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Speaker 3: Still on holiday vacation, Wayne Resnik here until nine and
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Speaker 3: Here's who's here today producing the show. Michelle Cube in
Speaker 3: for Ann who's taking a holiday vacation. Good morning, Good morning,
Speaker 3: Kono is here, Good morning You're You're the only regular
Speaker 3: member of the morning crew who cares enough about the
Speaker 3: listener work I do.
Speaker 2: I care so much about the listener to work.
Speaker 3: In for Amy King, who will be here next week
Speaker 3: and therefore should be exempt from my criticism because she
Speaker 3: is working on a holiday week next week.
Speaker 4: In for Amy King is Michael Monks. Good morning, Good Morning,
Speaker 4: Buenos Dias. Quick correction. She will not be here on
Speaker 4: New Year's Day or the day after, so don't give
Speaker 4: her too much credit.
Speaker 2: Now what, Yeah, I'll be back with you.
Speaker 3: I mean that's great, But now really conflicted because I
Speaker 3: trashed her. I collectively trashed a group of people and
Speaker 3: she was one of them. And then I made a
Speaker 3: point of singling her out to be rehabilitated, And now
Speaker 3: I find out I have been made a fool.
Speaker 2: She's undeserving. Well, you know, she kind of is.
Speaker 3: But I didn't think i'd ever have such conflicted feelings
Speaker 3: about a human being before as I do about Amy King.
Speaker 3: Right now now I have a question why bother? But
Speaker 3: why didn't she just.
Speaker 4: Take the two weeks off like the other three Lasos? Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm grateful she didn't die. Love, What are you trying
Speaker 4: to prove? What?
Speaker 2: What is she? But who is she trying to fool?
Speaker 2: And what is she trying to prove?
Speaker 4: She might be stockpiling vacation days for like a nice
Speaker 4: long Caribbean trip later on.
Speaker 2: You know, she works very hard. She does deserve her
Speaker 2: time off.
Speaker 3: Yes, obviously, I'm kidding around and having fun. I don't
Speaker 3: actually think ill of Amy King. Okay, but but she
Speaker 3: is much more with the group of Lasos than she
Speaker 3: is with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: A hard working holiday folk, and Kno, you really stand
Speaker 3: out now.
Speaker 2: Is the shining star.
Speaker 3: Of the morning crew, the one that people should aspire
Speaker 3: to be. And I hope that you're getting I hope
Speaker 3: every day you're getting the love and the appreciation that
Speaker 3: you deserve from the regular morning crew. I just hope
Speaker 3: that every single day Bill Handle is on the air
Speaker 3: making a point of expressing his gratitude and admiration for
Speaker 3: how much you help make the show happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's what Bill's about, gratitude and appreciation.
Speaker 3: All right, everybody, let's do some handle on the news
Speaker 3: right now with this lead story right.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know, there was the story about American Airlines calling a
Speaker 3: ground stop for an hour for technical problems, which did
Speaker 3: cause some delays and hassle for some holiday travelers. But
Speaker 3: now it's Mother Nature getting in on the act of
Speaker 3: bumming you out. There's a big storm system and it's
Speaker 3: a big one and it's a dangerous one. Two states
Speaker 3: at least Texas and louise Or under tornado warnings. There
Speaker 3: are over four million people under a level three storm threat.
Speaker 3: That's three out of five, and it's centering around Houston
Speaker 3: right now and also the eastern part of Texas and
Speaker 3: into Louisiana. And it'll keep, you know, moving up. But
Speaker 3: in any event, ground stops at Dallas Fort Worth International
Speaker 3: Dallas love Field.
Speaker 2: The Governor of Texas.
Speaker 3: Greg Abbott has requested emergency response. And I think you
Speaker 3: said earlier, Michael Monks, in your newscast you were talking
Speaker 3: about the local weather and you said it's just gonna
Speaker 3: get worse. Yeah, the cloudiness or whatever. Well, it's the
Speaker 3: same thing for these people that right now they're in
Speaker 3: the situation where it's going to get worse before it
Speaker 3: gets better. So this is a major storm and lots
Speaker 3: and lots of flights are being canceled.
