Speaker 1: You're list Saints KFI AM six forty. The bill handles
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Speaker 2: If you are looking for good news about the economy,
Speaker 2: it is this. Fetanyl use may be dropping. We know
Speaker 2: this because the Border Patrol is now finding more poultry
Speaker 2: related products than they are fetanyl. Egg interceptions are up
Speaker 2: thirty six percent nationwide in the year starting in October
Speaker 2: compared to the previous year. A hotspot for egg smuggling
Speaker 2: is Texas. Sizars and Texas have gone up fifty four percent,
Speaker 2: according to the Customs of Border Protection in San Diego,
Speaker 2: They've more than doubled. According to the CBP, it's the
Speaker 2: price difference, so a lot of they say a price
Speaker 2: is like a third of what it is in the
Speaker 2: US if you are over the borders. So agents have
Speaker 2: foiled ninety would be egg smugglers trying to ferry the
Speaker 2: breakfast staples across the border in El Paso. And they
Speaker 2: say it's all because you can get eggs a lot
Speaker 2: cheaper in Mexico. So forget fentanyl. The new cartel chickens
Speaker 2: and they're coming. Egg prices are dropping. They're still way up,
Speaker 2: but they are slowly coming down. We like to hear
Speaker 2: that wholesale egg prices drifting lower, bird flu issues maybe easing,
Speaker 2: even as President Trump claiming victory as administration is acknowledging
Speaker 2: that the upcoming Easter holiday could cause prices to jump again.
Speaker 3: This from Axios.
Speaker 2: The highly pathogenic avian influenza leading to tens of millions
Speaker 2: of chickens being culled means h and that to trigger
Speaker 2: shortages and price spikes. I still have yet to see
Speaker 2: any reports on what they do with the with the
Speaker 2: chickens after they cull them. Is there just like a
Speaker 2: mass chicken grave somewhere that we're unaware of because you
Speaker 2: can't use the chickens for things like nuggets, right, They've
Speaker 2: got bird flu, so you can't do that. So there's
Speaker 2: just I guess mass chicken graves out there somewhere. Many
Speaker 2: stores limiting how many eggs shoppers can buy. Some restaurants
Speaker 2: have added temporary egg search charges as well. They say
Speaker 2: egg prices should potentially start coming down. They dropped by
Speaker 2: a dollar twenty a dozen wholesale, acording to the US
Speaker 2: Department of Agriculture, down to six eighty five a dozen.
Speaker 2: Department noting that flew out breaks slowed over the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. They've been localized and have been able
Speaker 2: to try to get ahead of those. The price of
Speaker 2: Midwest large large eggs was five twenty three a dozen.
Speaker 2: It's down thirty nine percent from its peak a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks earlier. The price that consumers are actually paying.
Speaker 3: Is still up.
Speaker 2: However, from January to February, wholesale prices are dropping, retail
Speaker 2: prices are rising. So if we were to ask you,
Speaker 2: our egg price is getting cheaper as far as you know, no,
Speaker 2: And if you read the article, or if you're a wholesaler,
Speaker 2: you might say, yeah, they're starting to come down. But
Speaker 2: if it's you buying things at the store, you head
Speaker 2: on into Ralphs and you look for eggs, they're not
Speaker 2: going to be any cheaper, which is some people to
Speaker 2: believe that there may be something larger at play. Indeed,
Speaker 2: is there a conspiracy of foot from Fox Business. It
Speaker 2: sounds like the Department of Justice is looking into that
Speaker 2: very claim.
Speaker 4: You know, farmers have been dealing with this bird flu
Speaker 4: since twenty twenty two, but recently prices have gotten out
Speaker 4: of control. Take a look back in December, a dozen
Speaker 4: eggs is going to cost you around four dollars. Now
Speaker 4: it's closer to seven dollars, and in February, a dozen
Speaker 4: eggs cost around eight dollars.
Speaker 3: That's wholesale.
Speaker 4: This is why the Justice Department is opening an investigation.
