August 2, 2024 • 22 mins
KFI food enthusiast and Fork Reporter Neil Saavedra comes on the program to talk about IHOP’s ‘all you can eat’ returning, fast food workers wanting another increase is wages, Chipotle portion size response, and Boars Head deli meat recall. The show closes with this week’s ‘World in Review.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Neil Savedra and Foody Yes and Foody Friday talking about
people dying. This is an issue that's very, very close
to home. Bores Head has expanded its recall of meat
and this is linked with lasteria outbreak. Two people have
already died, thirty three hospitalizations and this is now. It's
(00:33):
another seven million pounds, seven million.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Pounds of products.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's a big company and it's Beloney, bacon, Frankwort, Furder,
sausage products and ham.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So I'll tell you what. As soon as I looked
at this story, I went to my.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Refrigerator where I always keep a package of boar's head
sliced ham medium slice from the counter, and I was
looking at it and looking at it, and I'm looking
at the package. I said, yeah, I'll take my chances.
(01:14):
If you think I'm gonna throw away a package of
boar's head ham, you are out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So, Neil, why don't we talk about this recall?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, I'm I'm personally okay with you eating it, so
I wouldn't even look at the dates if I were you. Yeah,
this is one that started small got bigger. As you said,
seven million pounds of Delli meat produced at their Virginia
plant is now considered to be affected. Boar's Head and
(01:42):
Old Country brands. That includes liverworst as you said, your
beloved and my beloved, ham beef, salami, bologny, and other items.
But that means hot dogs and bacon are also part
of this recall, and that's something that should be noted
as well, and somebody might look past. So they basically
(02:05):
said what everyone says, this is about an abundance of caution.
They decided to voluntarily and immediately recall all these items.
And you can check out the full list and go
through all of it. There's a number that you can
call as well if you are if you want to
(02:28):
get more information. It's eight hundred three five two six
two seven seven. But basically, this has caused twenty eight
hospitalizations two deaths across twelve.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
States, and.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It has a possibility to grow because there's so much
fit and they're so popular.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, So therein is the question is it limited?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
When I saw the story, it was limited to the
Midwest and the north east. It was not in the
south or the west, not that it matters because I'm
not throwing away the hamcum hell or high water, and
I'm going to call that number, and whoever answers, I'm
going to just say no, that's gonna be a very
quick phone call.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But do we is it safe?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Here is my question. Does the recall? Does it go nationwide?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
My understanding that everything has been pulled off the shelves.
These are products Liverworth products and the like that were
produced between June eleventh, twenty twenty four in July seventeenth,
twenty twenty four. They come in three point five pound
loafs or various life packages that we've seen all of that.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
These were made in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
They've got those sell by dates from July twenty fifth
to August thirtieth. These are the ones that you got
to get rid of if you are concerned and aren't sure,
because let's face it, they're on the list.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You're not on the list until you are.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So even if we're in California, I still say call
the number, double check or check with the local grocer
that you purchased it from, because you don't want to
get added to the list that it started in California
with your batch, all.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Right, So I'm okay, Jack, all right, So I'm okay
because I buy them in big packages in bulk, and
the last time I bought it was February of this year,
so it's not part of the dates.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I would just say, don't eat any boar's head haam
that is gifted to you by any listeners or anybody
working here at the station.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, and real quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Number one, the number of products that they have, oh yeah,
is so extensive. And they're in every supermarket, in every
single every supermarket, competing supermarkets.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I mean, just it's.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Insane all over the country. How big a company is this.
