wife and I have plenty of goodness. You're also
going to have grandkids in like two years, three years,
you know what? On second thought, you're not coming over
on So your kids are in child bearing birthing ages.
(14:51):
Birth My son at twenty five is not in a
birthing age. I think your daughter's gonna wait for a while. Probably, Yes,
they've both they don't want kids. Yeah, oh interesting like ever,
I don't know if they'll say ever.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
But you know, we should get at some goats. She's
get a family of goats. Those are kids, right right?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Smart? You have the backyard. Are you a fan of Shakespeare? Some?
Some it's some of it's pretty dark.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, I like the dark. I was just gonna say
I like the dark stuff Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Some of the dramatic stuff is very very dark. This
story pains me. The University of West England has issued
trigger warnings for Shakespeare. We'll explain.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It is Friday, which means we've got a what you
learned this week on the Gary and Shannon Show coming
up in the mass of twelve o'clock hour, as well
as the nine news nuggets you need to know. We
use need very lightly and with regard to the nuggets,
but stories that kind of fell through the cracks and
we were covering the news during the week, but we
want to make sure you're loaded with them as you
move into your weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Good morning, great show, But I'm calling BS on Gary's
answer today, what is that Ethiopia?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
How watching I was watching he came up with it.
It was crazy, adis a D D I S And
then I think it's just a B A A. I
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think you got it though.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That's impressive, especially California public schools.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Very rare. Was the last class I attended was a
Chico State class yeah, yeah, hey, don't knock it. Why not?
This is our half hour of sissy talk.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
People that can't handle the messages Starbucks as printing on
their cups, people who are freaking out by a happy
face or something like that. But we start with our
sissy talk with this Shakespeare trigger warning. Beloney drama students
now being warned of the suicide between Romeo and Juliet.
(17:16):
There is a University of the West of England that
has put more than two hundred trigger warnings on the
works of Shakespeare. Warnings for I thought this was kind
of funny.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
As I was.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I've noticed these things coming up more and more when
you watch a show that's streaming or you listen to
a podcast or something like that, it's like, listen with care,
like there's some dark themes coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Listen with care, or.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You know, just so you know, this is gonna have
scenes of violence and drug use and sex, to which
I'm like, I wouldn't be watching it if it didn't
have those things.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Now, the one I do understand is the like pulsating
lights and things of that pleasure a lot that is
a medical real thing. Those I've seen. I have seen
those in move I think I saw it in The
Avengers maybe something like that, which was the first time
I had ever seen it in a big theater like that.
But and we haven't done these trigger warnings. It feels
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like there was there was a high time for them,
probably I don't know, six seven years ago. It feels
like everybody was trying to outdo each other with how
obscure their warning would be. Hey, just so you know,
there's a man, there's a male character in this play
whose name is Hamlet, and it could draw some feelings
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about it. You're a vegan and you hear Hamlet.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We don't want you to freak out about that poor
pig that lost its life or all the pigs that
lose their lives when you think of ham We don't
want you to hear this. We don't want you to
think about the slaughter and the torture of animals.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Remember this, Remember the microaggressive chimps. We got a lot
of s for that too. It's fine. The University of
West England has issued warnings for Blood psychological wild in Macbeth.
Some people don't like blood. We all bleed, Gary all,
we all Scott's blood. They for the for the play
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the tempest, They warned of storms and extreme weather. No, no,
I will no, no, I would not. I would never.
I would never say that my daughter is afraid of trees.