Speaker 4: They're looking into if major producers are violating antitrust laws
Speaker 4: by sharing information about supply and pricing, conspiring to keep
Speaker 4: prices higher. But the American Egg Board says, this is
Speaker 4: a story of supply and demand. Farmers have been battling
Speaker 4: bird flu and losing.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, good. We have not ever seen anything
Speaker 2: like this play out before. We've never had an American
Speaker 2: company take advance of a news story or a prevailing sentiment.
Speaker 3: We've never had any oil companies, for instance, that have.
Speaker 2: Continued to tell us that this is a simple supplying
Speaker 2: demand issue while they rake in record profits. We've never
Speaker 2: seen that happen in any other aspect, especially during the
Speaker 2: pandemic and then the subsequent supply chain shortage that happened afterward.
Speaker 2: Companies don't use news in order to boost their bottom line,
Speaker 2: to hose you in order to line their own pockets.
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen. So when you hear this nonsense that
Speaker 2: says that these major egg producers are somehow gouging you.
Speaker 3: That's just a total lie. Believe their story.
Speaker 2: Instead, that says it's a simple supply and demand issue.
Speaker 2: For instance, as I pointed out, wholesale prices are down
Speaker 2: a dollar twenty even though you're paying more. The difference,
Speaker 2: of course goes into the pockets of the egg producers.
Speaker 2: But that's your coincidence and in no way, shape or
Speaker 2: form indicative of some sort of an underlying conspiracy that
Speaker 2: they're working against you in order to make a ton
Speaker 2: of money and profit off the news, all at your expense.
Speaker 3: That doesn't happen. It's simply supply and demand.
Speaker 2: And while demand remains the same and supply is up,
Speaker 2: and you would think prices would come down and they're not.
Speaker 2: That's it's just a lot of market factors that you
Speaker 2: wouldn't understand.
Speaker 3: It's very it's very complicated. You wouldn't understand.
Speaker 2: It's just let me simplify supply and demand and all
Speaker 2: the other stuff. With record profits and that that's just
Speaker 2: you wouldn't understand it. It's too complicated.
Speaker 5: Since January of twenty twenty five, the start of this year,
Speaker 5: we've lost more than thirty million.
Speaker 1: Birds and counting.
Speaker 5: Last week was actually the first week we went a
Speaker 5: full week without a new farm having an outbreak of
Speaker 5: the avian flu. So those this impact has been devastating
Speaker 5: on our industry. It's been devastating on our farmers. And
Speaker 5: like I said, our farmers are in the fight of
Speaker 5: their lives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, especially the largest commercial farms. The small farmers
Speaker 2: are losing money. They're in the fight of their lives.
Speaker 2: The very large farms that are raking in record profit,
Speaker 2: that must be an even bigger fight. That's just massive,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: But the other people that are losing are the businesses
Speaker 4: and the consumers. We're here at Roccos where every egg
Speaker 4: dish is now a dollar fifty more expensive because of
Speaker 4: the cost of eggs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just saw an ad out for I don't know,
Speaker 2: Dunnies or billage In or somebody. They've got some six
Speaker 2: or seven dollars deal and that included the big omelet too,
Speaker 2: and I thought, how are they doing that. They're not
Speaker 2: making any money on that. In fact, I was seeing
Speaker 2: that waffle house is always the butt of a lot
Speaker 2: of jokes. Not a lot of waffle houses nearby. See
Speaker 2: waffle House is getting hit hard. However, if you are
Speaker 2: loving breakfast, ie Hop, Ie Hop is getting hammered by
Speaker 2: the egg prices. Ie Hop prices have increased by eighty
Speaker 2: two percent over the last five years, This Roadhouse up
Speaker 2: forty six percent, TGI Friday's up forty five percent. And
Speaker 2: this is all in large part because of the rising
Speaker 2: food costs. But especially when it comes to places like
Speaker 2: I Hop, it's eggs. It comes out eggs. It's all eggs.
Speaker 2: It's an egg issue. Who else is pulling back? Forget it?
Speaker 2: If you're like me, you stopped eating eggs a while
Speaker 2: ago because you said, I'm not going to pay those
Speaker 2: ridiculous prices for eggs. You'll just wait for the bird
Speaker 2: flu to be done and in the meantime you'll find
Speaker 2: something else to eat for breakfast, perhaps cereal.
