Speaker 1: You're listenings KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handles show
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Speaker 2: F Wayne Resnick's sitting in until nine.
Speaker 3: Neil is here, and Amy is here, and ann is
Speaker 3: Heren Elmer's here in for KONO and that's your crew
Speaker 3: this morning, and some of the stories that we're watching
Speaker 3: for you. The government of Israel has told the Biden
Speaker 3: administration that when it retaliates against Iran for Iran's missile
Speaker 3: strike on Israel, it will not hit nuclear facilities or
Speaker 3: oil production sites, two things that the United States was
Speaker 3: hoping they would agree not to do. And a bunch
Speaker 3: of new lawsuits were filed yesterday against Sean Combs. You've
Speaker 3: got men, women, and even a sixteen year old boy
Speaker 3: accusing him of sexual assault, drugging of drinks, and various
Speaker 3: other bad behavior. Hey, yesterday we spent some time talking
Speaker 3: about this gasoline law that Governor k Newsom wanted that
Speaker 3: makes the oil companies store gasoline so that when they
Speaker 3: shut down refineries, there's still enough gasoline out there to
Speaker 3: avoid price spikes. Well, yesterday, as expected, he signed that law.
Speaker 3: The next step is for the California Energy Commission to
Speaker 3: figure out the details, how much gas do you need
Speaker 3: to store, etc. And we were talking about the oil
Speaker 3: companies don't like this law. Well guess who else now
Speaker 3: has come out and say they don't like this law.
Speaker 3: Unionized workers at refineries, they don't like this law. Now
Speaker 3: they're saying, this law is going to make our jobs unsafe.
Speaker 2: And also, by the way, if.
Speaker 3: You don't care that this law is gonna make our
Speaker 3: jobs more unsafe, we might lose our jobs. Well, okay,
Speaker 3: how would that happen? So they are saying a couple
Speaker 3: of things in this law. There's a part of it
Speaker 3: that wasn't talked about so much because the focus has
Speaker 3: been how will they store the gas? And do they
Speaker 3: have enough places to store the gas? And if they
Speaker 3: have to build more storage capacity, that'll cost them a
Speaker 3: lot of money, and the gas will end up being
Speaker 3: expensive anyway, because they you can either have price spikes
Speaker 3: because there's not enough gas, or you can have an
Speaker 3: increase in the price of gas to pay for what
Speaker 3: it cost them to build the storage so that you
Speaker 3: don't have the price spikes. It's like pick your pick
Speaker 3: your price hike. It's a it's a pick your own
Speaker 3: price hike. Adventures so the union workers are saying, also
Speaker 3: in this law, it allows the state to be involved
Speaker 3: in scheduled maintenance at refineries.
Speaker 2: It's not entirely clear whether it allows the.
Speaker 3: State to dictate when you may or may not do
Speaker 3: maintenance on your refinery. But the workers are saying, if
Speaker 3: we need to be able to do maintenance on our
Speaker 3: refineries whenever it's necessary, you cannot even have the thought
Speaker 3: in your head that you would want to shut down
Speaker 3: a refinery for some maintenance reason and the state telling
Speaker 3: you no or penalizing you for doing it. And the
Speaker 3: idea would be they wouldn't be able to do all
Speaker 3: the maintenance that they might think is necessary, and the
Speaker 3: next thing, you know, some part of the infrastructure goes
Speaker 3: bad and a refinery explodes, and then they are injured
Speaker 3: or god forbid killed, And it wouldn't have happened but
Speaker 3: for this law. That's what they're talking about with regard
Speaker 3: to the safety. And I mean, there was a refinery
Speaker 3: explosion in twenty fifteen in Torrance. That refinery was owned
Speaker 3: by Exon Mobil and two workers were injured. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't think we can say that that explosion was
Speaker 3: because they were not allowed to do maintenance that they
Speaker 3: wanted to do. But they're saying, under certain circumstances, this
Speaker 3: is the kind of thing that can happen, and we
Speaker 3: don't want that. You have to do the maintenance based
Speaker 3: on the condition of the infrastructure and the pipes and
Speaker 3: the valves and what their life cycle is, and we
Speaker 3: don't want the state stepping in and getting in the
Speaker 3: way of those decisions. Now, the status said this, you
Speaker 3: can do any maintenance that you need to do. This
Speaker 3: is a false claim that you have that we're going
Speaker 3: to stop you from doing maintenance. But my question is, well,
Speaker 3: if you're never going to stop them from doing maintenance,
Speaker 3: why is the provision in the law at all. So
Speaker 3: that's the one part, and then the other part is
Speaker 3: that they will lose jobs. And the way that they
Speaker 3: will lose jobs is because they won't be able to
Speaker 3: do as much work as they need to do and
Speaker 3: there won't be a need.
