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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night, Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA director.
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Talk show host Michael Brown.
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Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job.
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So I think the most earth shattering news of all
from the since last Saturday is that CBS has canceled
the Late Show, you know, Stephen Colbert's show, which by
the way, I did appear on one time. I don't know,
it's been a decade ago, but I've been on The
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Late Show with Stephen Colbert and it was kind of
interesting because they the producer, so, you know, they fly
me to New York and I'm, you know, spend the
night and then the next morning get up and they tape,
you know, around noon or mid afternoon. I forget when
it is they tape. But the producer, you know, came
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into the green room and said, here's my best advice
to you. Don't try to be funny. Stephen Colbert be funny.
And I thought at the time, and of course, one
it was good advice, but two, I thought, well, when
when will Stephen Colbert be funny? When when is he
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ever funny? There there was probably a period in his
early career you know, when he was trying to imitate
Bill O'Reilly. You know, that was kind of his stick,
was to you know, be the comedian version of Bill
O'Reilly from Fox News. And sometimes when he was doing that,
it was comical. But then he got it. I don't
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know how, but somehow he got infected with Trump derangement syndrome,
and and then it just it was no longer funny,
no longer funny at all. But I went on to
Colbert that evening or that afternoon, did the taping, and
you know, it was okay. It wasn't like great, wasn't horrible.
It was just like kind of all right, you know,
you made your jokes about me, and I told you
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what was really good going on, and no, that was that.
But CBS News, I forget the numbers. I think the
show costs somewhere around one hundred million dollars a year
to produce. It's Cobert and a staff somewhere between two
and three hundred people, So one hundred million dollars to
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produce this you know, sixty minute, ninety minute whatever it is.
Because I don't watch it program every year, and for
the past several years it's been losing forty million dollars,
so it's not making CBS a profit. Now, there will
be a lot of people that tell you that, oh no, no,
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they canceled it because, oh what Larry Ellison's son, I
forget what his first name is, but Larry Ellison is
an oracle, is taking over? Is taking over? Has bought
CBS or Paramount or all of these. He's about a
whole package and the lawsuit that Trump had against CBS,
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which they settled for I think sixty million dollars. That
sixty million dollars is not going to Trump. It's going
into a fund that will help finance the construction of
his presidential library when he leaves the presidency. I think
that's what he's done with the settlements with the other
news organizations, including ABC News. But nonetheless, so CBS kind
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of looks at, you know, t we're spending one hundred
million dollars, we're losing forty million dollars, so we're not
making any money on the program. Why don't we just
cancel it? But everybody thinks it was because of Trump,
that somehow it's a capitulation. Jimmy Kimble out, Jimmy Kimmel
came out and did a big FU to CBS for
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doing it, and the Hollywood Reporter says that a lot
of people in the in the in the Late Night
Does segment are all upset because I think it was
a capitulation to Donald Trump. No, I don't think so
at all. I think it's because one you're losing money
and two you're not funny. So here's how Colbert announced
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the cancelation on July seventeenth. By the way, the cancelation
doesn't take place or affect until I think next spring,
sometime like May. And CBS was trying to get Colbert
to not say anything about it, but and I do
I have an agree with Colbert about this. Might as
well just put it on the table now, because it's
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going to leak. You can't have two hundred staffers that
you have to let no, you have to tell them, hey,
you're going to be have a job come May, whatever
the date is. Eventually that's going to get out. Somebody's
going to talk to a reporter somewhere, and the news
is going to get out, So you might as well
go ahead an announcement. CBS didn't want to do that, but
Colbert insisted so they let him do it and here's
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how he did it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh hey, everybody, we got.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
A great show for youatu tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Senator Adam Schiff was my guest. We harmonized on seven
Bridges Road. What a voice, I cried. But before we
start the show, I want to let you know something
that I found out just last night. Next year will
be our last season. The network will be ending the
Late Show in May. And yeah, I share your feelings.
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It's not just the end of our show, but it's
the end of the Late Show on CBS.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I do want to say I do want to
say that the folks at CBS have been great partners.
I'm so grateful to the Tiffany Network for giving me
this chair and this beautiful theater to call home. And
of course I'm grateful to you, the audience who have
joined us every night in here, out there, all around
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the world, and Missus America and all the ships at sea.
I'm grateful to share the stage with this band, these
artists over here every night. And I am extraordinarily deeply
grateful to the two hundred people who work here.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
We get to do this show.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
We get to do this show for each other every day,
all day. And I've had the pleasure and the responsibility
of sharing what we do every day with you in
front of this camera for the last ten years. And
let me tell you, it is a fantastic job. I
wish somebody else was getting it, and it's a job
that I'm looking forward to doing with this usual gang
of idiots for another ten months.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's gonna be fun. Yeah, already you're gonna lock in.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Not already, let's go already. Okay, that's all I wanted
to say, Dante, Let's do the show, jazz cowboy propping
all the.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Poofs and so that's it. I mean, I would admit
it was a classy announcement. I think he did the
right thing. Uh, No, f bombs were dropped, it was.
It was an appropriate goodbye. But have you ever really
thought about why they canceled? I mean, we have. You
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have all of the financial reasons, but I think there's
another reason. A real comedian is not just somebody that
stands out on the fence post and barks at the
moon all night long. He should know. A comedian should
know that their job is to entertain us, not to
install our political opinions in our brains. In fact, if
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you want to know exactly how to be a great comedian,
let's go back to a time when Mike Wallace talked
to Johnny Carson.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
People say, you'll never take a serious controversy. Well, I
have an answer to that.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I said, no, tell me.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
The last time that Jack Benny red Skelton, uh any
comedian to use his show to do serious issues.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's not what I'm there for.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Can't they see that?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But you and I do. They think that just because
you have it tonight's show, that you must deal in
serious issues.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's a danger.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
It's a real danger.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Once you start that, do you start to forget that
self important feeling. That's what you say has great import
and you know, strangely enough, you could use that show
as a form you could sway people. And I don't
think you should as an entertainer.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I don't think you should as an entertainer. Amen. Thank you,
Johnny Carson, Goodbye, Stephen Colbert. I'll be right back. Hey,
welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you joining me. I appreciate you tuning in text
line three three one zero three on your message APT
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keyword Mike ro Michael go follow me on x at
Michael Brown USA. I was going to move on from
Stephen Colbert, but the text messages, see I told you
I read them. The text messages are pretty interesting, and
I want to bounce off a couple of them. Uh,
I'll just do them in uh orderly. They came in
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Goober number ninety seven ninety eight, writes Michael. You know,
after the late night shows survived for decades, so interesting
that they're being canceled. Of course the current host can't
figure it out. There is a reason that Johnny Carson,
Jay Leno, and David Letterman were so successful. They weren't woke.
