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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard a story this week that I invited him
on the show, but so I don't. I'm not going
to say their names. But I was talking to a father.
He's my age. He has a son in his twenties.
A year ago, he was in a car and there
was four albums in the car, and I asked him,
did somebody call shotgun or how did you do the
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seating arrangements? He said, I was a gentleman. I let
the young lady sit in the front seat. I sat
behind the passenger. Four people in the car. A drunk
driver hit him and killed three of those four. My
friend's son survived that he didn't even have a broken bone,
didn't require any stitches. And that's what drunk driving killed
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three people in that car a drunk driver did. I
saw cow Matters this week that stunned me an article
because see California. California was the birthplace a modern movement
against drunk driving back in the eighties. But over the
past decade here in California, alcohol related deaths in California,
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what percentage you think they'd gone up in the past
decade in California If you just had to take a
random guess, would you have guessed fifty percent, non't I
wouldn't have guessed that. I would have guessed I don't
know eighteen fifty percent. Just a few weeks ago, at
thirteen year old boy in southern California, it's way to school,
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he was hit by a hit and run driver. Fifty
nine year old book for fellow the dui fellay hit
and run murder. And that mom that lost her thirteen
year old boy, she lost her own life hit by
a driver with a blood alcohol level twice that legal limit.
I mean cal Matters they did a great review here.
They went through all the cases filed around California from
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twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four, and then they went
and looked at other state laws on drunk driving and
it showed that too often here in California, we don't
make a big difference between those that Okay, I left
the bar, I lived one point two miles away, and
I got caught at a level that was a little
bit over the thing.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was okay, Uh, you know those stories out there,
Yes you're drunk driving, but you're not. You're not blitzed
out of your mind as well. Thank you jewy all right,
buddy stopping by here had his Trump Vance McDonald's shirt on,
working it right out of the of the drive through.
But what we do in California, Yeah, that's wrong, that's
drunk driving. You should be in trouble for that. But
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those that keep going on and rack up DUI's you know, two, three, four, five, six,
I couldn't believe. Cal Matters said, And right here in Fresno, California,
there is a woman that just got her sixteenth d UI. Yes,
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one six sixteenth d UI. How does a judge at
atlet's at number two? You know this is your second DUI?
This is your third? You know, I thought you learned
on the fifteenth. This is your sixteenth. California has some
of the weakest DUI laws in the country. They allow
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repeated drunk and drug drivers to stay on the road
with very little punishment. Drivers generally in California cannot be
charged with a felony. What do you think the second one?
Maybe another fourth? If you get four within ten years,
then it becomes a felony unless they injure somebody. There
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are states around America where it's just your second DUI. Well,
actually leads to a felony, and that's how it should be.
I think on the first one it should be a felony, right.
I think the first time that you're caught with a
dui it is a felony. I think you should have
one year in jail. The second time you're caught, I
think you should be dyed purple. It would stop overnight. Mom,
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there's one of those in the grocery. Look, yes, honey,
they drove drunk a second time. You want to cure it.
It would cure it. I don't care how drunk you are.
When you pull your keys out her or pull your
fob out and hit your brake and hit that start
button on your car, you would go wait, I could
get caught and be purple. That would stick in the
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drunkest of the drunkest minds, and I think that would
end it right there. You can't be charged until your
fourth time here in California. I think that's a broken
system that would allow that to happen. There was a
driver that killed this young woman named Sarah. She was
out walking with her fiance down in southern California and
she was hit by a guy that had already been
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convicted of drunk driving in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty
twenty all misdemeanors. He served just a couple of weeks
behind bars, and then her parents buried her in her
wedding dress because she was about to get married.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know what her dad said in the eulogy.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He said, if I walked out of my front door
today onto my porch and I fired a shot into
my neighborhood every day until I killed somebody, when would
I be a menace to society?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
He said?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
When do I become a danger to my community? He said,
I think it should be after the first shot. Our
system says it's after the last, when somebody finally got
hit by the bullet.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And that seems what we do with DUI.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
A bullet's a weapon that can take a life, a
car going seventy miles an hours, a weapon that's taken
too many lives in this state. In California, you can
lose your license for three years after your third DUI.
After your third they found as many cow matters did
as six DUIs, and they were able to get a license.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
In California six D.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
They give you a license e even when the state
does take your license a lot of drivers stay on
the road for years, they get more tickets or need duy's,
and then they eventually end up killing and they a
lot of them just skip out on court as well.
Here's the story here in Fresno County, Sylvester Conway was
arrested three times from twenty nineteen through twenty twenty one
for drunk driving. He didn't show up to court, all
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three cases were open, been outstanding warrants, and then prosecutor
said he drove drunk again in early twenty twenty two
and flipped his car and killed the passenger that was
in there. These are the repeats out here. Even drunk
vehacular manslaughter isn't considered a violent felony, a DUI that
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causes great bodily injury. That means that a drunk driver
can literally break somebody's leg and they can face more
time behind bars than if they killed them. This has
to change in California.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
This is this is not right.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
These I know there's a lot of these ignition devices,
you know, the breathalyzers that you got to blow into
it for a car to start. They said in California,
come matters did that the device prevented more than three
five hundred attempts to drive under the influence in one
year in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But here's the kicker on this.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Unlike most states around America, California does not require a
first time drunk driver to use the device. Wouldn't that
when you think that would be one of the main
things that a judge would do to make sure Is
this a start of a problem. Are they going to
be like a lady here in President County to get
sixteen DUIs?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, they don't require that.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The Mothers against tru Drivers get California and f on
their national report card to states over their breathalyzers, and
state law does require the device for repeat offenders. But
cal matters said they looked into the records, they said
it's not being enforced. They said judges in more than
a dozen counties ordered the breathalyzers for less than ten
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percent of drivers convicted of a second DUI. They're not
serious about They're not taking it serious, are they. Just
a few months ago in the fall, you had Sacramento,
California lawmakers they gutted one of the bills that would
have required ebody convicted of a DUI to use an
in car breathalyzer in that. Okay, so they had a
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bill they were going to change this, you know what
the state said, Well, well we talked to the DMV
and they don't have the time or the resources to
carry that out. Yeah, we got drivers that have prior DUIs.
They're the ones involved in a majority of the of
the fatal injuries here in California. And nothing's going to
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change until things get changed. And they had a chance
to actually change it, and they didn't do it. You know,
another thing that's a big issue here are we had
seventeen pedestrians bicycle deaths as of August of this year.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
In Fresno.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They said between January first and August thirty first, there
were two four hundred and eighty seven collisions citywide, including
one hundred and sixty eight people. Fifteen were killed. One
hundred and six involved bicyclists, and there were two bicyclists
that were killed in the city.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Our roads are dangerous.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't understand the bicyclists though, that say that we
got to make the roads, saye for bicycles and all
the extra money that that costs, because now we need
potholes filled before go ride your bike somewhere else, Go
ride on a bike path, go right, go right around
a circle on a track. And if you want to
risk your life and the bike lanes, I guess knock
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it out. Chair of the Fresnel County Bicycle Coalition. So
the city's made some progress on bike infrastructure, but sit
still lacks of connected network or protected lanes. That's what
you need, protected lanes. They don't need to be anywhere
near street where cars are. I just don't understand that they,
you know, painting the lime green bike lanes between lanes
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of traffic with cars and eighteen wheeler rock haulers go
on fifty sixty plus probably even faster. And I'm talking
about Fryan and Audubon right there with that big long
bike lane and most bike lanes you think are on
the right hand side.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Of the lane. No. No, we went over with our
our Fresno Posse.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We went over to Europe and learned how to ride
bikes and how to make things like a little fifteen
minute city. And we're gonna come back here and we're
gonna paint lime green lines right in between lanes that
are already shrunken down. Now to accommodate the bike lanes,
so you got cars with tires hanging over into the
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bike lane. I know all over town these things are
coming out. They're even talking about making less lanes for
cars to accommodate the bicycles, which you got the Frozzel
County Bicycle Coalition and rightfully so going we can't be
around cars, that's that's dangerous. They want separate bike lanes
protected from intersections. No, I would rather have our potholes
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filled up before we Let's fix our car. Let's fetch
our car roads first, before we spend another dime on
bike lanes. There are so many places you can go
ride your bike, go ride in the neighborhood. Now for work,
I understand there are people that some people want to
want to ride to work. We're not a European city
over here, or even some inner cities where a lot
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of people can do that. We do have a lot
of people, and I think a lot of these pedestrians
getting hit is the homeless situation, the transients and around.
