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Speaker 3: It's a Monday morning, February seventeenth. Really bad storms are
Speaker 3: happening across the eastern United States. The storm we had
Speaker 3: that caused those torrential floods in the burn areas that
Speaker 3: were just crazy, well that storm has moved across the
Speaker 3: country and there I don't know how many dozen people dead.
Speaker 3: And you've got towns that are at Atlanta, for example,
Speaker 3: is the snow.
Speaker 2: New Orleans had tons of snow. It's just very, very different.
Speaker 3: Kentucky really hard hit, a thousand rescues in less than
Speaker 3: twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: And Netanyahu.
Speaker 3: Of Egypt, excuse me, of Israel has pledged to finish
Speaker 3: the job against Iran with the full backing of the
Speaker 3: United States. Now, one of the things about this administration
Speaker 3: I want to share with you is the IRS is
Speaker 3: being invaded if you talk to IRS people, by the government,
Speaker 3: not so much the government, but by Doge. Doge is
Speaker 3: the department of government efficiency.
Speaker 2: If you look up the.
Speaker 3: Doge Palace, you will see Venice in the Renaissance.
Speaker 2: That Venice was ruled by the Doge.
Speaker 3: So if you go to Venice, you can visit the palace,
Speaker 3: or you can go to the office that Elon Musk
Speaker 3: is currently using, and that is the Doge Palace. Complete
Speaker 3: control of everything he touches. And here's what's going on
Speaker 3: with the IRS. And this is what's unique about the IRS.
Speaker 3: The IRS has a firewall between itself and the rest
Speaker 3: of the country. For example, the IRS, even if it
Speaker 3: knows someone is illegal, does not share information with the
Speaker 3: rest of the government. If there is a real problem
Speaker 3: with a taxpayer, it does not share that information.
Speaker 2: And it makes sense.
Speaker 3: Why is that Because they want the taxes and they
Speaker 3: don't want things like the law getting in the way.
Speaker 3: Even in states where for example, it's illegal to gamble, right,
Speaker 3: the IRS still comes.
Speaker 2: In if you gamble and make money. They don't care.
Speaker 2: We want our money.
Speaker 3: And so what's happening with the Department of Government Efficiency
Speaker 3: headed by Musk is they're heading into the IRS and
Speaker 3: grabbing the records of taxpayers. And that changes everything. And
Speaker 3: it's an examination of the IRS system. And it's the
Speaker 3: latest move by Musk and his team to push the
Speaker 3: boundaries of access to government data. There are things that
Speaker 3: are kept secret even kept secret from the President, although
Speaker 3: he of course has access to everything. Because of this firewall.
Speaker 3: They want to keep it. They want plausible deniability. There
Speaker 3: are reasons why various agencies don't share information with other
Speaker 3: agencies and the IRS because there is nothing so sacra
Speaker 3: sant sacra san good for me.
Speaker 2: I make a living doing this. By the way, there
Speaker 2: is nothing as important as funding the government.
Speaker 3: The government has to be funded, which is really weird
Speaker 3: because Republicans and Donald Trump and the administration are looking
Speaker 3: to cut budgets of the IRS, looking to eliminate agents
Speaker 3: that are examiners and go after people who are tax dodgers.
Speaker 3: And you go, wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 3: because if you're fiscally responsible and you want to cut expenses,
Speaker 3: you want to reduce the deficit and somehow deal with
Speaker 3: a national debt.
Speaker 2: Which is impossible. Wouldn't you make sure that the hundreds
Speaker 2: of billions of.
Speaker 3: Dollars of scofflaws out there who are not paying taxes
Speaker 3: would be nailed by the IRS.
Speaker 2: And there aren't enough agents to begin with.
Speaker 3: So what he has done, Musk is he sent these
Speaker 3: very very bright young computer geeks and getting all this
Speaker 3: information and how young are these computer geeks. Well, look
Speaker 3: at the major new platforms that have been created over
Speaker 3: the years, Facebook, TikTok, Microsoft. Every one of those guys
Speaker 3: were under the age of thirteen.
