WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.080 You're listening to kf I Am six forty. 2 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:08.199 The bill handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f Amy, 3 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:11.439 what are the eight business opposed to just five o'clock 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.359 because the commercials, I guess I. 5 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:15.599 Would think it would be And we don't know. We 6 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:17.600 were talking about this yesterday. We're like, why five oh eight? 7 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:19.600 And it's always been that way. It's probably so like 8 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:23.280 the announcers can introduce everything. That's what I'm thinking that 9 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:24.760 they can kind of get the show in. 10 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:29.559 The broadcast world when they say first pitch at you know, okay, 11 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:30.600 you got eight minutes. 12 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:31.160 Worth of commercials. 13 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:35.280 Because commercials at the world series aren't very valuable. 14 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:35.799 Are they. No. 15 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.560 I'd love to know how much advertisers because it was 16 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.039 it's at KLA see our sister station on the Hall 17 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:46.960 that carries the Dodgers. I wonder what those spots are 18 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.439 going for. I'm gonna call now. They're not gonna let 19 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:52.200 me know because I'll immediately report it to you. 20 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:54.640 And on the air. 21 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:58.840 All right, let's move into politics for a moment. Latino 22 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.520 voters this is an easy one. Latino voters are key 23 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:06.519 in California races that could sway Congress Okay, that is 24 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:07.200 sort of a given. 25 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:08.680 Boy am I brilliant in telling you that? 26 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:10.599 But it goes a little deeper than that, goes a 27 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:15.760 lot deeper than that, because as of right now, the 28 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:21.120 Republican majority in Congress is four I mean, you talk 29 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.879 about a razor thin majority. You know, all the Democrats 30 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:25.680 have to do is spin off four seats. They have 31 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.280 to win four seats, and now they control Congress. And 32 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:34.599 some of California's most competitive congressional races are in Latino districts. 33 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:41.560 For example, the thirteenth Congressional Merced County, fifty percent of 34 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:46.719 eligible voters are Latino. The twenty second Congressional district Kern, 35 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:52.480 King Tillarry Counties, it's fifty nine percent of eligible voters 36 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:53.640 are Latino. 37 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.040 And then it goes on and on. 38 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.959 Now the races for those seats, including the twenty seventh, 39 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.319 currently occupied by Republicans, but Biden won all of them 40 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:08.400 in twenty twenty. Wooh, so what ends up happening? Well, 41 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:15.199 if it was that Latinos were important before, they are 42 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.319 monumentally important now. 43 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:19.360 The Latino voters it's much like radio. 44 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:21.280 And I've been around long enough, and I think Amy's 45 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:26.080 been around long enough, where Latino radio stations were really fringe. 46 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:27.360 You know, no one. 47 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:31.719 Paid much attention to them until advertisers and corporations realized 48 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:37.199 this is a real important group of people. And now 49 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:41.560 you have, well you have agencies that do nothing but 50 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:46.000 Latino audiences, and you've got focus groups and of course 51 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:48.919 radio stations. Well, the same thing is happening in the 52 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:53.560 world of politics, where all of a sudden Latinos become 53 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.719 very very important. They didn't used to because they didn't 54 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.280 vote very much. Well that's changed as Latinos realized they have. 55 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:01.879 A real power base. 56 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:07.439 Latino voters are increasingly influential and diverse because what's the 57 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:13.280 Latino voter, right, Mexicans Cubans for example, or Latino and 58 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:17.280 they are historically very conservative. You talk to a Cuban 59 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:23.400 American that's a Republican, tried and true. Mexicans generally vote 60 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.159 Mexican Americans generally vote for the Democrats. 61 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:30.199 So what are they doing? 62 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.520 Well, just to give you an idea, one of the 63 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.960 Congress people who is running again as a Democrat by 64 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.840 the name of George Whitesides. He is actually trying to 65 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:47.319 represent District twenty seven. On Sunday, he held an event 66 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:55.400 ballots and burritos all you think that that is aimed. 67 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:56.520 At the Latino community. 