February 4, 2025 • 27 mins
Gary and Shannon start the second hour of the show with LA County being hit with rain for most of the week. Gary and Shannon also talk about State Farm Insurance going up, Rick Caruso’s foundation to help rebuild LA and Joe Biden signed with an LA talent agency.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
President Trump has agreed to pause the implementation of planned
tariffs on imports from Canada for at least thirty days,
sort of an echo of what we saw with Mexico
from the day before. In both cases, the pauses came
after those countries agreed to take steps towards preventing the
trafficking of deadly fentanyl into the United States. President Trump's
also going to be hosting Benjamin Netanyahu at the White
(00:27):
House this afternoon about to two o'clock. They're supposed to
do two o'clock our time. They're supposed to do a
news conference today.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Can I have some scary music? Scary something, fearmonger music,
something to ilicit fear in the hearts of men and women.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Smart rabbitson going.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That'll do it, Smokey talking about his orgasm. Yeah, that'll
do it, my never mind, go on, Nope.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Back to back atmospheric river storms are set to hit La.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
County this week.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Could you like a rain gasm?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
No, No, it's not. We do need this rain.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
There are times when I say it, I wish I
could take it. No, I can't take it back.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, there's nobody that understands that more than I do.
They say, this is gonna obviously be beneficial because we
haven't had rain since what last last March April something
like that. Yeah, there is less than a five percent
chance of significant debris flow, so let's pump the brakes
on the fear mongering in terms of threatening landslides, mud slides,
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things like that.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
If the second storm strengthens, we.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Could have some problems on I thought we were parking
the car of the gasm over to the side.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Every time I take a look, you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Get who conceptualized that song, and if it was Smokey
Robinson himself, who gives him the green light? Or do
you just at the green light when you're smoking Robinson
for ridiculousness like this. Furthermore, I need to point out
the fact that right after my father died, we're sitting
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in the backyard at my parents' house and my mom says,
to turn this off while you say the story, Well,
it gets worse. My mom was like, I'd really like
to see Smokey Robinson, And I say, oh, Smokey Robinson's
playing at the Orange County Fair. Oh, I'd love to
come down and see that.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Little did we.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Know it was the Gasm Show and he just sang
about sex for ninety minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Smokey Robinson probably knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Would you like to sit with your mother?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, and and listen to gasm gasm.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
By the way, he's the credited writer on that song,
only him.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
No one else wants finger prints on that crime.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So they're consultants. Perhaps they were like, smoke.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
And let you take this, listen this, I gasm, get
it and give me gasm gasm.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Rain.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
As long as it stays cool.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
According to the National Weather Service, and we don't have
more Santa Ana winds, we get a little bit of rain.
This buys us time in February because they're actually saying
that we're going to see a pretty dry condition after
these two storms go through tonight and Thursday night, it's
probably going to dry out significantly or like we've seen basically.
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And they're also saying that we could see some winds
start from the inland areas to the north, affecting I
five southern Santa Barbara County before it turns into a
moderate Santa Ana wind event later over the weekend, which
means that temperatures could potentially be warm. But you know,
on Super Bowl Sunday you're talking about temperature somewhere in
the upper sixties.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
For the most most of southern California. But we still
need it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We have received less than twenty five percent of the
typical rainfall for this point in the season. And we
know that the Santa Ana wind conditions can last. They
can come and go, but they can last through March
in many places, or through March in many cases.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I should say so.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Two river storms, atmospheric river storms La Inventura Counties Tuesday night,
lasting through midday tomorrow. The second storm expects Thursday night
into Friday morning and again light to moderate rain.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
But just keep an eye on They have said that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is one of their concerns till Panga was closed because
of the last rain event, because of some debris flows, etc. So,
like you said, it's not a very high chance. But hey,
weather forecasting is a dangerous business. They changed change significantly.
People get killed.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
When they make you think anybody can do what Henry does,
You're wrong. You're wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I think It's funny that you're in making excuses for
your husband's boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
He wishes.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
He could never pull a come on, he could not
pull Henry Carlos Well.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Insurance companies are starting to starting here.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's so ridiculous, show their true colors.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And in this case, State Farm who by the way,
canceled many policies in fire zones just before the fires,
now want to increase their fees by about twenty two percent.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Of course they do. How are they going to pay
for all that?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You know, when you think about the Palisades being wiped out,
and that's millions upon millions billions.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, I'm going to go get my knife.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Good IDEA.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
State Farm General, the largest home insurer in the state
of California, is asking the state Insurance Commissioner for an
emergency rate hike coming out to about twenty two percent,
saying that the fires that burned through La last month
have put the company in dire financial straits. So the
company has received already eighty seven hundred rid claims and
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has paid out more than a billion dollars to its customers,
and it expects to pay significantly more when you consider
that these fires have been determined to be the costliest
natural disaster in state history.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
State Farm says it's lost two point eight billion over
the nine year period ending last year, including gains from
investment income. So while you don't want insurance companies to
be wildly profitable, they do need to be profitable. They
can't be operating at a loss.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
See, that's the thing is, they will tell you one thing.
