Terror: Former military folks aren’t more likely than the average Joe to get radicalized, but when they do, they’re way more effective at pulling off extremist attacks. Vegas Bombing: The wife of the US soldier who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday broke up with him six days before he killed himself inside the vehicle, according to law enforcement sources. Just a Nip: Gen Z are a bunch of goody two shoes. Bad Business: Some businesses go the extra mile to get your extra dollars. Others cut corners and sometimes they get caught.
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But there's no business like show business, all right? I
like that? Okay, good, good enthusiasm that time.
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I like you're in Keith, Thank you very good. Got
an email this week from Turo. Do you know what
turo is?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, okay, have you used Turo.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
With a driving record like mine? You gotta.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't know who would rent you the car, that's
what worries me. Yeah, I'm a you are okay cool?
Have you ever rented anything cool on turo?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Yeah, BMW's yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. Raoul I actually
shared a story yesterday. He was renting his car on
to row and somebody took it to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No way you did that, Raoul?
Speaker 7 (01:34):
Oh yeah, when I remember, I took the sabbatical and
I went to Mexico for a month. Yeah, so during
that time I did it. I put it on a
Touro and it was great a couple times. And then
the last guy, I watched him with my app that
he probably didn't know I had, and I could monitor
the car and I saw him take it to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
OMG.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, you know what he was doing, I mean, forging
or anything.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
That's what I hope he wasn't doing. Yeah, because I'm
not involved in that in any way, shape or form.
Yeah at all, but you know who knows.
Speaker 8 (02:06):
I mean, he got it back safe.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
It was clean, no dance, you know, because you take
pictures beforehand, you take pictures after. They kind of have
to like have documentation too, So everything was code for
but still I went to Mexico and that's not supposed
to be.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Is there any recourse or did you just like let
it go or do you pull them? Okay?
Speaker 8 (02:27):
I took the money and I paid the car payment.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, all right, I got you. Yeah, we don't ask questions.
We just pay for the car.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean, sure, there's probably a small child in the
trunk of your car, never to be seen again, but
it's fine. As long as you got your car payment made,
that's fine. It's cool, it's totally it's totally great.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's excellent.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Hey who cleaned when you were in Mexico? Because you
were down there for a couple of months, right.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Yeah, about a month and a half.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So what happened with your did did somebody else clean
your car? Did somebody was? Did you have somebody else
that was helping me out with that?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Yeah? Yeah, my mom because it was parked at my
mom's house since it's by Ontario Airport, very convenient for
somebody flying into Ontario. Okay, all right, Yeah, she took
care of it. But you know, after that, after I
seen it go to Mexico and I was like, I
don't I don't like my car going to Mexico without me.
I'm okay with Like you said, what if they put
something in there and I don't even know it's in there?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, And that it's your name and your your registration
that they're trying to track across the country because they're,
you know, doing something screwy.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
And I'm letting you know, so obviously I'm guilty.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, I mean, come on, it goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Turo for those who were unfamiliar, probably became familiar with
it this week. Turo is a it's like Airbnb for cars.
You can rent your car out to somebody else. In
fact that you find some pretty nice cars on Turo,
and I think the reason you do is because somebody
will want, say a BMW, but they can't afford the
BMW payment, or the BMW payment is a little more
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than they want to pay, and so they offset that
payment by renting the car to somebody like Kayla, which
of course comes with some risk. Although Turo, I believe,
don't they have like a million dollar insurance policy. I've
used it once. I borrowed I H. I rented somebody's
truck from them. I needed to pick up for an afternoon. Uh,
and it worked out really well. It cheaper than renting
something from home depot. But uh, I mean you see
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some nice cars people in there, with like Porsches and stuff,
and you go.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Wow, that's it's Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It's pretty pretty ballsy to say I'm going to take
out a car loan on a Porsche and then let
other people drive it.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
You can't put buckets on there, It's like not allowed.
It has to be a newer car. It's there, stand
for sure, my bucket seats.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I was like, yeah, yeah, no, it has to be
a nice car. It has to be decent.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I listen, there are times that I kind of
wish you could have crappier cars on there. And I'm
not joking about that. For instance, I told you I
read it a truck because I need I needed to
pick up. But there's times, for instance, I was hauling
some landscaping rock and I had to borrow my brother
in law's truck. I couldn't do it touro because I
I can't put landscaping rocks in the back of somebody's
nice pickup. But so I put it in the back
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of my brother in law's a nice pickup. You know,
I kind of wish there were a beater where it says, yeah,
look you can you can do what you need to
do with this, but no, they don't allow that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But that's I get it. I get it. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So Turo sent me an email because you know, these
two terror attacks, well one if it was a TARR attack,
the other one looks like it was a high visibility suicide.
But the one in New Orleans, the terror attack, that
was I believe a Ford lightning and it was rented
on Turo, somebody else's pickup that was then rented on
Turo and that's the one that the guy used to
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drive through the people in New Orleans. No horrible situation.
So now Turo sent out an email saying, we're really sad.
They didn't say that they were They didn't offer any
condolences to the victims. They didn't say that they were
sorry for their losses. And I think that might have
been a lawyer who said, don't say the word sorry,
because then you're admitting you did something wrong or some
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crap like that. Right, So the Turo CEO said he
was how heartbroken and outraged, and uh says, these individuals
had valid driver's licenses, clean criminal backgrounds, and were decorated
US military service members. Both of them were the Guy
New Orleans and the guy in uh in Las Vegas
said one was honorably discharged and even awarded a Global
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War on Terrorism Service Medal, and one was an active
duty Green Beret. They could have boarded any plane, checked
into any hotel, or rented a car or truck from
any traditional vehicle rental chain. We do not believe these
individuals would have been flagged by anyone, including law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I kind of agree.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I mean, isn't that who you would look for if
you're if you're renting your car, if you're letting somebody
borrow your car, if you're renting your house out you go, look,
this is a decorated service member, an honorable discharge, This
guy's a Green Beret, this one got the he got
a medal for the War on Terrorism. I mean, these
are people that have accomplished some things. It wouldn't send
up a red flag for anybody. I certainly wouldn't have.
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But people are looking at Truro, and of course because
Truro is not as well noticed, they hurts or the
budget or avis.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Then he goes, oh, here's.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Something you don't know, and since you don't know, that's scary,
let's all point fingers in this direction. But it's not
fair to do that, the CEO said, turo safety record
is a solid is solid.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
With less than point one percent of trips involving serious incidents,
how many go to Mexico and bring back drugs in
the trunk We don't know for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We do know of one that probably happened to it roll.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
While we wait for law enforcement to finish our investigations,
we're consulting with national security and counter terrorism experts to
learn how we can get even better, which means, uh,
there's no way we could have possibly caught this, but
we're going to make it look like we're doing something
because we're tired of all of the twenty four to
seven news channels pointing at us as being culpable.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
They're not culpable. They rented a cards, they're business. That
would be as looney as as holding the bars responsible
that were that were serving people who were killed that
night in New Orleans. It'd be like holding Trump responsible
for having a hotel in Vegas. No, you're just a business.
You're doing business, and you went through all the you
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went above and beyond any other checks.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So no, they're not culpable. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Because there's a lack of familiarity by a lot of people,
it's easy to point and say, op, scary thing.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I don't understand it. It's scary. Just like this guy
in New Orleans had a funny sounding name.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He's probably he's probably here illegally across Joe Biden's open
borders because he has a funny sounding name. And obviously
the President like tweeted that. So knowledge is power. The
more you know, the less you're shocked. Although in this case,
the neighbors around that dude that did the New Orleans
terror attack, they were shocked.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
They're scared and looking across the street from the man
FBI says carried out a terror attack in the French Quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Neighbors telling News.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Nation they saw Jabbar getting into the white truck showcasing
an ISIS flag in Houston before carrying out the rampage
in New.
