September 2, 2024 • 34 mins
Wayne Resnick fills in for Bill on this Labor Day Monday and is joined by Heather Brooker for Handel on the News. Biden, Harris to meet with US hostage deal negotiating team as major protests erupt in Israel. Gov. Gavin Newsom calls California lawmakers into a special session to find ways to cut gas prices. Backup generators bail out Rancho Palos Verdes amid landslide crisis, SoCal Edison power shutoff. Ukraine carries out one of its biggest-ever drone attacks on Russia. 49ers Ricky Pearsall out of hospital after being shot in the chest in attempted robbery.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ladies and gentlemen, here's Wayne Resnick.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good morning, KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It is the Bill Handle Show. He is
taking labor day off. Wayne Resmek here sitting in for him.
Heather Brooker is here this morning in for Amy King,
Good morning, good morning. Ann is here, Kono is here
in good morning, good morning. The two on the morning
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crew who actually love you, dear listener.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Now, Heather, little bone to pick with you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
While so, it might not be your fault, it also
could be the fault of a news editor as well.
But what you have done this morning is you have
used up our entire FCC allotment of puns in that
Joey Chestnut Kobe Yashi hot dog eating story. Meaning for
this show now we can use no puns, no unless
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we want to pay a big fun.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Okay, fair enough, fair enough, Sorry about that might be
my fault. I can't pass up a good Wiener pun.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Don't listen, you're treading on thin ice right now. I
would be I.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Feel better if we just don't discuss the topic again,
because I'm afraid you'll slip one more out.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And you know it's ten five hundred dollars per violation.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Per pun yes, per access pun so, and I think
we can all agree this company is not a company
that wishes to expend any more money than they have.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
To right now.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Absolutely not a no mark.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Okay, Well, anyway, I hope everybody will have a nice
labor day, no matter what you're doing. And it is
time to do what we always do on this show
at the beginning, it's handle on the news with Heather
Brooker and me and our lead.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Story, I want to redfree. President Biden.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Vice President Harris will meet in the White House Situation
Room today along with the US hostage deal negotiating team.
This after the discovery of the murder of six hostages
held in Gaza, their bodies recovered. Mobs in the streets
of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, An Haifa and some other
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cities mad at their own government for not having made
a deal. By now, there is supposed to be a
general strike in Israel today in protest of the government's
in action. Now, early word is trickling in that it's
spotty because the thing in Israel is not everybody's on
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the same page, which is to say, there are people
who think net Yahu should have not been so aggressive
and should have negotiated more. There are other people in
Israel who love what he's doing, and so they're not
going to go on strike. Their stores will be open.
But it is a big political deal over there. And
I don't usually bring up things where I just saw
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it somewhere and I can't remember exactly where, and I
haven't had time to look into it, but I'm presenting
it as such, so you understand, unlike everybody on X,
I don't just say stuff is true when I have
no way of knowing it's true. But I did see this,
and my recollections it was a fairly reputable It wasn't
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just some dude on X.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That early on after the.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Hamas attack in Israel in October last year where these
hostages were taken, that very very soon thereafter, there was
a deal from Hamas to release all the hostages in
exchange for Israel agreeing not to go into the Gaza strip,
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and that net and Yaho said no, thank you, all.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Right, we're gonna come in there. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And some people are of course, saying so these these
people could have been freed, but if that's true, at
the expense of Israel being able to do anything meaningful
to respond to the original attack. So it's you know,
this is one of those impossible situations over there, and
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I don't know what Biden and Harris and this hostage
deal negotiating team really can do at this point, because
it sounds to me like neither side really want to
stop fighting and release hostages or, in the case of Israel,
Palestinian prisoners, which some people will say are equivalent to hostages.
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I don't think we're hearing a lot about how net
and Yahoo is intractable and he doesn't want to do anything,
and he's being.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
A real butt head.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But there's no evidence from the other side that they
really are like we're here with our white flags ready
to go. Come on, dude, that's not happening either. So
the meeting is closed to the press, we will not
know what is set inside.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well, this is also just more heartbreaking news from that story.
So the Israeli American hostages that were taken, the ones
who we just found out this weekend were murdered. The
parents of one of those hostages spoke at the DNC.
The parents of twenty three year old hersh Goldberg Poland,
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I hope I'm saying that correctly, spoke at the DNC
and tearfully begged the leaders to come up with a
ceasefire agreement. Of course, that was the DNC was just
a few weeks ago, and the twenty three year old
gold Pulland was the youngest of the six victims and
was a California native. They're attending the Nova Music Festival
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when Hamas attacked on October seventh, all.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Right, closer to home, Governor Newsom made the legislature.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Work over time over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
They were supposed to end their session Saturday and go
back to their districts for four months, and he called
a special session because there's a big.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And we're going to get into this in detail at seven.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So more briefly now, there's a big fight between people
who want to rein in energy prices, more specifically gasoline prices. Newsom,
who's being very hawkish on the thing, who has talked
about wanting to be able to impose price caps, wanting
to be able to penalize the oil companies if they
don't maintain enough inventory so that when they take a
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refinery out of commission for maintenance, it doesn't spike the
cost of gas. And a lot of people in Sacramento
who don't want to be that bold, and so he said, well, well,
I'm calling a special session and you guys will sit
your butts in your seats and you will at least
debate these laws that are that are on offer and
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at seven when we get into the details. It'll be
interesting between now and then, see if you can guess
why so many Democrats in Sacramento don't want to slam
the oil companies over these high gas prices.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And I'll just I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I'll take off that it's not because they got a
bunch of contributions and it's the money.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's not that something else.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I am really interested to listen to that, because our
gas prices here are absolutely insane and it's crazy to
me that nobody's doing anything about that, or why they're
not doing something about it. All Right, So this is
kind of a scary situation out there in Rancho Palace Verdes.
