Speaker 1: You're listen Saints KFI AM six forty the bill Handles
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Speaker 1: forty handle on a Thursday, October ninth. And the big
Speaker 1: story is peace has broken out in the Mid East,
Speaker 1: and we all know what's happening. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at the news and there it is. We know that
Speaker 1: Hamas has agreed to the peace plan. Most of that
Speaker 1: twenty point peace plan, the big parts of it. Hamas
Speaker 1: As is releasing Sunday or Monday all of the hostages.
Speaker 1: They figure twenty are still alive. Is what the Israelis think.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight are dead. And so we're talking about actually
Speaker 1: Hamas releasing the bodies.
Speaker 2: How sick is this?
Speaker 1: They hold on to bodies for negotiations and hostages. So
Speaker 1: that's phase one, all right, So Israel ceasefire happens, Israel
Speaker 1: goes still, stays in Gaza, goes back to a predetermined area,
Speaker 1: doesn't It just pulls back a bit and the hall
Speaker 1: of hostages are released and then the rest of it
Speaker 1: is up for negotiation. So I want to dive into
Speaker 1: a little bit is why are the hostages being released?
Speaker 2: Why is Hamas saying yes to it.
Speaker 1: Now, the hostages were all the ammunition that Hamas had,
Speaker 1: So all they had were the hostages. Why would they
Speaker 1: cut loose with the hostages without the rest of the
Speaker 1: deal being put on paper but being signed. In other words,
Speaker 1: the demilitarization of Haramas, the dismantling of Hamas, that's still
Speaker 1: up there. Why would Hamas do that? Well, when this
Speaker 1: war started, Hamas is under no illusion that it was
Speaker 1: never it was ever going to win or even fight
Speaker 1: a standard.
Speaker 2: Military battle against Israel.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's basically a World Series baseball team to
Speaker 1: a high school team, not even so what they thought
Speaker 1: was and they guessed wrong on this one. The more
Speaker 1: that Palestinians were killed, the more infrastructure, the more destruction
Speaker 1: the Israel wrought on housing and hospitals and schools and
Speaker 1: sewage systems and electrical systems and water plants, wiping out everything,
Speaker 1: the more Israel would be under pressure to sign this deal, right,
Speaker 1: to leave Hamas alone. There'll be some kind of negotiation.
Speaker 1: And they guessed wrong because Natainnehu said, I don't care
Speaker 1: Hamas was right. There was tremendous world pressure. I mean,
Speaker 1: Israel is on its way, maybe already be a pariah
Speaker 1: state in doing what it did to sixty seven thousand Palestinians.
Speaker 1: About a third of them are militants, so that doesn't count,
Speaker 1: but the rest, for the most part, innocent, innocent civilians.
Speaker 1: And so we're going to show Israel because the worldwide
Speaker 1: pressure is going to stop them doing for what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Nettie says, you're crazy. We're not stopping.
Speaker 1: We will wipe out Gaza. And now what does Hamas do? Yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: what a choice. Hamas made good, good choice to do
Speaker 1: that attack on October seventh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did it right.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I want to point out as
Speaker 1: to what happened, by the way, the Israeli Cabinet is
Speaker 1: meeting right now to sign off on this because they
Speaker 1: have to under Israeli law. And the first that well,
Speaker 1: all the hostages will be released over a Sunday Monday,
Speaker 1: and Israel's releasing about fifteen hundred prisoners that some.
Speaker 2: Of them have life sentences.
Speaker 1: That's because that's normally what happens whenever you have an
Speaker 1: exchange like this. One of the things that I pointed
Speaker 1: out this morning, and I had said this, and I
Speaker 1: was wrong by the way I had said when this
Speaker 1: is over, and there of course they'll be a negotiated peace.
Speaker 2: It's impossible not to have that happen at some point.
Speaker 1: What you'll see in Israel is celebrations that the hostages
Speaker 1: are coming home. What you'll see in Gaza is the
Speaker 1: celebrations that Hamas has won the war, because that's what
Speaker 1: happened every single time, every incursion into Lebanon, the Israel
Speaker 1: wipes out entire military structures and their entire military force,
Speaker 1: and Israel stops, We've won the war, We've gotten rid
Speaker 1: of the oppressor, and they sing and they dance. The
Speaker 1: only singing and dancing that's going on is that the
Speaker 1: war is over. I have not yet seen a statement
Speaker 1: from Hamas saying we've won. We got rid of those
Speaker 1: Israeli bastards. This is a success, we are victorious. Have
Speaker 1: not heard that yet, and I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: going to because you know, where do they do that
Speaker 1: in front of a hospital that doesn't exist anymore?
