November 2, 2025 • 33 mins
Chris is getting political with SNAP benefits and Prop 50. We are also getting into turkey, tabs, and the flu and healthy ignorance. It's all on KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Give it the latest time. What's going? I was Snap.
We got what twelve percent of the state relies on
the SNAP benefits to put food on the table. So
you had kids, you got veterans, you got working families
that feeling the pain of this political dysfunction. We'll talk
about that here in a moment. I did ask the question,
if we dish the time change, would you prefer permanent
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daylight saving which would was later nights, or permanent standard
time it's earlier mornings.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hey, Chris, love the show, You're always entertaining. My vote
would be for permanent daylight savings time. I love that
extra light at night, although I'm not very hopeful considering
the government has been, you know, talking about this now
for what seems like decades to get rid of it,
and they just can't functionally seem to do it. They
just they don't know what to do or how to
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do it. So anyway, that's my vote.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, I think they're gonna keep it in the public
because the lobbyists like to throw money at him. We
talked about that in the last segment. There are different
lobbying groups that want it one way or another. And
so if they just keep throwing money, then they'll keep
bringing you back up.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Chris in spytty your politics. I am always happy to
hear your voice. I like you in large s GISs.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh, thank you, despite your politics. I just hate them all.
That's what you gotta understand.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Hey, Chris, we should keep data at saving time. Okay, well,
but another question is what is a I think we
should do? Oh I haven't bothered asking it that good question.
Can't wait to listen to your show Tuesday night and
no one fifty.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He says, No one fifty Okay, very good. All right,
I'm gonna ask chat GPT should we keep daylight saving
time or make standard time permit. Let's see what chat
GPT says. That's a good question. Short version experts are
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leaning toward permanent standard time. It's the healthier, safer option. Polls, however,
show that you prefer permanent daylight saving time because of
the appeal of longer evenings. So once again we're rejecting science. Unbelievable. Wow, yeah,
there you go. Now you know there it is. It's
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the latest. We'll get more of your calls on that
in just a few moments. If you are on the
iHeartRadio app, just hit that talkback button and let us know.
I have to dispel with some rumors that are floating around.
Last week, there was talk because we know that the
government's shut down. Obviously, Snap benefits ran out because we didn't,
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you know, fund the government by midnight on Friday, So
Snap benefits are run out and then cards are not
being refilled starting yesterday. Already wear that story. I'm sure
you're a very stute person. Uh. Last week, there were
a bunch of tiktoks that were going around of people
that were claiming that they are not going without their
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food and they're gonna they're gonna take that food. So
then they started the same TikTokers were saying that Walmart
was telling them they were gonna lock their doors and
that they were gonna shut down the grocery section. Uh.
The online eyre has been fueled by unverified claims that
those losing Snap benefits planned to loot Walmart stores. Two
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TikTok videos for a combined one point seven million plus
views as of earlier this week, amplifying rumors that all
Walmart stores were gonna close doors locked the shoppers only
allowed to place online orders for parking lot pick up.
One TikTok video with over a million views posted the
claims that Walmart's decision came after y'all keep acting a
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fool and saying, what y'all gonna do you when y'all
don't get your snap benefits? There you go. Another one
claims the Broke's made a threat to Walmart that they
would go straight to Walmart for everything they need. Broki's
is slaying for people with no money or aka me.
So Walmart had to respond and they said, no, we're
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not We're not gonna We're not gonna do that. We're
gonna keep selling food. Yeah, and they have, but that
didn't stop different police jurisdictions from having to respond, including
in Barstow. According to ABC seven, I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
So cal police department says it will be stepping up
patrols at grocery stores as millions are expected to miss
out on next month's food stamps because of the government
shut down.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, so we're stepping up patrols because people are gonna
steal food. I don't think they're going to steal food
until they actually get to the point of starving and
then they might that's possibility. Meanwhile, two judges said, no, look,
you gotta fund it. You're funding everything else you're gonna
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You're finding ways to pay military paychecks. Good by the way,
You're finding ways to make sure that Social Security checks
go out, good by the way. Uh, you have to
fund food.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Angelino's lined up at food distribution sites today worried about
an end to their federal benefits.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
I don't know how worse is gonna this is gonna be,
but you know it is bad.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
It is terrible.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
At midnight tonight, more than forty million Americans will lose
SNAP benefits used to pay for groceries.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
This government's shutdown has put our families and fellow Angelinos
on the front lines.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
Of political games that they never asked to be a
part of.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
State and local leaders visiting Project angel Food in Hollywood
today taking steps to protect recipients, and now two federal
judges rule to force the Trump administration to keep funding
the program.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
US District Judge in Dera Talwani's dating Congress put money
in an emergency fund, and it is hard for me
to understand how this is not an emergency.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Now the judges have said you have until Monday to
tell us what you're doing. So they still didn't say
you have to put money in the account right now.
Well one of them did, but then said get back
to me on Monday and let me know if you
did it. The other one said, uh, let me know
what your plan is by monday. The President says, nah,
He's going to find a way to fund it.
Speaker 11 (06:33):
It is the nation's primary anti hunger program for low
income Americans, now in the crosshairs of the federal government
shut down starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
CalFresh is Friday.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
Obviously, the California version of the federal SNAP program runs
out of money from Washington. This despite a five and
a half billion dollar emergency fund the administration has decided
not to use us.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
By the way, the five and a half billion dollar
emergency fund will will fund the SNAP benefits for about
two weeks, so it's not like, oh, okay, well now
Snap's not gonna run out.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
This this allows Congress to jack around for another two weeks.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
For Culture Secretary Brooke Robbins says that contingency fund has
restrictions and can only be used for natural disasters, which
event like a.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
Hurricane, but it is a contingency fund that can only
flow if the underlying appropriation is approved.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
The USCA has never done this in the past, but
Governor Gavin Newsom, in an interview with NBC News, says
that the emergency fund was used during the government shutdown
in mister Trump's first term.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, so now you get the ins and outs. But
let let's face it. The politicians they love to look.
They go, look, oh, no, this is snap benefits at
cal Fresh. No, this is this is for the pores,
and we can use them as pawns. What politicians using
using people without money as pawns. That's never in the
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history of the world ever have and ever, every time
they need a pawn, it's always someone who's either foreign
or poor, or even better both. Would they consider cutting
defense spending No. Would they consider cutting VA benefits No.
Would they consider cutting Medicare Medicaid No, although actually part
of the shutdown is about that, but it's about additional
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money for the Affordable Care Act. Would they consider not
sending out Social Security checks? No? Those are large voting blocks,
and so politicians go, well, you know, in national security,
do we have to give the Pentagon money, that's not
discretionary spending all. And Social Security that's the retirement people
paying into that, that's THEIRS. A Medicare that's health security.
