January 26, 2025 • 32 mins
Criticism increases for LAUSD disrupting sports when not all areas were affected. Starbucks barista says his store has a ‘panic button’ behind the counter, but fears it won’t be enough to quell angry customers after open-door policy reversal. Starbucks is training staff on how to de-escalate conflict with people who aren't buying anything as it rolls back its open-door policy. Contraception begins at Erection Act / Spirit Airlines announces new dress code banning 'revealing clothes' and 'offensive tattoos' + Cross with Merrill.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tiffany Hobbs here filling in till four. And then we
have Chris Merrill come in aboard. Can't wait to hear
what he's gonna talk about. It's always fun when Merrill
joins the station. But before he does, we have a
few more things to get into, one of which is
the fact that LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District can
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do no right in the eyes of people who are
dealing with these fires.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I'll tell you exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I remember, because I am also a teacher by day,
that in the hours after the Palisades Fire, LAUSD scrambled,
they absolutely scrambled after the Palisades fire and Eaten fire
to figure out a contingency plan for all of the
particulate matter that was now floating in the air and
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visible to the eye, which let people know very clearly
that what we were in was hazardous, was dangerous. And
that contingency plan turned into school closures district wide through
that next Monday. So I remember my school closed Thursday
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and Friday, actually, excuse me, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and
we reopened that next Monday, a few days after the
Eton and Palisades fires began. The same can be said
for schools across the district. It was a mandatory closure.
Other districts, of course, followed suit. The closer you were
to the epicenter of these fires, the more likely it
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was that your school and your district was going to close.
When the schools reopened on Monday, I remember that LAUSD
came under scrutiny for opening to soon. There were people
who said, Hey, we went outside and we can still
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smell the smoke, we can.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Still see the ash.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Our students, our children should not be out amongst all
of this because it is toxic.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And it's not that they were wrong. They were not.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
These people who were saying that there were tiny particulates
in the air, There always are.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
We live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We are beneath a very thick layer of smog on
any given day. Not today because we have the rains,
but give it a few days and we'll see that
brown layer re emerge over the basin. Especially if you're
driving down the Tin coming from Covena looking towards downtown,
you can see it extremely clearly.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
But or past.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Covina let's say Ontario and give you a larger swath
of section to survey. But the thing about LAUSD is
while they reopened, they did so by encouraging people to
use masks. They said, hey, go on modified outdoor activity,
make it like a rainy day's schedule. Stay inside. Will
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open the schools back up, because what we don't want
is blowback from parents saying that students have been out
of school too long and they don't want to go
back to distance learning. No one liked distance learning, especially
the teachers.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Trust me when I tell you this.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So we're going to go back and we're just going
to protect ourselves with masking because we know that we
have vulnerable populations students and staff who have respiratory issues, comorbidities,
and we want to make sure everyone is safe.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
YadA, YadA, YadA. And all that was true.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, those fires subsided and things somewhat got back to
normal outside of the burn zones. Of course, the further
away you are from the fire, the more likely you
were to return to some sort of normalcy when it
came to outdoor activity. But now, as these fires are
sporadic and pop up without warning in many cases, LAUS
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is being critiqued yet again for closing schools that people
say were too far away from the Hughes fire. And
that Hughes fire is that fire that broke out over
there by Late Castaic, just north of Santa Clarita, a
little northwest of Santa Clarita. But the Hughes fire and
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all of that area was absolutely affected. You can go
outside at that time. You could see it, you could
smell it. We've all been privy to the effects of fire,
whether you were in the direct impacted zone or within
a forty mile radius. In the last couple of weeks
because of the winds, but last week it was windy,
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but it wasn't as windy as it was with the
Palisades and Eaten fires.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
But we could still see the smoke.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You could still maybe smell a semblance of smoke from
the Hughes fire. LAUSD faced criticism last Wednesday during that
huge fire because they decided that they would halt all
outdoor activities, all sports activities over concerns about air quality,
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and people outside of the Hughes fire area said that
they were not impacted. They were not affected, so why
would LAUSD do this? Specifically, there were a few private
schools who really rallied against what LAUSD said, and I
have problems with this, and I'll tell you why. So
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the schools are Crespy in Encino, Shamanad and West Hills,
and Harvard, Westlake and Studio City, all of which went
on to hold basketball games and soccer matches outside on Wednesday. Birmingham,
a chartered school in Lake Balboa, you might be an alum,
wanted to play soccer and basketball games, but they pulled
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out due to LAUSD orders. They were getting ready to
play when they were told, hey, we can't actually play
because LAUSD has said that we cannot do outdoor activities.
The coach, the athletic director of Birmingham said, quote it
was beautiful outside, there was no problem. What LAUSD has
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done is increase the possibility of injuries because we are
forced to play a lot of games in a short
period of time. Close quote that's from the athletic director
of Birmingham High School. I'll tell you why I don't
like this one bit. I'm on the side of LAUSD.
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Kids go outside, they play, they come down with some
sort of respiratory distress. Immediately, parents, maybe even staff will
point in the direction of the air quality and what
will be or who will be held responsible? Lausd. This
is why I say they cannot win.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Tippy Hobbs here with you until four filling in. I'm
usually here on Saturdays, but I'm here today on this
beautifully rainy Sunday, and I just saw that the National
Weather Service Service has definitely enforced or encouraged us to
really heed this flash flood warning. They say that the
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conditions for flooding will begin around four pm, so just
as I'm leaving here great, and they will continue until
four pm tomorrow, and that the La River in certain
places is already filling up. So make sure you stay
tuned KFI News because I'm sure, as we do, whenever
there's rain and that river decides to swell, there are
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people who find themselves in it for one reason or another,
and then we have all those swift water rescues. Again,
we do not need our first responders in your butt
out of water because you want to decide to be
brave on a day like today. Let them handle the
fire stuff, let them get these kiddies and dogs out. Okay,
keep your butt at home or wherever you live. We
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were talking about LAUSD facing criticism. It's an LA Times
report because they decided to halt outdoor sports activities last
Wednesday during the Hughes fire out in the Lake Castaic
Santa Clarita area.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And I was telling you that there were.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Schools that elected to play games outside in direct opposition
to this LAUSD order, saying that the sports was more important. No,
they didn't actually say that, but that's what they're implying.
