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Well, you know what we're going 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: to talk about at this moment is the glee that 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark is experiencing when I tell her that one thousand, 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: eight hundred to two thousand people lost their jobs. Glee, glee. 14 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: I thought the same thing today. Yep, she will. She's 15 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: a little bit puzzled right now. Let's see if she 16 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: finds out. Let's see how in sense it be near 17 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: two thousand people have lost their jobs. She will be 18 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: happy because they were busy making hot dogs. Oh, you're right. 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: It is the farmer John's meatpacking plant in Vernon. It 20 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: was announced by the company out of Virginia that they 21 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,199 Speaker 1: are closing it for nearly two thousand people that work there. 22 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what they're going to do. This is 23 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: in Vernon. Haven't been to Vernon anybody. It's all industrial, 24 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: Dandini Boulevard, Soto Street. It's only I think there's only 25 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: a hundred people that live there. Story in the time 26 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: says that there are people that the tour there, that 27 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: that go there to look at the Oh I go 28 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: to that. Oh. I love going to factories to see 29 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: how stuff is made. Oh, going to hot Dog factory 30 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: would be cool. Yeah, I would, but it's not. Well, 31 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: it's not a slaughter house. That's somewhere else, right, No, no no, no, 32 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: I want to see how how well, Yes I could 33 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: go to the slaughterhouse, but no, I mean I used 34 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: to like going too my dad's factories when I was 35 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: a kid. I'd liked seeing how things were made. The 36 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,919 Speaker 1: things that your father made that he couldn't even explain 37 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: on the air. Yeah, those little uh yeah jobs. We 38 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: put him on the air and he couldn't even tell 39 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: us what the heck it was he was doing. As 40 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: he fled, he fed large sheets of plastic into a 41 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: machine which cut them into little round tubes. And then 42 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 1: that was it. I thought it was pellets. It was tubes. Yeah, 43 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: well we call them palets, but they really were tubes. 44 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: And then they'd fill up a box with all these 45 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: little plastic tubes. And where where'd they go? He didn't 46 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: know they were used for something. And yeah, I probably 47 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: think about it. Anything you buy has so many little parts. 48 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: Somebody probably makes them somewhere and they're all put together. 49 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: And then he was he worked in a factory where 50 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: you fed um tablecloths into a machine and the machine 51 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: laminated the tablecloth a nice plastic. Yeah, that was That 52 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: was about half my childhood from time and then and 53 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: then before that, when I was really small, he worked 54 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: in a box factory. I do remember mentioning the box 55 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: fact So the box factory, lamination factory, and then this 56 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 1: this table plastic fact tree. Well he's never worked in 57 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: a meatpacking plant. No, of course, we've talked about this. 58 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: And by the way, Farmer John's used to be the 59 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: Dodger dog no longer though that agreement was ended a 60 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: few years ago, and some people say, with some dissatisfaction, 61 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: it's not as good a hot dog that you get 62 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. Is when they were Farmer John's hot Dogs, 63 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: but there were always these protests there because it was about, 64 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: you know, saving the animals. So apparently is with mixed emotions, 65 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: although this is another story. It says they're still showing 66 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: up there on Wednesday to do a vigil even though 67 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: the peoples closing it isn't going to close the meat. 68 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: It's people with no lives because the rest of the 69 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: world's going to continue eating hot dogs. They mean make 70 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: them Inverton anymore, but they're going to be made somewhere 71 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: by some company. Do you have a guess as to 72 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: why they're closing the plant in Vernon? Oh, well, I 73 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: saw it. Just California. It's too ownerous, the too honerous, 74 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: the cost of doing this. It's in California. They just 75 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: did the math and decided to become too much. I 76 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: don't know whether it was taxes or whatever else they 77 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: have to do. It's all that. It's taxes, it's regulation, 78 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: it's just the general hassle of running a business in California. 