They joked about both sides of politics right now. Of course,
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I'm much older than I used to be, but I
can remember both as a teenager, which really dates me.
And even after Tim and I got married, in our
early years, we would actually I can't even imagine now.
Of course, I'm up every morning at four am to
do the weekday show, but I can't imagine staying up
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until you know, for in Central times, in the Central
time zone, Johnny Carson would come on at ten thirty
at night, you know, after the evening news, and we
watched Johnny Carson, and I don't want to sound like,
you know, the old sentimental you know, oh so what
was me kind of thing, but he was funny and
he was interesting, and he made fun of everyone. The
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monologue was must watch television, and Claire from I think
David Letterman carry that over. Jay Linno did that. They
made fun of everybody, and I think there's a something,
there's an inherent difference. In fact, I'll see if I
can find the stats and bring them to you sometime
during the program today about how social media late night
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television that liberals or those on the left side of
the political spectrum simply cannot laugh at themselves. They lead
miserable lives, whereas conservatives tend to be happier and we
can laugh at ourselves. God knows, I laugh at myself
all the time. And if I don't, you guys laugh
at me. And then I may go back and listen
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to something I said, or you know, it gets repeated.
Something I said was, you know, I said it really stupidly,
or I messed up my words or whatever, and it's funny.
Just you learn to laugh at yourself. You learned to
not to give a S word. And I think that's
where they have failed. They utterly have failed. Next one
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Guber number forty six to seventy nine wrote, late night
television used to be a money machine for the networks.
Low production costs, huge ad revenue. Think about the production
costs of putting on the Late Show. Now they did,
you know, they had all their embedded costs. You know,
they had they remodeled the Ed Sullivan Theater And I've been,
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I've you know, I've been to the David Letterman Show.
You know it's it's a beautiful theater. They get it
all fixed up very you know, it's very nice, and
it's it's in a halfway decent part of Manhattan too.
But once you spend those capital costs, it's done. You
just have utilities and maintenance and upkeep and everything. So, yes,
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very low production costs and huge ad revenue. People were
falling over themselves to advertise on those shows because they
were funny, they were fascinating, and they drew in a
large audience. Now, I don't think it's entirely their fault,
but they didn't adapt to the times they didn't realize that.
Now we got a bazillion sources to go. You know,
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in radio, we recognize, which is why we do digital
and streaming, and we and we take this content and
we put it out everywhere and we replay it. I
think about all the three hundred and fifty affiliates, you know,
some air live and then some re erit, you know,
in this cluster in Denver where I air the program
from you know, I'm live on one station and then
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the other station that I'm on airs at late you know,
late night, you know, tomorrow. So we've learned to expand,
and they didn't. They just stayed in their little cocoon
and didn't want to look around anyway, The text message continues,
the shows were funny and fascinating. Now no comedic value
killed the ratings and CBS's budget for the show's almost
forty million dollars more than the entire Miami Marlin's Bayro
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Well that's not maybe talk about the Miami Marlins, but
well we could talk about the Colorado Rockies sixty seven
million dollars. Thus, goodbye Steven exactly right or eighty nine
fifty six? Who writes Mike Johnny Carson was very entertaining
and funny. He had what you call class. Absolutely he
would bring people on. He'd even bring politicians on and
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you know, would ask them some serious questions that would
also laugh at them. And politicians would love to get
on Johnny Carson, regardless of outside of the political spectrum
they were on. And then Guber number ten twelve rights
a staff of two hundred for what amounts to forty
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minutes of content each night. No wonder they're losing forty
million dollars a year. The ad revenue is just not there.
Their production costs have remained pretty much the same, except
now if you add in personnel, production costs of actually skyrocketed,
but the overhead to produce the show sans personnel has
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remained fairly steady. Oh yeah, rent, You know, well, they
owned the building, but utilities that's probably gone up. Maintenance
and upkeep that's probably gone up a little bit. But still,
any enterprise, any private sector, in losing forty million dollars
a year is just not sustainable and at some point
you got to cut off the bleeding. Does it have
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anything to do with CBS Paramount plus all being sold
to Ellison And maybe maybe there was a part of that,
maybe there wasn't. But I will tell you this, when
you're not funny and you don't have the ratings, and
you don't and you're not producing the revenue, at some point,
they're going they're going to cut you off. We understand
the radio. We absolutely understand that in radio, which is
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why I try to be entertaining and funny and serious
and do all of the emotions that keep people coming
back for more. They just don't get it. And I
think that's a reflection of our society at large. Quite frankly.
Can you imagine, in fact, I wish we had one
a Johnny Carson that would come out and do a
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late night show. Not that I would stay up, but
I might DVR it and I might, you know, save
it to my DV, my online cloud or whatever and
watch it later. But if there was somebody that was
making fun of conservatives and making fun of liberals and
they were pretty much down the middle making fun of everybody,
I would find that entertaining. It would be fun. But
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nobody wants to do that anymore. And I think that
then kind of influences society at large, and we've just
kind of given up on it, and we've all gone
to our corners. I'll see if I can find those
stats about the happiness level of left versus right. Anyway,
So we came with Michael Brown. Glad to have you
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Speaker 3 (17:58):
The former FEMA director talks your host, Michael Brown.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Brownie, No, Brownie, you're doing a heck of a jumb
The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Hey, welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad
to have you with me. So one of the I forget,
I know as in California, I know that much, and
I was with the President Bush obviously duh. But for
some reason we were coming back to Air Force one. Separately.
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We had been at some event I forget, I don't remember.
