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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, Neil, please, there is a long tradition.
Speaker 1: How do you not know? This was a long tradition
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Speaker 1: The here's the thing. If you told me that somewhere
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Speaker 1: was less graceful and subtle than Bill, I would have thought, no,
Speaker 1: that's not possible. But then along comes Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Neil, Good morning, sir.
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Speaker 1: Well you just kind of did you just kind of
Speaker 1: you just you just sort of gratuitously connected my coffee
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Speaker 1: Way, I don't do they know? It's all they talk
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Speaker 1: that we we have a thing that I don't have
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Speaker 1: end of names. She is Amo king Oh to me,
Speaker 1: and that's right.
Speaker 3: When did we start that?
Speaker 1: I don't remember a long way.
Speaker 3: Why didn't we start that?
Speaker 1: It's a that I definitely don't know. I might someday
Speaker 1: be able to remember when I will never remember why
Speaker 1: or how? And uh in for kono oh, he should
Speaker 1: be here for this part of the discussion. Is elmea
Speaker 1: row elm, good morning, good morning? All right? Is everybody ready,
Speaker 1: because we do have some things that are not that
Speaker 1: that that are not frivolous. We have some things that
Speaker 1: are pretty serious right now to talk about and handle
Speaker 1: on the news. I just want to make sure everybody's ready,
Speaker 1: are ready? Here we go, uh Neil Savedra Amo Kingo
Speaker 1: and me with handle on the news. This is the
Speaker 1: lead story. We've been talking about the efforts on the
Speaker 1: part of the Biden administration to get some kind of
Speaker 1: indication from Israel as to what specifically they are planning
Speaker 1: to do to retaliate against Iran. For Iran's missile strike recently,
Speaker 1: and for a while it seemed like Israel just didn't
Speaker 1: want to give any information. But now we're being told
Speaker 1: that Israel has a sured President Biden they will not
Speaker 1: hit Iran's nuclear facilities or their oil facilities. You can
Speaker 1: understand the concern there. If Israel hits Iran's oil facilities,
Speaker 1: what happens to the price of oil immediately boom through
Speaker 1: the roof, even if it's not valid based on the
Speaker 1: rest of the supply in the world. That's what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. And so I guess Israel has promised Pinky
Speaker 1: promised that they will not hit any of those facilities,
Speaker 1: that they will go after military or intelligence targets, but
Speaker 1: they still won't tell us which targets. They're keeping that
Speaker 1: close to the vest.
Speaker 2: So women, children, okay, oil no, because cost will go up.
Speaker 1: I don't I know that Israel would say that's right, Neil, Yes, women,
Speaker 1: bombing women and children is okay, but not oil. But
Speaker 1: nuclear and oil facilities are the only facilities they have
Speaker 1: apparently ruled out. I can't imagine Israel would purposefully bomb
Speaker 1: a purely stillion target in Iran.
Speaker 2: But your point is well taken, I would hope. So
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that it war is.
Speaker 1: Weird given given, uh, something else we're gonna get into.
Speaker 1: You're gonna actually get into it in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. Here your your doubt about what Net and
Speaker 1: Yahoo may or may not be capable of is well placed.
Speaker 1: So that's a little teaser for something that will be
Speaker 1: paid off just in a couple of minutes. But first, Amy,
Speaker 1: this gas law in California is a bigger deal than
Speaker 1: it was even yesterday when it was signed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gasprike, gas price hikes should now be history. We
Speaker 4: shall see. Governor Newsom signed the law yesterday. It's supposed
Speaker 4: to stop prices from spiking by requiring the oil refineries
Speaker 4: to keep a certain amount of fuel on hand. That
Speaker 4: would keep prices more stable if the refineries have to
Speaker 4: go offline for maintenance or something like that, or there
Speaker 4: are shortages.
Speaker 1: And we were talking just yesterday about how the oil
Speaker 1: industry is saying, oh, we don't even know if we
Speaker 1: can store enough gasoline. We don't know. If we have
Speaker 1: to build tanks, it might actually end up making the
Speaker 1: price of gas go up. And at seven to prove
Speaker 1: that this thing is still a huge deal and controversy.
Speaker 1: There's another angle coming from another group of folks about
Speaker 1: why this law that Newsom signed yesterday is so bad.