Speaker 2: For them.
Speaker 3: So now you know the problem is now it's it's
Speaker 3: a little too late because the law has already been signed,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if lawsuits are coming. It's not
Speaker 3: clear to me if lawsuits over the law are coming,
Speaker 3: but complaints have already arrived. And this is one of
Speaker 3: those things where, honest to goodness, there's no way to
Speaker 3: know how it's going to affect gas prices. Newsom says, oh,
Speaker 3: it's going to prevent you from having those price spikes.
Speaker 3: Now he can't say, he can't even speculate that it's
Speaker 3: not going to raise the normal price of the gallon
Speaker 3: of gas. He's saying it'll prevent you from experiencing price spikes.
Speaker 3: So now you've got to try to do the math
Speaker 3: in your head. Do I want to pay a dollar
Speaker 3: more a gallon periodically or do I want to pay
Speaker 3: fifty cents more gallon all the time? And is this
Speaker 3: law going to cause that second situation? And maybe I'd
Speaker 3: be happier just in terms of my pocketbook. Maybe I
Speaker 3: would be happier occasionally paying a dollar more a gallon
Speaker 3: and other times not paying as much. So it's a
Speaker 3: real wait and see right now for your gas prices.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get some news from Amy King and
Speaker 3: then Edison High School in Huntingdon Beach has new rules
Speaker 3: about students going to the bathroom, and there's an ad
Speaker 3: un lying petition by the students saying this new bathroom
Speaker 3: policy violates their constitutional rights.
Speaker 2: We will get into this controversy in a moment.
Speaker 3: It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: It is the pill Handle Show, and he is on vacation.
Speaker 3: Wayne Resnik is sitting in until nine. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: Edison High School in Huntington Beach right after I tell
Speaker 3: you some of the stories that we're watching for you
Speaker 3: here on KFI, which include the fact that FEMA personnel
Speaker 3: have gone back to their door to door neighborhood outreaches
Speaker 3: in the areas that were affected by Hurricane Helen.
Speaker 2: This is a post Helen effort, and this.
Speaker 3: Is after the cops arrested a guy who was accused
Speaker 3: of making threats against FEMA people and also was armed,
Speaker 3: and FEMA puts some of their efforts on pause because
Speaker 3: they felt it might be too dangerous. And I guess
Speaker 3: they they're hopeful now with the intervention of the cops,
Speaker 3: that it's safe enough again to try to help these
Speaker 3: people out. Also, let's talk with the weather for a second,
Speaker 3: because we just mentioned a hurricane. They are expecting a
Speaker 3: weak Lannina condition to develop in the next couple of months,
Speaker 3: and if that happens the oceans. I hope I'm understanding
Speaker 3: this right. Yes, the oceans will be cooler than average
Speaker 3: in the Equatorial Pacific. And if that happens, and if
Speaker 3: there is a lanina and it's on the weak side,
Speaker 3: which is what they're predicting, this means winter will be
Speaker 3: warmer than normal. Sorry snow lovers. Now let's talk about
Speaker 3: Edison High School, Hontington Beach. They have a new policy
Speaker 3: for when you go to the bathroom, and the students
Speaker 3: are arguing it's an invasion of their privacy, and not
Speaker 3: just loosely saying it's an invasion of our privacy, but
Speaker 3: actually putting up a petition saying it's a violation of
Speaker 3: their Fourth Amendment. So here's the new policy. There's a
Speaker 3: QR code in the classroom and when you leave the
Speaker 3: classroom for any reason. It's not specifically about going to
Speaker 3: the bathroom. It's about leaving the classroom for any reason.
Speaker 3: But the concerns are largely based on the going to
Speaker 3: the bathroom part. So if you're going to the school nurse,
Speaker 3: if you have to go to the library for some reason,
Speaker 3: if you are going to go use the wellness space
Speaker 3: that they have at Edison High School, or the most
Speaker 3: common reason because you've got to use the facilities, you
Speaker 3: have to scan the code and then when you come back,
Speaker 3: you scan the code again. So this is some real
Speaker 3: heavy duty tracking of your whereabouts. So the policy is
Speaker 3: that you try to limit your time out of the
Speaker 3: classroom to seven minutes or less, and also that you
Speaker 3: only leave the classroom to go to the bathroom, ideally.