I'll tell you in a minute. You'll understand why. I
don't really remember the details. But we were arriving at
Air Force one fairly simultaneously. But he was in the
beast and I was in my details suv and we
were arriving. But on the way back to wherever it
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was that we were, whichever Air Force base or Air
National Guard base that Air Force one was sitting at,
I saw an in and Out burger. So I told
my detail pull through, because I want to order, just
like you know, a couple of dozen of in and
out burgers and a couple of dozen fries and take
them on board and just and give them out to
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whoever wants them. And of course Bush one on one,
so he took one, so that that's it. And it
was because uh in and out Burger, which is not
the greatest burger in the world, but in terms of
fast food burgers, it is good. But I sometimes wonder
if I don't think in and out burgers are good
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because there was a time, for example. And I'm not
a beer drinker, so you know, I just don't drink beer.
I just don't. I've tried beer all over the world,
so don't start at me with you know, have you
tried this? Have you tried that? I've tried every kind
of beer you can imagine. I just have never developed
a taste for it. But there was a period when
Cooorr's beer was not available east of the Mississippi, but
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obviously available in Colorado, available in the ol Oklahoma Panhandle
where I grew up, and so people would often ask, Hey, hey,
can if you're coming to see us in you know, Cleveland,
or if you're coming to see us in Chicago. You're
coming to see us in wherever, bring us some Cours beer.
So you know, we'd load up a couple of six
packs and we take Cours Beer to them. I sometimes
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think that's the attraction. In fact, you'll hear it in
just a minute that even In and Out recognizes this.
Sometimes that's the attraction of In and Out Burger because
they talk about having drawn a line pretty much along
the Mississippi River and we're never going to go east
of there. Well. In and Out President Lindsay Snyder's, the
family owned company, has revealed for the first time that
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she and her family are leaving California. The family and
the way I read or listen to the sound bite,
they're taking corporate with them. Now, In and Out Burgers
are not leaving California. They'll still be there. They'll still
be in Utah, They'll still be in Arizona. This will
be in Texas, They'll still be in Colorado. I don't
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know where else they are, but they'll still be where
they are now. And they may or may not, as
she tells, they may not put one in Tennessee simply
because Corpus is going to be there. But the reason
that they're living living, the reason they are leaving is fascinating.
After seventy seven years, seventy seven years, In and Out's
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going to say goodbye to its home state and set
up shop in Franklin, Tennessee. The granddaughter of the fast
food chain's founders, Lindsey Snyder, is staying true to the
company's Christian foundation while expanding its reach. She did a
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podcast with Ali Beth Stuckey, who hosts something called Relatable Wobbs.
Relatable I'm not quite sure what it is. She is
the author of a New York Times best seller, and
she interviewed Lindsay Snyder, and the interview goes like, this happened.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
We're building an office in Franklin, so I'm actually moving
out there, and how do you.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Feel about that? You're like a California girl through right.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, I mean, I really loved living in northern California,
and I'm loved.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I loved past tense. Now, just to give you a
little ahead of where I'm going with this story, I
got shouted at by a spokesperson for the governor, Gavin Newsom.
Yes it was freaking hilarious. But I want you hear
the rest of this interview.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
So thankful that I grew up up there because I
think it changed a lot of who I am today.
You know, I think it would be different if I
was raised in southern California. But like you said, there's
a lot of great things about California. But raising a
family is not easy. We're doing business is not easy
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here Now.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Two fairly important things at least in my life, raising
a family, running or working for a business. Neither what
she says is easy in California, No feasy, Sherlock.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Really, the bulk of our stores are still going to
be here in California, but it will be wonderful having
an office out there, growing out there totally and being
able to have the family and other people's families out there,
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and so in that it's two part. We'll have everybody
under one roof here in Bolton Park and we'll close
our minds.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Okay, we're going.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
To have everyone. And she goes on to talk about
how they have a plan to give people plenty of time.
So I take from this interview that she's planning to
move corporate headquarters out of California, Hello, Elon Musk and
move elsewhere, not to Texas, but to Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, that's a that's a big transition, and that's happening
in the next few years.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Right. Yeah, we've kind of, you know, given it a
longer runway so that it's smoother for everybody so they
can plan. And I all love that, and we gave them, yeah,
a lot of notice, you know, because we love them
and want to make it as easy as possible. But yeah,
by twenty thirty, we'll close there mine office.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
So at one point you said that within your lifetime,
like if you draw lines from Texas, everything to the left,
like want in and out there, but not maybe to
the right of the line. And you talked about just
like the importance of the kind of like novelty of
in and out like that you liked when someone comes
into town where there's an in and out there like
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I got to go there, which is totally true.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's what people do, by the way.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
I'm guessing though, since you're going to be you know,
to the right of the line, that you're probably going
to be opening up.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
In and out stairs. So what does the strategy look like?
Has it changed? Well, it's funny. I think Kid Rock
his name is Bob.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I think he's the one that actually drew the new
map and he put the line up from Texas, grabbed Tennessee,
went around to sea and back up, and I'm like, yeah,
that's agree. So I think for me it's the same heart.
It's just I guess I would say a man plans
his ways and God's got the steps, you know. So
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we had had a plan and then he snuck that
in there, and I think, you know, Florida has begged us,
and we're still saying no, you know, the East coast states,
we're still saying no. You know, we're able to reach
Tennessee from our Texas warehouse. So we're not putting our
whole meat facility where we do all of our own
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beef and send it to our stores make patties. We're
not going to have that there. We will have a warehouse,
but not do our own meat there, so able to
deliver from Texas, so Texas can reach some other states,
you know.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
So yeah, you know yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
In and Out Corporate is leaving California. Now I reposted
that and let me pull up this is another reason
why y'ell to be following me on X. Let me
pull up that. I said. This was eighteen hours ago.
I just tweeted, I quote tweeted this interview, which you'll
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find in my timeline, and simply said this In and
Out leaving California. That should tell you something. I drew
no conclusions. I left it wide open, simply to imply that, hey,
if a California based famous burger Chaine who's been there
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for seventy seven years, has decided it's time to go,
they really I should tell you something. And oh boy,
did I get an earful from Brandon Richards. Brandon Richards
heads up the rapid response for California Governor Gavin Newsom. Yes, now,
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he says this is his personal account, but he quoted
Governor Newsom for those interested in the facts rather than
the fiction. In and Out is expanding East, creating a
second headquarters in Tennessee. They are consolidating their two Southern
cal offices into one, creating a Western regional headquarter to
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go along with there yet to be built Eastern regional headquarters.
All of this was announced earlier this year at They
cite a KCRA dot com article about in and Out
California headquarters and their expansion. He goes on to say
that what was announced today is the owner's family is relocating.
