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Speaker 1: can you not actually use the music of the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's the minions?
Speaker 3: Bro Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, come on, I okay, hey, before you
Speaker 2: get started, Willie Wolf, I wanted to correct something. Jennifer
Speaker 2: hit me up on X and said, you are wrong.
Speaker 2: I was reading from a story that only talked about
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, former vice president, visiting the Palisades, and she
Speaker 2: corrected me with an LA Time story. The former vice
Speaker 2: president Kamala harris first stop actually in California was the
Speaker 2: Alta DA fire zone, and her husband, Doug m Hoff,
Speaker 2: was met with volunteers working for World Central Kitchen and
Speaker 2: handed out food. So I apologize, I stand corrected, and
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have opened up my gaping And by the way,
Speaker 2: without the.
Speaker 3: Fact, why did he work with World Kitchen? She's not
Speaker 3: going to run again. Why would he do that?
Speaker 2: Well, because maybe they're decent people.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I don't understand that.
Speaker 2: So you look confused. A correction is when we actually
Speaker 2: admit when we're wrong.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: We don't just gloss over it, Okay, all right, So thanks, Jennifer,
Speaker 2: I appreciate that now.
Speaker 1: Admitting you're wrong and maybe not making the best move
Speaker 1: in the world is having bought a super Bowl ticket
Speaker 1: a week ago, because super Bowl ticket prices have dropped precipitously.
Speaker 1: When since last Friday you would spend for the nose
Speaker 1: bleed seats eight dollars, today that same ticket is thirty
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars forty five percent drop since Friday.
Speaker 3: Hmmm.
Speaker 1: Ticket reseller stub Hub sees a similar trend. By the way,
Speaker 1: the average ticket price is down sixteen percent from last year,
Speaker 1: which is hundreds of dollars less than just a week ago.
Speaker 1: And the price of the and the price is low, low,
Speaker 1: and so sales have gone up. So why would you
Speaker 1: think the interest in the super Bowl is lower is
Speaker 1: less this year? Well because people are a little Kansas
Speaker 1: City just a little sick of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just there's just a yeah, there's too much of them.
Speaker 3: Third time out. I mean it's kind of neat. It's wonderful,
Speaker 3: but there's fatigue, there is it?
Speaker 2: One of them dating Taylor Swift? Yeah, yeah, I seem
Speaker 2: to remember hearing something.
Speaker 1: Something about that and this year, you know, no one's
Speaker 1: that excited last year, or was she going to show up?
Speaker 3: Was she not going to show up?
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey remember when he threw blew the kissing her
Speaker 1: and did the the heart sign after either scoring or
Speaker 1: a great pass. Uh, you're not going to see this year.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna see Taylor swift to which he did
Speaker 1: last year. And that's flashed the camera and it says
Speaker 1: I love Travis. That is not going to happen, and
Speaker 1: people just don't care as much. Uh, there is I
Speaker 1: would think it'd be the other way around to watch
Speaker 1: a three go and the three peat of Kansas City winning.
Speaker 1: But his ego a three go yeah, a three peat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a three go go three.
Speaker 3: Go for three. I make up these words.
Speaker 2: You are such a goofy pass I know.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the novelty of that relationship is kind of
Speaker 1: wearing off. Searches of the word super Bowl on Google
Speaker 1: Interest is down last year. Well, super Bowl searches jump
Speaker 1: each year, but at this point last year, this is
Speaker 1: twenty five percent down.
Speaker 3: Now, how much does a commercial cost?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, and they always they always tout the most
Speaker 1: expensive commercial at the best part of the game.
Speaker 3: Commercials at the.
Speaker 1: Very end of the game are nowhere near as expensive
Speaker 1: as the commercials at the beginning of the game because obviously,
Speaker 1: if there's a blowout, people just stop watching. Between seven
Speaker 1: and eight million dollars for a thirty second commercial, But
Speaker 1: wait a minute, there's less interest, Fewer people are going
Speaker 1: to watch the game. How can the price of commercials
Speaker 1: keep on going up because for the first time in years,
Speaker 1: people are watching.
Speaker 3: For the commercials.
Speaker 1: Remember it used to be where you'd watch a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and you'd be as interested in the.
Speaker 3: Commercials as you would be in the game.
Speaker 1: And if the game was either boring and there was
Speaker 1: no scores or there was a relative blowout, people would
Speaker 1: stay for the commercials. They go into the bathroom or
Speaker 1: grab a snack and miss the first part of the game,
Speaker 1: but you don't miss the commercials.
