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Speaker 3: Let's see this.
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Speaker 2: you're not watching the game instead. Not that un complaining,
Speaker 2: very happy that you're here, but what is it that
Speaker 2: has got you here instead of taking.
Speaker 3: Part in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Your your feedback always welcome to that talkback button.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm not listening to the game or watching because
Speaker 4: I get too nervous.
Speaker 5: Oh so, if you guys are going to get the
Speaker 5: score of the game, please.
Speaker 3: Announce spoiler alert.
Speaker 6: Ah, all right, thank you, and I love hearing hearing
Speaker 6: you on the show.
Speaker 2: Merrill. Thank you very much. I appreciate that you're the
Speaker 2: rest of you. That's you, I mean, you're the rest
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 7: Huh wait a second spoiler alert?
Speaker 3: Spoiler alert? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 7: I mean, do people go back and watch it againler alert?
Speaker 3: You're supposed to say spoiler alert, but it's.
Speaker 7: Already andrewiler alert. I've never known anyone to say oh,
Speaker 7: let me go watch the Super Bowl. You know now
Speaker 7: now that it's been recorded, Likelerer, who does that?
Speaker 3: He's nervous, Andrew, I get it.
Speaker 1: Boiler alert.
Speaker 7: I am curious now, I am curious if anyone watches
Speaker 7: it on demand after it's over.
Speaker 3: I once spent an entire Final four in the bathroom.
Speaker 3: I was so nervous one year. I get it. I
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 7: I just saw it that needed a spoiler alert, boiler alert.
Speaker 2: That's what we needed. So now you know, right, I
Speaker 2: hite that talk back button. Let us know why it
Speaker 2: is that you are listening today, and I appreciate that you.
Speaker 3: Are so uh.
Speaker 2: Moving on to politics as usual, in this case, what
Speaker 2: is national becomes local. Governor Batman says that he is
Speaker 2: meeting with Donald Trump over the LA wildfire aid and
Speaker 2: he said that was really good.
Speaker 3: It went well.
Speaker 8: California Governor Gavin Newsom on Capitol Hill Wednesday, advocating for
Speaker 8: disaster funding following the deadly and devastating wildfires in Los
Speaker 8: Angeles on X The governor saying the state is removing
Speaker 8: red tape and suspending regulatory barriers to fast track clean
Speaker 8: up efforts and help Los Angeles quickly recover and rebuild.
Speaker 2: What I honestly don't know what this is. We're removing
Speaker 2: red tape, and we're making it easier. Why is the
Speaker 2: red tape there in the first place? And I think
Speaker 2: there's oftentimes a disconnect when it comes to things like regulations.
Speaker 2: We say, there's too many regulations.
Speaker 3: The regulations are the problem.
Speaker 2: There's so much red tape, and then politicians miraculously come
Speaker 2: through and they fix all the red tape.
Speaker 3: And I always think, why is the red.
Speaker 2: Tape there to begin with? And I know in many
Speaker 2: cases it's well, because it was so and so's pet
Speaker 2: project or so and so I wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: the unions were taken care of or whatever that might be.
Speaker 3: And I get that that certainly happens.
Speaker 2: But in some cases, I wonder, is the red tape
Speaker 2: there because it's things like building code, or it's there
Speaker 2: because it's things like the Coastal Commission. And I know
Speaker 2: you might be frustrated with the Coastal Commission, but you
Speaker 2: know they have a purpose. I always wonder when we
Speaker 2: say we're gonna get rid of the red tape, what
Speaker 2: is it that we are getting rid of. Look in
Speaker 2: many cases, I'm all for it. Please don't misunderstand what
Speaker 2: I'm saying as being an advocate for more regulation. I
Speaker 2: just think there's a reason in most cases that we
Speaker 2: have regulation in the first place. And I'm a little
Speaker 2: nervous about us saying, oh, we get rid of regulation.
Speaker 2: It's like when we say let's cut government waste. What
Speaker 2: does that mean? What is government waste? People say it's
Speaker 2: a seventeen thousand dollars hammer. Okay, I agree, that's government waste?
Speaker 2: Is it? Is it three million dollars so the president
Speaker 2: can go golfing? It is on golf cup club. Well, no,
Speaker 2: that's not government waste. Okay, all right, that's a lot
Speaker 2: of hammers. Right, So all of a sudden, we pick
Speaker 2: and choose what we consider to be waste, or we
Speaker 2: choose which regulations we say are important which ones are not.
Speaker 3: All right, back to what Newsom was doing.
Speaker 8: Newsom's saying he's committed to assisting the Los Angeles community
Speaker 8: recover from these fires, not hindering their efforts.