Speaker 2: Yesterday more than seven hundred flights were canceled.
Speaker 3: You know, there were about seven hundred and seven fifty
Speaker 3: flights canceled, and several hundred of those were just Dallas
Speaker 3: Fort Worth. That's a weird airport for weatherwise, because it's
Speaker 3: in an area and I don't understand it. I'm not
Speaker 3: trying to be a meteorologist or anything. I just know
Speaker 3: for a fact because it was explained to me one
Speaker 3: time when I had a flight out of there and
Speaker 3: there was this weird They get these weird, localized intense
Speaker 3: storm actions sometimes around Dallas Fort Worth International Airport that
Speaker 3: aren't necessarily affecting a broader area, and they have to
Speaker 3: cancel a bunch of flights and then you have to
Speaker 3: get on a bus with a bunch of strangers and
Speaker 3: go to a hotel where you're getting where you're not
Speaker 3: getting it for free, but you're getting it at some
Speaker 3: allegedly special airline negotiated rate. So they're kind of used
Speaker 3: to this, but this is affecting a lot of people.
Speaker 4: If you have any I was just gonna say, have
Speaker 4: a one hour grounding of the of the flights earlier
Speaker 4: this week caused as many problems as it did.
Speaker 2: What can we expect from something like this?
Speaker 3: Sheer hell, bedlam, violence, probably much weeping, lamentations and rending
Speaker 3: of garments, and no recompense, because it's that act of God.
Speaker 2: It's not the airlines screwing up. They can't. They're not.
Speaker 2: You know, they don't have to help you too much
Speaker 2: when it's the weather.
Speaker 3: They're a victim also, you know, sometimes you're the victim
Speaker 3: and they're the victimizer, the airlines. But this time everybody's
Speaker 3: a victim, except for the Lord Almighty himself, who half
Speaker 3: deigned that this shall be the days of your aunt
Speaker 3: Leslie not getting home on time. Poor aunt Leslie right
Speaker 3: now on a shuttle bus to a day's in on
Speaker 3: the outskirts of Dallas. Think about that, your poor aunt
Speaker 3: Leslie with possibly, if she was lucky, a meal voucher
Speaker 3: that she can use in the terminal. She can get
Speaker 3: an anti en pretzel on the airline's dime if she's lucky.
Speaker 3: All right, I think I've run that into the ground a.
Speaker 2: Recompense and dained.
Speaker 4: I'm getting quite the vocabulary lesson from you today, Wayne,
Speaker 4: I do appreciate it. So you know, Governor Newsom is
Speaker 4: positioning California to help illegal immigrants as President elect Trump
Speaker 4: comes into office with this vow of mass deportation, and
Speaker 4: there is apparently a plan developing called the Immigrants Support
Speaker 4: Network concept. Political had reported about this, and this would
Speaker 4: include regional hubs apparently all across the state that would
Speaker 4: connect people in need of help to organized or other
Speaker 4: people that can provide that help. We've got a state
Speaker 4: senator in California, Scott Wiener, who has proposed legislation looking
Speaker 4: for sixty million bucks, including some funds for immigrant detention
Speaker 4: representation as well. So a lot of action and moving
Speaker 4: parts here in California on behalf of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3: Yes, listen, let's get some news and then we have
Speaker 3: another related story, but we will get the news right after.
Speaker 3: I point out to everybody that I saw you Michelle
Speaker 3: stifling a giggle when he said the name of that
Speaker 3: state senator.
Speaker 2: I did see that. I saw it. Well a child
Speaker 2: his name was Wiener wh.
Speaker 3: Doesn't you guys, you know what it's like hosting a
Speaker 3: show in a nursery school.
