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Speaker 2: going to be giving away. Bravery has some stuff that
Speaker 2: they're going to be giving away. And then after the
Speaker 2: show at one o'clock, we're going to actually record this
Speaker 2: week's edition of the Gas Weekend Fix, which is the
Speaker 2: segment that does not appear on the air for good
Speaker 2: reason because some of the things that Shannon says. But
Speaker 2: we will be recording it in front of the live audience.
Speaker 2: It's going to be out there, so we would love
Speaker 2: it if you come on out. A great way to
Speaker 2: start off the Memorial Day weekend. Not only that it
Speaker 2: is a great way to to spend a Friday, the
Speaker 2: weather is going to be absolutely gorgeous. I just finished
Speaker 2: up that Terror in the Sky segment.
Speaker 3: Hi, Gary, I was just listening to you tell the
Speaker 3: story about the love in the air, and my father
Speaker 3: and mother actually met that way.
Speaker 4: My father was chartering a flight and.
Speaker 1: She was a flight attendant.
Speaker 5: He saw her on that first flight, and then he
Speaker 5: told his friend he ran the airline, please put that
Speaker 5: Greek lady on the next flight that I charter.
Speaker 6: And he said there's two, and he said, put them
Speaker 6: both on.
Speaker 5: And it was happily ever after.
Speaker 4: Wow, three more kids. That's a good story.
Speaker 2: Next segment, by the way, we're going to talk more
Speaker 2: about the study that came out that said the teenagers
Speaker 2: of any age thirteen nineteen whatever it is, teenagers of
Speaker 2: any age who drink alcohol with their parents' permission do
Speaker 2: drink more as young adults. Not an entirely groundbreaking study,
Speaker 2: but I was curious about what experience you had, did
Speaker 2: you drink with parents' permission and what impact did it have,
Speaker 2: if any, on your attitude towards alcohol.
Speaker 4: That's coming up in just a couple of minutes. What
Speaker 4: else is going on? Time for what's happening.
Speaker 2: One of the larger stories nationwide is that President Trump
Speaker 2: is telling House Republicans on Capitol Field, Capitol Hill that is,
Speaker 2: to drop their fight over his next big tax cuts bill.
Speaker 2: He spoke privately to members of the House Republican caucus
Speaker 2: today to try to get them to vote in favor
Speaker 2: of his multi trillion dollar package. There are some people
Speaker 2: who are arguing about the state and local tax deductions.
Speaker 2: They want to raise that limit. Others are talking about
Speaker 2: cuts to Medicare. So it's not a guarantee that this
Speaker 2: I think this thing passes, and that's why he was
Speaker 2: there today. Heat wave is coming to southern California. Expectation
Speaker 2: today as we could see highs closer to one hundred
Speaker 2: degrees one hundred and three possibly Wednesday and Thursday. But
Speaker 2: as of right now, much of the Sanford Nando Valley,
Speaker 2: and we've got the west end of the Santa Monica,
Speaker 2: Western Santa Monica Mountains wreck Area, the eastern Santa Monica
Speaker 2: Mountains wreck Area, Calabasas, Goura Hills under the heat warning,
Speaker 2: now the heat advisory, and that'll be up through Thursday evening.
Speaker 2: A bunch of other places are going to get a
Speaker 2: heat advisory starting tomorrow because, like I said, that's probably
Speaker 2: when it is going to get the hottest. More tornadoes
Speaker 2: ripped through the central part of the country yesterday, ripped
Speaker 2: apart buildings, knocked out power to people from Texas all
Speaker 2: the way to Kentucky. At least four tornadoes confirmed in
Speaker 2: Oklahoma and Nebraska last night, according to a report from
Speaker 2: the National Weather Service, Hey.
Speaker 4: Don't worry.
Speaker 2: Your water may smell funny, but LA Department of Water
Speaker 2: and Power says it's not harmful if you're in the valley.
Speaker 2: There are a puple people, a handful of people that
Speaker 2: were complaining that the smell of their water changed. That
Speaker 2: it is an earthy odor and they, according to the
Speaker 2: Department of Water and Power or the customers regarding the
Speaker 2: smell were commenting on the smell. Sorry, and they began testing.
Speaker 2: What revealed the musty odor is attributa attributable to geosman.
