1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: Chris merrill in for John and kenkfi Am six forty 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: more stimulating talk. When Texas passed their SB eight law 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: that was the abortion law, the Fetal Heartbeat Law, and 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: it basically said, if you know of somebody that is 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: performing an abortion, or if you know of somebody that's 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,319 Speaker 1: had an abortion, or if you know of somebody that 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: works at an abortion clinic, or if you know of 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: somebody that gave someone a ride to an abortion clinic, 9 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: or if you know of someone that sold a tie 10 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: to a doctor who performed an abortion, or if you 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: know of somebody that changed the tires on the uber 12 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 1: that took somebody to an abortion, you could sue them 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: for having an abortion. And the real kicker on the 14 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: Texas law is that the the lawsuit had to be 15 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: covered by the people that were sued. At least they 16 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: couldn't they couldn't ask for attorney fees. It also didn't 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: have to be somebody from Texas. So in fact, I 18 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: believe it was the first. The first case that was 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: brought was somebody from Indiana that was saying they were 20 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: going to sue people in Texas for having an abortion. 21 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: They didn't even have to have evidence Basically, you accuse 22 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: someone of having an abortion, you file a civil suit 23 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: for ten thousand dollars, and then the person that's been 24 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: accused has to prove that they didn't and even if 25 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: they're successful, they still have to pay their lawyers. They 26 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 1: have to pay their own court fees. There was no 27 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 1: downside to somebody filing the lawsuit in Texas over abortion. Well, 28 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: then Roe v. Wade got overturned by the Supreme Court 29 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: and all of that goes to the wayside. Doesn't really matter. 30 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: But we saw it playing out and we knew how 31 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: ridiculous it was, And anybody that was commenting on this 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: at all said, well, I take that back. You're gonna 33 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: have some of the hard right wingers that are like, 34 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: this is great, We're gonna end abortion and save lives. 35 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: But anybody else was able to say, this looks like 36 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: a liberal slippery slope, doesn't it. What happens when you 37 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: have a liberal state that employs the exact same legislative 38 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: process to more liberal causes. At the time, I even said, 39 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: what happens if California decides we're going to do the 40 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:21,839 Speaker 1: same thing with guns, And then California did the same 41 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: thing with guns. Now, I don't know if Governor Batman 42 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: was listening to my show. I was on in San 43 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: Francisco numerous times during this entire Texas SB eight debate 44 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: and brought this up. I don't know that Governor Newsom 45 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: was listening. I don't know if he was hanging out 46 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: at Wayne manor in the bat Cave, or maybe just 47 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: driving home from the French laundry after a nice birthday 48 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: dinner and listening to me on the ridio and thought, 49 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: that's genius. I'll get a hold of my people and 50 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: we'll get that set. But that's exactly what he did. 51 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: That's what he did. So SB thirteen twenty seven goes 52 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: into effect. Now is effect in California. It authorizes anyone 53 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 1: other than the state or local government officials to sue 54 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,119 Speaker 1: people who violate the state's laws against the manufacturer, distribution, 55 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: or sale of assault weapons, ghost guns, and other banned firearms. 56 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: Lawsuits could also be brought against gun dealers who violate 57 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: the state's law against selling or transferring weapons other than 58 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: hunting rifles to anyone under twenty one years old. So 59 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: this becomes u this becomes a bounty hunt. Basically, and 60 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: frankly I'm a bit disappointed in California for going through 61 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: with it. I'm not disappointed in California for bringing this 62 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: up in the first place, because I felt like this 63 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: needed to be done, This sort of performative legislation needed 64 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: to be done to send a message to the people 65 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: that were supporting the Texas law. But I didn't want 66 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: it to see I don't want to see it go 67 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: into effect. And here's why this is in charge of 68 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: enforcing that enforcement does not fall on the people. Right, 69 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: we have the legislative of the judicial and the executive branch. Right, 70 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: legislative branch makes the laws. Judicial branch interprets the law. 71 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: Executive branch enforces the law. The basic civics we learned 72 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: all this stuff in like third grade. But now what 73 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: we're doing is we're saying, Aha, let's take the responsibility 74 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: of the executive branch of law, enforcement of investigators, and 75 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: let's put it on people who've decided that they're going 76 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: to go spying on their neighbors. You don't like that 77 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: at all. We did have one judge that struck down 78 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 1: an aspect of the law. US District Judge Roger Benitez 79 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: in San Diego said that the fees shifting provision that 80 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: would have saddled gun industry litigants with all or part 81 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: of the court cause from any suit challenging the state's 82 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: gun controls, even if they prevailed in court. State Attorney 83 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: General's office had refused to defend it, having argued that 84 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: the Texas fee shifting provision on which it was based 85 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: was unconstitutional. So, as I pointed out, if you're in 86 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: Texas and you get sued for providing an abortion, having 87 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: an abortion, eating eggs, whatever, anything that was abortion related, 88 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: and you had to defend yourself in court, you couldn't 89 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: ask for attorney fees. It was on you. Part of 90 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: that plan in Texas, I believe, was to have lawsuits 91 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: pile up against abortion providers, and that even if the 92 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: abortion providers can't be found guilty because they're not allowed 93 