Among other topics, Handel speaks with Sports Broadcasting Legend Fred Roggin regarding the NFL being under investigation in California and New York for race and gender discrimination. Then, the Coronation of King Charles is slated for this weekend. It will have kitschy souvenirs that are expected to top $300 million in sales! Also, Handel shares a personal story of his about the last time there was a Royal Coronation. And Neil Saavedra is back for 'Foodie Friday', and today it's a Cinco de Mayo Edition! According to chefs, what's the best store-bought salsa? Also, when should you use corn tortillas and when is it better to use flour tortillas? Neil's got you covered.
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Your list, Saints Camp, Iam six forty, the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app andGood Morning Friday Morning, May fifth,
Sinco Tomo Tons going on, that'sfor sure right now. Big fire in
commerce, Blake Trolley, our break, Blake Trolley is there. We'll be
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reporting. It's just this massive warehousefire. And we've got well coronation tomorrow
of King Charles, and I'll doa little bit more later on. What's
fun about the coronation is the kitch. It's just great stuff. I'll go
through that. And the archpecific Canterbury, as you know, puts the crown
on the monarch. I've got acouple of stories about that, some fun
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personal stories, but I'm gonna endup doing those on Monday because we just
have too much. Now, whatended up happening the trial yesterday of the
Proud Boys. We got the verdictand the jurors found the former Proud Boys
national chairman, Enrique Tario and twoof his lieutenants guilty of seditious conspiracy.
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Now, until these trials came about, who the hell knew what seditious conspiracy
was? Well? I did becauseI'm a history night. But This goes
back to the Civil War. Thiscame in with Abraham Lincoln and it had
to do with Southerners and there werea lot of Southerners who kept on continued
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fighting the Civil War. Here's afun factoid. There was there a group
of Southerners and of course the Southloss of Civil War, and what they
did is they wouldn't take the Southhaving lost the war. So I think
it was a colonel or a generalgot this group together. They went to
Brazil. They went to Brazil,right outside of Sampaulo, where I was
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born, and they created a wholecommunity. Their last names Smith, Spencer.
I mean, no one speaks English, of course, it's you know,
it's we're talking about one hundred andsixty years. I mean, they're
Brazilians. But they have an annualaffair, an annual dance where they all
dress in Southern dress. They looklike Southern bells. It's crazy. But
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this had to do with people likethat who were still going to fight the
Civil War and they conspire to dothat. So this law came about and
you went to jail for the restof your life. So now we have
this law. It's very rarely used. Sedious conspiracy, and it has to
do with two or more people conspiring, planning to overthrow the government, or
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use force against the government, orinterfere with the lawful proceeding of the government.
That's what this is all about.Interfering with the lawful transfer of power
between a previous president and one whowas elected. And they interfered with that,
which is illegal. And they allplanned to interfere with that, which
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is a conspiracy, and the jurybought it. The defense and I mean,
let me go back a moment.There were emails, there were meetings,
they talked about what was going tohappen. The leaders said here's what
I want you to do. Let'slet's attack, and gave specific instructions and
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provided arms and they had weapons andhotel rooms. And the lawyers for these
seditious conspirators said, oh no,this was all spontaneous. No one really
planned this. They got caught upin the moment. A couple of them
said it had Trump's fault. HadTrump not said go to the capitol,
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show them what we're doing. Imean, it's a former president. Trump
will never be nails for this becauseI don't think he ordered the destruction or
the overrunning of the Capitol, atleast the way I see it. I
think it was thrilled that it happenedinitially, But I don't believe he is
or should be guilty of ordering theoverrunning and the destruction of parts of the
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Capitol building and stopping the vote.He said he wanted to stop the vote.
He said, Mike Pence should havestopped the vote. Let's see if
he does it right. And there'sthe difference. Conspiracy is way more than
he should do this. We'd bethrilled if this happened. It has to
be so specific that there have beena couple of cases where the court said
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that's not enough. It just isn'tenough. First Amendment speech protects them.
There was a twenty twelve trial andthe judge ordered the acquittal right there,
just here, you're acquitted, becausehe said the prosecutors rely too much on
just hateful diatribes, which was hereprotected by the First Amendment, and didn't
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require or required to prove that theaccused had detailed plans for a rebellion.
It was too broad. Well,the oath keepers the Proud Boys had detailed
plants where and who's going to go? Where? Here? The weapons were
going to use up to twenty yearsin prison. Are they going to do
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twenty Probably not, but they mayend up doing a decade. The leader,
incidentally, has been in jail.He's been being held since right after
January six, so he's going tospend some time in prison. If here's
a lot of remorse coming out ofthere on these people who have been convicted,
oh I'm sorry. I got caughtup and it caught up in it.
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I would never do that. Therewas I was just fault. One
of them was straight out. Iwas following Donald Trump and he ordered me
to do it. My dog atemy homework. Now let's move on to
a topic that I feel very stronglyabout. For many years, I have
said that we live in a societywhere if someone works full time and cannot
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feed a family, even themselves,that is not a society that we can
be proud of. On that issue, I've told you many times. Well,
I'm not an exceptionalist, you know. I do believe America is the
finest country in the world in andthen I have a list, and I
do believe America is not so greata country in and I have a list.
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So one of them on the negativeside is how we pay our minimum
wage workers. So I want totell you a story. There's an article
out of the La Times. Thereis a guy in the name of Jose
de Latorre and he delivered pizzas forPapa John. Started in twenty nineteen,
making fifteen bucks an hour, whichI think nineteen was at the minimum wage,
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maybe a little bit more. Andat fifteen dollars an hour, he
shared a one bedroom apartment in nota great neighborhood with half a dozen other
people. Okay, two years later, his hourly rate is still fifteen dollars
an hour, and his work schedulehad been cut to about thirty hours a
week instead of the forty hours aweek he was earning. His every day
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living expenses course have gone up forall of us. And so he began
sleeping in his car because he couldn'tafford that one seventh of the rent.
And he did it in a parkinglot right next to Papa John's in Lynnwood.
And he said, I made thechoice. He's fifty three. I
made the choice. It was eithermy car and eat or rent. So
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he gave up rent. Unfortunately,this is not uncommon current and recent fast
food workers, and according to theEconomic Roundtable, this is is a nonprofit
and it leans it leans left,there's no question about it. But they
released a report on Tuesday and saidthat eleven percent of all homeless people in
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California, nine percent in La Countywork are homeless and obviously broke. If
you're minimum wage, you're not doingwell. And the median age of frontline
fast the median income annual earnings offrontline fast food workers, cooks, cashiers,
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food prep workers, dishwashers was fifteenthousand dollars stay wide in twenty twenty.
Can you imagine earning fifteen thousand dollarsa year? I mean it's fifteen
fourteen hundred and forty nine dollars.Man and the union that represents many food
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workers and represents like hotel employees,that sort of thing may cleaners janity and
that's the SCI Service Employees International Unionsaid the fast food industry stayed out as
a poverty employer, larger share ofworkers in poverty than any other industry,
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and raising the wage floor is thesingle most important step for reducing economic homelessness
in the state. In addition tolow wages, fast food workers are also
hamstrung by their hours. And we'vetalked about that part time hours, unpredictable.
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Next week, here is your schedulethat happens amongst all fast food establishment.
You're gonna work twenty five hours.You're gonna work thirty hours. You're
gonna work Tuesday and Wednesday, butnot Thursday, part of Friday. You're
coming in over the weekend. Man, that really can imagine doing that and
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earning minimum wage and not getting afull forty hour week and what ends up
happening This quickly quickly pushes a workerinto homelessness. And it's pretty miserable,
to say the least. And Ican't believe that the law allows us to
happen. Well, I'm crazy aboutthe minimum wage out there anyway. I
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can't believe that minimum wage is paid. I know. The argument is,
well, a lot of kids getminimum wage there are it's entry level work.
It's not meant to have workers outthere. How many middle aged and
elder workers do you see that areworking in fast food because of the economy.
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It's pretty crazy. This nonprofit.By the way, the Roundtable examined
data from McDonald, Starbucks, BurgerKing, Jack in the Box KFC Taco
Bell, Pizza Hut, I meanacross the board and found that it's just
it's an impossible situation for people whohave no marketable skills. And then I
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talk to people and they go,well, they can go to school,
Well, they can always learn askill, and they are lazy. Not
in terms of working, because they'renot lazy, it's terms of helping themselves
getting the skill becoming marketable. Thereare a lot of people who don't have
that wherewithal. They truly don't.And that's my take on it. And
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of course the International Franchise Association,which is the trade group that represents these
fast food establishment said the union wasusing the findings to advocate for its union
growth agenda, not to help theworker, because it has its own agenda
and that's what it's about. Well, it does have its own agenda,
but part of the agenda, letme guess, maybe to get more money
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for the workers. What do youthink. They went on to say,
the report is not a scientific study, but an advocacy piece with zero credibility
because the numbers were simply manipulated.And here I am going to blow my
own horn for a moment, andbecause I hate telling people, you got
to pay more money. So there'sa job that I hired someone to do,
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and it would be many many organizationswould pay minimum wage for the kind
of job that I have. It'snot a very skilled job. It's there's
no real skill to it's I needto help. And every would have.
Everybody would have paid fifteen bucks anhour, sixteen dollars an hour. I'm
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paying twenty five dollars an hour becauseI just won't pay minimum wage. I
just refuse to do it. Sowhen I say, hey, I really
believe in this, I really believein this, now I must say the
work conditions I could go to prisonfor. That's a hired a different story.