Speaker 4: In South Korea, there's been an impeachment two weeks after
Speaker 4: the president there called for marshal law. We were all
Speaker 4: kind of looking at South Korea, like, what exactly is
Speaker 4: going on there? North Korea's right there, some weird stuff
Speaker 4: is going down. What is happening to this democracy there
Speaker 4: in Southeast Asia? Well, apparently the people there didn't like this,
Speaker 4: so lawmakers voted today to impeach This guy's name is
Speaker 4: Han Duck Sue and this is just two weeks after
Speaker 4: he imposed this martial law, and it's it's been a
Speaker 4: lot of fallouts since then. It's kind of a crazy
Speaker 4: situation in South Korea. It almost makes us look quaint.
Speaker 3: It's actually crazier than you've described because what happened over
Speaker 3: there is you had a president Yun Suck Yal, and
Speaker 3: that's the person who imposed this martial law for six
Speaker 3: hours and was impeached. And that was two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: And now two weeks later they've impeached the new guy already,
Speaker 3: the Han Duck su guy. So it's two impeachments in
Speaker 3: two weeks in South Korea.
Speaker 4: It is, indeed, and my apologies I missed the name
Speaker 4: President Yun Suk Yole, but yes, we've had two presidents
Speaker 4: that have been in peach So yes, that is why
Speaker 4: my note says it makes us look quaint we've impeached
Speaker 4: a president before.
Speaker 3: Although here's the deal now, is which is better or
Speaker 3: worse or crazier? You impeach a president and then in
Speaker 3: peach another one. So you that's two impeachments two presidents,
Speaker 3: or you in peach one president twice.
Speaker 2: Ooh you see.
Speaker 3: I think we can give South Korea a run for
Speaker 3: their money in the crazy politics department.
Speaker 2: Just fine.
Speaker 3: We can don't understand, never under sell the United States
Speaker 3: of America if you want to talk about I mean,
Speaker 3: we don't. We haven't had people throwing shoes at each
Speaker 3: other yet, which you see in some countries in their chambers,
Speaker 3: in their legislative chambers, they start throwing shoes at each
Speaker 3: other fifth fights have occurred. We have not had a
Speaker 3: fistfight in a while anyway to my knowledge. So, but
Speaker 3: we got our own quirks.
Speaker 4: I mean, we did have a bowel movement left on
Speaker 4: the House speaker's former House speakers desk.
Speaker 2: Not that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't think that was a That was
Speaker 3: not a I don't think that was an elected officials leaving.
Speaker 4: Not yet give us time. I think you're right, let's
Speaker 4: on underestimate ourselves.
Speaker 2: We've got the.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, President elect Trump, remember when he said, ah, God, what.
Speaker 2: Was his Christmas message?
Speaker 3: Marry Christmas to everybody, including the soldiers, the Chinese soldiers
Speaker 3: who are with great love but also against the law
Speaker 3: running the Panama Canal. I know, I'm sure I paraphrased it,
Speaker 3: but that's the gist of what he said. Well, now,
Speaker 3: the president of Panama, whose Raoul Molino, says that is
Speaker 3: crazy as wrong, it is nonsense. There is not a
Speaker 3: Chinese soldier at the canal, and that you know, Trump
Speaker 3: is just making up crazy stuff. But he also said,
Speaker 3: we're not giving up the Panama Canal because it belongs
Speaker 3: to Panama and we're Panama. It's our canal. Why do
Speaker 3: you think it's called the Panama Canal because President Trump
Speaker 3: wants to take control of it, because he says, we
Speaker 3: spend a lot of money on it somehow, and yet
Speaker 3: you know, we don't have anything to say about it,
Speaker 3: just like he wants to buy Greenland, and so that
Speaker 3: he's over too with the leaders of a thing he
Speaker 3: wants to take over, agreeing with him. It's really weird
Speaker 3: these people around the world. They don't seem to want
Speaker 3: to let the United States take over their stuff.