It has to be billions.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh, it's massive.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And again, as far as this particular concern, as keep
in mind, lasteria is there are symptoms like fever, headaches
and like, but if you're pregnant, or if you're someone
like me with the weekend immune system, if you're older adults,
(05:25):
younger children, these are the times where it becomes problematic,
so keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So you know, I want to put it on the
record for those of you that are concerned and do
have the hand product specifically, instead of.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Throwing it away, please deliver to the station tomorrow and
it will be put to good use.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I just want to point that out. I always wondered
about this. I hop All you Can Eat and they
bring it back every once in a while. To me,
it seems like almost pure marketing because, for of all,
how many pancakes can you eat? Second, of all, it
costs them a fraction of a penny to make a pancake.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's the cheapest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And so when's the last time you order seconds or
thirds of buttermilk pancakes.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, you have to be prepared because yes, they're like
a brick once you eat them, but they're delicious. So
ihop is doing what it does. It's bringing back it's
famous all you can Eat pancakes. It's already started and
it will go through September fifteenth. So you know, if
you love their buttermilk pancakes, which I do. I think
(06:38):
their pancakes are tasty as hell, then.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
You're good to go.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
If you've got a family and you want to bang
for your butt, then you're good to go. So you
get one of their breakfast combos that includes a short
stack of buttermilk pancakes, and after you finish that you
get more and more. They brought to you two at
a time until you're full. So it's not like they're
wasted anything. But yeah, they're they're probably pennies to make,
(07:04):
and uh, it's a it's as.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
If it brings in enough people, you know, it obviously
makes sense. By the way, not only are they delicious,
the best pumpkin pancakes on the planet happened to be
I how pumpkin pancakes, Pumpkin pancakes, easy, Peter Peter Piper pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Pancakes, a pickle purple handle.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, so it is.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, they do make excellent pumpkin pancakes. I don't know
when those start, but with this going through September fifteenth,
I bet you you'll you'll get in on.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think it starts start.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It starts a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving and then
goes through I think early h They're not very long,
maybe maybe a month they're they're they're not there very
long Chipotle and portion sizes.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
What's going on there Chipotle?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
If you remember there was back just a little bit
there was this big upheaval on TikTok where people were
saying that the portion sizes that Chipotle had shrunk, and
that what they were doing is they noticed if they
took their camera on their phone out and started shooting
(08:16):
video while they're Britaboles or whatever were being made, that
they got more than if they did it.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And then you had Brian Nicol, who is the CEO.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He came out, he addressed the issue and he said,
that's not true. There are varies very you know, from
store to location or restaurant to location. There's going to
be some variables because there's humans involved in all this.
But we're not purposely doing this. And please don't shoot
video because it, you.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Know, gives anxiety to our workers. It's not fair to them.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So while that was all said, well now they've stepped
up and they said that they're going to make the
sizes larger or you know, so they're trying to people
were complaining and they said, well, we're going to take
care of this and make sure you feel like you're
getting better.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
When it's winter and it's cold outside, is that when
the Chipotle burritos do do shrink?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'll pause for all the hordes of laughter going on
right now.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
It's cold.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I thought it was I thought it was funny. It's
not often when I think of myself as funny. I
think of myself usually is not all.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
That's not fair. I bet you think you're funnier than
more people.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Also, just a quick word about fast food workers want
an increase on top of their twenty dollars an hour race.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That they just you know, being in management before, I
was always like, you complain about your pay at the
time of your contract, after you signed the con track,
then shut up until your next contract.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
That's the way it should be. Right, you've agreed on this.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, California fast food worker is just four months after
California raised the minimum wage from sixteen to twenty dollars
an hour. The union that represents them, thousands of these people.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, but I don't think that was a contractual arrangement.
I think it was a legislature Gavin absolutely ordering this.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
This was not a deal that was cut.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
No, that can't. You're absolutely right, that came from Newsome. However,
now they're saying, hey, we need a seventy cent increase
to keep pace with rising living.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Costs, and I think this is fine.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That's their job as union leaders the SEIU to go
in step in and go for those increases. However, they
every single increase is a nail in the coffin of
fast food workers. They are going to be replaced ac
us before the technology is there, and it's coming lightning fast.
Two things about fast food it has to be has
(11:00):
to be cheap. It's getting and slowing down.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It has to be food unlike many fast food places that.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
But it's it's cheaper in some ways to go to
a chain where you sit down now to get a burger,
or to go for these mom and pop places.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Okay, Neil tomorrow, you are here from two to five
o'clock in the afternoon with the Fork Report.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes, and I'd love to encourage people to if you
haven't joined me on social media to please do so.
We have a good time on there at fork Reporter
on Instagram x you know threads at all, but at
fork Reporter, I'm on Instagram quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, and he actually pays attention to people going on Instagram.
And the only people I ever ever answer people that
hate me and tell me what an ass I am
those I like responding to.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And by the way, all I do is agree with you.