Speaker 5: What's on my mind is what's on everybody's mind in
Speaker 5: the state, is can we get a past partisan ship?
Speaker 8: Newsom meeting with bipartisan lawmakers like Brad Sherman, Judy chu Ken, Calvert,
Speaker 8: Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, Rafael Warnock, and Patty Murray.
Speaker 3: Oh good, Yeah, it's all star team.
Speaker 8: What Newsom also met with President Trump at the White House?
Speaker 3: All right, that's the one we wanted to hear.
Speaker 9: California in North Carolina who continue to be on our hearts,
Speaker 9: and the President and this administration are committed to ensuring
Speaker 9: that these individuals get the funding that they need.
Speaker 1: It's impossible to see how California could rebuild without a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount a federal financial aid.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Agree, and so yes.
Speaker 8: It's in the governor's best interest.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to do every think he can, uh huh, to
Speaker 6: make amends to Trump.
Speaker 7: Even given the very significant differences they've had in the past.
Speaker 2: Okay, I agree, and I'm glad that he's doing that,
Speaker 2: although I think this is part of Newsome playing Trump.
Speaker 2: When you fight Trump, you lose. When you when you
Speaker 2: sidle up to Trump, you win. And Newsome's figuring that out.
Speaker 2: That's that's he goes. Okay, what's more important? Is it
Speaker 2: more important that I get the win for California or
Speaker 2: is it more important that I resist everything Trump does?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: There'll be a time for each of those, But in
Speaker 2: this case, he goes, I gotta have what's in the
Speaker 2: best interest of California. I don't think anybody here disagrees
Speaker 2: we're gonna need federal assistance to rebuild so much of
Speaker 2: what we've lost. I just think we're gonna need some
Speaker 2: regulation along the way to make sure that we're rebuilding
Speaker 2: it in a way that doesn't set us up for
Speaker 2: another horrible disaster in the next ten years. Meanwhile, on
Speaker 2: one thing that Trump is doing, which we should have
Speaker 2: done ten years ago, but we're not, As he says,
Speaker 2: we got to stop throwing good money after bad at
Speaker 2: the high speed rail.
Speaker 6: High speed rail in California, a project that has been
Speaker 6: under construction and development for several years now and one
Speaker 6: that eventually seeks to connect southern California to northern California,
Speaker 6: specifically Anaheim to San Francisco at first and eventually San
Speaker 6: Diego to Sacramento.
Speaker 3: Oh won't that be nice?
Speaker 2: But the product, if only we could do it for
Speaker 2: what we agreed on to begin with, like thirty billion dollars.
Speaker 6: Oh No object has not come without its critics, including
Speaker 6: President Donald Trump and me.
Speaker 3: This is what he said Tuesday.
Speaker 5: The train is being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Speaker 5: Is the worst managed project I think I've ever seen,
Speaker 5: and I've seen some of the worst.
Speaker 6: Is primary concern, he says, the high cost.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mine too. I wouldn't even say it's poorly managed,
Speaker 3: it's just poorly conceived.
Speaker 6: The California High Speed Rail Authority acknowledges the original plan
Speaker 6: presented to voters in two thousand and eight indicated the
Speaker 6: project would cost about forty five billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, forty five billion, little more than I wanted
Speaker 2: to spend, but that was for the whole thing, right,
Speaker 2: what are we.
Speaker 3: At right now?
Speaker 6: In fact, the twenty twenty four business plan released by
Speaker 6: the High Speed Rail Authority included new projections, sowing the
Speaker 6: project could now cost anywhere between eighty eight to one
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty eight billion dollars by completion.
Speaker 3: Nah.
Speaker 2: Nah, I think I've told this story before. When I
Speaker 2: when I first moved to California, it was I'm so,
Speaker 2: we're coming up on an anniversary here. I think next
Speaker 2: week would be exactly thirteen years since I arrived. And
Speaker 2: when I first came here that I learned all about
Speaker 2: this high speed rail, and I went, okay, voters approved
Speaker 2: eight billion dollars. We expected the cost to be thirty
Speaker 2: to forty five billion dollars. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I first got here again twenty twelve and they said, oh,
Speaker 2: that projection is up to fifty billion dollar and I said,
Speaker 2: you watch, this is going to go over one hundred
Speaker 2: billion dollars.
Speaker 3: And boy was wrong.
Speaker 2: I mean, we blew past one hundred billion dollars and
Speaker 2: we haven't even connected.
Speaker 3: A single city yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're at what did you say, one
Speaker 2: twenty eight on the high It's not coming in at
Speaker 2: the low end. No, no, new They gave you a
Speaker 2: window of eighty eight to one hundred twenty eight billion dollar.