Speaker 2: You know that, don't you?
Speaker 3: I mean young, young, young. How many billionaires aren't there?
Speaker 3: They're in their twenties.
Speaker 2: That's who going after the IRS.
Speaker 3: Also, the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson said last week he
Speaker 3: wants to update the and antiquated technology of the IRS.
Speaker 3: There's two things I don't understand. The technology is antiquated
Speaker 3: to agencies of the government won the IRS. You think
Speaker 3: that'd be at the top of the heap. And the
Speaker 3: other one is the air traffic control system that is
Speaker 3: antiquated and we know what's happening with that. Okay, Now,
Speaker 3: Coca Cola has to diverse fy we're not drinking as
Speaker 3: much soda and because we don't drink as much sugar,
Speaker 3: although I drink Dita coke, but.
Speaker 2: Not nearly as much.
Speaker 3: So what are they doing well, ditching the carbonation, not
Speaker 3: so much ditching it, but paying less attention to the carbonation.
Speaker 3: And what do you think they get involved with what beverage? Neil,
Speaker 3: would you think that Coca Cola would go to if
Speaker 3: you know they have limited obviously a lot of juices
Speaker 3: which you're non carbonated. But what direction would you think
Speaker 3: Coca Cola would go to? What if you were Coca
Speaker 3: Cola coffee, coffee? I think they do have some coffee,
Speaker 3: but no, no, Amy is not there, coono. If you had,
Speaker 3: if you had one share of Coca Cola stock, which
Speaker 3: you can't afford, where do you think.
Speaker 2: Coca Cola would go?
Speaker 1: Ses bill slurpees?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you go to a seven to eleven and
Speaker 3: you talked to the guy who was there, who's a cardiologist,
Speaker 3: and you ask him some questions about heart disease.
Speaker 2: Okay, and.
Speaker 3: Where do you think Coca Cola the story? Then don't say.
Speaker 3: I will tell you And this is I know she's
Speaker 3: not sorry because she puts these together. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: where Coca Cola is going as the new go to
Speaker 3: milk milk?
Speaker 2: Why? How? Because that's making them money.
Speaker 3: There's a company that was launched in twenty twelve called
Speaker 3: fair Life and it was a joint venture between Coke
Speaker 3: and a wholesale dairy producer and it had minimalist packaging.
Speaker 2: It was funny and what it did is started the
Speaker 2: influx of.
Speaker 3: The niche almond milk, protein milk, pistachio milks, which are
Speaker 3: very strange. Matter of fact, you go to the milk
Speaker 3: aisle at the supermarket. The actual milk part of it
Speaker 3: is probably I don't know, twenty percent of all of
Speaker 3: the other kinds of milk.
Speaker 2: You know, almond milk and oat milk, and I don't know,
Speaker 2: just it doesn't stop. I mean, how many milks could
Speaker 2: you think?
Speaker 3: Of?
Speaker 2: All these fruit milks?
Speaker 3: And the boy did the Coke Cola score on this one.
Speaker 3: They bought out this company for about a billion dollars,
Speaker 3: bought it the rest of it, and in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: two the sales surpassed a billion dollars. They paid one
Speaker 3: time sales, which is just a miracle. So the acquisition,
Speaker 3: by the way, was structured so.
Speaker 2: It would be an earnout.
Speaker 3: The more money that Coca Cola made, the more money
Speaker 3: those folks at the other end of the deal.
Speaker 2: The fair Lane people would make.
Speaker 3: And the total payment of this thing, just to give
Speaker 3: you an idea of how big this industry is, how
Speaker 3: big part of the beverage industry, this is the total
Speaker 3: payment for the acquisition is looking to be about six
Speaker 3: point two billion dollars. That's not a bad buck, it
Speaker 3: really isn't. And that's in addition to the billion dollars
Speaker 3: that they paid. So why is this going on, Well,
Speaker 3: because the North American market has shown we will invest
Speaker 3: in health and the producers well for.