Speaker 4: Have you seen this hot dat alert? Wayne, Well, i've
Speaker 4: seen what you're are you subscribed to the heart dat alerts,
Speaker 4: I've seen what you're talking about. But it did not
Speaker 4: cause blood to move from many parts of my body
Speaker 4: to other parts of my body.
Speaker 2: Well, look more closely.
Speaker 4: My friend Elon Musk has apparently dropped some pounds. He
Speaker 4: posted on x formerly known as Twitter, that he takes
Speaker 4: this supplement called Munjaro. This is something for weight loss,
Speaker 4: and he posted a picture of himself looking real lean,
Speaker 4: ironically dressed as Santa Claus. So he called himself Ozimpa
Speaker 4: Ozimpic Santa. Even though it's not Ozimpic he was taking.
Speaker 4: He was, He says, quote technically munjaro, but that doesn't
Speaker 4: have the same ring to it, so it's part of
Speaker 4: those drugs. Munjaro and Ozimpic are both part of those
Speaker 4: drugs people are taking. Wish are meant for other things,
Speaker 4: but have been effective in helping people lose weight. So
Speaker 4: those shirtless picks of elon musk that circulate every now
Speaker 4: and then where he was on the boats, I think
Speaker 4: he was starting to feel self conscious or something, because
Speaker 4: if his picture is real, and who's to say, he
Speaker 4: is a fan of misinformation and altered images, but if
Speaker 4: it's real, he does look like he's slimmed down a bit.
Speaker 2: Well, good for him.
Speaker 3: He also is a hilarious jokesmith, so funny saying he said,
Speaker 3: I'm ozembic Santa. It's like cocaine bear, but Santa and ozembic.
Speaker 2: All right, all right.
Speaker 3: I don't think Rory Scovel or Andy Kindler or Patton
Speaker 3: Oswald have anything to worry about right now.
Speaker 2: No, he's not particularly funny. He tries to be though
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 3: And also the fact that he was taking he's taking monjaro,
Speaker 3: but he made everything Ozembic is perfectly emblematic of the
Speaker 3: level of credibility that his social media platform provides to
Speaker 3: the world. So a little conservative on concern vative bickering
Speaker 3: going on after Elon Musk and Vivic Ramaswami, who are
Speaker 3: heading the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE, said they need
Speaker 3: now I remember they're both like tech bros. They said,
Speaker 3: big tech companies desperately need foreign workers because there aren't
Speaker 3: enough enthusiastic and talented engineers already here in the United States.
Speaker 2: We need to bring them in.
Speaker 3: They appear to be talking about the H one B
Speaker 3: visas for highly skilled workers, and some Republicans and conservatives
Speaker 3: are angry at them, including everybody's favorite Darling, Laura Loomer.
Speaker 2: Who accused who accused Elon.
Speaker 3: Musko only buying his way into MAGA five minutes ago,
Speaker 3: that they're trying to infiltrate the White House even though
Speaker 3: they obviously don't support Donald Trump's immigration policies, because they're
Speaker 3: talking about let us bring over a bunch of foreign workers.
Speaker 3: And these H one B visas are controversial because if
Speaker 3: you come over here on one, it's because you have
Speaker 3: a job. It doesn't allow you to come over here
Speaker 3: and look for a job. It's you have a job.
Speaker 3: Somebody is hiring you, so you get to come and
Speaker 3: they the employer. They have a lot of control over
Speaker 3: your life. You can't go work for anybody else. And
Speaker 3: if for some reason you lose that job that allowed
Speaker 3: you to come over here, you're in big trouble. You
Speaker 3: could be deported. So some people feel that these H
Speaker 3: one B visas are exploitive in some way. I don't
Speaker 3: know how Laura Lumer feels specifically about them. I think
Speaker 3: she's just mad because she was the inside, she had
Speaker 3: his ear and probably other appendages, and now she's on
Speaker 3: the outside and they're on the inside.
Speaker 2: She doesn't like it, and I please lose.
