WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:04.599 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:22.760 AM six forty. 3 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:26.320 Ladies and gentlemen, here's Wayne Resnick. 4 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.240 Good morning, KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the 5 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.000 iHeartRadio app. It is the Bill Handle Show. He is 6 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:39.640 taking labor day off. Wayne Resmek here sitting in for him. 7 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.479 Heather Brooker is here this morning in for Amy King, 8 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:47.399 Good morning, good morning. Ann is here, Kono is here 9 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:51.359 in good morning, good morning. The two on the morning 10 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:54.840 crew who actually love you, dear listener. 11 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.640 Now, Heather, little bone to pick with you. 12 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:01.759 While so, it might not be your fault, it also 13 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:04.640 could be the fault of a news editor as well. 14 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:07.879 But what you have done this morning is you have 15 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:12.280 used up our entire FCC allotment of puns in that 16 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:16.560 Joey Chestnut Kobe Yashi hot dog eating story. Meaning for 17 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:21.719 this show now we can use no puns, no unless 18 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:23.159 we want to pay a big fun. 19 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.840 Okay, fair enough, fair enough, Sorry about that might be 20 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.519 my fault. I can't pass up a good Wiener pun. 21 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:36.879 Don't listen, you're treading on thin ice right now. I 22 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:37.480 would be I. 23 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:40.400 Feel better if we just don't discuss the topic again, 24 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:43.400 because I'm afraid you'll slip one more out. 25 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.799 And you know it's ten five hundred dollars per violation. 26 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:53.519 Per pun yes, per access pun so, and I think 27 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:55.599 we can all agree this company is not a company 28 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.239 that wishes to expend any more money than they have. 29 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:58.840 To right now. 30 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:00.920 Absolutely not a no mark. 31 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.840 Okay, Well, anyway, I hope everybody will have a nice 32 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.639 labor day, no matter what you're doing. And it is 33 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:10.639 time to do what we always do on this show 34 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:13.479 at the beginning, it's handle on the news with Heather 35 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.240 Brooker and me and our lead. 36 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:19.520 Story, I want to redfree. President Biden. 37 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:22.319 Vice President Harris will meet in the White House Situation 38 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:28.719 Room today along with the US hostage deal negotiating team. 39 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:33.080 This after the discovery of the murder of six hostages 40 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:38.960 held in Gaza, their bodies recovered. Mobs in the streets 41 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.080 of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, An Haifa and some other 42 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.520 cities mad at their own government for not having made 43 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.759 a deal. By now, there is supposed to be a 44 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:55.879 general strike in Israel today in protest of the government's 45 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:59.360 in action. Now, early word is trickling in that it's 46 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.560 spotty because the thing in Israel is not everybody's on 47 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.919 the same page, which is to say, there are people 48 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:09.599 who think net Yahu should have not been so aggressive 49 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:12.360 and should have negotiated more. There are other people in 50 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:15.680 Israel who love what he's doing, and so they're not 51 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:18.680 going to go on strike. Their stores will be open. 52 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:21.840 But it is a big political deal over there. And 53 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:26.759 I don't usually bring up things where I just saw 54 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:30.800 it somewhere and I can't remember exactly where, and I 55 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.439 haven't had time to look into it, but I'm presenting 56 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:37.520 it as such, so you understand, unlike everybody on X, 57 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.840 I don't just say stuff is true when I have 58 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.159 no way of knowing it's true. But I did see this, 59 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:47.080 and my recollections it was a fairly reputable It wasn't 60 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:48.599 just some dude on X. 61 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:52.639 That early on after the. 62 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:58.479 Hamas attack in Israel in October last year where these 63 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:03.400 hostages were taken, that very very soon thereafter, there was 64 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:07.879 a deal from Hamas to release all the hostages in 65 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:12.599 exchange for Israel agreeing not to go into the Gaza strip, 66 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.759 and that net and Yaho said no, thank you, all. 67 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:18.759 Right, we're gonna come in there. It doesn't matter. 