Speaker 3: That kind of.
Speaker 1: Interest is back because of the I guess the anticipation
Speaker 1: of great commercials.
Speaker 3: That's the buzz.
Speaker 1: You know. Some phenomenal commercials have hit the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Remember the nineteen eighty four commercial Apple. I mean, to
Speaker 1: this day that may be considered the most iconic commercial
Speaker 1: that has ever been seen on TV. In general, much
Speaker 1: less a Super Bowl. So here's what we do every year.
Speaker 1: I watched the commercials. We come back on Monday, we
Speaker 1: grade the commercials and do a little survey right here.
Speaker 1: So I pretend that Amy and' neil and an actually
Speaker 1: count as they say, as I say, so, what kind
Speaker 1: of commercials did you like? And I snore through that
Speaker 1: when you talk. But we're going to be doing that
Speaker 1: topic on Monday.
Speaker 3: Okay. Orange juice.
Speaker 1: The demise of American orange juice, Now, think back, wasn't
Speaker 1: too long ago. Matter of fact, it still maybe to
Speaker 1: a smaller degree. In your family, orange juices was always
Speaker 1: is always part of the breakfast table. Affordable, great tasting,
Speaker 1: of course, full of vitamin C and levels of sugar.
Speaker 1: People tend to ignore that, or they certainly did in
Speaker 1: the past. But it's not so cheap anymore, not so affordable. Tropicana,
Speaker 1: one of the worst orange juices out there, has shrunk
Speaker 1: the bottles raised its prices in recent years. Since twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: the price of concentrate has increased by about eighty percent.
Speaker 1: Inflation has not gone up eighty percent in five years now.
Speaker 1: Some of the cost is inflation. The other costs and
Speaker 1: this is where. Oh my god, I'm just saying if
Speaker 1: I said, we're gonna be Trump free if a certain
Speaker 1: president ever goes through with the tariffs threatened against Mexico
Speaker 1: and Canada, which we don't know if that's going to
Speaker 1: happen or not. Orange juice, which usually came from Florida,
Speaker 1: I remember orange juice was always Florida.
Speaker 3: It's not growing up.
Speaker 2: Though it was a big deal.
Speaker 3: It's not from Florida anymore.
Speaker 1: Orange juice is really a mix of international oranges.
Speaker 3: It's a blend. It's like whiskey. It's about it's like wine.
Speaker 3: And even the.
Speaker 1: Biggest orange juice producer, of the biggest orange producers aren't
Speaker 1: growing as much fruit. So the era of orange juice
Speaker 1: ubiquity coming to an end, much like the dodo bird.
Speaker 1: So why let's go through some of the reasons. There's
Speaker 1: something called citrus greening. Sounds pretty benign, doesn't it. Well,
Speaker 1: these are actually Asian little bugs that feed on orange trees,
Speaker 1: and they inject bacteria that floods the veins and the
Speaker 1: tree dies. The fruit while the tree is still producing
Speaker 1: fruit becomes rancid, misshapened, discolored, and within a couple three
Speaker 1: years you've got a dead tree out of your hand.
Speaker 1: And around the world, millions of acres of orange trees
Speaker 1: have succumbed gone and in the past twenty years, production
Speaker 1: in Florida's orange grows, which once supplied the majority of
Speaker 1: the juice that was consumed in America. Just like Neil said,
Speaker 1: it was made from Florida oranges. I remember those commercials.
Speaker 1: What was her name that was the spokesperson of the
Speaker 1: orange juice something Brian, Remember her, Anita Bryant, who was
Speaker 1: the most anti gay human being that has probably ever lived. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those were the days. No, she got a toss for that.
Speaker 1: And in the meantime, really yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: We can look that up. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: And she was representing fruit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very funny, very good.
Speaker 1: And so just to give you an idea of the
Speaker 1: past twenty years, production of oranges from the groves have
Speaker 1: declined ninety two percent.
Speaker 3: It's almost done or well orange groves.
Speaker 1: When I came to the United States in the mid fifties,
Speaker 1: the San Frano Valley ended at Recipa Boulevard, it ended
Speaker 1: at Resida. Beyond that it was all orange groves. Today
Speaker 1: it ends what Nebraska the Sanferano Valley. So and what's
Speaker 1: a little left in Those orange groves in Florida all
Speaker 1: got hit with hurricanes, so oranges were flying all over
Speaker 1: the place.
