March 17, 2025 • 27 mins
(Monday 03/17/25)
Life is getting expensive! Sales at US convenience stores have decreased by 4.3%, indicating that people are purchasing fewer snacks. Shoppers feeling the pinch of inflation are increasingly opting for lower-priced store brands. There are ongoing protests against Tesla, and Trump is trying to rally support. Additionally, a new bill in Texas aims to prevent students from behaving in ways other than human in school.
Life is getting expensive! Sales at US convenience stores have decreased by 4.3%, indicating that people are purchasing fewer snacks. Shoppers feeling the pinch of inflation are increasingly opting for lower-priced store brands. There are ongoing protests against Tesla, and Trump is trying to rally support. Additionally, a new bill in Texas aims to prevent students from behaving in ways other than human in school.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're list Saints KFI AM six forty. The bill handles
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
If you are looking for good news about the economy,
it is this. Fetanyl use may be dropping. We know
this because the Border Patrol is now finding more poultry
related products than they are fetanyl. Egg interceptions are up
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thirty six percent nationwide in the year starting in October
compared to the previous year. A hotspot for egg smuggling
is Texas. Sizars and Texas have gone up fifty four percent,
according to the Customs of Border Protection in San Diego,
They've more than doubled. According to the CBP, it's the
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price difference, so a lot of they say a price
is like a third of what it is in the
US if you are over the borders. So agents have
foiled ninety would be egg smugglers trying to ferry the
breakfast staples across the border in El Paso. And they
say it's all because you can get eggs a lot
cheaper in Mexico. So forget fentanyl. The new cartel chickens
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and they're coming. Egg prices are dropping. They're still way up,
but they are slowly coming down. We like to hear
that wholesale egg prices drifting lower, bird flu issues maybe easing,
even as President Trump claiming victory as administration is acknowledging
that the upcoming Easter holiday could cause prices to jump again.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
This from Axios.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The highly pathogenic avian influenza leading to tens of millions
of chickens being culled means h and that to trigger
shortages and price spikes. I still have yet to see
any reports on what they do with the with the
chickens after they cull them. Is there just like a
mass chicken grave somewhere that we're unaware of because you
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can't use the chickens for things like nuggets, right, They've
got bird flu, so you can't do that. So there's
just I guess mass chicken graves out there somewhere. Many
stores limiting how many eggs shoppers can buy. Some restaurants
have added temporary egg search charges as well. They say
egg prices should potentially start coming down. They dropped by
a dollar twenty a dozen wholesale, acording to the US
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Department of Agriculture, down to six eighty five a dozen.
Department noting that flew out breaks slowed over the last
couple of weeks. They've been localized and have been able
to try to get ahead of those. The price of
Midwest large large eggs was five twenty three a dozen.
It's down thirty nine percent from its peak a couple
of weeks earlier. The price that consumers are actually paying.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Is still up.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
However, from January to February, wholesale prices are dropping, retail
prices are rising. So if we were to ask you,
our egg price is getting cheaper as far as you know, no,
And if you read the article, or if you're a wholesaler,
you might say, yeah, they're starting to come down. But
if it's you buying things at the store, you head
on into Ralphs and you look for eggs, they're not
going to be any cheaper, which is some people to
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believe that there may be something larger at play. Indeed,
is there a conspiracy of foot from Fox Business. It
sounds like the Department of Justice is looking into that
very claim.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
You know, farmers have been dealing with this bird flu
since twenty twenty two, but recently prices have gotten out
of control. Take a look back in December, a dozen
eggs is going to cost you around four dollars. Now
it's closer to seven dollars, and in February, a dozen
eggs cost around eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's wholesale.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
This is why the Justice Department is opening an investigation.
They're looking into if major producers are violating antitrust laws
by sharing information about supply and pricing, conspiring to keep
prices higher. But the American Egg Board says, this is
a story of supply and demand. Farmers have been battling
bird flu and losing.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, all right, good. We have not ever seen anything
like this play out before. We've never had an American
company take advance of a news story or a prevailing sentiment.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
We've never had any oil companies, for instance, that have.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Continued to tell us that this is a simple supplying
demand issue while they rake in record profits. We've never
seen that happen in any other aspect, especially during the
pandemic and then the subsequent supply chain shortage that happened afterward.
Companies don't use news in order to boost their bottom line,
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to hose you in order to line their own pockets.
It doesn't happen. So when you hear this nonsense that
says that these major egg producers are somehow gouging you.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's just a total lie. Believe their story.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Instead, that says it's a simple supply and demand issue.
For instance, as I pointed out, wholesale prices are down
a dollar twenty even though you're paying more. The difference,
of course goes into the pockets of the egg producers.
But that's your coincidence and in no way, shape or
form indicative of some sort of an underlying conspiracy that
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they're working against you in order to make a ton
of money and profit off the news, all at your expense.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That doesn't happen. It's simply supply and demand.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And while demand remains the same and supply is up,
and you would think prices would come down and they're not.
That's it's just a lot of market factors that you
wouldn't understand.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's very it's very complicated. You wouldn't understand.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's just let me simplify supply and demand and all
the other stuff. With record profits and that that's just
you wouldn't understand it. It's too complicated.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Since January of twenty twenty five, the start of this year,
we've lost more than thirty million.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Birds and counting.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Last week was actually the first week we went a
full week without a new farm having an outbreak of
the avian flu. So those this impact has been devastating
on our industry. It's been devastating on our farmers. And
like I said, our farmers are in the fight of
their lives.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, absolutely, especially the largest commercial farms. The small farmers
are losing money. They're in the fight of their lives.
