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Speaker 2: Oh that was a quick fad. Was that on purpose?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Elmer's on here that Elmer wanted to hear the story. Now,
Speaker 3: remember it was all those coffee mugs Michael Clark used
Speaker 3: to have up there on the top. Okay, he would.
Speaker 2: Come in like, hey, where's my coffee mug? Hey, where's
Speaker 2: that one? I mean there was a coffee.
Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot about that whole thing.
Speaker 2: Coffee.
Speaker 4: For those of you just tuning in, that's funny. You're
Speaker 4: hearing a conversation about stuff here at the station.
Speaker 1: This is why we're not allowed to work together.
Speaker 4: I didn't do this.
Speaker 1: Steve's here, Gary and Shannon kfi AM six forty live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Neil Savadra in today, Gary
Speaker 1: move and his daughter out of state. We will be
Speaker 1: live from the DNC in Chicago coming up on Monday.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a great time. A lot of
Speaker 1: craziness in the meantime, some local craziness. Steve Gregory, of course,
Speaker 1: is on top of things. We heard yesterday morning four
Speaker 1: suspects arrested in the fatal shooting of this General Hospital
Speaker 1: actor who was like most working actors in LA It's
Speaker 1: not all George Clooney and Julia Roberts. You know, most
Speaker 1: actors are not blockbuster actors, and they have second jobs
Speaker 1: like he did working as a bartender.
Speaker 5: George Clooney and Julia Roberts working at the bar.
Speaker 2: They also look but they all had to start somewhere.
Speaker 1: That papercut you.
Speaker 2: They all had to start something.
Speaker 4: She's mean, she's so bad.
Speaker 1: They but you know what I mean, like a lot
Speaker 1: of actors do this. I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: have said, well, how much of an actor was he
Speaker 1: really if you had this second job as a bartender.
Speaker 1: But those thors.
Speaker 5: It was really early in the morning.
Speaker 4: It's a couple of blocks away from the Crypto Arena, right,
Speaker 4: and he's walking someone to their car.
Speaker 3: No, he was going back to his car, gotcha, And
Speaker 3: he walked upon some guys.
Speaker 1: Let the reporter do the story.
Speaker 3: He walked upon some guys that had put his car
Speaker 3: up on a jack and they were attempting to steal
Speaker 3: his cat analytic converter. And when he confronted the guys,
Speaker 3: just like you know verbally then I don't know where.
Speaker 3: Someone opened fire and killed him on scene. And it
Speaker 3: was interesting because I hate to say it, but shootings
Speaker 3: like that in downtown La are more common than not,
Speaker 3: and that this one particularly struck a nerve with people.
Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons it did too is because,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know I've been a victim of a
Speaker 1: catalytic converter being stolen. It's been very prevalent recently, especially
Speaker 1: in this land of no law in order that is
Speaker 1: La County. So it's something that a lot of people
Speaker 1: have had, I think, experience with and the fact that
Speaker 1: you could come up on someone stealing your catalytic converter,
Speaker 1: not confront them, and get shot and killed is wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: In California is number one when it comes to catalytic
Speaker 6: converters being stolen, went up nine hundred percent after twenty
Speaker 6: nineteen going into twenty twenty two because of.
Speaker 2: The It was the number one sought after item during
Speaker 2: the pandemic.
Speaker 4: So, and it's because the three precious metals in it
Speaker 4: and all that, But why would somebody shoot and put
Speaker 4: more heat on obviously what's organized crime at this point?
Speaker 3: Well, and that's the question. But then when you look
Speaker 3: at the ages of the four guys that were arrested,
Speaker 3: two of them are eighteen, and there are ties. Now
Speaker 3: LAPD was focusing in on the Florencia thirteen gang in
Speaker 3: South LA which is notoriously attached to the Mexican mafia,
Speaker 3: and so one could conclude that because they're so young,
Speaker 3: they don't have a lot of street smarts yet, and
Speaker 3: they probably don't know the ways of the world at
Speaker 3: eighteen and growing up in whatever lifestyle they're growing up in.
