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Speaker 3: Heather Brooker is here this morning in for Amy King,
Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning. Ann is here, Kono is here
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Speaker 3: crew who actually love you, dear listener.
Speaker 2: Now, Heather, little bone to pick with you.
Speaker 3: While so, it might not be your fault, it also
Speaker 3: could be the fault of a news editor as well.
Speaker 3: But what you have done this morning is you have
Speaker 3: used up our entire FCC allotment of puns in that
Speaker 3: Joey Chestnut Kobe Yashi hot dog eating story. Meaning for
Speaker 3: this show now we can use no puns, no unless
Speaker 3: we want to pay a big fun.
Speaker 4: Okay, fair enough, fair enough, Sorry about that might be
Speaker 4: my fault. I can't pass up a good Wiener pun.
Speaker 2: Don't listen, you're treading on thin ice right now. I
Speaker 2: would be I.
Speaker 3: Feel better if we just don't discuss the topic again,
Speaker 3: because I'm afraid you'll slip one more out.
Speaker 2: And you know it's ten five hundred dollars per violation.
Speaker 3: Per pun yes, per access pun so, and I think
Speaker 3: we can all agree this company is not a company
Speaker 3: that wishes to expend any more money than they have.
Speaker 2: To right now.
Speaker 5: Absolutely not a no mark.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, anyway, I hope everybody will have a nice
Speaker 3: labor day, no matter what you're doing. And it is
Speaker 3: time to do what we always do on this show
Speaker 3: at the beginning, it's handle on the news with Heather
Speaker 3: Brooker and me and our lead.
Speaker 2: Story, I want to redfree. President Biden.
Speaker 3: Vice President Harris will meet in the White House Situation
Speaker 3: Room today along with the US hostage deal negotiating team.
Speaker 3: This after the discovery of the murder of six hostages
Speaker 3: held in Gaza, their bodies recovered. Mobs in the streets
Speaker 3: of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, An Haifa and some other
Speaker 3: cities mad at their own government for not having made
Speaker 3: a deal. By now, there is supposed to be a
Speaker 3: general strike in Israel today in protest of the government's
Speaker 3: in action. Now, early word is trickling in that it's
Speaker 3: spotty because the thing in Israel is not everybody's on
Speaker 3: the same page, which is to say, there are people
Speaker 3: who think net Yahu should have not been so aggressive
Speaker 3: and should have negotiated more. There are other people in
Speaker 3: Israel who love what he's doing, and so they're not
Speaker 3: going to go on strike. Their stores will be open.
Speaker 3: But it is a big political deal over there. And
Speaker 3: I don't usually bring up things where I just saw
Speaker 3: it somewhere and I can't remember exactly where, and I
Speaker 3: haven't had time to look into it, but I'm presenting
Speaker 3: it as such, so you understand, unlike everybody on X,
Speaker 3: I don't just say stuff is true when I have
Speaker 3: no way of knowing it's true. But I did see this,
Speaker 3: and my recollections it was a fairly reputable It wasn't
Speaker 3: just some dude on X.
Speaker 2: That early on after the.
Speaker 3: Hamas attack in Israel in October last year where these
Speaker 3: hostages were taken, that very very soon thereafter, there was
Speaker 3: a deal from Hamas to release all the hostages in
Speaker 3: exchange for Israel agreeing not to go into the Gaza strip,
Speaker 3: and that net and Yaho said no, thank you, all.
Speaker 2: Right, we're gonna come in there. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: And some people are of course, saying so these these
Speaker 3: people could have been freed, but if that's true, at
Speaker 3: the expense of Israel being able to do anything meaningful
Speaker 3: to respond to the original attack. So it's you know,
Speaker 3: this is one of those impossible situations over there, and
Speaker 3: I don't know what Biden and Harris and this hostage
Speaker 3: deal negotiating team really can do at this point, because
Speaker 3: it sounds to me like neither side really want to
Speaker 3: stop fighting and release hostages or, in the case of Israel,
Speaker 3: Palestinian prisoners, which some people will say are equivalent to hostages.
Speaker 3: I don't think we're hearing a lot about how net
Speaker 3: and Yahoo is intractable and he doesn't want to do anything,
Speaker 3: and he's being.
