June 17, 2025 • 30 mins
Fire victims sue State Farm for negligence, claim they were ‘grossly underinsured’. DA Hochman and US Attorney Bill Essayli speak about charges against protesters. Meet the members of the Dull Men’s Club: ‘Some of them would bore the ears off you’.
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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 (00:09):
Israel has claimed to have killed a top Iranian official
as it's been trading more strikes with Iran. US President
Donald Trump has worn residents of Tehran to get out
to evacuate, while suggesting the US could give up negotiations.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
No, it's a known fact that if you hear Bill
Withers before ten thirty, it's going to be a lovely day.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It is going to be nice and warm today.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And we have all heard it before ten thirty. So Boom.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hopes that Sean Diddy Combs might testify at his federal
sex trafficking trial have faded as lawyer predicted that the
defense presentation lasting two to five days and suggested that
he will not be taking the stand. Stocks have been
drifting lower. Oil prices have risen again. We actually saw
some news come in today that consumer spending pulled back
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sharply in May, weighed down by the declining gas sales
looming unease over where the economy may actually be headed
sometime in the future. Beheaded, beheaded where it will head
so the Dallas down about one hundred and fifty point right.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Dodgers now have three games over the Giants in the
NL West, five over the Podres. The Dodgers do take
on the Padres at Dodger Stadium tonight, first pitch at seven.
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Speaker 2 (01:37):
We were asking your bad roommate stories for when your
college kids come back to town.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I got two girls in college. When they come home,
it's like a tornado, hits chaos, and then when they leave,
we clear it up, and then we miss all of that.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's the hardest part. They're so annoying.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
They sleep in, they eat your food, they leave a mess,
and then when they leave, you're like, you know, that
was kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I miss them.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
This is kind of good.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Hey, Gary and Sannon love the show. So our daughter
graduated this pot Sunday. She only has a part time
job because na tlending has been appeared and we decided
we're going to pay half the rent. She doesn't need
to do all your building. So that's just not a
terrible roommate at our house. We'd rather have her in
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her own space.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, good good luck, good luck with that. Good luck
to sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Six couples and one individual who lost their homes in
the devastating fires are suing State Farm. Like I said,
we've heard horror stories about State Farm. Eric Dickerson down
the Hall on Am five seventy can do quite the
long State Farm rant. The people who have filed suit
claim that they were misled by the insurance company and
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that their homes were deliberately and grossly underinsured and the loss.
It was filed yesterday. It alleges that State Farm took
advantage of the homeowner's lack of knowledge about rebuilding costs
and set projected replacement costs far lower than the actual costs,
which left them without enough money to replace or rebuild
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their homes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The complaint does say that State Farm engaged in a
multifaceted illegal scheme designed to reap enormous illicit profits by
deceptively misleading over a million homeowners here in California. This
is the second time that people have been burned out
of their homes here in La County of sued insurers
because they believe that they were under insured. USAA and
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a couple of insurers affiliated with Triple A were sued
back in June by policyholders who had claims that they
didn't have enough money to rebuild as well, So.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
This covers both fire areas. Four of the households are
from Altadena who are suing, two from the Palisades, and
one from Sierra Madre. In one instance outlined in the lawsuit,
homeowners wrote to their state farm agent before the fires
in January to confirm whether the dwelling limit just over
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one million dollars would sufficiently cover the cost of rebuilding
their home there in Altadena. The agent confirmed that the
amount covered the total cost to rebuild. However, after the
home burned down, the estimates the couple received to rebuild
were in excess of three million.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
How does that work well?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Is that just a basic error on the part of
the agent, or is it like they allege that it's
this illicit scheme that comes from the top down and
says you got to string these people along and tell
them that they have enough coverage when they don't.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's probably a little bit of all of it. It's
probably a little bit of fudging the numbers for the
State Farm agent. It's probably the fact that the home values,
the lot values, all of the values in Altadena have
raised have been raised after the fires. Also throw in
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there the fact that contractors know that people are desperate
to rebuild, and how much that costs and when was
the when was the coverage bought? Was it bought a
couple of years ago or was it bought twenty five
years ago? And how does that change as the home
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values change in any particular area. If it's illegal, that's
going to be a high bar to hit. You would
imagine State Farm if they were playing dirty, and it
sounds like they do from time to time that they
play dirty in a clean fashion where they cover their
ass at least legally. So these are quite the allegations. Negligence,
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breach of contracts, several other causes of action. They're going
for compensory punitive damages as well.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Obviously, as of a few days ago, State Farm said
that it had received more than twelve thousand, eight hundred
claims related to the fires, and that they've paid out
more than four billion to California customers.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Now that means nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, it amounts to about three hundred thousand per claim,
which I mean just in Alta Dina, the costs were
going to be around three million dollars to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm just saying that means nothing in terms of if
I lost my house in Alta Dina. I don't care
how much State Farm is paid out. That they've paid
out four point oh three billion.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Right, I mean, or that even everybody got three hundred thousand,
because it's going to cost way more than that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Now, there are some who had State Farm policies that
didn't have to rebuild their house. They either had minor damage,
or they had smoke damage or something which is still
a hassle but doesn't doesn't come to a full three
million dollar replacement policy for your house.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I guess it goes into the whole fare plan racket,
is well. The lawsuit claims that State Farm's collusion with
other carriers to push homeowners into that fair plan meant
the only policies left for the company were ones that
carried deliberately suppressed coverage limits of sufficiently low magnitude, so
that means a lesser exposure risk for state farm which
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makes them able to survive something like this on the
backs of the people who lost their homes.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Interesting to see what the court finds.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Just feels like insurance companies are going to take off.