You know, the more you rip into me, the more
I go, Oh, you're absolutely right. All right, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Time for this week's World in Review Living under a rock.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well, here's what you've missed, Typing hotch off the newswires
from around the corner to around that world. This is
this week's world.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
In review, and I want to start with a couple
of great stories that happened this week. Yesterday, that this
was an extraordinary This was a wonderful story. Wall Street
Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich and former US Marine Paul Waylan
were released Wayland there for what five years, Gerskovich year
(12:38):
and a half, trumped up charges and it was a
prisoner swap.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Putin finally let go. He was the big winner on
this one.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And it had to do actually Germany was the last,
the last player to jump in here, and had to
do with a return.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I mean, this was multi country, multi.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Prier swap, and it had to do with the return
of two German prisoners Russian spies who killed a guy
in Berlin. All right, So that is terrific news. I
love that Simon Biles big big win yesterday. And the
US is doing pretty good, to say the least in
(13:19):
the medal count. So that is the good news. Now
we've got the news around the world that we look
at normal. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.
The Venezuela election. Venezuela's insanely left wing, horrible, totally incompetent
President Nicholas Maduro, who's already had two six year terms,
(13:44):
he ran for.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
His third term.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
There was no way he was going to win because
he is so unpopular, and there was no way he
was going to lose because of the fraud that was
committed during the election.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
He is a strong man.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
He starting with Chavez and following with Maduro, has single
handedly or in this case, double handedly, destroyed the Venezuelan economy,
destroyed it. Venezuela used to be the wealthiest country in.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
All of South America, and now it is one of
the poorest.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Seven million Venezuelans have already left and the country.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Well, it's just a god awful mess.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh one more piece of good news, and I talked
about this yesterday with mo Kelly. Deadpool and Wolverine surpassed
two hundred million dollars in US ticket sales and it
just opened the biggest opening weekend for an R rated movie.
Pretty impressive. So this may be up at the top
of the heap. And I don't particularly like superhero movies,
(14:52):
but I understand that not only of course, these are
superhero you know, Marvel superheroes that have a huge popularity.
But the movie itself, I hear, is very very good.
I don't know, has anybody here seen it?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Yeah, we went and saw it on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What'd you think? I thought it was okay, Oh, just okay. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I mean there was some laugh out loud funny moments.
But you really have to be into that universe, okay,
and you really have to follow because they're jumping around
and doing a lot of variant stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Deadpool known for pretty rough language, and did that continue on.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Swearing like a sailor through the whole thing? And Wolverine too,
I'm like, oh, you're a superhero, come on.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So there. Yeah, there was a lot of cussing.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And they're both the empty heroes.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, and Neil, have you seen it?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
As a matter of fact, I was gonna call you
this past weekend, not this past weekend, but the other
day to see if you wanted to go out.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
No, I won't spend that I won't spend that much money,
and also the coochs and you know it's all a
way to expend.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
But now I'm a huge fan of Deadpool, okay, looking
for and Wolverine and looking forward to seeing it.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Cono, cono, did you see it?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't make enough money?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Okay, of course not. I'm sorry to ask. And Ann
did not see it either. So I'll wait till it
comes out on streaming, and it should be pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Although it's making so much money now, I don't know
when it is going to come out. On a political front,
I guess this is fun. After jd.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Vance called childless women, particularly childless cat women, and it
was just me. He offended a lot of childless couples
out there, which are more and more. And then you
have Donald Trump jumping into the fray. He to his credit,
goes in front of the Black Women Journalists Organization and
(16:53):
knowing he was going to get nailed, and he was.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
He absolutely was nailed, and it was very.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
It was contentious, and he was asked by one of
the reporters, do you believe that Kamala Harris is black?
And he came back with she's black. Now, she used
to be Indian. She's an Indian extraction as well as black.
(17:23):
She's about as mixed race as you can get. So
I think her mom is Indian, her dad is black.
He's Jamaican. And he said she used to only be Indian,
and then several years.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Ago she became black.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
On the implication or the insinuation, she did that for
political purposes, and he was corrected saying, no, she went
to a black university.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
She went to Howard.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
When she was in she's always identified as a black.
When she went into the Senate, she was part of
the Black Congressional Caucus. And so you're full of it, Trump,
and he.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Goes, no, he doubled down, double down. Effectively, he accused.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Her of being a reverse Michael Jackson, you are now black.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Okay, so much for that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Now, on an international front, hamas political chief Ismael Haneya
was killed in Tehran and that is a big deal
because this was an attack on this guy. It was
a bomb that killed him at some guest quarters that
he is always at and the bomb was placed there
(18:36):
months ago. And Israel, who.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Has not yet i think confirmed.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
They just waited and waited and they blew him up,
and he was one of the negotiators that was involved
in attempting a ceasefire agreement with Israel.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And that wasn't going very far.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
But he was one of those guys, and Israel still
blew him up in Tehran. And Iran is going to
be coming back real hard and saying we're going to go.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
After Israel directly.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
And that is bad news because the possibility of a
regional war, and I mean a big one now is
We're that much closer to a doomsday at twelve PM.