That's certainly what they're suggesting, that sports is tantamount to
safety and health. Because in this article they consult a pomonologist.
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His name is doctor shyam Row. And this doctor says
not so I don't know if he ors she. But
doctor shiam Raw says, and they're from Dignity Health at
Saint Mary in Long Beach, that the air is absolutely
not safe.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, a resounding no.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Why because there are tiny particulate matter, or is tiny
particulate matter that causes breathing issues for vulnerable groups. They
say that tiny dust, that microscopic dust that's not even
visible to some of these air quality indexes, is so
chock full of chemicals that it will cause respiratory issues
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or inflame issues that you may not even know you have,
or that you do in fact have. And so if
you are a kid who has a breathing issue or
is some sort of you know, asthmatic or anything, anything,
this could have easily just ballooned into something greater. And
then what happens when you're out there on those football
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on those football fields, or playing those soccer matches because
your school decided to defy LAUSD's order and let you play, because.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Screw that fire doesn't matter. Then what happens?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
LAUSD gets sued ding ding ding ding ding. We know this,
We've seen this. It happens every single time. And yet
here we go again with a recidivism. Let's get our
kids out there, let them play, let them play. It
sounds like COVID let them play, let them play, but
does not consider the ramifications down the line. Sure the
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kids might be okay today, but what about in two
three weeks months, whatever the case, when in fact respiratory
issues do arise, and.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
This will happen.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It absolutely will happen, because it happens every time. And
I'm not wishing ill on any of these children, but
I'm smart enough to remember many cases where this has happened. Okay,
it doesn't take a rocket scientist. The air is not
that great. Sure, it's okay today we have the rain.
Shouldn't be out in it anyway, but it's okay today.
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Tomorrow's going to be a little less okay, and by
Thursday Friday, it's going to be back to crap because
that's where we live. We live under a lot of
toxic smog. And you add all these fires that are
still burning people, and then.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You add the ash that will be kicked back up.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Can't tell you how many leaf blowers I've seen at
work over the last three weeks out in the streets.
I don't mean a work at my job. I mean
just them at work blowing all this toxic stuff around
because some shop owner or some homeowner wants to make
sure that their.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Porch is decreased of dust.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
All of this is in the air, and it makes
for a toxic soup that kids are still playing in.
So if lausd if pollmonologists, these experts are coming together
to say the air isn't good, what makes you think
that you sitting on your couch or you with your
coach's whistle knows better for some reason, maybe listen to
the experts. I don't know why we all think we're experts.
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We're not armchair experts. Get the real experts who are
telling you the deal. All right, what's going on? It's
Starbucks shifting gears just a little bit. Thinking about people
wanting somewhere to sit. Starbucks is a place a lot
of people have been able to kind of go and
leisurely hang around do your work. There are people whose
homes aren't standing anymore, and they may be looking for
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some sort of office space to conduct their business or
do their schoolwork.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Now Starbucks is implementing a new policy. It's actually a
reversal of a policy that they reversed in twenty eighteen,
which allowed them for people to go in and sit
without buying.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
No, it has changed.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Starbucks is now saying you have to purchase something in
order to sit in their cafes. To sit in there.
We call these restaurants. What's a Starbucks a restaurant?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Like a coffee shop? Coffee shop? Coffee shop.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'm like, because I don't consider them as having good coffee,
So I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Like, what is that just a coffee shop?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's a shop that sells coffee, expensive coffee. I tell
location I do like their chai. I will say that
ice iced, no ice, though I'm strange. I just want
cold right by learn how to make it by going
to Target, by getting my own ingredients periods, and now
I save some money, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's my little hack for Starbucks. Go to Target and
get the ingredients.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So Starbucks is reversing that policy. They want you to
buy something, sit in the store and enjoy what you
bought there as a paying customer.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
But they are anticipating blowback.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And what are they doing to arm their baristas for
this potential and likely blowback, which they say could be
explosive as.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Far as altercations are concerned.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
They are arming their baristas with panic buttons. This is
the world we live in. Baristas will have panic buttons
that will be invisible, unseen under the counter there that
they'll be able to access in case of an altercation
that could get out of hand. And the baristas are
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saying that they know the altercations are going to happen
because when they tell people anything in opposition to anything
they want, whether it's that they don't have this ingredient,
or you can't stay in the restaurant or the coffee
shop for this amount of time. They get some sort
of pushback and people can be.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Violent, you know, not to complain, But I've been in
several Starbucks, and I kid you not, there's only one
or two power outlets for all the customers in the Starbucks.
I like to plug in your phone or your laptop.
Oh what they're doing so I don't. It would be
very difficult and challenging on like a Tuesday or Wednesday
afternoon to go have coffee and sit there if I
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can't have a wall outlet for my phone or my laptop.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I'm just saying, well.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Here's the thing. If you decide to, you know, pitch
a fit because of this, Andrew caravell and get all
out of story probable.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And you know I've seen you. I've seen you get
upset and go attack one of these burisas you've seen
that on TMZ too. Yeah, I know, toutely. I recorded.
I'm gonna upload it later.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
They will push a panic button on you, and Andrew Caravella,
And now the police are coming to will you away?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
And now you're a story on KFI. There's a couple
on sunset where my pictures up there do not serve
this man.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
So facts you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Tippy Hobbs here with you until four. Then Chris Merrill
comes aboard. Can't wait to talk to him. We'll do
that in the last segment. So you make sure you
stay right here. Don't you go anywhere, especially outside, because
it is raining. Looking behind me, it doesn't look like
it's raining as hard anymore here in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But I don't know where you are.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Check in with us, let us know, give us a
weather update, let us know what the weather is where
you are, because I'll be leaving and going to North
Hollywood to see a play later.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I used to kind of know what I'm getting into.
