October 15, 2024 • 29 mins
Wayne Resnick fills in for Bill while he is out on vacation this week. New school bathroom rules pissing kids off. Prop 36 people are assuming a win. Dr Pepper is LIT
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
F Wayne Resnick's sitting in until nine.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Neil is here, and Amy is here, and ann is
Heren Elmer's here in for KONO and that's your crew
this morning, and some of the stories that we're watching
for you. The government of Israel has told the Biden
administration that when it retaliates against Iran for Iran's missile
strike on Israel, it will not hit nuclear facilities or
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oil production sites, two things that the United States was
hoping they would agree not to do. And a bunch
of new lawsuits were filed yesterday against Sean Combs. You've
got men, women, and even a sixteen year old boy
accusing him of sexual assault, drugging of drinks, and various
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other bad behavior. Hey, yesterday we spent some time talking
about this gasoline law that Governor k Newsom wanted that
makes the oil companies store gasoline so that when they
shut down refineries, there's still enough gasoline out there to
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avoid price spikes. Well, yesterday, as expected, he signed that law.
The next step is for the California Energy Commission to
figure out the details, how much gas do you need
to store, etc. And we were talking about the oil
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companies don't like this law. Well guess who else now
has come out and say they don't like this law.
Unionized workers at refineries, they don't like this law. Now
they're saying, this law is going to make our jobs unsafe.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And also, by the way, if.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You don't care that this law is gonna make our
jobs more unsafe, we might lose our jobs. Well, okay,
how would that happen? So they are saying a couple
of things in this law. There's a part of it
that wasn't talked about so much because the focus has
been how will they store the gas? And do they
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have enough places to store the gas? And if they
have to build more storage capacity, that'll cost them a
lot of money, and the gas will end up being
expensive anyway, because they you can either have price spikes
because there's not enough gas, or you can have an
increase in the price of gas to pay for what
it cost them to build the storage so that you
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don't have the price spikes. It's like pick your pick
your price hike. It's a it's a pick your own
price hike. Adventures so the union workers are saying, also
in this law, it allows the state to be involved
in scheduled maintenance at refineries.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not entirely clear whether it allows the.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
State to dictate when you may or may not do
maintenance on your refinery. But the workers are saying, if
we need to be able to do maintenance on our
refineries whenever it's necessary, you cannot even have the thought
in your head that you would want to shut down
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a refinery for some maintenance reason and the state telling
you no or penalizing you for doing it. And the
idea would be they wouldn't be able to do all
the maintenance that they might think is necessary, and the
next thing, you know, some part of the infrastructure goes
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bad and a refinery explodes, and then they are injured
or god forbid killed, And it wouldn't have happened but
for this law. That's what they're talking about with regard
to the safety. And I mean, there was a refinery
explosion in twenty fifteen in Torrance. That refinery was owned
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by Exon Mobil and two workers were injured. You know,
I don't think we can say that that explosion was
because they were not allowed to do maintenance that they
wanted to do. But they're saying, under certain circumstances, this
is the kind of thing that can happen, and we
don't want that. You have to do the maintenance based
on the condition of the infrastructure and the pipes and
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the valves and what their life cycle is, and we
don't want the state stepping in and getting in the
way of those decisions. Now, the status said this, you
can do any maintenance that you need to do. This
is a false claim that you have that we're going
to stop you from doing maintenance. But my question is, well,
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if you're never going to stop them from doing maintenance,
why is the provision in the law at all. So
that's the one part, and then the other part is
that they will lose jobs. And the way that they
will lose jobs is because they won't be able to
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do as much work as they need to do and
there won't be a need.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
For them.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So now you know the problem is now it's it's
a little too late because the law has already been signed,
and I don't know if lawsuits are coming. It's not
clear to me if lawsuits over the law are coming,
but complaints have already arrived. And this is one of
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those things where, honest to goodness, there's no way to
know how it's going to affect gas prices. Newsom says, oh,
it's going to prevent you from having those price spikes.
Now he can't say, he can't even speculate that it's
not going to raise the normal price of the gallon
of gas. He's saying it'll prevent you from experiencing price spikes.
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So now you've got to try to do the math
in your head. Do I want to pay a dollar
more a gallon periodically or do I want to pay
fifty cents more gallon all the time? And is this
law going to cause that second situation? And maybe I'd
be happier just in terms of my pocketbook. Maybe I
would be happier occasionally paying a dollar more a gallon
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and other times not paying as much. So it's a
real wait and see right now for your gas prices.
All right, let's get some news from Amy King and
then Edison High School in Huntingdon Beach has new rules
about students going to the bathroom, and there's an ad
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un lying petition by the students saying this new bathroom
policy violates their constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We will get into this controversy in a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
It is the pill Handle Show, and he is on vacation.