Speaker 3: It's a different world. So you know what's happening. Oh
Speaker 3: there's another one too.
Speaker 1: People that have orange groves or had them companies sold
Speaker 1: them off to developers because you made a whole lot
Speaker 1: more money selling it off. So tropicanas suppliers, the big
Speaker 1: one is just said up, we're done. We're not going
Speaker 1: to invest in our citrus operations and once the current
Speaker 1: crop is done, we're out of business.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: Citrus screening has no cure. So the fruit supply is
Speaker 1: making orange juice harder to produce, more expensive, And so
Speaker 1: what where do we get an orange juice? Well, it's
Speaker 1: no longer Florida, it's Mexico, Brazil. I mean there's still
Speaker 1: a little tiny bit Florida orange juice, but not very much.
Speaker 1: Citrus greening hasn't hit as hard as in Florida. Florida
Speaker 1: is the world champion of citrus greening. They about forty
Speaker 1: percent of flora of Mexico and Brazil have been hit
Speaker 1: with citrus greening. Florida ninety five percent, and that supply
Speaker 1: is uncertain. So the oranges that are coming in the
Speaker 1: only place that doesn't have citrus greening is Europe and Australia. However,
Speaker 1: bringing in the fruit from those countries is not the
Speaker 1: same because we have different tastes. For example, European orange
Speaker 1: juice with their oranges is more tart, it's not as sweet.
Speaker 1: So juice here, well, we all have a sweet tooth
Speaker 1: doesn't work in Europe and they have the fruit that
Speaker 1: generates that supplies this kind of orange us. So are
Speaker 1: we going to get more orange juice that doesn't taste
Speaker 1: as good? You know what the answer is, We're not
Speaker 1: going to be drinking orange juice very much, too expensive,
Speaker 1: tastes different, So the American staple of orange juice on
Speaker 1: the table is not going to happen. Also, even if
Speaker 1: none of that was happening, you know, the sugar content
Speaker 1: and people drinking tea and a lot more coffee, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't drink orange juice for breakfast, even when it
Speaker 1: was around.
Speaker 2: Oh not right after you brush your teeth. Oh that's
Speaker 2: the list.
Speaker 1: It is also orange juice concentrate, orange from oranges from
Speaker 1: concentrate is disgusting.
Speaker 3: Stuff.
Speaker 1: Orange juice has to be fresh squeezed with the pulp.
Speaker 2: I grew up with the concentrate. I remember that, and
Speaker 2: you peel open the can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's disgusting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we were we were poor, so yeah, that's
Speaker 2: how we got it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah I did.
Speaker 1: We were not richie, that's how we got and I
Speaker 1: like it. You go to the store like Gelson's particularly,
Speaker 1: and they have the fresh squeezed orange juice that they
Speaker 1: have those machines that look like automatic baseball machines, pitching machines.
Speaker 1: So you stay the hell out of the way because
Speaker 1: the orange just just fly out. No, those are broken machines.
Speaker 1: Those don't work. All right, that's a visual. That's a visual.
Speaker 1: We're done, thanks for that. No, you're welcome, You're welcome,
Speaker 1: all right. A story.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a Starbucks fans. I don't know if you are.
Speaker 1: I find the coffee a little bitter. But a lot
Speaker 1: of people are big fans of Starbucks. And it used
Speaker 1: to be that the badistas. And I think that's both
Speaker 1: male and female. The term bardista. Yes there is no
Speaker 1: male turn okay. Would Baristo would write little affirmations, not
Speaker 1: just your name on the cup, but also affirmations like
Speaker 1: have a good day, hello again for regulars, well wishes,
Speaker 1: you know all that stuff. Well, the new CEO is
Speaker 1: bringing that back. Starbucks has gone down in sales for
Speaker 1: the fourth straight quarter, and so they brought in a
Speaker 1: new CEO who says we're going to bring that back
Speaker 1: because we have to connect with people again. We cannot
Speaker 1: just be seen as a drive through. We we have.
Speaker 3: A connection and we have to keep on doing that.
Speaker 1: So oh, the condiment station, remember they took those away
Speaker 1: where they had the sweetener and all that. They're bringing
Speaker 1: that back because again connecting with customers.
Speaker 3: So I don't know about this.
Speaker 1: I've gone to Starbucks before and I thought of those
Speaker 1: little affirmations were just trashed. It's always the same ones.
Speaker 1: Do they boristas really mean it?