Speaker 10 (09:09):
Orleans roughly twelve to fifteen hours along with local law enforcement.
But you could see some of the damage as a
forced entry into his property.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Executing that search warrant.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
This is what is left over.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Very bad, very very bad. I'm mean, we all shocked.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
We all are very shocked, especially US here bean next.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Door, next door and with five young kids.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
The FBI now saying they found bomb making materials inside
Jabbar's Houston home, the same materials found at the New
Orleans Airbnb and the coolers containing an ied the FBI
says Jabbar place near the intersection of Bourbon and Orleans Street.
We're also learning more about Jabbar's service in the US Army.
He was highly decorated, even receiving an award for Global
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War on Terrorism. Neighbors out of fear of retaliation against
their Muslim community, hiding their identity, much like they say
Jabbar did when he lived next door.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
By the way, the distance from Houston to New Orleans
abot three hundred and fifty miles. It's like if you're
in Ontario and you drive to Phoenix, right about the
same distance. The range out of Ford Lightning, which is
what he used, is two hundred and forty miles for
the entry level version, up to three hundred and twenty
miles for the extended version. I don't know which version
of the Ford Lightning he was driving, but I do
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know this. He had to stop and charge and then
they got footage.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
He was dry.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He was hanging around New Orleans. I mean, this guy
was dedicated to doing damage. Carnage was his goal. Sadly
he accomplished that. I don't know what Turo could have
done to stop it. I do know that New Orleans
is being looked at very carefully because they didn't have
ballards in place. It would have stopped cars from driving
down Bourbon Street. And if you haven't been there before,
it's very narrow. It's more of an alley than a street,
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which makes for a lot of fun, but it's very
narrow and also made it very easy for someone to
use a car for terror activities.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Now as we.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Flip our attention to Nevada, the bombing in Vegas looks
like we're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Able to pull the whole.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It's mental health, everybody, nothing to see here, it's all
mental health.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Mental health keeps getting a pretty bad wrap.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Every time somebody does something crazy, we just go, well
that dog on mental health. Why this one shines light
on something that's been going out in the shadows for
a very long time. That's next, Chris Merril AM six
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I am six forty more stimulating talk. We'll talk no
business like right up after six o'clock. Looks like we've
already got a few winners at the Golden Globes, including
Zoi Saldana wins for Best Supporting Actress for Emily Perez.
Emilia Perez, excuse me by apologies. So I guess that
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had what ten nominations or something? It was led the
pack have yet to see it. I need to see this,
Emilio Perez. I got to see this one. Anybody here
see that?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
No good? Not alone? Great? Making me look like I
was just.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
A misogynist who didn't want to go see a movie
about with a woman's name of the title.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
But no.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Come to find out, the women here haven't seen it either,
So you guys hate women. I'm really frustrated by that.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
I started watching it, but I had to read subtitles
and I'm kind of blind, so oh I failed?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, are you really blind? That makes it hard to read?
A news guy?
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I mean you should see me.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
I have my computer screen pushed all the way up
to my face with computer glasses on.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So I've worked with the guy that was legally blind,
and he did the same thing.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Not legally blind.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
But I think I got to get lasik. But I
hear that might make my upclose vision a little worse.
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It's not good.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Happy New Year, I'm going to be all right.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
No, that's great. No.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I worked with the guy that used to he was
lead blind, and he would come in and he would
stick his uh, he would stick.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I mean he was maybe an inch away from the
screen that read.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I'm not legally blind, But man, are you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Just somebody that has like the close captioning is just
the biggest font possible.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yes, Oh that's funny. That's funny.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I love that close captioning. That's something gen Z's are getting, right.
They turn close captioning on for everything.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, I love that you catch stuff that
you otherwise missus you're just watching it.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So we'll get to an update on the news from
Brasida here just five minutes or so, uh, and then
we'll talk more about what gen Z is not doing
Oh gen Z, Oh the kids these days. O. The
Kale has already fed up with him. She's a millennial,
she's got her act together. Those gen zsh.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
None of them want to work.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Meanwhile, shifting attention just to the east here Las Vegas
and the cyber truck that blew up. They were finding
out more about the dude that blew that cyber truck up.
And he rented that Ontiro, which is the the it's
not a ride share up. It's it's like Airbnb for cars,
you rent your car out to people. So this guy,
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he rents a cyber truck and he goes to Trump Tower,
fireworks go off, it explodes, They find him, his body
charred on the inside of the cyber truck. And immediately
people thought, oh, this is a political statement. This guy
hates Trump, he hates musque. That's what this is all about. No, Nope.
Come to find out, no, not the case. He actually
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was a big Trump supporter. He was largely a political
although it sounds like in the last few months he
was getting more and more political. But then they found
some writings that he left behind, and we know that.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
He just wanted to die. Is what is what we learned,
he just didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He had some demons that he wanted to take care of,
and he wanted to do it in a spectacular way
because he thought he was going to make a statement.
Speaker 12 (15:04):
Matthew Livelsberger was a Master Sergeant in the Elite Green Berets,
a highly decorated active duty Army soldier who's now accused
of taking his own life and blowing up a rented
cyber truck in front of the Trump International Hotel in
Las Vegas Wednesday morning. Police found his passport, military ide wallet,
and all sorts of other personal items in the burned
out Tesla truck, which he also allegedly filled.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
With fireworks, gas cans and other fuel.
Speaker 12 (15:28):
Investigators don't know how was detonated, but say whatever it
was that blew up seemed rudimentary.
Speaker 13 (15:33):
The level of sophistication is not what we would expect
from an individual with this type of military experience.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, really bizarre. Almost makes you wonder if he didn't
mean to blow it up. Maybe he was just hauling
around fireworks and kerosene because he was I don't know,
celebrating New Year's was going to go camping or something, right,
and just had that in the back of the truck,
and then it sparked when he took his own life.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
Las Vegas police also, I don't know, we'll recovered two
guns from inside the cyber truck, both badly damaged from
the fire. The Colorado man who owns the Tesla trucks
and Liblisburger told him he was renting it to go
camping in the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
But yeah, I mean, maybe that's why he had all
that crap in there.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Clearly never went there.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
In fact, because charging stations track information, police know the
exact route he took from Denver to Las Vegas, but
they still don't know what drove him to set off
the explosion or whether he has any ties to terrorist groups.
Speaker 13 (16:25):
I said, we're running down investigative leads around the world.
No information that we're aware of right now that connects
this individual to any terrorist organization around the world. Yeah,
but that's obviously the thrust of the investigation is ruling
out that there's any sort of you know, terrorism nexus
and then again getting at what the ideology is.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
I asked the sheriff about the many striking similarities between
Livelsburger and the suspect in the New Orleans terrorist attack,
like how they were both at the army base formerly
known as Fort Bragg, they both served in Afghanistan, and
both used the Tururo app to rent the cars used
to carry out the attacks, which happened within hours of
each other.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
And they were both the electric trucks. Oh that's it. Oh,
it's the electric vehicles.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
You know.
Speaker 14 (17:03):
It's an interesting thing during these kinds of investigations that
if these turned out to be simply similarities, very strange
similarities to have, and so we're not prepared to rule
in or rule out anything at this point.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, Fort Bragg is huge, and Turro rents to a
lot of people. I mean, I'm not reading too much
into it.
Speaker 12 (17:22):
Amazingly, no one else was seriously hurt, even that person
on the far right of your screen standing next to
their luggage.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You can't see it because radio We're.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
Looking directly into Trump Tower from our room.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
And then I saw.
Speaker 11 (17:35):
There was a second explosion. So I heard one and
then saw the other one actually happen, and it was
like fireworks were shooting off.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's not like it.