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I've never seen that word before, so your guess as
Speaker 2: good as mine as to how to pronounce it. The
Speaker 2: official said, it's a natural compound that's created from algae,
Speaker 2: an occasional seasonal occurrence caused by changing water temperatures and sunlight.
Speaker 2: The elevated Geosman levels were detected on May thirteenths They
Speaker 2: immediate thirteenth. They immediately adjusted treatment and operations to control
Speaker 2: the situation.
Speaker 4: You can remove the odor at.
Speaker 2: Home by running your water through a carbon filter pitcher
Speaker 2: or a carbon filter in your refrigerator waterline. But it
Speaker 2: is not harmful, according to LA Department of Water and
Speaker 2: Power and the American Chemical Society. It said if it
Speaker 2: is highly concentrated, it could cause serious damage, eye damage,
Speaker 2: your irritation, but for the most part, it is not
Speaker 2: going to hurt you. Handful of sad stories. Number one
Speaker 2: was that cal State Fullerton student ended up dead after
Speaker 2: a fraternity trip to Lake Havasu. Eighteen year old out
Speaker 2: of Panol went under the water and did not resurface.
Speaker 2: On Saturday, search cruise up in Big Bear found the
Speaker 2: body of a twenty two year old student from UC
Speaker 2: Santa Barbara who disappeared over the big over the weekend.
Speaker 2: In Big Bear Lake. They found him about ten thirty
Speaker 2: in the water near Pine Not Marina. And then the
Speaker 2: story of the twenty one year old sheriff's deputy off
Speaker 2: duty sheriff's deputy who was killed in a car accident
Speaker 2: just yesterday afternoon up in the Santa Clarita area off
Speaker 2: of San Franciscito Canyon Road. You remember Hana Kobayashi. She
Speaker 2: disappeared after she landed at Lax last fall and kind
Speaker 2: of prompted a whole series of theories about what happened
Speaker 2: to this woman. And then as her family went came,
Speaker 2: i should say, came to search for her, was found
Speaker 2: dead in a parking lot after he came to Lax,
Speaker 2: came to La to find her, and had killed himself.
Speaker 2: In an Instagram story she shared over the weekend, she
Speaker 2: explained that she wants to share the details of her
Speaker 2: disappearance soon, saying she wants to stand up against any
Speaker 2: ill will that has been cast against her as a
Speaker 2: result of that, I'm not sure anybody remembers who Hanna
Speaker 2: Kobayashi is or would want an explanation from her. Dozens
Speaker 2: of people detained yesterday after police uncovered what they described
Speaker 2: as an underground casino in the Van Eyes area. It
Speaker 2: started as a response to possible burglary. The discovery about
Speaker 2: three am on Monday morning, an alarm coming from a
Speaker 2: building in the area. They spotted a person they were
Speaker 2: looking for headed north on the rooftops. When they approached
Speaker 2: one particular building, they found evidence of a secret gambling ring.
Speaker 2: So they've picked up several people detained in connection and.
Speaker 4: Said it was little kid games.
Speaker 2: You go to Chuck E Cheese or Shakey's Pizza, then
Speaker 2: they have some of these games in there. Melissa Cruz,
Speaker 2: one of those people detained, said she didn't consider it
Speaker 2: gambling and likened the operation as more of a game
Speaker 2: club for adults.
Speaker 4: So let's see where that goes.
Speaker 2: In for a Weenie race, the Wiener mobiles are going
Speaker 2: to compete at the inaugural Weeni five hundred at the
Speaker 2: Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Each regional Wiener mobile will represent one
Speaker 2: of six regional hot dogs. The Chai Dog for Chicago,
Speaker 2: Shy Dog representing the Midwest, the New York Dog East Coast,
Speaker 2: the Slaw Dog the Southeast, the Sonoran Dog representing the Southwest,
Speaker 2: the Chili Dog representing the South, and the Seattle Dog
Speaker 2: representing the Northwest. They're all identical wienermobiles, just with different
Speaker 2: numbers and names on them. They said that it will
Speaker 2: be the first race for the entire Wiener mobile fleet
Speaker 2: and the first time that all six of the vehicles
Speaker 2: gather over the last decade. Set for Friday at two
Speaker 2: pm Eastern Time, streamed live on the Fox Sports app.
