Handel pulls back the curtain on America to explore the damage that assault weapons have caused across the nation over the years, and how the U.S. stacks up against other countries. Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff joins the show to talk about President Biden's proposal to have airlines cover passenger expenses if their flights were canceled. And Wayne Resnick is back, as is Monday tradition, for 'Do They Have A Case?' Wayne presents Handel with couple of cases where the outcomes have been determined already, but remain undisclosed to Bill. Handel then applies his legal expertise and knowledge in attempt to predict which direction the court went in the case.
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You're listening to kf I AM sixforty. The Bill handles show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Kf IAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app. Handle here. On Mondaymorning, May eighth, we came into
the news this morning. Oh,it's a lot shooting over the weekend in
Allen, Texas, A people killed. We'll do a little bit about gun
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ownership, the Hollywood writers strike,show runners people that run the show may
have to cause the picket line becausethey're producers also. And then here's some
one I don't understand. Guys,explain this to me. Guardians of the
Galaxy Volume three opens up to onehundred and fourteen million dollars. It's already
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made two hundred and eighty two millionglobally. I just don't get the superhero
movies. I just don't understand.I mean, I'm the kind of guy
that likes French art movies that aresubtitled you know, smoking gulwas cigarettes,
berets, eating by gets. That'swhy you don't get Guardians of the Galaxy
because you like that Bill. Youever read a book and then see a
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movie based on the book I have, that's what these movies are. They're
based off of comics. The kidshave grown up reading. Well, okay,
will I stopped reading with Superman?And you ever see a Superman movie?
I did, actually, ok andyou loved it. I ain't love
it, but you know there wereand there were some pretty moronic Superman too.
All right, let's get serious fora moment. I hate to do
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this, and this have to dowith the shooting that happened in Alan,
Texas. Ain't mentally ill, formermarine, I believe, if I'm not
mistaken. He ended up killing eightpeople, just literally in the parking lot
of that shopping mall. Got outof his car and took out his AR
fifteen and just started mowing people down. And the only reason that there were
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not more there weren't more people killed. There's there happened to be a cop
there that was there on another call, all another incident, and he was
able to kill the shooter. Andof course here's the part that it really
bothers me. You have Governor GregAbbott, Texas has worthy shootings than any
place else, and he talked abouthow horrible the situation is, and he
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talked about the reason that this happenedis because of mental illness. That's the
problem in the United States, notthe number of guns. Keep in mind,
it's mental illness, that's it.And we have to deal with mental
illness. In the meantime, onehundred and twenty guns for every American forties
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four percent of US households have agun. A third of Americans own one
personally, and you know, athird of US adults. And this is
the part that just floors me.Less crime if more people own guns,
totally contrary to the statistics and thestudies. And here it is in terms
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of mental illness. I love thisone because the problem here is mental illness.
So we have the US. It'seight times greater in Canada in terms
of gun ownership, seventh highest rateof gun ownership in the world, twenty
two times higher than the European Union, twenty three times higher than Australia.
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So therefore we have think about it, extrapolate eight times more mentally ill in
Canada, twenty two times more mentallyill than in Europe. Boy are it's
just look at us. It's allmental illness. It's a tenth, it's
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a fifth, it's a fiftieth Aroundthe world, just as Greg Abbott,
the problem is mental illness. Now, the fact is that we do have
mental illness. But the problem buthere it is, you know how easy
it is for someone who is mentallyill to get a gun versus England,
where we don't care if you're mentallyill. You can be as mentally ill
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as you want. You're not gettinga gun. And there in lies the
problem. And then the statistics whenthe sunset law, when the law sunset
it regarding the AR fifteens, thenumber of AAR fifteens that have been bought
since then, I think it waseither in nineteen ninety four or two thousand
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and four, I forget the decade. Forty million of these were sold.
And of course it was an AARfifteen involved in this one. So I'm
just throwing a stat at you thatof us here, half of us would
own a gun. I'm not goingto get into here in the building,
but if you look as statistically fortyfour first thing, Jennifer did raise your
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hand, half the people here andthis building owned weapons statistically okay. And
if you wanted to kill me,you do it with a gun. If
you didn't have guns available, youdo it a knife and that's the other
thing. I want knife control.Uh, there should be no knives.
I'm just joking obviously, but youknow it's scary stuff and that's the man.
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Yeah, I know, but that'sthe mantra now of the gun advocates.
It's not the number of guns thatare out there. It's the mental
illness that we have here in America. And we have more mentally ill than
almost any place in the world.Just ask Greg Abbott. So so depressing.
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Now, the obviously the big newshad happened on Saturday, and that
was the shooting at the mall inAllen, Texas by this mentally ill former
army Army person. What was this? Do we know what his rank was?
No idea, they haven't given itto us in any case. Of
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course, once again gun control sortof came up, but not really Greg
Abbott the governor, this was Texasand he was asked to comment and he
had to this is horrible, thisis atrocious the problem and he's asked about
it. Should we reduce the numberof guns? And the answers clearly know
the problem is mental illness. Ijust did a segment on this issue of
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mental illness as being the primary problemof the gun debts in this country.
And if you want to listen tothat, it's on demand, and it's
sort of, I think, agood precursor to this segment. And so
let's talk about And there was aNew York Times article that asked readers,
tell us about how you feel aboutgun violence. Now, in no way
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is the statistical, In no wayis the statistically significant. These are all
anecdotal stories, but tell me theydon't connect with you. Do you not
think of gun violence when you gointo a mall, when your kids go
to school? Do you not ofthe possibility of a shooter going in?
And now there is active shooter drills. Can you imagine ten years ago the
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thought or twenty years ago, thethought of an active shooter drill in the
school. You never thought that wouldbe possible. Now, when I was
a kid, they were drop drills. It was the Soviets. They were
going to send the atomic bombs overand we had to hit the floor under
our desks, hold our next becausethey were going to bomb us. Today
it's active shooter drills. So thisarticle New York Times asked people to write
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in their readers write in, whatdo you think about how do you feel
about what's going on with gun violence? And we're not talking about the politics
of it either. We're not talkingabout the overwhelming the votes from Republicans that
will never let gun control ever happenas long as there are Republican legislators and
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congresspeople, State congress people center.But these were personal stories. Let me
give you a few of what peoplesaid. I checked for escape roots everywhere
I go. A balloon popped inthe gay bar I was at and the
whole place went silent. Another onesays, I think about it every day.
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And then there was a story aboutMichelle Allen, who lost her only
son, Nicholas, shot and killedin a Brooklyn bike store. He got
an argument with a man at thebike store. The man leaves, comes
back with a gun, and heshoots Nicholas. A bunch of times this
is part of six hundred responses thatThe Times readers wrote in on how the
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threat of gun violence just how itaffected them personally. Some said huge number
said that the number of shootings inAmerica, it's just left them numb,
resigned. A bigger group said frustrated, angry, helpless. How many of
you avoid crowded events that was ahuge issue among those that rode in or
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stay at home more often. Becauseof this, A handful said they moved
to different cities, even to anothercountry. I mean those other countries are
I mean some of them were verydifficult to live in. But gun violence
isn't an issue, and that's whysome people move. Of course, California
taxes and traffic, etc. Hasa lot to do with it too.
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And twenty twenty one, homicides andsuicides reached the highest number they have had
for decades. Now, keep inmind, and I just did that segment,
the number of actual mass shootings andthe number of people that are killed
minuscule relative to the number of murdersthat happened with guns. Most murders I'm
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talking about murders, I'm talking aboutsuicide, which is the number which is
the greatest percentage of deaths by guns. But when you look at the number
of murders over twenty thousand, whenyou look at the number of mass shootings
and the number of people killed,it's a handful. But there is a
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survey that Harris Pole did more thanseven and ten adults look at gun violence
as a significant source of stress I'llbuy that. So here are a couple
of quotes I want to share withyou. I speak with my sons every
day about where they go, evenif it's an evening jog. I don't
move forward until I know they're safelyat home. I view the potential for
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gun violence it's just another potential hazardin life. I look at it that
way. It's just a cost ofdoing business to live in America. America
is a great place to live,and I truly believe that it's the best
country in the world. But I'mnot an exceptionalist. I think there are
parts of which we're not such agreat country, and people are getting their
heads blown off by guns. Isone of those problems. I'll tell you
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where. For me, where I'mfrightened of guns when I drive, Now,
when I go to the mall.It's when I'm driving and I do
something wrong and by mistake I cutsomeone off I'm a horrible driver. Or
I go into a lane and Ishouldn't go there and someone hanks the horn.
I generally, I genuinely am fearfulthat someone's going to take a shotgun
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and take a shot at me.I think about that every single time Jennifer,
what's yours? I is it badthat? I guess I don't have.