Speaker 3: And yet it sounds like those.
Speaker 2: Fruity o's because fruit loops was already taken, or the
Speaker 2: uh oat circles that you get in the bags of
Speaker 2: cereal at the discount places. Those are getting too expensive too.
Speaker 2: Just how bad has it gotten? That's next.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 6: six forty.
Speaker 2: We are pulling back people are saying, and no mole
Speaker 2: forget about it. In fact, if you were like me
Speaker 2: and you grew up poor, you didn't have lucky charms.
Speaker 2: You had something that was the equivalent like fortune totems,
Speaker 2: or you didn't have cheerios. You would have oat circles,
Speaker 2: and you didn't have fruit loops. You'd have fruit rings
Speaker 2: something like that. Right, you didn't have the actual stuff.
Speaker 2: We had knockoff cereals, and knockoff cereals were fine, it
Speaker 2: was good. In fact, in some cases you got so
Speaker 2: you like them better. I always hated the knockoff cheerios,
Speaker 2: but I thought that the knockoff wheaties were fine, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, you just got so that you got used
Speaker 2: to it. There are other things that you can buy
Speaker 2: that are store bought, that are reasonable duplicates, and stores
Speaker 2: are getting better at this than they were when we
Speaker 2: were younger, which was so so many millennia ago. But
Speaker 2: Treehouse Foods is one of the country's largest manufacturers of
Speaker 2: private brands.
Speaker 3: There the ones.
Speaker 2: So if you see something that is the equate brand
Speaker 2: from Walmart that may have come from Treehouse Foods, if
Speaker 2: you see the Safeway brand that may have come from Treehouse, foods.
Speaker 2: If you see which is like or excuse me, you
Speaker 2: see like the Safeway Albertson's, if you see the Kroger
Speaker 2: brand from like Ralphs may have come from Treehouse Foods.
Speaker 3: They make a bunch of that stuff.
Speaker 2: However, we are seeing the whole egg thing going on,
Speaker 2: with the price of eggs going up, which certainly is
Speaker 2: not in any way, shape or form a money grabbed
Speaker 2: by the egg manufacturers capitalizing on the spike and prices
Speaker 2: due to.
Speaker 3: The bird flu.
Speaker 2: Coffee prices are going up, and of course we may
Speaker 2: start seeing more prices jumping because of the threats of
Speaker 2: terraces tariffs.
Speaker 3: So here's what you're looking at.
Speaker 2: Prices on things like cookies, crackers, coffee, and other things
Speaker 2: are not only going up everywhere, but they are also
Speaker 2: going up for the store bought brands, the store brand
Speaker 2: names right, which we always think of as being generic.
Speaker 2: People have decided I'm gonna go and I don't know
Speaker 2: who does this. I don't know who it is that
Speaker 2: is insane enough to do it, but some people say
Speaker 2: I will just go without coffee.
Speaker 3: Friends.
Speaker 2: We are in a bad spot when inflation gets to
Speaker 2: the point where people are not having their morning drugs.
Speaker 2: That's gonna make things that work a whole lot more difficult.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know any coffee drinkers. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're you are a coffee drinker, but if the point
Speaker 2: comes where you have to start rationing coffee, things are
Speaker 2: gonna get ugly fast. They say that people are stressed. Treehouse,
Speaker 2: that's again they make the groceries. Their financial chief says,
Speaker 2: we don't have any strong indicators that consumers are going
Speaker 2: to be less stressed in the near term, and grocery
Speaker 2: retailers are relying on third parties like Treehouse to make
Speaker 2: their store brands.
Speaker 3: Is from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: Giants like Kroger Albertson's Costco boosting investments in their branded products.
Speaker 2: Private labels are growing faster than name brand goods heading
Speaker 2: into the pandemic, and then consumers stuck at home with
Speaker 2: money to spend, went back to the national brands and
Speaker 2: low cost brands. We've seen now a resurgence for a
Speaker 2: couple of reasons. Because you have higher grocery prices. Retailers
Speaker 2: are expending their store brand offerings. Walmart is introducing a
Speaker 2: premium line of food called Better Goods along their Great
Speaker 2: value brand, so you've got the great value and then
Speaker 2: you've got better goods, which is supposed.