But here I'm just talking about pay. Tell you what else is big
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too. The NFL is under firea big time and accused of sexual harassment
or gender discrimination, race discrimination.That's been going on for a while,
but it has reached a new level. Now we have the attorneys general of
two states California, New York.Boy, what a shock or those two
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are in and this is where theNFL. I think it's headquartered in New
York and has its secondary headquarters inCalifornia. So it makes a little bit
of sense, and now the investigationis going forward. Fred Rogan, who
of course all things sports all thetime. Fred, good morning. Were
you at all surprise that they openedup this investigation? Bill? If I
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can start with this, I havea bigger question, and it's very troubling
to me. What happened to Nikki? I don't even she left? That's
very funny. Oh no, theway you set that up, I thought,
oh geez, what happened to Nikki? I thought, God, we've
lost Nikki? Fred. Fred worksin this building for his radio show,
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so we right into each other allthe time, and Nikki was just,
you know, one of those sortof outlier people that was always fun and
you could always always recognize her Sancode Mayo because of the sombrero. But
going back to the question, gotthank god, Nikki's okay, she set
it up. She's from going tomorning now. Okay, she's farm Sorry,
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okay, all right? Are youat all surprised this investigation opened up?
No? Not really. And here'swhine because major corporations go through this
type of thing, and oftentimes they'reculpable. This centered around a New York
Times investigation, which I believe startedin twenty twenty where you had some of
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the employees working for the National FootballLeague claiming pay disparity, gender discrimination,
and the NFL is a monolith andit takes an awful long time to correct
code and some people that left werenot pleased. I thought they were treated
unfairly. The investigation revealed that theyhad filed complaints. And when it gets
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to a certain point, that's whenthe big guys get in, and that's
when government jumps in. Now.Interestingly, I called Rob Banta, who
was the Attorney General for the stateof California, yesterday and we anticipated having
him on our program at two thirtyto discuss this very topic. At two
fifty, we received a call andwe were asked this question, are we
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taping this? So he didn't comeon yesterday. I didn't have the opportunity
to question him, and we're stilltrying to pursue him. The only reason
California is involved here is because theNFL does have sort of their secondary headquarters
here, and that's a soapy stadium. As part of the deal when Stan
Cronki built that building, the NFLhad to force him basically to build their
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West Coast office. So that's whythese accusations that are being made mainly by
women and some minorities who are claimingminority discrimination. How solid are they?
I mean, when what position isthe NFL, Because of course they're claiming
the usual political clap trap. Wetreat everybody the same, we hold diversity
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to the highest standards, YadA YadA, yadaya. Well, look, they're
solid as the people that are thatare claiming that these incidents occurred. I
ask you this, and you know, for your listeners, think about it.
If you work in corporate America,if you work in business, these
types of accusations are not uncommon inmany businesses. Oftentimes they're true, by
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the way, oftentimes they're true,but they're not uncommon. So I could
think, and I would believe thatthere is some merit to some of them,
and then that is up to theNFL to either settle or then they
go to court. But the onething about the NFL, if they go
to court, they don't lose.They don't lose, and they have deep,
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deep, deep pockets and they willgrind people and grind people. It's
kind of the way they work.So if there is merit to this,
then I'm sure, these cases willsettle, they will go away. The
NFL will issue a statement saying thatwe're going to work harder, We're going
to try better. Okay, we'renot going to let it happen again.
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Now, is this a dirty littlesecret that has been going around the league
four years where everybody's sort of newor is this simply like any major corporation
and it's that percentage of people thatcomplain because it's legitimate, or they use
that because that is an easy roadto complain. I think it is like
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any corporation where people complain and itis legitimate. But to be fair,
it's not uncommon for people to filethese charges against corporations. Now, sometimes
they are without merit. I knowwhen I worked at NBC, for example,
this happened all the time, andwhat the company would do more often
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than not is try to settle them, because it was better to settle them
with or without merit and just makeit go away, then sit and fight
and go back and forth. Youknow. I just think it's the world
we live in. If I'm guessing, if I'm guessing, yeah, some
of these do have merit. Okay, I do believe that to be true.
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Fair enough. By the way,for those of you that want to
listen to Fred, which I lovetoo. He's on AM five seventy LA
Sports every weekday, Monday through Friday, twelve to three pm. And I'll
see around the building and I hopeto see you with a sumbrero today.
Well look, in memory of Nikki, I'll try to wear one, all
right, take care of Fred,okay, so catch you later in the
building. Tomorrow is the coronation ofKing Charles. A couple things about the
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coronation. There are parts of anycoronation that are ludicrous and hilarious, which
I'm going to cover in a second. And there are parts that have such
fascinating historical background, some of themost fascinating history that I've run across.
So now let me tell you thefun part. You ever been to Disneyland
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and their fiftieth anniversary or their seventyseventy fifth anniversary, and they sell all
that little crap Mickey mouse, littlebuttons and cups and things. Let me
tell you what happens in a coronationor a wedding in Great Britain. They
take it to a whole new level. So expect about three hundred million dollars
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worth of crap to be sold.There's a thirty seven hundred limited edition watch
a cookie bin that says God Savethe King's the merchant. The merch on
this stuff is completely insane. Souvenirsmemorabilia. Uh, they figure three hundred
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million dollars now Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubileelast year, seventy years on the throne.
There they sold three hundred and fiftyone million dollars worth of crap because
she was beloved. She was Imean everybody loved. I mean, if
you're into the monarchy, she wasbeloved. Charles he remember with Diana and
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having the whole lifetime affair with Camilla. Not so much, but still three
hundred million dollars is still pretty impressive. So there's twenty two, twenty five
million dollars on coronation theme jewelry,and uh, this is well, think
about this. You've got twenty fivemillion. When William and Kate got married
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twenty eleven, that was one hundredand seventy five million dollars. Whoa people
like that? Megan and Harry onlythirty million. That was way down.
Coloring books, paper masks, totebags commemorative plates. British jewelers are using
the Slocan sparkle like Markle to selldiamonds. I don't know who they all
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came up with that, but notbad. There is a forty five pound
and I figure out about ten percentforty five pound commemorative fine bone china pillbox.
By the way, quick aside asyou know, I'm a complete history
night. I have three pieces ofmemorabilia of the British monarchy. I have
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a cup, I have a mug, and I have a jug small jug
which to this day I have noidea would people put that in there?
I'm too actually, I'm too frightenedto ask. Those pieces came from Queen
Victoria's jubilee anniversary in Uh when wasit eighteen ninety seven? I believe.
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See that's neat a cup with apicture of Charles and Camilla and not so
much. There's a limited edition ofHarry and Megan Pez Dispensers, very limited,
worth a lot of money. Uhuh. There's the Pez Distemp Dispenser's
feature the couple draft in the dressing, the outfits they wore when they announce
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their engagement. That's sold ten thousanddollars. You ever heard of more Might?
More Might is this spread that theyuse and it's made out of it's
a yeast extract which is completely totallyin inedible, and it's used to basically
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killed cockroaches. It's so bad they'reselling that. There's a London this is
one of my favorite London condom companyis selling Crown jewels heritage condoms. Now,
how can you not buy that one? Huh Hines has a Queen's Platinum
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Jubilee and a limited edition bottle ofcondiments and it's h M sauce. You
ever heard of HP sauce. It'sHP sauce, but it's HM His Majesty
salad, Queen M Tomato king Chupinstead of Ketchup Limited Edition. Now,
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the five pound Coronation Crown, I'mprobably gonna talk more about that coming up.
There's a wonderful history about that,three hundred fifty years old. There's
a miniature version and a jeweler isproducing that. It's gold emeralds and sapphires
and rubies and amethysts and diamonds andit's only going for fifty six hundred dollars.
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Crown shaped Christmas tree ornament. Uhhuh, there is. This is
one of my favorite. There isthe Coronation sausage. It's about thirty bucks
and it's a it's clay replicas ofCharles very famous chunky fingers. I'll bet
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you didn't know Charles had chunky fingers. And it features a tight gold ring
and are you wary ready for this? In the description and the worrying nail
details looks like he bites his nails. King Charles and a quick one.
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Who is going to it? Well, the archbishop, Archbishop of Canterbury.
And I have a fabulous story aboutthe archbishop too, personally, a personal
story. And Charles will be anointedwith holy oil. He'll receive that big
orb coronation ring over his bitten fingersand the scepter, and that's been known.
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There is something I don't know ifI have time to do that today.
Probably not. If you look atthe coronation, if you watch it
on TV tomorrow, he sits onthis wooden chair that actually only for a
coronation, and under this chair youwill see this huge stone and it's the
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Stone of Scone or pronounced Scone,It's spelled Scone and it takes back to
the twelve hundreds where monarchs have hadit, they've been they've sat on it,
in this case the chair that goesover it, and there is a
huge history of that. I mean, it is terrific. So you'll see
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that tomorrow. Under that chair,under that wooden chair is this massive three
hundred pounds stone comes from Scotland andit is a huge part of the coronation.
And if you're interested in getting upin the middle of the night,
knock your socks off and watch it, which I'm not going to, but
I am going to give you alittle bit of history because the history of
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the coronation tomorrow is utterly fascinating.If you watch the coronation, I'm sure
you'll see video of it and it'llbe on the news scores all over the
world. King Charles sits on awooden chair. It's been around for hundreds
of years. Underneath that chair isa stone, this big honkin three hundred
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pound stone, and it is knownas the Stone of that monarchs have been
sitting on since twelve ninety six,that's how long it's been around, and
that's how long British monarchs have beensitting on that stone. Now in those
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days, Scotland was not written andGreat Britain and England were different, so
it all came together. It wasactually, I think seventeen ninety six when
all the everybody came together. Butin any case, so you'll see this,
and then you will see the Archbishopof Canterbury, who is They had
Hancho of the English Church, theChurch of England, which was created by
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Henry the eighth when he split withthe Pope. You know that story because
Henry the eighth wanted to marry fortysix wives and the church said no,
and he wanted in an omen andstopped the marriage, and he said no,
and I want to marry someone else, and so he became head of
the Church of England. Which iswhy you will see the monarch being described
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aimed as the King of England andas territories, etc. And defender of
the faith. That refers to themonarch being defender of the Church of England.