But my daughter had an event early in her life,
in her formative years, where it was windy outside and
a tree fell over on her and her her brother
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had to pull her out of the tree.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
That's very rare, very rare.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay for her, I can understand the warning. But for
people to be have a trigger warning for weather, that's like, did.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You see the sign of the freeway? Did you encounter
any of these signs yesterday and today? Severe weather? Severe
weather weather?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, it was sprinkling yesterday, fairly today.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, uh, they said. Two hundred and twenty trigger warnings
were added to Shakespeare's works and adaptations on stage and screen,
which included depictions on the BBC and ITV. For Macbeth,
for example, where the Scottish general overthrows the king by
murdering him, there are warnings four murder, suicide, violence, knives
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and family trauma. Listen to this one.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The University of Nottingham placed warnings on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
over expressions of Christian faith ooh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The same university banned the term Anglo Saxon from its
module titles. Professors had to rename a Master's course in
Viking in Anglo Saxon Studies to Viking and Early Medieval
English Studies. It's because they wanted to decolonize the curriculum.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
When is that meteor come saying that may or may
not becoming super cool?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I think it's until like twenty thirty two December. In
the Pirates of Penzance show that went up on the
English National Opera Stage, theater goers were warned of Pirates,
alcohol misuse. Oh for the love duty Dame Judy Dench
(21:28):
legend when it comes to British theater, said theater goers
who require warnings before performances like that, I should stay
at home. Yeah exactly, Judy, exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
All right, Yeah, don't go to the theater, you know,
just sit in your you know, your fluffy unicorn land corner.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I just what I did, ask Amy King, you're stressed
like a Disney princess for the super Bowl party.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Because you need it. Well, she came to me and said,
do you have a tiera? Why Shenon thought I should
wear one, so I said, oh, I think Debora Mark
should wear one too.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I don't see you as a Disney I'm not. I
see you more like not. Was it dirty? Okay? What
do you What are you getting at, Shannon?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, I just like we like I see Amy as
this like like yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
But you you know she would be the like Halloween
night there.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah, you'd be like sexy Disney princess.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, okay, all right, so if you want to come
as sexy, nobody needs to wear a costume. No costume.
I didn't know it was a costume super Bowl party?
Costume super Bowl party? Wait? Am I going to get
in trouble for saying that? Why is there some sort
of HR department? It's okay, I thought we fired them. Yeah,
(22:52):
I'm not going to complain. One female co worker is
sexier than the other female. I didn't say she was sexier.
You wanted to see her dressed sexually? Why didn't take
it that way at all? Somewhere wait till you hear what.
I asked Gary to dress up as She wanted me
to wear a cow outfit. So I walked with my
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utters hanging out. Are you still on meds? Yes? I
saw her popping pills earlier. It was an antibiotics. Okay, yeah,
that's what That's what my aunt used to say too.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I haven't touched the hard drugs. I've only had the motrin.
I haven't touched the hard drugs they sent me home with.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And you thoughtgger warning. I wonder how much I could
get for selling those. We're going to sell them, all right, Okay, sorry,
but Starbucks, Starbucks and the messages that they're putting on
their cups. Now, this is what we talk about. These
off like I was gonna throw a fastball. You're like, no, no, no,
(23:56):
we need something's lower than that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Recent plane crashes in close calls have people worried about
the safety of flying. Of course, the mid air collision
last week and near Washington, d C. Killed sixty seven people.
That crash in Philadelphia. Now there's a missing plane in
Alaska that they believe may have gone down. Also a
plane that clipped a parked plane while it was taxiing
at the Sea Tac Airport in Seattle, or near Seattle
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glowing review of Flight Risk.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
By the way, my PSA ongoing PSA, the Mark Wahlberg
movie that Mill gets and directed.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Do not believe it. It was an awful movie.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I thought it was a joke the whole time, that
somebody was going to jump out and say, gotcha, you
really didn't pay to see this stinking pile of crap
masquerading a cinema.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Jeepers, jeepers. I don't think I've ever heard of jeepers before. Okay, okay.
Under a new Starbucks policy, you customers are going to
start seeing sharpy scrawled messages on the to go cups
wishing them a great weekend. People are or simply saying
something very skeptical. Enjoy these personalized notes, which they began
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rolling out in like January. I'm so it's amazing to
me that this is a company wide policy. Hey, write
something nice on the cup.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
They've instructed employees to use their sharpie to write a
simple affirmation such as you're amazing or hello again.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's a little creepy. Is that creepy? Hey? Hot stuff?
Is that what you want? I would like that?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, but I mean you get a coffee cup and
it says you're amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I don't know. That's well, not everybody loves this idea.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, if you're a serial killer and you get a
cup that says you're amazing, doesn't that mean you want
You're going to go out and kill some more.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's just I am amazing, affirming what you already believe
about yourself, that humanity needs to be culled like a
like a bird flu chicken population, right the jeepers. One
other poster on TikTok said that the encouraging messages stopped
feeling special once they realized everybody corporate policy.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
So people were feeling special by their creepy messages. You
really thought that they were writing that just for you.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The baristas have grown resentful towards these affirmations.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It slowed down the pace.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It comes off as a forced way to make connections
with customers, to which I say, do you need a connection?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Maybe you just come up with an icon that is
your thing, your you, barista Bob. You want to write
a happy face, a happy face, or a star, a
star that a heart with a B in it or
something like that. Does that mean what a be? Like?