There's about one hundred and forty residents out there who
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are under evacuation warnings. So cal Edison shut off electricity
in the area, but these people were spared immediate evacuations
because of some backup generators. It's in the Portuguese Bend
community and apparently the landslides there are just getting so
bad that it's truly become a dangerous situation for the
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people who live there. The representative in the area, Janis Hahn,
has called for Governor Newsom to personally come to the
area and commit She's committed another five million dollars in
county funds to help respond to the disaster, and she's
asking for an emergency declaration from the governor.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Chris Adler's gonna be with us from KFI News at eight.
She's covering this story. One thing I know is today
one hundred and five more homes are going to have
their power cut off.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And it has to do with.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's not really the concerned for the safety of the people.
This area is so big where the land is shifting violently.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's like over six hundred acre area.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
There's a lot of electrical lines and electrical equipment on
that land. It's a concern about the safety of the electricity. Electricity,
electricity supply chain and that equipment and the things that
could happen like major fires and all kinds of stuff.
And you know, they had their gas cut off. A
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lot of these residents they have already had their gas
cut off for the same concern about the gas lines.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And then so.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's batman if you live there, and you obviously you
can't sell your house now.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
There's no selling your house now and moving somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And Ukraine has carried out a massive drone strike in
Russia targeting their energy infrastructure, hitting a refinery and a
power station pretty far across the Russian border. Not one
of these right on the edge things. They got in
there pretty far. And so the Russian Defense Ministry they're
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they're playing the game of yes, we agree, we agree
that there were hundreds of drones that came, but they
didn't do much.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We shot most of them down. Nothing to see.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Here, folks, except there's a lot to see, like refineries
up in smoke. So this is one small, i'm gonna say,
a victory. It's one small step in this thing that's been.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Going on for a very long time now.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Remember when Russian invaded Ukraine and everybody's like, oh, boy,
you know, six weeks from now, Ukraine is going to
be part of Russia.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It's all over.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Most of these things that are believed to be over
quickly are not over quickly. Maybe speeding, though on Pacific
Coast Highway can be over quickly.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Well, we can only hope. I know that there is
a new bill that is being proposed to help with that.
So you might remember ten months ago this really terrible
tragedy that happened. Four Pepperdine University students were hit when
a car that was allegedly speeding on PCH and Malibu
hit them while they were on the side of the
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road and killed them. Now this bill is requesting the
installation of five speed camera systems along that twenty one mile.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Stretch of PCH.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They're hoping it will deter speeders along those roads and
reckless driving. And it's already been passed in the Senate,
so they're hoping Governor Newsom will sign off on it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
He probably will. I don't know what the controversy would be.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Yeah, I can't imagine against it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Will it stop the really reckless or drunk or both drivers?
Will it stop the rich kids in their super expensive
cars that Daddy got them from driving like that.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
No, No, I mean I think what it will do
is introduce some accountability, you know, if instead of them
being able to maybe flee the scene or you know,
I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You won't in theory, if you speed past one of
those cameras, you won't get away with it, right right?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't know if you have direct TV, but eleven
million homes have DirecTV and some of those people in
some of those homes sat down yesterday to watch usc
LSU play a college football game and couldn't watch it
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because all the Disney owned channels, your ABC, your ESPN,
your FX and free Form and National Geographic, they're all gone.
It's the old contract dispute. And if you've ever had
cable TV, you know that this happens all the time.
There's a cycle of our contract is up for you
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to carry our channels. We want you to pay us
more money to carry our channels. We don't want to
pay you more money. Well, then you will not be
able to run our channels. And you turn on the
channel and there's a little crawl that says, like Disney's
preventing you from watching ESPN. Please call them and tell
them it sucks. So that's what's going on. It's right
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at the beginning of like a really heavy sports time.
You've got college football going on, NFL starting up a
week from today. Is the ESPN Monday Night football game.
I think it's the forty nine Ers and the Jets,
and isn't it isn't what's his face? Aaron Rodgers is
coming back. Remember he started with the Jets and like
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on the first play he got injured and he's been
out and now he's going to come back.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
So there's extra interest.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
In the game and direct TV people are not going
to be able to watch any of that.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I remember this happened a few years ago too with
KTLA here in town, and KTLA was doing a lot
of promotions on their website and on the channels that
people could see them on. I don't remember if it
was DirecTV or another service provider.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Could have been Comcast. Maybe, Yeah, it's happened.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's I mean, my memory is it's happened at least
eight to ten times in the last twenty years. It's
just a regular occurrence now, and they eventually make a
deal and the channels come back.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I always wonder, like with so many of these like
disputes happening here, there's more and more money being poured
into like local channels and things like that. Like one
of the channels affected by this is ABC seven here
in La. Yes, how is local news sustainable anymore? Like
it seems to cost so much more money than maybe
what they're getting out of it.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
And I don't know, that's just me.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well in this case. In this case, it's kind of
the the reverse though. This would be KABC local, which
is where isn't that where you watch Jeopardy? Yeah, and
Wheel of Fortune and all that stuff. They're you know,
they're owned by Disney, and what Disney wants is more
money for all their channels and KABC TV locally. But
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the problem is then so direct TV has to do what.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Raise your rates?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, and raiser rates, and it ultimately comes down to
the consumer. We don't even have cable anymore. We're one
of those court cutters. We just have the streamers because
it just was like so expensive and you can watch
everything on the app or online.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Or when you say you have streaming, do you have
something like YouTube TV?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I mean be happy or slaying where you're still where
it's like cable in the sense that you're getting a
similar lineup of channels that you would get if you
had cable. No, or are you talking only about having
things like Max.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
And only have Max Hulu, you know those those kind
of Netflix of course, those kinds of things. And we
if we want to watch local news, honestly, we just
watch it online right or on social to get updates.
But it's it was so expensive. We had at and T.
It was so expensive that we were like, we can
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save almost two hundred dollars a month. Is we never
watched the local channels anymore?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, it's not that you can get the same for
so much less. You're not getting what you had when
you were paying over two hundred dollars a month for cable.
But the stuff you're not getting you didn't want in
the first place.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Right, Yeah, I mean it's definitely not the same experience.
