October 4, 2024 • 27 mins
KFI food enthusiast and Fork Reporter Neil Saavedra comes on the program to talk about McDonald’s chicken Big Mac, coffee creamer ain’t cream, and why not to use knife blocks A young doctor’s dilemma: Stay home or move where abortion is protected. The show closes with this week’s ‘World in Review.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty the bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. And this is CAFI
bill Handle Here. It is a Friday morning, October four.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
At the last segment, I do this week's world in Review.
Now it is time for Foody Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Neils, sorry, are you right?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
No? I just had a little cough, Nil Savader, and
I always engage in foody Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
A couple of things about foody Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Number one, I have my fritatas in front of me, okay,
because that's particularly appropriate, and I think what's happening is
the reason I'm coughing is a lot. I have a
lot of top tia sauce and on my fertatas. Okay,
So there's that before listening, by the way, I know.
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And then I was just having a conversation with Lindsay
because of all this about gestive systems, and of course
here is another Gerbil, what what creature on this planet
has the fastest digestive system where you eat? Nope, nope, nope,
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shrimp and plata pie or platypusses. Strangely enough, and plat
is it Platypusses or platy pie.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's not a plate of pie. I know it's whatever
fastest digestive system on the planet. Okay, I just thought
i'd share that with you in case you ever get
asked that on Jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And I was gonna I was going to say some
Beverly Hills woman on ozembic.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But that's all right, not bad, not bad, all right,
So Neil, let's do it. It's foody Friday, and let's start
with McDonald's chicken Big Mac.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And before we get into that, my new place, the.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Closest food establishment to my new house is an in
and out Burger, which is very problematic and very dangerous,
so you know, right on and it's right on the
way to my house.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So it's very.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
When Amy and I were repelling last week down the
Hilton there in Universal City, you're right across the freeway
from the Oh yeah, I kept thinking, is you know,
if they just make like a just like a cable,
I can probably make it there.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You can get any.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Wine right to it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Okay, so you don't think of chicken when you're talking
about a big Mac, So explain what's going with.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
That going on?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
McDonald's been making lots of waves. Obviously this summer fast
food prices went up. They had the introduction of their
popular five dollars value meal. That's then they announced it
sticking around to December. So they're doing all these different things,
special cups for the new mcflurry, you know, all kinds
of things that they're getting attention on.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Well, this one I think is super cool.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
McDonald's getting ready for one of the huge announcements of
twenty twenty four, and that is the chicken Big Mac.
So imagine it is a big Mac with all everything
except instead of to all beef patties, it's two chicken
patties that are breaded.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So the question is is it anything else is on there?
Is it going to be on the menu?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Is it one of those We're gonna put it on
the menu permanently if it is a huge success, which
I'm assuming it is because chicken patties are insanely good
and people love them, both.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Spicy and non spicy. You see this on the.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Menu possibly, but they haven't announced that it will be.
The thing with this is that it is on the
menu in other places. They have it in other countries
like Canada, the UK, Australia. Everyone has talked about it
for a long time here in the States because we've
all known that it exists somewhere else. And if you're
like me, I love going to McDonald's all over the world.
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Whenever I'm in another country that's McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Love them.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We have traveled now.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Actually now the Fries are identical, but the meals are
different often and although they'll have you know, quarter pounders
or the Royale or whatever it is in France, but
they do have a lot of other different things as well.
And so we've known about this, but we've never had
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it here in the States. So October tenth is going
to be hit in menus nationwide here in the States
while supplies last, and if there's enough response then yeah,
it might just stay around.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean, it is basically the big map.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You've got two crispy temper breaded chicken patties will be
swapped out or the beef patties will be swapped out
for that. It still has the signature club bun or
the middle bun there along with big mac sauce, lettuce, cheese,
and pickles.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
No mince onions with this.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
One sesame seed bud.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, but it's like I got to say, the giant
nugget sandwich.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Two things, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Sir one a little bit of history that you and
I have experienced.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Uh, Neil and I.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Went to a Big Mac and some Paulo Brazil and
uh the donald yep, the the hot well And we
went to McDonald's in some Paulo, Brazil and we ordered
the Big Mac and it is described the word inedible
is actually in the description on that on the counter. Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Brazil was the worst McDonald's experience I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
There was something a brown sauce on it.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was really just completely yeah, completely disgusting.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And then before uh McDonald before we.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Take a break, and I'm going to ask you about
this on the knife block. Issue is that we talk
about the prices. You talked about the prices of.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Fast food, which are astronomical.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I think the best value out there is still in
and Out because you get the Happy the version of
the Happy meal, the fries, the drink, and the double
double burger for under eleven bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh yeah, and that's including tax. That's including tax.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
There are some people that argue that they might have
changed the portion sizes. I didn't see it, and the
only reason why, and this is going around, I don't
know it to be true.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I've never seen it or noticed it.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
The only reason is that they've showed a ordering board
from years ago, where yes, the prices had changed, but
also the calorie count had changed, and there's no way
to change the calorie count unless changing ingredient size.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
All right, and one of the topics that you put
up there is a piece of advice, don't use knife blocks.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I have used knife.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Blocks ever since I started buying knife sets.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So explain to me why that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I love them, I get it, and I stopped using
them for one main reason.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I noticed what was happening.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You don't notice it by looking at it, but what
was happening was water would sometimes get under the knife block.