The very large farms that are raking in record profit,
that must be an even bigger fight. That's just massive,
you know.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
But the other people that are losing are the businesses
and the consumers. We're here at Roccos where every egg
dish is now a dollar fifty more expensive because of
the cost of eggs.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I just saw an ad out for I don't know,
Dunnies or billage In or somebody. They've got some six
or seven dollars deal and that included the big omelet too,
and I thought, how are they doing that. They're not
making any money on that. In fact, I was seeing
that waffle house is always the butt of a lot
of jokes. Not a lot of waffle houses nearby. See
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waffle House is getting hit hard. However, if you are
loving breakfast, ie Hop, Ie Hop is getting hammered by
the egg prices. Ie Hop prices have increased by eighty
two percent over the last five years, This Roadhouse up
forty six percent, TGI Friday's up forty five percent. And
this is all in large part because of the rising
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food costs. But especially when it comes to places like
I Hop, it's eggs. It comes out eggs. It's all eggs.
It's an egg issue. Who else is pulling back? Forget it?
If you're like me, you stopped eating eggs a while
ago because you said, I'm not going to pay those
ridiculous prices for eggs. You'll just wait for the bird
flu to be done and in the meantime you'll find
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something else to eat for breakfast, perhaps cereal.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And yet it sounds like those.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Fruity o's because fruit loops was already taken, or the
uh oat circles that you get in the bags of
cereal at the discount places. Those are getting too expensive too.
Just how bad has it gotten? That's next.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We are pulling back people are saying, and no mole
forget about it. In fact, if you were like me
and you grew up poor, you didn't have lucky charms.
You had something that was the equivalent like fortune totems,
or you didn't have cheerios. You would have oat circles,
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and you didn't have fruit loops. You'd have fruit rings
something like that. Right, you didn't have the actual stuff.
We had knockoff cereals, and knockoff cereals were fine, it
was good. In fact, in some cases you got so
you like them better. I always hated the knockoff cheerios,
but I thought that the knockoff wheaties were fine, right,
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I mean, you just got so that you got used
to it. There are other things that you can buy
that are store bought, that are reasonable duplicates, and stores
are getting better at this than they were when we
were younger, which was so so many millennia ago. But
Treehouse Foods is one of the country's largest manufacturers of
private brands.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
There the ones.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So if you see something that is the equate brand
from Walmart that may have come from Treehouse Foods, if
you see the Safeway brand that may have come from Treehouse, foods.
If you see which is like or excuse me, you
see like the Safeway Albertson's, if you see the Kroger
brand from like Ralphs may have come from Treehouse Foods.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They make a bunch of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
However, we are seeing the whole egg thing going on,
with the price of eggs going up, which certainly is
not in any way, shape or form a money grabbed
by the egg manufacturers capitalizing on the spike and prices
due to.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
The bird flu.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Coffee prices are going up, and of course we may
start seeing more prices jumping because of the threats of
terraces tariffs.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So here's what you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Prices on things like cookies, crackers, coffee, and other things
are not only going up everywhere, but they are also
going up for the store bought brands, the store brand
names right, which we always think of as being generic.
People have decided I'm gonna go and I don't know
who does this. I don't know who it is that
is insane enough to do it, but some people say
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I will just go without coffee.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
We are in a bad spot when inflation gets to
the point where people are not having their morning drugs.
That's gonna make things that work a whole lot more difficult.
I don't know if you know any coffee drinkers. Maybe
you're you are a coffee drinker, but if the point
comes where you have to start rationing coffee, things are
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gonna get ugly fast. They say that people are stressed. Treehouse,
that's again they make the groceries. Their financial chief says,
we don't have any strong indicators that consumers are going
to be less stressed in the near term, and grocery
retailers are relying on third parties like Treehouse to make
their store brands.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Giants like Kroger Albertson's Costco boosting investments in their branded products.
Private labels are growing faster than name brand goods heading
into the pandemic, and then consumers stuck at home with
money to spend, went back to the national brands and
low cost brands. We've seen now a resurgence for a
couple of reasons. Because you have higher grocery prices. Retailers
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are expending their store brand offerings. Walmart is introducing a
premium line of food called Better Goods along their Great
value brand, so you've got the great value and then
you've got better goods, which is supposed.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
To be the step up.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But now people are even saying we're just gonna cut
back on even the low cost stuff. To me, this
is a bad omen. You've got consumer confidence. You may
have seen the report consumer confidence is down. With consumer
confidence down, whether they have reason to or not. Maybe
it's based on the news, Maybe it's based on the
worries over the tariffs. Maybe people have lost jobs. But
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at this point it doesn't look like we're in a recession.
The fear of recession is so great that people are
beginning to behave as though we are in a recession.
We're for it, we're getting ready, we're pregaming. The next
recession is what's happening. And so people are cutting back
on things, even the store brand products. But they're also
cutting back on this from the Wall Street Journal, US
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convenience store sales falling over four percent by volume.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
What are they cutting back on?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Derrito's When you stop in at the Circle K or
the Shell station, there's no there's no big bag of chips.
If you've bought a bag of chips at the gas stations, lately.
Have you seen the price on that It's seven bucks.