Speaker 2: I want to know how much he pays for petroleum
Speaker 2: to products for his hair.
Speaker 5: Yes, sing zing the hot guy exactly all right.
Speaker 2: As Wayne was alluding to more coming out of Israel,
Speaker 2: Israeli Prime Minister of Benjamin Nettan Yahoo, he's kind of
Speaker 2: mulling over the plan to seal off humanitarian aid to
Speaker 2: northern Gaza and attempt to starve out Hamas militant. So
Speaker 2: this could trap you know, everybody there in the northern
Speaker 2: part Uh without food or water. Now, the thought here
Speaker 2: is that they get a week or so to get
Speaker 2: everyone out that is not a combatant, and then in
Speaker 2: his thoughts, anybody that remained is a combatant.
Speaker 1: But but in practical terms that's probably not true. No,
Speaker 1: there are people, there are people, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: there will be people who don't get the message. That's howkay.
Speaker 1: It's so chaotic. There'll be there will be people who
Speaker 1: don't get the message. And there will be people who
Speaker 1: will not get the message because on purpose Hamas will
Speaker 1: not let them get the message. To get out. There
Speaker 1: will be people who understand what's happening but can't get out.
Speaker 1: And if you think Hamas is gonna let everybody get
Speaker 1: out and lose their ability to talk about how civilians
Speaker 1: are suffering in Gaza at the hands of Israel, then
Speaker 1: you're crazy because they're not going to let that happen.
Speaker 1: So therefore, I declare this a bad plan because it's
Speaker 1: based on a false premise, which is you could successfully
Speaker 1: get out of Gaza every single person who is not
Speaker 1: a direct combatant threat to Israel, and you can't.
Speaker 2: How do you what would you if you have any idea?
Speaker 2: Do they drop leaflets? How do they go about trying
Speaker 2: to articulate, hey, get the hell out of here?
Speaker 1: That is one of the methods they do drop leaflets,
Speaker 1: and they try to send word over and they get
Speaker 1: on they get on PA systems and make announcements. But
Speaker 1: it's just it doesn't mean you could ever say we
Speaker 1: now know everybody there is a bad guy. So what
Speaker 1: he's saying is we'll just assume everybody there is a
Speaker 1: bad guy and then we're going to do a thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of the world has already turned
Speaker 1: against Israel on this and if they do this where
Speaker 1: they absolutely stop any food, medical aid, water there, they
Speaker 1: may never recover.
Speaker 2: Well, that's not legal, right for the Geneva Convention, it's.
Speaker 1: Not, but their thing would still be. But you can't
Speaker 1: do that to civilian populations. And they're going to say,
Speaker 1: we're not doing it to civilian populations. We told all
Speaker 1: the civilian population to get out. We're only doing it
Speaker 1: to enemy combatants. And then that's the big argument is
Speaker 1: are you is every single person there an enemy combatant? Still,
Speaker 1: that's why it's a bad plan. There's no for Israel
Speaker 1: to prove that they're not violating the Geneva Convention. It's
Speaker 1: just that they have to figure out another way. Bill
Speaker 1: on vacation, Wayne Resnik here sitting until nine, Amy King
Speaker 1: is here, Neil is here, and is here, Elmer's here
Speaker 1: for Kono. That's your crew today and we are a
Speaker 1: continuing handle on the news. Uh. This is another story
Speaker 1: that is related to what Neil brought up about the
Speaker 1: mindset of a Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and what kinds
Speaker 1: of things he might be capable of ordering with regard
Speaker 1: to retaliating against Iran for their missile attack and in
Speaker 1: regards to the next steps with regard to Gaza, and
Speaker 1: this this is a little window I think further maybe
Speaker 1: into the mindset. You know, there was a gentleman named
Speaker 1: Hirsh Goldberg, Poland who was taken hostage and killed by Hamas,
Speaker 1: and his parents have been in the media and talking
Speaker 1: about it, and they did an interview with Anderson Cooper
Speaker 1: on CNN and the only thing I want to focus on,
Speaker 1: because a lot of it is just what you would expect,
Speaker 1: how heartbroken they are and all those things. But they
Speaker 1: said that at one point they expressed concern to Israel
Speaker 1: that as the military pressure mounted, that Hamas might start
Speaker 1: executing hostages, and they say officials from Israel assured them
Speaker 1: that that was not going to happen.