I don't feel I have that fear. But I'm seeing more and more
people talk about it, and they'resocial media. If they go to the
mall, they're looking for an exitor there. Well, and you don't
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do that, I guess. Imean there's something. There are plenty of
people who don't feel that way,and a lot of those people are dead
now, so the stats are veryskewed. I think it's just but you
know what it probably is. It'snever happened to me, and so maybe
I live with that. Oh it'snever gonna happen to me until it does,
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fair enough and real quickly. Tylerfear. Yeah, I don't like
going to the movies anymore. Okay, Oh interesting. Ye see there's one
figure. A few years ago,we started talking about reparations for African Americans,
and I thought that was kind ofdumb. I really did, because
we're talking about reparations going back forslavery for example. I come on,
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it's been a long time talk aboutreparations or legit. For example, Japanese
were given reparations those that were inthe interment camps, but they were in
the interment camps. There aren't thatmany African Americans that suffered from slavery when
they were children, and now they'reold, that doesn't happen anymore. However,
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it expanded because it wasn't just slavery. Originally it was slavery, and
now it is societal racism, whichis true. By the way, discrimination
which is true, redlining which AfricanAmericans were not allowed in certain areas,
and mortgage mortgage companies wouldn't loan inthe money, which is true. I
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think for the most part that isgone. But African Americans have suffered.
Legitimately, they have suffered. Sothe question is do we then come up
with reparations ranging all the way fromaffirmative action, which we have done already,
but that's not based on I don'tthink that's based on previous history.
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I think that's what's going on rightnow. Yes, there is discrimination and
job discrimination, but again, doesaffirmative action change that? And I don't
know what the statistics are, butwe have them. And so what the
governor did in the legislature a coupleof years ago is created reparations task Force.
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They said, all right, whatare they going to come up with,
I mean an apology of course,certain programs, Uh yeah, you
know, for example, there areyou know, certain scholarship programs that are
only available to African Americans, likealso Irish people their program for those and
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there are people that come from aspecific hobby and they're available and they're also
available for African Americans. And againI don't know what the numbers are.
There are grants, there are pellgrants, which I'm assuming African Americans get
more of than other ethnicities simply becausethere are more poor African Americans ethnic minorities
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in our country. So the taskforce met and they had one hundred and
thirty three witnesses everything from looking atCalifornia's racist history, economists who looked at
health disparities and incarceration which we knowas a problem, housing discrimination against descendants
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and families affected by slavery with theirown experience. Now that is one I
question, because your great great greatgrandfather was a slave. Actually, if
I it would be a badge ofhonor for me that we came from slavery.
And look where I am now andlook at and we're talking about those
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who are very successful came from thattime in history, and I am now
an economist, a well known one, or a well regarded surgeon. That
is the way I look at Forexample, I look at being the child
of a Holocaust survivor as a badgeof honor. Look where my family came
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from. Look at coming to theUnited States, look at this success.
Look at my parents coming here asimmigrants. I mean, that is a
story I'm very proud of. Sothe Force came up with about twenty different
literally twenty different aspects or twenty differentpoints. And I'm not going to go
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into him because it goes right downAmend Prop two O nine, analyze laws,
Amend to California Constitution, pay fairmarket value for jail in prison labor.
Just I mean, all the waydown with the big deal is how
much it's going to cost us.And if you go and I think,
I don't think you're going to goto the extremes, I truly don't,
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because the extremes when you're talking aboutreparations for every African American living in California
for six months or more and itgoes up per year, would be double
the entire budget of or two yearsof the budget of California, and they
were They talked about it two yearsago and when we had tons of money.
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Now we're in deficit. Now isthis going to happen? You know,
I believe there's going to be somekind of reparations beyond an apology for
what society did to African Americans prior. And the further back we go,
the worse it has been. AndI think we have to acknowledge that certainly,
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and do we come up with someprogram of affirmative action we have that,
although the courts are overturning that.Do we come up with additional pell
grants? So yeah, people getpell grants not because they're African Americans or
because they're ethnicity, simply because ofwhere they sit on the socioeconomic scale.
Do we ignore that and go intothe other direction? I don't know,
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but I have to tell you whoaI mean this is. I never thought
this was going to happen never,But you know, well, there's going
to be a pendulum swinging back.We're just swinging really far in that direction
right now. We will go back, There's no question about it. We
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have heard a lot about kids thirteenand under using the internet going on the
various platforms and seeing things that arecompletely inappropriate. We've often talked about white
supremacis using the Internet to advocate theirposition. For example, of the January
sixth over running of the Capitol,it was the Internet that brought everybody together
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the call for this rally, butfor the internet never would have happened.
And that's a part of the Internetthat is horrible. There's some great parts
of the Internet that are just priceless. But you know, there's nothing that's
all good. So a bipartisan billwas introduced this week that children under the
age of thirteen would be barred fromusing social media. How the hell do
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you do that? Well, youask them up to now, are you
over eighteen and you can use ourplatform? Just say yes and you're done.
Those between the ages of thirteen andseventeen would need parental consent to create
an account, and social media companieswould be prohibited from recommending content using algorithms
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to any user under eighteen. It'sthe Protecting Kids on Social Media Act Act,
co sponsored by two two Republican senatorson either side of the all Tom
Cotton Isle Tom Cotton of Arkansas,Republican Brian Schatz of Hawaii Democratic. Both
of them happen to be parents bykids, by the way, and Cotton
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said, there are a lot ofmechanism for a more robust age verification system.
Right now, all you do issay are you eighteen? And they
click, yeah, I'm eighteen,and they're online. And what the bill
is going to do is give theFTC, the Federal Trade Commission, and
individual states attorney's attorney generals the authorityto enforce that age limit, and you've
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got to come up. Of course, there's they're not coming up with the
formula for the platforms to do it, and some legitimate complaints. The two
senators are appointed to several studies thatsay there is a potential link, not
at absolute because it's going to takeyears and years to make that a fact.
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That there is a potential link betweensocial media and mental health. Now,
I believe that, especially when you'retalking about young kids, especially when
you're talking about teenage girls with bodyshaming, with all kinds of mental health
issues and dealing with social issues.Remember that gal who convinced her boyfriend to
commits suicide. Do it, doit? Do It? The CDC found
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that fifty seven percent of high schoolgirls. Twenty nine percent of high school
boys feel persistently sad, and they'reconnecting that with the with social media,
and girls far higher at twice thelevel of being subject mental without having mental
issues due to what's happening on theinternet. But then's body shaming too that
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has a lot to do with it, or being told you're ugly, or
being told you I wouldn't go outwith you and you're one of the people
that shouldn't shouldn't be part of ourgroup. I mean, that happened to
me, but that was obviously beforethe Internet. But I was I was
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never in the end group, never, and I feel bad about it.
I mean I was ostracized, whichis why if you look at my mental
issues right now, I'm gonna blameit all on that too many, very
many. You know, what's interestingabout body shaming is who would have thought
if you had told me this ayear ago after going through my weight loss
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surgery. People say things now thatare meant as a compliment that end up
making me feel bad, Like they'llgo, oh, you're so skinny now,
or oh you're so little, oroh my god, you've lost so
much weight. All I hear isdude, you were a whale before.
Holy cow, you look way betterthan you're used to. Isn't that weird?
Uh? Yeah? Or no,because that's just the way people are.
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They want to make you look good. I say that to you all
the time. Yeah, you lookgreat. You and I have that in
common, though, you know whatI mean, Like both of us have
had the surgery and whatever. Butit's it's so hot. I also have
to tell you you, and thisis a compliment, and it happens to
be true. You wore your weight. Well, oh thank you. Yeah,
you didn't care. You were upthere dancing the clogs. I remember,
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you're dancing the clog at one ofour events, and I'm going to
come on, it's the clog,you know, play dancing. Yeah,
I mean, yeah, that's right. They don't call it the clog.
They call it clog dancing. It'snot something I grew up with Appalachian mountain
dancing, of course. Yeah,because you brought your bowl of squirrel soup
to eat during the break, youknow, I get that. But there
are people I was very very subconsciousabout my weight, and I would wear
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clothes that were really baggy, andit was just I was always thinking about
it. I was always looking inthe mirror and always sucking in my stomach.
And that was just me. AndI was called the fatty uh in
school and I went to junior highand those were the daisy took showers after
pe to be hard. Yeah itwas, you know, those of us
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who were heavy. It was reallydifficult. Yeah, you know I had
and I built the perfect defense.It was great. I just hate everybody.
I just can't stand you. Youcould say, whatever the hell you
want, I hate you, good, bad and different. See, and
I liked everybody. So people wouldsay like, oh, you wear your
weight, Well I just saw that, right, But I just think you
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did. And I would think tomyself, what the hell does that?
You're a cute, chubby person.But now it's just funny that that image
doesn't go away. So body shamingat a young age isn't necessarily ever going
to change, because you are goingto forever have those negative thoughts in your
mind once somebody sticks them in there. Unfortunately, I think that's just us
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as a human race. It's hardto get that those negative thoughts out.
Yeah, I mean, body dysmorphiahappens all the time. Okay, I'm
going to tell you a little secretnow which I haven't shared before, and
I'm going to admit it. I'manorexic. I just eat to cover it.
Wow. That's a deep Yeah,that's very, very strong. In
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the meantime, I'm going to pointthis out as we finished a segment,
is that all the platforms out there, Facebook, Instagram, even TikTok are
looking at algorithms at help and they'resaying, we have ninety nine percent success
rate. I don't know, andeven if you have ninety nine percent,
you're never gonna get a one hundredpercent rate. But I'm going to suggest
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that you go ninety nine point ninetynine percent because I think the technology will
be out there if they truly concentratedon it. I don't know what's going
on inside of these companies, andit is probably better, but uh,
nine one percent out of two billionis still a whole lot of people.
