WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.280 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:12.960 Israel has claimed to have killed a top Iranian official 5 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:16.480 as it's been trading more strikes with Iran. US President 6 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.480 Donald Trump has worn residents of Tehran to get out 7 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:23.600 to evacuate, while suggesting the US could give up negotiations. 8 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:28.399 No, it's a known fact that if you hear Bill 9 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:33.159 Withers before ten thirty, it's going to be a lovely day. 10 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.719 It is going to be nice and warm today. 11 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:40.240 And we have all heard it before ten thirty. So Boom. 12 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:43.439 Hopes that Sean Diddy Combs might testify at his federal 13 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.560 sex trafficking trial have faded as lawyer predicted that the 14 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.840 defense presentation lasting two to five days and suggested that 15 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.600 he will not be taking the stand. Stocks have been 16 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.079 drifting lower. Oil prices have risen again. We actually saw 17 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.759 some news come in today that consumer spending pulled back 18 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.120 sharply in May, weighed down by the declining gas sales 19 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:10.120 looming unease over where the economy may actually be headed 20 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.599 sometime in the future. Beheaded, beheaded where it will head 21 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:15.920 so the Dallas down about one hundred and fifty point right. 22 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:18.519 Dodgers now have three games over the Giants in the 23 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:22.840 NL West, five over the Podres. The Dodgers do take 24 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:25.599 on the Padres at Dodger Stadium tonight, first pitch at seven. 25 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:28.680 Listen to all Dodger games on AM five seventy LA 26 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:31.640 Sports Live from the gallopin Motors Broadcast Booth. Stream all 27 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:36.040 Dodgers games NHD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five 28 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:37.439 seventy LA Sports. 29 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.680 We were asking your bad roommate stories for when your 30 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:42.200 college kids come back to town. 31 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.799 I got two girls in college. When they come home, 32 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:50.239 it's like a tornado, hits chaos, and then when they leave, 33 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.879 we clear it up, and then we miss all of that. 34 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:56.519 That's the hardest part. They're so annoying. 35 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.959 They sleep in, they eat your food, they leave a mess, 36 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:03.120 and then when they leave, you're like, you know, that 37 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:03.760 was kind of nice. 38 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.280 I miss them. 39 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:06.599 This is kind of good. 40 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:10.400 Hey, Gary and Sannon love the show. So our daughter 41 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:14.039 graduated this pot Sunday. She only has a part time 42 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:18.319 job because na tlending has been appeared and we decided 43 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:20.840 we're going to pay half the rent. She doesn't need 44 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.800 to do all your building. So that's just not a 45 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:27.199 terrible roommate at our house. We'd rather have her in 46 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:28.000 her own space. 47 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:30.800 Yeah, good good luck, good luck with that. Good luck 48 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:32.199 to sorry. 49 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:36.479 Six couples and one individual who lost their homes in 50 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.680 the devastating fires are suing State Farm. Like I said, 51 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:45.039 we've heard horror stories about State Farm. Eric Dickerson down 52 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.360 the Hall on Am five seventy can do quite the 53 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:51.240 long State Farm rant. The people who have filed suit 54 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.599 claim that they were misled by the insurance company and 55 00:02:55.639 --> 00:03:00.800 that their homes were deliberately and grossly underinsured and the loss. 56 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.639 It was filed yesterday. It alleges that State Farm took 57 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:08.840 advantage of the homeowner's lack of knowledge about rebuilding costs 58 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:13.400 and set projected replacement costs far lower than the actual costs, 59 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:17.080 which left them without enough money to replace or rebuild 60 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:17.759 their homes. 