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Speaker 1: Wayne was having some tech problems, so I'm coming in.
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Speaker 1: He hero is a strong word, but I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: with you until nine o'clock and we'll figure things out
Speaker 1: and hopefully everything gets back tomorrow. So I've always been
Speaker 1: kind of the person that says, politicians talk a lot,
Speaker 1: but do little. I know some of them try. That's
Speaker 1: not to say they're all bad. I'm not that guy either,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you very rarely do things affect
Speaker 1: us on our day to day lives. Now, the difference
Speaker 1: in that, one major difference in that is a Supreme Court. Okay,
Speaker 1: when presidents are appointing justices to the Supreme Court, as
Speaker 1: we've seen with Roe v. Wade, they can make decisions
Speaker 1: that affect that half the population in that particular case.
Speaker 1: But what about your taxes? When it comes to your taxes,
Speaker 1: there's two distinctive views when you start looking at the
Speaker 1: party in power, and then you have to look at
Speaker 1: not only a party in power that's in the White House,
Speaker 1: but you have to look at the House, the Senate
Speaker 1: and so on. Right, So, how is this going to
Speaker 1: affect us? Truly, we are not far and you can
Speaker 1: almost hear an audible ticking. We are not far from
Speaker 1: the election. Heard Amy talking this morning on wake up
Speaker 1: call about how she can't wait for it to be
Speaker 1: over because of every you we're bombarded everywhere. I've got
Speaker 1: stack of cardboard that come to my house every single
Speaker 1: day with someone telling me how great they are and
Speaker 1: now I should vote for them. So what really is
Speaker 1: at stake is possibly the taxes for a couple different reasons,
Speaker 1: one of which in twenty seventeen, we had some tax
Speaker 1: cuts that were put in place, and if depending on
Speaker 1: who gets in office, that might be a battle situation
Speaker 1: as to whether those are going to go away or
Speaker 1: they're going to stay. So in this particular upcoming election,
Speaker 1: who wins could be a big deal into how our
Speaker 1: taxes are going to affect us on an individual level
Speaker 1: in our homes. That really matters, not big you know,
Speaker 1: massive concepts like you know, climate change or things like that.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about day to day stuff and depending on
Speaker 1: which party cans the House, the Senate, and the White House.
Speaker 1: And I love this. We have three options. Taxes go up,
Speaker 1: taxes go down, or taxes stay the same. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: everything else in life, the price may go up, the
Speaker 1: price may go down, or it stays the same. A
Speaker 1: lot of money's evolved, and the most important money is
Speaker 1: your money, my money. That's what we're concerned about. Everyone's
Speaker 1: trying to predict what's going to happen, but there's so
Speaker 1: there's a couple of pieces that matter, and how those
Speaker 1: pieces land is gonna be huge as to what might happen.
Speaker 1: So the Republican victory, if Republicans win big, maybe they're
Speaker 1: going to keep those tax cuts I was talking about.
Speaker 1: They were put in place in twenty seventeen. They believe
Speaker 1: those helped the economy. You think they're going to change that.
Speaker 1: Probably not. They want to extend lower tax rates. They
Speaker 1: want to have some special deductions for small businesses, which
Speaker 1: would be great. God knows, California could use that kind
Speaker 1: of attitude. However, they may face challenges. Not only you think,
Speaker 1: oh well, from the other side. No, they can have
Speaker 1: challenges in their own party. We're seeing more now than ever,
Speaker 1: and it's happening to both parties. But really, really, in
Speaker 1: the GOP you have a fractured focus. Everyone says that
Speaker 1: they're all rallying, rallying around Trump, and a good number
Speaker 1: are in the whole MAGA movement, but belief in the
Speaker 1: specifics on how these things will iron out, especially things
Speaker 1: with taxes, could be much different. So they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to find a way to balance that budget. Democratic victory.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Democrats take control. We already know
Speaker 1: they're looking at a couple of things. They're gonna aim
Speaker 1: to help families. The thing that gets me, do you
Speaker 1: know what the demarcation is? They want to help families
Speaker 1: earning under four hundred thousand dollars, and the way they're
Speaker 1: gonna do that is keeping tax cuts for them. Four
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars we're talking about almost half a million
Speaker 1: dollars now becomes this this breaking point, that's how expensive
Speaker 1: it's getting to be just to live. So they take control,
Speaker 1: they be in the Democrats, they're going to try and
Speaker 1: help families. They're gonna want to help families earning under
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars by keeping tax cuts for them.