We had imagined a better oversee expansion in the eastern
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US News territory for the company, and that they will
continue to expand in California, adding more locations in the
Golden State this year than any other state. And finally,
she quote she also said the book of the company
stores will remain in the Golden State. Well, yes, that's
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where they started and that's where they're going to stay.
What is hilarious is that he completely ignores like, for example,
this is what I love about X. You know they
have what are called community notes. Well, the community notes
belie everything that Gavin Newsom and his spokesperson added me about.
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That's next. It's the weekend of Michael Brown. Enjoy your
in and out Burger. The text line three to three
one zero three keyword Mike or Michael hang type, be
right back. Hey, it's the weekend of Michael Brown. For
being a little late there, I was busy eating some
in and out French fries and a double double animal fries.
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It's always been fascinating to me about how the attraction
of in and out really is a lot about it.
It's not as quite quite as i'm the present assay MacDonald's,
and so it does have as they freely emit in
that interview, it has this attraction of which is true
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about almost anything. Something's fairly rare, people want more of
it and try to get it. And I think that's
the case. I mean, now the in and out is
in Colorado. If I go to Scottsdale to see my daughter,
I'm not desperate to make it in and out. I
think I had an inn out. Oh, I got a
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haircut a couple of days ago, and there's a there's
an in and out in Castle Rock, Colorado. So I
just stopped and had an in and out. I might
have won every few months now or something. So that
urged to you know, if I'm in California, if I
go out to see Michael or my team out at premiere.
I'm not going to die to get to the In
and Out Burger, But I just found it hilarious that
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the governor's rapid response team has to respond to me
and try to say, oh, no, no, no, none of
this is true. Well crap if it's not true. The
owner site's issues with California's business climate, and yes the story.
They're not talking about closing down the stores. They're consolidating
the West Coast headquarter in baldmant Park. They're going to
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expand a little bit into Tennessee. And the primary reason
for leaving our concerns for family safety and difficult business policies.
CNN had a fascinating story. The headline is In and
Out has what's smart computer doing? In and Out has
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never closed a location until now. This is from January
of last year. It cites crime as the problem. In
and Out is permanently closing one of its restaurants for
the first time ever, announcing that its Oakland location will
shutter because of rampant crime in that California city. The
burger chain said in a statement that quote, despite taking
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repeated steps to create safer conditions, our customers and associates
are regularly victimized by car breakhifts, property damage, theft, and
armed robberies. Could it also have something to do because
during the interview, Lindsey Snyder was asked about one of
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the company's restaurants in San Francisco being forced to close
temporarily during the COVID nineteen d pandemic, because why if
you want no other reason to go eat in and out,
here's a reason why they refuse to comply with San
Francisco's mandate to require proof of vaccination for their indoor customers.
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And in that interview, she defended the actions, saying, we
don't police our customers. Yeah, good for them, Good for them.
And if you want to pack up and move for
safety reasons, for business reasons, you know what. Governor, maybe
instead of adding a at a talk show host, maybe
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what you ought to do is at your staff about
your policies that are running one of the most beautiful
states in the entire country, the state of California. Maybe
that's what you really ought to look at. And I'm
tired of your policies spilling over into states that areful
as beautiful as yours. The state of Colorado, and I
look around and see how Colorado's been californicated, and look,
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and you know what, shut up and sit down, go away.
And I don't know what's wrong with Californias. Why do
you keep electing somebody like him, greasy hair, smooth, talking
line out both sides of his mouth all the time. Newsom,
shut up and sit down and in and out. Maybe
that's what I'll do after the show today. Yeah, today
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is our wedding anniversary. How do you think it will
go over if I go home and say, a babe,
rather than that restaurant we made the reservations for, you know,
the really nice Italian place. Why don't we go to
In and Out? Yeah, let's have an in and out burger,
just you know, and then well we'll do is we'll
take a picture of you and me having an in
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and out burger, and I'll send it to Brandon so
you can show it to the governor. Yeah, that's what
we'll do. What I love about stories like this is
how people just state the obvious. You know that there's
a story that I may or may not get to
the United Kingdom is implementing the equivalent of what you
(33:59):
might call a wealth tax, and it's hitting the wealthiest
people in the United Kingdom. Guess what they're doing. They're fleeing,
they're moving, and so this tax meant to help close
their budget deficit may end up producing exactly zero revenue.
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Basic economics, Well, I think we've got we've got basic
economics going on here. You don't control the crime, you
don't control the immigration. You over regulate over you try
to tell everybody what to drive, you know, you try
to tell auto manufacturers you got to meet our standards. Well,
(34:41):
that means that you've got to Now you've got to
meet the standards for the entire country. Because a car
company is not going to make you know, it's not
going to take their manufacturing lines and say, Okay, this
line is for cars that go to California, and these line.
This other line is for cars that go to all
the other states in the country. I'm sick and tired
(35:02):
of California driving policies that affect the rest of the country. Now,
congratulations to Franklin, Tennessee for getting the corporate headquarters. It
would have been nice to have you in Colorado, But honestly,
could I recommend them move to Colorado?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Because we mirror too much of California. At some point,
I don't know when it will be, but at some
point politicians are going to continue. I think they're getting
pretty close, you know, to the typical tipping point where
businesses just say no more. I mean, look at Texas.
You look at Texas and you look at Florida and
(35:40):
you find that, oh yeah, businesses. You know, for most
of the financial firms in New York now have corporate
headquarters in Texas, and you'll find that, oh, they still
have offices in Wall Street. But most of the decision makers,
most of the everyday worker bees are really in Texas.
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They're not in New York anymore. Why would that be,
Because just like water reaches its lowest level possible, people
look for where can I go and be the freest.
Where can I go and have the fewest regulations. Where
can I go and have the best opportunity to make
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my business succeed or to make as much money as
I possibly can and have a great family life. Welcome
to the real world, Governor Newsom, tell Brandon to leave
me alone. It's the weekend of Michael Brown. Text Line
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So I think the most earth shattering news of all
from the since last Saturday is that CBS has canceled
the Late Show, you know, Stephen Colbert's show, which by
the way, I did appear on one time. I don't know,
it's been a decade ago, but I've been on The
(01:32):
Late Show with Stephen Colbert and it was kind of
interesting because they the producer, so, you know, they fly
me to New York and I'm, you know, spend the
night and then the next morning get up and they tape,
you know, around noon or mid afternoon. I forget when
it is they tape. But the producer, you know, came
(01:53):
into the green room and said, here's my best advice
to you. Don't try to be funny. Stephen Colbert be funny.
