Speaker 1: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six fortys.
Speaker 2: And then come at six o'clock.
Speaker 3: Neil and I joined the show right up until nine
Speaker 3: and deciding what we talk about, because well, frankly, I'm
Speaker 3: a pandy waste and I can't make a decision and
Speaker 3: women make the decision in my life.
Speaker 4: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 4: Bill handle.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a Homeday Wednesday, March twelve, and today
Speaker 3: it's going to be rainy. Yesterday intermittent. Today a deluge
Speaker 3: is coming down.
Speaker 2: Let me say a quick hello to Amy.
Speaker 3: Of course, wearing some kind of Disney something apparel.
Speaker 5: Right you say, of course, like I do it every day.
Speaker 5: I haven't worn Disney gre for like two weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so let me see if I'm not mistaken. Oh oh,
Speaker 3: you picked that up. That's from Disney Tokyo. It's a
Speaker 3: sweatshirt the Ryan King.
Speaker 1: The Ryan King, Bill, what are you serious?
Speaker 5: And it's not from Disney Tokyo.
Speaker 1: It's from Disneyland.
Speaker 3: Okay, morning Amy, Hi Bill, Hi morning, and Neil you.
Speaker 1: Be out of this.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know that didn't take long, did it?
Speaker 3: First sentence out of the box, Amy really quickly before
Speaker 3: we get hello to the other crowd. The weather today,
Speaker 3: I always defer to you because you keep right up
Speaker 3: to the second on that stuff.
Speaker 5: Well, we've got a chance of rain this morning, and
Speaker 5: then rain is likely for this afternoon. The heaviest rain
Speaker 5: of this storm is expected to come tonight, but we
Speaker 5: could see one to two inches in the valley and coasts,
Speaker 5: two to four in the foothills and mountains. And they're
Speaker 5: saying that it's going to come down hard enough that
Speaker 5: there's a real risk of some mudfl mudslides and debris flows.
Speaker 3: Okay, how about Friday afternoon, give or take five o'clock
Speaker 3: la around lax.
Speaker 5: Forty chance of ring on Friday, but it's going to
Speaker 5: drow for the weekend, so the showers might be done
Speaker 5: by then.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, because I'm on an airplane Friday night, and
Speaker 3: this is my last week here before I go off running.
Speaker 3: And by the way, off and running has a lot
Speaker 3: to do with the story that I'm going to do.
Speaker 2: At let me see, let me see, let me.
Speaker 1: See, well oiled machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven thirty, yeah, seven thirty. Thank you as I
Speaker 2: go through this morning, and good morning, Bill, Good morning Will,
Speaker 2: Good morning, morning, sir.
Speaker 3: Okay, can't see what that T shirt it says underneath
Speaker 3: the jacket.
Speaker 4: Topokaalia beards from Georgia, hoult the Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: Oh are you from Georgia? No, okay, excellent. That helps
Speaker 3: a lot. His shirt is clearly actually it's said. No,
Speaker 3: it's the same place where iHeart gets its T shirts,
Speaker 3: which is Pakistan.
Speaker 2: And as we look through it.
Speaker 3: It's twelve year old kids who make those T shirts
Speaker 3: for thirty cents an hour, and you can't actually get
Speaker 3: the shirts wet because the dye runs. So you're told
Speaker 3: don't wash them and certainly don't sweat in them, because
Speaker 3: you're it's going to be a mess if you do.
Speaker 2: Cono, good morning, Yeah, Bill, Hello, good morning. All right,
Speaker 2: we're on the start.
Speaker 1: We tell that you're on vacation already in your.
Speaker 2: No, actually I'm yeah, no, my head is no, it's
Speaker 2: not true.
Speaker 1: It's not sure that shirt shows he's a vacation.
Speaker 2: O me my Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, I think it's a
Speaker 2: Tony Is this a Tony Bahama or is a knockoff? Yeah?
Speaker 3: That too, it's a knockout. Yeah no, no, the Tommy
Speaker 3: Bahammad knockoffs are jacks ja x X. I do have
Speaker 3: a couple of Tommy Bahama shirts. A couple were given
Speaker 3: to me U's shirts, which I immediately grabbed because I
Speaker 3: spend fifteen dollars for a shirt, not a one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2: And then a few A couple of them were given
Speaker 2: to me as.
