Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2: Do you okay here with that brooker? All right, I'm good, Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: we're good. Everything's out of control, yeah, very good. Good
Speaker 2: Chinese food getting the wave of news. Okay, first of all,
Speaker 2: it's pie.
Speaker 3: Shut it.
Speaker 4: Everything's out of control.
Speaker 5: Very serious news happening over here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of serious news, I had a fight this week.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you've ever gotten to a
Speaker 2: fight with friends and coworkers, but this was a hell
Speaker 2: of a row. And you know, Friday was pie day
Speaker 2: and one of the guys in the office with whom
Speaker 2: I almost never agree said something about cheesecake and speaking
Speaker 2: of pie, the cheesecake is really good. And one of
Speaker 2: my other friends said cheesecake isn't a pie, it's a cake.
Speaker 2: And I hated to agree with the dude that said
Speaker 2: cheesecake is a pie, but it's a pie, and the
Speaker 2: other it's a cake. It's right there in the name.
Speaker 2: It's not a cake. You don't bake it. And we're
Speaker 2: gonna baked pie either. Okay, it's got a crust and
Speaker 2: a filling. It's a pie and they know it's cake, like, okay, Well,
Speaker 2: then what is key lime pie. That's pie. It's in
Speaker 2: the name. It's the same thing. It's a crust with
Speaker 2: a filling. So you know, there are people in my
Speaker 2: life that I have to I have to really consider
Speaker 2: at this point, I'm thinking of I'm thinking of unfriending
Speaker 2: some actual friends actually go on. According to Google, Google's
Speaker 2: lie is a hybrid.
Speaker 5: I just read the same thing. It's it's its own
Speaker 5: third category.
Speaker 2: M It's like plasma, right what, Yeah, plasma is like
Speaker 2: it's not a liquid. It's not a solid.
Speaker 5: Oh, I was thinking of like blood plasma in your.
Speaker 2: Bloody Okay, Now, now my reference was a bit. It's a.
Speaker 6: Says it's more accurately classified as a custard pie or
Speaker 6: a tart.
Speaker 2: You're a tart. I knew you were gonna see it.
Speaker 2: I just knew it. You knew you set them up
Speaker 2: pretty obvious. Did you guys see the polls that came
Speaker 2: out here? Nobody likes the Democrats right now, the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party's favorability rankings among Americans standing at a record low,
Speaker 2: many of the parties saying publicly that their leaders should
Speaker 2: do more to stand up to President Trump. Democrats and
Speaker 2: Democratic Aligned Independence say fifty seven forty two Democrats should
Speaker 2: mainly work to stop the Republican agenda rather than working
Speaker 2: with the GOP majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation.
Speaker 2: So they're saying this is just terrible. And you've seen
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer has dealt with the fallout. Some are saying
Speaker 2: that he capitulated, he gave in, he's weak, there's no spine,
Speaker 2: this sort of thing. They want to see fight, fight fight.
Speaker 2: I don't see the value in that, and I know
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have some of my Democratic friends get mad
Speaker 2: at me. What what shut down the government? And who
Speaker 2: are gonna play? Democrats are already unpopular right now, and
Speaker 2: then you're gonna shut down the government. The Republicans in
Speaker 2: the past, when they shut down the government, it's because
Speaker 2: they're trying to be sticks in the mud, right They
Speaker 2: want to go, we're not gonna we're gonna shut down
Speaker 2: the governmentunless you give us what we want. And then
Speaker 2: they pout. And then you've got Democrats that are like, well,
Speaker 2: that's what we should do. Either you are gonna play
Speaker 2: the game or you're not gonna play the game. And
Speaker 2: the Democrats in the past have said, we're not playing
Speaker 2: this game, right the Republicans going, no, this is the game.
Speaker 2: We're writing the rules. And so they wrote the rules,
Speaker 2: and now Democrats have a chance to play the game,
Speaker 2: and the leadership goes, we're not shutting the country down.
Speaker 2: I know the problem that Schumer has that he said
Speaker 2: earlier in the week that he would but it was dumb.
Speaker 2: Is dumb. You're gonna shut the government down, and then
Speaker 2: what then you're putting everybody out of business, So you're
Speaker 2: trying to save doge cuts by what cutting everybody? It
Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. And now then next time that
Speaker 2: the Democrats have controlled and the Republicans want to play
Speaker 2: this game, then they can say, look, we didn't play
Speaker 2: this game when you had the upper hand. So you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, well, it's weakness how you have to get
Speaker 2: things done. So I don't, I don't. I don't think
Speaker 2: it was a poor decision because I like to see
Speaker 2: some modicum of function happening in DC, and shutting the
Speaker 2: government down is the epitome of dysfunction. Meanwhile, let me
Speaker 2: see who was Yeah A bild of Blasio, former New
Speaker 2: York City mayor, was on News Nation talking about the
Speaker 2: issues within the party. Because obviously you're not going to
Speaker 2: have more than fifty percent supporting the party because fifty
Speaker 2: percent of the country doesn't agree with the party, so
Speaker 2: already you're gonna below fifty percent. Now, what's happening is
Speaker 2: the Democrats don't know what direction they want to go in.