Wayne Resnik is sitting in until nine. Let's talk about
Edison High School in Huntington Beach right after I tell
you some of the stories that we're watching for you
here on KFI, which include the fact that FEMA personnel
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have gone back to their door to door neighborhood outreaches
in the areas that were affected by Hurricane Helen.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
This is a post Helen effort, and this.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Is after the cops arrested a guy who was accused
of making threats against FEMA people and also was armed,
and FEMA puts some of their efforts on pause because
they felt it might be too dangerous. And I guess
they they're hopeful now with the intervention of the cops,
that it's safe enough again to try to help these
people out. Also, let's talk with the weather for a second,
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because we just mentioned a hurricane. They are expecting a
weak Lannina condition to develop in the next couple of months,
and if that happens the oceans. I hope I'm understanding
this right. Yes, the oceans will be cooler than average
in the Equatorial Pacific. And if that happens, and if
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there is a lanina and it's on the weak side,
which is what they're predicting, this means winter will be
warmer than normal. Sorry snow lovers. Now let's talk about
Edison High School, Hontington Beach. They have a new policy
for when you go to the bathroom, and the students
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are arguing it's an invasion of their privacy, and not
just loosely saying it's an invasion of our privacy, but
actually putting up a petition saying it's a violation of
their Fourth Amendment. So here's the new policy. There's a
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QR code in the classroom and when you leave the
classroom for any reason. It's not specifically about going to
the bathroom. It's about leaving the classroom for any reason.
But the concerns are largely based on the going to
the bathroom part. So if you're going to the school nurse,
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if you have to go to the library for some reason,
if you are going to go use the wellness space
that they have at Edison High School, or the most
common reason because you've got to use the facilities, you
have to scan the code and then when you come back,
you scan the code again. So this is some real
heavy duty tracking of your whereabouts. So the policy is
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that you try to limit your time out of the
classroom to seven minutes or less, and also that you
only leave the classroom to go to the bathroom, ideally.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No more than three times a day.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Now, the first thing I will tell you is the
school says this is not a strict policy. These are
not These are not strict rules that you are in
trouble if you don't follow them. These are guidelines that
we are asking the kids to follow, and apparently not
all the teachers are even bothering to tell their kids, Hey,
I want you to follow this policy. So before we
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get into the policy and whether it's a problem, first
of all, let's.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Talk about this.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You can't have a situation where if you want to
have a procedure, let's call this a procedure. It's a
procedure that the school at least would lie the students
to follow.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You can't have it.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
If some teachers are like, I don't care I'm not
gonna even try to make anybody do it, and maybe
you have another teacher who's being pretty strict about it.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You can't operate that way.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So first, the first screw up on the part of
Edison High School, in my opinion, is they didn't make
it clear to the teachers what level of compliance they
wanted on the part of the teachers in terms of
enforcing it or suggesting it or whatever. They obviously, so
it's bedlam over there in terms of that.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Number two.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The next level is it's very difficult to say to students, hey,
here's a bunch of specific stuff we want you to do,
but you don't. If you don't do it, like, you're
not in trouble and nothing bad's gonna happen to you,
but we'd really like you to do it. That That
is not how you get people to comply with things.
Whenever I've been asked to follow any kinds of procedures
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or so forth, that's the first thing I want to know.
Is it a rule and I'm in trouble, it's actionable
against me if I don't follow it?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Or does it not matter?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Because if it doesn't matter, I will decide for myself
if I'm going to do it or not. And I've
got to believe high school kids are at least as
flippant about authority as I am, and understandably, so that's
no good. Either have an actual policy that everybody is
expected to follow and is enforced somehow, or don't.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Just don't. Now, why why are they even doing this?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Is it because they're terribly interested in the bathroom habits
of high school kids? Well, they say no, and I
don't think that they I don't think that's the reason.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
They say.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
This is too so we know where students are in
case there is a fire or god forbid. You know
what a school, you know, that's the purpose of the policy.
It's a safety thing. So we know where you are
something happens and you're not in the classroom. We can go, oh, well, yes,
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he's not supposed to be in the classroom right now.
He left the classroom and he scanned it. That's what
they're saying. But they also the principal also said Daniel
Morris is his name. But he also said, oh, there's
been a problem with students smoking in the bathrooms and
then the fire alarms go off, and so we need
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to know who's going to the bathroom and how often
they're going to the bathroom, because if the fire alarms
keep going off, then we can, and this is the
best part, we can you know, expel them. No, we
can have a discussion with a student or provide them
with extra support. What hey, you know you're smoke looking
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in the bathroom and you're setting off the fire alarm.
Is there is there anything we can help you with?
Do you want us to get you some nicotine patches?
So there is this online petition that I told you about,
and it's on where you always put your petitions on
change dot org. And as of right now, I'm looking
at it right now, I'll actually refresh the page just
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in case I missed anything.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So they have a goal of five hundred signatures and
they have four hundred and fifty six signatures. And the
student that started the petition said, Hey, this is a
bigger problem than you think, because the students are worried
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now that they could get in trouble if they have
to use the bathroom too frequently.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You also have and didn't I didn't know that. I
knew that.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I knew that women menstru eight. I knew that, and
I knew that it starts off in high school and
even before so I knew that there are students in
high school who menstr eight.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I knew that, and I knew.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
That there's this thing called toxic shock syndrome that can
be very dangerous that is related to the use of tampons.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I knew that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
What I didn't know is that some students, because they
do they're afraid of getting toxic shock syndrome, they change
their pads or their tampons every couple of hours. So
if you're in school for eight hours, that's at least
four times that you would need to go and do that.