But we didn't ever watch it. I mean months had
gone by and we never turned our cable box on,
so it was like, why are we spending this money?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Anyway? I hope they get it. I hope they work
it out.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
They will. They always did watch it, because here's something.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Do you think Disney long term wants to not have
their channels on in eleven million homes?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
No way, of course not. They'll work it out. Oh
this guy I know, Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
He is suing North Carolina's state Board of Elections. This
is his attempt to get his name removed from the
state's ballot right before the presidential election. I guess he
doesn't want to pull away from Trump. Pull votes away
from Trump is why I'm guessing he's doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I guess he only wants to pull away votes from
Harris right. But unfortunately they're deadlines to do this. I mean,
this is very simple. The reason that Joe Biden is
coming off ballots and Robert F. Kennedy Junior is not
has to do with meeting the deadline to come off
the ballot.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You either meet it or you don't meet it.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah, he just waited too long to make that announcement.
I don't know why he thought he was gonna Trying
to even figure him out, It's the whole situation with
RFK Junior was fascinating to me.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I was like, what is this guy still here?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Like and we're at the halfway point in today's handle
on the news time, you might say, which brings us
to the case of the forty nine ers Ricky Piersall,
who is out of the hospital after being shot in
a robbery attempt while walking down the street in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
In the middle of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You know, I say that I go in the middle
of the day and I saw Anne kind of shak
her head.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Like, yeah, in the middle of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It's like, we we agree that somehow it's worse that
it was in the middle of the day, but I
couldn't explain to you why it's worse, but there just
seems to be. It's like dirty deeds should be done
in the dark. But I guess if we think it's
worse that it was in the middle of the day,
does that mean the robber who waits until nightfall is
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more of a gentleman? In any event, it's a seventeen
year old suspect that is in custody, so we don't
have a name, but came up to Piersall who was
walking and had some chopping bags, and there was a
struggle and they and here's the deal. So this kid
fires hits Piersall in the chest. Also he got somehow shot,
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but there's no evidence that Pearsall had a gun, so
I think he was extraordinarily bad with a firearm, so
much so that Piersall is out of the hospital, but
this kid is not. And now the DA up there,
Brooke Jenkins, who you know, took over and said, I'm
not going to be so soft on crime, said they
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got to figure out what to do because it's juvenile
so expecting a charging decision maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, I think,
And it'll start out in juvenile court. But if he's seventeen,
I mean that that's when you bind them over to
adult court.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I think, oh for sure. And for us to be
so brazen. I also think there's a false sense of
safety during the daytime, Like I think we all feel like, oh,
it's light out, everybody coming. We can see the bad
guys coming at it. So there's a false sense of safety.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah you're safe from vampires.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah for sure, not during this season and spooky season
all right. In New York, more than a ten thousand
hotel workers from twenty four hotels went on strike yesterday,
and of course this is labor Day, weekend, so there's
probably a lot of visitors in New York, so that's
going to be disrupting some of the services that they're getting.
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The hotels are still open, but guests are going to
deal with skeleton staff until they can. I guess the
union people can get back to work. Unite here is
the union representing the striking workers. They say they're striking
not just for better pay, but also better working conditions,
including the return of automatic daily room cleaning that many
hotels drop during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Did you just call it the pandemic? I did?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
I realized I probably should have formally.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So was that just a mouthflow?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Was that just a mouthflub which I have mouth flubs
every five words now?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Or is that a thing? You call it?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
That's what I call it. I jokingly will refer to
it as the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Just Oh, I don't, I don't. Let can we do
a quick poll of the morning crew? I don't, I
don't think I like.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
It a pandemic? And yeah, that's kind of weird. I
thought it was a flub as well.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh no, I like it?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Oh all right, split time? What decision on the morning show?
Calling it the pandemic.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well, Devin can weigh in, Devin, tiebreaker? Are you there, Devin?
You could be a tiebreaker? All right, Devon's not there.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
No, Oh, you know what, a pandemic could also be
a bakery product.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Okay, that's true.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Costco has raised their membership fee for the first time
in seven years. It took effect yesterday. The gold Star
and the Business memberships go from sixty to sixty five.
The executive memberships what a flex? What a flex at
the singles bar? Hey baby, you want to see what
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card I got.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
In my wallet? Yes, right, Executive.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Goes from one twenty to one thirty fifty two million memberships.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Now that's across the US and Canada.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's a lot of Costco member Well that's that's their
business model, as we all know because there have been
a million articles written about it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
They make their money from the memberships.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
They operate with thin margins on everything else, which is
why go to Costco if you're allowed, Because you know,
they started with scanners at the entrance. You got to
actually put your card on a scanner, and if your
card doesn't have your picture on it, you have to
show a photo ID. So they're cracking down on people
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who borrow other people's cards and just like flash it
and walk in. But anyway, if you go to Costco
and go to where the nuts are and look at
the price of macadamia nuts, which I think I paid,
it was sixteen something. I forgot the change amount for
twenty four ounces of dry roasted macadamia nuts, and they're good. Now,
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go anywhere else and look at the price of macadamia nuts.
So Costco is not making much money off of their
actual products, and if you use it enough, this is
no big deal at all for them to attack another
five bucks on there. I don't think now, I know
it's Bill upset.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Probably, oh man, I hope, I hope he he's always upset.
Hope he doesn't know about it yet.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
So I would take it. You're a Costco member.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm a Costco member. I'm not there all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I'm not you know, it's not that, but there's certain
things that are just the price of them is so
much less that it's totally worth.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It to buy them.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Men, even if you're paying that yearly membership fee, like
it doesn't it doesn't matter. We don't we're not members
of Costco. There's only three of people at my family,
so we kind of just feel like we didn't really
need to buy in both.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
They have a lot of stuff that you don't need
to have eight people in your house, though, especially things
like like, look.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm gonna tell you a little story now.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I saw I was looking for another shop back, a smaller.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
One, and I'm looking around.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I do think and I just said, oh, Shark makes this.