Speaker 2: You've got some that are saying we need to fight, fight, fight.
Speaker 2: You've got others that are saying we need to buide
Speaker 2: our time, keep letting Trump be Trump, and he'll he'll
Speaker 2: do enough damage to himself. And then you have others
Speaker 2: that are saying, just go along, to get along, just
Speaker 2: get through a couple of years. Right. So there's just
Speaker 2: there's dysfunction happening right now. This was de Blasio was
Speaker 2: on News Nation talking.
Speaker 7: About former Democratic mayor of New York City Builds A
Speaker 7: Blasio mayor.
Speaker 8: Your party in DC deeply divided over this government funding bill.
Speaker 3: How do Democrats now move forward?
Speaker 9: Well, Hannah, we've got issues, so we have some.
Speaker 2: Real things to resolve.
Speaker 9: But I also want to say this was a kind
Speaker 9: of impossible choice, let's be honest about it. As a
Speaker 9: result of the election, we were dealing with a Senate
Speaker 9: reality where it was going to be a bad outcome,
Speaker 9: no matter what Now, Where was the mistake? I would
Speaker 9: say it was in not setting the stage properly. This
Speaker 9: is where the Democratic leadership has said, Hey, everyone, this
Speaker 9: is what we're really dealing with, and if we're going
Speaker 9: to make this compromise choice to buy into this bill,
Speaker 9: it's simply so we can live to fight another day.
Speaker 9: And it's because we want to keep all the pressure
Speaker 9: on Donald Trump and Elon Musk for what they're doing
Speaker 9: to this country, what they're doing to the economy, what
Speaker 9: they're doing to working people. That would have been a
Speaker 9: coherent message to get people ready for sort of the
Speaker 9: shock of having to accept this thing.
Speaker 1: Look, this has happened.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 9: Now the real question is can Democrats get back on
Speaker 9: the offensive because there's a lot to work with, and
Speaker 9: I think a lot of Americans think what Trump and
Speaker 9: Musk are doing is extreme. So I chalked this one
Speaker 9: up to it really is. It's a bad situation, but
Speaker 9: it's one we got to put past us and now
Speaker 9: get on the offensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, if you're a Democrat, I don't know where
Speaker 2: you find fault in that. But you've got a lot
Speaker 2: of Democrats that are like, no, just don't even talk
Speaker 2: to the Republicans. You've got Republicans advising Democrats don't talk
Speaker 2: to the Republicans. Adam Kinsinger was on CNN. He was
Speaker 2: on a newsroom. Excuse me, he was on CNN talking
Speaker 2: about Newsom. I can read because did you see in
Speaker 2: Governor Newsom's latest podcast, which, by the way, that's pretty
Speaker 2: bold to keep doing more podcasts because it's some point,
Speaker 2: at some point he's gonna put his foot in his mouth.
Speaker 2: But he had Bannon, he had Charlie Kirka on last week,
Speaker 2: and then now he's got Steve Bannon on and Adam
Speaker 2: King Kinsinger, former Republican congressman, not happy about it.
Speaker 11: I think that's a lesson that we learned after President Trump.
Speaker 11: And look, you know we disagree on this, but President
Speaker 11: Trump won the twenty twenty election and we were kind
Speaker 11: of shattered as a movement when he left Washington, d c.
Speaker 11: And we had to go back to basics.
Speaker 2: And then, by the way, Bannon was on there and
Speaker 2: he was still doing the whole election denial thing when
Speaker 2: he was talking with Newsom, and Newsom didn't really push back.
Speaker 11: To say, you know, it can't be somebody else do something.
Speaker 11: You know, we had to do something, and that's where
Speaker 11: we went back to really a pure populist movement to
Speaker 11: go at the grassroots, the precinct strategy and kind of
Speaker 11: rebuild ourselves from there.
Speaker 12: Well, and I appreciate the notion of agency that we're
Speaker 12: not by I'm sorry, that's that was Bannon speaking.
Speaker 2: And then this is from the podcast, by apologies as
Speaker 2: standards in the world.
Speaker 12: It's decisions, not conditions that determine our fade in future.
Speaker 2: All right, So then Newsom comes back, just speaks some platitudes.