68 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:00.800 The California Republican Party has opened three Latino community centers 69 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:07.439 in Palmdale, Bakersfield, merced. The Republican National Committee has a 70 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:11.800 national Latino National Engagement Coordinator. 71 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:13.080 I don't even know what. 72 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.800 That is, but it's a guy who was born in 73 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:20.759 Mexico and became a US citizen justin Marsh. Democratic Assemblyman 74 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:24.759 Adam Gray, who's trying to get rid of Representative John Dwarty, 75 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:28.079 who is a Republican in Modesto the thirteenth, said he's 76 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:32.240 had more volunteers in this campaign than ever over the 77 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:37.560 last twelve years. There's a company called something called the 78 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:42.120 Libre Initiative Action. It's a national conservative Latino political organization 79 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:48.120 that really didn't exist. Because now you have both parties 80 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.120 that are vying for the Latino vote, and the Latino 81 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:59.399 vote could literally transform Congress into a Democratic majority. So 82 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:03.680 this ramble is going on. So it turns out there 83 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:06.560 where the Latino vote was sort of a given, the 84 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:10.439 Democrats sort of had it. No one really pushed for 85 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:14.639 it very much. It was almost like the black community 86 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.279 going for the Democrat almost automatically. 87 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:18.759 Well that's not the case anymore. 88 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:26.079 Joe Biden has for some reason, well the Democrats in general, 89 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:30.639 nationally black, the male black vote has decreased, the support 90 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.399 has decreased, which has just put everything in a turmoil. 91 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:35.680 I mean, no one knows, but I'll tell you what 92 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:40.560 is going to happen. You are going to see more 93 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:45.600 and more pressure, more and more advertising, more and more 94 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.319 of the ground war. 95 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.639 Being put into Latino districts. So to give you an 96 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:53.240 idea of how important it is. 97 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:59.480 In Duardes District, which he won in twenty twenty two, 98 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:05.120 and that's the Congressman Dwarti. He won it in twenty 99 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:11.759 twenty two by five hundred and sixty four votes. Every 100 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:16.759 vote is worth its weight in gold. And that's according 101 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:23.720 to his campaign manager. And so what are the issues. Well, 102 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:32.240 like everything else, the issues among Latino's jobs, the economy, inflation, housing, affordability, 103 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:36.240 which puts it right into the Republican camp because that 104 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:40.800 is the strongest argument the Republicans have in terms of 105 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:46.199 the economy and blaming the Democrats. Now, if it were 106 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:50.439 simply any other issue, if it were immigration, come on, 107 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:54.360 the Republicans would die on the vine, but that's not 108 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:59.000 as important. The important one is where the Democrats are 109 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:03.600 the most vulnerable. It's going to be an absolute wild 110 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:08.639 ride coming up, not only with the presidential but also 111 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.879 with Congress and the Senate. It looks like the Democrats 112 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:14.560 are going to have a hard time holding onto this 113 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:18.480 Senate majority because it's fifty to fifty now. It looks 114 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.680 like Congress could go the other way. And of course 115 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.240 the big one is who's going to be the next president, 116 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:26.160 and we're starting going to be looking. 117 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.240 At that throughout the rest of. 118 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:32.759 Well the campaign, which is now what two weeks out 119 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:35.240 for the elections. 120 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.160 Matter of fact, what I'm going to do is. 121 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:40.000 Later on at eight point thirty talk about how the 122 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:44.600 pollsters blew it in twenty twenty, and how we look 123 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:48.560 at the polls every single day, and how it's reported 124 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:54.079 every day in all the national news outlets and fast. 125 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:55.000 It's fascinating. 126 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.959 You know, politics is just so much fun unless you 127 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.120 get screwed by Apaul addition, which. 128 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:04.519 Happens every day. All right, Moving over to a fun fact. 129 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.360 You know how I love telling you about how you're 130 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.279 probably going to die when the next earthquake comes. 131 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.240 There is a there's a good chance you're going to die. 132 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:17.560 If you happen to be in a hospital, there is 133 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.959 a very good chance you're going to die. And this 134 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:25.800 has to do with hospitals scrambling on earthquake retrofits. 