Speaker 2: No more than three times a day.
Speaker 3: Now, the first thing I will tell you is the
Speaker 3: school says this is not a strict policy. These are
Speaker 3: not These are not strict rules that you are in
Speaker 3: trouble if you don't follow them. These are guidelines that
Speaker 3: we are asking the kids to follow, and apparently not
Speaker 3: all the teachers are even bothering to tell their kids, Hey,
Speaker 3: I want you to follow this policy. So before we
Speaker 3: get into the policy and whether it's a problem, first
Speaker 3: of all, let's.
Speaker 2: Talk about this.
Speaker 3: You can't have a situation where if you want to
Speaker 3: have a procedure, let's call this a procedure. It's a
Speaker 3: procedure that the school at least would lie the students
Speaker 3: to follow.
Speaker 2: You can't have it.
Speaker 3: If some teachers are like, I don't care I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna even try to make anybody do it, and maybe
Speaker 3: you have another teacher who's being pretty strict about it.
Speaker 2: You can't operate that way.
Speaker 3: So first, the first screw up on the part of
Speaker 3: Edison High School, in my opinion, is they didn't make
Speaker 3: it clear to the teachers what level of compliance they
Speaker 3: wanted on the part of the teachers in terms of
Speaker 3: enforcing it or suggesting it or whatever. They obviously, so
Speaker 3: it's bedlam over there in terms of that.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 3: The next level is it's very difficult to say to students, hey,
Speaker 3: here's a bunch of specific stuff we want you to do,
Speaker 3: but you don't. If you don't do it, like, you're
Speaker 3: not in trouble and nothing bad's gonna happen to you,
Speaker 3: but we'd really like you to do it. That That
Speaker 3: is not how you get people to comply with things.
Speaker 3: Whenever I've been asked to follow any kinds of procedures
Speaker 3: or so forth, that's the first thing I want to know.
Speaker 3: Is it a rule and I'm in trouble, it's actionable
Speaker 3: against me if I don't follow it?
Speaker 2: Or does it not matter?
Speaker 3: Because if it doesn't matter, I will decide for myself
Speaker 3: if I'm going to do it or not. And I've
Speaker 3: got to believe high school kids are at least as
Speaker 3: flippant about authority as I am, and understandably, so that's
Speaker 3: no good. Either have an actual policy that everybody is
Speaker 3: expected to follow and is enforced somehow, or don't.
Speaker 2: Just don't. Now, why why are they even doing this?
Speaker 3: Is it because they're terribly interested in the bathroom habits
Speaker 3: of high school kids? Well, they say no, and I
Speaker 3: don't think that they I don't think that's the reason.
Speaker 2: They say.
Speaker 3: This is too so we know where students are in
Speaker 3: case there is a fire or god forbid. You know
Speaker 3: what a school, you know, that's the purpose of the policy.
Speaker 3: It's a safety thing. So we know where you are
Speaker 3: something happens and you're not in the classroom. We can go, oh, well, yes,
Speaker 3: he's not supposed to be in the classroom right now.
Speaker 3: He left the classroom and he scanned it. That's what
Speaker 3: they're saying. But they also the principal also said Daniel
Speaker 3: Morris is his name. But he also said, oh, there's
Speaker 3: been a problem with students smoking in the bathrooms and
Speaker 3: then the fire alarms go off, and so we need
Speaker 3: to know who's going to the bathroom and how often
Speaker 3: they're going to the bathroom, because if the fire alarms
Speaker 3: keep going off, then we can, and this is the
Speaker 3: best part, we can you know, expel them. No, we
Speaker 3: can have a discussion with a student or provide them
Speaker 3: with extra support. What hey, you know you're smoke looking
Speaker 3: in the bathroom and you're setting off the fire alarm.
Speaker 3: Is there is there anything we can help you with?
Speaker 3: Do you want us to get you some nicotine patches?
Speaker 3: So there is this online petition that I told you about,
Speaker 3: and it's on where you always put your petitions on
Speaker 3: change dot org. And as of right now, I'm looking
Speaker 3: at it right now, I'll actually refresh the page just
Speaker 3: in case I missed anything.
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 3: So they have a goal of five hundred signatures and
Speaker 3: they have four hundred and fifty six signatures. And the
Speaker 3: student that started the petition said, Hey, this is a
Speaker 3: bigger problem than you think, because the students are worried
Speaker 3: now that they could get in trouble if they have
Speaker 3: to use the bathroom too frequently.