Speaker 3: Gifts and those I actually have mounted and put on
Speaker 3: the wall as art pieces.
Speaker 4: Okay, if tom gifted you that shirt, they don't like
Speaker 4: you much.
Speaker 2: You know, I think you know what. Let me ask you,
Speaker 2: is this a I can't tell you know what.
Speaker 3: I'll take that off during the break, might not wear well,
Speaker 3: I have a T shirt underneath there, Come on.
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter. It's the fur that comes out.
Speaker 2: That's true. I'm a little hairy. As a matter of fact.
Speaker 3: There we have we have that picture sure of me
Speaker 3: doing that promo for that r V and I was
Speaker 3: making it didn't last very long RV because I took
Speaker 3: a picture of myself in coveralls with a straw hat
Speaker 3: and a straw through my teeth. I mean, there's no
Speaker 3: value judgment there about who drives an RV, and it
Speaker 3: was and basically I had an overall with no shirt,
Speaker 3: so a lot of my hairiness. I mean I have
Speaker 3: a pretty hairy back, much like you know Armenian women
Speaker 3: doing Glendale, and it was, i mean pretty impressive. And
Speaker 3: people were writing in g Bill didn't know you were
Speaker 3: wearing your sweater or it was actually a lot.
Speaker 4: I have had old strawberries in the back of my
Speaker 4: refrigerator that were less furry than you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, guys, let's why don't we start the show?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Huh, well, it's already over.
Speaker 2: No Cono laughs at this He's the only one that
Speaker 2: does over there. You know, I think Will starting to.
Speaker 3: You know, the rest of you are just embarrassed by
Speaker 3: me and waiting for me to get fired. Okay, guys, right, okay,
Speaker 3: you guys ready to do it? Handle on the news
Speaker 3: on this Wednesday morning, March twelfth, with Amy and Neil
Speaker 3: and me lead story. Well, the House did pass that
Speaker 3: funding bill, I had a Friday shutdown of the government,
Speaker 3: and Mike Johnson won this one. Actually, President Trump won
Speaker 3: this one overcoming a.
Speaker 2: Far right opposition. Kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: The far right of the Republican Party does not like
Speaker 3: a lot of what Trump is doing, and that is
Speaker 3: spending more money that's coming in. They would like to
Speaker 3: see revenues at least come within shouting distance of what
Speaker 3: comes in versus what is spent. So the stopgap bill
Speaker 3: was passed two hundred and seventeen to two thirteen.
Speaker 2: You talk about just a minuscule, razor thin majority. Okay.
Speaker 3: By the way, eight Senate Democrats are going to be
Speaker 3: needed to vote with the GOP.
Speaker 2: To accept the bill. It will be accepted, I think. Okay.
Speaker 5: All we are saying is give Piece a chance. Ukraine
Speaker 5: has accepted a thirty day ceasefire proposed by the United
Speaker 5: States that came after eight hours of meetings in Saudi
Speaker 5: Arabia yesterday. It covers the entire frontline of the fighting
Speaker 5: with Russia, not just the air and sea. And now
Speaker 5: the US needs to take this over to Russia. US
Speaker 5: Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that we hope Russia
Speaker 5: will say yes, that they will say yes to Piece.
Speaker 5: The ball is in their court.
Speaker 2: Well, see what happens.
Speaker 3: You know, this is you know the madness or the
Speaker 3: method to the madness. And what did Trump promise day one?
Speaker 3: He's gonna make sure that there's a piece between Ukraine
Speaker 3: and Russia. Obviously day one stuff is an exaggeration, that's
Speaker 3: sort of a given. But he's, what a little over
Speaker 3: a month into his first term and they're sitting down
Speaker 3: for the first time.
Speaker 2: Now, what does he do? How does he do it? Well?
Speaker 3: He cuts off all aid to Ukraine and says, no
Speaker 3: more American arms to you.
Speaker 2: Without American arms, they won't have a chance.
Speaker 3: Russia is instantly winning this war, and so Ukraine all
Speaker 3: of a sudden says, okay, we'll come to the table.
Speaker 2: Coming to the table means that Ukraine is going.