They're going to just get out of California.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Insurance companies are not your friends. They are not on
your side all the things that they say. I would
not I would not sell my soul to the devil.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Garyan Shannon KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Wanted to dip into this news conference that's
going on. La County DA. Nathan Hockman and the US
Attorney Bill of Sale have been announcing new charges in
connection with the recent protests, and a Sale was just
referring to not only the guy who was picked up
driving in a truckload of those face masks that were
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being hit good, but some of the people who were
assaulting CHP officers and vehicles where they were sitting on
the one to one freeway back on last Sunday.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
We have dozens of ongoing investigations and we are continuing
our work to identify individuals who engaged in violence. Their masks,
their face shields will not save them. We will find them,
and we will go to their home and we will
arrest them. That is a promise I make to the community.
I want to thank our law enforcement men and women.
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I want to thank our National Guard and the military
for their service and keeping us safe. I want to
thank the federal agents for their hard work, which they
continue to do each and every day.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We do not.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Deserve to be treated the way in which they were
the last week, and we're not going to put up
with it. We have great working relationships with our local
lawenforcement partners LPD, the Sheriff's HP, the District Attorney's office,
and we will work together to make sure we get
the most aggressive and appropriate sentence for each of these
violent actors.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Thank you very much again, that's US Attorney Bill A. Saley. There,
Nathan Hakman coming back to I guess the CHP chief.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Good morning, and thank you all for being here. I'm
Chris Margaris. I am the Southern Division Chief of the
California Higher Patrol. First, I want to extend my sincere
appreciation to the Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hockman
and US Attorney Bill A. Sale, as well as all
the other agencies standing here with us today. The continued
commitment to public safety and the safety of our offices
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reflects the strength of our partnership and a unified front.
In response to the recent events in Los Angeles over
the past week, the California Higher Patrol has been fully
engaged and maintained public safety amid a series of protests
across the state and here in Los Angeles. Let me
be clear, while we uphold and protect the constitutional right
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to free speech and peaceful assembly, we will not and
do not tolerate violence, criminal conduct, or any act that
threatens the safety or of the public or our officers. Today,
I'm announcing the arrest of Adam Palamo of Los Angeles
by the California High Patrol Major Crime Detectives for his
role in a violent attack on CHP personnel. Palamoro was
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accused of throwing rocks at our offices and participating in
the austin of a mark CHP patrol vehicle. These are
not protest actions. These are serious felonies and direct threats
to public safety. We are pursuing full accountability and of
the law of violent crimes. In addition, the California High
Patrol has made multiple arrests related to reckless driving incidents
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that occurred directly in front of our special response team
officers and protesters during recent events. Drivers deliberately engaged in
dangerous maneuvers that placed everyone nearby offices, protesters, and bystanders
in immediate danger. That is not protests, it is reckless
criminal behavior. Vehicles have been impounded for thirty days and
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criminal charges of being recommended for each of the individuals involved.
Let me emphasize this as far from over. Our investigation
is active and ongoing. HP detectives continuing to release to
review evidence, examine video footage, identify additional suspects, and pursue
charges for those insided and carried out violence against our
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offices and engaged in criminal acts during these demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Right this again from the hol of Justice Downtown for
La County, the DA Nathan Hockman announced that there are
several investigations that are ongoing and several arrests that he
says they're pending based on the violent protesters that had
not only gone after law enforcement, but had gone after property,
that graffiti, that vandalism. All of those would still be
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charges that are going to be leveled against these guys.
But you heard the CHP guy say there one of
the people that they picked up is responsible for not
just throwing those rocks down from the overpass onto the
one to one freeway where those mark CHP vehicles were,
but that the CHP officers themselves may have gotten hurt
because they were standing underneath that overpass trying to make
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sure that their cars didn't explode into flames.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Bill A.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Saley, the US Attorney, was also there and described some
similar things on the federal level, that they have investigations
that they're still going after and people that they do
expect to arrest.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
In about an hour and a half, we may get
some answers, or at least we'll see where the arrows
are pointing. When it comes to how long the California
National Guard will remain this is up to an appellate court. Today,
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing arguments over Trump's
federalizing of the California National Guard, deploying it despite what
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gas A. Newsome did not ask for, of course, that
happened when the protests began last Friday. Newsome and sis
Trump's actions were illegal. The lawsuit claims they both exceed
the scope of the president's statutory authority and violates the
Tenth Amendment, the Amendment, of course, which gives power to
the states that's not assigned to the federal government. Newsom
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Bass other Democrats have blamed the unrest on the President's
deployment of the National Guard in Marines to la which
is just simply ridiculous. Maybe a portion of it, but
definitely this was something that was going to happen, regardless
of how the president responded.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
A quick side note to all of it is that
a coalition of press organizations is seeking a court order
to stop what they said is the continuing abuse of
journalists by the LAPD during the immigration protests. It says
there are multiple instances of officers firing foam projectiles at
members of the media and otherwise flouting state laws.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So called are they named?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Are the people named?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, I mean we know that some of them have
been hit with the no.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
No, I mean, like, are the agencies named in that?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
What?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
A complaint?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
They're looking for a court order.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, so we don't know which agencies were talking amount.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
They did not go into specific news.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'm going to go out there on limb and say
it's not the La Times or k CAL or k
T l A. It's going to be like I haven't
showered in four weeks and I had a blog and
now it's a podcast, dot com, slash org.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I have a handwritten press badge right that I kept
holding up in front of my face.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
When I got this cool jacket made. It says press.