Speaker 2: What does he say here? There's nothing, he says.
Speaker 12: Well, and I appreciate the notion of agency that we're
Speaker 12: not bystanders in the world. It's decisions, not conditions that
Speaker 12: determine our fade in future.
Speaker 2: That's just a catchphrase. It's decisions, not conditions that decide
Speaker 2: our fate.
Speaker 3: Come on, as you can see there, Newsom just.
Speaker 2: And then the CNN hosts, she'd laying it on pretty
Speaker 2: thick here let it go.
Speaker 3: He didn't check Bannon's election. Lie, So are these current
Speaker 3: Democrats the ones to meet the moment? Well, who knows,
Speaker 3: But you know, I listened to that podcast and it
Speaker 3: was like one of those things where it's like, that's
Speaker 3: the only thing you can hear. Yeah, yeah, I was
Speaker 3: like wait what. It was almost like Bannon was expecting
Speaker 3: to pushback and it never came yes, So then he
Speaker 3: just continued.
Speaker 2: Look, this is kinsing your hair. Look, this is.
Speaker 13: The uh so Newsom is very transparently running for president.
Speaker 13: I always thought he was kind of a he'll be
Speaker 13: whatever he needs to be a politician.
Speaker 1: This is way worse.
Speaker 13: Look, there are many of us that actually, I'm not
Speaker 13: saying this for sympathy, but basically sacrificed a career taking
Speaker 13: on people like Steve Bannon. Newsom is trying to build
Speaker 13: a career by somebody like Steve Bannon.
Speaker 2: This is not This isn't.
Speaker 13: Joanah Goldberg coming on and talking about the differences between
Speaker 13: conservative and this is a guy who said who basically
Speaker 13: built his supporters by the way for a fake wall,
Speaker 13: went to jail for not coming to Congress, said right
Speaker 13: before January sixth that this was going to be basically
Speaker 13: it's going to blow your socks off. What happens like
Speaker 13: this is a bad man and to platform him and
Speaker 13: think that somehow, I don't know what Newsom thinks he's
Speaker 13: gonna win by.
Speaker 2: This yeah, I do. Newsom thinks he's going to talk
Speaker 2: with some of Bannon's people. He's going to portray himself
Speaker 2: as a guy that's willing to talk and willing to
Speaker 2: listen to other sides so that he can paint himself
Speaker 2: as someone who wants to bring function back to DC.
Speaker 2: That's the long term goal on this.
Speaker 10: And.
Speaker 2: I mean he's going to lean into that. Whether it
Speaker 2: works or doesn't work will remain to be seen. But people,
Speaker 2: how dare he platform? Manon's popular, He's popular among the
Speaker 2: people on the right. Charlie Kirk is popular among the
Speaker 2: people on the right. And incidentally, Charlie Kirk I've done
Speaker 2: with that interview with Newsom goes on Fox News and
Speaker 2: then bad mouse Newsom for being the worst governor in
Speaker 2: America and YadA, YadA, YadA. But Newsom's gonna try to
Speaker 2: paint himself as the guy who's willing to speak to
Speaker 2: even the most extreme because we have to be able
Speaker 2: to talk. We can't function if we don't talk and
Speaker 2: listen to one another. That's it. That's what he's doing.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, we're watching what's going on in DC,
Speaker 2: and is it possible this is the last good Saint
Speaker 2: Patrick's Day. You're gonna find out why I say that. Next,
Speaker 2: Chris Merril k I AM six forty were live everywhere
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, right, Chris.
Speaker 2: Merril KFI AM six forty. More stimulating talk. And is
Speaker 2: this going to be the last great Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 2: I think it's possible. And here's why. We can drink
Speaker 2: domestic beer with green food coloring, but Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2: You want to drink Guinness, don't you. We can drink
Speaker 2: Jack Daniels, but for Saint Patrick's say, you want to
Speaker 2: drink Jamison, don't you? I mean, we can drink other
Speaker 2: Irish creams that are made here, but we want Bailey's,
Speaker 2: don't we. Yep, As we know, Saint Patrick's Day well
Speaker 2: known as a drinking holiday. And now it looks like
Speaker 2: we could have massive tariffs on all of the booze
Speaker 2: from overseas.
Speaker 14: President Trump is escalating his trade war now, threatening to
Speaker 14: impose a massive tariff on European alcohol. This response to
Speaker 14: the EU's retaliation against his steel and aluminum tariffs. The
Speaker 14: President saying if the European Union goes forward with its
Speaker 14: plan to add a fifty percent tariff on American whiskey,
Speaker 14: then he will impose a two hundred tariff on all
Speaker 14: European wine, champagne, and spirits. Trump's threats of additional tariffs
Speaker 14: comes after the EU announced plans just yesterday to slap
Speaker 14: tariffs on twenty eight billion dollars worth of US goods.