The letter b or a beat. Name is bob Oh,
I said, And.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That sounds like a Valentine to Bob Oh like love Bob,
Love Like Hey, Shannon, here's your triple mocha. How about
love Bob. Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I don't know, have a fun day, Have a fun day,
hope it picks up. Have a zippity dooda day. I
think looks great. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
If you're going to Starbucks for an affirmation, that's probably
an issue.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Right, I mean, there's nothing wrong with giving somebody a compliment, sure,
but it should be organic.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Not sure, it should be a corporate policy exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, the idea of it being slowed down. Starbucks is
going to give additional store hours where needed to account
for the new task. Now that is also a question
to me, is how long are you taking to come
up with what you're going to write on a customer's
come Well, it.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Could be the same thing. I mean, I like the
one that says you're doing amazing. That's a nice affirmation
to get again, though if it gets in the wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Hand, listen to me. It's one of those things where
you come in you have had an awful day. Yeah,
let's say you are a canal.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Say you were at the dentist for four hours and
there was an excavation in your mouth and you smelled
burning and.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You can't get the smell out of your nose, and.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Coltering and soldering and all the things, and it's hell.
And they tell you you're doing amazing. You do they
say that, they said that you're doing so great. I'm like,
I'm literally just sitting here dying. I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Smell like my own body. Deep.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, but anyway, that would be nice.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You're doing amazing, right, But if you're not, that's the
thing is, it's just going to remind you that you've
had an awful day. For example, uh, traveling obgyn who
is delivering triplets and has to like for good, has
wallet at the hospital and needs to go and needs
to borrow money at the gas station just to get
(28:44):
home to data point. I can't believe you bought that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
All of it's so implausible that in twenty twenty two,
I guess was the time that there would be a
traveler like this is a circus of gynecologists and he's
traveling and there's triplet. Like if you had a high
risk pregnancy, I e. Triplets and you lived in freaking
Laguna Beach or Orange County whatever, that you would have
some weird guy that can't even pay for gas and
(29:08):
see me Valley, come deliver your babies like that. He
would be the guy on call that far away when
you're in the last trimester. A lot of risk that
I missed. I didn't even make any babies. You're the
one who made babies. You should know this.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I made all kinds of babies all right. By the way,
some of the Starbucks workers who, according to this, may
have writers block find inspiration from their peers who were
sharing examples of their work. For example, there's an S
right that is on the Starbucks cup and they write
(29:49):
every sip begins with S or S for Starbucks. That's
what they're writing as their personal note. That's all.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It takes too long too, I'm with you with the
hieroglyphic write a heart or.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
A happy face or go get them or someone. But
someone's gonna find a fence win the day, five pointed stars,
the sign of the devil or something like that, and
they're gonna be upset.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, that's true. Satan Satan's on my cup trigger warning.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I mean it's not You could put a swastika and
then have to argue it's like, well, it's actually an
Indian symbol before the hitler's take it over it.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, really is that why it's all over your home?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's not all over my home. It's just in the altar?
What jeepers? What am I? Kanye? Now you get me
in trouble? Well, oh, we have a quick male thing
to get to when we first come back as well. Okay,
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We asked you, what is that smell?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
LA Times did at least asking readers the sense that
remind them of Los Angeles?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And I thought, why.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Would you open up such a Pandora's box of what
is certain to be all nakeadive a lot of negative,
but they stuck with the positive. The first example they
gave was magnificent magnolias and wistful with steria.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I mean, right, there are scents and aromas that remind
me of spring.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I've never walked through LA and been like, smell those flowers.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The neighbors and the neighbors. Yeah, the neighbor's honeysuckle. Sure,
But then once I leave my backyard, I don't smell that.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You're also outside of LA as well, So you want
smell honeysuckle at third in spring?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't. Nature park right across the street. All you
smell is nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You you go hard against the Burbank Nature Park?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
What is it with that nature park? What do you
have against it? It's just such a fiasco. Who in
the fiasco who in Burbank City Hall was like, you
know what, we need nature in the middle of this
little triangle patch of land. We should not develop it.
We shouldn't put anything on there. We shouldn't put it parking.