Speaker 2: Or is that where they have the press conference? So
Speaker 2: is Israel still a pariah state?
Speaker 1: I think Israel has a horrible reputation now, I mean
Speaker 1: it is not very well respected. But I'll tell you
Speaker 1: where it is respected Is by Donald Trump, and without
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, Israel would never been able to pull this off.
Speaker 1: He is being credited for putting this together, and I
Speaker 1: think rightly, so he's taking a lot of credit. And
Speaker 1: then the issue becomes when this is all said and done,
Speaker 1: and it will end. There will be a full negotiated piece.
Speaker 1: You'll see what happens. What happens to Camas, we don't know,
Speaker 1: but there'll be all kinds of safeguards. You will see
Speaker 1: humanitarian aid. Right now, there are hundreds of trucks lined
Speaker 1: up on the Egyptian side of the border ready to
Speaker 1: go in with humanitarian aid. There's enough to keep everybody
Speaker 1: going for three months, I mean today going into Gaza
Speaker 1: and then the humanitarian aid and the restructuring is, the
Speaker 1: reconstruction is going to start and it's going to change
Speaker 1: everything that Gaza will come back. Now will they be
Speaker 1: able to rebuild as generations before it comes back to
Speaker 1: where it was before October seventh? So good news and Hamas,
Speaker 1: good call, guys, good call. You talked to sixty seven
Speaker 1: thousand people because you sure show those Israelis, didn't you. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on and talk about what's happening here. The
Speaker 1: Trump administration continues the immigration crackdown. And see what happened
Speaker 1: in Chicago yesterday if you're looking at the video, my God.
Speaker 2: The deck, the demonstrations.
Speaker 1: So as the immigration crackdown is happening in southern California,
Speaker 1: it was one of the places that the Trumpet administration
Speaker 1: is focusing on. The La County Board of Supervisor Supervisors
Speaker 1: is considering issuing a state of emergency to provide itself
Speaker 1: with more power to assist people affected by these detainments
Speaker 1: and deportations. Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, who wrote this proposal, says,
Speaker 1: this escalation about raids puts thousands of our neighbors in
Speaker 1: extreme perils. So I believe we need to act now,
Speaker 1: and this declaration is necessary to give us every available
Speaker 1: tool to fight back. So the state of emergency, this
Speaker 1: declaration of the state of emergency is a legal concept,
Speaker 1: and it's a precursor to enacting an eviction moratorium for
Speaker 1: households that have lost income doing due to the rates.
Speaker 1: You can prove a loved one who paid rent, a
Speaker 1: head of household who paid rent, we have been affected. Therefore,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be able to be forced to pay rent.
Speaker 1: And that's the moratorium, which I'm assuming he's going to
Speaker 1: kick in for sure. Now that's county, that's not going
Speaker 1: to be the city. And the declaration allows expedited hiring
Speaker 1: for rules and assist tenants.
Speaker 2: Four to one vote.
Speaker 1: Now, the board chair, Catherine Barger, came up with something
Speaker 1: rather interesting and I think legitimate.
Speaker 2: She voted no.
Speaker 1: She was the only no vote, and said, first of all,
Speaker 1: you know, we're going to be challenged legally. Every moratorium
Speaker 1: we've ever put in. We went to the courts and
Speaker 1: it went crazy. But look at what's happening here. The
Speaker 1: landlords are going to be held financially responsible for the
Speaker 1: unpaid rent. They still have to pay the mortgages, they
Speaker 1: still have to maintain the property. Now the moratorium means
Speaker 1: that the rent doesn't have to be paid, but it
Speaker 1: is still due. So you have a family, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to go forward doing this, and Neil, I'm sure you're.
Speaker 2: Going to say, I don't handle You're either being eracist
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I am going to make an assumption that families
Speaker 1: that have illegal aliens within them, that are breadwinners do
Speaker 1: not make a lot of money. My guess is there
Speaker 1: are very few high end cardiovascular surgeons who are illegal
Speaker 1: or who are married to people who are illegal, and
Speaker 1: the breadwinner is someone who is not undocumented. Okay, moratorium.
Speaker 1: They have a tough time making rent anyways, moratorium. It's
Speaker 1: now an eight month oratorium, a nine month oratorium.
Speaker 2: During COVID it was what a year? Two years?
Speaker 1: And okay, now you owe thirty thousand dollars in rent?