Speaker 3: To lose a good part of its land, like about
Speaker 3: a third of it, and we'll see what Russia does.
Speaker 3: Is Russia willing read Putin because he controls Russia one
Speaker 3: hundred percent, Is he willing to sit down?
Speaker 2: And you know, is it going to happen? Is not
Speaker 2: going to happen?
Speaker 3: Who the hell knows, But he's going to end He's
Speaker 3: going to end up winning in the sense that he
Speaker 3: invaded because he wanted that part of Ukraine which he
Speaker 3: views as Russia, which is hysterically Russia historically and hysterically
Speaker 3: but historically Russia.
Speaker 2: So we'll see the.
Speaker 3: Ball is now in Russia's court with Ukraine ready and
Speaker 3: willing to sit down. And this is Trump forcing the issue,
Speaker 3: forcing the issue, and you know, he said he's going
Speaker 3: to We'll see how successful it is.
Speaker 2: You know, he's also did.
Speaker 3: That thing where sitting down with Kim Jong un and
Speaker 3: somehow something was going to happen, and of course nothing
Speaker 3: happened as a result, other than I guess he got
Speaker 3: some Korean food out of that Korean barbecue.
Speaker 2: You ever get to a Korean barbecue. I like Korean barbecue.
Speaker 2: It's kind of neat. You cook it with the little
Speaker 2: strips of beef. Whether it's beef or not is a
Speaker 2: different issue. Okay, let's go ahead and take a break.
Speaker 2: We'll be what and what.
Speaker 4: Stop what it's true, it's questionable, all right, they're back.
Speaker 4: Case of measles has been confirmed in a Los Angeles
Speaker 4: County resident recently traveled through the Los Angeles International Airport.
Speaker 4: This comes from the County's Department of Public Health. They
Speaker 4: announced this yesterday. First confirmed case of measles in La
Speaker 4: County or LA County resident in this case in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five. Let's see, let's see passengers assigned to specific
Speaker 4: seats that may have been exposed on China Airlines Flight
Speaker 4: CL eight or c I eight.
Speaker 3: Here's here's an interesting factory that the majority of the
Speaker 3: measles cases are in one Texas. One county in Texas,
Speaker 3: it's a Mennonite county where Mennonites live, so and they're
Speaker 3: not vaccinated. Huge number of these people are not vaccinated,
Speaker 3: especially the kids. And it's not politics. It's not Robert Kennedy,
Speaker 3: it's not vaccines are autism linked. It's a question of
Speaker 3: we're not going to have the government tell us what
Speaker 3: to do. It's we live our own life in our
Speaker 3: own community.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: How's that working out for you? Is your kids are
Speaker 3: popping off? Okay, yeah, maybe you want to rethink that.
Speaker 5: Pink slips are flying At the Department of Education. More
Speaker 5: than thirteen hundred Education Department employees got termination notices last night.
Speaker 5: They went out starting at about six pm. In addition
Speaker 5: to that, more than five hundred and seventy employees accepted
Speaker 5: buyout offers in exchange for their resignations. The department is
Speaker 5: working to cut from forty one hundred thirty three workers
Speaker 5: to twenty one hundred eighty three and then, as President
Speaker 5: Trump is said, he eventually wants to get rid of
Speaker 5: the Department of Education.
Speaker 3: Now, the problement of education is kind of interesting. It
Speaker 3: was created by Jimmy Carter, didn't exist before that. And
Speaker 3: as Neil and the rest of us pointed out, let's
Speaker 3: look at the education system in this country. Boy has
Speaker 3: that gone uphill right, done a great job since Carter
Speaker 3: was president. Test scores are low, are keeping dropping, and
Speaker 3: so what do you do with the department. Now it
Speaker 3: does have programs in which money is given to certain
Speaker 3: school boards and food programs and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: But prior to that, it was other departments.
Speaker 3: And so Trump has said, we don't need the Department
Speaker 3: of Education, and Linda McMahon is tasked in Department of
Speaker 3: Education secretary to getting yourself out of a job.
Speaker 2: So, you know, I mean, what do you do with that?
Speaker 2: I mean, do you need the department?
Speaker 3: And there are thousands of workers there who obviously are
Speaker 3: going to get canned.