So now we go back to thearchbishop. The archbishop is they had
haunt show and he will actually becrowning King Charles. And you will see
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the orb that round thing, andyou'll see the scepter which occasionally is used
to beat people up. Probably not, but it should be. And you
will see that crown, which youcan see the crown and the royal jewels,
not those royal jewels, but youcan see the Royal Jews jewels in
the Royal Jews, the Royal Jewsin London. It's kind of fun to
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go there at the Tower of theTower of London. In any case,
there is a whole lot that goeson. There is a huge amount of
history and this has been going onfor literally hundreds of years. Charles is
making a little bit different. He'san environmentalist, as you know, and
he is issuing his entourage from wearingthe traditional guard. You'll see see all
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them. You'll still see them inrobes and have that ermine fur thing that
they were around their necks, butyou won't see the real traditional old time
silt stockings and breaches that he's notallowing to happen. Now. He will
be traditional. He will be ridingthe Royal coach, which is the oldest
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coach. I think it goes backto the seventeen hundreds. And my favorite
story I want to share with youis Thomas Becket. Beckett and the Archbishop
of Canterbury. Thomas Beckett goes backto the twelve hundreds. He was the
Archbishop of Canterbury. He was alsothe chancellor. He was a very good
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friend of King Charles, and thenthey had a falling out and it I'm
not going to go into the politicsof it, but needless to say they
became enemies. And the Canterbury Cathedralis effectively the papal palace. The archbishop
is, if you will compare it, the pope of the English Church.
He is the head guy. Butnothing. They don't do the church anything
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like the Catholic Church. In anycase. Thomas Beckett was the Archbishop Canterbury
and the chancellor right, and theyhad Hancho Treasury treasury secretary, that's the
s chequer. He was that,and he was Secretary of State if you
will. And he had a fallingout with the king and he sought refuge
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in the Canterbury Cathedral and the King'stroops came slammed on the door, opened
it, forced their way in andthey cut him. Basically, they took
his head off, or the topof his head off. And there is
a mass every year that happens inCanterbury Cathedral and it's run by the Archbishop
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of Canterbury. And many years ago, probably twenty three twenty four years ago,
I was actually invited to that mass, the Thomas Beckett Mass. Maybe
forty people go, headed by thearchbishop. Everybody has candles and they stop
at the landing where Thomas Beckett waskilled, and there's a big door next
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to it. And during the ceremony, someone is outside the door pounding on
the door saying the words that wereused. Where is Thomas Beckett traitor to
the king and the kingdom? Andthen you go down the stairs, okay,
to the crypt where Thomas Beckett wasoriginally buried, and then they moved
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his body upstairs to another place,another palace, and then it was destroyed.
Later on the body was destroyed.There are only little bits and pieces
of him left, and they're notreally some pieces, but I want to
share this story with you. Soit's a very moving mass, and literally
everybody is carrying these campbels, likeforty people, and there's the archbishop,
I mean, the head hauncho.I'm going whoa because a dear friend of
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mine happened to be a friend ofthe archbishop. When the archbishop was simply
just a priest and moved his wayup and he'd known him for forty years.
And there is my family right,we're there, and it ends with
the service ends with and this isthe archbishop saying this in Jesus's name.
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Amen. And my daughter Barbara goeson men and then realizes what she said.
I see panic on her face.She starts crying. I'll keep in
mind she's like seven eight years old. She starts crying and goes, oh
my god, I'm a trader.I'm a trader. I shouldn't have said
that. Very funny, but Idid want to share that with you.
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It's just a fun story. Ithas to do with a coronation and the
Archbishop of Canterbury and which you're goingto see tomorrow. Make sure you look
for that stone underneath the coronation chairchairs, a couple three hundred years old.
The stone goes back to the latetwelve hundreds when it was taken from
Scotland and now it still sits inScotland except when someone is coronated. When
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a king or a queen is hasa coronation, and then it goes right
back to Edinburgh Castle where it sitsin the crown jewels of Edinburgh's Castle,
the Scottish monarchy, which of coursedoesn't exist anymore. Now. I did
a story about civics classes or proficiencyin civics and history, and there is
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a This report comes out every fivesix years, and this last one shows
the most miserable level of a lotof it had to do with with a
pandemic and that kids didn't learn asmuch as they should have, and we
had learning at home, remote learningand that didn't work very well, and
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so we're coming back. That's fair. But the latest report is thirteen percent
of eighth graders were proficient at eighthgrade level in US history and twenty two
proficient in civics. Bottom line is, kids don't understand our country, don't
understand the government, don't understand history. So waite are you there? I'm
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going to there you go. Isaw you running around. You have that
test in front of you. Ihave not seen it. I have absolutely
no idea what these questions are andhow many questions are on the test.
Well, I don't know, becauseit is almost impossible to get a full
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test, just like it look justlike it's impossible to get a full SAT
test. But you get sample questionsfrom the test, which I do have
in front of me, and wearranged for you to give me the test.
And this is like, do theyhave a case where I have not
seen or heard of the questions before? I am seeing them as a student
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is sitting down and taking a testand doing it for the first time.
I must tell you I am apprehensiveabout this, And I'll tell you why
I'm apprehensive, Wayne, because twothings are going to happen. One,
I'm going to do pretty well onit, and you're gonna say, come
on, handle, this is foreighth graders, for God's sake. You
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have an undergrad degree from a rottenschool. You have law degree from more
rotten school. You're a big fanof history, so of course you did
it. Okay, even worse,what if I blow it? The humanity?
I'll tell you what I have.I do have a backup plan it.
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Should you really really tank? Yeah, these sample questions from this NAP
test. Should that happen, Ihave a backup plan to hopefully redeem you.
Okay, let's do it. Somequestions, all right. Let us
start in the world of civics,and I have four sample questions for you.
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They are multiple choice. Here wego. Question one. Two countries
both claim that an island in thePacific Ocean belongs to them. The countries
are preparing to go to war witheach other over this issue. What is
the United Nations able to do tohelp end the conflict? A Send weapons
to both sides. B disarm themilitaries of both countries. CE, Arrange
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for diplomatic negotiations between the two countries. D force all other countries to stop
trading with the two countries. Okay, obviously negotiations. But which country is
it Japan in China or is itthe Philippines in China because this is the
South China seas well, they're notThis is a hypothetical. Oh oh,
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this is this is test one's knowledgeof the role of the United Nations in
the world. Okay, negotiations,Yeah, boy wow, I think you're
gonna be okay as to this partof it. Here we go. Which
of the following documents describes the powersof the President of the United States A
The Declaration of Independence, B theMayflower Compact, C the Constitution D the
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Articles of Confederation. Yes, Iwould say all of them, but the
Constitution of course that is correct,and all right, you're too still one
hundred percent and that section one.But let's move on. Which of the
following does the national federal government ofthe United States do that? State and
local governments do not. A runpublic schools, B print money, C
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remove state governors from office, Dchoose members of city councils. Obviously print
money. Now I'll tell you,am I right, I'm not by the
way, of course, you scaredme for a moment. You're going whoa,
now these questions, Oh, let'sgo a couple more, and then
I want to say something. Allright, well, here we go sometime
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we're still in the world of civicNow let's go to history for a moment,
because we're you know, we're gonnathe seconds running out of time.
Oh well, okay, now you'renot gonna like this. But this is
an example of what eighth graders areasked. It's kind of an essay question.
Are you ready? Yes? Whywas the invention of the steel plow
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important in United States history? Wow? Now you can go any different way
you can because obviously it brought agricultureto a whole new level. It mechanized
or what was on its way tomechanize agriculture, and it brought the United
States into the modern era, isthe way I would argue. Now,
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did they say anything like that,Well, they were more um to take
a second and talk specifically about asteel plow compared to whatever they were using
previously to plow. Yeah, theywere using their feet. Um, so
why is a steel plow better?And it's not, uh, the industrialization,
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it's not the modern aspect of farming. You're you're you are you are
accurately talking big picture. Here's here'sthe sample answer that they give for the
sample question. Why was the inventionof the steel plow important in the United
States history? The steel plow wasstronger, lasted longer, worked faster,
and could work on harder ground,which is which is which means all the
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stuff that you see. Yeah,yeah, okay, So I mean it's
pretty rudimentary, is uh, iswhat you're saying. So there is not
a whole lot of big picture,but I want to make the point this,
And thank god, the questions wereso rudiment and so broad and frankly,
so infantile. And by the way, I wasn't particularly worried because if
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I had tanketded I'm done with thisjob, but pointing out that those left
the answering those questions, and acertain percentage of answering those questions where you
are considered proficient, which doesn't meanall the questions are answered correctly. Thirteen
percent of eighth graders in this country. Now that is really scary stuff.
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Twenty two proficient. Twenty two percentproficient in civics, for example, understanding
what government does, understanding with ourresponsibility as citizens is all right, we
want to do another one, andlet's get so what basically, what is
important about the steel plow? Well, steel is stronger than wood. Yes,
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that was correct, all right,great that it's a better it's a
better plow. That's something made outof tissue paper. Okay, one more,
let's do one more. Okay,back to the world of civics.
Sometimes the common good conflicts with individualrights, which of the following is an
example of this. A. Aperson is put in jail because she's guilty
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of a violent crime. B.A person must move out of his house
so that a highway can be built. See schools are closed because if ic
roads d. A community organizes toclean up a vacant lot. Well,
of course the concept of eminent domainB and that we should know. And
uh, it's just something that shouldbe taught. And are we saying that
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what twenty two percent one in fivekids have no idea? By the way,
it was that right on that.Yes, of course, okay,
thank god, I hereby declare youthe king of the eighth grade. No,
not the king proficient in the eighthgrade, but thank you. Okay,
yeah, okay, so I barehe got that steel is stronger than
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wood. That I'll grant you.It was close, Wayne, all right,
thank you, professor Wayne. Iappreciate it. Class is okay,
let's do it. It's time forNeil and Foody Friday. Neil heard every
Saturday two to five pm the Forkreporter. Let's get right to it,
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since it is sinco to Mario O'Neilum salsa store bought salsa. I buy
a lot of store bought salsa,many different kinds. By mistake, I
just bought a jar of restaurant stylesalsa, which I don't like because it's
too watery for me. I likethe chunky saltsa like a mango and pineapple
and corn. So let's talk aboutwhere you would buy salsa, because you're
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the kind of guy that doesn't buysalsa usually make it, don't you.