Speaker 2: Example, vital Farms, free range.
Speaker 3: Ais and Lindsay's crazy about these free range eggs. That
Speaker 3: drives me completely nuts. You know, chickens running around and
Speaker 3: they're playing Monopoly or whatever the hell they do to
Speaker 3: make their lives wonderful, and they're not in cages. And
Speaker 3: these things cost buckets of money. Although although yesterday I
Speaker 3: went to the store and I paid seven ninety nine
Speaker 3: at Ralph's for free range eggs, where a regular pack
Speaker 3: of eggs, you know, the regular eggs were I think
Speaker 3: a buck fifty less. Last week it was twelve dollars
Speaker 3: for the package.
Speaker 2: It goes up and down.
Speaker 3: So what happens is we have more health conscious consumers
Speaker 3: in the United States, a bigger focus on protein intake.
Speaker 3: So you add protein to milk and what do you get?
Speaker 3: You get milk teen and that is huge growth. Protein
Speaker 3: shakes are a six billion dollar market. And here is
Speaker 3: A factoid that I didn't get until I got into
Speaker 3: this story is grocery items in the middle price range
Speaker 3: are what we are not buying in the stores. We
Speaker 3: are buying the lower price down at the bottom of
Speaker 3: the price heap, and then the real expensive stuff the
Speaker 3: upper price, which is doing very, very well. You go
Speaker 3: to TikTok, for example, you'll see posts where people are
Speaker 3: drinking Core Power before a workout or making a morning
Speaker 3: ice coffee with healthier ingredients.
Speaker 2: So I mean, this is great, it really is. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: In addition, in twenty twenty two, fair Life and Coke
Speaker 3: agreed to a twenty million dollar twenty one million dollar
Speaker 3: settlement in a class action lawsuit because of the allegations
Speaker 3: of inhumane treatment of its cows. When they advertise that
Speaker 3: we have well treated cows and they're happy cows.
Speaker 2: And they're running around the range.
Speaker 3: They weren't. They were treated as badly as every other
Speaker 3: cow that is on the market. So that's where it's going.
Speaker 3: The bottom line is it's going to be Coca milk
Speaker 3: and carbonated drinks are way down. And I've talked to
Speaker 3: a lot of people who don't buy carbonated drinks. I
Speaker 3: have to sneak by Dia cokes in.
Speaker 2: Let me see if Lindsay's around there.
Speaker 3: I drink as much diet coke as I can when
Speaker 3: I go out and go to a restaurant by myself.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a really wonderful life.
Speaker 2: Bill, It's a great life.
Speaker 3: And the good news is she doesn't listen to the
Speaker 3: morning show, and like a lot of people do, is
Speaker 3: don't listen.
Speaker 1: Huh, All right, does she let you outside?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Not only with a leash, only with a leash a tract.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I want to share with you something that's going on
Speaker 3: that genuinely is scaring me about what's.
Speaker 2: Happening in America.
Speaker 3: Now, this DEI business that the Trump administration is pushing against.
Speaker 2: Now, I mean, is that the end of the world.
Speaker 3: No, not really, But I'll tell you what is the
Speaker 3: end of the world is what's being caught up in
Speaker 3: this concept of dei and what's being caught up in science.
Speaker 2: Look where science has gone.
Speaker 3: It has gone from those of us who appreciate science.
Speaker 3: Look at scientists and we put them on pedestals. And
Speaker 3: look at what's happened medical science, modern run of the
Speaker 3: mill medical science is now all fraud.
Speaker 2: The what's really.