68 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.600 And some people are of course, saying so these these 69 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:27.839 people could have been freed, but if that's true, at 70 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.279 the expense of Israel being able to do anything meaningful 71 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:36.519 to respond to the original attack. So it's you know, 72 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:39.560 this is one of those impossible situations over there, and 73 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.759 I don't know what Biden and Harris and this hostage 74 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.439 deal negotiating team really can do at this point, because 75 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:53.120 it sounds to me like neither side really want to 76 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:57.279 stop fighting and release hostages or, in the case of Israel, 77 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:01.759 Palestinian prisoners, which some people will say are equivalent to hostages. 78 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.279 I don't think we're hearing a lot about how net 79 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:07.040 and Yahoo is intractable and he doesn't want to do anything, 80 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:07.680 and he's being. 81 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:08.279 A real butt head. 82 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.519 But there's no evidence from the other side that they 83 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.399 really are like we're here with our white flags ready 84 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.360 to go. Come on, dude, that's not happening either. So 85 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.399 the meeting is closed to the press, we will not 86 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:23.040 know what is set inside. 87 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:29.560 Well, this is also just more heartbreaking news from that story. 88 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.199 So the Israeli American hostages that were taken, the ones 89 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:37.120 who we just found out this weekend were murdered. The 90 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:41.120 parents of one of those hostages spoke at the DNC. 91 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.959 The parents of twenty three year old hersh Goldberg Poland, 92 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.160 I hope I'm saying that correctly, spoke at the DNC 93 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:52.759 and tearfully begged the leaders to come up with a 94 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.879 ceasefire agreement. Of course, that was the DNC was just 95 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.560 a few weeks ago, and the twenty three year old 96 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:03.680 gold Pulland was the youngest of the six victims and 97 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:07.560 was a California native. They're attending the Nova Music Festival 98 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.319 when Hamas attacked on October seventh, all. 99 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:18.199 Right, closer to home, Governor Newsom made the legislature. 100 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:19.959 Work over time over the weekend. 101 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.720 They were supposed to end their session Saturday and go 102 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.319 back to their districts for four months, and he called 103 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:27.319 a special session because there's a big. 104 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.319 And we're going to get into this in detail at seven. 105 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:36.000 So more briefly now, there's a big fight between people 106 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:41.959 who want to rein in energy prices, more specifically gasoline prices. Newsom, 107 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.680 who's being very hawkish on the thing, who has talked 108 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.639 about wanting to be able to impose price caps, wanting 109 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:50.839 to be able to penalize the oil companies if they 110 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:54.560 don't maintain enough inventory so that when they take a 111 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:59.000 refinery out of commission for maintenance, it doesn't spike the 112 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:03.279 cost of gas. And a lot of people in Sacramento 113 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:08.160 who don't want to be that bold, and so he said, well, well, 114 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:10.240 I'm calling a special session and you guys will sit 115 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.399 your butts in your seats and you will at least 116 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:17.439 debate these laws that are that are on offer and 117 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.480 at seven when we get into the details. It'll be 118 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:23.079 interesting between now and then, see if you can guess 119 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:31.240 why so many Democrats in Sacramento don't want to slam 120 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.720 the oil companies over these high gas prices. 121 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.000 And I'll just I'll tell you right now. 122 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:38.240 I'll take off that it's not because they got a 123 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.040 bunch of contributions and it's the money. 124 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.240 It's not that something else. 125 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.879 I am really interested to listen to that, because our 126 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:50.720 gas prices here are absolutely insane and it's crazy to 127 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.639 me that nobody's doing anything about that, or why they're 128 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.240 not doing something about it. All Right, So this is 129 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:59.759 kind of a scary situation out there in Rancho Palace Verdes. 