Well, I'll tell you there's nota real big need to make salsa unless
you really want to. Fresh salsais always going to be better. The
standard belief is that you're basically doingthe colors of the Mexican flag. You've
got your three main colors, whichis your green, white, and red.
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So you've got halapeinos, You've gotor serrano if you want. You've
got onion, white onion, andyou've got the red tomato. So that's
your basic base for your salsa.It's a it's a condiment you'll find in
many Mexican homes right there on thetable, ready to go for any meal
that they're having. So it's notthat it's complicated to make. But there
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are some great salsas out there,and I think you might most people might
be surprised. Now everyone has theirtaste. Like you said, you like
the chunky style and you like itless loose, less watery. One of
the things to look out. Thisis a great list that is broken down
by chefs that say, Hey,these are Mexican chefs that say when we're
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going to go buy a salsa.These are the salsas we buy. Ordz
has a couple of salsa's mild guacamolisalsa, which is a green salsa,
slightly different, and you can findthese and people love them and they're great.
But the ones that people see allthe time and they ask me,
are these actually any good? Arethe are the ones like tostitos jars that
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are on the shelf. Yes,yes, So I gotta tell you,
the one that ranked the highest fromchefs Mexican chefs is chunky salsa medium tostitos
and I that's when I use,and that's the one we have in our
house too, and that is onthe shelf. It is not fresh,
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it is not refrigerated. It's itis really good. It is I like
it. It's very good. Now, of course, you can make your
own salsa. And there are alsosome great fresh style salsas that you will
find in the Delhi section that arenot something you're going to have sitting in
a shelf, on a shelf oranything. They're gonna go into your refrigerator.
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You're going to eat them, youknow, fairly quickly, because they
are they don't have any preservatives,and there's all kinds of great salzas out
there, but I thought people arealways, you know, looking at these
things and say, well, thatcan't be the best. And I'm not
saying that it's the best. Peoplehave their own choices, but it ranked
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very highly with Mexican chefs and itdoes very well. Why because it is
right there where the corn ships are. It's on that same shelf, right
at eye level, on that littleshelf that you have these jars that go
right across, so as you grabthe cornships, your hand goes over the
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jars of salsa. Well, thefunny thing here is Yanni Sanchez, who
is the executive chef at the Michelinrated Takedo brand's restaurants. He makes fresh
salsa himself, but he did anunscientific, albeit blind taste test with eight
different jarred salsas off the shelf withher staff, and Tostitos Chunky Salsa medium
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came out the winter. That isprecisely the one I used to Tostitos chunky
Salsa medium. So since we're talkingMexican food, of course, sinco to
mayo. The question five go five, Yeah, the question I am by
the way, or is anybody goingto get drunk today? You think out
there, what's worse? What?What are you implying? I'm applying to
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people drink. What's worse? SatPatty's Day or sinco to Mayo? I'm
going for Saint Patty's Day. Yeah, there's a joke on the interwebs just
after Saint Patrick's Day. They're all, well, that was fun. We
were all Irish. I can't waittill May fifth, when we're all Mexican.
So, yeah, people will it'sFriday. I bet you it's gonna
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be pretty pretty intense. It reallyis, all right, So just prior
to the break, since we're talkingMexican food, and we talked about salsa
and the previous segment. The bigquestion, this is the massive question that
is asked by the world. Hornor flower tortillas. That is the question.
And Neil, you and I havegone out for Mexican food before,
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and I don't know if you'll remember, Okay, in my life, what
is it? It depends on whatyou're eating now. Of course, corn
tortillas have been around forever, thousandsof years they've been around. But when
when the Spanish folks landed and didwhat they do. They give give the
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Native Americans measles and small box andkill them all when they when they create
havoc and change everything and basically ripthe native language out and replace it with
a European language, Spanish. Allof the stuff happened, and the Spaniards
didn't think that corn was fit forconsumption, for human consumption, So the
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flower tortillas or the wheat tortillas startedcoming into vote, but really mainly around
the northern parts of Mexico, andthey still are there today. As a
matter of fact, Jews play apart in that as well, because corn
was not kosher. They started makingthe flower tortillas as Jewish immigrants fled from
the Iberian coast and our peninsula ratherduring the Spanish Inquisition, and they started
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making the flower tortillas as well.So in the northern region of Mexico you'll
find more flower tortillas. But you'renot going to make a burrito out of
a corn tortilla. It's gonna you'renot gonna be able to stuff it.
You're not gonna be there's just somethings that you're going to use. Now,
Baja style can be both in cornor flower tord tias with fish tacos
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and the like, but really thethe standard. Even growing up, I
remember we'd get the you know,white people tacos, the corn the crunchy
corn shell and my dad often wouldgo to our stove. He'd take a
corn tortilla and he'd throw it onyou know, an open flame there or
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the g I think we had electric, and he'd throw it on the little
red spiral and he'd toasted himself andthen he'd make his own. Hey,
as far as the corn toys,yeah, by the way, I go
for flower tortilla. How come youcan get a flower tortilla the size of
a serving plate and I've never seena corn tortilla that big. It's because
they fall apart. They don't holdup the same way. As a matter
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of fact, oftentimes, when youget a street style tacco, you get
too tortillas. And that's and whatthey'll what is done when you're softening them
is sometimes you'll see oil on thecomal or on the planchia, and they'll
throw it down with a little bitof oil and they'll loosen it up a
little bit before you know, beforethey make the taco there. But they
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just don't hold up the same way, so they're used for certain things and
not for others. So, youknow, Burrito's being one of them,
Breakfast tacos you'll almost always see inflour rather than corn al pastor tacos gonna
be corn. So it just dependswhat you're using. But it did come
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later. It doesn't mean they're lessMexican. I eat. People get all
freaked out just because in the Statesthey tend to be the more popular one,
although that is changing that people arelike, oh, that's white people.
Now, it's it's just another parta region that was modified by you
know, Spaniard. Yeah, Iwhen I go to dinner, and I
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love Mexican food, so I eatthat as often as I eat anything else,
and except for ham and cheese ona bag. Yet, Yeah,
I got to watch you do thatthis morning. Yeah. I just really
like being face to face with apetting zoo. Yeah, I know,
thank you. And so I liketo order fahitas. I love fahitas,
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and I'm asked corn or flowering,Oh what are you talking about? How
how do you order corn tortillas withfahitas? And then if someone I'm with
orders a corn fahita. I willcorn tortia with a pahita. I mean
it literally is the humanity. Howcan you do that? Oh, they're
great, it works out great forthem. That's a great usage. But
you could use both. And wealso know that that you are. You
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like attention if you order the pahitas, because they always come sizzling to the
table. Everybody watches. Everybody covetsthe sizzling fahitas that come landing on your
table on the wooden little extra platter. I always order shrimp tahitas because I
just love shrimp by shrimp fahitas.Is uh Is that indigenous or is that
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just sort of our version of fahitas. Yeah, I'm trying to think where
fahita has even come from. Honestly, I don't know. I don't know
if it's a concoction that we kindof threw together here, or if it's
just seen as a you know,street food in the sense that they're cooking
that and people would throw it intoa tortilla. I really don't know the
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origins of the fahita, to behonest with you, all right, real
quickly, because it was designed bychilies and we were talking, we were
talking about tacos during the break inhere and Michelle came in here and was
asking you some questions, and Annejoined us. We were talking about tacos
and what's a good one not sogood, and we talked about those hard
shells that Ann had gone into,which yeah, and they don't have hard
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shells. I have eaten at MichelinStar Mexican restaurants, and the best taco
in the world to me is aTaco Bell taco well, and I just
love it. The cheese, themild sauce, I mean, that does
it for me. Yeah, andthe shredded lettuce not not real traditional,
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but they're often referred to white andblack people tacos because they're found. We
ate those two just like anybody else. And I have a special place in
my heart for the ground beef,you know, in the seasoning that's dumped
in there. And if you wantto do that, by the way,
go online. It is not hardto make a great taco seasoning with I
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guarantee stuff you have in your pantry. Spice wise, I remember when Taco
Bell actually started using real meat andit just killed me. That by the
way, that if for those ofyou who work at Taco Bell. That
was a joke. I do notwant to get sued. That was a
joke. I will tell you peoplemake a lot of taco Bell jokes.
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But as far as being ahead ofthe curve, they've always been ahead of
the curve. They've always had greatvegetarian options. They were the first to
start removing a lot of stuff fromtheir DS before it was mandated or anything
like that. They actually are aheadof the curd. I love me some
taco bellt that's true. Quickly,Do you know what you're talking about Tomorrow?
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Have you gotten the show lined up? You know? We do have
it, and I don't have itin front of me. We have a
bunch of great guests. We havesome barbecue folks coming on. It'll be
a very guest filled show because we'vebeen out of the studio for a couple
of weeks. So I'm looking forwardto it. I just misplaced my notes
right this moment. But yeah,a lot of great guests tomorrow and on
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the show and some great food.Yeah, and I so missed Saturdays.
I want to come around here.Unfortunately met Saturday's or jam because I'm listening
to you, like, oh good, look at the food he has.
They got to pop in man.Oh no, I know, I had
some. We've had some spectacular foodthis year. All right, coming up,
it's Gary and Shannon. That's forstarters. Tomorrow, I'm on from
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eight to eleven o'clock with Handle onthe Law Marginal Legal Advice, and then
Neil of course is two to fivepm with the Fork Report his show.