Speaker 14: Those EU tariffs were in response to Trump's tariffs on
Speaker 14: steel and aluminum imports.
Speaker 2: Wow, just for perspective, what I mean? Obviously the wine
Speaker 2: from Italy, which that could be good for US, right,
Speaker 2: they could be good for California, but for somebody like
Speaker 2: me who loved Scotch, Nope, Scotch has to come from Scotland.
Speaker 2: Otherwise you can't call it Scotch in the same way
Speaker 2: that you can't call champagne champagne unless it comes from
Speaker 2: Champagne region in France. So that would be out. You'd
Speaker 2: have sparkling wine from here on out. No Jamison, no Scotch.
Speaker 2: What about what else? No Italian wines? What else am
Speaker 2: I missing? Guys? I mean? Tequila? Right? Tequila? Well, that
Speaker 2: comes from Mexico. So yeah, So if he if he
Speaker 2: imposes the tariffs on all alcohols, then that would mean
Speaker 2: tequila too. Yes, but if it's just European countries, then
Speaker 2: tequila would be spared. But you're right, tequila has to
Speaker 2: come from from Mexico.
Speaker 5: All those German beers, Oh is it German beer?
Speaker 15: October Fest canceled, canceled.
Speaker 2: You talk about a cancel culture.
Speaker 5: I mean I am leaving if that happened, moving to Canada,
Speaker 5: moving to Canada, drink Crown Royal.
Speaker 2: It's all IM gonna do, no long I'm going to Canada.
Speaker 2: Let me see. Oh now, why are the European countries
Speaker 2: and Canada. You've seen Canada that's encouraging people to drink
Speaker 2: Canadian alcohol. Don't drink American whiskeyes. You see that they
Speaker 2: are specifically targeting red states. They're doing this in order
Speaker 2: to impose the maximum pain on the president. So they
Speaker 2: want this to affect everyone that voted for Trump. The
Speaker 2: other countries are saying, your elections have consequences, So China
Speaker 2: targeting corn farmers and car makers, Canada putting tariffs and
Speaker 2: poultry plants and air conditioning manufacturers, Europe hitting the American
Speaker 2: steel mills and slaughterhouses, and overwhelmingly this is affecting the
Speaker 2: Trump counties. Now, part of this, too is just sort
Speaker 2: of natural demographics. And by that I mean Harris did
Speaker 2: really well. The Democrats do really well in heavily populated areas.
Speaker 2: Generally speaking, urban and suburban areas tend to vote more democratically,
Speaker 2: rural areas tend to vote more conservatively. Part of that
Speaker 2: has to do with the individual rugged individualism versus it
Speaker 2: takes a village sort of mentality that that urban areas have.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of different perspectives that play into this.
Speaker 2: But also when it comes to manufacturing, a great deal
Speaker 2: of manufacturing comes from the rural counties, the blue collar counties, right,
Speaker 2: And so as a result, products that are going to
Speaker 2: be tariffed. If you tariff products that are manufactured here,
Speaker 2: more manufacturing goes on in red counties. It's just the
Speaker 2: way it is now. We do have a lot, we
Speaker 2: do have some manufacturing that are in blue states and
Speaker 2: even blue counties, especially when you think of the Bay
Speaker 2: Area and you've got chip production and software production and
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. But largely, I mean, if you
Speaker 2: talk about agriculture, red states and especially Red counties, I
Speaker 2: mean you talk about the alcohol you're talking about Kentucky, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: You're talking about the Red States, right, if you talk
Speaker 2: about some of these other it's coming from the Red
Speaker 2: States and red counties because they are the producers as
Speaker 2: opposed to the managers that tend to be in the
Speaker 2: city centers. Stands to reason. But it also is a
Speaker 2: benefit to these other countries that are intentionally trying to
Speaker 2: make sure that Trump feels the most pain. He wants
Speaker 2: his voter. These other countries want his voters to turn
Speaker 2: on him. That's their plan. Okay, Can I ask a question?
Speaker 2: You may go ahead, yes, roll in the back.
Speaker 6: How does this affect duty free like at the airport? First,
Speaker 6: I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the tariffs affect that or how
Speaker 2: they affect how they affect that for you you can
Speaker 2: still keep sneaking things into your luggage.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm just saying, let's just all go to the airport,
Speaker 6: load up, and then just take off.