I see a lot of I'm riding bikes and just
cutting across five lanes. I know you see them, see
them do this also with a little bit of thread
out there I saw this week, and I still hear
it in my neck of the woods every weekend because
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of a big long stretch of road that has no
roads coming across it, and boy, they it's probably well
over a mile stretch. And I hear those race cars.
I feel like I live on the outskirts of Indianapolis, man,
especially the motorcycles, all the street racing and the side
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shows that go on. Police said since January first, they've
averaged more than one hundred im pounds every quarter, so
that's every three months more than one hundred cars are
reckless driving in street racing violations. Well, I was saying,
if you catch a drunk and send them to jail
for one year, and then the second time if you
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get caught your dyed purple. If you really want to
stop street racing and side shows you, if you really
as a city wanted to stop that, here's how you
do it. Here's how you do it. You impound the car.
Then you give them two options if you're out there racing,
because racing is a weapon that can kill somebody. These
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side shows that they do, that's a weapon that can
kill somebody. So first option is one year in jail
for racing, or side show that's it, caught one year
in jail, or we'll give the option.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
A no jail.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Really yeah, but you got to watch your car get
squashed at a wrecking yard.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The racing would stop.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Nobody would race their race cars if they knew if
they got caught, they'd have to spend a year in jail,
or watch their car just get you know how they
do it out there at those impound yards, or they just.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
All right, if I were keen care, that's how we
would do it. I'm outside.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
This is a beautiful courtyard out here where am I
expedite urgent care Kylo Family Clinic. We got your tickets
to the dogs and see Utah they're gonna be playing
tomorrow Valley Children Stadium. We still got a couple Fresno
State swags. So if you want to roll on by
and I'll tell you what right here. Greg is normally
a grinch. He really is, Greg Goodman, our sales executive.
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He's normally a grinch, and I say that endearingly, but
today he's not a grinch. He's out here, He's in
his red He's in his red Fresnol state attire. He
looks like a Major League Baseball relief pitcher. And he's
got free Christmas trees for you. So if you can
afford a Christmas tree this year, don't come take a
free win. But if you know somebody in your life,
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somebody might be going through a difficult time, But what
a gift that would be right now, because these things,
you put them in water, they'll be good. They'll be
good till after Christmas. Make sure you keep them in water.
They are beautiful trees too, and I know expensive these
trees are getting these days. So all you got to
do if you want a Christmas tree for somebody, we
are getting in the spirit out here.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You can roll on up Blackstone and Shaw Expedite. You
know where it's at. It's a tremor nation all over
the place. Tour Blackstone and Shaw on a Fresno State Friday.
We're at Expedite Urgent Care, Kylo Family Clinics right here
at Blackstone and Shaw. We're outdoors here. They got a
big middle area, big sun roofs going on. They got chocolate,
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they got drinks. We got raffles or turkeys and pumpkin
pie and uh absolutely free.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
How about this? How about a Christmas tree? Oh you
don't want that.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You want Fresno State tickets to go see them play
Utah and a must win to keep the Mount Weston
championship hopes and dreams alive. Blackstone and Shawl. You'll see
the iHeart vehicle out there, see big red sign, and
just pull along that little gravel and pull into this
nice little parking lot and come on, there's beautiful outdoor
seating out here as well. This is one of the
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grossest things I think I've heard in just a little
while here when it comes to food and food service,
all talking about the street vendors and the tower district
and what's the city gonna do and enforcement of this.
I saw a quote from an actual vendor that said
they know of other vendors, all right, buckle down that
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use canal water to cook with.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, all right, how does that make you?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Now you make maybe a little more enforcement of street vendors,
maybe seeing what their kitchens like. Over my time in radio,
there are some really beautifully hearted people that listen to
stations and they'll come drop by some brownies or some muffins.
And there's always certain people in the building that have
no qualms whatsoever, eating it and my whole life. Even
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if I was hungry, I would go, I don't know
what kitchen was there, cats up on the counter, right,
I think that way. And when you're talking about the
street vendors, now, there are a lot of i'll say,
high end tasting kind of food that comes out of
some of these food trucks and whatnot. And a lot
of those food trucks have refrigeration. Of those food trucks
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have hot water. A lot of those food trucks are
just like a restaurant on wheels, and they have to
go through a whole lot of you know, Department of Health.
I would assume I'm not a regular on them, But
there's I've watched Diners Dive Ins and Diners dive Ins
and Dry Guy Fieri's show with some of those food
trucks man really good stuff. But we're talking about street
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vendors that are out there in the sun. Think about
it in the summertime. But hearing that some of the
vendors use canal water to cook with. They're talking about
some of the vendors pour grease into the streets and
into the gutters and on the sidewalks and some probably
do it be the right way and are very clean,
and I guess it's the bad people that are getting
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all the attention here, and rightfully. So, the police have
talked about in the Tower District, and I was talking
with Fresno City Council President Mike Corbasi, who came on
the show this week about the Tower District and the
police and everything down there. And we were talking about like, hey,
you come out of a club, a bar, whatever it is.
You've had too much to drink or a little bit whatever.
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It's one o'clock in the morning, and the food trucks
keep people there. Congregated, Oh yeah, what did you say?
Oh you said that to me. They dropped their tacos
and they're smacking cheese. Comes out right and left fist.
All right, they say, right now, enforcement in the Tower
at these kind of hours has already cost forty five
thousand dollars in police overtime, so that this far, they said,
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they pull police resources from every corner of the city
and divert them to the Tower district. This is on
Friday nights and Saturday nights. They got a whole number
of calls that they're seeing out there. This is according
to city council women per on this So it looks
like the city is going to step up enforcement. They're
going to introduce new fees as well. First violation for
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your mayonnaise stinking would be a written warning. I guess
you'd be then followed by fines between twenty five dollars
and five hundred dollars. So I don't have a bust
out of what those fines would be, but I think
poor in grease and all you can't can't behave that way,
And the draw of food late at night, I think
the police reports the show that's asking for trouble. Can't
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we just get along and and eat a case of
dia without people having to all get all mad? Hey,
this is some good news if you're wanting the Democrats
to have a whole lot of candidates running against each
other in this state as well. We'll probably see ads
by Eric Swalwell, paid paid by Eric Swalwell to vote
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for Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco. Remember how Adam Shift
did that here to get people to vote for Steve Garvey. Yeah,
he read pro Steve garveyatz he wanted the republic to
be second as well, so we'll see a lot of this,
but yeah, Eric Swawell con fing fang. Eric Swalwell announced
that he's running for California governor. He announced it on
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Jimmy Kimmel Live. And here's Swalwell's promise, a new California
that we can share in together, said mister Swalwell. He's
going to join other Democrat candidates. Bessera's running, let's see
Katie Mashed Potato Porter's running. Superintendent Public Instruction, Tony Thurman
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is running on.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
The Republican side.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Rbside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, And maybe
I left some out of there. I know there's some
maybe a few more independents running as well. I saw
this today and director Ryan Nigel back at the studio
and myself we had.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Not every time.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I so we're head nodding right here. I'm going to
assume he didn't go out today and get his real
I I haven't gotten my real ID either, why procrastination
and not wanting to go to the DMV. And my
mom and dad are flying out here for Christmas, so
I just hope I don't have to go anywhere. I guess,
but I guess you've been able to slip by by
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I don't know, bringing a picture of you and your grandmother. Hey,
I'm a good guy here. I know people have been
able to fly without it. And this has been since
May and this is actually well, that's when it was
finally implemented. If you're going, yeah, you heard about it
for twenty years, right after nine to eleven, that's when
it was implemented. And it was implemented so that we
would know who's flying around in our skies, and we
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wanted to make sure that it Hey, we just want
to make sure your id's not fake, that it's real.