Seven bucks for a bag of potato chips is not
even the family size bag. I know, I sound like
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a grumpy old man. I understand, but I'm gonna be grumpy.
I don't like it. So people are cutting back on
what they're buying. That includes Doritos, that includes Twinkies. And
I think we just saved Twinkies from the brink of
extinction a decade ago. They were all ready to wrap up.
But here's the really scary thing. Well, we have some
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people cutting back on things like coffee in other places,
which is terrifying. Sounds like some people are cutting back
on cigarettes. Oh my, So now you've got people that
are not going to have their cigarettes or their coffee
in the morning. That is, it's going to get ugly fast. Friends,
this is going to be very apocalyptic in a hurry.
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I don't have high hopes. So what can you do?
Could you turn to one of those dollar stores? Nope,
because have you been to a dollar store lately? Nothing
costs a dollar anymore. And now Dollar General says they're
not even making any money and they're shutting up shop.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Dollar General is closing nearly one hundred stores. The company
says it plays to closed ninety six locations by January
of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's not too many, though. I think Dollar General opens
more than one hundred a day. I'm exaggerating, but not
by much. This is from whas by the way, I
believe this is in Louisville.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Dollar General CEO says that the number of closings represents
less than one cent of the company's overall store base.
It also plans to close forty five of Dollar General's
home to core stores popshelf.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I think no Dollar General had home to cour stores.
Did you know, man, that's through dollars? All right? That
was quick, Amy, you get credit on that one. That
was very quick.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
The decision came after a view of the store performance
and conditions to determine which stores should be closed or
maybe be rebranded. Now, as of now, it's not known
which locations are set to close. There are more than
thirty of those stores in the Louisville metrics.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
All right, So again I told you that it was
from Louisville. Did he just say rebranded? Don't know if
they're going to close or rebrand. So you rebrand from
a Dollar General to what a dollar Lieutenant, I don't
understand what the rebrand would be. You go more high
end Dollar General. There's no lower end Dollar I mean,
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Dollar General is what it is. It's just cheap, cheap.
All the dollar stores just cheap, telling man. I would
think Dollar General will do really well as people are
worried about inflation and recession. It has in the past.
Walmart and Dollar General stores do well during recessions. They do,
they do, and yet here they are saying they're going
to close some shops.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We'll find out how it plays out in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
One place I don't think is going to do very
well during recession is someone that has to halt the
sales of their products because parts keep falling off, that's
getting protested from coast to coast, and still charges more
than one hundred thousand dollars for some of their products.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
That's next.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
All right, Imagine that you own a company and for
years you've been trying to find your lane. You've been
really nailing that brand. You don't worry so much about
the others. You're really trying to you're really trying to
own your lane. You think of you think of some
big brands out there, and you go, Okay, Taco Bell
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is gonna own the cheap, fast Mexican food lane. Now
they've got competitors, but Taco Bell nationwide, they're the big ones, right,
So imagine that you own that lane and you own
it hard. And then imagine, just imagine if Taco Bell's
owners came out and said, uh, you know what, we
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don't really like Mexican food. We want to support all
of the non Mexican food things out there. In fact,
we're really gonna start pushing sushi. Probably not great for
Taco Bell's brand should something like that happen, right, Is
that fair to say if all of a sudden, the
owner of Taco Bell came out and said, my food
is great, but also I'm gonna put all of my
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effort into pushing sushi, probably not gonna be really good
for Taco Bell, especially if part of the push for
sushi is to limit things like I don't know for Holles.
That's basically what's happening when you look at what's going
on in DC, which is why we're seeing the stock
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prices and the sales more importantly dropping for Tesla. Tesla's
being protested as people are upset with Elon Musk. They're
taking it out in his business. They can't protest Starlink
because it's tough to get protesters in space A lot
of people would like to, it's very difficult to protest
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some of the other stuff the SpaceX. But what they
can do is they can show up but Tesla's showrooms
and start protesting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And that's exactly what people are doing nationwide.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
There are about two hundred people lined up here along
Colorado Street, which is in front of the Tesla's.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Showroom by the way NBCLA.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
The protesters were demanding that people sell their Tesla cars
and stock.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Now.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
These protests are happening all over the area. We also
saw one in Glendale held by the same group. They
were holding signs and encouraging drivers to and support as
they went by. The group Rally for Democracy is organizing
these protests. This movement is in response to Elon musks
position in President Donald Trump's administration and roll in the
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Department of Government Efficiency. Similar rallies are taking place around
the world, which started back into February.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
What I don't understand, I just I get it. We
have turned vehicles and this is one of the things
that makes in the American car culture so great, is
that vehicles are part of our identity.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
If you drive certain cars, we make certain assumptions about someone,
and someone who has certain character traits will purchase they're
attractive to certain cars. For instance, if you're driving a
mini van that has a bunch of stick figure stickers
in the back window, we assume that you are a
family oriented person and obnoxious. If you drive a lifted
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pickup truck, we assume that you are a dude and obnoxious.
If you drive a sports cars your daily driver, we
assume that you have some insecurities and are obnoxious. If
you drive a subar Ru, we assume that you eat
granola and you support lgbt q IA initiatives right, and
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you probably want to coexist sticker Elon's pivot to MAGA
would be akin to Subaru declaring that they need to
stop hippies and end LGBTQYA initiatives. They would never do
that because they know they're laying Elon's pivot is the
worst marketing pivot ever it's worse than when Coke did
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the whole New Coke thing back in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It is the worst ever.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And so that's why last week you saw President Trump
with Elon on the on the lawn at the White House.