It says what press the way you said that press,
because that's how they talk. All right, Come on, give
me Peyte Demetrio. All right, that's a reporter who can
wear the press. The Dull Men's Club have you ever
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heard of this? Apparently there are several million members of
a group online and it's called the Doll Men's Club,
and their goal is to cause dullness in each other's
lives on a daily basis. Sound they wear their dullness
with pride. We'll talk about it when we come back.
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Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
College Kids college age kids coming back home for the summer,
maybe and just turning into absolute nightmares of roommates because
they forget things like how to do laundry or eat
for themselves, or wake up before noon or something.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Yeah, I would. My dad's a marine, I'm a marine.
My mom's South African. By the time I was ten
years old, I was already doing my own laundry and
had the ability to cook for myself. That should never
change everything you said, Gary about adulting. That should have
been done a long time ago. Nothing you mentioned has
anything to do with becoming an adult. They shud been
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doing that by the age of twelve.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Listen, my kids were doing their own laundry before they
left the house. They were making most of their own
food before they left the house. That's yes, I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The eighteenth century English writer Samuel Johnson once wrote, he
is not only dull himself, he is the cause of
dullness in others. Love that this is embraced by the
Dull Men's Club, a seven million members strong. The duller,
the better better for these guys. In fact, any sort
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of post that contains an emoji or an avatar too much,
it's probably going to get deleted. In fact, no exclamation points,
no exclamation points. This is a place for quirky hobbies,
obscure interests, and the examination of small, ordinary things. It
is a place to celebrate the mundane. Recently there was
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a man who's part of the group in the UK.
He worried that seeing a lesser spotted woodpecker in his
garden might be too exciting for the group. There is
a history to this club that is fascinating. It all
began in New York in the early nineteen eighties. I'm
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one of the founding members now eighty five. He and
his friends were sitting at a long bar of the
New York Athletic Club and they're reading magazine articles but
all the things that are the rage, boxing, fencing, judo, wrestling.
And one of his friends said, dude, we don't do
any of those things. And they faced it. They were dull.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So they started as a joke the doll Men's Club,
and they said it was It involved very silly. I
love the word quote Titian word dull activities. They charted
a tour bus only so they could tour the bus.
They walked around the outside of the bus a few times.
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The driver explained tire pressures turned on the windshield wipers.
Dull stuff like that when this guy Grover click, which
is an amy made up because it was dull. When
he moved to the UK, his nephew offered to put
a website together for the silly Dull Men's Club. And,
as you said, the Dull Men's Facebook group one point
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nine million members.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
We've kind of waded into these waters before. We all
remember the great Apple debate that this show brought you,
the Boxers versus Briefs controversy. Sure, there have been a
number of these seemingly dumb things that seemed to get
a outsized reaction from just normal people. Same thing goes
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for the Dull Men's Club Facebook group. Five hundred amused
comments follow a post about coat hangers inserted into hoops
on rails and hotel rooms. One person said that would
keep me up all night. The over or under toilet
paper debate raged for two and a half. I can
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only imagine remember our toilet paper squares how debate, how many?
How many? Then there was the dismantling of electronic appliances
photographing postboxes, the ranking of every animated movie from one
to one hundred one hundred being dull and pointless. Members
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judge the speed of other people's windscreen wipers against their own.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Oh here's another one.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
One guy out of Australia came up with a competition
to try to stuff as many used toilet paper rolls
as possible inside another toilet paper roll.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
There was the late John Richards, part of the group
who also founded the Apostrophe Protection Society. Ninety four year
old Lee Maxwell, who has fully restored fourteen hundred antique
washing machines that no one will ever use. This seems
to be not a dull men's club, But dare I
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say just a men's club, hey, where men are fascinated
by things that don't fascinate a lot of the other
people like women. In terms of putting back together an
antique washing machine, I think there's a lot of men
who would not find that to be dull. They'd find
that to be wildly interesting how things work.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Even if you never use it. An antique washing machine.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Right, take it apart, put it back together. That's not dull,
that's just being a man.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
When Grover Click, if you remember in his introduction to
the Doll Men's Club calendar for twenty twenty four. He wrote,
what they are doing the dull men. What they're doing
is referred to in Japan as ikey guy. It gives
a sense of purpose, a motivating force, a reason to
jump out of bed every morning.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Right. And the article ends this is out of the
Guardian with kind of the point that I was getting to.