A group called Consumer Watchdog, LA based advocacy group, says
that State Farm General is not in financial trouble, that
they made underwriting profits of one point four billion dollars
over the last couple of years, and that the parent company,
State Farm Mutual has about one hundred and thirty four
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billion dollars in the bank.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Talked about how these insurance companies have canceled people, State
Farm among them. In March, they said it would not
be renewing seventy two thousand home apartment other property policies
in California, citing reconstruction costs which are out of control, exorbitant,
increasing wildfire risks, outdated state regulations. So basically they took
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the areas like the Palisades that are the most well
high risk when it comes to when you look at
the cost of the home and the urban interface wild
land interface that exists there, and they.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Just got rid of them.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
They just take the top high risk homeowners and they
just slashed them.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, and I wonder, I mean, when you look at
the Palisades, you talk about homes that are in many
cases multiple millions of dollars for homes, and there's a
lot of them there.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Think about rebuilding those now?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Rebuilding them is yes, I mean, that's a completely that
whole subject is ridiculous. But is it just those types
of places that they're canceling their policies or are they
saying California in general is too expensive and we're going
to have to cancel them all up and down the state.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well, it's just right from what I've read in terms
of what they've canceled so far, it's just those high
risk properties, those expensive homes that are in the wild
land urban interface like the Palisades.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
They haven't gotten some.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Of the lower to some of the lower like Altadena
for example. Sure, so who knows, and think about it,
Like you said, multimillion dollar places in the Palisades, talk
about rebuilding that, it's going to be three times what
it costs to build it the first time at least.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And some of those homes multigenerational right, Some people probably
had homes that were purchased for eleven thousand dollars in
nineteen fifty eight or something like that. This decision we
talked about not renewing the seventy two thousand policies. Their
decision of twenty three was to stop writing new business, homeowner,
and other personal property and casualty insurance in the state.
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But last month, when they figured out how big this was,
State Farm modified that decision said they would offer renewals
to any policy holder affected by the Palisades Eaten or
other fires whose policies had not lapsed before the fire
start started. On January seventh, they said it would apply
to about seventy percent of the residential policies that it
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had in the Palisades when it announced the non renewals
last year. This is up to the insurance Commissioner.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
He will be.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Guided, I suppose advised by the insurance commission about whether
or not he's going to do this.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
This is also.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
On top of in June the company filing for a
thirty percent increase for its homeowners policies, thirty six increase
for condo owners, fifty two percent increase for renters, and
that hike request is still pending. If your state farm,
it's going to be crazy next couple of months as
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they figure out what in the world's going on now.
While all of that is government, insurance companies dealing with
the government in terms of trying to get their rate increases,
there are things that government cannot do. They're just not
good at it. That's not what they do well. And
Rick Caruso has a new foundation called Steadfast LA and
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he has come in. He wants to help rebuild LA
and he wants to do it with a business sense,
not a government sense, which is very very important.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh. He also alludes to his relationship with Mayor Bass.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Oh, like what kind of well.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He just says, I think it was.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Alex Michaelson on Channel eleven asked him what his relationship
was like, and he just kind of said, it's fine,
it's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, she doesn't return my calls, but it's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Just because people disagree politically doesn't mean they're monsters to
each other.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Stories that we are following.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Obviously, the rain is coming in later today, so we'll
keep an eye on that late tonight into tomorrow. A
second storm rolls in Thursday night into Friday. It's been
raining pretty heavy over or up in northern California over
the last seventy two hours. Mount tamil Pious, just north
of San Francisco, received more than ten and a half
inches of rain. A couple of unincorporated areas farther north
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in Sonoma County received seven inches Venado and occidental. Joe
Biden signed with Creative Artist Agency. We'll talk about that
a couple of minutes about him going Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Also, Americans moving in with strangers twice their age. They
say rooms for rent are the new housing market in
this country. We'll get into that. You should start running
out your home to strangers.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's just like fun, just for the story, for the stories.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, we did have it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
We had somebody living there.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I remember that couple years ago, and then she had
a baby. The baby's out.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh well there's one that one too. She's had multiple
kids since then. Really, Yeah, that was a long time ago.
That was four or five four years five years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Time flies.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, But we had somebody else, a friend's friend, college
student was in town. So she stayed with us for
about six weeks a lengthy appeals process. But Major League
Baseball has fired an umpire for sharing a sports betting
account with a friend who was betting on baseball.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah, you can't do that, and.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Then misleading investigators by intentionally deleting messages who were which
were key to his conduct. Nothing has ever deleted, But
this guy, Pat Hoburg was widely considered the best behind
the plate umpire in Major League Baseball, too, the best
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ball and strike guy that they had.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Luca John Chick says he was just as shocked as
everybody else in the rest of the basketball world when
the Dallas MAVs traded him to the Lakers. He's been
in LA for two days as he's excited. That Hall
of Fame voter, by the way, who you took umbrage with?
Who I think everyone did. Who declined to select each
hero remains a mystery still. All three hundred and twenty
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one voters who allowed their ballots to be made public
today by the Baseball Raiders Writers Association of America selected
each row, but the ballot that did not remains a mystery.