Come on down to Crazy Don's use Tesla a lot.
We got Tesla's they're they're great. Tests the cars and
Tesla cyber truck they're great. You should buy one today
to support Elon, and not buying one should be illegal.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You can't boycott our Tesla truck. That would be illegal
and un American.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You should go back to boycotting other things like cancel
culture and but light.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But not Elon. Buy his cyber truck today.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
May be delivered soon, unless it's not because also in
the news, Elon Musk's Tesla has been forced to halt
sales of cyber trucks because metal panels keep falling off. Yeah,
customers that are posting on the Cyber Truck Owners Club
website as well as on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
They say that the deliveries are on hold.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
The website Electric said the decision was taken amid increasing
instances of trim and panels flying off the supposedly bulletproof
electric truck. Now, imagine if you've spent the last few
years saying that electric vehicles, the push to electric is
is bad for the country, and you've been saying that
we have to have fossil fuels and you'll never buy
one of those golf carts, and you've you've been taking
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this tack for years, and then all of a sudden
you're told up everything you've been led to believe in
the Church of Petrol was false. Now you should buy
the evs. You should buy them because it's the American
thing to do. Also, they're one hundred grand. Who's doing that?
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Who has the extra one hundred thoughts? It's one thing
if you want to show your support by buying a
red hat that cost you twenty five bucks.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Twenty five bucks doesn't make or break things. One hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
To somebody in the middle of Arkansas to buy a
truck whose parts fall off, to replace their lifted f
one fifty to get stuck in the mud without a
charger nearby for one hundred grand, I don't see that
making up for the damage that musk is doing to
the brand. It's just not happening, all right. When it
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comes to the kids these days. Oh, the kids these days,
They're getting a bit strange, which is why Texas has
taken it upon themselves to put a stop to these
ten gallon furries.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Freedom of speech be damned, that's next cool.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
If you have kids, there have been times in your life,
undoubtedly that you've thought they are animals. It's become such
a problem in Texas that lawmakers have decided they need
to step in, and what has become known as the
Furries Act takes on a different tone than what I
thought furries meant in the past. What's Texas up to?
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According to CBS and Austin here, it is.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Hey, Bill fouled in the Texas House would stop students
from acting like any other than a human being at school.
That Bill's meant to specific target what are known as furries.
A furry is a person who dresses up or behaves
like an animal with human characteristics. This can include creating
a character based on an animal called a persona that
is expressed to art, role playing, or elaborate costumes called
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fur suits.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Hmm, okay, all right, I'm in on that. Hang on you,
what's going on? Ready to go? See my computer? My computer,
Frozer saying here we go now.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Role Playing and Education of
Furries Act was filed by a Austin Area Republican state
Representative Stan Gertz. The law would ban non human behavior
such as using a litter box, wearing tails, animal ears, leashes, callers,
or any other acceassories used for animals.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So what, I can't use a litter box in school anymore, Oh, Texas.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
It also banns students from barking, meowing, or hissing, and
licking oneself or others for grooming. The bill would also
allow students to dress up as animals for days like
Halloween or other school dress up days.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
A hearing has not yet been set for this bill.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Mascots would also be allowed, because so many mascots are
indeed animals. Evidently, in Texas becomes such a problem that
we have to enact legislation that limits students free speech
because I guess they all want litter boxes. That whole
notion of you can't lick yourself for grooming being illegal,
that's really going to put a damper on Kentucky fried
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chickens whole slogan.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
H Indeed, Gary wanted on this.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. Or
you come on, buddy, come on, the idea of licking
yourself to clean yourself, you.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Do, It's nature, Gary, finger licking good?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Are you telling me you don't lick your fingers when
you have something delicious.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
Fancy with your showers and your wet necks? Yeah, guess what,
some people have to lick themselves.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
That's right, Gary, Yeah, so this is the the yoga
you go? Yeah, an odd uh odd side.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
I feel like I've chosen here, looking across the great
divide between you people licking yourselves for cleanliness and me
over here washing my hands.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
What are you going to do when you have to
live off the land, when the end is nigh, you're
gonna be dirty?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Be dirty?
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Are you gonna lick yourself like everybody else?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Come on, fancy pants, have a taste, fancy Come on,
get in there.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
No, maybe maybe I employ someone.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
To lick me.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
That's a different industry.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I don't think. I don't think you have to wait
for the apocalypse.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
That you can go down to the days in and Glendale.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
For that, there is a price point. I suppose. All right,
what do you guys have plans today?
Speaker 10 (25:47):
Well, right after the news at nine o'clock, David is
going to join us from Japan. Mookie Bets will not
be in the first two games for the Dodgers. And
when you see Mookie Bets you will think he's not well,
because he's not. He's lost like fifteen pounds whatever your
illness virus, really, Joe, don't don't make it okay, but
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he may actually come back sooner than expected. Speaking of
our astronauts that have been up in space, they're coming
back sooner than expected.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
What are they going to eat when they arrive?