Speaker 2: Oh and then not pay any tariffs at all. There
Speaker 2: you go? Is that what the thing? Okay? All right,
Speaker 2: I'll follow your lead. You go, I'll I'll be right
Speaker 2: behind you. We'll just see how it works when the
Speaker 2: irs comes knocking on your door. I'll go it. It
Speaker 2: was his plan. It was all his plan. I have
Speaker 2: no idea. That's a good question. We'll bing that during
Speaker 2: the break. In the meantime, I spent all day long
Speaker 2: today not watching the marathon. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: you were fixated on it. I was watching the madness
Speaker 2: because the greatest two days in American sports are this week.
Speaker 2: How well you're preparing for it is next Chris Merril
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Speaker 2: If you hear me say something you don't like, feel
Speaker 2: free to yell me. If you hear me say something
Speaker 2: that could have been funnier, feel free to give me
Speaker 2: a better punch line. I love it. The madness of
Speaker 2: March is upon us. The greatest two days in American
Speaker 2: sports are Thursday and Friday. I have a very long
Speaker 2: road trip plan for Thursday and Friday. I'm in for
Speaker 2: Bill Handle the next three mornings, so my apologies in advance.
Speaker 2: Then Thursday Friday, I got to do cross country road trip.
Speaker 2: I have to take my dog. I have to drive
Speaker 2: my dog to Michigan because my dog's too fat to fly.
Speaker 2: Who knew, yep, too fat to fly, and so we
Speaker 2: have to drive her. So my wife and I are
Speaker 2: gonna do that. We're gonna drive the dog to Michigan.
Speaker 2: I'll be I will not be here next Sunday. But
Speaker 2: what my wife doesn't know is that I planned this
Speaker 2: road trip specifically for Thursday Friday because I knew that
Speaker 2: there would be something to listen to, and so that's
Speaker 2: what I wanted to do. That was my plan all along.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sad about it either. So she doesn't
Speaker 2: know that the whole plan was to schedule this road
Speaker 2: trip when there would be NonStop basketball games all day
Speaker 2: long going on. But she's about to find out. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: we got the breakdown the tournament brackets. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: think how many California schools did we get in here?
Speaker 2: Some of these schools. To be honest, I don't even know,
Speaker 2: uh where is uh? Where's Mount Saint Mary's here Rob, Well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw them out. You tell me if you
Speaker 2: know where they are. I know Saint Mary's, the California
Speaker 2: school Where's Mount Saint Mary's. No, no clue, no no idea.
Speaker 2: We just see here I will.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's down south and like in the
Speaker 5: South Bay South Bay are No.
Speaker 2: No, no, but it's it's near. It's in the m
Speaker 2: A A C. Conference. So it's with a bunch of
Speaker 2: New York schools Manhattan, Ionia, Sacred Heart, Niagara. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's Mount Saint Mary's. Yeah. See, this is the time
Speaker 2: of year when we learn about schools we otherwise had
Speaker 2: never heard of.
Speaker 5: We're just so focused on La and So Carolina.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so we do know that we've got San
Speaker 2: Diego State easy and they've got a playoff game. They'll
Speaker 2: take on North Carolina. So go astecs. You see San
Speaker 2: Diego plays my Michigan Wolverines. That's a twelve five seeds.
Speaker 2: A lot of people here to be taking you see
Speaker 2: San Diego. In fact, I got a buddy that grew
Speaker 2: up in ann Arbor and he's very concerned. He says,
Speaker 2: we got a bad draw. His Michigan Wolverines got a
Speaker 2: bad draw. You see. San Diego is really good. They're underrated,
Speaker 2: so that's a great team, he said. But Michigan just
Speaker 2: won the Big Ten Conference, so a lot of stuff there.
Speaker 2: Where's Lipscomb. I don't know the Lipscomb Bisons. Well, Bison
Speaker 2: sounds like it's a Midwest thing, right, they look like
Speaker 2: they're in the South. They played teams like Arkansas, West, Georgia,
Speaker 2: Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville. Okay, who else? Bro who else? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm looking it up to help me here. I know
Speaker 2: I know Saint Mary's U see San Diego, San Diego State,
Speaker 2: UCLA that was the one you were excited about because
Speaker 2: you're a Wooden fan, right, I'm a big Wooden fan. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Overall my doctors are from UCLA, so I want them.
Speaker 2: Okay a, right, pretty well represented into the bracket. The
Speaker 2: top fourteen. By the way, if you're filling out your bracket, Auburn, Duke, Houston,
Speaker 2: and Florida. And I'm I'm telling you this. If you
Speaker 2: are a casual fan who only pays attention to college
Speaker 2: basketball when those brackets came out, come out, excuse me
Speaker 2: and be honest. You pay attention Thursday Friday when everybody
Speaker 2: else in the office is doing it. If you are
Speaker 2: not a basketball fan, you may or may not watch
Speaker 2: any of the games on Saturday Sunday. But then after that,
Speaker 2: if your bracket is busted, as most of us will
Speaker 2: be after the first weekend, you don't even pay attention
Speaker 2: after Oh, Gonzaga too, right, Zags? No Gonzag is it?