So they call it real ID. Why did they vote
that in Because there's some bad actors that might want
to get on an airplane and use it as a weapon.
So it was so crucial to the country that waited
what twenty four years to implement it. Do you really
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believe that they're serious when they when they do stuff
like that. Can you imagine a bank president going, hey,
our vault is insecure. We need to secure it, all right,
let's do the real Secure Act. All right, we'll implement
it twenty four years later, did we got a winner? No,
ma'am giving, I'm in No, it's I'm on the Christmas mood.
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I smelled the Christmas. I went out and sniffed a tree.
It got me in the season. I'm gonna give you
a second try here. No, no, you're gonna get second tries. No,
oh yeah, because you're gonna be celebrating here in just
one moment. I can't see the board from where I
am at, I'll be able to tell by the reaction
that one was close. Second try for the second lady, here,
come on, come on, we need a winner.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
We haven't had one here in about fifteen minutes. Here
seems like.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
The little kids are winning. The little kids are winning.
That's that's been the day we had. Just didn't come
by though he won. He was just driving by and
said I want to go see the game tomorrow night.
And he stepped up once and bam, it came straight
back down. All right, I got distracted with a winner
right there. The real ID. Here's the thing. If you
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don't have a real ID, you don't have that. Here's
how you can. Here's the work around. What do you
think the work around is?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Now? Not the picture of you and your grandma together.
It's money. Look at that.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
They'll take money because the terrorists wouldn't have an extra
eighteen dollars, would they. No, this is a real protection
here at the airport. She has an eighteen dollars workaround.
You know what that's I'm actually impressed by that. I
thought it would have cost a whole lot more for
the procrastinators of the world out there. I thought maybe
that'd be flipped around. Well, it's an eighty one dollar
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charge because we've really had to check you out here.
So here's what they at the Office of they are saying,
we're going to be doing now for the procrastinators of
the world. They're gonna have a biometric Kiosk system to
verify identity. If you don't have a real idea, you
pay the fee. It's only valid for ten days for
domestic travel. Uh huh biometrics. So what's he gonna do?
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Read my iris, read my fingerprint, run it through the
FBI thing real quick. How's I wonder, Why don't you
just go get your real idea? Then you want to
have to worry about it, and you can go through
like the rest of the of the cattle calls going on.
They said the biometric screening is not a guarantee that
all identities will be verified. Wouldn't that be something you
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go through? Yeah, I gotta get to tennessee here. All right,
we got a biomets All right, sit down, mister Kerry.
We're having a little issue here. We're gonna do some
additional security measures. You might encounter some delays. This is
Agent Stevenson here.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
He'd like to who knows, who knows?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I hope I don't have to try to hope. I
get my acting gear and get out there. I hear
the Clovis DMV. If you go early enough, it's not
that bad. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I've been out there a few times in my tenure
here as well. Look at this Clubland casino under Kyle
Kirklands announced he's running for Congress in Costa's district. He's
a Republican. He's making another attempt. He ran in that
special election back in twenty twenty one. I had him
in the studio. He said, we had some good ideas.
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Vince Fong won that. He won that election as well.
But we'll see, we'll see what happens here. We also
got Republican Lorenzo Rios from the Clovis Veterans Memorial District
as a Republican running in this race. We're in the season,
are we not. I'll tell you where I am out here.
I'm at Expedite Urgent Care and Kylo Family Clinics, and
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I'm gonna come back Clovis Unified. They got they now
been told they got to change their mascot name to
comply with state law. Would what everything going on in
this state? You would think that maybe that'd be way
down the list of thing.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But my questioning here is how much is that going
to cost when you got to change your mascot. That's signage,
that's t shirts, that's that Sarah. Well, we'll come back
and talk about that. It's the Trevor Nation all over
the place tour. If you would like to get tickets
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Speaker 2 (25:11):
We're at Blackstone and Shawl.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You'll see the big red arrow out there, They'll see
the iHeart vehicle out there. You'll see all those Christmas
trees in the lot, and we have snagged some right
over here. Greg not the Grinch, would love to put
one on your trunk. He'll even give up her on
your four x four and tie it down to the roof.
He's got his gloves on, he's got his working boots on. Look,
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he's chalking up over there. He's ready to start pitching
these trees. We're Blackstone and Shaw on a Fresno State Friday.
I saw this today, and I'm not trying to say
they don't deserve the money. I always say with capitalism.
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I remember, I think early on in my life, I
asked my dad the question of how come they can
get paid so much much money to just hit a
ball out of a baseball park. And it was like,
it's worth it to somebody. If you're paying the big money,
it's worth it to somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I think.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
When our house catches on fire, we're glad there's a
fire department, We're glad there's a fire captain. He needs
to be on top of it all. And the fire
captain is on top of of it all with the
highest paid Fresno employees. When you hear some of these
firefighting numbers, a lot of that is overtime. A lot
of that can also be pinching contributions and other pay.
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Fire Captain Ross's highest paid three hundred and eighty eight
thousand dollars. They said more than half of his pay
one hundred and ninety five thousand is coming from overtime
as well. Let's see, so maybe well that's at the
top because of overtime. Number two most paid is City
manager White three hundred and fifty nine thousand. Got a
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fire captain at three hundred and forty three thousand, a
fire deputy chief at three hundred and fifty eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Fire makes a lot more than police.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
See, got another fire battalion chief at three hundred and thirty.
Now here's a firefighter on here. It doesn't say battalion
chief or captain or anything like this, and he made
three hundred and five thousand dollars a firefighter.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I mean they're risking their life.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
If you really want to break it down, risking your
life should probably pay more than I don't know, hitting
a home run.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
But so where are we living? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Underneath that firefighter at three hundred and five thousand dollars
is city attorney Andrew. We're gonna take down Trump and
nenez Jans at three hundred and fourteen thousand. Then he
got another fire battalion chief at three hundred and seventeen,
and then we get to police police Chief Casto at
three hundred and thirty one thousand. Now it's not huge
numbers separating all these, but the list keeps going on
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and on and on. There's a lot of high paid people,
and that's in the city of Resno. There but a
lot of overtime as well. But Fire Captain number one,
three hundred and eighty eight thousand. I said, I was
gonna talk about Clovis Unified. They're having to change their
mascot name to comply with state law. Gotta be changed.
They are hal offensive. They're called the chieftains. Hey, when
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you're mascot, you're proud of it. I don't understand the
Now what was the Cleveland Indian mascot that looked a
little too much like a caricature. I could understand that
one with all the big teeth and aye, look yeah,
but the name the I guess I won't get into
all that. They put out a school survey here that
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gave some of the suggestions here instead of being the chieftains,
Oh chief O, wahoo, thank you there. Director Ryan Nigel. Yeah,
that won't went a little far. But you know, we
changed the Redskins and the Indians and in all of this.
But they got some new names here. How about this.
The Chihuahuas, you were the Chieftains, they're gonna be the Chiwa.