Speaker 2: So when we're live at our news and Bruise, we
Speaker 2: can have some I guess Wiener Race news when we're there.
Speaker 2: All right, Up next, a little bit more about this
Speaker 2: study teenagers of any age who drink alcohol with their
Speaker 2: parents' permission and how that changes their attitudes towards.
Speaker 4: Alcohol in the future. We'll hear from you when we
Speaker 4: come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: New study really was driven by questionnaires, but this study
Speaker 2: looked at whether or not drinking before you're legally allowed
Speaker 2: to has an impact on your attitude towards drinking early
Speaker 2: in a adulthood. The journal Addictive Behaviors published this study,
Speaker 2: and the topics include a history of child and parent
Speaker 2: alcohol abuse, beliefs about alcohol, rules about alcohol in your home,
Speaker 2: and The questionnaires ask adolescents if they ever drank alcohol
Speaker 2: with their parents' permission, even just you know, the sip.
Speaker 2: The taste kind of thing, and if yes, at what
Speaker 2: age did they first do so? And then the researchers
Speaker 2: looked at those answers and compared them to the self
Speaker 2: described alcohol practices I guess you could say, when they
Speaker 2: were young adults, and if it came out to impact
Speaker 2: how these people treated alcohol in their early adulthood. And
Speaker 2: what they said was drinking with parental permission began anywhere
Speaker 2: from age five to age seventeen, and just some of
Speaker 2: the talkbacks that we've gotten very similar age range, but
Speaker 2: that right around twelve was probably the most typical. And
Speaker 2: about eighty percent of the people who responded that said
Speaker 2: they had some alcohol with parental permission. It's higher than
Speaker 2: a higher number than in some other studies, but it's
Speaker 2: somewhere in that range. And they said that adolescents were
Speaker 2: more likely in young adulthood to drink more often and
Speaker 2: in greater amounts if their families allowed the practice, compared
Speaker 2: to those who did not, who are very strict and
Speaker 2: said no alcohol at any cost.
Speaker 4: Until you're twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to ask what your experience was, how
Speaker 2: did your family handle alcohol when you were a teenager,
Speaker 2: or how do you handle it for your team.
Speaker 7: Hey, Gary, my dad served the four of us alcohol
Speaker 7: from the time we were about five years old on
Speaker 7: whatever if we wanted any never withheld it from us.
Speaker 7: We're now all age sixty six to seventy five and
Speaker 7: none of us have any alcohol problem. We can take
Speaker 7: it or leave it, and we typically have maybe one
Speaker 7: drink a month each. That's that's the Italian way.
Speaker 4: Thanks er, thank you. Yeah, that is the Tielli guys.
Speaker 8: I've got six kids and I've always let them taste
Speaker 8: alcoholic beverages. We've never been big alcohol drinkers in my household,
Speaker 8: although you know, I ran the gamut when I was
Speaker 8: a kid. But all of my kids have found that
Speaker 8: they disliked the taste of alcohol, and that's the reason
Speaker 8: I let them try it, so that they don't like it,
Speaker 8: so then as they grew older they don't care for it.
Speaker 8: At least that's been my experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the taste is not the thing I'm concerned about.
Speaker 4: The taste.
Speaker 2: You know, you can mask the taste of whichever alcohol
Speaker 2: you like. It's what it does to you and how
Speaker 2: much your brain craves it after you have it that
Speaker 2: first time.
Speaker 3: Hello Gary Son, Shannon so my father allowed me to
Speaker 3: drink with him when I was young. I think I
Speaker 3: had my first shot of whiskey at maybe nine.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: But in all fairness, my father was an alcoholic, and
Speaker 3: I certainly can't imagine now that I have my own
Speaker 3: child ever allowing her to that with me. But maybe
Speaker 3: as an eighteen eighteen year old in my own house,
Speaker 3: I could see that, But otherwise.
Speaker 4: No way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's That's one of the curious things is I
Speaker 2: remember drinking Dad's Budweiser without his permission. I know that
Speaker 2: wasn't the question, but without his permission when I was
Speaker 2: probably eight, nine, ten something like that, And I remember
Speaker 2: that awful taste of the That was the worst soda
Speaker 2: I had ever tasted in my life. It tasted like
Speaker 2: a dry hay soda. I mean, that's basically what it
Speaker 2: is because of the ingredients there, but it just tasted awful,
Speaker 2: Hi Gary.