Not even parking. We're just gonna have wood chips over
(01:30):
what amounts to about a city block. So people don't
go there walk their dogs. That's the thing is people
from that apartment take their dogs over there, and there's
just probably seven acres of crap all over it. You
could you could turn this into action.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I'm sure you could go down to the Burbank City
Council and say, hey, I'd like to be the steward of.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The Burbank Nature Park. I want to be a docent,
I want to lead tours.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
If you want to enact, if you want change, you
should be a factor. You should be the change factor.
Buffalo Bill's quarterback Josh Allen won the MVP last night.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
For him. Good for him. I saw the meme going
around that you should get someone to look at you
the way Hayley Steinfeld looks at Josh Allen and it's
this beautiful, adoringce. She's they're they're engaged, looks at each
other like that. They know. The cameras are on, the
lights are on, they're all beautiful. But the response is
everybody who's a Bills fan looks at Josh Allen. There's
(02:27):
that too. It's Josh Allen exactly. Your wife looks at
you that way. It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when
I'm not kissing babies.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Got the real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The other side never quits. I'm not going anywhere, so
the squad I can imagine what can be and be
unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, amans have always been gone at President, they're
not scrupid.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Have the people voted for you with not swamp watch.
They're all count of knowing. This, I think is arguably
the most important executive order that President Trump has talked
about in the last two weeks. He wrote on truth
Social Today that he's planning to sign an executive order
to promote plastic straws after Joe Biden tried to phase
(03:26):
out single use plastics from government operations. He wrote on
Truth Social I will be signing an executive order next
week ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws which
don't work, and then in all caps, back to plastic.
This is like, you know your your grandpa, right.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
He's like, and what's with these paper straws. One day
I'm going to become president and I'm gonna make us
have plastic. It is true.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I do. I do miss the plastic straws.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
When I do have a paper straw, I don't like
that it disintegrates. I don't like that I feel like
I've got to be careful using it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It forces me to drink my bad, my bad drink faster.
You're bad drink. I mean, I'm trying to think of
the times that I have a juice or something. I
don't have it in juice. I have a drink when
I'm going through a drive through, let's say a drive shake.
You sure, And I got known to put down a milkshake,
(04:23):
and I got a pound of milkshake that much faster
before my paper straw tocintegratees and you got.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
To get to a toilet because that's a lot of
dairy I have.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I have a problem with dairy the old shoes. Do
you have a problem with dairy? No, you know you
can age out a dairy. That was one of the
things that one of our callers said earlier this week
is there comes a time in a boy's life when
dairy doesn't agree with you anymore interesting. I think you
just get out of the habit of I don't drink milk, so,
I mean, I'm a big cheese fan, but I'm not
a milk person, So I guess there. I don't know
(04:56):
what if I had a big, nice glass of milk.
Do you need me to bring up a block of
cheese on Sunday? Oh? I got plenty of cheese. You do,
You got sharp cheddar? You got sharp cheddar. My wife
had a hard time finding the cocktail wieners for the pie.
She did find some, O, thank god. O. Sorry. I
didn't realize how many dips have cream cheese in it.
(05:18):
Is that a problem?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But I'm going through like I'm gonna make a dip
for your party, and too many recipes have cream cheese,
and I think that's a blasphemy. I don't think that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I like a good onion dip, just a sour cream,
an onion and good night Irene.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
See hello plumbing. I was my sister in law got some.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
She said I had a craving for onion dip and
we were watching football games over on the holidays. I
hadn't had onion dip in a very long time.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I think onion dips and cheeseballs are kind of things
of the past that should never have been things of
the past. They should never have gone away.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I attacked that it did not know what is coming.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
President. President Trump is meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shagero Ishiba.
They will be actually holding a joint news conference here
in a few minutes at the White House. The podiums
are all set up, reporters are in the room. Japan's
Prime minister, they say, is looking to get personal connection
with Trump and to get some reassurance that Japan won't
(06:21):
be hit with the tariffs that we've seen other countries
hit with or abandon the security guarantees that we have.
He the prime minister faces the challenge of navigating these
views that allies take advantage of the United States while
they don't actually pay enough for the cost of American
Military Assistance. Oh my god, look at there's Tim Kates.
(06:42):
He's in the hallway. What's he doing there? He is there,
he is everybody, it's Tim Kates. Well what's he doing?