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: to share patient information or something of that sort, that 94 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: they would be broken financially. Similarly, we've got California saying, okay, well, 95 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: let's just have people sue all the gun manufacturers until 96 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: those gun manufacturers are bussed. Let's just do that. District 97 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: court judge said, no, you guys know that's unconstitutional. You 98 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: thought it was unconstitutional when Texas did it, and now 99 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: you put a law into effect, it's unconstitutional still, so 100 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: struck that down. So that is that's been taken away. 101 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: That was a major hang up. I don't like this 102 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: idea of people being asked to spy on their neighbors, 103 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: to sue their neighbors, or to be legal vigilantes. Basically 104 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: La Times reporting Californians who buy assault weapons cannot be 105 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: sued under the new law. But if you buy a 106 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 1: ghost gun kit or more technically a firearm precursor part 107 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: that isn't figure federally regulated, you could be liable. Yeah, 108 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: and I'm assuming if you're printing them on your three 109 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: D printer that would be a no no too. People 110 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: who knowingly and knowingly engage in conduct that helps someone 111 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: violate these restrictions could also be sued, even if they 112 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: didn't know the person they were helping was going to 113 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,119 Speaker 1: violate the law. So too, could suits be brought against 114 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: anyone who sells, offers, or transfers unregulated gun precursor parts. 115 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: And again, if you're you can't print a gun part, 116 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: give it to a friend who will then sell it 117 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: to someone else that you can't, you can't do. That 118 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: goes down the chain. So that's that's part of the law. 119 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: So what happens according to the law, any act or 120 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: a mission that violates the structures of SB thirteen twenty seven, 121 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: that's a new gun law in California constitute an injury 122 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: to all residents of and visitors to this state. So 123 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: you can sue even if you weren't directly harm. You 124 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: can sue even if nobody suffers any actual physical injury 125 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: or financial harm. In other words, everyone has standing. This 126 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: is problematic as well. Suppose somebody has one of these 127 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: firearms we're talking about. Suppose they have a ghost gun 128 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: and they drive by your house. Are you affected by that? No? 129 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: Were you harmed by that? No? Did anything in your 130 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: life change because somebody else has a ghostgun? No? Was 131 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: the ghostgun used in the commission of a crime? No? 132 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: Do you pick your nose and eat your goobers? Yes? Well, 133 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: then you can sue whatever the reason. You can sue. 134 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: As long as you suspect somebody of doing something wrong, 135 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: you can sue them, even if that means booger eating. 136 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: I don't really know what that has to do with anything. 137 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: I just thought we'd throw it in there as how 138 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: ridiculous the law is that you can sue somebody and 139 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: they have to defend themselves. You don't have to have 140 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: a personal connection to the violation. You just have to 141 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: be able to prove that it took place. So, for example, 142 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: again from the La Times, you could learn about an 143 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: apparently illegal sale of an assault weapon to a California 144 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: buyer by reading a newspaper story about a shooting and 145 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: then use court documents and other public records to try 146 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: to make your case against the seller. Yeah, so you're 147 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: you're reading your your Baker's Field daily and you happen 148 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: to see that some farmer held a gun to another 149 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: farmer who was on his land, and you go, oh, 150 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: that's interesting. I wonder what kind of gun that was. 151 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: So you go and you look up your court records 152 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: and you find out that it was that it was 153 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: an assault weapon that has been banned or had a 154 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: magazine that had too many, too many rounds in it, 155 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: and you ah, oh, they violated the law, and you 156 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: use the court records from that complaint as your evidence. 157 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: You don't know the farmer, you don't even know how 158 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: to get the Baker's Field. You don't know where the 159 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: Bakersfield court is. It doesn't matter. You read it, you 160 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: googled it, you found enough information to bring a lawsuit. 161 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: You sue, the farmer has to defend themselves, and you 162 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: come away ten thousand dollars richer simply because you follow 163 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: it up on reading a newspaper article. How does that 164 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: make this a better state? How does that make us safer? 165 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: All it does is it pits us against our neighbors. 166 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: It doesn't make anybody safer. It just makes us look 167 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: as ridiculous as Texas did, and we called Texas out 168 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: for looking ridiculous. There's better ways, friends. I have a 169 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: feeling most of this will be struck down in court, 170 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: but not before there's a bunch of lawsuits and a 171 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: bunch of people who are screaming about it. Get ready, 172 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three is gonna be the year of gun 173 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: lawsuits in California. All right, I am going to tell 174 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:47,959 Speaker 1: you how not to money. Next. Chris merrill in for 175 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: John and kenk If. I am six forty. We're live 176 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 1: everywhere in your iHeartRadio app. Quick heads up here. We're 177 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,719 Speaker 1: gonna do news with Mark at five point thirty and 178 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: then after that Jane Wells, who you've heard on KFI 179 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: numerous times, is going to join me to talk about 180 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: the right way to die. So I feel like that 181 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: ought to be good, probably the best way to go. 182 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: Here's how not to Okay, we're going into the new 183 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: year and you're trying to figure out what can what 184 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: kind of changes can I bring about in my life 185 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: that will make things better? Might I recommend You're not 186 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: gonna want to hear this, but might I recommend avoiding debt? 187 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: And I know you just got through Christmas and you 188 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: just racked up a bunch of debt in your credit 189 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: cards and you got to pay all that stuff off. 190 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 1: I know, I know. But what if follow me here, 191 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: What if you went on a money diet for a year? 192 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 2: All right? No, no, no, no no. 193 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: Just like with just like with a food diet, you 194 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: still have to eat food, and you can even have 195 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: a cheap day, but let's just figure out a little 196 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: money diet for a year. I don't know what your 197 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: situation is. Maybe you don't have any debt, and that's fantastic. 