Speaker 11 (26:19):
I saw this whole explainer about what happens over the
weekend when they come back. Like you said, they have
to just sit for a long time, long time. I'm
going to know what they can ingest Like, they can't
just go have spaghetti and meatballs, can they?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh, they have to ease into it a little bit,
I think so.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
It's like the turpins, you know, when they got rescued
from that house. You had to ease them into solids.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh my gosh, I didn't even consider that.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
Always consider the Turpinso.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Words to live by. Looking forward to it. Gary and
Shannon coming in next. Thanks guys, appreciate it. Looking forward
to the show. Always great stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
If you are looking for good news about the economy,
it is this. Fetanyl use may be dropping. We know
this because the Border Patrol is now finding more poultry
related products than they are fetanyl. Egg interceptions are up
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thirty six percent nationwide in the year starting in October
compared to the previous year. A hotspot for egg smuggling
is Texas. Sizars and Texas have gone up fifty four percent,
according to the Customs of Border Protection in San Diego,
They've more than doubled. According to the CBP, it's the
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price difference, so a lot of they say a price
is like a third of what it is in the
US if you are over the borders. So agents have
foiled ninety would be egg smugglers trying to ferry the
breakfast staples across the border in El Paso. And they
say it's all because you can get eggs a lot
cheaper in Mexico. So forget fentanyl. The new cartel chickens
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and they're coming. Egg prices are dropping. They're still way up,
but they are slowly coming down. We like to hear
that wholesale egg prices drifting lower, bird flu issues maybe easing,
even as President Trump claiming victory as administration is acknowledging
that the upcoming Easter holiday could cause prices to jump again.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
This from Axios.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The highly pathogenic avian influenza leading to tens of millions
of chickens being culled means h and that to trigger
shortages and price spikes. I still have yet to see
any reports on what they do with the with the
chickens after they cull them. Is there just like a
mass chicken grave somewhere that we're unaware of because you
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can't use the chickens for things like nuggets, right, They've
got bird flu, so you can't do that. So there's
just I guess mass chicken graves out there somewhere. Many
stores limiting how many eggs shoppers can buy. Some restaurants
have added temporary egg search charges as well. They say
egg prices should potentially start coming down. They dropped by
a dollar twenty a dozen wholesale, acording to the US
(02:18):
Department of Agriculture, down to six eighty five a dozen.
Department noting that flew out breaks slowed over the last
couple of weeks. They've been localized and have been able
to try to get ahead of those. The price of
Midwest large large eggs was five twenty three a dozen.
It's down thirty nine percent from its peak a couple
of weeks earlier. The price that consumers are actually paying.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Is still up.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
However, from January to February, wholesale prices are dropping, retail
prices are rising. So if we were to ask you,
our egg price is getting cheaper as far as you know, no,
And if you read the article, or if you're a wholesaler,
you might say, yeah, they're starting to come down. But
if it's you buying things at the store, you head
on into Ralphs and you look for eggs, they're not
going to be any cheaper, which is some people to
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believe that there may be something larger at play. Indeed,
is there a conspiracy of foot from Fox Business. It
sounds like the Department of Justice is looking into that
very claim.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
You know, farmers have been dealing with this bird flu
since twenty twenty two, but recently prices have gotten out
of control. Take a look back in December, a dozen
eggs is going to cost you around four dollars. Now
it's closer to seven dollars, and in February, a dozen
eggs cost around eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's wholesale.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
This is why the Justice Department is opening an investigation.
They're looking into if major producers are violating antitrust laws
by sharing information about supply and pricing, conspiring to keep
prices higher. But the American Egg Board says, this is
a story of supply and demand. Farmers have been battling
bird flu and losing.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, all right, good. We have not ever seen anything
like this play out before. We've never had an American
company take advance of a news story or a prevailing sentiment.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
We've never had any oil companies, for instance, that have.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Continued to tell us that this is a simple supplying
demand issue while they rake in record profits. We've never
seen that happen in any other aspect, especially during the
pandemic and then the subsequent supply chain shortage that happened afterward.
Companies don't use news in order to boost their bottom line,
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to hose you in order to line their own pockets.
It doesn't happen. So when you hear this nonsense that
says that these major egg producers are somehow gouging you.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's just a total lie. Believe their story.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Instead, that says it's a simple supply and demand issue.
For instance, as I pointed out, wholesale prices are down
a dollar twenty even though you're paying more. The difference,
of course goes into the pockets of the egg producers.
But that's your coincidence and in no way, shape or
form indicative of some sort of an underlying conspiracy that
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they're working against you in order to make a ton
of money and profit off the news, all at your expense.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That doesn't happen. It's simply supply and demand.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And while demand remains the same and supply is up,
and you would think prices would come down and they're not.
That's it's just a lot of market factors that you
wouldn't understand.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's very it's very complicated. You wouldn't understand.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's just let me simplify supply and demand and all
the other stuff. With record profits and that that's just
you wouldn't understand it. It's too complicated.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Since January of twenty twenty five, the start of this year,
we've lost more than thirty million.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Birds and counting.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Last week was actually the first week we went a
full week without a new farm having an outbreak of
the avian flu. So those this impact has been devastating
on our industry. It's been devastating on our farmers. And
like I said, our farmers are in the fight of
their lives.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, absolutely, especially the largest commercial farms. The small farmers
are losing money. They're in the fight of their lives.