So catch over the weekend. I'llsee you back on Monday when we start
this all over again. This iskf I am six forty live everywhere on
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on demand on the iHeartRadio app andGood Morning Friday Morning, May fifth,
Sinco Tomo Tons going on, that'sfor sure right now. Big fire in
commerce, Blake Trolley, our break, Blake Trolley is there. We'll be
(00:20):
reporting. It's just this massive warehousefire. And we've got well coronation tomorrow
of King Charles, and I'll doa little bit more later on. What's
fun about the coronation is the kitch. It's just great stuff. I'll go
through that. And the archpecific Canterbury, as you know, puts the crown
on the monarch. I've got acouple of stories about that, some fun
(00:43):
personal stories, but I'm gonna endup doing those on Monday because we just
have too much. Now, whatended up happening the trial yesterday of the
Proud Boys. We got the verdictand the jurors found the former Proud Boys
national chairman, Enrique Tario and twoof his lieutenants guilty of seditious conspiracy.
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Now, until these trials came about, who the hell knew what seditious conspiracy
was? Well? I did becauseI'm a history night. But This goes
back to the Civil War. Thiscame in with Abraham Lincoln and it had
to do with Southerners and there werea lot of Southerners who kept on continued
(01:32):
fighting the Civil War. Here's afun factoid. There was there a group
of Southerners and of course the Southloss of Civil War, and what they
did is they wouldn't take the Southhaving lost the war. So I think
it was a colonel or a generalgot this group together. They went to
Brazil. They went to Brazil,right outside of Sampaulo, where I was
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born, and they created a wholecommunity. Their last names Smith, Spencer.
I mean, no one speaks English, of course, it's you know,
it's we're talking about one hundred andsixty years. I mean, they're
Brazilians. But they have an annualaffair, an annual dance where they all
dress in Southern dress. They looklike Southern bells. It's crazy. But
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this had to do with people likethat who were still going to fight the
Civil War and they conspire to dothat. So this law came about and
you went to jail for the restof your life. So now we have
this law. It's very rarely used. Sedious conspiracy, and it has to
do with two or more people conspiring, planning to overthrow the government, or
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use force against the government, orinterfere with the lawful proceeding of the government.
That's what this is all about.Interfering with the lawful transfer of power
between a previous president and one whowas elected. And they interfered with that,
which is illegal. And they allplanned to interfere with that, which
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is a conspiracy, and the jurybought it. The defense and I mean,
let me go back a moment.There were emails, there were meetings,
they talked about what was going tohappen. The leaders said here's what
I want you to do. Let'slet's attack, and gave specific instructions and
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provided arms and they had weapons andhotel rooms. And the lawyers for these
seditious conspirators said, oh no,this was all spontaneous. No one really
planned this. They got caught upin the moment. A couple of them
said it had Trump's fault. HadTrump not said go to the capitol,
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show them what we're doing. Imean, it's a former president. Trump
will never be nails for this becauseI don't think he ordered the destruction or
the overrunning of the Capitol, atleast the way I see it. I
think it was thrilled that it happenedinitially, But I don't believe he is
or should be guilty of ordering theoverrunning and the destruction of parts of the
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Capitol building and stopping the vote.He said he wanted to stop the vote.
He said, Mike Pence should havestopped the vote. Let's see if
he does it right. And there'sthe difference. Conspiracy is way more than
he should do this. We'd bethrilled if this happened. It has to
be so specific that there have beena couple of cases where the court said
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that's not enough. It just isn'tenough. First Amendment speech protects them.
There was a twenty twelve trial andthe judge ordered the acquittal right there,
just here, you're acquitted, becausehe said the prosecutors rely too much on
just hateful diatribes, which was hereprotected by the First Amendment, and didn't
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require or required to prove that theaccused had detailed plans for a rebellion.
It was too broad. Well,the oath keepers the Proud Boys had detailed
plants where and who's going to go? Where? Here? The weapons were
going to use up to twenty yearsin prison. Are they going to do
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twenty Probably not, but they mayend up doing a decade. The leader,
incidentally, has been in jail.He's been being held since right after
January six, so he's going tospend some time in prison. If here's
a lot of remorse coming out ofthere on these people who have been convicted,
oh I'm sorry. I got caughtup and it caught up in it.
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I would never do that. Therewas I was just fault. One
of them was straight out. Iwas following Donald Trump and he ordered me
to do it. My dog atemy homework. Now let's move on to
a topic that I feel very stronglyabout. For many years, I have
said that we live in a societywhere if someone works full time and cannot
(06:15):
feed a family, even themselves,that is not a society that we can
be proud of. On that issue, I've told you many times. Well,
I'm not an exceptionalist, you know. I do believe America is the
finest country in the world in andthen I have a list, and I
do believe America is not so greata country in and I have a list.
(06:38):
So one of them on the negativeside is how we pay our minimum
wage workers. So I want totell you a story. There's an article
out of the La Times. Thereis a guy in the name of Jose
de Latorre and he delivered pizzas forPapa John. Started in twenty nineteen,
making fifteen bucks an hour, whichI think nineteen was at the minimum wage,
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maybe a little bit more. Andat fifteen dollars an hour, he
shared a one bedroom apartment in nota great neighborhood with half a dozen other
people. Okay, two years later, his hourly rate is still fifteen dollars
an hour, and his work schedulehad been cut to about thirty hours a
week instead of the forty hours aweek he was earning. His every day
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living expenses course have gone up forall of us. And so he began
sleeping in his car because he couldn'tafford that one seventh of the rent.
And he did it in a parkinglot right next to Papa John's in Lynnwood.
And he said, I made thechoice. He's fifty three. I
made the choice. It was eithermy car and eat or rent. So
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he gave up rent. Unfortunately,this is not uncommon current and recent fast
food workers, and according to theEconomic Roundtable, this is is a nonprofit
and it leans it leans left,there's no question about it. But they
released a report on Tuesday and saidthat eleven percent of all homeless people in
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California, nine percent in La Countywork are homeless and obviously broke. If
you're minimum wage, you're not doingwell. And the median age of frontline
fast the median income annual earnings offrontline fast food workers, cooks, cashiers,
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food prep workers, dishwashers was fifteenthousand dollars stay wide in twenty twenty.
Can you imagine earning fifteen thousand dollarsa year? I mean it's fifteen
fourteen hundred and forty nine dollars.Man and the union that represents many food
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workers and represents like hotel employees,that sort of thing may cleaners janity and
that's the SCI Service Employees International Unionsaid the fast food industry stayed out as
a poverty employer, larger share ofworkers in poverty than any other industry,
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and raising the wage floor is thesingle most important step for reducing economic homelessness
in the state. In addition tolow wages, fast food workers are also
hamstrung by their hours. And we'vetalked about that part time hours, unpredictable.
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Next week, here is your schedulethat happens amongst all fast food establishment.
You're gonna work twenty five hours.You're gonna work thirty hours. You're
gonna work Tuesday and Wednesday, butnot Thursday, part of Friday. You're
coming in over the weekend. Man, that really can imagine doing that and
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earning minimum wage and not getting afull forty hour week and what ends up
happening This quickly quickly pushes a workerinto homelessness. And it's pretty miserable,
to say the least. And Ican't believe that the law allows us to
happen. Well, I'm crazy aboutthe minimum wage out there anyway. I
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can't believe that minimum wage is paid. I know. The argument is,
well, a lot of kids getminimum wage there are it's entry level work.
It's not meant to have workers outthere. How many middle aged and
elder workers do you see that areworking in fast food because of the economy.
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It's pretty crazy. This nonprofit.By the way, the Roundtable examined
data from McDonald, Starbucks, BurgerKing, Jack in the Box KFC Taco
Bell, Pizza Hut, I meanacross the board and found that it's just
it's an impossible situation for people whohave no marketable skills. And then I
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talk to people and they go,well, they can go to school,
Well, they can always learn askill, and they are lazy. Not
in terms of working, because they'renot lazy, it's terms of helping themselves
getting the skill becoming marketable. Thereare a lot of people who don't have
that wherewithal. They truly don't.And that's my take on it. And
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of course the International Franchise Association,which is the trade group that represents these
fast food establishment said the union wasusing the findings to advocate for its union
growth agenda, not to help theworker, because it has its own agenda
and that's what it's about. Well, it does have its own agenda,
but part of the agenda, letme guess, maybe to get more money
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for the workers. What do youthink. They went on to say,
the report is not a scientific study, but an advocacy piece with zero credibility
because the numbers were simply manipulated.And here I am going to blow my
own horn for a moment, andbecause I hate telling people, you got
to pay more money. So there'sa job that I hired someone to do,
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and it would be many many organizationswould pay minimum wage for the kind
of job that I have. It'snot a very skilled job. It's there's
no real skill to it's I needto help. And every would have.
Everybody would have paid fifteen bucks anhour, sixteen dollars an hour. I'm
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paying twenty five dollars an hour becauseI just won't pay minimum wage. I
just refuse to do it. Sowhen I say, hey, I really
believe in this, I really believein this, now I must say the
work conditions I could go to prisonfor. That's a hired a different story.
But here I'm just talking about pay. Tell you what else is big
(12:56):
too. The NFL is under firea big time and accused of sexual harassment
or gender discrimination, race discrimination.That's been going on for a while,
but it has reached a new level. Now we have the attorneys general of
two states California, New York.Boy, what a shock or those two
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are in and this is where theNFL. I think it's headquartered in New
York and has its secondary headquarters inCalifornia. So it makes a little bit
of sense, and now the investigationis going forward. Fred Rogan, who
of course all things sports all thetime. Fred, good morning. Were
you at all surprise that they openedup this investigation? Bill? If I
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can start with this, I havea bigger question, and it's very troubling
to me. What happened to Nikki? I don't even she left? That's
very funny. Oh no, theway you set that up, I thought,
oh geez, what happened to Nikki? I thought, God, we've
lost Nikki? Fred. Fred worksin this building for his radio show,
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so we right into each other allthe time, and Nikki was just,
you know, one of those sortof outlier people that was always fun and
you could always always recognize her Sancode Mayo because of the sombrero. But
going back to the question, gotthank god, Nikki's okay, she set
it up. She's from going tomorning now. Okay, she's farm Sorry,
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okay, all right? Are youat all surprised this investigation opened up?