198 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:59,199 Speaker 1: You've been dieting, you don't have to worry about it, 199 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: all right, But maybe you got a little bit of debt. 200 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: Maybe you just built some debt up from your credit cards. 201 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: What if what if this year you were to work 202 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: to pay off the debt you just piled up from Christmas, 203 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 1: pay off some other debt without using your credit cards 204 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: to buy more stuff. What if you just did that 205 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: for a year. Just give it a shot. You gotta 206 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: tell you, it feels pretty good when you don't have 207 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of more debt piling up on your 208 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: credit card. If you are listen, I still use my 209 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: credit card and then I pay it off at the 210 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: end of the month. And it sounds so obvious, right 211 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: for those of you that have been doing this a while. 212 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: For those of you that haven't, you go, yeah, that's 213 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: what I would like. But then we still do it. Anyway, 214 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm with you. My wife and I decided to do 215 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: We had some austerity measures. We went on a hard 216 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: core diet, and we were able to get our debt 217 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: paid off. And I got to tell you, you charge stuff 218 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:00,719 Speaker 1: on your credit card. At the end of the month, 219 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: they pay that off. So maybe your credit card, we 220 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: buy a lot of stuff in the credit card, we 221 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: get the points whatever. Right, So let's say you get 222 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: to the end of the month. Credit card bill is 223 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,719 Speaker 1: six hundred dollars and you pay that off. That's a 224 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: whole lot better than when we had thousands of dollars 225 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: a debt on the credit card. We'd pay six hundred 226 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: dollars and only two hundred dollars of it would go 227 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: to the actual principle. Just felt like we were spinning 228 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: our tires. So I was a bit concern when I 229 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: ran across the story that oh, Fox eleven had on 230 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: their website, and it was talking about Walt disney World, 231 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: not Land, but World, And they did a study there 232 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: at lending Tree found that eighteen percent of the customers 233 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: they surveyed went into debt during a visit to Disney World. 234 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: The research found that parents with kids under the age 235 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: of eighteen were most likely to pick up this additional expense. 236 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: They also found that the pricey dining options and ticket 237 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: prices at the park were higher than what many people 238 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: had initially anticipated or budgeted for. We've all run in 239 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: that when you walk into the amusement park. Right. The 240 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: average cost for a one day single park ticket for 241 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: adults and kids ages ten and older from November twenty 242 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: two to October twenty three will be one hundred and 243 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: forty one dollars seventy four cents, as a one day 244 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: single park ticket is nearly one hundred and fifty dollars. 245 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: I'm an old fart because I always feel like the 246 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: price to get in ont to be about ten bucks. 247 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: But no, there's a whole lot more. And so you 248 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: got a family of four, just walking into that park 249 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: is gonna cost you six hundred dollars the cost of 250 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: a Disney World vacation for a family of four consisting 251 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: of two adults, one child aged ten or older, and 252 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: one child age three to nine. Okay, this is a 253 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: Disney vacation now, and we're talking about you're gonna have 254 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: to pay for a hotel and dining and everything else. 255 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: But your vacation was five seven hundred and thirty one 256 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: dollars in twenty twenty two, which is just shy of 257 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars per person per night. Wow. So what 258 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: if i'm your twenty twenty three debt diet you were 259 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: didn't put off your trip to Disney, or maybe you 260 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: save up six grand, right, save up the six thousand 261 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: dollars and then pay for it out right instead of 262 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: putting it on a card. It seems so dumb, but 263 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: it's amazing on what your life flips when all of 264 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: a sudden you're paying when you have money to pay 265 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: for things versus getting things and then trying to pay 266 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: them off later. It again, seems so simple, but the 267 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: emotional relief is mind boggling. Something I'm just discovering here 268 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: in the last couple of years. Just let me share 269 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: that with you. How much better it feels. So if 270 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: you're in that situation, you know exactly what I'm talking about. 271 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: And if you're not, you long for it. Go get it, 272 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: go get it. Could be worse, though, You could have 273 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: a ton of money and then just piss it all away. 274 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: Imagine if you were the wealthiest person in the world. 275 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: Just imagine being that rich and then just pissing it 276 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: all away. Elon Musk has become the first person ever 277 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: to lose two hundred billion dollars. Musk previously became the 278 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: second person ever to a mass a fortune of more 279 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: than two hundred billion dollars. He did that January twenty 280 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: twenty one. Jeff Bezos was the first to do it. 281 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: He had a three hundred forty billion at his peak 282 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: November twenty twenty one, he had three hundred forty billion dollars. 