July 10, 2026 • 22 mins
(July 10, 2026)
Israel shared intelligence with US or an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump. Even in the heart of Los Angeles, they still rely on old-fashioned landlines and don’t want to give them up. He earns $33/hr as a Costco cashier… now he’s a millionaire. The Dodgers are going to the White House once again.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty trup tup in a school that Alida the club.
We don't get no time, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We handle here in the morning crew on a foody Friday.
Ask Candle anything Friday, which comes at the eight o'clock
hour top of the next hour. But I want to
share with you something that's going on, and that is
some information just came down and some intelligence information that
Israel shared with the United States that Iran had recently
(00:34):
devised a new plan to assassinate President Trump. That's two
sources familiar with this matter. And that's what usually happens
when you have these major news outlets reporting about something
like this and says, we can't get a quote because
a lot of these spokespeople and a lot of the
(00:55):
interviewees are not allowed to talk. They are not part
of the pr system. So you usually get that sources.
But usually when you're talking about major sources or major
news outlets, it's pretty well corroborated anyway. So one of
the sources said that the warning came this week. Now,
(01:18):
the US had picked up a steady drum beat. It
was described with intelligence in recent weeks about the plans
to assassinate Trump. But this warning from Israel, that's new,
and that was concerning because it was specific. Now the
other side of that, American officials are saying, you know
what Israel is doing, that simply sway Trump to be
(01:41):
more pro Israel and anti Iran, basically backing up whatever
Israel wants to do, which pretty much Trump is done
in his first term and the beginning of his second term.
And it's also noted the US has not vetted this
(02:02):
intelligence itself. It wasn't tracked before the Israeli warning. So
the President sorry about the cough. The President has said,
and this is a quote they want to take out
the US leader me and this was two reporters on Wednesday.
(02:23):
I'm on whatever list I saw this morning. I'm on
every single one of their lists. And so far, I
guess I'd been a bit lucky. And maybe that doesn't
last very long. They are evil, sick people. We have
to root out that cancer, that cancer, you know what
you do, You've got to cut out that cancer early.
And that's the way I feel, and he's probably right,
by the way. The issue here, though, is are the
(02:46):
Iranians really emphasizing taking out this president more so than
other presidents. I think, yeah, because what Donald Trump does
is make things very personal, and he takes things very personal.
And we were joking this morning about how heretofore before
these threats came down, he was upset that he wasn't
(03:08):
enough on the lists, that he wasn't being thought about
enough as a victim. And over the weekend and you
saw the usual. The Iranians were on the streets of
Tehran calling for the President's death during the funeral for
the slain Supreme Leader Leader the Ittoia Ayatola Ali Jimani,
(03:30):
the Grand Vizir, the Imperial the Imperial Wizard of Iran. Anyway,
so there were a lot more pictures of Trump bullets
going through his head and kill Trump. It's not just
kill America. It's killed Trump specifically. And why is that
Because while he personally ordered and this is the case,
(03:52):
the bombing or in this case, the drone attack of Suliman,
who is the chief military leader in Iran. And so
you're I think we're seeing is that it has been
ratchet up even more if you can, and I can't
believe it, how much more ratcheting can you do. Well,
there isn't a full blow, full blown war going on.
(04:15):
I mean there is a tit for tat. Israel or
Iran is attacking US forces, US bases as well as
other facilities throughout the entire Middle East. The US is
attacking Iran. The ceasefire theoretically is in effect, although the
President said that the ceasefire is over, but diplomacy is
(04:35):
still being followed. They're actually talking to each other.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And in the midst of.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All this is Israel that is being asked to pull
out of Lebanon because that seems to be one of
the big issues with Iran. And the President said, yeah,
pretty much, you pull out because we want this deal.
And Israel is telling him to go pound sand, particularly
in that part of the world, because there's a lot
of sand.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
And this thing just keeps on going.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So it is an Israeli bit of intelligence now that
is much more specific. The US intelligence was more sporadic,
and it was chatter out there, but nothing very very specific.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Isruel said, hey, this is what's going on, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
The first person that I ever met that did not
have a landline, did not have a phone number to
the house, was Neil many years ago, Neil gave up
his landline just to use a cell phone.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, I remember that. I remember that. It was a
long time ago too.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Because I'm a business line for a while. But yeah,
we got rid.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Of and today I don't have a landline at home.
I'm trying to get a landline. I always kept the
landline even when using cell phones.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Because cell phones go out, towers go out, power goes out.