Speaker 3: Medical science is not what we see every day from
Speaker 3: people who have mds or PhDs. It's people on the
Speaker 3: internet that share with us what's really going on.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: How about people like Robert Kennedy Junior who says vaccines
Speaker 3: cause autism, vaccine cause COVID or COVID was developed in
Speaker 3: a Chinese lab. However, Ashkenazi, Jews and Chinese people are
Speaker 3: exempted because somehow that was genetically created. By the way,
Speaker 3: he is now a Head of Health and Human Services AJHS.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Usually you would have some scientists, a medical practitioner, not
Speaker 3: a chance.
Speaker 2: Look who we have.
Speaker 3: Modern medical science has disappeared, and the problem is the
Speaker 3: administration has jumped into this and says we the government
Speaker 3: are spending too much money giving well, subsidizing medical research,
Speaker 3: subsidizing trials, clinical trials. Now, for decades in the US,
Speaker 3: scientists and government officials have been sort of working hand
Speaker 3: in hand, where the government gave money to scientific groups,
Speaker 3: to universities and didn't want anything back, just said here's
Speaker 3: a pile of money. You do the research, and you
Speaker 3: had technical you had integrity, technical know how. It's complicated stuff.
Speaker 3: So under that science because the governmental money was used, flourished,
Speaker 3: and we had technological innovation and economic growth. Now a
Speaker 3: bunch of research has been done on this, and I
Speaker 3: think the medical acceptance of this concept. Every dollar invested
Speaker 3: in research has returned at least five dollar on average
Speaker 3: over the long term.
Speaker 2: Well we pay you due is basically gone.
Speaker 3: And now science and government are enemies modern medical science
Speaker 3: and government are enemies to the point where under this
Speaker 3: DEI program, anything that has anything to do that you
Speaker 3: can point a finger at, Okay, that's DEI is a
Speaker 3: real problem.
Speaker 2: We don't want to do it.
Speaker 3: For example, US eight right giving money to countries around
Speaker 3: the world. Well, you know what else they do. They
Speaker 3: do testing clinical trials, and they use people around the
Speaker 3: world for clinical trials.
Speaker 2: Gone money is gone.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm going to give you one word about
Speaker 3: federal spending that would not be spent today because this
Speaker 3: is fake science for the most part that we have today,
Speaker 3: and we have a philosophy of government saying we don't
Speaker 3: want to support anything that might possibly be connected with
Speaker 3: DEI governmental spending for money, it's our tax dollars at
Speaker 3: work helping pharmaceutical companies.
Speaker 2: One word, two words, polio.
Speaker 3: Vaccine funded almost entirely by the US government.
Speaker 2: Nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 3: How many people, how many kids have been saved with
Speaker 3: a polio vaccine? Can you imagine the government saying not interested,
Speaker 3: we don't care AIDS vaccines, even COVID under Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump put a couple of billion dollars into COVID research.
Speaker 3: He went balls to the wall on this. You got
Speaker 3: to give him insane credit for saying this is important
Speaker 3: enough that we're going to spend this is during his
Speaker 3: first term.
Speaker 2: We're going to spend that money.
Speaker 3: Of course, after Biden took over and the vaccine started
Speaker 3: going throughout the country, then he pulled back and said
Speaker 3: the whole thing is a fraud, it's waste, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But he created it.
Speaker 3: So last week the NIH National Institute of Health announced
Speaker 3: it's going to slash its grants. Now that was stopped
Speaker 3: by a federal judge, But we'll see what happens. Will
Speaker 3: the court give the Trump administration the power to do this?
Speaker 3: And that becomes a legal question. It doesn't become a
Speaker 3: question of health. It becomes does a president have the
Speaker 3: right to stop money from going into these programs by
Speaker 3: executive order?
Speaker 2: Now, It's happened before. Remember George W. Bush he stopped.
Speaker 3: Scientific research into stem cell research, and man, that pissed
Speaker 3: me off big time.
Speaker 2: Even Nancy Reagan.
Speaker 3: Lambasted George W. For stopping the research, not spending governmental
Speaker 3: dollars on that.