Speaker 2: A real butt head.
Speaker 3: But there's no evidence from the other side that they
Speaker 3: really are like we're here with our white flags ready
Speaker 3: to go. Come on, dude, that's not happening either. So
Speaker 3: the meeting is closed to the press, we will not
Speaker 3: know what is set inside.
Speaker 4: Well, this is also just more heartbreaking news from that story.
Speaker 4: So the Israeli American hostages that were taken, the ones
Speaker 4: who we just found out this weekend were murdered. The
Speaker 4: parents of one of those hostages spoke at the DNC.
Speaker 4: The parents of twenty three year old hersh Goldberg Poland,
Speaker 4: I hope I'm saying that correctly, spoke at the DNC
Speaker 4: and tearfully begged the leaders to come up with a
Speaker 4: ceasefire agreement. Of course, that was the DNC was just
Speaker 4: a few weeks ago, and the twenty three year old
Speaker 4: gold Pulland was the youngest of the six victims and
Speaker 4: was a California native. They're attending the Nova Music Festival
Speaker 4: when Hamas attacked on October seventh, all.
Speaker 3: Right, closer to home, Governor Newsom made the legislature.
Speaker 2: Work over time over the weekend.
Speaker 3: They were supposed to end their session Saturday and go
Speaker 3: back to their districts for four months, and he called
Speaker 3: a special session because there's a big.
Speaker 2: And we're going to get into this in detail at seven.
Speaker 3: So more briefly now, there's a big fight between people
Speaker 3: who want to rein in energy prices, more specifically gasoline prices. Newsom,
Speaker 3: who's being very hawkish on the thing, who has talked
Speaker 3: about wanting to be able to impose price caps, wanting
Speaker 3: to be able to penalize the oil companies if they
Speaker 3: don't maintain enough inventory so that when they take a
Speaker 3: refinery out of commission for maintenance, it doesn't spike the
Speaker 3: cost of gas. And a lot of people in Sacramento
Speaker 3: who don't want to be that bold, and so he said, well, well,
Speaker 3: I'm calling a special session and you guys will sit
Speaker 3: your butts in your seats and you will at least
Speaker 3: debate these laws that are that are on offer and
Speaker 3: at seven when we get into the details. It'll be
Speaker 3: interesting between now and then, see if you can guess
Speaker 3: why so many Democrats in Sacramento don't want to slam
Speaker 3: the oil companies over these high gas prices.
Speaker 2: And I'll just I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 3: I'll take off that it's not because they got a
Speaker 3: bunch of contributions and it's the money.
Speaker 2: It's not that something else.
Speaker 4: I am really interested to listen to that, because our
Speaker 4: gas prices here are absolutely insane and it's crazy to
Speaker 4: me that nobody's doing anything about that, or why they're
Speaker 4: not doing something about it. All Right, So this is
Speaker 4: kind of a scary situation out there in Rancho Palace Verdes.
Speaker 4: There's about one hundred and forty residents out there who
Speaker 4: are under evacuation warnings. So cal Edison shut off electricity
Speaker 4: in the area, but these people were spared immediate evacuations
Speaker 4: because of some backup generators. It's in the Portuguese Bend
Speaker 4: community and apparently the landslides there are just getting so
Speaker 4: bad that it's truly become a dangerous situation for the
Speaker 4: people who live there. The representative in the area, Janis Hahn,
Speaker 4: has called for Governor Newsom to personally come to the
Speaker 4: area and commit She's committed another five million dollars in
Speaker 4: county funds to help respond to the disaster, and she's
Speaker 4: asking for an emergency declaration from the governor.
Speaker 3: Chris Adler's gonna be with us from KFI News at eight.
Speaker 3: She's covering this story. One thing I know is today
Speaker 3: one hundred and five more homes are going to have
Speaker 3: their power cut off.
Speaker 2: And it has to do with.
Speaker 3: It's not really the concerned for the safety of the people.
Speaker 3: This area is so big where the land is shifting violently.