You'd wipe it, you'd move it, you'd wipe it all off,
and if you didn't wipe the bottom of it, it
would start to mildew or crack or build up bacteria.
That turned me off to them a long time ago. However,
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there's more to it than that. It could dull your knives.
Oftentimes people will buy them as like a third party
deal or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
They're just a generic knife block.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They weren't customized and made for your knife set at
and so they can dull your knife, they can harbor bacteria.
They can also even if they are built for your knives,
Oftentimes they come as a full set and you end
up buying a bunch of knives that you really don't need.
You really just need a good chef's knife, a pairing knife,
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and a serrated bread knife. Those are my three go
to knives. Those are what you're gonna use the most.
Oftentimes they take up a lot of counter space, and
counter real estate is important, especially if you have a
smaller kitchen. So they just really for the protection of
the knife and everything else and cleanliness. I just don't
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use them anymore. Where do you put your knives, Well,
there's two ways. In my house here I have a
special drawer for them that is made for them, and
then I use Also secondarily is a magnet, a knife magnet.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
They come. They're lovely. You get them in wood and
all kinds of things.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
They go on the side of a cabinet and the
knives stick to them flat, so you're not going to
ding them up, and they're open air, so they're not
caught in a moist, warm environment. And those are the
ways that I use them.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right, so I have to rethink that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And then finally, coffee creamer ain't cream. It's all petroleum byproducts.
I understand, I.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Believe it or not. There is no cream in coffee creamer.
It's got zero dairy. As a matter of fact, it's
made with corn syrup, water partially hydroggenated vegetable oils, and
that's made it to make it look kind of creamy
and sweet. But tons of chemicals in there, and it's
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super super high in sugar. It tends to make you
want more sugar, and it is.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
And even though sugar free creamers that people tell me.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
They'll go no, I use the sugar free. They're worse.
They got artificial kinds of sugars in there. They can
mess with your gut, health and all kinds of things.
So they're hard to use in moderation because people put
so many of them there.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, two things, two things real.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, by the way they're sold in health food stores,
I understand. It's the number one issue, number one product.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Two they're impossible to open.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I use creamer occasionally and you open them and the
creamer inside flies.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
All over the place. I just it's disgusting to use them.
And how about the half and half.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Where you buy those little coffee creamer things and there's
half and half in there.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, well not when they're sitting out.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well yeah, don't they.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Do the radiation with that where you know, they do
something and it sits out there.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And it's still good.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I will tell you the best thing to use the
coffee creamers for. I used to do this at Denny's
and stuff freak out your servers. Is you cup one
in your hand with the foil facing outward. You pretend
like there's something in your eye. You put your hand
up there hiding the creamer, and then you go, oh
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my gosh, my I hurts. You pull pick up a fork,
shove it into the foil and all this white stuff comes.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Out of your eye and it freaks the hell out
of them.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That's the best use, no, I know, I understand that.
From so the bottom line, those all right? Those I'm
thinking in terms of this little individual coffee creamers that
you see in officers that's sitting out.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
They are probably not cream or dairy, Okay, and so
the best way to use them, I'm assuming, is just
put the little package in the coffee and just let
them float to the top and don't let the creamer
come out. Yeah, just looks like marshmallows. Yes, hot cream.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes, all right, we're done, guys. That's it on Foody Friday.
Neil is on tomorrow morning from two to five, and
he will not be in studio. He will be at
the Pokedo Moss in Encino. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
They're Dura Boulevard. Yeah, fund I've been there on ways
and swag, I've.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Been there many many a time.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now I want to share with you for a moment
an issue of abortion. And you know that's become huge
Republicans I think guessed kind of wrong, uh in many
cases because if you look at the elections, if you
look at what's happening around the country, people really want
reproductive rights. And uh, it's become a huge, huge presidential
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election issue. So it's not just women deciding where to
go because they certain states you can't do it anymore.