So they're saying, hey, we can't have this level of
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scrutiny about this behavior because it's gonna make everybody nervous.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They're gonna feel like they're under a microscope.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And also here I'll read from the petition now that
it's inherently unconstitutional. The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable
searches and invasions of privacy, and bathroom policies recording the
number and duration of bathroom visits are a well. Here,
it says could be seen as an infringement also that
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girls often require more bathroom visits, and therefore they this
could be a sex discrimination on the part of the policy.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I think that's a reach, but.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I wouldn't want to have to. I don't blame these
kids for not wanting to have to. And we'll see
if the school backs off at all or clarifies more
helpfully what the hell it is they're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Let's get some.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
News from Amy King and then you know this Prop
thirty six it's gonna be on the ballot. Prop thirty
six would undo a lot of what Prop forty seven did.
This all has to do with being being tough on crime,
soft on crime. No, let's get tough on crime again.
And there's an interesting wrinkle that just happened involving a
million Dollarsalgreens has announced they're going to close twelve thousand stores,
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not all at once, because they're getting their clock cleaned
by online competitors and also through various insurance programs, the
payout for prescription drugs are going down. By twenty twenty seven,
one in seven Wallgreens will be gone. Over the next year,
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they'll close five hundred of them. This means it's highly
likely that your favorite Walgreens won't be there in three years.
And I don't know if you remember, but it was
just back in June where they said, hey, listen, we're
going to shut down three hundred underperforming locations. We have
a big optimization program going on, and we're going to
do that. And now here they are a few months
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later and it's twelve hundred. So if you have a
favorite Walgreens, enjoy it. While you can now onto the
issue of crime and propositions about crime and ideas about crime.
The ideas are basically, be tough on crime, don't be
soft on crime. And so you may remember when California
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voters passed Proposition forty seven, and this was a swing
towards the idea that we should be softer on crime.
Take some felonies, make them misdemeanors, do some other things,
with the bottom line being send fewer people to prison.
Now you are asked to vote for Prop thirty six,
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and Prop thirty six is a takes these backsies on
Prop forty seven. It's going to return some of those
crimes to felony status and do some other things. And
it does have at least one component in there that
is designed to be to have it, let's say, a
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rehabilitative component, and that is more opportunities for treatment for
people who need it, although we have no idea how
that's going to get paid for. A lot of money
being spent for and against in rough terms. At the
state level, Republicans like Prop thirty six.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Democrats don't.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's at the state level, though, when you go down
to the local level, there are all kinds of elected
officials and mayors, including Democratic mayors from San Francisco and
San Jose and San Diego who support it. So if
you're going to be fair about it, you have to
say it it has bipartisan support. If you don't look
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only at Sacramento. Newsom doesn't lack it. But I don't
know that that's a surprise. And so here's the thing
I told you there was an interesting wrinkle involving a
million dollars. The big organization that is that is promoting
Proposition thirty six. It's called Californians for Safer Communities. They
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have what I'm about to describe is not in any
way illegal or even untoward, just so you know, but
it's interesting they've given a million dollars to the California
Republican Party, a five hundred thousand dollars contribution on September
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twenty and another one on the first of the month.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Again totally legal.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm not saying anything other than it's interesting because we
haven't had the election yet and they feel that they
can take some of the money that they have to
support the proposition and they can give it to the
Republican Party to help the Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And know what that.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Means is, this is my point, they must be very
sure and highly confident that it's gonna pass and that
they do not need every single dollar that they have
to promote it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's what that means.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
And it's probably true because here is a very recent
poll conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies
for Prop thirty six, to basically roll back soft on
crime Prop forty seven sixty percent yes, twenty one percent no,
nineteen undecided. So every single person who hasn't made up
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their mind yet, even if they all decide to vote
against it, it still passes sixty forty.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Let's get some news from Amy King, and.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Then we're gonna we're gonna talk about a thing that
you put in your body. That's very weird, but it's
also very popular. Right now, find out what it is. Apparently,
when I was talking about how Walgreens is going to
close twelve hundred stores over the next three years, which
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is a much bigger set of closures than they originally
announced at one point or maybe it was even more,
I said twelve thousand, which is just that's just mouth.
You know, that's just mouth to brain or brain to
mouth communication failure. But I want to give a shout
out to KFI News because it was Carla in the
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newsroom who heard me unintentionally say twelve thousand instead of
twelve hundred. And you know, I got the word that
I had done it, so that I can come on
and tell you that I know it's twelve hundred, and
just please please forgive my addled brain. You know, since
I retired from the morning show full time, I don't
get up at the crack of dawn anymore, so I'm
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not used to it. Okay, Irata has been published vocally.
