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is in the ramp up to your theater show that's usually around this time of year. I make light of it. I call it adult theater. Ha ha, wink, wink, la, la. And, you know, are you going to be on Broadway and all the things? And I do all the jokes. Because I have to. I mean, it's just, it just, it just goes with the territory. I know what I'm in for. But you do such a wonderful job. And I will get into my full review coming up later. But the whole production truly belongs outside of that. Well, it's a very large church, but it's a small venue inside a large property. It's so well done. And it's so well acted. Anyway, we'll get into that. First of all, the government, it's back up and running. Well, we hope so. Last night, they came up with a deal. Thank you, by the way. They came up with a deal to end the government shutdown, a group of moderate Democrats, eight of them agreed to proceed without the guaranteed extension of health care subsidies. Some of the other Democrats were really angry that there was no concrete deal. But Jeanne Shaheen, for example, one of those senators, those Democratic senators who voted to continue this from New Hampshire, said they do have a concrete plan. We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date on a bill that we will write. Not that the Republicans will write, although I do think it's important for us, I think it's important for us to engage with them. Because we need a bipartisan bill that we know is going to get enacted to provide the relief that Americans need. And I think there's a commitment on the part of many of our colleagues to do that. Here's an interesting aspect of this, and I'm not sure if it plays into it. She, Derr, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, and Angus King, three of the group of eight that voted in favor. are all former governors. I don't know if that means that they have a different perspective on this. They have a different perspective on the shutdown itself. But it is interesting in my mind. Now, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said Republicans are going to sit with this if they don't come through with that planned vote on health care subsidies. Make no mistake about it. The American people know who is inflicting. This health care trauma on them, Donald Trump and the Republicans. Americans will remember a Republican intransigence every time they make a sky-high payment on health insurance. So we are going to fight legislatively. Fight back home, fight in the courts, and bring this fight in the elections. That guy's days may be numbered as the Senate Minority Leader. Others are absolutely roasting him. He voted against it. but they're roasting him for allowing this to even get to where it is. The consequences of the shutdown are compounding, as they do when you have backup in the air traffic control system. Airlines canceling more than 2,000 flights yesterday for the first time since the shutdown began. When the domino effect will end, we'll get into that as well when we return. Also, your chance at $1,000.

You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. There is cheating all over the place. Now we've got MLB pitchers that are getting in on the prop bets. I was shocked by their motivation of just $12,000 a cheat, a pop. It's a pretty quick 12 grand, though. I mean, the Vikings say that the Ravens were cheating with the cadences and the hard counts at the line of scrimmage. We've got now tennis and surfing and darts. Those sports are no longer pure as well. We'll get into all of that. Washington Post had a great article about all the corruption in these esoteric sports that you can bet on. I've done it. I've bet on darts. And it was overseas darts. That's when I stopped betting online. As opposed to domestic. More than 155 million people in the United States are under weather alerts today. Here it's going to be, it's going to feel like mid-September, you know, August here. It's going to be 90 plus degrees in the valley today. But in parts of North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, West Virginia, they could reach 15 degrees today. Hansville, Alabama's expected to break a record, 43. The forecast low for Miami overnight tonight is 49 degrees. That's almost an all-time low for the city of Miami. It is unseasonably warm here and will be for today this afternoon to cool off a bit. And then by Thursday, we expect to see probably close to an inch of rain on Thursday. Before we get to the Democrats eating each other alive, as they are known to do, how about your chance at $1,000? Now your chance to win $1,000. Just enter this nationwide keyword on our website. Bank. That's Bank, B-A-N-K. Enter it now at K-F-I-M-640. Com slash cash. Powered by Sweet James Accident Attorneys. If you're hurting an accident, winning is everything. Call the winning attorneys at Sweet James. 1-8009 million. That's 1-8009 million or sweetjames.com. Again, bank is the key word. And in the 10 o'clock hour, we'll also give you a chance to win $1,000. Well, you mentioned Democrats not happy with Chuck Schumer. Livid is how I heard it described. A handful of them voting to advance the House past stop. and the shutdown. The Democrats just don't have it in them to go the distance when it comes to digging their heels in. For whatever reason, Democrats will argue that it's because they actually care about poor people and the people that would be hurt most by the shutdown. Senator Chris Murphy out of Connecticut called it a mistake. Bernie Sanders called it a very bad night. And Chuck Schumer has been tagged ineffective. Democrats calling for his removal.