Speaker 12 (17:44):
It was even the outside of these cyber truck barely
has a dent, says most of the explosion went up
and not out. As repairs are underway at the tower today,
people are quick to point out you barely can tell
anything happened here.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Almost no dammers. The windows didn't even break out so
very lightly. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (18:00):
I was shocked that even the chandeliers, the glass in
the schandeliers weren't even damaged.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, and this is one of the things that Elon
Musk is saying. Oh, it's the best car for explosions.
Really trying to twist this one up, aren't you. Oh
he was so dumb. He shouldn't have taken one of
my cars. If he really wanted to do damage, she
would have used one of those other cars.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
My car is the most bomb proofish. Oh okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Meanwhile, he left a note and he said that the
United States is headed for collapse and he's hoping that
this is a wake up call. How self important do
you have to be to think that, Well, if I
take my own life in a spectacular way, then people
will realize that the country is headed for collapse.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Oh, now people will care because it's me. Nah.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
He also said that he had to atone for the
lives that he took and the people that he saw
die and then of course his wife. Sounds like his
wife was leaving him to accusations of infidelity. He was
reading another statement from Spencer Rabbins, who's the Special Agent
in charge of the Las Vegas Field Office of the FBI,
and he said, although this incident is more public and
more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a
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tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran
who's struggling with PTSD and other issues.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's the really sad thing here.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I mean, we hear about the rate of suicide among
veterans and how that's become almost epidemic within the veteran community,
and we go.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh, that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now we're faced with it right now, we have to
face that. And you know, if there's any silver lining here,
hopefully that we're able to say, all right, more than
just a statistic, we probably ought to figure out how
to do something about it to make it better.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
The kids these days, one thing they're not going to do.
They are not going to party. Kids next. Chris Merril
kfi A six forty. We're live everywhere in your iHeart
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Chris Merril can't I AM six forty More stimulating talk
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still to come. We'll talk some bad businesses, all bad businesses,
all so bad because they've been stealing you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You, they've just been stealing you. That is coming up,
and there's no business like tell business good with the
Golden Globes. That was very good.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Golden Globes happening tonight and we're already already getting some winners, so.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
We'll be able to talk about what's going on with that.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Our digital reporter Nashida is there and we're looking forward
to what she has to offer and tell us about
what's going down for real.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That set. How about some info on the kids these days? Oh,
the kids these days.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
They're just not like we were fair to say, they're
just not like we weren't. Headline teen alcohol and drug
use keeps declining, Cissies.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Isn't that a good thing?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Chris?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
No, why not?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Because they're kids. Everything they do is bad, as we
all know the previous generation. Whatever they do that's different
than what we did is somehow worse.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So let me say this alcohol and drug use may
be declining, but nicotine pouches are going up. Oh the
kids these days, Oh they want to do is just
suck on their zin's. That's all they want, the zin.
They love that zin. They're not even vaping as much
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as is what they were pre pandemic. The the gen
z has just gotten bored with substance abuse. Oh they
have absolutely no conviction. Gen Z can't finish anything they start.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
For Pete's sake.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I remember when at twelfth grader used to get high
and drink too much because they didn't want their pairs
to find out.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Nowadays, they get started, they don't even finish. Terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It is to Kala's point, because she's looking at rationally,
it is good news that the kids these days are
not doing as much.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Drinking.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Decline's most notable among alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, vaping.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Nicotine pouch is the exception.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
As I mentioned alcohol, forty two percent of twelfth graders
reported drinking alcohol. That's down from seventy five percent back
in nineteen ninety seven. Among tenth graders, it fell from
twenty six percent to twenty six percent, excuse me, from
sixty five percent. Among eighth graders that dropped to thirteen
percent from forty six percent. Now, look, I don't want
(22:43):
to be that guy that starts calling statistics into question,
but I graduated in nineteen ninety six, and I'm guessing
there wasn't a whole lot of difference between ninety six
and ninety seven. And so I was a twelfth grader
in ninety six. I don't recall, but I was also
a goodie too. She's on a recall, seventy five percent
of my classmates drinking. I know some of them did.
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Don't get me wrong. I can tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I can.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I can point to a number of them that definitely did.
It was going on, But seventy five percent seems really high.
And now they're saying it's closer to what forty six
percent something like that, it's blow fifty percent, which is
what I would have guessed it would have been twenty
five years ago, thirty years ago. But no, I guess
not h And what also surprises me is they say
(23:30):
that forty six percent of eighth graders thirty years ago
we're drinking.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Shocked. Now, why is the question, have we all of a.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Sudden become good at parenting? Well, yes, obviously we have.
We're much better parents now than what our parents were
in their parents, It's safe to say that gen X
is probably the best parenting generation of all. Thank you,
thank you very much. It's been a pleasure. It's been
a pleasure as you're giving you a better world. We
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inherited it dumped from our parents, but we are making
it a better place.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We're trying to cut global warming, we're trying to make
kids more responsible. You can thank us for all of
the great things that gen Z is doing.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You're welcome. Cala. Did you want to say thank you?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
I want to say thank you, and I also want
to say, OK, that's.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Okay, you got it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You have any idea why the why the alcohol consumption
would be down? Some people say these because of the pandemic.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Well, I think also like people are educated on the
effects that alcohol has on you, and then when you
see your parents do it or the elders in your
family do it, it's probably like a turn off.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You're like, I don't do that.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I did have a friend whose dad was Vietnam VET
and he came back and he definitely coped with alcohol.
That was his that was his go to And my
buddy said he doesn't want to drink because he doesn't
want to become his dad.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, here, that's very often.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, it's really tragic.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
But I'm kind of looking at the numbers, and it's
been a slow and steady decline over the last thirty years,
no doubt.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But I gotta tie.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
It seems to me that there was still drinking going
on when you were in high school. I know that
was a long long time ago, but there was still
it was still going on, and the education was still there,
and I.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Think that I think seventy five percent was probably right. People.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah, yeah, people drink, man, and they don't do it
when they get older because they're like, oh, I got
it all out of my system in my teenage years.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I heard that story a lot.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Too, So I didn't drink. I was never intoxicated. Thought.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I was twenty nine years old the first time I
got intoxicator. And I will say that I did about
ten years of making up for it. Yeah, I definitely
did that. But now I'm it's like I'll have.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Some here in there, right, but yeah, I'm drunk right now.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I believe it. I believe it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I heard you you left the microphone on when I
was trying to talk about football here, and all of
a sudden, people are like, why why.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Is he talking about football?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
To hear the news, Regina is trying to do the news.
I'm like, hey man, my lines are looking good. Unbelievable
because Rubell's drunk. One of the reasons they say they
thought again pandemic and that people couldn't go out, they
couldn't socialize, so they just weren't drinking as much. But
then they thought as the pandemic ended that we would
probably see an increase back to the mean. One hypothesis
(26:22):
time news throughout there was could be changing laws, including
the nineteen eighty four National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which
set the age to purchase or publicly possess alcohol beverages
to twenty one.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Prior to that, minimum age to drink was eighteen.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Nationwide, different states had different laws, alcohol social reputations changing.
It makes sense that older drinkers are drinking more given
that baby boomers were steeped in a heavier drinking culture.
I guess we've just completely changed the culture now. So
boomers are a bunch of drunks who have ruined the
planet and handed us a more expensive world than what
they were left and gen X basically.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Stepped in and cleaned it all up.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And we're teaching our kids how to be productive members
of society once again, Mom and dad, you're welcome. Meanwhile,
did you see that the Surgeon General says alcohol is
going to give you cancer? So now they're talking about
putting a cancer warning on on your.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Booze like they do with cigarettes. Yep, everything causes cancer.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yep. The News Nation talked with doctor Drew about that.