135 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:27.279 And this is law. Now. 136 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.839 Half of the four hundred and ten hospitals in California 137 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:35.480 have at least one building that will not be operatable 138 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:39.519 after a major earthquake, and a lot of these hospitals 139 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:42.080 say they don't have the money to meet a twenty 140 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:49.240 thirty legal death deadline for earthquake retrofits. So the governor 141 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.399 was asked, actually some state laws were passed granting relief 142 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:59.240 to some hospitals, not giving relief to others in terms 143 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:03.759 of the timeline for the earthquake retrofit. So Newsom in 144 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:09.639 September voted legislation vetoed I'm sorry, legislation that was championed 145 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.159 by the California Hospital Association that would have allowed all 146 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:17.440 hospitals to apply for an extension of this twenty thirty 147 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:22.840 deadline to twenty thirty five. Instead, he signed a much 148 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:27.440 more narrowly tailored bill that allows small, rural, quote distressed 149 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:30.720 hospitals to get an extension for up to three years. 150 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:35.519 They have until twenty thirty three. Now, this all came 151 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.879 out of the nineteen seventy one earthquake and it destroyed 152 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.039 all of you Medical center in Silmhar. They had just 153 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:48.840 finished this massive, great medical center. My mother worked there. 154 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.799 She was a lab tech and she was in the 155 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.559 basement of that hospital, that's. 156 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:55.320 Where the lab was. 157 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:59.240 And she was supposed to start her shift half an 158 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:02.120 hour after the earthquake hit. 159 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.039 If it had hit half an hour later, she'd be 160 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.159 dead well. 161 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.679 And if you look at pictures of the Silmar quake 162 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.759 and you look at pictures of all of you medical center, 163 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.120 I mean the whole thing is just half of it 164 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:19.279 is collapsed or it's just off of its foundation, and 165 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:24.159 people died. And then you had the nineteen nineteen ninety 166 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:29.759 four six point seven Northway a Northridge quake killed fifty 167 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:34.399 seven people. So we have laws that left California hospitals 168 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:37.360 with two sets of standards. First one had a deadline 169 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:42.279 of two thousand and eight to be retrofitted. That was 170 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:46.799 pushed to twenty twenty. Hospitals have to stay standing after 171 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:51.840 an earthquake, and twenty facilities have yet to meet that requirement, 172 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:55.919 and then they changed it again that not only do 173 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:59.559 they have to stay standing, they have to still function 174 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:04.519 as hospitals and that is much more difficult. 175 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.120 And by the way, this is expensive stuff. 176 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:13.519 The Rand Corporation, which is a think tank, it's not 177 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:15.879 politically one way or political one way or the other, 178 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:19.120 has come up with a figure that is ninety two 179 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:26.600 million dollars per building to retrofit, and the Hospital Association says, 180 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:28.720 we don't want money, we can't do it. On the 181 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:34.039 other hand, you've got the lobbying of California Nurses Association, 182 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.519 the labor unions and their people are going to be 183 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:40.639 caught underneath that hospital when it collapses during an earthquake, 184 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.080 and they're saying, you've had thirty years to do this, 185 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.879 and come on, you have the money. So Newsom is 186 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:53.559 sort of, I guess, compromised on this where he said, 187 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:57.840 I'm not going to give the majors longer than twenty thirty. 188 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:03.000 I am how I am, however, going to allow the miners. 189 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.399 Miners being small hospitals under fifty beds, hospitals in your 190 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:12.440 rural area's distressed hospitals, they're going to have another three 191 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:17.720 years to do this. You know, you don't want to 192 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:19.639 be in a hospital. And a lot of these are 193 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.720 older buildings too. I mean, how many new hospitals are 194 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:24.799 being built. I mean, if you look at what's happening 195 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:29.440 in Orange County, you got UCI building hospital buildings like crazy. 