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The school's name Clark, the Clark Crankins kr what the
Clark Cowboys. That's better for Clovis are the Clark Cubs?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
The Cubs? All right, that's not bad, But think about
all this. They got it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
They got to change the uniforms and all their signs
and all the names on the buildings.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
All that has to be replaced.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I go get a local Native American to stand up
and say, chieftains is something to be proud of. I mean,
I'm Irish. What what do we got? A leprechaun, a
guy at a pub? Oh wait, we got the fighting
Irish inn Utre Dame. Anyhow, all right, there you go,
Uh listen, if you want to go see Freszoe, say
take on, Utah, bea here till five thirty. We got
Fresne State basketball coming up at five point thirty. It's
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a Trevor nation all over the place toward expedite, urgent
care and Kylo Family Clinics right here at Blackstone and
Shaw on a Fresno State Friday. Kylo Family Clinics here
at Blackstone and Shaw and a Fresno State Friday. They
outreach Marketer, here's Warren Edwards. You guys, Warren and made
us feel such at home. C K and I were
saying the vibe thank you man.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Oh, thank you for having us and in here.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I think one of the first things I told you
when I got here right before three was I judged
single women and doctor's office bathrooms A plus. I really
feel like I could bring a card table in there
and have a picnic and I wouldn't feel weird, very clean.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'll pay attention to that now.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Oh yeah, everyone has a has a real want to
keep this place clean and invited and making it feel
like home for everyone.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Indeed, I always think places like it needs to be quick.
You hear emergency room just horror stories. Is that the
level here I don't know doctors stuff. Is that the
level like you need to go to the emergency room
you could come by here or is this just like
for colds?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
This is for colds, but also if the emergency room
is full, this would be a great place or a
great alternative to come to, just like most urgent cares
are so expedite. Urgent cares open seven days a week
from nine to nine, and so people are welcome to
come in anytime.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
In hemy doctors around.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
We don't have any actual doctors, but we do have
maas and other people to take care of you without
a problem.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
So you know what you mentioned that there. My son's
in the Air Force for years. He just got it,
but he's an independent duty medical technician and he's going
to go to Baylor now to become a doctor. Nice
and I've got to know so much about it, and
he always tells me. He's like, I'm like, what's what's
it Like? He goes, well, I'm learning a lot of
the times we kind of tell the doctor he didn't
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want to be all kind. Now doctors know, I'm not
gonna say they don't. I'm not trying to act that.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
But the importance of those individuals, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
It's everything. So they take care of everyone like their
of their own family. So that's what we love it
about that.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, what's your background here? Like, uh, what have you
done in marketing your whole life?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
You know, I've done in sales and marketing. I've worked
for AT and T. I've also done radio, actually worked
for a Clear Channel before it came my heart and
extensive marketing background and degree. So I enjoy reaching out
to people, and that's what I do. I get out
there and talk to the world and bring people to
Kylo and expedite family.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I see you also got was like one hundred and
twenty dollars present state jacket. I mean, that's a nice shack.
That's a nice shack. They're getting pricey, aren't they? Everything
they are, everything's going out. You have big Billdogs here.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I am a huge Builldogs fan.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
So you grew up around here.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I grew up my whole life in Fresno, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
And you know what I tell people, I lived in
Fresno in the early nineties, other than California for like
twenty eight of my fifty nine years, and I lived
in Texas and Tennessee and lived on the East Coast
and lived everywhere. And I tell people that have grown
up here and they go, oh, I just grew in.
I go, do you not know that eighty percent of
people would love to live here across the country? I
think Fresno our problem is we compare ourselves to postcards.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Oh, we have a beautiful area.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I mean we're es centrally located in between La San Francisco,
the coast and snow. I mean, how can you beat it?
You can ski and be in the ocean in the
same day. So that's one of the things I love.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You know, we're hearing so many people leaving California. You know,
U haul is actually giving people discounts to drive if
they're moving from Kansas to Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
It's a great discount to get the trucks back here.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I think what the valley in Fresno needs to do
is start advertising to smell A and San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
About Hey, that you don't have to escape California.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
There's a place here in California that maybe you have
thought less of, but you need to check it out.
There are times when I specially when it rains like
it is here. Do you know it's how green the
freeways are.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Oh, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
But I'll drive out all the way out Shawl.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I go as far out as you can go out there,
and sometimes you just feel like you're in another country,
feeling it's you.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Don't have to go very far.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
No, you don't. You don't have to be an outdoors
kind of guy. Do you get it?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Because everyone always says we've got the ocean in the mountains,
and I go, yeah, and I'm like, I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I don't you know either.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
One of the interesting things about me. I love getting out.
But I just traveled to all fifty states in forty
nine days. Stop it, I did. I Okay, that's well,
that's so crazy. I didn't even put it on my
bucket list. I've always wanted to do that, but I
thought that was crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Okay, good, good at Warren, let me ask you what
was your cause I'm going to come back and talk
about what foreign travelers says the friendliest state. I'm actually
going to talk about that five o'clock hour. So I
want your opinion. What was the friendliest state? Oh?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
You know what, There was a bunch of but I'd
say anything in the Midwest is probably the friendliest people
you can meet.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, okay, I would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I started the trip in Kansas and work my way
up to North Dakota out towards Maine, and I got
to say the Midwest, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
My mom and dad lived in Fort Wayne for a
year and I was visiting them and I couldn't lead.
The convenience store people just so friendly, even in Tennessee.
My saying is, when convenience store people are friendlier in
Tennessee than a lot of people at church in California,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Int it different?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
It is? It's completely different. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
But you know, no matter where you go, I think
everywhere across the nation, everyone's very similar. We think there's
so much differences, but really we're all just the same.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Oh no, I disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I completely disagree with that.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
I really think it comes down to demographic really. If
we live in a large city, it becomes a little tougher.
But in the small communities, they're very welcoming and they're
very nice.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
My dad always says people as friendly as you are
to them, and it's kind of true. I think some
people in California are kind of taken back when you're
friendly and they reacting and are friendly. Yeah, as well.
I remember when we lived in Connecticut. My kids are
a little and we visited Tennessee for the first time.
They were like Dad do you know them? I'm like, no,
people wave from their from their porch like that. I
I didn't grow up and know them. No, what was
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what was the worst state?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
The worst state? You know what?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
I'd have to say it was probably Michigan unfortunately just
because uh, the winner took a little bit longer on them,
and it took a little bit longer toll.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
On the roads.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
You mean driving like you you're going to get a
dui because you look like a drunk driver trying to
get around them.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Right, no talking.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
You know. It was a cold winter, so the extended
winters kind of made them a little bit more rude
than most people.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, I lived in Buffalo. I know that, So you
understand what winters can do to people. Yes, yeah, rough,
And I know that's why I say, out here, we
got one long fall, that's what. That's what it is
we you know, we call it winter, but not like there.
That's hey.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I always say, that's why they're football teams. People are
all because that's all they have.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
That that's all they have.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It's ice fishing or the buffalo bills, or eat a
bunch of food.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
We're fortunate out here as well.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Extremely.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Are you finding a lot of obese people come.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I've heard about obesity as well, I know, with the
medical background as well an RFK Junior and that whole price.
Can you guys provide people want to come buy and
go get me on a really good solid diet.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I mean we can.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
We're working on a lot of different things for men's health,
also women's health. We're looking at adding some services here
at Kylo and Expedite to help people.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
A little bit further than we do already. See.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I wish somebody could just say, Okay, here's what you
eat Monday Tuesday, like real simple, and here's where here's
the ingredients, and that's healthy.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I hear all these different kind of things out there.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
You just don't know, and it's best to seek a
medical advisor and talk to people who do know.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
And that's what Kylo and Expedite can do for people.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
All right, listen, I appreciate you having us out here.
We were talking about how awesome and friendly. Okay, you're
acting like Midwest out here when we showed up right
right exactly, the insistent Trevor carry show monda Valley's power
dog
I heard a story this week that I invited him
on the show, but so I don't. I'm not going
to say their names. But I was talking to a father.
He's my age. He has a son in his twenties.