Speaker 1: Was that for moral reasons or something? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the abortion issue.
Speaker 3: The abortion issue because embryos, and they have to kill
Speaker 3: embryos effectively, they do research on embryos. Embryos are living,
Speaker 3: wonderful creatures that talk to you, that ride bicycles, that
Speaker 3: are real human beings. And if you kill them, you
Speaker 3: look what you've done morally. Now, I well, I look,
Speaker 3: you know how guilty I am about killing pre embryos.
Speaker 3: Do you know how many billions and at least hundreds
Speaker 3: of millions the potential human beings I have killed, sometimes
Speaker 3: three times a day.
Speaker 1: Speaking for the rest of humanity, it's probably best that
Speaker 1: you don't reproduce anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just me, my kids, right, even my kids will
Speaker 3: tell you, you know, we shouldn't be around.
Speaker 2: This wasn't such a good idea, all right.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of people trying to tell the story
Speaker 4: on their life in a bit bumper sticker on their
Speaker 4: car keep dor City clean pigeon.
Speaker 2: That's actually funny. Good, you know that's actually funny. Cono,
Speaker 2: that's very strong.
Speaker 3: I must tell you that is the best bumper of
Speaker 3: the morning.
Speaker 2: Talking about bumpers.
Speaker 3: By the way, that's what this segment is about bumper stickers.
Speaker 2: And they really haven't been around that long.
Speaker 3: I mean the first political bumper stickers actually came out
Speaker 3: in the run for president with Dwight Eisenhower. I like
Speaker 3: ike was the phrase and that came out in a
Speaker 3: bumper sticker. And well, there is a gal, but I
Speaker 3: am Jeanne Vacaro. Am I allowed to say there's a gal?
Speaker 2: Or is that considered sexist?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: There is a person of the female persuasion who is
Speaker 3: considered a scholar and a curator from Kansas.
Speaker 2: What is she? A scholar of bumper stickers? Who would
Speaker 2: have thought.
Speaker 3: That You've got someone who's an expert in bumper stickers
Speaker 3: And what she does is collect them from artists, musicians, bookstores.
Speaker 2: And she says, it's like a.
Speaker 3: Tattoo your mom tells you not to and it'll ruin
Speaker 3: my car.
Speaker 2: Unquote, because bumper stickers stick.
Speaker 3: And that's why I hate bumper stickers, and there are
Speaker 3: a couple of iconic bumper stickers that you can't get around.
Speaker 3: You know what the number one bumper sticker is. Here's
Speaker 3: a fun one. Okay, the number one bumper sticker that
Speaker 3: exists in the United States, all right, survey says Neil,
Speaker 3: number one, keep on trucking.
Speaker 2: No Amy, number one bumper sticker.
Speaker 1: Uh, world peace.
Speaker 3: No, that is when you go to the Miss Universe
Speaker 3: contest and you stand up with your IQ of par
Speaker 3: golf and you say, I want world peace.
Speaker 2: Okay, Codo, I don't mind. I'm going to you these days.
Speaker 1: But uh, because I'm awesome and it's honors. My kid's
Speaker 1: an honors kid.
Speaker 2: No, but it's but it's it can be a little close.
Speaker 2: It's honk. If you like honk, if you.
Speaker 3: And put in a any political phrase, honk, Yeah, honk.
Speaker 3: If you love Elvis and then politically honk. If you
Speaker 3: love Gaza, honk, if you uh you know, want honk.
Speaker 3: If you're in favor of women's rights, honk. If you
Speaker 3: believe in America.
Speaker 1: Mind says honk. If you love horns, that's very strong.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you the number one of the honks, and
Speaker 3: it is honk if you love Jesus.
Speaker 2: So I am not particularly religious, as you know.
Speaker 3: So here's what really pisses me off for some god
Speaker 3: awful reason.
Speaker 2: Oh god awful love Jesus.