130 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:04.600 There's about one hundred and forty residents out there who 131 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:09.399 are under evacuation warnings. So cal Edison shut off electricity 132 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.439 in the area, but these people were spared immediate evacuations 133 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:18.000 because of some backup generators. It's in the Portuguese Bend 134 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:23.120 community and apparently the landslides there are just getting so 135 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.959 bad that it's truly become a dangerous situation for the 136 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:32.399 people who live there. The representative in the area, Janis Hahn, 137 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:35.399 has called for Governor Newsom to personally come to the 138 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.120 area and commit She's committed another five million dollars in 139 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.039 county funds to help respond to the disaster, and she's 140 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.120 asking for an emergency declaration from the governor. 141 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:49.480 Chris Adler's gonna be with us from KFI News at eight. 142 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.480 She's covering this story. One thing I know is today 143 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:55.799 one hundred and five more homes are going to have 144 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:56.759 their power cut off. 145 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:58.559 And it has to do with. 146 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.519 It's not really the concerned for the safety of the people. 147 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:07.759 This area is so big where the land is shifting violently. 148 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:10.320 It's like over six hundred acre area. 149 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.159 There's a lot of electrical lines and electrical equipment on 150 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:21.480 that land. It's a concern about the safety of the electricity. Electricity, 151 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:25.320 electricity supply chain and that equipment and the things that 152 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:28.600 could happen like major fires and all kinds of stuff. 153 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:32.120 And you know, they had their gas cut off. A 154 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:34.000 lot of these residents they have already had their gas 155 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:37.159 cut off for the same concern about the gas lines. 156 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:38.320 And then so. 157 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.039 It's batman if you live there, and you obviously you 158 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:44.600 can't sell your house now. 159 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:47.720 There's no selling your house now and moving somewhere else. 160 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:51.440 And Ukraine has carried out a massive drone strike in 161 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:56.159 Russia targeting their energy infrastructure, hitting a refinery and a 162 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:01.639 power station pretty far across the Russian border. Not one 163 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:03.879 of these right on the edge things. They got in 164 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:08.000 there pretty far. And so the Russian Defense Ministry they're 165 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:12.879 they're playing the game of yes, we agree, we agree 166 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:17.919 that there were hundreds of drones that came, but they 167 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:18.879 didn't do much. 168 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.720 We shot most of them down. Nothing to see. 169 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.320 Here, folks, except there's a lot to see, like refineries 170 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:33.440 up in smoke. So this is one small, i'm gonna say, 171 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.000 a victory. It's one small step in this thing that's been. 172 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:37.919 Going on for a very long time now. 173 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:40.759 Remember when Russian invaded Ukraine and everybody's like, oh, boy, 174 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:43.360 you know, six weeks from now, Ukraine is going to 175 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:44.120 be part of Russia. 176 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:44.799 It's all over. 177 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:51.279 Most of these things that are believed to be over 178 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:58.679 quickly are not over quickly. Maybe speeding, though on Pacific 179 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:00.639 Coast Highway can be over quickly. 180 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.639 Well, we can only hope. I know that there is 181 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.720 a new bill that is being proposed to help with that. 182 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.960 So you might remember ten months ago this really terrible 183 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:14.759 tragedy that happened. Four Pepperdine University students were hit when 184 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:19.279 a car that was allegedly speeding on PCH and Malibu 185 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:21.039 hit them while they were on the side of the 186 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:25.600 road and killed them. Now this bill is requesting the 187 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:30.720 installation of five speed camera systems along that twenty one mile. 188 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:31.879 Stretch of PCH. 189 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:36.200 They're hoping it will deter speeders along those roads and 190 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:42.759 reckless driving. And it's already been passed in the Senate, 191 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:44.799 so they're hoping Governor Newsom will sign off on it. 192 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.320 He probably will. I don't know what the controversy would be. 193 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:49.960 Yeah, I can't imagine against it. 194 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:57.919 Will it stop the really reckless or drunk or both drivers? 195 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:01.840 Will it stop the rich kids in their super expensive 196 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.120 cars that Daddy got them from driving like that. 197 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.200 No, No, I mean I think what it will do 198 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.600 is introduce some accountability, you know, if instead of them 199 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.039 being able to maybe flee the scene or you know, 200 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:18.120 I don't know, maybe. 