61 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:21.719 The complaint does say that State Farm engaged in a 62 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:26.520 multifaceted illegal scheme designed to reap enormous illicit profits by 63 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:31.840 deceptively misleading over a million homeowners here in California. This 64 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.639 is the second time that people have been burned out 65 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.639 of their homes here in La County of sued insurers 66 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.759 because they believe that they were under insured. USAA and 67 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.159 a couple of insurers affiliated with Triple A were sued 68 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:48.360 back in June by policyholders who had claims that they 69 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.240 didn't have enough money to rebuild as well, So. 70 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:55.439 This covers both fire areas. Four of the households are 71 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:58.479 from Altadena who are suing, two from the Palisades, and 72 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:03.719 one from Sierra Madre. In one instance outlined in the lawsuit, 73 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:07.599 homeowners wrote to their state farm agent before the fires 74 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:12.360 in January to confirm whether the dwelling limit just over 75 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:16.120 one million dollars would sufficiently cover the cost of rebuilding 76 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:20.360 their home there in Altadena. The agent confirmed that the 77 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:25.120 amount covered the total cost to rebuild. However, after the 78 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:28.480 home burned down, the estimates the couple received to rebuild 79 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:30.519 were in excess of three million. 80 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.199 How does that work well? 81 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.360 Is that just a basic error on the part of 82 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.680 the agent, or is it like they allege that it's 83 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:45.120 this illicit scheme that comes from the top down and 84 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.240 says you got to string these people along and tell 85 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:49.079 them that they have enough coverage when they don't. 86 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.279 It's probably a little bit of all of it. It's 87 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:54.800 probably a little bit of fudging the numbers for the 88 00:04:54.839 --> 00:05:00.480 State Farm agent. It's probably the fact that the home values, 89 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:03.279 the lot values, all of the values in Altadena have 90 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:10.000 raised have been raised after the fires. Also throw in 91 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:16.920 there the fact that contractors know that people are desperate 92 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.920 to rebuild, and how much that costs and when was 93 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:25.360 the when was the coverage bought? Was it bought a 94 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:27.560 couple of years ago or was it bought twenty five 95 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.959 years ago? And how does that change as the home 96 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:38.759 values change in any particular area. If it's illegal, that's 97 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:41.360 going to be a high bar to hit. You would 98 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.759 imagine State Farm if they were playing dirty, and it 99 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.319 sounds like they do from time to time that they 100 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.759 play dirty in a clean fashion where they cover their 101 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:58.480 ass at least legally. So these are quite the allegations. Negligence, 102 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.600 breach of contracts, several other causes of action. They're going 103 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.000 for compensory punitive damages as well. 104 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.720 Obviously, as of a few days ago, State Farm said 105 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.800 that it had received more than twelve thousand, eight hundred 106 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.399 claims related to the fires, and that they've paid out 107 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.120 more than four billion to California customers. 108 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:17.759 Now that means nothing. 109 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:22.040 Well, it amounts to about three hundred thousand per claim, 110 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:27.000 which I mean just in Alta Dina, the costs were 111 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.279 going to be around three million dollars to rebuild. 112 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.120 I'm just saying that means nothing in terms of if 113 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:34.480 I lost my house in Alta Dina. I don't care 114 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:36.600 how much State Farm is paid out. That they've paid 115 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.680 out four point oh three billion. 116 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:40.480 Right, I mean, or that even everybody got three hundred thousand, 117 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:41.839 because it's going to cost way more than that. 118 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:42.360 Exactly. 119 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.360 Now, there are some who had State Farm policies that 120 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.519 didn't have to rebuild their house. They either had minor damage, 121 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:50.399 or they had smoke damage or something which is still 122 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.720 a hassle but doesn't doesn't come to a full three 123 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.040 million dollar replacement policy for your house. 124 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.759 I guess it goes into the whole fare plan racket, 125 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:05.160 is well. The lawsuit claims that State Farm's collusion with 126 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:09.120 other carriers to push homeowners into that fair plan meant 127 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.800 the only policies left for the company were ones that 128 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.680 carried deliberately suppressed coverage limits of sufficiently low magnitude, so 129 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.040 that means a lesser exposure risk for state farm which 130 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:24.920 makes them able to survive something like this on the 131 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:26.720 backs of the people who lost their homes. 132 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:28.600 No, I don't know. 133 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:30.279 Interesting to see what the court finds. 134 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:32.519 Just feels like insurance companies are going to take off. 135 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:34.639 They're going to just get out of California. 