Speaker 3: That's the window.
Speaker 2: The original cost was supposed to be forty five billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Now our window is almost as much as the original
Speaker 2: estimate was. This is going to skyrocket well past two
Speaker 2: hundred billion. And I got a feeling that in the
Speaker 2: next five to ten years, I'm going to be saying, man,
Speaker 2: I said two hundred billion, it's going to be half.
Speaker 3: A trillion dollars. Yep. And Trump says, knock it off.
Speaker 7: It's impossible.
Speaker 3: That something.
Speaker 5: Because that much, We're going to start a big investigation
Speaker 5: on that, because it's I've.
Speaker 3: Never seen anything like it.
Speaker 2: Okay, enough of the investigation. We don't need an investigation
Speaker 2: into it. It's just ill conceived and stop wasting money.
Speaker 3: That's it. Cut it now now.
Speaker 6: The High Speed Rail Authority is responding to two, noting
Speaker 6: the original forty five billion dollar estimate quote did not
Speaker 6: account for inflation or any unknown changes in scope.
Speaker 2: Didn't think to throw that in there, thought in two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight there would be no inflation.
Speaker 6: They call that a lesson learned, as their estimates now
Speaker 6: account for these issues, helping explain the.
Speaker 2: Cost difference and the window of forty billion dollars.
Speaker 3: No nothing there.
Speaker 6: The High Speed Rail Authority tells us the portion of
Speaker 6: the project connecting Anaheim to San Francisco has no completion date.
Speaker 3: It's not getting done. Listen.
Speaker 2: I know for you that that that like your rail.
Speaker 2: You like your high speed rail, and I think the
Speaker 2: one in Vegas is probably gonna be fine. You want
Speaker 2: the high speed rail. You see it as being very European.
Speaker 2: You go, look, this is the more sophisticated way to travel.
Speaker 3: We're going to be we're gonna be a we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Be a more sophisticated society because we're going to have
Speaker 2: our high speed rail. I understand the romanticism you feel
Speaker 2: around it. You will not ride a high speed rail
Speaker 2: from Anah I'm to San Francisco in your lifetime. It
Speaker 2: will not happen. In fact, I'm gonna go on a
Speaker 2: limit and say it's not gonna happen during your child's lifetime.
Speaker 3: It ain't happening.
Speaker 2: And I know that they have it on the East Coast,
Speaker 2: not high speed, but they have rail that's very popular
Speaker 2: on the East Coast.
Speaker 3: I get it. It ain't happening here. It's just not.
Speaker 2: It's look, mass transit is fine in the urban area.
Speaker 2: We are in automobile society, and California, as much as
Speaker 2: anybody has a love affair with automobiles, it's not happening.
Speaker 2: Quit sinking money into into this mess. We're doing it.
Speaker 2: Nobody listens. Why would you, big goober on the radio?
Speaker 2: Nobody listens. Sorry, more politics as usual, including taking on
Speaker 2: maybe the biggest threat to our society. And it's about
Speaker 2: time somebody put a stop to this abomination that's been
Speaker 2: taken over our country.
Speaker 3: And our Starbucks.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I just checked the score, so yeah, wow, did the
Speaker 2: Chiefs have the wrong weekend?
Speaker 3: Andrew? They did? They not get the start time and
Speaker 3: date right? What happened there? WHOA? Yeah?
Speaker 7: No, you think he's still gonna propose maybe to Taylor
Speaker 7: after No, he.
Speaker 3: Wasn't going to in the first place. Just garbage.
Speaker 2: So I asked the question, if you're listening on the app,
Speaker 2: why is it that you're not watching the game? Not
Speaker 2: that I'm complaining, I'm very excited that you're here, but
Speaker 2: why is it that you are not taking part in
Speaker 2: this big cultural celebration of foods ball. I've not watching
Speaker 2: or listening to the game because I was born in
Speaker 2: Mexico and race on a ranch.
Speaker 8: Oh so I lacked the sports team, so I'd rather
Speaker 8: listen to you.
Speaker 3: Oh great show? All right, thanks man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if I were in Mexico, though, as
Speaker 2: there's a big, you know, soccer tournament or something going on,
Speaker 2: I think I would watch it just the same, just
Speaker 2: be a part of it. But then again, he said
Speaker 2: he lacks the sports gene, so I guess I've got that.
Speaker 3: I would I would want to be a part of that.
Speaker 3: All right, how about you?
Speaker 7: The reason I'm not watching the game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was born without the sports gene. Oh he
Speaker 3: doesn't have it either, a lot of people without jeans
Speaker 3: on today.