Speaker 2: And it did.
Speaker 1: And the point being, again, did they believe it might
Speaker 1: happen but they told them otherwise? Did they actually not
Speaker 1: believe it would happen when in fact it did. Is
Speaker 1: this more akin to when they had a lot of
Speaker 1: intelligence telling them I'm talking about Israel. Now, they had
Speaker 1: a lot of intelligence telling them that Hamas was going
Speaker 1: to launch the kind of attack against them that they
Speaker 1: did on October seventh, And yet somehow either didn't want
Speaker 1: to stop it or failed to stop it, So that
Speaker 1: would be some kind of incompetence. I don't know how
Speaker 1: else to characterize it. Or is this some kind of
Speaker 1: two faced chicanery on the part of Israeli officials saying
Speaker 1: things to the face of the parents of hostages that
Speaker 1: maybe they know they shouldn't be saying because they're not
Speaker 1: entirely true. But imagine expressing your concern, being told you're crazy,
Speaker 1: that's not going to happen, and then the very thing
Speaker 1: you were concerned about happens and there's still stuff going
Speaker 1: on over there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as that continues, Israel continues to pound Lebanon and gods,
Speaker 4: and of course Lebanon's firing back, and Israeli airstrike has
Speaker 4: hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon, killing at least
Speaker 4: twenty one people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross. The
Speaker 4: strike comes a day after a Hesbel drone attack on
Speaker 4: an army base in northern Israel killed four soldiers. All
Speaker 4: of them were nineteen years old. Well, so you've got
Speaker 4: the only thing I'm not hearing about. And if I'm
Speaker 4: missing something, Amy or Neil or anybody, if I'm missing it,
Speaker 4: just pipe in because we're hearing about back and forth
Speaker 4: now between Israel and Iran, and we're hearing back and
Speaker 4: forth attacks between Israel and Hesbelah in Lebanon, which is
Speaker 4: a proxy for Iran, and we're hearing about Israel doing
Speaker 4: strikes and things in Gaza. The only thing I'm not
Speaker 4: hearing about is retaliation coming out of Gaza. And that's interesting,
Speaker 4: it might speak first of all, maybe I'm just missing
Speaker 4: those incidents.
Speaker 3: They're still firing, they are.
Speaker 1: Still firing back. Yeah, all right, let's switch gears to
Speaker 1: a completely different situation and the threat of a lawsuit.
Speaker 2: This is interesting. So we heard about VEM. Miller forty
Speaker 2: nine just this past Saturday, was arrested there in Coachella
Speaker 2: with the Donald Trump rally that was going on there,
Speaker 2: that his campaign rally, And they found this man to
Speaker 2: have a lot of weird stuff in his vehicle, including
Speaker 2: those sovereign license plates on his unregistered car that said,
Speaker 2: you know that I don't really have to listen to you,
Speaker 2: Nina Niner. And then they had loaded weapons, which is
Speaker 2: illegal to take from Nevada, I believe, to California, and
Speaker 2: all this stuff. Well, he got he's gotten mad. And
Speaker 2: in a video statement he released on Monday, is calling
Speaker 2: for local lawman's claims that he posed an assassination threat
Speaker 2: false and defamatory, and that he's a staunch supporter of
Speaker 2: Republican nominee Donald Trump. There So now he's going after
Speaker 2: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is not a not
Speaker 2: one to sit in the back quiet. I kind of
Speaker 2: like it about him actually, that he's kind of an
Speaker 2: upfront fellow. But he said he stands by his comments
Speaker 2: and his department's actions and would handle the incident the
Speaker 2: same way if it happened tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Threatening a lawsuit.
Speaker 4: Was he was arrested on weapons charges. He wasn't arrested
Speaker 4: on attempted assassination, but says he might sue because of
Speaker 4: Chad Bianco's comments that the sheriff said he probably thwarted
Speaker 4: a third assassination attempt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, well filing that lawsuit.
Speaker 2: When you look down the list of things in the
Speaker 2: car and the situation, I would have said the same.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not really it's like, that's not what
Speaker 2: I was doing. It's like, Okay, you had multiple loaded
Speaker 2: weapons that you crossed state lines.