Speaker 2: You also have and didn't I didn't know that. I
Speaker 2: knew that.
Speaker 3: I knew that women menstru eight. I knew that, and
Speaker 3: I knew that it starts off in high school and
Speaker 3: even before so I knew that there are students in
Speaker 3: high school who menstr eight.
Speaker 2: I knew that, and I knew.
Speaker 3: That there's this thing called toxic shock syndrome that can
Speaker 3: be very dangerous that is related to the use of tampons.
Speaker 2: I knew that.
Speaker 3: What I didn't know is that some students, because they
Speaker 3: do they're afraid of getting toxic shock syndrome, they change
Speaker 3: their pads or their tampons every couple of hours. So
Speaker 3: if you're in school for eight hours, that's at least
Speaker 3: four times that you would need to go and do that.
Speaker 3: So they're saying, hey, we can't have this level of
Speaker 3: scrutiny about this behavior because it's gonna make everybody nervous.
Speaker 2: They're gonna feel like they're under a microscope.
Speaker 3: And also here I'll read from the petition now that
Speaker 3: it's inherently unconstitutional. The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable
Speaker 3: searches and invasions of privacy, and bathroom policies recording the
Speaker 3: number and duration of bathroom visits are a well. Here,
Speaker 3: it says could be seen as an infringement also that
Speaker 3: girls often require more bathroom visits, and therefore they this
Speaker 3: could be a sex discrimination on the part of the policy.
Speaker 2: I think that's a reach, but.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to have to. I don't blame these
Speaker 3: kids for not wanting to have to. And we'll see
Speaker 3: if the school backs off at all or clarifies more
Speaker 3: helpfully what the hell it is they're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2: Let's get some.
Speaker 3: News from Amy King and then you know this Prop
Speaker 3: thirty six it's gonna be on the ballot. Prop thirty
Speaker 3: six would undo a lot of what Prop forty seven did.
Speaker 3: This all has to do with being being tough on crime,
Speaker 3: soft on crime. No, let's get tough on crime again.
Speaker 3: And there's an interesting wrinkle that just happened involving a
Speaker 3: million Dollarsalgreens has announced they're going to close twelve thousand stores,
Speaker 3: not all at once, because they're getting their clock cleaned
Speaker 3: by online competitors and also through various insurance programs, the
Speaker 3: payout for prescription drugs are going down. By twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 3: one in seven Wallgreens will be gone. Over the next year,
Speaker 3: they'll close five hundred of them. This means it's highly
Speaker 3: likely that your favorite Walgreens won't be there in three years.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you remember, but it was
Speaker 3: just back in June where they said, hey, listen, we're
Speaker 3: going to shut down three hundred underperforming locations. We have
Speaker 3: a big optimization program going on, and we're going to
Speaker 3: do that. And now here they are a few months
Speaker 3: later and it's twelve hundred. So if you have a
Speaker 3: favorite Walgreens, enjoy it. While you can now onto the
Speaker 3: issue of crime and propositions about crime and ideas about crime.
Speaker 3: The ideas are basically, be tough on crime, don't be
Speaker 3: soft on crime. And so you may remember when California
Speaker 3: voters passed Proposition forty seven, and this was a swing
Speaker 3: towards the idea that we should be softer on crime.
Speaker 3: Take some felonies, make them misdemeanors, do some other things,
Speaker 3: with the bottom line being send fewer people to prison.
Speaker 3: Now you are asked to vote for Prop thirty six,
Speaker 3: and Prop thirty six is a takes these backsies on
Speaker 3: Prop forty seven. It's going to return some of those
Speaker 3: crimes to felony status and do some other things. And
Speaker 3: it does have at least one component in there that
Speaker 3: is designed to be to have it, let's say, a
Speaker 3: rehabilitative component, and that is more opportunities for treatment for
Speaker 3: people who need it, although we have no idea how
Speaker 3: that's going to get paid for. A lot of money
Speaker 3: being spent for and against in rough terms. At the
Speaker 3: state level, Republicans like Prop thirty six.
Speaker 2: Democrats don't.