Apparently it's up to the writers if they want to
make their ballots known or not, and this writer did not.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
You could, obviously, somebody will do.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The process of elimination exactly we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Rick Cruso did not get elected mayor of Los Angeles,
and he's proving that that may have been a giant mistake.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Hey, you have to have private enterprise involved in this
because government alone can't do it.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It's too big.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He has launched a new foundation to spur the rebuilding
efforts from our wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. He
has put together an all star team when it comes
to engineering and technology companies to really spearhead some of
the private public teamwork that needs to take place. It's
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called Steadfast LA and he says, you really think about
this as sort of the opposite of what government does.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
This is about a group of people who are incredibly smart,
will resourced, that will roll up their sleeves and we're
going to be issue driven.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, because listen, public private partnerships, or the way I
put it, the private public partnerships can really only go
so far. Sometimes you need the private businesses to spearhead
some of this stuff.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
We would love for them to come and say we
have this problem, may tell me how your team can
help fix it. We are very clear we want to
work with you on this now. If we feel that
there's a lot of fee dragging or there's a lot
of red tape getting in the way, we want to
be in a position and we won't be to push them.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, So what is his end game? What is Rick
Crusoe's endgame?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So he spends an s ton of his own money
to run for mayor and does not move the needle
to where it needed to be, and is still involved
with bettering things for people. It seems what's the endgame there?
What does he want? It's just a good guy he
can be. It's just wildly rare.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, that's probably why people make that face when they
talk about what he's doing, is because it is so
rare for someone to be.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Wouldn't you just feel that topic about Most people just.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Go and enjoy their money, They go on yachts like
Magic Johnson and live their lives. They don't sit around
creating foundations to help people rebuild from the ashes.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
He talked to NBC, and he talked to Channel eleven,
and one of the things that he said was Alex
Michaelson asked him if he's running for mayor again or
maybe governor again, and he said, listen, I don't have time.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He said.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
He literally said that time stopped on January seventh for
him because it was very personal.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Not only does he love.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
LA this is personal because I obviously I love this region,
but but it's personal because we lost three homes.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I mean, I don't know if that's the right message.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Well, but it means that they lost her home.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
They lost a home, and I think somebody else like
I think the family.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I mean, I get it. Yeah, it does sound it
sounds like, well, they have a lot, they have they
have money, they have money.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Just before I get hate for my magic, Johnson comment,
I know that magic does things for the community. I
don't mean to sound like Ronald Sterling or Donald Sterling,
but why don't he done? He's got aids. I don't
mean to be that person, but you know what I mean,
Rick Russo is sitting on a pile of money.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Usually guys like this they like to go play. They don't.
Maybe he's played enough and he wants to do something
with it. And good for him, so.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
He has picked up.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
This is these these very intelligent, top of their game people.
Andy Cohen not from Bravo. Andy Cohen is co chair
of Architecture and Design Powerhouse Gensler, Kerry Smith, President CEO
of Infrastructure Engineering, Giant Parsons, Ted Sarandos and his wife
Ted Sarandos, and the CEO of Netflix and his wife,
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former Ambassador Nicole Avon Pallenteer co founder Joe Lonsdale, and
then executives from banking, from insurance, from real estate, and
private equity. The things specifically that he wants his group
to tackle.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
We feel strongly that all the power lines should be underground.
Ezra for example, who's one of members of the team.
They've got the whole underground system already mapped, so we
can get quickly in the streets. Working with DWP in
the city, we can help design all the infrastructure, replace
the water mains, replace the hydrants, underground the power and
then upgrade the communication system. All the codes, all the
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building codes, drop them in an AI model, have building
permits submitted through that, and have planned corrections turned around
in hours, not weeks and months.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Why why why is there nobody in our government who
can have that same attitude.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I think it's because in the statement, you just gave
breath to people and government are not there for you,
by and large, they are there from them themselves, and
what can you do for them?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Not what can they do for you?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Tomorrow from JFK, I have a good story involving somebody
who came out here to help with the wildfires. Okay,
do you want to hear about it involves a dog? Yes, okay,
you didn't. I didn't want to until you said it
involves I know I could tell I need to sweeten
the pot.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
We will get to Joe Biden going to Hollywood as well.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But since we were talking about fires, I was reading
this story this morning, and it does warm the cockles.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Your cockles need warming.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Oh, they're pretty cold right now. I don't know where
those are, by the way.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
It's in your heart. The cockles of your heart. Oh, oh, okay,
your heart cockles. They're probably rough ninety eight point six
right now. I haven't checked. But actually I can check
with my little super ring, I think, can't I everybody's
standing by to hear my body's exture.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Don't think that that's a thing.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
What the cockles of your heart?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah? Those are like mollusks that live in salt water.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Cockles.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, heart, cockles are edible. How come my mom used
to always say the cockles of The phrase cockles of
your heart refers to the heart's ventricles or chambers. The
phrase warm the cockles of your heart means to feel
deep contentment or to feel good. So there are no
actual cockles in your heart. It's just a saying we
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have no cockles. Cockles are mollusks that we eat.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I am so happy that we have straightened that out.
Swamp Watch comes up at the top of the hour.
But we're also next hour going to talk about this
apparent agreement with El Salvador.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Not only are they going to.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Take they're bad guys back, they may take some of
our bad guys, like in a private prison deal.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I don't trust El Salvador.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And then big orexia.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Big orexia, Yeah, apparently it's a thing with the children,
the boys.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And I like that.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
There are a couple stories that we're following before we
get to some of these talkbacks. One of them is
a shooting in Sweden. This at a school, an adult school.