Speaker 4: With which he said he didn't know that was illegal. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, I'm just saying what he knows, what.
Speaker 1: He thought that.
Speaker 2: He said he didn't know that it was illegal to
Speaker 2: have the magazine.
Speaker 4: You are correct, he said he didn't know it was
Speaker 4: illegal to have those weapons in California. He also said
Speaker 4: he's not a member of that sovereign.
Speaker 2: Society, although he had the sovereign license.
Speaker 4: Exactly, and he had several passports with several different names on.
Speaker 2: It and driver's driver license. But I would say, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't want to get sued. It's just my opinion.
Speaker 2: What did you say yesterday when he said the most
Speaker 2: beautiful statement, constitutional opinion?
Speaker 1: Yeah, based on publicly available information.
Speaker 2: Yes, everything I see he strikes me as being nuts.
Speaker 1: He has no case for a bunch of reasons, because
Speaker 1: how are you going to prove that when Sheriff Bianco said, hey,
Speaker 1: I think we may have thwarted an attempt, But that
Speaker 1: was a false statement that Bianco knew was false or
Speaker 1: had reason to believe was false. That's his opinion of
Speaker 1: a situation. Not to mention that he is a law
Speaker 1: He is a law enforcement official speaking officially about law
Speaker 1: enforcement matters, which means he gets more leeway in terms
Speaker 1: of what he says. So it's just you can threaten
Speaker 1: a lawsuit. That's not the same thing as filing a lawsuit.
Speaker 1: I don't think there'll be a lawsuit. If there's a lawsuit,
Speaker 1: it's being thrown out, you know, a preliminary at a
Speaker 1: preliminary stage.
Speaker 2: You may or may not know this, but you brilliantly
Speaker 2: had experience with the folks because they go they would
Speaker 2: go through the tax court, and you were explaining how
Speaker 2: you dealt with them. In your mind, if they don't
Speaker 2: recognize the courts and they're sovereign out of the how
Speaker 2: do they sue someone in the courts that they don't recognize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, such a good question. Listen, they recognize the
Speaker 1: authority of the government. When they need something that only
Speaker 1: the government can do, Suddenly they will recognize the The
Speaker 1: alternative is, and I've seen this happen. He files the
Speaker 1: lawsuit in some fake sovereign court in his room, and
Speaker 1: then you've got to figure out who's gonna who's gonna
Speaker 1: serve the loss. It's look, it's please, here's the thing
Speaker 1: we're talking about.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: We're trying to talk about it and and give it
Speaker 1: some do respect as a legitimate thing that maybe we
Speaker 1: think is wrong. But no, no, it's just craziness, that's
Speaker 1: all it is. And any time that those people come
Speaker 1: up against the government because there's an issue, they always
Speaker 1: lose every time, so they don't it doesn't it's a
Speaker 1: thing you should dismiss. Like flat earthers. They are the
Speaker 1: flat earthers of governmental theory. The acting US Labor Secretary
Speaker 1: Julie Sue went to Seattle yesterday to try to get
Speaker 1: this strike by Boeing factory workers to resolve itself sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later. There's about thirty three thousand Boeing workers
Speaker 1: on strike. This strike now has entered its second month.
Speaker 1: They want a forty percent wage increase over four years,
Speaker 1: so ten percent a year each year for four years,
Speaker 1: and I remember Boeing offered them I think thirty percent
Speaker 1: and they said that's not enough. And then Boeing said, oh,
Speaker 1: well then you can't have it. We're taking it off
Speaker 1: the table. We're taking off the table the thing you
Speaker 1: already told us you don't want. This is like Neil,
Speaker 1: when you've made dinner for the family and you put
Speaker 1: a plate of Brussels sprouts in front of Max, your
Speaker 1: delightful son. You go, here are Brussels sprouts, and he said,
Speaker 1: I don't want to eat that crap. And then you go, well,
Speaker 1: now you can't have any I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think you've scored a point, and I don't think Boeing
Speaker 1: scored a point. I break up with you first. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So in any event, Bowie, here's the thing. So the
Speaker 1: strike's been going on since September thirteenth. On Friday, after
Speaker 1: business hours, Boeing released a statement saying, you know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. They're gonna take five billion dollars in losses.