Now let's talk about this very weird thing that you
put in your body. A lot of you do, and
you love it. You some of you love it a lot.
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I'm talking about doctor Pepper. So first let's just agree
and admit doctor Pepy. Even in the world of soda
type beverages, doctor pepper is weird. What the hell does
it taste like? Does it taste like cough medicine? Does
it taste like prune juice? Does it taste like a
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cherry kind of? Does it taste like licorice?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
A little bit? Yes, all of it.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It tastes like everything and nothing specific at the same time.
And the reason I'm bringing up doctor Pepper is because
doctor Pepper is on a tear of popularity. It was
very popular when it first came out, and then it
was not as popular, and now.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It is so popular.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That it tied Pepsi last year as the best selling
soda in the United States.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
You have Coke is number one. Coke is always going
to be number one.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
That's the way it's going to be, and it would
and then it would go Pepsi number two, and then
other stuff down. Doctor Pepper surging tying the regular version
of Pepsi as the second best selling soda in the US.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
And that said, don't believe me.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
That's from Beveridge Digest, which you know, if you're gonna
trust anything, why not a magazine all about beverages. According
to a consumer research firm called Civic Science, almost twenty
five percent of adults in America drink doctor Pepper. So
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if you're at work right now, look around, if there's
three other people there, for sure want to use drinking
doctor Pepper. And that's up from from just four years
ago it was only about sixteen percent drank doctor Pepper
with any regularity, and now it's back. I think part
of it is honestly, see, doctor Pepper was always weird,
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and the other big companies, Coke and Pepsi, they started
getting weird.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I don't know if you got your hands on an
Oreo Coke zero.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I didn't. I couldn't find one. But that's a that's
a recent big thing. It's coke, but it tastes like
an Oreo cookie. And then Oreo came out.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
With cookies that tastes like Coca cola.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
And do you remember also when Coke put out that
it was called Starlight and it was supposed to taste
like outer space. Pepsi came out with some sodas that
are that that tastes.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Like some moores.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I think and you were to mix them together. So
the two big brands like got weird. They started with
weird stuff and the whole time Doctor Pepper has been there, like, hey,
we've been weird ever since we were invented. It's not
new to us. Who invented doctor Pepper. Charles Alderton, a pharmacist.
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You know, Coke was invented by a pharmacist, and Pepsi
was invented by a pharmacist, and so was doctor Pepper.
And part of that is because it used to be
you had the pharmacy and there was a soda fountain.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And the reason that there was a soda fountain.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Was because back then people thought carbonated water was good
for your health. If you were sick, have some seltzer.
That was the thinking. So you'd go to the pharmacy
and you could get aspirin, or you could have some seltzer.
But seltzer's boring. We all want plane. Seltzer is boring.
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So the pharmacists would start to make in different like
fruit syrups and different flavors for the customers. But it
was still at that point it wasn't about tasting good.
It was trying to make it taste good, so you
would drink it for your health. So anyway, Doctor Pepper
was invented in the late eighteen hundreds, I believe it's
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that's before cocer pepsi, and it was invented in Texas.
People loved it, they really they went crazy for doctor Pepper,
and then it fell by the wayside, and now it
is back with a vengeance. Coca Cola tried to buy
Doctor Pepper and the FTC said no, you may not.
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So Doctor Pepper now is part of a larger company,
the same company that owns seven Up and Snapple and
schwepes and A and w root Beer and also Currig
coffee makers. That's all the same company. But Doctor Pepper
is now so big and so important they get to
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be part of the company. Name the company is Courig
Doctor Pepper. That's how big it is. It's all over TikTok,
It's all over Reddit.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
On Reddit, there's a subreddit for fans of coke and
a subreddit for fans of pepsi. But the doctor Pepper
subreddit has more members than coke or Pepsi's because people
like coke, but they don't love coke. I mean, really,
with their whole lives. People who are like doctor Pepper Man,
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they are fanatics. And I want to leave you with
one thing because it made me laugh. Somebody was on
Reddit and they were trying to describe the taste of
doctor Pepper, which is difficult to do, as you know.
So this person said that to doctor Pepper tastes like
a sexy battery. Made me laugh again. It's just funny.
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I don't know why it's funny. It's just funny to me.
Let's get some news from Amy King and then we
will be talking to rich DeMuro because it is Tech Tuesday.