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You have to have that. That's that's security. But cal fresh, oh,
that's welfare. That's for the poors. Why don't they get
off their asses and do something? That's that's the message
that's being sent out. That's the mindset. Even my son
came to me today and he says, why should I
have to pay for somebody who's got seven kids and
that's their fall? And I said, yeah, I said, the
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question is it's a question of humanity, And the question
is do you punish those seven kids by letting them starve?
That's really the question. But it also told me that
the algorithms are reinforcing the stereotype. Because I know he's
getting the algorithms of the far right, the Nick Foyentes
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and all that crap. It's an ongoing battle in my
house with him. But I also know that he's getting
these algorithms that are reinforcing this nineteen eighties Ronald Reagan
welfare queen stereotype. I know that's happening. And so the
mindset is anyone that's getting food stamps must be lazy,
not must be a disabled veteran. It's not must be
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someone who's elderly. It's not, Oh, this must be someone
who's got many kids and is working two jobs, Which
is funny because he's only one general removed from that.
His grandmother worked two jobs to take care of her
kids and make sure that they had food on the table.
But because my son was raised in a rather comfortable,
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middle class home, he doesn't see the struggle that other
people go through, and it's really easy to target the
pores from a political standpoint. Speaking of being poor, we're
all going to be this Thanksgiving. I don't know if
you've seen the prices of the groceries, but you're about to.
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You're about to maybe cut back on that menu this Thanksgiving.
Just how far are you going to cut back? It
depends on what you find out next. I'm Chris Merrilyn.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
If we ditch the time changing, would you prefer a
permanent daylight saving or which would give us later nights,
or a permanent standard time which would give us earlier mornings.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Hello Chris, Merrill. Oh, to respond to your question about
the daylight savings time, I think we should stop switching
back and forth. Isn't that what we voted for a
little while ago, And instead of bringing about which way
to go with it, why don't we just split the
difference and put it halfway in between, keeping it the
same all year round.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Okay, so we would do like a half hour thing.
There are a few places, by the way, they just
do half hour time changes, which I gotta believe is
really confusing. It must work for them though, because they've
been doing it for.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
A long time, Chris, this is Joanne's starting in Oregon.
I just moved from their life. So anyways, it's definitely
daynight savings time. It helps with depression, if you ask me,
because it's day's light when it gets dark. To her,
that's when a depression set scene.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay. Uh, studies actually showed the opposite, But that's just
a broad thing. Maybe it's different. I mean, it's certainly
going to be different individually, so it could happen. Cam.
Isn't Joanne the one that said she doesn't like my
politics because she says I'm too liberal? Yeah, yeah, that
sounds like her. I think that is just said she
moved to Portland.
Speaker 12 (12:15):
Wellne Joanne has some things to figure out.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You got to do your research, girl. Yeah, you can't
try to escape from the crazy liberals in LA and
then go to Portland.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
She's surrounded by a bunch of views and your political
views us.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But I do not have much political views. Don't even
you're you're all Portland. No I am not there. Yeah
you are.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
The turkeys are getting out of control this year, and
so turkey prices are are going way way up. And
it's not just because of it's not turkey tariffs.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Turkey prices they will not be from me. Business is
something that you'll be thankful for. Wholesale prices are about
forty up last year. Now that's because of the bird
flu and oh.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
God, haven't we fixed the bird flu yet.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
It's like like a fewer turkeys. Last year, the average
cost of a full Thanksgiving meal was about fifty eight
dollars for ten people. That is up nearly twenty percent
from twenty twenty, and experts say there are still ways though,
to save this holiday season.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Okay, how make your list early shop You can even
shop now.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh like Santa.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Right, your turkey, you can freeze your canned veggies, you
can put in there. You're baking goods, you can put
in your you know, your cupboard if you've got room.
I also find if you actually start looking for the coupons,
now you can get stuff before the holiday rush.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Good.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
There's some good news as well. So side dishes like potatoes,
that canned corn and all that butter used to make
this taste so delicious, well those have stayed about the
same price.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's good. That's good. So turkey is up because of
the bird flu. Beef is up because of drought affecting cattle.
I did see something about this bird flu. Are you
ready to be scared? This is great. Experts are warning
that certain bird flu strains are one mutation away from
sustained human transmission. In the latest case, we've actually already
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seen transmission go to other mammals and cattle. Public health
officials say that the federal response is hampered by staff
cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
at the Department of Agriculture. So we dodged out the
people who would respond to those things. Immigration enforcement on
farms and government shut down have also hampered the ability
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to respond. The CDC Flu team is largely intact and
can quickly sequence samples from humans suspected to be bird flu. Though,
according to Dimitri Dyscolachus, who was the director of the
agency's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases before he
resigned over the Trump administration policies this summer, he said,
will they be able to communicate what they found? I
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don't know the answer, because it sure seems as if
the CDC officials don't seem to be in communication in
terms of letting scientists interpret what they're finding. And we
got the government shutdown. That's great. So we just did
a pandemic, and now we are one mutation away from
a sustained human transmission in this bird flu, which already
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ran up the price of eggs to like one hundred
dollars a dozen a year ago, and now it's back again.
And if they come out, if they let's suppose they
came out with a vaccine to treat any sort of
a bird flu mutation that could end up with humans,
would we even take the vaccine. No, you would think
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that after the last pandemic we would have learned our lessons,
but we didn't. So why in the world aren't we
prepared for the next big outbreak. That'd be like rebuilding
Alta Dina without making homes that are more fire ready. Oh,
Palace says, why don't we just you know what the
problem the Palace fire was, Uh, it burned too slowly.
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Let's build this one out of out of matches. What
a great idea. You're about to find out why we're
so dumb? That's next, Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand now.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Question if we ditched daylight saving time? Would you prefer
permanent daylight saving or permanent standard time? So later nights
or earlier mornings?
Speaker 12 (16:31):
Your thoughts, Chris Merrill, I'm listening to you from Middle America.
Saint Louis and.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
AH love Saint Louis. You know, anytime I drive across
the country, I always make it a point to go
through Saint Louis. Did you know that, Kayla? I did
not know that about it when I lived. When I
lived outside of Kansas City, my wife and I took
a couple of little weekend vacations to Saint Louis. Saint
Louis catches a bad rap, but I think it's a
lovely town. You've lived such a life, Christopher, No, I
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really have not. By the way, aren't you doing more
international travel next week? I am? Yeah, Okay. You know,
the closest I came to ever getting out of the
country was my parents when I was a kid, took
me across the bridge to Windsor, Ontario from Detroit. One
time we were at We went down there for like
a Detroit Tigers game, and they took us across the
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bridge so that we could say we did it. You
guys are wild. Yeah, we're crazy.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
In between all the gunshots. I really like when the
sun comes up early.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh she's bagging on Saint Louis. I love that. That's hilarious.