Speaker 2: But there's an argument there.
Speaker 3: You know, the FAA, for example, do you know when
Speaker 3: the FAA start started? Actually the founding father started it
Speaker 3: knowing the airplane was gonna be invented.
Speaker 2: Two hundred years later.
Speaker 1: Oh it's constitutional.
Speaker 2: No, it's a little bit of history. I thought i'd
Speaker 2: share with you.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 4: You're really on point this morning, all right. President Donald
Speaker 4: Trump imposed sweeping twenty five percent tariffs on all steel
Speaker 4: and aluminum imported into the United States. These tariffs on
Speaker 4: steel and aluminum marked the first time in Trump's second
Speaker 4: term that a set of tariffs has been applied to
Speaker 4: all countries.
Speaker 2: And that's kicking in.
Speaker 3: It did kick in midnight one am or twelve oh
Speaker 3: one this morning. And this is really going to hit
Speaker 3: Canada the most. You know, ninety percent of the aluminum
Speaker 3: that the United States uses comes in from Canada or
Speaker 3: comes in.
Speaker 2: From foreign sources. The vast majority is Canada.
Speaker 3: He's going to disrupt a few things, right, prices as
Speaker 3: promised day one, and not.
Speaker 1: Quite, not quite.
Speaker 2: You're hearing more and more. This is the Trump economy
Speaker 2: that he's dealing with.
Speaker 3: What he inherited, by the way, he inherited a great economy.
Speaker 3: You know, inflation had dropped down to under three percent
Speaker 3: by the time he came into office.
Speaker 1: Those those are.
Speaker 4: People weren't living a great economy. If you go throughout America,
Speaker 4: they weren't like this. Every a good point. No, that's
Speaker 4: a good point.
Speaker 3: Those are those numbers are are no, because they were
Speaker 3: already baked in inflation. Even with inflation having dropped, Let's
Speaker 3: say invation and inflation drops to zero, right, and nothing
Speaker 3: is no increase whatsoever. We're still paying astronomical on money
Speaker 3: for the a dozen eggs. We're still paying astronomical numbers
Speaker 3: for and so you know that's baked in already, like
Speaker 3: interest rates. You know, two and a half percent interest
Speaker 3: rates were sort of baked into our heads. When interest
Speaker 3: rates went up. Oh my god, that's terrible. They went
Speaker 3: up to normal levels.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like when they say they're making progress with the
Speaker 4: homeless situation here in la I look around and they go, no,
Speaker 4: you're not.
Speaker 1: I don't care what your numbers are. You got to
Speaker 1: look and see what the other reality is.
Speaker 3: It's a question of getting used to whatever's going on.
Speaker 3: There's going to reach a point where we're just used
Speaker 3: to eggs at eight dollars a dozen, and we tend
Speaker 3: to forget. You know how bad it can be as
Speaker 3: time goes by. All right, I think we have time
Speaker 3: for one more before we bail out of here.
Speaker 5: California colleges are told that they better protect their Jewish students.
Speaker 5: USC Pomona, Santa Monica, and Chapman University are among sixty
Speaker 5: colleges and universities around the US. They got letters telling
Speaker 5: them they need to fulfill their obligations under Title six
Speaker 5: of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits any institution receiving
Speaker 5: federal funds from discriminating on the basis of race, colored
Speaker 5: national origin, and that includes uninterrupted access to campus facilities
Speaker 5: and educational opportunities. The focus is on Jewish students who
Speaker 5: were harassed or threatened in pro Palestinian protests.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to do more about that at seven
Speaker 2: a m.
Speaker 3: And it's tough to be Jewish and in a wealth
Speaker 3: and in a wheelchair and African American, and I mean
Speaker 3: just that's a bad combination. I'm going to talk much
Speaker 3: more about that because there is a history of.
Speaker 2: That that I'm going to share with you.
Speaker 4: Okay, So authorities announced the arrest of three suspected fentanyl
Speaker 4: traffickers and the seizure of fourteen million lethal doses of
Speaker 4: the drug with an an estimated street value of about
Speaker 4: fifty five million dollars. They also confiscated some heroin and
Speaker 4: amphetamine as well.
Speaker 1: So these three guys are hopefully going to go to jail.