Speaker 1: They're going to book those losses, and they're gonna cut
Speaker 1: seventeen thousand jobs. Now supposedly, none of the jobs that
Speaker 1: they're gonna cut are any of the workers who are
Speaker 1: on strike from I am the International Association of Machinists
Speaker 1: and Aerospace Workers. They need more any more letters in
Speaker 1: their acronym, I think. But it's still like the the
Speaker 1: The union's on one track, which and Boeing's on another track.
Speaker 1: Boeing is on a track of a company that's that's
Speaker 1: in a downturn and headed probably for disaster, almost like
Speaker 1: a thing, almost like a thing that's in the sky
Speaker 1: flying high, but then but then it starts like it
Speaker 1: starts to drop and drop and drop, and then at
Speaker 1: the end of that it it crashes and is destroyed.
Speaker 1: It's almost like that. You and the union seems to
Speaker 1: be talking like and I'm I'm I'm still on the
Speaker 1: side of the union, but they seem to be talking
Speaker 1: like they're working for a company that's on the up
Speaker 1: and up whose future looks bright. I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: that that's true. But in any event, let's see if
Speaker 1: Acting Labor Secretary Julie Sue can bring these parties closer together.
Speaker 1: You know, the FEDS got involved with the dock workers'
Speaker 1: strike and shortly thereafter they had a resolution, or at
Speaker 1: least they had an agreement to go back to work
Speaker 1: while a new contract was put together. So maybe it'll
Speaker 1: be effective.
Speaker 4: FEMA workers coming under fire. A man in North Carolina
Speaker 4: it's been arrested for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees
Speaker 4: responding to Hurricane Helene. Captain Jamie Keever with the Rutherford
Speaker 4: County Sheriff's Office said that William Parsons was armed with
Speaker 4: a handgun and a knife. He's been charged with a misdemeanor.
Speaker 4: Parsons was arrested in his car outside a grocery store
Speaker 4: that is functioning as a storm relief site.
Speaker 1: I heard that they're actually not just this guy threatening
Speaker 1: while also having weapons, but that they're groups of people
Speaker 1: going around saying they're hunting for FEMA workers, which is
Speaker 1: why FEMA told them to get out and stop operations.
Speaker 1: Not just stop operations, stop operations and leave the area.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much confirmation there's been, but I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, the rumor is circulating that there are groups
Speaker 1: of people saying we're out hunting for FEMA workers.
Speaker 2: Well, deep enough rumors or at least possible actualities there
Speaker 2: that FEMA said, Okay, we're going to pull out. I
Speaker 2: don't know that they do that unless they thought there's
Speaker 2: some sort of danger, which is scary as hell.
Speaker 4: Well, right, they have resumed their door to door operations
Speaker 4: though they just paused them.
Speaker 1: Okay, now they're back at it. That's good.
Speaker 2: With guns and flak jackets everything else. No, that's just me.
Speaker 2: Vice President Kamala Harris, vice president slash current president. No,
Speaker 2: that's too much. Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to
Speaker 2: sit down and for an interview with Fox News. Brett
Speaker 2: Bear is they announced on Monday, and they're gonna tape
Speaker 2: it in Pennsylvania and me twenty five thirty minutes of
Speaker 2: questions scheduled to air October sixteenth at six pm Eastern
Speaker 2: time for special report with Brett Bar.
Speaker 3: That's three pm our time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know when are they gonna have
Speaker 2: time to edit it?
Speaker 1: And no, oh and make her look bad?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're implying?
Speaker 2: Well? To make her look good? I mean, why not? So?
Speaker 1: Now? Will Will? Former President Trump agreed to do an
Speaker 1: interview with Rachel Maddow.
Speaker 3: I don't know. He's interviewed with pretty much everybody though.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think at this point any any outlet he goes
Speaker 2: on is a.
Speaker 1: Hostile except for that is that is like Maria Bartiromo
Speaker 1: really really gave him a hard time, which she wouldn't
Speaker 1: at like two years ago, you would she would not
Speaker 1: have given him a hard time at all. No, And
Speaker 1: also I don't think Brett Bear, Brett Bear is not
Speaker 1: one of these you know, super extreme hostile guys, is he?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's gonna be a lot of fire.