Speaker 7: I mean, what about just the commercials though, I mean
Speaker 7: some people just look forward to the commercials.
Speaker 2: I cannot stand the commercial no yet, oh so overblown.
Speaker 7: You don't have a favorite super Bowl commercial? Come on?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But if he pressed me, I could come up with
Speaker 2: some that I thought were classics. And but you know
Speaker 2: what I like the most about the commercials is seeing
Speaker 2: the rejects play a couple of weeks before the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know you're watching streaming. I have all
Speaker 2: the ad supported streamings, and so you'll see a commercial
Speaker 2: play and you go that commercial seemed a little too
Speaker 2: high budget, too clever, maybe a little bit silly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was one of those that they that they commissioned
Speaker 2: for the Super Bowl, but they opted for a for
Speaker 2: one instead.
Speaker 3: So I love that.
Speaker 2: What I can't stand now is that we've gotten into
Speaker 2: the commercials promoting the commercials. If you watch this last week,
Speaker 2: there was a Stella Artois commercially came out where David
Speaker 2: Beckham was told that he had a twin, and you
Speaker 2: need to watch for the Stella Artois commercial to find
Speaker 2: out who David Beckham's twin is. We're having a commercial
Speaker 2: for a commercial. You don't like that, but yet I
Speaker 2: just said Stella artois now three times, so I guess
Speaker 2: it works.
Speaker 3: But whatever, not my thing. Quick politics as usual run down.
Speaker 2: Here's some stuff that happened this week, including a crackdown
Speaker 2: on something that has been threatening all of us for
Speaker 2: a very long time.
Speaker 3: All right, the News Nation with a quick rundown.
Speaker 9: This week, President Trump put a roadblock on Biden's electric
Speaker 9: vehicle charging network. The Transportation Department says it's freezing funds
Speaker 9: for the grid of charging stations.
Speaker 2: Wait, we're just not going to allow charging stations. Oh,
Speaker 2: we're not going to have the tax dollars pay for
Speaker 2: the charging station.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, so whatever for three billion of the
Speaker 10: five billion dollars appropriated through Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law has
Speaker 10: been dished out to the states.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was passed by everybody, but that's fine, go ahead.
Speaker 9: Democrats argue it's unconstitutional for the executive branch to overturn
Speaker 9: actions approved by Congress. It is so essentially a major
Speaker 9: court battle is in store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine if Biden had come in and said, we're
Speaker 2: going to cut funding that was meant to help with
Speaker 2: oil exploration in Alaska. Right, we're going to cut subsidies
Speaker 2: to exceon. Oh, people go, you can't executive order that.
Speaker 2: But we're just playing the game left versus right.
Speaker 9: Another hot button issue a stir today.
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 3: Right, here's the important stuff.
Speaker 9: Plastic straws.
Speaker 2: Plastic straws the bane of society.
Speaker 9: President Trump announcing he'll sign an executive order next week
Speaker 9: ying bands of restrictions on plastic straws.
Speaker 3: We're going to ban the band this.
Speaker 9: After President Biden directed the federal government to phase out
Speaker 9: all single use plastics by twenty thirty five. The order
Speaker 9: could end up impacting plastic straw bands and restrictions in
Speaker 9: more than a dozen Democratic states across the country.
Speaker 2: It's also going to make it harder for seat turtles
Speaker 2: to do cocaine. I don't know if you've ever tried
Speaker 2: to do that with the plastic straw underwater. It is
Speaker 2: not easy. I think we can all agree on that.
Speaker 2: What about the other issue that we're all wondering when
Speaker 2: is this going to be handled, and the answer is
Speaker 2: probably never. What is really bugging us as we get
Speaker 2: distracted by cocaine addicted seat turtles? It's the birds.
Speaker 1: Man, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I always appreciate when east Sabella plays the the Bumper
Speaker 2: music and chooses something from Silence of the Lambs.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yep, do me our doo me do me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, that's that's when it was playing, right, That's when
Speaker 2: he was yeah, well I'm yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: You're the first person to point that out. I've really
Speaker 3: I've used this song so many times.
Speaker 2: No, no, I it's the first time I've not held
Speaker 2: my tongue for sure.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: We asked you why you're listening to the show instead
Speaker 2: of watching the Super Bowl. Not that I'm complaining, very
Speaker 2: happy to have you, and some of you say you
Speaker 2: don't have the sports gene for others Boiler Alert. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're you're listening to the show because the first half
Speaker 2: was so.
Speaker 3: Bad, so bad.
Speaker 7: It could have been so good for some so I know.