And I thought at the time, and of course, one
it was good advice, but two, I thought, well, when
when will Stephen Colbert be funny? When when is he
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ever funny? There there was probably a period in his
early career you know, when he was trying to imitate
Bill O'Reilly. You know, that was kind of his stick,
was to you know, be the comedian version of Bill
O'Reilly from Fox News. And sometimes when he was doing that,
it was comical. But then he got it. I don't
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know how, but somehow he got infected with Trump derangement syndrome,
and and then it just it was no longer funny,
no longer funny at all. But I went on to
Colbert that evening or that afternoon, did the taping, and
you know, it was okay. It wasn't like great, wasn't horrible.
It was just like kind of all right, you know,
you made your jokes about me, and I told you
(02:59):
what was really good going on, and no, that was that.
But CBS News, I forget the numbers. I think the
show costs somewhere around one hundred million dollars a year
to produce. It's Cobert and a staff somewhere between two
and three hundred people, So one hundred million dollars to
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produce this you know, sixty minute, ninety minute whatever it is.
Because I don't watch it program every year, and for
the past several years it's been losing forty million dollars,
so it's not making CBS a profit. Now, there will
be a lot of people that tell you that, oh no, no,
(03:43):
they canceled it because, oh what Larry Ellison's son, I
forget what his first name is, but Larry Ellison is
an oracle, is taking over? Is taking over? Has bought
CBS or Paramount or all of these. He's about a
whole package and the lawsuit that Trump had against CBS,
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which they settled for I think sixty million dollars. That
sixty million dollars is not going to Trump. It's going
into a fund that will help finance the construction of
his presidential library when he leaves the presidency. I think
that's what he's done with the settlements with the other
news organizations, including ABC News. But nonetheless, so CBS kind
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of looks at, you know, t we're spending one hundred
million dollars, we're losing forty million dollars, so we're not
making any money on the program. Why don't we just
cancel it? But everybody thinks it was because of Trump,
that somehow it's a capitulation. Jimmy Kimble out, Jimmy Kimmel
came out and did a big FU to CBS for
(04:53):
doing it, and the Hollywood Reporter says that a lot
of people in the in the in the Late Night
Does segment are all upset because I think it was
a capitulation to Donald Trump. No, I don't think so
at all. I think it's because one you're losing money
and two you're not funny. So here's how Colbert announced
(05:15):
the cancelation on July seventeenth. By the way, the cancelation
doesn't take place or affect until I think next spring,
sometime like May. And CBS was trying to get Colbert
to not say anything about it, but and I do
I have an agree with Colbert about this. Might as
well just put it on the table now, because it's
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going to leak. You can't have two hundred staffers that
you have to let no, you have to tell them, hey,
you're going to be have a job come May, whatever
the date is. Eventually that's going to get out. Somebody's
going to talk to a reporter somewhere, and the news
is going to get out, So you might as well
go ahead an announcement. CBS didn't want to do that, but
Colbert insisted so they let him do it and here's
(05:59):
how he did it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh hey, everybody, we got.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
A great show for youatu tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Senator Adam Schiff was my guest. We harmonized on seven
Bridges Road. What a voice, I cried. But before we
start the show, I want to let you know something
that I found out just last night. Next year will
be our last season. The network will be ending the
Late Show in May. And yeah, I share your feelings.
(06:33):
It's not just the end of our show, but it's
the end of the Late Show on CBS.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I do want to say I do want to
say that the folks at CBS have been great partners.
I'm so grateful to the Tiffany Network for giving me
this chair and this beautiful theater to call home. And
of course I'm grateful to you, the audience who have
joined us every night in here, out there, all around
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the world, and Missus America and all the ships at sea.
I'm grateful to share the stage with this band, these
artists over here every night. And I am extraordinarily deeply
grateful to the two hundred people who work here.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
We get to do this show.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
We get to do this show for each other every day,
all day. And I've had the pleasure and the responsibility
of sharing what we do every day with you in
front of this camera for the last ten years. And
let me tell you, it is a fantastic job. I
wish somebody else was getting it, and it's a job
that I'm looking forward to doing with this usual gang
of idiots for another ten months.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's gonna be fun. Yeah, already you're gonna lock in.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Not already, let's go already. Okay, that's all I wanted
to say, Dante, Let's do the show, jazz cowboy propping
all the.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Poofs and so that's it. I mean, I would admit
it was a classy announcement. I think he did the
right thing. Uh, No, f bombs were dropped, it was.
It was an appropriate goodbye. But have you ever really
thought about why they canceled? I mean, we have. You
(08:31):
have all of the financial reasons, but I think there's
another reason. A real comedian is not just somebody that
stands out on the fence post and barks at the
moon all night long. He should know. A comedian should
know that their job is to entertain us, not to
install our political opinions in our brains. In fact, if
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you want to know exactly how to be a great comedian,
let's go back to a time when Mike Wallace talked
to Johnny Carson.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
People say, you'll never take a serious controversy. Well, I
have an answer to that.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I said, no, tell me.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
The last time that Jack Benny red Skelton, uh any
comedian to use his show to do serious issues.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's not what I'm there for.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Can't they see that?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But you and I do. They think that just because
you have it tonight's show, that you must deal in
serious issues.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's a danger.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
It's a real danger.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Once you start that, do you start to forget that
self important feeling. That's what you say has great import
and you know, strangely enough, you could use that show
as a form you could sway people. And I don't
think you should as an entertainer.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I don't think you should as an entertainer. Amen. Thank you,
Johnny Carson, Goodbye, Stephen Colbert. I'll be right back. Hey,
welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you joining me. I appreciate you tuning in text
line three three one zero three on your message APT
(10:07):
keyword Mike ro Michael go follow me on x at
Michael Brown USA. I was going to move on from
Stephen Colbert, but the text messages, see I told you
I read them. The text messages are pretty interesting, and
I want to bounce off a couple of them. Uh,
I'll just do them in uh orderly. They came in
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Goober number ninety seven ninety eight, writes Michael. You know,
after the late night shows survived for decades, so interesting
that they're being canceled. Of course the current host can't
figure it out. There is a reason that Johnny Carson,
Jay Leno, and David Letterman were so successful. They weren't woke.