Speaker 1: And also, look, I don't think he's like that. I
Speaker 1: think he's much more a responsible journalist than he is
Speaker 1: some partisan firebrand. And also, Kamala Harris can probably handle anything,
Speaker 1: unless he's like arm wrestle me right now to prove
Speaker 1: your fit to be president. I think she can handle anything. Well,
Speaker 1: now I think about it, she might be able to
Speaker 1: beat him in arm wrestling too. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not prepared to say she couldn't beat Brett Baar in
Speaker 1: an arm wrestling contest. She never shows her arms. She
Speaker 1: always she's always wearing sleeves. We don't even know. She
Speaker 1: might be buff under there. She might have some guns, yeah,
Speaker 1: she might. Well, she has some guns.
Speaker 3: Yes, she has at least one, right, she might have others.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just ran a marathon. What were you saying?
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, I can't repeat it. I have
Speaker 1: to go run a marathon.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I've been running marathons all day.
Speaker 1: I'm running a marathon right now.
Speaker 2: You know what. I was running a marathon while I
Speaker 2: was having a sit down, not but five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's one of the best times to run a marathon.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, me.
Speaker 1: How many marathons have you run today?
Speaker 3: M none? But I did do a ten k last month.
Speaker 2: Oh well, don't talk about it. I see.
Speaker 4: I'm always saying that because I've never done that before.
Speaker 4: It was sort of a big deal for me to
Speaker 4: run a ten k. I didn't run it said, I
Speaker 4: did a ten k.
Speaker 2: So last week you walked a lot. Well, then I
Speaker 2: did a ten k two over the past three months.
Speaker 3: Yes, anytime you go to Disneyland you do at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
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Speaker 1: the Bill Handle Show. He's on vacation, Wayne resnik here
Speaker 1: till nine, Neil is here, Amy is here. We're doing
Speaker 1: for you. Handle on the news. And Starbucks is scaling
Speaker 1: back their special deals and promotional offers. It is a
Speaker 1: move by the new CEO, Brian Nickel to reposition Starbucks.
Speaker 1: Here's two things he wants to accomplish with this. One,
Speaker 1: Let's make Starbucks a premium brand again, because when I
Speaker 1: think high end coffee, I don't think of Starbucks. And also,
Speaker 1: The other thing is when they do these big deals,
Speaker 1: because they they would do buy one, get one free
Speaker 1: or fifty percent off deals and they would get slammed.
Speaker 1: And guess who gets slammed. The parists gets slammed, not
Speaker 1: just with the increase in orders because people are cheap,
Speaker 1: but also because with the special requests all the time.
Speaker 1: And so he's trying to address both of those problems,
Speaker 1: and he basically it sounds like what he wants to
Speaker 1: do is return Starbucks to its roots as a community
Speaker 1: coffee house where you go and you stay there and
Speaker 1: you hang out in comfortable seats, rather than a place
Speaker 1: where you get on an app and you order two
Speaker 1: for one frappuccinos and go and pick it up and
Speaker 1: get the hell out.
Speaker 2: He really wants a homeless people now in there. So
Speaker 2: the community has changed rapidly pass.
Speaker 1: And they're losing They've lost business. Their sales are down
Speaker 1: for two straight quarters.
Speaker 2: Because you can get great coffee everywhere now, yeah I can.
Speaker 2: I can throw a rock in my neighborhood and hit
Speaker 2: ten fantastic, world class coffeehouses.
Speaker 1: Well, to be to be fair, you live in Hipsterville,
Speaker 1: so of course you have right. How far are you
Speaker 1: from that intelligentsia on sunset. You want me to give
Speaker 1: you a map of my house? No, I just said house.
Speaker 1: Put it this way. Would you would you walk there?
Speaker 1: Or would you feel like it's too far to walk?
Speaker 2: I would take my helicopter like a normal person.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: You like the marathon that I just ran, And if.
Speaker 1: You like the deals in the app from Starbucks, there
Speaker 1: will be fewer of them and they will be further between. Oh, baseball.
Speaker 4: In the news, Clayton Kershaw's got the blues, the Dodger Blue.
Speaker 4: He has announced that he plans to return to the
Speaker 4: Dodgers for his eighteenth season.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen a lot this season. He was He had.