Speaker 2: For a long time.
Speaker 3: You ever noticed that, first of all, the amount of
Speaker 3: fentanyl that comes in it is pretty high, and effectively,
Speaker 3: in one bust, it's enough fentanyl to kill every human
Speaker 3: being on this planet, plus three people on the space station.
Speaker 3: And that's over and over again. We get these kinds
Speaker 3: of busts. Yeah, isn't everybody's dead, well because of the
Speaker 3: obviously not everybody buys illicit drugs, but you would think, well,
Speaker 3: let's the thing, you know what, I'm going to backtrack
Speaker 3: on that one, because the number of opiate deaths are
Speaker 3: primarily fentanyl now, and they're right around one hundred thousand
Speaker 3: a year in the US.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a big, big deal.
Speaker 3: And so again method to the madness of Donald Trump
Speaker 3: arguing that we're going to do everything we can to
Speaker 3: stop fentanyl trafficking from going over the border from Exo,
Speaker 3: also fentanyl trafficking from Canada, which really doesn't exist. But yeah,
Speaker 3: that's and by the way, that was his primary reason
Speaker 3: for the tariffs, which now have switched over to financial reasons.
Speaker 5: Well, the oil and Dodgers don't mix. Cent A majority
Speaker 5: leader Lina Gonzalez of Long Beach has asked the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: the owner Mark Walter Walter to end the team sponsorship
Speaker 5: deals with oil and gas companies, telling him that continuing
Speaker 5: to associate these corporations with our beloved boys and Blue
Speaker 5: is not in our community or the planet's best interest.
Speaker 5: Of course, one of the Dodgers' most visible advertisers is
Speaker 5: Phillips sixty six, which owns the seventy six gas station.
Speaker 3: Jay, how long has the seventy six gas and the
Speaker 3: logo been around with its longer than most of us
Speaker 3: have been alive. I think they started right after the
Speaker 3: Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: I mean around a long, long time early on.
Speaker 3: I remember Vince Scully talking about seventy six and doing
Speaker 3: the pitch during the baseball games, and I was a kid,
Speaker 3: and that was a while ago.
Speaker 2: So they've been around for a while. So this is
Speaker 2: not going to happen, by the way.
Speaker 1: Not to mention it. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I know people like to demonize oil and you know,
Speaker 4: petrol and all these things, but when you look at
Speaker 4: the all the products, not just gas, all the products
Speaker 4: that we used, by products and everything, Yeah, it's I mean,
Speaker 4: you couldn't do anything. I mean they would all the
Speaker 4: products that they're going to advertise are going to have
Speaker 4: some tie because of transportation or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Taco Bell, because most Taco Bell fillings
Speaker 3: are you know, their meat is petroleum byproducts.
Speaker 2: Okay? Is that another? Is that another one? This morning?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay.
Speaker 4: I stopped cow count. I had an abacus and I
Speaker 4: ran out beating.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So this is not going to happen.
Speaker 3: If this starts happening, then it becomes a slippery slope,
Speaker 3: slippery oil already.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, that's no ignoring, you know, all right, excellent.
Speaker 4: The board UH for the Los Angeles Department of Water
Speaker 4: and Power postponed a decision yesterday on a seven hundred
Speaker 4: thousand dollars private security contract for the department's general manager.
Speaker 4: Of course, the utility says that d w P CEO
Speaker 4: and chief engineer is it Genie c.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably sounds like.
Speaker 4: She received numerous threats of UH criticism and departments response
Speaker 4: to the Palisades fire. This popos postponement rather UH decision
Speaker 4: may have been influenced by LA Mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 3: I have a question, how many death threats. Does it
Speaker 3: take where's the line? Is it three death threats? Is
Speaker 3: it five death threats before you get this kind of security.
Speaker 1: You've had death threats before, haven't you?
Speaker 2: Damn right? And we have security, yeah, we have. We
Speaker 2: have security.
Speaker 3: Whenever we do an event, whenever we do a public
Speaker 3: KFI event, there is security there.
Speaker 1: Do you remember our old security that was.
Speaker 4: Way way back, that was x ATF or former ATF
Speaker 4: or something like that. And that guy was no nonsense.