All right. She loves it when the sun comes up early.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
And I love listening to you. So I hope you're
on more. Even know you said working three days a
week is more than enough. It's great to hear you.
I used to live in la for forty years, and
it's nice to hear a cafe.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
She doesn't sound like she's over forty, does she. No,
she's sounds super young. She sounds hot. She does so hot.
I like that. I like that you play along when
I say stupid things like that too. Thank you. That's
why I like working with you, Kayla. You play a
lot of stupidity.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Yeah, okay, everyone is overlooking a very important point.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
What is it.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
It's not just about the time, it's about the way
the sun movie moves in the wintertime. Just changing the
clock is not going to necessarily give us more day lifetime.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
Is a big myth that everyone's avoiding.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, now, I wholeheartedly agree with you. The idea that
that if we didn't change the clocks, that the sun
wouldn't set in the evening and continue to knock time
off the end of the day is ludicrous, or that
if we if we with the other direction, that somehow
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the sun wouldn't rise earlier. Now, I lived in Arizona
for a long time. Arizona's on a standard clock, and
it works. But it gets bright early in the morning.
The sun is down in the summertime a little after
eight o'clock. Right, So it's fine, it's fine. I grew
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up though in northern Michigan. A latitude makes a big difference.
And what I what I find is when I'm home.
My wife and I have a place there, and so
when we're there, like we'll go back for fourth of July, right,
and it's our retirement home. It's not anything fancy, but
it's it's where we decided this is where we're going
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to retire. So let's let's just plant roots and invest.
So we did. And so when we're there for like
fourth of July, when it is light still until after
ten thirty at night, it's wild. So the where you
are on the earth makes a big difference too. So
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even when Arizona, who doesn't change times, is seeing the
sun setting at about eight thirty, it's still like Michigan
at ten thirty, and they're three hours ahead because the
way that it works, so same thing with us. Now,
you know, granted, if Arizona's son said at eight thirty,
where like nine or the laughter, Still you get my point.
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If you're in Seattle, it's a big difference from what
it is here. All right, anyway, I'll shut up. Now
we were talking about that bird flu jumping Turkey prices
are going up this year. They're up forty percent. They
say it's because of bird flu. And now experts are
saying we gotta pay attention to this bird flu thing
because it's still not settled where COVID came from. We're
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still debating is that caused in a lab in Wuhan, China,
or was that something that was animal born and then
jumped in that wet market from a pangolin? Kaylee, did
you ever look up what a panglin is? Incidentally, you
remember when COVID came out? Did you ever look up
one of those things? I can't say, I have, Christopher,
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you should. It looks like an armadillo dragon rat. How cute?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Not so much? And it also killed a million people.
Oh yeah, so look up pangling. So anyway, those you
know that we can have these animal born illnesses that
then jump to humans. If that were to happen with
the bird flu, which Lord knows, we've had enough trouble.
We've wiped out millions, literally millions of birds to try
to stop the bird flu. If that jumps to humans,
we've got another global spread, another global issue, right, and
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yet we're not ready for it. Why some of this
has to do with we're just bad at our bureaucracies.
We've got we've got states making decisions. We've got the
Feds making decisions, We've got states arguing over decisions other
states made. How many times did you hear Texas making
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fun of California or California making fun of Florida, or
whatever the case might be. There's it's a mishmash, it's
a patchwork, and so we don't have we don't have consistency.
So that's one issue. We also are not willing to
fund planning for the next pandemic. Presidents Republican and Democrat
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cut funding. They Wow, we haven't had a pandemic since
the Spanish flu, so let's just cut some of that.
You know what. We probably don't need to spend quite
so much on these virologists. What do they even do? Right,
So they start cutting these things and so the long
term investments start to falter. But also the biggest reasons
probably that we don't prepare ourselves better for the next pandemic,
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even though we just went through one. You would think
that we would go, Okay, what lessons did we learn?
What can we learn going forward? Is just the misinformation,
the distrust of the institutions, the stigma around around people,
the stigma about being sick keeps people quiet. And we
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have a number of people that just say, flat out
I don't trust the government. Whatever the government says is
in my best interest, I'm going to do the opposite.
So how can you how can you possibly have a
healthier or a safer society when we can't agree on
what is healthy and what is safe? And let's face it,
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when it this isn't This isn't one of those situations
where it's it's what the individual thinks is right. This
genuinely is the village has to act as one. And
I'm not saying that what we did or didn't do
in the last pandemic was right or wrong. But for
those of you that are saying, you know, you know,
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well the government was totally wrong on this. Okay, Well
were they right on something else? The government was wrong
with their mask recommendations. Yeah, study show you're probably right. Yeah,
the masks probably didn't do a whole lot. Yeah you're right.
But were you right on the vaccines? Did they cause
five G effects? See what I mean? So it's like
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we're gonna have to do a very thorough job of
weighing what is in the best interest of all of us.
Was closing the schools the best idea. Probably not. And
I'll be the first to tell you I was wrong
on that. It was way wrong on that. I said,
we got to protect the kids, we got to protect
the teachers. No study show we probably shouldn't have done that.
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Now we set our kids back. So I was dead wrong.
But you know what I learned, and I know next time.
Did the country learn?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
All right, you think your holiday is locked in, and
then you take a look at the price tag or
the stock on the shelves. That changes everything. Turkey price
is up forty percent. These prices are way up, so
you're gonna have to decide now or you're gonna be
scrambling come Thanksgiving. There's a couple of big national retailers
that say that they have the fix for your Thanksgiving
and it's on the cheap. But as always, you're gonna
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get what you pay for. Find out if it's good
enough for your big gathering. That's next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
We are just to well, we're one newscast away from
there's no business like tell business lash. She is paying attention.
I like that it was quick, it was very good,
very good, Thank you, thank you, thank you. I asked
the question if we dish daylight saving, excuse me, if
we ditch the time change that we do, would you
prefer permanent daylight saving, which is later nights are permanent
standard time, which is earlier mornings.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Hey, Chris, really appreciate your show. Thanks the algorithm reinforcing
the stereotype. I'm just tired of hearing it, these snap
benefits and being used as upon.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Oh yeah, I was telling you about the algorithm who's
sending my son messages about people on snap benefits are
all welfare queens with the seven kids that decided not
to work.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
I spent twenty five years in the corporate world in
human resources and was laid off a couple of years ago.