They said about one hundred and twenty miles west of Stockholm.
Police there have said that they believe there are around
ten deaths four people. At least four people were injured.
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I had to be taking the hospital and have gone
into surgery. So that's all we know so far.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
China slapping tariffs on US products and retaliation for Trump's tariffs.
Beijing said overnight it'll charge extra tariffs of fifteen percent
on cold liquefied natural gas, ten percent on crude farm
equipment and some cars starting next week. Prescription drugs where
we get an s ton of them and the chemicals
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or the makeup of prescription drugs from China as.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Well, so we'll stay on top of that for you.
Do you want to hear the story about the dog?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Please? Okay?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Can I have some music? Some storytime music?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Eight years ago, there was a guy by the name
of Paul who was moving across country from Massachusetts to Arizona,
where he lives now. So he makes a pitstop in
Oklahoma and Paul's dog, Damien in Oklahoma, gets loose from
his leaf he runs off. Now, Paul is on the
road trip with his dad and a friend and they
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looked for Damien until well after midnight that first night.
They only stopped when they encountered a mountain lion there
in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Did it have a little tough to fur around its
mouth like it had just eaten Damien?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
No, no, it did not.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
They stayed in Oklahoma another week to look for Damien.
Damien was beloved. You're not just going to leave your
dog and continue on, I hear you. They searched high
and low for Damien to no avail. For years afterward.
Remember this is in twenty seventeen. Paul would put up
posters with Damien's picture far and wide. Wherever he went,
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he put up posters of Damien, and he said, you know,
it started to really affect me even more as the
years went on. It just it hurt too much to
see that missing poster one more time. So he kind
of stopped sharing them because it hurt too much. It
was devastating. Paul says, that dog got me through a
lot of emotional things, family issues. Damien was always there
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as a companion. I was as everything as he was mine.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Why are you laughing?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
This is awful? His everything, Yeah, his everything. You know,
not everybody has a wonderful life. Sometimes people have struggles
and their dog is their whole life.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
My dog helps make my life.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Well, you're not everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
He's not my everything.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You're not everybody. There's some people. That's all they have, okay,
and that was all Paul had.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
So mid January, Paul is driving to California to donate
clothes and supplies to wildfire victims, because Paul is also
that guy, unlike you. About an hour from the California border,
Paul gets a call from an unknown number.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
He ignores it, like we all do. The number calls again.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Bam risk.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
He gets a text on his Apple Watch and it says,
your dog, Damien has been found eight years after that
day in Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Eight years?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
How old is this dog? Now?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Turns out a woman in Oklahoma City had nearly run
over Damien, but picked him up, brought him to say
with her brother. Brother, took care of the dog for
two weeks, took him to the vet, scan him for
a chip, and boom Damien. So Damien was living there
wild fruits that long.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And they don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
We don't know where Damien was. We just know that
he ended up in Oklahoma City with that woman and
her brother. So, uh, screw the wildfire victims. Paul turns
the car around and drives fourteen hours straight to Oklahoma,
gets there about six am the next day to pick
up Damien.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Older scruffyer.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Damien is as you can imagine, but mondays, mundeniably is
dog wagging the tail. And now, Paul says, every time
he leaves the room, Damien's like.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Where are you going now?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Gonna be another eight years?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Br Well, to be clear, he could turn around and say,
you're the one who left the first time, Brah.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You're gonna yell at the dog that's been missing for
it and formed the dog about how I w everything?
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Okay, Smokey Robinson's chasm, Yeah, yeah, makes me have a spasm.
And I'm telling you there's a huge chasm between my
way of thinking and his. All right, but hey, I
got a rasin and that's all I gotta say about that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Now, did you write all that stuff down?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Urian Famine good Bows here from the OCI. Just wanted
to let you know that today's show already is epic
in the history of radio. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And that's before we even got to the first half.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
Rick Caruso is old school, wealthy, old school, wealthy, used
to always help everybody when needed. I work for a
client who's friends with him, and I've met him. He's
just a really really kind human being, just a good person,
and it's really unfortunate that Los Angeles did not elect
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him to be mayor. He can bring that city together
and fix it and make it whole again.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well maybe I interviewed him once, and I was a
reporter and we were going out to the Grove to
interview him, and it was like kind of going to
see the Wizard, like you were met by somebody. I
was met by somebody right at the entrance of the grove,
one of the entrances, and they walked me through and
you went through like a little back alley and through
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like a fence door, and then up a staircase and
up into up into one of these like secret rooms
on the roof of one of the stores or whatever,
and that was his office there at the Grove. But
it was all very hidden and very clandestine, it was,
and he was very cool, very down to earth, like
smart guy, very you know, you meet people where you're
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just like you're a bad dude.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
He was the opposite. I mean, he was just a
really good, genuine person.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I've always heard great things about h Yeah. So, and
then finally morning.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Gary and Shannon. Well you're talking about cockles. What about
that little.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Nursery rhyme, you know, like when you would jump rope
blue bills.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Cockle shells?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, how's that got to do with what you eat?