It says, here's a radical thought. Dull men and women
are actually interesting. Just don't tell them that.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
I looked it up in their station and their radio
program of choice is a Gary and Shannon show.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I wonder if that means anything.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Dull can be very interesting. I think the doll Men's
Club is all about doing things right, don't you. That's
why those coat hangers tucked into those stupid rings in
the hotel rooms keep them up at night. What a
dumb thing, What a dumb thing.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But very true. It would keep me up at night.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Why can't you just why can't we stay in a
place when's the last time you played sorry? You stayed
in a place that had actual normal coat hangers in it,
like a hotel that trusted you enough to not make
off with its I.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Travel with the chargers who seem to throw a lot
of money at hotel rooms so pretty regularly. But on
my own, on my own dime. Yeah, I haven't seen
a real hanger in years.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Well, speaking of travel, if you are planning on travel
to traveling to Europe, you might want to pack your rubbers.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
What what do you mean, like galoshes?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, not not a raincoat of some kind, not sex stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Well, it's up to you.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm just saying that Europeans are not too happy with
tourists anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I'm not gonna stop you.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You know what, I freaking love this story because if
you've been to Venice, you know it's been completely ruined
by tourists. It is not a magical place, Nay, it
is crawling with people and it's awful. It's a freaking Disneyland,
that is. You can tell it's beautiful just look up,
look out. But as long as you're looking around you
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it's awful. And I love the fact that Jeff Bezos
and whatever that girl's name, Lauren and Sanchez, their wedding
has gotten so much press because they are throwing so
much money at this thing, quite possibly the most expensive
wedding ever, and it's gonna be ruined. It's gonna be
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ruined because of this movement, and I'm frankly kind of.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You're okay with it, okay with that? Gary Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on them from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
A bunch of stories that we're following.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We know that President Trump has been meeting with his
National Security Council. He returned early from the G seven
summit up in Canada to focus on whatever's going on
in the Middle East and whatever involvement the United States
is going to have. He told reporters on Air Force
one overnight. He's not interested in just a ceasefire.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
He said.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
He wants a real end to the war and to
Iran's nuclear program. Israel pounded Iran for a fifth straight
day in this air campaign against the military program and
the nuclear program. In fact, President Trump had warned residents
of Tehran to evacuate and suggested that the United States
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is working on something we haven't heard. What we do
know that military assets from other parts of the world
are steaming towards or flying towards those.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Areas in the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We don't know exactly what that means if in fact,
the United States would would get involved in all of this.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Amazon Prime Day is going to be four days this year.
This will be held July eighth through the eleventh. It
started ten years ago before expanding to two days. New
this year are Today's Big Deals, which will see themed
daily deal drops featuring deep discounts on brands like Samsung
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Levi's that will launch daily at midnight Pacific time. Amazon
Prime can start enjoying some early Prime Day deals now,
of course you can. Of course you're going to call
them that just to get your start spending money now.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Bart Helona has become the center of protests against over
tourism in European cities.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Bartolona, which I've been to many times because I like to.
I like it to be a landing spot if you're
going anywhere else, because it's just cool and the tapas
are great, it's fun, that people are wonderful, and the
Gothic architecture is divine that can handle the tourists. Places
like Venice cannot. But that's neither here nor there. Some
people are protesting tourists by spraying them with water guns.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
There was a weekend of workshops that were held in
Bartheloa by the Southern Europe Network against touristificate touristification. The
demonstrations last July where they saw squirt guns coming out
as the symbol of anger over the effects of mass tourism.
So these protesters, these anti tourism protesters, have been shooting
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people with squirt guns in an effort to protest them
spending money in the countries where these protesters left.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
They say. One of the marches was outside the Lasagrata
Familia Basilica, where I don't think I've ever been without
seeing a protest of some kind. Protesting very big in Europe.
Any given day you can find a protest about something.
It's kind of a fun thing to watch well.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And this is being played out in real time over
the wedding, the pending nuptials of Jeff Bezos and Lawrence Sanchez.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Burn it down. Burn it down. If you're going to
spend that kind of money on a party on a wedding,
you're an ass who deserves to get a little bit
of perspective thrown into your celebration.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Posters and stickers have appeared throughout the city. There was
a huge banner on Saint Mark's bell tower in Venice
with Bezos's name crossed out. These stickers show Bezos's face
with the phrase no space for Bezos. The celebrity guest
list on this thing is massive. Oprah, Mick Jagger, Katie Perry,
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Ivanka Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
It's a multi day celebration in Venice. Lame. And how
much did you spend on your wedding? Don't tell me.
That's a rude question to ask.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Not much.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I'll tell you that, But what you want to say,
like five thousand bucks something like that. More than that,
but ten thousand whatever. Like a normal person's wedding is
if you're lucky enough to have a wedding with one
hundred of your friends or whatever in food, and you
can hire a DJ and a place and all that,
let's say five to ten grand or whatever. They're spending
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eleven million dollars. Eleven million dollars. That's just gross. I
don't care how much money you have, it's just gross.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You couldn't you couldn't be satisfied with a one million
dollar wedding and find another place to put ten other
million dollars. A lot of people are afraid that this
is going to spotlight Venice, and that Venice itself is
going to become a centerpiece, perhaps a magnet for celebrities,
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and that the people who live there their lives would
be disrupted by an over active tourism industry. The mayor
Luigi Brunaro says this is fake news. He says the
small guest count, the careful planning will prevent any disruption
in the city. He said, only two hundred guests will
have been invited and therefore will be easy for Venice
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to accommodate such an event. Tell that to the Tell
that to that executive airport that's going to be overrun
with private jets.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I will give one piece of wedding advice. Piece of
advice I did not fall in line with is high
with a football helmet on your cake?
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
That that was dumb. And I don't hire a photographer
who doesn't speak the language you speak. Doesn't need to
speak English, but make sure you speak whatever language it
is he or she prefers or only speaks okay, because
otherwise you end up with one picture, one usable picture.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's a good picture.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Though it is good picture, all right, I mean most
I mean there is an exit sign in it. But
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Well, you can change that now, you know that's true.