The very large farms that are raking in record profit,
that must be an even bigger fight. That's just massive,
you know.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
But the other people that are losing are the businesses
and the consumers. We're here at Roccos where every egg
dish is now a dollar fifty more expensive because of
the cost of eggs.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I just saw an ad out for I don't know,
Dunnies or billage In or somebody. They've got some six
or seven dollars deal and that included the big omelet too,
and I thought, how are they doing that. They're not
making any money on that. In fact, I was seeing
that waffle house is always the butt of a lot
of jokes. Not a lot of waffle houses nearby. See
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waffle House is getting hit hard. However, if you are
loving breakfast, ie Hop, Ie Hop is getting hammered by
the egg prices. Ie Hop prices have increased by eighty
two percent over the last five years, This Roadhouse up
forty six percent, TGI Friday's up forty five percent. And
this is all in large part because of the rising
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food costs. But especially when it comes to places like
I Hop, it's eggs. It comes out eggs. It's all eggs.
It's an egg issue. Who else is pulling back? Forget it?
If you're like me, you stopped eating eggs a while
ago because you said, I'm not going to pay those
ridiculous prices for eggs. You'll just wait for the bird
flu to be done and in the meantime you'll find
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something else to eat for breakfast, perhaps cereal.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And yet it sounds like those.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Fruity o's because fruit loops was already taken, or the
uh oat circles that you get in the bags of
cereal at the discount places. Those are getting too expensive too.
Just how bad has it gotten? That's next.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We are pulling back people are saying, and no mole
forget about it. In fact, if you were like me
and you grew up poor, you didn't have lucky charms.
You had something that was the equivalent like fortune totems,
or you didn't have cheerios. You would have oat circles,
(08:19):
and you didn't have fruit loops. You'd have fruit rings
something like that. Right, you didn't have the actual stuff.
We had knockoff cereals, and knockoff cereals were fine, it
was good. In fact, in some cases you got so
you like them better. I always hated the knockoff cheerios,
but I thought that the knockoff wheaties were fine, right,
(08:40):
I mean, you just got so that you got used
to it. There are other things that you can buy
that are store bought, that are reasonable duplicates, and stores
are getting better at this than they were when we
were younger, which was so so many millennia ago. But
Treehouse Foods is one of the country's largest manufacturers of
private brands.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
There the ones.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So if you see something that is the equate brand
from Walmart that may have come from Treehouse Foods, if
you see the Safeway brand that may have come from Treehouse, foods.
If you see which is like or excuse me, you
see like the Safeway Albertson's, if you see the Kroger
brand from like Ralphs may have come from Treehouse Foods.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They make a bunch of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
However, we are seeing the whole egg thing going on,
with the price of eggs going up, which certainly is
not in any way, shape or form a money grabbed
by the egg manufacturers capitalizing on the spike and prices
due to.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
The bird flu.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Coffee prices are going up, and of course we may
start seeing more prices jumping because of the threats of
terraces tariffs.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So here's what you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Prices on things like cookies, crackers, coffee, and other things
are not only going up everywhere, but they are also
going up for the store bought brands, the store brand
names right, which we always think of as being generic.
People have decided I'm gonna go and I don't know
who does this. I don't know who it is that
is insane enough to do it, but some people say
(10:08):
I will just go without coffee.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
We are in a bad spot when inflation gets to
the point where people are not having their morning drugs.
That's gonna make things that work a whole lot more difficult.
I don't know if you know any coffee drinkers. Maybe
you're you are a coffee drinker, but if the point
comes where you have to start rationing coffee, things are
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gonna get ugly fast. They say that people are stressed. Treehouse,
that's again they make the groceries. Their financial chief says,
we don't have any strong indicators that consumers are going
to be less stressed in the near term, and grocery
retailers are relying on third parties like Treehouse to make
their store brands.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Giants like Kroger Albertson's Costco boosting investments in their branded products.
Private labels are growing faster than name brand goods heading
into the pandemic, and then consumers stuck at home with
money to spend, went back to the national brands and
low cost brands. We've seen now a resurgence for a
couple of reasons. Because you have higher grocery prices. Retailers
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are expending their store brand offerings. Walmart is introducing a
premium line of food called Better Goods along their Great
value brand, so you've got the great value and then
you've got better goods, which is supposed.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
To be the step up.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But now people are even saying we're just gonna cut
back on even the low cost stuff. To me, this
is a bad omen. You've got consumer confidence. You may
have seen the report consumer confidence is down. With consumer
confidence down, whether they have reason to or not. Maybe
it's based on the news, Maybe it's based on the
worries over the tariffs. Maybe people have lost jobs. But
(11:51):
at this point it doesn't look like we're in a recession.
The fear of recession is so great that people are
beginning to behave as though we are in a recession.
We're for it, we're getting ready, we're pregaming. The next
recession is what's happening. And so people are cutting back
on things, even the store brand products. But they're also
cutting back on this from the Wall Street Journal, US
(12:12):
convenience store sales falling over four percent by volume.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
What are they cutting back on?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Derrito's When you stop in at the Circle K or
the Shell station, there's no there's no big bag of chips.
If you've bought a bag of chips at the gas stations, lately.
Have you seen the price on that It's seven bucks.
Seven bucks for a bag of potato chips is not
even the family size bag. I know, I sound like
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a grumpy old man. I understand, but I'm gonna be grumpy.
I don't like it. So people are cutting back on
what they're buying. That includes Doritos, that includes Twinkies. And
I think we just saved Twinkies from the brink of
extinction a decade ago. They were all ready to wrap up.