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And so you're gonna see more andmore of that being uh being talked about
and being in being developed. Andby the way, you look great,
yeah and yeah yeah, well sex, Yeah, I know you're lying,
so we'll just don't I know youare too yeah, well there you are.
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You a piece of good separated atbirth. We just did the high
five through the newsroom glass. Allright, all right, if you're gonna
travel this summer as I am,because I take my summer vacation, I
jump on airplanes almost always, I'min for a really good time. Uh
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good chance. My luggage is goingto be lost and they'll deliver it,
you know, four days five dayslater. And if you're going to a
destination, they lose your luggage.Do you know Clark Howard who comes on
every once in a while, Myfriend Clark who's a consumer expert. He
goes overseas and I mean two weekvacations overseas and he takes one travel bag
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that goes in his overhead for twoor three weeks. Aviation expert Jay Ratliff
is with us, and everybody's reallyangry with the various airlines of what they're
doing and hoping we do something.And then Biden administration is actually proposing some
help. Jay, Thank you somuch for joining us. Always a pleasure.
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So are we going to get anyrelief from all of this? We're
gonna get some relief. And oneof the things, you know, I'm
not a fan of the Biden administrationin any way whatsoever, but I am
pleased with how the administration and theDepartment Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration are
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trying to hold the airlines accountable.And they're doing more to do so than
any administration that I can remember inthe last several decades, because normally it's
the airline industry that tells the governmentwhat they're going to do, not vice
versa, and this administration says,look, if we have delays that are
your fault, you're going to beheld accountable for providing some sort of compensation
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to airlines. And of course airlinessay, well, let ask do the
air traffic control. Airlines will blamethe weather, all these types of things,
and the DOT is simply saying,that's just not accurate. So what
we're going to do is make youaccountable when these things happen. And a
lot of it, of course,stems back to the pandemic when airline said
we need money to maintain our payroll, so the government handed over three different
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batches of money came out to what, I don't know, fifty four billion
dollars seventy center. So that didnot have to be paid back. But
what happened the airlines all of asudden lost and laid off and had many
retire So, all of a sudden, now there's a shortage of employees at
a time when they wanted money toprotect the jobs, and now they're saying
we're shorthanded, and airlines are tellingthe government, well, this is one
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of the problems we have, andthat's why last summer, coming into this
year, the government said, then, do not schedule more flights than what
you had the employees to operate,and airlines have done just that. We've
seen tens of thousands of flights canceled, removed from the summer service that would
have normally been planned because they don'thave enough pilots, ground equipment, cities
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to serve those types of things.And as a result, it's going to
impact our flying experience, if youwill, this year much more than any
of the year past. It's acrazy when you think of when we used
to fly, and I don't goback too many years. First of all,
if you changed flights, got fullcredit, you've got meals, they
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would never charge you for luggage.I mean, it was just it was
a better experience flying and I lookat what the airlines get away with today,
and there was no one there tostop them, all these junk fees.
The other day I was flying andthey served used peanuts and I'm going,
seriously, it's how were they ableto get away with it? Did
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the FAA have? Was it thatpowerless? It had absolutely no teeth,
And we and the airlines found outabout it and figured it out. Well,
I'm not After the Deregulation Act ofnineteen seventy eight, airlines were free
to operate their business as they chose. So what ended up taking place was
in two thousand and twelve when youhad American Airlines. I believe they were
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the first that came out with oneof these ancillary fairs. They were free
to do it. Back you know, American Airlines back to nineteen eighty one,
I want to say, when theycame out with the eighty one or
eighty two, and they came outwith the first super Saber fair where if
you made a reservation and you canceledit, you lost twenty five percent of
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your money. And we didn't knowat the time if the traveling public would
go for that, because to giveup twenty five percent, you know the
ticket you bought. But what happenedwas people just grabbed them. So they
said, hey, look, ifyou buy your tickets thirty days in advance,
we'll give you a big discount,but you'll lose fifty percent of your
money. And it just continued tothe point that it became a nonrefundable ticket
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like we have now, and passengersare willing to buy those tickets in advance,
save a lot of money, andthen if they have to change their
reservation, they pay for it.So the government is stepped back and allowed
the airlines to do what they wantto do in the free market, thinking
that if customers don't like it,they'll go to another airliner. They'll find
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another way to get from point Ato point B, as long as it's
not a matter of safety. Thegovernment is going to stand back and allow
the airlines to do what they wantand allow the free market to dictate whether
or not that behavior continues. Inthese ancillary fairs where airlines are making hundreds
and hundreds of millions of dollars oncheck bag fees, change fees and all
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of these other fees, it's amazingto see what's taking place, and you
talked about, you know, thedays before. Well, my friend,
I think we'll be looking back tenyears from now at these days being the
good old days when things weren't asbad as what they're going to be,
because it's going to continue to getworse. Customer service disappeared a long time
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ago. If you get it now, you got it by accident. And
we now endure travel, we don'tenjoy it. And we've got more people
flying this summer than last summer onfure flights, so it's going to be
packed. Jay. I hate tocut you off because we could go on
and on, but we're out oftime. Jay, take care, Jay,
aviation expert. Boys, he ifsomething information. I'm going to share
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something with you about fast food restaurants. One no surprise you see it,
you've been anticipating it. And anotherfact that I guarantee you're going to be
surprised now, the future of fastfood no human interaction. We know that,
First of all, a growing numberof these fast food chains are experimenting
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with no seats, seatless locations.They only have take out, they only
have drive through, and there's abunch of reasons for that. Now McDonald's
launch play places. You've seen those, or are used to see those back
in the seventies. You know thosebig they have slides, those big buildings
next to them with slides, andthose what do they call those? A
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pit those ball pit things, which, by the way, they found out
are the Petrie Dish of all diseasesyou could ever think with. And what
they did is they build brand loyalty. Let's go to McDonald's, mom and
dad, because we can play there. You're gonna find it pretty hard to
see one today. By the endof twenty twenty one, dine in visits
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to the fast food places have fallento fourteen percent of their traffic. Can
you imagine it had even fallen totwenty eight percent of pre pandemic. And
now you know what are people doing. They're not eating there anymore. They're
eating at home. They're eating attheir offices and their cars. It seems
like anywhere except a restaurant. Andso the big, the big cahuna here
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is McDonald's, not only in termsof the number of restaurants and the volume
they do, but in terms ofexperimenting with the new wave of running a
fast food establishment. That's not tosay they're alone. There are plenty and
this is betting on the digital kitchenwhere it's all done without people and compact
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stores use automation, digitalization, andwhat diners do is they order through mobile
apps or digital kiosks. Now,yeah, the other day I went through
a fast food establishment. I thinkit was uh was it? It may
have been a Jack in the box, I don't remember. But I hate
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when you order at that microso atthe use a microphone and you get the
speaker and you can't understand what anythingsay, what anybody says. Not only
have they just brought someone over fromsome country you have no idea where they
came from, but the quality,Oh yeah, who I want a hamburger,
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a cheeseburger with fries at the randcheeseburger fries and is that right?
Inevitably? I mean that's what youget. Well today, just go on
your app, that's all, andit becomes really easy and you don't have
to do what just happened to mea couple of weeks ago. It's all
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mobile apps is the big one.Digital kiosks. Well, even inside the
store, if you go inside aMcDonald's, for example, they have that
big kiosk thing right there near thecounter, and I've never understood how to
use that, by the way,so I try, and then I go
to the counter and I hear,oh, no, that's not true.
They're actually pretty good about that.But restaurants are shrinking. The footprints are
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really decreasing, and that makes alot of sense for a couple of reasons.
Real estates expensive, so they makeit much smaller, and because of
automation. Of course, the numberof people working their shrinks. Now look
at the cost of labor right now, it has gone through the roof,
and they're still short of labor,and people just don't go. They just
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don't work there. And you knowwhy, because the hours are brutal working
at fast food. It's grueling work. I mean, it's the same work
over and over again. It's fairlyboring, and they give you different shifts
different days. It's just it's ahard place to work. So they're getting
rid of all of that. Andwe're talking about and this one is there
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is an entire generation of people whoare not going to be able to get
a job. And of course thesocial aspect of that we've talked about before.
But that's not what this is about. It's a new dining rooms dining
room less concept which is exploding.Burger King ihop. All the food is
packaged to go, limited seating andin many cases limited menus too, because
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that makes a lot of sense.Starbucks, where you could sit there for
hours. You see those people ontheir computer sitting at Starbucks. You go
in at ten o'clock in the morning, you order a coffee, and then
three hours later you want one togo because you're gonna stop off somewhere in
your office and you're going to comeback and forth. Same people, same
people sitting there. I don't knowwhy they throw them out. What's the
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standout McDonald's And here is I'm goingto tell you about the fact that you
didn't know about probably not. Firstof all, they had sales growth aboard
the ten percent in twenty twenty two. This is Donalds. They increase their
prices by ten percent in twenty twentytwo. And here is what is going
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on in America today. Price isnot a big deal anymore for fast food.
Remember you go to fast food establishmentbecause it was so much cheaper,
because the burger and fries and ahappy meal didn't cost you very much money.