There are sixteen states that are so restrictive for make
abortions straight out illegal. Women have to go someplace else,
California being one. Of them, because California is probably the
most pro choice state in the United States. Is in
the constitution you have the right for an abortion. I'll
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tell you what else does have a real big problem
and has to go out of state doctors obg yn
Doctors who believe in pro choice and they perform abortion procedures,
and where do they go. There's a story in the
Wall Street Journal about this doctor, doctor Kylie bah and
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she's Indiana.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I mean, she lives in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
She grew up in Indiana, she went undergrad and medical
school in Indiana. She doesn't miss an ND five hundred,
and she is finishing up her residency and obviously believes
in pro choice.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Where the hell does she go?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And so she has to uproot herself and go into
another state. Where does she train for abortions? And that's
part of the rotation. It is what's happening. And I'll
bet you didn't know this. Medical schools are partnering with
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Planned Parenthood around the country where abortion is legal, and
they are training in those states and then deciding.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Where to go.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So usually you have a resident decides where she or
he is going to go in in what field. I
love Obgyn I love cardio cardiology. I want to be
an INTERNUS whatever. So people apply all over the country
and frankly, the better of the program, you just sort
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of go to it. She wants to stay in Indiana.
She wants to practice as an obgyn. She wants to
be able to perform abortions because she thinks that's part
of a legitimate medical practice and women need those services.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
What a dilemma. Where does she go?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Indiana used to be one of those states that women
went to to have an abortion, and that is gone
even to the point where there are a group of
doctors in states and we're talking about doctors coming out
of medical school, coming out of residency and now want
to practice and either they are going either they're just
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out of medical school and are going into residency or
out of residency and they're looking for a place where
they can practice. There's an entire group of them, and
it's interesting. Do you know what's going on with them?
And you wouldn't think this, but there are substantial numbers,
including this doctor, right, doctor Bah, And they're having tattoos
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on their arms of coat hangers to indicate that if abortion,
if legal abortion is not allowed, then Hangar.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Abortions will be part and parcel.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
We know there are some statistics already that have come out,
and that is we know there are women who have
had huge problems because they couldn't get abortion. Those are
so few they become poster children. They was talked about
in the vice presidential debate. And if you have three
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or four or five, come on, guys, really is that
across the board. That's like arguing that if you have
an illegal immigration problem and one illegal immigrant commits murder, coming.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Over there for the whole process is terrible.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Come on, that's not a legitimate argument. What is the
legitimate argument is where do doctors train and what happens if.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
They do perform an abortion?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And there is a story about one doctor, doctor Caitlin Barnard,
in twenty twenty two. She had to have security guards
protecting her and her family because she performed an abortion
on a ten year old who had been raped and
the grief she got, Indiana's Attorney general bought a case,
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brought a case against her. Now, there are exceptions, and
it was legal because there is an exception in Indiana.
But here's the problem is that the attorney general is
so anti abortion. He brought a case against her, filed
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a case not for the abortion but for violating discussing
the girl's case, and she was fined three thousand dollars
because of just the general philosophy.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So we're gonna see what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The political strength of the abortion issue is far greater
than what the Republicans thought it was going to be.
The decision to overturn Roe versus Wade and it goes
to the States is far greater on reproductive rights and
women's rights.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Mili did the story this morning.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
A Milania Trump came out in her new book as
strong pro abortion as.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I have seen anybody out there.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I mean, it's quote after quote after quote in which
she talks about a woman's right to an abortion and
to control of her own body.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's become a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And we'll see how many women just on that issue
alone are going to vote for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We do know during the mid terms where abortion rights
was put on were put on the ballot, the pro
abortion voters, pro abortion part of the electric voted in
favor of reproductive rights, taking the Republicans just spun them
around in really conservative areas. So we're going to see
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what happens. We'll be talking a lot more about that
before the election.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Clearly, okay, living under a rock.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well, here's what you've missed piping hot off the newswires
from around the corner to around that world.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
This is this week's world in review.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And we have some good news and bad news that
we have looked at over this past week. Let me
start with good news for a change, and then get
that out of the way, and then get into.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The bad news, which I always enjoy far more.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
On a guess a positive note, Jimmy Carter turned one
hundred years old. We've never had a centenarian president. He
is by far the longest lived president in American history.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I don't know the longest lived. There have been some
in their nineties. He is well, if you notice, if you've.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Seen a picture of Jimmy Carter, he's one hundred and
he doesn't look a day over one hundred and thirty.