Speaker 3: In talking to a detective, they said a lot of
Speaker 3: times as younger kids are more aggressive and they don't
Speaker 3: really have that sort of street smarts.
Speaker 2: It's gonna say street smarts are maturity.
Speaker 1: Like a baby rattlesnake that is most likely to sup
Speaker 1: hurt you because it doesn't know how to control its venom.
Speaker 3: That's a baby anything is you know, it needs to
Speaker 3: be a little more trained.
Speaker 2: I guess in this.
Speaker 1: Case judicious with their violence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I think we don't know for sure, and
Speaker 3: we're not going to know unless they end up telling
Speaker 3: investigators what the motive was, what happened, or what their
Speaker 3: defense might be. We're expecting them to be charged officially
Speaker 3: or face their charges. On Monday, three were arrested for murder,
Speaker 3: one arrested for accessory. The warrants were served yesterday morning.
Speaker 3: We were tipped off about it early in the morning.
Speaker 3: Shannon and I started talking about it pretty early on,
Speaker 3: but we were trying to figure out because she wanted
Speaker 3: to talk about it yesterday on her show, and we
Speaker 3: were kind of caught in a quagmire because there was
Speaker 3: a lot of confusion whether people were being detained, arrested,
Speaker 3: arrested then released, And there was a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: going on yesterday, But that's because this investigation has been
Speaker 3: very high profile, but there's been a lot of people
Speaker 3: being looked at. So there's been a very strong surveillance
Speaker 3: program with this particular case, and these things take time
Speaker 3: and it just culminated yesterday. And the variable in all
Speaker 3: of this and why the rumors begin is because neighbors
Speaker 3: are witnessing what's happening, and they just assume things are happening,
Speaker 3: and they tell the TV stations and they run with
Speaker 3: them and.
Speaker 1: Just to pull back the curtain a little bit. Steve
Speaker 1: and I both I think are in the same headspace
Speaker 1: when it comes to just because we know something that's
Speaker 1: going on. You know something that's going on, Steve. When
Speaker 1: you get a tip or whatever that law enforcement is
Speaker 1: up to something, you don't run with it all the
Speaker 1: time because you don't want to jeopardize anything either by
Speaker 1: publicizing it. I think sometimes TV stations are more likely
Speaker 1: to run with something. Yeah, I think that you're more
Speaker 1: protective over information like that sometimes.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, for a number of reasons. One, I want
Speaker 3: to make sure it's right right, because sometimes tips can
Speaker 3: be misleading or a little off base, and you just
Speaker 3: got to make sure you verify it. And two, to
Speaker 3: Shannon's point, sometimes being too early on information could screw
Speaker 3: up the investigation, and you don't want to be liable
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 4: So you got to wonder stupidity young three, young eighteen
Speaker 4: year old guys or whatever one twenty two year old
Speaker 4: they leave in a hurry, obviously because now it's gone
Speaker 4: from a property crime or larceny or whatever it would be,
Speaker 4: to murder, and so they bolt, but they leave their gear,
Speaker 4: so there's got to be fingerprints. I would imagine the.
Speaker 3: Tire iron was the one that really that was one
Speaker 3: of the pieces of forensic evidence that really helped detectives now,
Speaker 3: I had also been told that even if they didn't
Speaker 3: have the tire iron, they still would have been able
Speaker 3: to go to.
Speaker 2: Where they went.
Speaker 4: Do you know if they watched them afterwards and did
Speaker 4: surveillance to see if they these guys were doing more
Speaker 4: of the similar crime.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when I told you there was a
Speaker 3: very robust surveillance program.
Speaker 5: That's what I read. I speak a little bit of
Speaker 5: Steve Gregory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to clear something up. Yes, you're correct,
Speaker 1: I did. I did put out a falsehood about baby rattlesnakes.