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Back to this Starbucks conversation. We were talking about how
Starbucks is planning to implement a new rule, and that
rule is simply, if you're gonna come to Starbucks and
you expect to sit down, you have to be a
paying customer.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
No more of this. Come in, hang out.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Plug your laptop up, or sit down and do your
TikTok and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Without paying for something.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, no, no, you have to be a paying customer
because they are encouraging that change of environment. They want
it to be like a little cafe. And I have
a quote here from the CEO, Brian Nicole, and he says, quote,
we want everyone to feel welcome and comfortable in our stores.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
End quote. No you don't, No, you don't. No, you don't.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You don't want everyone to feel comfortable and welcome in
your stores. You want your paying customers to feel comfortable
and welcome. Because you're saying now that if you do
not pay, the baristas are going to be empowered to
make you very uncomfortable and to feel very unwelcomed, and
that there actually is a process by which baristas are.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Going to confront you.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
First, they're going to come to you and they're going
to give you a verbal warning. And then if you
try and come back at them with any foolishness, they
have a panic button and they're going to hit that
panic button and they're going to drag you Andrew Caravella
off to your death, off with your head in the
back of that Starbucks there. I believe that I know
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and you know, we have an authority on the matter
here and board up Robin who I'm not going to
ask you too many questions, Robin, but were you ever
armed with a panic button?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I wish.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Do you have an example of an experience you've had
with a customer that maybe became irate and you had
to employ any of your special skills so to speak.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I don't know about special skills. But somebody didn't get
something in their drink and they threw the drink through
the drive through.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Oh through the drive through?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, that takes agility and precision. Did they hit anything?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The person the cart?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And then what happened? Tell us the story? Allow them
to go home? The person in the drive through?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You to the.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Coworker, Oh that was That must have been nice for them.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
They get to go home and have the day off.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I did forget. Someone did overdose and right in front
of our doors.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Do you hear that?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I forgot. By the way, there was an overdose in
front of the doors there.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Wow, Because he came back like a couple hours later
and got in his car like nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh, he overdosed, stayed there and you guys just kept
on business and.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He went to the hospital. Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
We gave him spry and then went to the hospital,
and then a couple hours later he came back.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
So are you telling me they trained Starbucks baristas in
CPR and in panic button.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
No, it just happened to have, like somebody that was
going to nursing school was there.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I thought it kind of like a special operative there
at Starbucks that you guys are all kind of like
secret of agents.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
They should in Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
That must have been a crazy scene, like overdosing and
then surviving and then yeah, can I order a Vincy
iced coffee?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
You must really love start.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Meanwhile, there's that Karen in the background. I asked for
this ice. You're literally doing CPR and somebody.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Why are you not allowed back at your old location? Okay?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Manager, like my district manager, we never got along.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
He just spread a lot of lif Did you did
it become physical? Did you push that panic buttons? She
became physical because you open a can of who.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I would have taken it directly to HR. Oh I
didn't true, and they promoted him. Oh goodness, Yeah, and
now you're a Starbucks Look at that.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Sorry about it, but we have you, so we win. Yeah,
and that's okay. And Starbucks is saying that it's baristas
will win as long as they know how to employ
the panic button.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
But do you think that would work though? No, you
think the police will come. They'll be like, it's.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
A Karen, Yeah, you know I I here's the thing.
If you're going to give baristas a panic button, then
you certainly need to make sure there's a direct line
to law enforcement, because if you call regular law enforcement,
that panic button goes to that line that we call
if we have an issue. That barista is going to
be on hold for two minutes, five minutes while someone
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is coming across that counter. There needs to be some
sort of direct line. That's no shot the dispatch system.
You're overwhelmed, and I respect that, but we have to
be realistic. What is a panic button actually going to do?
You know, it might do something different. Let's stay out
in Canyon Country than it might do in downtown LA. Right,
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Let's just be real. But the fact of the matter
is Starbucks, with all of their everything, is now including
this in their repertoire. And I think that really is
a sign of the times, so to speak. Because if
there weren't issues, if there weren't these agitated situations and
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agitated customers, there wouldn't be a need for a panic button.
I'm like, what's what's going on at Starbucks? It said,
And in fact, Richie, we were talking off air about
a family member of yours, and I'm reading here in
this report from Starbucks, it's Business Insider that they've been
having three hour training sessions to implement this new strategy.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
No.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, my nephew, he did a split shift today. He
was actually and in the morning and he's like off
at one and he has to go back for a
three hour meeting. And it makes sense now what that
three hour meeting is going to be about. So I'll
definitely ask him about this panic button.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
The training advises that if the regular customer refuses to comply,
So let's say you're a regular customer and you're like,
I always do this. They make sure to say regular customer,
but I imagine this could be any customer. If they
refuse to comply, employees should quote listen to the customer's
concern and kindly reiterate the intended use of our space.
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Staff should then leverage de escalation tactics to prioritize empathy
and understanding.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Oh my god, did you pull McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I was just about to say the same thing. Just
put the Kioska touchscreens in there. Throw something at that's
it you're saying. Throw something.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You're saying, go automated, automated, forget it.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Automated, for just close them all down, forget them, Just
make them spirit halloweens.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
At this point, we don't need any more problem solved.
Problem solved.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
When we come back, we're gonna talk about what Spirit Airlines,
not Spirit Halloween, is doing with their dress code.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You have to wear clothes.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'll tell you just how many and what kind on
the other side of the break. And lastly, we'll ask
Chris Merrill what he thinks about this new law introduced
in Mississippi. It's called contraception begins at erection.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh yeah, stay tuned for that. We have a lot
more show to go.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Tiffy Hobbs here with you for one last segment, and
we're gonna get through this story quickly so that we
can bring Chris Merrill on and talk about the last story.
We're saving just for him because he has to be apart. Okay,
so do you fly budget? Of course you do, or
at least you want to. No one wants to spend
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a lot of money on plane tickets, but that's just
the nature of the beast. Flying is extremely expensive, and
there are low cost airlines that intend to help you
out with that. Spirit Airlines is one of them. I've
flown Spirit a number of times. I've had no issues
knock on wood with Spirit Airlines. I find them to
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be just fine as long as you follow their rules.