I am a single father, genuinely single father, with two kids,
and I you work my ass off a looking for
a job, which is so hard right now. I drive
for Lift, I referee a lot of soccer games, more
than my body can handle at my age, and I'm trying.
But all those benefits, I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Just I just he got cut off. Ye God yeah, God,
bless you for being that single dad who's willing to
do whatever it takes. Man, that's great. Running out there
playing soccer or refereeing soccer games. That's hard to do,
especially like you soccer games. Oh those kids are terrible.
Oh all they wanted their oranges at halftime and their
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little participation trophies. It's terrible. We used to kick one
of them into the day. All right, uh hailad. We
have more on the saving time.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
At the cost of things for Thanksgiving? Have you noticed
that paper towels the role of paper towels.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I feel like we've gotten away from our daily saving
time question, heaire kill. I always like having reaction to
the things we're doing.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
The role of paper towels. They made the circumference of
the cardboard thing in the center larger, so the rules
can look bigger, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's really Can I pet your dog when we're here? Dog?
Can I put your dog? That's what I want to do. Well,
there might be good news for Thanksgiving then, granted, your
paper towels are shrinking. But the Walmart CEO went on
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Good Morning America and they were all like, come on in,
Walmart Ceo, We'll let you say whatever you want.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
And we're joined now by John Ferner, President and CEO
of Walmart US. Nice for coming in this morning, mister Ferner,
appreciate your time. Let's talk about Thanksgiving. First, food prices
are up, especially Turkey, So what are you doing to
how customers keep the costs down?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Hard hitting question, George, Thank you for asking that. Boy,
this is gonna be tough to answer.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Well, good morning, George.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Did Walmart write that question for him? That sounds like
the kind of crap we get when we get pr
offers like here are some potential questions, Hey, what are
you doing to keep prices down for your consumers? And
what is Walmart going to say? Well, we're actually really
hosing our suppliers. We're telling them we're not going to
give them any more money, We're breaking their backs and
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it's crushing small business in America. But we're keeping those
prices down. No, he's not going to say that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Urge scrat to see you.
Speaker 14 (28:29):
We are really excited about what we have planned for
this year at Thanksgiving, and I can't believe it's already
that time of year, but this is a time of
year when people are busy, they don't want to sacrifice quality,
and we want to do all we can to help
them celebrate the holiday anyway they want, and we want
to do it in a way that's very affordable with
a lot of value.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So I want what.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Kind of crap is that? Good? Lord?
Speaker 14 (28:52):
I want to talk about a couple things with the
Thanksgiving basket. Now, First, we started putting together this idea
of having the entire basket easy to purchase.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Season. Come on, Bob, hey, it's only a three minute segment.
Speaker 14 (29:03):
Do you assemble back in twenty twenty two, and this
year we will have the best prices on this basket
we've had since the program started. We're we're down about
twenty five percent from last year, down about fourteen dollars
for the basket.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Oh so you've been screwing us all along, is what
you're saying. So what's to make us think you're not
screwing us again? Yeah, we brought our prices down twenty
five percent. We're able to do that because we're Walmart.
We stuck it to the small businesses and our suppliers.
It's been really great. And the great news is too,
we've been sticking you to them all along, but over
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the last few years we've really been hosing you. And
now we're gonna we're gonna dial it back a little bit,
but we're still gonna make a buttload of money and
then make you feel like you're you're getting a deal,
but you're not. We're gonna make a ton of money
off of you. It's great, which.
Speaker 14 (29:50):
Puts us in a position where this basket is just
under four dollars a person when serving ten people. So
we have a great basket that has a mix of
our great brands like Butterball turkeys.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Our turkey price is.
Speaker 14 (30:03):
George, are all the way back to what they were
in twenty nineteen at ninety seven cents a pounds. So
we're really excited about the progress. I was really impressed
when the team brought me this. It was better than
I expected. So we're looking forward to a great holiday
season and we want to help people celebrate anyway they
want and do it at a great Walmart price.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Okay, that had a great Walmart price, all right, George
ask him a hard hitting follow up question, how.
Speaker 13 (30:26):
About President Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
They're contributing to higher costs across the board.
Speaker 13 (30:29):
I know you're absorbing some of the cost, but and
some how much is going to be passed on to
consumers as they turn to holiday items.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Thank you. That was a decent question.
Speaker 14 (30:39):
Well, George, we're, as you know, selling a really wide
variety of products, and about two thirds of what we
sell is either made, grown, or assembled here in the
United States, and so our merchants have done a really
nice job.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah. Well, if it's assembled, that means that your assemblers
are still paying the tariffs.
Speaker 14 (30:54):
But cool, the mixing things out, and this basket is
a great example of where we're keeping.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let's pivot right back to the basket with some of
the top name brands. Let me tell you, I'm looking
at the basket right now. One, it's not a basket. Okay,
here's your top name brands. They do have stovetop stuffing,
like is it stuffing or dressing depends on whether or
not you put it in the birds butt. They got
the Butterball turkeys. That's brand name. Ocean Spray cranberries, so
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that can go right in the trash. Campbell soup for
part of your mixing. It looks like the onion soup
mix or yeah, the onions whatever it is. They're like
dehydrated onions. These are all like pantry items. Now that's Kinders.
That's brand name. Otherwise, all the other great name brands
(31:42):
are great value. It's Walmart brand, all right. Well, that's
how they keep the prices down. There you go forty bucks.
All of the by the way, says they're doing the
same thing. All They has a forty dollars Thanksgiving meal
for ten. That seems to be the big price point
forty bucks. But then you have to buy everything else,
(32:02):
So that's forty dollars for that stuff. I don't know
how you get it. Look, I'm gonna spend more than
forty dollars on myself, and I'm just gonna eat alone
in a dark room watching football in my underwear, and
I will not be showering. That's what I call a holiday.
That's a day off me gorging myself in my underwear
dark room, nobody to see me in my shame, eating
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my feelings, and I will give thanks that I have
the opportunity to do. That must be nice because some
people don't have that opportunity, or two TVs to have
two football games on at the same time in the
same room without their wife yelling at them. Some people
don't have that luxury. I do. And also I have
clean underwear to sit in in the dark while I
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eat my feelings. Other people don't have that, so I'm thankful.
Check out news, and then there's no business like show business.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
KFI AM six on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Give it the latest time. What's going? I was Snap.