Speaker 3: To be the step up.
Speaker 2: But now people are even saying we're just gonna cut
Speaker 2: back on even the low cost stuff. To me, this
Speaker 2: is a bad omen. You've got consumer confidence. You may
Speaker 2: have seen the report consumer confidence is down. With consumer
Speaker 2: confidence down, whether they have reason to or not. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's based on the news, Maybe it's based on the
Speaker 2: worries over the tariffs. Maybe people have lost jobs. But
Speaker 2: at this point it doesn't look like we're in a recession.
Speaker 2: The fear of recession is so great that people are
Speaker 2: beginning to behave as though we are in a recession.
Speaker 2: We're for it, we're getting ready, we're pregaming. The next
Speaker 2: recession is what's happening. And so people are cutting back
Speaker 2: on things, even the store brand products. But they're also
Speaker 2: cutting back on this from the Wall Street Journal, US
Speaker 2: convenience store sales falling over four percent by volume.
Speaker 3: What are they cutting back on?
Speaker 2: Derrito's When you stop in at the Circle K or
Speaker 2: the Shell station, there's no there's no big bag of chips.
Speaker 2: If you've bought a bag of chips at the gas stations, lately.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the price on that It's seven bucks.
Speaker 2: Seven bucks for a bag of potato chips is not
Speaker 2: even the family size bag. I know, I sound like
Speaker 2: a grumpy old man. I understand, but I'm gonna be grumpy.
Speaker 2: I don't like it. So people are cutting back on
Speaker 2: what they're buying. That includes Doritos, that includes Twinkies. And
Speaker 2: I think we just saved Twinkies from the brink of
Speaker 2: extinction a decade ago. They were all ready to wrap up.
Speaker 2: But here's the really scary thing. Well, we have some
Speaker 2: people cutting back on things like coffee in other places,
Speaker 2: which is terrifying. Sounds like some people are cutting back
Speaker 2: on cigarettes. Oh my, So now you've got people that
Speaker 2: are not going to have their cigarettes or their coffee
Speaker 2: in the morning. That is, it's going to get ugly fast. Friends,
Speaker 2: this is going to be very apocalyptic in a hurry.
Speaker 2: I don't have high hopes. So what can you do?
Speaker 2: Could you turn to one of those dollar stores? Nope,
Speaker 2: because have you been to a dollar store lately? Nothing
Speaker 2: costs a dollar anymore. And now Dollar General says they're
Speaker 2: not even making any money and they're shutting up shop.
Speaker 7: Dollar General is closing nearly one hundred stores. The company
Speaker 7: says it plays to closed ninety six locations by January
Speaker 7: of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: That's not too many, though. I think Dollar General opens
Speaker 2: more than one hundred a day. I'm exaggerating, but not
Speaker 2: by much. This is from whas by the way, I
Speaker 2: believe this is in Louisville.
Speaker 7: Dollar General CEO says that the number of closings represents
Speaker 7: less than one cent of the company's overall store base.
Speaker 7: It also plans to close forty five of Dollar General's
Speaker 7: home to core stores popshelf.
Speaker 3: I think no Dollar General had home to cour stores.
Speaker 3: Did you know, man, that's through dollars? All right? That
Speaker 3: was quick, Amy, you get credit on that one. That
Speaker 3: was very quick.
Speaker 7: The decision came after a view of the store performance
Speaker 7: and conditions to determine which stores should be closed or
Speaker 7: maybe be rebranded. Now, as of now, it's not known
Speaker 7: which locations are set to close. There are more than
Speaker 7: thirty of those stores in the Louisville metrics.
Speaker 2: All right, So again I told you that it was
Speaker 2: from Louisville. Did he just say rebranded? Don't know if
Speaker 2: they're going to close or rebrand. So you rebrand from
Speaker 2: a Dollar General to what a dollar Lieutenant, I don't
Speaker 2: understand what the rebrand would be. You go more high
Speaker 2: end Dollar General. There's no lower end Dollar I mean,
Speaker 2: Dollar General is what it is. It's just cheap, cheap.