With a landline, power does not go out because the
power goes through the line to create the power for
the phone, so you don't need outside power and it's
(06:11):
much safer. Interruptions are much much more difficult to even occur.
You don't have dropouts like you do with cell phone towers.
It's just a much better way now where to get
your landline at and T? Who wants to stop producing
and supplying supporting landlines at and T? Now? There are
(06:33):
certain areas where it's almost critical spotty reception. For example,
rural areas that don't have a good reception. They rely
on landlines at and T.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Satellite is coming down and you used to be like
fifteen dollars a minute or something like.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
That, And I think that's going to replace it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But AT and T is not saying satellite because they
don't provide satellite.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So what ends up happening is they want want to
stop it because it costs a billion dollars a year
to support it. And the reason they want to stop
it is because it costs a billion dollars a year
to support it copper wiring.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's expensive as hell.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And what they're saying is the new technology when we
put in fiber optics et cetera, that is so much
better than any landline. And maybe the quality is, but
it's the landline that is the safest, most durable way
to call to make a phone call.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Also I always kept the landline. It was just in
case if everything goes down, I want to be able
to call. Not anymore, you don't have to do that anymore.
And they're trying AT and T is doing everything you
can to unravel that, stopping support, not installing lines. Now
(07:55):
a little secret here, if you ask for it and
you were within an a spotty reception, they have to
put it in. And they, I think, are willing to
do it when nothing else works. But the reason they're
taking it out like crazy is because the technology is
better and we're going to be there. Are you there yet?
(08:18):
We're going to be there at some point and for
many people and there was a story in the La
Times about this, and for many people who have said,
particularly during fires when power was gone, if it weren't
for the landlines, it's a matter of life and death,
even a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Okay, so much for I'm a.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Big fan of having a land line in when everything
else goes south.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We have multiple backups. We do have digital options and
even radio options at our place and our cabin so
that I have, I have what a contingency plan that
I'm comfortable with. But it took me a long time
to get to the place where I was like, no landlines.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's you, and there aren't many people that are like you.
On many different levels. There are a few people that
are like you, but on that one you do plan
out things. Also, we're talking about this warning about the
stuff that you create. It's like I don't understand it.
I mean, it's like to make things, no kid, but
(09:25):
there are things, and there are things and Neil takes
it to a whole new level. We actually ought to
we ought to have a a Neil convention, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, just you showing your stuff sitting there. I like
meeting other makers and artists. And if you'd like to
join me on that on Instagram, you can join me
at Savco Industries SAA v COO Industries. It's not my
radio stuff, it's just building and fixing stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
That's fine, Okay, a story about Costco. How unusual I'm
doing a stororry about Costco. As a matter of fact,
we're just talking Ann and Neil and Moir. We're sitting
down a few minutes ago through the break and talking
about Costco and what they just did is raise their
maximum hourly pay to thirty two dollars and ninety cents
(10:16):
an hour. And I was about to do the math, Amy,
and would you do the math on that forty hour
week at thirty two to ninety an hour and tell
me what that is annually? And the more they raise
the money the hourly wage, the better they do, because
(10:37):
they have a very interesting philosophy. And the story because
they just raised the maximum pay. The Wall Street Journal
picked this up and started talking about this sixty eight
thousand dollars sixty what sixty eight plus sixty eight thousand
dollars to work as a clerk at Costco if you've
been there for a while. And the point is everybody
(10:58):
is there for a while. They do not have turnover
because it's too good a place to work. One, the
benefits are superb. Two the workers are and I don't
know how often this happens, but are truly treated well.
Because that's a philosophy of Costco. Those workers are frontline,
(11:21):
not just the work they do, and you can feel
it when you're in there.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
They are.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
One of the things is I'll ask a Costco person
where is something, and they'll go, come on over here
and I'll help you. It's not just pointing to it
and saying it's down Aisle one, O two or whatever
it is. Literally come on, I'll show you. And that
is a culture that Costco has, so looking at this,
(11:48):
why are they doing this and why does it work?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It costs more money in terms of their employees, but
it costs less money in terms of their employees long
tenured workers. That's their secret weapon wide because folks who
have been there for a while are reliable, they are experienced,
(12:13):
they're there to help shoppers go through a checkout line. Now,
one of the things about going to Costco, especially on
a weekend, those lines get long, and so you go
to the self serve area and that goes much faster,
even though the line goes down half the store, because
there are six or eight check out.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Little kiosks there there.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And you know you're standing in line, and all of
a sudden, there's six places that you have to fill up.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
So it goes pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But there is somebody there not only to help, but
they also have their little gizmo where their card reader,
their QR code reader, and they actually do the checking
in for you while you're in line and your stuff
is in the cart and they will start checking and
(13:07):
by the time you hit the counter all you do
is hand the card. Your food is already in the cart.