Speaker 2: But as far as the game goes, I know if
Speaker 2: you're a fan of the team, that's ahead boiler alert.
Speaker 2: Then you're probably flying high right now. But a lot
Speaker 2: of my friends live in the Kansas City area and
Speaker 2: they are all talking about, oh, who needs to go,
Speaker 2: what the team needs to do? I mean, they are
Speaker 2: melting down right now. I should also point this out, Andrew,
Speaker 2: are you working during the week at all this week?
Speaker 7: I could if there's an emergency.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. The new program director, big Chiefs fan.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, well, hopefully he's not listening to this.
Speaker 2: He might have just turned us on because he's so frustrated.
Speaker 2: He's probably taking notes. We're gonna get some nasty grams
Speaker 2: here very shortly from him saying, well, I wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: watch the rest of that game, so I was listening
Speaker 2: to your crap show. Anyway, Hit that talk back button
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app and let us know why it
Speaker 2: is that. Maybe you're not watching the game. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: because your team is behind by a lot. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: because your team is ahead by a lot. Maybe it
Speaker 2: is because you're just stuck in traffic, which I know
Speaker 2: has been miserable around different areas.
Speaker 3: Tonight, we're talking about the high.
Speaker 2: Speed rail and President Trump says California needs to stop.
Speaker 2: The high speed rail has been a terribly mismanaged project.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts, right, A trolley high train in San Francis,
Speaker 4: John would take a trouble of hours or so, it
Speaker 4: tastes the waste makes money, efficiency doesn't huh, And trolley's
Speaker 4: are efficient day?
Speaker 3: All right? Thank you? You know what?
Speaker 7: I like trolley's. Mister Rogers had a little red trolley
Speaker 7: on his show.
Speaker 3: Right, was that supposed to be? Was that set anywhere? Yes?
Speaker 7: It was mister rogers neighborhood, I know. But was it
Speaker 7: set in San Francisco?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: I actually believe it was Pennsylvania because that's the area
Speaker 7: that he's from.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
Speaker 2: Do they have trolley's other other I mean I always
Speaker 2: think of San Francisco.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, there's this one in Anaheim. It's in this
Speaker 7: uh California Adventure that that that theme park they have
Speaker 7: a trolley. I don't count those. What what about the
Speaker 7: Americana and Glendale did they still have That's a good one.
Speaker 3: Trolley.
Speaker 7: I like that trolley.
Speaker 2: It's just like mass transit though, like for instance, yeah, no, right,
Speaker 2: I lived in San Diego. They had the Old Town
Speaker 2: trolley too, you know, but that was a tourist thing.
Speaker 2: As far as actual transportation, nobody really uses the trolley
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 3: Nobody uses it. I appreciate you pulling it with the
Speaker 3: callback to the word trolley though. I like that.
Speaker 2: Did you you probably heard the story earlier this week
Speaker 2: that there were what one hundred thousand eggs I think
Speaker 2: that were stolen in Pennsylvania speaking of Pensylvania, probably off
Speaker 2: a trolley. Trolley's moved too slow. It's easy to rob,
Speaker 2: especially if they have eggs. So I think it was
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand eggs they stole there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I did that story. That was a good one.
Speaker 3: Now, out of Seattle, did you see this one?
Speaker 2: Police investigating a brazen theft at a West Seattle cafe.
Speaker 2: Thieves made off with hundreds of eggs and other breakfast
Speaker 2: foods Wednesday, Lunapart Cafe. They got to bust it into
Speaker 2: five hundred and forty eggs, valued at three hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty seven dollars. Also stolen bacon, beef, blueberries, and liquid
Speaker 2: egg products.
Speaker 7: I mean, have police cracked the case yet?
Speaker 3: Stop?
Speaker 2: Nope, No, you're not Ponny weren't Nope? Okay, nope, I'm
Speaker 2: not doing that.
Speaker 7: I thought I was. I thought I was sizzling over here.
Speaker 2: I'm just no, no, nope, your jokes are waffling at best,
Speaker 2: which is exact. Stop, it's what's happening at the waffle house. Uh,
Speaker 2: maybe you caught this one too. Because we are crazy
Speaker 2: about our eggs all of a sud.
Speaker 11: Some places like Trader Joe's are I wouldn't say they're
Speaker 11: going to egg streams, but.
Speaker 7: It's a news thing. What can I say?
Speaker 3: I know, like, who hurt you in life?
Speaker 2: Who did so much damage to you that that's the
Speaker 2: only joy you got?
Speaker 3: And is it?
Speaker 2: Is it funny or is it so grown worthy that
Speaker 2: you just like torturing other people? Is the real joy
Speaker 2: in erasing all the joy from other people's hearts?