Ro Khanna. Yeah, Ro Khanna, the congressman out of up in the Silicon Valley from here in California. He wants them to replace Chuck Schumer, argued that if he can't keep his caucus unified against a government funding bill that doesn't extend. I mean, if you can't keep your caucus unified, what are you doing? What are you doing? Then he shouldn't be leading the Senate Democrats. The deal itself. In the Senate could be wrapped up by today. They could kind of finish this. Last night's vote was technically just a procedural one, but it does move things along. Then we've got to get the House back in order. Mike Johnson, the speaker in a news conference this morning, suggested members of Congress head back to D.C. so that they could get this done as quickly as possible. James Blair is the Deputy White House Chief of Staff and explain the timeline. Yeah, I think Wednesday evening or Thursday morning is probably their earliest. this could happen. There's some procedural moves in the Senate that have to be overcome. But hopefully, you know, by middle of the week, we can get everything reopened and back on track. This has been a whole lot of wasted time by the Democrats for really no reason. We're just setting back the clock essentially to September 30th. This never should have happened. That's going to be the most frustrating thing. If, in fact, this does nothing but put it back to September 30th, there's no movement. There's no, there's no actual. you know, thing that happens in the next couple of days. People lost their snap benefits for this. People's lives have been upended by the FAA shortages because of this. It's one of those frustrating aspects of living in the kind of political world that we live in. As of right now. Democrats did not get what they wanted during the shutdown. They wanted to get an extension of the healthcare subsidies. that many of the 24 million people who buy insurance through the ACA would rely on to help defray some of the costs. Instead, as you heard Jeanne Shaheen say, again, the senator from New Hampshire, this does guarantee a vote on that issue in December, which was not enough for some of the people to vote for it. They rejected the deal. They voted against it. But again, those eight that did vote in favor of this. said that they do trust Republicans to allow for that vote coming up next month at some point. And then, of course, you've got to go through the House. It's got to go back to the president's desk, et cetera. So we are a couple of days away from officially making this thing go by the wayside. But in the meantime, Air travel has been absolutely kicked in the groin. And not only do you have people who are, you know, would normally be a 45-minute delay turns into a 30-hour delay. You've got pilots now coming on and explaining over the PA to their airplane passengers. Hey, I'm sorry. It's not my fault. It's not the air traffic controller's fault.

It's your senator's fault. You need to call them and get this thing fixed. This may trickle into Thanksgiving. We'll tell you what we know about when air traffic controllers and the whole system will get running smoothly again or if it will in time for Thanksgiving. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. Well. It's going to be warm today, cold other parts of the country. The Supreme Court had some stuff going on today. Supreme Court today rejected a call that would overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, if you remember that name. She's this former Kentucky court clerk. who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the 2015 Obergfell v. Hodges ruling. She had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower court order that ordered her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorney's fees to a couple that was denied a marriage license. Also, a... Strange story up in the mountains. Three dozen people hurt on this bus. Oh, it's running springs, right? Yeah. San Bernardino Mountains last night. Prompted firefighters declare a mass casualty incident. State Route 330 in running springs right near a mile marker 38. One witness apparently was following said that the bus was full of kids from a church event who were on their way back to Santa Ana when that crash happened last night. Flight cancellations piling up again today as air traffic controller shortages, worsened by the shutdown, have really made things a mess coast to coast. The president has threatened as well to dock air traffic controllers pay. if they did not show up to work. On Monday, today it looks like as of this article that was written an hour and a half ago on CNBC, about 1,400 scheduled flights were canceled. I got more. Oh, okay. 2063. Okay. So that's like 6% or something like that, I want to say. Maybe more. Last week, it was the administration that ordered airlines to cut flights at 40 major U.S. airports, starting with 4% reductions last Friday, ramping up by 10% this coming Friday the 14th. There was talk about was this political? Did the administration shut down these flights because they want people to feel it? They want Democrats to feel it. They want them to capitulate, as we saw over the weekend. Or was this, as Sean Duffy said, the Transportation Secretary, in effort to just make things safe because they were so short-staffed. Trump took to Truth Social and said all air traffic controllers must get back to work now. He said he would recommend $10,000 bonuses for any air traffic controllers who did not take any time off during the shutdown. And he said those who don't immediately return to work would be docked. The union has not responded today.