Prices have increased dramatically over the lastfew years, and no one's complaining
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about it. You go to arestaurant and sit down restaurant. The other
day I went, and I'm lookingat the menu and going, oh my
god, you know this is upthirty percent since last time I came here
a year and a half ago ora year ago. And have you tried
to door dash fast food? Oh, it's insane, it's insane. My
kids do that. It's ridiculous.Yeah, why don't you go down the
street. You got a car rightout there. No, no, no,
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we're gonna door dash. I gotto the point now where they are
paying for the door dash and they'restill doing it. I'll show your dad
drives me nuts. Since it isthe last two segments of the show on
Monday, it is time for Wayneresnick me and do they have a case?
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It's cavel times handled eat no realjudge. Let he tries. They
just say sea but Mondays are thedays he can pretend he is Scaliah.
He's got a friend name saving athis very own cavil pig smile on his
face and he brings it down witha thunderouss of tons. They have a
case, and we do this everyweek. Of course, what Wayne does
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is research some cases, usually appelletcourt cases. Gives me the facts and
I get and I give an educatedguest as to what the appeals court does.
You and I have heard the casefor the first time when Wayne utters
those words, sorry, Wayne,first case up. Well, Terry Yates
is this woman's name, and shegets a job that's irrelevant except for the
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fact that with the job comes alife insurance plan that's very nice benefit.
She puts her husband on the lifeinsurance plan, and the life insurance plan
has an accidental death benefit. Itwill cover certain losses, including a loss
of life due to accidental bodily injury. And an accidental bodily injury is defined
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in this policy as a sudden andunforeseen event, definite as to time and
place. But there is an exclusion. We will not cover any intentionally self
inflicted injuries. All right, Oneday, unfortunately, mister Yates is found
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dead in his bedroom. Nobody disputesthat, and nobody disputes it's how he
died heroin overdose. So missus Gatesmakes a claim for accidental death. He
wasn't trying to kill himself. Hejust got away from him. And the
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insurance company says, no, thankyou, we are not going to pay
you for a heroin overdose because weconsider that an intentionally self inflicted injury.
So she goes right to court witha breach of contract lawsuit and the lower
court says, no, you haveno case by sorry, sorry for your
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loss, goodbye. Now she goesup to in this case, it's the
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, threefederal judges, and they take a look.
They take a look at another case, a previous case where a guy
got drunk and got on his motorcycleand had a crash and died, and
you kind of had the same issue. And in that case, the court
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had said, yeah, you gottapay. You have to pay for an
accidental death because the loss is hisdeath and the injury is the motorcycle crash.
And while it may be true thathis elevated blood alcohol level contributed to
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the occurrence of the injury, hedid not intentionally crash his motorcycle. So
you have that case supporting this widow, and you have the insurance company.
And I wish that I could sayhere's their super excellent, interesting argument.
But they are just sticking to theirguns that when you purposefully use heroin an
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overdose that that should not be consideredan accidental injury. So now you're the
judge, what do you do?I give it to the woman because an
intentional death is intentional and you haveto prove it. Where if you overdose
on heroin, it can be arguedthat his intent was to get high and
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that's it, and you're allowed toget high. I mean, you know
whether that's the law or not,but it doesn't even matter. You know,
for example, the same argument ifyou're speeding and therefore you is it
you are the one that caused it? Yes, I did. Is how
you have to prove it. It'skind of hard to argue after someone is
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dead, what's your intent? Butthe argument can be if you if you
take the you intended to die argument, by the nature of your death,
there's almost nothing you can't argue thatit was, that it was non intentional.
So I think she has it handsdown based on that reasoning. Yes,
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that is exactly what happened. Theysent it back down and you seized
upon something that was a big partof the appellate court decision. They point
out something, they say, youknow, the motorcycle guy. When someone
drives drunk and nothing happens, theyget in a cart drunk and they drive
home, nobody considers that they sufferedan injury. And if somebody uses heroine
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and they get high and then itwears off and they're not high anymore,
nobody would say, oh, theysustained an injury and so behaving in those
ways that are irresponsible, And evenif they contribute to an accident, they're
not an injury. And that's whatwas intentional. The thing that was intentional
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was not the injury, and theinjury was the thing that was not intended.
And it's I think it's very verydifficult to choose to say intentional.
I mean, for example of video, someone taking a swan dive off a
building, probably intentional. Someone leavinga suicide note and then taking a gun
and blowing his brains out, althoughyou can argue making a mistake, he
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was just negligent in loading his gunor unloading it or cleaning it. That
I think would fly also as anaccidental, non intentional death. Okay,
excellent so far. One for one. Well, here's a fellow who is
having quite a good time until hecrashed his car. Derek McClellan is his
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name, and he smashed his carinto a concrete pillar. He's okay,
he was okay. It was closerto a fender bender than a super serious
accident, but it was certainly enoughfor a police officer to respond to the
scene of this accident. And asthe officers walking up to the car,
he smells marijuana, and maybe that'sbecause the window is down already. And
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then he walks up and there's theguy McClellan, and he's passed out in
the front seat. And what ishe cradling in his arms but an empty
bottle of Hennessy. So the officerwakes him up. I'm giggling because nobody
was hurt and it's not a lifeor death kind of case. So the
officer wakes him up and he staggersout of the car and he gets arrested
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for public drunkenness and driving with anopen container this bottle of hennessy. And
then they searched the car and theyfind a blunt, a marijuana blunt in
the ashtray, and they find somecash in the console and a duffel bag
full of cash in the trunk andthey go to Homeland Security and they say,
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hey, look at this money.And Homeland Security says, oh,
yes, we would love to seizethat money. We seize the money.
It must be connected to drug dealing. It's only plausible explanation of what's going
on here. And you know whatthey do and they seize money is they
do what they call an ion scan, and they're looking for detectable amounts of
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drugs, and the do five ionscans of this money and it comes back
positive for cocaine, and they're somethingelse that will come up in a moment.
In any event, they moved toseize the money. And now this
guy says, I want my moneyback. It has nothing to do with
drug dealing. So here's the issue. That information that you have in front
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of you, is that enough tofind that that money was from drug dealing?
Or could a reasonable jury also believeafter hearing that story that it wasn't
from drug dealing? And and ifany reasonable jury could believe it's not from
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drug dealing, he gets the moneyback. Boy. There are a lot
of moving pieces on this one,and you can take your choice. Was
the smell of marijuana enough for themto walk up to him. Well yeah,
because of course there was a crashand they had every reason to come
up and the battle the Hennessy plainsight. And there's a rule that says
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if you're investigating something and there's anothercrime that's in play site, uh,
you get to pop him from thatfor that. Uh. Then the issue
becomes the money. As you said, that's the big one. Uh.
Now, this was not a civilforfeiture, was it? This would it
is a civil forfeiture, Okay.Uh. That one is really interesting,
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and it's it's amazing how much leewaythe government has when it comes to civil
forfeitures. It is astounding how muchleeway the government has, even though Uh,
I think the forfeiture is going tofly. Now, does he ever
right to ask for his money backin a civil suit? He does,
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it would have to be a civilsuit. He just simply sues the government
and if he wins. Here's anotherone because I had a friend of mine
who got tagged with this. Uh. She was not for drugs, because
it was drugs, It would haveshared it with me. It was the
Uh. She was taking a bunchof money to Brazil to a charity in
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Brazil, and it was at atime when inflation was so high. Dollars
were everything, so she could buyfive times as much medicine, etc.
Bringing in dollars. So she broughtin over ten thousand dollars. He actually
brought over seventy thousand dollars in aduffel bag, got on the airplane and
someone snitched on her and there theywere. She was guilty of not declaring
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the money, which is legitimate,and she sued and the jury actually gave
her the benefit. They ruled onher, and the government paid and the
government kept fifteen percent for administrative costs, and she couldn't and they kept it
fifteen percent they got because that's thelaw. So in this case, I
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think that the lawsuit will go forward. I think he has the right to
sue, and it is up toa jury to determine whether or not it
was the government was fair in pickingit up. Keeping in mind that government
has immensely way and even if hewins, he's going to lose fifteen percent
because that's the government administrative costs.Counting the money I get, I guess,
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right, nine thousand dollars to countout some money. Well, that's
an incentive to seize money, whetheryou think you're going to get to keep
it later or not, isn't it. Yeah? Anyway, he yeah,
he wins, and he can sueto get that money back. And one
super quick thing. Yeah, theyfound traces of cocaine, but the test
that they use will identify extremely smallamounts of cocaine. And what the judges
here said is they also found tracesof explosives, which is which is which
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is super common as well, Andyet they never suggested that because there was
chases of explosives on the money,that he was dealing explosives. So you
can see how the logic can workin either direction equally, and that's why
he gets his shot. All right, fair enough, all right, Wayne,
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all right, Oh so we dothis again tomorrow and Gary and Shannon
I'm sure going to cover some ofthese big, big stories that are happening
today. Oh and I just droppedmy copy standing all right, coming up,
it's Gary and Shannon right here onKFI and Gary, what's going on
today on your show? Well,Texas is about to become the center of
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the universe. Not only we're goingto talk about the horrific stories out of
Allen, Texas, the shooting atthe mall, and then Brownsville, Texas,
the guy that ran into a crowdof apparently Venezuelan migrants. Title forty
two is gonna expire and we willsee tens of thousands of people trying to
come into the country. We've gotthat, We've got the details on the
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potential director's guild strike on top ofthe writer's guild strike. That and rideshare
nightmares. Gary and Shannon will comeup right after the news. You've been
listening to the Bill Handles Show.Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six
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app. Handle here. On Mondaymorning, May eighth, we came into
the news this morning. Oh,it's a lot shooting over the weekend in
Allen, Texas, A people killed. We'll do a little bit about gun
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ownership, the Hollywood writers strike,show runners people that run the show may
have to cause the picket line becausethey're producers also. And then here's some
one I don't understand. Guys,explain this to me. Guardians of the
Galaxy Volume three opens up to onehundred and fourteen million dollars. It's already
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made two hundred and eighty two millionglobally. I just don't get the superhero
movies. I just don't understand.I mean, I'm the kind of guy
that likes French art movies that aresubtitled you know, smoking gulwas cigarettes,
berets, eating by gets. That'swhy you don't get Guardians of the Galaxy
because you like that Bill. Youever read a book and then see a
(01:08):
movie based on the book I have, that's what these movies are. They're
based off of comics. The kidshave grown up reading. Well, okay,
will I stopped reading with Superman?And you ever see a Superman movie?