283 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: Now Musk is worth one hundred and thirty seven billion dollars. 284 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: I mean, we could say that he's lost three three 285 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: hundred billion if we wanted to. We're in that ballpark 286 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: right now. Based on the numbers that are being reported, 287 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: he's lost three hundred but he's certainly lost two hundred 288 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: billion dollars. He held the title of the world's richest 289 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: person up until last month, and then he was knocked 290 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: off by the CEO of French luxury giant LVMH. Is 291 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: that the Louis Vuitton people? Is that what the LVMHS 292 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: guys do you know? Bernard Arnault is now the wealthiest person. 293 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: Tesla shares taking a hit this year, stocks down sixty 294 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: five percent as of December thirtieth. Tesla also recently announcing 295 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: a price slash in several of the models. He also 296 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: paid forty four billion dollars for Twitter, which is now 297 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: worth So yeah, he lost over two hundred billion. You 298 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: could argue, no, I guess it would be two hundred 299 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 1: million dollars. Excuse me, I said three hundred it's two 300 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: hundred billion. See math is bad for me. This which 301 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: is why I should never go into debt. There is 302 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: upside though for Elon Musk. For you musketeers, Tesla saying 303 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: today they sold a record one point three million vehicles 304 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: last year. That's big. However, Elon Musk keeps saying they're 305 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: gonna sell more, and then he doesn't. He pledged to 306 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: grow the company sales by fifty percent nearly every year. 307 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: That didn't really happen. Twenty twenty two figure top the 308 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: prior record of nine hundred and thirty six thousand vehicles 309 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: that were delivered in twenty twenty one, but it was 310 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: shy of the one point four million needed to reach 311 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: that goal of fifty percent growth. Still pretty close. That's 312 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: pretty great. What happens when recession hits. That's where it 313 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 1: starts to hurt more. And need I remind you Tesla 314 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: hasn't put out a new model in a while, so 315 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,479 Speaker 1: as we know in the auto industry, when things get stale, 316 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: sales start to dip. All right, Jane Wells is gonna 317 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: join me here in the next segment our CNBC Special correspondent. 318 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: And also you hear On Kfi on occasion doing some 319 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 1: of the Lord's work filling in. She's gonna talk to 320 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: us about the best way to die and then move 321 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: forward next Chris, Marilyn for John and Ken, I am 322 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: six forty. We're live everywhere in your iHeart ready. Lap 323 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: was perusing the news stories today and saw that New 324 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: York has just become the sixth state in the Union 325 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: to allow for human composting. They prefer if the human 326 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: being composted is deceased. First joining me to discuss is 327 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: Jane wells Our, CNBC's special correspondent, And of course you 328 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: hear Jane and Kfi often. Jane. Great to talk with 329 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: you again. I haven't talked to you in a couple 330 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: of years. I'm so excited that you were able to 331 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: join us tonight. 332 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 3: Well, Happy New Year, Chris, And yeah, California is the 333 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,640 Speaker 3: fifth state to allowed it now New York is the sixth. 334 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 3: Ilou in California, we can't throw Graandma into the garden 335 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 3: yet until twenty twenty seven, because it's California and everything 336 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 3: takes longer to figure out the bureaucracy. 337 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems so strange to me that they would 338 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: pass a law that I don't think it's that difficult 339 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: to understand. I don't know what the what the It's 340 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: not like implementation would take that long. I mean, you're 341 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: composting a human body after they die. We're talking about 342 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: what is this? It's called terramation and am I saying 343 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: that correctly? 344 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 3: Yeah? You are. And it started in Washington State in 345 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. That was the first state to legalize it, 346 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 3: and so they have a few of them in Seattle. 347 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 3: That's where I went. I wrote the story for my 348 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 3: substack Janewell dot substack dot com. Yes, there's a plug 349 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 3: to a place called return Home. And the entrepreneur who 350 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 3: decided this isn't green industry that he can be big 351 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 3: scale and be profitable in is named Micah Truman, and 352 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 3: I went into his facility and they have basically it 353 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 3: works like this, Chris. It's a little bit faster than 354 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 3: just digging a hole in the ground and throwing you 355 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 3: in it and covering it up. What they do is 356 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 3: they put you on a container with a lot about 357 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 3: falfustraw and sawdust like you would compost materials. And it's 358 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 3: two parts the more organic material to one part human. 359 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 3: And then that allows the microbes naturally in your body 360 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 3: to heat up to almost one hundred and seventy degrees, 361 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 3: so you start decomposing pretty quickly. Yeah, they put in 362 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 3: a little trickle of air so there's a little air 363 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 3: circulation so it doesn't overheat. And after about thirty to 364 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 3: sixty days, it's it's a moist dirt except for the 365 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,719 Speaker 3: bones and teeth and oh look there's an implant, so 366 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 3: they take that out. They you know, shark, they turn 367 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 3: the bones into sharks like they do it a crematorium, 368 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 3: and they put them back in the soil. And another 369 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 3: thirty days later the microbes eat the bones and you 370 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 3: end up with about two hundred and fifty pounds because 371 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 3: remember you had all that straw and saw this too, 372 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 3: two there and fifty pounds of like I saw it, 373 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 3: it's like it's like molts you get when you go 374 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 3: to the nursery. You know, you open a bag of 375 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 3: mulch and it's a little bit moist and it's very 376 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 3: you know, dirt like, and it doesn't smell, and that's 377 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 3: what you get. 378 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: So I'm fascinated by this. Jane. First question, what led 379 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: you to want to do this story? Because it's wildly interesting. 