No? Not really. And here'swhine because major corporations go through this
type of thing, and oftentimes they'reculpable. This centered around a New York
Times investigation, which I believe startedin twenty twenty where you had some of
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the employees working for the National FootballLeague claiming pay disparity, gender discrimination,
and the NFL is a monolith andit takes an awful long time to correct
code and some people that left werenot pleased. I thought they were treated
unfairly. The investigation revealed that theyhad filed complaints. And when it gets
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to a certain point, that's whenthe big guys get in, and that's
when government jumps in. Now.Interestingly, I called Rob Banta, who
was the Attorney General for the stateof California, yesterday and we anticipated having
him on our program at two thirtyto discuss this very topic. At two
fifty, we received a call andwe were asked this question, are we
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taping this? So he didn't comeon yesterday. I didn't have the opportunity
to question him, and we're stilltrying to pursue him. The only reason
California is involved here is because theNFL does have sort of their secondary headquarters
here, and that's a soapy stadium. As part of the deal when Stan
Cronki built that building, the NFLhad to force him basically to build their
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West Coast office. So that's whythese accusations that are being made mainly by
women and some minorities who are claimingminority discrimination. How solid are they?
I mean, when what position isthe NFL, Because of course they're claiming
the usual political clap trap. Wetreat everybody the same, we hold diversity
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to the highest standards, YadA YadA, yadaya. Well, look, they're
solid as the people that are thatare claiming that these incidents occurred. I
ask you this, and you know, for your listeners, think about it.
If you work in corporate America,if you work in business, these
types of accusations are not uncommon inmany businesses. Oftentimes they're true, by
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the way, oftentimes they're true,but they're not uncommon. So I could
think, and I would believe thatthere is some merit to some of them,
and then that is up to theNFL to either settle or then they
go to court. But the onething about the NFL, if they go
to court, they don't lose.They don't lose, and they have deep,
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deep, deep pockets and they willgrind people and grind people. It's
kind of the way they work.So if there is merit to this,
then I'm sure, these cases willsettle, they will go away. The
NFL will issue a statement saying thatwe're going to work harder, We're going
to try better. Okay, we'renot going to let it happen again.
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Now, is this a dirty littlesecret that has been going around the league
four years where everybody's sort of newor is this simply like any major corporation
and it's that percentage of people thatcomplain because it's legitimate, or they use
that because that is an easy roadto complain. I think it is like
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any corporation where people complain and itis legitimate. But to be fair,
it's not uncommon for people to filethese charges against corporations. Now, sometimes
they are without merit. I knowwhen I worked at NBC, for example,
this happened all the time, andwhat the company would do more often
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than not is try to settle them, because it was better to settle them
with or without merit and just makeit go away, then sit and fight
and go back and forth. Youknow. I just think it's the world
we live in. If I'm guessing, if I'm guessing, yeah, some
of these do have merit. Okay, I do believe that to be true.
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Fair enough. By the way,for those of you that want to
listen to Fred, which I lovetoo. He's on AM five seventy LA
Sports every weekday, Monday through Friday, twelve to three pm. And I'll
see around the building and I hopeto see you with a sumbrero today.
Well look, in memory of Nikki, I'll try to wear one, all
right, take care of Fred,okay, so catch you later in the
building. Tomorrow is the coronation ofKing Charles. A couple things about the
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coronation. There are parts of anycoronation that are ludicrous and hilarious, which
I'm going to cover in a second. And there are parts that have such
fascinating historical background, some of themost fascinating history that I've run across.
So now let me tell you thefun part. You ever been to Disneyland
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and their fiftieth anniversary or their seventyseventy fifth anniversary, and they sell all
that little crap Mickey mouse, littlebuttons and cups and things. Let me
tell you what happens in a coronationor a wedding in Great Britain. They
take it to a whole new level. So expect about three hundred million dollars
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worth of crap to be sold.There's a thirty seven hundred limited edition watch
a cookie bin that says God Savethe King's the merchant. The merch on
this stuff is completely insane. Souvenirsmemorabilia. Uh, they figure three hundred
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million dollars now Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubileelast year, seventy years on the throne.
There they sold three hundred and fiftyone million dollars worth of crap because
she was beloved. She was Imean everybody loved. I mean, if
you're into the monarchy, she wasbeloved. Charles he remember with Diana and
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having the whole lifetime affair with Camilla. Not so much, but still three
hundred million dollars is still pretty impressive. So there's twenty two, twenty five
million dollars on coronation theme jewelry,and uh, this is well, think
about this. You've got twenty fivemillion. When William and Kate got married
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twenty eleven, that was one hundredand seventy five million dollars. Whoa people
like that? Megan and Harry onlythirty million. That was way down.
Coloring books, paper masks, totebags commemorative plates. British jewelers are using
the Slocan sparkle like Markle to selldiamonds. I don't know who they all
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came up with that, but notbad. There is a forty five pound
and I figure out about ten percentforty five pound commemorative fine bone china pillbox.
By the way, quick aside asyou know, I'm a complete history
night. I have three pieces ofmemorabilia of the British monarchy. I have
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a cup, I have a mug, and I have a jug small jug
which to this day I have noidea would people put that in there?
I'm too actually, I'm too frightenedto ask. Those pieces came from Queen
Victoria's jubilee anniversary in Uh when wasit eighteen ninety seven? I believe.
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See that's neat a cup with apicture of Charles and Camilla and not so
much. There's a limited edition ofHarry and Megan Pez Dispensers, very limited,
worth a lot of money. Uhuh. There's the Pez Distemp Dispenser's
feature the couple draft in the dressing, the outfits they wore when they announce
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their engagement. That's sold ten thousanddollars. You ever heard of more Might?
More Might is this spread that theyuse and it's made out of it's
a yeast extract which is completely totallyin inedible, and it's used to basically
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killed cockroaches. It's so bad they'reselling that. There's a London this is
one of my favorite London condom companyis selling Crown jewels heritage condoms. Now,
how can you not buy that one? Huh Hines has a Queen's Platinum
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Jubilee and a limited edition bottle ofcondiments and it's h M sauce. You
ever heard of HP sauce. It'sHP sauce, but it's HM His Majesty
salad, Queen M Tomato king Chupinstead of Ketchup Limited Edition. Now,
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the five pound Coronation Crown, I'mprobably gonna talk more about that coming up.
There's a wonderful history about that,three hundred fifty years old. There's
a miniature version and a jeweler isproducing that. It's gold emeralds and sapphires
and rubies and amethysts and diamonds andit's only going for fifty six hundred dollars.
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Crown shaped Christmas tree ornament. Uhhuh, there is. This is
one of my favorite. There isthe Coronation sausage. It's about thirty bucks
and it's a it's clay replicas ofCharles very famous chunky fingers. I'll bet
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you didn't know Charles had chunky fingers. And it features a tight gold ring
and are you wary ready for this? In the description and the worrying nail
details looks like he bites his nails. King Charles and a quick one.
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Who is going to it? Well, the archbishop, Archbishop of Canterbury.
And I have a fabulous story aboutthe archbishop too, personally, a personal
story. And Charles will be anointedwith holy oil. He'll receive that big
orb coronation ring over his bitten fingersand the scepter, and that's been known.
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There is something I don't know ifI have time to do that today.
Probably not. If you look atthe coronation, if you watch it
on TV tomorrow, he sits onthis wooden chair that actually only for a
coronation, and under this chair youwill see this huge stone and it's the
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Stone of Scone or pronounced Scone,It's spelled Scone and it takes back to
the twelve hundreds where monarchs have hadit, they've been they've sat on it,
in this case the chair that goesover it, and there is a
huge history of that. I mean, it is terrific. So you'll see
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that tomorrow. Under that chair,under that wooden chair is this massive three
hundred pounds stone comes from Scotland andit is a huge part of the coronation.
And if you're interested in getting upin the middle of the night,
knock your socks off and watch it, which I'm not going to, but
I am going to give you alittle bit of history because the history of
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the coronation tomorrow is utterly fascinating.If you watch the coronation, I'm sure
you'll see video of it and it'llbe on the news scores all over the
world. King Charles sits on awooden chair. It's been around for hundreds
of years. Underneath that chair isa stone, this big honkin three hundred
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pound stone, and it is knownas the Stone of that monarchs have been
sitting on since twelve ninety six,that's how long it's been around, and
that's how long British monarchs have beensitting on that stone. Now in those
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days, Scotland was not written andGreat Britain and England were different, so
it all came together. It wasactually, I think seventeen ninety six when
all the everybody came together. Butin any case, so you'll see this,
and then you will see the Archbishopof Canterbury, who is They had
Hancho of the English Church, theChurch of England, which was created by
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Henry the eighth when he split withthe Pope. You know that story because
Henry the eighth wanted to marry fortysix wives and the church said no,
and he wanted in an omen andstopped the marriage, and he said no,
and I want to marry someone else, and so he became head of
the Church of England. Which iswhy you will see the monarch being described
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aimed as the King of England andas territories, etc. And defender of
the faith. That refers to themonarch being defender of the Church of England.