What do you mean what is he doing?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
He's getting ready for Dodger baseball. He's getting ready for
the next season of writer football, I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Sho hey and catchers. He counts. Report that new guy,
the other new guy.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
The other new guy. You know, got a lot going on,
write Tim Kates.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And then the other big, the other big headline out
of DC is almost all of the US Agency for
International Development employees are going to be off the job.
Employee associations, the unions trying to go to federal courts
to roll back this swift dismantling of us AID and
much of a bunch of its programs worldwide. All right,
(07:34):
how about we adopt a family? Coming up, We're going
to adopt a family on Facebook. Okay, we'll explain. Wait,
we're going to like, we're not going to Oh, I
just mean, we got me real excited. We should not
do that. No, nope, let's not shut the door on that. Well,
we'll discuss it. Maybe we get a family.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty as.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, yes, somebody's talking about your Valentine's Day, right.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Shannon's monologue about Valentine's Day does not make her sound
like a terrible person at all. She is a breath
of fresh air. However, she had to go on and
on because she is a woman. Everybody expects a woman
who says, don't get me anything to be setting a trap.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, it's not.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
She had to go on a little bit about it,
so we didn't think that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, no, no, no, I really really don't. I it is
not a trap. I'm too old for traps. Traps are
what I would have done twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's a mind thing, right, eight out of that? Come on,
what so you don't have anything planned for Valentine's Day?
Like there's you know the card. Yeah, I'll get a card.
You should say Happy Valentine's Day. I'll write something nice
in there. You get chatchypet to put something in there
for you, something creative.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
No, I'm a very good writer. I can express my
my feelings. That's fine, Okay, I wrote you a nice
birthday card. Once I wrote you guys a nice wedding card.
Oh really, yeah, where is that?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
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great idea. Let me turn this thing on.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You don't need to say everything's a great idea. I
just took a motren. I'll be fine for four more hours.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Okay, what's my pin? I like balls one two three? Ah? There,
you're right.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Alliteration on the map on the map. Excuse me for
a nap for twelve hundred dollars, with dense traffic and
no lights, an intersection at Mescal Square can be a
mess in this capital of Ethiopia.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh oh, what is addis Ababa? Holyes, are you serious
right now? You heard me? You heard me? How do
you know that? Because it's the capital of Ethiopia and
it's alliteration. So I got to think of two words
(10:53):
that start with the same letter color me impressed my theory.
He looks at them before? How am I look at it?
You are the ones who have control of them? You
you know the chain of customers to see here before
I do. Yeah, but Keana, he's such a rule follower.
He would never do that. I will. I know enough
to know that he would not do it. Give you
this Addis Ababa was just in the Agency, that TV
(11:19):
show with Michael Fassbender about the CIA.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, so, but that's not something that would come up
in a show that you would have ready to go
in your brain. You must have had prior exposure to
oh something, you must know something. At some point, You
learned something.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
At some point there was learning. You knew that before
you heard it in the agency. I don't know if
I I did know it before I heard it in
the agency, but because it was more recent, it it
it was moved.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Don't don't make it move to the front of your
don't don't denigrate your intelligence. That's a very impressive thing
to know, and I am impressed.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So good for you. Yeah, but you guys still don't
I believe that you knew that. And I'm a half
week and a cheater. Well you'll have to deal with
that in another day. How do I How do I
adopt a family on Facebook?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right, it's just I just pick people and say you're adopted. Now,
let's see here to do? This is quite the lengthy article.
How do I get to where I adopt a family?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Did you know twenty seven percent of American adults have
cut off contact with a family member.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yet, you know what, we've actually talked about that bookre
we have, uh and it it at times worries me
for humanity and at other times at the I guess
at this on the flip side of that, I am very,
very lucky to have the family that I have.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well, there is a Facebook group and it's called Surrogate
Grandparents USA. It's a place where older and younger Americans
can connect over a mute need for family, they say.
Many of the posts read like tiny, tragic personal ads.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Here are a few.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
We want grandparents who want to have pizza nights with us,
attend baseball and basketball games, have ice cream dates, take
bike rides, just generally have fun with us and our boys.
Here's another one. My children need more than just me
to love them. I can't be their mama, daddy, aunt, uncle, grandma,
and grandpa forever. We joke about it, but it's true,
and it sits as a pit in my stomach. Here's
(13:31):
another from the other side, one lonely grandma. Here I
would love to share affection and attention with a nearby family.