Speaker 5: My parents would have a cocktail when my dad got
Speaker 5: home from work. He drank Martini's. My mom drank Dubinet,
Speaker 5: which is a sweet sherry. We always got to taste it.
Speaker 5: We thought my dad's drink tasted like rocket fuel. My
Speaker 5: mom's drink was very sweet and we loved it.
Speaker 6: But I grew up.
Speaker 5: Alcohol just wasn't a big deal until I started partying
Speaker 5: in my twenty then it was more of a big deal.
Speaker 5: But now at this point in my wife, I hardly
Speaker 5: drink at all. Maybe when I go out with friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems to be the most common pattern, at
Speaker 2: least from the people who called us, is that the
Speaker 2: drinks were there or available to them, but later on
Speaker 2: they just they got they got over it.
Speaker 9: Young teenager Will in high school, my father served us
Speaker 9: a high ball after the game, which was on Sundays.
Speaker 9: My uncle would come over with his family, and my
Speaker 9: father would serve highballs to the adults and my brother
Speaker 9: and I were senior and junior. And when my aunt
Speaker 9: said what are you doing, he said, I'm teaching my
Speaker 9: children how to handle alcohol before they leave this house.
Speaker 4: What goes into a high ball? It's a I know
Speaker 4: it's a type of drink, but there's a larger person.
Speaker 2: Uh so the seven and seven Scotch and soda, gin
Speaker 2: and tonic a screwdriver. So it's the alcohol based spirit
Speaker 2: and a larger proportion of a non alcoholic mixer. That's
Speaker 2: the general definition. Never knew that specifically I.
Speaker 7: Don't see anything wrong with letting your kids drink before
Speaker 7: twenty one.
Speaker 4: Just a little something at dinner time on a Sunday
Speaker 4: is okay. My parents did it. I'm okay.
Speaker 10: I'm not an alcoholic.
Speaker 4: Bye Gary, Bye, thank you for the call.
Speaker 6: Hey Gary, love you guys. Let's shot too.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I love.
Speaker 6: One of my children drink as a teenager. She grew
Speaker 6: up to be alcoholic. I didn't drink as a teenager.
Speaker 6: My parents didn't allow me, or just allow me. I
Speaker 6: just never drink, which I did not let my kids
Speaker 6: smoke weed till they were eighteen.
Speaker 4: I guess that's good. You didn't let your kids smoke
Speaker 4: weed until you're a till.
Speaker 10: My parents were teetotalers, so they never drank around them.
Speaker 10: But my family friends had a hotel where I worked
Speaker 10: as a dishwasher, and they allowed me to drink wine
Speaker 10: out of little paper cups at work and the occasional
Speaker 10: Narragansett beer, and it was delicious.
Speaker 4: I loved it.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Lewis and Port, thank you.
Speaker 2: We're going to revisit this issue tomorrow because I'm curious.
Speaker 2: Justin Warsham is going to join us, so we talk
Speaker 2: about parenting stuff on Wednesdays. And this is one of
Speaker 2: those issues that I don't think we've been able to
Speaker 2: really tap into just yet, just how much how important
Speaker 2: it is the issue of alcohol when you have teenage kids.
Speaker 2: And he's of course right in the middle of it
Speaker 2: with his two boys that are teenagers. And we'll get
Speaker 2: personal with Justin So we'll do that tomorrow at eleven thirty.
Speaker 2: So stick around up next our True Crime Tuesday. A
Speaker 2: couple of things. The whole crypto world is something that
Speaker 2: is worthy of its own movies lately, it seems, and
Speaker 2: now it's getting pretty violent. Our True Crime Tuesday is
Speaker 2: the rattling of the crypto bros and the crypto elite
Speaker 2: with all of this physical violence that's going back and
Speaker 2: forth between them. We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: President Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis and Scott Adams, the creator
Speaker 2: of the Dilbert comic strip, came out yesterday and revealed
Speaker 2: that he has also been diagnosed with prostate cancer, just
Speaker 2: like Joe Biden, but that he says his prognosis is
Speaker 2: pretty dire.
Speaker 4: In a live stream.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, Scott Adams, at sixty seven, said he had also
Speaker 2: been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bone.