Speaker 1: But they're very much focused on raising taxes on wealthier households.
Speaker 1: So wealthier households are four hundred thousand and one dollar
Speaker 1: a nickel. They could also push for more child tax credits,
Speaker 1: which I have a child, won't think it. But agreeing
Speaker 1: on a budget is going to be difficult as well.
Speaker 1: So you've got a divided possibility of a divided government,
Speaker 1: which puts us in a whole different category. So now
Speaker 1: if you have different parties that are controlling the White
Speaker 1: House Congress, it could be massive conflict. And why is
Speaker 1: that bigger in this particular election or this case Because
Speaker 1: you've got those tax deadlines approaching. There's a chance for
Speaker 1: both sides to find common ground fingers crossed. They've done
Speaker 1: that in past years. It is possible, but it could
Speaker 1: also get messy. And if nothing changes, if Congress doesn't
Speaker 1: act at all, many tax cuts from twenty seventeen will
Speaker 1: expire after after twenty twenty five, I think, is what
Speaker 1: it is. So that's gonna result in higher taxes for
Speaker 1: many households. So do we know what's gonna happen? No,
Speaker 1: And we're gonna have to. We're gonna have to see
Speaker 1: the pieces of the puzzle actually hit the tabletop before
Speaker 1: we're gonna know how that's gonna play out. But that's
Speaker 1: the real thing. That's the real thing that affects us
Speaker 1: immediately once someone gets into office, we shall see. Amy.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. Yes you work here
Speaker 1: at iHeartRadio, Yes, I do? Or iHeartMedia, of which iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: is part of. Who's the CEO of iHeartMedia? Is it Pittman?
Speaker 2: Yes, Bob Pittman.
Speaker 1: Huh Heykno, who's the CEO of iHeartMedia?
Speaker 2: Mister Bob Pittman exact?
Speaker 1: You know? And that's from Kno. Kono knows who our
Speaker 1: CEO is as he doesn't even know how we got here. Oh, Amy,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked. I'm going to tell you this
Speaker 1: right now. Boar's head under under the microscope and in
Speaker 1: in the light in a way I never cared about before,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and it has to do
Speaker 1: with secrecy. I never knew there was some sort of
Speaker 1: Boarshead dynasty with all this sexy and titillating cheese may
Speaker 1: that is going on. So you go back in May
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two. You have the chief financial officer
Speaker 1: of Boar's Head. Now we all know great meat processing company.
Speaker 1: We love their stuff. They're facing what should be a
Speaker 1: simple question. But during this legal proceeding, this person was
Speaker 1: asked who is the CEO of Boar's Head? And you
Speaker 1: know what his reply was, I'm not sure. How the
Speaker 1: hell can you have a company and not know who
Speaker 1: the CEO is. Everybody's eyebrows raise, especially since Bar's Head
Speaker 1: is like a massive player in the deli meat industry, right,
Speaker 1: like the massive player, earning about three billion dollars a
Speaker 1: year and employing thousands of people. But Boarshead is a
Speaker 1: privately owned company by two families, the Bronkhorsts Moubuy and
Speaker 1: the Bishkoffs. Yeh sound like wealthy people, don't they. Now
Speaker 1: they're very secretive. I never knew this. I'm the folk
Speaker 1: reporter and I didn't know this. I just like the
Speaker 1: meatss So they're super secretive. Tom Johnson is an industry expert.