And of course they don't have bags. All you can
get to those boxes and when they run out of
those boxes, that's a bitch. I have to tell you
you have forty or fifty items and there's nothing to
put them in. And for some reason people don't bring
(13:29):
their their non recyclable stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They've actually tricked us to take out their trash by saying, hey,
put it in this box that is tricky. Yeah, And
it's like, hey, we got that guy that got that
sucker to take out our box.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah. And one of the yeah, and what they do
with those boxes is someone takes a box cutter so
they're easy to get into and they cut out this
big U shaped in the middle of the box, so
you really can't put stuff in there without falling out
of the box.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And there are some.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Downsides, but it's a very unique culture. And the costco
executive say, look at this. If we're paying more money
and our better benefits turnover is low, that actually reduces
the costs because training new hires is really expensive. As
(14:25):
a matter of fact, McKinsey, which is a major group
that does a lot of consulting, estimated that losing a
frontline retail employee costs an average of ten thousand dollars
per worker between the training and it's a lot of money.
I have hired people and the learning curve is pretty high.
(14:47):
Whenever any of my people left, and.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What does it take like six months minimum to get
up to speed.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It does anywhere it can it can and if you
have a complicated issue, for example, if you want people
to know the store, if you want people to understand
everything's going through, it's a learning curve. And they don't
need a learning curve because these people are already there
and they're seasoned and by the time they're there for
a long time, they're friendly, or else they're gone. And
(15:17):
it just makes a lot of sense. So annual bonuses
have increased. Also, an extra week of vacation for anybody
who's been there for thirty years. Okay, that's not a
big deal because how many people have been there for
thirty years? Although on the wall of the Costco that
(15:39):
I go to there is the wall of employees of
the month kind of thing, and instead it's how long
people have been working there and their portraits, and it's
about thirty years, thirty five years.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
With Disney, the cool thing is that they're badge color
changes and there's certain things once they've been there and
they get more perks. If you do not have a
system of growth at your business, it will fail. People
won't want to be there. You have to have those
stepping stools. Yeah, and to.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Give you an idea of what Costco is worth. Right
around the two thousand and eight great recession if you
remember that, or maybe not, shares were forty bucks a share,
and yesterday the shares at Costco closed at nine hundred
and fifty three dollars. Wow, you would have made some money,
(16:33):
you bet you. All Right, top of the hour, it
is foody Friday. And at the bottom of the hour,
coming up at a thirty, it's ask handle anything, and
we tend to answer anything. By the way, Trump has
said he is not going to sign that bipartisan housing bill,
(16:53):
which the Senate and the House voted for overwhelmingly, and
he was supposed to sign, and he stopped it cold,
and I mean as they were setting up the table
and the lectern and the seats and the lighting. Nope,
because he thinks that that particular bill is not as
(17:16):
important as his voter id registration bill. And so I
think he's off based on that one, even as Republican
followers are going or supporters in Congress are going. Really,
you think people really think that voter idea is more
important than their housing affordability.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So anyway, that's the big news coming in on a
political front.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Another issue of politics is whether or not the Dodgers,
and which Dodgers are going to visit the White House
late this month to celebrate the twenty twenty five World
Series win. Now, what normally happens during the course of
these games and seasons is the winner, whoever takes a checkampionship,
(18:00):
whether it's hockey, whether it's baseball, football, the team gets
invited to the White House and it becomes a photo
op and the president is handed a jersey with his
name on the back. And the problem with this president
is a lot of people don't want to go. They're
just not interested in going.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Such a bummer as the people's house. You're standing in history.