I did, actually, ok andyou loved it. I ain't love
it, but you know there wereand there were some pretty moronic Superman too.
All right, let's get serious fora moment. I hate to do
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this, and this have to dowith the shooting that happened in Alan,
Texas. Ain't mentally ill, formermarine, I believe, if I'm not
mistaken. He ended up killing eightpeople, just literally in the parking lot
of that shopping mall. Got outof his car and took out his AR
fifteen and just started mowing people down. And the only reason that there were
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not more there weren't more people killed. There's there happened to be a cop
there that was there on another call, all another incident, and he was
able to kill the shooter. Andof course here's the part that it really
bothers me. You have Governor GregAbbott, Texas has worthy shootings than any
place else, and he talked abouthow horrible the situation is, and he
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talked about the reason that this happenedis because of mental illness. That's the
problem in the United States, notthe number of guns. Keep in mind,
it's mental illness, that's it.And we have to deal with mental
illness. In the meantime, onehundred and twenty guns for every American forties
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four percent of US households have agun. A third of Americans own one
personally, and you know, athird of US adults. And this is
the part that just floors me.Less crime if more people own guns,
totally contrary to the statistics and thestudies. And here it is in terms
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of mental illness. I love thisone because the problem here is mental illness.
So we have the US. It'seight times greater in Canada in terms
of gun ownership, seventh highest rateof gun ownership in the world, twenty
two times higher than the European Union, twenty three times higher than Australia.
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So therefore we have think about it, extrapolate eight times more mentally ill in
Canada, twenty two times more mentallyill than in Europe. Boy are it's
just look at us. It's allmental illness. It's a tenth, it's
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a fifth, it's a fiftieth Aroundthe world, just as Greg Abbott,
the problem is mental illness. Now, the fact is that we do have
mental illness. But the problem buthere it is, you know how easy
it is for someone who is mentallyill to get a gun versus England,
where we don't care if you're mentallyill. You can be as mentally ill
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as you want. You're not gettinga gun. And there in lies the
problem. And then the statistics whenthe sunset law, when the law sunset
it regarding the AR fifteens, thenumber of AAR fifteens that have been bought
since then, I think it waseither in nineteen ninety four or two thousand
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and four, I forget the decade. Forty million of these were sold.
And of course it was an AARfifteen involved in this one. So I'm
just throwing a stat at you thatof us here, half of us would
own a gun. I'm not goingto get into here in the building,
but if you look as statistically fortyfour first thing, Jennifer did raise your
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hand, half the people here andthis building owned weapons statistically okay. And
if you wanted to kill me,you do it with a gun. If
you didn't have guns available, youdo it a knife and that's the other
thing. I want knife control.Uh, there should be no knives.
I'm just joking obviously, but youknow it's scary stuff and that's the man.
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Yeah, I know, but that'sthe mantra now of the gun advocates.
It's not the number of guns thatare out there. It's the mental
illness that we have here in America. And we have more mentally ill than
almost any place in the world.Just ask Greg Abbott. So so depressing.
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Now, the obviously the big newshad happened on Saturday, and that
was the shooting at the mall inAllen, Texas by this mentally ill former
army Army person. What was this? Do we know what his rank was?
No idea, they haven't given itto us in any case. Of
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course, once again gun control sortof came up, but not really Greg
Abbott the governor, this was Texasand he was asked to comment and he
had to this is horrible, thisis atrocious the problem and he's asked about
it. Should we reduce the numberof guns? And the answers clearly know
the problem is mental illness. Ijust did a segment on this issue of
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mental illness as being the primary problemof the gun debts in this country.
And if you want to listen tothat, it's on demand, and it's
sort of, I think, agood precursor to this segment. And so
let's talk about And there was aNew York Times article that asked readers,
tell us about how you feel aboutgun violence. Now, in no way
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is the statistical, In no wayis the statistically significant. These are all
anecdotal stories, but tell me theydon't connect with you. Do you not
think of gun violence when you gointo a mall, when your kids go
to school? Do you not ofthe possibility of a shooter going in?
And now there is active shooter drills. Can you imagine ten years ago the
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thought or twenty years ago, thethought of an active shooter drill in the
school. You never thought that wouldbe possible. Now, when I was
a kid, they were drop drills. It was the Soviets. They were
going to send the atomic bombs overand we had to hit the floor under
our desks, hold our next becausethey were going to bomb us. Today
it's active shooter drills. So thisarticle New York Times asked people to write
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in their readers write in, whatdo you think about how do you feel
about what's going on with gun violence? And we're not talking about the politics
of it either. We're not talkingabout the overwhelming the votes from Republicans that
will never let gun control ever happenas long as there are Republican legislators and
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congresspeople, State congress people center.But these were personal stories. Let me
give you a few of what peoplesaid. I checked for escape roots everywhere
I go. A balloon popped inthe gay bar I was at and the
whole place went silent. Another onesays, I think about it every day.
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And then there was a story aboutMichelle Allen, who lost her only
son, Nicholas, shot and killedin a Brooklyn bike store. He got
an argument with a man at thebike store. The man leaves, comes
back with a gun, and heshoots Nicholas. A bunch of times this
is part of six hundred responses thatThe Times readers wrote in on how the
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threat of gun violence just how itaffected them personally. Some said huge number
said that the number of shootings inAmerica, it's just left them numb,
resigned. A bigger group said frustrated, angry, helpless. How many of
you avoid crowded events that was ahuge issue among those that rode in or
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stay at home more often. Becauseof this, A handful said they moved
to different cities, even to anothercountry. I mean those other countries are
I mean some of them were verydifficult to live in. But gun violence
isn't an issue, and that's whysome people move. Of course, California
taxes and traffic, etc. Hasa lot to do with it too.
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And twenty twenty one, homicides andsuicides reached the highest number they have had
for decades. Now, keep inmind, and I just did that segment,
the number of actual mass shootings andthe number of people that are killed
minuscule relative to the number of murdersthat happened with guns. Most murders I'm
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talking about murders, I'm talking aboutsuicide, which is the number which is
the greatest percentage of deaths by guns. But when you look at the number
of murders over twenty thousand, whenyou look at the number of mass shootings
and the number of people killed,it's a handful. But there is a
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survey that Harris Pole did more thanseven and ten adults look at gun violence
as a significant source of stress I'llbuy that. So here are a couple
of quotes I want to share withyou. I speak with my sons every
day about where they go, evenif it's an evening jog. I don't
move forward until I know they're safelyat home. I view the potential for
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gun violence it's just another potential hazardin life. I look at it that
way. It's just a cost ofdoing business to live in America. America
is a great place to live,and I truly believe that it's the best
country in the world. But I'mnot an exceptionalist. I think there are
parts of which we're not such agreat country, and people are getting their
heads blown off by guns. Isone of those problems. I'll tell you
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where. For me, where I'mfrightened of guns when I drive, Now,
when I go to the mall.It's when I'm driving and I do
something wrong and by mistake I cutsomeone off I'm a horrible driver. Or
I go into a lane and Ishouldn't go there and someone hanks the horn.
I generally, I genuinely am fearfulthat someone's going to take a shotgun
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and take a shot at me.I think about that every single time Jennifer,
what's yours? I is it badthat? I guess I don't have.
I don't feel I have that fear. But I'm seeing more and more
people talk about it, and they'resocial media. If they go to the
mall, they're looking for an exitor there. Well, and you don't
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do that, I guess. Imean there's something. There are plenty of
people who don't feel that way,and a lot of those people are dead
now, so the stats are veryskewed. I think it's just but you
know what it probably is. It'snever happened to me, and so maybe
I live with that. Oh it'snever gonna happen to me until it does,
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fair enough and real quickly. Tylerfear. Yeah, I don't like
going to the movies anymore. Okay, Oh interesting. Ye see there's one
figure. A few years ago,we started talking about reparations for African Americans,
and I thought that was kind ofdumb. I really did, because
we're talking about reparations going back forslavery for example. I come on,
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it's been a long time talk aboutreparations or legit. For example, Japanese
were given reparations those that were inthe interment camps, but they were in
the interment camps. There aren't thatmany African Americans that suffered from slavery when
they were children, and now they'reold, that doesn't happen anymore. However,
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it expanded because it wasn't just slavery. Originally it was slavery, and
now it is societal racism, whichis true. By the way, discrimination
which is true, redlining which AfricanAmericans were not allowed in certain areas,
and mortgage mortgage companies wouldn't loan inthe money, which is true. I
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think for the most part that isgone. But African Americans have suffered.