They joked about both sides of politics right now. Of course,
(10:55):
I'm much older than I used to be, but I
can remember both as a teenager, which really dates me.
And even after Tim and I got married, in our
early years, we would actually I can't even imagine now.
Of course, I'm up every morning at four am to
do the weekday show, but I can't imagine staying up
(11:17):
until you know, for in Central times, in the Central
time zone, Johnny Carson would come on at ten thirty
at night, you know, after the evening news, and we
watched Johnny Carson, and I don't want to sound like,
you know, the old sentimental you know, oh so what
was me kind of thing, but he was funny and
he was interesting, and he made fun of everyone. The
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monologue was must watch television, and Claire from I think
David Letterman carry that over. Jay Linno did that. They
made fun of everybody, and I think there's a something,
there's an inherent difference. In fact, I'll see if I
can find the stats and bring them to you sometime
during the program today about how social media late night
(12:03):
television that liberals or those on the left side of
the political spectrum simply cannot laugh at themselves. They lead
miserable lives, whereas conservatives tend to be happier and we
can laugh at ourselves. God knows, I laugh at myself
all the time. And if I don't, you guys laugh
at me. And then I may go back and listen
(12:25):
to something I said, or you know, it gets repeated.
Something I said was, you know, I said it really stupidly,
or I messed up my words or whatever, and it's funny.
Just you learn to laugh at yourself. You learned to
not to give a S word. And I think that's
where they have failed. They utterly have failed. Next one
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Guber number forty six to seventy nine wrote, late night
television used to be a money machine for the networks.
Low production costs, huge ad revenue. Think about the production
costs of putting on the Late Show. Now they did,
you know, they had all their embedded costs. You know,
they had they remodeled the Ed Sullivan Theater And I've been,
(13:06):
I've you know, I've been to the David Letterman Show.
You know it's it's a beautiful theater. They get it
all fixed up very you know, it's very nice, and
it's it's in a halfway decent part of Manhattan too.
But once you spend those capital costs, it's done. You
just have utilities and maintenance and upkeep and everything. So, yes,
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very low production costs and huge ad revenue. People were
falling over themselves to advertise on those shows because they
were funny, they were fascinating, and they drew in a
large audience. Now, I don't think it's entirely their fault,
but they didn't adapt to the times they didn't realize that.
Now we got a bazillion sources to go. You know,
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in radio, we recognize, which is why we do digital
and streaming, and we and we take this content and
we put it out everywhere and we replay it. I
think about all the three hundred and fifty affiliates, you know,
some air live and then some re erit, you know,
in this cluster in Denver where I air the program
from you know, I'm live on one station and then
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the other station that I'm on airs at late you know,
late night, you know, tomorrow. So we've learned to expand,
and they didn't. They just stayed in their little cocoon
and didn't want to look around anyway, The text message continues,
the shows were funny and fascinating. Now no comedic value
killed the ratings and CBS's budget for the show's almost
forty million dollars more than the entire Miami Marlin's Bayro
(14:36):
Well that's not maybe talk about the Miami Marlins, but
well we could talk about the Colorado Rockies sixty seven
million dollars. Thus, goodbye Steven exactly right or eighty nine
fifty six? Who writes Mike Johnny Carson was very entertaining
and funny. He had what you call class. Absolutely he
would bring people on. He'd even bring politicians on and
(15:00):
you know, would ask them some serious questions that would
also laugh at them. And politicians would love to get
on Johnny Carson, regardless of outside of the political spectrum
they were on. And then Guber number ten twelve rights
a staff of two hundred for what amounts to forty
(15:22):
minutes of content each night. No wonder they're losing forty
million dollars a year. The ad revenue is just not there.
Their production costs have remained pretty much the same, except
now if you add in personnel, production costs of actually skyrocketed,
but the overhead to produce the show sans personnel has
(15:45):
remained fairly steady. Oh yeah, rent, You know, well, they
owned the building, but utilities that's probably gone up. Maintenance
and upkeep that's probably gone up a little bit. But still,
any enterprise, any private sector, in losing forty million dollars
a year is just not sustainable and at some point
you got to cut off the bleeding. Does it have
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anything to do with CBS Paramount plus all being sold
to Ellison And maybe maybe there was a part of that,
maybe there wasn't. But I will tell you this, when
you're not funny and you don't have the ratings, and
you don't and you're not producing the revenue, at some point,
they're going they're going to cut you off. We understand
the radio. We absolutely understand that in radio, which is
(16:31):
why I try to be entertaining and funny and serious
and do all of the emotions that keep people coming
back for more. They just don't get it. And I
think that's a reflection of our society at large. Quite frankly.
Can you imagine, in fact, I wish we had one
a Johnny Carson that would come out and do a
(16:54):
late night show. Not that I would stay up, but
I might DVR it and I might, you know, save
it to my DV, my online cloud or whatever and
watch it later. But if there was somebody that was
making fun of conservatives and making fun of liberals and
they were pretty much down the middle making fun of everybody,
I would find that entertaining. It would be fun. But
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nobody wants to do that anymore. And I think that
then kind of influences society at large, and we've just
kind of given up on it, and we've all gone
to our corners. I'll see if I can find those
stats about the happiness level of left versus right. Anyway,
So we came with Michael Brown. Glad to have you
(17:36):
with me. Text lines always open thirty three one zero three,
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I don't know why you're waiting. Just go do it
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(17:58):
joins me here.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
The former FEMA director talks your host, Michael Brown.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Brownie, No, Brownie, you're doing a heck of a jumb
The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Hey, welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad
to have you with me. So one of the I forget,
I know as in California, I know that much, and
I was with the President Bush obviously duh. But for
some reason we were coming back to Air Force one. Separately.
(18:27):
We had been at some event I forget, I don't remember.
I'll tell you in a minute. You'll understand why. I
don't really remember the details. But we were arriving at
Air Force one fairly simultaneously. But he was in the
beast and I was in my details suv and we
were arriving. But on the way back to wherever it
(18:49):
was that we were, whichever Air Force base or Air
National Guard base that Air Force one was sitting at,
I saw an in and Out burger. So I told
my detail pull through, because I want to order, just
like you know, a couple of dozen of in and
out burgers and a couple of dozen fries and take
them on board and just and give them out to
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whoever wants them. And of course Bush one on one,
so he took one, so that that's it. And it
was because uh in and out Burger, which is not
the greatest burger in the world, but in terms of
fast food burgers, it is good. But I sometimes wonder
if I don't think in and out burgers are good
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because there was a time, for example. And I'm not
a beer drinker, so you know, I just don't drink beer.