We got what twelve percent of the state relies on
the SNAP benefits to put food on the table. So
you had kids, you got veterans, you got working families
that feeling the pain of this political dysfunction. We'll talk
about that here in a moment. I did ask the question,
if we dish the time change, would you prefer permanent
(00:29):
daylight saving which would was later nights, or permanent standard
time it's earlier mornings.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hey, Chris, love the show, You're always entertaining. My vote
would be for permanent daylight savings time. I love that
extra light at night, although I'm not very hopeful considering
the government has been, you know, talking about this now
for what seems like decades to get rid of it,
and they just can't functionally seem to do it. They
just they don't know what to do or how to
(00:55):
do it. So anyway, that's my vote.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, I think they're gonna keep it in the public
because the lobbyists like to throw money at him. We
talked about that in the last segment. There are different
lobbying groups that want it one way or another. And
so if they just keep throwing money, then they'll keep
bringing you back up.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Chris in spytty your politics. I am always happy to
hear your voice. I like you in large s GISs.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh, thank you, despite your politics. I just hate them all.
That's what you gotta understand.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Hey, Chris, we should keep data at saving time. Okay, well,
but another question is what is a I think we
should do? Oh I haven't bothered asking it that good question.
Can't wait to listen to your show Tuesday night and
no one fifty.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He says, No one fifty Okay, very good. All right,
I'm gonna ask chat GPT should we keep daylight saving
time or make standard time permit. Let's see what chat
GPT says. That's a good question. Short version experts are
(02:07):
leaning toward permanent standard time. It's the healthier, safer option. Polls, however,
show that you prefer permanent daylight saving time because of
the appeal of longer evenings. So once again we're rejecting science. Unbelievable. Wow, yeah,
there you go. Now you know there it is. It's
(02:29):
the latest. We'll get more of your calls on that
in just a few moments. If you are on the
iHeartRadio app, just hit that talkback button and let us know.
I have to dispel with some rumors that are floating around.
Last week, there was talk because we know that the
government's shut down. Obviously, Snap benefits ran out because we didn't,
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you know, fund the government by midnight on Friday, So
Snap benefits are run out and then cards are not
being refilled starting yesterday. Already wear that story. I'm sure
you're a very stute person. Uh. Last week, there were
a bunch of tiktoks that were going around of people
that were claiming that they are not going without their
(03:09):
food and they're gonna they're gonna take that food. So
then they started the same TikTokers were saying that Walmart
was telling them they were gonna lock their doors and
that they were gonna shut down the grocery section. Uh.
The online eyre has been fueled by unverified claims that
those losing Snap benefits planned to loot Walmart stores. Two
(03:34):
TikTok videos for a combined one point seven million plus
views as of earlier this week, amplifying rumors that all
Walmart stores were gonna close doors locked the shoppers only
allowed to place online orders for parking lot pick up.
One TikTok video with over a million views posted the
claims that Walmart's decision came after y'all keep acting a
(03:58):
fool and saying, what y'all gonna do you when y'all
don't get your snap benefits? There you go. Another one
claims the Broke's made a threat to Walmart that they
would go straight to Walmart for everything they need. Broki's
is slaying for people with no money or aka me.
So Walmart had to respond and they said, no, we're
(04:21):
not We're not gonna We're not gonna do that. We're
gonna keep selling food. Yeah, and they have, but that
didn't stop different police jurisdictions from having to respond, including
in Barstow. According to ABC seven, I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
So cal police department says it will be stepping up
patrols at grocery stores as millions are expected to miss
out on next month's food stamps because of the government
shut down.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, so we're stepping up patrols because people are gonna
steal food. I don't think they're going to steal food
until they actually get to the point of starving and
then they might that's possibility. Meanwhile, two judges said, no, look,
you gotta fund it. You're funding everything else you're gonna
(05:08):
You're finding ways to pay military paychecks. Good by the way,
You're finding ways to make sure that Social Security checks
go out, good by the way. Uh, you have to
fund food.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Angelino's lined up at food distribution sites today worried about
an end to their federal benefits.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
I don't know how worse is gonna this is gonna be,
but you know it is bad.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
It is terrible.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
At midnight tonight, more than forty million Americans will lose
SNAP benefits used to pay for groceries.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
This government's shutdown has put our families and fellow Angelinos
on the front lines.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
Of political games that they never asked to be a
part of.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
State and local leaders visiting Project angel Food in Hollywood
today taking steps to protect recipients, and now two federal
judges rule to force the Trump administration to keep funding
the program.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
US District Judge in Dera Talwani's dating Congress put money
in an emergency fund, and it is hard for me
to understand how this is not an emergency.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Now the judges have said you have until Monday to
tell us what you're doing. So they still didn't say
you have to put money in the account right now.
Well one of them did, but then said get back
to me on Monday and let me know if you
did it. The other one said, uh, let me know
what your plan is by monday. The President says, nah,
He's going to find a way to fund it.
Speaker 11 (06:33):
It is the nation's primary anti hunger program for low
income Americans, now in the crosshairs of the federal government
shut down starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
CalFresh is Friday.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
Obviously, the California version of the federal SNAP program runs
out of money from Washington. This despite a five and
a half billion dollar emergency fund the administration has decided
not to use us.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
By the way, the five and a half billion dollar
emergency fund will will fund the SNAP benefits for about
two weeks, so it's not like, oh, okay, well now
Snap's not gonna run out.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
This this allows Congress to jack around for another two weeks.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
For Culture Secretary Brooke Robbins says that contingency fund has
restrictions and can only be used for natural disasters, which
event like a.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
Hurricane, but it is a contingency fund that can only
flow if the underlying appropriation is approved.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
The USCA has never done this in the past, but
Governor Gavin Newsom, in an interview with NBC News, says
that the emergency fund was used during the government shutdown
in mister Trump's first term.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, so now you get the ins and outs. But
let let's face it. The politicians they love to look.
They go, look, oh, no, this is snap benefits at
cal Fresh. No, this is this is for the pores,
and we can use them as pawns. What politicians using
using people without money as pawns. That's never in the
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history of the world ever have and ever, every time
they need a pawn, it's always someone who's either foreign
or poor, or even better both. Would they consider cutting
defense spending No. Would they consider cutting VA benefits No.
Would they consider cutting Medicare Medicaid No, although actually part
of the shutdown is about that, but it's about additional
(08:20):
money for the Affordable Care Act. Would they consider not
sending out Social Security checks? No? Those are large voting blocks,
and so politicians go, well, you know, in national security,
do we have to give the Pentagon money, that's not
discretionary spending all. And Social Security that's the retirement people
paying into that, that's THEIRS. A Medicare that's health security.