380 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but it is a little out there. 381 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: I mean, what was the impetust to start this one? 382 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 3: Well, I always look for weird entrepreneurs doing unusual businesses 383 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 3: who have no experience in them and do it from nothing. 384 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 3: And this this guy, Michah Truman, was an investment banker 385 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,199 Speaker 3: in China of all places, and he came back to 386 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 3: Seattle where he went to high school in twenty fourteen, 387 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 3: and he he wanted to start something, but he wanted 388 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 3: it to be truly green, not some sort of bs 389 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 3: green like carbon credits or whatever. And he wanted it 390 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 3: to be profitable. And he raised three million dollars from investors. 391 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 3: And you know they're still in startup mode. They did 392 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 3: seventy five bodies in twenty twenty two. He expects to 393 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 3: double that this year. It's about five thousand dollars a body. 394 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,360 Speaker 3: Unless you are a child, the service and he will 395 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 3: do the service for free. And they've had some children. 396 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 3: He didn't expect all the I don't know what he 397 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 3: expected starting a funeral business business, but a lot of 398 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 3: things surprised him, like, for example, let me tell you, 399 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 3: families want to show up during the sixty day process 400 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 3: to hang out. So he has to redecorate the place 401 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 3: and set up chairs. 402 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: Okay, but when he's when he's composting them, and they're 403 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: they're going into some sort of a some sort of 404 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: a container. Right, So this isn't like the This isn't 405 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: like the composting barrels I buy at home. Deep won't 406 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 1: have to spin once a week, is it? 407 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 3: Well that's interesting. You should mention that. So you're in 408 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 3: a sealed container. They call it a vessel. And in 409 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 3: the back he showed me I wasn't allowed to videotape, 410 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 3: but he has sort of proprietary machine he had designed 411 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 3: to construct it which does exactly that. It will pick 412 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 3: up the vessel and spin it around to rotate the 413 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 3: contents inside, just like the drum at home. 414 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: Okay, interesting? How big is the vessel? I mean does 415 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: the body lay flat or do you? I mean, I 416 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: don't mean to be too graphic here, Gene, but I'm curious. 417 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: You have to fold the body to put it in? 418 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,959 Speaker 1: I mean, does it is it like a casket barrel? 419 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: Or how does it work? 420 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 3: You know? It kind of reminded me of a you know, 421 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 3: a basement freezer you might have, which is funny because 422 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 3: in every horror movie ever in the basement freezer. Yes, 423 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 3: but there it's pretty large because some people are very large. 424 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 3: And that's another thing he didn't realize is that this 425 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 3: is another word. It's encounterintuite to me, the leaner you are, 426 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 3: the longer it takes for your body to break itself down. 427 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 3: I don't know why. Maybe your microbes or the fat 428 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 3: content helps. But he he had you know, he's had 429 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 3: children who are, you know, seventy pounds, and he's had 430 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 3: people who are four hundred pounds, and he didn't expect 431 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 3: that it would be He has to he has to 432 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 3: account for that now and the organic material and other 433 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 3: things and making sure this process still happen. 434 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 1: So Jane Wells is joining me. She's done the story 435 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: and you find it at Janewells dot substack dot com. 436 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: And I love it. 437 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 2: Jane, thank you. 438 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: Talk about human composting, and we ran across the story 439 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: about New York becoming the sixth state to legalize it. 440 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: California legalized it, but as Jane pointed out, it's going 441 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: to take until the twenty seventh before we're allowed to 442 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: actually do it. I guess you still have to throw 443 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: people in a blue barrel and into a hole in 444 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: your backyard and the time being. But then Jane, as 445 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: people go and they want you said that the family 446 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: members want to visit during the process. So I mean, 447 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: are they just sitting in a warehouse looking at the 448 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: looking at the compost. 449 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 3: Vessel, look at you. Yes, they can put photographs on it. 450 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 3: And I saw that some papamentos, one group of people 451 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 3: came in and had a pizza party, sort of awake. 452 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 3: And these are things Michael didn't expect. Also, get ready 453 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 3: to have your socks blown off. Some families now and 454 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 3: who knows until you're in that position, would like to 455 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 3: help prepare the body? So they now ask them, would 456 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 3: you like to wash the loved one's hair? Would you 457 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 3: like to help us really prepare the body for this? 458 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 3: And at first Michael, oh, that's disgusting, but now he 459 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 3: gets it, he gets it. I mean, we've been so 460 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 3: separated by the traditional funeral industry about the mystery of 461 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,199 Speaker 3: what the process is a few hundred years ago, you know, 462 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 3: you lay Grandma out on the table in the front parlor, 463 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: you know. I mean, this whole separation is a relatively 464 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 3: new phenomenon, and we've forgotten to even we don't even 465 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 3: want to be part of the process. Let him know 466 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 3: how to ask to be part of it. 467 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: So does he just offer that up now as people 468 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: come in and they make arrangements, does he say, listen, 469 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: if you want to you know, if you'd like to 470 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: come back and visit, if you'd look to be a 471 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: part of this, then you know, yes, here's our schedule. 