Good point, all right, we'll do watch check in what's
going on in Washington, d C. Of course, the huge
issue being talked about in DC today is all about
the Middle East. We'll get updates on that when we
come back to Gary and Shannon. You've been listening to
The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Israel has claimed to have killed a top Iranian official
as it's been trading more strikes with Iran. US President
Donald Trump has worn residents of Tehran to get out
to evacuate, while suggesting the US could give up negotiations.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
No, it's a known fact that if you hear Bill
Withers before ten thirty, it's going to be a lovely day.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It is going to be nice and warm today.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And we have all heard it before ten thirty. So Boom.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hopes that Sean Diddy Combs might testify at his federal
sex trafficking trial have faded as lawyer predicted that the
defense presentation lasting two to five days and suggested that
he will not be taking the stand. Stocks have been
drifting lower. Oil prices have risen again. We actually saw
some news come in today that consumer spending pulled back
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sharply in May, weighed down by the declining gas sales
looming unease over where the economy may actually be headed
sometime in the future. Beheaded, beheaded where it will head
so the Dallas down about one hundred and fifty point right.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Dodgers now have three games over the Giants in the
NL West, five over the Podres. The Dodgers do take
on the Padres at Dodger Stadium tonight, first pitch at seven.
Listen to all Dodger games on AM five seventy LA
Sports Live from the gallopin Motors Broadcast Booth. Stream all
Dodgers games NHD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five
seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We were asking your bad roommate stories for when your
college kids come back to town.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I got two girls in college. When they come home,
it's like a tornado, hits chaos, and then when they leave,
we clear it up, and then we miss all of that.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's the hardest part. They're so annoying.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
They sleep in, they eat your food, they leave a mess,
and then when they leave, you're like, you know, that
was kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I miss them.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
This is kind of good.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Hey, Gary and Sannon love the show. So our daughter
graduated this pot Sunday. She only has a part time
job because na tlending has been appeared and we decided
we're going to pay half the rent. She doesn't need
to do all your building. So that's just not a
terrible roommate at our house. We'd rather have her in
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her own space.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, good good luck, good luck with that. Good luck
to sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Six couples and one individual who lost their homes in
the devastating fires are suing State Farm. Like I said,
we've heard horror stories about State Farm. Eric Dickerson down
the Hall on Am five seventy can do quite the
long State Farm rant. The people who have filed suit
claim that they were misled by the insurance company and
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that their homes were deliberately and grossly underinsured and the loss.
It was filed yesterday. It alleges that State Farm took
advantage of the homeowner's lack of knowledge about rebuilding costs
and set projected replacement costs far lower than the actual costs,
which left them without enough money to replace or rebuild
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their homes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The complaint does say that State Farm engaged in a
multifaceted illegal scheme designed to reap enormous illicit profits by
deceptively misleading over a million homeowners here in California. This
is the second time that people have been burned out
of their homes here in La County of sued insurers
because they believe that they were under insured. USAA and
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a couple of insurers affiliated with Triple A were sued
back in June by policyholders who had claims that they
didn't have enough money to rebuild as well, So.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
This covers both fire areas. Four of the households are
from Altadena who are suing, two from the Palisades, and
one from Sierra Madre. In one instance outlined in the lawsuit,
homeowners wrote to their state farm agent before the fires
in January to confirm whether the dwelling limit just over
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one million dollars would sufficiently cover the cost of rebuilding
their home there in Altadena. The agent confirmed that the
amount covered the total cost to rebuild. However, after the
home burned down, the estimates the couple received to rebuild
were in excess of three million.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
How does that work well?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Is that just a basic error on the part of
the agent, or is it like they allege that it's
this illicit scheme that comes from the top down and
says you got to string these people along and tell
them that they have enough coverage when they don't.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's probably a little bit of all of it. It's
probably a little bit of fudging the numbers for the
State Farm agent. It's probably the fact that the home values,
the lot values, all of the values in Altadena have
raised have been raised after the fires. Also throw in
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there the fact that contractors know that people are desperate
to rebuild, and how much that costs and when was
the when was the coverage bought? Was it bought a
couple of years ago or was it bought twenty five
years ago? And how does that change as the home
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values change in any particular area. If it's illegal, that's
going to be a high bar to hit. You would
imagine State Farm if they were playing dirty, and it
sounds like they do from time to time that they
play dirty in a clean fashion where they cover their
ass at least legally. So these are quite the allegations. Negligence,
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breach of contracts, several other causes of action. They're going
for compensory punitive damages as well.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Obviously, as of a few days ago, State Farm said
that it had received more than twelve thousand, eight hundred
claims related to the fires, and that they've paid out
more than four billion to California customers.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Now that means nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, it amounts to about three hundred thousand per claim,
which I mean just in Alta Dina, the costs were
going to be around three million dollars to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm just saying that means nothing in terms of if
I lost my house in Alta Dina. I don't care
how much State Farm is paid out. That they've paid
out four point oh three billion.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Right, I mean, or that even everybody got three hundred thousand,
because it's going to cost way more than that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Now, there are some who had State Farm policies that
didn't have to rebuild their house. They either had minor damage,
or they had smoke damage or something which is still
a hassle but doesn't doesn't come to a full three
million dollar replacement policy for your house.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I guess it goes into the whole fare plan racket,
is well. The lawsuit claims that State Farm's collusion with
other carriers to push homeowners into that fair plan meant
the only policies left for the company were ones that
carried deliberately suppressed coverage limits of sufficiently low magnitude, so
that means a lesser exposure risk for state farm which
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makes them able to survive something like this on the
backs of the people who lost their homes.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Interesting to see what the court finds.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Just feels like insurance companies are going to take off.