Speaker 2: It's like over six hundred acre area.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of electrical lines and electrical equipment on
Speaker 3: that land. It's a concern about the safety of the electricity. Electricity,
Speaker 3: electricity supply chain and that equipment and the things that
Speaker 3: could happen like major fires and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: And you know, they had their gas cut off. A
Speaker 3: lot of these residents they have already had their gas
Speaker 3: cut off for the same concern about the gas lines.
Speaker 2: And then so.
Speaker 3: It's batman if you live there, and you obviously you
Speaker 3: can't sell your house now.
Speaker 2: There's no selling your house now and moving somewhere else.
Speaker 3: And Ukraine has carried out a massive drone strike in
Speaker 3: Russia targeting their energy infrastructure, hitting a refinery and a
Speaker 3: power station pretty far across the Russian border. Not one
Speaker 3: of these right on the edge things. They got in
Speaker 3: there pretty far. And so the Russian Defense Ministry they're
Speaker 3: they're playing the game of yes, we agree, we agree
Speaker 3: that there were hundreds of drones that came, but they
Speaker 3: didn't do much.
Speaker 2: We shot most of them down. Nothing to see.
Speaker 3: Here, folks, except there's a lot to see, like refineries
Speaker 3: up in smoke. So this is one small, i'm gonna say,
Speaker 3: a victory. It's one small step in this thing that's been.
Speaker 2: Going on for a very long time now.
Speaker 3: Remember when Russian invaded Ukraine and everybody's like, oh, boy,
Speaker 3: you know, six weeks from now, Ukraine is going to
Speaker 3: be part of Russia.
Speaker 2: It's all over.
Speaker 3: Most of these things that are believed to be over
Speaker 3: quickly are not over quickly. Maybe speeding, though on Pacific
Speaker 3: Coast Highway can be over quickly.
Speaker 4: Well, we can only hope. I know that there is
Speaker 4: a new bill that is being proposed to help with that.
Speaker 4: So you might remember ten months ago this really terrible
Speaker 4: tragedy that happened. Four Pepperdine University students were hit when
Speaker 4: a car that was allegedly speeding on PCH and Malibu
Speaker 4: hit them while they were on the side of the
Speaker 4: road and killed them. Now this bill is requesting the
Speaker 4: installation of five speed camera systems along that twenty one mile.
Speaker 5: Stretch of PCH.
Speaker 4: They're hoping it will deter speeders along those roads and
Speaker 4: reckless driving. And it's already been passed in the Senate,
Speaker 4: so they're hoping Governor Newsom will sign off on it.
Speaker 2: He probably will. I don't know what the controversy would be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't imagine against it.
Speaker 3: Will it stop the really reckless or drunk or both drivers?
Speaker 3: Will it stop the rich kids in their super expensive
Speaker 3: cars that Daddy got them from driving like that.
Speaker 4: No, No, I mean I think what it will do
Speaker 4: is introduce some accountability, you know, if instead of them
Speaker 4: being able to maybe flee the scene or you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 2: Well that's a good point.
Speaker 3: You won't in theory, if you speed past one of
Speaker 3: those cameras, you won't get away with it, right right?
Speaker 2: Oh man.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you have direct TV, but eleven
Speaker 3: million homes have DirecTV and some of those people in
Speaker 3: some of those homes sat down yesterday to watch usc
Speaker 3: LSU play a college football game and couldn't watch it
Speaker 3: because all the Disney owned channels, your ABC, your ESPN,
Speaker 3: your FX and free Form and National Geographic, they're all gone.
Speaker 3: It's the old contract dispute. And if you've ever had
Speaker 3: cable TV, you know that this happens all the time.
Speaker 3: There's a cycle of our contract is up for you
Speaker 3: to carry our channels. We want you to pay us
Speaker 3: more money to carry our channels. We don't want to
Speaker 3: pay you more money. Well, then you will not be
Speaker 3: able to run our channels. And you turn on the
Speaker 3: channel and there's a little crawl that says, like Disney's
Speaker 3: preventing you from watching ESPN. Please call them and tell
Speaker 3: them it sucks. So that's what's going on. It's right
Speaker 3: at the beginning of like a really heavy sports time.