You worked hard to get that invitation.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And that is what a lot of players who do
go and they say, we have to set politics aside.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
But there is a history of doing that. I mean going.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Let's go back to twenty seventeen, right, Steph Curry the
NBA title, the Golden State Warriors had no not going,
not going, and consequently the White House rescinded the invite
and went to the National Museum of African American History
(18:58):
in Washington again. The same year Pittsburgh Penguins Penguins win
the Stanley Cup. At that time, then President Donald Trump
claimed that the whole team was coming, but no, a
few just didn't want to come due to political objections.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The Eagles.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
The next year, they won the Super Bowl and a
lot of the players said nope, we're not attending, and
the administration canceled the visit altogether. I mean, we go
back to nineteen eighty four, the Boston Celtics skipped the
visit to the Reagan White House. We're not just talking
about Trump here, We're talking about all the way back
(19:36):
when Ronald Reagan was the president and Larry Bird a
great statement from him, if the.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
President wants to see me, he knows where to find me.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What's that? Man?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I don't know. And so we're going to see now.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
The Dodgers have accepted going to the White House and
having that photo op meeting the president, however, and Keiki
Hernandez has just said, Nope, not going.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
And there's a whole political move here do you go?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And a lot of it depends on who obviously, who's
in power, who is the most polarized, And I think
this president happens to be the most polarizing president I
think we've ever had, certainly in my lifetime.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Oh absolutely, you know, you go all the way back.
Who the hell knows.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well and he's one of And what he does is
he wouldn't say and wouldn't say, Okay, you know, it's
a shame that that person doesn't want to come or
the team doesn't want to visit, and I was looking
forward to it. Oh, no, they are losers. I'm yanking
back the invitation anyway. I shouldn't have invited them. And
a lot of people think, and the manager of the
(20:49):
Dodger says, you can't even think politics. You're visiting the
white House. You're visiting and it's the president. It's the president. C.
You're walking into the White House and that when you
think about it, does the presidency override the president?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Most people say yes. I would think there's one or
two people.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
That say no, that the president is more important than
the president. C. Yeah, he brought all that stuff off right,
and that his position. I mean he The only time
we ever talked about Donald Trump slumming it in the
White House was when Donald Trump became the president. And
the same thing with Air Force one. The Trump plane
(21:31):
is far.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
More luxurious than Air Force one. Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
He came into the White House the first time saying
what a dump. It was yeah, he retracted or something,
but it was.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Even Now what the first thing he said about Air
Force one, The first thing he said when the new
Air Force one took this guy's he's talked about its luxury,
its luxuriousness.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's it. That's where he talked about. Now just it's
it's insane.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
He's the second most in great person. I know.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You're smiling. Okay, why don't we leave it at at it?
Why don't we leave it at that? All right?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Coming out new more Dos Foodie Friday with Neil Savedra.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
We handle here in the morning crew on a foody Friday.
Ask Candle anything Friday, which comes at the eight o'clock
hour top of the next hour. But I want to
share with you something that's going on, and that is
some information just came down and some intelligence information that
Israel shared with the United States that Iran had recently
(00:34):
devised a new plan to assassinate President Trump. That's two
sources familiar with this matter. And that's what usually happens
when you have these major news outlets reporting about something
like this and says, we can't get a quote because
a lot of these spokespeople and a lot of the
(00:55):
interviewees are not allowed to talk. They are not part
of the pr system. So you usually get that sources.
But usually when you're talking about major sources or major
news outlets, it's pretty well corroborated anyway. So one of
the sources said that the warning came this week. Now,
(01:18):
the US had picked up a steady drum beat. It
was described with intelligence in recent weeks about the plans
to assassinate Trump. But this warning from Israel, that's new,
and that was concerning because it was specific. Now the
other side of that, American officials are saying, you know
what Israel is doing, that simply sway Trump to be
(01:41):
more pro Israel and anti Iran, basically backing up whatever
Israel wants to do, which pretty much Trump is done
in his first term and the beginning of his second term.
And it's also noted the US has not vetted this
(02:02):
intelligence itself. It wasn't tracked before the Israeli warning. So
the President sorry about the cough. The President has said,
and this is a quote they want to take out
the US leader me and this was two reporters on Wednesday.
(02:23):
I'm on whatever list I saw this morning. I'm on
every single one of their lists. And so far, I
guess I'd been a bit lucky. And maybe that doesn't
last very long. They are evil, sick people. We have
to root out that cancer, that cancer, you know what
you do, You've got to cut out that cancer early.
And that's the way I feel, and he's probably right,
by the way. The issue here, though, is are the
(02:46):
Iranians really emphasizing taking out this president more so than
other presidents. I think, yeah, because what Donald Trump does
is make things very personal, and he takes things very personal.