And one of their new rules is that you will
not be allowed as a passenger to wear quote revealing
clothing or to quote have offensive tattoos.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
This policy.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
This new policy from Spirit Airlines follows an incident in
October where women accused the airline of sexism for removing
them from their flight over their crop tops, and a
crop top is one of those mid drift or stomach
bearing shirts.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
These women.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
These two women had on low cut, midrift midrift bearing
shirts and they were removed from their flights. The new
policy also aims again to have people cover up their
offensive tatt twos under the updated terms of Spirits contract
of carriage passengers are prohibited from wearing the following see
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through outfits. Andrew Caravella jot that down because I know
how you like to roll no see through.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Outfits most people do.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, you cannot wear any outfit that exposes your private
parts what are people wearing to the airport or and
you cannot wear anything that displays lewd, obscene or offensive
signage or body art. They do not want you to
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do these things. And they are saying that when you
book your ticket, you are agreeing to their terms, which
makes your adherents mandatory. So no inappropriate clothing, and spirit
will wield kind of the power to determine what that is.
Just cover up when you fly, Just wear your sweatsuit,
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don't worry about it, so that you're not pulled off
your flight as you're going out to go hang out
with your family. That's the last thing you need to
be worried about. Who's wearing things that expose their private parts?
Question for another day. But let's say you do want
to expose your private part. Here's a fun segue for
you for our last story. And I know we have
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Chris Merrill hanging on because I need Chris.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I need. Are you there, Chris, You're there?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Are you here?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You're ready for this? Okay?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
So Chris, let's say you want to expose your private part. Okay,
hypothetically speaking, let's say you have a private part and
you want to expose it.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I don't think you might be a kindles on here exactly,
all right.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
So and you decide that you are going to manipulate
your private part and it is going to then.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Quote, let me read from this.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Quote, discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize and embryo. Yes,
in Mississippi, you will be fined one thousand dollars for
the first defense, five thousand dollars for the second offense,
and ten thousand for any subsequent offenses because a Mississippi
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state Senator by the name of Bradford Blackman, a Democrat,
introduced to Bell this week that will seemingly ban men
from masturbating or engaging in other sexual acts when they
have no intent to fertilize an embryo. What say you, Chris, merriw.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I'm going to need a raise.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That's illegal. I think I don't make enough money, Sippy.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
I'm going to have to make some more money. Is
what's going to have to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
They don't want you to have any kind of raises
without the intent to fertilize an that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Yeah, I need to make more money so that I
can ignore all the fines.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
There's just so many euphemisms here.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, you know, for the lawmaker that made that like proposal,
what date went so wrong that he chose to try
and punish every man in that state?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
That's my question, Like who hurt him? Who hurt you?
Who hurt him?
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Who?
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Yeah, Actually, we're gonna we're gonna talk about this a
little bit in the next on the next show, not
in the next hour. But I do have this plan
because I think that this goes back. This is this
is not a new concept. This is actually an old concept.
This has been around for a long time, the idea
of the sacredness of the sperm.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
So get over yourself.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Yeah, no, we'll address that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
What else will you be addressing?
Speaker 7 (28:53):
We will talk about the mudslides, because why not mudslides everywhere?
Everybody's got a mudslide. Who doesn't love a good mud slide?
And Gavin Newsom going to be recalled again again?
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Why not? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, Who's who's starting the charge this time release?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Well, I think it's probably the usual suspects that just
say he's been.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Really bad and we don't like him. Yeah, yeah, off we.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Go again in that how's uh?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Was I gonna say? Who were you rooting for in
the game today? I saw that Raoul's team did not dance?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Huh No, no, are they playing now playing? Yeah, they're
playing now Lucky for him.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
My team got knocked out last weekend, so I was
kind of hoping for a Blizzard.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Okay, sorry, the total tsunami to hit everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
So who do you? Who do you have taken it all?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
I'm gonna go with the bills and yeah, that's not
gonna make Raoul very happy, but you know he'll get
over it.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Does he know this or is this news to him too?
Have you talked about this on air? Should we dump
this entirely?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Second?
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I think I think it's fair that he gets a
little bit of grief.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Okay, so I'll give that to him the next you
know this, we'll find out as as the game will
be progressing while we're on the air, and so I
know that he'll be finding it difficult to focus on
what we're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Okay, are we talking about the Mississippi thing again? Are
we talking about football and confused?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Okay, yeah, yeah, because one thing I know about him
is that when he watches the Chiefs oftentimes he doesn't
have his pants on.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And genetic material.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Everywhere, discharged all over the place.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Illegal find immediately panic button.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
We call it them mahomes pulling the Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
No no, no, please, no never pulling, no, no, no
anything else on the Big Show.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Oh yeah, I mean we'll talk about the impacts of
the President's visit and how I think Newsom actually has
kind of figured out the cheat code on Trump. Yeah,
so that's that's gonna be a big part of it too.
And if Newsom is not recalled, we might just leave
the United States.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Again, okay, like succeed from or succeed from leave it.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
I mean it's been what two years since we tried
to see the last time, so yeah, yeah, we'll give
it another shot.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Maybe we'll succeed with our seceeding.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, man, genetic material everywhere, all over the place, and
just enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Well, will you look forward to your show, Chris Merrill?
I will be.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Listening on my way home I navigate the weather. It's
been great talking to you.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Bud, you too, great show. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
So I'm learning, I'm getting better.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
All right, talk to you later, Chris. So everybody, that's
that's it. It's been fun. Do not discharge your genetic material.
I'm trying to figure out how many times I can
get this sentence out before we break.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Andrew, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Well, yeah, absolutely, don't discharge your genetic material in the
state of Mississipps, in.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The state of Mississippi, anywhere else's fair game. Just make
sure it is consensual. It's been fun. I'll see you
here next Saturday from five to seven. Stay tuned for
Chris Merrill from four to seven, and then Wendy Walsh
from seven to nine, and we'll get right back to
the whole Gang Star starting tomorrow. Get out there to
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the Dream Center and donate starting tomorrow if you can.