Speaker 1: They are generally less dangerous than adult rattlesnakes. They have
Speaker 1: smaller venom glands, they're less venom to inject, they have
Speaker 1: full control over their venom from birth and can meter
Speaker 1: the amount they release. And some say baby rattlesnake bites
Speaker 1: are almost always less serious than adult bites, and that
Speaker 1: there have been no human depths from baby rattlesnake bites.
Speaker 4: Okay, what about nude people and the play hair, the
Speaker 4: musical hair? Nothing.
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting because your venom glands have gotten
Speaker 2: smaller over the years.
Speaker 1: You think so, really?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think I used to be much more venomous all.
Speaker 1: Right, Gary and Shannon will continue, Get out of here.
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Speaker 1: What a great year in music? Nineteen sixty nine, late
Speaker 1: sixties was just great.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 1: It was that like the best time in music, like
Speaker 1: sixty seven. You think of like the Monterey Festival in
Speaker 1: sixty seven, sixty eight, sixty nine, great years.
Speaker 5: I mean it's no I'm working late because I'm a singer.
Speaker 1: I know, Sabrina Carpenter really gives Jimmy Hendrix a run
Speaker 1: for his money, doesn't she.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Consumer sentiment is up slightly this month. University of
Speaker 1: Michigan's early reading for the month inched up about a
Speaker 1: point and a half from July. Survey noted overall expectations
Speaker 1: strengthened for both personal finances and the five year economic outlook.
Speaker 1: The race for the White House also impacting consumer sentiment.
Speaker 1: Survey shows a bump among Democrats and independents after Harris
Speaker 1: replaced Biden as the presidential nominee. Republican sentiment, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, fell slightly this month. Secretary of State Anthony
Speaker 1: Blincoln will reportedly visit Israel this weekend on Sunday, Axios
Speaker 1: reporting this morning that Blincoln will meet with Israeli Prime
Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Netnyaho may make stops in Cairo and Doha.
Speaker 1: Comes as US officials are in Cutter seeking a ceasefire
Speaker 1: agreement and the fighting in Gaza.
Speaker 4: You know, we battle fentanyl. That's what you hear the
Speaker 4: most about, right, because it's affecting kids. They're affecting people
Speaker 4: of all walks, all class all colors. And now because
Speaker 4: of the recent arrests in Matthew Perry's death death back
Speaker 4: in October twenty eight, we're learning about ketamine, something that
Speaker 4: usually is accompanied by a doctor a clinic. It's used as.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: They what's that word.
Speaker 1: Anesthetic? Yeah, yeah, it's a legal medication commonly used as
Speaker 1: an anesthetic, and it's gained popularity in recent years as
Speaker 1: like you said, a clinical treatment for depression, but also
Speaker 1: a recreational drug. And now the highlight on ketamine may
Speaker 1: in fact result in a crackdown.
Speaker 4: But you're not, I mean, this is not your average person,
Speaker 4: this so called ketamine. Queen Jaswine said, huh. She dealt
Speaker 4: with high end people, people with money, and she was
Speaker 4: one of the ones that were pushing this what they
Speaker 4: call doctor Pepper, I guess ketamine, and was the one
Speaker 4: that allegedly sold it to Matthew Perry. And you're looking
Speaker 4: at a eleven thousand bucks a batch that comes into
Speaker 4: these little glass vials.
Speaker 5: We sold fifty of them over the period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we told you about this as it was happening,
Speaker 1: as we were learning all these details in real time.