I'm not going to say that. I'm not trying to
like hype the product, but I like, oh, this is
this is what I want.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I want this thing that they make. And I look
around it you can.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Get it at Walmart, and you can get it at
best Buy and all this stuff, and I'm like, this
is the way I am.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I decided I want it. I want it now.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
So I look and I look, and one one Walmart
had it, not the one closest to me anyway, So
I buy it. And then a couple of days later.
This is all very recently. I was in Costco to
get macadamia nuts. But I walk around and they sell
the same product with two more attachments for ten dollars
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less than I bought it on sale at Walmart. So
it's not just the big bulk food and household supplies.
Things like vacuum cleaners, electric toothbrushes, computers, diamond rings.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
All those kinds of purchases.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Are deeply discounted.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
They're just your The prices are not just a little better.
In many cases, they are significantly better.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
All right, I'll revisit Costco.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
All right, I know this is what I'm about to complain.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
It's one hundred percent my fault, so I'm complaining against myself.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That was way too much time talking about Costco. I apologize.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
You don't need to apologize. We are giving the people
what they need on Labor Day.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Here's why.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I'm supposed to people who's who This is a transition,
as opposed to people who say they're gonna give you
something but it turns out they can't because they're.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Not who they say they are.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That is called catfishing, and California is the most catfish
state in the US. Apparently a new study found that wow,
nearly two hundred million dollars was lost to romance scams
in California, and as Wayne alluded to the word catfishing
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just so you for those not in the know, it's
kind of become a stand in for the online con
that lures somebody into our relationship, often romantic, and people
use a fake persona online or in some way to
lure people to give them money. So this new study
found that man, California's are getting scammed more.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Than any n But we're not. Here's the thing, it's like,
we're not. We're We're the most catfish state in terms of.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The dollar amount money.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, but not in terms of the amount of catfishing
because the number of catfishing victims is much higher in
For example, Alaska is number one, eleven point nine catfishing
victims per one hundred thousand residents, whereas here we're at
I think seven point seven, So we have a lower rate,
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but each catfishing costs more.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Well, people just don't give anyone online that you don't
know money. Just don't do it, right if you don't know,
even if you like, even if you think you know them,
just don't like. How many stories have we done over
the years about the like I just did one today
with the Irvine Police saying people are calling and pretending
to be police officers and saying that they need money.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Knock it off, don't do it. I could be a
little pedestal.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Nicer about it. I mean these are like, these are
vulnerable people.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
I'm mad about it.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
That are better falling to this. You're just like smart
enough dummies, stop it. They're already in distress obviously.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
How though, how.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Please don't please don't be because it's it's probably a scam, right,
Check with someone, Check with people, call police before you
give money to anybody, because we love you and we
don't want you to have your money taken.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Okay, And that's a nicer way to put it.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Wow, Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Pope Francis is embarking on the longest trip of his
popetom starting today. He will go for twelve days across
four countries. And he is eighty seven years old, and
he has had some health problems, but he is doing
this anyway. And if you wonder why he would undertake
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such a thing, let me tell you the countries that
he's going to, Indonesia, Papau, New Guinea, East Tmoor and Singapore.
What do they all have in common? Well, they're all
in generally the same part of the world. Because guess
what's happened to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church now
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is becoming more and more Asian based. It's not Eurocentric anymore.
It's not a Western world institution so much anymore. Asia
and Africa and even Latin America. That is where the
Catholic Church is growing. It's also where the people in
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the church, the officials and the members, the followers of
the church. It's where they are doing a lot of good.
Like for whatever the reason, Catholics in Asia really truly
are of the service to the community and helping people stripe.
(29:49):
So obviously you have to go where your population is,
and that means Pope Francis spending a lot more time
in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
He's gone to South Korea, in Japan and Philippines, and
he was in Thailand, and he was in Bangladesh, and
he was in meinmar He's also when he appoints cardinals
now he's appointing them from those parts of the world
because it's changing.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The church has really really changed.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Pope Francis, Oh, you already did that. One Germany, he's
far right party. Listen this story. I was just reading
about this. It's a little scary actually. Germany's far right
party wins the state election for the first time since
the Nazis. They won the most votes in the state election,
and the Christian Democratic Union, Germany's second largest party, finished
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in second place, and all other parties have vowed not
to form coalitions with the af D.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, they're not quite the Nazis, but they are a
hard right party, the alternative for Germany party.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
But even if you have to say not quite the Nazis.
Is the scary things to even think about.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well, it's only in two states. Look, we have in
this country. We have West Virginia, we have Alabama. We
have certain states in this country that are very far right,
and we have other states that are very far left.
It's notable there because of their history. Sure you'd think
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maybe it's they would wait a little longer before they
start dipping their toe back into the pond. But these
are two areas of Germany that are ready for a
more right leaning form of government. On the other hand,
as you said, they're not going to have any power
because nobody's going to get into a coalition with them.
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And then that means and this is sometimes sometimes this
is the price of extremism, is that you don't actually
have an power because the mainstream doesn't want to deal
with you. It's not so much here. You know, if
you're West Virginia and you're overwhelmingly read now, then you
get to have the policies that you want in the state,
but in parliamentary type countries where you have to form coalitions.
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When you do that, if most of the mainstream doesn't
want what you're about, you don't get anywhere. So there's
an argument to be made that to find people of
these two states in Germany, what they did is they
voted themselves out of having any real voice at a
national level.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Do you want to pick the last one?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I guess we should probably do these footprints, right, Yeah,
this is really amazing.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You know, a long long.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Time ago, there was no Atlantic Ocean, and you had
this part of Brazil that connected to a part of Cameroon. Yes,
and then it broke apart, you know, and then you
have the Atlantic Ocean. So here's the thing. Back then,
when they were connected, dinosaurs could come and go freely
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So now modern.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Age, there are identical dinosaur footprints in Brazil and all
the way in Cameroon.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
It's the exact same, not it's not the same guy, dude,
it's not like but it's the same type.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Of dinosaur, theropod, which they know it's the same because
you can look at it. They measured the hip height,
the speed range, the body mass for each footprint, and
it just goes to show that way back when the
dinosaurs were here, they were all over this planet, and
then they've been separated, but they're.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
They left their mark for us to see.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Did you see the new Jurassic Park movie. There's making
another one with Scarlett Johanson.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Ooh, well, maybe they'll address this finding. Yes, all right,
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Speaker 2 (00:57):
Now, Heather, little bone to pick with you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
While so, it might not be your fault, it also
could be the fault of a news editor as well.