79 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: You can you can you can build a business anywhere 80 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: else in the other forty nine states, and it's it's 81 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: a better life. You just don't need this aggravation. Why 82 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: constantly fight and why constantly fork over the money to 83 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: an entity that doesn't care if you exist. In fact, 84 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: the government often wants you to move. They don't want 85 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: these businesses here. And I think when you're talking about California, 86 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if they don't want a hot dog 87 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: packing plant. And did you see the the the the 88 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: the the a holes at the El Segundo Times. The 89 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: only angle that they had was, oh wow, that hot 90 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: dog factory really smelled. Yes, it was a lot about 91 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: the smell here, right, not they did admit that people 92 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: they talked to said that could be nothing necessarily coming 93 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: from the meatpacking plant because somebody businesses around. Vernon is 94 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: wall to walla industry the entire it's not a real town. 95 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: In fact, I think we did a story years ago. Yeah, 96 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: Vernon's like the city of Industry. They both barely have 97 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: any populations, like a hundred people. You had to be 98 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 1: invited and mostly it was family members of the Bear 99 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: and the council whoever was in charge, and they paid 100 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: themselves exorbitant salaries because there was a huge tax base, 101 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: all the property and business taxes that they raked in, 102 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: so it's kind of a scam city. But whatever, it's 103 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: a lot of jobs. And The Times didn't spend very 104 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: much effort on what are these people going to do? 105 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: You know, they're always worried about people being thrown into 106 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,359 Speaker 1: home business. Right, Well, you got you got two thousand people, 107 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: and they've got spouses and families and kids and everything. 108 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: So what's going to happen if they don't care. Well, 109 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: it's just that the hot dogs were smelly, and besides, 110 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: they kill they kill pigs. You know what, somebody else 111 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: will kill them. There there is no shortage of hot 112 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: dog sales in this country. In fact, hot dog sales 113 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 1: are going to go up now with inflation. Uh. The 114 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: only person at the Times could speak to was Omar 115 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: Smithfield Foods is the people that own the Farmer John 116 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: meatpacking plant, and he said the company and the meat 117 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: packing union struggled when negotiations and his quote was, I 118 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: just I guess smith deal thought it was just easier 119 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: to close the plant. So there's another raw roffer unions. Huh. 120 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: They may have cost two thousand people their job because 121 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: they were just asking for too much sun to come 122 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: from Times more anymore, along with the cost of doing 123 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: business in California. Somebody in Virginia just put up their 124 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: hands and said, that's it. We could we could make 125 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: the hot dogs somewhere else. Let's just move on. And 126 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: they don't have the Dodger deal anymore, right, because that 127 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: probably was a lot of hot dogs just going up 128 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: the road to Dodger Stadium. Yeah, probably fit that the ballpark, 129 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: but that they don't have. You know, often unions go 130 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: too far. They say, all those other clothes over clothes, 131 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: you know, screw the man. It's like one day the 132 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: man says, you know, closing. Now you're out of luck. 133 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: Now all you've done is make hot dogs all your life. 134 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: Where you're gonna get another job? Yeah, well, yes I am. 135 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: Hot dogs are just Oh I had to. I had 136 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: one over the weekend. I went to Angel Stadium. Oh 137 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: the Mets were there. That the Mets were there. Yeah, 138 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: Oh that's it is. It's still a pleasant place. Nobody 139 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: gets to. Damp bait is very pleasant. We were marveling 140 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: the entire time we were there, how pleasant it is 141 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: to go to Angel Stadium, how pleasant the people are, 142 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: just the surroundings, the parking situation. I have no idea 143 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: why the Angels have mastered all the basics of making 144 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: the entire visit just a pleasure. It's because it's empty. No, 145 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: it wasn't empty. There are lots of a lot of 146 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: Mets fans there. I can hear them. It's on the game. 147 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: I's not an ESPN. I can hear the Mets fans yelling. Oh, 148 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: there are thousands of Mets fans there. Yeah, but you're right. 149 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: A lot of the Angels fans gave up. Oh look 150 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: at this. The activists who I told you are going 151 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,559 Speaker 1: to show up again at the meatpacking plant in Vernon 152 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Uh. They spoke with Jim Monroe, vice president 153 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: of corporate Affairs at Smithfield, asked the company to expand 154 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: their plant based meat line, even shift to a plant 155 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: based business model, since there's no market there a vegetarian hotdog. 156 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: The market. The market is, it's too dame market. I looked. 157 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I ate one of those 158 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: at Wiener Schnitzel and it's a big thumbs down. Boy, 159 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: you'll put anything in your mouth. I was just curious 160 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: what I was just curious if you know an alternative 161 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: meat product, you know, like I did, try the impossible 162 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: burger one time. I think Carl's had whatever wherever Brandley 163 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: had all this fake stuff to Again, that was a 164 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: thumbs down. And you're market doesn't support me. I don't 165 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: because I don't need any of the fake stuff. I 166 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: have to be honest, No, I don't, right, but you'll 167 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: accept the fact that people who do eat the hot 168 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: dogs and the hamburgers, you'd rather have them eat this 169 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: whatever substitute. Absolutely, it's never going to happen. So we're 170 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: never say that you're you're, you're, you're vegan militancy, you 171 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: know what. I just love animals, and I really I 172 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: just don't believe that they are here to be slaughtered 173 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: and consumed. I really don't, And I don't know. There's 174 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: a big story in the New York Times for you 175 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: over the weekend about alternative leather products for vegans. I 176 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: actually have a pleather jacket that I wear quite often. 