Speaker 3: Police? You know they were asked to do that. It
Speaker 3: wasn't real. There was one.
Speaker 1: Oh, and there were politics like race Together was one
Speaker 1: of them, which means all the races should join together.
Speaker 3: It's just little positive.
Speaker 1: Stuff about society and who are all the same and
Speaker 1: we all love each other. Uh yeah, yeah, pretty vomitous.
Speaker 1: So now you know it's a new politics. I'm willing
Speaker 1: to say, and some uh, some of these baristas say,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't make nice to uh, for example
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day to a man because of the possibility of
Speaker 1: it being interpreted as flirtation. You know, for example, you
Speaker 1: have a bardista who is writing, gets a cup of
Speaker 1: coffee and she writes Fred quite a few quite the
Speaker 1: fruit package.
Speaker 3: You have, Fred. You can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: And the politics of today also is very different. Uh.
Speaker 3: The any positive view of.
Speaker 1: Racial equal of course is gone under the administration. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna see little affirmations white is right. That is
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. This is why I would last
Speaker 1: one day. No, I wouldn't last a shift, would.
Speaker 2: I making coffee for people?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You couldn't work anywhere else. You and John Cobalt could
Speaker 2: couldn't get jobs anywhere else in life. This is it.
Speaker 1: I always make fun of John, not so much me,
Speaker 1: because I actually I was a lawyer and maybe I
Speaker 1: could go back to practicing.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Lawyer is lawyer ish?
Speaker 1: John I make fun of because all he has ever
Speaker 1: done is radio from the time he was very young
Speaker 1: and sports writer. Oh yeah, okay, okay, I'll buy that.
Speaker 1: But I've always over the years, I've always said that
Speaker 1: John couldn't sell pencils on a street corner if he
Speaker 1: wasn't in radio, which is the way I describe a
Speaker 1: lot of people, a lot of them radio. Yes, no,
Speaker 1: God bless you, but you're gonna see Starbucks coming back
Speaker 1: with those little oh have a good day, we love you,
Speaker 1: and the names whatever. For example, will I give my name,
Speaker 1: I always say Bill with three l's.
Speaker 3: And go huh huh.
Speaker 1: Also leave your name for if you go to a
Speaker 1: restaurant and you leave your name for the reservation and
Speaker 1: they call your name, I always say it's Bruno Hotman,
Speaker 1: and you'll have the person announcing, you know, on the
Speaker 1: microphone or on the speaker.
Speaker 3: Reservations for Bruno Bruno Hotman.
Speaker 1: Now occasionally someone will actually know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: He was the guy that was electrocuted for kidnapping the
Speaker 1: Lindbergh baby, and not too many people are aware of that.
Speaker 1: But when someone is a history buff, I hear someone
Speaker 1: just burst out in laughter.
Speaker 2: Well a one person, Yeah, it's worth every bit. You
Speaker 2: sound like a real treat. You don't put the name
Speaker 2: pot in there. And then they go pot pot party
Speaker 2: of five pot party, A five.
Speaker 1: No, No, that's no, no, yeah, that's too Monday.
Speaker 3: It's no. All right, guys, we're done with that. All right.
Speaker 1: So every year, what's the number one resolution? Lose weight
Speaker 1: and go to the gym. Usually the gym is a
Speaker 1: little bit higher in terms of number of people who
Speaker 1: say this is what I'm gonna do for New Year's.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, the gym's love this because the
Speaker 1: number of people who sign up and pay their bucks
Speaker 1: is astronomical. And the gyms are okay because after a
Speaker 1: month or two, guess what, all those people are gone.
Speaker 1: Now the first month, the people that use the gym regularly.
Speaker 3: There are two types of people. People go to the gym's.
Speaker 1: Regularly and people that sign up and go for the
Speaker 1: first month and it is not fun. And so the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal did this article and interviewed a bunch
Speaker 1: of gym goers and just folks who are regular gym
Speaker 1: goers and said, so what do you think. So one
Speaker 1: of the gals Heshi Brodie. No, he's a guy, Heshi.
Speaker 1: I think he's Jewish. He lives in New York. And
Speaker 1: he said, it's packed. Your favorite locker is taken. The
Speaker 1: treadmills are full, you have to wait in line for
Speaker 1: the shower.
Speaker 3: And that's he talks of his gym in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: He goes on to say, listen, I respect your New
Speaker 1: Year's resolution, but I'll be impressed if you're still showing
Speaker 1: up in February. So we're into February seventh, most of
Speaker 1: those people are gone, and twenty five.