Speaker 2: All the dollar stores just cheap, telling man. I would
Speaker 2: think Dollar General will do really well as people are
Speaker 2: worried about inflation and recession. It has in the past.
Speaker 2: Walmart and Dollar General stores do well during recessions. They do,
Speaker 2: they do, and yet here they are saying they're going
Speaker 2: to close some shops.
Speaker 3: We'll find out how it plays out in the meantime.
Speaker 2: One place I don't think is going to do very
Speaker 2: well during recession is someone that has to halt the
Speaker 2: sales of their products because parts keep falling off, that's
Speaker 2: getting protested from coast to coast, and still charges more
Speaker 2: than one hundred thousand dollars for some of their products.
Speaker 3: That's next.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 6: six forty.
Speaker 2: All right, Imagine that you own a company and for
Speaker 2: years you've been trying to find your lane. You've been
Speaker 2: really nailing that brand. You don't worry so much about
Speaker 2: the others. You're really trying to you're really trying to
Speaker 2: own your lane. You think of you think of some
Speaker 2: big brands out there, and you go, Okay, Taco Bell
Speaker 2: is gonna own the cheap, fast Mexican food lane. Now
Speaker 2: they've got competitors, but Taco Bell nationwide, they're the big ones, right,
Speaker 2: So imagine that you own that lane and you own
Speaker 2: it hard. And then imagine, just imagine if Taco Bell's
Speaker 2: owners came out and said, uh, you know what, we
Speaker 2: don't really like Mexican food. We want to support all
Speaker 2: of the non Mexican food things out there. In fact,
Speaker 2: we're really gonna start pushing sushi. Probably not great for
Speaker 2: Taco Bell's brand should something like that happen, right, Is
Speaker 2: that fair to say if all of a sudden, the
Speaker 2: owner of Taco Bell came out and said, my food
Speaker 2: is great, but also I'm gonna put all of my
Speaker 2: effort into pushing sushi, probably not gonna be really good
Speaker 2: for Taco Bell, especially if part of the push for
Speaker 2: sushi is to limit things like I don't know for Holles.
Speaker 2: That's basically what's happening when you look at what's going
Speaker 2: on in DC, which is why we're seeing the stock
Speaker 2: prices and the sales more importantly dropping for Tesla. Tesla's
Speaker 2: being protested as people are upset with Elon Musk. They're
Speaker 2: taking it out in his business. They can't protest Starlink
Speaker 2: because it's tough to get protesters in space A lot
Speaker 2: of people would like to, it's very difficult to protest
Speaker 2: some of the other stuff the SpaceX. But what they
Speaker 2: can do is they can show up but Tesla's showrooms
Speaker 2: and start protesting.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what people are doing nationwide.
Speaker 8: There are about two hundred people lined up here along
Speaker 8: Colorado Street, which is in front of the Tesla's.
Speaker 3: Showroom by the way NBCLA.
Speaker 8: The protesters were demanding that people sell their Tesla cars
Speaker 8: and stock.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 8: These protests are happening all over the area. We also
Speaker 8: saw one in Glendale held by the same group. They
Speaker 8: were holding signs and encouraging drivers to and support as
Speaker 8: they went by. The group Rally for Democracy is organizing
Speaker 8: these protests. This movement is in response to Elon musks
Speaker 8: position in President Donald Trump's administration and roll in the
Speaker 8: Department of Government Efficiency. Similar rallies are taking place around
Speaker 8: the world, which started back into February.
Speaker 2: What I don't understand, I just I get it. We
Speaker 2: have turned vehicles and this is one of the things
Speaker 2: that makes in the American car culture so great, is
Speaker 2: that vehicles are part of our identity.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: If you drive certain cars, we make certain assumptions about someone,
Speaker 2: and someone who has certain character traits will purchase they're
Speaker 2: attractive to certain cars. For instance, if you're driving a
Speaker 2: mini van that has a bunch of stick figure stickers
Speaker 2: in the back window, we assume that you are a
Speaker 2: family oriented person and obnoxious. If you drive a lifted
Speaker 2: pickup truck, we assume that you are a dude and obnoxious.