A year ago, he was in a car and there
was four albums in the car, and I asked him,
did somebody call shotgun or how did you do the
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seating arrangements? He said, I was a gentleman. I let
the young lady sit in the front seat. I sat
behind the passenger. Four people in the car. A drunk
driver hit him and killed three of those four. My
friend's son survived that he didn't even have a broken bone,
didn't require any stitches. And that's what drunk driving killed
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three people in that car a drunk driver did. I
saw cow Matters this week that stunned me an article
because see California. California was the birthplace a modern movement
against drunk driving back in the eighties. But over the
past decade here in California, alcohol related deaths in California,
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what percentage you think they'd gone up in the past
decade in California If you just had to take a
random guess, would you have guessed fifty percent, non't I
wouldn't have guessed that. I would have guessed I don't
know eighteen fifty percent. Just a few weeks ago, at
thirteen year old boy in southern California, it's way to school,
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he was hit by a hit and run driver. Fifty
nine year old book for fellow the dui fellay hit
and run murder. And that mom that lost her thirteen
year old boy, she lost her own life hit by
a driver with a blood alcohol level twice that legal limit.
I mean cal Matters they did a great review here.
They went through all the cases filed around California from
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twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four, and then they went
and looked at other state laws on drunk driving and
it showed that too often here in California, we don't
make a big difference between those that Okay, I left
the bar, I lived one point two miles away, and
I got caught at a level that was a little
bit over the thing.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was okay, Uh, you know those stories out there,
Yes you're drunk driving, but you're not. You're not blitzed
out of your mind as well. Thank you jewy all right,
buddy stopping by here had his Trump Vance McDonald's shirt on,
working it right out of the of the drive through.
But what we do in California, Yeah, that's wrong, that's
drunk driving. You should be in trouble for that. But
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those that keep going on and rack up DUI's you know, two, three, four, five, six,
I couldn't believe. Cal Matters said, And right here in Fresno, California,
there is a woman that just got her sixteenth d UI. Yes,
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one six sixteenth d UI. How does a judge at
atlet's at number two? You know this is your second DUI?
This is your third? You know, I thought you learned
on the fifteenth. This is your sixteenth. California has some
of the weakest DUI laws in the country. They allow
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repeated drunk and drug drivers to stay on the road
with very little punishment. Drivers generally in California cannot be
charged with a felony. What do you think the second one?
Maybe another fourth? If you get four within ten years,
then it becomes a felony unless they injure somebody. There
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are states around America where it's just your second DUI. Well,
actually leads to a felony, and that's how it should be.
I think on the first one it should be a felony, right.
I think the first time that you're caught with a
dui it is a felony. I think you should have
one year in jail. The second time you're caught, I
think you should be dyed purple. It would stop overnight. Mom,
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there's one of those in the grocery. Look, yes, honey,
they drove drunk a second time. You want to cure it.
It would cure it. I don't care how drunk you are.
When you pull your keys out her or pull your
fob out and hit your brake and hit that start
button on your car, you would go wait, I could
get caught and be purple. That would stick in the
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drunkest of the drunkest minds, and I think that would
end it right there. You can't be charged until your
fourth time here in California. I think that's a broken
system that would allow that to happen. There was a
driver that killed this young woman named Sarah. She was
out walking with her fiance down in southern California and
she was hit by a guy that had already been
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convicted of drunk driving in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty
twenty all misdemeanors. He served just a couple of weeks
behind bars, and then her parents buried her in her
wedding dress because she was about to get married.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know what her dad said in the eulogy.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He said, if I walked out of my front door
today onto my porch and I fired a shot into
my neighborhood every day until I killed somebody, when would
I be a menace to society?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
He said?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
When do I become a danger to my community? He said,
I think it should be after the first shot. Our
system says it's after the last, when somebody finally got
hit by the bullet.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And that seems what we do with DUI.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
A bullet's a weapon that can take a life, a
car going seventy miles an hours, a weapon that's taken
too many lives in this state. In California, you can
lose your license for three years after your third DUI.
After your third they found as many cow matters did
as six DUIs, and they were able to get a license.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
In California six D.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
They give you a license e even when the state
does take your license a lot of drivers stay on
the road for years, they get more tickets or need duy's,
and then they eventually end up killing and they a
lot of them just skip out on court as well.
Here's the story here in Fresno County, Sylvester Conway was
arrested three times from twenty nineteen through twenty twenty one
for drunk driving. He didn't show up to court, all
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three cases were open, been outstanding warrants, and then prosecutor
said he drove drunk again in early twenty twenty two
and flipped his car and killed the passenger that was
in there. These are the repeats out here. Even drunk
vehacular manslaughter isn't considered a violent felony, a DUI that
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causes great bodily injury. That means that a drunk driver
can literally break somebody's leg and they can face more
time behind bars than if they killed them. This has
to change in California.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
This is this is not right.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
These I know there's a lot of these ignition devices,
you know, the breathalyzers that you got to blow into
it for a car to start. They said in California,
come matters did that the device prevented more than three
five hundred attempts to drive under the influence in one
year in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But here's the kicker on this.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Unlike most states around America, California does not require a
first time drunk driver to use the device. Wouldn't that
when you think that would be one of the main
things that a judge would do to make sure Is
this a start of a problem. Are they going to
be like a lady here in President County to get
sixteen DUIs?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, they don't require that.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The Mothers against tru Drivers get California and f on
their national report card to states over their breathalyzers, and
state law does require the device for repeat offenders. But
cal matters said they looked into the records, they said
it's not being enforced. They said judges in more than
a dozen counties ordered the breathalyzers for less than ten
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percent of drivers convicted of a second DUI. They're not
serious about They're not taking it serious, are they. Just
a few months ago in the fall, you had Sacramento,
California lawmakers they gutted one of the bills that would
have required ebody convicted of a DUI to use an
in car breathalyzer in that. Okay, so they had a
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bill they were going to change this, you know what
the state said, Well, well we talked to the DMV
and they don't have the time or the resources to
carry that out. Yeah, we got drivers that have prior DUIs.
They're the ones involved in a majority of the of
the fatal injuries here in California. And nothing's going to
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change until things get changed. And they had a chance
to actually change it, and they didn't do it. You know,
another thing that's a big issue here are we had
seventeen pedestrians bicycle deaths as of August of this year.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
In Fresno.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They said between January first and August thirty first, there
were two four hundred and eighty seven collisions citywide, including
one hundred and sixty eight people. Fifteen were killed. One
hundred and six involved bicyclists, and there were two bicyclists
that were killed in the city.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Our roads are dangerous.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't understand the bicyclists though, that say that we
got to make the roads, saye for bicycles and all
the extra money that that costs, because now we need
potholes filled before go ride your bike somewhere else, Go
ride on a bike path, go right, go right around
a circle on a track. And if you want to
risk your life and the bike lanes, I guess knock
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it out. Chair of the Fresnel County Bicycle Coalition. So
the city's made some progress on bike infrastructure, but sit
still lacks of connected network or protected lanes. That's what
you need, protected lanes. They don't need to be anywhere
near street where cars are. I just don't understand that they,
you know, painting the lime green bike lanes between lanes
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of traffic with cars and eighteen wheeler rock haulers go
on fifty sixty plus probably even faster. And I'm talking
about Fryan and Audubon right there with that big long
bike lane and most bike lanes you think are on
the right hand side.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Of the lane. No. No, we went over with our
our Fresno Posse.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We went over to Europe and learned how to ride
bikes and how to make things like a little fifteen
minute city. And we're gonna come back here and we're
gonna paint lime green lines right in between lanes that
are already shrunken down. Now to accommodate the bike lanes,
so you got cars with tires hanging over into the
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bike lane. I know all over town these things are
coming out. They're even talking about making less lanes for
cars to accommodate the bicycles, which you got the Frozzel
County Bicycle Coalition and rightfully so going we can't be
around cars, that's that's dangerous. They want separate bike lanes
protected from intersections. No, I would rather have our potholes
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filled up before we Let's fix our car. Let's fetch
our car roads first, before we spend another dime on
bike lanes. There are so many places you can go
ride your bike, go ride in the neighborhood. Now for work,
I understand there are people that some people want to
want to ride to work. We're not a European city
over here, or even some inner cities where a lot
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of people can do that. We do have a lot
of people, and I think a lot of these pedestrians
getting hit is the homeless situation, the transients and around.
