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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you for listening to the Mark Blazer Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Chuck's off today, Zach Attack, of course is with me
and Alex Stone.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
ABC News is jumping on.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now, Alex, I'm out. Here's out. I'm not doing this.
Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
My feelings? Why do I get abuse? I get so
much abuse. I'm trying to figure out what I did
to garner abuse.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You should hear how Alex talks about Chuck before he goes.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
On the air. Is it worse, No, it's it's pure love.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh, thanks Zach, pure love from Mark. You know that, Zach.
I know what you drive, so i'd watch what you said.
Now I'll be out there slashing your tires. Earlier, we
were talking about and I uh uh that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We were talking with.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The radio voice of the Columbus Blue Jackets, our hockey
team here, and so I was talking with him and
and Zach and I were talking about and then brought
him on. But we were asking about how Halloween is handled.
And you know, for some reason, I feel like I've
talked to you about this, Like you guys get a
lot of tricker treaters.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yeah, we do. In our neighborhood. We've got a neighborhood
that gets really into it. Everybody decorates, Like bus loads
of people from other areas of La seem to come
into our neighborhood because it's flat and safe and they
know that they'll they'll get good candy that. Yeah, it's
really really busy.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Have you given out the whole candy bar?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
No, we're not that good.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We just go to Costco and get those you know,
bags of like the chocolate and everything else.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
But there are people on our street who do that.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
But I don't know how that's gotta be so expensive
because I mean we'll go through I mean we probably
see a thousand kids a night. I mean it's insane
where they just like line up at your driveway and
you're just handing it out all night long because it's
where everybody comes to. So I don't know how you
would do it if you bought the full size one. Oh,
but you do do the full sized ones?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Don't you do? See that one time?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Hell no, I know you did.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Now, we've hundreds, not thousands as far as kids go,
and I don't even know that we cress. I'd be
surprised if we did three hundred, you know, it's not
a ton, but the neighborhood there's a ton of kids
in it, but we don't have people shipping in from
other neighborhoods. Kind of like how you talking about, which
is why you get so many clear.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, they're just going all night long
to the point where that I think I've told you this,
but the first we've lived in this house for ten
years and our first time there, we had no idea.
And I think I went to the store twice to
go get more candy during Halloween, where you're like having
to get out of your driveway and move kids out
of the way, And then the last time there was
a third time that I went, and when I came back,
(02:34):
my wife was giving out my son's candy and like
stickers that she could find at home, but there was
no candy left at the grocery store. At that point, you're,
you know, you're grabbing whatever it happens to be left.
The big bags are totally gone by Halloween night at
like nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh, that's that is a really funny story.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Did you guys end up? Were you able to take
care of all the kids, because man, they'll come back
and get you.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
They're they played dirty and luckily my Jack's was young
enough at that time he didn't know any difference. And
we were giving away all of his candy and like
just random stickers and things, and it was it was nuts.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And then now we just wafers after it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Right, it was really bad.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I came back with like the know nothing candy because
it's all them. But now we buy way too much
and then you can return it to Costco afterwards, so
you like over buy or eat it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, well there's that.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
But when you have these giant bags, you're like that's good.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, you return it. After Halloween.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I can see you guys scramble at a round like
they're out of stuff, like what can we Oh, okay,
let's give out these grapes. So you have like one
grape giving away like stickers that you found in their
backpacks and stuff, and was like here.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You go, and it's like, oh you're back then, goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You're giving out like currying coffee pods. Stop giving that
those are expensive.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Don't give those anything with those T s A officers.
You know, I was going to tell you too, man,
because I talked to you yesterday after I've come back
from Vegas.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Uh, there was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It was noticeably lighter from TSA and Harry Reid when
I was leading long lines, well, the lines really weren't
that long, thank I don't know. I flew on Wednesday
night and I don't there must have not. Well I
know for fact, my flight seventy eight people were on it,
and that's one hundred and seventy Seed aircraft.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So there it was much much lighter.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
The Vegas seem empty in general, all those stories about
how empty.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It No, no, and no, I mean Alex, it was
crazy there on the strip anyway, it was nuts.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
So I've always felt when I'm there, I'm like, what
are they talking about it? And is still really busy?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, it was really busy.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Point being the TSA off it definitely felt like there
were less of them there. I've seen that full staff,
it's running full speed, full power, it's packed, and I've
seen it, you know, you know, not as packed, but
still the full staff. And this was definitely like visibly lighter.