Speaker 2: It's a matter with me? I don't know. Sorry, Nope,
Speaker 2: my fault. Sorry, you're not paying attention beyond this. So
Speaker 2: this is really the only weekend for many of you
Speaker 2: that you'll pay attention to any college basketball at all.
Speaker 2: I love it, and I love I love one of
Speaker 2: the things about my jobs that I get to work
Speaker 2: around sports people. They're all smarter than me, but they
Speaker 2: all think I'm paying attention like they are. So they go, oh, oh, man,
Speaker 2: did you see the big man from Mississippi State, Oh
Speaker 2: the way that he does that drop step? And I go,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what those words are. I mean,
Speaker 2: I do, but I'm not paying attention. I couldn't name
Speaker 2: one player, I couldn't name any of them. You know,
Speaker 2: I have a passing, passing interest in some of the schools.
Speaker 2: I got to pay attention to who's doing well, and
Speaker 2: maybe there's some outstanding players, but generally speaking, no, I
Speaker 2: don't pay real close attention either. But bolly, they just think, oh,
Speaker 2: you're a sports fan. You must be able to tell
Speaker 2: me about how the lobos are looking this year. What No,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have any idea. So you gotta
Speaker 2: be a little bit careful with them too, because they
Speaker 2: see they pay attention to politics, and they want to
Speaker 2: talk to you about politics, and I have to inform
Speaker 2: them and I don't pay attention to that either, and
Speaker 2: they go, what do you talk about? I honestly, I
Speaker 2: don't really know. I don't talk about sports. I don't
Speaker 2: talk about politics. I just talk about all the other
Speaker 2: stuff that matters to us, Like when it comes to
Speaker 2: the brackets, I'm not so concerned with who's playing. I mean, personally,
Speaker 2: am but as far as the radio show goes, I
Speaker 2: don't care so much. What I care about is how
Speaker 2: much money I can make, because that's the interesting thing.
Speaker 2: If you don't pay attention to college basketball, you will
Speaker 2: still bet on college basketball. And I know sports betting
Speaker 2: not legal, but you're gonna get into an office pool.
Speaker 2: Everybody's willing to throw five or ten bucks, maybe twenty
Speaker 2: into an office pool because they know it's a crap shoot.
Speaker 2: They know they've got a cheat sheet. The bracket tells
Speaker 2: you who's favorite in each game. They've got seatings, and
Speaker 2: then you maybe pick a team based on where your
Speaker 2: daughter went to college or what color their jerseys are.
Speaker 2: My wife did a serial killer bracket years ago, Brooker,
Speaker 2: pay attention to this. You're gonna like it. My wife
Speaker 2: watches a lot of that, the investigation Discovery, and listens
Speaker 2: to the true crime podcasts. And so one year she
Speaker 2: decided to put together her most evil bracket. And so
Speaker 2: she went through and schools that were in states that
Speaker 2: had the worst serial killers. She would pick them to win. Right,
Speaker 2: So she would go, well, Kansas, says really well, because
Speaker 2: they had bt K. Yeah, that's how she thinks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I go, what about University Wisconsin Madison, No, they're
Speaker 2: not in this year, you know, excuse me, Wisconsin actually
Speaker 2: is Madison. They're a three seat but Marquette for instance, right,
Speaker 2: and they're in as well, two schools from Wisconsin. And
Speaker 2: she goes, well, they had ed Geen and he was
Speaker 2: a very bad serial killers, so I would give them
Speaker 2: some definitely that would be a good one. And I'd say, well,
Speaker 2: what do you think about Duke. She goes, North Carolina
Speaker 2: is not really known for their serial killers, so I'd
Speaker 2: have them losing the first round, and I go, but
Speaker 2: they're the Duke is really good. They've got the best
Speaker 2: player in the nation. She says, that's not how my
Speaker 2: bracket works. But she would also overpick a lot of
Speaker 2: California schools because she go, California's got so many serial killers,
Speaker 2: and she would just start listing them off, you know,
Speaker 2: and you've got Highway killers, and you've got and then
Speaker 2: of course you've got Zodiac and you've got and she
Speaker 2: just started going down the list of serial killers and
Speaker 2: she goes, oh, I'm gonna have to bump some of
Speaker 2: these schools up because the serial killers. And you know
Speaker 2: what pain me is I think she finished third that
Speaker 2: year in the office pool.