Speaker 2: He said, my life expectancy is maybe this summer, and
Speaker 2: I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime
Speaker 2: in the next few months. I do think that there
Speaker 2: is a potential positive that comes out of this story,
Speaker 2: outside of the theories about when Biden knew about it,
Speaker 2: whether there was a cover up, if this is an
Speaker 2: aggressive this is one of those This is one of
Speaker 2: those stories that can drive simple public awareness of the story.
Speaker 2: And I went back and checked out my own health
Speaker 2: records for blood tests that I had a few years
Speaker 2: ago regarding PSA numbers, just because I didn't remember, and
Speaker 2: so it's nice to have a quick baseline on all
Speaker 2: of that. We will revisit the story tomorrow of teenagers
Speaker 2: of any age who drink alcohol and what kind of
Speaker 2: effect it has as they grow up.
Speaker 11: What's going on, Gary flying fish out here at the airport.
Speaker 11: My father loved that Olympia and me and my little brother.
Speaker 11: He would give us a little taste.
Speaker 4: But Olympia beard alcohol.
Speaker 11: Didn't really phase us and we never became alcoholics. What
Speaker 11: the trip was it was the gateway to the other stuff.
Speaker 11: We used to party on the other stuff because the
Speaker 11: alcohol made us feel so good, and of course everything
Speaker 11: was there. But I'm cleaning sober to this very day,
Speaker 11: coming up on four years loving it.
Speaker 2: Thanks Fish, Yeah, good luck to you. That's We're going
Speaker 2: to talk more about it tomorrow. So if you had
Speaker 2: an experience, we'd love to hear about it. You can
Speaker 2: leave us a talkback message on the iHeart app. Just
Speaker 2: hit that little microphone button and leave us a quick message,
Speaker 2: just like Fish did.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's time for our True Crime Tuesday. The story
Speaker 4: is true? Sound true?
Speaker 10: No, it sounds made up.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Gary and Shannon present True Crime.
Speaker 2: There is a really weird world that exists that you
Speaker 2: and I probably don't know very much about, and it's
Speaker 2: those people in the very high echelons in the world
Speaker 2: of crypto. And as difficult as it is for a
Speaker 2: lot of people to just simply understand what crypto trading is,
Speaker 2: how anybody can make money at it, how it has
Speaker 2: survived as long as it has, this is going to
Speaker 2: add a tiny bit of probably fear to that keeping
Speaker 2: people away from crypto. The Wall Street journalish the story
Speaker 2: about the ransom that exists, ransom cases that exist in cryptocurrency,
Speaker 2: and that there have been greater and greater incursions of safety,
Speaker 2: I guess threats to safety in that very elite crypto world.
Speaker 2: Three men in black masks jump a thirty four year
Speaker 2: old woman in Paris. Her father runs Paymium, which is
Speaker 2: a cryptocurrency exchange based in France. They had canisters, a mace,
Speaker 2: they had a gun. They tried to force this woman
Speaker 2: and her baby into an idling van disguised as a
Speaker 2: delivery truck. Her husband was there was able to throw
Speaker 2: himself between his family and the attackers. A neighbor was
Speaker 2: able to grab the child and get it to safety.
Speaker 2: The other neighbors were closing in. Shopkeeper shows up to
Speaker 2: throw a fire extinguisher. The kidnappers I should say would
Speaker 2: be kidnappers, jump into their van and they speed off.
Speaker 2: The latest in a wave of violent criminal attacks and
Speaker 2: potential abductions around the world, including some here in the
Speaker 2: United States, that target these crypto executives and sometimes their families.
Speaker 4: Like this one.
Speaker 2: Victims have been pistol whipped, some of them have been kidnapped.
Speaker 2: In at least two cases, their fingers have been severed again.
Speaker 2: It sounds like this is going to be a movie.
Speaker 2: The goal is to get millions of dollars in ransom
Speaker 2: in cryptocurrency. These are sometimes called wrench attacks like the
Speaker 2: Tool simply because they rely on very simple tools for
Speaker 2: inflicting pain to coerce their victims. Very old school mafia
Speaker 2: sound to it. Hacking used to be the biggest risk.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's still a big risk for crypto people.
Speaker 2: But to thwart those hackers, cryptocurrency investors take their digital
Speaker 2: wallets offline in favor of a physical device.
Speaker 4: It makes some more.