So now we go back to thearchbishop. The archbishop is they had
haunt show and he will actually becrowning King Charles. And you will see
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the orb that round thing, andyou'll see the scepter which occasionally is used
to beat people up. Probably not, but it should be. And you
will see that crown, which youcan see the crown and the royal jewels,
not those royal jewels, but youcan see the Royal Jews jewels in
the Royal Jews, the Royal Jewsin London. It's kind of fun to
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go there at the Tower of theTower of London. In any case,
there is a whole lot that goeson. There is a huge amount of
history and this has been going onfor literally hundreds of years. Charles is
making a little bit different. He'san environmentalist, as you know, and
he is issuing his entourage from wearingthe traditional guard. You'll see see all
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them. You'll still see them inrobes and have that ermine fur thing that
they were around their necks, butyou won't see the real traditional old time
silt stockings and breaches that he's notallowing to happen. Now. He will
be traditional. He will be ridingthe Royal coach, which is the oldest
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coach. I think it goes backto the seventeen hundreds. And my favorite
story I want to share with youis Thomas Becket. Beckett and the Archbishop
of Canterbury. Thomas Beckett goes backto the twelve hundreds. He was the
Archbishop of Canterbury. He was alsothe chancellor. He was a very good
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friend of King Charles, and thenthey had a falling out and it I'm
not going to go into the politicsof it, but needless to say they
became enemies. And the Canterbury Cathedralis effectively the papal palace. The archbishop
is, if you will compare it, the pope of the English Church.
He is the head guy. Butnothing. They don't do the church anything
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like the Catholic Church. In anycase. Thomas Beckett was the Archbishop Canterbury
and the chancellor right, and theyhad Hancho Treasury treasury secretary, that's the
s chequer. He was that,and he was Secretary of State if you
will. And he had a fallingout with the king and he sought refuge
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in the Canterbury Cathedral and the King'stroops came slammed on the door, opened
it, forced their way in andthey cut him. Basically, they took
his head off, or the topof his head off. And there is
a mass every year that happens inCanterbury Cathedral and it's run by the Archbishop
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of Canterbury. And many years ago, probably twenty three twenty four years ago,
I was actually invited to that mass, the Thomas Beckett Mass. Maybe
forty people go, headed by thearchbishop. Everybody has candles and they stop
at the landing where Thomas Beckett waskilled, and there's a big door next
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to it. And during the ceremony, someone is outside the door pounding on
the door saying the words that wereused. Where is Thomas Beckett traitor to
the king and the kingdom? Andthen you go down the stairs, okay,
to the crypt where Thomas Beckett wasoriginally buried, and then they moved
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his body upstairs to another place,another palace, and then it was destroyed.
Later on the body was destroyed.There are only little bits and pieces
of him left, and they're notreally some pieces, but I want to
share this story with you. Soit's a very moving mass, and literally
everybody is carrying these campbels, likeforty people, and there's the archbishop,
I mean, the head hauncho.I'm going whoa because a dear friend of
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mine happened to be a friend ofthe archbishop. When the archbishop was simply
just a priest and moved his wayup and he'd known him for forty years.
And there is my family right,we're there, and it ends with
the service ends with and this isthe archbishop saying this in Jesus's name.
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Amen. And my daughter Barbara goeson men and then realizes what she said.
I see panic on her face.She starts crying. I'll keep in
mind she's like seven eight years old. She starts crying and goes, oh
my god, I'm a trader.I'm a trader. I shouldn't have said
that. Very funny, but Idid want to share that with you.
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It's just a fun story. Ithas to do with a coronation and the
Archbishop of Canterbury and which you're goingto see tomorrow. Make sure you look
for that stone underneath the coronation chairchairs, a couple three hundred years old.
The stone goes back to the latetwelve hundreds when it was taken from
Scotland and now it still sits inScotland except when someone is coronated. When
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a king or a queen is hasa coronation, and then it goes right
back to Edinburgh Castle where it sitsin the crown jewels of Edinburgh's Castle,
the Scottish monarchy, which of coursedoesn't exist anymore. Now. I did
a story about civics classes or proficiencyin civics and history, and there is
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a This report comes out every fivesix years, and this last one shows
the most miserable level of a lotof it had to do with with a
pandemic and that kids didn't learn asmuch as they should have, and we
had learning at home, remote learningand that didn't work very well, and
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so we're coming back. That's fair. But the latest report is thirteen percent
of eighth graders were proficient at eighthgrade level in US history and twenty two
proficient in civics. Bottom line is, kids don't understand our country, don't
understand the government, don't understand history. So waite are you there? I'm
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going to there you go. Isaw you running around. You have that
test in front of you. Ihave not seen it. I have absolutely
no idea what these questions are andhow many questions are on the test.
Well, I don't know, becauseit is almost impossible to get a full
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test, just like it look justlike it's impossible to get a full SAT
test. But you get sample questionsfrom the test, which I do have
in front of me, and wearranged for you to give me the test.
And this is like, do theyhave a case where I have not
seen or heard of the questions before? I am seeing them as a student
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is sitting down and taking a testand doing it for the first time.
I must tell you I am apprehensiveabout this, And I'll tell you why
I'm apprehensive, Wayne, because twothings are going to happen. One,
I'm going to do pretty well onit, and you're gonna say, come
on, handle, this is foreighth graders, for God's sake. You
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have an undergrad degree from a rottenschool. You have law degree from more
rotten school. You're a big fanof history, so of course you did
it. Okay, even worse,what if I blow it? The humanity?
I'll tell you what I have.I do have a backup plan it.
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Should you really really tank? Yeah, these sample questions from this NAP
test. Should that happen, Ihave a backup plan to hopefully redeem you.
Okay, let's do it. Somequestions, all right. Let us
start in the world of civics,and I have four sample questions for you.
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They are multiple choice. Here wego. Question one. Two countries
both claim that an island in thePacific Ocean belongs to them. The countries
are preparing to go to war witheach other over this issue. What is
the United Nations able to do tohelp end the conflict? A Send weapons
to both sides. B disarm themilitaries of both countries. CE, Arrange
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for diplomatic negotiations between the two countries. D force all other countries to stop
trading with the two countries. Okay, obviously negotiations. But which country is
it Japan in China or is itthe Philippines in China because this is the
South China seas well, they're notThis is a hypothetical. Oh oh,
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this is this is test one's knowledgeof the role of the United Nations in
the world. Okay, negotiations,Yeah, boy wow, I think you're
gonna be okay as to this partof it. Here we go. Which
of the following documents describes the powersof the President of the United States A
The Declaration of Independence, B theMayflower Compact, C the Constitution D the
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Articles of Confederation. Yes, Iwould say all of them, but the
Constitution of course that is correct,and all right, you're too still one
hundred percent and that section one.But let's move on. Which of the
following does the national federal government ofthe United States do that? State and
local governments do not. A runpublic schools, B print money, C
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remove state governors from office, Dchoose members of city councils. Obviously print
money. Now I'll tell you,am I right, I'm not by the
way, of course, you scaredme for a moment. You're going whoa,
now these questions, Oh, let'sgo a couple more, and then
I want to say something. Allright, well, here we go sometime
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we're still in the world of civicNow let's go to history for a moment,
because we're you know, we're gonnathe seconds running out of time.
Oh well, okay, now you'renot gonna like this. But this is
an example of what eighth graders areasked. It's kind of an essay question.
Are you ready? Yes? Whywas the invention of the steel plow
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important in United States history? Wow? Now you can go any different way
you can because obviously it brought agricultureto a whole new level. It mechanized
or what was on its way tomechanize agriculture, and it brought the United
States into the modern era, isthe way I would argue. Now,
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did they say anything like that,Well, they were more um to take
a second and talk specifically about asteel plow compared to whatever they were using
previously to plow. Yeah, theywere using their feet. Um, so
why is a steel plow better?And it's not, uh, the industrialization,
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it's not the modern aspect of farming. You're you're you are you are
accurately talking big picture. Here's here'sthe sample answer that they give for the
sample question. Why was the inventionof the steel plow important in the United
States history? The steel plow wasstronger, lasted longer, worked faster,
and could work on harder ground,which is which is which means all the
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stuff that you see. Yeah,yeah, okay, So I mean it's
pretty rudimentary, is uh, iswhat you're saying. So there is not
a whole lot of big picture,but I want to make the point this,
And thank god, the questions wereso rudiment and so broad and frankly,
so infantile. And by the way, I wasn't particularly worried because if
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I had tanketded I'm done with thisjob, but pointing out that those left
the answering those questions, and acertain percentage of answering those questions where you
are considered proficient, which doesn't meanall the questions are answered correctly. Thirteen
percent of eighth graders in this country. Now that is really scary stuff.
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Twenty two proficient. Twenty two percentproficient in civics, for example, understanding
what government does, understanding with ourresponsibility as citizens is all right, we
want to do another one, andlet's get so what basically, what is
important about the steel plow? Well, steel is stronger than wood. Yes,
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that was correct, all right,great that it's a better it's a
better plow. That's something made outof tissue paper. Okay, one more,
let's do one more. Okay,back to the world of civics.
Sometimes the common good conflicts with individualrights, which of the following is an
example of this. A. Aperson is put in jail because she's guilty
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of a violent crime. B.A person must move out of his house
so that a highway can be built. See schools are closed because if ic
roads d. A community organizes toclean up a vacant lot. Well,
of course the concept of eminent domainB and that we should know. And
uh, it's just something that shouldbe taught. And are we saying that
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what twenty two percent one in fivekids have no idea? By the way,
it was that right on that.Yes, of course, okay,
thank god, I hereby declare youthe king of the eighth grade. No,
not the king proficient in the eighthgrade, but thank you. Okay,
yeah, okay, so I barehe got that steel is stronger than
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wood. That I'll grant you.It was close, Wayne, all right,
thank you, professor Wayne. Iappreciate it. Class is okay,
let's do it. It's time forNeil and Foody Friday. Neil heard every
Saturday two to five pm the Forkreporter. Let's get right to it,
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since it is sinco to Mario O'Neilum salsa store bought salsa. I buy
a lot of store bought salsa,many different kinds. By mistake, I
just bought a jar of restaurant stylesalsa, which I don't like because it's
too watery for me. I likethe chunky saltsa like a mango and pineapple
and corn. So let's talk aboutwhere you would buy salsa, because you're
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the kind of guy that doesn't buysalsa usually make it, don't you.