177 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 1: They're saying that people are being are quite satisfied with 178 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: the substitute. Well, all animals are meant to be meat 179 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: for some other species. But well, but I didn't give 180 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: her the downside because there's always handwringing in these stories. 181 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: The downside of these leather substitutes. Is they're using too 182 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 1: much fossil fuels and facts. Oh well, you know what, 183 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: I don't care. I'd rather than not use animals. I'm 184 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: going on. There was hand rigging about how much fossil 185 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: fuels are these alternative leather product but him Hanger, I'm 186 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: so sick of their lectures. I'm just so fed up. 187 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: It's like, I don't want to hear that even one 188 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: more time. In middle there's no satisfying these people. You 189 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: know what I you know what I saw in my neighborhood. 190 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: I was driving down the other day. There was something 191 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: lying in the road. But did you road kill you 192 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: when it was a it's tempting. It was a squirrel, 193 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: absolutely flattened like in a cartoon. No, yeah, pancake flay. 194 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: And there's these big black birds and they were ripping 195 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 1: that thing to shreds. Yeah, I mean, look, it's sick. 196 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: I thought that too. It's like a dead squirrel rotting 197 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 1: because systems can. And there was more blackbirds coming in. 198 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: And this was the feast of all feasts. I had 199 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: a dead skunk in my neighborhood the other day. Ah 200 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: felt so bad. It wasn't it wasn't smash like dead 201 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: Skunk in the Road. Dead Skunk in the road. Remember 202 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: that song? No I did not? No, you don't remember, Oh, 203 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: no I I. It's one of my kids favorite songs. 204 00:10:58,760 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: They used to play it over and over in the 205 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: car when they were small. We'd all sing along to 206 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 1: dead Skunk in the middle of the road, stinking to 207 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: high Heaven. But Loud and Wayne write the third every Yeah, 208 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 1: find that song and play it. Coming out of the 209 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: year commercial. Oh here we go, we got it now. 210 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 1: This is this is great music. This is great. The 211 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: novelty record that peaked at number hit the top forty 212 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: did yeah, highway lay last night? You shoot a looking left? 213 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: It shoot look right. They didn't see the station on 214 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: wagon car. The skunk got squashed. And there you are 215 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: saying this to children and sons sticking the high Yeah, 216 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: that's right now. But the whole family would sing along 217 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: so substitute and he wrote the kill animal. You'd like there, 218 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: that's what it was like, having me for a dead Yeah, 219 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: dead bird, dead squirrel. Never sang that song or any 220 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 1: others like that to my children. Yeah, I guess not. 221 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: He had three boys. Yeah, we got more covered up well. 222 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: For the first time in eighteen days in La County. 223 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: The price of gasoline actually went down one tenth of 224 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: a cent. Stupid story that was come on. What's a 225 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: stupid story that they made a headline that the prices 226 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: went down a tenth of a penny. Well, the tenth 227 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 1: of a penny is the stupid part of it. But 228 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: the fact that it's still not going up for a day, 229 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: it's gonna keep going up, you do think so? Yeah, 230 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: the demand this summer is going to be huge. Aren't 231 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: people eventually going to cut back? Not till after thing, 232 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: not till after they're paying seven dollars a gallon. No, 233 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: they've had, they've had two summers. They couldn't go anywhere. 234 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: There's no more stimulus money coming. They're going to spend 235 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: whatever's left, and then they're gonna run up their credit cards. 236 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 1: Always that what they're going to do. Oh, that's what 237 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: they'll do. Yeah. I think most people feel entitled to 238 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: some kind of summer vacation because they put up with 239 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: too much nonsense. Oh two years of that's right, So 240 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: one more splurge. They'll skip a few meals, but they're 241 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: gonna be driving. What we're seeing of course, in California 242 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: is nothing new. We've always had the highest gas prices 243 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: in the country by far, and even though most of 244 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 1: the country here is seven dollars and thinks that's ridiculous, 245 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: what is different this time is that the rest of 246 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: the country is experiencing gas prices of over five dollars 247 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: a gallon. And the reason I bring this up is 248 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: because this is really really unheard of where these people 249 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: live outside of California. I think Californians have just become immune. 