Speaker 3: You've got college football going on, NFL starting up a
Speaker 3: week from today. Is the ESPN Monday Night football game.
Speaker 3: I think it's the forty nine Ers and the Jets,
Speaker 3: and isn't it isn't what's his face? Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 3: coming back. Remember he started with the Jets and like
Speaker 3: on the first play he got injured and he's been
Speaker 3: out and now he's going to come back.
Speaker 2: So there's extra interest.
Speaker 3: In the game and direct TV people are not going
Speaker 3: to be able to watch any of that.
Speaker 4: I remember this happened a few years ago too with
Speaker 4: KTLA here in town, and KTLA was doing a lot
Speaker 4: of promotions on their website and on the channels that
Speaker 4: people could see them on. I don't remember if it
Speaker 4: was DirecTV or another service provider.
Speaker 2: Could have been Comcast. Maybe, Yeah, it's happened.
Speaker 3: It's I mean, my memory is it's happened at least
Speaker 3: eight to ten times in the last twenty years. It's
Speaker 3: just a regular occurrence now, and they eventually make a
Speaker 3: deal and the channels come back.
Speaker 4: I always wonder, like with so many of these like
Speaker 4: disputes happening here, there's more and more money being poured
Speaker 4: into like local channels and things like that. Like one
Speaker 4: of the channels affected by this is ABC seven here
Speaker 4: in La. Yes, how is local news sustainable anymore? Like
Speaker 4: it seems to cost so much more money than maybe
Speaker 4: what they're getting out of it.
Speaker 5: And I don't know, that's just me.
Speaker 3: Well in this case. In this case, it's kind of
Speaker 3: the the reverse though. This would be KABC local, which
Speaker 3: is where isn't that where you watch Jeopardy? Yeah, and
Speaker 3: Wheel of Fortune and all that stuff. They're you know,
Speaker 3: they're owned by Disney, and what Disney wants is more
Speaker 3: money for all their channels and KABC TV locally. But
Speaker 3: the problem is then so direct TV has to do what.
Speaker 2: Raise your rates?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and raiser rates, and it ultimately comes down to
Speaker 4: the consumer. We don't even have cable anymore. We're one
Speaker 4: of those court cutters. We just have the streamers because
Speaker 4: it just was like so expensive and you can watch
Speaker 4: everything on the app or online.
Speaker 2: Or when you say you have streaming, do you have
Speaker 2: something like YouTube TV?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean be happy or slaying where you're still where
Speaker 3: it's like cable in the sense that you're getting a
Speaker 3: similar lineup of channels that you would get if you
Speaker 3: had cable. No, or are you talking only about having
Speaker 3: things like Max.
Speaker 4: And only have Max Hulu, you know those those kind
Speaker 4: of Netflix of course, those kinds of things. And we
Speaker 4: if we want to watch local news, honestly, we just
Speaker 4: watch it online right or on social to get updates.
Speaker 4: But it's it was so expensive. We had at and T.
Speaker 4: It was so expensive that we were like, we can
Speaker 4: save almost two hundred dollars a month. Is we never
Speaker 4: watched the local channels anymore?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not that you can get the same for
Speaker 3: so much less. You're not getting what you had when
Speaker 3: you were paying over two hundred dollars a month for cable.
Speaker 3: But the stuff you're not getting you didn't want in
Speaker 3: the first place.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I mean it's definitely not the same experience.
Speaker 4: But we didn't ever watch it. I mean months had
Speaker 4: gone by and we never turned our cable box on,
Speaker 4: so it was like, why are we spending this money?
Speaker 5: Anyway? I hope they get it. I hope they work
Speaker 5: it out.
Speaker 2: They will. They always did watch it, because here's something.
Speaker 3: Do you think Disney long term wants to not have
Speaker 3: their channels on in eleven million homes?
Speaker 5: No way, of course not. They'll work it out. Oh
Speaker 5: this guy I know, Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 4: He is suing North Carolina's state Board of Elections. This
Speaker 4: is his attempt to get his name removed from the
Speaker 4: state's ballot right before the presidential election. I guess he
Speaker 4: doesn't want to pull away from Trump. Pull votes away
Speaker 4: from Trump is why I'm guessing he's doing that.