They're going to just get out of California.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Insurance companies are not your friends. They are not on
your side all the things that they say. I would
not I would not sell my soul to the devil.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Garyan Shannon KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Wanted to dip into this news conference that's
going on. La County DA. Nathan Hockman and the US
Attorney Bill of Sale have been announcing new charges in
connection with the recent protests, and a Sale was just
referring to not only the guy who was picked up
driving in a truckload of those face masks that were
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being hit good, but some of the people who were
assaulting CHP officers and vehicles where they were sitting on
the one to one freeway back on last Sunday.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
We have dozens of ongoing investigations and we are continuing
our work to identify individuals who engaged in violence. Their masks,
their face shields will not save them. We will find them,
and we will go to their home and we will
arrest them. That is a promise I make to the community.
I want to thank our law enforcement men and women.
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I want to thank our National Guard and the military
for their service and keeping us safe. I want to
thank the federal agents for their hard work, which they
continue to do each and every day.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We do not.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Deserve to be treated the way in which they were
the last week, and we're not going to put up
with it. We have great working relationships with our local
lawenforcement partners LPD, the Sheriff's HP, the District Attorney's office,
and we will work together to make sure we get
the most aggressive and appropriate sentence for each of these
violent actors.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Thank you very much again, that's US Attorney Bill A. Saley. There,
Nathan Hakman coming back to I guess the CHP chief.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Good morning, and thank you all for being here. I'm
Chris Margaris. I am the Southern Division Chief of the
California Higher Patrol. First, I want to extend my sincere
appreciation to the Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hockman
and US Attorney Bill A. Sale, as well as all
the other agencies standing here with us today. The continued
commitment to public safety and the safety of our offices
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reflects the strength of our partnership and a unified front.
In response to the recent events in Los Angeles over
the past week, the California Higher Patrol has been fully
engaged and maintained public safety amid a series of protests
across the state and here in Los Angeles. Let me
be clear, while we uphold and protect the constitutional right
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to free speech and peaceful assembly, we will not and
do not tolerate violence, criminal conduct, or any act that
threatens the safety or of the public or our officers. Today,
I'm announcing the arrest of Adam Palamo of Los Angeles
by the California High Patrol Major Crime Detectives for his
role in a violent attack on CHP personnel. Palamoro was
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accused of throwing rocks at our offices and participating in
the austin of a mark CHP patrol vehicle. These are
not protest actions. These are serious felonies and direct threats
to public safety. We are pursuing full accountability and of
the law of violent crimes. In addition, the California High
Patrol has made multiple arrests related to reckless driving incidents
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that occurred directly in front of our special response team
officers and protesters during recent events. Drivers deliberately engaged in
dangerous maneuvers that placed everyone nearby offices, protesters, and bystanders
in immediate danger. That is not protests, it is reckless
criminal behavior. Vehicles have been impounded for thirty days and
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criminal charges of being recommended for each of the individuals involved.
Let me emphasize this as far from over. Our investigation
is active and ongoing. HP detectives continuing to release to
review evidence, examine video footage, identify additional suspects, and pursue
charges for those insided and carried out violence against our
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offices and engaged in criminal acts during these demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Right this again from the hol of Justice Downtown for
La County, the DA Nathan Hockman announced that there are
several investigations that are ongoing and several arrests that he
says they're pending based on the violent protesters that had
not only gone after law enforcement, but had gone after property,
that graffiti, that vandalism. All of those would still be
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charges that are going to be leveled against these guys.
But you heard the CHP guy say there one of
the people that they picked up is responsible for not
just throwing those rocks down from the overpass onto the
one to one freeway where those mark CHP vehicles were,
but that the CHP officers themselves may have gotten hurt
because they were standing underneath that overpass trying to make
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sure that their cars didn't explode into flames.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Bill A.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Saley, the US Attorney, was also there and described some
similar things on the federal level, that they have investigations
that they're still going after and people that they do
expect to arrest.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
In about an hour and a half, we may get
some answers, or at least we'll see where the arrows
are pointing. When it comes to how long the California
National Guard will remain this is up to an appellate court. Today,
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing arguments over Trump's
federalizing of the California National Guard, deploying it despite what
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gas A. Newsome did not ask for, of course, that
happened when the protests began last Friday. Newsome and sis
Trump's actions were illegal. The lawsuit claims they both exceed
the scope of the president's statutory authority and violates the
Tenth Amendment, the Amendment, of course, which gives power to
the states that's not assigned to the federal government. Newsom
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Bass other Democrats have blamed the unrest on the President's
deployment of the National Guard in Marines to la which
is just simply ridiculous. Maybe a portion of it, but
definitely this was something that was going to happen, regardless
of how the president responded.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
A quick side note to all of it is that
a coalition of press organizations is seeking a court order
to stop what they said is the continuing abuse of
journalists by the LAPD during the immigration protests. It says
there are multiple instances of officers firing foam projectiles at
members of the media and otherwise flouting state laws.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So called are they named?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Are the people named?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, I mean we know that some of them have
been hit with the no.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
No, I mean, like, are the agencies named in that?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
What?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
A complaint?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
They're looking for a court order.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, so we don't know which agencies were talking amount.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
They did not go into specific news.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'm going to go out there on limb and say
it's not the La Times or k CAL or k
T l A. It's going to be like I haven't
showered in four weeks and I had a blog and
now it's a podcast, dot com, slash org.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I have a handwritten press badge right that I kept
holding up in front of my face.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
When I got this cool jacket made. It says press.