He is the host of Rich on Tech right here
on KFI every Saturday from eleven to two pm, and
he will be with us to talk about some new
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tools to make a video by saying things I know
that sounds weird, he'll explain it way better than I
just did.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And how to keep tabs on Grandma.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
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Speaker 1 (29:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
F Wayne Resnick's sitting in until nine.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Neil is here, and Amy is here, and ann is
Heren Elmer's here in for KONO and that's your crew
this morning, and some of the stories that we're watching
for you. The government of Israel has told the Biden
administration that when it retaliates against Iran for Iran's missile
strike on Israel, it will not hit nuclear facilities or
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oil production sites, two things that the United States was
hoping they would agree not to do. And a bunch
of new lawsuits were filed yesterday against Sean Combs. You've
got men, women, and even a sixteen year old boy
accusing him of sexual assault, drugging of drinks, and various
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other bad behavior. Hey, yesterday we spent some time talking
about this gasoline law that Governor k Newsom wanted that
makes the oil companies store gasoline so that when they
shut down refineries, there's still enough gasoline out there to
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avoid price spikes. Well, yesterday, as expected, he signed that law.
The next step is for the California Energy Commission to
figure out the details, how much gas do you need
to store, etc. And we were talking about the oil
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companies don't like this law. Well guess who else now
has come out and say they don't like this law.
Unionized workers at refineries, they don't like this law. Now
they're saying, this law is going to make our jobs unsafe.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And also, by the way, if.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You don't care that this law is gonna make our
jobs more unsafe, we might lose our jobs. Well, okay,
how would that happen? So they are saying a couple
of things in this law. There's a part of it
that wasn't talked about so much because the focus has
been how will they store the gas? And do they
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have enough places to store the gas? And if they
have to build more storage capacity, that'll cost them a
lot of money, and the gas will end up being
expensive anyway, because they you can either have price spikes
because there's not enough gas, or you can have an
increase in the price of gas to pay for what
it cost them to build the storage so that you
(02:46):
don't have the price spikes. It's like pick your pick
your price hike. It's a it's a pick your own
price hike. Adventures so the union workers are saying, also
in this law, it allows the state to be involved
in scheduled maintenance at refineries.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not entirely clear whether it allows the.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
State to dictate when you may or may not do
maintenance on your refinery. But the workers are saying, if
we need to be able to do maintenance on our
refineries whenever it's necessary, you cannot even have the thought
in your head that you would want to shut down
(03:33):
a refinery for some maintenance reason and the state telling
you no or penalizing you for doing it. And the
idea would be they wouldn't be able to do all
the maintenance that they might think is necessary, and the
next thing, you know, some part of the infrastructure goes
(03:53):
bad and a refinery explodes, and then they are injured
or god forbid killed, And it wouldn't have happened but
for this law. That's what they're talking about with regard
to the safety. And I mean, there was a refinery
explosion in twenty fifteen in Torrance. That refinery was owned
(04:14):
by Exon Mobil and two workers were injured. You know,
I don't think we can say that that explosion was
because they were not allowed to do maintenance that they
wanted to do. But they're saying, under certain circumstances, this
is the kind of thing that can happen, and we
don't want that. You have to do the maintenance based
on the condition of the infrastructure and the pipes and
(04:37):
the valves and what their life cycle is, and we
don't want the state stepping in and getting in the
way of those decisions. Now, the status said this, you
can do any maintenance that you need to do. This
is a false claim that you have that we're going
to stop you from doing maintenance. But my question is, well,
(04:58):
if you're never going to stop them from doing maintenance,
why is the provision in the law at all. So
that's the one part, and then the other part is
that they will lose jobs. And the way that they
will lose jobs is because they won't be able to
(05:22):
do as much work as they need to do and
there won't be a need.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
For them.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So now you know the problem is now it's it's
a little too late because the law has already been signed,
and I don't know if lawsuits are coming. It's not
clear to me if lawsuits over the law are coming,
but complaints have already arrived. And this is one of
(05:52):
those things where, honest to goodness, there's no way to
know how it's going to affect gas prices. Newsom says, oh,
it's going to prevent you from having those price spikes.
Now he can't say, he can't even speculate that it's
not going to raise the normal price of the gallon
of gas. He's saying it'll prevent you from experiencing price spikes.
(06:18):
So now you've got to try to do the math
in your head. Do I want to pay a dollar
more a gallon periodically or do I want to pay
fifty cents more gallon all the time? And is this
law going to cause that second situation? And maybe I'd
be happier just in terms of my pocketbook. Maybe I
would be happier occasionally paying a dollar more a gallon
(06:39):
and other times not paying as much. So it's a
real wait and see right now for your gas prices.
All right, let's get some news from Amy King and
then Edison High School in Huntingdon Beach has new rules
about students going to the bathroom, and there's an ad
(07:00):
un lying petition by the students saying this new bathroom
policy violates their constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We will get into this controversy in a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
It is the pill Handle Show, and he is on vacation.