472 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: This is how it works. 473 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, he is all about transparency. He look, they're 474 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 3: in startup mown. A lot of people say oh, yeah, 475 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 3: I want to do this, but then when it comes 476 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 3: right down to somebody dying, they're like, oh no, this 477 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 3: is too new, or where he's bringing to do the 478 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 3: cremation or whatever. So he's trying to be as transparent 479 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 3: and out there and he's not the only one, but 480 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 3: he's the most vocal one of like, this is part 481 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 3: of life, this is how it works. This is something 482 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 3: you can show consider because it's good for the planet. 483 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 1: Okay, so once a body is composted, then what happens 484 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: to it? Can those same people come back and say, 485 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: I want Grandma for the garden. She loved you know, marigolds, 486 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: and I want to make her part of our marigold garden. 487 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 3: Yes, I whose mother he had composted. You can again, 488 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 3: I said, its two hundred and fifty pounds. It comes 489 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 3: intent back. Now. Most families don't want all of that, 490 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 3: so they can take as much as they want and 491 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 3: give it out to loved ones and friends and put 492 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 3: it in the garden. The guy interview said he's putting 493 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 3: it in his garden, but not in the vegetable garden. 494 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 3: If you get my meaning. Got the rest that people 495 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 3: don't want they have to assign off for it to 496 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 3: be co mingled with the compost of other people in 497 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 3: this eight acre woodland that Micah has outside of Seattle, 498 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 3: which is a very beautiful spot. I mean, it's just 499 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 3: it's sort of like everything old is new again this way. 500 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: You know it really is, because I, as I was 501 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: reading a story Jane, I was thinking, well, that really 502 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,959 Speaker 1: is ashes to ashes, dust to dust, right, I mean, 503 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: you really are being returned to where you came from. 504 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 1: And it's so it's sort of bizarre. I mean, when 505 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: you really break it down, right, it's it's a little 506 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: bizarre that we don't have more of this because this 507 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: is you're right, what's old is new again. But we're 508 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 1: I guess we're so ingrained with with some of that 509 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: other you know, the more traditional ways, whether it's a 510 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,199 Speaker 1: burial or or a cremation or whatever else. It is 511 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: all right, So I guess the question I have to 512 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 1: follow up then, Jane, is are you planning on this 513 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: or are. 514 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 3: You absolutely absolutely after you know, because there's when you 515 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 3: do cremation, which was my original plan, there's a lot 516 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 3: of fuel that gets burned. And I don't know, somehow, 517 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 3: I just like the idea of being in there with 518 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 3: a bunch of straw and you turn me on. I 519 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 3: don't know, it's it's it's who knows I'll be dead? 520 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 3: What do I care? But I think I don't know. 521 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 3: My kids will figure that out it when it comes time. 522 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 3: But yeah, I like the idea of going this way. 523 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: What about you? I'm one hundred percent with you. You 524 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: you nailed it. Like I'm gone. I here. I've always said, 525 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: just you know, cream, make me sprinkle my ashes somewhere, 526 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: you know, if I'm memorable enough, then I don't know, 527 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: start a web page or something. But I'm kind of 528 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: with you on this where I'm like, well, forget burning 529 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: me and spreading ashes, just spread me out and make 530 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: make me useful. I guess I'm one hundred and then 531 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: if you want to have the you know, the Jane 532 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: Wells Memorial Garden, that's fantastic. Let's do that. 533 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Well, maybe I'll keep plants alive more 534 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 3: when I'm dead than I do now while I'm alive. 535 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: Let's see if your green thumb is is a curse 536 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: from God or if it's just your talent. Right, Jane Wells, 537 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: I love talking to you. Happy New Year. So great 538 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: having you on the program tonight. Thank you so much. 539 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: All right, take care and you know, be well. Hopefully 540 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: we don't have to have this conversation about you or 541 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: I at for a very long time. Yeah, exactly, yes, 542 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: all right, things are going downhill for one state in 543 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: the Midwest. It stinks to be in Ohio. We'll tell 544 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: you why next. Chris Merrill in for John nkfi AM 545 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere in your iHeart Radio app sucks 546 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: to be in Ohio. I love that. If you haven't 547 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: been keeping up on some of the Internet trends, we 548 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: know Florida is always a punchline, right, Ohio is getting there. 549 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: As someone who grew up in Michigan and is still 550 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: a University of Michigan fan. I couldn't be happier. In Ohio, 551 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 1: they just legalized sports gambling. Now why is this of note? 552 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: First of all, Ohio State had their big football game 553 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 1: the day before sports gambling became legal. Otherwise many more 554 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: Ohioans would have probably bet their trailers on that game 555 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: and then lost. But here's the other notable part. There 556 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: was a very famous and you probably recall this a 557 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 1: very famous case about gambling in Ohio that ruined one 558 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: of the most popular, well known careers in sports history. 