Gary and Shannon

The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 1 (02/26) - Gary and Fox LA’s Marla Tellez (Shannon returns tomorrow!) dig into the Carvalho mystery deepening, explosive Epstein deposition day, and escalating global tensions.

• FBI raided LAUSD Superintendent Carvalho's home — Miami Herald's list of suspicious activities surfaces including a fake social media account, an affair with a reporter, and a $1.5M non-profit contract → rumors he was arrested pre-dawn, flowers delivered during Fox LA's live shot
• Bill and Hillary Clinton deposed today behind closed doors on Epstein — why do both sides get to approve what's released? Plus Bill Clinton hot tub photo with a victim and Bill Gates trying to slip his wife STD antibiotics
• Iran has arrested 53,000+ since protests began, holding people in warehouses and truck containers → U.S.-Iran nuclear talks underway in Geneva today
• Cuba claims to have caught Americans with assault rifles and Molotov cocktails — Rubio investigating, Florida AG opens probe
• Ultra-wealthy fleeing Puerto Vallarta during cartel chaos

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 2 (02/26) - Breaking news interrupts the Epstein depositions, a massive media deal hangs in the balance, and a senseless murder in the Mojave desert.

• Clinton deposition paused after a Congress member leaked a photo to influencer Benny Johnson — resumes after brief break
• Netflix CEO Sarandos at the White House trying to save his $83B bid for Warner Bros. Discovery as DOJ launches antitrust probe → Paramount sweetens competing hostile bid to $108B → WBD shareholder vote March 20
• D4vd moves from person of interest to subject of investigation in Celeste Rivas Hernandez case — language still careful around calling him a suspect
• Caltech astrophysicist shot and killed on his Mojave desert porch by a neighbor caught trespassing with an unregistered rifle months earlier — charges were dropped, 11 days later the scientist was dead

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 3 (02/26) - #WhatsHappening, #SwampWatch, and AI gets real dark real fast.

• #WhatsHappening: Iran talks progressing, Martin Short's daughter's tragic passing
• #SwampWatch: Clinton Epstein deposition + FBI reveals Epstein ties to Trump cabinet members including Susie Wiles
• AI panic: CEOs vibe coding at 5am but workers say it saves less than 2 hours/week
• Should chatbots warn police? OpenAI flagged a user discussing gun violence, didn't report it — he killed 8 people including children
• SuperAgers: people over 80 with memory of 50-year-olds — the science behind why

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 1 (02/25) - Marla Tellez from Fox LA joins Gary while Shannon's on vacation — and it's immediately a breaking news day.

• Federal authorities raid LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho's home and district headquarters — FBI staying silent on why
• Fox LA's Gigi Grassia joins live with the latest on the Carvalho raids
• SOTU recap: Trump's highlight lines, the tone shift, and what are we teaching our kids by boycotting?
• New Epstein twist: thousands more documents may exist outside government control
• Plus Marla's mom-guilt as a new mother and Gary's parenting advice on toddler tantrums

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 2 (02/25) - The LAUSD raid story keeps developing live on air, plus bombshells from Fire Chief Crowley and a deep dive into California's political landscape.

• Fox LA's Mario Ramirez reports live from Carvalho's San Pedro home as agents walk out with evidence — neighbors say he hasn't been seen
• Big tech trial week 2: plaintiff takes the stand today detailing depression and body dysmorphia — TikTok and Snap settled to avoid discovery, Meta refuses
• Fire Chief Kristin Crowley sues the city of LA — missing funds, no support from the mayor, and a jaw-dropping Fox LA interview
• How does the Crowley lawsuit impact the mayor's race? Can Bass survive it? Nithya Raman jumps in from the left
• 2026 Governor's race: could two Republicans advance and lock Dems out entirely?

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 The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 3 (02/25) - #WhatsHappening, #SwampWatch, new Carvalho details and a parenting segment that might change how you think about stepparenting.

• #WhatsHappening: Carvalho raid latest, Wu-Tang Clan founding member dead at 52 with cause of death revealed, and new developments in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez & D4vd case
• Another winery leaves Napa and California
• #SwampWatch: Dr. Casey Means grilled on Capitol Hill over vaccines, Kamala Harris triggering 2028 presidential run rumors despite denials
• New Carvalho detail: a $1.5M donation to a non-profit he created right before becoming Miami superintendent — investigated but cleared
• #Parenting with Justin Worsham: "nacho parenting" — the new stepparent strategy that says "not your kid, not your problem" and how to stay involved without burning o

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Gary flies solo with Shannon still on vacation, she was supposed to be in Puerto Vallarta (catch up on yesterday’s pod for that). 

• New doorbell cam footage suggests Nancy Guthrie's abductor cased her home beforehand
• Lt. General Newton on Mexico's cartel civil war & advice for Americans stuck there
• SOTU preview with Kalshi prediction market odds + 37 Dems boycotting
• Why we've forgotten how to talk to strangers
• 10 Year Anniversary Party ticket giveaway — winner called from French Polynesia

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Gary continues week two coverage of the landmark social media addiction trial and dives deep into the El Mencho story, from the raid to his California roots.

• YouTube VP grilled on the goal of 1 billion watch hours/day — their defense: "we're Netflix, not social media"
• Inside the El Mencho capture: how secrecy and intelligence took down a kingpin whose cartel often outguns the military
• El Mencho's California connection — busted for meth in SF in '86
• A 7,000-word hypothetical blog post helped tank the Dow 822 points: what if AI is so good it's actually bad?
• Anthropic study says you're using AI wrong — and most people don't even question the answers they get

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Gary wraps the show with #WhatsHappening, #SwampWatch, a Pentagon bombshell and #TrueCrimeTuesday.

• #WhatsHappening: Guthrie's $1M reward plea, Americans stranded in Mexico flooding the embassy, NBC's best Olympic ratings since 2014, another Northeast storm overnight
• #SwampWatch: Why 37 Dems skipping the SOTU is a bad look — you were elected to represent your district, show up
• Pentagon warns Trump an Iran strike could burn through interceptor supply in two weeks and stretch forces thin
• #TrueCrimeTuesday: Mom left to go Christmas shopping in 2001 and vanished, found alive 5 days ago, says she doesn't want contact with her family

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Breaking news hits as Shannon is mid-flight to Mexico, with cartel violence triggering emergency orders just as she’s about to land. Shannon joins the show from her revised vacation to explain watching the chaos unfold on Wi-Fi, a nerve-racking flight announcement, and why she’s pivoted to a U.S. vacation instead.
Gary breaks down what’s happening on the ground with NewsNation national security contributor Lt. Gen. Richard Newton, who explains how cartel power shifts work and why these groups operate like paramilitary organizations. The hour wraps with a firsthand update from KFI’s Jesse Blackburn, currently stuck in Mexico, and a welcome dose of good news as USA Hockey wins Olympic gold in overtime.

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