136 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:37.439 Insurance companies are not your friends. They are not on 137 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:43.879 your side all the things that they say. I would 138 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.279 not I would not sell my soul to the devil. 139 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.399 Gary and Shannon will continue. 140 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:53.560 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 141 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:54.959 AM six forty. 142 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:00.079 Garyan Shannon KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the 143 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:03.120 iHeartRadio app. Wanted to dip into this news conference that's 144 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:07.240 going on. La County DA. Nathan Hockman and the US 145 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:10.120 Attorney Bill of Sale have been announcing new charges in 146 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:12.560 connection with the recent protests, and a Sale was just 147 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:15.439 referring to not only the guy who was picked up 148 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:19.480 driving in a truckload of those face masks that were 149 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.920 being hit good, but some of the people who were 150 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:24.920 assaulting CHP officers and vehicles where they were sitting on 151 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.800 the one to one freeway back on last Sunday. 152 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:32.000 We have dozens of ongoing investigations and we are continuing 153 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:36.360 our work to identify individuals who engaged in violence. Their masks, 154 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:40.759 their face shields will not save them. We will find them, 155 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:42.759 and we will go to their home and we will 156 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:46.720 arrest them. That is a promise I make to the community. 157 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:49.559 I want to thank our law enforcement men and women. 158 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.879 I want to thank our National Guard and the military 159 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:55.679 for their service and keeping us safe. I want to 160 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:57.840 thank the federal agents for their hard work, which they 161 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.000 continue to do each and every day. 162 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:00.440 We do not. 163 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.440 Deserve to be treated the way in which they were 164 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:03.879 the last week, and we're not going to put up 165 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.559 with it. We have great working relationships with our local 166 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:11.440 lawenforcement partners LPD, the Sheriff's HP, the District Attorney's office, 167 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:13.600 and we will work together to make sure we get 168 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.360 the most aggressive and appropriate sentence for each of these 169 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:18.120 violent actors. 170 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.240 Thank you very much again, that's US Attorney Bill A. Saley. There, 171 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.600 Nathan Hakman coming back to I guess the CHP chief. 172 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.799 Good morning, and thank you all for being here. I'm 173 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.080 Chris Margaris. I am the Southern Division Chief of the 174 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:34.559 California Higher Patrol. First, I want to extend my sincere 175 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:38.159 appreciation to the Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hockman 176 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.279 and US Attorney Bill A. Sale, as well as all 177 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.039 the other agencies standing here with us today. The continued 178 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.879 commitment to public safety and the safety of our offices 179 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.440 reflects the strength of our partnership and a unified front. 180 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:54.919 In response to the recent events in Los Angeles over 181 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:59.159 the past week, the California Higher Patrol has been fully 182 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:02.600 engaged and maintained public safety amid a series of protests 183 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:05.559 across the state and here in Los Angeles. Let me 184 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.919 be clear, while we uphold and protect the constitutional right 185 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:12.360 to free speech and peaceful assembly, we will not and 186 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:17.120 do not tolerate violence, criminal conduct, or any act that 187 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:21.960 threatens the safety or of the public or our officers. Today, 188 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.440 I'm announcing the arrest of Adam Palamo of Los Angeles 189 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:28.639 by the California High Patrol Major Crime Detectives for his 190 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:32.320 role in a violent attack on CHP personnel. Palamoro was 191 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.840 accused of throwing rocks at our offices and participating in 192 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.639 the austin of a mark CHP patrol vehicle. These are 193 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.759 not protest actions. These are serious felonies and direct threats 194 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:47.120 to public safety. We are pursuing full accountability and of 195 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:50.440 the law of violent crimes. In addition, the California High 196 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:54.279 Patrol has made multiple arrests related to reckless driving incidents 197 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:56.840 that occurred directly in front of our special response team 198 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:01.360 officers and protesters during recent events. Drivers deliberately engaged in 199 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:06.879 dangerous maneuvers that placed everyone nearby offices, protesters, and bystanders 200 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:11.440 in immediate danger. That is not protests, it is reckless 201 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.559 criminal behavior. Vehicles have been impounded for thirty days and 202 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.639 criminal charges of being recommended for each of the individuals involved. 