As far as the war in the Middle East is concerned,
not nuclear weapons. Although Israel has nuclear weapons, it does
(19:30):
not confirm, it is not part of any treaty organization
countries that have nuclear weapons. That has never ever confirmed
or admitted it has nuclear weapons. It has sophisticated nuclear weapons.
And I guarantee you if at the last moment it's
(19:52):
a question of Israel's surviving or not, you will see
these Arab capitals turn into rubble. I guarantee you that
will happen. Keep in mind, Israel has to just lose
one war and it's over for this that country. So
any peace talks gone. That is absolute history. Unfortunately. And
(20:16):
we talked about this with Neil. Was this hit me?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
The fact that we may engage in a.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Nuclear war, the fact that World Piece is about to explode.
I mean, none of that compares to the Delli meat
recalled by Bor's head.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
This is a real problem.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
And Boor's Head has recalled seven over seven million pounds
of Deli meat, Beloney, bacon, Frankfurter sausage products.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Including him arshad ham. And the issue is listeria.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Two people have already died and twenty eight people have
been hospitalized. And I went to my refrigerator this morning
as soon as this story broke and I went and
picked up my package of Boar's head slice Deli Ham
medium slice, and I looked at it, and I'm asked
to throw it away because of the possibility, or go
(21:21):
back to the store and get a refund. I looked
at it, and I said, I'm willing to take the chance.
If you think I'm throwing away a package of Boar's
head ham, you are out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It just doesn't happen. That's it, guys. We're done. Okay,
another week another eighty cents.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
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Speaker 2 (22:01):
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(22:23):
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mind if you say anything.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Negative, I agree. Right.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Neil Savedra and Foody Yes and Foody Friday talking about
people dying. This is an issue that's very, very close
to home. Bores Head has expanded its recall of meat
and this is linked with lasteria outbreak. Two people have
already died, thirty three hospitalizations and this is now. It's
(00:33):
another seven million pounds, seven million.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Pounds of products.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's a big company and it's Beloney, bacon, Frankwort, Furder,
sausage products and ham.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So I'll tell you what. As soon as I looked
at this story, I went to my.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Refrigerator where I always keep a package of boar's head
sliced ham medium slice from the counter, and I was
looking at it and looking at it, and I'm looking
at the package. I said, yeah, I'll take my chances.
(01:14):
If you think I'm gonna throw away a package of
boar's head ham, you are out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So, Neil, why don't we talk about this recall?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, I'm I'm personally okay with you eating it, so
I wouldn't even look at the dates if I were you. Yeah,
this is one that started small got bigger. As you said,
seven million pounds of Delli meat produced at their Virginia
plant is now considered to be affected. Boar's Head and
(01:42):
Old Country brands. That includes liverworst as you said, your
beloved and my beloved, ham beef, salami, bologny, and other items.
But that means hot dogs and bacon are also part
of this recall, and that's something that should be noted
as well, and somebody might look past. So they basically
(02:05):
said what everyone says, this is about an abundance of caution.
They decided to voluntarily and immediately recall all these items.
And you can check out the full list and go
through all of it. There's a number that you can
call as well if you are if you want to
(02:28):
get more information. It's eight hundred three five two six
two seven seven. But basically, this has caused twenty eight
hospitalizations two deaths across twelve.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
States, and.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It has a possibility to grow because there's so much
fit and they're so popular.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, So therein is the question is it limited?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
When I saw the story, it was limited to the
Midwest and the north east. It was not in the
south or the west, not that it matters because I'm
not throwing away the hamcum hell or high water, and
I'm going to call that number, and whoever answers, I'm
going to just say no, that's gonna be a very
quick phone call.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But do we is it safe?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Here is my question. Does the recall? Does it go nationwide?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
My understanding that everything has been pulled off the shelves.