But here's the really scary thing. Well, we have some
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people cutting back on things like coffee in other places,
which is terrifying. Sounds like some people are cutting back
on cigarettes. Oh my, So now you've got people that
are not going to have their cigarettes or their coffee
in the morning. That is, it's going to get ugly fast. Friends,
this is going to be very apocalyptic in a hurry.
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I don't have high hopes. So what can you do?
Could you turn to one of those dollar stores? Nope,
because have you been to a dollar store lately? Nothing
costs a dollar anymore. And now Dollar General says they're
not even making any money and they're shutting up shop.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Dollar General is closing nearly one hundred stores. The company
says it plays to closed ninety six locations by January
of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's not too many, though. I think Dollar General opens
more than one hundred a day. I'm exaggerating, but not
by much. This is from whas by the way, I
believe this is in Louisville.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Dollar General CEO says that the number of closings represents
less than one cent of the company's overall store base.
It also plans to close forty five of Dollar General's
home to core stores popshelf.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I think no Dollar General had home to cour stores.
Did you know, man, that's through dollars? All right? That
was quick, Amy, you get credit on that one. That
was very quick.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
The decision came after a view of the store performance
and conditions to determine which stores should be closed or
maybe be rebranded. Now, as of now, it's not known
which locations are set to close. There are more than
thirty of those stores in the Louisville metrics.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
All right, So again I told you that it was
from Louisville. Did he just say rebranded? Don't know if
they're going to close or rebrand. So you rebrand from
a Dollar General to what a dollar Lieutenant, I don't
understand what the rebrand would be. You go more high
end Dollar General. There's no lower end Dollar I mean,
(14:54):
Dollar General is what it is. It's just cheap, cheap.
All the dollar stores just cheap, telling man. I would
think Dollar General will do really well as people are
worried about inflation and recession. It has in the past.
Walmart and Dollar General stores do well during recessions. They do,
they do, and yet here they are saying they're going
to close some shops.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We'll find out how it plays out in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
One place I don't think is going to do very
well during recession is someone that has to halt the
sales of their products because parts keep falling off, that's
getting protested from coast to coast, and still charges more
than one hundred thousand dollars for some of their products.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
That's next.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
All right, Imagine that you own a company and for
years you've been trying to find your lane. You've been
really nailing that brand. You don't worry so much about
the others. You're really trying to you're really trying to
own your lane. You think of you think of some
big brands out there, and you go, Okay, Taco Bell
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is gonna own the cheap, fast Mexican food lane. Now
they've got competitors, but Taco Bell nationwide, they're the big ones, right,
So imagine that you own that lane and you own
it hard. And then imagine, just imagine if Taco Bell's
owners came out and said, uh, you know what, we
(16:26):
don't really like Mexican food. We want to support all
of the non Mexican food things out there. In fact,
we're really gonna start pushing sushi. Probably not great for
Taco Bell's brand should something like that happen, right, Is
that fair to say if all of a sudden, the
owner of Taco Bell came out and said, my food
is great, but also I'm gonna put all of my
(16:47):
effort into pushing sushi, probably not gonna be really good
for Taco Bell, especially if part of the push for
sushi is to limit things like I don't know for Holles.
That's basically what's happening when you look at what's going
on in DC, which is why we're seeing the stock
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prices and the sales more importantly dropping for Tesla. Tesla's
being protested as people are upset with Elon Musk. They're
taking it out in his business. They can't protest Starlink
because it's tough to get protesters in space A lot
of people would like to, it's very difficult to protest
(17:30):
some of the other stuff the SpaceX. But what they
can do is they can show up but Tesla's showrooms
and start protesting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And that's exactly what people are doing nationwide.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
There are about two hundred people lined up here along
Colorado Street, which is in front of the Tesla's.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Showroom by the way NBCLA.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
The protesters were demanding that people sell their Tesla cars
and stock.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Now.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
These protests are happening all over the area. We also
saw one in Glendale held by the same group. They
were holding signs and encouraging drivers to and support as
they went by. The group Rally for Democracy is organizing
these protests. This movement is in response to Elon musks
position in President Donald Trump's administration and roll in the
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Department of Government Efficiency. Similar rallies are taking place around
the world, which started back into February.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
What I don't understand, I just I get it. We
have turned vehicles and this is one of the things
that makes in the American car culture so great, is
that vehicles are part of our identity.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
If you drive certain cars, we make certain assumptions about someone,
and someone who has certain character traits will purchase they're
attractive to certain cars. For instance, if you're driving a
mini van that has a bunch of stick figure stickers
in the back window, we assume that you are a
family oriented person and obnoxious. If you drive a lifted
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pickup truck, we assume that you are a dude and obnoxious.
If you drive a sports cars your daily driver, we
assume that you have some insecurities and are obnoxious. If
you drive a subar Ru, we assume that you eat
granola and you support lgbt q IA initiatives right, and
(19:20):
you probably want to coexist sticker Elon's pivot to MAGA
would be akin to Subaru declaring that they need to
stop hippies and end LGBTQYA initiatives. They would never do
that because they know they're laying Elon's pivot is the
worst marketing pivot ever it's worse than when Coke did
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the whole New Coke thing back in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It is the worst ever.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And so that's why last week you saw President Trump
with Elon on the on the lawn at the White House.
Come on down to Crazy Don's use Tesla a lot.