Donna Scora is sixty eight. She's a retired paralegal from Florida.
She created Surrogate Grandparents USA in twenty fifteen. She says
everybody needs some kind of support system emotionally.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Some members of the group of Lost loved Ones, some
have never had families of their own. But they say
it's like a refuge for the estranged, and it's not
just a growing problem in the US, but worldwide. The
sounds like be careful sounds That's what I'm reading. As
much as I want to say, this is wonderful for
(14:10):
people who seek connection and a familial connection in that way.
Just be careful because for as many people that want
their kids to have more love in their lives, there
are awful criminals like that woman's squatter that took advantage
of the cancer patient and Malibu.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Just be careful. I would I think I would do this.
I would totally do it. I mean if I don't
know if anybody likes us, that's the but I think
my wife and I have plenty of goodness. You're also
going to have grandkids in like two years, three years,
you know what? On second thought, you're not coming over
on So your kids are in child bearing birthing ages.
(14:51):
Birth My son at twenty five is not in a
birthing age. I think your daughter's gonna wait for a while. Probably, Yes,
they've both they don't want kids. Yeah, oh interesting like ever,
I don't know if they'll say ever.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
But you know, we should get at some goats. She's
get a family of goats. Those are kids, right right?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Smart? You have the backyard. Are you a fan of Shakespeare? Some?
Some it's some of it's pretty dark.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, I like the dark. I was just gonna say
I like the dark stuff Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Some of the dramatic stuff is very very dark. This
story pains me. The University of West England has issued
trigger warnings for Shakespeare. We'll explain.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It is Friday, which means we've got a what you
learned this week on the Gary and Shannon Show coming
up in the mass of twelve o'clock hour, as well
as the nine news nuggets you need to know. We
use need very lightly and with regard to the nuggets,
but stories that kind of fell through the cracks and
we were covering the news during the week, but we
want to make sure you're loaded with them as you
move into your weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Good morning, great show, But I'm calling BS on Gary's
answer today, what is that Ethiopia?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
How watching I was watching he came up with it.
It was crazy, adis a D D I S And
then I think it's just a B A A. I
(16:36):
think you got it though.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That's impressive, especially California public schools.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Very rare. Was the last class I attended was a
Chico State class yeah, yeah, hey, don't knock it. Why not?
This is our half hour of sissy talk.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
People that can't handle the messages Starbucks as printing on
their cups, people who are freaking out by a happy
face or something like that. But we start with our
sissy talk with this Shakespeare trigger warning. Beloney drama students
now being warned of the suicide between Romeo and Juliet.
(17:16):
There is a University of the West of England that
has put more than two hundred trigger warnings on the
works of Shakespeare. Warnings for I thought this was kind
of funny.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
As I was.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I've noticed these things coming up more and more when
you watch a show that's streaming or you listen to
a podcast or something like that, it's like, listen with care,
like there's some dark themes coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Listen with care, or.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You know, just so you know, this is gonna have
scenes of violence and drug use and sex, to which
I'm like, I wouldn't be watching it if it didn't
have those things.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Now, the one I do understand is the like pulsating
lights and things of that pleasure a lot that is
a medical real thing. Those I've seen. I have seen
those in move I think I saw it in The
Avengers maybe something like that, which was the first time
I had ever seen it in a big theater like that.
But and we haven't done these trigger warnings. It feels
(18:16):
like there was there was a high time for them,
probably I don't know, six seven years ago. It feels
like everybody was trying to outdo each other with how
obscure their warning would be. Hey, just so you know,
there's a man, there's a male character in this play
whose name is Hamlet, and it could draw some feelings
(18:37):
about it. You're a vegan and you hear Hamlet.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We don't want you to freak out about that poor
pig that lost its life or all the pigs that
lose their lives when you think of ham We don't
want you to hear this. We don't want you to
think about the slaughter and the torture of animals.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Remember this, Remember the microaggressive chimps. We got a lot
of s for that too. It's fine. The University of
West England has issued warnings for Blood psychological wild in Macbeth.
Some people don't like blood. We all bleed, Gary all,
we all Scott's blood. They for the for the play
(19:14):
the tempest, They warned of storms and extreme weather. No, no,
I will no, no, I would not. I would never.