Who used to roll our holes?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
I agree there must be a reason, but look, hi.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, what is it? What is it, doctor Drew? What's
going on?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
This whole conversation, more than anything else, reminds us that
the news business should stay out of medical reporting.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Oh yeah, the last thing we want to do is
report on medicine.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Giance is in every evolving process.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
So we should just keep people in the dark. Good
call doctor Drew and he can only answer, Wait.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Isn't doctor Drew reporting on Yes he is, that's right.
Oh wow, this is a very self unaware statement, and.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
He can only answer highly specific, very narrow questions. And
the studies that were being quoted initially about wine.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Were in that was the idea that wine might help
stave off some forms of cancer.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Whether or not cardiac health could maybe be enhanced. Maybe
there was veratrol in there, maybe one glass of wine.
It did not improve overall survival. No studies have ever
shown alcohol improving overall survival. It shows maybe decreasing the
risk of certain cardiac events, maybe, but that says nothing
(28:20):
about overall survival.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I have been screaming about this for thirty years.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Alcohol is one of the only commonly used drugs in
this world that happens to be a carcinogen to almost
every tissue in our body. It's the only drug from
which the withdrawal is not uncommonly fatal. Die of fentanyl withdrawal.
You do die of alcohol withdrawal. It does happen quite
a bit.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Headline, doctor Drew says fentanyl better for you than alcohol.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That's what I heard anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
No, okay, just the same doctor Drew says, Yeah, it's
gonna give you cancer. So maybe maybe gen Z is
going to live longer too, because they're not drinking alcohol
getting the cancer.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Got that going on, all right?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
One of your favorite businesses is just signed a massive
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Actress for TV Hero. Yuki Sonata wins Best Actor for
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Kieran Culkin got Best Supporting Actor Real Pain Gene Smart
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Best Actress and a TV Comedy Best Supporting Actress goes
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Felicity Jones and is about Ross Selini one of the
most fun names in all of the world to say,
and Margaret Quality from The Substance beat them out too,
So still wedding on a few of those other Yeah,
the results, but there's that's who we have so far.
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We'll give an update on that coming up here after
six o'clock there's no.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Business like sell business. I can hear she's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
You know, some businesses like to go the extra mile
to get your extra dollars. Now there's just cut corners,
and then sometimes they get caught. Apple has decided to
settle for just shy of a houndo mill.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You wonder why the iPhone's so expensive, it's because they
got to pay off their settlements.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
Apple has agreed to a ninety five million dollar settlement
for the Siri eves dropping lawsuit. The tech giant was
accused of using Siri to record conversation through iPhones and
other devices equipped with Virtual Assistant. If the settlement is approved,
this means that tens of millions of people who owned
Apple devices anywhere between twenty fourteen and last year could
possibly file a claim.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And what if I owned an.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Apple device during all those years, shouldn't I get more
than somebody else? Yes, that's what I thought too. And
you agree because I think you've got an Apple right? Sorry, yeah,
of course it is. Yeah, so one hundred million dollars.
But how many people own iPhones or have owned iPhone?
Like a more than one hundred million people have owned iPhones, right.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
We're all going to get like five cents exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
After the lawyers get their cut up the ninety five million,
three cents.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, we're getting nothing out of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh, but the good news is they've been able to
do some targeted advertising on our behalf. Of course, maybe
the better way to get in on a class action
suit would come from Disney Disneyland agreeing to settle a
class action lawsuit for two hundred and thirty three million
dollars alleging that the park employees noticed cast members did
(31:36):
not benefit from an Anaheim minimum wage law. The La
Times reported that Walt Disney Company approved the preliminary settlement
on Friday in the middle of December. I'm just now
getting around to it. Orange County Spirit cord Judge setting
a review of that settlement a little bit later on
this month. Let me see four. I love this. I
love this quote for Michie Cordell, a fairy godmother's a
(32:00):
to said Bibity Bobbity boutique in Disneyland. The money is
life changing. We talked to this apprentice at the Bibity
Bobbity boutique in Disneyland, saying that the money is life changing.
I love it when reporters have to say silly things
with a serious tone. Bibity bobbity bo ti. According to Cordell,
(32:23):
I have two small children, and getting potentially thousands of
dollars in backwages time rightfully owed. Gives me the peace
of mind that I have money in case of an
emergency or savings for their future. Now you're gonna buy
a TV. We've shune throughout these five years, and especially
the last year in contract negotiations. When that when we
stand up for what we deserve together, we can accomplish anything.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So what happened was in twenty eighteen, Anaheim passed the
minimum wage going up to fifteen bucks for the companies
in the resort area that got the tax rebate agreements
with the city. So that was measure l ahead of
that election, Disney asked the city to dissolve their tax
gate shield and had a big tax bed break tax
(33:03):
bed excuse me, a million dollars two hundred and sixty
seven million dollar bed tax break for luxury hotel project.
In other words, they got this, they got a bunch
of crap, and they're trying to get around having to
raise the minimum wage. So Anaheim said, oh, yeah, a
lot doesn't apply to you since you just basically did
an end around. But now it judge says, no, you
(33:23):
can't do that. You owe these people back wages. Was
that clear as my good bye? We get to the
bottom of that. Anyway, if you worked at Disney, then
you might get some money. Got to get in on
of the settlement. One more thing. Remember when people sued
Subway for their foot longs not being a foot long? Yes, okay,
(33:47):
ARB's is being now that was false advertising. But Urb's
is being sued now for shrink flation because they didn't
tell you that you're getting less. Lawsuit filed against Arby's
because people said the fast food chain is shrinking portion
size is keeping prices.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
The same.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Filing a lawsuit against Arby's claiming that the company deceptively
continues to sell its fries and beverages and smaller sizes,
which are now substantially smaller than the old ones. Lawsuit
claiming that the real issue arises when Arby's makes those
changes without notifying customers who will still be expecting to
get the same product for the price that they're used
to paying for. In other words, What happened was they
introduced a smaller kids size, and then they made the
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kids size the small, They made the small medium, and
then they made the medium the large. So if you
ordered large fries a few years back, you got one size.
If you ordered a large fry, now you actually got
what used to be the medium size.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
New York Posts claiming they did their own research by
purchasing a small, medium, in large order of fries from
the local Arby's and found that all three sizes had
nearly the same amount of fries inside.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Have you had this happen before too?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You order a large fry and you get the big
container and it's not even close to being full. You
order a medium and it's not really full. You order
a small and it's packed full. Basically, they're giving you
the same scoop, just in a different size container.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
That's shady.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
That is shady. You know what, Also, lawyer Chris, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I went to Sweet Green and I ordered my same
thing that I always order, of course, and my price
was a little bit higher. Can I assume for that?
I don't think I got any more ingredients.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
No, that's called they raise their prices all right.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now, if the price has stayed the same and they
give you a smaller portion without telling you that I
have a suit.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Then you got some.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
So they could just raise their prices all willy nilly.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, they can do that because they're advertising the prices.
If they advertise a different price than what they're you know,
as long as that price with advertised, then they're disclosing
what the price is, then.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
That's not shady.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, But in this case, it sounds like they just
arbitrarily change the sizes without telling you. And we talk
about shrink flation all the time, but we talk about
it in the context of have you looked at the
size of a can of soup. It used to be
a can of soup with twelve ounces, now it's there.
Used to be ten ounces, now it's nine ounces. Or
a soda used to be twelve ounces and now it's
eleven and a half ounces.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
But you know that because you're looking at the label.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It's not like somebody it's not like they just used
the same size can but filled it up less, right,
So that's the that's the kicker here. They're they're claiming
that Arby's just arbitrarily change the size of their what small, medium,
and large means.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
So there you go, all right, an update from what's
going on downtown with.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
The Golden Globes.
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
But there's no business like show business, all right? I
like that? Okay, good, good enthusiasm that time.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I like you're in Keith, Thank you very good. Got
an email this week from Turo. Do you know what
turo is?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, okay, have you used Turo.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
With a driving record like mine? You gotta.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't know who would rent you the car, that's
what worries me. Yeah, I'm a you are okay cool?