I just don't. I've tried beer all over the world,
so don't start at me with you know, have you
tried this? Have you tried that? I've tried every kind
of beer you can imagine. I just have never developed
a taste for it. But there was a period when
Cooorr's beer was not available east of the Mississippi, but
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obviously available in Colorado, available in the ol Oklahoma Panhandle
where I grew up, and so people would often ask, Hey, hey,
can if you're coming to see us in you know, Cleveland,
or if you're coming to see us in Chicago. You're
coming to see us in wherever, bring us some Cours beer.
So you know, we'd load up a couple of six
packs and we take Cours Beer to them. I sometimes
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think that's the attraction. In fact, you'll hear it in
just a minute that even In and Out recognizes this.
Sometimes that's the attraction of In and Out Burger because
they talk about having drawn a line pretty much along
the Mississippi River and we're never going to go east
of there. Well. In and Out President Lindsay Snyder's, the
family owned company, has revealed for the first time that
(20:39):
she and her family are leaving California. The family and
the way I read or listen to the sound bite,
they're taking corporate with them. Now, In and Out Burgers
are not leaving California. They'll still be there. They'll still
be in Utah, They'll still be in Arizona. This will
be in Texas, They'll still be in Colorado. I don't
(21:01):
know where else they are, but they'll still be where
they are now. And they may or may not, as
she tells, they may not put one in Tennessee simply
because Corpus is going to be there. But the reason
that they're living living, the reason they are leaving is fascinating.
After seventy seven years, seventy seven years, In and Out's
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going to say goodbye to its home state and set
up shop in Franklin, Tennessee. The granddaughter of the fast
food chain's founders, Lindsey Snyder, is staying true to the
company's Christian foundation while expanding its reach. She did a
(21:44):
podcast with Ali Beth Stuckey, who hosts something called Relatable Wobbs.
Relatable I'm not quite sure what it is. She is
the author of a New York Times best seller, and
she interviewed Lindsay Snyder, and the interview goes like, this happened.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
We're building an office in Franklin, so I'm actually moving
out there, and how do you.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Feel about that? You're like a California girl through right.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, I mean, I really loved living in northern California,
and I'm loved.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I loved past tense. Now, just to give you a
little ahead of where I'm going with this story, I
got shouted at by a spokesperson for the governor, Gavin Newsom.
Yes it was freaking hilarious. But I want you hear
the rest of this interview.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
So thankful that I grew up up there because I
think it changed a lot of who I am today.
You know, I think it would be different if I
was raised in southern California. But like you said, there's
a lot of great things about California. But raising a
family is not easy. We're doing business is not easy
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here Now.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Two fairly important things at least in my life, raising
a family, running or working for a business. Neither what
she says is easy in California, No feasy, Sherlock.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Really, the bulk of our stores are still going to
be here in California, but it will be wonderful having
an office out there, growing out there totally and being
able to have the family and other people's families out there,
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and so in that it's two part. We'll have everybody
under one roof here in Bolton Park and we'll close
our minds.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Okay, we're going.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
To have everyone. And she goes on to talk about
how they have a plan to give people plenty of time.
So I take from this interview that she's planning to
move corporate headquarters out of California, Hello, Elon Musk and
move elsewhere, not to Texas, but to Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, that's a that's a big transition, and that's happening
in the next few years.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Right. Yeah, we've kind of, you know, given it a
longer runway so that it's smoother for everybody so they
can plan. And I all love that, and we gave them, yeah,
a lot of notice, you know, because we love them
and want to make it as easy as possible. But yeah,
by twenty thirty, we'll close there mine office.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
So at one point you said that within your lifetime,
like if you draw lines from Texas, everything to the left,
like want in and out there, but not maybe to
the right of the line. And you talked about just
like the importance of the kind of like novelty of
in and out like that you liked when someone comes
into town where there's an in and out there like
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I got to go there, which is totally true.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's what people do, by the way.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
I'm guessing though, since you're going to be you know,
to the right of the line, that you're probably going
to be opening up.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
In and out stairs. So what does the strategy look like?
Has it changed? Well, it's funny. I think Kid Rock
his name is Bob.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I think he's the one that actually drew the new
map and he put the line up from Texas, grabbed Tennessee,
went around to sea and back up, and I'm like, yeah,
that's agree. So I think for me it's the same heart.
It's just I guess I would say a man plans
his ways and God's got the steps, you know. So
(25:28):
we had had a plan and then he snuck that
in there, and I think, you know, Florida has begged us,
and we're still saying no, you know, the East coast states,
we're still saying no. You know, we're able to reach
Tennessee from our Texas warehouse. So we're not putting our
whole meat facility where we do all of our own
(25:50):
beef and send it to our stores make patties. We're
not going to have that there. We will have a warehouse,
but not do our own meat there, so able to
deliver from Texas, so Texas can reach some other states,
you know.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
So yeah, you know yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
In and Out Corporate is leaving California. Now I reposted
that and let me pull up this is another reason
why y'ell to be following me on X. Let me
pull up that. I said. This was eighteen hours ago.
I just tweeted, I quote tweeted this interview, which you'll
(26:32):
find in my timeline, and simply said this In and
Out leaving California. That should tell you something. I drew
no conclusions. I left it wide open, simply to imply that, hey,
if a California based famous burger Chaine who's been there
(26:54):
for seventy seven years, has decided it's time to go,
they really I should tell you something. And oh boy,
did I get an earful from Brandon Richards. Brandon Richards
heads up the rapid response for California Governor Gavin Newsom. Yes, now,
(27:16):
he says this is his personal account, but he quoted
Governor Newsom for those interested in the facts rather than
the fiction. In and Out is expanding East, creating a
second headquarters in Tennessee. They are consolidating their two Southern
cal offices into one, creating a Western regional headquarter to
(27:37):
go along with there yet to be built Eastern regional headquarters.
All of this was announced earlier this year at They
cite a KCRA dot com article about in and Out
California headquarters and their expansion. He goes on to say
that what was announced today is the owner's family is relocating.
