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