I see a lot of I'm riding bikes and just
cutting across five lanes. I know you see them, see
them do this also with a little bit of thread
out there I saw this week, and I still hear
it in my neck of the woods every weekend because
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of a big long stretch of road that has no
roads coming across it, and boy, they it's probably well
over a mile stretch. And I hear those race cars.
I feel like I live on the outskirts of Indianapolis, man,
especially the motorcycles, all the street racing and the side
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shows that go on. Police said since January first, they've
averaged more than one hundred im pounds every quarter, so
that's every three months more than one hundred cars are
reckless driving in street racing violations. Well, I was saying,
if you catch a drunk and send them to jail
for one year, and then the second time if you
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get caught your dyed purple. If you really want to
stop street racing and side shows you, if you really
as a city wanted to stop that, here's how you
do it. Here's how you do it. You impound the car.
Then you give them two options if you're out there racing,
because racing is a weapon that can kill somebody. These
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side shows that they do, that's a weapon that can
kill somebody. So first option is one year in jail
for racing, or side show that's it, caught one year
in jail, or we'll give the option.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
A no jail.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Really yeah, but you got to watch your car get
squashed at a wrecking yard.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The racing would stop.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Nobody would race their race cars if they knew if
they got caught, they'd have to spend a year in jail,
or watch their car just get you know how they
do it out there at those impound yards, or they just.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
All right, if I were keen care, that's how we
would do it. I'm outside.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
This is a beautiful courtyard out here where am I
expedite urgent care Kylo Family Clinic. We got your tickets
to the dogs and see Utah they're gonna be playing
tomorrow Valley Children Stadium. We still got a couple Fresno
State swags. So if you want to roll on by
and I'll tell you what right here. Greg is normally
a grinch. He really is, Greg Goodman, our sales executive.
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He's normally a grinch, and I say that endearingly, but
today he's not a grinch. He's out here, He's in
his red He's in his red Fresnol state attire. He
looks like a Major League Baseball relief pitcher. And he's
got free Christmas trees for you. So if you can
afford a Christmas tree this year, don't come take a
free win. But if you know somebody in your life,
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somebody might be going through a difficult time, But what
a gift that would be right now, because these things,
you put them in water, they'll be good. They'll be
good till after Christmas. Make sure you keep them in water.
They are beautiful trees too, and I know expensive these
trees are getting these days. So all you got to
do if you want a Christmas tree for somebody, we
are getting in the spirit out here.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You can roll on up Blackstone and Shaw Expedite. You
know where it's at. It's a tremor nation all over
the place. Tour Blackstone and Shaw on a Fresno State Friday.
We're at Expedite Urgent Care, Kylo Family Clinics right here
at Blackstone and Shaw. We're outdoors here. They got a
big middle area, big sun roofs going on. They got chocolate,
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they got drinks. We got raffles or turkeys and pumpkin
pie and uh absolutely free.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
How about this? How about a Christmas tree? Oh you
don't want that.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You want Fresno State tickets to go see them play
Utah and a must win to keep the Mount Weston
championship hopes and dreams alive. Blackstone and Shawl. You'll see
the iHeart vehicle out there, see big red sign, and
just pull along that little gravel and pull into this
nice little parking lot and come on, there's beautiful outdoor
seating out here as well. This is one of the
(15:02):
grossest things I think I've heard in just a little
while here when it comes to food and food service,
all talking about the street vendors and the tower district
and what's the city gonna do and enforcement of this.
I saw a quote from an actual vendor that said
they know of other vendors, all right, buckle down that
(15:23):
use canal water to cook with.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, all right, how does that make you?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Now you make maybe a little more enforcement of street vendors,
maybe seeing what their kitchens like. Over my time in radio,
there are some really beautifully hearted people that listen to
stations and they'll come drop by some brownies or some muffins.
And there's always certain people in the building that have
no qualms whatsoever, eating it and my whole life. Even
(15:54):
if I was hungry, I would go, I don't know
what kitchen was there, cats up on the counter, right,
I think that way. And when you're talking about the
street vendors, now, there are a lot of i'll say,
high end tasting kind of food that comes out of
some of these food trucks and whatnot. And a lot
of those food trucks have refrigeration. Of those food trucks
(16:17):
have hot water. A lot of those food trucks are
just like a restaurant on wheels, and they have to
go through a whole lot of you know, Department of Health.
I would assume I'm not a regular on them, But
there's I've watched Diners Dive Ins and Diners dive Ins
and Dry Guy Fieri's show with some of those food
trucks man really good stuff. But we're talking about street
(16:39):
vendors that are out there in the sun. Think about
it in the summertime. But hearing that some of the
vendors use canal water to cook with. They're talking about
some of the vendors pour grease into the streets and
into the gutters and on the sidewalks and some probably
do it be the right way and are very clean,
and I guess it's the bad people that are getting
(17:01):
all the attention here, and rightfully. So, the police have
talked about in the Tower District, and I was talking
with Fresno City Council President Mike Corbasi, who came on
the show this week about the Tower District and the
police and everything down there. And we were talking about like, hey,
you come out of a club, a bar, whatever it is.
You've had too much to drink or a little bit whatever.
(17:24):
It's one o'clock in the morning, and the food trucks
keep people there. Congregated, Oh yeah, what did you say?
Oh you said that to me. They dropped their tacos
and they're smacking cheese. Comes out right and left fist.
All right, they say, right now, enforcement in the Tower
at these kind of hours has already cost forty five
thousand dollars in police overtime, so that this far, they said,
(17:46):
they pull police resources from every corner of the city
and divert them to the Tower district. This is on
Friday nights and Saturday nights. They got a whole number
of calls that they're seeing out there. This is according
to city council women per on this So it looks
like the city is going to step up enforcement. They're
going to introduce new fees as well. First violation for
(18:10):
your mayonnaise stinking would be a written warning. I guess
you'd be then followed by fines between twenty five dollars
and five hundred dollars. So I don't have a bust
out of what those fines would be, but I think
poor in grease and all you can't can't behave that way,
And the draw of food late at night, I think
the police reports the show that's asking for trouble. Can't
(18:33):
we just get along and and eat a case of
dia without people having to all get all mad? Hey,
this is some good news if you're wanting the Democrats
to have a whole lot of candidates running against each
other in this state as well. We'll probably see ads
by Eric Swalwell, paid paid by Eric Swalwell to vote
(18:55):
for Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco. Remember how Adam Shift
did that here to get people to vote for Steve Garvey. Yeah,
he read pro Steve garveyatz he wanted the republic to
be second as well, so we'll see a lot of this,
but yeah, Eric Swawell con fing fang. Eric Swalwell announced
that he's running for California governor. He announced it on
(19:15):
Jimmy Kimmel Live. And here's Swalwell's promise, a new California
that we can share in together, said mister Swalwell. He's
going to join other Democrat candidates. Bessera's running, let's see
Katie Mashed Potato Porter's running. Superintendent Public Instruction, Tony Thurman
(19:38):
is running on.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
The Republican side.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Rbside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, And maybe
I left some out of there. I know there's some
maybe a few more independents running as well. I saw
this today and director Ryan Nigel back at the studio
and myself we had.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Not every time.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I so we're head nodding right here. I'm going to
assume he didn't go out today and get his real
I I haven't gotten my real ID either, why procrastination
and not wanting to go to the DMV. And my
mom and dad are flying out here for Christmas, so
I just hope I don't have to go anywhere. I guess,
but I guess you've been able to slip by by
(20:19):
I don't know, bringing a picture of you and your grandmother. Hey,
I'm a good guy here. I know people have been
able to fly without it. And this has been since
May and this is actually well, that's when it was
finally implemented. If you're going, yeah, you heard about it
for twenty years, right after nine to eleven, that's when
it was implemented. And it was implemented so that we
would know who's flying around in our skies, and we
(20:41):
wanted to make sure that it Hey, we just want
to make sure your id's not fake, that it's real.