Speaker 1: Now you owe fifty thousand dollars in rent in back rent?
Speaker 1: Really you think you're going to get that? In reality,
Speaker 1: the landlords are going to be nailed now.
Speaker 2: Big corporate rations can take it.
Speaker 1: But the majority of the rental units in southern California
Speaker 1: are owned by people, they're not owned by huge corporations,
Speaker 1: and so it's.
Speaker 2: It's going to be another fight now. Is there any
Speaker 2: way to be fair about it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? The state pays for it all. The state pays
Speaker 1: the rent. If someone falls under this moratorium as a
Speaker 1: result of being unemployed or affected financially because of a
Speaker 1: raid or a deportation, do you tag.
Speaker 2: It onto the landlord? Well that's not fair. Do you say,
Speaker 2: but you owe.
Speaker 1: The nine months or a year and a half rent? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know there's no money there. Let's get practical
Speaker 1: for a moment. So what do you do? Do you
Speaker 1: subsidize the rent? Well, that costs us money the taxpayer.
Speaker 1: This is not fun stuff. This really isn't And frankly,
Speaker 1: for me, it boils down to these deportations are worse.
Speaker 2: They do more harm to us.
Speaker 1: Our economy, our country than they help. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody who's lost a job because an illegal alien
Speaker 1: has taken their job, I don't I don't know how
Speaker 1: many people pick strawberries and said, oh, that undocumented person,
Speaker 1: I would be picking those strawberries if the farmer had
Speaker 1: not hired that person. I don't know how often does
Speaker 1: that happen? Now?
Speaker 3: I think it's probably the construction industry and things like that.
Speaker 1: But they're still huge. But there aren't enough people in
Speaker 1: the construction industry. That's the problem right now. Anybody in
Speaker 1: the construction industry has a job for the most part,
Speaker 1: And you're right, the construction industry is hit, but most people,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, it's harder and harder to hire undocumented,
Speaker 1: very very tough.
Speaker 2: The problem is, I believe that this.
Speaker 1: Whole issue of immigration deportation is more optical than it
Speaker 1: is realistic. I also think that people who are deported,
Speaker 1: family members who are deported or held in detention are
Speaker 1: not being able to pay the rent.
Speaker 2: That's real.
Speaker 1: Non payment of rent is real because you can't afford
Speaker 1: to pay it. Non payment of rent is real when
Speaker 1: the landlord and you own the property and can't make
Speaker 1: the mortgage payment. Those are all very real. The immigration,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much money is being spent for that.
Speaker 1: It just drives me nuts. You know that by now? Okay, now,
Speaker 1: there is a story came out at USA today in
Speaker 1: which the columnists wanted to move on an airplane sitting
Speaker 1: on an airplane empty seats up there, and said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd like to move up there, and they said no, no.
Speaker 1: The not only just one stewardess, but the steward die
Speaker 1: said no, two of them.
Speaker 2: So you know what is that about? They're empty seats.
Speaker 1: Here was a post at United Flight to our mission
Speaker 1: trip to Honduras, some Houston, three hour duration, most of
Speaker 1: the plane empty. The attendant told is they won't let
Speaker 1: anyone change seats for less than the eighty six dollars
Speaker 1: each charge, even though the plane is nearly empty and
Speaker 1: there's a picture of the empty airplane. Okay, that's pretty obnoxious.
Speaker 1: They just don't let you do it. Now, there's some
Speaker 1: good reasons for it. It's not just a question if
Speaker 1: you pay more money. There's a safety component big time.
Speaker 1: And even the safety issues extended seat assignments. Why well,
Speaker 1: there's something called weight and balance and airplanes when before
Speaker 1: they take off, it is very specific as to how
Speaker 1: much weight they're carrying at you want to get the
Speaker 1: plane as balanced as as possible, which means one side
Speaker 1: of the airplane should not be full of passengers on
Speaker 1: the other side should I remember once going on a
Speaker 1: plane and we were passing Mount the Rushmore and the
Speaker 1: pilot said, as we were flying on the left side
Speaker 1: of the plane, we're going to be passing Mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: and it's a great view. And everybody moved over there
Speaker 1: and the plane damn near went over on its side
Speaker 1: and you could actually feel the plane go over, you know,
Speaker 1: swing to the left, and so that is important stuff.