203 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.480 Let me emphasize this as far from over. Our investigation 204 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:28.759 is active and ongoing. HP detectives continuing to release to 205 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.519 review evidence, examine video footage, identify additional suspects, and pursue 206 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.960 charges for those insided and carried out violence against our 207 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:40.120 offices and engaged in criminal acts during these demonstrations. 208 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.559 Right this again from the hol of Justice Downtown for 209 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:47.200 La County, the DA Nathan Hockman announced that there are 210 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:50.799 several investigations that are ongoing and several arrests that he 211 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.960 says they're pending based on the violent protesters that had 212 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:59.759 not only gone after law enforcement, but had gone after property, 213 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:03.840 that graffiti, that vandalism. All of those would still be 214 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:06.519 charges that are going to be leveled against these guys. 215 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:10.240 But you heard the CHP guy say there one of 216 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:13.519 the people that they picked up is responsible for not 217 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:17.399 just throwing those rocks down from the overpass onto the 218 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.120 one to one freeway where those mark CHP vehicles were, 219 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:23.480 but that the CHP officers themselves may have gotten hurt 220 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:26.519 because they were standing underneath that overpass trying to make 221 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.720 sure that their cars didn't explode into flames. 222 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:29.279 Bill A. 223 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.200 Saley, the US Attorney, was also there and described some 224 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.840 similar things on the federal level, that they have investigations 225 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.320 that they're still going after and people that they do 226 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:39.320 expect to arrest. 227 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:41.679 In about an hour and a half, we may get 228 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:44.600 some answers, or at least we'll see where the arrows 229 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.039 are pointing. When it comes to how long the California 230 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:51.919 National Guard will remain this is up to an appellate court. Today, 231 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.679 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing arguments over Trump's 232 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:59.639 federalizing of the California National Guard, deploying it despite what 233 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:03.480 gas A. Newsome did not ask for, of course, that 234 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:08.000 happened when the protests began last Friday. Newsome and sis 235 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:12.159 Trump's actions were illegal. The lawsuit claims they both exceed 236 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:16.480 the scope of the president's statutory authority and violates the 237 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:19.639 Tenth Amendment, the Amendment, of course, which gives power to 238 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:23.519 the states that's not assigned to the federal government. Newsom 239 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:28.039 Bass other Democrats have blamed the unrest on the President's 240 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.759 deployment of the National Guard in Marines to la which 241 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:35.080 is just simply ridiculous. Maybe a portion of it, but 242 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:38.559 definitely this was something that was going to happen, regardless 243 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:40.200 of how the president responded. 244 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:41.960 A quick side note to all of it is that 245 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:45.679 a coalition of press organizations is seeking a court order 246 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:49.399 to stop what they said is the continuing abuse of 247 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:53.679 journalists by the LAPD during the immigration protests. It says 248 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.200 there are multiple instances of officers firing foam projectiles at 249 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:02.279 members of the media and otherwise flouting state laws. 250 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:04.720 So called are they named? 251 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:05.919 Are the people named? 252 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:06.360 No? 253 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:08.639 Well, I mean we know that some of them have 254 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:09.879 been hit with the no. 255 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.200 No, I mean, like, are the agencies named in that? 256 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:13.480 Is it? 257 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:13.639 What? 258 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:13.919 Is it? 259 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:15.639 A complaint? 260 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:17.679 They're looking for a court order. 261 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:20.720 Yeah, so we don't know which agencies were talking amount. 262 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.960 They did not go into specific news. 263 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.639 I'm going to go out there on limb and say 264 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.120 it's not the La Times or k CAL or k 265 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:31.480 T l A. It's going to be like I haven't 266 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:33.840 showered in four weeks and I had a blog and 267 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.000 now it's a podcast, dot com, slash org. 268 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.559 I have a handwritten press badge right that I kept 269 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:41.960 holding up in front of my face. 270 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:45.200 When I got this cool jacket made. It says press. 