Speaker 3: That's at the state level, though, when you go down
Speaker 3: to the local level, there are all kinds of elected
Speaker 3: officials and mayors, including Democratic mayors from San Francisco and
Speaker 3: San Jose and San Diego who support it. So if
Speaker 3: you're going to be fair about it, you have to
Speaker 3: say it it has bipartisan support. If you don't look
Speaker 3: only at Sacramento. Newsom doesn't lack it. But I don't
Speaker 3: know that that's a surprise. And so here's the thing
Speaker 3: I told you there was an interesting wrinkle involving a
Speaker 3: million dollars. The big organization that is that is promoting
Speaker 3: Proposition thirty six. It's called Californians for Safer Communities. They
Speaker 3: have what I'm about to describe is not in any
Speaker 3: way illegal or even untoward, just so you know, but
Speaker 3: it's interesting they've given a million dollars to the California
Speaker 3: Republican Party, a five hundred thousand dollars contribution on September
Speaker 3: twenty and another one on the first of the month.
Speaker 2: Again totally legal.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying anything other than it's interesting because we
Speaker 3: haven't had the election yet and they feel that they
Speaker 3: can take some of the money that they have to
Speaker 3: support the proposition and they can give it to the
Speaker 3: Republican Party to help the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: And know what that.
Speaker 3: Means is, this is my point, they must be very
Speaker 3: sure and highly confident that it's gonna pass and that
Speaker 3: they do not need every single dollar that they have
Speaker 3: to promote it.
Speaker 2: That's what that means.
Speaker 3: And it's probably true because here is a very recent
Speaker 3: poll conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies
Speaker 3: for Prop thirty six, to basically roll back soft on
Speaker 3: crime Prop forty seven sixty percent yes, twenty one percent no,
Speaker 3: nineteen undecided. So every single person who hasn't made up
Speaker 3: their mind yet, even if they all decide to vote
Speaker 3: against it, it still passes sixty forty.
Speaker 2: Let's get some news from Amy King, and.
Speaker 3: Then we're gonna we're gonna talk about a thing that
Speaker 3: you put in your body. That's very weird, but it's
Speaker 3: also very popular. Right now, find out what it is. Apparently,
Speaker 3: when I was talking about how Walgreens is going to
Speaker 3: close twelve hundred stores over the next three years, which
Speaker 3: is a much bigger set of closures than they originally
Speaker 3: announced at one point or maybe it was even more,
Speaker 3: I said twelve thousand, which is just that's just mouth.
Speaker 3: You know, that's just mouth to brain or brain to
Speaker 3: mouth communication failure. But I want to give a shout
Speaker 3: out to KFI News because it was Carla in the
Speaker 3: newsroom who heard me unintentionally say twelve thousand instead of
Speaker 3: twelve hundred. And you know, I got the word that
Speaker 3: I had done it, so that I can come on
Speaker 3: and tell you that I know it's twelve hundred, and
Speaker 3: just please please forgive my addled brain. You know, since
Speaker 3: I retired from the morning show full time, I don't
Speaker 3: get up at the crack of dawn anymore, so I'm
Speaker 3: not used to it. Okay, Irata has been published vocally.
Speaker 3: Now let's talk about this very weird thing that you
Speaker 3: put in your body. A lot of you do, and
Speaker 3: you love it. You some of you love it a lot.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about doctor Pepper. So first let's just agree
Speaker 3: and admit doctor Pepy. Even in the world of soda
Speaker 3: type beverages, doctor pepper is weird. What the hell does
Speaker 3: it taste like? Does it taste like cough medicine? Does
Speaker 3: it taste like prune juice? Does it taste like a
Speaker 3: cherry kind of? Does it taste like licorice?
Speaker 2: A little bit? Yes, all of it.
Speaker 3: It tastes like everything and nothing specific at the same time.
Speaker 3: And the reason I'm bringing up doctor Pepper is because
Speaker 3: doctor Pepper is on a tear of popularity. It was
Speaker 3: very popular when it first came out, and then it
Speaker 3: was not as popular, and now.
Speaker 2: It is so popular.
Speaker 3: That it tied Pepsi last year as the best selling
Speaker 3: soda in the United States.
Speaker 2: You have Coke is number one. Coke is always going
Speaker 2: to be number one.
Speaker 3: That's the way it's going to be, and it would
Speaker 3: and then it would go Pepsi number two, and then
Speaker 3: other stuff down. Doctor Pepper surging tying the regular version
Speaker 3: of Pepsi as the second best selling soda in the US.
Speaker 2: And that said, don't believe me.