Speaker 3: I guess he only wants to pull away votes from
Speaker 3: Harris right. But unfortunately they're deadlines to do this. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is very simple. The reason that Joe Biden is
Speaker 3: coming off ballots and Robert F. Kennedy Junior is not
Speaker 3: has to do with meeting the deadline to come off
Speaker 3: the ballot.
Speaker 2: You either meet it or you don't meet it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he just waited too long to make that announcement.
Speaker 4: I don't know why he thought he was gonna Trying
Speaker 4: to even figure him out, It's the whole situation with
Speaker 4: RFK Junior was fascinating to me.
Speaker 5: I was like, what is this guy still here?
Speaker 3: Like and we're at the halfway point in today's handle
Speaker 3: on the news time, you might say, which brings us
Speaker 3: to the case of the forty nine ers Ricky Piersall,
Speaker 3: who is out of the hospital after being shot in
Speaker 3: a robbery attempt while walking down the street in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the day.
Speaker 3: You know, I say that I go in the middle
Speaker 3: of the day and I saw Anne kind of shak
Speaker 3: her head.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, in the middle of the day.
Speaker 3: It's like, we we agree that somehow it's worse that
Speaker 3: it was in the middle of the day, but I
Speaker 3: couldn't explain to you why it's worse, but there just
Speaker 3: seems to be. It's like dirty deeds should be done
Speaker 3: in the dark. But I guess if we think it's
Speaker 3: worse that it was in the middle of the day,
Speaker 3: does that mean the robber who waits until nightfall is
Speaker 3: more of a gentleman? In any event, it's a seventeen
Speaker 3: year old suspect that is in custody, so we don't
Speaker 3: have a name, but came up to Piersall who was
Speaker 3: walking and had some chopping bags, and there was a
Speaker 3: struggle and they and here's the deal. So this kid
Speaker 3: fires hits Piersall in the chest. Also he got somehow shot,
Speaker 3: but there's no evidence that Pearsall had a gun, so
Speaker 3: I think he was extraordinarily bad with a firearm, so
Speaker 3: much so that Piersall is out of the hospital, but
Speaker 3: this kid is not. And now the DA up there,
Speaker 3: Brooke Jenkins, who you know, took over and said, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to be so soft on crime, said they
Speaker 3: got to figure out what to do because it's juvenile
Speaker 3: so expecting a charging decision maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, I think,
Speaker 3: And it'll start out in juvenile court. But if he's seventeen,
Speaker 3: I mean that that's when you bind them over to
Speaker 3: adult court.
Speaker 4: I think, oh for sure. And for us to be
Speaker 4: so brazen. I also think there's a false sense of
Speaker 4: safety during the daytime, Like I think we all feel like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's light out, everybody coming. We can see the bad
Speaker 4: guys coming at it. So there's a false sense of safety.
Speaker 2: Yeah you're safe from vampires.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, not during this season and spooky season
Speaker 4: all right. In New York, more than a ten thousand
Speaker 4: hotel workers from twenty four hotels went on strike yesterday,
Speaker 4: and of course this is labor Day, weekend, so there's
Speaker 4: probably a lot of visitors in New York, so that's
Speaker 4: going to be disrupting some of the services that they're getting.
Speaker 4: The hotels are still open, but guests are going to
Speaker 4: deal with skeleton staff until they can. I guess the
Speaker 4: union people can get back to work. Unite here is
Speaker 4: the union representing the striking workers. They say they're striking
Speaker 4: not just for better pay, but also better working conditions,
Speaker 4: including the return of automatic daily room cleaning that many
Speaker 4: hotels drop during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Did you just call it the pandemic? I did?
Speaker 5: I realized I probably should have formally.
Speaker 2: So was that just a mouthflow?
Speaker 3: Was that just a mouthflub which I have mouth flubs
Speaker 3: every five words now?
Speaker 2: Or is that a thing? You call it?
Speaker 5: That's what I call it. I jokingly will refer to
Speaker 5: it as the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Just Oh, I don't, I don't. Let can we do
Speaker 3: a quick poll of the morning crew? I don't, I
Speaker 3: don't think I like.