These are products Liverworth products and the like that were
produced between June eleventh, twenty twenty four in July seventeenth,
twenty twenty four. They come in three point five pound
loafs or various life packages that we've seen all of that.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
These were made in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
They've got those sell by dates from July twenty fifth
to August thirtieth. These are the ones that you got
to get rid of if you are concerned and aren't sure,
because let's face it, they're on the list.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You're not on the list until you are.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So even if we're in California, I still say call
the number, double check or check with the local grocer
that you purchased it from, because you don't want to
get added to the list that it started in California
with your batch, all.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Right, So I'm okay, Jack, all right, So I'm okay
because I buy them in big packages in bulk, and
the last time I bought it was February of this year,
so it's not part of the dates.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I would just say, don't eat any boar's head haam
that is gifted to you by any listeners or anybody
working here at the station.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, and real quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Number one, the number of products that they have, oh yeah,
is so extensive. And they're in every supermarket, in every
single every supermarket, competing supermarkets.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I mean, just it's.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Insane all over the country. How big a company is this.
It has to be billions.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh, it's massive.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And again, as far as this particular concern, as keep
in mind, lasteria is there are symptoms like fever, headaches
and like, but if you're pregnant, or if you're someone
like me with the weekend immune system, if you're older adults,
(05:25):
younger children, these are the times where it becomes problematic,
so keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So you know, I want to put it on the
record for those of you that are concerned and do
have the hand product specifically, instead of.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Throwing it away, please deliver to the station tomorrow and
it will be put to good use.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I just want to point that out. I always wondered
about this. I hop All you Can Eat and they
bring it back every once in a while. To me,
it seems like almost pure marketing because, for of all,
how many pancakes can you eat? Second, of all, it
costs them a fraction of a penny to make a pancake.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's the cheapest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And so when's the last time you order seconds or
thirds of buttermilk pancakes.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, you have to be prepared because yes, they're like
a brick once you eat them, but they're delicious. So
ihop is doing what it does. It's bringing back it's
famous all you can Eat pancakes. It's already started and
it will go through September fifteenth. So you know, if
you love their buttermilk pancakes, which I do. I think
(06:38):
their pancakes are tasty as hell, then.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
You're good to go.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
If you've got a family and you want to bang
for your butt, then you're good to go. So you
get one of their breakfast combos that includes a short
stack of buttermilk pancakes, and after you finish that you
get more and more. They brought to you two at
a time until you're full. So it's not like they're
wasted anything. But yeah, they're they're probably pennies to make,
(07:04):
and uh, it's a it's as.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
If it brings in enough people, you know, it obviously
makes sense. By the way, not only are they delicious,
the best pumpkin pancakes on the planet happened to be
I how pumpkin pancakes, Pumpkin pancakes, easy, Peter Peter Piper pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Pancakes, a pickle purple handle.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, so it is.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, they do make excellent pumpkin pancakes. I don't know
when those start, but with this going through September fifteenth,
I bet you you'll you'll get in on.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think it starts start.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It starts a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving and then
goes through I think early h They're not very long,
maybe maybe a month they're they're they're not there very
long Chipotle and portion sizes.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
What's going on there Chipotle?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
If you remember there was back just a little bit
there was this big upheaval on TikTok where people were
saying that the portion sizes that Chipotle had shrunk, and
that what they were doing is they noticed if they
took their camera on their phone out and started shooting
(08:16):
video while they're Britaboles or whatever were being made, that
they got more than if they did it.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And then you had Brian Nicol, who is the CEO.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He came out, he addressed the issue and he said,
that's not true. There are varies very you know, from
store to location or restaurant to location. There's going to
be some variables because there's humans involved in all this.
But we're not purposely doing this. And please don't shoot
video because it, you.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Know, gives anxiety to our workers. It's not fair to them.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So while that was all said, well now they've stepped
up and they said that they're going to make the
sizes larger or you know, so they're trying to people
were complaining and they said, well, we're going to take
care of this and make sure you feel like you're
getting better.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
When it's winter and it's cold outside, is that when
the Chipotle burritos do do shrink?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'll pause for all the hordes of laughter going on
right now.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
It's cold.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I thought it was I thought it was funny. It's
not often when I think of myself as funny. I
think of myself usually is not all.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
That's not fair. I bet you think you're funnier than
more people.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Also, just a quick word about fast food workers want
an increase on top of their twenty dollars an hour race.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That they just you know, being in management before, I
was always like, you complain about your pay at the
time of your contract, after you signed the con track,
then shut up until your next contract.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
That's the way it should be. Right, you've agreed on this.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, California fast food worker is just four months after
California raised the minimum wage from sixteen to twenty dollars
an hour. The union that represents them, thousands of these people.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, but I don't think that was a contractual arrangement.