He is, and he's been in hospice for the last
twelve years or something.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I have no idea, you know what.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
The worst part about turning one hundred is turning one
hundred no, you can no longer play with legos because
on the box it says from one to ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Ah does it?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
One from one to ninety nine. So he can't play
with legos anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All right, Okay, fair enough, didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Now, in another bit of good news, especially for Mexico,
Claudia Shinbaum Mexico's new president, the first woman and the
first Jew to be elected president. Now she downplays the
fact that she is Jewish. It became an issue when
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she said she was happy to be the president.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That was a little problematic. However, she is.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I mean, her credentials are insane, engineer, just all of it,
I mean, very bright, right, ladies.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
So she took office yesterday.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
She's sixty two years old, an environmental engineer, former Mexico
City mayor, and Mexico has an interesting situation or an
interesting what's the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
They're the way they do the presidency.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Good for you, Bill, I'm right on when it comes
to language, and that is they do one six year term, which,
if you think about it, makes so much sense because
what happens when a president can run for a second term,
as we do.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
We're allowed. Presidents allow two terms.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Is a president has sworn in four years later, is
out there hustling like crazy, raising money, going to events,
going to the state fairs, eating hot dogs and eating
bad food, fried everything to try to get elected Mexico.
You're done, you run for president. You got six years.
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I wish we would do that. I wish we would
do that. Now moving on to other news, Jack Smith,
who is a special prosecutor, filed expanded the lawsuit against
Donald Trump more facts relating to his involvement in January
sixth to stop the election, and turned the case around
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a little bit. Because the Supreme Court ruled a president,
if he or she is engaged in a national act,
is immune from prosecution. And Trump argued that everything he
did was a national endeavor he acted as the president.
So what Smith has done is turned it around and
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said that Trump's attempt to overturn the election was fundamentally private.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
He was a.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Candidate who was running for president, private not national presidential. Okay,
that works, And we saw the vice presidential debate Minnesota
Governor Tim Walls and Senator jd Vance, Republican and Wals
did pretty well. Vance did very well, and so it
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was give Waltz a B I think you give JD.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Fance a an a is going Is it going to
move the needle? No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Hurricane Helene disaster in the Carolinas and Georgia. Two hundred
people already confirmed dead. There are hundreds of more that
they don't know where they are and accounted for. And
the property damage is astronomical. And as I said earlier
this morning, the only way you can describe it is biblical.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
The Middle East is about to explode in war.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Iran direct attack on Israel with one hundred and eighty
missiles and Israel is just sitting and trying to figure
out what the retaliation is going to be. And we
know what's going to happen. The war against Ramas continues
on with the dozens being killed on a regular basis
by the bombs, and the hierarchy of the Hesba Llah
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has been taken out, and Israel has already gone into
southern Lebanon and the incursion is there. They're basically at war.
They're not calling it a war, but they are at war.
And Israel looks like is involved in a two front
war now and is going to get engaged somehow with Iran.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Now, are they going to have boots on the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
No, Iran's not going to send forces into Israel. Israel
is not going to cross Jordan and cross Iraq to
attack Iran.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
By the way, Iran only has missiles. That's it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
They don't have anything else. So all you're going to
see are the missiles.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Flying out of Iran.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And the end, Israel has real defenses of which the
United States is part and parcel of shooting down those
missiles with the technology.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We're done, guys. That is it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Quick one before we go Neil tomorrow at Poquito Moss
in Encino from two to five o'clock, he'll be doing
a live broadcast and giving away more stuff than you
can imagine, all kinds of swag. Yeah, and since it
is Poqito Moss, Okay, No, I can't say that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I was gonna make a joke about part of the
swag as you're giving away green cards, and I cannot
say that.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I understand, okay, wow, okay. And I'm on vacation tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I am on I am on vacation this week.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I am on vacation tomorrow, and I know I'm going
to get in trouble for that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I always do. Wayne is going to be here all
next week, and then that's true, that's true. I'll get
some emails, I know I will. That was a joke.
I didn't mean it. It was terrible. What can I say?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Can I retract at this point? I retract? I humbly
apologize and I a racist. That wasn't racism. That wasn't racism.
That was that was a joke.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I didn't mean that in its Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yes, thank you for that. Wow. All right, that was
a little tough.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And that's the stuff that we used to do on
the air. And that's the problem because.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
We oh, no, it's it was. It was allowed, all right,
So Neil tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I'm back in two weeks. Have a good one, everybody,
have a good weekend. Kf I A M six forty
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
At the last segment, I do this week's world in Review.