201 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:18.559 Well that's a good point. 202 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:21.200 You won't in theory, if you speed past one of 203 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.600 those cameras, you won't get away with it, right right? 204 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:26.639 Oh man. 205 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:30.720 I don't know if you have direct TV, but eleven 206 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:37.519 million homes have DirecTV and some of those people in 207 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:42.120 some of those homes sat down yesterday to watch usc 208 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:47.240 LSU play a college football game and couldn't watch it 209 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:53.080 because all the Disney owned channels, your ABC, your ESPN, 210 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:58.720 your FX and free Form and National Geographic, they're all gone. 211 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.559 It's the old contract dispute. And if you've ever had 212 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:06.440 cable TV, you know that this happens all the time. 213 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.799 There's a cycle of our contract is up for you 214 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.200 to carry our channels. We want you to pay us 215 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:14.279 more money to carry our channels. We don't want to 216 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:17.000 pay you more money. Well, then you will not be 217 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.919 able to run our channels. And you turn on the 218 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.240 channel and there's a little crawl that says, like Disney's 219 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.080 preventing you from watching ESPN. Please call them and tell 220 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.360 them it sucks. So that's what's going on. It's right 221 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.840 at the beginning of like a really heavy sports time. 222 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:40.480 You've got college football going on, NFL starting up a 223 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:44.720 week from today. Is the ESPN Monday Night football game. 224 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.519 I think it's the forty nine Ers and the Jets, 225 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.320 and isn't it isn't what's his face? Aaron Rodgers is 226 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:52.919 coming back. Remember he started with the Jets and like 227 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.120 on the first play he got injured and he's been 228 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:57.399 out and now he's going to come back. 229 00:13:57.440 --> 00:13:59.399 So there's extra interest. 230 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.840 In the game and direct TV people are not going 231 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:03.879 to be able to watch any of that. 232 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:06.759 I remember this happened a few years ago too with 233 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.840 KTLA here in town, and KTLA was doing a lot 234 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.440 of promotions on their website and on the channels that 235 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:15.600 people could see them on. I don't remember if it 236 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:17.879 was DirecTV or another service provider. 237 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.600 Could have been Comcast. Maybe, Yeah, it's happened. 238 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.799 It's I mean, my memory is it's happened at least 239 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:29.120 eight to ten times in the last twenty years. It's 240 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:32.360 just a regular occurrence now, and they eventually make a 241 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.919 deal and the channels come back. 242 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.600 I always wonder, like with so many of these like 243 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:40.360 disputes happening here, there's more and more money being poured 244 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.159 into like local channels and things like that. Like one 245 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.399 of the channels affected by this is ABC seven here 246 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:50.399 in La. Yes, how is local news sustainable anymore? Like 247 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.399 it seems to cost so much more money than maybe 248 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:55.240 what they're getting out of it. 249 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:56.559 And I don't know, that's just me. 250 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:59.720 Well in this case. In this case, it's kind of 251 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:06.360 the the reverse though. This would be KABC local, which 252 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.480 is where isn't that where you watch Jeopardy? Yeah, and 253 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:13.039 Wheel of Fortune and all that stuff. They're you know, 254 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:15.399 they're owned by Disney, and what Disney wants is more 255 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:20.679 money for all their channels and KABC TV locally. But 256 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:23.639 the problem is then so direct TV has to do what. 257 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:26.080 Raise your rates? 258 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.799 Yeah, and raiser rates, and it ultimately comes down to 259 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:32.759 the consumer. We don't even have cable anymore. We're one 260 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.559 of those court cutters. We just have the streamers because 261 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.080 it just was like so expensive and you can watch 262 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:39.720 everything on the app or online. 