I would never say that my daughter is afraid of trees.
But my daughter had an event early in her life,
in her formative years, where it was windy outside and
a tree fell over on her and her her brother
(19:37):
had to pull her out of the tree.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
That's very rare, very rare.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay for her, I can understand the warning. But for
people to be have a trigger warning for weather, that's like, did.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You see the sign of the freeway? Did you encounter
any of these signs yesterday and today? Severe weather? Severe
weather weather?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, it was sprinkling yesterday, fairly today.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, uh, they said. Two hundred and twenty trigger warnings
were added to Shakespeare's works and adaptations on stage and screen,
which included depictions on the BBC and ITV. For Macbeth,
for example, where the Scottish general overthrows the king by
murdering him, there are warnings four murder, suicide, violence, knives
(20:24):
and family trauma. Listen to this one.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The University of Nottingham placed warnings on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
over expressions of Christian faith ooh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The same university banned the term Anglo Saxon from its
module titles. Professors had to rename a Master's course in
Viking in Anglo Saxon Studies to Viking and Early Medieval
English Studies. It's because they wanted to decolonize the curriculum.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
When is that meteor come saying that may or may
not becoming super cool?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I think it's until like twenty thirty two December. In
the Pirates of Penzance show that went up on the
English National Opera Stage, theater goers were warned of Pirates,
alcohol misuse. Oh for the love duty Dame Judy Dench
(21:28):
legend when it comes to British theater, said theater goers
who require warnings before performances like that, I should stay
at home. Yeah exactly, Judy, exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
All right, Yeah, don't go to the theater, you know,
just sit in your you know, your fluffy unicorn land corner.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I just what I did, ask Amy King, you're stressed
like a Disney princess for the super Bowl party.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Because you need it. Well, she came to me and said,
do you have a tiera? Why Shenon thought I should
wear one, so I said, oh, I think Debora Mark
should wear one too.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I don't see you as a Disney I'm not. I
see you more like not. Was it dirty? Okay? What
do you What are you getting at, Shannon?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, I just like we like I see Amy as
this like like yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
But you you know she would be the like Halloween
night there.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah, you'd be like sexy Disney princess.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, okay, all right, so if you want to come
as sexy, nobody needs to wear a costume. No costume.
I didn't know it was a costume super Bowl party?
Costume super Bowl party? Wait? Am I going to get
in trouble for saying that? Why is there some sort
of HR department? It's okay, I thought we fired them. Yeah,
(22:52):
I'm not going to complain. One female co worker is
sexier than the other female. I didn't say she was sexier.
You wanted to see her dressed sexually? Why didn't take
it that way at all? Somewhere wait till you hear what.
I asked Gary to dress up as She wanted me
to wear a cow outfit. So I walked with my
(23:12):
utters hanging out. Are you still on meds? Yes? I
saw her popping pills earlier. It was an antibiotics. Okay, yeah,
that's what That's what my aunt used to say too.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I haven't touched the hard drugs. I've only had the motrin.
I haven't touched the hard drugs they sent me home with.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And you thoughtgger warning. I wonder how much I could
get for selling those. We're going to sell them, all right, Okay, sorry,
but Starbucks, Starbucks and the messages that they're putting on
their cups. Now, this is what we talk about. These
off like I was gonna throw a fastball. You're like, no, no, no,
(23:56):
we need something's lower than that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Recent plane crashes in close calls have people worried about
the safety of flying. Of course, the mid air collision
last week and near Washington, d C. Killed sixty seven people.
That crash in Philadelphia. Now there's a missing plane in
Alaska that they believe may have gone down. Also a
plane that clipped a parked plane while it was taxiing
at the Sea Tac Airport in Seattle, or near Seattle
(24:26):
glowing review of Flight Risk.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
By the way, my PSA ongoing PSA, the Mark Wahlberg
movie that Mill gets and directed.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Do not believe it. It was an awful movie.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I thought it was a joke the whole time, that
somebody was going to jump out and say, gotcha, you
really didn't pay to see this stinking pile of crap
masquerading a cinema.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Jeepers, jeepers. I don't think I've ever heard of jeepers before. Okay, okay.