They need everything that you can give them. Check their
website their Instagram for more details, and if you want
to donate online, you can do so at kfiam six
forty dot com backslash donate. Let's help these people who
survived these fires. They have a long road ahead.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
It's been a
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Blast KFI AM six forty on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tiffany Hobbs here filling in till four. And then we
have Chris Merrill come in aboard. Can't wait to hear
what he's gonna talk about. It's always fun when Merrill
joins the station. But before he does, we have a
few more things to get into, one of which is
the fact that LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District can
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do no right in the eyes of people who are
dealing with these fires.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I'll tell you exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I remember, because I am also a teacher by day,
that in the hours after the Palisades Fire, LAUSD scrambled,
they absolutely scrambled after the Palisades fire and Eaten fire
to figure out a contingency plan for all of the
particulate matter that was now floating in the air and
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visible to the eye, which let people know very clearly
that what we were in was hazardous, was dangerous. And
that contingency plan turned into school closures district wide through
that next Monday. So I remember my school closed Thursday
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and Friday, actually, excuse me, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and
we reopened that next Monday, a few days after the
Eton and Palisades fires began. The same can be said
for schools across the district. It was a mandatory closure.
Other districts, of course, followed suit. The closer you were
to the epicenter of these fires, the more likely it
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was that your school and your district was going to close.
When the schools reopened on Monday, I remember that LAUSD
came under scrutiny for opening to soon. There were people
who said, Hey, we went outside and we can still
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smell the smoke, we can.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Still see the ash.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Our students, our children should not be out amongst all
of this because it is toxic.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And it's not that they were wrong. They were not.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
These people who were saying that there were tiny particulates
in the air, There always are.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
We live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We are beneath a very thick layer of smog on
any given day. Not today because we have the rains,
but give it a few days and we'll see that
brown layer re emerge over the basin. Especially if you're
driving down the Tin coming from Covena looking towards downtown,
you can see it extremely clearly.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
But or past.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Covina let's say Ontario and give you a larger swath
of section to survey. But the thing about LAUSD is
while they reopened, they did so by encouraging people to
use masks. They said, hey, go on modified outdoor activity,
make it like a rainy day's schedule. Stay inside. Will
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open the schools back up, because what we don't want
is blowback from parents saying that students have been out
of school too long and they don't want to go
back to distance learning. No one liked distance learning, especially
the teachers.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Trust me when I tell you this.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So we're going to go back and we're just going
to protect ourselves with masking because we know that we
have vulnerable populations students and staff who have respiratory issues, comorbidities,
and we want to make sure everyone is safe.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
YadA, YadA, YadA. And all that was true.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, those fires subsided and things somewhat got back to
normal outside of the burn zones. Of course, the further
away you are from the fire, the more likely you
were to return to some sort of normalcy when it
came to outdoor activity. But now, as these fires are
sporadic and pop up without warning in many cases, LAUS
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is being critiqued yet again for closing schools that people
say were too far away from the Hughes fire. And
that Hughes fire is that fire that broke out over
there by Late Castaic, just north of Santa Clarita, a
little northwest of Santa Clarita. But the Hughes fire and
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all of that area was absolutely affected. You can go
outside at that time. You could see it, you could
smell it. We've all been privy to the effects of fire,
whether you were in the direct impacted zone or within
a forty mile radius. In the last couple of weeks
because of the winds, but last week it was windy,
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but it wasn't as windy as it was with the
Palisades and Eaten fires.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
But we could still see the smoke.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You could still maybe smell a semblance of smoke from
the Hughes fire. LAUSD faced criticism last Wednesday during that
huge fire because they decided that they would halt all
outdoor activities, all sports activities over concerns about air quality,
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and people outside of the Hughes fire area said that
they were not impacted. They were not affected, so why
would LAUSD do this? Specifically, there were a few private
schools who really rallied against what LAUSD said, and I
have problems with this, and I'll tell you why. So
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the schools are Crespy in Encino, Shamanad and West Hills,
and Harvard, Westlake and Studio City, all of which went
on to hold basketball games and soccer matches outside on Wednesday. Birmingham,
a chartered school in Lake Balboa, you might be an alum,
wanted to play soccer and basketball games, but they pulled
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out due to LAUSD orders. They were getting ready to
play when they were told, hey, we can't actually play
because LAUSD has said that we cannot do outdoor activities.
The coach, the athletic director of Birmingham said, quote it
was beautiful outside, there was no problem. What LAUSD has
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done is increase the possibility of injuries because we are
forced to play a lot of games in a short
period of time. Close quote that's from the athletic director
of Birmingham High School. I'll tell you why I don't
like this one bit. I'm on the side of LAUSD.
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Kids go outside, they play, they come down with some
sort of respiratory distress. Immediately, parents, maybe even staff will
point in the direction of the air quality and what
will be or who will be held responsible? Lausd. This
is why I say they cannot win.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Tippy Hobbs here with you until four filling in. I'm
usually here on Saturdays, but I'm here today on this
beautifully rainy Sunday, and I just saw that the National
Weather Service Service has definitely enforced or encouraged us to
really heed this flash flood warning. They say that the
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conditions for flooding will begin around four pm, so just
as I'm leaving here great, and they will continue until
four pm tomorrow, and that the La River in certain
places is already filling up. So make sure you stay
tuned KFI News because I'm sure, as we do, whenever
there's rain and that river decides to swell, there are
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people who find themselves in it for one reason or another,
and then we have all those swift water rescues. Again,
we do not need our first responders in your butt
out of water because you want to decide to be
brave on a day like today. Let them handle the
fire stuff, let them get these kiddies and dogs out. Okay,
keep your butt at home or wherever you live. We
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were talking about LAUSD facing criticism. It's an LA Times
report because they decided to halt outdoor sports activities last
Wednesday during the Hughes fire out in the Lake Castaic
Santa Clarita area.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And I was telling you that there were.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Schools that elected to play games outside in direct opposition
to this LAUSD order, saying that the sports was more important. No,
they didn't actually say that, but that's what they're implying.
