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your phone and I'm tracking your every move. That's how obsessed with you I
am. I'm Wayne Resnik, and uh, let's do it Handle on the
news with Heather Brooker and me and the lead story. Well after You're much
speculation that President Joe Biden might actually step aside, or at least say that
he was open to a discussion of stepping aside. Heil. The conference call
was him, vice President Harris, and as many of the campaign staff as
could make this conference call where he definitively said that he's not going anywhere,
I will quote him. Now, let me say this as clearly as I
possibly can, and as simply and straightforward as I can. I am running.
No one's pushing me out. I'm not leaving. I'm in this race
to the end. Boy, oh boy, let me tell you something.
Now, if he doesn't stay in it, we are going to have to
laugh at him. And I haven't jumped on this, you know, Oh
my god, the debate and he's got to go and all that stuff.
I haven't jumped on that bandwagon. But if you're going to be that definitive
in a semi public forum that you know can be reported and say it that
many different ways, that you're committed to the end, which is more embarrassing
if you decide later that you miscalculated and you step aside, or if after
saying all that stuff, they do end up pushing you out. So,
Heather, what do you think. I know that you're not supposed to applying
too much. Well, I'm as a newsperson, but do you do you
feel like he wouldn't have said all those words if there hadn't been behind the
scenes discussion and he was very very very very very confident about what he was
saying. I think that people are probably telling him, you need to take
a strong stance to show strength and power and show that you're capable of being
a strong leader. Still, I think that people are probably telling him to
make those kinds of statements so that he appears strong and not weak. Yeah,
because there's already so much division, there's already an image that he has
that he is weak and feeble and unable to lead. So I think all
the statements, all the speeches we're going to see for the next four months
are going to be very strong, very definitive, very powerful. You know.
I understand that there's a whole game plan now, yeah, that has
been put into place to make him seem strong and vigorous and all of these
things. So my understanding is that at his next campaign appearance, he's just
gonna come out and do a CrossFit wad in front of everybody. Oh,
we can only hope. But before that happens, apparently he's going to be
on our TVs. Yes on ABC. And here's the thing. Initially,
I guess ABC was saying they were going to break up this interview. They've
done an interview with President Biden, and they were going to break it up
into parts and you know, try to I guess, squeeze as much of
the viewership juice as they could out of it. And people were like,
what are you doing? We need to see the whole thing and see how
this man is is doing. And now they're saying they're going to air it
in its entirety as a primetime special Friday night. This Friday Night, you
can watch George Stephanopolis' interview President Biden and ask hard hitting questions like were you
just having a bad night? Is there any way you could say that the
part about you can watch Joe Biden being interviewed by George There any way you
could say it with more like the same level of enthusiasm as let's say you're
going to a K pop concert. I don't know that I would be excited
to go to a kid's theater. Well, you know, come on,
you're not just a news person, you're an actor. Yes, that's true.
This is you have to sell it like it's a massive opportunity. Yeah,
to do something that's like kick ass fun. Hey Friday, I know
you were gonna go see Elvis Costello and Daryl Hall in concert, but sell
those tickets off because and I'm not lying either. You can see Joe Biden
get interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. Pop the popcorn, Pop the popcorn. Get
your Bruce Kis. It's Biden and Stepfie. So they're gonna They're still gonna
do a teaser clip on World News tonight, and then they're gonna run the
interview in its entirety. And then here's something and I don't know if you
know any more about it than I do, but that so they're gonna run
it, and they say in its entirety, and they also say that an
unedited transcript will be made available. Do those two things mean we will see
every single moment of the interview or will what's broadcast on TV be edited?
I mean what we're seeing on TV is definitely going to be edited. There's
no way they're gonna have an unedited version of the interview. I can't imagine
that they would do that. They're not gonna do like thirty minutes straight,
you know. So then if if in fact, any editing is made and
I'm not talking about any nefarious anything, even just edited for time, then
you can't really say the interview in its entirety will be aired. Yeah,
it's I think that they're trying to sort of reverse course, and like they're
also trying to cover up for you know what it was obviously trying to be
a ratings grab and an advertisement grab for ABC. I think they'll air probably
more of it than they were initially intending to. Ah. I think they
probably also had to work out some stuff with the president's people to make sure
that they could do that. There was probably a little bit of back and
forth on that as well. But I think a lot of people are gonna
be tuning in to watch this and see. But I also know, knowing
how television works, there will be some editing. There's gonna be some cuts,
there's gonna be some b roll, there's gonna be sound bites. You
know. Well, that's why they're gonna you know, the transcript will be
available, so if there's anything funky that happens, it'll be in the transcripts.