Speaker 1: Yesterday about this time, five people I are identified. Five
Speaker 1: people have been charged in connection with the ketamine overdose
Speaker 1: of Matthew Perry. And she is one of them. They
Speaker 1: say she is. She's forty one, she's a looker, she's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: She not that that's relevant. She was operating the Stash House
Speaker 1: in North Hollywood. According to the Department of Justice, it
Speaker 1: was a notorious site, became a hub for manufacturing, storage distribution.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that was a huge bombshell
Speaker 1: yesterday is that she and these two doctors, with the
Speaker 1: help of his living assistant, were selling these vials to
Speaker 1: Matthew Perry to the tune of two thousand dollars per vial,
Speaker 1: but they cost twelve dollars. That's how desperate he was,
Speaker 1: that's how much he was overpaying for his addiction. And
Speaker 1: one of the other bombshells was that he fell off
Speaker 1: the wagon. He was getting these clinical treatments of ketamine
Speaker 1: intravenously at a clinic right and wanted more and more
Speaker 1: and more, and the doctors shut it down. They said, no,
Speaker 1: you cannot do this, and that's really what kicked him
Speaker 1: off the wagon. And it was a quick descend into death.
Speaker 1: I mean it was one month. He got kicked out
Speaker 1: of that clinic in the fall September early October, and
Speaker 1: then he was drawn to the street. Ketamine overdid it
Speaker 1: and died the same month.
Speaker 4: Well overdid it because it's not being administered by medical professionals,
Speaker 4: wasn't it his assistant, that is that was basically overseeing.
Speaker 1: Well, the doctor, one of the doctors at least.
Speaker 4: So there were two doctors and then the kedeminie, the.
Speaker 1: Doctors, the ketamine queen, and the live in assistant. And
Speaker 1: one of the doctors who went to his house to
Speaker 1: administer at one time saw Matthew Perry freeze up his
Speaker 1: blood pressure spike, but continued to give him the drugs,
Speaker 1: and she, the ketamine queen, she's got another dead body
Speaker 1: in her wake. In twenty nineteen, she supplied somebody with ketamine.
Speaker 1: They died that same day. A family member of theirs
Speaker 1: text messaged her the cause of death was your ketamine,
Speaker 1: So she knew. They can prove that she knew that
Speaker 1: her drug kills, but yet continued to sell it.
Speaker 5: Well, it's all illegal, it's all underground.
Speaker 1: But when you know it's like but you know, it's
Speaker 1: like the drug driving thing, like if you get caught
Speaker 1: for drunk driving, you have to say, you have to
Speaker 1: sign something that says I know that this can kill someone.
Speaker 1: So if you do it again and you kill someone,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, you know, it's murder one.
Speaker 4: So you've got to imagine when you're dealing with these
Speaker 4: kinds of high dollar people that there's not a lot
Speaker 4: of these you know, Fentanyla, could be anybody, everybody all
Speaker 4: over the place. But if you're selling this kind of
Speaker 4: high end need to high end clients, you've got to
Speaker 4: wonder if this is the tip of the iceberg and
Speaker 4: if this will blow a hole wide in the ketamine
Speaker 4: bubble here in Los Angeles or the south Land.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're going to keep digging. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you saw that press conference yesterday, they mean business.
Speaker 1: The US attorney Martinistrata says he is digging into this.
Speaker 1: So did the woman from the Dea as well. Side
Speaker 1: note about that Ketamine queen, just briefly, she has an
Speaker 1: obsession with the mafia. Apparently she saw Scarface and The
Speaker 1: Godfather films as a youth and decided to create an
Speaker 1: entire website about the mafia. She did research projects in
Speaker 1: high school, just fascinated by America's notorious crime families and
Speaker 1: famous gangsters. Her website's broken down into sub sections mafia mugshots,
Speaker 1: famous mafia faces, cities of mafia families. I mean, who
Speaker 1: isn't who doesn't see Scarface and get a little bit obsessed.
Speaker 4: She's like forty one, right, say hello to my little friend.
Speaker 1: All right, Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5: That's from Scarface.
Speaker 4: I'm not laughing at any of your terrible jokes. It's
Speaker 4: not It wasn't a joke. It was an accurate representation.
Speaker 1: It's been done about five hundred thousand times of cinema.
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Speaker 1: Es vernes e l querpol hugoso, hugoso juicy? What do
Speaker 1: you mean you're not making any sense. I made sense.