Because it's a mollusc which.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Linda has malusk has a shell and it's shaped like
a art and that's where we get it.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
It'd be like a russil or clam or something like that.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Cockles oyster exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, to each his home, to each his own.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
See look at you see I'm growth.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
President Trump has agreed to pause the implementation of planned
tariffs on imports from Canada for at least thirty days,
sort of an echo of what we saw with Mexico
from the day before. In both cases, the pauses came
after those countries agreed to take steps towards preventing the
trafficking of deadly fentanyl into the United States. President Trump's
also going to be hosting Benjamin Netanyahu at the White
(00:27):
House this afternoon about to two o'clock. They're supposed to
do two o'clock our time. They're supposed to do a
news conference today.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Can I have some scary music? Scary something, fearmonger music,
something to ilicit fear in the hearts of men and women.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Smart rabbitson going.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That'll do it, Smokey talking about his orgasm. Yeah, that'll
do it, my never mind, go on, Nope.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Back to back atmospheric river storms are set to hit La.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
County this week.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Could you like a rain gasm?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
No, No, it's not. We do need this rain.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
There are times when I say it, I wish I
could take it. No, I can't take it back.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, there's nobody that understands that more than I do.
They say, this is gonna obviously be beneficial because we
haven't had rain since what last last March April something
like that. Yeah, there is less than a five percent
chance of significant debris flow, so let's pump the brakes
on the fear mongering in terms of threatening landslides, mud slides,
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things like that.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
If the second storm strengthens, we.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Could have some problems on I thought we were parking
the car of the gasm over to the side.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Every time I take a look, you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Get who conceptualized that song, and if it was Smokey
Robinson himself, who gives him the green light? Or do
you just at the green light when you're smoking Robinson
for ridiculousness like this. Furthermore, I need to point out
the fact that right after my father died, we're sitting
(02:13):
in the backyard at my parents' house and my mom says,
to turn this off while you say the story, Well,
it gets worse. My mom was like, I'd really like
to see Smokey Robinson, And I say, oh, Smokey Robinson's
playing at the Orange County Fair. Oh, I'd love to
come down and see that.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Little did we.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Know it was the Gasm Show and he just sang
about sex for ninety minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Smokey Robinson probably knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Would you like to sit with your mother?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, and and listen to gasm gasm.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
By the way, he's the credited writer on that song,
only him.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
No one else wants finger prints on that crime.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So they're consultants. Perhaps they were like, smoke.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
And let you take this, listen this, I gasm, get
it and give me gasm gasm.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Rain.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
As long as it stays cool.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
According to the National Weather Service, and we don't have
more Santa Ana winds, we get a little bit of rain.
This buys us time in February because they're actually saying
that we're going to see a pretty dry condition after
these two storms go through tonight and Thursday night, it's
probably going to dry out significantly or like we've seen basically.
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And they're also saying that we could see some winds
start from the inland areas to the north, affecting I
five southern Santa Barbara County before it turns into a
moderate Santa Ana wind event later over the weekend, which
means that temperatures could potentially be warm. But you know,
on Super Bowl Sunday you're talking about temperature somewhere in
the upper sixties.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
For the most most of southern California. But we still
need it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We have received less than twenty five percent of the
typical rainfall for this point in the season. And we
know that the Santa Ana wind conditions can last. They
can come and go, but they can last through March
in many places, or through March in many cases.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I should say so.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Two river storms, atmospheric river storms La Inventura Counties Tuesday night,
lasting through midday tomorrow. The second storm expects Thursday night
into Friday morning and again light to moderate rain.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
But just keep an eye on They have said that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is one of their concerns till Panga was closed because
of the last rain event, because of some debris flows, etc. So,
like you said, it's not a very high chance. But hey,
weather forecasting is a dangerous business. They changed change significantly.
People get killed.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
When they make you think anybody can do what Henry does,
You're wrong. You're wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I think It's funny that you're in making excuses for
your husband's boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
He wishes.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
He could never pull a come on, he could not
pull Henry Carlos Well.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Insurance companies are starting to starting here.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's so ridiculous, show their true colors.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And in this case, State Farm who by the way,
canceled many policies in fire zones just before the fires,
now want to increase their fees by about twenty two percent.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Of course they do. How are they going to pay
for all that?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You know, when you think about the Palisades being wiped out,
and that's millions upon millions billions.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, I'm going to go get my knife.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Good IDEA.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
State Farm General, the largest home insurer in the state
of California, is asking the state Insurance Commissioner for an
emergency rate hike coming out to about twenty two percent,
saying that the fires that burned through La last month
have put the company in dire financial straits. So the
company has received already eighty seven hundred rid claims and
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has paid out more than a billion dollars to its customers,
and it expects to pay significantly more when you consider
that these fires have been determined to be the costliest
natural disaster in state history.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
State Farm says it's lost two point eight billion over
the nine year period ending last year, including gains from
investment income. So while you don't want insurance companies to
be wildly profitable, they do need to be profitable. They
can't be operating at a loss.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
See, that's the thing is, they will tell you one thing.