Is I guess they're not gonna hide it from us. But even the
transcripts though, like you know, sometimes things can be I don't wanna say
take it out of context, but things when you read them can sound different
and come across differently than if someone is speaking them. So I'm not sure
what the point of releasing the transcript is unless there's like some secret thing that
they're not gonna include in the you know, interview, in the what they
air. So I'm not sure at the point. That is an update on
Hurricane Burrow. It pummeled the holy heck out of Jamaica. That's its latest
accomplishment. Hurricane Burrow, where they had heavy wind gusts going on for twelve
hours straight. They also got four point four inches of rain in the twenty
four hour period. And by way of contrast, the typical amount of rain
in Jamaica in the whole month of July is about two point two inches,
so two months worth of rain in twenty four hours. This is after this
hurricane went through. They call them the Windward Islands, which are the islands
like Saint Vincent Granada. I don't know, Heather Brooker, are you a
big fan of these islands. They know more of their names. I am
Saint Lucia, Tobago. Yeah, of course Jamaica as well. You know.
I saw a video, uh yesterday from the I guess director of the
Sandals resort. They had gathered all of the people staying at the resort and
were making an announcement and he was like, I am telling them, as
of like four o'clock today, no more services will be available to you.
This is very serious. We're gonna ask you all to please stay in your
room. If you have never been through a hurricane before, please take this
seriously. My first priority is your safety. The services are secondary. So
it was I mean, he was like trying to prep on the You see
all these people with their like you know, fruity drinks and their swim trunks,
like sitting there listening like are we gonna die? So but it seemed
like they were taking at least at this one video I saw on this resort,
they were taking it very seriously and urging people visiting the islands to to
stay in their room and you know, be safe. I can't imagine like
you saved up all year for your summer vacation and you know, to live
through something like that. At least you live though, That's a good thing.
Yeah. Now closer to home, we're going to have kind of a
weather event. Yeah, so in Death Valley, they're already going to be
setting another record. It looks like. So the previous record for Death Valley,
the hottest temperature and Death Valley was one hundred and thirty degrees and that
was set in August of twenty twenty and July of twenty twenty one. Well,
now they're saying this coming Monday and Tuesday, it could beat that.
It could go hit that temperature again or hotter in Death Valley. Although,
and this is you know, I love to take swipes at the news media.
This is an example of the headline leading to disappointment. Maybe disappointment it's
not the right word, because the headline is like, oh, I set
a world record for the hottest temperature next week. Then a little further down
it says the probability of this happening is in the twenty to twenty five percent
range. Well, yes, it is true, we could set I like
how I'm saying, we like it's a night Like we're a team and our
and our goal is to set the high temperature. We can do it everybody.
You know, they've recorded temperatures of one thirty four and one thirty six
out there, but they're not considered official because of the instruments that were used
to measure it. Like, for example, taking a little kid out there
and going, hey, how hot do you think it is? Feeling just
says as, I don't know, it's one hundred and thirty six, and
then they write it down. Yeah, but there is. I mean,
here's the bottom line, heat wave starting lasting into next week. At seven
o'clock, we're going to talk about that and what you need to know in
regard to the heat wave that we're going to have over the weekend. It's
always so funny when we do stories like this because it's sort of like it's
gonna be hot in Death Valley. Well duh, you know, like but
it's gonna be hot. It's gonna be hot almost everywhere, right, So
it's always just like hot in Death Valley where people could die. So it
wasn't named that by accident folks. Oh wow. You know. Boeing has
had a string of whistleblowers lately calling them out on various practices, and the
latest one is a guy named Merl Myers, thirty year veteran of the company.