Speaker 1: I said it's Friday, and the body knows it. That's
Speaker 1: our slogan here on Friday. Okay, Richie came out up
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 5: I have no doubt. I have zero doubt that that's
Speaker 5: the way that went down.
Speaker 1: It is expected Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil her
Speaker 1: economic policy today during a speech in North Carolina. She's
Speaker 1: going to be offering twenty five just giving out money. Essentially,
Speaker 1: this is what you get, offering twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in down payment support for first time home buyers. The
Speaker 1: proposal would provide working families that have paid their rent
Speaker 1: on time for two years up to twenty five grand
Speaker 1: in down payment assistance. We will talk all about it
Speaker 1: coming up in Swamp. Watch a look ahead at the
Speaker 1: DNC and the protests that are planned there. We told
Speaker 1: you earlier in the week more than one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty groups will be protesting there. We'll be there to
Speaker 1: cover it all. Hopefully we will not get killed.
Speaker 5: Why just because it's Chicago, just you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, I mean people have drawn comparisons to nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight and people have been getting permits and the
Speaker 1: protests have been heating up in New York, not nonviolent protests.
Speaker 1: In some situations, you can be packing packing what they
Speaker 1: won't let me bring anything. I asked Gary if I
Speaker 1: could bring some pepper spray. He said, no, no, you
Speaker 1: can't have that either. They don't let me have guns
Speaker 1: around here. They don't let me have pepper spray.
Speaker 4: We actually like strap you to a gurney and wheel
Speaker 4: you out of here with a face mask and fava beans.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I knew where you were going with that. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you Trump.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So, in the pre planning email this morning, where we're
Speaker 1: kind of talking about what we want to talk about today,
Speaker 1: Neil sent me an article from CNN and the headline
Speaker 1: reads Melbourne has just banned electric scooter rentals from its streets.
Speaker 1: But Neil wrote in his email his headline for this
Speaker 1: was f off and die e scooters. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: thought you might have some feelings about these these sites.
Speaker 2: I do. So.
Speaker 4: East Scooters was one of those things and that politicians
Speaker 4: really loved at the beginning. If you remember, remember when
Speaker 4: they came out. I don't know, it's bird or something
Speaker 4: like that. The first ones, and of course you have
Speaker 4: lime and the like. When it came out, he was like,
Speaker 4: this is this great thing. We love them. They use
Speaker 4: terms like micro mobility machines. It's like you people now
Speaker 4: low cost be able to move from one place to
Speaker 4: the other. It's going to be great. And they crammed
Speaker 4: it down our throat about how great it is. They
Speaker 4: are a plight. You never see anybody using them properly.
Speaker 4: You see people going through red lights with them and
Speaker 4: using for crimes. You remember those cameras they were finding
Speaker 4: in Orange County. They would make them kind of dress
Speaker 4: them up to look like foliage or something, and they're
Speaker 4: putting them in houses and watching houses. A story about
Speaker 4: a month or so ago, if you remember, they were
Speaker 4: finding the people that were doing it were using these scooters.
Speaker 4: So backpacks are now a problem. When I see people
Speaker 4: with backpacks on a scooter, double whammy boom, They're gonna
Speaker 4: cause problems. So and they leave them anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker 4: There's no proper place to put them back.
Speaker 1: You're in a trendy neighborhood, shall we say, do you
Speaker 1: to talk about where you live on the air.
Speaker 4: I don't even no, I'm not specific on the eastern
Speaker 4: side of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Right, These, I'm assuming are littered all over everywhere, Sometimes
Speaker 1: in your driveway. Yeah, so that's awful.
Speaker 4: Oh in your drive There will be times where I'll
Speaker 4: go to take the trash out or something and I'll
Speaker 4: see these blinking green lights. I'm like, what the hell
Speaker 4: is that? And it's in my neighbor's bush in front
Speaker 4: of their house, Shannon, and it's just laying there and
Speaker 4: I'm like why. And then they're in the gutter and
Speaker 4: they're they're not on a kickstand, They're just all over
Speaker 4: the place. Nobody regulates them.