I don't know if you can unilaterally do that. United Airlines and Delta Airlines, each offering flight attendants extra pay to pick up flights. Extra pay is common during storms or other disruptions. The sign of how severe air traffled, excuse me, this is my first day with English. Welcome. A sign of how severe air travel disruptions have become during the shutdown. That was yesterday was the fourth worst day since January of last year. Yeah, there was CNN did an interview with a woman in Chicago this morning. She had flown from Burbank. I think Burbank to San Francisco, San Francisco to Chicago, and then eventually was going to connect to New York for some business thing. That's a lot of stops to get all the way to New York. But what started as a 30-minute delay on the original flight out of Burbank. Now is 30 hours behind schedule. Yeah. Okay. Wait, I'm sorry. What was the route? Burbank to San Francisco. San Francisco. San Francisco, Chicago. Chicago. Chicago, New York. That's asking for delays. That's, you're going to be delayed on the best day of air traffic control. That's a fool's errand. I'm not quite sure if she got it for $17. Yeah. Exactly why I hope so. Oh, and then there was a pilot who got onto one of the airplanes. They're stuck basically waiting to get clearing. to take off, but because all of the weather delays that we're now seeing over the last day or so, all of the FAA... imposed restrictions on air travel. This was him explaining to his passengers, hey, it ain't my fault. I just think of 30 airplanes with one engine running. And it's going to take us at least 90 minutes to take off. So it's frustrating. It's really frustrating for me. Because right now it's going to cost about two hours of our lives on the ground before we even take off, spend all that gas, all that money. And it just rolls. into the rest of this system. So right now we're at a 4% reduction in flight capacity. Next week we go to 10. Yeah, they're talking about if they can't get this thing figured out, something ironed out, that by Friday, what we've seen as 4% reduction in air traffic would go up to 10%. So again, there is movement. It looks as though the Senate has decided that they will... pass a bill to stop the government shutdown. It's got to go back to the house, got to be signed by the president. We are at least a couple of days away from that being taken care of. But again, the flight cancellations as of today, 2063.

We're going to get rain this week on Thursday. We should, you know what we should do. You know what we should do. We should get Henry DeCarlo on because if rain is headed here, we're going to need the voice of comfort and reason and precipitation. You know, I'm going to tell him, comfort. What was it? That was pretty good, right? Wisdom. Comfort. And precipitation. There was something else in there. Did you not hear yourself safe? I don't listen when I speak. Come on. I should try that. You don't listen when I speak either. What? I have an adult theater review. Richie thought I was quite literally talking about adult theater and put in this story about Hollywood's little-known porn star Walk of Fame. That is not the adult theater I'm referring to when I put it in the show rundown. This one involves Jesus. Copy. Gary and Shannon will return.

You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. Ooh, we have a wellness segment coming up today. Yes, you've got to take care of yourself. Oh, you've got to take care of yourself because I've got big plans for you. What does that mean? For your career. Oh, for my career. Yes. Okay. So. This weekend happened to be the opening weekend of Gary's theater production of it happened on Fifth Avenue. And this is, which year is this? How many years have you been doing a theater production with this group? The first one was five years ago. Five years ago. So, you know, you, you did a great job. This is a show about, you want to talk about the premise of it if you don't know it. It's a movie from 1947. I cannot believe it has not been adapted for stage before because it worked perfectly on stage. Yeah, they did a great job. It's. A guy named Aloysius, you could say he's homeless, you could say he's a bum, hobo, whatever term they used back then. And in the winter in New York, it's cold. So he breaks into people's homes and lives there while they're away. And in this case, he actually invites a veteran who's kind of down on his luck to come stay in the house with him. It ends up that not only do the owners of the house actually end up there as well, there's other, there's another group of people. There's nine people in total that are living there kind of at the behest of his graciousness, even though he is also. not supposed to be there in the first place. And now I had so many questions for you. So you did great. I do think that you, I said to my husband on the way home, I like Gary in this role. I loved you in the role because it's not too old for you. Like you have a. baby face about you. Like you're always going to look younger. So sometimes when you are in roles that are, you know, the father or the patriarch or whatever, it doesn't always ring as true to me. This was like a perfect role for you. You acted it. So I mean, I can't imagine. Did you, my first question was, did you watch the movie at all? No. You never watched it. I never watched the movie. They did a radio play of it. Like they used to do back in the days. They'd have a big movie that would come out. And then someone would pare it down and reduce it, not reduce it, rewrite it as a radio play. So I'd heard that. But I've never seen the movie. Have you talked to people who've seen the movie? Sure. I think everybody else in the cast has seen the movie. Now, what did they say about your performance as opposed to the actor who played it in the movie? Well, the guy who played it in the movie was kind of a...