271 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.679 It says what press the way you said that press, 272 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:56.120 because that's how they talk. All right, Come on, give 273 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:59.159 me Peyte Demetrio. All right, that's a reporter who can 274 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:03.600 wear the press. The Dull Men's Club have you ever 275 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:09.960 heard of this? Apparently there are several million members of 276 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:14.679 a group online and it's called the Doll Men's Club, 277 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:18.519 and their goal is to cause dullness in each other's 278 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.759 lives on a daily basis. Sound they wear their dullness 279 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:24.799 with pride. We'll talk about it when we come back. 280 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:27.440 Gary and Shannon will continue. 281 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:31.200 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 282 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:32.600 AM six forty. 283 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:37.960 College Kids college age kids coming back home for the summer, 284 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:43.000 maybe and just turning into absolute nightmares of roommates because 285 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:46.080 they forget things like how to do laundry or eat 286 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.720 for themselves, or wake up before noon or something. 287 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.240 Yeah, I would. My dad's a marine, I'm a marine. 288 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:55.360 My mom's South African. By the time I was ten 289 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:57.720 years old, I was already doing my own laundry and 290 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:02.000 had the ability to cook for myself. That should never 291 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:06.200 change everything you said, Gary about adulting. That should have 292 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:08.519 been done a long time ago. Nothing you mentioned has 293 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:10.840 anything to do with becoming an adult. They shud been 294 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.600 doing that by the age of twelve. 295 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:15.279 Listen, my kids were doing their own laundry before they 296 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.639 left the house. They were making most of their own 297 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:21.879 food before they left the house. That's yes, I totally agree. 298 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.559 The eighteenth century English writer Samuel Johnson once wrote, he 299 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.840 is not only dull himself, he is the cause of 300 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:35.919 dullness in others. Love that this is embraced by the 301 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:41.480 Dull Men's Club, a seven million members strong. The duller, 302 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:46.480 the better better for these guys. In fact, any sort 303 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:50.600 of post that contains an emoji or an avatar too much, 304 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.240 it's probably going to get deleted. In fact, no exclamation points, 305 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:58.840 no exclamation points. This is a place for quirky hobbies, 306 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:05.440 obscure interests, and the examination of small, ordinary things. It 307 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:10.039 is a place to celebrate the mundane. Recently there was 308 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.119 a man who's part of the group in the UK. 309 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:16.119 He worried that seeing a lesser spotted woodpecker in his 310 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:22.559 garden might be too exciting for the group. There is 311 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.599 a history to this club that is fascinating. It all 312 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:30.400 began in New York in the early nineteen eighties. I'm 313 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:32.960 one of the founding members now eighty five. He and 314 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:35.240 his friends were sitting at a long bar of the 315 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:38.559 New York Athletic Club and they're reading magazine articles but 316 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:42.480 all the things that are the rage, boxing, fencing, judo, wrestling. 317 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:44.920 And one of his friends said, dude, we don't do 318 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:49.279 any of those things. And they faced it. They were dull. 319 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:49.799 Yeah. 320 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.319 So they started as a joke the doll Men's Club, 321 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:58.079 and they said it was It involved very silly. I 322 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:02.079 love the word quote Titian word dull activities. They charted 323 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:07.359 a tour bus only so they could tour the bus. 324 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:10.839 They walked around the outside of the bus a few times. 325 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.640 The driver explained tire pressures turned on the windshield wipers. 326 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:21.000 Dull stuff like that when this guy Grover click, which 327 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.640 is an amy made up because it was dull. When 328 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:26.240 he moved to the UK, his nephew offered to put 329 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.319 a website together for the silly Dull Men's Club. And, 330 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.279 as you said, the Dull Men's Facebook group one point 331 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:34.799 nine million members. 