196 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.279 I mean there are campuses, Kaiser Is building all over. 197 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:36.360 But if you have independent hospitals that have one building, 198 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:41.720 two buildings, you know that retrofitting. Can a major hospital 199 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:42.600 group afford it? 200 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:43.320 Yeah? 201 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.440 Probably can a smaller community hospital afford it? 202 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:47.320 Probably not. 203 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:54.440 Also, he vetoed a bill that was specific to Providence hospitals. 204 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:57.080 I don't know how that even went through. I mean 205 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:57.879 that's illegally. 206 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:01.960 You cannot have a bill in California that helps one company. 207 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:06.440 It has to be a general bill. Although they can 208 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.919 write it so it does run one company, just it 209 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.559 does affect only one company. Congress can do it all 210 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.720 day long. They can pick a company and go, we're 211 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.000 going to help you. That's federal law. California can't. So 212 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.120 in this one you've got the governor sort of walking 213 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:26.559 the line. And I'm going to go back to when 214 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:31.559 the big one comes, you're probably gonna die. But when 215 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.240 the big one comes to a hospital you're getting Oh, 216 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:38.720 for example, here's a good one. Why don't you be 217 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:41.879 in the middle of a surgery when the whole building 218 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:46.759 starts shaking. How's that for a lottery win? Just wanting 219 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:51.159 to make it feel better, as I always do. Coming 220 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:56.279 up the traditional retail calendar, we've talked about this because 221 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:01.080 they're starting the sales, the holiday sales, earlier and earlier. 222 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.639 For example, we've got Saint Patrick's Day. The sale is 223 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:11.440 coming up next week. But isn't Saint Patrick, say, March fourteenth? 224 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:16.200 You bet it is Christmas sales, Halloween sales, Thanksgiving sales, 225 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.480 which started six months ago. I'll tell you about the trend. 226 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.960 And by the way, if you think that's happening, it is, 227 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:26.159 and i'll jump into that upon our return. I want 228 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:29.919 to tell you a story. Well, I think you've seen it, 229 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.360 and you've talked about it and you've experienced it. 230 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:36.039 And this has to do with the old saw. 231 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:41.399 It's Christmas way sooner than December twenty five, Thanksgiving is 232 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:47.440 way sooner than last Thursday in November, and all of 233 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.720 the seasons are way sooner. And I'm talking about retail shopping. 234 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:57.120 And some years that's just a myth this year, It's 235 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:02.039 not a myth this year. It's a lot earlier, and 236 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:07.080 I mean clothing, food, home goods. These stores are only 237 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.759 too happy to push the season earlier in earlier. Why Well, 238 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:15.120 because we shop more, we spend more money during this period, 239 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:19.799 and the retailers are scrambling for people spend more time, 240 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.840 more money. So what happens? Well, this year, Thanksgiving Day 241 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:28.480 falls on November twenty eighth, five fewer days of shopping 242 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:33.759 before Christmas compared with last year, so the pressure is insane. 243 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:40.559 Bath and Bodyworks loyalty program you could buy well starting 244 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:41.799 September twenty four for. 245 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:42.759 The holiday season. 246 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:47.000 It's what a while ago preview collection of candles and 247 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.399 scents like winter candy, apple and bright Christmas Morning? 248 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:51.960 How much are those? 249 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.200 By the way, I generally don't buy candles, you know, 250 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.639 these weird flavors and sense of candles. 251 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.759 Just you could bought it? Can you imagine September twenty four? 252 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:11.480 Last year it was October third Whole Foods, pumpkin spice 253 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.600 pancakes and waffle mix, apple pear ginger Italian soda. 254 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:16.679 This sounds disgusting. 255 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:21.799 Pumpkin spice ground coffee sounds disgusting first two weeks of 256 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.039 September a year ago. 257 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.240 Guess what way earlier, because August. 258 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:29.960 Twenty two is when they introduced that Krispy Kreme does 259 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.919 it every year, and it used to be just a 260 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:34.679 few days before whatever holiday. 261 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:37.440 Now it's the entire month. 262 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.639 So you've got Halloween the entire month, you have November 263 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:47.759 the entire month, December the entire month of these sales, 264 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:51.000 and they're literally when one ends, the next one starts. 