He's a former quality control guy, and he said in a network television
interview that when they would put bad parts or scrap parts into the scrapyard,
that then Boeing would take those parts out of the scrapyard and put them back
on the assembly lines, even in cases where because sometimes they would paint the
parts red, Hey this is crap and throw it on the scrapyard. And
he said sometimes they were taking red painted scrap parts out of their putting them
on the assembly line. Meaning if he's right, I don't know why he
wouldn't be. They're planes flying around with parts on them that are not supposed
to be in use. Fantastic. Makes me not want to fly anywhere.
We got a crime blodder item here, We got a what crime blotter item?
Oh with the Fashion Island story. Yes, I've never heard crime blodder
before. All right, this is a really just heartbreaking story from Newport Beach.
A woman killed at Fashion Island Mall. There very high end shopping mall.
She was visiting the US from New Zealand. She and her husband were
walking outside of Fashion Island apparently they just come out of a Barnes and Noble
there when they were approached by several men, three men, and robbed.
There was a tempted robbery. Somehow she ended up getting run over in their
getaway car when they were trying to They ran over her and killed her.
She was sixty nine years old and her husband wasn't hurt. But they did
catch the three suspects a short time later. So they're looking at robbery with
a gun, probably a conspiracy. And I would assume this gets you to
a murder charge. Oh, I would think so, absolutely. Yeah,
And there was one of the men apparently had a gun and he fired shots
like in the general direction I guess of the store. But yeah, they
caught them all. All right. Well it's July fourth. Here are Independence
day for Britain and over there it's election day, the Brits heading to the
polls to another snap election which was called by the Prime Minister Vershi Sunak.
And we'll see if the Conservative parties continue to rule that country or if there
is a swing. Remember their recent history, three prime ministers just since twenty
nineteen. Boris Johnson got elected in twenty nineteen by a landslide, everybody loved
him. Then not too long after that, nobody loved him anymore. So
they put in what was her name, Liz Truss, who was the prime
minister for about fourteen fifteen minutes, and then she was replaced with Sunak And
now he's called the snap election. Although people are like, oh, he's
called a snap election. You have to have an election. I think it's
every five years. And he only had a few months left anyway before he
would have to do what he's doing now. So we will see what happens
over there. Although on July fourth, do we care? No, I
mean yes, but there are jilted lover. We broke up with them,
we dumped we we we Taylor swifted them a long, long long we did
time ago, we did so. I mean, it's but you do sometimes
you keep up. You know, there's the people who you break up and
then you're obsessed with your ex. Yes, but then there's also the other
thing. You dump somebody and then you're like, I do want to check
in occasionally and see if there's still as big a loser as I realized that
they were. I want to creep on their Instagram a little bit and see
what they're up to. Yeah, that's what we're doing with Britain. Now,
I see here the FDA, heather's taken bold action to protect our health
and it only took them twenty four years. I'm sorry, fifty four years.
Fifty four years. Yeah. Apparently, back in the nineteen seventies,
the FDA said that BVO, which is rominated vegetable oil that's been used in
food, wasn't considered safe, but they could use it in small amounts.
Well, now they're coming back and they're saying, oh, actually, we
probably shouldn't be using it in any amount. So they revoked its regulation for
the use of prominada vegetable oil. And it's been found in some sodas and
sports dreams over six dres not found like, hey, that's not supposed to
be there, but like put in there on purpose, with the permission of
the government. You know what, And you know why it's so important to
take vegetable oil to which you have added this dangerous chemical. You know why
it's so important because if you have a citrus flavored drink and you don't put
the deadly brominated vegetable oil in the drink, the citrus flavor may separate and
float to the top of your drink, which is a much worse tragedy than
getting brain cancer. So this has been banned in Europe and Japan for some
time. California last year banned it as part of the Food Safety Act,
and now the FDA has banned it for use in food. Just don't drink
sodas, people, that's all. I'm trying to decide whether to mention a
product or not do it. It's the fourth of July. Let's get all
right, Except if you want to drink Zvia, that's probably fine with z
Zvia is a a brand of sodas that uses no coloring, no artificial flavoring,
so every flavor is clear, even the cola flavors, the cherry cola
flavors, the Doctor Pepper like knockoff that they make. It's all clear,
and it's sweetened only with stevia if you want. If you want a sweet
soda like beverage, it might be the closest thing to a healthy version of
that that there can be. And I do drink those, all right,
I'll check it out and I'm positive there's no bvo all right. There,
I've been influenced by Wayne I'm gonna go check it out. Well. A
Delta flight to Amsterdam had to make an emergency landing in New York City because
some of the in flight meals had gone rotten, and they decided the best
course of action was to go ahead and land in New York because they knew
some people had eaten those meals and were likely to get Elsico. And twelve
passengers were evaluated, but all of them said I don't need anything except a
bathroom. I don't need to go to the hospital. And Delta is apologizing,
saying this is not the service Delta is known for. Okay, we'll
tell you what you're known for. Yeah, did you see that video a
while back of somebody who just let loose, They couldn't control themselves and there
was just like diarrhea all over the plane. Did you see that? No?