Speaker 2: If you drive a sports cars your daily driver, we
Speaker 2: assume that you have some insecurities and are obnoxious. If
Speaker 2: you drive a subar Ru, we assume that you eat
Speaker 2: granola and you support lgbt q IA initiatives right, and
Speaker 2: you probably want to coexist sticker Elon's pivot to MAGA
Speaker 2: would be akin to Subaru declaring that they need to
Speaker 2: stop hippies and end LGBTQYA initiatives. They would never do
Speaker 2: that because they know they're laying Elon's pivot is the
Speaker 2: worst marketing pivot ever it's worse than when Coke did
Speaker 2: the whole New Coke thing back in the eighties.
Speaker 3: It is the worst ever.
Speaker 2: And so that's why last week you saw President Trump
Speaker 2: with Elon on the on the lawn at the White House.
Speaker 2: Come on down to Crazy Don's use Tesla a lot.
Speaker 2: We got Tesla's they're they're great. Tests the cars and
Speaker 2: Tesla cyber truck they're great. You should buy one today
Speaker 2: to support Elon, and not buying one should be illegal.
Speaker 3: You can't boycott our Tesla truck. That would be illegal
Speaker 3: and un American.
Speaker 2: You should go back to boycotting other things like cancel
Speaker 2: culture and but light.
Speaker 3: But not Elon. Buy his cyber truck today.
Speaker 2: May be delivered soon, unless it's not because also in
Speaker 2: the news, Elon Musk's Tesla has been forced to halt
Speaker 2: sales of cyber trucks because metal panels keep falling off. Yeah,
Speaker 2: customers that are posting on the Cyber Truck Owners Club
Speaker 2: website as well as on Twitter.
Speaker 3: They say that the deliveries are on hold.
Speaker 2: The website Electric said the decision was taken amid increasing
Speaker 2: instances of trim and panels flying off the supposedly bulletproof
Speaker 2: electric truck. Now, imagine if you've spent the last few
Speaker 2: years saying that electric vehicles, the push to electric is
Speaker 2: is bad for the country, and you've been saying that
Speaker 2: we have to have fossil fuels and you'll never buy
Speaker 2: one of those golf carts, and you've you've been taking
Speaker 2: this tack for years, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you're told up everything you've been led to believe in
Speaker 2: the Church of Petrol was false. Now you should buy
Speaker 2: the evs. You should buy them because it's the American
Speaker 2: thing to do. Also, they're one hundred grand. Who's doing that?
Speaker 2: Who has the extra one hundred thoughts? It's one thing
Speaker 2: if you want to show your support by buying a
Speaker 2: red hat that cost you twenty five bucks.
Speaker 3: Twenty five bucks doesn't make or break things. One hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: To somebody in the middle of Arkansas to buy a
Speaker 2: truck whose parts fall off, to replace their lifted f
Speaker 2: one fifty to get stuck in the mud without a
Speaker 2: charger nearby for one hundred grand, I don't see that
Speaker 2: making up for the damage that musk is doing to
Speaker 2: the brand. It's just not happening, all right. When it
Speaker 2: comes to the kids these days. Oh, the kids these days,
Speaker 2: They're getting a bit strange, which is why Texas has
Speaker 2: taken it upon themselves to put a stop to these
Speaker 2: ten gallon furries.
Speaker 3: Freedom of speech be damned, that's next cool.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 6: six forty.
Speaker 2: If you have kids, there have been times in your life,
Speaker 2: undoubtedly that you've thought they are animals. It's become such
Speaker 2: a problem in Texas that lawmakers have decided they need
Speaker 2: to step in, and what has become known as the
Speaker 2: Furries Act takes on a different tone than what I
Speaker 2: thought furries meant in the past. What's Texas up to?
Speaker 2: According to CBS and Austin here, it is.
Speaker 9: Hey, Bill fouled in the Texas House would stop students
Speaker 9: from acting like any other than a human being at school.
Speaker 9: That Bill's meant to specific target what are known as furries.
Speaker 9: A furry is a person who dresses up or behaves
Speaker 9: like an animal with human characteristics. This can include creating
Speaker 9: a character based on an animal called a persona that
Speaker 9: is expressed to art, role playing, or elaborate costumes called
Speaker 9: fur suits.