A group called Consumer Watchdog, LA based advocacy group, says
that State Farm General is not in financial trouble, that
they made underwriting profits of one point four billion dollars
over the last couple of years, and that the parent company,
State Farm Mutual has about one hundred and thirty four
(06:56):
billion dollars in the bank.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Talked about how these insurance companies have canceled people, State
Farm among them. In March, they said it would not
be renewing seventy two thousand home apartment other property policies
in California, citing reconstruction costs which are out of control, exorbitant,
increasing wildfire risks, outdated state regulations. So basically they took
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the areas like the Palisades that are the most well
high risk when it comes to when you look at
the cost of the home and the urban interface wild
land interface that exists there, and they.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Just got rid of them.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
They just take the top high risk homeowners and they
just slashed them.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, and I wonder, I mean, when you look at
the Palisades, you talk about homes that are in many
cases multiple millions of dollars for homes, and there's a
lot of them there.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Think about rebuilding those now?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Rebuilding them is yes, I mean, that's a completely that
whole subject is ridiculous. But is it just those types
of places that they're canceling their policies or are they
saying California in general is too expensive and we're going
to have to cancel them all up and down the state.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well, it's just right from what I've read in terms
of what they've canceled so far, it's just those high
risk properties, those expensive homes that are in the wild
land urban interface like the Palisades.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
They haven't gotten some.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Of the lower to some of the lower like Altadena
for example. Sure, so who knows, and think about it,
Like you said, multimillion dollar places in the Palisades, talk
about rebuilding that, it's going to be three times what
it costs to build it the first time at least.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And some of those homes multigenerational right, Some people probably
had homes that were purchased for eleven thousand dollars in
nineteen fifty eight or something like that. This decision we
talked about not renewing the seventy two thousand policies. Their
decision of twenty three was to stop writing new business, homeowner,
and other personal property and casualty insurance in the state.
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But last month, when they figured out how big this was,
State Farm modified that decision said they would offer renewals
to any policy holder affected by the Palisades Eaten or
other fires whose policies had not lapsed before the fire
start started. On January seventh, they said it would apply
to about seventy percent of the residential policies that it
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had in the Palisades when it announced the non renewals
last year. This is up to the insurance Commissioner.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
He will be.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Guided, I suppose advised by the insurance commission about whether
or not he's going to do this.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
This is also.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
On top of in June the company filing for a
thirty percent increase for its homeowners policies, thirty six increase
for condo owners, fifty two percent increase for renters, and
that hike request is still pending. If your state farm,
it's going to be crazy next couple of months as
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they figure out what in the world's going on now.
While all of that is government, insurance companies dealing with
the government in terms of trying to get their rate increases,
there are things that government cannot do. They're just not
good at it. That's not what they do well. And
Rick Caruso has a new foundation called Steadfast LA and
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he has come in. He wants to help rebuild LA
and he wants to do it with a business sense,
not a government sense, which is very very important.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh. He also alludes to his relationship with Mayor Bass.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Oh, like what kind of well.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He just says, I think it was.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Alex Michaelson on Channel eleven asked him what his relationship
was like, and he just kind of said, it's fine,
it's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, she doesn't return my calls, but it's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Just because people disagree politically doesn't mean they're monsters to
each other.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Stories that we are following.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Obviously, the rain is coming in later today, so we'll
keep an eye on that late tonight into tomorrow. A
second storm rolls in Thursday night into Friday. It's been
raining pretty heavy over or up in northern California over
the last seventy two hours. Mount tamil Pious, just north
of San Francisco, received more than ten and a half
inches of rain. A couple of unincorporated areas farther north
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in Sonoma County received seven inches Venado and occidental. Joe
Biden signed with Creative Artist Agency. We'll talk about that
a couple of minutes about him going Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Also, Americans moving in with strangers twice their age. They
say rooms for rent are the new housing market in
this country. We'll get into that. You should start running
out your home to strangers.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's just like fun, just for the story, for the stories.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, we did have it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
We had somebody living there.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I remember that couple years ago, and then she had
a baby. The baby's out.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh well there's one that one too. She's had multiple
kids since then. Really, Yeah, that was a long time ago.
That was four or five four years five years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Time flies.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, But we had somebody else, a friend's friend, college
student was in town. So she stayed with us for
about six weeks a lengthy appeals process. But Major League
Baseball has fired an umpire for sharing a sports betting
account with a friend who was betting on baseball.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah, you can't do that, and.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Then misleading investigators by intentionally deleting messages who were which
were key to his conduct. Nothing has ever deleted, But
this guy, Pat Hoburg was widely considered the best behind
the plate umpire in Major League Baseball, too, the best
(12:47):
ball and strike guy that they had.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Luca John Chick says he was just as shocked as
everybody else in the rest of the basketball world when
the Dallas MAVs traded him to the Lakers. He's been
in LA for two days as he's excited. That Hall
of Fame voter, by the way, who you took umbrage with?
Who I think everyone did. Who declined to select each
hero remains a mystery still. All three hundred and twenty
(13:13):
one voters who allowed their ballots to be made public
today by the Baseball Raiders Writers Association of America selected
each row, but the ballot that did not remains a mystery.