Speaker 1: Is this because you've never used one? I have no
Speaker 1: lack the dexterity. No, I scoot, Okay, I could scoot
Speaker 1: with the best of them.
Speaker 4: Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just I'm wondering where this hatred
Speaker 1: comes from.
Speaker 5: Look at this physique. This is built for scooting.
Speaker 1: Is that what they call it scooting?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: You just made that up.
Speaker 4: Okay, right now, you experienced that whole thing happening. When
Speaker 4: it becomes the thing, I was there.
Speaker 1: I was there so ground zero.
Speaker 4: It's one of those things that I tried to be
Speaker 4: relaxed about this. Now, the funny thing about Melbourne is.
Speaker 4: They originally were hot on it. They're like, this is
Speaker 4: going to be great, it's efficient, it's sustainable.
Speaker 2: No, it moves.
Speaker 4: It moves people that are not capable of that should
Speaker 4: not be on anything motorized. On the sidewalks, on the
Speaker 4: streets going up and down, they will haul around. It's
Speaker 4: just it's chaos.
Speaker 5: There is there's no governing of it, so it just
Speaker 5: kind of is what it is, and it becomes obnoxious.
Speaker 4: They're all over the place. You don't have this in suburbia,
Speaker 4: you know, you don't have Gary coming out of some
Speaker 4: white enclave. They go white town, super happy to be
Speaker 4: here too.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's time for you, old man to move to
Speaker 1: the suburbs. No way, move out of the city. All
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't wait one to other the children.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't know what to do with all that grass
Speaker 4: those people have. We're not allowed to have you way,
Speaker 4: probably race this Friday, my husband with your little red
Speaker 4: rag in the back.
Speaker 1: Of Your husband's half Chinese, but he's Uh. He sometimes
Speaker 1: thought of as Hispanice. Oh yeah, sEH. Whenever we go
Speaker 1: over to Uh to Gary's house, he goes, Gary, you
Speaker 1: want me to park the cars?
Speaker 4: No, don't be ridiculous, but please get inside as quickly.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up next to You've heard of the Chippendales,
Speaker 1: but have you heard of the strippin Dales?
Speaker 5: What a tease?
Speaker 1: Get it?
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Speaker 1: Neil Sevadra hanging out with me today. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Stories we're following for you today. Former President Trump naming
Speaker 1: leaders of his transition team, businessman Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon,
Speaker 1: who is head of the Small Business Administration during his
Speaker 1: first term. We'll take the lead. The pair will be
Speaker 1: involved in shaping policy and hiring personnel. Should Trump win
Speaker 1: his vice presidential pick, Senator JD. Vance of Ohio will
Speaker 1: serve as honorary chair, along with his sons Eric Trump
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump Junior.
Speaker 2: Saw this.
Speaker 1: We finally know who's going to be hosting the Emmys.
Speaker 1: Eugene and Dan Levy will host the seventy sixth Emmy
Speaker 1: Awards next month. Oh first ever father son. Du I
Speaker 1: love them?
Speaker 4: I do too? Makes me interested?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does too. Both actors took home Emmy's at
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty ceremony during the pandemic, leading them to
Speaker 1: joke for two Canadians who won our Emmys in a
Speaker 1: literal quarantine tent. The idea of being asked to host
Speaker 1: this year in an actual theater was incentive enough.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna watch that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, you've heard of the Chippendales, right me? Everyone,
Speaker 1: Everyone's heard of the Chippendales, the.
Speaker 4: Cute chipmunks from Disney.
Speaker 1: The half naked men, the male strippers, the bow Tide
Speaker 1: male strippers. They've been around for those five hundred years.
Speaker 1: You've seen the SNL sketch with Patrick Swayze and Chris
Speaker 1: Farley as Chippendale's performers.
Speaker 4: One of the best.