Have you ever rented anything cool on turo?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Yeah, BMW's yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. Raoul I actually
shared a story yesterday. He was renting his car on
to row and somebody took it to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No way you did that, Raoul?
Speaker 7 (01:34):
Oh yeah, when I remember, I took the sabbatical and
I went to Mexico for a month. Yeah, so during
that time I did it. I put it on a
Touro and it was great a couple times. And then
the last guy, I watched him with my app that
he probably didn't know I had, and I could monitor
the car and I saw him take it to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
OMG.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, you know what he was doing, I mean, forging
or anything.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
That's what I hope he wasn't doing. Yeah, because I'm
not involved in that in any way, shape or form.
Yeah at all, but you know who knows.
Speaker 8 (02:06):
I mean, he got it back safe.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
It was clean, no dance, you know, because you take
pictures beforehand, you take pictures after. They kind of have
to like have documentation too, So everything was code for
but still I went to Mexico and that's not supposed
to be.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Is there any recourse or did you just like let
it go or do you pull them? Okay?
Speaker 8 (02:27):
I took the money and I paid the car payment.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, all right, I got you. Yeah, we don't ask questions.
We just pay for the car.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean, sure, there's probably a small child in the
trunk of your car, never to be seen again, but
it's fine. As long as you got your car payment made,
that's fine. It's cool, it's totally it's totally great.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's excellent.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Hey who cleaned when you were in Mexico? Because you
were down there for a couple of months, right.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Yeah, about a month and a half.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So what happened with your did did somebody else clean
your car? Did somebody was? Did you have somebody else
that was helping me out with that?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Yeah? Yeah, my mom because it was parked at my
mom's house since it's by Ontario Airport, very convenient for
somebody flying into Ontario. Okay, all right, Yeah, she took
care of it. But you know, after that, after I
seen it go to Mexico and I was like, I
don't I don't like my car going to Mexico without me.
I'm okay with Like you said, what if they put
something in there and I don't even know it's in there?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, And that it's your name and your your registration
that they're trying to track across the country because they're,
you know, doing something screwy.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
And I'm letting you know, so obviously I'm guilty.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, I mean, come on, it goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Turo for those who were unfamiliar, probably became familiar with
it this week. Turo is a it's like Airbnb for cars.
You can rent your car out to somebody else. In
fact that you find some pretty nice cars on Turo,
and I think the reason you do is because somebody
will want, say a BMW, but they can't afford the
BMW payment, or the BMW payment is a little more
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than they want to pay, and so they offset that
payment by renting the car to somebody like Kayla, which
of course comes with some risk. Although Turo, I believe,
don't they have like a million dollar insurance policy. I've
used it once. I borrowed I H. I rented somebody's
truck from them. I needed to pick up for an afternoon. Uh,
and it worked out really well. It cheaper than renting
something from home depot. But uh, I mean you see
(04:17):
some nice cars people in there, with like Porsches and stuff,
and you go.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Wow, that's it's Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It's pretty pretty ballsy to say I'm going to take
out a car loan on a Porsche and then let
other people drive it.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
You can't put buckets on there, It's like not allowed.
It has to be a newer car. It's there, stand
for sure, my bucket seats.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I was like, yeah, yeah, no, it has to be
a nice car. It has to be decent.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I listen, there are times that I kind of
wish you could have crappier cars on there. And I'm
not joking about that. For instance, I told you I
read it a truck because I need I needed to
pick up. But there's times, for instance, I was hauling
some landscaping rock and I had to borrow my brother
in law's truck. I couldn't do it touro because I
I can't put landscaping rocks in the back of somebody's
nice pickup. But so I put it in the back
(05:05):
of my brother in law's a nice pickup. You know,
I kind of wish there were a beater where it says, yeah,
look you can you can do what you need to
do with this, but no, they don't allow that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But that's I get it. I get it. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So Turo sent me an email because you know, these
two terror attacks, well one if it was a TARR attack,
the other one looks like it was a high visibility suicide.
But the one in New Orleans, the terror attack, that
was I believe a Ford lightning and it was rented
on Turo, somebody else's pickup that was then rented on
Turo and that's the one that the guy used to
(05:38):
drive through the people in New Orleans. No horrible situation.
So now Turo sent out an email saying, we're really sad.
They didn't say that they were They didn't offer any
condolences to the victims. They didn't say that they were
sorry for their losses. And I think that might have
been a lawyer who said, don't say the word sorry,
because then you're admitting you did something wrong or some
(05:58):
crap like that. Right, So the Turo CEO said he
was how heartbroken and outraged, and uh says, these individuals
had valid driver's licenses, clean criminal backgrounds, and were decorated
US military service members. Both of them were the Guy
New Orleans and the guy in uh in Las Vegas
said one was honorably discharged and even awarded a Global
(06:21):
War on Terrorism Service Medal, and one was an active
duty Green Beret. They could have boarded any plane, checked
into any hotel, or rented a car or truck from
any traditional vehicle rental chain. We do not believe these
individuals would have been flagged by anyone, including law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I kind of agree.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I mean, isn't that who you would look for if
you're if you're renting your car, if you're letting somebody
borrow your car, if you're renting your house out you go, look,
this is a decorated service member, an honorable discharge, This
guy's a Green Beret, this one got the he got
a medal for the War on Terrorism. I mean, these
are people that have accomplished some things. It wouldn't send
up a red flag for anybody. I certainly wouldn't have.
(07:01):
But people are looking at Truro, and of course because
Truro is not as well noticed, they hurts or the
budget or avis.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Then he goes, oh, here's.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Something you don't know, and since you don't know, that's scary,
let's all point fingers in this direction. But it's not
fair to do that, the CEO said, turo safety record
is a solid is solid.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
With less than point one percent of trips involving serious incidents,
how many go to Mexico and bring back drugs in
the trunk We don't know for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We do know of one that probably happened to it roll.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
While we wait for law enforcement to finish our investigations,
we're consulting with national security and counter terrorism experts to
learn how we can get even better, which means, uh,
there's no way we could have possibly caught this, but
we're going to make it look like we're doing something
because we're tired of all of the twenty four to
seven news channels pointing at us as being culpable.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
They're not culpable. They rented a cards, they're business. That
would be as looney as as holding the bars responsible
that were that were serving people who were killed that
night in New Orleans. It'd be like holding Trump responsible
for having a hotel in Vegas. No, you're just a business.
You're doing business, and you went through all the you
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went above and beyond any other checks.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So no, they're not culpable. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Because there's a lack of familiarity by a lot of people,
it's easy to point and say, op, scary thing.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I don't understand it. It's scary. Just like this guy
in New Orleans had a funny sounding name.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He's probably he's probably here illegally across Joe Biden's open
borders because he has a funny sounding name. And obviously
the President like tweeted that. So knowledge is power. The
more you know, the less you're shocked. Although in this case,
the neighbors around that dude that did the New Orleans
terror attack, they were shocked.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
They're scared and looking across the street from the man
FBI says carried out a terror attack in the French Quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Neighbors telling News.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Nation they saw Jabbar getting into the white truck showcasing
an ISIS flag in Houston before carrying out the rampage
in New.
Speaker 10 (09:09):
Orleans roughly twelve to fifteen hours along with local law enforcement.
But you could see some of the damage as a
forced entry into his property.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Executing that search warrant.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
This is what is left over.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Very bad, very very bad. I'm mean, we all shocked.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
We all are very shocked, especially US here bean next.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Door, next door and with five young kids.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
The FBI now saying they found bomb making materials inside
Jabbar's Houston home, the same materials found at the New
Orleans Airbnb and the coolers containing an ied the FBI
says Jabbar place near the intersection of Bourbon and Orleans Street.