Speaker 3: Can we turn this into a three person octagon situation?
Speaker 2: What do you think this says about that winner gets
Speaker 2: the immigration policy of their choice. Well, yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: Like, there's so many different positions to be taken in
Speaker 4: that Trump coalition. How fragile do you think it is
Speaker 4: as he gets set to take office again?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 3: I mean, the bottom line is he's he put it
Speaker 3: this way, He's appointed two people to be an important
Speaker 3: part of the government and someone else he hung around
Speaker 3: with briefly. So you tell me whose side he's most
Speaker 3: likely on or who most likely has his ear.
Speaker 4: Well, if you are somebody who has long wanted to
Speaker 4: buy a politician a president of your own, you can
Speaker 4: be a billionaire a little bit later. Tonight, the Mega
Speaker 4: Millions jackpot has climbed to over a billion dollars one
Speaker 4: point one five billion to be exact. So thirty straight
Speaker 4: drawings of the Mega Millions, no winners, the ninth largest
Speaker 4: lotto jackpot in US history.
Speaker 2: It's a big one. You got two bucks to spare. Wayne, Well,
Speaker 2: the KFI Pol's gonna win it. So just so you
Speaker 2: know that'd Michelle manages that for us. She does a
Speaker 2: great job. And we tell who's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be here, who's gonna be here on Monday. If
Speaker 4: that happens, well not the people who have taken off.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that maybe we can keep a
Speaker 4: little secret, Michelle.
Speaker 5: Ooh yeah, maybe, except I sent everybody out of the tickets.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're so bad at fraud, I know.
Speaker 3: So it's a lot of money, the cash equip If
Speaker 3: you just want the lump sum right now and not
Speaker 3: in payments, it's still over half a billion dollars in
Speaker 3: your pocket right away.
Speaker 2: You're gonna need bigger pants. And I have to wonder pockets.
Speaker 5: I have to wonder what's going to happen in April,
Speaker 5: because April that Mega Million's tickets go from two dollars
Speaker 5: a ticket to five dollars a ticket. Well, that means
Speaker 5: the jackpots are going to get even bigger. If there's
Speaker 5: longer and longer between people winning.
Speaker 3: It won't be long till there's a two billion dollar jackpot.
Speaker 3: And someday in the future, when there are no recognizable
Speaker 3: human beings and life on earth are a series of
Speaker 3: brightly colored orbs, that those orbs will be buying lotto
Speaker 3: tickets for trillion dollar jackpots.
Speaker 4: It's an unfathomable amount of money. I've often thought, if
Speaker 4: you make one hundred thousand dollars, think of what you
Speaker 4: can buy, think of how your you know, how your
Speaker 4: money is spent, how much you can buy. Then double
Speaker 4: it to just two hundred thousand, and think how different
Speaker 4: your life could be. Then double that again to four
Speaker 4: hundred and double that again.
Speaker 2: I mean, are we going to go all the way
Speaker 2: to it?
Speaker 4: We're gonna get with this double we get to one
Speaker 4: point one five billion with this doubling. Just bear with me, No,
Speaker 4: I'm just saying. I mean it's really unfathomable when you
Speaker 4: catch a like that.
Speaker 3: Do you want to do the do you want to
Speaker 3: do the if you had one point one five billion
Speaker 3: dollar bills, how far would they stack up to? How
Speaker 3: many times would they go around the Earth or the Moon?
Speaker 2: I don't have that readily available to you.
Speaker 3: Okay, no, hey, get ready, if you want to make
Speaker 3: some sweet Popeye porn, you'll be able to without any
Speaker 3: legal repercussions starting January one, when the now be careful,
Speaker 3: the original Popeye will go into the public domain, as
Speaker 3: will Tintin, the beloved Belgian cartoon character.
Speaker 2: Tintin's had like a reporter, right, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: And he's got that little dog.