Speaker 1: He noted that they are among the most secretive in
Speaker 1: the business. Ah, who would have known that? And it's
Speaker 1: been even more notable as the company has light shine
Speaker 1: on them. Why because if you remember in the summer
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, he had ten people die and
Speaker 1: a lot more that got sick from lasteria, that harmful
Speaker 1: bacteria we all know and love. Now they could in
Speaker 1: their cases they consumed liverwurst. It was made at a
Speaker 1: boars Head factory in Virginia. Now law enforcements still investigating,
Speaker 1: but we've talked about this on the forker Port many,
Speaker 1: many times, and even here on a foody Friday with Bill.
Speaker 1: The factory was shut down. They didn't even say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna clean it, We're gonna take care of whatever.
Speaker 1: There was so many different lists of issues, from non
Speaker 1: podable water to bugs to I think there were rodents
Speaker 1: all kinds like this is no joke. And I've been
Speaker 1: to Haffe the meat plant out in Vernon here and
Speaker 1: they were kind enough to invite me to come down,
Speaker 1: and I will tell you, and this is not hyperbole,
Speaker 1: you could eat off the floor. A proper fabricating factory
Speaker 1: of meat is gonna be one of the cleanest places
Speaker 1: you'll ever go. That's the way it should be. And
Speaker 1: I witnessed that with mine own e and I've been
Speaker 1: to a handful of them. So the fact that you
Speaker 1: have any of these things, one of those things would
Speaker 1: be a problem. So we all know about that story, right,
Speaker 1: They just shut it down. Not one family member has
Speaker 1: publicly addressed this the situation at all. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, there was an apology on their website and
Speaker 1: you know what was signed, sincerely Boor's head. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine that? No CEO. There's no head, there's no name
Speaker 1: on that, neither of the families the controlling parties. So
Speaker 1: who runs the company? Well, the daily operations are handled
Speaker 1: by Carlos Giraldo. He's the president. He was promoted in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. But in court testimony, in court testimony, rather,
Speaker 1: it was revealed that the final decisions don't come from him.
Speaker 1: They come from three family members, Bob Martin who's seventy four,
Speaker 1: his son Bob Junior, who's fifty, and their cousin Frank Bronkhorst,
Speaker 1: the third thanks, I mean that he's sixty one. Now
Speaker 1: the company's expanded, they continue to grow. Originally we're out
Speaker 1: of Brooklyn. If you don't know that, over fifteen years,
Speaker 1: family reported receiving around one point five billion in cash distributions,
Speaker 1: and there's been some infighting there's a family member who
Speaker 1: sued his cousins multiple times over company shares than that,
Speaker 1: so more each time someone sues, each time there's a problem,
Speaker 1: a little more comes to light. Back in May of
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, they Sell Or Bore His Head
Speaker 1: celebrated their one hundredth anniversary at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Speaker 1: in New York. Bob Martin one of the family members.
Speaker 1: He was kind of the star, real charming, wealthy guy.
Speaker 1: He presented the whole history of the company began with
Speaker 1: their horse drawn carriage selling deli meets all this stuff right,
Speaker 1: but ultimately everything keeps coming to light because of issues,
Speaker 1: new leadership, ongoing issues into the two thousands. With twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, with the outbreak, you've got more increased scrutiny
Speaker 1: and focus. And still when they're hiring all these new
Speaker 1: food safety experts, which you think should be, you know,
Speaker 1: top of it, we're learning that we still don't know
Speaker 1: exactly who's pulling the strings. That's bizarre for an American
Speaker 1: company in twenty twenty four to not know who the
Speaker 1: CEO is. So maybe we're learning that there's more more messy,
Speaker 1: dirty stuff behind the scenes than just you know rodents
Speaker 1: or the possibility of rodents or non potable water. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: We'll let you know what's going on the days of
Speaker 1: our borehead. Can we control the weather? I'll pause for
Speaker 1: people to go what People are becoming more and more
Speaker 1: interested in trying to control the weather. Obviously it would
Speaker 1: be a huge deal to be able to control the weather.