We're also learning more about Jabbar's service in the US Army.
He was highly decorated, even receiving an award for Global
(09:53):
War on Terrorism. Neighbors out of fear of retaliation against
their Muslim community, hiding their identity, much like they say
Jabbar did when he lived next door.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
By the way, the distance from Houston to New Orleans
abot three hundred and fifty miles. It's like if you're
in Ontario and you drive to Phoenix, right about the
same distance. The range out of Ford Lightning, which is
what he used, is two hundred and forty miles for
the entry level version, up to three hundred and twenty
miles for the extended version. I don't know which version
of the Ford Lightning he was driving, but I do
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know this. He had to stop and charge and then
they got footage.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
He was dry.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He was hanging around New Orleans. I mean, this guy
was dedicated to doing damage. Carnage was his goal. Sadly
he accomplished that. I don't know what Turo could have
done to stop it. I do know that New Orleans
is being looked at very carefully because they didn't have
ballards in place. It would have stopped cars from driving
down Bourbon Street. And if you haven't been there before,
it's very narrow. It's more of an alley than a street,
(10:53):
which makes for a lot of fun, but it's very
narrow and also made it very easy for someone to
use a car for terror activities.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Now as we.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Flip our attention to Nevada, the bombing in Vegas looks
like we're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Able to pull the whole.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It's mental health, everybody, nothing to see here, it's all
mental health.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Mental health keeps getting a pretty bad wrap.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Every time somebody does something crazy, we just go, well
that dog on mental health. Why this one shines light
on something that's been going out in the shadows for
a very long time. That's next, Chris Merril AM six
forty Live everywhere. Yeah, iHeart radio Web.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I am six forty more stimulating talk. We'll talk no
business like right up after six o'clock. Looks like we've
already got a few winners at the Golden Globes, including
Zoi Saldana wins for Best Supporting Actress for Emily Perez.
Emilia Perez, excuse me by apologies. So I guess that
(12:00):
had what ten nominations or something? It was led the
pack have yet to see it. I need to see this,
Emilio Perez. I got to see this one. Anybody here
see that?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
No good? Not alone? Great? Making me look like I
was just.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
A misogynist who didn't want to go see a movie
about with a woman's name of the title.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
But no.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Come to find out, the women here haven't seen it either,
So you guys hate women. I'm really frustrated by that.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
I started watching it, but I had to read subtitles
and I'm kind of blind, so oh I failed?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, are you really blind? That makes it hard to read?
A news guy?
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I mean you should see me.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
I have my computer screen pushed all the way up
to my face with computer glasses on.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So I've worked with the guy that was legally blind,
and he did the same thing.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Not legally blind.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
But I think I got to get lasik. But I
hear that might make my upclose vision a little worse.
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It's not good.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Happy New Year, I'm going to be all right.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
No, that's great. No.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I worked with the guy that used to he was
lead blind, and he would come in and he would
stick his uh, he would stick.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I mean he was maybe an inch away from the
screen that read.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I'm not legally blind, But man, are you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Just somebody that has like the close captioning is just
the biggest font possible.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yes, Oh that's funny. That's funny.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I love that close captioning. That's something gen Z's are getting, right.
They turn close captioning on for everything.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, I love that you catch stuff that
you otherwise missus you're just watching it.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So we'll get to an update on the news from
Brasida here just five minutes or so, uh, and then
we'll talk more about what gen Z is not doing
Oh gen Z, Oh the kids these days. O. The
Kale has already fed up with him. She's a millennial,
she's got her act together. Those gen zsh.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
None of them want to work.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Meanwhile, shifting attention just to the east here Las Vegas
and the cyber truck that blew up. They were finding
out more about the dude that blew that cyber truck up.
And he rented that Ontiro, which is the the it's
not a ride share up. It's it's like Airbnb for cars,
you rent your car out to people. So this guy,
(14:15):
he rents a cyber truck and he goes to Trump Tower,
fireworks go off, it explodes, They find him, his body
charred on the inside of the cyber truck. And immediately
people thought, oh, this is a political statement. This guy
hates Trump, he hates musque. That's what this is all about. No, Nope.
Come to find out, no, not the case. He actually
(14:36):
was a big Trump supporter. He was largely a political
although it sounds like in the last few months he
was getting more and more political. But then they found
some writings that he left behind, and we know that.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
He just wanted to die. Is what is what we learned,
he just didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He had some demons that he wanted to take care of,
and he wanted to do it in a spectacular way
because he thought he was going to make a statement.
Speaker 12 (15:04):
Matthew Livelsberger was a Master Sergeant in the Elite Green Berets,
a highly decorated active duty Army soldier who's now accused
of taking his own life and blowing up a rented
cyber truck in front of the Trump International Hotel in
Las Vegas Wednesday morning. Police found his passport, military ide wallet,
and all sorts of other personal items in the burned
out Tesla truck, which he also allegedly filled.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
With fireworks, gas cans and other fuel.
Speaker 12 (15:28):
Investigators don't know how was detonated, but say whatever it
was that blew up seemed rudimentary.
Speaker 13 (15:33):
The level of sophistication is not what we would expect
from an individual with this type of military experience.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, really bizarre. Almost makes you wonder if he didn't
mean to blow it up. Maybe he was just hauling
around fireworks and kerosene because he was I don't know,
celebrating New Year's was going to go camping or something, right,
and just had that in the back of the truck,
and then it sparked when he took his own life.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
Las Vegas police also, I don't know, we'll recovered two
guns from inside the cyber truck, both badly damaged from
the fire. The Colorado man who owns the Tesla trucks
and Liblisburger told him he was renting it to go
camping in the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
But yeah, I mean, maybe that's why he had all
that crap in there.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Clearly never went there.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
In fact, because charging stations track information, police know the
exact route he took from Denver to Las Vegas, but
they still don't know what drove him to set off
the explosion or whether he has any ties to terrorist groups.
Speaker 13 (16:25):
I said, we're running down investigative leads around the world.
No information that we're aware of right now that connects
this individual to any terrorist organization around the world. Yeah,
but that's obviously the thrust of the investigation is ruling
out that there's any sort of you know, terrorism nexus
and then again getting at what the ideology is.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
I asked the sheriff about the many striking similarities between
Livelsburger and the suspect in the New Orleans terrorist attack,
like how they were both at the army base formerly
known as Fort Bragg, they both served in Afghanistan, and
both used the Tururo app to rent the cars used
to carry out the attacks, which happened within hours of
each other.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
And they were both the electric trucks. Oh that's it. Oh,
it's the electric vehicles.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
You know.
Speaker 14 (17:03):
It's an interesting thing during these kinds of investigations that
if these turned out to be simply similarities, very strange
similarities to have, and so we're not prepared to rule
in or rule out anything at this point.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, Fort Bragg is huge, and Turro rents to a
lot of people. I mean, I'm not reading too much
into it.
Speaker 12 (17:22):
Amazingly, no one else was seriously hurt, even that person
on the far right of your screen standing next to
their luggage.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You can't see it because radio We're.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
Looking directly into Trump Tower from our room.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
And then I saw.
Speaker 11 (17:35):
There was a second explosion. So I heard one and
then saw the other one actually happen, and it was
like fireworks were shooting off.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's not like it.
Speaker 12 (17:44):
It was even the outside of these cyber truck barely
has a dent, says most of the explosion went up
and not out. As repairs are underway at the tower today,
people are quick to point out you barely can tell
anything happened here.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Almost no dammers. The windows didn't even break out so
very lightly. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (18:00):
I was shocked that even the chandeliers, the glass in
the schandeliers weren't even damaged.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, and this is one of the things that Elon
Musk is saying. Oh, it's the best car for explosions.