Speaker 1: So the argument is that you know, we've got a
Speaker 1: weight and balance issue, and we have to know how
Speaker 1: many people are sitting in what seats. Now, if a
Speaker 1: few people move, did that make any difference now, not
Speaker 1: really on big planes, but if a lot of people move, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's important. It's also important to know where people are
Speaker 1: sitting because they have a manifest and they know what
Speaker 1: seat people are in other than Southwest, although that's changed
Speaker 1: and that makes sense. The other thing is if they're
Speaker 1: charging a premium for a seat that someone is paid for,
Speaker 1: but let's say the next seat next, the seat next
Speaker 1: to what is empty, and all of a sudden someone
Speaker 1: jumps in from the back of the plane and goes
Speaker 1: and sits in that seat.
Speaker 2: Hey, what are you doing. I paid for this, you
Speaker 2: got it for free. So there's a whole philosophy there.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it can get really bad. I
Speaker 1: went to school in Canada for a period of time,
Speaker 1: about a year and a half. I don't remember one
Speaker 1: day of it because I was stoned every single day
Speaker 1: that I was in Canada. I was on some kind
Speaker 1: of drug. But I needed knee surgery I had. It
Speaker 1: was a mess. I was in a cast and I
Speaker 1: had to get on an airplane from Vancouver to la
Speaker 1: I was fully extended in the cast. So I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in coach and I and there was seats opening business
Speaker 1: class and I asked the stewardess, Hey, can I sit
Speaker 1: up there? This is incredible, it's such pain. I can't move.
Speaker 1: She said, no, you can't do it. So there I
Speaker 1: am sitting with my feet sticking out in the aisle
Speaker 1: and the steward says, you got to put your feet back,
Speaker 1: and I'm it's it was insane And they wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Why because people paid a fee, an additional fee, a
Speaker 1: lot of money to sit up in business and we weren't.
Speaker 2: Going to let you do it. So can you change seats?
Speaker 2: Although today, when's the last.
Speaker 1: Time you've been on an airplane that there were a
Speaker 1: lot of empty seats, Neil, have you been on They're
Speaker 1: no empty seats on airplanes anymore.
Speaker 2: No, they've all been pretty packed. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: You know, when I fly overseas, I always well, I
Speaker 1: tend to want to usually fly business class because I
Speaker 1: use my credit card, which I get miles and I
Speaker 1: run my business through it. So everything is paid through
Speaker 1: the credit card, so I get some miles and so
Speaker 1: I fly. I get to fly up front because of
Speaker 1: the miles. There is an a seat that's not occupied.
Speaker 1: I have not seen one seat in business it's not occupied.
Speaker 1: You want to know why, because everybody else has miles too, bastards.
Speaker 1: I thought it was only for me, and there are
Speaker 1: fewer airplanes and there are more people flying. COVID did that,
Speaker 1: and then the airlines realize, Wow, you want to know something.
Speaker 1: If we cut down on the number of flights, which
Speaker 1: means we don't have to pay pilots, we don't have
Speaker 1: to use fuel, we don't have to do maintenance as much,
Speaker 1: and we have as many people flying or more. Guess
Speaker 1: what we're gonna have. We're gonna have full airplanes, a
Speaker 1: lot of them. So the concept of an empty flight
Speaker 1: today is pretty rare. You know, air bust, the big
Speaker 1: three eighty, you know that huge double stacker that's out
Speaker 1: of production, making it anymore because it just didn't make sense,
Speaker 1: too big, too expensive to run. The seven forty seven
Speaker 1: is out of production. It's now these regional jets, small jets,
Speaker 1: or with the big ones. Of course you can still
Speaker 1: do wide body jets, but their two engine jets and
Speaker 1: jet these planes have just gotten smaller, more people crammed
Speaker 1: into them, fewer of them, and this is why the
Speaker 1: airlines are making so much damn money.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's not forget what they charged for check bags. Right.
Speaker 1: The last bastion was Southwest Airlines, the last ones. And
Speaker 1: here they were swirling, swirling, keeping their head just above water,
Speaker 1: and then down the drain they went. So now every
Speaker 1: single airline charges for baggage. It's just it's horrible flying.
Speaker 1: You know, flying at one time actually used to be fun.
Speaker 1: There was leg room. People used to dress up that
Speaker 1: were a tie and coat because that was considered really neat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cattle cars, all right, we're done with that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Halloween is coming up, and chocolate candies are a big deal.
Speaker 1: Except chocolate candies are not a big deal. Chocolate is
Speaker 1: expensive as hell. Droughts in chocolate land where they grow it,
Speaker 1: the cost is exploded.
Speaker 2: And what are the manufacturers doing.