Speaker 4: He was the one who followed up on threats and
Speaker 4: I was threatened, uh one, Yeah, And he ended up
Speaker 4: calling me from the guy's apartment. He's like, he's not
Speaker 4: home yet, but I'm sitting here waiting for it.
Speaker 3: No, not so much anymore, but still pretty serious stuff, Dana,
Speaker 3: of course, and all the all of security that we've had.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever you know, bitten around me.
Speaker 3: When I get you know, someone comes up.
Speaker 2: Here an a hole and I hate you, and I mean, you.
Speaker 3: Know, good stuff you know that we like. And I
Speaker 3: turned and I turned to Dana, who's always armed. I
Speaker 3: go shoot him in the heart and he never does.
Speaker 2: He never does.
Speaker 1: He's prepared.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, no, you know they're prepared.
Speaker 3: It's been a very long time since we've gotten any
Speaker 3: kind of a threat. But you know, it's uh we
Speaker 3: kf I iHeart does it prophylactically because the last thing
Speaker 3: they need is after a threat, after a threat, some
Speaker 3: one of us gets hurt or killed.
Speaker 2: You can do the family.
Speaker 3: The family will file lawsuit, and iHeart will simply give
Speaker 3: the keys to this radio station to the family and
Speaker 3: not even argue, here you go have a free radio station.
Speaker 2: So they're very, very careful.
Speaker 3: And especially now the threats coming after the fires and
Speaker 3: DWP being blamed for the exacerbation of the fires because
Speaker 3: the water situation, the water pressure, the.
Speaker 2: Reservoir that was empty.
Speaker 4: There is never ever a reason to threaten somebody or
Speaker 4: their life over business decisions or whatever.
Speaker 1: It just yeah, there is. It's shut up, I'll kill you, Okay.
Speaker 5: Some fans can't get their lids. A bunch of new
Speaker 5: merchandises out ahead of the twenty twenty five MLB season,
Speaker 5: which starts next week officially in Tokyo, but for a
Speaker 5: couple of teams, New Era Caps has already had to
Speaker 5: pull the merch off the shelves. There is new eras
Speaker 5: Overlap fifty nine fifty collection. It superimposes the logo of
Speaker 5: each team over the team's name. Apparently it's making some
Speaker 5: potentially vulgar designs.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: One uh is reference to women's winnebagos and that is uh,
Speaker 3: it can get pretty offensive.
Speaker 5: That's the Texas Rangers hat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, yes, so they the big T goes over
Speaker 4: the X and ends up spelling data and ah and that.
Speaker 5: Okay, so what's the one with the la Angels also
Speaker 5: have a hat. The design is no longer available. It's
Speaker 5: a N A E L S. So it's the Angel's
Speaker 5: logo over teams.
Speaker 1: I don't know about it for a second. Amy, this
Speaker 1: is a and A S.
Speaker 3: L anals anals Ah, you said it, actually you figured
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 2: Hey, here's it. Here's a fun factoid.
Speaker 3: When the Ford Pinto came out and they were selling
Speaker 3: it in Brazil, uh, the word Pinto Pinto is in
Speaker 3: reference to a Schwantz and Brazilians went completely crazy. They
Speaker 3: loved it so much because it was for the Ford
Speaker 3: Schwantz they were selling.
Speaker 2: And then they had to change the name.
Speaker 4: Well you remember the nova doesn't go yeah in Spanish,
Speaker 4: and so they had to change the name in Mexico
Speaker 4: and Spanish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doesn't go. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: The proposed class action, filed Monday in the Eastern District
Speaker 4: of New York by a New York resident and other consumers,
Speaker 4: alleges that Girl Scout cookies are contaminated with dangerous heavy
Speaker 4: metals and pesticides.
Speaker 3: So, Neil, you're the expert on this. Isn't that what
Speaker 3: makes them taste so damn good?
Speaker 1: I think that's what makes them so filling. All those
Speaker 1: heavy metals.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I have a I have for talking about though.
Speaker 4: These pesticides UH, incredibly widely used and they're just about everything.
Speaker 1: And what people don't understand is there's certain things that
Speaker 1: are in.
Speaker 4: Food because of the great because this these metals and
Speaker 4: stuff are in the ground, so arsenic is in apples.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's what they're arguing.