Wayne Resnik is sitting in until nine. Let's talk about
Edison High School in Huntington Beach right after I tell
you some of the stories that we're watching for you
here on KFI, which include the fact that FEMA personnel
(07:33):
have gone back to their door to door neighborhood outreaches
in the areas that were affected by Hurricane Helen.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
This is a post Helen effort, and this.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Is after the cops arrested a guy who was accused
of making threats against FEMA people and also was armed,
and FEMA puts some of their efforts on pause because
they felt it might be too dangerous. And I guess
they they're hopeful now with the intervention of the cops,
that it's safe enough again to try to help these
people out. Also, let's talk with the weather for a second,
(08:07):
because we just mentioned a hurricane. They are expecting a
weak Lannina condition to develop in the next couple of months,
and if that happens the oceans. I hope I'm understanding
this right. Yes, the oceans will be cooler than average
in the Equatorial Pacific. And if that happens, and if
(08:33):
there is a lanina and it's on the weak side,
which is what they're predicting, this means winter will be
warmer than normal. Sorry snow lovers. Now let's talk about
Edison High School, Hontington Beach. They have a new policy
for when you go to the bathroom, and the students
(08:54):
are arguing it's an invasion of their privacy, and not
just loosely saying it's an invasion of our privacy, but
actually putting up a petition saying it's a violation of
their Fourth Amendment. So here's the new policy. There's a
(09:15):
QR code in the classroom and when you leave the
classroom for any reason. It's not specifically about going to
the bathroom. It's about leaving the classroom for any reason.
But the concerns are largely based on the going to
the bathroom part. So if you're going to the school nurse,
(09:36):
if you have to go to the library for some reason,
if you are going to go use the wellness space
that they have at Edison High School, or the most
common reason because you've got to use the facilities, you
have to scan the code and then when you come back,
you scan the code again. So this is some real
heavy duty tracking of your whereabouts. So the policy is
(10:03):
that you try to limit your time out of the
classroom to seven minutes or less, and also that you
only leave the classroom to go to the bathroom, ideally.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No more than three times a day.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Now, the first thing I will tell you is the
school says this is not a strict policy. These are
not These are not strict rules that you are in
trouble if you don't follow them. These are guidelines that
we are asking the kids to follow, and apparently not
all the teachers are even bothering to tell their kids, Hey,
I want you to follow this policy. So before we
(10:44):
get into the policy and whether it's a problem, first
of all, let's.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Talk about this.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You can't have a situation where if you want to
have a procedure, let's call this a procedure. It's a
procedure that the school at least would lie the students
to follow.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You can't have it.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
If some teachers are like, I don't care I'm not
gonna even try to make anybody do it, and maybe
you have another teacher who's being pretty strict about it.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You can't operate that way.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So first, the first screw up on the part of
Edison High School, in my opinion, is they didn't make
it clear to the teachers what level of compliance they
wanted on the part of the teachers in terms of
enforcing it or suggesting it or whatever. They obviously, so
it's bedlam over there in terms of that.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Number two.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The next level is it's very difficult to say to students, hey,
here's a bunch of specific stuff we want you to do,
but you don't. If you don't do it, like, you're
not in trouble and nothing bad's gonna happen to you,
but we'd really like you to do it. That That
is not how you get people to comply with things.
Whenever I've been asked to follow any kinds of procedures
(12:02):
or so forth, that's the first thing I want to know.
Is it a rule and I'm in trouble, it's actionable
against me if I don't follow it?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Or does it not matter?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Because if it doesn't matter, I will decide for myself
if I'm going to do it or not. And I've
got to believe high school kids are at least as
flippant about authority as I am, and understandably, so that's
no good. Either have an actual policy that everybody is
expected to follow and is enforced somehow, or don't.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Just don't. Now, why why are they even doing this?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Is it because they're terribly interested in the bathroom habits
of high school kids? Well, they say no, and I
don't think that they I don't think that's the reason.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
They say.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
This is too so we know where students are in
case there is a fire or god forbid. You know
what a school, you know, that's the purpose of the policy.
It's a safety thing. So we know where you are
something happens and you're not in the classroom. We can go, oh, well, yes,
(13:15):
he's not supposed to be in the classroom right now.
He left the classroom and he scanned it. That's what
they're saying. But they also the principal also said Daniel
Morris is his name. But he also said, oh, there's
been a problem with students smoking in the bathrooms and
then the fire alarms go off, and so we need
(13:37):
to know who's going to the bathroom and how often
they're going to the bathroom, because if the fire alarms
keep going off, then we can, and this is the
best part, we can you know, expel them. No, we
can have a discussion with a student or provide them
with extra support. What hey, you know you're smoke looking
(14:00):
in the bathroom and you're setting off the fire alarm.
Is there is there anything we can help you with?
Do you want us to get you some nicotine patches?
So there is this online petition that I told you about,
and it's on where you always put your petitions on
change dot org. And as of right now, I'm looking
at it right now, I'll actually refresh the page just
(14:22):
in case I missed anything.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So they have a goal of five hundred signatures and
they have four hundred and fifty six signatures. And the
student that started the petition said, Hey, this is a
bigger problem than you think, because the students are worried
(14:44):
now that they could get in trouble if they have
to use the bathroom too frequently.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You also have and didn't I didn't know that. I
knew that.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I knew that women menstru eight. I knew that, and
I knew that it starts off in high school and
even before so I knew that there are students in
high school who menstr eight.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I knew that, and I knew.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
That there's this thing called toxic shock syndrome that can
be very dangerous that is related to the use of tampons.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I knew that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
What I didn't know is that some students, because they
do they're afraid of getting toxic shock syndrome, they change
their pads or their tampons every couple of hours. So
if you're in school for eight hours, that's at least
four times that you would need to go and do that.