Speaker 1: Well, about fifteen years after the Chippendales were launched, the
Speaker 1: guy who launched them, his reign ended. His name was
Speaker 1: Steve Bennier g and law enforcement investigation allegations that Steve
Speaker 1: had plotted to murder former employees was linked to a
Speaker 1: murder carried out by a hitman, and nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: after pleading guilty to a racketeering charge that included soliciting
Speaker 1: a murder and attempted arson.
Speaker 4: Did you know about this story?
Speaker 1: Steve killed himself. Yes I did, because there was a podcast.
Speaker 2: There was a.
Speaker 5: Podcast and then there was like a made for TV
Speaker 5: movie or something like it was.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, there is a murdered playboy bunny involved.
Speaker 4: All I remember was like your mouth is a gape
Speaker 4: the whole time, and you think, okay, that happened, and
Speaker 4: now it's gone, and it's not like there there is
Speaker 4: such yuckiness stuck to this business that now his son, Christian,
Speaker 4: who changed his name from what you say, Benieri.
Speaker 1: Or Benergi, I'm not sure how to say.
Speaker 4: He changed it to Chris Bain.
Speaker 1: He believes he's the rightful heir to his father's business.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of people fighting over Chippendale's back
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, he actually went ahead and had the
Speaker 1: you know, got the name of Strippin'dale's, how dare he
Speaker 1: I know? And the motto was here at Strippindale's, not
Speaker 1: only do we know how to strip tease, we know
Speaker 1: how to please the hottest mail strippers and more. They
Speaker 1: take a design elements of Chippendale's as well to their website.
Speaker 1: It's got that pink and black color scheme resembling Chippendale's
Speaker 1: online presence. This is a guy, the Son who's offering
Speaker 1: bookings in homes, backyards and other venues eew. He is
Speaker 1: one of the entertainers himself. He goes by the name Hollywood.
Speaker 1: In his picture, he's shirtless, heavily tattooed. His chin is
Speaker 1: propped on his right fist, his left hand resting on
Speaker 1: a camo clad leg. Here's another fun PostScript. Due to
Speaker 1: his medical issues, he's currently able to make only limited
Speaker 1: appearances and performances his medical issues. I don't want to
Speaker 1: stripper with medical issues. Do you want a stripper with
Speaker 1: medical issues?
Speaker 4: I boys are different.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't care. No, it's like pizza. No.
Speaker 4: No, I'm just saying I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what women like to test way too much.
Speaker 4: Well, now, I'm You've made me uncomfortable in a lot
Speaker 4: of ways today, But this was I'm sorry. I'll wait
Speaker 4: till eleven for my rebuttal say, farmer, I'm just saying
Speaker 4: that that you always hear about the sex industry always
Speaker 4: seems to have grossness attached to it. Of course, yeah,
Speaker 4: because under belly yeaheah, And and so you figure that
Speaker 4: with strip clubs and the like, and but with male
Speaker 4: strip clubs, it just it always seemed like, hey, this
Speaker 4: is just an easy business because the women aren't his handsy.
Speaker 4: I would imagine, oh.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, I am here to disagree with you these
Speaker 1: So I went for Joe Kwan's bachelorette party years ago.
Speaker 1: This is reson no, no, no, this was her first
Speaker 1: bachelorette party' sorry sorry, Josh, this is like this was
Speaker 1: like twelve years ago.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I forgot.
Speaker 1: And we went to thunder down Under in Vegas. Oh boy, yeah,
Speaker 1: I see that and billboards for this. I was so
Speaker 1: creeped out. It was the first and last time I've
Speaker 1: been to one of these things. I was so creepy.
Speaker 1: We all were creeped out with.
Speaker 4: The worst fifteen hours. You guys, every fifty.
Speaker 1: Year old women who are getting all sorts of handsies
Speaker 1: on these guys who are probably twenty two. It was like,
Speaker 1: and they're just grabbing them and they're touching them and
Speaker 1: they're giggling, and I was like, that's your sock, Like
Speaker 1: it just grossed me out. You don't have to sit
Speaker 1: on your hands or anything like that from Ohio or there,
Speaker 1: and they're just they're just eating.