So they call it real ID. Why did they vote
that in Because there's some bad actors that might want
to get on an airplane and use it as a weapon.
So it was so crucial to the country that waited
what twenty four years to implement it. Do you really
(21:06):
believe that they're serious when they when they do stuff
like that. Can you imagine a bank president going, hey,
our vault is insecure. We need to secure it, all right,
let's do the real Secure Act. All right, we'll implement
it twenty four years later, did we got a winner? No,
ma'am giving, I'm in No, it's I'm on the Christmas mood.
(21:29):
I smelled the Christmas. I went out and sniffed a tree.
It got me in the season. I'm gonna give you
a second try here. No, no, you're gonna get second tries. No,
oh yeah, because you're gonna be celebrating here in just
one moment. I can't see the board from where I
am at, I'll be able to tell by the reaction
that one was close. Second try for the second lady, here,
come on, come on, we need a winner.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
We haven't had one here in about fifteen minutes. Here
seems like.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
The little kids are winning. The little kids are winning.
That's that's been the day we had. Just didn't come
by though he won. He was just driving by and
said I want to go see the game tomorrow night.
And he stepped up once and bam, it came straight
back down. All right, I got distracted with a winner
right there. The real ID. Here's the thing. If you
(22:14):
don't have a real ID, you don't have that. Here's
how you can. Here's the work around. What do you
think the work around is?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Now? Not the picture of you and your grandma together.
It's money. Look at that.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
They'll take money because the terrorists wouldn't have an extra
eighteen dollars, would they. No, this is a real protection
here at the airport. She has an eighteen dollars workaround.
You know what that's I'm actually impressed by that. I
thought it would have cost a whole lot more for
the procrastinators of the world out there. I thought maybe
that'd be flipped around. Well, it's an eighty one dollar
(22:45):
charge because we've really had to check you out here.
So here's what they at the Office of they are saying,
we're going to be doing now for the procrastinators of
the world. They're gonna have a biometric Kiosk system to
verify identity. If you don't have a real idea, you
pay the fee. It's only valid for ten days for
domestic travel. Uh huh biometrics. So what's he gonna do?
(23:06):
Read my iris, read my fingerprint, run it through the
FBI thing real quick. How's I wonder, Why don't you
just go get your real idea? Then you want to
have to worry about it, and you can go through
like the rest of the of the cattle calls going on.
They said the biometric screening is not a guarantee that
all identities will be verified. Wouldn't that be something you
(23:30):
go through? Yeah, I gotta get to tennessee here. All right,
we got a biomets All right, sit down, mister Kerry.
We're having a little issue here. We're gonna do some
additional security measures. You might encounter some delays. This is
Agent Stevenson here.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
He'd like to who knows, who knows?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I hope I don't have to try to hope. I
get my acting gear and get out there. I hear
the Clovis DMV. If you go early enough, it's not
that bad. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I've been out there a few times in my tenure
here as well. Look at this Clubland casino under Kyle
Kirklands announced he's running for Congress in Costa's district. He's
a Republican. He's making another attempt. He ran in that
special election back in twenty twenty one. I had him
in the studio. He said, we had some good ideas.
(24:17):
Vince Fong won that. He won that election as well.
But we'll see, we'll see what happens here. We also
got Republican Lorenzo Rios from the Clovis Veterans Memorial District
as a Republican running in this race. We're in the season,
are we not. I'll tell you where I am out here.
I'm at Expedite Urgent Care and Kylo Family Clinics, and
(24:37):
I'm gonna come back Clovis Unified. They got they now
been told they got to change their mascot name to
comply with state law. Would what everything going on in
this state? You would think that maybe that'd be way
down the list of thing.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But my questioning here is how much is that going
to cost when you got to change your mascot. That's signage,
that's t shirts, that's that Sarah. Well, we'll come back
and talk about that. It's the Trevor Nation all over
the place tour. If you would like to get tickets
to Utah Fresno State Tomorrow night, seven thirty Valley Children Stadium.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We're at Blackstone and Shawl.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You'll see the big red arrow out there, They'll see
the iHeart vehicle out there. You'll see all those Christmas
trees in the lot, and we have snagged some right
over here. Greg not the Grinch, would love to put
one on your trunk. He'll even give up her on
your four x four and tie it down to the roof.
He's got his gloves on, he's got his working boots on. Look,
(25:33):
he's chalking up over there. He's ready to start pitching
these trees. We're Blackstone and Shaw on a Fresno State Friday.
I saw this today, and I'm not trying to say
they don't deserve the money. I always say with capitalism.
(25:54):
I remember, I think early on in my life, I
asked my dad the question of how come they can
get paid so much much money to just hit a
ball out of a baseball park. And it was like,
it's worth it to somebody. If you're paying the big money,
it's worth it to somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I think.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
When our house catches on fire, we're glad there's a
fire department, We're glad there's a fire captain. He needs
to be on top of it all. And the fire
captain is on top of of it all with the
highest paid Fresno employees. When you hear some of these
firefighting numbers, a lot of that is overtime. A lot
of that can also be pinching contributions and other pay.
(26:34):
Fire Captain Ross's highest paid three hundred and eighty eight
thousand dollars. They said more than half of his pay
one hundred and ninety five thousand is coming from overtime
as well. Let's see, so maybe well that's at the
top because of overtime. Number two most paid is City
manager White three hundred and fifty nine thousand. Got a
(26:56):
fire captain at three hundred and forty three thousand, a
fire deputy chief at three hundred and fifty eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Fire makes a lot more than police.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
See, got another fire battalion chief at three hundred and thirty.
Now here's a firefighter on here. It doesn't say battalion
chief or captain or anything like this, and he made
three hundred and five thousand dollars a firefighter.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I mean they're risking their life.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
If you really want to break it down, risking your
life should probably pay more than I don't know, hitting
a home run.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
But so where are we living? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Underneath that firefighter at three hundred and five thousand dollars
is city attorney Andrew. We're gonna take down Trump and
nenez Jans at three hundred and fourteen thousand. Then he
got another fire battalion chief at three hundred and seventeen,
and then we get to police police Chief Casto at
three hundred and thirty one thousand. Now it's not huge
numbers separating all these, but the list keeps going on
(27:51):
and on and on. There's a lot of high paid people,
and that's in the city of Resno. There but a
lot of overtime as well. But Fire Captain number one,
three hundred and eighty eight thousand. I said, I was
gonna talk about Clovis Unified. They're having to change their
mascot name to comply with state law. Gotta be changed.
They are hal offensive. They're called the chieftains. Hey, when
(28:14):
you're mascot, you're proud of it. I don't understand the
Now what was the Cleveland Indian mascot that looked a
little too much like a caricature. I could understand that
one with all the big teeth and aye, look yeah,
but the name the I guess I won't get into
all that. They put out a school survey here that
(28:36):
gave some of the suggestions here instead of being the chieftains,
Oh chief O, wahoo, thank you there. Director Ryan Nigel. Yeah,
that won't went a little far. But you know, we
changed the Redskins and the Indians and in all of this.
But they got some new names here. How about this.
The Chihuahuas, you were the Chieftains, they're gonna be the Chiwa.