Legitimately, they have suffered. Sothe question is do we then come up
with reparations ranging all the way fromaffirmative action, which we have done already,
but that's not based on I don'tthink that's based on previous history.
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I think that's what's going on rightnow. Yes, there is discrimination and
job discrimination, but again, doesaffirmative action change that? And I don't
know what the statistics are, butwe have them. And so what the
governor did in the legislature a coupleof years ago is created reparations task Force.
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They said, all right, whatare they going to come up with,
I mean an apology of course,certain programs, Uh yeah, you
know, for example, there areyou know, certain scholarship programs that are
only available to African Americans, likealso Irish people their program for those and
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there are people that come from aspecific hobby and they're available and they're also
available for African Americans. And againI don't know what the numbers are.
There are grants, there are pellgrants, which I'm assuming African Americans get
more of than other ethnicities simply becausethere are more poor African Americans ethnic minorities
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in our country. So the taskforce met and they had one hundred and
thirty three witnesses everything from looking atCalifornia's racist history, economists who looked at
health disparities and incarceration which we knowas a problem, housing discrimination against descendants
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and families affected by slavery with theirown experience. Now that is one I
question, because your great great greatgrandfather was a slave. Actually, if
I it would be a badge ofhonor for me that we came from slavery.
And look where I am now andlook at and we're talking about those
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who are very successful came from thattime in history, and I am now
an economist, a well known one, or a well regarded surgeon. That
is the way I look at Forexample, I look at being the child
of a Holocaust survivor as a badgeof honor. Look where my family came
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from. Look at coming to theUnited States, look at this success.
Look at my parents coming here asimmigrants. I mean, that is a
story I'm very proud of. Sothe Force came up with about twenty different
literally twenty different aspects or twenty differentpoints. And I'm not going to go
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into him because it goes right downAmend Prop two O nine, analyze laws,
Amend to California Constitution, pay fairmarket value for jail in prison labor.
Just I mean, all the waydown with the big deal is how
much it's going to cost us.And if you go and I think,
I don't think you're going to goto the extremes, I truly don't,
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because the extremes when you're talking aboutreparations for every African American living in California
for six months or more and itgoes up per year, would be double
the entire budget of or two yearsof the budget of California, and they
were They talked about it two yearsago and when we had tons of money.
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Now we're in deficit. Now isthis going to happen? You know,
I believe there's going to be somekind of reparations beyond an apology for
what society did to African Americans prior. And the further back we go,
the worse it has been. AndI think we have to acknowledge that certainly,
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and do we come up with someprogram of affirmative action we have that,
although the courts are overturning that.Do we come up with additional pell
grants? So yeah, people getpell grants not because they're African Americans or
because they're ethnicity, simply because ofwhere they sit on the socioeconomic scale.
Do we ignore that and go intothe other direction? I don't know,
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but I have to tell you whoaI mean this is. I never thought
this was going to happen never,But you know, well, there's going
to be a pendulum swinging back.We're just swinging really far in that direction
right now. We will go back, There's no question about it. We
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have heard a lot about kids thirteenand under using the internet going on the
various platforms and seeing things that arecompletely inappropriate. We've often talked about white
supremacis using the Internet to advocate theirposition. For example, of the January
sixth over running of the Capitol,it was the Internet that brought everybody together
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the call for this rally, butfor the internet never would have happened.
And that's a part of the Internetthat is horrible. There's some great parts
of the Internet that are just priceless. But you know, there's nothing that's
all good. So a bipartisan billwas introduced this week that children under the
age of thirteen would be barred fromusing social media. How the hell do
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you do that? Well, youask them up to now, are you
over eighteen and you can use ourplatform? Just say yes and you're done.
Those between the ages of thirteen andseventeen would need parental consent to create
an account, and social media companieswould be prohibited from recommending content using algorithms
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to any user under eighteen. It'sthe Protecting Kids on Social Media Act Act,
co sponsored by two two Republican senatorson either side of the all Tom
Cotton Isle Tom Cotton of Arkansas,Republican Brian Schatz of Hawaii Democratic. Both
of them happen to be parents bykids, by the way, and Cotton
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said, there are a lot ofmechanism for a more robust age verification system.
Right now, all you do issay are you eighteen? And they
click, yeah, I'm eighteen,and they're online. And what the bill
is going to do is give theFTC, the Federal Trade Commission, and
individual states attorney's attorney generals the authorityto enforce that age limit, and you've
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got to come up. Of course, there's they're not coming up with the
formula for the platforms to do it, and some legitimate complaints. The two
senators are appointed to several studies thatsay there is a potential link, not
at absolute because it's going to takeyears and years to make that a fact.
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That there is a potential link betweensocial media and mental health. Now,
I believe that, especially when you'retalking about young kids, especially when
you're talking about teenage girls with bodyshaming, with all kinds of mental health
issues and dealing with social issues.Remember that gal who convinced her boyfriend to
commits suicide. Do it, doit? Do It? The CDC found
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that fifty seven percent of high schoolgirls. Twenty nine percent of high school
boys feel persistently sad, and they'reconnecting that with the with social media,
and girls far higher at twice thelevel of being subject mental without having mental
issues due to what's happening on theinternet. But then's body shaming too that
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has a lot to do with it, or being told you're ugly, or
being told you I wouldn't go outwith you and you're one of the people
that shouldn't shouldn't be part of ourgroup. I mean, that happened to
me, but that was obviously beforethe Internet. But I was I was
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never in the end group, never, and I feel bad about it.
I mean I was ostracized, whichis why if you look at my mental
issues right now, I'm gonna blameit all on that too many, very
many. You know, what's interestingabout body shaming is who would have thought
if you had told me this ayear ago after going through my weight loss
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surgery. People say things now thatare meant as a compliment that end up
making me feel bad, Like they'llgo, oh, you're so skinny now,
or oh you're so little, oroh my god, you've lost so
much weight. All I hear isdude, you were a whale before.
Holy cow, you look way betterthan you're used to. Isn't that weird?
Uh? Yeah? Or no,because that's just the way people are.
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They want to make you look good. I say that to you all
the time. Yeah, you lookgreat. You and I have that in
common, though, you know whatI mean, Like both of us have
had the surgery and whatever. Butit's it's so hot. I also have
to tell you you, and thisis a compliment, and it happens to
be true. You wore your weight. Well, oh thank you. Yeah,
you didn't care. You were upthere dancing the clogs. I remember,
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you're dancing the clog at one ofour events, and I'm going to
come on, it's the clog,you know, play dancing. Yeah,
I mean, yeah, that's right. They don't call it the clog.
They call it clog dancing. It'snot something I grew up with Appalachian mountain
dancing, of course. Yeah,because you brought your bowl of squirrel soup
to eat during the break, youknow, I get that. But there
are people I was very very subconsciousabout my weight, and I would wear
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clothes that were really baggy, andit was just I was always thinking about
it. I was always looking inthe mirror and always sucking in my stomach.
And that was just me. AndI was called the fatty uh in
school and I went to junior highand those were the daisy took showers after
pe to be hard. Yeah itwas, you know, those of us
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who were heavy. It was reallydifficult. Yeah, you know I had
and I built the perfect defense.It was great. I just hate everybody.
I just can't stand you. Youcould say, whatever the hell you
want, I hate you, good, bad and different. See, and
I liked everybody. So people wouldsay like, oh, you wear your
weight, Well I just saw that, right, But I just think you
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did. And I would think tomyself, what the hell does that?
You're a cute, chubby person.But now it's just funny that that image
doesn't go away. So body shamingat a young age isn't necessarily ever going
to change, because you are goingto forever have those negative thoughts in your
mind once somebody sticks them in there. Unfortunately, I think that's just us
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as a human race. It's hardto get that those negative thoughts out.
Yeah, I mean, body dysmorphiahappens all the time. Okay, I'm
going to tell you a little secretnow which I haven't shared before, and
I'm going to admit it. I'manorexic. I just eat to cover it.
Wow. That's a deep Yeah,that's very, very strong. In
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the meantime, I'm going to pointthis out as we finished a segment,
is that all the platforms out there, Facebook, Instagram, even TikTok are
looking at algorithms at help and they'resaying, we have ninety nine percent success
rate. I don't know, andeven if you have ninety nine percent,
you're never gonna get a one hundredpercent rate. But I'm going to suggest
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that you go ninety nine point ninetynine percent because I think the technology will
be out there if they truly concentratedon it. I don't know what's going
on inside of these companies, andit is probably better, but uh,
nine one percent out of two billionis still a whole lot of people.
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And so you're gonna see more andmore of that being uh being talked about
and being in being developed. Andby the way, you look great,
yeah and yeah yeah, well sex, Yeah, I know you're lying,
so we'll just don't I know youare too yeah, well there you are.