Apparently it's up to the writers if they want to
make their ballots known or not, and this writer did not.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
You could, obviously, somebody will do.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The process of elimination exactly we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Rick Cruso did not get elected mayor of Los Angeles,
and he's proving that that may have been a giant mistake.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Hey, you have to have private enterprise involved in this
because government alone can't do it.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It's too big.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He has launched a new foundation to spur the rebuilding
efforts from our wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. He
has put together an all star team when it comes
to engineering and technology companies to really spearhead some of
the private public teamwork that needs to take place. It's
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called Steadfast LA and he says, you really think about
this as sort of the opposite of what government does.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
This is about a group of people who are incredibly smart,
will resourced, that will roll up their sleeves and we're
going to be issue driven.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, because listen, public private partnerships, or the way I
put it, the private public partnerships can really only go
so far. Sometimes you need the private businesses to spearhead
some of this stuff.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
We would love for them to come and say we
have this problem, may tell me how your team can
help fix it. We are very clear we want to
work with you on this now. If we feel that
there's a lot of fee dragging or there's a lot
of red tape getting in the way, we want to
be in a position and we won't be to push them.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, So what is his end game? What is Rick
Crusoe's endgame?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So he spends an s ton of his own money
to run for mayor and does not move the needle
to where it needed to be, and is still involved
with bettering things for people. It seems what's the endgame there?
What does he want? It's just a good guy he
can be. It's just wildly rare.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, that's probably why people make that face when they
talk about what he's doing, is because it is so
rare for someone to be.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Wouldn't you just feel that topic about Most people just.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Go and enjoy their money, They go on yachts like
Magic Johnson and live their lives. They don't sit around
creating foundations to help people rebuild from the ashes.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
He talked to NBC, and he talked to Channel eleven,
and one of the things that he said was Alex
Michaelson asked him if he's running for mayor again or
maybe governor again, and he said, listen, I don't have time.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He said.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
He literally said that time stopped on January seventh for
him because it was very personal.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Not only does he love.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
LA this is personal because I obviously I love this region,
but but it's personal because we lost three homes.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I mean, I don't know if that's the right message.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Well, but it means that they lost her home.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
They lost a home, and I think somebody else like
I think the family.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I mean, I get it. Yeah, it does sound it
sounds like, well, they have a lot, they have they
have money, they have money.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Just before I get hate for my magic, Johnson comment,
I know that magic does things for the community. I
don't mean to sound like Ronald Sterling or Donald Sterling,
but why don't he done? He's got aids. I don't
mean to be that person, but you know what I mean,
Rick Russo is sitting on a pile of money.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Usually guys like this they like to go play. They don't.
Maybe he's played enough and he wants to do something
with it. And good for him, so.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
He has picked up.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
This is these these very intelligent, top of their game people.
Andy Cohen not from Bravo. Andy Cohen is co chair
of Architecture and Design Powerhouse Gensler, Kerry Smith, President CEO
of Infrastructure Engineering, Giant Parsons, Ted Sarandos and his wife
Ted Sarandos, and the CEO of Netflix and his wife,
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former Ambassador Nicole Avon Pallenteer co founder Joe Lonsdale, and
then executives from banking, from insurance, from real estate, and
private equity. The things specifically that he wants his group
to tackle.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
We feel strongly that all the power lines should be underground.
Ezra for example, who's one of members of the team.
They've got the whole underground system already mapped, so we
can get quickly in the streets. Working with DWP in
the city, we can help design all the infrastructure, replace
the water mains, replace the hydrants, underground the power and
then upgrade the communication system. All the codes, all the
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building codes, drop them in an AI model, have building
permits submitted through that, and have planned corrections turned around
in hours, not weeks and months.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Why why why is there nobody in our government who
can have that same attitude.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I think it's because in the statement, you just gave
breath to people and government are not there for you,
by and large, they are there from them themselves, and
what can you do for them?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Not what can they do for you?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Tomorrow from JFK, I have a good story involving somebody
who came out here to help with the wildfires. Okay,
do you want to hear about it involves a dog? Yes, okay,
you didn't. I didn't want to until you said it
involves I know I could tell I need to sweeten
the pot.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
We will get to Joe Biden going to Hollywood as well.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But since we were talking about fires, I was reading
this story this morning, and it does warm the cockles.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Your cockles need warming.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Oh, they're pretty cold right now. I don't know where
those are, by the way.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
It's in your heart. The cockles of your heart. Oh, oh, okay,
your heart cockles. They're probably rough ninety eight point six
right now. I haven't checked. But actually I can check
with my little super ring, I think, can't I everybody's
standing by to hear my body's exture.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Don't think that that's a thing.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
What the cockles of your heart?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah? Those are like mollusks that live in salt water.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Cockles.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, heart, cockles are edible. How come my mom used
to always say the cockles of The phrase cockles of
your heart refers to the heart's ventricles or chambers. The
phrase warm the cockles of your heart means to feel
deep contentment or to feel good. So there are no
actual cockles in your heart. It's just a saying we
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have no cockles. Cockles are mollusks that we eat.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I am so happy that we have straightened that out.
Swamp Watch comes up at the top of the hour.
But we're also next hour going to talk about this
apparent agreement with El Salvador.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Not only are they going to.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Take they're bad guys back, they may take some of
our bad guys, like in a private prison deal.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I don't trust El Salvador.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And then big orexia.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Big orexia, Yeah, apparently it's a thing with the children,
the boys.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And I like that.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
There are a couple stories that we're following before we
get to some of these talkbacks. One of them is
a shooting in Sweden. This at a school, an adult school.
They said about one hundred and twenty miles west of Stockholm.