Really trying to twist this one up, aren't you. Oh
he was so dumb. He shouldn't have taken one of
my cars. If he really wanted to do damage, she
would have used one of those other cars.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
My car is the most bomb proofish. Oh okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Meanwhile, he left a note and he said that the
United States is headed for collapse and he's hoping that
this is a wake up call. How self important do
you have to be to think that, Well, if I
take my own life in a spectacular way, then people
will realize that the country is headed for collapse.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Oh, now people will care because it's me. Nah.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
He also said that he had to atone for the
lives that he took and the people that he saw
die and then of course his wife. Sounds like his
wife was leaving him to accusations of infidelity. He was
reading another statement from Spencer Rabbins, who's the Special Agent
in charge of the Las Vegas Field Office of the FBI,
and he said, although this incident is more public and
more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a
(19:12):
tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran
who's struggling with PTSD and other issues.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's the really sad thing here.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I mean, we hear about the rate of suicide among
veterans and how that's become almost epidemic within the veteran community,
and we go.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh, that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now we're faced with it right now, we have to
face that. And you know, if there's any silver lining here,
hopefully that we're able to say, all right, more than
just a statistic, we probably ought to figure out how
to do something about it to make it better.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
The kids these days, one thing they're not going to do.
They are not going to party. Kids next. Chris Merril
kfi A six forty. We're live everywhere in your iHeart
radio app. You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand,
Chris Merril can't I AM six forty More stimulating talk
(20:10):
still to come. We'll talk some bad businesses, all bad businesses,
all so bad because they've been stealing you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You, they've just been stealing you. That is coming up,
and there's no business like tell business good with the
Golden Globes. That was very good.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Golden Globes happening tonight and we're already already getting some winners, so.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
We'll be able to talk about what's going on with that.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Our digital reporter Nashida is there and we're looking forward
to what she has to offer and tell us about
what's going down for real.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That set. How about some info on the kids these days? Oh,
the kids these days.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
They're just not like we were fair to say, they're
just not like we weren't. Headline teen alcohol and drug
use keeps declining, Cissies.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Isn't that a good thing?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Chris?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
No, why not?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Because they're kids. Everything they do is bad, as we
all know the previous generation. Whatever they do that's different
than what we did is somehow worse.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So let me say this alcohol and drug use may
be declining, but nicotine pouches are going up. Oh the
kids these days, Oh they want to do is just
suck on their zin's. That's all they want, the zin.
They love that zin. They're not even vaping as much
(21:41):
as is what they were pre pandemic. The the gen
z has just gotten bored with substance abuse. Oh they
have absolutely no conviction. Gen Z can't finish anything they start.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
For Pete's sake.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I remember when at twelfth grader used to get high
and drink too much because they didn't want their pairs
to find out.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Nowadays, they get started, they don't even finish. Terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It is to Kala's point, because she's looking at rationally,
it is good news that the kids these days are
not doing as much.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Drinking.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Decline's most notable among alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, vaping.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Nicotine pouch is the exception.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
As I mentioned alcohol, forty two percent of twelfth graders
reported drinking alcohol. That's down from seventy five percent back
in nineteen ninety seven. Among tenth graders, it fell from
twenty six percent to twenty six percent, excuse me, from
sixty five percent. Among eighth graders that dropped to thirteen
percent from forty six percent. Now, look, I don't want
(22:43):
to be that guy that starts calling statistics into question,
but I graduated in nineteen ninety six, and I'm guessing
there wasn't a whole lot of difference between ninety six
and ninety seven. And so I was a twelfth grader
in ninety six. I don't recall, but I was also
a goodie too. She's on a recall, seventy five percent
of my classmates drinking. I know some of them did.
(23:06):
Don't get me wrong. I can tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I can.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I can point to a number of them that definitely did.
It was going on, But seventy five percent seems really high.
And now they're saying it's closer to what forty six
percent something like that, it's blow fifty percent, which is
what I would have guessed it would have been twenty
five years ago, thirty years ago. But no, I guess
not h And what also surprises me is they say
(23:30):
that forty six percent of eighth graders thirty years ago
we're drinking.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Shocked. Now, why is the question, have we all of a.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Sudden become good at parenting? Well, yes, obviously we have.
We're much better parents now than what our parents were
in their parents, It's safe to say that gen X
is probably the best parenting generation of all. Thank you,
thank you very much. It's been a pleasure. It's been
a pleasure as you're giving you a better world. We
(24:02):
inherited it dumped from our parents, but we are making
it a better place.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We're trying to cut global warming, we're trying to make
kids more responsible. You can thank us for all of
the great things that gen Z is doing.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You're welcome. Cala. Did you want to say thank you?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
I want to say thank you, and I also want
to say, OK, that's.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Okay, you got it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You have any idea why the why the alcohol consumption
would be down? Some people say these because of the pandemic.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Well, I think also like people are educated on the
effects that alcohol has on you, and then when you
see your parents do it or the elders in your
family do it, it's probably like a turn off.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You're like, I don't do that.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I did have a friend whose dad was Vietnam VET
and he came back and he definitely coped with alcohol.
That was his that was his go to And my
buddy said he doesn't want to drink because he doesn't
want to become his dad.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, here, that's very often.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, it's really tragic.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
But I'm kind of looking at the numbers, and it's
been a slow and steady decline over the last thirty years,
no doubt.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But I gotta tie.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
It seems to me that there was still drinking going
on when you were in high school. I know that
was a long long time ago, but there was still
it was still going on, and the education was still there,
and I.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Think that I think seventy five percent was probably right. People.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah, yeah, people drink, man, and they don't do it
when they get older because they're like, oh, I got
it all out of my system in my teenage years.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I heard that story a lot.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Too, So I didn't drink. I was never intoxicated. Thought.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I was twenty nine years old the first time I
got intoxicator. And I will say that I did about
ten years of making up for it. Yeah, I definitely
did that. But now I'm it's like I'll have.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Some here in there, right, but yeah, I'm drunk right now.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I believe it. I believe it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I heard you you left the microphone on when I
was trying to talk about football here, and all of
a sudden, people are like, why why.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Is he talking about football?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
To hear the news, Regina is trying to do the news.
I'm like, hey man, my lines are looking good. Unbelievable
because Rubell's drunk. One of the reasons they say they
thought again pandemic and that people couldn't go out, they
couldn't socialize, so they just weren't drinking as much. But
then they thought as the pandemic ended that we would
probably see an increase back to the mean. One hypothesis
(26:22):
time news throughout there was could be changing laws, including
the nineteen eighty four National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which
set the age to purchase or publicly possess alcohol beverages
to twenty one.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Prior to that, minimum age to drink was eighteen.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Nationwide, different states had different laws, alcohol social reputations changing.
It makes sense that older drinkers are drinking more given
that baby boomers were steeped in a heavier drinking culture.
I guess we've just completely changed the culture now. So
boomers are a bunch of drunks who have ruined the
planet and handed us a more expensive world than what
they were left and gen X basically.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Stepped in and cleaned it all up.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And we're teaching our kids how to be productive members
of society once again, Mom and dad, you're welcome. Meanwhile,
did you see that the Surgeon General says alcohol is
going to give you cancer? So now they're talking about
putting a cancer warning on on your.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Booze like they do with cigarettes. Yep, everything causes cancer.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yep. The News Nation talked with doctor Drew about that.
Who used to roll our holes?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
I agree there must be a reason, but look, hi.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, what is it? What is it, doctor Drew? What's
going on?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
This whole conversation, more than anything else, reminds us that
the news business should stay out of medical reporting.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Oh yeah, the last thing we want to do is
report on medicine.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Giance is in every evolving process.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
So we should just keep people in the dark. Good
call doctor Drew and he can only answer, Wait.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Isn't doctor Drew reporting on Yes he is, that's right.