But what you have done this morning is you have
used up our entire FCC allotment of puns in that
Joey Chestnut Kobe Yashi hot dog eating story. Meaning for
this show now we can use no puns, no unless
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we want to pay a big fun.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Okay, fair enough, fair enough, Sorry about that might be
my fault. I can't pass up a good Wiener pun.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Don't listen, you're treading on thin ice right now. I
would be I.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Feel better if we just don't discuss the topic again,
because I'm afraid you'll slip one more out.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And you know it's ten five hundred dollars per violation.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Per pun yes, per access pun so, and I think
we can all agree this company is not a company
that wishes to expend any more money than they have.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
To right now.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Absolutely not a no mark.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Okay, Well, anyway, I hope everybody will have a nice
labor day, no matter what you're doing. And it is
time to do what we always do on this show
at the beginning, it's handle on the news with Heather
Brooker and me and our lead.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Story, I want to redfree. President Biden.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Vice President Harris will meet in the White House Situation
Room today along with the US hostage deal negotiating team.
This after the discovery of the murder of six hostages
held in Gaza, their bodies recovered. Mobs in the streets
of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, An Haifa and some other
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cities mad at their own government for not having made
a deal. By now, there is supposed to be a
general strike in Israel today in protest of the government's
in action. Now, early word is trickling in that it's
spotty because the thing in Israel is not everybody's on
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the same page, which is to say, there are people
who think net Yahu should have not been so aggressive
and should have negotiated more. There are other people in
Israel who love what he's doing, and so they're not
going to go on strike. Their stores will be open.
But it is a big political deal over there. And
I don't usually bring up things where I just saw
(03:26):
it somewhere and I can't remember exactly where, and I
haven't had time to look into it, but I'm presenting
it as such, so you understand, unlike everybody on X,
I don't just say stuff is true when I have
no way of knowing it's true. But I did see this,
and my recollections it was a fairly reputable It wasn't
(03:47):
just some dude on X.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That early on after the.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Hamas attack in Israel in October last year where these
hostages were taken, that very very soon thereafter, there was
a deal from Hamas to release all the hostages in
exchange for Israel agreeing not to go into the Gaza strip,
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and that net and Yaho said no, thank you, all.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Right, we're gonna come in there. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And some people are of course, saying so these these
people could have been freed, but if that's true, at
the expense of Israel being able to do anything meaningful
to respond to the original attack. So it's you know,
this is one of those impossible situations over there, and
(04:41):
I don't know what Biden and Harris and this hostage
deal negotiating team really can do at this point, because
it sounds to me like neither side really want to
stop fighting and release hostages or, in the case of Israel,
Palestinian prisoners, which some people will say are equivalent to hostages.
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I don't think we're hearing a lot about how net
and Yahoo is intractable and he doesn't want to do anything,
and he's being.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
A real butt head.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But there's no evidence from the other side that they
really are like we're here with our white flags ready
to go. Come on, dude, that's not happening either. So
the meeting is closed to the press, we will not
know what is set inside.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well, this is also just more heartbreaking news from that story.
So the Israeli American hostages that were taken, the ones
who we just found out this weekend were murdered. The
parents of one of those hostages spoke at the DNC.
The parents of twenty three year old hersh Goldberg Poland,
(05:45):
I hope I'm saying that correctly, spoke at the DNC
and tearfully begged the leaders to come up with a
ceasefire agreement. Of course, that was the DNC was just
a few weeks ago, and the twenty three year old
gold Pulland was the youngest of the six victims and
was a California native. They're attending the Nova Music Festival
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when Hamas attacked on October seventh, all.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Right, closer to home, Governor Newsom made the legislature.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Work over time over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
They were supposed to end their session Saturday and go
back to their districts for four months, and he called
a special session because there's a big.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And we're going to get into this in detail at seven.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So more briefly now, there's a big fight between people
who want to rein in energy prices, more specifically gasoline prices. Newsom,
who's being very hawkish on the thing, who has talked
about wanting to be able to impose price caps, wanting
to be able to penalize the oil companies if they
don't maintain enough inventory so that when they take a
(06:54):
refinery out of commission for maintenance, it doesn't spike the
cost of gas. And a lot of people in Sacramento
who don't want to be that bold, and so he said, well, well,
I'm calling a special session and you guys will sit
your butts in your seats and you will at least
debate these laws that are that are on offer and
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at seven when we get into the details. It'll be
interesting between now and then, see if you can guess
why so many Democrats in Sacramento don't want to slam
the oil companies over these high gas prices.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And I'll just I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I'll take off that it's not because they got a
bunch of contributions and it's the money.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's not that something else.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I am really interested to listen to that, because our
gas prices here are absolutely insane and it's crazy to
me that nobody's doing anything about that, or why they're
not doing something about it. All Right, So this is
kind of a scary situation out there in Rancho Palace Verdes.
There's about one hundred and forty residents out there who
(08:04):
are under evacuation warnings. So cal Edison shut off electricity
in the area, but these people were spared immediate evacuations
because of some backup generators. It's in the Portuguese Bend
community and apparently the landslides there are just getting so
bad that it's truly become a dangerous situation for the
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people who live there. The representative in the area, Janis Hahn,
has called for Governor Newsom to personally come to the
area and commit She's committed another five million dollars in
county funds to help respond to the disaster, and she's
asking for an emergency declaration from the governor.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Chris Adler's gonna be with us from KFI News at eight.
She's covering this story. One thing I know is today
one hundred and five more homes are going to have
their power cut off.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And it has to do with.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's not really the concerned for the safety of the people.