Speaker 5: It a pandemic? And yeah, that's kind of weird. I
Speaker 5: thought it was a flub as well.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I like it?
Speaker 3: Oh all right, split time? What decision on the morning show?
Speaker 3: Calling it the pandemic.
Speaker 4: Well, Devin can weigh in, Devin, tiebreaker? Are you there, Devin?
Speaker 4: You could be a tiebreaker? All right, Devon's not there.
Speaker 3: No, Oh, you know what, a pandemic could also be
Speaker 3: a bakery product.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's true.
Speaker 3: Costco has raised their membership fee for the first time
Speaker 3: in seven years. It took effect yesterday. The gold Star
Speaker 3: and the Business memberships go from sixty to sixty five.
Speaker 3: The executive memberships what a flex? What a flex at
Speaker 3: the singles bar? Hey baby, you want to see what
Speaker 3: card I got.
Speaker 2: In my wallet? Yes, right, Executive.
Speaker 3: Goes from one twenty to one thirty fifty two million memberships.
Speaker 2: Now that's across the US and Canada.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of Costco member Well that's that's their
Speaker 3: business model, as we all know because there have been
Speaker 3: a million articles written about it.
Speaker 2: They make their money from the memberships.
Speaker 3: They operate with thin margins on everything else, which is
Speaker 3: why go to Costco if you're allowed, Because you know,
Speaker 3: they started with scanners at the entrance. You got to
Speaker 3: actually put your card on a scanner, and if your
Speaker 3: card doesn't have your picture on it, you have to
Speaker 3: show a photo ID. So they're cracking down on people
Speaker 3: who borrow other people's cards and just like flash it
Speaker 3: and walk in. But anyway, if you go to Costco
Speaker 3: and go to where the nuts are and look at
Speaker 3: the price of macadamia nuts, which I think I paid,
Speaker 3: it was sixteen something. I forgot the change amount for
Speaker 3: twenty four ounces of dry roasted macadamia nuts, and they're good. Now,
Speaker 3: go anywhere else and look at the price of macadamia nuts.
Speaker 3: So Costco is not making much money off of their
Speaker 3: actual products, and if you use it enough, this is
Speaker 3: no big deal at all for them to attack another
Speaker 3: five bucks on there. I don't think now, I know
Speaker 3: it's Bill upset.
Speaker 2: Probably, oh man, I hope, I hope he he's always upset.
Speaker 2: Hope he doesn't know about it yet.
Speaker 5: So I would take it. You're a Costco member.
Speaker 2: I'm a Costco member. I'm not there all the time.
Speaker 3: I'm not you know, it's not that, but there's certain
Speaker 3: things that are just the price of them is so
Speaker 3: much less that it's totally worth.
Speaker 2: It to buy them.
Speaker 4: Men, even if you're paying that yearly membership fee, like
Speaker 4: it doesn't it doesn't matter. We don't we're not members
Speaker 4: of Costco. There's only three of people at my family,
Speaker 4: so we kind of just feel like we didn't really
Speaker 4: need to buy in both.
Speaker 3: They have a lot of stuff that you don't need
Speaker 3: to have eight people in your house, though, especially things
Speaker 3: like like, look.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you a little story now.
Speaker 3: I saw I was looking for another shop back, a smaller.
Speaker 2: One, and I'm looking around.
Speaker 3: I do think and I just said, oh, Shark makes this.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say that. I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: like hype the product, but I like, oh, this is
Speaker 3: this is what I want.
Speaker 2: I want this thing that they make. And I look
Speaker 2: around it you can.
Speaker 3: Get it at Walmart, and you can get it at
Speaker 3: best Buy and all this stuff, and I'm like, this
Speaker 3: is the way I am.
Speaker 2: I decided I want it. I want it now.
Speaker 3: So I look and I look, and one one Walmart
Speaker 3: had it, not the one closest to me anyway, So
Speaker 3: I buy it. And then a couple of days later.
Speaker 3: This is all very recently. I was in Costco to
Speaker 3: get macadamia nuts. But I walk around and they sell
Speaker 3: the same product with two more attachments for ten dollars
Speaker 3: less than I bought it on sale at Walmart. So
Speaker 3: it's not just the big bulk food and household supplies.