Speaker 3: Is that it okay?
Speaker 11: They are taking some new measures to combat the egg
Speaker 11: shortage now nationwide at all six hundred Trader Joe's stores.
Speaker 11: There's a cap you can only buy one carton of
Speaker 11: eggs per person per day, and the company implemented this.
Speaker 11: We just went inside that this Trader Joe's opened a
Speaker 11: little while ago. We went out inside and there is
Speaker 11: a sign right next to the eggs. They are fully
Speaker 11: stocked right now. But it does say that we encourage
Speaker 11: you to just get one carton.
Speaker 3: We encourage you to just get one cart carton.
Speaker 2: Is that going to be enforced like the express lane
Speaker 2: is at the checkout like twelve items or less. Nobody
Speaker 2: does that, we encourage you to just get one carton. Okay,
Speaker 2: well I'm getting one hundred cartons because everyone seems to
Speaker 2: want eggs, and what are they doing with this stuff?
Speaker 3: Costco will get a shipment of eggs. We'll get a
Speaker 3: truckload of eggs in and.
Speaker 2: Then they'll they'll people come in and they start buying
Speaker 2: those things one case at a time. I worked at
Speaker 2: a restaurant. We used to get cases of eggs, and I
Speaker 2: want to say five times. There evens one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty eggs I think per carton something like that per case,
Speaker 2: maybe it was one eighty, whatever it was.
Speaker 3: We got a ton of eggs.
Speaker 2: We get all these cartons, and we used to do
Speaker 2: a breakfast BFE at this at this country house I
Speaker 2: worked at when I was a teenager. And I'm just thinking,
Speaker 2: each one of those cartons is now worth over one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars. So Costco will get these things and people
Speaker 2: immediately they start loading the carts up with eggs, and
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, what are you doing with them? Are
Speaker 2: these being sold on a black market somewhere? Is somebody
Speaker 2: trying to turn around and at sea the eggs? I
Speaker 2: don't understand. You can't freeze eggs in the in the shell.
Speaker 2: Are they cracking them all, scrambling them and then freezing.
Speaker 3: The the goop.
Speaker 2: I had some people arguing over whether or not you
Speaker 2: could freeze eggs in a shell. No, you can't freeze
Speaker 2: eggs in a shell. Oh, yes you can, if you
Speaker 2: hard boil them first, you can. You can't just freeze
Speaker 2: eggs in a shell. Oh I used to do that
Speaker 2: all the time, I hear. I go, okay, Well that's
Speaker 2: that's why you're like that. Now, that's that's why you
Speaker 2: are the way you are. That's it. Meanwhile, waffle House
Speaker 2: adding a fifty cent per egg surcharge to all of
Speaker 2: their breakfast items. Flip side of that Cracker Barrel they say, no,
Speaker 2: Cracker Barrel says it is inhospitable to charge for eggs.
Speaker 2: They set a sur charge on eggs. Well, there's nothing
Speaker 2: hospitable about that. At Cracker Barrel. Country hospitality is as
Speaker 2: important to us as a hearty breakfast, and that means
Speaker 2: not charging extra for eggs.
Speaker 7: So now there's a waffle war. Is that what you're
Speaker 7: telling me?
Speaker 3: I guess so shots fired, the shots fired.
Speaker 2: They say egg prices are staying the same, but bibbs
Speaker 2: with Bible verses printed on them, those are gonna go up,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. Waffle House announcing they're gonna raise their
Speaker 2: egg prices. As as I mentioned, we are seeing significantly
Speaker 2: more expensive now than they were in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Recent data from the Labor Department shows forty percent in
Speaker 2: Christian January of last year. Agriculture Department predicting prices are
Speaker 2: going to soar another twenty percent this year, all because
Speaker 2: of the bird flu. And what's being done about that?
Speaker 2: Nothing except some people are I don't understand you. They've
Speaker 2: taken to the false economy to solve their own problems.
Speaker 2: They're buying up the backyard chickens. And so where my
Speaker 2: folks live. You can go into the farm store there
Speaker 2: and they've always got these cages filled with.
Speaker 3: Chicks.
Speaker 2: Right, there's peeping around there and there's no cut and chickens, ducks, geese,
Speaker 2: and you'll sell them right there in the farm store.
Speaker 3: You walk in, all the kids want to pet the chickens.
Speaker 3: It's great. Whatever.
Speaker 2: So now people have decided they're gonna start backyard chickening.