Speaker 3: He's got the little dog and a bunch of there's
Speaker 3: like twins. I forgot what they're called, but there's these
Speaker 3: two like gentlemen monopoly gentlemen looking twins that are part
Speaker 3: of Tintin.
Speaker 2: They go into the public domain.
Speaker 3: As does a Mickey Mouse cartoon, The Carnival Kid, where
Speaker 3: Mickey Mouse speaks for the first time. The Marx Brothers
Speaker 3: first feature film goes into the public domain. Alfred Hitchcock's
Speaker 3: first sound movie, Blackmail public domain. Feel free to mix
Speaker 3: it up and the song's an American in Paris, and
Speaker 3: this is the big one, singing in the rain. Wow
Speaker 3: becomes public domain, meaning you can record it, you don't
Speaker 3: have to pay anybody, you can mash it up, you
Speaker 3: can do parody it, do whatever you want with no fear,
Speaker 3: not even having to prove that what you did is parody.
Speaker 3: Pretty good, and this is apparently trueay at least according
Speaker 3: to this article from Axios. Remember when Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 3: went public domain and then you had that horror movie
Speaker 3: Blood and Honey or whatever, and then already a sequel.
Speaker 2: According to Axios.
Speaker 3: Three separate popa horror movies are already in the worst.
Speaker 2: Oh no, oh, no oh. What have we come to
Speaker 2: as a society and a culture? All right? How did
Speaker 2: how did the Netflix NFL games?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, of course, look they threw some NFL games
Speaker 4: on the streamer. Question was could they handle it? Netflix?
Speaker 4: Were they ready? We saw some problems with that boxing
Speaker 4: match a little earlier this month, and it turns out
Speaker 4: that it was a little shaky. It wasn't great, but
Speaker 4: people tuned in in droves. Twenty four point three million
Speaker 4: viewers on Wednesday for the Ravens Texans game and twenty
Speaker 4: four point one million for the Chiefs Steelers game. That's
Speaker 4: according to Nielsen that reviewed this data. That's a lot,
Speaker 4: and I mean it was a big deal because Beyonce
Speaker 4: put on a halftime show that looked like it could
Speaker 4: have been at the Super Bowl. I mean, they really
Speaker 4: put a lot into the production here. Of course, the
Speaker 4: broadcast was produced I believe by a team from CBS,
Speaker 4: because Netflix doesn't have that kind of capability in house.
Speaker 4: But still they went all out for these two football
Speaker 4: games on Netflix and people sat down and watched.
Speaker 3: And a big, big fire did a lot of damage
Speaker 3: to a building in downtown LA with quite a history,
Speaker 3: a rock and roll history. This building used to house
Speaker 3: the Morrison Hotel, made famous by the rock band The
Speaker 3: Doors on the cover of their album Morrison Hotel. There's
Speaker 3: the band posing under the sign anybody over I don't
Speaker 3: know sixty five maybe has the image burned in your
Speaker 3: burned in your brain, unless you burned it out with
Speaker 3: all that skunk weed.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it was.
Speaker 3: A pretty big fire and they did finally get it
Speaker 3: under control. No no injuries reported, no other structures were damaged,
Speaker 3: and they're still working on determining the cause of the fire.
Speaker 4: Pretty massive fire down there. Check out the videos if
Speaker 4: you haven't seen them. Quite quite a big fire. Can
Speaker 4: you imagine throwing back a cocktail of this holiday season,
Speaker 4: especially on New Year's ringing in the New year, only
Speaker 4: to find yourself still sober? Apparently there's a lot of fat,
Speaker 4: fake booze out there. You can't even drown your sorrows
Speaker 4: in this country anymore. Apparently, according to some experts at
Speaker 4: Harriet Watt University, as much as forty percent of what
Speaker 4: people are drinking in some parts of Europe, of all places,
Speaker 4: they're not real.
Speaker 2: Okay, I did. I didn't take it that.
Speaker 3: It's a counterfeit booze, meaning it doesn't have any alcohol
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 2: They're just not what, you know, what you paid for.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know it's not it's not.