We got Tesla's they're they're great. Tests the cars and
Tesla cyber truck they're great. You should buy one today
to support Elon, and not buying one should be illegal.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You can't boycott our Tesla truck. That would be illegal
and un American.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You should go back to boycotting other things like cancel
culture and but light.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But not Elon. Buy his cyber truck today.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
May be delivered soon, unless it's not because also in
the news, Elon Musk's Tesla has been forced to halt
sales of cyber trucks because metal panels keep falling off. Yeah,
customers that are posting on the Cyber Truck Owners Club
website as well as on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
They say that the deliveries are on hold.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
The website Electric said the decision was taken amid increasing
instances of trim and panels flying off the supposedly bulletproof
electric truck. Now, imagine if you've spent the last few
years saying that electric vehicles, the push to electric is
is bad for the country, and you've been saying that
we have to have fossil fuels and you'll never buy
one of those golf carts, and you've you've been taking
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this tack for years, and then all of a sudden
you're told up everything you've been led to believe in
the Church of Petrol was false. Now you should buy
the evs. You should buy them because it's the American
thing to do. Also, they're one hundred grand. Who's doing that?
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Who has the extra one hundred thoughts? It's one thing
if you want to show your support by buying a
red hat that cost you twenty five bucks.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Twenty five bucks doesn't make or break things. One hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
To somebody in the middle of Arkansas to buy a
truck whose parts fall off, to replace their lifted f
one fifty to get stuck in the mud without a
charger nearby for one hundred grand, I don't see that
making up for the damage that musk is doing to
the brand. It's just not happening, all right. When it
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comes to the kids these days. Oh, the kids these days,
They're getting a bit strange, which is why Texas has
taken it upon themselves to put a stop to these
ten gallon furries.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Freedom of speech be damned, that's next cool.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
If you have kids, there have been times in your life,
undoubtedly that you've thought they are animals. It's become such
a problem in Texas that lawmakers have decided they need
to step in, and what has become known as the
Furries Act takes on a different tone than what I
thought furries meant in the past. What's Texas up to?
(22:50):
According to CBS and Austin here, it is.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Hey, Bill fouled in the Texas House would stop students
from acting like any other than a human being at school.
That Bill's meant to specific target what are known as furries.
A furry is a person who dresses up or behaves
like an animal with human characteristics. This can include creating
a character based on an animal called a persona that
is expressed to art, role playing, or elaborate costumes called
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fur suits.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Hmm, okay, all right, I'm in on that. Hang on you,
what's going on? Ready to go? See my computer? My computer,
Frozer saying here we go now.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Role Playing and Education of
Furries Act was filed by a Austin Area Republican state
Representative Stan Gertz. The law would ban non human behavior
such as using a litter box, wearing tails, animal ears, leashes, callers,
or any other acceassories used for animals.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So what, I can't use a litter box in school anymore, Oh, Texas.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
It also banns students from barking, meowing, or hissing, and
licking oneself or others for grooming. The bill would also
allow students to dress up as animals for days like
Halloween or other school dress up days.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
A hearing has not yet been set for this bill.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Mascots would also be allowed, because so many mascots are
indeed animals. Evidently, in Texas becomes such a problem that
we have to enact legislation that limits students free speech
because I guess they all want litter boxes. That whole
notion of you can't lick yourself for grooming being illegal,
that's really going to put a damper on Kentucky fried
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chickens whole slogan.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
H Indeed, Gary wanted on this.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. Or
you come on, buddy, come on, the idea of licking
yourself to clean yourself, you.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Do, It's nature, Gary, finger licking good?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Are you telling me you don't lick your fingers when
you have something delicious.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
Fancy with your showers and your wet necks? Yeah, guess what,
some people have to lick themselves.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
That's right, Gary, Yeah, so this is the the yoga
you go? Yeah, an odd uh odd side.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
I feel like I've chosen here, looking across the great
divide between you people licking yourselves for cleanliness and me
over here washing my hands.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
What are you going to do when you have to
live off the land, when the end is nigh, you're
gonna be dirty?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Be dirty?
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Are you gonna lick yourself like everybody else?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Come on, fancy pants, have a taste, fancy Come on,
get in there.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
No, maybe maybe I employ someone.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
To lick me.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
That's a different industry.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I don't think. I don't think you have to wait
for the apocalypse.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
That you can go down to the days in and Glendale.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
For that, there is a price point. I suppose. All right,
what do you guys have plans today?
Speaker 10 (25:47):
Well, right after the news at nine o'clock, David is
going to join us from Japan. Mookie Bets will not
be in the first two games for the Dodgers. And
when you see Mookie Bets you will think he's not well,
because he's not. He's lost like fifteen pounds whatever your
illness virus, really, Joe, don't don't make it okay, but
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he may actually come back sooner than expected. Speaking of
our astronauts that have been up in space, they're coming
back sooner than expected.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
What are they going to eat when they arrive?
Speaker 11 (26:19):
I saw this whole explainer about what happens over the
weekend when they come back. Like you said, they have
to just sit for a long time, long time. I'm
going to know what they can ingest Like, they can't
just go have spaghetti and meatballs, can they?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh, they have to ease into it a little bit,
I think so.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
It's like the turpins, you know, when they got rescued
from that house. You had to ease them into solids.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh my gosh, I didn't even consider that.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
Always consider the Turpinso.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Words to live by. Looking forward to it. Gary and
Shannon coming in next. Thanks guys, appreciate it. Looking forward
to the show. Always great stuff.
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