Speaker 1: Hurricanes are just too powerful to manage. That's the reality. However,
Speaker 1: you're saying, Neil, I know that's the reality. Bro Right,
Speaker 1: I got a seven year old boy. Right. Recently, you've
Speaker 1: got meteor meteorologists warned people about approaching hurricanes. Right, there's
Speaker 1: still some strange conspiracy theories that are spreading, because that's
Speaker 1: what we do now. We actually have evolved from them.
Speaker 1: You look back at the stupid things they believed, you know,
Speaker 1: like the sun revolved around on the Earth and all
Speaker 1: those things, right, and we, oh, my god, they're so stupid.
Speaker 1: How can they believe that? There's those stupid And then
Speaker 1: we got smarter, grew in technology and wisdom, and apparently
Speaker 1: it's an ebb and floating. We're going back to me
Speaker 1: those stupid you know. It reminds me of someone posted
Speaker 1: a screenshot of the Flat Earth Society's website that says
Speaker 1: we have you know, millions of or hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of member on every corner or whatever, every corner of
Speaker 1: the globe or something like that. Well, what's a globe
Speaker 1: if you're a flat earther? Any who, we believe weird
Speaker 1: things sometimes, and these conspiracies get out of hand. Some
Speaker 1: messages claim that meteorologists were working with a government to
Speaker 1: create hurricanes and aim them at specific places. Why, because
Speaker 1: now the weather is political, the government could say move
Speaker 1: a hurricane here. And this idea gained a lot of
Speaker 1: traction after Hurricane Helene as the hurricane as Hurricane Milton
Speaker 1: was approaching, and then leading to wild all kinds of
Speaker 1: accusations that storms were being used as weather weapons against
Speaker 1: certain political groups. So you know where my brain goes.
Speaker 1: My brain goes down to different parts. And I started
Speaker 1: thinking like, well, wasn't that, isn't that like parts of
Speaker 1: like didn't that happen like in movies? Right? Haven't we
Speaker 1: seen that movie? And then I looked it up. Listen
Speaker 1: to this. I know this is a total rabbit trail,
Speaker 1: but I'm sorry. I am filling in for Bill doctor Franklin.
Speaker 1: Anybody remember him epic three part series of the six
Speaker 1: mini dollar Man slash Bionic Woman crossover called kill Oscar.
Speaker 1: He was a guy who controlled I think he's the
Speaker 1: one with the fembots. He was the one who who
Speaker 1: wanted to control the weather. Nicholas Demente from Get Smart
Speaker 1: Again wanted to control the weather galaxy. It was a
Speaker 1: James Bond parody. There was a guy wanted to control
Speaker 1: the weather. And it goes on and on and on
Speaker 1: throughout movie and television history that there are people that
Speaker 1: wanted to control the weather. So it has gone through
Speaker 1: total hilarity. Next, we're gonna we're gonna say, like grew
Speaker 1: from Despicable Me, that someone's gonna try and steal the moon.
Speaker 1: Don't steal the moon. I got the moon. I got
Speaker 1: the moon. Be uh So, despite all these theories, by
Speaker 1: the way, if you don't know the conclusion of where
Speaker 1: I'm going here, zero roof meteorologists or government officials or
Speaker 1: anyone can control hurricanes in any way. Hurricanes are massive,
Speaker 1: they're huge storms. Humans cannot direct or influence. Now here's
Speaker 1: the problem, And this is how bad information gets out.
Speaker 1: And I said this millions and millions of times. There's
Speaker 1: a difference between good sound reasoning and reasons that sound good.