265 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:57.320 And it's pr but it also means that more money 266 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:01.000 is being spent because you tend to scramble. Oh, we 267 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:07.559 got a great deal for Saint Patrick's Day next March fourteenth. 268 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.680 By the way, pumpkin spice, of course, is the big 269 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.839 thing that's happened over the years. Here is one that's 270 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:19.640 fun and amy. And tell me you have heard of 271 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:25.000 this Hefty trash bags which a lot of people use. 272 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:28.680 I buy Kirkland, but Hefty is a name brand which 273 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:29.720 I think you can also. 274 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:31.359 Buy at Costco. 275 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:39.079 They actually have cinnamon pumpkin spice scented garbage bags. 276 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.440 Enough for it? Oh is that fantastic? 277 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.880 But it's probably helpful. Food in your garbage can get 278 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.200 stinky sometimes that's true. 279 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.640 It does these. I actually have a company. 280 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:53.400 I pay I think thirty bucks a month for a 281 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:56.759 company once a week to come out and clean out 282 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:00.160 my big trash cans outside because they're so disgusting. 283 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.279 But now when I'm read that guy who pays for that. 284 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.440 Yeah, I'm not going to clean that up. I mean, 285 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.960 that's see there. I'll spend money. I won't spend seventeen 286 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:14.079 dollars for a shirt when I can get it for 287 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:15.640 fifteen bucks at Costco. 288 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.880 But that kind of job I will do. 289 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.680 I also pay a premium job for the ultrasoft Sharman 290 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.240 toilet paper, and there's a premium there. 291 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:27.079 Good to know. 292 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:31.519 I'm just saying, you know, I'm sharing way too much, 293 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:36.720 but I always do. And those started on September twenty seven, 294 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.119 and it started actually as a marketing gimmick. 295 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:41.079 It was online. 296 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:47.119 It sold out in seconds, and then they realized, okay, 297 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:50.279 we've got something here. I think they ought to come 298 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:57.720 out with these scented trash bags meat loaf scented trash bags. 299 00:18:58.480 --> 00:18:59.480 You should have seen. 300 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:03.279 Ann right now, she almost vomited. You can, well, yeah, 301 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:05.519 we should have a contest. What do you and have 302 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.839 Hefty involved? What kind of garbage bags? What kind of 303 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:10.519 scent do you use for garbage bags? 304 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.680 And it works. All of this stuff works. 305 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:17.799 The bottom line is the holiday shopping season. Effectively, it's 306 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:22.039 all year, That's what it is. And a lot of 307 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:29.000 it is straight gimmicks, that's what that is. And well, 308 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:33.440 for example, McDonald's with Donald Trump, as you know, was 309 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.039 out of McDonald's serving up French fries at the winter 310 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:40.319 at the window. McDonald's is now about to introduce the 311 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:40.920 big down. 312 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:47.039 No, they're not sounds good. If I were the Trump folks, 313 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:48.640 i'd ask for that. All right. 314 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:51.759 Coming off, I am digressing a little bit, and there's 315 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:53.640 a topic I want to talk to you about because 316 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.599 I spend a lot of time thinking about it talking 317 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:00.480 about it, and I'm talking about back to office orders. 318 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:04.799 You have to come back to the office. Remote working 319 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:09.759 is sort of not working. We've talked about that, and 320 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:14.599 there is the ongoing fight between employers and employees and 321 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:17.359 it goes on to this day and it has not 322 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:19.440 it has not calmed down. 323 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:20.519 And I'll share that with you. 324 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:24.480 Some of the big stories that we are covering has 325 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:27.880 Belat has taken full and exclusive responsibility for a drone 326 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:32.880 attack on Nittanyahu's home, and Israel has admitted, yeah, the 327 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.720 home was hit. So it's just everything's ramping up and 328 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.119 it doesn't stop. All right, Let's move over to something 329 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:44.279 that you and I are involved with, and that is, 330 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:47.839 and I'm assuming if you work for a corporation, the 331 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:54.440 back to work remote working. It's not working for employers 332 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:58.079 and employees. That's the rest of us are saying, we 333 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:04.240 really like remote learning or remote working. And here's the issue. 