Speaker 2: Real Rolex whiskey. Yeah, So what is that?
Speaker 3: That's a cheap knockoff that you bought down in santi Alli.
Speaker 4: Well, I live near santi Alli, and I can tell
Speaker 4: you if I bought the knockoff there, I don't know
Speaker 4: if i'd feel it. You know, if I wanted Kentucky
Speaker 4: bourbon and you gave me some sort of like US
Speaker 4: Virgin Islands Bourbon. I don't know, I'm gonna feel that.
Speaker 4: That's oh boy, Okay.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing, right, it's if we're just gonna
Speaker 3: tell the people, hey man, there's a lot of fake
Speaker 3: booze going around.
Speaker 4: They were not helping anybody. Oh, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 4: So it's a knockoff brand, is what you want me
Speaker 4: to emphasize?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no no no. I'm good.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get to I'm trying to get to
Speaker 3: the positive. I'm trying to get to the positive. News
Speaker 3: is n Oh god, Michelle, here I go.
Speaker 2: Uh oh what are we doing?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 2: I go?
Speaker 3: I could probably stop myself, but I'm not gonna News
Speaker 3: for some time has been unrelentingly negative and upsetting and despairing.
Speaker 3: And I have noticed a trend that even in stories
Speaker 3: where there's something in it that's positive or hopeful, it
Speaker 3: is left out.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is by design. We all
Speaker 3: know the old phrase, if it bleeds, it leads. So
Speaker 3: this issue has been around for a long time, that
Speaker 3: news agencies, and I'm criticizing every single one of them,
Speaker 3: every one of them. You understand what I'm saying, Michelle,
Speaker 3: every everyone one of them seems to want to tell
Speaker 3: you about murders and rapes and fires, and we just
Speaker 3: did it. But at least there's an angle, and a
Speaker 3: lot of times there's.
Speaker 2: Like no no.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, so here's the On the other hand,
Speaker 3: science is coming to the rescue to protect people from
Speaker 3: buying the counterfeit booze because they're going to put together
Speaker 3: the equivalent of DNA.
Speaker 2: For booze.
Speaker 3: It's the specific chemical fingerprint of each spirit. And they
Speaker 3: say they will have a way for you to tell
Speaker 3: without needing a bunch of bulky testing equipment or anything
Speaker 3: like that. There will be a way to quickly verify
Speaker 3: the authenticity of a bottle of booze without even opening
Speaker 3: the bottle.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic news.
Speaker 3: So you if you're going to counterfeit that Pappy van
Speaker 3: Winkles or whatever, you better do it while you can
Speaker 3: because science is coming for you.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, this is my favor. It's the best one.
Speaker 2: This is the best one, my favorite.
Speaker 3: I've tried to find a booking photo of this of
Speaker 3: the person who is the subject of this story.
Speaker 2: I cannot find one.
Speaker 3: Because I really I want to know how outrageous her
Speaker 3: gambit was.
Speaker 2: Here's what happened anywhere in this country, you could say.
Speaker 3: And there've been a series of thefts recently, and that
Speaker 3: is true in Sonoma County. So one day, a couple
Speaker 3: of Shares's deputies are out, they see this car, the
Speaker 3: headlights are out, the registration is expired, and they recognize
Speaker 3: it from some previous theft. So they pull the car
Speaker 3: over and there's a driver in a passenger and the
Speaker 3: passenger gives a name and says, oh, and my date
Speaker 3: of birth is something something twenty twelve. So we have
Speaker 3: a twelve year old, Ladies and gentlemen, a twelve year
Speaker 3: old riding around with an adult woman stealing stuff. Because
Speaker 3: the car was full of stuff. I think it was
Speaker 3: mostly beauty products and booze. And I think that we
Speaker 3: all can agree that involving a twelve year old in
Speaker 3: organized retail theft is as despicable as it gets, except
Speaker 3: for one thing.