Speaker 1: So reasons that sound good can have little bits and
Speaker 1: pieces that are true enough to make you go, oh maybe,
Speaker 1: so so where does that come from? Can we actually
Speaker 1: mess with the weather? Sort of? Scientists have experimented for
Speaker 1: a long time the ways to change the weather. This
Speaker 1: one you may have heard of cloud seating. Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard of cloud seating where they actually put a
Speaker 1: substance in clouds to produce rain. So they it's like
Speaker 1: jiggling the cloud atually, you're doing something to make the
Speaker 1: water heavier and to drop out of the cloud, because
Speaker 1: that's how real rain works. So why we drowsed this says,
Speaker 1: And well, see that's the thing. Sometimes it works, sometimes
Speaker 1: it doesn't, and it's not it's not a precise science
Speaker 1: at this point, but they have pride. So that's to
Speaker 1: say science is looking at ways to do that, to
Speaker 1: make it. You know, I think they should show Cloud's
Speaker 1: toy story three that does it for me, or the
Speaker 1: notebook and then yeah, there'll be plenty of rain. Dudes
Speaker 1: are like no books not said it's lame. It was
Speaker 1: it was in the little time all right, So scientists
Speaker 1: are messing one of these things. There's also some scientists
Speaker 1: that also proposed other ideas like reflecting sunlight, like to
Speaker 1: cool the earth, like that one weird neighbor who has
Speaker 1: like foil or those mirrored windows, and you think, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that would work. You're keeping the heat out.
Speaker 1: It's bouncing back, right, But they want to do that
Speaker 1: with the world. So the entire planet is going to
Speaker 1: look a little I don't know, ghetto culture, not the
Speaker 1: you know it's like, and that's not towards a specific group.
Speaker 1: I just mean that there's every group has ghetto culture.
Speaker 1: That's the I'm sorry, that's the reality. You can go
Speaker 1: and find anybody anywhere on the planet and there is
Speaker 1: a ghetto culture to that whoever that culture is. So,
Speaker 1: but hurricanes, you're not going to do it. It's like
Speaker 1: trying to knock the earth off the access with all
Speaker 1: of us jumping at the same time, or at least
Speaker 1: one hemisphere, right, So it creating hurricanes is impossible. Even
Speaker 1: cloud seating, if you think about it, you have to
Speaker 1: have clouds, so you're not even controlling the weather. You
Speaker 1: have to have clouds first, and then you're trying to
Speaker 1: manipulate the clouds that are there. So all these different
Speaker 1: things that we've even messed around with, we haven't been
Speaker 1: able to make happen, even in the simple way. So
Speaker 1: if you've got a cousin, uncle, neighbor who's calling you
Speaker 1: and telling you about the big conspiracy about the government
Speaker 1: making storms in certain areas, it's not true. Anyways. Happy
Speaker 1: to round things out today as we hand things over
Speaker 1: to Gary and Shannon shortly, So go nowhere. All right,
Speaker 1: this is meatless Monday. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Your feet till you hand.
Speaker 3: You not mean to eat your mind needs?
Speaker 1: I got you coloring the baby on my needs anyway,
Speaker 1: you're my meat is for meatless mondays.
Speaker 3: That's just how about it's just another meat less Monday.
Speaker 3: Oh I wish it was auday.
Speaker 2: Oh probaly shouldn't sing.
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't sing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, needless Monday's up.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. The Vegan Society applauds the
Speaker 1: removal of veganism from the NHS's Prevent Prevent training. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing. There are some animal activists out there
Speaker 1: that do bad things, but it doesn't mean that all
Speaker 1: vegans are. So the Vegan Society is happy to announce
Speaker 1: that veganism has been removed from certain training materials. It
Speaker 1: follows the efforts by the International Rights Network and doctor
Speaker 1: Jeannette Rowley, an legal expert on human rights. So this
Speaker 1: takes place in part in UK and the government strategy
Speaker 1: to identify people that are going to be a problem, right,
Speaker 1: that are going to be at the risk of radicalization,
Speaker 1: and anybody can I mean any group. You can have
Speaker 1: radical Christians, Muslims, are there, radical Jews? Yeah, what's the
Speaker 1: radical do you look like? Oh? You mean just maybe
Speaker 1: like Israeli who like Oh, okay, I don't know. But
Speaker 1: you can have radicals in any group. And yes, you
Speaker 1: can have radical vegans that are so focused when it
Speaker 1: comes to animal rights that they care less about human rights.