Speaker 1: Are they just lying to us and calling this brown
Speaker 1: stuff chocolate and it really isn't.
Speaker 2: Neil chocolate ish. Yes, okay, So this is what's going on.
Speaker 3: The vast majority of the world chocolate comes from West Africa,
Speaker 3: and you can have as little as three weeks of
Speaker 3: problematic weather that would throw everything into a tailspin.
Speaker 2: And that's what we've been dealing with.
Speaker 3: In addition to droughts or problematic harvests and they had
Speaker 3: a very small harvest. These things are making chocolate just sore.
Speaker 3: The cost of chocolate is nuts right now like three
Speaker 3: times normally what it is.
Speaker 2: So it's at a.
Speaker 3: Record high right now, which is twelve thousand dollars a ton.
Speaker 3: Recent history, prices were below four thousand dollars a ton,
Speaker 3: so you can see that that's choked up.
Speaker 1: So how do you make chocolate candies when you can't
Speaker 1: afford to make chocolate candy?
Speaker 3: Well, this is what's interesting. And I mentioned this gosh
Speaker 3: maybe last week or something like that, that butterfinger is one
Speaker 3: of my favorites, and I know Amy King has talked
Speaker 3: about it being one of hers as well. People love
Speaker 3: butterfingers right well, they came out with a new flavor.
Speaker 3: It's covered in a marshmallow coating. Now, we love all
Speaker 3: kinds of different flavors, and there is a lot of
Speaker 3: novelty items that come out around the holidays or just
Speaker 3: to stir up interest again in candy. However, there is
Speaker 3: a pattern right now that we're seeing that is not
Speaker 3: about novelty or changing things up. It seems to be
Speaker 3: across the board they're finding different ways to use less
Speaker 3: chocolate or to not use it at all. There is
Speaker 3: a cinnamon toast crunch version of the classic kisses, you know,
Speaker 3: the little chocolate kisses.
Speaker 2: It lodged.
Speaker 3: Last year or something like that, and it had no
Speaker 3: chocolate in it.
Speaker 2: A chocolate kiss that had no chocolate in Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you think there's things that are just chocolate
Speaker 1: and they're spinning away and doing everything other than chocolate,
Speaker 1: like butterfingers without the chocolate on it.
Speaker 3: But they're also changing the ounces of it. You're too,
Speaker 3: you know, your regular package of two standard Reese's peanut
Speaker 3: butter cups is about one point five ounces.
Speaker 2: But the peanut butter pumpkins that.
Speaker 3: They that are out right now for Halloween are you know,
Speaker 3: they lock launched them back in July and they're sold
Speaker 3: individually wrapped at about one point two ounces.
Speaker 2: So they're finding ways.
Speaker 3: Kit Kat has a bunch of different flavors that don't
Speaker 3: have chocolate.
Speaker 2: In them right now.
Speaker 3: They have the cookie crunch and all of that stuff,
Speaker 3: but they have like different coatings on the outside, or
Speaker 3: are using flavored white chocolate which is not chocolate.
Speaker 1: Is it affecting sales of candy where people are simply
Speaker 1: just not buying. If you can't get chocolate, we're just
Speaker 1: not going to buy the candy.
Speaker 3: Now they're finding consistency still that that there are folks
Speaker 3: that are you know, the main groups that are buying candy,
Speaker 3: gen Z, Millennials, that type of thing.
Speaker 2: They're still buying.
Speaker 3: They happen to be a group of people though that
Speaker 3: like to experiment and taste different flavors and textures together.
Speaker 2: But you know the rest of us. I like chocolate.
Speaker 3: I mean for Halloween, I make sure we have chocolate,
Speaker 3: and you know you can get those bundles of the
Speaker 3: mix of the fun size or whatever. Well now they're
Speaker 3: putting together these fun these mix of candies, but they're
Speaker 3: like starbursts and things like that that don't have any
Speaker 3: chocolate in them to begin with. So it's something we're
Speaker 3: going to see probably quite a bit, or you're going
Speaker 3: to be spending more money on it. And when it
Speaker 3: comes to candy and things, we kind of let ourselves spend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. Amy is our butterfingers your favorite candy.
Speaker 2: Bar pretty much because I was deprived of them when
Speaker 2: I was a child. Yeah, I love butterfingers.
Speaker 1: Here's a little factoid did you know that butterfingers were
Speaker 1: Jeffdahmer's favorite to candy.
Speaker 2: Also, I did not boy. Thank you very much.
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