Speaker 3: No different than every year.
Speaker 1: Fitness is on the list of New Year's resolutions. Exercising
Speaker 1: was the most popular resolution this year. And this was
Speaker 1: a survey conducted by Health and Fitness Association twenty four
Speaker 1: Hour Fitness that they said the foot traffic in January
Speaker 1: has already exceeded all forecasts and expectations. Marlena Rodriguez was interviewed,
Speaker 1: and she's in Fort Myers, Florida. Most days she lives
Speaker 1: swights or she spins, and I mean to go into that.
Speaker 1: She's very small, very petite.
Speaker 3: During the month of January, she's lucky if she can
Speaker 3: find parking classes booked.
Speaker 1: Getting a spot on the machine is a sport of
Speaker 1: its own. Suddenly everyone wants to work out. It's really
Speaker 1: frustrating when you go every day and it's not just
Speaker 1: the number of people who go.
Speaker 3: It's what they do.
Speaker 1: There is I've been to the gym and I was
Speaker 1: a regular gym goer and I stopped because I was
Speaker 1: moving next week, next week, next week, next week, by
Speaker 1: the way, this week truly, And so I'm hooking up
Speaker 1: with a gym because yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I want to be in reasonable shape.
Speaker 1: And what she says newcomers don't wipe their sweat off
Speaker 1: the machines when they finish. They use the emergency stop
Speaker 1: button to end the session on the treadmill.
Speaker 3: They don't just turn it off.
Speaker 1: Phones at the gym, people are videoing themselves for Instagram,
Speaker 1: and people just sit there watching TV. Ryan Scott was
Speaker 1: interviewed and he's forty three, and he said big screens
Speaker 1: are a big problem.
Speaker 3: People watch the TVs that are there.
Speaker 1: So after a treadmill fight they had and the reason
Speaker 1: was that he watched the man stand and stand in front.
Speaker 3: Of the TV.
Speaker 1: At the weight machine and no one could get there
Speaker 1: and he didn't even bother. It's Jim etiquette, and so
Speaker 1: how do you handle this, Well, it's real, it's real
Speaker 1: simple according to most Jim goers, regular gym goers, and
Speaker 1: that is it comes down to respect and awareness for
Speaker 1: people around you, which I have no idea how that works.
Speaker 1: It is simply not something in my wheelhouse. But I
Speaker 1: have experienced the same thing. Oh here's another one. There's
Speaker 1: actually a book of actually a website of Jim etiquette.
Speaker 1: In first order of business, if you can lift all
Speaker 1: that weight, you can put pick it up and put
Speaker 1: it back. That is a big one. Leaving the barbells
Speaker 1: on the floor. All right, I'll buy that, sure, fair enough,
Speaker 1: Jim etiquette. And even I get really pissed off because
Speaker 1: I've been to the gym, and this is why I
Speaker 1: go to these small, smaller gyms. I don't go to
Speaker 1: the big gyms twenty four hour fitness. First of all,
Speaker 1: they're very expensive compared to small gyms that buy used,
Speaker 1: crappy equipment and small numbers of them, so I go there. Also,
Speaker 1: I can't take the hard bodies. I cannot watching those
Speaker 1: people in their twenties who have not six packs but
Speaker 1: twelve packs.
Speaker 3: They're abs.
Speaker 1: So I go to the gyms where people are fat,
Speaker 1: out of shape. So I feel a little bit better,
Speaker 1: you know when I feel and I've got body dysmorphia
Speaker 1: having been huge. My whole life, and I'm feeling really
Speaker 1: fat and some guy who weighs four hundred pounds is
Speaker 1: next to me.
Speaker 3: That makes me feel good.
Speaker 2: Do you mock them?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, get out the nautile is fatty.
Speaker 1: No, I don't say that. I just say, hey, you
Speaker 1: lose a couple of pounds. What do you think? Wow,
Speaker 1: that machine's gonna break you gotta be pretty careful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm uh. I've been asked.
Speaker 2: It hurts my feelings when you do that. By the way, Oh,
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 1: I do that to you constantly. How often do I
Speaker 1: make fun of your weight? How many times a day?
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot.
Speaker 3: I'm not you lost track, you don't pay attention or not.
Speaker 2: I'm just not sensitive to that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: When I make fun of your weight, I feel fat.
Speaker 2: Okay, soon, I earned this body. This is dedication.
Speaker 3: It is all right. We're done with that. Kf I
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