Speaker 3: Hmm, okay, all right, I'm in on that. Hang on you,
Speaker 3: what's going on? Ready to go? See my computer? My computer,
Speaker 3: Frozer saying here we go now.
Speaker 9: The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Role Playing and Education of
Speaker 9: Furries Act was filed by a Austin Area Republican state
Speaker 9: Representative Stan Gertz. The law would ban non human behavior
Speaker 9: such as using a litter box, wearing tails, animal ears, leashes, callers,
Speaker 9: or any other acceassories used for animals.
Speaker 2: So what, I can't use a litter box in school anymore, Oh, Texas.
Speaker 9: It also banns students from barking, meowing, or hissing, and
Speaker 9: licking oneself or others for grooming. The bill would also
Speaker 9: allow students to dress up as animals for days like
Speaker 9: Halloween or other school dress up days.
Speaker 3: A hearing has not yet been set for this bill.
Speaker 2: Mascots would also be allowed, because so many mascots are
Speaker 2: indeed animals. Evidently, in Texas becomes such a problem that
Speaker 2: we have to enact legislation that limits students free speech
Speaker 2: because I guess they all want litter boxes. That whole
Speaker 2: notion of you can't lick yourself for grooming being illegal,
Speaker 2: that's really going to put a damper on Kentucky fried
Speaker 2: chickens whole slogan.
Speaker 3: H Indeed, Gary wanted on this.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. Or
Speaker 10: you come on, buddy, come on, the idea of licking
Speaker 10: yourself to clean yourself, you.
Speaker 11: Do, It's nature, Gary, finger licking good?
Speaker 3: Are you telling me you don't lick your fingers when
Speaker 3: you have something delicious.
Speaker 11: Fancy with your showers and your wet necks? Yeah, guess what,
Speaker 11: some people have to lick themselves.
Speaker 3: That's right, Gary, Yeah, so this is the the yoga
Speaker 3: you go? Yeah, an odd uh odd side.
Speaker 10: I feel like I've chosen here, looking across the great
Speaker 10: divide between you people licking yourselves for cleanliness and me
Speaker 10: over here washing my hands.
Speaker 11: What are you going to do when you have to
Speaker 11: live off the land, when the end is nigh, you're
Speaker 11: gonna be dirty?
Speaker 3: Be dirty?
Speaker 11: Are you gonna lick yourself like everybody else?
Speaker 2: Come on, fancy pants, have a taste, fancy Come on,
Speaker 2: get in there.
Speaker 10: No, maybe maybe I employ someone.
Speaker 3: To lick me.
Speaker 11: That's a different industry.
Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't think you have to wait
Speaker 3: for the apocalypse.
Speaker 11: That you can go down to the days in and Glendale.
Speaker 3: For that, there is a price point. I suppose. All right,
Speaker 3: what do you guys have plans today?
Speaker 10: Well, right after the news at nine o'clock, David is
Speaker 10: going to join us from Japan. Mookie Bets will not
Speaker 10: be in the first two games for the Dodgers. And
Speaker 10: when you see Mookie Bets you will think he's not well,
Speaker 10: because he's not. He's lost like fifteen pounds whatever your
Speaker 10: illness virus, really, Joe, don't don't make it okay, but
Speaker 10: he may actually come back sooner than expected. Speaking of
Speaker 10: our astronauts that have been up in space, they're coming
Speaker 10: back sooner than expected.
Speaker 3: What are they going to eat when they arrive?
Speaker 11: I saw this whole explainer about what happens over the
Speaker 11: weekend when they come back. Like you said, they have
Speaker 11: to just sit for a long time, long time. I'm
Speaker 11: going to know what they can ingest Like, they can't
Speaker 11: just go have spaghetti and meatballs, can they?
Speaker 3: Oh, they have to ease into it a little bit,
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 11: It's like the turpins, you know, when they got rescued
Speaker 11: from that house. You had to ease them into solids.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I didn't even consider that.
Speaker 11: Always consider the Turpinso.
Speaker 2: Words to live by. Looking forward to it. Gary and
Speaker 2: Shannon coming in next. Thanks guys, appreciate it. Looking forward
Speaker 2: to the show. Always great stuff.
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