334 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:07.160 A lot of back to office orders. The problem is 335 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:10.400 the company's enforcing those. You know what employees do. They 336 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:14.400 just don't pay attention. They just Okay, we're not showing up. 337 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:16.559 We'll do the work, but we're not going to come 338 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:20.799 back to the office. And why is enforcement so difficult. Well, 339 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:25.200 if everybody does that, what is the corporation going to do? 340 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:27.319 Fire everybody? 341 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:34.079 And let's say the argument is among employees, we're doing 342 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:39.079 the same quality work. I mean, for example, right here 343 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:45.920 on the morning show, I sometimes broadcast from my house virtually, well, 344 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.279 I think all of us who broadcast we built home 345 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:51.839 studios because we had to during the pandemic, couldn't come 346 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:55.480 into the office, couldn't come into the studio, so we 347 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:57.960 set up studios at home and it's kind of convenient. 348 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:02.799 Is there a big difference? I know, you ask Anne, 349 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:04.759 who is in the studio, she'll tell you there's a 350 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:07.920 big difference. And as a matter of fact, there may 351 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:12.079 very well be a difference. You know, the connection, the 352 00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:15.000 water cooler connection, and we don't even have a water cooler. 353 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.160 But during the breaks and before and after the show, 354 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:23.359 the camaraderie if I ever knew what camaraderie is, but discussions. 355 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:29.640 I mean, it's just a better environment than when I 356 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:32.599 broadcast from the house. However, I gotta tell you it's 357 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:33.480 it's easy. 358 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:35.519 You know. When I go into the studio, I have 359 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:37.759 to wake up earlier, I have a shower. 360 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:40.079 Assuming that I don't want to smell like a rhino 361 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:42.640 and heat, and then I have to drive in, even 362 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:43.920 though it's not much of a drive. 363 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:48.400 Instead, I roll out of bed. 364 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:52.440 And I just sit in front of the microphone and well, 365 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:54.680 I prepped the show for a while. But it's you know, 366 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:58.720 I save an hour, it's a good long time, save 367 00:22:58.759 --> 00:22:59.880 an hour on each side. 368 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:01.359 And that's what we do. 369 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:04.559 And I'm not alone because people want to work at 370 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:07.319 home because commute times are done. You don't have to 371 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:10.400 do makeup. If you are of that ilk, you don't 372 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:13.119 have to dress. You just sit at home and you're 373 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:17.160 a slob, which is what I love to do. Now 374 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:22.039 Here is the problem. The employers are saying, and I 375 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:26.079 think it's legitimate. You work better when you are in 376 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:27.079 the office. 377 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:30.440 There is more of a connection when you are in 378 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:32.440 the office. And it's true. 379 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:35.200 Now on the other side saying, hey, I don't want 380 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:36.880 to commute, I don't want. 381 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:39.960 To pay for daycare. I'll still do the work, and 382 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:41.279 employers are going, well. 383 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:43.880 You're really not doing the work, and if you look 384 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:46.759 at all of the data, the work isn't as good. 385 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:51.240 And then you're saying, well, you know it's good enough, 386 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:53.480 or I do better and here I can show it 387 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:56.519 to you and I produce more leads, or I'm more 388 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:01.680 efficient or effective, and it doesn't matter for the employer. 389 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:05.839 You got to come in and they're in is the fight, 390 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:08.960 because there has to be some kind of a compromise, 391 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:13.880 and major corporations are doing exactly that and employees, those 392 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:17.680 of us who work for companies, it's a highbred system 393 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:20.160 that we like. Okay, I'll come into the office two 394 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:22.319 days a week or three days a week and I'll 395 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:22.960 work from. 396 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:26.440 Home a couple of days a week, and that's what 397 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:26.839 we want. 398 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:29.720 And a lot of companies saying, okay, that seems to 399 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:31.119 be the magic bullet. 400 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:32.920 Others say absolutely not. 401 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:36.839