(29:01):
The school's name Clark, the Clark Crankins kr what the
Clark Cowboys. That's better for Clovis are the Clark Cubs?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
The Cubs? All right, that's not bad, But think about
all this. They got it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
They got to change the uniforms and all their signs
and all the names on the buildings.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
All that has to be replaced.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I go get a local Native American to stand up
and say, chieftains is something to be proud of. I mean,
I'm Irish. What what do we got? A leprechaun, a
guy at a pub? Oh wait, we got the fighting
Irish inn Utre Dame. Anyhow, all right, there you go,
Uh listen, if you want to go see Freszoe, say
take on, Utah, bea here till five thirty. We got
Fresne State basketball coming up at five point thirty. It's
(29:43):
a Trevor nation all over the place toward expedite, urgent
care and Kylo Family Clinics right here at Blackstone and
Shaw on a Fresno State Friday. Kylo Family Clinics here
at Blackstone and Shaw and a Fresno State Friday. They
outreach Marketer, here's Warren Edwards. You guys, Warren and made
us feel such at home. C K and I were
saying the vibe thank you man.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Oh, thank you for having us and in here.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I think one of the first things I told you
when I got here right before three was I judged
single women and doctor's office bathrooms A plus. I really
feel like I could bring a card table in there
and have a picnic and I wouldn't feel weird, very clean.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'll pay attention to that now.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Oh yeah, everyone has a has a real want to
keep this place clean and invited and making it feel
like home for everyone.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Indeed, I always think places like it needs to be quick.
You hear emergency room just horror stories. Is that the
level here I don't know doctors stuff. Is that the
level like you need to go to the emergency room
you could come by here or is this just like
for colds?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
This is for colds, but also if the emergency room
is full, this would be a great place or a
great alternative to come to, just like most urgent cares
are so expedite. Urgent cares open seven days a week
from nine to nine, and so people are welcome to
come in anytime.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
In hemy doctors around.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
We don't have any actual doctors, but we do have
maas and other people to take care of you without
a problem.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
So you know what you mentioned that there. My son's
in the Air Force for years. He just got it,
but he's an independent duty medical technician and he's going
to go to Baylor now to become a doctor. Nice
and I've got to know so much about it, and
he always tells me. He's like, I'm like, what's what's
it Like? He goes, well, I'm learning a lot of
the times we kind of tell the doctor he didn't
(31:22):
want to be all kind. Now doctors know, I'm not
gonna say they don't. I'm not trying to act that.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
But the importance of those individuals, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
It's everything. So they take care of everyone like their
of their own family. So that's what we love it
about that.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, what's your background here? Like, uh, what have you
done in marketing your whole life?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
You know, I've done in sales and marketing. I've worked
for AT and T. I've also done radio, actually worked
for a Clear Channel before it came my heart and
extensive marketing background and degree. So I enjoy reaching out
to people, and that's what I do. I get out
there and talk to the world and bring people to
Kylo and expedite family.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I see you also got was like one hundred and
twenty dollars present state jacket. I mean, that's a nice shack.
That's a nice shack. They're getting pricey, aren't they? Everything
they are, everything's going out. You have big Billdogs here.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I am a huge Builldogs fan.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
So you grew up around here.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I grew up my whole life in Fresno, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
And you know what I tell people, I lived in
Fresno in the early nineties, other than California for like
twenty eight of my fifty nine years, and I lived
in Texas and Tennessee and lived on the East Coast
and lived everywhere. And I tell people that have grown
up here and they go, oh, I just grew in.
I go, do you not know that eighty percent of
people would love to live here across the country? I
think Fresno our problem is we compare ourselves to postcards.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Oh, we have a beautiful area.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I mean we're es centrally located in between La San Francisco,
the coast and snow. I mean, how can you beat it?
You can ski and be in the ocean in the
same day. So that's one of the things I love.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You know, we're hearing so many people leaving California. You know,
U haul is actually giving people discounts to drive if
they're moving from Kansas to Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
It's a great discount to get the trucks back here.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I think what the valley in Fresno needs to do
is start advertising to smell A and San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
About Hey, that you don't have to escape California.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
There's a place here in California that maybe you have
thought less of, but you need to check it out.
There are times when I specially when it rains like
it is here. Do you know it's how green the
freeways are.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Oh, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
But I'll drive out all the way out Shawl.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I go as far out as you can go out there,
and sometimes you just feel like you're in another country,
feeling it's you.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Don't have to go very far.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
No, you don't. You don't have to be an outdoors
kind of guy. Do you get it?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Because everyone always says we've got the ocean in the mountains,
and I go, yeah, and I'm like, I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I don't you know either.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
One of the interesting things about me. I love getting out.
But I just traveled to all fifty states in forty
nine days. Stop it, I did. I Okay, that's well,
that's so crazy. I didn't even put it on my
bucket list. I've always wanted to do that, but I
thought that was crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Okay, good, good at Warren, let me ask you what
was your cause I'm going to come back and talk
about what foreign travelers says the friendliest state. I'm actually
going to talk about that five o'clock hour. So I
want your opinion. What was the friendliest state? Oh?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
You know what, There was a bunch of but I'd
say anything in the Midwest is probably the friendliest people
you can meet.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, okay, I would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I started the trip in Kansas and work my way
up to North Dakota out towards Maine, and I got
to say the Midwest, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
My mom and dad lived in Fort Wayne for a
year and I was visiting them and I couldn't lead.
The convenience store people just so friendly, even in Tennessee.
My saying is, when convenience store people are friendlier in
Tennessee than a lot of people at church in California,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Int it different?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
It is? It's completely different. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
But you know, no matter where you go, I think
everywhere across the nation, everyone's very similar. We think there's
so much differences, but really we're all just the same.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Oh no, I disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I completely disagree with that.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
I really think it comes down to demographic really. If
we live in a large city, it becomes a little tougher.
But in the small communities, they're very welcoming and they're
very nice.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
My dad always says people as friendly as you are
to them, and it's kind of true. I think some
people in California are kind of taken back when you're
friendly and they reacting and are friendly. Yeah, as well.
I remember when we lived in Connecticut. My kids are
a little and we visited Tennessee for the first time.
They were like Dad do you know them? I'm like, no,
people wave from their from their porch like that. I
I didn't grow up and know them. No, what was
(35:16):
what was the worst state?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
The worst state? You know what?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
I'd have to say it was probably Michigan unfortunately just
because uh, the winner took a little bit longer on them,
and it took a little bit longer toll.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
On the roads.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
You mean driving like you you're going to get a
dui because you look like a drunk driver trying to
get around them.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Right, no talking.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
You know. It was a cold winter, so the extended
winters kind of made them a little bit more rude
than most people.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, I lived in Buffalo. I know that, So you
understand what winters can do to people. Yes, yeah, rough,
And I know that's why I say, out here, we
got one long fall, that's what. That's what it is
we you know, we call it winter, but not like there.
That's hey.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I always say, that's why they're football teams. People are
all because that's all they have.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
That that's all they have.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It's ice fishing or the buffalo bills, or eat a
bunch of food.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
We're fortunate out here as well.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Extremely.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Are you finding a lot of obese people come.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I've heard about obesity as well, I know, with the
medical background as well an RFK Junior and that whole price.
Can you guys provide people want to come buy and
go get me on a really good solid diet.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I mean we can.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
We're working on a lot of different things for men's health,
also women's health. We're looking at adding some services here
at Kylo and Expedite to help people.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
A little bit further than we do already. See.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I wish somebody could just say, Okay, here's what you
eat Monday Tuesday, like real simple, and here's where here's
the ingredients, and that's healthy.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I hear all these different kind of things out there.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
You just don't know, and it's best to seek a
medical advisor and talk to people who do know.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
And that's what Kylo and Expedite can do for people.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
All right, listen, I appreciate you having us out here.
We were talking about how awesome and friendly. Okay, you're
acting like Midwest out here when we showed up right
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