Speaker 3: People who have honk if you love Jesus on their
Speaker 3: back bumper drive twelve miles an hour.
Speaker 2: Through the streets.
Speaker 3: So here I am honking my horn, you know, putting
Speaker 3: my hand right on it, and it goes for thirty seconds,
Speaker 3: and they waved me and put thumbs up. And this
Speaker 3: is why I believe in gun control, because if I
Speaker 3: had a shotgun, they would be meeting Jesus this afternoon.
Speaker 2: So according to this.
Speaker 3: Lady, this female woman who is the curator, and it's
Speaker 3: a Southern California is sort of the mecca of bumper stickers.
Speaker 3: Why because Southern California is the mecca of cars. And
Speaker 3: so she lives in Echo Park, this woman, and then
Speaker 3: she talks about, now bumper stickers are getting spiritual. They
Speaker 3: go through different phases. And right now you'll see my
Speaker 3: other car is a spirit Halloween m Or there's one
Speaker 3: that's out there that says, let me merge, my dad
Speaker 3: is dead.
Speaker 2: That's not bad. And here's one that sort of came
Speaker 2: out very early. Keep honking.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting in my car crying to the cranberries.
Speaker 2: The song linger. I don't understand what that's about.
Speaker 3: And what happened is back then we're talking about during
Speaker 3: the Eisenhower run. After that, bumper stickers became a popular fixture,
Speaker 3: and another person who manufactures was interviewed for an article.
Speaker 3: Manufactures these bumper stickers for the last eighty years. They've
Speaker 3: actually been around, and it's a company called Gill would
Speaker 3: churn out millions of these politicians, tourist traps, hippies, transmission
Speaker 3: of peace, love to a veteran's pride for organization. My
Speaker 3: father is a veteran, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: And it's all here.
Speaker 3: And you know why they do it here because number one,
Speaker 3: we all have cars. Number Two, bumper stickers are cheap.
Speaker 3: They're five ten dollars.
Speaker 2: And you can make your statement made.
Speaker 3: Billboards are a little pricier, ads on buses are a
Speaker 3: little pricey, but bumper stickers are terrific. Now, would I
Speaker 3: ever put a bumper sticker on a car? Not a chance,
Speaker 3: have you ever? I don't even know how you take
Speaker 3: a bumper sticker off a car. Don't they meld with
Speaker 3: the metal.
Speaker 1: You've never taken a sticker off anything before?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean off of glass, but off of
Speaker 3: a bumper. Yeah, I understand, but off a bumper. Isn't
Speaker 3: there a chemical bond that happens with a bumper sticker
Speaker 3: the glue and the metal, and you can never be
Speaker 3: never be taken off? All right, we're done. Who has
Speaker 3: a bumper sticker? Amy, I love Disneyland?
Speaker 1: Uh, glad for you?
Speaker 2: Oh stop it?
Speaker 3: Neil bumper sticker, Nope, nope? And Cono bumper.
Speaker 2: Sticker, not a chance. Yeah, I don't have them either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never understood people that have bumper stickers. Oh
Speaker 3: you know what, I here's one that I think is
Speaker 3: going to sell, Get a life.
Speaker 2: And if it's a longer one is get a life.
Speaker 2: You lose us.
Speaker 3: Or honk if you think you're smart. Okay, we're done,
Speaker 3: so much for that. We start again all over tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Wake up call five am with Amy and Neil and
Speaker 3: I jump aboard from six to right about now at
Speaker 3: nine o'clock, and then Cono and A and of course
Speaker 3: add to the show enormously.
Speaker 2: I think, I mean, I'll try to figure out how
Speaker 2: that's it. Gary and Shannon are up next, and you
Speaker 2: have a.
Speaker 3: Here's a blessed here is a bumper sticker. Have a
Speaker 3: blessed day. I have never said that in my entire career.
Speaker 2: Behind this mic, have a blessed day.
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