This area is so big where the land is shifting violently.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's like over six hundred acre area.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
There's a lot of electrical lines and electrical equipment on
that land. It's a concern about the safety of the electricity. Electricity,
electricity supply chain and that equipment and the things that
could happen like major fires and all kinds of stuff.
And you know, they had their gas cut off. A
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lot of these residents they have already had their gas
cut off for the same concern about the gas lines.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And then so.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's batman if you live there, and you obviously you
can't sell your house now.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
There's no selling your house now and moving somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And Ukraine has carried out a massive drone strike in
Russia targeting their energy infrastructure, hitting a refinery and a
power station pretty far across the Russian border. Not one
of these right on the edge things. They got in
there pretty far. And so the Russian Defense Ministry they're
(10:08):
they're playing the game of yes, we agree, we agree
that there were hundreds of drones that came, but they
didn't do much.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We shot most of them down. Nothing to see.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Here, folks, except there's a lot to see, like refineries
up in smoke. So this is one small, i'm gonna say,
a victory. It's one small step in this thing that's been.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Going on for a very long time now.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Remember when Russian invaded Ukraine and everybody's like, oh, boy,
you know, six weeks from now, Ukraine is going to
be part of Russia.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It's all over.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Most of these things that are believed to be over
quickly are not over quickly. Maybe speeding, though on Pacific
Coast Highway can be over quickly.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Well, we can only hope. I know that there is
a new bill that is being proposed to help with that.
So you might remember ten months ago this really terrible
tragedy that happened. Four Pepperdine University students were hit when
a car that was allegedly speeding on PCH and Malibu
hit them while they were on the side of the
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road and killed them. Now this bill is requesting the
installation of five speed camera systems along that twenty one mile.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Stretch of PCH.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They're hoping it will deter speeders along those roads and
reckless driving. And it's already been passed in the Senate,
so they're hoping Governor Newsom will sign off on it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
He probably will. I don't know what the controversy would be.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Yeah, I can't imagine against it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Will it stop the really reckless or drunk or both drivers?
Will it stop the rich kids in their super expensive
cars that Daddy got them from driving like that.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
No, No, I mean I think what it will do
is introduce some accountability, you know, if instead of them
being able to maybe flee the scene or you know,
I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You won't in theory, if you speed past one of
those cameras, you won't get away with it, right right?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't know if you have direct TV, but eleven
million homes have DirecTV and some of those people in
some of those homes sat down yesterday to watch usc
LSU play a college football game and couldn't watch it
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because all the Disney owned channels, your ABC, your ESPN,
your FX and free Form and National Geographic, they're all gone.
It's the old contract dispute. And if you've ever had
cable TV, you know that this happens all the time.
There's a cycle of our contract is up for you
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to carry our channels. We want you to pay us
more money to carry our channels. We don't want to
pay you more money. Well, then you will not be
able to run our channels. And you turn on the
channel and there's a little crawl that says, like Disney's
preventing you from watching ESPN. Please call them and tell
them it sucks. So that's what's going on. It's right
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at the beginning of like a really heavy sports time.
You've got college football going on, NFL starting up a
week from today. Is the ESPN Monday Night football game.
I think it's the forty nine Ers and the Jets,
and isn't it isn't what's his face? Aaron Rodgers is
coming back. Remember he started with the Jets and like
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on the first play he got injured and he's been
out and now he's going to come back.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
So there's extra interest.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
In the game and direct TV people are not going
to be able to watch any of that.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I remember this happened a few years ago too with
KTLA here in town, and KTLA was doing a lot
of promotions on their website and on the channels that
people could see them on. I don't remember if it
was DirecTV or another service provider.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Could have been Comcast. Maybe, Yeah, it's happened.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's I mean, my memory is it's happened at least
eight to ten times in the last twenty years. It's
just a regular occurrence now, and they eventually make a
deal and the channels come back.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I always wonder, like with so many of these like
disputes happening here, there's more and more money being poured
into like local channels and things like that. Like one
of the channels affected by this is ABC seven here
in La. Yes, how is local news sustainable anymore? Like
it seems to cost so much more money than maybe
what they're getting out of it.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
And I don't know, that's just me.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well in this case. In this case, it's kind of
the the reverse though. This would be KABC local, which
is where isn't that where you watch Jeopardy? Yeah, and
Wheel of Fortune and all that stuff. They're you know,
they're owned by Disney, and what Disney wants is more
money for all their channels and KABC TV locally. But
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the problem is then so direct TV has to do what.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Raise your rates?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, and raiser rates, and it ultimately comes down to
the consumer. We don't even have cable anymore. We're one
of those court cutters. We just have the streamers because
it just was like so expensive and you can watch
everything on the app or online.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Or when you say you have streaming, do you have
something like YouTube TV?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I mean be happy or slaying where you're still where
it's like cable in the sense that you're getting a
similar lineup of channels that you would get if you
had cable. No, or are you talking only about having
things like Max.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
And only have Max Hulu, you know those those kind
of Netflix of course, those kinds of things. And we
if we want to watch local news, honestly, we just
watch it online right or on social to get updates.
But it's it was so expensive. We had at and T.
It was so expensive that we were like, we can
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save almost two hundred dollars a month. Is we never
watched the local channels anymore?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, it's not that you can get the same for
so much less. You're not getting what you had when
you were paying over two hundred dollars a month for cable.
But the stuff you're not getting you didn't want in
the first place.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Right, Yeah, I mean it's definitely not the same experience.
But we didn't ever watch it. I mean months had
gone by and we never turned our cable box on,
so it was like, why are we spending this money?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Anyway? I hope they get it. I hope they work
it out.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
They will. They always did watch it, because here's something.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Do you think Disney long term wants to not have
their channels on in eleven million homes?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
No way, of course not. They'll work it out. Oh
this guy I know, Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
He is suing North Carolina's state Board of Elections. This
is his attempt to get his name removed from the
state's ballot right before the presidential election. I guess he
doesn't want to pull away from Trump. Pull votes away
from Trump is why I'm guessing he's doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I guess he only wants to pull away votes from
Harris right. But unfortunately they're deadlines to do this. I mean,
this is very simple. The reason that Joe Biden is
coming off ballots and Robert F. Kennedy Junior is not
has to do with meeting the deadline to come off
the ballot.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You either meet it or you don't meet it.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah, he just waited too long to make that announcement.