Speaker 3: Thin mints, which I have five boxes, and the freezer
Speaker 3: the are the it's alleged they have three hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty four times more glyphosphate than recommended.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm guessing none of it's recommended. But this only
Speaker 4: comes from one particular sting.
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's even a go as a
Speaker 3: class action. So yeah, you have to okay and a
Speaker 3: judge has to okay it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So anyways, moms across America are getting this information.
Speaker 3: It's going to go in front of a judge whose
Speaker 3: daughter sells Girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 2: That's going to work.
Speaker 5: Yeah, some inmates may soon be making some more cash.
Speaker 5: Inmate firefighters in California's county jails and state prisons would
Speaker 5: earn an hourly wage up to nineteen dollars an hour
Speaker 5: under legislation being considered by state lawmakers. So here's something
Speaker 5: kind of interesting. More than eleven hundred inmates helped fight
Speaker 5: the Palisades and Eaten fires here in Los Angeles in January,
Speaker 5: and they currently earn five dollars and eighty cents to
Speaker 5: ten dollars and twenty four cents a.
Speaker 3: Day a day. And these are trained firefighters. I mean
Speaker 3: they happened to be inmates. Chuck Lovers we bring on
Speaker 3: all the time when it deals with when we have
Speaker 3: a story about fires. He ran the inmate program under
Speaker 3: cal CalFire or LA County, the LA County program. And
Speaker 3: these are inmates that are about to go on probation, uh,
Speaker 3: that are have no problem with discipline and it's there's
Speaker 3: an argument, and this is a way that for them
Speaker 3: to be trained, and why should they get five dollars
Speaker 3: a day? So you know it's money to La County.
Speaker 3: But it's a question of fairness, you know, why not?
Speaker 3: You know they're fighting fires for five bucks a day.
Speaker 5: Well, but they get room and board.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're right, they get You're right, they get
Speaker 2: room and board.
Speaker 4: Uh, well said, and all the loving you could possibly want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you you bet so you don't all firefighters get
Speaker 3: room and board when they're on uh, when they're on
Speaker 3: a shift.
Speaker 1: Yeah you got a point. Yeah there, But they have
Speaker 1: to have another home.
Speaker 2: They can't. They can't an apartment or.
Speaker 3: Right, and those half of the month, and those homes
Speaker 3: are so comfortable because they're in what we call dorms.
Speaker 3: Forty people on cots in a big room, and the
Speaker 3: food is so good.
Speaker 1: Amy's heartless. I love it.
Speaker 2: Damn right, I'm not being heartless.
Speaker 1: I'm just brea.
Speaker 2: Oh, we have to do your last.
Speaker 5: Story inmates, and maybe they get a shot at doing this.
Speaker 5: They can get a job when they get out by
Speaker 5: getting this experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: Well, so let's get interns that make five dollars a day. Oh,
Speaker 3: that's exactly what happens here at iHeart. Okay, let's finish
Speaker 3: up the story.
Speaker 4: Our lasttop will become the first state band fluoride in
Speaker 4: public drinking water, despite widespread opposition from dentists and health
Speaker 4: professionals and people like that, scientists. So our biggest concern
Speaker 4: is with the wide population of Mormons, known for their smiles,
Speaker 4: this could do some damage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it does.
Speaker 3: I remember as a kid, this was in the fifties
Speaker 3: here in Los Angeles, there was such controversy about putting
Speaker 3: fluor eyed into the drinking water, into the water system,
Speaker 3: which have uh and kid's teeths instantly got better. And
Speaker 3: the argument against the fluoride in those days were it's
Speaker 3: a Communist plot. For real, we are in the middle
Speaker 3: of the Cold War and the anti communism, and the
Speaker 3: argument was, it is a Communist plot to put fluoride
Speaker 3: into the water. And every dentist you talk to, every
Speaker 3: one of them, will tell you, of course you need
Speaker 3: fluoride in the drinking water because that is necessary for teeth,
Speaker 3: particularly kids teeth that are growing.
Speaker 4: They say it prevents through studies, it prevents about twenty
Speaker 4: five percent of tooth decay.
Speaker 3: Actually, God forbid we do that. All right, We're done
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