263 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.440 Or when you say you have streaming, do you have 264 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:44.799 something like YouTube TV? 265 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:46.559 I don't. 266 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.279 I mean be happy or slaying where you're still where 267 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:52.039 it's like cable in the sense that you're getting a 268 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.759 similar lineup of channels that you would get if you 269 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.320 had cable. No, or are you talking only about having 270 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:58.720 things like Max. 271 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:03.159 And only have Max Hulu, you know those those kind 272 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:05.360 of Netflix of course, those kinds of things. And we 273 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.759 if we want to watch local news, honestly, we just 274 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:13.720 watch it online right or on social to get updates. 275 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.440 But it's it was so expensive. We had at and T. 276 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.279 It was so expensive that we were like, we can 277 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:22.320 save almost two hundred dollars a month. Is we never 278 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:23.960 watched the local channels anymore? 279 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:27.279 Yeah, it's not that you can get the same for 280 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.240 so much less. You're not getting what you had when 281 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.559 you were paying over two hundred dollars a month for cable. 282 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:36.000 But the stuff you're not getting you didn't want in 283 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:36.919 the first place. 284 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:39.639 Right, Yeah, I mean it's definitely not the same experience. 285 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:41.720 But we didn't ever watch it. I mean months had 286 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.519 gone by and we never turned our cable box on, 287 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:45.240 so it was like, why are we spending this money? 288 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:47.000 Anyway? I hope they get it. I hope they work 289 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:47.279 it out. 290 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.840 They will. They always did watch it, because here's something. 291 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.799 Do you think Disney long term wants to not have 292 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:54.720 their channels on in eleven million homes? 293 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:57.320 No way, of course not. They'll work it out. Oh 294 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:01.840 this guy I know, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. 295 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:05.240 He is suing North Carolina's state Board of Elections. This 296 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:07.920 is his attempt to get his name removed from the 297 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:14.319 state's ballot right before the presidential election. I guess he 298 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.480 doesn't want to pull away from Trump. Pull votes away 299 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:19.119 from Trump is why I'm guessing he's doing that. 300 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:21.640 I guess he only wants to pull away votes from 301 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:29.720 Harris right. But unfortunately they're deadlines to do this. I mean, 302 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.279 this is very simple. The reason that Joe Biden is 303 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.559 coming off ballots and Robert F. Kennedy Junior is not 304 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:37.920 has to do with meeting the deadline to come off 305 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:38.400 the ballot. 306 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:39.960 You either meet it or you don't meet it. 307 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:42.519 Yeah, he just waited too long to make that announcement. 308 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:46.240 I don't know why he thought he was gonna Trying 309 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:50.839 to even figure him out, It's the whole situation with 310 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.599 RFK Junior was fascinating to me. 311 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:54.680 I was like, what is this guy still here? 312 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:58.880 Like and we're at the halfway point in today's handle 313 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:03.200 on the news time, you might say, which brings us 314 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.359 to the case of the forty nine ers Ricky Piersall, 315 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:09.160 who is out of the hospital after being shot in 316 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:14.960 a robbery attempt while walking down the street in San Francisco. 317 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:15.680 In the middle of the day. 318 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:20.279 You know, I say that I go in the middle 319 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:22.200 of the day and I saw Anne kind of shak 320 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:22.640 her head. 321 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:23.759 Like, yeah, in the middle of the day. 322 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:29.599 It's like, we we agree that somehow it's worse that 323 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:31.720 it was in the middle of the day, but I 324 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:35.720 couldn't explain to you why it's worse, but there just 325 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.359 seems to be. It's like dirty deeds should be done 326 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.839 in the dark. But I guess if we think it's 327 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:42.440 worse that it was in the middle of the day, 328 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:46.000 does that mean the robber who waits until nightfall is 329 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:49.599 more of a gentleman? In any event, it's a seventeen 330 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.400 year old suspect that is in custody, so we don't 331 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:57.079 have a name, but came up to Piersall who was 332 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.799 walking and had some chopping bags, and there was a 333 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.319 struggle and they and here's the deal. So this kid 