559 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: Pete Rose, the all time Major League Baseball hit king, 560 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: got a lifetime ban because he was betting on games 561 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: that he managed. Well. Life has a funny way. The 562 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: Hard Rock Casino in Ohio invited Pete to place the 563 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: very first legal sports bet in the history of the state, 564 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: so that law goes into effect January one. Hard Rock says, Pete, 565 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: we got to have you here. Pete Rose says, I'll 566 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: be there, and sure enough he plays the very first 567 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: legal sports bet in Ohio. I gotta tell you this. 568 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: I met coincidentally Pete Rose at a casino in Las 569 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: Vegas a few years back and I met. I mean 570 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: I was with a group of guys and we paid 571 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: for one of the guys to have an autograph and 572 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: all that stuff. We all had our photo taken with 573 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: with Pete, one big group photo. Okay. So it wasn't 574 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: like I ran into Pete and said hey, Pete Rose 575 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,959 Speaker 1: he It was more like he said, hey, give us 576 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: two hundred dollars, and we did so coincidentally at a casino. 577 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 1: He was leaning in so hard to the whole gambling angle. 578 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: He's at the casino. I mean, his book is about gambling. 579 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: He's like, you know, when he signs autographs, it's little 580 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: plays on words about betting and things like that. So 581 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: he's leaned into that in recent years. And then we'll 582 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: turn around and ask the commissioner whenever there's a new 583 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 1: commissioner of baseball, hey, you think you could lift the 584 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: ban on me? But then he goes back and he 585 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: leans into the whole gambling thing. And I gotta tell you, 586 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: I think he's made pretty good money doing it. Probably 587 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: not the kind of money he would have made if 588 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 1: he'd retired as a Hall of Famer and all the 589 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: things that go with that, but he's done okay. In 590 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: his retirement years. He certainly has. With the new year, 591 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: so many people believe, oh, we're gonna kiss away the 592 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: old one and the new one's coming and it's gonna 593 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: be so much better. There's a study out, In fact, 594 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: I think Mark was talking about this in the news earlier. 595 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: There's a study out that says, uh, fifty seven percent. Yeah, 596 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: so more than half of Americans expect for this year 597 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three to be better than twenty twenty two. 598 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: I have to believe that this survey is probably when 599 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: you could run. Every single year, for whatever reason, we 600 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: get to the end of a year and we say 601 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: this year was terrible, this year sucked. Next year is 602 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: gonna be better, and well, we're gonna get to the 603 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty three and it's gonna suck just 604 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: as bad as this one. However, there are a few 605 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: people that said it was okay, which is good. Fifty 606 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: seven percent said that this year is gonna be better 607 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 1: than last year. Five percent said the same thing last 608 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: for this year, but it only turned out to be 609 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: true for thirty two percent. So what does that mean? 610 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: Nearly half as many people last year said twenty twenty 611 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: two would be better, and only a third actually found 612 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: it better. A third of Americans already have the resolutions 613 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: planned out. They're gonna make small incremental changes as opposed 614 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 1: to major ones, but most are are gonna do a 615 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: little bit of both. In other words, they're gonna quit 616 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 1: smoking and stop kicking the dog. Yeah, two lofty goals. 617 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: They're fighting through it. Good on you it. Just one 618 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: third of American said that they had a great year 619 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. There you go. Isn't it always 620 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 1: what you make of it. I can tell you I 621 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: look back and I've had I've had some years and 622 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,840 Speaker 1: I go, wow, that one really stands out. That was 623 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 1: a great year. Good things happened. Maybe you started a 624 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,839 Speaker 1: new job, maybe you graduated from college, maybe you had 625 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 1: a baby, maybe you got married, whatever else it is. 626 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: But you probably can look back and also think that 627 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: same year, and I find that the years I always 628 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,360 Speaker 1: think were good were the ones that were very full. 629 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 1: Had a lot of things going on. You know, I 630 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: had this happen, and that happened. I moved, I you know, 631 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 1: I had a girlfriend or you know whatever. It was 632 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: a lot of things were happening all at once. But 633 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,440 Speaker 1: there were also some pretty sour moments in those years, 634 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,840 Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, those years that stand out to 635 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: me as being good years. Maybe I'm unique, but I 636 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: don't think so. I think you and I are probably 637 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: very similar. Those years that stood out to me as 638 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: being good years. I also vividly remember some of the 639 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:37,640 Speaker 1: rotten stuff, whereas the years that are somewhat forgettable I 640 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: kind of look back on and I go, I don't 641 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 1: really remember much of what went on. It's almost as 642 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: though the highs we have are accentuated by the lows. 643 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: It doesn't usually go the other way around. If it's 644 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,400 Speaker 1: a year that is memorable, I think we think of 645 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: it as a good year, but not always the other 646 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 1: way around. What what was that? Eric? We got to? 647 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 1: You know? What? Do I hear? Ding? 648 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 3: Do? 649 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 2: Come on? Tim Conways sho Chris, come on man, look 650 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 2: at you, buddy. 651 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,359 Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're back, very much. I was doing 652 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,799 Speaker 1: everything I could not to chase people away. Last week, 653 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 1: Tim and I opened every show by saying Tim's coming back. 654 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: There you go, there, Tim's coming back. 655 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,319 Speaker 4: I'm not going to ask you how your vacation was, 656 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 4: because that just opens up where I can tell you 657 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 4: about mine. 658 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,840 Speaker 2: I'm sure, you're not that interested. 