So they're saying, hey, we can't have this level of
(15:38):
scrutiny about this behavior because it's gonna make everybody nervous.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They're gonna feel like they're under a microscope.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And also here I'll read from the petition now that
it's inherently unconstitutional. The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable
searches and invasions of privacy, and bathroom policies recording the
number and duration of bathroom visits are a well. Here,
it says could be seen as an infringement also that
(16:09):
girls often require more bathroom visits, and therefore they this
could be a sex discrimination on the part of the policy.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I think that's a reach, but.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I wouldn't want to have to. I don't blame these
kids for not wanting to have to. And we'll see
if the school backs off at all or clarifies more
helpfully what the hell it is they're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Let's get some.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
News from Amy King and then you know this Prop
thirty six it's gonna be on the ballot. Prop thirty
six would undo a lot of what Prop forty seven did.
This all has to do with being being tough on crime,
soft on crime. No, let's get tough on crime again.
And there's an interesting wrinkle that just happened involving a
million Dollarsalgreens has announced they're going to close twelve thousand stores,
(17:05):
not all at once, because they're getting their clock cleaned
by online competitors and also through various insurance programs, the
payout for prescription drugs are going down. By twenty twenty seven,
one in seven Wallgreens will be gone. Over the next year,
(17:26):
they'll close five hundred of them. This means it's highly
likely that your favorite Walgreens won't be there in three years.
And I don't know if you remember, but it was
just back in June where they said, hey, listen, we're
going to shut down three hundred underperforming locations. We have
a big optimization program going on, and we're going to
do that. And now here they are a few months
(17:49):
later and it's twelve hundred. So if you have a
favorite Walgreens, enjoy it. While you can now onto the
issue of crime and propositions about crime and ideas about crime.
The ideas are basically, be tough on crime, don't be
soft on crime. And so you may remember when California
(18:12):
voters passed Proposition forty seven, and this was a swing
towards the idea that we should be softer on crime.
Take some felonies, make them misdemeanors, do some other things,
with the bottom line being send fewer people to prison.
Now you are asked to vote for Prop thirty six,
(18:36):
and Prop thirty six is a takes these backsies on
Prop forty seven. It's going to return some of those
crimes to felony status and do some other things. And
it does have at least one component in there that
is designed to be to have it, let's say, a
(18:57):
rehabilitative component, and that is more opportunities for treatment for
people who need it, although we have no idea how
that's going to get paid for. A lot of money
being spent for and against in rough terms. At the
state level, Republicans like Prop thirty six.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Democrats don't.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's at the state level, though, when you go down
to the local level, there are all kinds of elected
officials and mayors, including Democratic mayors from San Francisco and
San Jose and San Diego who support it. So if
you're going to be fair about it, you have to
say it it has bipartisan support. If you don't look
(19:45):
only at Sacramento. Newsom doesn't lack it. But I don't
know that that's a surprise. And so here's the thing
I told you there was an interesting wrinkle involving a
million dollars. The big organization that is that is promoting
Proposition thirty six. It's called Californians for Safer Communities. They
(20:09):
have what I'm about to describe is not in any
way illegal or even untoward, just so you know, but
it's interesting they've given a million dollars to the California
Republican Party, a five hundred thousand dollars contribution on September
(20:31):
twenty and another one on the first of the month.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Again totally legal.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm not saying anything other than it's interesting because we
haven't had the election yet and they feel that they
can take some of the money that they have to
support the proposition and they can give it to the
Republican Party to help the Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And know what that.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Means is, this is my point, they must be very
sure and highly confident that it's gonna pass and that
they do not need every single dollar that they have
to promote it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's what that means.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
And it's probably true because here is a very recent
poll conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies
for Prop thirty six, to basically roll back soft on
crime Prop forty seven sixty percent yes, twenty one percent no,
nineteen undecided. So every single person who hasn't made up
(21:37):
their mind yet, even if they all decide to vote
against it, it still passes sixty forty.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Let's get some news from Amy King, and.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Then we're gonna we're gonna talk about a thing that
you put in your body. That's very weird, but it's
also very popular. Right now, find out what it is. Apparently,
when I was talking about how Walgreens is going to
close twelve hundred stores over the next three years, which
(22:10):
is a much bigger set of closures than they originally
announced at one point or maybe it was even more,
I said twelve thousand, which is just that's just mouth.
You know, that's just mouth to brain or brain to
mouth communication failure. But I want to give a shout
out to KFI News because it was Carla in the
(22:31):
newsroom who heard me unintentionally say twelve thousand instead of
twelve hundred. And you know, I got the word that
I had done it, so that I can come on
and tell you that I know it's twelve hundred, and
just please please forgive my addled brain. You know, since
I retired from the morning show full time, I don't
get up at the crack of dawn anymore, so I'm
(22:54):
not used to it. Okay, Irata has been published vocally.