But I don't know if that's corresponding with they knew
(04:59):
how many the flights we're gonna be going through there,
like where don't need to be as full staffed. I'm
not sure, but this is kind of This is actually
kind of a sad story, man.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And you know, we've talked over and over again about
how they and we've already seen it with the FAA
with their traffic controllers. But TSA officers are gonna increasingly
history would show call in sick because they've got to
pay for gas and childcare and everything else, and they're
not getting paid. And they've already gone through one portion
of one paycheck not getting paid, and that second paycheck
(05:31):
will be a whole paycheck and in the next couple
of days that they're not going to get and they
don't make a lot of money. I think when we
looked it up, it was like twenty four dollars an
hour was the average wage for a TSA officer. So
their union says, this is hard even when they are
getting paychecks to have a family, and especially in some
areas of country, live in those areas and make ends meet.
(05:52):
But then you get rid of that paycheck and this
is a really tough time.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, family is a lot of our TSO's paycheck to paycheck.
They have childcare issue. They got to show up at
three o'clock in the morning to fly out the traveling public.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
And so now in their signature blue uniforms at the
airport in Oakland in the Bay Area, TSA officers are
lining up after their shifts to get food from a
food bank to bring home. They're getting beans and rice
and eggs and fresh produce.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And this is them lining up right here.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Make sure you guys have some eggs. Thank you, all right,
I'm sure to say, have.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
A good day, and then they go home and they
bring it to their family. Reggie Young runs the Alameda
County Community Food Bank. He says, they got to do it.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
I think one of the big challenges in general with
not being paid is assicially that your whole livelihood is
at risk.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
And he says, look, they know the TSA staff is
dealing with. They got to buy medicine for them and
their family. They got to buy gasoline. They've got to
come in with their uniforms looking good and the way
that they're required to do and make sure that they're clean.
They got to pay the rent and without a paycheck,
that's really tough.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
You want to sure that food is one of the
things that you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Have to worry about.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
So after their shift they line up like you wand
helter and get food to bringing home the family. And
the food bank says they've got enough to help out
these three hundred TSA officers no matter how long the
shutdown goes on for. But the TSA staff says, this
is really tough, and you can imagine for the ego
that you're hardworking, you're going to work every day and
you're lining up to get donated.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Food from a food bank. And the TSA officers saying.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
We just don't want this to become a prolonged fight
because we don't know what. We don't know how we're
going to pay to stay in.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
The fight with just other aspects of their life, how
they pay to continue on until they get that paycheck.
But it's estimated just in the Bay area around Oakland
there are seventy eight thousand federal workers and the food
bank is feeding around three hundred of them. There are
many who are not going to work. You know, if
you work at the IRS, you're not going to work
right now. But it's still tough if you're not getting
a paycheck, but then you're not commuting in and have
(07:46):
to deal with your uniform and childcare and all of that.
But those who are the FBI agents that are getting paid.
But the TSA officers, the FAA air traffic controllers, they're
not so and they don't know how long it's going
to go on for, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And I do agree with people when they're so well,
the government, all the government people, all the government workers
should not be paid as well, because we know Congress
is still getting But you know, the thing that hit
me when I was hearing people say that, I'm like, well,
I one hundred percent agree with that, But most of them,
it's not like they rely on those most of them now,
there's still some because they make one hundred and seventy
thousand or whatever it is. I think that's what I know.
(08:20):
I believe that's what the House members make. I'm not sure.
I think senators are right around that. It's not a
whole lot more, if anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And most of.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Them, though, they're not relying on that money to make it.
In other words, I don't think most of them are
living paycheck to paycheck. So while that I do one
hundred percent agree with that, I'm like, you just got
to find a different way to make it. Painful for
everybody involved. So they just try to get this figured out.
Stop letting people leave, make everybody stay. You got to
(08:48):
be a pain in their ass. So they get this
cured because it's not doing anything necessarily to them. Maybe
they're listening to constituents bitch at them and all of
that kind of stuff, but that goes in one to
hear without the other, especially if they're timing out they're
not going to run again or any of those things.
I one hundred percent agree with this needs to just do.
We need to figure out a way around this. I mean,
we're twenty twenty five and we can't get the government
(09:11):
to stay open.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
So can you imagine if members of Congress had to
line up at a food bank to actually get food,
not just go and shake hands and say hi and
r reat you, but actually get food.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, that might change some stuff, Right, that might change
some stuff, no.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Question about that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
This is kind of sad, but I'm glad it's there
for them to at least, you.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Know, utalize here.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, for sure. Alex Stone, ABC News, Los Angeles. Alex,
have a great week, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Later, Thank you. See
Thank you for listening to the Mark Blazer Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Chuck's off today, Zach Attack, of course is with me
and Alex Stone.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
ABC News is jumping on.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now, Alex, I'm out. Here's out. I'm not doing this.
Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
My feelings? Why do I get abuse? I get so
much abuse. I'm trying to figure out what I did
to garner abuse.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You should hear how Alex talks about Chuck before he goes.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
On the air. Is it worse, No, it's it's pure love.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh, thanks Zach, pure love from Mark. You know that, Zach.
I know what you drive, so i'd watch what you said.
Now I'll be out there slashing your tires. Earlier, we
were talking about and I uh uh that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We were talking with.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The radio voice of the Columbus Blue Jackets, our hockey
team here, and so I was talking with him and
and Zach and I were talking about and then brought
him on. But we were asking about how Halloween is handled.
And you know, for some reason, I feel like I've
talked to you about this, Like you guys get a
lot of tricker treaters.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yeah, we do. In our neighborhood. We've got a neighborhood
that gets really into it. Everybody decorates, Like bus loads
of people from other areas of La seem to come
into our neighborhood because it's flat and safe and they
know that they'll they'll get good candy that. Yeah, it's
really really busy.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Have you given out the whole candy bar?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
No, we're not that good.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We just go to Costco and get those you know,
bags of like the chocolate and everything else.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
But there are people on our street who do that.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
But I don't know how that's gotta be so expensive
because I mean we'll go through I mean we probably
see a thousand kids a night. I mean it's insane
where they just like line up at your driveway and
you're just handing it out all night long because it's
where everybody comes to. So I don't know how you
would do it if you bought the full size one. Oh,
but you do do the full sized ones?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Don't you do? See that one time?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Hell no, I know you did.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Now, we've hundreds, not thousands as far as kids go,
and I don't even know that we cress. I'd be
surprised if we did three hundred, you know, it's not
a ton, but the neighborhood there's a ton of kids
in it, but we don't have people shipping in from
other neighborhoods. Kind of like how you talking about, which
is why you get so many clear.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, they're just going all night long
to the point where that I think I've told you this,
but the first we've lived in this house for ten
years and our first time there, we had no idea.
And I think I went to the store twice to
go get more candy during Halloween, where you're like having
to get out of your driveway and move kids out
of the way, And then the last time there was
a third time that I went, and when I came back,
(02:34):
my wife was giving out my son's candy and like
stickers that she could find at home, but there was
no candy left at the grocery store. At that point, you're,
you know, you're grabbing whatever it happens to be left.
The big bags are totally gone by Halloween night at
like nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh, that's that is a really funny story.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Did you guys end up? Were you able to take
care of all the kids, because man, they'll come back
and get you.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
They're they played dirty and luckily my Jack's was young
enough at that time he didn't know any difference. And
we were giving away all of his candy and like
just random stickers and things, and it was it was nuts.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And then now we just wafers after it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Right, it was really bad.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I came back with like the know nothing candy because
it's all them. But now we buy way too much
and then you can return it to Costco afterwards, so
you like over buy or eat it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, well there's that.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
But when you have these giant bags, you're like that's good.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, you return it. After Halloween.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I can see you guys scramble at a round like
they're out of stuff, like what can we Oh, okay,
let's give out these grapes. So you have like one
grape giving away like stickers that you found in their
backpacks and stuff, and was like here.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You go, and it's like, oh you're back then, goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You're giving out like currying coffee pods. Stop giving that
those are expensive.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Don't give those anything with those T s A officers.
You know, I was going to tell you too, man,
because I talked to you yesterday after I've come back
from Vegas.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Uh, there was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It was noticeably lighter from TSA and Harry Reid when
I was leading long lines, well, the lines really weren't
that long, thank I don't know. I flew on Wednesday
night and I don't there must have not. Well I
know for fact, my flight seventy eight people were on it,
and that's one hundred and seventy Seed aircraft.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So there it was much much lighter.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
The Vegas seem empty in general, all those stories about
how empty.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It No, no, and no, I mean Alex, it was
crazy there on the strip anyway, it was nuts.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
So I've always felt when I'm there, I'm like, what
are they talking about it? And is still really busy?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, it was really busy.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Point being the TSA off it definitely felt like there
were less of them there. I've seen that full staff,
it's running full speed, full power, it's packed, and I've
seen it, you know, you know, not as packed, but
still the full staff. And this was definitely like visibly lighter.