Speaker 3: That's from Beveridge Digest, which you know, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: trust anything, why not a magazine all about beverages. According
Speaker 3: to a consumer research firm called Civic Science, almost twenty
Speaker 3: five percent of adults in America drink doctor Pepper. So
Speaker 3: if you're at work right now, look around, if there's
Speaker 3: three other people there, for sure want to use drinking
Speaker 3: doctor Pepper. And that's up from from just four years
Speaker 3: ago it was only about sixteen percent drank doctor Pepper
Speaker 3: with any regularity, and now it's back. I think part
Speaker 3: of it is honestly, see, doctor Pepper was always weird,
Speaker 3: and the other big companies, Coke and Pepsi, they started
Speaker 3: getting weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you got your hands on an
Speaker 2: Oreo Coke zero.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I couldn't find one. But that's a that's
Speaker 3: a recent big thing. It's coke, but it tastes like
Speaker 3: an Oreo cookie. And then Oreo came out.
Speaker 2: With cookies that tastes like Coca cola.
Speaker 3: And do you remember also when Coke put out that
Speaker 3: it was called Starlight and it was supposed to taste
Speaker 3: like outer space. Pepsi came out with some sodas that
Speaker 3: are that that tastes.
Speaker 2: Like some moores.
Speaker 3: I think and you were to mix them together. So
Speaker 3: the two big brands like got weird. They started with
Speaker 3: weird stuff and the whole time Doctor Pepper has been there, like, hey,
Speaker 3: we've been weird ever since we were invented. It's not
Speaker 3: new to us. Who invented doctor Pepper. Charles Alderton, a pharmacist.
Speaker 3: You know, Coke was invented by a pharmacist, and Pepsi
Speaker 3: was invented by a pharmacist, and so was doctor Pepper.
Speaker 3: And part of that is because it used to be
Speaker 3: you had the pharmacy and there was a soda fountain.
Speaker 2: And the reason that there was a soda fountain.
Speaker 3: Was because back then people thought carbonated water was good
Speaker 3: for your health. If you were sick, have some seltzer.
Speaker 3: That was the thinking. So you'd go to the pharmacy
Speaker 3: and you could get aspirin, or you could have some seltzer.
Speaker 3: But seltzer's boring. We all want plane. Seltzer is boring.
Speaker 3: So the pharmacists would start to make in different like
Speaker 3: fruit syrups and different flavors for the customers. But it
Speaker 3: was still at that point it wasn't about tasting good.
Speaker 3: It was trying to make it taste good, so you
Speaker 3: would drink it for your health. So anyway, Doctor Pepper
Speaker 3: was invented in the late eighteen hundreds, I believe it's
Speaker 3: that's before cocer pepsi, and it was invented in Texas.
Speaker 3: People loved it, they really they went crazy for doctor Pepper,
Speaker 3: and then it fell by the wayside, and now it
Speaker 3: is back with a vengeance. Coca Cola tried to buy
Speaker 3: Doctor Pepper and the FTC said no, you may not.
Speaker 3: So Doctor Pepper now is part of a larger company,
Speaker 3: the same company that owns seven Up and Snapple and
Speaker 3: schwepes and A and w root Beer and also Currig
Speaker 3: coffee makers. That's all the same company. But Doctor Pepper
Speaker 3: is now so big and so important they get to
Speaker 3: be part of the company. Name the company is Courig
Speaker 3: Doctor Pepper. That's how big it is. It's all over TikTok,
Speaker 3: It's all over Reddit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: On Reddit, there's a subreddit for fans of coke and
Speaker 3: a subreddit for fans of pepsi. But the doctor Pepper
Speaker 3: subreddit has more members than coke or Pepsi's because people
Speaker 3: like coke, but they don't love coke. I mean, really,
Speaker 3: with their whole lives. People who are like doctor Pepper Man,
Speaker 3: they are fanatics. And I want to leave you with
Speaker 3: one thing because it made me laugh. Somebody was on
Speaker 3: Reddit and they were trying to describe the taste of
Speaker 3: doctor Pepper, which is difficult to do, as you know.
Speaker 3: So this person said that to doctor Pepper tastes like
Speaker 3: a sexy battery. Made me laugh again. It's just funny.
Speaker 3: I don't know why it's funny. It's just funny to me.
Speaker 3: Let's get some news from Amy King and then we
Speaker 3: will be talking to rich DeMuro because it is Tech Tuesday.
Speaker 3: He is the host of Rich on Tech right here
Speaker 3: on KFI every Saturday from eleven to two pm, and
Speaker 3: he will be with us to talk about some new
Speaker 3: tools to make a video by saying things I know
Speaker 3: that sounds weird, he'll explain it way better than I
Speaker 3: just did.
Speaker 2: And how to keep tabs on Grandma.
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