That's certainly what they're suggesting, that sports is tantamount to
safety and health. Because in this article they consult a pomonologist.
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His name is doctor shyam Row. And this doctor says
not so I don't know if he ors she. But
doctor shiam Raw says, and they're from Dignity Health at
Saint Mary in Long Beach, that the air is absolutely
not safe.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, a resounding no.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Why because there are tiny particulate matter, or is tiny
particulate matter that causes breathing issues for vulnerable groups. They
say that tiny dust, that microscopic dust that's not even
visible to some of these air quality indexes, is so
chock full of chemicals that it will cause respiratory issues
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or inflame issues that you may not even know you have,
or that you do in fact have. And so if
you are a kid who has a breathing issue or
is some sort of you know, asthmatic or anything, anything,
this could have easily just ballooned into something greater. And
then what happens when you're out there on those football
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on those football fields, or playing those soccer matches because
your school decided to defy LAUSD's order and let you play, because.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Screw that fire doesn't matter. Then what happens?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
LAUSD gets sued ding ding ding ding ding. We know this,
We've seen this. It happens every single time. And yet
here we go again with a recidivism. Let's get our
kids out there, let them play, let them play. It
sounds like COVID let them play, let them play, but
does not consider the ramifications down the line. Sure the
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kids might be okay today, but what about in two
three weeks months, whatever the case, when in fact respiratory
issues do arise, and.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
This will happen.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It absolutely will happen, because it happens every time. And
I'm not wishing ill on any of these children, but
I'm smart enough to remember many cases where this has happened. Okay,
it doesn't take a rocket scientist. The air is not
that great. Sure, it's okay today we have the rain.
Shouldn't be out in it anyway, but it's okay today.
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Tomorrow's going to be a little less okay, and by
Thursday Friday, it's going to be back to crap because
that's where we live. We live under a lot of
toxic smog. And you add all these fires that are
still burning people, and then.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You add the ash that will be kicked back up.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Can't tell you how many leaf blowers I've seen at
work over the last three weeks out in the streets.
I don't mean a work at my job. I mean
just them at work blowing all this toxic stuff around
because some shop owner or some homeowner wants to make
sure that their.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Porch is decreased of dust.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
All of this is in the air, and it makes
for a toxic soup that kids are still playing in.
So if lausd if pollmonologists, these experts are coming together
to say the air isn't good, what makes you think
that you sitting on your couch or you with your
coach's whistle knows better for some reason, maybe listen to
the experts. I don't know why we all think we're experts.
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We're not armchair experts. Get the real experts who are
telling you the deal. All right, what's going on? It's
Starbucks shifting gears just a little bit. Thinking about people
wanting somewhere to sit. Starbucks is a place a lot
of people have been able to kind of go and
leisurely hang around do your work. There are people whose
homes aren't standing anymore, and they may be looking for
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some sort of office space to conduct their business or
do their schoolwork.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Now Starbucks is implementing a new policy. It's actually a
reversal of a policy that they reversed in twenty eighteen,
which allowed them for people to go in and sit
without buying.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
No, it has changed.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Starbucks is now saying you have to purchase something in
order to sit in their cafes. To sit in there.
We call these restaurants. What's a Starbucks a restaurant?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Like a coffee shop? Coffee shop? Coffee shop.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'm like, because I don't consider them as having good coffee,
So I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Like, what is that just a coffee shop?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's a shop that sells coffee, expensive coffee. I tell
location I do like their chai. I will say that
ice iced, no ice, though I'm strange. I just want
cold right by learn how to make it by going
to Target, by getting my own ingredients periods, and now
I save some money, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's my little hack for Starbucks. Go to Target and
get the ingredients.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So Starbucks is reversing that policy. They want you to
buy something, sit in the store and enjoy what you
bought there as a paying customer.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
But they are anticipating blowback.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And what are they doing to arm their baristas for
this potential and likely blowback, which they say could be
explosive as.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Far as altercations are concerned.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
They are arming their baristas with panic buttons. This is
the world we live in. Baristas will have panic buttons
that will be invisible, unseen under the counter there that
they'll be able to access in case of an altercation
that could get out of hand. And the baristas are
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saying that they know the altercations are going to happen
because when they tell people anything in opposition to anything
they want, whether it's that they don't have this ingredient,
or you can't stay in the restaurant or the coffee
shop for this amount of time. They get some sort
of pushback and people can be.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Violent, you know, not to complain, But I've been in
several Starbucks, and I kid you not, there's only one
or two power outlets for all the customers in the Starbucks.
I like to plug in your phone or your laptop.
Oh what they're doing so I don't. It would be
very difficult and challenging on like a Tuesday or Wednesday
afternoon to go have coffee and sit there if I
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can't have a wall outlet for my phone or my laptop.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I'm just saying, well.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Here's the thing. If you decide to, you know, pitch
a fit because of this, Andrew caravell and get all
out of story probable.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And you know I've seen you. I've seen you get
upset and go attack one of these burisas you've seen
that on TMZ too. Yeah, I know, toutely. I recorded.
I'm gonna upload it later.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
They will push a panic button on you, and Andrew Caravella,
And now the police are coming to will you away?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
And now you're a story on KFI. There's a couple
on sunset where my pictures up there do not serve
this man.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
So facts you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Tippy Hobbs here with you until four. Then Chris Merrill
comes aboard. Can't wait to talk to him. We'll do
that in the last segment. So you make sure you
stay right here. Don't you go anywhere, especially outside, because
it is raining. Looking behind me, it doesn't look like
it's raining as hard anymore here in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But I don't know where you are.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Check in with us, let us know, give us a
weather update, let us know what the weather is where
you are, because I'll be leaving and going to North
Hollywood to see a play later.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I used to kind of know what I'm getting into.