Speaker 3: Things like vacuum cleaners, electric toothbrushes, computers, diamond rings.
Speaker 2: All those kinds of purchases.
Speaker 5: Are deeply discounted.
Speaker 3: They're just your The prices are not just a little better.
Speaker 3: In many cases, they are significantly better.
Speaker 5: All right, I'll revisit Costco.
Speaker 2: All right, I know this is what I'm about to complain.
Speaker 3: It's one hundred percent my fault, so I'm complaining against myself.
Speaker 2: That was way too much time talking about Costco. I apologize.
Speaker 4: You don't need to apologize. We are giving the people
Speaker 4: what they need on Labor Day.
Speaker 5: Here's why.
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to people who's who This is a transition,
Speaker 3: as opposed to people who say they're gonna give you
Speaker 3: something but it turns out they can't because they're.
Speaker 2: Not who they say they are.
Speaker 4: That is called catfishing, and California is the most catfish
Speaker 4: state in the US. Apparently a new study found that wow,
Speaker 4: nearly two hundred million dollars was lost to romance scams
Speaker 4: in California, and as Wayne alluded to the word catfishing
Speaker 4: just so you for those not in the know, it's
Speaker 4: kind of become a stand in for the online con
Speaker 4: that lures somebody into our relationship, often romantic, and people
Speaker 4: use a fake persona online or in some way to
Speaker 4: lure people to give them money. So this new study
Speaker 4: found that man, California's are getting scammed more.
Speaker 3: Than any n But we're not. Here's the thing, it's like,
Speaker 3: we're not. We're We're the most catfish state in terms of.
Speaker 2: The dollar amount money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but not in terms of the amount of catfishing
Speaker 3: because the number of catfishing victims is much higher in
Speaker 3: For example, Alaska is number one, eleven point nine catfishing
Speaker 3: victims per one hundred thousand residents, whereas here we're at
Speaker 3: I think seven point seven, So we have a lower rate,
Speaker 3: but each catfishing costs more.
Speaker 4: Well, people just don't give anyone online that you don't
Speaker 4: know money. Just don't do it, right if you don't know,
Speaker 4: even if you like, even if you think you know them,
Speaker 4: just don't like. How many stories have we done over
Speaker 4: the years about the like I just did one today
Speaker 4: with the Irvine Police saying people are calling and pretending
Speaker 4: to be police officers and saying that they need money.
Speaker 5: Knock it off, don't do it. I could be a
Speaker 5: little pedestal.
Speaker 2: Nicer about it. I mean these are like, these are
Speaker 2: vulnerable people.
Speaker 5: I'm mad about it.
Speaker 2: That are better falling to this. You're just like smart
Speaker 2: enough dummies, stop it. They're already in distress obviously.
Speaker 5: How though, how.
Speaker 3: Please don't please don't be because it's it's probably a scam, right,
Speaker 3: Check with someone, Check with people, call police before you
Speaker 3: give money to anybody, because we love you and we
Speaker 3: don't want you to have your money taken.
Speaker 5: Okay, And that's a nicer way to put it.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay.
Speaker 3: Pope Francis is embarking on the longest trip of his
Speaker 3: popetom starting today. He will go for twelve days across
Speaker 3: four countries. And he is eighty seven years old, and
Speaker 3: he has had some health problems, but he is doing
Speaker 3: this anyway. And if you wonder why he would undertake
Speaker 3: such a thing, let me tell you the countries that
Speaker 3: he's going to, Indonesia, Papau, New Guinea, East Tmoor and Singapore.
Speaker 3: What do they all have in common? Well, they're all
Speaker 3: in generally the same part of the world. Because guess
Speaker 3: what's happened to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church now
Speaker 3: is becoming more and more Asian based. It's not Eurocentric anymore.
Speaker 3: It's not a Western world institution so much anymore. Asia
Speaker 3: and Africa and even Latin America. That is where the
Speaker 3: Catholic Church is growing. It's also where the people in
Speaker 3: the church, the officials and the members, the followers of
Speaker 3: the church. It's where they are doing a lot of good.