We had imagined a better oversee expansion in the eastern
(27:59):
US News territory for the company, and that they will
continue to expand in California, adding more locations in the
Golden State this year than any other state. And finally,
she quote she also said the book of the company
stores will remain in the Golden State. Well, yes, that's
(28:19):
where they started and that's where they're going to stay.
What is hilarious is that he completely ignores like, for example,
this is what I love about X. You know they
have what are called community notes. Well, the community notes
belie everything that Gavin Newsom and his spokesperson added me about.
(28:43):
That's next. It's the weekend of Michael Brown. Enjoy your
in and out Burger. The text line three to three
one zero three keyword Mike or Michael hang type, be
right back. Hey, it's the weekend of Michael Brown. For
being a little late there, I was busy eating some
in and out French fries and a double double animal fries.
(29:08):
It's always been fascinating to me about how the attraction
of in and out really is a lot about it.
It's not as quite quite as i'm the present assay MacDonald's,
and so it does have as they freely emit in
that interview, it has this attraction of which is true
(29:29):
about almost anything. Something's fairly rare, people want more of
it and try to get it. And I think that's
the case. I mean, now the in and out is
in Colorado. If I go to Scottsdale to see my daughter,
I'm not desperate to make it in and out. I
think I had an inn out. Oh, I got a
(29:49):
haircut a couple of days ago, and there's a there's
an in and out in Castle Rock, Colorado. So I
just stopped and had an in and out. I might
have won every few months now or something. So that
urged to you know, if I'm in California, if I
go out to see Michael or my team out at premiere.
I'm not going to die to get to the In
and Out Burger, But I just found it hilarious that
(30:12):
the governor's rapid response team has to respond to me
and try to say, oh, no, no, no, none of
this is true. Well crap if it's not true. The
owner site's issues with California's business climate, and yes the story.
They're not talking about closing down the stores. They're consolidating
the West Coast headquarter in baldmant Park. They're going to
(30:35):
expand a little bit into Tennessee. And the primary reason
for leaving our concerns for family safety and difficult business policies.
CNN had a fascinating story. The headline is In and
Out has what's smart computer doing? In and Out has
(30:56):
never closed a location until now. This is from January
of last year. It cites crime as the problem. In
and Out is permanently closing one of its restaurants for
the first time ever, announcing that its Oakland location will
shutter because of rampant crime in that California city. The
burger chain said in a statement that quote, despite taking
(31:19):
repeated steps to create safer conditions, our customers and associates
are regularly victimized by car breakhifts, property damage, theft, and
armed robberies. Could it also have something to do because
during the interview, Lindsey Snyder was asked about one of
(31:40):
the company's restaurants in San Francisco being forced to close
temporarily during the COVID nineteen d pandemic, because why if
you want no other reason to go eat in and out,
here's a reason why they refuse to comply with San
Francisco's mandate to require proof of vaccination for their indoor customers.
(32:06):
And in that interview, she defended the actions, saying, we
don't police our customers. Yeah, good for them, Good for them.
And if you want to pack up and move for
safety reasons, for business reasons, you know what. Governor, maybe
instead of adding a at a talk show host, maybe
(32:30):
what you ought to do is at your staff about
your policies that are running one of the most beautiful
states in the entire country, the state of California. Maybe
that's what you really ought to look at. And I'm
tired of your policies spilling over into states that areful
as beautiful as yours. The state of Colorado, and I
look around and see how Colorado's been californicated, and look,
(32:53):
and you know what, shut up and sit down, go away.
And I don't know what's wrong with Californias. Why do
you keep electing somebody like him, greasy hair, smooth, talking
line out both sides of his mouth all the time. Newsom,
shut up and sit down and in and out. Maybe
that's what I'll do after the show today. Yeah, today
(33:15):
is our wedding anniversary. How do you think it will
go over if I go home and say, a babe,
rather than that restaurant we made the reservations for, you know,
the really nice Italian place. Why don't we go to
In and Out? Yeah, let's have an in and out burger,
just you know, and then well we'll do is we'll
take a picture of you and me having an in
(33:36):
and out burger, and I'll send it to Brandon so
you can show it to the governor. Yeah, that's what
we'll do. What I love about stories like this is
how people just state the obvious. You know that there's
a story that I may or may not get to
the United Kingdom is implementing the equivalent of what you
(33:59):
might call a wealth tax, and it's hitting the wealthiest
people in the United Kingdom. Guess what they're doing. They're fleeing,
they're moving, and so this tax meant to help close
their budget deficit may end up producing exactly zero revenue.
(34:21):
Basic economics, Well, I think we've got we've got basic
economics going on here. You don't control the crime, you
don't control the immigration. You over regulate over you try
to tell everybody what to drive, you know, you try
to tell auto manufacturers you got to meet our standards. Well,
(34:41):
that means that you've got to Now you've got to
meet the standards for the entire country. Because a car
company is not going to make you know, it's not
going to take their manufacturing lines and say, Okay, this
line is for cars that go to California, and these line.
This other line is for cars that go to all
the other states in the country. I'm sick and tired
(35:02):
of California driving policies that affect the rest of the country. Now,
congratulations to Franklin, Tennessee for getting the corporate headquarters. It
would have been nice to have you in Colorado, But honestly,
could I recommend them move to Colorado?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Because we mirror too much of California. At some point,
I don't know when it will be, but at some
point politicians are going to continue. I think they're getting
pretty close, you know, to the typical tipping point where
businesses just say no more. I mean, look at Texas.
You look at Texas and you look at Florida and
(35:40):
you find that, oh yeah, businesses. You know, for most
of the financial firms in New York now have corporate
headquarters in Texas, and you'll find that, oh, they still
have offices in Wall Street. But most of the decision makers,
most of the everyday worker bees are really in Texas.
(36:03):
They're not in New York anymore. Why would that be,
Because just like water reaches its lowest level possible, people
look for where can I go and be the freest.
Where can I go and have the fewest regulations. Where
can I go and have the best opportunity to make
(36:24):
my business succeed or to make as much money as
I possibly can and have a great family life. Welcome
to the real world, Governor Newsom, tell Brandon to leave
me alone. It's the weekend of Michael Brown. Text Line
number three three one zero three keyword micro Michael, we'll
be right back.
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