(08:40):
You have to have that. That's that's security. But cal fresh, oh,
that's welfare. That's for the poors. Why don't they get
off their asses and do something? That's that's the message
that's being sent out. That's the mindset. Even my son
came to me today and he says, why should I
have to pay for somebody who's got seven kids and
that's their fall? And I said, yeah, I said, the
(09:04):
question is it's a question of humanity, And the question
is do you punish those seven kids by letting them starve?
That's really the question. But it also told me that
the algorithms are reinforcing the stereotype. Because I know he's
getting the algorithms of the far right, the Nick Foyentes
(09:26):
and all that crap. It's an ongoing battle in my
house with him. But I also know that he's getting
these algorithms that are reinforcing this nineteen eighties Ronald Reagan
welfare queen stereotype. I know that's happening. And so the
mindset is anyone that's getting food stamps must be lazy,
not must be a disabled veteran. It's not must be
(09:49):
someone who's elderly. It's not, Oh, this must be someone
who's got many kids and is working two jobs, Which
is funny because he's only one general removed from that.
His grandmother worked two jobs to take care of her
kids and make sure that they had food on the table.
But because my son was raised in a rather comfortable,
(10:11):
middle class home, he doesn't see the struggle that other
people go through, and it's really easy to target the
pores from a political standpoint. Speaking of being poor, we're
all going to be this Thanksgiving. I don't know if
you've seen the prices of the groceries, but you're about to.
(10:32):
You're about to maybe cut back on that menu this Thanksgiving.
Just how far are you going to cut back? It
depends on what you find out next. I'm Chris Merrilyn.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
If we ditch the time changing, would you prefer a
permanent daylight saving or which would give us later nights,
or a permanent standard time which would give us earlier mornings.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Hello Chris, Merrill. Oh, to respond to your question about
the daylight savings time, I think we should stop switching
back and forth. Isn't that what we voted for a
little while ago, And instead of bringing about which way
to go with it, why don't we just split the
difference and put it halfway in between, keeping it the
same all year round.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Okay, so we would do like a half hour thing.
There are a few places, by the way, they just
do half hour time changes, which I gotta believe is
really confusing. It must work for them though, because they've
been doing it for.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
A long time, Chris, this is Joanne's starting in Oregon.
I just moved from their life. So anyways, it's definitely
daynight savings time. It helps with depression, if you ask me,
because it's day's light when it gets dark. To her,
that's when a depression set scene.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay. Uh, studies actually showed the opposite, But that's just
a broad thing. Maybe it's different. I mean, it's certainly
going to be different individually, so it could happen. Cam.
Isn't Joanne the one that said she doesn't like my
politics because she says I'm too liberal? Yeah, yeah, that
sounds like her. I think that is just said she
moved to Portland.
Speaker 12 (12:15):
Wellne Joanne has some things to figure out.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You got to do your research, girl. Yeah, you can't
try to escape from the crazy liberals in LA and
then go to Portland.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
She's surrounded by a bunch of views and your political
views us.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But I do not have much political views. Don't even
you're you're all Portland. No I am not there. Yeah
you are.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
The turkeys are getting out of control this year, and
so turkey prices are are going way way up. And
it's not just because of it's not turkey tariffs.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Turkey prices they will not be from me. Business is
something that you'll be thankful for. Wholesale prices are about
forty up last year. Now that's because of the bird
flu and oh.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
God, haven't we fixed the bird flu yet.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
It's like like a fewer turkeys. Last year, the average
cost of a full Thanksgiving meal was about fifty eight
dollars for ten people. That is up nearly twenty percent
from twenty twenty, and experts say there are still ways though,
to save this holiday season.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Okay, how make your list early shop You can even
shop now.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh like Santa.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Right, your turkey, you can freeze your canned veggies, you
can put in there. You're baking goods, you can put
in your you know, your cupboard if you've got room.
I also find if you actually start looking for the coupons,
now you can get stuff before the holiday rush.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Good.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
There's some good news as well. So side dishes like potatoes,
that canned corn and all that butter used to make
this taste so delicious, well those have stayed about the
same price.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's good. That's good. So turkey is up because of
the bird flu. Beef is up because of drought affecting cattle.
I did see something about this bird flu. Are you
ready to be scared? This is great. Experts are warning
that certain bird flu strains are one mutation away from
sustained human transmission. In the latest case, we've actually already
(14:10):
seen transmission go to other mammals and cattle. Public health
officials say that the federal response is hampered by staff
cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
at the Department of Agriculture. So we dodged out the
people who would respond to those things. Immigration enforcement on
farms and government shut down have also hampered the ability
(14:36):
to respond. The CDC Flu team is largely intact and
can quickly sequence samples from humans suspected to be bird flu. Though,
according to Dimitri Dyscolachus, who was the director of the
agency's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases before he
resigned over the Trump administration policies this summer, he said,
will they be able to communicate what they found? I
(14:56):
don't know the answer, because it sure seems as if
the CDC officials don't seem to be in communication in
terms of letting scientists interpret what they're finding. And we
got the government shutdown. That's great. So we just did
a pandemic, and now we are one mutation away from
a sustained human transmission in this bird flu, which already
(15:21):
ran up the price of eggs to like one hundred
dollars a dozen a year ago, and now it's back again.
And if they come out, if they let's suppose they
came out with a vaccine to treat any sort of
a bird flu mutation that could end up with humans,
would we even take the vaccine. No, you would think
(15:43):
that after the last pandemic we would have learned our lessons,
but we didn't. So why in the world aren't we
prepared for the next big outbreak. That'd be like rebuilding
Alta Dina without making homes that are more fire ready. Oh,
Palace says, why don't we just you know what the
problem the Palace fire was, Uh, it burned too slowly.
(16:04):
Let's build this one out of out of matches. What
a great idea. You're about to find out why we're
so dumb? That's next, Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand now.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Question if we ditched daylight saving time? Would you prefer
permanent daylight saving or permanent standard time? So later nights
or earlier mornings?
Speaker 12 (16:31):
Your thoughts, Chris Merrill, I'm listening to you from Middle America.
Saint Louis and.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
AH love Saint Louis. You know, anytime I drive across
the country, I always make it a point to go
through Saint Louis. Did you know that, Kayla? I did
not know that about it when I lived. When I
lived outside of Kansas City, my wife and I took
a couple of little weekend vacations to Saint Louis. Saint
Louis catches a bad rap, but I think it's a
lovely town. You've lived such a life, Christopher, No, I
(16:59):
really have not. By the way, aren't you doing more
international travel next week? I am? Yeah, Okay. You know,
the closest I came to ever getting out of the
country was my parents when I was a kid, took
me across the bridge to Windsor, Ontario from Detroit. One
time we were at We went down there for like
a Detroit Tigers game, and they took us across the
(17:20):
bridge so that we could say we did it. You
guys are wild. Yeah, we're crazy.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
In between all the gunshots. I really like when the
sun comes up early.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh she's bagging on Saint Louis. I love that. That's hilarious.