Speaker 3: Like for whatever the reason, Catholics in Asia really truly
Speaker 3: are of the service to the community and helping people stripe.
Speaker 3: So obviously you have to go where your population is,
Speaker 3: and that means Pope Francis spending a lot more time
Speaker 3: in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: He's gone to South Korea, in Japan and Philippines, and
Speaker 3: he was in Thailand, and he was in Bangladesh, and
Speaker 3: he was in meinmar He's also when he appoints cardinals
Speaker 3: now he's appointing them from those parts of the world
Speaker 3: because it's changing.
Speaker 2: The church has really really changed.
Speaker 4: Pope Francis, Oh, you already did that. One Germany, he's
Speaker 4: far right party. Listen this story. I was just reading
Speaker 4: about this. It's a little scary actually. Germany's far right
Speaker 4: party wins the state election for the first time since
Speaker 4: the Nazis. They won the most votes in the state election,
Speaker 4: and the Christian Democratic Union, Germany's second largest party, finished
Speaker 4: in second place, and all other parties have vowed not
Speaker 4: to form coalitions with the af D.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not quite the Nazis, but they are a
Speaker 3: hard right party, the alternative for Germany party.
Speaker 4: But even if you have to say not quite the Nazis.
Speaker 4: Is the scary things to even think about.
Speaker 3: Well, it's only in two states. Look, we have in
Speaker 3: this country. We have West Virginia, we have Alabama. We
Speaker 3: have certain states in this country that are very far right,
Speaker 3: and we have other states that are very far left.
Speaker 3: It's notable there because of their history. Sure you'd think
Speaker 3: maybe it's they would wait a little longer before they
Speaker 3: start dipping their toe back into the pond. But these
Speaker 3: are two areas of Germany that are ready for a
Speaker 3: more right leaning form of government. On the other hand,
Speaker 3: as you said, they're not going to have any power
Speaker 3: because nobody's going to get into a coalition with them.
Speaker 3: And then that means and this is sometimes sometimes this
Speaker 3: is the price of extremism, is that you don't actually
Speaker 3: have an power because the mainstream doesn't want to deal
Speaker 3: with you. It's not so much here. You know, if
Speaker 3: you're West Virginia and you're overwhelmingly read now, then you
Speaker 3: get to have the policies that you want in the state,
Speaker 3: but in parliamentary type countries where you have to form coalitions.
Speaker 3: When you do that, if most of the mainstream doesn't
Speaker 3: want what you're about, you don't get anywhere. So there's
Speaker 3: an argument to be made that to find people of
Speaker 3: these two states in Germany, what they did is they
Speaker 3: voted themselves out of having any real voice at a
Speaker 3: national level.
Speaker 2: Do you want to pick the last one?
Speaker 3: I guess we should probably do these footprints, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is really amazing.
Speaker 2: You know, a long long.
Speaker 3: Time ago, there was no Atlantic Ocean, and you had
Speaker 3: this part of Brazil that connected to a part of Cameroon. Yes,
Speaker 3: and then it broke apart, you know, and then you
Speaker 3: have the Atlantic Ocean. So here's the thing. Back then,
Speaker 3: when they were connected, dinosaurs could come and go freely
Speaker 3: all over the place.
Speaker 2: So now modern.
Speaker 3: Age, there are identical dinosaur footprints in Brazil and all
Speaker 3: the way in Cameroon.
Speaker 2: It's the exact same, not it's not the same guy, dude,
Speaker 2: it's not like but it's the same type.
Speaker 3: Of dinosaur, theropod, which they know it's the same because
Speaker 3: you can look at it. They measured the hip height,
Speaker 3: the speed range, the body mass for each footprint, and
Speaker 3: it just goes to show that way back when the
Speaker 3: dinosaurs were here, they were all over this planet, and
Speaker 3: then they've been separated, but they're.
Speaker 2: They left their mark for us to see.
Speaker 4: Did you see the new Jurassic Park movie. There's making
Speaker 4: another one with Scarlett Johanson.
Speaker 3: Ooh, well, maybe they'll address this finding. Yes, all right,
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