All right, it was. But I don't but unlike you, I
unlike you. I don't ten times a day Google image search diarrhea. Well
you're missing out, all right. So this is this is a terrible incident
that's happened in Long Beach. One person has died and ten other people were
hurt after a boat. Of course, they describe it as a pleasure craft,
but I looked that up and apparently it's just another name for a boat.
But it crashed into some rocks and the waters off of Long Beach last
night, So very scary story there. Ten people are recovering this morning,
and they're still in the early investigation stage of figuring out what happened. Image.
Yeah, they don't know, and I guess initially what happened there.
There was forty to fifty year olds is what they say were on the boat,
and they think speed might have been effected. Oh no, Well,
the federal government has given a little over eight million dollars to our beloved Hollywood
Burbank Airport right up the street there to update its terminal. It's part of
a nationwide airport infrastructure program that is given to two hundred and eighty nine million
dollars to one hundred and twenty nine airports in forty states. Because we're all
flying again. In fact, we're flying more than we were before the pandemic.
Apparently, Hey, was it last month that TSA said they broke a
record because they screened two point nine nine million passengers in a single day.
I belive. So yeah, okay, let me ask you this. Then
here we go again criticizing the media. In this article, they point out
this record in a single day, two point nine to nine million passengers screened
by the TSA. Then they go on to say that the TSA expects over
the fourth of July holiday weekend more than thirty two million passengers to fly.
So if two point nine to nine million in a day is a record,
how can you get thirty two million people over the course of and even being
generous here calling it a five day weekend. Well, I did a story
earlier this week where it's said that they considered the holiday, the fourth of
July holiday to be almost a week like starting but it would have to be.
But if it's really more than thirty two million passengers, it would have
to be ten days long. Yeah, somebody, Hey, I'm just saying
that math doesn't the math doesn't add up here. The math isn't math LA
times, or maybe it's not LA times. They're just reporting what the TSA
said. But somebody, you know, should be protesting in front of the
TSA to give them calculators. In any event, they're going to update the
terminal in that airport, which is the greatest airport to fly out of.
It really is a dream that might not be true. I think Ontario is
also very good. Actually, you know what, just just as long as
it's not lax, you're probably fine. It is a dream to fly out
of Burbank Airport, and I stand by that always in forever. All right.
LA Unified says they are no longer going to be using a new AI
chat bot system after I guess the company collapsed. Let's see, so it
says, apparently it was a custom designed to help students thrive academically and parents
navigate They say, the complexities of LA public schools. Well, yeah,
so the company that created it has furloughed the vast majority of its staff.
And it's called all. Here is the name of the company, and the
chatbot is called ED. Yes, and ED was debuted less than three months
ago with much hoopla and fanfare about how awesome it was going to be for
everybody. They paid three million dollars and less than three months later it's gone.
Because obviously, if the company's gone, you can't They turned it off.
They just turned ED off. Are they going to get their money back?
It doesn't say that the turn of the contract where I mean, I
would hope. So that's a good chunk of change for a school district that
I'm sure desperately needs that money. Yep, so that's a shame. Jeff
Bezos is going to sell about five billion with a B dollars worth of shares
in Amazon, according to a regulatory filing. This after the stock hit a
record high. So of course that's when you want to sell your stock cracked
two hundred dollars a share. It's up thirty percent so far this year.