Now it is time for Foody Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Neils, sorry, are you right?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
No? I just had a little cough, Nil Savader, and
I always engage in foody Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
A couple of things about foody Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Number one, I have my fritatas in front of me, okay,
because that's particularly appropriate, and I think what's happening is
the reason I'm coughing is a lot. I have a
lot of top tia sauce and on my fertatas. Okay,
So there's that before listening, by the way, I know.
(00:55):
And then I was just having a conversation with Lindsay
because of all this about gestive systems, and of course
here is another Gerbil, what what creature on this planet
has the fastest digestive system where you eat? Nope, nope, nope,
(01:16):
shrimp and plata pie or platypusses. Strangely enough, and plat
is it Platypusses or platy pie.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's not a plate of pie. I know it's whatever
fastest digestive system on the planet. Okay, I just thought
i'd share that with you in case you ever get
asked that on Jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And I was gonna I was going to say some
Beverly Hills woman on ozembic.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But that's all right, not bad, not bad, all right,
So Neil, let's do it. It's foody Friday, and let's start
with McDonald's chicken Big Mac.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And before we get into that, my new place, the.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Closest food establishment to my new house is an in
and out Burger, which is very problematic and very dangerous,
so you know, right on and it's right on the
way to my house.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So it's very.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
When Amy and I were repelling last week down the
Hilton there in Universal City, you're right across the freeway
from the Oh yeah, I kept thinking, is you know,
if they just make like a just like a cable,
I can probably make it there.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You can get any.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Wine right to it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Okay, so you don't think of chicken when you're talking
about a big Mac, So explain what's going with.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
That going on?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
McDonald's been making lots of waves. Obviously this summer fast
food prices went up. They had the introduction of their
popular five dollars value meal. That's then they announced it
sticking around to December. So they're doing all these different things,
special cups for the new mcflurry, you know, all kinds
of things that they're getting attention on.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Well, this one I think is super cool.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
McDonald's getting ready for one of the huge announcements of
twenty twenty four, and that is the chicken Big Mac.
So imagine it is a big Mac with all everything
except instead of to all beef patties, it's two chicken
patties that are breaded.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So the question is is it anything else is on there?
Is it going to be on the menu?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Is it one of those We're gonna put it on
the menu permanently if it is a huge success, which
I'm assuming it is because chicken patties are insanely good
and people love them, both.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Spicy and non spicy. You see this on the.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Menu possibly, but they haven't announced that it will be.
The thing with this is that it is on the
menu in other places. They have it in other countries
like Canada, the UK, Australia. Everyone has talked about it
for a long time here in the States because we've
all known that it exists somewhere else. And if you're
like me, I love going to McDonald's all over the world.
(04:10):
Whenever I'm in another country that's McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Love them.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We have traveled now.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Actually now the Fries are identical, but the meals are
different often and although they'll have you know, quarter pounders
or the Royale or whatever it is in France, but
they do have a lot of other different things as well.
And so we've known about this, but we've never had
(04:36):
it here in the States. So October tenth is going
to be hit in menus nationwide here in the States
while supplies last, and if there's enough response then yeah,
it might just stay around.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean, it is basically the big map.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You've got two crispy temper breaded chicken patties will be
swapped out or the beef patties will be swapped out
for that. It still has the signature club bun or
the middle bun there along with big mac sauce, lettuce, cheese,
and pickles.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
No mince onions with this.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
One sesame seed bud.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, but it's like I got to say, the giant
nugget sandwich.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Two things, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Sir one a little bit of history that you and
I have experienced.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Uh, Neil and I.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Went to a Big Mac and some Paulo Brazil and
uh the donald yep, the the hot well And we
went to McDonald's in some Paulo, Brazil and we ordered
the Big Mac and it is described the word inedible
is actually in the description on that on the counter. Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Brazil was the worst McDonald's experience I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
There was something a brown sauce on it.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was really just completely yeah, completely disgusting.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And then before uh McDonald before we.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Take a break, and I'm going to ask you about
this on the knife block. Issue is that we talk
about the prices. You talked about the prices of.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Fast food, which are astronomical.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I think the best value out there is still in
and Out because you get the Happy the version of
the Happy meal, the fries, the drink, and the double
double burger for under eleven bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh yeah, and that's including tax. That's including tax.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
There are some people that argue that they might have
changed the portion sizes. I didn't see it, and the
only reason why, and this is going around, I don't
know it to be true.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I've never seen it or noticed it.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
The only reason is that they've showed a ordering board
from years ago, where yes, the prices had changed, but
also the calorie count had changed, and there's no way
to change the calorie count unless changing ingredient size.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
All right, and one of the topics that you put
up there is a piece of advice, don't use knife blocks.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I have used knife.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Blocks ever since I started buying knife sets.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So explain to me why that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I love them, I get it, and I stopped using
them for one main reason.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I noticed what was happening.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You don't notice it by looking at it, but what
was happening was water would sometimes get under the knife block.