And we were joking this morning about how heretofore before
these threats came down, he was upset that he wasn't
(03:08):
enough on the lists, that he wasn't being thought about
enough as a victim. And over the weekend and you
saw the usual. The Iranians were on the streets of
Tehran calling for the President's death during the funeral for
the slain Supreme Leader Leader the Ittoia Ayatola Ali Jimani,
(03:30):
the Grand Vizir, the Imperial the Imperial Wizard of Iran. Anyway,
so there were a lot more pictures of Trump bullets
going through his head and kill Trump. It's not just
kill America. It's killed Trump specifically. And why is that
Because while he personally ordered and this is the case,
(03:52):
the bombing or in this case, the drone attack of Suliman,
who is the chief military leader in Iran. And so
you're I think we're seeing is that it has been
ratchet up even more if you can, and I can't
believe it, how much more ratcheting can you do. Well,
there isn't a full blow, full blown war going on.
(04:15):
I mean there is a tit for tat. Israel or
Iran is attacking US forces, US bases as well as
other facilities throughout the entire Middle East. The US is
attacking Iran. The ceasefire theoretically is in effect, although the
President said that the ceasefire is over, but diplomacy is
(04:35):
still being followed. They're actually talking to each other.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And in the midst of.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All this is Israel that is being asked to pull
out of Lebanon because that seems to be one of
the big issues with Iran. And the President said, yeah,
pretty much, you pull out because we want this deal.
And Israel is telling him to go pound sand, particularly
in that part of the world, because there's a lot
of sand.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
And this thing just keeps on going.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So it is an Israeli bit of intelligence now that
is much more specific. The US intelligence was more sporadic,
and it was chatter out there, but nothing very very specific.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Isruel said, hey, this is what's going on, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
The first person that I ever met that did not
have a landline, did not have a phone number to
the house, was Neil many years ago, Neil gave up
his landline just to use a cell phone.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, I remember that. I remember that. It was a
long time ago too.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Because I'm a business line for a while. But yeah,
we got rid.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Of and today I don't have a landline at home.
I'm trying to get a landline. I always kept the
landline even when using cell phones.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Because cell phones go out, towers go out, power goes out.
With a landline, power does not go out because the
power goes through the line to create the power for
the phone, so you don't need outside power and it's
(06:11):
much safer. Interruptions are much much more difficult to even occur.
You don't have dropouts like you do with cell phone towers.
It's just a much better way now where to get
your landline at and T? Who wants to stop producing
and supplying supporting landlines at and T? Now? There are
(06:33):
certain areas where it's almost critical spotty reception. For example,
rural areas that don't have a good reception. They rely
on landlines at and T.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Satellite is coming down and you used to be like
fifteen dollars a minute or something like.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
That, And I think that's going to replace it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But AT and T is not saying satellite because they
don't provide satellite.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So what ends up happening is they want want to
stop it because it costs a billion dollars a year
to support it. And the reason they want to stop
it is because it costs a billion dollars a year
to support it copper wiring.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's expensive as hell.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And what they're saying is the new technology when we
put in fiber optics et cetera, that is so much
better than any landline. And maybe the quality is, but
it's the landline that is the safest, most durable way
to call to make a phone call.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Also I always kept the landline. It was just in
case if everything goes down, I want to be able
to call. Not anymore, you don't have to do that anymore.
And they're trying AT and T is doing everything you
can to unravel that, stopping support, not installing lines. Now
(07:55):
a little secret here, if you ask for it and
you were within an a spotty reception, they have to
put it in. And they, I think, are willing to
do it when nothing else works. But the reason they're
taking it out like crazy is because the technology is
better and we're going to be there. Are you there yet?
(08:18):
We're going to be there at some point and for
many people and there was a story in the La
Times about this, and for many people who have said,
particularly during fires when power was gone, if it weren't
for the landlines, it's a matter of life and death,
even a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Okay, so much for I'm a.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Big fan of having a land line in when everything
else goes south.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We have multiple backups. We do have digital options and
even radio options at our place and our cabin so
that I have, I have what a contingency plan that
I'm comfortable with. But it took me a long time
to get to the place where I was like, no landlines.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's you, and there aren't many people that are like you.
On many different levels. There are a few people that
are like you, but on that one you do plan
out things. Also, we're talking about this warning about the
stuff that you create. It's like I don't understand it.