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You a piece of good separated atbirth. We just did the high
five through the newsroom glass. Allright, all right, if you're gonna
travel this summer as I am,because I take my summer vacation, I
jump on airplanes almost always, I'min for a really good time. Uh
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good chance. My luggage is goingto be lost and they'll deliver it,
you know, four days five dayslater. And if you're going to a
destination, they lose your luggage.Do you know Clark Howard who comes on
every once in a while, Myfriend Clark who's a consumer expert. He
goes overseas and I mean two weekvacations overseas and he takes one travel bag
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that goes in his overhead for twoor three weeks. Aviation expert Jay Ratliff
is with us, and everybody's reallyangry with the various airlines of what they're
doing and hoping we do something.And then Biden administration is actually proposing some
help. Jay, Thank you somuch for joining us. Always a pleasure.
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So are we going to get anyrelief from all of this? We're
gonna get some relief. And oneof the things, you know, I'm
not a fan of the Biden administrationin any way whatsoever, but I am
pleased with how the administration and theDepartment Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration are
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trying to hold the airlines accountable.And they're doing more to do so than
any administration that I can remember inthe last several decades, because normally it's
the airline industry that tells the governmentwhat they're going to do, not vice
versa, and this administration says,look, if we have delays that are
your fault, you're going to beheld accountable for providing some sort of compensation
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to airlines. And of course airlinessay, well, let ask do the
air traffic control. Airlines will blamethe weather, all these types of things,
and the DOT is simply saying,that's just not accurate. So what
we're going to do is make youaccountable when these things happen. And a
lot of it, of course,stems back to the pandemic when airline said
we need money to maintain our payroll, so the government handed over three different
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batches of money came out to what, I don't know, fifty four billion
dollars seventy center. So that didnot have to be paid back. But
what happened the airlines all of asudden lost and laid off and had many
retire So, all of a sudden, now there's a shortage of employees at
a time when they wanted money toprotect the jobs, and now they're saying
we're shorthanded, and airlines are tellingthe government, well, this is one
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of the problems we have, andthat's why last summer, coming into this
year, the government said, then, do not schedule more flights than what
you had the employees to operate,and airlines have done just that. We've
seen tens of thousands of flights canceled, removed from the summer service that would
have normally been planned because they don'thave enough pilots, ground equipment, cities
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to serve those types of things.And as a result, it's going to
impact our flying experience, if youwill, this year much more than any
of the year past. It's acrazy when you think of when we used
to fly, and I don't goback too many years. First of all,
if you changed flights, got fullcredit, you've got meals, they
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would never charge you for luggage.I mean, it was just it was
a better experience flying and I lookat what the airlines get away with today,
and there was no one there tostop them, all these junk fees.
The other day I was flying andthey served used peanuts and I'm going,
seriously, it's how were they ableto get away with it? Did
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the FAA have? Was it thatpowerless? It had absolutely no teeth,
And we and the airlines found outabout it and figured it out. Well,
I'm not After the Deregulation Act ofnineteen seventy eight, airlines were free
to operate their business as they chose. So what ended up taking place was
in two thousand and twelve when youhad American Airlines. I believe they were
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the first that came out with oneof these ancillary fairs. They were free
to do it. Back you know, American Airlines back to nineteen eighty one,
I want to say, when theycame out with the eighty one or
eighty two, and they came outwith the first super Saber fair where if
you made a reservation and you canceledit, you lost twenty five percent of
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your money. And we didn't knowat the time if the traveling public would
go for that, because to giveup twenty five percent, you know the
ticket you bought. But what happenedwas people just grabbed them. So they
said, hey, look, ifyou buy your tickets thirty days in advance,
we'll give you a big discount,but you'll lose fifty percent of your
money. And it just continued tothe point that it became a nonrefundable ticket
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like we have now, and passengersare willing to buy those tickets in advance,
save a lot of money, andthen if they have to change their
reservation, they pay for it.So the government is stepped back and allowed
the airlines to do what they wantto do in the free market, thinking
that if customers don't like it,they'll go to another airliner. They'll find
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another way to get from point Ato point B, as long as it's
not a matter of safety. Thegovernment is going to stand back and allow
the airlines to do what they wantand allow the free market to dictate whether
or not that behavior continues. Inthese ancillary fairs where airlines are making hundreds
and hundreds of millions of dollars oncheck bag fees, change fees and all
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of these other fees, it's amazingto see what's taking place, and you
talked about, you know, thedays before. Well, my friend,
I think we'll be looking back tenyears from now at these days being the
good old days when things weren't asbad as what they're going to be,
because it's going to continue to getworse. Customer service disappeared a long time
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ago. If you get it now, you got it by accident. And
we now endure travel, we don'tenjoy it. And we've got more people
flying this summer than last summer onfure flights, so it's going to be
packed. Jay. I hate tocut you off because we could go on
and on, but we're out oftime. Jay, take care, Jay,
aviation expert. Boys, he ifsomething information. I'm going to share
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something with you about fast food restaurants. One no surprise you see it,
you've been anticipating it. And anotherfact that I guarantee you're going to be
surprised now, the future of fastfood no human interaction. We know that,
First of all, a growing numberof these fast food chains are experimenting
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with no seats, seatless locations.They only have take out, they only
have drive through, and there's abunch of reasons for that. Now McDonald's
launch play places. You've seen those, or are used to see those back
in the seventies. You know thosebig they have slides, those big buildings
next to them with slides, andthose what do they call those? A
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pit those ball pit things, which, by the way, they found out
are the Petrie Dish of all diseasesyou could ever think with. And what
they did is they build brand loyalty. Let's go to McDonald's, mom and
dad, because we can play there. You're gonna find it pretty hard to
see one today. By the endof twenty twenty one, dine in visits
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to the fast food places have fallento fourteen percent of their traffic. Can
you imagine it had even fallen totwenty eight percent of pre pandemic. And
now you know what are people doing. They're not eating there anymore. They're
eating at home. They're eating attheir offices and their cars. It seems
like anywhere except a restaurant. Andso the big, the big cahuna here
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is McDonald's, not only in termsof the number of restaurants and the volume
they do, but in terms ofexperimenting with the new wave of running a
fast food establishment. That's not tosay they're alone. There are plenty and
this is betting on the digital kitchenwhere it's all done without people and compact
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stores use automation, digitalization, andwhat diners do is they order through mobile
apps or digital kiosks. Now,yeah, the other day I went through
a fast food establishment. I thinkit was uh was it? It may
have been a Jack in the box, I don't remember. But I hate
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when you order at that microso atthe use a microphone and you get the
speaker and you can't understand what anythingsay, what anybody says. Not only
have they just brought someone over fromsome country you have no idea where they
came from, but the quality,Oh yeah, who I want a hamburger,
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a cheeseburger with fries at the randcheeseburger fries and is that right?
Inevitably? I mean that's what youget. Well today, just go on
your app, that's all, andit becomes really easy and you don't have
to do what just happened to mea couple of weeks ago. It's all
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mobile apps is the big one.Digital kiosks. Well, even inside the
store, if you go inside aMcDonald's, for example, they have that
big kiosk thing right there near thecounter, and I've never understood how to
use that, by the way,so I try, and then I go
to the counter and I hear,oh, no, that's not true.
They're actually pretty good about that.But restaurants are shrinking. The footprints are
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really decreasing, and that makes alot of sense for a couple of reasons.
Real estates expensive, so they makeit much smaller, and because of
automation. Of course, the numberof people working their shrinks. Now look
at the cost of labor right now, it has gone through the roof,
and they're still short of labor,and people just don't go. They just
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don't work there. And you knowwhy, because the hours are brutal working
at fast food. It's grueling work. I mean, it's the same work
over and over again. It's fairlyboring, and they give you different shifts
different days. It's just it's ahard place to work. So they're getting
rid of all of that. Andwe're talking about and this one is there
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is an entire generation of people whoare not going to be able to get
a job. And of course thesocial aspect of that we've talked about before.
But that's not what this is about. It's a new dining rooms dining
room less concept which is exploding.Burger King ihop. All the food is
packaged to go, limited seating andin many cases limited menus too, because
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that makes a lot of sense.Starbucks, where you could sit there for
hours. You see those people ontheir computer sitting at Starbucks. You go
in at ten o'clock in the morning, you order a coffee, and then
three hours later you want one togo because you're gonna stop off somewhere in
your office and you're going to comeback and forth. Same people, same
people sitting there. I don't knowwhy they throw them out. What's the
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standout McDonald's And here is I'm goingto tell you about the fact that you
didn't know about probably not. Firstof all, they had sales growth aboard
the ten percent in twenty twenty two. This is Donalds. They increase their
prices by ten percent in twenty twentytwo. And here is what is going
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on in America today. Price isnot a big deal anymore for fast food.
Remember you go to fast food establishmentbecause it was so much cheaper,
because the burger and fries and ahappy meal didn't cost you very much money.
Prices have increased dramatically over the lastfew years, and no one's complaining
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about it. You go to arestaurant and sit down restaurant. The other
day I went, and I'm lookingat the menu and going, oh my
god, you know this is upthirty percent since last time I came here
a year and a half ago ora year ago. And have you tried
to door dash fast food? Oh, it's insane, it's insane. My
kids do that. It's ridiculous.Yeah, why don't you go down the
street. You got a car rightout there. No, no, no,
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we're gonna door dash. I gotto the point now where they are
paying for the door dash and they'restill doing it. I'll show your dad
drives me nuts. Since it isthe last two segments of the show on
Monday, it is time for Wayneresnick me and do they have a case?