659 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: So go on. 660 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 4: I don't like when people say that, you know, when 661 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,840 Speaker 4: they say, how you know, how was your New Year's 662 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,879 Speaker 4: I'm like, look, I'm married with a kid. 663 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:39,719 Speaker 2: How do you think it went? 664 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,399 Speaker 1: No, we were in bed by nine thirty. 665 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, right, exactly right, absolutely, yeah, you know, trying to 666 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 4: hide the dogs away from the fireworks all night. 667 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 2: And that's a that's a run. That's all Bourbank has 668 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:51,080 Speaker 2: to offer. 669 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:57,319 Speaker 4: We have an update on Jeremy Renner that surgery after 670 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 4: suffering blunt chest trauma and injuries from an accident. I 671 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 4: guess with the snowplowers, the snow Snowbok. But I wasn't 672 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,560 Speaker 4: even Look, I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I did not. 673 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,840 Speaker 4: I'm embarrassed to say I did not know who that was. 674 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 4: Uh now ah, come on now I know who. 675 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 1: It is. 676 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 2: A lot of embarrassments. 677 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 1: He's a good dude. 678 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 2: He's great man. 679 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:25,800 Speaker 1: I love just a celebrity is a good dude. 680 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 2: That's right, he's a really good guy. 681 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,840 Speaker 4: Uh small plane with four board makes an emergency landing 682 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 4: on Route sixty six in the co Home Pass. Also, 683 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 4: we had the latest on the Rose Bowl Rose Bowl Parade. 684 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,440 Speaker 4: You know the shenanigans that went on there. It seemed 685 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 4: like a pretty uneventful day in Pasadena. And thank god 686 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,840 Speaker 4: it didn't happen on you know, Saturday when when it 687 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 4: was drenching, you know, it was pouring like cats and dogs, Amanda. 688 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,200 Speaker 2: That could have wiped out. 689 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: The parade And it would have smeared all the dog 690 00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,840 Speaker 1: poop too, that the horse poop. Right, it would have 691 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,359 Speaker 1: made a whole lot easier to shovel that up. 692 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, and then the I guess the Nasty Car float 693 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,320 Speaker 4: won the big prize there. Uh, NASCAR was the It 694 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 4: always forward has won the most Outstanding the National Treasure 695 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 4: and Tradition for the Rose Ball. Oh, there you go, 696 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 4: and then people are gonna go see them, you know. 697 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:15,840 Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever done that where you 698 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 4: go see the Rose parade floats. 699 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:19,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's thrilling. 700 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 2: Have you going to do that? 701 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 1: No? 702 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't get it up for that either, man, 703 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:24,080 Speaker 2: I can't. 704 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,759 Speaker 1: No, No, I doesn't know. I'll go watch parades, but 705 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,280 Speaker 1: I can't mull around thinking about how the parade was started. 706 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: I'd rather go watch a Jeremy Renner film. 707 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 4: Right, But thing about the crew that you're going to 708 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,319 Speaker 4: run into you know who's going to the Those are 709 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,879 Speaker 4: the people that didn't get up for the parade, right, 710 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 4: and they slept through the parade, but they want to 711 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:44,839 Speaker 4: go still go see the floats up. Now, Yeah, he's 712 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,200 Speaker 4: not even committed. You have to be with kids. If 713 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 4: you have kids, take them, that's great. But if you're 714 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 4: an adult, single adult, going to see that, something's going 715 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 4: on with you. 716 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 1: It's creepy. Yeah, going on. 717 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 4: It's like you know, when you go to Disneyland, it's 718 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 4: or our wolf Lodge. Every kid is smiling and not 719 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:02,760 Speaker 4: a single adult is smiling. 720 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 2: You know. 721 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 4: It's it's for the children, these floats. It's not for 722 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:07,320 Speaker 4: grown right people. 723 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:07,759 Speaker 1: It's just not. 724 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,040 Speaker 4: And then I got Southwest south You know, you may 725 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 4: not know a victim of the Southwest tobacle over the vacation. 726 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,239 Speaker 2: So you do, now, you do? 727 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: Now you do? Now? 728 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 4: I got all posed in the biggest possible way by Southwest, Oh, 729 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:29,800 Speaker 4: stranded left to fight on my own, had they lost 730 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 4: the luggage, had to rent a car, couldn't get the 731 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,720 Speaker 4: you know, the they we flew out on December twenty second, 732 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 4: and they canceled that flight and they rebooked us for 733 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,040 Speaker 4: the twenty fifth at six forty five pm, then the 734 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,840 Speaker 4: twenty sixth, then the twenty seventh. Come on, I would 735 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,879 Speaker 4: have been in Sacramento for the twenty second, third, twenty fourth, fifth, 736 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,560 Speaker 4: and twenty seventh of December. 737 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 2: That is where Southwest wanted me. 738 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,839 Speaker 1: At what point do you just say, I'll just drive 739 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 1: up there. 740 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,239 Speaker 4: That's what I had to do. But good luck getting 741 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,360 Speaker 4: a rental car. Everybody got the rental cars and you 742 00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 4: have to have four reel drive up there because of 743 00:39:58,920 --> 00:39:59,880 Speaker 4: all the ice and stuff. 744 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, crazy. 745 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:03,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, right. 746 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,320 Speaker 2: Nice to hear your voice. Nice to see it, nobody, 747 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:07,439 Speaker 2: and we'll talk to you soon. 748 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:13,120 Speaker 1: All right, Bell dog Ding Dong my friend. The best 749 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 1: show on the R A d I O Starts in 750 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,960 Speaker 1: just moments. Chris, Marrilyn for John and Ken. A pleasure 751 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 1: being with you. Happy New Year. It's k if I 752 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 1: AM six forty live everywhere on your iHeartRadio app