Speaker 2: Do you know that is way more expensive than paying
Speaker 2: too much for eggs? Way more expensive. You're paying eight
Speaker 2: bucks a dozen right for eggs, or you're paying five
Speaker 2: fifty or wherever. You're getting somewhere between five and eight
Speaker 2: dollars a dozen for eggs. It's gonna cost you more
Speaker 2: than that to make the eggs out of one chicken.
Speaker 3: You're gonna spend more on the feed and the supplies and.
Speaker 2: The coop and everything else than you will just buying
Speaker 2: the stupid eggs. Oh and I know, but I get
Speaker 2: chickens and my neighbors hate it, and it's a two
Speaker 2: for one when I get to irritate them. No, stop
Speaker 2: doing that. Also, quit trying to freeze your eggs just
Speaker 2: doesn't work. Just what if you need life advice? Will
Speaker 2: you just call me first? I know you get excited
Speaker 2: about things.
Speaker 3: Just call me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you no, all right, it's it's not
Speaker 2: just a Super Bowl, it's a super duper Bowl. The
Speaker 2: segment I didn't want to have to do.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2: And catch us anytime on demand the iHeartRadio app. All right,
Speaker 2: I asked you why you are not watching the super
Speaker 2: Bowl tonight. You're listening to KFI instead. Not that I'm complaining,
Speaker 2: very happy to.
Speaker 3: Have you here toiler.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're not watching because halftime is over and the
Speaker 2: rest of the game has been a huge disappointment. Time
Speaker 2: to leave that super Bowl party because it looks like
Speaker 2: this one. You can put to bed and just get
Speaker 2: updates later on, watch the highlights on YouTube. Yep, that's
Speaker 2: the way you're going to do it from here on out.
Speaker 2: Go ahead for many people that are going to stick
Speaker 2: around and watch the super Bowl because they're already six
Speaker 2: beers in, which is why an awful lot of.
Speaker 3: People have decided to take a day tomorrow. I hate this.
Speaker 2: I was born in a different generation where you don't
Speaker 2: call in sick unless you're sick, and I'm all for
Speaker 2: taking time off. I'm a proponent of the PTO. The
Speaker 2: paid time off doesn't matter, if you're sick, doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: if you are on vacation, doesn't PTO. Take the PTO,
Speaker 2: then I don't have to feel bad about it, But no,
Speaker 2: I gotta call in sick. No, no, no. Hungover is
Speaker 2: not sick. Hungover is unprepared.
Speaker 3: You didn't plan.
Speaker 2: You're drinking right, and so now you're paying the price,
Speaker 2: and now you're going to hump all your work onto
Speaker 2: everybody else. No, I can't stand that, but it is
Speaker 2: the great American sick out.
Speaker 12: You are planning to go to the office on Monday,
Speaker 12: you might see fewer people than.
Speaker 2: Usual, although does mean I could probably get some promo
Speaker 2: parking KTLA with this report.
Speaker 12: And estimated twenty two point six million Americans planning to
Speaker 12: miss work the day after the Super Bowl. A new
Speaker 12: report by hr technology firm UKG estimates that four million more.
Speaker 2: We had to have a UK technology firm do the
Speaker 2: report because I guess our surveyors were sick. One hundred
Speaker 2: million people watching the game, twenty two million calling out sick.
Speaker 2: We got a twenty two percent sick out rate from
Speaker 2: everybody that watches the game.
Speaker 12: Garbage estimates that four million more Americans will miss work
Speaker 12: Super Bowl Monday compared to last year, with an additional
Speaker 12: thirteen million workers expected to show up late, and that
Speaker 12: number has not included the three million people expected to
Speaker 12: call in sick despite feeling fine for trash. For years,
Speaker 12: football fans have been trying to make Super Bowl Monday
Speaker 12: and national holiday, and forty three percent of Americans now
Speaker 12: support the idea.
Speaker 2: How about an executive order. We executive order everything else,
Speaker 2: it's just executive order another holiday. Yeah, that's legacy there.
Speaker 3: Yep. If Trump were to eo a holiday on Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Monday, historic historic because not only would we have then
Speaker 2: Super Bowl Monday off, you'd have the next Monday off
Speaker 2: too for President's Day?
Speaker 3: Right, because that isn't that right? Seventeenth right is President's
Speaker 3: Day this year? Yep.
Speaker 2: See where I'm going with this, trying to make it
Speaker 2: so that we have four day work weeks. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: if we can't just declare four day work weeks, we're
Speaker 2: just gonna holiday in four day work weeks and.
Speaker 3: I'm all for it. Boom.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, if you did put on a Super Bowl party,
Speaker 2: you know that it cost you more, especially if you
Speaker 2: had any sort of deviled eggs or egg based or
Speaker 2: chicken drummies. That's where the price went up. However, the
Speaker 2: price in some of the other stuff not so bad.