You'd wipe it, you'd move it, you'd wipe it all off,
and if you didn't wipe the bottom of it, it
would start to mildew or crack or build up bacteria.
That turned me off to them a long time ago. However,
(07:46):
there's more to it than that. It could dull your knives.
Oftentimes people will buy them as like a third party
deal or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
They're just a generic knife block.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They weren't customized and made for your knife set at
and so they can dull your knife, they can harbor bacteria.
They can also even if they are built for your knives,
Oftentimes they come as a full set and you end
up buying a bunch of knives that you really don't need.
You really just need a good chef's knife, a pairing knife,
(08:21):
and a serrated bread knife. Those are my three go
to knives. Those are what you're gonna use the most.
Oftentimes they take up a lot of counter space, and
counter real estate is important, especially if you have a
smaller kitchen. So they just really for the protection of
the knife and everything else and cleanliness. I just don't
(08:43):
use them anymore. Where do you put your knives, Well,
there's two ways. In my house here I have a
special drawer for them that is made for them, and
then I use Also secondarily is a magnet, a knife magnet.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
They come. They're lovely. You get them in wood and
all kinds of things.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
They go on the side of a cabinet and the
knives stick to them flat, so you're not going to
ding them up, and they're open air, so they're not
caught in a moist, warm environment. And those are the
ways that I use them.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right, so I have to rethink that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And then finally, coffee creamer ain't cream. It's all petroleum byproducts.
I understand, I.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Believe it or not. There is no cream in coffee creamer.
It's got zero dairy. As a matter of fact, it's
made with corn syrup, water partially hydroggenated vegetable oils, and
that's made it to make it look kind of creamy
and sweet. But tons of chemicals in there, and it's
(09:49):
super super high in sugar. It tends to make you
want more sugar, and it is.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
And even though sugar free creamers that people tell me.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
They'll go no, I use the sugar free. They're worse.
They got artificial kinds of sugars in there. They can
mess with your gut, health and all kinds of things.
So they're hard to use in moderation because people put
so many of them there.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, two things, two things real.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, by the way they're sold in health food stores,
I understand. It's the number one issue, number one product.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Two they're impossible to open.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I use creamer occasionally and you open them and the
creamer inside flies.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
All over the place. I just it's disgusting to use them.
And how about the half and half.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Where you buy those little coffee creamer things and there's
half and half in there.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, well not when they're sitting out.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well yeah, don't they.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Do the radiation with that where you know, they do
something and it sits out there.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And it's still good.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I will tell you the best thing to use the
coffee creamers for. I used to do this at Denny's
and stuff freak out your servers. Is you cup one
in your hand with the foil facing outward. You pretend
like there's something in your eye. You put your hand
up there hiding the creamer, and then you go, oh
(11:15):
my gosh, my I hurts. You pull pick up a fork,
shove it into the foil and all this white stuff comes.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Out of your eye and it freaks the hell out
of them.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That's the best use, no, I know, I understand that.
From so the bottom line, those all right? Those I'm
thinking in terms of this little individual coffee creamers that
you see in officers that's sitting out.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
They are probably not cream or dairy, Okay, and so
the best way to use them, I'm assuming, is just
put the little package in the coffee and just let
them float to the top and don't let the creamer
come out. Yeah, just looks like marshmallows. Yes, hot cream.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes, all right, we're done, guys. That's it on Foody Friday.
Neil is on tomorrow morning from two to five, and
he will not be in studio. He will be at
the Pokedo Moss in Encino. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
They're Dura Boulevard. Yeah, fund I've been there on ways
and swag, I've.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Been there many many a time.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now I want to share with you for a moment
an issue of abortion. And you know that's become huge
Republicans I think guessed kind of wrong, uh in many
cases because if you look at the elections, if you
look at what's happening around the country, people really want
reproductive rights. And uh, it's become a huge, huge presidential
(12:38):
election issue. So it's not just women deciding where to
go because they certain states you can't do it anymore.