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Back to this Starbucks conversation. We were talking about how
Starbucks is planning to implement a new rule, and that
rule is simply, if you're gonna come to Starbucks and
you expect to sit down, you have to be a
paying customer.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
No more of this. Come in, hang out.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Plug your laptop up, or sit down and do your
TikTok and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Without paying for something.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, no, no, you have to be a paying customer
because they are encouraging that change of environment. They want
it to be like a little cafe. And I have
a quote here from the CEO, Brian Nicole, and he says, quote,
we want everyone to feel welcome and comfortable in our stores.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
End quote. No you don't, No, you don't. No, you don't.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You don't want everyone to feel comfortable and welcome in
your stores. You want your paying customers to feel comfortable
and welcome. Because you're saying now that if you do
not pay, the baristas are going to be empowered to
make you very uncomfortable and to feel very unwelcomed, and
that there actually is a process by which baristas are.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Going to confront you.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
First, they're going to come to you and they're going
to give you a verbal warning. And then if you
try and come back at them with any foolishness, they
have a panic button and they're going to hit that
panic button and they're going to drag you Andrew Caravella
off to your death, off with your head in the
back of that Starbucks there. I believe that I know
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and you know, we have an authority on the matter
here and board up Robin who I'm not going to
ask you too many questions, Robin, but were you ever
armed with a panic button?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I wish.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Do you have an example of an experience you've had
with a customer that maybe became irate and you had
to employ any of your special skills so to speak.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I don't know about special skills. But somebody didn't get
something in their drink and they threw the drink through
the drive through.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Oh through the drive through?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, that takes agility and precision. Did they hit anything?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The person the cart?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And then what happened? Tell us the story? Allow them
to go home? The person in the drive through?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You to the.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Coworker, Oh that was That must have been nice for them.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
They get to go home and have the day off.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I did forget. Someone did overdose and right in front
of our doors.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Do you hear that?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I forgot. By the way, there was an overdose in
front of the doors there.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Wow, Because he came back like a couple hours later
and got in his car like nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh, he overdosed, stayed there and you guys just kept
on business and.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He went to the hospital. Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
We gave him spry and then went to the hospital,
and then a couple hours later he came back.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
So are you telling me they trained Starbucks baristas in
CPR and in panic button.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
No, it just happened to have, like somebody that was
going to nursing school was there.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I thought it kind of like a special operative there
at Starbucks that you guys are all kind of like
secret of agents.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
They should in Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
That must have been a crazy scene, like overdosing and
then surviving and then yeah, can I order a Vincy
iced coffee?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
You must really love start.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Meanwhile, there's that Karen in the background. I asked for
this ice. You're literally doing CPR and somebody.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Why are you not allowed back at your old location? Okay?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Manager, like my district manager, we never got along.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
He just spread a lot of lif Did you did
it become physical? Did you push that panic buttons? She
became physical because you open a can of who.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I would have taken it directly to HR. Oh I
didn't true, and they promoted him. Oh goodness, Yeah, and
now you're a Starbucks Look at that.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Sorry about it, but we have you, so we win. Yeah,
and that's okay. And Starbucks is saying that it's baristas
will win as long as they know how to employ
the panic button.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
But do you think that would work though? No, you
think the police will come. They'll be like, it's.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
A Karen, Yeah, you know I I here's the thing.
If you're going to give baristas a panic button, then
you certainly need to make sure there's a direct line
to law enforcement, because if you call regular law enforcement,
that panic button goes to that line that we call
if we have an issue. That barista is going to
be on hold for two minutes, five minutes while someone
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is coming across that counter. There needs to be some
sort of direct line. That's no shot the dispatch system.
You're overwhelmed, and I respect that, but we have to
be realistic. What is a panic button actually going to do?
You know, it might do something different. Let's stay out
in Canyon Country than it might do in downtown LA. Right,
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Let's just be real. But the fact of the matter
is Starbucks, with all of their everything, is now including
this in their repertoire. And I think that really is
a sign of the times, so to speak. Because if
there weren't issues, if there weren't these agitated situations and
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agitated customers, there wouldn't be a need for a panic button.
I'm like, what's what's going on at Starbucks? It said,
And in fact, Richie, we were talking off air about
a family member of yours, and I'm reading here in
this report from Starbucks, it's Business Insider that they've been
having three hour training sessions to implement this new strategy.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
No.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, my nephew, he did a split shift today. He
was actually and in the morning and he's like off
at one and he has to go back for a
three hour meeting. And it makes sense now what that
three hour meeting is going to be about. So I'll
definitely ask him about this panic button.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
The training advises that if the regular customer refuses to comply,
So let's say you're a regular customer and you're like,
I always do this. They make sure to say regular customer,
but I imagine this could be any customer. If they
refuse to comply, employees should quote listen to the customer's
concern and kindly reiterate the intended use of our space.
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Staff should then leverage de escalation tactics to prioritize empathy
and understanding.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Oh my god, did you pull McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I was just about to say the same thing. Just
put the Kioska touchscreens in there. Throw something at that's
it you're saying. Throw something.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You're saying, go automated, automated, forget it.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Automated, for just close them all down, forget them, Just
make them spirit halloweens.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
At this point, we don't need any more problem solved.
Problem solved.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
When we come back, we're gonna talk about what Spirit Airlines,
not Spirit Halloween, is doing with their dress code.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You have to wear clothes.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'll tell you just how many and what kind on
the other side of the break. And lastly, we'll ask
Chris Merrill what he thinks about this new law introduced
in Mississippi. It's called contraception begins at erection.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh yeah, stay tuned for that. We have a lot
more show to go.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Tiffy Hobbs here with you for one last segment, and
we're gonna get through this story quickly so that we
can bring Chris Merrill on and talk about the last story.
We're saving just for him because he has to be apart. Okay,
so do you fly budget? Of course you do, or
at least you want to. No one wants to spend
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a lot of money on plane tickets, but that's just
the nature of the beast. Flying is extremely expensive, and
there are low cost airlines that intend to help you
out with that. Spirit Airlines is one of them. I've
flown Spirit a number of times. I've had no issues
knock on wood with Spirit Airlines. I find them to
(24:21):
be just fine as long as you follow their rules.