I don't know why he thought he was gonna Trying
to even figure him out, It's the whole situation with
RFK Junior was fascinating to me.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I was like, what is this guy still here?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Like and we're at the halfway point in today's handle
on the news time, you might say, which brings us
to the case of the forty nine ers Ricky Piersall,
who is out of the hospital after being shot in
a robbery attempt while walking down the street in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
In the middle of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You know, I say that I go in the middle
of the day and I saw Anne kind of shak
her head.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Like, yeah, in the middle of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It's like, we we agree that somehow it's worse that
it was in the middle of the day, but I
couldn't explain to you why it's worse, but there just
seems to be. It's like dirty deeds should be done
in the dark. But I guess if we think it's
worse that it was in the middle of the day,
does that mean the robber who waits until nightfall is
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more of a gentleman? In any event, it's a seventeen
year old suspect that is in custody, so we don't
have a name, but came up to Piersall who was
walking and had some chopping bags, and there was a
struggle and they and here's the deal. So this kid
fires hits Piersall in the chest. Also he got somehow shot,
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but there's no evidence that Pearsall had a gun, so
I think he was extraordinarily bad with a firearm, so
much so that Piersall is out of the hospital, but
this kid is not. And now the DA up there,
Brooke Jenkins, who you know, took over and said, I'm
not going to be so soft on crime, said they
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got to figure out what to do because it's juvenile
so expecting a charging decision maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, I think,
And it'll start out in juvenile court. But if he's seventeen,
I mean that that's when you bind them over to
adult court.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I think, oh for sure. And for us to be
so brazen. I also think there's a false sense of
safety during the daytime, Like I think we all feel like, oh,
it's light out, everybody coming. We can see the bad
guys coming at it. So there's a false sense of safety.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah you're safe from vampires.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah for sure, not during this season and spooky season
all right. In New York, more than a ten thousand
hotel workers from twenty four hotels went on strike yesterday,
and of course this is labor Day, weekend, so there's
probably a lot of visitors in New York, so that's
going to be disrupting some of the services that they're getting.
(20:30):
The hotels are still open, but guests are going to
deal with skeleton staff until they can. I guess the
union people can get back to work. Unite here is
the union representing the striking workers. They say they're striking
not just for better pay, but also better working conditions,
including the return of automatic daily room cleaning that many
hotels drop during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Did you just call it the pandemic? I did?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
I realized I probably should have formally.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So was that just a mouthflow?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Was that just a mouthflub which I have mouth flubs
every five words now?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Or is that a thing? You call it?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
That's what I call it. I jokingly will refer to
it as the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Just Oh, I don't, I don't. Let can we do
a quick poll of the morning crew? I don't, I
don't think I like.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
It a pandemic? And yeah, that's kind of weird. I
thought it was a flub as well.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh no, I like it?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Oh all right, split time? What decision on the morning show?
Calling it the pandemic.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well, Devin can weigh in, Devin, tiebreaker? Are you there, Devin?
You could be a tiebreaker? All right, Devon's not there.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
No, Oh, you know what, a pandemic could also be
a bakery product.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Okay, that's true.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Costco has raised their membership fee for the first time
in seven years. It took effect yesterday. The gold Star
and the Business memberships go from sixty to sixty five.
The executive memberships what a flex? What a flex at
the singles bar? Hey baby, you want to see what
(22:03):
card I got.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
In my wallet? Yes, right, Executive.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Goes from one twenty to one thirty fifty two million memberships.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Now that's across the US and Canada.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's a lot of Costco member Well that's that's their
business model, as we all know because there have been
a million articles written about it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
They make their money from the memberships.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
They operate with thin margins on everything else, which is
why go to Costco if you're allowed, Because you know,
they started with scanners at the entrance. You got to
actually put your card on a scanner, and if your
card doesn't have your picture on it, you have to
show a photo ID. So they're cracking down on people
(22:49):
who borrow other people's cards and just like flash it
and walk in. But anyway, if you go to Costco
and go to where the nuts are and look at
the price of macadamia nuts, which I think I paid,
it was sixteen something. I forgot the change amount for
twenty four ounces of dry roasted macadamia nuts, and they're good. Now,
(23:11):
go anywhere else and look at the price of macadamia nuts.
So Costco is not making much money off of their
actual products, and if you use it enough, this is
no big deal at all for them to attack another
five bucks on there. I don't think now, I know
it's Bill upset.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Probably, oh man, I hope, I hope he he's always upset.
Hope he doesn't know about it yet.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
So I would take it. You're a Costco member.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm a Costco member. I'm not there all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I'm not you know, it's not that, but there's certain
things that are just the price of them is so
much less that it's totally worth.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It to buy them.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Men, even if you're paying that yearly membership fee, like
it doesn't it doesn't matter. We don't we're not members
of Costco. There's only three of people at my family,
so we kind of just feel like we didn't really
need to buy in both.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
They have a lot of stuff that you don't need
to have eight people in your house, though, especially things
like like, look.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm gonna tell you a little story now.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I saw I was looking for another shop back, a smaller.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
One, and I'm looking around.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I do think and I just said, oh, Shark makes this.
I'm not going to say that. I'm not trying to
like hype the product, but I like, oh, this is
this is what I want.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I want this thing that they make. And I look
around it you can.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Get it at Walmart, and you can get it at
best Buy and all this stuff, and I'm like, this
is the way I am.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I decided I want it. I want it now.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
So I look and I look, and one one Walmart
had it, not the one closest to me anyway, So
I buy it. And then a couple of days later.