I mean, it's like to make things, no kid, but
(09:25):
there are things, and there are things and Neil takes
it to a whole new level. We actually ought to
we ought to have a a Neil convention, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, just you showing your stuff sitting there. I like
meeting other makers and artists. And if you'd like to
join me on that on Instagram, you can join me
at Savco Industries SAA v COO Industries. It's not my
radio stuff, it's just building and fixing stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
That's fine, Okay, a story about Costco. How unusual I'm
doing a stororry about Costco. As a matter of fact,
we're just talking Ann and Neil and Moir. We're sitting
down a few minutes ago through the break and talking
about Costco and what they just did is raise their
maximum hourly pay to thirty two dollars and ninety cents
(10:16):
an hour. And I was about to do the math, Amy,
and would you do the math on that forty hour
week at thirty two to ninety an hour and tell
me what that is annually? And the more they raise
the money the hourly wage, the better they do, because
(10:37):
they have a very interesting philosophy. And the story because
they just raised the maximum pay. The Wall Street Journal
picked this up and started talking about this sixty eight
thousand dollars sixty what sixty eight plus sixty eight thousand
dollars to work as a clerk at Costco if you've
been there for a while. And the point is everybody
(10:58):
is there for a while. They do not have turnover
because it's too good a place to work. One, the
benefits are superb. Two the workers are and I don't
know how often this happens, but are truly treated well.
Because that's a philosophy of Costco. Those workers are frontline,
(11:21):
not just the work they do, and you can feel
it when you're in there.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
They are.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
One of the things is I'll ask a Costco person
where is something, and they'll go, come on over here
and I'll help you. It's not just pointing to it
and saying it's down Aisle one, O two or whatever
it is. Literally come on, I'll show you. And that
is a culture that Costco has, so looking at this,
(11:48):
why are they doing this and why does it work?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It costs more money in terms of their employees, but
it costs less money in terms of their employees long
tenured workers. That's their secret weapon wide because folks who
have been there for a while are reliable, they are experienced,
(12:13):
they're there to help shoppers go through a checkout line. Now,
one of the things about going to Costco, especially on
a weekend, those lines get long, and so you go
to the self serve area and that goes much faster,
even though the line goes down half the store, because
there are six or eight check out.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Little kiosks there there.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And you know you're standing in line, and all of
a sudden, there's six places that you have to fill up.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
So it goes pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But there is somebody there not only to help, but
they also have their little gizmo where their card reader,
their QR code reader, and they actually do the checking
in for you while you're in line and your stuff
is in the cart and they will start checking and
(13:07):
by the time you hit the counter all you do
is hand the card. Your food is already in the cart.
And of course they don't have bags. All you can
get to those boxes and when they run out of
those boxes, that's a bitch. I have to tell you
you have forty or fifty items and there's nothing to
put them in. And for some reason people don't bring
(13:29):
their their non recyclable stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They've actually tricked us to take out their trash by saying, hey,
put it in this box that is tricky. Yeah, And
it's like, hey, we got that guy that got that
sucker to take out our box.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah. And one of the yeah, and what they do
with those boxes is someone takes a box cutter so
they're easy to get into and they cut out this
big U shaped in the middle of the box, so
you really can't put stuff in there without falling out
of the box.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And there are some.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Downsides, but it's a very unique culture. And the costco
executive say, look at this. If we're paying more money
and our better benefits turnover is low, that actually reduces
the costs because training new hires is really expensive. As
(14:25):
a matter of fact, McKinsey, which is a major group
that does a lot of consulting, estimated that losing a
frontline retail employee costs an average of ten thousand dollars
per worker between the training and it's a lot of money.
I have hired people and the learning curve is pretty high.