Speaker 2: In fact, I was just at the grocery store today
Speaker 2: and they had a buy two, get three free sale
Speaker 2: on chips. Boy did I make a mistake going to
Speaker 2: the grocery store on Super Bowl Sunday. I thought, if
Speaker 2: I went to the grocery store after, you know, one o'clockish,
Speaker 2: that I would probably be okay.
Speaker 3: I was not.
Speaker 2: I had the show ready to go, and I said,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to the store. By now people
Speaker 2: are setting up their parties. Store is going to be empty.
Speaker 2: Boy was I wrong? I was wrong. It was chaos.
Speaker 2: And at the grocery store that's when they decided they
Speaker 2: needed to restock all the shelves.
Speaker 3: All right then too, Oh, I can't stand that. What
Speaker 3: I should have done is you know the rule, you
Speaker 3: never go to Costco on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Don't do that, because if you're like me, you already
Speaker 2: hate people in general, not you other people, but you
Speaker 2: hate people, You hate parking. You go to Costco because
Speaker 2: you got the Costco card and it's cheap, and you
Speaker 2: know that you have to suck it up every now
Speaker 2: and again and you have to just go and save
Speaker 2: some money and all that other crap. But for the
Speaker 2: most part, it is it is punishment. There's a trade off.
Speaker 2: You're saving good money, but you got to deal with people.
Speaker 2: If I weren't scheduled to work, I would have meandered
Speaker 2: on into that Costco right at kickoff. And I'm a
Speaker 2: football fan, but I would have meandered in rite a
Speaker 2: kickoff three point thirty, pulling into the Costco. But then again,
Speaker 2: based on a number of you that have sent the
Speaker 2: talkbacks as to why you're not watching the game, sounds
Speaker 2: like there's an awful lot of you not watching the game.
Speaker 2: So maybe you all have the same idea too, So
Speaker 2: maybe Costco was chaos. You never go to Costco on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I don't anyway, Saturday Sunday off limits Costco. I kid, don't,
Speaker 2: never do it. Never do it. Meanwhile, yeah, meat, poultry, fish,
Speaker 2: and eggs up significantly this time around, but a number
Speaker 2: of the other sectors are actually down from what they
Speaker 2: were adjusted for inflation from from pre pandemic times. Hopefully
Speaker 2: you got away with saving a little bit of money. Yeah,
Speaker 2: here goes to this goes to my other shoots a
Speaker 2: hole in my costco theory. Study finds tells only only
Speaker 2: forty four excuse me, only forty four percent of young
Speaker 2: adults are watching the Super Bowl Wow three and ten
Speaker 2: are watching the game all by themselves, and again two
Speaker 2: out of five not watching it at all. Overall, about
Speaker 2: sixty four percent of Americans say they plan to watch
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. What does not make sense to me
Speaker 2: is that sixty four percent of Americans would mean that
Speaker 2: we'd have ratings somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty to two hundred thout excuse me, one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty to two hundred million people. And yet when
Speaker 2: the ratings come out, they say that it was closer
Speaker 2: to one twenty ish. So somebody's lying in somebody's survey.
Speaker 2: There you go, that's all you get in the meantime.
Speaker 2: Uh My super producer Kayla, always dependable, always here when
Speaker 2: I need her, Always the one that tells you no
Speaker 2: business like show business. Decided she was going to mail
Speaker 2: it in today. Oh no, she's listening. She keeps sending
Speaker 2: me your talk back. She's monitoring and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: But is she here. She's literally at a Super Bowl
Speaker 3: party while I work. Good for her?
Speaker 7: Hello, Chris A.
Speaker 2: Brigitta de Gastino did break, she did brave the uh
Speaker 2: the mean streets in order to come in today. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for that, Brigina, God bless you. You're
Speaker 2: what we call one of the good ones in this business.
Speaker 11: All right, one who doesn't care about sports exactly.
Speaker 3: I don't think Kayla cares about sports either, and she
Speaker 3: just wants to be at the party.
Speaker 7: She deserves it.
Speaker 3: Come ever done to deserve anything unbelievable, all Right.
Speaker 2: The meantime, there's no you want to do this for
Speaker 2: Gina since Kale is out, we'll audition you.
Speaker 7: Sure, I'm ill, so you know it's gonna go.
Speaker 3: Don't be a streaky all right, here we go. There's
Speaker 3: no business like.
Speaker 2: Okay, that sounded like you Doatrick mahomes impersonation was terrible.
Speaker 3: All right, that's next. Chris Merril k if I AM
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