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It's cavel times handled eat no realjudge. Let he tries. They
just say sea but Mondays are thedays he can pretend he is Scaliah.
He's got a friend name saving athis very own cavil pig smile on his
face and he brings it down witha thunderouss of tons. They have a
case, and we do this everyweek. Of course, what Wayne does
(38:44):
is research some cases, usually appelletcourt cases. Gives me the facts and
I get and I give an educatedguest as to what the appeals court does.
You and I have heard the casefor the first time when Wayne utters
those words, sorry, Wayne,first case up. Well, Terry Yates
is this woman's name, and shegets a job that's irrelevant except for the
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fact that with the job comes alife insurance plan that's very nice benefit.
She puts her husband on the lifeinsurance plan, and the life insurance plan
has an accidental death benefit. Itwill cover certain losses, including a loss
of life due to accidental bodily injury. And an accidental bodily injury is defined
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in this policy as a sudden andunforeseen event, definite as to time and
place. But there is an exclusion. We will not cover any intentionally self
inflicted injuries. All right, Oneday, unfortunately, mister Yates is found
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dead in his bedroom. Nobody disputesthat, and nobody disputes it's how he
died heroin overdose. So missus Gatesmakes a claim for accidental death. He
wasn't trying to kill himself. Hejust got away from him. And the
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insurance company says, no, thankyou, we are not going to pay
you for a heroin overdose because weconsider that an intentionally self inflicted injury.
So she goes right to court witha breach of contract lawsuit and the lower
court says, no, you haveno case by sorry, sorry for your
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loss, goodbye. Now she goesup to in this case, it's the
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, threefederal judges, and they take a look.
They take a look at another case, a previous case where a guy
got drunk and got on his motorcycleand had a crash and died, and
you kind of had the same issue. And in that case, the court
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had said, yeah, you gottapay. You have to pay for an
accidental death because the loss is hisdeath and the injury is the motorcycle crash.
And while it may be true thathis elevated blood alcohol level contributed to
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the occurrence of the injury, hedid not intentionally crash his motorcycle. So
you have that case supporting this widow, and you have the insurance company.
And I wish that I could sayhere's their super excellent, interesting argument.
But they are just sticking to theirguns that when you purposefully use heroin an
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overdose that that should not be consideredan accidental injury. So now you're the
judge, what do you do?I give it to the woman because an
intentional death is intentional and you haveto prove it. Where if you overdose
on heroin, it can be arguedthat his intent was to get high and
(42:07):
that's it, and you're allowed toget high. I mean, you know
whether that's the law or not,but it doesn't even matter. You know,
for example, the same argument ifyou're speeding and therefore you is it
you are the one that caused it? Yes, I did. Is how
you have to prove it. It'skind of hard to argue after someone is
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dead, what's your intent? Butthe argument can be if you if you
take the you intended to die argument, by the nature of your death,
there's almost nothing you can't argue thatit was, that it was non intentional.
So I think she has it handsdown based on that reasoning. Yes,
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that is exactly what happened. Theysent it back down and you seized
upon something that was a big partof the appellate court decision. They point
out something, they say, youknow, the motorcycle guy. When someone
drives drunk and nothing happens, theyget in a cart drunk and they drive
home, nobody considers that they sufferedan injury. And if somebody uses heroine
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and they get high and then itwears off and they're not high anymore,
nobody would say, oh, theysustained an injury and so behaving in those
ways that are irresponsible, And evenif they contribute to an accident, they're
not an injury. And that's whatwas intentional. The thing that was intentional
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was not the injury, and theinjury was the thing that was not intended.
And it's I think it's very verydifficult to choose to say intentional.
I mean, for example of video, someone taking a swan dive off a
building, probably intentional. Someone leavinga suicide note and then taking a gun
and blowing his brains out, althoughyou can argue making a mistake, he
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was just negligent in loading his gunor unloading it or cleaning it. That
I think would fly also as anaccidental, non intentional death. Okay,
excellent so far. One for one. Well, here's a fellow who is
having quite a good time until hecrashed his car. Derek McClellan is his
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name, and he smashed his carinto a concrete pillar. He's okay,
he was okay. It was closerto a fender bender than a super serious
accident, but it was certainly enoughfor a police officer to respond to the
scene of this accident. And asthe officers walking up to the car,
he smells marijuana, and maybe that'sbecause the window is down already. And
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then he walks up and there's theguy McClellan, and he's passed out in
the front seat. And what ishe cradling in his arms but an empty
bottle of Hennessy. So the officerwakes him up. I'm giggling because nobody
was hurt and it's not a lifeor death kind of case. So the
officer wakes him up and he staggersout of the car and he gets arrested
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for public drunkenness and driving with anopen container this bottle of hennessy. And
then they searched the car and theyfind a blunt, a marijuana blunt in
the ashtray, and they find somecash in the console and a duffel bag
full of cash in the trunk andthey go to Homeland Security and they say,
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hey, look at this money.And Homeland Security says, oh,
yes, we would love to seizethat money. We seize the money.
It must be connected to drug dealing. It's only plausible explanation of what's going
on here. And you know whatthey do and they seize money is they
do what they call an ion scan, and they're looking for detectable amounts of
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drugs, and the do five ionscans of this money and it comes back
positive for cocaine, and they're somethingelse that will come up in a moment.
In any event, they moved toseize the money. And now this
guy says, I want my moneyback. It has nothing to do with
drug dealing. So here's the issue. That information that you have in front
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of you, is that enough tofind that that money was from drug dealing?
Or could a reasonable jury also believeafter hearing that story that it wasn't
from drug dealing? And and ifany reasonable jury could believe it's not from
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drug dealing, he gets the moneyback. Boy. There are a lot
of moving pieces on this one,and you can take your choice. Was
the smell of marijuana enough for themto walk up to him. Well yeah,
because of course there was a crashand they had every reason to come
up and the battle the Hennessy plainsight. And there's a rule that says
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if you're investigating something and there's anothercrime that's in play site, uh,
you get to pop him from thatfor that. Uh. Then the issue
becomes the money. As you said, that's the big one. Uh.
Now, this was not a civilforfeiture, was it? This would it
is a civil forfeiture, Okay.Uh. That one is really interesting,
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and it's it's amazing how much leewaythe government has when it comes to civil
forfeitures. It is astounding how muchleeway the government has, even though Uh,
I think the forfeiture is going tofly. Now, does he ever
right to ask for his money backin a civil suit? He does,
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it would have to be a civilsuit. He just simply sues the government
and if he wins. Here's anotherone because I had a friend of mine
who got tagged with this. Uh. She was not for drugs, because
it was drugs, It would haveshared it with me. It was the
Uh. She was taking a bunchof money to Brazil to a charity in
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Brazil, and it was at atime when inflation was so high. Dollars
were everything, so she could buyfive times as much medicine, etc.
Bringing in dollars. So she broughtin over ten thousand dollars. He actually
brought over seventy thousand dollars in aduffel bag, got on the airplane and
someone snitched on her and there theywere. She was guilty of not declaring
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the money, which is legitimate,and she sued and the jury actually gave
her the benefit. They ruled onher, and the government paid and the
government kept fifteen percent for administrative costs, and she couldn't and they kept it
fifteen percent they got because that's thelaw. So in this case, I
(48:52):
think that the lawsuit will go forward. I think he has the right to
sue, and it is up toa jury to determine whether or not it
was the government was fair in pickingit up. Keeping in mind that government
has immensely way and even if hewins, he's going to lose fifteen percent
because that's the government administrative costs.Counting the money I get, I guess,
(49:14):
right, nine thousand dollars to countout some money. Well, that's
an incentive to seize money, whetheryou think you're going to get to keep
it later or not, isn't it. Yeah? Anyway, he yeah,
he wins, and he can sueto get that money back. And one
super quick thing. Yeah, theyfound traces of cocaine, but the test
that they use will identify extremely smallamounts of cocaine. And what the judges
here said is they also found tracesof explosives, which is which is which
(49:38):
is super common as well, Andyet they never suggested that because there was
chases of explosives on the money,that he was dealing explosives. So you
can see how the logic can workin either direction equally, and that's why
he gets his shot. All right, fair enough, all right, Wayne,
(50:01):
all right, Oh so we dothis again tomorrow and Gary and Shannon
I'm sure going to cover some ofthese big, big stories that are happening
today. Oh and I just droppedmy copy standing all right, coming up,
it's Gary and Shannon right here onKFI and Gary, what's going on
today on your show? Well,Texas is about to become the center of
(50:23):
the universe. Not only we're goingto talk about the horrific stories out of
Allen, Texas, the shooting atthe mall, and then Brownsville, Texas,
the guy that ran into a crowdof apparently Venezuelan migrants. Title forty
two is gonna expire and we willsee tens of thousands of people trying to
come into the country. We've gotthat, We've got the details on the
(50:44):
potential director's guild strike on top ofthe writer's guild strike. That and rideshare
nightmares. Gary and Shannon will comeup right after the news. You've been
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