And one of their new rules is that you will
not be allowed as a passenger to wear quote revealing
clothing or to quote have offensive tattoos.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
This policy.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
This new policy from Spirit Airlines follows an incident in
October where women accused the airline of sexism for removing
them from their flight over their crop tops, and a
crop top is one of those mid drift or stomach
bearing shirts.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
These women.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
These two women had on low cut, midrift midrift bearing
shirts and they were removed from their flights. The new
policy also aims again to have people cover up their
offensive tatt twos under the updated terms of Spirits contract
of carriage passengers are prohibited from wearing the following see
(25:24):
through outfits. Andrew Caravella jot that down because I know
how you like to roll no see through.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Outfits most people do.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, you cannot wear any outfit that exposes your private
parts what are people wearing to the airport or and
you cannot wear anything that displays lewd, obscene or offensive
signage or body art. They do not want you to
(25:51):
do these things. And they are saying that when you
book your ticket, you are agreeing to their terms, which
makes your adherents mandatory. So no inappropriate clothing, and spirit
will wield kind of the power to determine what that is.
Just cover up when you fly, Just wear your sweatsuit,
(26:12):
don't worry about it, so that you're not pulled off
your flight as you're going out to go hang out
with your family. That's the last thing you need to
be worried about. Who's wearing things that expose their private parts?
Question for another day. But let's say you do want
to expose your private part. Here's a fun segue for
you for our last story. And I know we have
(26:33):
Chris Merrill hanging on because I need Chris.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I need. Are you there, Chris, You're there?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Are you here?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You're ready for this? Okay?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
So Chris, let's say you want to expose your private part. Okay,
hypothetically speaking, let's say you have a private part and
you want to expose it.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I don't think you might be a kindles on here exactly,
all right.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
So and you decide that you are going to manipulate
your private part and it is going to then.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Quote, let me read from this.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Quote, discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize and embryo. Yes,
in Mississippi, you will be fined one thousand dollars for
the first defense, five thousand dollars for the second offense,
and ten thousand for any subsequent offenses because a Mississippi
(27:28):
state Senator by the name of Bradford Blackman, a Democrat,
introduced to Bell this week that will seemingly ban men
from masturbating or engaging in other sexual acts when they
have no intent to fertilize an embryo. What say you, Chris, merriw.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I'm going to need a raise.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That's illegal. I think I don't make enough money, Sippy.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
I'm going to have to make some more money. Is
what's going to have to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
They don't want you to have any kind of raises
without the intent to fertilize an that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Yeah, I need to make more money so that I
can ignore all the fines.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
There's just so many euphemisms here.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, you know, for the lawmaker that made that like proposal,
what date went so wrong that he chose to try
and punish every man in that state?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
That's my question, Like who hurt him? Who hurt you?
Who hurt him?
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Who?
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Yeah, Actually, we're gonna we're gonna talk about this a
little bit in the next on the next show, not
in the next hour. But I do have this plan
because I think that this goes back. This is this
is not a new concept. This is actually an old concept.
This has been around for a long time, the idea
of the sacredness of the sperm.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
So get over yourself.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Yeah, no, we'll address that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
What else will you be addressing?
Speaker 7 (28:53):
We will talk about the mudslides, because why not mudslides everywhere?
Everybody's got a mudslide. Who doesn't love a good mud slide?
And Gavin Newsom going to be recalled again again?
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Why not? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, Who's who's starting the charge this time release?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Well, I think it's probably the usual suspects that just
say he's been.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Really bad and we don't like him. Yeah, yeah, off we.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Go again in that how's uh?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Was I gonna say? Who were you rooting for in
the game today? I saw that Raoul's team did not dance?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Huh No, no, are they playing now playing? Yeah, they're
playing now Lucky for him.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
My team got knocked out last weekend, so I was
kind of hoping for a Blizzard.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Okay, sorry, the total tsunami to hit everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
So who do you? Who do you have taken it all?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
I'm gonna go with the bills and yeah, that's not
gonna make Raoul very happy, but you know he'll get
over it.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Does he know this or is this news to him too?
Have you talked about this on air? Should we dump
this entirely?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Second?
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I think I think it's fair that he gets a
little bit of grief.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Okay, so I'll give that to him the next you
know this, we'll find out as as the game will
be progressing while we're on the air, and so I
know that he'll be finding it difficult to focus on
what we're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Okay, are we talking about the Mississippi thing again? Are
we talking about football and confused?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Okay, yeah, yeah, because one thing I know about him
is that when he watches the Chiefs oftentimes he doesn't
have his pants on.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And genetic material.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Everywhere, discharged all over the place.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Illegal find immediately panic button.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
We call it them mahomes pulling the Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
No no, no, please, no never pulling, no, no, no
anything else on the Big Show.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Oh yeah, I mean we'll talk about the impacts of
the President's visit and how I think Newsom actually has
kind of figured out the cheat code on Trump. Yeah,
so that's that's gonna be a big part of it too.
And if Newsom is not recalled, we might just leave
the United States.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Again, okay, like succeed from or succeed from leave it.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
I mean it's been what two years since we tried
to see the last time, so yeah, yeah, we'll give
it another shot.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Maybe we'll succeed with our seceeding.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, man, genetic material everywhere, all over the place, and
just enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Well, will you look forward to your show, Chris Merrill?
I will be.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Listening on my way home I navigate the weather. It's
been great talking to you.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Bud, you too, great show. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
So I'm learning, I'm getting better.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
All right, talk to you later, Chris. So everybody, that's
that's it. It's been fun. Do not discharge your genetic material.
I'm trying to figure out how many times I can
get this sentence out before we break.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Andrew, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Well, yeah, absolutely, don't discharge your genetic material in the
state of Mississipps, in.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The state of Mississippi, anywhere else's fair game. Just make
sure it is consensual. It's been fun. I'll see you
here next Saturday from five to seven. Stay tuned for
Chris Merrill from four to seven, and then Wendy Walsh
from seven to nine, and we'll get right back to
the whole Gang Star starting tomorrow. Get out there to
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