Speaker 5: That was my next question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how did she do it really well? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: she did really well. Finished third. Pissed me off.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe there isn't so much of assignance to it,
Speaker 5: like all of you boys put on these bracket thingies.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's just supposed to be for funsies.
Speaker 2: It is, it is, and I had to support her
Speaker 2: with her, you know her. And how many women win
Speaker 2: because they like the mascots or they like the color
Speaker 2: of the uniforms, or they think the coach is cute
Speaker 2: or something, and.
Speaker 5: All men don't be sexist men also.
Speaker 2: Then also they pick based on whether or not the
Speaker 2: coach is cute or yeah, all those things. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. Pisses me off as
Speaker 2: far as people in the workplace, your workplace needs to
Speaker 2: be doing a bracket or else people want out.
Speaker 4: March Maddness roars into the issues that managers these days
Speaker 4: must juggle.
Speaker 2: Oh the managers these days.
Speaker 15: March Benness says that huge draw negatively on worker productivity.
Speaker 4: Human resource specialist Zach Bombbatch says March maddness is a
Speaker 4: way to ward off winter madness.
Speaker 15: It's really the most exciting thing going on, so just
Speaker 15: draws a lot of people to it, and there's just
Speaker 15: a lot of fanfare. So it's all established that businesses
Speaker 15: can expect to lose a lot of productivity during these
Speaker 15: few weeks.
Speaker 4: But he says that loss of productivity can turn into
Speaker 4: a positive if management embraces the mood.
Speaker 2: That's right, embrace it then will be more productive.
Speaker 15: Well, they need to embrace it because it's really at
Speaker 15: this point in inevitability. It's going to happen. People are
Speaker 15: going to be following the tournament, they'll be checking in
Speaker 15: in their brackets, they'll be looking at the games, and
Speaker 15: at this point you might as well embrace it.
Speaker 4: In fact, bomb Batche says, employers can use the tournament
Speaker 4: for team building.
Speaker 15: Especially if you've got folks who really want to be
Speaker 15: in the office versus folks who don't. This might be
Speaker 15: a great intersection for both of them to come together,
Speaker 15: interact and finally find a little bit more of that
Speaker 15: camaraderie around that we've been talking about.
Speaker 2: Bombay, No, no, because let me tell you, if you
Speaker 2: have a hybrid work environment, you do not want to
Speaker 2: be in the office on Thursday Friday. If you're a
Speaker 2: college basketball fan, you want to be at home working
Speaker 2: so that you can work at your computer and then
Speaker 2: have the TV on in the corner. Fact, you don't
Speaker 2: want to have the boss there. Even if the boss
Speaker 2: is a sports fan, you don't want to be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess we could watch the game together, boss. Nope,
Speaker 2: you want to be working from home when nobody's watching you. Fact.
Speaker 2: But if you have to be in the office, at
Speaker 2: least there's something else going on. All right, it's a
Speaker 2: wild kingdom. Bad news for one of the most popular
Speaker 2: animals in California, and even worse news for a very
Speaker 2: popular influencer. I'll tell you why that is. Next. Chris
Speaker 2: Meryl Cafiam six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeart
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Speaker 2: so ul you join me tomorrow morning. Looking forward to
Speaker 2: doing that right and early? What is the soonest that
Speaker 2: I can go to sleep? Roll? Did you record the
Speaker 2: first hour of the show. Maybe we just replay that
Speaker 2: and I can go to bed now. I got to
Speaker 2: get up at o dark thirty or something that. Sorry fun,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, man, I know you don't like it. You
Speaker 2: don't like those early mornings. See I wake up at
Speaker 2: one pm. Oh I wish you also work night gigs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wake up when I'm done sleeping put it tally yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, fair enough, fair enough. Tragic news in the
Speaker 2: Animal Kingdom Big Bears beloved Bald Eagle couple Jackie in Shadow,
Speaker 2: it looks like they've had very difficult news, tough news.
Speaker 7: To share out of Big Bear. This afternoon, the friends
Speaker 7: of the Big Bear Valley have confirmed that one of
Speaker 7: Jackie in Shadows Eaglitz, has died. On the left, a
Speaker 7: live look at the bald Eagle's nest right.
Speaker 2: Now, can't see it radio.
Speaker 7: On the right, there for.
Speaker 2: You is video from yesterday.
Speaker 7: Again radio, where only two of the three chicks were there.
Speaker 7: The snow has melted somewhat in the nest, and the
Speaker 7: organization now says that makes the body of the chick
Speaker 7: partially visible in the nest bowl that's on the right side.
Speaker 7: They say they're not yet sure what exactly happened, and
Speaker 7: they aren't yet sure which chick it was because they
Speaker 7: were all relatively close in size.