It says what press the way you said that press,
because that's how they talk. All right, Come on, give
me Peyte Demetrio. All right, that's a reporter who can
wear the press. The Dull Men's Club have you ever
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heard of this? Apparently there are several million members of
a group online and it's called the Doll Men's Club,
and their goal is to cause dullness in each other's
lives on a daily basis. Sound they wear their dullness
with pride. We'll talk about it when we come back.
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Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
College Kids college age kids coming back home for the summer,
maybe and just turning into absolute nightmares of roommates because
they forget things like how to do laundry or eat
for themselves, or wake up before noon or something.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Yeah, I would. My dad's a marine, I'm a marine.
My mom's South African. By the time I was ten
years old, I was already doing my own laundry and
had the ability to cook for myself. That should never
change everything you said, Gary about adulting. That should have
been done a long time ago. Nothing you mentioned has
anything to do with becoming an adult. They shud been
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doing that by the age of twelve.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Listen, my kids were doing their own laundry before they
left the house. They were making most of their own
food before they left the house. That's yes, I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The eighteenth century English writer Samuel Johnson once wrote, he
is not only dull himself, he is the cause of
dullness in others. Love that this is embraced by the
Dull Men's Club, a seven million members strong. The duller,
the better better for these guys. In fact, any sort
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of post that contains an emoji or an avatar too much,
it's probably going to get deleted. In fact, no exclamation points,
no exclamation points. This is a place for quirky hobbies,
obscure interests, and the examination of small, ordinary things. It
is a place to celebrate the mundane. Recently there was
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a man who's part of the group in the UK.
He worried that seeing a lesser spotted woodpecker in his
garden might be too exciting for the group. There is
a history to this club that is fascinating. It all
began in New York in the early nineteen eighties. I'm
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one of the founding members now eighty five. He and
his friends were sitting at a long bar of the
New York Athletic Club and they're reading magazine articles but
all the things that are the rage, boxing, fencing, judo, wrestling.
And one of his friends said, dude, we don't do
any of those things. And they faced it. They were dull.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So they started as a joke the doll Men's Club,
and they said it was It involved very silly. I
love the word quote Titian word dull activities. They charted
a tour bus only so they could tour the bus.
They walked around the outside of the bus a few times.
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The driver explained tire pressures turned on the windshield wipers.
Dull stuff like that when this guy Grover click, which
is an amy made up because it was dull. When
he moved to the UK, his nephew offered to put
a website together for the silly Dull Men's Club. And,
as you said, the Dull Men's Facebook group one point
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nine million members.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
We've kind of waded into these waters before. We all
remember the great Apple debate that this show brought you,
the Boxers versus Briefs controversy. Sure, there have been a
number of these seemingly dumb things that seemed to get
a outsized reaction from just normal people. Same thing goes
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for the Dull Men's Club Facebook group. Five hundred amused
comments follow a post about coat hangers inserted into hoops
on rails and hotel rooms. One person said that would
keep me up all night. The over or under toilet
paper debate raged for two and a half. I can
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only imagine remember our toilet paper squares how debate, how many?
How many? Then there was the dismantling of electronic appliances
photographing postboxes, the ranking of every animated movie from one
to one hundred one hundred being dull and pointless. Members
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judge the speed of other people's windscreen wipers against their own.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Oh here's another one.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
One guy out of Australia came up with a competition
to try to stuff as many used toilet paper rolls
as possible inside another toilet paper roll.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
There was the late John Richards, part of the group
who also founded the Apostrophe Protection Society. Ninety four year
old Lee Maxwell, who has fully restored fourteen hundred antique
washing machines that no one will ever use. This seems
to be not a dull men's club, But dare I
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say just a men's club, hey, where men are fascinated
by things that don't fascinate a lot of the other
people like women. In terms of putting back together an
antique washing machine, I think there's a lot of men
who would not find that to be dull. They'd find
that to be wildly interesting how things work.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Even if you never use it. An antique washing machine.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Right, take it apart, put it back together. That's not dull,
that's just being a man.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
When Grover Click, if you remember in his introduction to
the Doll Men's Club calendar for twenty twenty four. He wrote,
what they are doing the dull men. What they're doing
is referred to in Japan as ikey guy. It gives
a sense of purpose, a motivating force, a reason to
jump out of bed every morning.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Right. And the article ends this is out of the
Guardian with kind of the point that I was getting to.