This is all very recently. I was in Costco to
get macadamia nuts. But I walk around and they sell
the same product with two more attachments for ten dollars
(25:02):
less than I bought it on sale at Walmart. So
it's not just the big bulk food and household supplies.
Things like vacuum cleaners, electric toothbrushes, computers, diamond rings.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
All those kinds of purchases.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Are deeply discounted.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
They're just your The prices are not just a little better.
In many cases, they are significantly better.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
All right, I'll revisit Costco.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
All right, I know this is what I'm about to complain.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
It's one hundred percent my fault, so I'm complaining against myself.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That was way too much time talking about Costco. I apologize.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
You don't need to apologize. We are giving the people
what they need on Labor Day.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Here's why.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I'm supposed to people who's who This is a transition,
as opposed to people who say they're gonna give you
something but it turns out they can't because they're.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Not who they say they are.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That is called catfishing, and California is the most catfish
state in the US. Apparently a new study found that wow,
nearly two hundred million dollars was lost to romance scams
in California, and as Wayne alluded to the word catfishing
(26:17):
just so you for those not in the know, it's
kind of become a stand in for the online con
that lures somebody into our relationship, often romantic, and people
use a fake persona online or in some way to
lure people to give them money. So this new study
found that man, California's are getting scammed more.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Than any n But we're not. Here's the thing, it's like,
we're not. We're We're the most catfish state in terms of.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The dollar amount money.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, but not in terms of the amount of catfishing
because the number of catfishing victims is much higher in
For example, Alaska is number one, eleven point nine catfishing
victims per one hundred thousand residents, whereas here we're at
I think seven point seven, So we have a lower rate,
(27:07):
but each catfishing costs more.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Well, people just don't give anyone online that you don't
know money. Just don't do it, right if you don't know,
even if you like, even if you think you know them,
just don't like. How many stories have we done over
the years about the like I just did one today
with the Irvine Police saying people are calling and pretending
to be police officers and saying that they need money.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Knock it off, don't do it. I could be a
little pedestal.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Nicer about it. I mean these are like, these are
vulnerable people.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
I'm mad about it.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
That are better falling to this. You're just like smart
enough dummies, stop it. They're already in distress obviously.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
How though, how.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Please don't please don't be because it's it's probably a scam, right,
Check with someone, Check with people, call police before you
give money to anybody, because we love you and we
don't want you to have your money taken.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Okay, And that's a nicer way to put it.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Wow, Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Pope Francis is embarking on the longest trip of his
popetom starting today. He will go for twelve days across
four countries. And he is eighty seven years old, and
he has had some health problems, but he is doing
this anyway. And if you wonder why he would undertake
(28:39):
such a thing, let me tell you the countries that
he's going to, Indonesia, Papau, New Guinea, East Tmoor and Singapore.
What do they all have in common? Well, they're all
in generally the same part of the world. Because guess
what's happened to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church now
(29:02):
is becoming more and more Asian based. It's not Eurocentric anymore.
It's not a Western world institution so much anymore. Asia
and Africa and even Latin America. That is where the
Catholic Church is growing. It's also where the people in
(29:24):
the church, the officials and the members, the followers of
the church. It's where they are doing a lot of good.
Like for whatever the reason, Catholics in Asia really truly
are of the service to the community and helping people stripe.
(29:49):
So obviously you have to go where your population is,
and that means Pope Francis spending a lot more time
in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
He's gone to South Korea, in Japan and Philippines, and
he was in Thailand, and he was in Bangladesh, and
he was in meinmar He's also when he appoints cardinals
now he's appointing them from those parts of the world
because it's changing.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The church has really really changed.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Pope Francis, Oh, you already did that. One Germany, he's
far right party. Listen this story. I was just reading
about this. It's a little scary actually. Germany's far right
party wins the state election for the first time since
the Nazis. They won the most votes in the state election,
and the Christian Democratic Union, Germany's second largest party, finished
(30:47):
in second place, and all other parties have vowed not
to form coalitions with the af D.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, they're not quite the Nazis, but they are a
hard right party, the alternative for Germany party.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
But even if you have to say not quite the Nazis.
Is the scary things to even think about.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well, it's only in two states. Look, we have in
this country. We have West Virginia, we have Alabama. We
have certain states in this country that are very far right,
and we have other states that are very far left.
It's notable there because of their history. Sure you'd think
(31:32):
maybe it's they would wait a little longer before they
start dipping their toe back into the pond. But these
are two areas of Germany that are ready for a
more right leaning form of government. On the other hand,
as you said, they're not going to have any power
because nobody's going to get into a coalition with them.
(31:53):
And then that means and this is sometimes sometimes this
is the price of extremism, is that you don't actually
have an power because the mainstream doesn't want to deal
with you. It's not so much here. You know, if
you're West Virginia and you're overwhelmingly read now, then you
get to have the policies that you want in the state,
but in parliamentary type countries where you have to form coalitions.
(32:17):
When you do that, if most of the mainstream doesn't
want what you're about, you don't get anywhere. So there's
an argument to be made that to find people of
these two states in Germany, what they did is they
voted themselves out of having any real voice at a
national level.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Do you want to pick the last one?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I guess we should probably do these footprints, right, Yeah,
this is really amazing.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You know, a long long.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Time ago, there was no Atlantic Ocean, and you had
this part of Brazil that connected to a part of Cameroon. Yes,
and then it broke apart, you know, and then you
have the Atlantic Ocean. So here's the thing. Back then,
when they were connected, dinosaurs could come and go freely
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So now modern.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Age, there are identical dinosaur footprints in Brazil and all
the way in Cameroon.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
It's the exact same, not it's not the same guy, dude,
it's not like but it's the same type.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Of dinosaur, theropod, which they know it's the same because
you can look at it. They measured the hip height,
the speed range, the body mass for each footprint, and
it just goes to show that way back when the
dinosaurs were here, they were all over this planet, and
then they've been separated, but they're.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
They left their mark for us to see.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Did you see the new Jurassic Park movie. There's making
another one with Scarlett Johanson.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Ooh, well, maybe they'll address this finding. Yes, all right,
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