All right. She loves it when the sun comes up early.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
And I love listening to you. So I hope you're
on more. Even know you said working three days a
week is more than enough. It's great to hear you.
I used to live in la for forty years, and
it's nice to hear a cafe.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
She doesn't sound like she's over forty, does she. No,
she's sounds super young. She sounds hot. She does so hot.
I like that. I like that you play along when
I say stupid things like that too. Thank you. That's
why I like working with you, Kayla. You play a
lot of stupidity.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Yeah, okay, everyone is overlooking a very important point.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
What is it.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
It's not just about the time, it's about the way
the sun movie moves in the wintertime. Just changing the
clock is not going to necessarily give us more day lifetime.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
Is a big myth that everyone's avoiding.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, now, I wholeheartedly agree with you. The idea that
that if we didn't change the clocks, that the sun
wouldn't set in the evening and continue to knock time
off the end of the day is ludicrous, or that
if we if we with the other direction, that somehow
(18:47):
the sun wouldn't rise earlier. Now, I lived in Arizona
for a long time. Arizona's on a standard clock, and
it works. But it gets bright early in the morning.
The sun is down in the summertime a little after
eight o'clock. Right, So it's fine, it's fine. I grew
(19:07):
up though in northern Michigan. A latitude makes a big difference.
And what I what I find is when I'm home.
My wife and I have a place there, and so
when we're there, like we'll go back for fourth of July, right,
and it's our retirement home. It's not anything fancy, but
it's it's where we decided this is where we're going
(19:29):
to retire. So let's let's just plant roots and invest.
So we did. And so when we're there for like
fourth of July, when it is light still until after
ten thirty at night, it's wild. So the where you
are on the earth makes a big difference too. So
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even when Arizona, who doesn't change times, is seeing the
sun setting at about eight thirty, it's still like Michigan
at ten thirty, and they're three hours ahead because the
way that it works, so same thing with us. Now,
you know, granted, if Arizona's son said at eight thirty,
where like nine or the laughter, Still you get my point.
(20:11):
If you're in Seattle, it's a big difference from what
it is here. All right, anyway, I'll shut up. Now
we were talking about that bird flu jumping Turkey prices
are going up this year. They're up forty percent. They
say it's because of bird flu. And now experts are
saying we gotta pay attention to this bird flu thing
because it's still not settled where COVID came from. We're
(20:34):
still debating is that caused in a lab in Wuhan, China,
or was that something that was animal born and then
jumped in that wet market from a pangolin? Kaylee, did
you ever look up what a panglin is? Incidentally, you
remember when COVID came out? Did you ever look up
one of those things? I can't say, I have, Christopher,
(20:56):
you should. It looks like an armadillo dragon rat. How cute?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Not so much? And it also killed a million people.
Oh yeah, so look up pangling. So anyway, those you
know that we can have these animal born illnesses that
then jump to humans. If that were to happen with
the bird flu, which Lord knows, we've had enough trouble.
We've wiped out millions, literally millions of birds to try
to stop the bird flu. If that jumps to humans,
we've got another global spread, another global issue, right, and
(21:23):
yet we're not ready for it. Why some of this
has to do with we're just bad at our bureaucracies.
We've got we've got states making decisions. We've got the
Feds making decisions, We've got states arguing over decisions other
states made. How many times did you hear Texas making
(21:43):
fun of California or California making fun of Florida, or
whatever the case might be. There's it's a mishmash, it's
a patchwork, and so we don't have we don't have consistency.
So that's one issue. We also are not willing to
fund planning for the next pandemic. Presidents Republican and Democrat
(22:08):
cut funding. They Wow, we haven't had a pandemic since
the Spanish flu, so let's just cut some of that.
You know what. We probably don't need to spend quite
so much on these virologists. What do they even do? Right,
So they start cutting these things and so the long
term investments start to falter. But also the biggest reasons
probably that we don't prepare ourselves better for the next pandemic,
(22:30):
even though we just went through one. You would think
that we would go, Okay, what lessons did we learn?
What can we learn going forward? Is just the misinformation,
the distrust of the institutions, the stigma around around people,
the stigma about being sick keeps people quiet. And we
(22:55):
have a number of people that just say, flat out
I don't trust the government. Whatever the government says is
in my best interest, I'm going to do the opposite.
So how can you how can you possibly have a
healthier or a safer society when we can't agree on
what is healthy and what is safe? And let's face it,
(23:18):
when it this isn't This isn't one of those situations
where it's it's what the individual thinks is right. This
genuinely is the village has to act as one. And
I'm not saying that what we did or didn't do
in the last pandemic was right or wrong. But for
those of you that are saying, you know, you know,
(23:41):
well the government was totally wrong on this. Okay, Well
were they right on something else? The government was wrong
with their mask recommendations. Yeah, study show you're probably right. Yeah,
the masks probably didn't do a whole lot. Yeah you're right.
But were you right on the vaccines? Did they cause
five G effects? See what I mean? So it's like
(24:03):
we're gonna have to do a very thorough job of
weighing what is in the best interest of all of us.
Was closing the schools the best idea. Probably not. And
I'll be the first to tell you I was wrong
on that. It was way wrong on that. I said,
we got to protect the kids, we got to protect
the teachers. No study show we probably shouldn't have done that.
(24:23):
Now we set our kids back. So I was dead wrong.
But you know what I learned, and I know next time.
Did the country learn?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
All right, you think your holiday is locked in, and
then you take a look at the price tag or
the stock on the shelves. That changes everything. Turkey price
is up forty percent. These prices are way up, so
you're gonna have to decide now or you're gonna be
scrambling come Thanksgiving. There's a couple of big national retailers
that say that they have the fix for your Thanksgiving
and it's on the cheap. But as always, you're gonna
(24:55):
get what you pay for. Find out if it's good
enough for your big gathering. That's next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
We are just to well, we're one newscast away from
there's no business like tell business lash. She is paying attention.
I like that it was quick, it was very good,
very good, Thank you, thank you, thank you. I asked
the question if we dish daylight saving, excuse me, if
we ditch the time change that we do, would you
prefer permanent daylight saving, which is later nights are permanent
standard time, which is earlier mornings.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Hey, Chris, really appreciate your show. Thanks the algorithm reinforcing
the stereotype. I'm just tired of hearing it, these snap
benefits and being used as upon.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Oh yeah, I was telling you about the algorithm who's
sending my son messages about people on snap benefits are
all welfare queens with the seven kids that decided not
to work.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
I spent twenty five years in the corporate world in
human resources and was laid off a couple of years ago.