tubby, round-headed, dirty. I mean, that was kind of a different version of the same character. Because your version was perfection and you made that character like. Just leap off the pages, I thought. Like, I thought, having never read the play or the screenplay or whatever, the scene, the movie or anything, I just could tell that you really did make that character sparkle. Like, it was so good. Your facial expressions and your physicality, I don't know anything. I don't know about theater. I don't even know the language to use. But... when you weren't speaking was just wonderful. Like you, and it was so not you. You know, that was another thing. It wasn't just Gary Hoffman playing this role. Like, you made it your own, but it was clearly this. character that you that you designed and it was so good it was and it was so perfect and it was so funny when you weren't trying to be funny and there's there's parts that you delivered where like i wouldn't have laughed if it was anybody else like the way that you that you were able to use the words to to the advantage and the role and your timing was impeccable like and that stuff that nobody can do. Like, that's the X factor, I would assume, for being an actor. And it was wonderful. It was so good. And I just, I just can't, like, how do you come up with all that stuff? Like, the, the nonverbal things that you do. That, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, there's, you talk with, we have a director and assistant director that helped, obviously, with all of that stuff. And you have to figure out, well,

What's the background of this guy? Where do you come from? That's the other thing. It made me want. More. Like, I wanted to know more about that character. Why is he living this grifter lifestyle on the DL? Like, what about him gives him such a good heart? What has he got? Like, it made, and I don't know if that's the mark of a great character, probably when you think about movies you've seen, because I'm not a big theater person. So movies I've seen where I'm like, I want to know more about this character. That, that I think is the mark of a really well-acted. role is I want to know more about that guy. Which is funny because my role in that, and there's a couple others in there, but I don't change through the whole thing. I mean, I'm just the same person that I am from the moment you see me out that window till the very end. Right. I'm the same person the whole time. It's the other people, you know, it's Mike and Mary and Jim and Trudy. They're the ones who change. They're the ones who have the arc that goes from, you know, they come in hot and they end up cool or they end up cool and they end up hot or whatever. And part of that is the character's just unflappable nature, which you do have in your real life. But what made him that way? what made him so unflappable and just roll with the punches and handle anything and everything that comes up you know those are all interesting well i'll give you secrets i don't want to say it on the air but there are secrets about him then Oh, do you wear boxers with bunnies with rainbow lasers out of your eyes? I didn't find any before the first weekend, but we do have another weekend, so they may be delivered before them. I can't, I cannot promote this more if you haven't seen it if you didn't get there this weekend. I mean, it was pretty packed on that matinee. Was it packed like that? That was the biggest crowd we had for the weekend. Yeah, it was a great, it was a great crowd. And I can't recommend it more because it's fun for everybody. You can take anybody to this. My mother congratulates you. She heard how well you did as well. Is she going to come see it? She's not, but next year. She will next year. So she's still recuperating. So we don't want to throw her on a plane right away. You know, we don't want her to bleed out for the stage. If you follow us on Instagram at Gary and Shannon, there is a, one of the posts up there actually has a link to tickets. The link in the, for tickets is in the bio specifically, but, but it's got the information about shows coming up Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as well. So I had.

My wife saw it on Friday night. She saw it again on Saturday. She actually saw it again last night because I had a cousin come into town last night. And then next weekend, we have a bunch of other people that are coming through too. Oh, good. It's nice to have somebody at every show. There were people that came to the show. from far away. Yeah. Jamie came in from Pomona, but I'm pretty sure that was Saturday. Yeah. And he drove that, that's a two and a half hour drive on a Saturday to go watch the show. I met some members from the gas family, Mark and Katie and Kathy. They were all very nice people as well. It's a cool venue. It's nice, very intimate, but not too intimate. And that's set. How you like that set? The set was gorgeous. It was perfect. It was a lot of fun. It was functional and just, but perfect for what it should be in terms of whoever did all the, even the color of the drapes that was big in 1946. Yeah. All of that was just perfect. Glad you went. Yeah, me too. It was wonderful. Good job. I can't wait until next year. I don't know what next year is. Well, you better top this year's. Okay. Are you going to go, Amy? You didn't tell me the weekends. Oh, Amy, you missed. You know, we'll do it when we come back. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI AM 6.40, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Monday through Friday. And any time on demand on the IHeart Radio app.