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Hosted by iHeartRadio and KFI AM 640 · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 1,000 episodes
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Gary Hoffmann and Shannon Farren. Covering what you need to know (and even some stuff you didn't) weekdays 9am-12pm
iHeartRadio and KFI AM 640 hosts Gary and Shannon, a news show with 1,000 episodes published.
HOUR 1 (08/18) - Gary & Shannon kick off the show with new details surrounding Eric Swalwell, his former girlfriend and the Chinese spy known as “Fang Fang,” as voters head to the polls to fill the remainder
HOUR 2 (08/18) - Gary & Shannon get into the FCC’s role in broadcasting, the brewing fight over control of the Lakers and a completely bogus poll that claimed Karen Bass was comfortably leading Nithya Raman. Then t
HOUR 3 (08/18) - Gary & Shannon cover the day’s biggest stories in #WhatsHappening, including Luigi Mangione’s delayed state murder trial, Disney and ABC’s lawsuit against the FCC, a substance scare at
HOUR 1 (08/17) - Gary & Shannon are live from The Bolt for Chargers training camp as players take the field and expectations build for the season ahead. Chargers GM Joe Ortiz joins the show to talk roster depth, th
HOUR 2 (08/17) - Gary & Shannon announce the next News & Brews in Downey before digging into Meta’s mounting legal problems, the dangers of celebrity sobriety advice and the growing crackdown on high-speed e-
HOUR 3 (08/17) - Gary & Shannon wrap up live from Chargers training camp with #WhatsHappening, including another SoCal heat wave, Nick Reiner’s fight for access to his inheritance and a massive AutoZone break-in in
Gary & Shannon break down the college dating trend known as “sabsing,” where students try to seem more approachable instead of chasing attention in every social setting. Then the conversation takes a much dar
Gary & Shannon dig into modern dating, including how people are meeting through apps and why some couples may actually be happier eating separately. Then the conversation turns to financial stability, what college studen
WEEKEND FIX (08/16) - Gary & Shannon get into their very different relationships with swearing, including whether cursing at strangers on the phone should count as a safe-space confession. Then they look at why more teen
HOUR 1 (08/14) - Gary & Shannon kick off the show with Shannon running on almost no sleep after her Chargers preseason sideline debut, while Gary celebrates his daughter Olivia turning 24! Then, Luigi Mangione pleads gui
HOUR 2 (08/14) - Gary & Shannon dig into a multistate surrogacy battle after a surrogate refused to terminate a pregnancy and the newborn was placed with his Los Angeles biological parents, raising bigger questions about
HOUR 3 (08/14) - Gary & Shannon cover the biggest trending stories in #WhatsHappening, including Luigi Mangione’s federal guilty plea, the revised Palisades Fire indictment, Tropical Storm LaLa threatening Hawaii,
HOUR 1 (08/13) - Shannon checks in live from Houston before Gary & Shannon break down Karoline Leavitt’s decision to leave the White House at the end of August while remaining an outside advisor to President Trump.
HOUR 2 (08/13) - Gary & Shannon break down Nick Reiner’s new indictment and what California’s death penalty really means under the state’s execution moratorium, while also looking at Xavier Becerra&rsqu
HOUR 3 (08/13) - Gary & Shannon cover the day’s biggest stories in #WhatsHappening and #SwampWatch, including Karoline Leavitt’s exit from the White House, Luigi Mangione’s expected guilty plea, the NFL
HOUR 1 (08/12) - Gary opens the show with the blockbuster $12.5 billion Lakers sale before breaking down last night’s primaries, including Francesca Hong’s razor-thin Wisconsin loss after polls and prediction
HOUR 2 (08/12) - Gary digs into the public-safety debate surrounding sanctuary policies after a new federal operation in Southern California targets previously deported migrants with criminal records. He then turns to th
HOUR 3 (08/12) - Gary covers the day’s biggest stories in #WhatsHappening and #SwampWatch, including the Lakers sale, primary results, Nithya Raman’s homelessness committee fallout, LAUSD’s return to sc
HOUR 1 (08/11) - Gary & Shannon react to the death of Big Bear bald eagle Jackie (with Amy King), revisit the history of the beloved nest cam, and debate what happens next for Shadow, as questions swirl around the younge
HOUR 2 (08/11) - Gary & Shannon open with #TerrorInTheSkies after an American Airlines flight struck birds shortly after takeoff, triggering a mayday and an engine emergency. They then turn to Los Angeles politics as the
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