Speaker 4: It all up string cheese.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was awful.
Speaker 4: They have like mazzarella sticks. What do they serve in
Speaker 4: a place like that.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember if there was food or
Speaker 1: just molestation.
Speaker 4: And in your opinion as a journalist and a woman,
Speaker 4: was there in fact thunder down under it.
Speaker 1: I did not engage in any of that. I tried
Speaker 1: to keep eye contact. I felt bad about the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It felt super dirty and gross, and like, what what
Speaker 1: what did these guys have to go through to be here?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 1: It's kind of like if like the men who go
Speaker 1: to the strip clubs for women and they just go
Speaker 1: what happened to her in her life that she has
Speaker 1: to ride that pole?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: I kind of had that. I kind of had that
Speaker 1: feeling there. Anyway, the point of the story is Chippendale's
Speaker 1: is alive and well, by the way, it's still a
Speaker 1: thriving business. And so they've taken the guy who started
Speaker 1: Chippendale's son to federal court accusing him of using the
Speaker 1: trademark without permission and the whole bit, and it remains
Speaker 1: to be as a dirty fight in court, just like
Speaker 1: it's a dirty scene in the Chippendales clubs.
Speaker 4: What do you think is going to be filthier in
Speaker 4: your eyes? Thunder Down Under twelve years ago, or going
Speaker 4: to the DNC in Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's a real ding dong. Yeah, it's a real ding dog.
Speaker 4: It's a real hot dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the beauty of going to the DNC next week.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's going to happen, you know. And it's funny.
Speaker 1: Oscar is coming with us, producer Oscar and I bless
Speaker 1: his heart. He's trying to prepare things, you know, and
Speaker 1: Mondo's preparing things, and it could all just go out
Speaker 1: the window.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's preparing for what a roll with it?
Speaker 4: No, no, it's gonna I remember last time, you guys
Speaker 4: were just one dealing with the fact that there was
Speaker 4: like a body under the mattress and in your motel.
Speaker 1: It was bad. It was really bad. There were signs
Speaker 1: forced entry in our hotel room. Because what happens is
Speaker 1: the party's book all of the hotel rooms, and we didn't.
Speaker 1: We got late to that game, and so we were
Speaker 1: in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, in a probably a hotel room
Speaker 1: that costs thirty nine dollars a night to stay in,
Speaker 1: but they marked it way up, you know, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty two hundred dollars to stay in. And you know,
Speaker 1: the power went out in the morning at one point
Speaker 1: for a series of hours. Signed like I said, signs
Speaker 1: a forced entry. It's one of those rooms where you
Speaker 1: can't really look at anything closely because you would see
Speaker 1: probably like blood or things on the walls. It was awful.
Speaker 1: It was awful, And you know what I remembered this
Speaker 1: week is how little downtime there was, how little sleep.
Speaker 1: Don't remember my husband saying, You're gonna have tons of downtime.
Speaker 1: I'm like, looking back at the conventions from eight years ago,
Speaker 1: I don't remember any downtime. I mean it was constant.
Speaker 5: You guys were running around. Nothing was close from what I.
Speaker 1: Remember, and nothing was close, So you don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Oh, but we'll be listening.
Speaker 1: We ended up in Philadelphia at a gay bar dancing
Speaker 1: with a transsexual at one point. That was fun.
Speaker 4: But you got Gary back home.
Speaker 2: I did. I did.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen him in a night club? It's
Speaker 1: a freaking madman.
Speaker 5: No, I don't. I mean I've had drinks.
Speaker 1: It's like a gremlin you know, you get Gary out
Speaker 1: after dark and all bets are off.
Speaker 5: He starts rubbing up against your spice rack.
Speaker 1: No oh, I see that's funny.
Speaker 4: The poultry season.
Speaker 1: You know where you're going with that. I'm like spice rack.
Speaker 5: Yeah, your poultry season. Okay, lever stories.
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