Speaker 1: And that means you. So there has been some radical behavior,
Speaker 1: some extremist behavior, but now they're taking that down. They've
Speaker 1: even been accused of some extreme not only extremeism, but terrorism.
Speaker 1: So looking back at this and in its modern time
Speaker 1: and the activities they're backing off, vegans and those considered
Speaker 1: considering veganism, they say have been unfairly targeted. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. In the early days. There might have
Speaker 1: been some some issues, but they have the counter terrorism
Speaker 1: measures and they say stop doing that. We just care
Speaker 1: about animals, even though there has been some sabotage and
Speaker 1: things like that in the past. But good on them,
Speaker 1: all right. Second story on Meatless Monday, here's a guy
Speaker 1: and I have feeling. I got little feels about this
Speaker 1: one guy who has a disagreement with his wife wife's
Speaker 1: vegetarian diet. Now, vegans would say vegetarians are hacks. It's
Speaker 1: like pick a side, right, So the guy goes He
Speaker 1: received all this support online because he shared his difficulty
Speaker 1: with his wife's strict vegetarian diet, which is fine, but
Speaker 1: she insists that everyone in the whole family has to
Speaker 1: live by it. Now, I suppose if you're a parent,
Speaker 1: you could dictate what your kids are gonna eat. I
Speaker 1: get that, but your spouse. So he shares his post
Speaker 1: and back in August and it has over fourteenth up votes.
Speaker 1: People started this big discussion about food choices and compromise
Speaker 1: in marriage, which you have to have. So this thirty
Speaker 1: eight year old man explained that his thirty five year
Speaker 1: old wife had you know, her desired food choices, and
Speaker 1: she converted to a new religion, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be cause pressure itself, which requires her to stop eating meat,
Speaker 1: trying to think vegetarian diet. There's a couple out there,
Speaker 1: but the whole family, including their two young sons. And
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of putting kids on these certain
Speaker 1: types of diets. I think that they're especially when they're young,
Speaker 1: there can be issues. You really have to manage it
Speaker 1: in a particular way, otherwise I think it could be
Speaker 1: quite damaging. I know people are like, oh, it's the
Speaker 1: best thing in the world. Well no, no, not necessarily.
Speaker 1: You can have an unhealthy vegan diet, a vegetarian diet,
Speaker 1: meat diet, omnivore diet, all of them. You could do
Speaker 1: it in an unhelpful way. So along with not eating meat,
Speaker 1: his wife now doesn't want to be around it. So
Speaker 1: in her home she says, swap pork for jackfruit, which
Speaker 1: is pretty tasty, and eggs for plant based substitutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: so she's not even really a vegetarian per se because
Speaker 1: she's not eating eggs either, And vegetarians could tell them
Speaker 1: ov ovo something vegetarians so use plat based substitutes. And
Speaker 1: he's just saying it's causing this massive problem, and that
Speaker 1: he's drawing a line in the sand. And so he
Speaker 1: he goes ahead and eats meat when she's gone. But see,
Speaker 1: there's a saying that if you demand someone to change,
Speaker 1: you're really demanding them to lie to you because they
Speaker 1: are who they are. Right, So in any relationship, yes,
Speaker 1: there's going to be compromised. But when the compromises do
Speaker 1: what I say, there's a problem. I mean, this isn't
Speaker 1: smoking or something you know, or drinking something detrimental. Inherently,
Speaker 1: this is food that you're eating, your choice. So what
Speaker 1: brings you joy? So any who, all I'm saying probably
Speaker 1: a whole family needs to go to therapy. Cool betterhelp
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