There are sixteen states that are so restrictive for make
abortions straight out illegal. Women have to go someplace else,
California being one. Of them, because California is probably the
most pro choice state in the United States. Is in
the constitution you have the right for an abortion. I'll
(13:03):
tell you what else does have a real big problem
and has to go out of state doctors obg yn
Doctors who believe in pro choice and they perform abortion procedures,
and where do they go. There's a story in the
Wall Street Journal about this doctor, doctor Kylie bah and
(13:24):
she's Indiana.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I mean, she lives in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
She grew up in Indiana, she went undergrad and medical
school in Indiana. She doesn't miss an ND five hundred,
and she is finishing up her residency and obviously believes
in pro choice.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Where the hell does she go?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And so she has to uproot herself and go into
another state. Where does she train for abortions? And that's
part of the rotation. It is what's happening. And I'll
bet you didn't know this. Medical schools are partnering with
(14:07):
Planned Parenthood around the country where abortion is legal, and
they are training in those states and then deciding.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Where to go.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So usually you have a resident decides where she or
he is going to go in in what field. I
love Obgyn I love cardio cardiology. I want to be
an INTERNUS whatever. So people apply all over the country
and frankly, the better of the program, you just sort
(14:41):
of go to it. She wants to stay in Indiana.
She wants to practice as an obgyn. She wants to
be able to perform abortions because she thinks that's part
of a legitimate medical practice and women need those services.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
What a dilemma. Where does she go?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Indiana used to be one of those states that women
went to to have an abortion, and that is gone
even to the point where there are a group of
doctors in states and we're talking about doctors coming out
of medical school, coming out of residency and now want
to practice and either they are going either they're just
(15:21):
out of medical school and are going into residency or
out of residency and they're looking for a place where
they can practice. There's an entire group of them, and
it's interesting. Do you know what's going on with them?
And you wouldn't think this, but there are substantial numbers,
including this doctor, right, doctor Bah, And they're having tattoos
(15:47):
on their arms of coat hangers to indicate that if abortion,
if legal abortion is not allowed, then Hangar.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Abortions will be part and parcel.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
We know there are some statistics already that have come out,
and that is we know there are women who have
had huge problems because they couldn't get abortion. Those are
so few they become poster children. They was talked about
in the vice presidential debate. And if you have three
(16:22):
or four or five, come on, guys, really is that
across the board. That's like arguing that if you have
an illegal immigration problem and one illegal immigrant commits murder, coming.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Over there for the whole process is terrible.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Come on, that's not a legitimate argument. What is the
legitimate argument is where do doctors train and what happens if.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
They do perform an abortion?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And there is a story about one doctor, doctor Caitlin Barnard,
in twenty twenty two. She had to have security guards
protecting her and her family because she performed an abortion
on a ten year old who had been raped and
the grief she got, Indiana's Attorney general bought a case,
(17:11):
brought a case against her. Now, there are exceptions, and
it was legal because there is an exception in Indiana.
But here's the problem is that the attorney general is
so anti abortion. He brought a case against her, filed
(17:32):
a case not for the abortion but for violating discussing
the girl's case, and she was fined three thousand dollars
because of just the general philosophy.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So we're gonna see what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The political strength of the abortion issue is far greater
than what the Republicans thought it was going to be.
The decision to overturn Roe versus Wade and it goes
to the States is far greater on reproductive rights and
women's rights.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Mili did the story this morning.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
A Milania Trump came out in her new book as
strong pro abortion as.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I have seen anybody out there.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I mean, it's quote after quote after quote in which
she talks about a woman's right to an abortion and
to control of her own body.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's become a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And we'll see how many women just on that issue
alone are going to vote for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We do know during the mid terms where abortion rights
was put on were put on the ballot, the pro
abortion voters, pro abortion part of the electric voted in
favor of reproductive rights, taking the Republicans just spun them
around in really conservative areas. So we're going to see
(18:54):
what happens. We'll be talking a lot more about that
before the election.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Clearly, okay, living under a rock.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well, here's what you've missed piping hot off the newswires
from around the corner to around that world.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
This is this week's world in review.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And we have some good news and bad news that
we have looked at over this past week. Let me
start with good news for a change, and then get
that out of the way, and then get into.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The bad news, which I always enjoy far more.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
On a guess a positive note, Jimmy Carter turned one
hundred years old. We've never had a centenarian president. He
is by far the longest lived president in American history.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I don't know the longest lived. There have been some
in their nineties. He is well, if you notice, if you've.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Seen a picture of Jimmy Carter, he's one hundred and
he doesn't look a day over one hundred and thirty.