Speaker 4: Shoulder surgery that kept him out until July twenty fifth,
Speaker 4: and then he came back, and then he got a
Speaker 4: bone spur in his left toe, so he sidelined again.
Speaker 4: He only pitched like five seven games this year.
Speaker 1: All right, But hopefully next year, hopefully his eighteenth season
Speaker 1: will be chock full of games.
Speaker 4: He's iconic. I'm thrilled at Kirk Show's coming. Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: all right. He's okay, ball thrower, Wow, sports talk.
Speaker 2: He likes to get the w.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's competent. He's competent and taking a ball in
Speaker 1: his hand and making it go away from his body
Speaker 1: toward another guy who's waiting to catch.
Speaker 2: It, thrust in speed. Good for him, he seems like
Speaker 2: a nice guy. All right. This is a horrible, horrible story,
Speaker 2: and you've got to wonder how the hell this came down.
Speaker 2: Bizarre bizarre, grizzly crime. Popular hiking trail in San Gabriel Mountains.
Speaker 2: Nineteen year old man reportedly stabbed his father to death.
Speaker 2: So the victim here has been identified as well known,
Speaker 2: award winning war photographer, photojournalist and a professor at the
Speaker 2: University of the Arts in London, sixty one year old
Speaker 2: Paul Lowe, and he was found dead at the scene
Speaker 2: a mere low His nineteen year old son has been
Speaker 2: identified as the on suspicion suspicion of murder. The county
Speaker 2: Medical Examiner says the cause of death was stab wounds
Speaker 2: in the neck.
Speaker 1: The bizarre twist here is that the victim his father,
Speaker 1: was a war photojournalist. The idea being he was in
Speaker 1: all kinds of super dangerous place is and came out fine,
Speaker 1: and then you know his own son.
Speaker 2: And it's just straight up mental illness, or if there's
Speaker 2: some backstory. Yeah, I don't know, nothing to justify it,
Speaker 2: just yeah, curiosity.
Speaker 1: True Value. When I say to you the two words
Speaker 1: true value, what do you think of? I hope it's hardware, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the True value hardware stores. Well, True Value has declared
Speaker 1: bankruptcy and they're going to sell itself to a rival,
Speaker 1: the Do It Best. But here's the thing this is,
Speaker 1: this is I don't know if it's weird, but you
Speaker 1: have all the True Value stores everywhere. They're not part
Speaker 1: of this bankruptcy. Nothing's happening to them. It's True Value,
Speaker 1: the wholesaler that sells all of this hardware stuff to
Speaker 1: the stores. That's what's going bankrupt. And Do it Best
Speaker 1: also has this big, you know, wholesale component to it.
Speaker 1: So I think what will happen is some of these
Speaker 1: True Value stores may become rebranded and they won't be
Speaker 1: getting their saws from True Value. I don't think True
Speaker 1: Value is even really technically a parent company of the stores.
Speaker 1: It's like two businesses using the trade name True Value.
Speaker 1: A series of independently owned stores, and then a big
Speaker 1: company that sells the products that those stores sell to you.
Speaker 1: But in any event, the main thing is it's a bankruptcy,
Speaker 1: and then do it best has filed what they call
Speaker 1: a stocking horse bid. You know what that is. So
Speaker 1: here's what happens. So you you've you've declared bankruptcy, and
Speaker 1: then before before anybody can get into like bidding for
Speaker 1: you or whatever, a company can do what's called a
Speaker 1: stalking horse bid right out of the gate premature basically,
Speaker 1: and then what that means is nobody can bid less.
Speaker 1: It sets a floor for what you're gonna get, and
Speaker 1: that's what do it best at one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: three million dollars. So that's why True Value is already
Speaker 1: saying we're just gonna we're just gonna sell to do
Speaker 1: it best for one hundred and fifty three million dollars,
Speaker 1: shut it down. At least they'll have the supplies necessary
Speaker 1: to board up the windows and everything at headquarters.
Speaker 2: Well else are you gonna sell it to?
Speaker 1: They do it well, there's d it center, there's a
Speaker 1: home depot or lows.
Speaker 2: They don't do it best? Why go through with you
Speaker 2: already know where you're going do it best? All right?
Speaker 1: That is handle on the news when we come back
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom did sign the Gasoline Bill, designed to lower
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