I am a single father, genuinely single father, with two kids,
and I you work my ass off a looking for
a job, which is so hard right now. I drive
for Lift, I referee a lot of soccer games, more
than my body can handle at my age, and I'm trying.
But all those benefits, I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Just I just he got cut off. Ye God yeah, God,
bless you for being that single dad who's willing to
do whatever it takes. Man, that's great. Running out there
playing soccer or refereeing soccer games. That's hard to do,
especially like you soccer games. Oh those kids are terrible.
Oh all they wanted their oranges at halftime and their
(26:35):
little participation trophies. It's terrible. We used to kick one
of them into the day. All right, uh hailad. We
have more on the saving time.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
At the cost of things for Thanksgiving? Have you noticed
that paper towels the role of paper towels.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I feel like we've gotten away from our daily saving
time question, heaire kill. I always like having reaction to
the things we're doing.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
The role of paper towels. They made the circumference of
the cardboard thing in the center larger, so the rules
can look bigger, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's really Can I pet your dog when we're here? Dog?
Can I put your dog? That's what I want to do. Well,
there might be good news for Thanksgiving then, granted, your
paper towels are shrinking. But the Walmart CEO went on
(27:33):
Good Morning America and they were all like, come on in,
Walmart Ceo, We'll let you say whatever you want.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
And we're joined now by John Ferner, President and CEO
of Walmart US. Nice for coming in this morning, mister Ferner,
appreciate your time. Let's talk about Thanksgiving. First, food prices
are up, especially Turkey, So what are you doing to
how customers keep the costs down?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Hard hitting question, George, Thank you for asking that. Boy,
this is gonna be tough to answer.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Well, good morning, George.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Did Walmart write that question for him? That sounds like
the kind of crap we get when we get pr
offers like here are some potential questions, Hey, what are
you doing to keep prices down for your consumers? And
what is Walmart going to say? Well, we're actually really
hosing our suppliers. We're telling them we're not going to
give them any more money, We're breaking their backs and
(28:21):
it's crushing small business in America. But we're keeping those
prices down. No, he's not going to say that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Urge scrat to see you.
Speaker 14 (28:29):
We are really excited about what we have planned for
this year at Thanksgiving, and I can't believe it's already
that time of year, but this is a time of
year when people are busy, they don't want to sacrifice quality,
and we want to do all we can to help
them celebrate the holiday anyway they want, and we want
to do it in a way that's very affordable with
a lot of value.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So I want what.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Kind of crap is that? Good? Lord?
Speaker 14 (28:52):
I want to talk about a couple things with the
Thanksgiving basket. Now, First, we started putting together this idea
of having the entire basket easy to purchase.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Season. Come on, Bob, hey, it's only a three minute segment.
Speaker 14 (29:03):
Do you assemble back in twenty twenty two, and this
year we will have the best prices on this basket
we've had since the program started. We're we're down about
twenty five percent from last year, down about fourteen dollars
for the basket.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Oh so you've been screwing us all along, is what
you're saying. So what's to make us think you're not
screwing us again? Yeah, we brought our prices down twenty
five percent. We're able to do that because we're Walmart.
We stuck it to the small businesses and our suppliers.
It's been really great. And the great news is too,
we've been sticking you to them all along, but over
(29:36):
the last few years we've really been hosing you. And
now we're gonna we're gonna dial it back a little bit,
but we're still gonna make a buttload of money and
then make you feel like you're you're getting a deal,
but you're not. We're gonna make a ton of money
off of you. It's great, which.
Speaker 14 (29:50):
Puts us in a position where this basket is just
under four dollars a person when serving ten people. So
we have a great basket that has a mix of
our great brands like Butterball turkeys.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Our turkey price is.
Speaker 14 (30:03):
George, are all the way back to what they were
in twenty nineteen at ninety seven cents a pounds. So
we're really excited about the progress. I was really impressed
when the team brought me this. It was better than
I expected. So we're looking forward to a great holiday
season and we want to help people celebrate anyway they
want and do it at a great Walmart price.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Okay, that had a great Walmart price, all right, George
ask him a hard hitting follow up question, how.
Speaker 13 (30:26):
About President Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
They're contributing to higher costs across the board.
Speaker 13 (30:29):
I know you're absorbing some of the cost, but and
some how much is going to be passed on to
consumers as they turn to holiday items.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Thank you. That was a decent question.
Speaker 14 (30:39):
Well, George, we're, as you know, selling a really wide
variety of products, and about two thirds of what we
sell is either made, grown, or assembled here in the
United States, and so our merchants have done a really
nice job.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah. Well, if it's assembled, that means that your assemblers
are still paying the tariffs.
Speaker 14 (30:54):
But cool, the mixing things out, and this basket is
a great example of where we're keeping.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let's pivot right back to the basket with some of
the top name brands. Let me tell you, I'm looking
at the basket right now. One, it's not a basket. Okay,
here's your top name brands. They do have stovetop stuffing,
like is it stuffing or dressing depends on whether or
not you put it in the birds butt. They got
the Butterball turkeys. That's brand name. Ocean Spray cranberries, so
(31:22):
that can go right in the trash. Campbell soup for
part of your mixing. It looks like the onion soup
mix or yeah, the onions whatever it is. They're like
dehydrated onions. These are all like pantry items. Now that's Kinders.
That's brand name. Otherwise, all the other great name brands
(31:42):
are great value. It's Walmart brand, all right. Well, that's
how they keep the prices down. There you go forty bucks.
All of the by the way, says they're doing the
same thing. All They has a forty dollars Thanksgiving meal
for ten. That seems to be the big price point
forty bucks. But then you have to buy everything else,
(32:02):
So that's forty dollars for that stuff. I don't know
how you get it. Look, I'm gonna spend more than
forty dollars on myself, and I'm just gonna eat alone
in a dark room watching football in my underwear, and
I will not be showering. That's what I call a holiday.
That's a day off me gorging myself in my underwear
dark room, nobody to see me in my shame, eating
(32:25):
my feelings, and I will give thanks that I have
the opportunity to do. That must be nice because some
people don't have that opportunity, or two TVs to have
two football games on at the same time in the
same room without their wife yelling at them. Some people
don't have that luxury. I do. And also I have
clean underwear to sit in in the dark while I
(32:47):
eat my feelings. Other people don't have that, so I'm thankful.
Check out news, and then there's no business like show business.
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