Speaker 2: Making it remote and offline makes it harder for somebody
Speaker 2: to steal simply by hacking into it. So real world
Speaker 2: crypto crime is what bypasses those safeguards. A bitcoin security
Speaker 2: company called Kasa, the co founder says a lot of
Speaker 2: people are getting to the hide your gold under the
Speaker 2: mattress level of security. But if you're a high profile person,
Speaker 2: that's when you have to worry about the physical attack.
Speaker 2: A cryptocurrency exchange. Just this week, Coinbase disclosed that as
Speaker 2: many as ninety seven thousand people had their personal information stolen,
Speaker 2: including addresses. The company said it was likely stolen by
Speaker 2: bribed contractors or employees that worked in their customer support
Speaker 2: and that it had refused a twenty million dollar ransom demand.
Speaker 2: We've seen that with you know, hospitals, municipalities, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Somebody will hack into a system and basically hold it
Speaker 2: hostage until the hospital or police department or municipality whatever
Speaker 2: pays the ransom to free up that computer system. Cryptocurrency
Speaker 2: has also surged over the course of the last year.
Speaker 2: Bitcoin alone. Bitcoin is up fifty four percent in the
Speaker 2: last year, so there are people making millions of dollars
Speaker 2: on all of this. At least five crypto related abductions
Speaker 2: have taken place in France in just the last few months,
Speaker 2: dozens of others around the world in the last year.
Speaker 2: For example, in Australia, a crypto billionaire was almost kidnapped
Speaker 2: whilst vacationing in Estonia. He was able to fight off
Speaker 2: the attackers posing as painters. In March, a crypto influencer
Speaker 2: out of Houston was assaulted before her husband got into
Speaker 2: a shootout with the bad guys who invaded their home
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night demanding her laptop. Some
Speaker 2: of the assaults been clumsy, some of them messy. But
Speaker 2: the problem is there are now organized crime rings that
Speaker 2: are seeing this as a major profit potential. And once
Speaker 2: you get a little bit more sophistication behind some of
Speaker 2: these abduction attacks, you're going to see people go away
Speaker 2: for a long time, and I mean disappear. In September,
Speaker 2: there was a Florida man who was sentenced to forty
Speaker 2: seven years in prison because he led a crime ring
Speaker 2: that carried out a string of home invasion across home
Speaker 2: invasion robberies in multiple states in search specifically of crypto.
Speaker 2: In one of the attacks, he held a gun to
Speaker 2: the head of a guy in Durham, North Carolina, threatened
Speaker 2: to cut off his his junk. The victim eventually was
Speaker 2: able to transfer one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth
Speaker 2: of crypto to the guy. Was later ordered to pay
Speaker 2: more than five hundred thousand dollars in restitution to his
Speaker 2: victims as part of his sentencing. Just last week, the
Speaker 2: Interior Minister in France gathered a bunch of crypto companies
Speaker 2: for a meeting to try to present new security measures
Speaker 2: for that sector. They said the attack that attempted kidnapping
Speaker 2: from last week appeared similar to other recent abductions in France,
Speaker 2: in which they said these ringleaders are recruiting a bunch
Speaker 2: of young criminals they never meet, using apps like Telegram
Speaker 2: and signal, and then remotely controlling them to execute their plan. Again,
Speaker 2: the French Interior Ministry says that these are probably linked.
Speaker 2: At least some of these, like I said, have been
Speaker 2: successful in terms of the abductions, and definitely the physical
Speaker 2: assaults have been successful, with some people losing their fingers
Speaker 2: over this whole crypto thing. We'll come back, we'll talk
Speaker 2: about Fred and Rose West. Unless you're British, you haven't
Speaker 2: heard this story yet, but there is a new book
Speaker 2: out about Fred and Rose West. Its subtitle is a
Speaker 2: British horror Story to Mary serial Killers out of Britain.
Speaker 2: This is a very American thing. I'm surprised that it happened
Speaker 2: in Britain. We'll tell you about Fred and Rose when
Speaker 2: we come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: We're in the midst of True Crime Tuesday and talking
Speaker 2: about some of the craziest true crime stories that we've
Speaker 2: seen over the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: And I got to tell you. This is one of them.
Speaker 2: The story behind Fred and Rose West a British horror story.