Under a new Starbucks policy, you customers are going to
start seeing sharpy scrawled messages on the to go cups
wishing them a great weekend. People are or simply saying
something very skeptical. Enjoy these personalized notes, which they began
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rolling out in like January. I'm so it's amazing to
me that this is a company wide policy. Hey, write
something nice on the cup.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
They've instructed employees to use their sharpie to write a
simple affirmation such as you're amazing or hello again.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's a little creepy. Is that creepy? Hey? Hot stuff?
Is that what you want? I would like that?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, but I mean you get a coffee cup and
it says you're amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I don't know. That's well, not everybody loves this idea.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, if you're a serial killer and you get a
cup that says you're amazing, doesn't that mean you want
You're going to go out and kill some more.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's just I am amazing, affirming what you already believe
about yourself, that humanity needs to be culled like a
like a bird flu chicken population, right the jeepers. One
other poster on TikTok said that the encouraging messages stopped
feeling special once they realized everybody corporate policy.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
So people were feeling special by their creepy messages. You
really thought that they were writing that just for you.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The baristas have grown resentful towards these affirmations.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It slowed down the pace.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It comes off as a forced way to make connections
with customers, to which I say, do you need a connection?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Maybe you just come up with an icon that is
your thing, your you, barista Bob. You want to write
a happy face, a happy face, or a star, a
star that a heart with a B in it or
something like that. Does that mean what a be? Like?
The letter b or a beat. Name is bob Oh,
I said, And.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That sounds like a Valentine to Bob Oh like love Bob,
Love Like Hey, Shannon, here's your triple mocha. How about
love Bob. Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I don't know, have a fun day, Have a fun day,
hope it picks up. Have a zippity dooda day. I
think looks great. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
If you're going to Starbucks for an affirmation, that's probably
an issue.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Right, I mean, there's nothing wrong with giving somebody a compliment, sure,
but it should be organic.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Not sure, it should be a corporate policy exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, the idea of it being slowed down. Starbucks is
going to give additional store hours where needed to account
for the new task. Now that is also a question
to me, is how long are you taking to come
up with what you're going to write on a customer's
come Well, it.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Could be the same thing. I mean, I like the
one that says you're doing amazing. That's a nice affirmation
to get again, though if it gets in the wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Hand, listen to me. It's one of those things where
you come in you have had an awful day. Yeah,
let's say you are a canal.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Say you were at the dentist for four hours and
there was an excavation in your mouth and you smelled
burning and.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You can't get the smell out of your nose, and.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Coltering and soldering and all the things, and it's hell.
And they tell you you're doing amazing. You do they
say that, they said that you're doing so great. I'm like,
I'm literally just sitting here dying. I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Smell like my own body. Deep.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, but anyway, that would be nice.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You're doing amazing, right, But if you're not, that's the
thing is, it's just going to remind you that you've
had an awful day. For example, uh, traveling obgyn who
is delivering triplets and has to like for good, has
wallet at the hospital and needs to go and needs
to borrow money at the gas station just to get
(28:44):
home to data point. I can't believe you bought that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
All of it's so implausible that in twenty twenty two,
I guess was the time that there would be a
traveler like this is a circus of gynecologists and he's
traveling and there's triplet. Like if you had a high
risk pregnancy, I e. Triplets and you lived in freaking
Laguna Beach or Orange County whatever, that you would have
some weird guy that can't even pay for gas and
(29:08):
see me Valley, come deliver your babies like that. He
would be the guy on call that far away when
you're in the last trimester. A lot of risk that
I missed. I didn't even make any babies. You're the
one who made babies. You should know this.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I made all kinds of babies all right. By the way,
some of the Starbucks workers who, according to this, may
have writers block find inspiration from their peers who were
sharing examples of their work. For example, there's an S
right that is on the Starbucks cup and they write
(29:49):
every sip begins with S or S for Starbucks. That's
what they're writing as their personal note. That's all.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It takes too long too, I'm with you with the
hieroglyphic write a heart or.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
A happy face or go get them or someone. But
someone's gonna find a fence win the day, five pointed stars,
the sign of the devil or something like that, and
they're gonna be upset.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, that's true. Satan Satan's on my cup trigger warning.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I mean it's not You could put a swastika and
then have to argue it's like, well, it's actually an
Indian symbol before the hitler's take it over it.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, really is that why it's all over your home?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's not all over my home. It's just in the altar?
What jeepers? What am I? Kanye? Now you get me
in trouble? Well, oh, we have a quick male thing
to get to when we first come back as well. Okay,
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