Speaker 2: It's so sad. Everyone was hoping, oh well, we were
Speaker 2: all rooting because Jackie and Shadow had such a tough
Speaker 2: time with their eggs hatching in the past, and then
Speaker 2: it looked like all three eggs were going, oh like
Speaker 2: we got three of them. When it was two, we
Speaker 2: went two two out of three, ain't bad. And then
Speaker 2: we thought, oh, good dude, three and then that storm hit.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you sign any of the footage
Speaker 2: of the I don't know it's Jackie's shadow, I have
Speaker 2: any idea. But one of the birds that was what
Speaker 2: do they call that birding, nesting whatever, covering the other
Speaker 2: ones while it was dealing with the winds and the snow,
Speaker 2: and it was wild. Man, it was wild to watch.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking the whole time because I'm a
Speaker 2: dope when it comes to these things. Just to be clear,
Speaker 2: the mama bird, I guess, stood up after the snow
Speaker 2: had kind of you know, petered out a little bit,
Speaker 2: and then shook all the snow off of her wings
Speaker 2: and her feathers and whatnot to reveal the chicks that
Speaker 2: were underneath. And I thought the whole time she was
Speaker 2: sitting on the kids, and generally don't sit on the kids,
Speaker 2: but birds do that. So like I know that when
Speaker 2: it comes to rearing animals, sometimes you have, for instance,
Speaker 2: livestock will accidentally roll over their own young. It happens,
Speaker 2: and it happens far too often. It's tragic, but uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know. If maybe it was one of those
Speaker 2: deals where maybe the bird suffocated. Well, uh, well mom
Speaker 2: was trying to protect it. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 2: a burden marian, so I don't know these things. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: you've got an American tourist who is it.
Speaker 16: Influence and the influences are the bane of my existence,
Speaker 16: who decided she was going to go all in on
Speaker 16: wombat thefts.
Speaker 2: This quart a baby wombat.
Speaker 8: This video, shared widely on social media, appears to show
Speaker 8: American tourist Sam Jones picking up and running away with
Speaker 8: a wild baby wombat in Australia, as its mother chases
Speaker 8: after her distressed.
Speaker 5: Let's let him go.
Speaker 10: I think the first time I saw this video, I
Speaker 10: felt rage, rage, and you know, just it means anger
Speaker 10: for what she's done.
Speaker 8: Wombats are protected by Australian law. Now the country is
Speaker 8: examining her visa to see if she's reached its conditions.
Speaker 17: Is just an outrage. And you know, I suggest to
Speaker 17: this so called influencer.
Speaker 2: I love it. He hates influencers as much as I do.
Speaker 17: Maybe she might try some other Australian animals. Take a
Speaker 17: baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there.
Speaker 10: The way that she's.
Speaker 2: Don't encourage influencers. Don't do that because listen, we have
Speaker 2: American influencers that will take your advice. Don't give them
Speaker 2: bad advice.
Speaker 10: The way that she's carrying the baby and running with
Speaker 10: it is really bad. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 10: pressure on that baby's fine, that's just not how we
Speaker 10: carry them. Picking up a baby separating them from their
Speaker 10: mum obviously always a bad idea.
Speaker 2: The Australians are as mad at this influencer for picking
Speaker 2: up a baby wombat and running away as we would
Speaker 2: be if some Australian influencer decided to steal one of
Speaker 2: the Eglitz out of the nest for Jackie in Shadow.
Speaker 2: Imagine if one of those burgs got taken by some tourists.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, you'd be upset. That's how Australians feel right now.
Speaker 2: I correct, I got the baby wombat.
Speaker 13: I correct.
Speaker 2: Look for this video on her new site only firs.
Speaker 8: It's not clear when the video was shot, but the
Speaker 8: location appears to be a country road somewhere in southeastern Australia.
Speaker 2: Well, that narrows it down where.
Speaker 8: Most wambots live. The video has since reportedly been deleted
Speaker 8: from the TikTok and Instagram accounts it was uploaded to.
Speaker 8: Jones has not responded to CNN's request for comment.
Speaker 2: I wonder why. Probably because she lawyered up and they said,
Speaker 2: just shush, don't say anything, keep your mouth shut. At
Speaker 2: this point, it's gonna be in everyone's best interest, all right.
Speaker 2: Every week we do it, there's no business like it's
Speaker 2: as you qu every week we do it. There's no
Speaker 2: business like show business. Oh that was really good. Was
Speaker 2: just so good. Thank you so much. I'm glad we
Speaker 2: have Kayla on tape to do that and weak. Unbelievable, unbelievable,
Speaker 2: just unbelievable, Shelvisess, that's what I was looking for. Perfect,
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