I think it was a legislature Gavin absolutely ordering this.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
This was not a deal that was cut.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
No, that can't. You're absolutely right, that came from Newsome. However,
now they're saying, hey, we need a seventy cent increase
to keep pace with rising living.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Costs, and I think this is fine.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That's their job as union leaders the SEIU to go
in step in and go for those increases. However, they
every single increase is a nail in the coffin of
fast food workers. They are going to be replaced ac
us before the technology is there, and it's coming lightning fast.
Two things about fast food it has to be has
(11:00):
to be cheap. It's getting and slowing down.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It has to be food unlike many fast food places that.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
But it's it's cheaper in some ways to go to
a chain where you sit down now to get a burger,
or to go for these mom and pop places.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Okay, Neil tomorrow, you are here from two to five
o'clock in the afternoon with the Fork Report.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes, and I'd love to encourage people to if you
haven't joined me on social media to please do so.
We have a good time on there at fork Reporter
on Instagram x you know threads at all, but at
fork Reporter, I'm on Instagram quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, and he actually pays attention to people going on Instagram.
And the only people I ever ever answer people that
hate me and tell me what an ass I am
those I like responding to.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And by the way, all I do is agree with you.
You know, the more you rip into me, the more
I go, Oh, you're absolutely right. All right, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Time for this week's World in Review Living under a rock.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well, here's what you've missed, Typing hotch off the newswires
from around the corner to around that world. This is
this week's world.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
In review, and I want to start with a couple
of great stories that happened this week. Yesterday, that this
was an extraordinary This was a wonderful story. Wall Street
Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich and former US Marine Paul Waylan
were released Wayland there for what five years, Gerskovich year
(12:38):
and a half, trumped up charges and it was a
prisoner swap.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Putin finally let go. He was the big winner on
this one.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And it had to do actually Germany was the last,
the last player to jump in here, and had to
do with a return.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I mean, this was multi country, multi.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Prier swap, and it had to do with the return
of two German prisoners Russian spies who killed a guy
in Berlin. All right, So that is terrific news. I
love that Simon Biles big big win yesterday. And the
US is doing pretty good, to say the least in
(13:19):
the medal count. So that is the good news. Now
we've got the news around the world that we look
at normal. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.
The Venezuela election. Venezuela's insanely left wing, horrible, totally incompetent
President Nicholas Maduro, who's already had two six year terms,
(13:44):
he ran for.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
His third term.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
There was no way he was going to win because
he is so unpopular, and there was no way he
was going to lose because of the fraud that was
committed during the election.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
He is a strong man.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
He starting with Chavez and following with Maduro, has single
handedly or in this case, double handedly, destroyed the Venezuelan economy,
destroyed it. Venezuela used to be the wealthiest country in.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
All of South America, and now it is one of
the poorest.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Seven million Venezuelans have already left and the country.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Well, it's just a god awful mess.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh one more piece of good news, and I talked
about this yesterday with mo Kelly. Deadpool and Wolverine surpassed
two hundred million dollars in US ticket sales and it
just opened the biggest opening weekend for an R rated movie.
Pretty impressive. So this may be up at the top
of the heap. And I don't particularly like superhero movies,
(14:52):
but I understand that not only of course, these are
superhero you know, Marvel superheroes that have a huge popularity.
But the movie itself, I hear, is very very good.
I don't know, has anybody here seen it?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Yeah, we went and saw it on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What'd you think? I thought it was okay, Oh, just okay. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I mean there was some laugh out loud funny moments.
But you really have to be into that universe, okay,
and you really have to follow because they're jumping around
and doing a lot of variant stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Deadpool known for pretty rough language, and did that continue on.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Swearing like a sailor through the whole thing? And Wolverine too,
I'm like, oh, you're a superhero, come on.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So there. Yeah, there was a lot of cussing.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And they're both the empty heroes.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, and Neil, have you seen it?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
As a matter of fact, I was gonna call you
this past weekend, not this past weekend, but the other
day to see if you wanted to go out.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
No, I won't spend that I won't spend that much money,
and also the coochs and you know it's all a
way to expend.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
But now I'm a huge fan of Deadpool, okay, looking
for and Wolverine and looking forward to seeing it.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Cono, cono, did you see it?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't make enough money?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Okay, of course not. I'm sorry to ask. And Ann
did not see it either. So I'll wait till it
comes out on streaming, and it should be pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Although it's making so much money now, I don't know
when it is going to come out. On a political front,
I guess this is fun. After jd.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Vance called childless women, particularly childless cat women, and it
was just me. He offended a lot of childless couples
out there, which are more and more. And then you
have Donald Trump jumping into the fray. He to his credit,
goes in front of the Black Women Journalists Organization and
(16:53):
knowing he was going to get nailed, and he was.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
He absolutely was nailed, and it was very.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
It was contentious, and he was asked by one of
the reporters, do you believe that Kamala Harris is black?