(14:47):
Whenever any of my people left, and.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What does it take like six months minimum to get
up to speed.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It does anywhere it can it can and if you
have a complicated issue, for example, if you want people
to know the store, if you want people to understand
everything's going through, it's a learning curve. And they don't
need a learning curve because these people are already there
and they're seasoned and by the time they're there for
a long time, they're friendly, or else they're gone. And
(15:17):
it just makes a lot of sense. So annual bonuses
have increased. Also, an extra week of vacation for anybody
who's been there for thirty years. Okay, that's not a
big deal because how many people have been there for
thirty years? Although on the wall of the Costco that
(15:39):
I go to there is the wall of employees of
the month kind of thing, and instead it's how long
people have been working there and their portraits, and it's
about thirty years, thirty five years.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
With Disney, the cool thing is that they're badge color
changes and there's certain things once they've been there and
they get more perks. If you do not have a
system of growth at your business, it will fail. People
won't want to be there. You have to have those
stepping stools. Yeah, and to.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Give you an idea of what Costco is worth. Right
around the two thousand and eight great recession if you
remember that, or maybe not, shares were forty bucks a share,
and yesterday the shares at Costco closed at nine hundred
and fifty three dollars. Wow, you would have made some money,
(16:33):
you bet you. All Right, top of the hour, it
is foody Friday. And at the bottom of the hour,
coming up at a thirty, it's ask handle anything, and
we tend to answer anything. By the way, Trump has
said he is not going to sign that bipartisan housing bill,
(16:53):
which the Senate and the House voted for overwhelmingly, and
he was supposed to sign, and he stopped it cold,
and I mean as they were setting up the table
and the lectern and the seats and the lighting. Nope,
because he thinks that that particular bill is not as
(17:16):
important as his voter id registration bill. And so I
think he's off based on that one, even as Republican
followers are going or supporters in Congress are going. Really,
you think people really think that voter idea is more
important than their housing affordability.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So anyway, that's the big news coming in on a
political front.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Another issue of politics is whether or not the Dodgers,
and which Dodgers are going to visit the White House
late this month to celebrate the twenty twenty five World
Series win. Now, what normally happens during the course of
these games and seasons is the winner, whoever takes a checkampionship,
(18:00):
whether it's hockey, whether it's baseball, football, the team gets
invited to the White House and it becomes a photo
op and the president is handed a jersey with his
name on the back. And the problem with this president
is a lot of people don't want to go. They're
just not interested in going.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Such a bummer as the people's house. You're standing in history.
You worked hard to get that invitation.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And that is what a lot of players who do
go and they say, we have to set politics aside.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
But there is a history of doing that. I mean going.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Let's go back to twenty seventeen, right, Steph Curry the
NBA title, the Golden State Warriors had no not going,
not going, and consequently the White House rescinded the invite
and went to the National Museum of African American History
(18:58):
in Washington again. The same year Pittsburgh Penguins Penguins win
the Stanley Cup. At that time, then President Donald Trump
claimed that the whole team was coming, but no, a
few just didn't want to come due to political objections.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The Eagles.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
The next year, they won the Super Bowl and a
lot of the players said nope, we're not attending, and
the administration canceled the visit altogether. I mean, we go
back to nineteen eighty four, the Boston Celtics skipped the
visit to the Reagan White House. We're not just talking
about Trump here, We're talking about all the way back
(19:36):
when Ronald Reagan was the president and Larry Bird a
great statement from him, if the.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
President wants to see me, he knows where to find me.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What's that? Man?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I don't know. And so we're going to see now.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
The Dodgers have accepted going to the White House and
having that photo op meeting the president, however, and Keiki
Hernandez has just said, Nope, not going.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
And there's a whole political move here do you go?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And a lot of it depends on who obviously, who's
in power, who is the most polarized, And I think
this president happens to be the most polarizing president I
think we've ever had, certainly in my lifetime.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Oh absolutely, you know, you go all the way back.
Who the hell knows.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well and he's one of And what he does is
he wouldn't say and wouldn't say, Okay, you know, it's
a shame that that person doesn't want to come or
the team doesn't want to visit, and I was looking
forward to it. Oh, no, they are losers. I'm yanking
back the invitation anyway. I shouldn't have invited them. And
a lot of people think, and the manager of the
(20:49):
Dodger says, you can't even think politics. You're visiting the
white House. You're visiting and it's the president. It's the president. C.
You're walking into the White House and that when you
think about it, does the presidency override the president?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Most people say yes. I would think there's one or
two people.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
That say no, that the president is more important than
the president. C. Yeah, he brought all that stuff off right,
and that his position. I mean he The only time
we ever talked about Donald Trump slumming it in the
White House was when Donald Trump became the president. And
the same thing with Air Force one. The Trump plane
(21:31):
is far.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
More luxurious than Air Force one. Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
He came into the White House the first time saying
what a dump. It was yeah, he retracted or something,
but it was.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Even Now what the first thing he said about Air
Force one, The first thing he said when the new
Air Force one took this guy's he's talked about its luxury,
its luxuriousness.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's it. That's where he talked about. Now just it's
it's insane.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
He's the second most in great person. I know.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You're smiling. Okay, why don't we leave it at at it?
Why don't we leave it at that? All right?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Coming out new more Dos Foodie Friday with Neil Savedra.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
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