334 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:10.160 fires hits Piersall in the chest. Also he got somehow shot, 335 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:13.680 but there's no evidence that Pearsall had a gun, so 336 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:17.839 I think he was extraordinarily bad with a firearm, so 337 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.920 much so that Piersall is out of the hospital, but 338 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:27.359 this kid is not. And now the DA up there, 339 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:30.079 Brooke Jenkins, who you know, took over and said, I'm 340 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:33.160 not going to be so soft on crime, said they 341 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:35.880 got to figure out what to do because it's juvenile 342 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:42.519 so expecting a charging decision maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, I think, 343 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.000 And it'll start out in juvenile court. But if he's seventeen, 344 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.480 I mean that that's when you bind them over to 345 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:49.359 adult court. 346 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:52.079 I think, oh for sure. And for us to be 347 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.960 so brazen. I also think there's a false sense of 348 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:58.680 safety during the daytime, Like I think we all feel like, oh, 349 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:02.680 it's light out, everybody coming. We can see the bad 350 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:05.119 guys coming at it. So there's a false sense of safety. 351 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.680 Yeah you're safe from vampires. 352 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:10.839 Yeah for sure, not during this season and spooky season 353 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:15.039 all right. In New York, more than a ten thousand 354 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:20.359 hotel workers from twenty four hotels went on strike yesterday, 355 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:23.119 and of course this is labor Day, weekend, so there's 356 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.000 probably a lot of visitors in New York, so that's 357 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:29.680 going to be disrupting some of the services that they're getting. 358 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:32.240 The hotels are still open, but guests are going to 359 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:36.599 deal with skeleton staff until they can. I guess the 360 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:40.359 union people can get back to work. Unite here is 361 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:43.519 the union representing the striking workers. They say they're striking 362 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:46.119 not just for better pay, but also better working conditions, 363 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:49.720 including the return of automatic daily room cleaning that many 364 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:51.440 hotels drop during the pandemic. 365 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:55.440 Did you just call it the pandemic? I did? 366 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:57.160 I realized I probably should have formally. 367 00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:58.480 So was that just a mouthflow? 368 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:00.720 Was that just a mouthflub which I have mouth flubs 369 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:01.759 every five words now? 370 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:03.440 Or is that a thing? You call it? 371 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.200 That's what I call it. I jokingly will refer to 372 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:07.160 it as the pandemic. 373 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:10.759 Just Oh, I don't, I don't. Let can we do 374 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:15.200 a quick poll of the morning crew? I don't, I 375 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:15.960 don't think I like. 376 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:20.400 It a pandemic? And yeah, that's kind of weird. I 377 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:21.440 thought it was a flub as well. 378 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:23.559 Oh no, I like it? 379 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:26.920 Oh all right, split time? What decision on the morning show? 380 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:28.319 Calling it the pandemic. 381 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:32.519 Well, Devin can weigh in, Devin, tiebreaker? Are you there, Devin? 382 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:34.720 You could be a tiebreaker? All right, Devon's not there. 383 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.079 No, Oh, you know what, a pandemic could also be 384 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:39.200 a bakery product. 385 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:41.279 Okay, that's true. 386 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:47.079 Costco has raised their membership fee for the first time 387 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:51.720 in seven years. It took effect yesterday. The gold Star 388 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:55.240 and the Business memberships go from sixty to sixty five. 389 00:21:55.640 --> 00:22:00.440 The executive memberships what a flex? What a flex at 390 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.319 the singles bar? Hey baby, you want to see what 391 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:04.160 card I got. 392 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.359 In my wallet? Yes, right, Executive. 393 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:14.079 Goes from one twenty to one thirty fifty two million memberships. 394 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.400 Now that's across the US and Canada. 395 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:20.680 That's a lot of Costco member Well that's that's their 396 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:23.720 business model, as we all know because there have been 397 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:25.359 a million articles written about it. 398 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.599 They make their money from the memberships. 399 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.680 They operate with thin margins on everything else, which is 400 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:37.119 why go to Costco if you're allowed, Because you know, 401 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.200