But I don't know if that's corresponding with they knew
(04:59):
how many the flights we're gonna be going through there,
like where don't need to be as full staffed. I'm
not sure, but this is kind of This is actually
kind of a sad story, man.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And you know, we've talked over and over again about
how they and we've already seen it with the FAA
with their traffic controllers. But TSA officers are gonna increasingly
history would show call in sick because they've got to
pay for gas and childcare and everything else, and they're
not getting paid. And they've already gone through one portion
of one paycheck not getting paid, and that second paycheck
(05:31):
will be a whole paycheck and in the next couple
of days that they're not going to get and they
don't make a lot of money. I think when we
looked it up, it was like twenty four dollars an
hour was the average wage for a TSA officer. So
their union says, this is hard even when they are
getting paychecks to have a family, and especially in some
areas of country, live in those areas and make ends meet.
(05:52):
But then you get rid of that paycheck and this
is a really tough time.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, family is a lot of our TSO's paycheck to paycheck.
They have childcare issue. They got to show up at
three o'clock in the morning to fly out the traveling public.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
And so now in their signature blue uniforms at the
airport in Oakland in the Bay Area, TSA officers are
lining up after their shifts to get food from a
food bank to bring home. They're getting beans and rice
and eggs and fresh produce.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And this is them lining up right here.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Make sure you guys have some eggs. Thank you, all right,
I'm sure to say, have.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
A good day, and then they go home and they
bring it to their family. Reggie Young runs the Alameda
County Community Food Bank. He says, they got to do it.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
I think one of the big challenges in general with
not being paid is assicially that your whole livelihood is
at risk.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
And he says, look, they know the TSA staff is
dealing with. They got to buy medicine for them and
their family. They got to buy gasoline. They've got to
come in with their uniforms looking good and the way
that they're required to do and make sure that they're clean.
They got to pay the rent and without a paycheck,
that's really tough.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
You want to sure that food is one of the
things that you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Have to worry about.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
So after their shift they line up like you wand
helter and get food to bringing home the family. And
the food bank says they've got enough to help out
these three hundred TSA officers no matter how long the
shutdown goes on for. But the TSA staff says, this
is really tough, and you can imagine for the ego
that you're hardworking, you're going to work every day and
you're lining up to get donated.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Food from a food bank. And the TSA officers saying.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
We just don't want this to become a prolonged fight
because we don't know what. We don't know how we're
going to pay to stay in.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
The fight with just other aspects of their life, how
they pay to continue on until they get that paycheck.
But it's estimated just in the Bay area around Oakland
there are seventy eight thousand federal workers and the food
bank is feeding around three hundred of them. There are
many who are not going to work. You know, if
you work at the IRS, you're not going to work
right now. But it's still tough if you're not getting
a paycheck, but then you're not commuting in and have
(07:46):
to deal with your uniform and childcare and all of that.
But those who are the FBI agents that are getting paid.
But the TSA officers, the FAA air traffic controllers, they're
not so and they don't know how long it's going
to go on for, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And I do agree with people when they're so well,
the government, all the government people, all the government workers
should not be paid as well, because we know Congress
is still getting But you know, the thing that hit
me when I was hearing people say that, I'm like, well,
I one hundred percent agree with that, But most of them,
it's not like they rely on those most of them now,
there's still some because they make one hundred and seventy
thousand or whatever it is. I think that's what I know.
(08:20):
I believe that's what the House members make. I'm not sure.
I think senators are right around that. It's not a
whole lot more, if anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And most of.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Them, though, they're not relying on that money to make it.
In other words, I don't think most of them are
living paycheck to paycheck. So while that I do one
hundred percent agree with that, I'm like, you just got
to find a different way to make it. Painful for
everybody involved. So they just try to get this figured out.
Stop letting people leave, make everybody stay. You got to
(08:48):
be a pain in their ass. So they get this
cured because it's not doing anything necessarily to them. Maybe
they're listening to constituents bitch at them and all of
that kind of stuff, but that goes in one to
hear without the other, especially if they're timing out they're
not going to run again or any of those things.
I one hundred percent agree with this needs to just do.
We need to figure out a way around this. I mean,
we're twenty twenty five and we can't get the government
(09:11):
to stay open.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
So can you imagine if members of Congress had to
line up at a food bank to actually get food,
not just go and shake hands and say hi and
r reat you, but actually get food.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, that might change some stuff, Right, that might change
some stuff, no.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Question about that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
This is kind of sad, but I'm glad it's there
for them to at least, you.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Know, utalize here.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, for sure. Alex Stone, ABC News, Los Angeles. Alex,
have a great week, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Later, Thank you. See
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