And he came back with she's black. Now, she used
to be Indian. She's an Indian extraction as well as black.
(17:23):
She's about as mixed race as you can get. So
I think her mom is Indian, her dad is black.
He's Jamaican. And he said she used to only be Indian,
and then several years.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Ago she became black.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
On the implication or the insinuation, she did that for
political purposes, and he was corrected saying, no, she went
to a black university.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
She went to Howard.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
When she was in she's always identified as a black.
When she went into the Senate, she was part of
the Black Congressional Caucus. And so you're full of it, Trump,
and he.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Goes, no, he doubled down, double down. Effectively, he accused.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Her of being a reverse Michael Jackson, you are now black.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Okay, so much for that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Now, on an international front, hamas political chief Ismael Haneya
was killed in Tehran and that is a big deal
because this was an attack on this guy. It was
a bomb that killed him at some guest quarters that
he is always at and the bomb was placed there
(18:36):
months ago. And Israel, who.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Has not yet i think confirmed.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
They just waited and waited and they blew him up,
and he was one of the negotiators that was involved
in attempting a ceasefire agreement with Israel.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And that wasn't going very far.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
But he was one of those guys, and Israel still
blew him up in Tehran. And Iran is going to
be coming back real hard and saying we're going to go.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
After Israel directly.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
And that is bad news because the possibility of a
regional war, and I mean a big one now is
We're that much closer to a doomsday at twelve PM.
As far as the war in the Middle East is concerned,
not nuclear weapons. Although Israel has nuclear weapons, it does
(19:30):
not confirm, it is not part of any treaty organization
countries that have nuclear weapons. That has never ever confirmed
or admitted it has nuclear weapons. It has sophisticated nuclear weapons.
And I guarantee you if at the last moment it's
(19:52):
a question of Israel's surviving or not, you will see
these Arab capitals turn into rubble. I guarantee you that
will happen. Keep in mind, Israel has to just lose
one war and it's over for this that country. So
any peace talks gone. That is absolute history. Unfortunately. And
(20:16):
we talked about this with Neil. Was this hit me?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
The fact that we may engage in a.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Nuclear war, the fact that World Piece is about to explode.
I mean, none of that compares to the Delli meat
recalled by Bor's head.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
This is a real problem.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
And Boor's Head has recalled seven over seven million pounds
of Deli meat, Beloney, bacon, Frankfurter sausage products.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Including him arshad ham. And the issue is listeria.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Two people have already died and twenty eight people have
been hospitalized. And I went to my refrigerator this morning
as soon as this story broke and I went and
picked up my package of Boar's head slice Deli Ham
medium slice, and I looked at it, and I'm asked
to throw it away because of the possibility, or go
(21:21):
back to the store and get a refund. I looked
at it, and I said, I'm willing to take the chance.
If you think I'm throwing away a package of Boar's
head ham, you are out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It just doesn't happen. That's it, guys. We're done. Okay,
another week another eighty cents.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Because we work here at iHeart tomorrow morning, It's Dean
Sharp with a house whisper. I'm here with Handle on
the Law from eight to eleven o'clock, a quick plug
if you need an attorney, if you've been injured in
a car accident, go to Handle on thelat dot com
Quick cheesy plug.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
And then Neil.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Let's not forget Neil from two to five with the
Fork Report, and you can reach him at Fork Reporter.
You can reach me at the Bill Handle Show and
about the podcast. I'd like to know I don't listen
to my stuff ever. I have never listened to an
air check in my entire life. I will not listen
to me. So I'd love your opinion. Keep in mind,
(22:23):
if you say anything positive, I ignore it. Keep in
mind if you say anything.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Negative, I agree. Right.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So tomorrow morning, eight am. Monday morning, five am, wake
up call with Amy.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And we start all over again.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
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