Speaker 2: I said it was a book. I meant to say
Speaker 2: that it was actually a Netflix documentary that has come
Speaker 2: out and it's a series. And I will say now,
Speaker 2: based on the story, it is not for public consumption,
Speaker 2: or at least not general family watching.
Speaker 4: Shall we say?
Speaker 2: This documentary ends with a judge sentencing Rose West to
Speaker 2: life in prison. She was married to Fred West and
Speaker 2: back in nineteen sixty nine, Friend was twenty seven years old,
Speaker 2: Rose was only fifteen. The power dynamic in that gives
Speaker 2: you an idea of how this relationship started. He controlled
Speaker 2: every aspect of her life and he pimped her out. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's not setting a great table for the relationship going forward.
Speaker 2: They had several kids together, at least ten, and the
Speaker 2: whole thing starts with I mentioned that the documentary ends
Speaker 2: with her being sentenced to life in prison. It starts
Speaker 2: with police discovering the remains of one of their daughters
Speaker 2: in their home. There was this kind of weird and
Speaker 2: uncomfortable everybody thought it was a joke at the time
Speaker 2: that would go between several of the children, which was
Speaker 2: if you misbehave, you'll end up under the patio like Heather,
Speaker 2: and friends of theirs heard the kids say that joke
Speaker 2: to each other and never thought anything about it because
Speaker 2: they didn't know there was a Heather until her body
Speaker 2: was found, like I said, under the patio. She had
Speaker 2: been missing since nineteen eighty seven, and in the years
Speaker 2: after she disappeared, the stories about where she ended up changed.
Speaker 2: Parents would tell the different stories. It was February of
Speaker 2: ninety four that her remains were found underneath the patio
Speaker 2: of the rear garden of their home. Fred was arrested.
Speaker 2: Fred admitted that he killed the daughter in interviews with
Speaker 2: police there in Gloucester, but that was one of the
Speaker 2: last murders that he committed. Fred was accused of starting
Speaker 2: way back in nineteen sixty seven, killing at least twelve
Speaker 2: young women. And remember that was about the time that
Speaker 2: he was starting to get this relationship with Rose. He
Speaker 2: was again killing a dozen women. Rose was convicted of
Speaker 2: ten of the murders. The date back to the early seventies.
Speaker 2: The documentary reveals also the story of Alison Chambers, who
Speaker 2: had run away from home. In the series, her sister
Speaker 2: Desra reads a letter from nineteen seventy nine that her
Speaker 2: mother received from Alison saying that she was going to
Speaker 2: be living with this great new couple Fred and Rose
Speaker 2: and looking after their children, acting sort of as a nanny.
Speaker 2: A few months later, she goes missing and her remains
Speaker 2: are found at the house there in Gloucester. The series
Speaker 2: does not actually center on the living kids because a
Speaker 2: lot of them are not on speaking terms with each
Speaker 2: other today. There's a lot of blame that goes back
Speaker 2: and forth between them. The eldest son, a guy named Steven, says,
Speaker 2: I don't speak to my siblings. There are no large,
Speaker 2: happy family get togethers. Too much has gone on. It's
Speaker 2: probably too painful for us. Phil Davis, is the husband
Speaker 2: of an older sister, explained every few years the case
Speaker 2: is back in the media, like now with this new documentary,
Speaker 2: the public public gets interested again. But it's the kids
Speaker 2: who live with the pain of what happened on a
Speaker 2: daily basis, and in the series it's the relatives of
Speaker 2: the family. It's that second concentric circle who gets the
Speaker 2: last word. Brelnda Mott, whose sister Juanita remains were found
Speaker 2: in the cellar of the West House, is seen visiting
Speaker 2: the sister's tombstone, and she says, this is why I
Speaker 2: say to my children. Every single time I say good
Speaker 2: night or goodbye, I always say I love you, because
Speaker 2: you never know when it's the last time. Desra said,
Speaker 2: talking about her sister, Allison, the one that was a nanny,
Speaker 2: said it's cathartic. She's gotten so used to compartmentalizing all
Speaker 2: of this, she says, I've never really worked through it.
Speaker 2: So it was a help to her to take part
Speaker 2: in the documentary. And it's filmmaking, so again, just an
Speaker 2: awful true crime story that's going to be this Netflix.
Speaker 4: Fred and Rose West a British horror story.
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