Now let's talk about this very weird thing that you
put in your body. A lot of you do, and
you love it. You some of you love it a lot.
(23:16):
I'm talking about doctor Pepper. So first let's just agree
and admit doctor Pepy. Even in the world of soda
type beverages, doctor pepper is weird. What the hell does
it taste like? Does it taste like cough medicine? Does
it taste like prune juice? Does it taste like a
(23:40):
cherry kind of? Does it taste like licorice?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
A little bit? Yes, all of it.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It tastes like everything and nothing specific at the same time.
And the reason I'm bringing up doctor Pepper is because
doctor Pepper is on a tear of popularity. It was
very popular when it first came out, and then it
was not as popular, and now.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It is so popular.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That it tied Pepsi last year as the best selling
soda in the United States.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
You have Coke is number one. Coke is always going
to be number one.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
That's the way it's going to be, and it would
and then it would go Pepsi number two, and then
other stuff down. Doctor Pepper surging tying the regular version
of Pepsi as the second best selling soda in the US.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
And that said, don't believe me.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
That's from Beveridge Digest, which you know, if you're gonna
trust anything, why not a magazine all about beverages. According
to a consumer research firm called Civic Science, almost twenty
five percent of adults in America drink doctor Pepper. So
(24:57):
if you're at work right now, look around, if there's
three other people there, for sure want to use drinking
doctor Pepper. And that's up from from just four years
ago it was only about sixteen percent drank doctor Pepper
with any regularity, and now it's back. I think part
of it is honestly, see, doctor Pepper was always weird,
(25:21):
and the other big companies, Coke and Pepsi, they started
getting weird.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I don't know if you got your hands on an
Oreo Coke zero.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I didn't. I couldn't find one. But that's a that's
a recent big thing. It's coke, but it tastes like
an Oreo cookie. And then Oreo came out.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
With cookies that tastes like Coca cola.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
And do you remember also when Coke put out that
it was called Starlight and it was supposed to taste
like outer space. Pepsi came out with some sodas that
are that that tastes.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Like some moores.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I think and you were to mix them together. So
the two big brands like got weird. They started with
weird stuff and the whole time Doctor Pepper has been there, like, hey,
we've been weird ever since we were invented. It's not
new to us. Who invented doctor Pepper. Charles Alderton, a pharmacist.
(26:20):
You know, Coke was invented by a pharmacist, and Pepsi
was invented by a pharmacist, and so was doctor Pepper.
And part of that is because it used to be
you had the pharmacy and there was a soda fountain.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And the reason that there was a soda fountain.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Was because back then people thought carbonated water was good
for your health. If you were sick, have some seltzer.
That was the thinking. So you'd go to the pharmacy
and you could get aspirin, or you could have some seltzer.
But seltzer's boring. We all want plane. Seltzer is boring.
(26:58):
So the pharmacists would start to make in different like
fruit syrups and different flavors for the customers. But it
was still at that point it wasn't about tasting good.
It was trying to make it taste good, so you
would drink it for your health. So anyway, Doctor Pepper
was invented in the late eighteen hundreds, I believe it's
(27:19):
that's before cocer pepsi, and it was invented in Texas.
People loved it, they really they went crazy for doctor Pepper,
and then it fell by the wayside, and now it
is back with a vengeance. Coca Cola tried to buy
Doctor Pepper and the FTC said no, you may not.
(27:40):
So Doctor Pepper now is part of a larger company,
the same company that owns seven Up and Snapple and
schwepes and A and w root Beer and also Currig
coffee makers. That's all the same company. But Doctor Pepper
is now so big and so important they get to
(28:03):
be part of the company. Name the company is Courig
Doctor Pepper. That's how big it is. It's all over TikTok,
It's all over Reddit.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
On Reddit, there's a subreddit for fans of coke and
a subreddit for fans of pepsi. But the doctor Pepper
subreddit has more members than coke or Pepsi's because people
like coke, but they don't love coke. I mean, really,
with their whole lives. People who are like doctor Pepper Man,
(28:35):
they are fanatics. And I want to leave you with
one thing because it made me laugh. Somebody was on
Reddit and they were trying to describe the taste of
doctor Pepper, which is difficult to do, as you know.
So this person said that to doctor Pepper tastes like
a sexy battery. Made me laugh again. It's just funny.
(28:56):
I don't know why it's funny. It's just funny to me.
Let's get some news from Amy King and then we
will be talking to rich DeMuro because it is Tech Tuesday.
He is the host of Rich on Tech right here
on KFI every Saturday from eleven to two pm, and
he will be with us to talk about some new
(29:16):
tools to make a video by saying things I know
that sounds weird, he'll explain it way better than I
just did.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And how to keep tabs on Grandma.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
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