The Dow Jones Industrial average is up four percent so far this year. But
don't be sad for Jeff Bezos, because yes, he's gonna unload twenty five
million shares of Amazon, but he will still have about nine hundred and twelve
million shares of Amazon. So don't you worry. I know you're worried sitting
around the kitchen table. What is Jeff He's just going to do? If
he has no shares of Amazon, he'll be lonely. Don't you worry about
it. He'll be fine, all right. So maybe some good news coming
out of the Israel and Hamas war. Apparently they're getting closer, just inching
closer to a possible ceasefire and hostage deal. Apparently, Israeli negotiators that are
going to meet with Israel's political leadership, including net Nyahou in the coming days
to decide whether to enter this new phase of negotiations. Hamas has confirmed that
it passed on it passed a response on an Israeli proposal to mediators in Qatar
and Egypt, repeating its demand for a complete ceasefire. This is so complicated,
so many layers, and I feel like every week we think we hear
something that says, oh, they're they're getting closer to a deal, and
then it goes way. So I don't know whether to believe it when stories
like this come out. Well, I think we can. We can believe
that what's what's being reported here there they're almost at an agreement. Just to
have ground rules and broad strokes for an agreement, they would then still have
to start negotiating an agreement. Right. This is where this is where these
kinds of international geopolitical problems, This is where it takes months, sometimes years
of negotiation just to get to the point where you agree to sit down with
each other and start negotiating, right, and that's kind of where they are
here, right, So it's like, you know, whenever we see headlines,
oh, they're on the Like this headline is where they're on the brink
of framework agreement for ceasfire. That makes it seem like but they're still just
miles away. Definitely, this is like we're almost, Yes, we're miles
away. We're on the brink of an agreement for us to get into our
cars and drive a quarter of a mile closer to each other. Exactly.
Hey, here in La City, Councilman Hugo Soto Martinez has introduced the fast
food Fair Work Ordinance. Now, La already has a fair work Week Ordinance.
We've had it for a couple of years now, and that's the law
that says your employer has to give you your schedule in advance. It's mostly
for retail employees and it covers like twenty five hundred large chain fast food restaurants
about fifty thousand workers. So now Hugo Soto Martinez wants to augment that with
some more requirements mandatory six hour paid training to educate workers on their rights.
Yes, employers are going to love that. You want me to pay them
for me to tell them how they can stop me from doing what I want
to do. Also, fast food workers would get an hour of paid time
off for every thirty hours that they work. Unsurprisingly, save local restaurants,
the coalition that includes restaurant owners and business groups say you're gonna make us all
shut down if you do this, just like they say you're gonna make us
shut down if you do anything. And they don't shut down for the most
part, but sometimes they do lay off a lot of people. Remember when
the fast food minimum wage went into effect, and you know what, I
forget what chain it was. Was it Pizza Huts? If it wasn't Pizza
Huts, I apologized to do Hey, I don't remember, but a big
franchiser or franchisee of Pizza Hut or whatever was sorry restaurants, he immediately laid
off all the in house delivery staff. So there you go. And the
hit point has just been introduced as emotion. So it'll take the city council
some time to figure out if they want to try to do this or not.
Oh oh, how the mighty have fallen? Oh joey joey chestnut,
which sounds like such a gangster name, doesn't it. Joey Chestnut, famous
world fast eater, fast eater guy. He has been banned from Nathan's annual
hot dog eating contest because apparently he signed an endorsement deal with Impossible Foods.
Excuse me, and competitive eaters at the Nathan's Contest cannot endorse hot dogs other
than Nathan's, which sponsors the contest. On the fourth, So what he's
gonna do is he's going down to Fort Bliss's Army base in El Paso,
Texas, where he is going to to devour hot dogs and buns in about
five minutes. I guess. So the Nathan's Contest is ten minutes, this
Army contest is five minutes, and Joey Chestnut says he's gonna try to eat
more hot dogs in five minutes than whoever wins the Nathans contest eats in ten
minutes. He has a record of seventy six hot dogs and the buns.
Well, I don't know in five minutes, though, I mean the seventy
six was in ten minutes. Whatever, we'll see what we'll see what There
is a live stream, apparently, I don't know. I haven't clicked on
the link because I'm not interested in watching it. But if you want to
watch such a thing, there's going to be a live stream for this fourth
Bliss Army Base hot dog eating contest. All right, good luck, Joey.
I wonder how many pirate streams they're going to be of this in bars
all around the country, people who didn't pay for it. Yeah, just
no, I think it's free anyway. Yeah, all right, this is
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