Speaker 2: It's not twelve twenty nine.
Speaker 3: A twenty nine year old tried to tell the cops
Speaker 3: that she was twelve. Now do you think either of
Speaker 3: these deputies thought for one second that she was actually twelve?
Speaker 2: Now, they did not.
Speaker 3: And the reason I want to see the booking photo
Speaker 3: is because I want to know if there's any possibility
Speaker 3: that if she had said she was seventeen, that maybe
Speaker 3: possibly it could have worked and she overshot her goal.
Speaker 3: But in any event, Coronicia Brooks of Antioch is now
Speaker 3: looking if ive fell in each other charges organize retail
Speaker 3: theft and impersonating a child because.
Speaker 2: You're not allowed to do that. That's a charge, My goodness,
Speaker 2: it is. That is a charge. You're right, it's a charge.
Speaker 3: They're out on bail, thirty thousand bail each, which is
Speaker 3: why when I did search the Sonoma County Jail inmate locator,
Speaker 3: she was not in.
Speaker 2: There, because she's not in there right now. But man,
Speaker 2: oh man, if.
Speaker 3: You're gonna tell a lie, you've got to at least
Speaker 3: you have to learn how to lie with plausibility.
Speaker 2: Man oh man, I wouldn't want to go on a
Speaker 2: date with her.
Speaker 3: You can spin off your own scenario specifically, why, Okay,
Speaker 3: at least it wasn't the other way around way, which
Speaker 3: is dumber, Which is dumber a twenty nine year old
Speaker 3: saying they're twelve, or a twelve year old saying they're
Speaker 3: twenty nine.
Speaker 2: A twenty nine year old saying they're twelve. Who would
Speaker 2: have a better shot at buying some fake liquor.
Speaker 3: A twelve year old with a fake ID saying they're
Speaker 3: twenty nine or a twenty Well, a twenty nine year
Speaker 3: old just would use their real ID, I would hope.
Speaker 4: But if they look young, would they get carded? Questioned, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're supposed to get carded.
Speaker 2: Isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They Well, I know some stores have signs that say
Speaker 3: we card anybody who looks like they might be under thirty.
Speaker 3: Then other stores say we card everybody. And I did
Speaker 3: buy subooz the other day and I had to show
Speaker 3: my ID and I look at this beard that is gray,
Speaker 3: and I there's no way in hell I'm under twenty one.
Speaker 2: Me neither.
Speaker 5: But I just know when I go like to Bevmo,
Speaker 5: they actually scan the ID now, and a grocery store.
Speaker 2: They scan them place.
Speaker 3: Yes, grocery stores in particular are doing that now or there,
Speaker 3: or somebody comes over if you're at the self checkout.
Speaker 2: If you're at the self checkout you're trying to buy booze,
Speaker 2: I don't think you're supposed to or well.
Speaker 3: It depends on what state you're in, and as you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes I'm not in California. If you go to self
Speaker 3: check oops, if you go if you go to the
Speaker 3: self checkout and you scan booze, the thing goes bid required.
Speaker 3: Somebody runs over and you have to show me your ID,
Speaker 3: and they typed something into the keypad. I think they
Speaker 3: type your date of birth into the to the keypad.
Speaker 3: So there you go. Hey, what did we just learn
Speaker 3: a lot that I that I that I know that
Speaker 3: I know more about different states self checkout alcohol buying
Speaker 3: laws than Michelle does. Let's get something very late new.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2: All right, man, I'm this is not something that has
Speaker 2: happened in a while, but this is terrible. Now. I
Speaker 2: don't know what the new procedure is.
Speaker 3: There used to be a procedure that I didn't think
Speaker 3: was fair that if the host like me blabbed and
Speaker 3: blabbed and went super super insanely late, that news would
Speaker 3: have to try to cut their newscast. I hope that's
Speaker 3: not the current policy.
Speaker 4: I do not cut my newscasts. All right, fantastic And
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