332 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:40.720 We've kind of waded into these waters before. We all 333 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:44.119 remember the great Apple debate that this show brought you, 334 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:50.359 the Boxers versus Briefs controversy. Sure, there have been a 335 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:54.799 number of these seemingly dumb things that seemed to get 336 00:18:54.880 --> 00:19:00.319 a outsized reaction from just normal people. Same thing goes 337 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:05.200 for the Dull Men's Club Facebook group. Five hundred amused 338 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:09.799 comments follow a post about coat hangers inserted into hoops 339 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:13.559 on rails and hotel rooms. One person said that would 340 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:18.640 keep me up all night. The over or under toilet 341 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:21.839 paper debate raged for two and a half. I can 342 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:26.599 only imagine remember our toilet paper squares how debate, how many? 343 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:31.200 How many? Then there was the dismantling of electronic appliances 344 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:37.200 photographing postboxes, the ranking of every animated movie from one 345 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:41.880 to one hundred one hundred being dull and pointless. Members 346 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:46.519 judge the speed of other people's windscreen wipers against their own. 347 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:49.559 Oh here's another one. 348 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:52.200 One guy out of Australia came up with a competition 349 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:55.400 to try to stuff as many used toilet paper rolls 350 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:59.880 as possible inside another toilet paper roll. 351 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:06.279 There was the late John Richards, part of the group 352 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:11.319 who also founded the Apostrophe Protection Society. Ninety four year 353 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.559 old Lee Maxwell, who has fully restored fourteen hundred antique 354 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:21.759 washing machines that no one will ever use. This seems 355 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:25.279 to be not a dull men's club, But dare I 356 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:30.039 say just a men's club, hey, where men are fascinated 357 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.319 by things that don't fascinate a lot of the other 358 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.920 people like women. In terms of putting back together an 359 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:41.279 antique washing machine, I think there's a lot of men 360 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:43.759 who would not find that to be dull. They'd find 361 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:46.480 that to be wildly interesting how things work. 362 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:49.759 Even if you never use it. An antique washing machine. 363 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:53.119 Right, take it apart, put it back together. That's not dull, 364 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:54.480 that's just being a man. 365 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:00.720 When Grover Click, if you remember in his introduction to 366 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:04.640 the Doll Men's Club calendar for twenty twenty four. He wrote, 367 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:08.000 what they are doing the dull men. What they're doing 368 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:11.599 is referred to in Japan as ikey guy. It gives 369 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:14.119 a sense of purpose, a motivating force, a reason to 370 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:15.960 jump out of bed every morning. 371 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:19.799 Right. And the article ends this is out of the 372 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:23.599 Guardian with kind of the point that I was getting to. 373 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:29.039 It says, here's a radical thought. Dull men and women 374 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.720 are actually interesting. Just don't tell them that. 375 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:33.880 Yeah. 376 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.039 I looked it up in their station and their radio 377 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.720 program of choice is a Gary and Shannon show. 378 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:41.359 Huh. 379 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:43.000 I wonder if that means anything. 380 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:51.519 Dull can be very interesting. I think the doll Men's 381 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:55.519 Club is all about doing things right, don't you. That's 382 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:59.440 why those coat hangers tucked into those stupid rings in 383 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:02.440 the hotel rooms keep them up at night. What a 384 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:04.880 dumb thing, What a dumb thing. 385 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:09.319 But very true. It would keep me up at night. 386 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:12.440 Why can't you just why can't we stay in a 387 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:15.000 place when's the last time you played sorry? You stayed 388 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.839 in a place that had actual normal coat hangers in it, 389 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:23.200 like a hotel that trusted you enough to not make 390 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:24.440 off with its I. 391 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:26.799 Travel with the chargers who seem to throw a lot 392 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.400 of money at hotel rooms so pretty regularly. But on 393 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:34.440 my own, on my own dime. Yeah, I haven't seen 394 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:35.720 a real hanger in years. 395 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:40.319 Well, speaking of travel, if you are planning on travel 396 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:44.880 to traveling to Europe, you might want to pack your rubbers. 397 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:49.720 What what do you mean, like galoshes? 398 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:55.799 Yeah, not not a raincoat of some kind, not sex stuff. 399 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:57.440 Well, it's up to you. 400 00:22:57.640 --> 00:23:00.720 I'm just saying that Europeans are not too happy with 401 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:01.759