Police there have said that they believe there are around
ten deaths four people. At least four people were injured.
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I had to be taking the hospital and have gone
into surgery. So that's all we know so far.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
China slapping tariffs on US products and retaliation for Trump's tariffs.
Beijing said overnight it'll charge extra tariffs of fifteen percent
on cold liquefied natural gas, ten percent on crude farm
equipment and some cars starting next week. Prescription drugs where
we get an s ton of them and the chemicals
(21:15):
or the makeup of prescription drugs from China as.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Well, so we'll stay on top of that for you.
Do you want to hear the story about the dog?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Please? Okay?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Can I have some music? Some storytime music?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Eight years ago, there was a guy by the name
of Paul who was moving across country from Massachusetts to Arizona,
where he lives now. So he makes a pitstop in
Oklahoma and Paul's dog, Damien in Oklahoma, gets loose from
his leaf he runs off. Now, Paul is on the
road trip with his dad and a friend and they
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looked for Damien until well after midnight that first night.
They only stopped when they encountered a mountain lion there
in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Did it have a little tough to fur around its
mouth like it had just eaten Damien?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
No, no, it did not.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
They stayed in Oklahoma another week to look for Damien.
Damien was beloved. You're not just going to leave your
dog and continue on, I hear you. They searched high
and low for Damien to no avail. For years afterward.
Remember this is in twenty seventeen. Paul would put up
posters with Damien's picture far and wide. Wherever he went,
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he put up posters of Damien, and he said, you know,
it started to really affect me even more as the
years went on. It just it hurt too much to
see that missing poster one more time. So he kind
of stopped sharing them because it hurt too much. It
was devastating. Paul says, that dog got me through a
lot of emotional things, family issues. Damien was always there
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as a companion. I was as everything as he was mine.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Why are you laughing?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
This is awful? His everything, Yeah, his everything. You know,
not everybody has a wonderful life. Sometimes people have struggles
and their dog is their whole life.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
My dog helps make my life.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Well, you're not everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
He's not my everything.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You're not everybody. There's some people. That's all they have, okay,
and that was all Paul had.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
So mid January, Paul is driving to California to donate
clothes and supplies to wildfire victims, because Paul is also
that guy, unlike you. About an hour from the California border,
Paul gets a call from an unknown number.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
He ignores it, like we all do. The number calls again.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Bam risk.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
He gets a text on his Apple Watch and it says,
your dog, Damien has been found eight years after that
day in Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Eight years?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
How old is this dog? Now?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Turns out a woman in Oklahoma City had nearly run
over Damien, but picked him up, brought him to say
with her brother. Brother, took care of the dog for
two weeks, took him to the vet, scan him for
a chip, and boom Damien. So Damien was living there
wild fruits that long.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And they don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
We don't know where Damien was. We just know that
he ended up in Oklahoma City with that woman and
her brother. So, uh, screw the wildfire victims. Paul turns
the car around and drives fourteen hours straight to Oklahoma,
gets there about six am the next day to pick
up Damien.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Older scruffyer.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Damien is as you can imagine, but mondays, mundeniably is
dog wagging the tail. And now, Paul says, every time
he leaves the room, Damien's like.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Where are you going now?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Gonna be another eight years?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Br Well, to be clear, he could turn around and say,
you're the one who left the first time, Brah.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You're gonna yell at the dog that's been missing for
it and formed the dog about how I w everything?
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Okay, Smokey Robinson's chasm, Yeah, yeah, makes me have a spasm.
And I'm telling you there's a huge chasm between my
way of thinking and his. All right, but hey, I
got a rasin and that's all I gotta say about that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Now, did you write all that stuff down?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Urian Famine good Bows here from the OCI. Just wanted
to let you know that today's show already is epic
in the history of radio. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And that's before we even got to the first half.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
Rick Caruso is old school, wealthy, old school, wealthy, used
to always help everybody when needed. I work for a
client who's friends with him, and I've met him. He's
just a really really kind human being, just a good person,
and it's really unfortunate that Los Angeles did not elect
(25:40):
him to be mayor. He can bring that city together
and fix it and make it whole again.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well maybe I interviewed him once, and I was a
reporter and we were going out to the Grove to
interview him, and it was like kind of going to
see the Wizard, like you were met by somebody. I
was met by somebody right at the entrance of the grove,
one of the entrances, and they walked me through and
you went through like a little back alley and through
(26:06):
like a fence door, and then up a staircase and
up into up into one of these like secret rooms
on the roof of one of the stores or whatever,
and that was his office there at the Grove. But
it was all very hidden and very clandestine, it was,
and he was very cool, very down to earth, like
smart guy, very you know, you meet people where you're
(26:28):
just like you're a bad dude.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
He was the opposite. I mean, he was just a
really good, genuine person.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I've always heard great things about h Yeah. So, and
then finally morning.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Gary and Shannon. Well you're talking about cockles. What about
that little.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Nursery rhyme, you know, like when you would jump rope
blue bills.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Cockle shells?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, how's that got to do with what you eat?
Because it's a mollusc which.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Linda has malusk has a shell and it's shaped like
a art and that's where we get it.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
It'd be like a russil or clam or something like that.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Cockles oyster exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, to each his home, to each his own.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
See look at you see I'm growth.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
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