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Meta Tried to Hide Zuckerberg's $231 Billion Fortune From the Jury Mar 02, 2026

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 2 (03/02) - The social media trial gets emotional, the California Governor's race heats up, and Shannon challenges Gary to wake up for the total lunar eclipse!

Meta tried to block questions about Zuckerberg's wealth — judge overruled, jury hears about the $231B fortune
Female jurors crying, male jurors yawning — gender divide in the courtroom as plaintiff testifies
YouTube's defense: we're a tool, not social media — while both sides tear apart the plaintiff and her mother
California Governor's race: Katie Porter's biased poll, Polymarket has Swalwell as favorite, Shannon likes Matt Mahan's ads and Steve Hilton's accent
Total lunar eclipse coming tonight / early tomorrow am!

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AI Is Coming for Your Newsroom Mar 02, 2026

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 3 (03/02) - #WhatsHappening, #SwampWatch, the AI newsroom debate, and last night's Actor Awards.

#WhatsHappening: Polymarket bettors won $1.5M predicting the Iran strike date, Trump grieves 4 fallen soldiers, gas prices could rise today, Catherine O'Hara honored at Actor Awards, and does Canada have a shot in the World Baseball Classic?
#SwampWatch: Congress votes on war powers over Iran — very few Republicans breaking with Trump, plus the leadership vacuum in Tehran
Cleveland's Plain Dealer launches an AI "rewrite desk,’" Gary & Shannon push back: AI makes everything cute and loses the edge of real journalism
A listener asks the important question: what happened to the show cat?
2026 Actor Awards recap: the moments Netflix didn't show you, biggest winners including "Sinners"

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Weekend Fix: Explaining 'Love Is Blind' to Gary Hoffmann Feb 28, 2026

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The Gary & Shannon Show Weekend Fix (02/27) - Shannon tries to convert Gary into a Love Is Blind fan, plus Gary's no-pants Saturday confession.

Gary accidentally stumbles onto the podcast in a change of weekend routine — pants optional
Shannon pitches Gary on Love Is Blind and lays out the premise
Gary remains unconvinced (or does he?)

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Ladies & Gentleman… The Plane Is Okay! Feb 27, 2026

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 1 (02/27) - Shannon's back from vacation with stories, a hot tub vendetta, and breaking LAUSD news.

Shannon's back! Her cocaine dream, the u-turned Puerto Vallarta flight and the announcement that gave her PTSD.
Clinton deposition recap: Shannon asks why would Bill share his women with Hillary?
LAUSD Superintendent Carvalho investigation details emerging
Bombshell: the Lochman fire wasn't properly extinguished and reignited into the Palisades fire
Shannon's hot tub crusade, a listener's pink-eye diagnosis, and a guy who took over his girlfriend's dating profile

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Making Man Bubbles in the Hot Tub Feb 27, 2026

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 2 (02/27) - Hot tub horror continues, the big tech trial heats up, and Heather Brooker joins for #EntertainmentReport.

Shannon coins "man bubbles" — the hot tub crusade continues
Social media trial: plaintiff takes the stand, juror reactions, and why settling could open the floodgates
LAUSD's failed AI bet: Carvalho invested in a collapsing AI company whose CEO is now on trial for fraud
#EntertainmentReport with Heather Brooker: Love Is Blind, Scream 7, McCartney doc "Man on the Run"
WBD/Paramount merger now that Netflix is seemingly out — Shannon calls for a movie on this

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That Camel Had So Much Work Done Feb 27, 2026

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The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 3 (02/27) - #WhatsHappening, #SwampWatch, and the Nine News Nuggets You Definitely Missed This Week.

#WhatsHappening: Burger King's AI headset spying on employee friendliness, Savannah Guthrie returns to Today with mom still missing, stocks drop 1.2% on AI fears
#SwampWatch: Clinton testifies on Epstein before House Oversight, Iran peace talks escalating
News Nuggets: a criminal identifying himself as Jesus Christ, Pope Leo banning priests from using AI, a Spanish engineer hijacking 7,000 robot vacuums, an LAPD officer caught skydiving on disability leave
More Nuggets: serial stowaway flyer, Social Security declaring a woman dead 4 times, and a camel beauty pageant botox scandal

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Where Is Carvalho? + Clinton Epstein Depositions Feb 26, 2026

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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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Netflix CEO's White House Rescue Mission Feb 26, 2026

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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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AI Productivity Panic & Should Chatbots Report Violence? Feb 26, 2026

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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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BREAKING: Feds Raid LAUSD Superintendent's Home & SOTU Fallout Feb 25, 2026

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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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