He is, and he's been in hospice for the last
twelve years or something.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I have no idea, you know what.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
The worst part about turning one hundred is turning one
hundred no, you can no longer play with legos because
on the box it says from one to ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Ah does it?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
One from one to ninety nine. So he can't play
with legos anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All right, Okay, fair enough, didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Now, in another bit of good news, especially for Mexico,
Claudia Shinbaum Mexico's new president, the first woman and the
first Jew to be elected president. Now she downplays the
fact that she is Jewish. It became an issue when
(20:49):
she said she was happy to be the president.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That was a little problematic. However, she is.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I mean, her credentials are insane, engineer, just all of it,
I mean, very bright, right, ladies.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
So she took office yesterday.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
She's sixty two years old, an environmental engineer, former Mexico
City mayor, and Mexico has an interesting situation or an
interesting what's the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
They're the way they do the presidency.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Good for you, Bill, I'm right on when it comes
to language, and that is they do one six year term, which,
if you think about it, makes so much sense because
what happens when a president can run for a second term,
as we do.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
We're allowed. Presidents allow two terms.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Is a president has sworn in four years later, is
out there hustling like crazy, raising money, going to events,
going to the state fairs, eating hot dogs and eating
bad food, fried everything to try to get elected Mexico.
You're done, you run for president. You got six years.
(22:04):
I wish we would do that. I wish we would
do that. Now moving on to other news, Jack Smith,
who is a special prosecutor, filed expanded the lawsuit against
Donald Trump more facts relating to his involvement in January
sixth to stop the election, and turned the case around
(22:24):
a little bit. Because the Supreme Court ruled a president,
if he or she is engaged in a national act,
is immune from prosecution. And Trump argued that everything he
did was a national endeavor he acted as the president.
So what Smith has done is turned it around and
(22:47):
said that Trump's attempt to overturn the election was fundamentally private.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
He was a.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Candidate who was running for president, private not national presidential. Okay,
that works, And we saw the vice presidential debate Minnesota
Governor Tim Walls and Senator jd Vance, Republican and Wals
did pretty well. Vance did very well, and so it
(23:16):
was give Waltz a B I think you give JD.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Fance a an a is going Is it going to
move the needle? No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Hurricane Helene disaster in the Carolinas and Georgia. Two hundred
people already confirmed dead. There are hundreds of more that
they don't know where they are and accounted for. And
the property damage is astronomical. And as I said earlier
this morning, the only way you can describe it is biblical.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
The Middle East is about to explode in war.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Iran direct attack on Israel with one hundred and eighty
missiles and Israel is just sitting and trying to figure
out what the retaliation is going to be. And we
know what's going to happen. The war against Ramas continues
on with the dozens being killed on a regular basis
by the bombs, and the hierarchy of the Hesba Llah
(24:19):
has been taken out, and Israel has already gone into
southern Lebanon and the incursion is there. They're basically at war.
They're not calling it a war, but they are at war.
And Israel looks like is involved in a two front
war now and is going to get engaged somehow with Iran.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Now, are they going to have boots on the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
No, Iran's not going to send forces into Israel. Israel
is not going to cross Jordan and cross Iraq to
attack Iran.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
By the way, Iran only has missiles. That's it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
They don't have anything else. So all you're going to
see are the missiles.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Flying out of Iran.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And the end, Israel has real defenses of which the
United States is part and parcel of shooting down those
missiles with the technology.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We're done, guys. That is it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Quick one before we go Neil tomorrow at Poquito Moss
in Encino from two to five o'clock, he'll be doing
a live broadcast and giving away more stuff than you
can imagine, all kinds of swag. Yeah, and since it
is Poqito Moss, Okay, No, I can't say that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I was gonna make a joke about part of the
swag as you're giving away green cards, and I cannot
say that.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I understand, okay, wow, okay. And I'm on vacation tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I am on I am on vacation this week.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I am on vacation tomorrow, and I know I'm going
to get in trouble for that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I always do. Wayne is going to be here all
next week, and then that's true, that's true. I'll get
some emails, I know I will. That was a joke.
I didn't mean it. It was terrible. What can I say?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Can I retract at this point? I retract? I humbly
apologize and I a racist. That wasn't racism. That wasn't racism.
That was that was a joke.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I didn't mean that in its Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yes, thank you for that. Wow. All right, that was
a little tough.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And that's the stuff that we used to do on
the air. And that's the problem because.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
We oh, no, it's it was. It was allowed, all right,
So Neil tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I'm back in two weeks. Have a good one, everybody,
have a good weekend. Kf I A M six forty
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