Oh wow, this is a very self unaware statement, and.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
He can only answer highly specific, very narrow questions. And
the studies that were being quoted initially about wine.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Were in that was the idea that wine might help
stave off some forms of cancer.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Whether or not cardiac health could maybe be enhanced. Maybe
there was veratrol in there, maybe one glass of wine.
It did not improve overall survival. No studies have ever
shown alcohol improving overall survival. It shows maybe decreasing the
risk of certain cardiac events, maybe, but that says nothing
(28:20):
about overall survival.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I have been screaming about this for thirty years.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Alcohol is one of the only commonly used drugs in
this world that happens to be a carcinogen to almost
every tissue in our body. It's the only drug from
which the withdrawal is not uncommonly fatal. Die of fentanyl withdrawal.
You do die of alcohol withdrawal. It does happen quite
a bit.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Headline, doctor Drew says fentanyl better for you than alcohol.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That's what I heard anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
No, okay, just the same doctor Drew says, Yeah, it's
gonna give you cancer. So maybe maybe gen Z is
going to live longer too, because they're not drinking alcohol
getting the cancer.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Got that going on, all right?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
One of your favorite businesses is just signed a massive
settlement because they've been listening to your every word. That
is next Chris Merril caf I AM six forty. We're
live everywhere in the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Chris Merril.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I AM six forty. More stimulating talk. We'll do an
update on the Golden Globes. Already getting some of the
winners in there. Jessica Gunning Baby Reindeer gets Best Supporting
Actress for TV Hero. Yuki Sonata wins Best Actor for
a TV Drama for showgun Man That was a Good Show.
Kieran Culkin got Best Supporting Actor Real Pain Gene Smart
(29:40):
from Hacks Super Show if you haven't seen it yet.
Best Actress and a TV Comedy Best Supporting Actress goes
to Zoe Sildana. She beat out Selena Gomez, Alridyana Grande,
Felicity Jones and is about Ross Selini one of the
most fun names in all of the world to say,
and Margaret Quality from The Substance beat them out too,
So still wedding on a few of those other Yeah,
the results, but there's that's who we have so far.
(30:02):
We'll give an update on that coming up here after
six o'clock there's no.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Business like sell business. I can hear she's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
You know, some businesses like to go the extra mile
to get your extra dollars. Now there's just cut corners,
and then sometimes they get caught. Apple has decided to
settle for just shy of a houndo mill.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You wonder why the iPhone's so expensive, it's because they
got to pay off their settlements.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
Apple has agreed to a ninety five million dollar settlement
for the Siri eves dropping lawsuit. The tech giant was
accused of using Siri to record conversation through iPhones and
other devices equipped with Virtual Assistant. If the settlement is approved,
this means that tens of millions of people who owned
Apple devices anywhere between twenty fourteen and last year could
possibly file a claim.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And what if I owned an.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Apple device during all those years, shouldn't I get more
than somebody else? Yes, that's what I thought too. And
you agree because I think you've got an Apple right? Sorry, yeah,
of course it is. Yeah, so one hundred million dollars.
But how many people own iPhones or have owned iPhone?
Like a more than one hundred million people have owned iPhones, right.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
We're all going to get like five cents exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
After the lawyers get their cut up the ninety five million,
three cents.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, we're getting nothing out of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh, but the good news is they've been able to
do some targeted advertising on our behalf. Of course, maybe
the better way to get in on a class action
suit would come from Disney Disneyland agreeing to settle a
class action lawsuit for two hundred and thirty three million
dollars alleging that the park employees noticed cast members did
(31:36):
not benefit from an Anaheim minimum wage law. The La
Times reported that Walt Disney Company approved the preliminary settlement
on Friday in the middle of December. I'm just now
getting around to it. Orange County Spirit cord Judge setting
a review of that settlement a little bit later on
this month. Let me see four. I love this. I
love this quote for Michie Cordell, a fairy godmother's a
(32:00):
to said Bibity Bobbity boutique in Disneyland. The money is
life changing. We talked to this apprentice at the Bibity
Bobbity boutique in Disneyland, saying that the money is life changing.
I love it when reporters have to say silly things
with a serious tone. Bibity bobbity bo ti. According to Cordell,
(32:23):
I have two small children, and getting potentially thousands of
dollars in backwages time rightfully owed. Gives me the peace
of mind that I have money in case of an
emergency or savings for their future. Now you're gonna buy
a TV. We've shune throughout these five years, and especially
the last year in contract negotiations. When that when we
stand up for what we deserve together, we can accomplish anything.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So what happened was in twenty eighteen, Anaheim passed the
minimum wage going up to fifteen bucks for the companies
in the resort area that got the tax rebate agreements
with the city. So that was measure l ahead of
that election, Disney asked the city to dissolve their tax
gate shield and had a big tax bed break tax
(33:03):
bed excuse me, a million dollars two hundred and sixty
seven million dollar bed tax break for luxury hotel project.
In other words, they got this, they got a bunch
of crap, and they're trying to get around having to
raise the minimum wage. So Anaheim said, oh, yeah, a
lot doesn't apply to you since you just basically did
an end around. But now it judge says, no, you
(33:23):
can't do that. You owe these people back wages. Was
that clear as my good bye? We get to the
bottom of that. Anyway, if you worked at Disney, then
you might get some money. Got to get in on
of the settlement. One more thing. Remember when people sued
Subway for their foot longs not being a foot long? Yes, okay,
(33:47):
ARB's is being now that was false advertising. But Urb's
is being sued now for shrink flation because they didn't
tell you that you're getting less. Lawsuit filed against Arby's
because people said the fast food chain is shrinking portion
size is keeping prices.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
The same.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Filing a lawsuit against Arby's claiming that the company deceptively
continues to sell its fries and beverages and smaller sizes,
which are now substantially smaller than the old ones. Lawsuit
claiming that the real issue arises when Arby's makes those
changes without notifying customers who will still be expecting to
get the same product for the price that they're used
to paying for. In other words, What happened was they
introduced a smaller kids size, and then they made the
(34:25):
kids size the small, They made the small medium, and
then they made the medium the large. So if you
ordered large fries a few years back, you got one size.
If you ordered a large fry, now you actually got
what used to be the medium size.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
New York Posts claiming they did their own research by
purchasing a small, medium, in large order of fries from
the local Arby's and found that all three sizes had
nearly the same amount of fries inside.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Have you had this happen before too?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You order a large fry and you get the big
container and it's not even close to being full. You
order a medium and it's not really full. You order
a small and it's packed full. Basically, they're giving you
the same scoop, just in a different size container.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
That's shady.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
That is shady. You know what, Also, lawyer Chris, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I went to Sweet Green and I ordered my same
thing that I always order, of course, and my price
was a little bit higher. Can I assume for that?
I don't think I got any more ingredients.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
No, that's called they raise their prices all right.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now, if the price has stayed the same and they
give you a smaller portion without telling you that I
have a suit.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Then you got some.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
So they could just raise their prices all willy nilly.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, they can do that because they're advertising the prices.
If they advertise a different price than what they're you know,
as long as that price with advertised, then they're disclosing
what the price is, then.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
That's not shady.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, But in this case, it sounds like they just
arbitrarily change the sizes without telling you. And we talk
about shrink flation all the time, but we talk about
it in the context of have you looked at the
size of a can of soup. It used to be
a can of soup with twelve ounces, now it's there.
Used to be ten ounces, now it's nine ounces. Or
a soda used to be twelve ounces and now it's
eleven and a half ounces.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
But you know that because you're looking at the label.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It's not like somebody it's not like they just used
the same size can but filled it up less, right,
So that's the that's the kicker here. They're they're claiming
that Arby's just arbitrarily change the size of their what small, medium,
and large means.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
So there you go, all right, an update from what's
going on downtown with.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
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Speaker 3 (36:23):
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