Well, I'll tell you there's nota real big need to make salsa unless
you really want to. Fresh salsais always going to be better. The
standard belief is that you're basically doingthe colors of the Mexican flag. You've
got your three main colors, whichis your green, white, and red.
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So you've got halapeinos, You've gotor serrano if you want. You've
got onion, white onion, andyou've got the red tomato. So that's
your basic base for your salsa.It's a it's a condiment you'll find in
many Mexican homes right there on thetable, ready to go for any meal
that they're having. So it's notthat it's complicated to make. But there
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are some great salsas out there,and I think you might most people might
be surprised. Now everyone has theirtaste. Like you said, you like
the chunky style and you like itless loose, less watery. One of
the things to look out. Thisis a great list that is broken down
by chefs that say, Hey,these are Mexican chefs that say when we're
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going to go buy a salsa.These are the salsas we buy. Ordz
has a couple of salsa's mild guacamolisalsa, which is a green salsa,
slightly different, and you can findthese and people love them and they're great.
But the ones that people see allthe time and they ask me,
are these actually any good? Arethe are the ones like tostitos jars that
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are on the shelf. Yes,yes, So I gotta tell you,
the one that ranked the highest fromchefs Mexican chefs is chunky salsa medium tostitos
and I that's when I use,and that's the one we have in our
house too, and that is onthe shelf. It is not fresh,
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it is not refrigerated. It's itis really good. It is I like
it. It's very good. Now, of course, you can make your
own salsa. And there are alsosome great fresh style salsas that you will
find in the Delhi section that arenot something you're going to have sitting in
a shelf, on a shelf oranything. They're gonna go into your refrigerator.
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You're going to eat them, youknow, fairly quickly, because they
are they don't have any preservatives,and there's all kinds of great salzas out
there, but I thought people arealways, you know, looking at these
things and say, well, thatcan't be the best. And I'm not
saying that it's the best. Peoplehave their own choices, but it ranked
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very highly with Mexican chefs and itdoes very well. Why because it is
right there where the corn ships are. It's on that same shelf, right
at eye level, on that littleshelf that you have these jars that go
right across, so as you grabthe cornships, your hand goes over the
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jars of salsa. Well, thefunny thing here is Yanni Sanchez, who
is the executive chef at the Michelinrated Takedo brand's restaurants. He makes fresh
salsa himself, but he did anunscientific, albeit blind taste test with eight
different jarred salsas off the shelf withher staff, and Tostitos Chunky Salsa medium
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came out the winter. That isprecisely the one I used to Tostitos chunky
Salsa medium. So since we're talkingMexican food, of course, sinco to
mayo. The question five go five, Yeah, the question I am by
the way, or is anybody goingto get drunk today? You think out
there, what's worse? What?What are you implying? I'm applying to
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people drink. What's worse? SatPatty's Day or sinco to Mayo? I'm
going for Saint Patty's Day. Yeah, there's a joke on the interwebs just
after Saint Patrick's Day. They're all, well, that was fun. We
were all Irish. I can't waittill May fifth, when we're all Mexican.
So, yeah, people will it'sFriday. I bet you it's gonna
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be pretty pretty intense. It reallyis, all right, So just prior
to the break, since we're talkingMexican food, and we talked about salsa
and the previous segment. The bigquestion, this is the massive question that
is asked by the world. Hornor flower tortillas. That is the question.
And Neil, you and I havegone out for Mexican food before,
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and I don't know if you'll remember, Okay, in my life, what
is it? It depends on whatyou're eating now. Of course, corn
tortillas have been around forever, thousandsof years they've been around. But when
when the Spanish folks landed and didwhat they do. They give give the
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Native Americans measles and small box andkill them all when they when they create
havoc and change everything and basically ripthe native language out and replace it with
a European language, Spanish. Allof the stuff happened, and the Spaniards
didn't think that corn was fit forconsumption, for human consumption, So the
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flower tortillas or the wheat tortillas startedcoming into vote, but really mainly around
the northern parts of Mexico, andthey still are there today. As a
matter of fact, Jews play apart in that as well, because corn
was not kosher. They started makingthe flower tortillas as Jewish immigrants fled from
the Iberian coast and our peninsula ratherduring the Spanish Inquisition, and they started
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making the flower tortillas as well.So in the northern region of Mexico you'll
find more flower tortillas. But you'renot going to make a burrito out of
a corn tortilla. It's gonna you'renot gonna be able to stuff it.
You're not gonna be there's just somethings that you're going to use. Now,
Baja style can be both in cornor flower tord tias with fish tacos
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and the like, but really thethe standard. Even growing up, I
remember we'd get the you know,white people tacos, the corn the crunchy
corn shell and my dad often wouldgo to our stove. He'd take a
corn tortilla and he'd throw it onyou know, an open flame there or
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the g I think we had electric, and he'd throw it on the little
red spiral and he'd toasted himself andthen he'd make his own. Hey,
as far as the corn toys,yeah, by the way, I go
for flower tortilla. How come youcan get a flower tortilla the size of
a serving plate and I've never seena corn tortilla that big. It's because
they fall apart. They don't holdup the same way. As a matter
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of fact, oftentimes, when youget a street style tacco, you get
too tortillas. And that's and whatthey'll what is done when you're softening them
is sometimes you'll see oil on thecomal or on the planchia, and they'll
throw it down with a little bitof oil and they'll loosen it up a
little bit before you know, beforethey make the taco there. But they
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just don't hold up the same way, so they're used for certain things and
not for others. So, youknow, Burrito's being one of them,
Breakfast tacos you'll almost always see inflour rather than corn al pastor tacos gonna
be corn. So it just dependswhat you're using. But it did come
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later. It doesn't mean they're lessMexican. I eat. People get all
freaked out just because in the Statesthey tend to be the more popular one,
although that is changing that people arelike, oh, that's white people.
Now, it's it's just another parta region that was modified by you
know, Spaniard. Yeah, Iwhen I go to dinner, and I
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love Mexican food, so I eatthat as often as I eat anything else,
and except for ham and cheese ona bag. Yet, Yeah,
I got to watch you do thatthis morning. Yeah. I just really
like being face to face with apetting zoo. Yeah, I know,
thank you. And so I liketo order fahitas. I love fahitas,
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and I'm asked corn or flowering,Oh what are you talking about? How
how do you order corn tortillas withfahitas? And then if someone I'm with
orders a corn fahita. I willcorn tortia with a pahita. I mean
it literally is the humanity. Howcan you do that? Oh, they're
great, it works out great forthem. That's a great usage. But
you could use both. And wealso know that that you are. You
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like attention if you order the pahitas, because they always come sizzling to the
table. Everybody watches. Everybody covetsthe sizzling fahitas that come landing on your
table on the wooden little extra platter. I always order shrimp tahitas because I
just love shrimp by shrimp fahitas.Is uh Is that indigenous or is that
(51:58):
just sort of our version of fahitas. Yeah, I'm trying to think where
fahita has even come from. Honestly, I don't know. I don't know
if it's a concoction that we kindof threw together here, or if it's
just seen as a you know,street food in the sense that they're cooking
that and people would throw it intoa tortilla. I really don't know the
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origins of the fahita, to behonest with you, all right, real
quickly, because it was designed bychilies and we were talking, we were
talking about tacos during the break inhere and Michelle came in here and was
asking you some questions, and Annejoined us. We were talking about tacos
and what's a good one not sogood, and we talked about those hard
shells that Ann had gone into,which yeah, and they don't have hard
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shells. I have eaten at MichelinStar Mexican restaurants, and the best taco
in the world to me is aTaco Bell taco well, and I just
love it. The cheese, themild sauce, I mean, that does
it for me. Yeah, andthe shredded lettuce not not real traditional,
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but they're often referred to white andblack people tacos because they're found. We
ate those two just like anybody else. And I have a special place in
my heart for the ground beef,you know, in the seasoning that's dumped
in there. And if you wantto do that, by the way,
go online. It is not hardto make a great taco seasoning with I
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guarantee stuff you have in your pantry. Spice wise, I remember when Taco
Bell actually started using real meat andit just killed me. That by the
way, that if for those ofyou who work at Taco Bell. That
was a joke. I do notwant to get sued. That was a
joke. I will tell you peoplemake a lot of taco Bell jokes.
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But as far as being ahead ofthe curve, they've always been ahead of
the curve. They've always had greatvegetarian options. They were the first to
start removing a lot of stuff fromtheir DS before it was mandated or anything
like that. They actually are aheadof the curd. I love me some
taco bellt that's true. Quickly,Do you know what you're talking about Tomorrow?
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Have you gotten the show lined up? You know? We do have
it, and I don't have itin front of me. We have a
bunch of great guests. We havesome barbecue folks coming on. It'll be
a very guest filled show because we'vebeen out of the studio for a couple
of weeks. So I'm looking forwardto it. I just misplaced my notes
right this moment. But yeah,a lot of great guests tomorrow and on
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the show and some great food.Yeah, and I so missed Saturdays.
I want to come around here.Unfortunately met Saturday's or jam because I'm listening
to you, like, oh good, look at the food he has.
They got to pop in man.Oh no, I know, I had
some. We've had some spectacular foodthis year. All right, coming up,
it's Gary and Shannon. That's forstarters. Tomorrow, I'm on from
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eight to eleven o'clock with Handle onthe Law Marginal Legal Advice, and then
Neil of course is two to fivepm with the Fork Report his show.
So catch over the weekend. I'llsee you back on Monday when we start
this all over again. This iskf I am six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. You've been listeningto the Bill Handles Show. Catch my
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