It says, here's a radical thought. Dull men and women
are actually interesting. Just don't tell them that.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
I looked it up in their station and their radio
program of choice is a Gary and Shannon show.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I wonder if that means anything.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Dull can be very interesting. I think the doll Men's
Club is all about doing things right, don't you. That's
why those coat hangers tucked into those stupid rings in
the hotel rooms keep them up at night. What a
dumb thing, What a dumb thing.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But very true. It would keep me up at night.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Why can't you just why can't we stay in a
place when's the last time you played sorry? You stayed
in a place that had actual normal coat hangers in it,
like a hotel that trusted you enough to not make
off with its I.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Travel with the chargers who seem to throw a lot
of money at hotel rooms so pretty regularly. But on
my own, on my own dime. Yeah, I haven't seen
a real hanger in years.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Well, speaking of travel, if you are planning on travel
to traveling to Europe, you might want to pack your rubbers.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
What what do you mean, like galoshes?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, not not a raincoat of some kind, not sex stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Well, it's up to you.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm just saying that Europeans are not too happy with
tourists anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I'm not gonna stop you.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You know what, I freaking love this story because if
you've been to Venice, you know it's been completely ruined
by tourists. It is not a magical place, Nay, it
is crawling with people and it's awful. It's a freaking Disneyland,
that is. You can tell it's beautiful just look up,
look out. But as long as you're looking around you
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it's awful. And I love the fact that Jeff Bezos
and whatever that girl's name, Lauren and Sanchez, their wedding
has gotten so much press because they are throwing so
much money at this thing, quite possibly the most expensive
wedding ever, and it's gonna be ruined. It's gonna be
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ruined because of this movement, and I'm frankly kind of.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You're okay with it, okay with that? Gary Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on them from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
A bunch of stories that we're following.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We know that President Trump has been meeting with his
National Security Council. He returned early from the G seven
summit up in Canada to focus on whatever's going on
in the Middle East and whatever involvement the United States
is going to have. He told reporters on Air Force
one overnight. He's not interested in just a ceasefire.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
He said.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
He wants a real end to the war and to
Iran's nuclear program. Israel pounded Iran for a fifth straight
day in this air campaign against the military program and
the nuclear program. In fact, President Trump had warned residents
of Tehran to evacuate and suggested that the United States
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is working on something we haven't heard. What we do
know that military assets from other parts of the world
are steaming towards or flying towards those.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Areas in the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We don't know exactly what that means if in fact,
the United States would would get involved in all of this.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Amazon Prime Day is going to be four days this year.
This will be held July eighth through the eleventh. It
started ten years ago before expanding to two days. New
this year are Today's Big Deals, which will see themed
daily deal drops featuring deep discounts on brands like Samsung
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Levi's that will launch daily at midnight Pacific time. Amazon
Prime can start enjoying some early Prime Day deals now,
of course you can. Of course you're going to call
them that just to get your start spending money now.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Bart Helona has become the center of protests against over
tourism in European cities.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Bartolona, which I've been to many times because I like to.
I like it to be a landing spot if you're
going anywhere else, because it's just cool and the tapas
are great, it's fun, that people are wonderful, and the
Gothic architecture is divine that can handle the tourists. Places
like Venice cannot. But that's neither here nor there. Some
people are protesting tourists by spraying them with water guns.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
There was a weekend of workshops that were held in
Bartheloa by the Southern Europe Network against touristificate touristification. The
demonstrations last July where they saw squirt guns coming out
as the symbol of anger over the effects of mass tourism.
So these protesters, these anti tourism protesters, have been shooting
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people with squirt guns in an effort to protest them
spending money in the countries where these protesters left.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
They say. One of the marches was outside the Lasagrata
Familia Basilica, where I don't think I've ever been without
seeing a protest of some kind. Protesting very big in Europe.
Any given day you can find a protest about something.
It's kind of a fun thing to watch well.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And this is being played out in real time over
the wedding, the pending nuptials of Jeff Bezos and Lawrence Sanchez.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Burn it down. Burn it down. If you're going to
spend that kind of money on a party on a wedding,
you're an ass who deserves to get a little bit
of perspective thrown into your celebration.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Posters and stickers have appeared throughout the city. There was
a huge banner on Saint Mark's bell tower in Venice
with Bezos's name crossed out. These stickers show Bezos's face
with the phrase no space for Bezos. The celebrity guest
list on this thing is massive. Oprah, Mick Jagger, Katie Perry,
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Ivanka Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
It's a multi day celebration in Venice. Lame. And how
much did you spend on your wedding? Don't tell me.
That's a rude question to ask.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Not much.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I'll tell you that, But what you want to say,
like five thousand bucks something like that. More than that,
but ten thousand whatever. Like a normal person's wedding is
if you're lucky enough to have a wedding with one
hundred of your friends or whatever in food, and you
can hire a DJ and a place and all that,
let's say five to ten grand or whatever. They're spending
(28:14):
eleven million dollars. Eleven million dollars. That's just gross. I
don't care how much money you have, it's just gross.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You couldn't you couldn't be satisfied with a one million
dollar wedding and find another place to put ten other
million dollars. A lot of people are afraid that this
is going to spotlight Venice, and that Venice itself is
going to become a centerpiece, perhaps a magnet for celebrities,
(28:49):
and that the people who live there their lives would
be disrupted by an over active tourism industry. The mayor
Luigi Brunaro says this is fake news. He says the
small guest count, the careful planning will prevent any disruption
in the city. He said, only two hundred guests will
have been invited and therefore will be easy for Venice
(29:10):
to accommodate such an event. Tell that to the Tell
that to that executive airport that's going to be overrun
with private jets.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I will give one piece of wedding advice. Piece of
advice I did not fall in line with is high
with a football helmet on your cake?
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
That that was dumb. And I don't hire a photographer
who doesn't speak the language you speak. Doesn't need to
speak English, but make sure you speak whatever language it
is he or she prefers or only speaks okay, because
otherwise you end up with one picture, one usable picture.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's a good picture.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Though it is good picture, all right, I mean most
I mean there is an exit sign in it. But
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Well, you can change that now, you know that's true.
Good point, all right, we'll do watch check in what's
going on in Washington, d C. Of course, the huge
issue being talked about in DC today is all about
the Middle East. We'll get updates on that when we
come back to Gary and Shannon. You've been listening to
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