250 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: Four gas prices rise from three to four to five 251 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon, and they're mad. But you know, after 252 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: a while, there's only so much protests got to still 253 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: get to work. Well, the protest is you get rid 254 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: of all the idiots in power. But Newsom is probably 255 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: gonna win with the seventy percent of the vote come November. 256 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: And are everyone in California and I walks around as 257 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: if they're under anesthesia. I mean, where where's the big 258 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: where's the big gas price? The the gas tax cut 259 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: that disappeared. Oh yeah, we'll talk about that later. I Well, 260 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: they have to come up with the budget by the 261 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: end of the month. Remember that stupid requirements, So they're 262 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: gonna have to come up with some plan to give people. Yeah, 263 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: but six months have gone by now. They could have 264 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: done this six months ago, they didn't, right, and they're 265 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: probably gonna wait, they said, until October before they actually 266 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: they decide to do. They got some some guy quoted 267 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: in here to Tom Clas, a global head of energy 268 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: analysis for the OPUS. I don't know what the OPUS is. 269 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: I guess that's some kind of energy institute. He says, 270 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: anything goes from June twentieth to Labor Day, come hell 271 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: or high gas prices, people are going to take vacations. 272 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: He expects average national gas price close to six dollars 273 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: later this summer, which means here it'll be seven to 274 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: fifty minimum six dollars. Yeah, because we're about a buck 275 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: fifty more than the rest of the country. I guess 276 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say is, and this is the 277 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: way I felt for years about the illegal immigration issue, 278 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: is that if the rest of the country wakes up 279 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: to this and starts to react to this, we may 280 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: see some real movement in terms of overthrowing people that 281 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: do nothing about the gas price situation. Because again, apparently 282 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: I read a poll the other day that quite a 283 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: few people believe that the Biden administration would rather do 284 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: nothing about high gas prices because they want you out 285 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: of your fossil fuel car. They do, and that's why 286 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: they're not going to say that publicly, no, but privately 287 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: they're saying. And actually Biden stumbled a couple of weeks ago, 288 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: remember when he some quote he had about the gas 289 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: prices that he could be a blessing in disguise kind 290 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: of thing. It's what they wanted to do. They had 291 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: a narrow window and so they did it. And there 292 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: are other factors that have driven the price higher, like 293 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: the Ukrainian War, but they're not upset about that. This 294 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: was the goal of these these these Green New Deal 295 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: religious fanatics. This is what they wanted. They'd like it 296 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: to go higher because they think eventually everyone's gonna break. 297 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: And I don't know do what. Everybody's got to get 298 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: to work, So I don't know what it is they're 299 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: going for. People's habits are not going to change. They 300 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: can't you still seeking out your cheap gas station that 301 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: you Yeah, I couldn't go to it last week time constraints, 302 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: But that was the first time I skipped it in 303 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: about over a month. Oh yeah, it's but I mean 304 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: it's over six dollars now too. So now we've got 305 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: to wait till after the summer before there's a real 306 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: dropping prices or I own home. Maybe not, Maybe it's 307 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: just gonna keep going up. Well I don't I don't 308 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 1: see anything stopping any of this inflation. Everybody keeps going, oh, 309 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: it's going to moderate, and then it goes up again 310 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: the next month. All right's transitory. It goes up again 311 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: next by. So they don't know. I have it. There's 312 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,719 Speaker 1: not a soul that knows. I don't see what's going 313 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: to stop it. Because what happens you get into a 314 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: vicious cycle. Companies have to raise wages in order to 315 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: keep up with prices. If the wages go up, well 316 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,959 Speaker 1: the prices go up, and the prices go up the wages. 317 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: You get caught up in that spiral, yeah, right, where 318 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 1: everything just keeps going up and up and up. That's 319 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: the same thing that people say, you know, we're just 320 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: talking last hour about the markets horrible, not just today 321 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: but recently. And it's sort of like a self fulfilling 322 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: prophecy that you can end up in a recession because 323 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 1: that's what everybody thinks is going to happen, right, So 324 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: they kind of just start directing their decisions that way, 325 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: and sure enough, you end up in some kind of recession. 326 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: If you think you're in a recession, then you stop 327 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: buying stuff exactly right, You start making different decisions, and eventually, 328 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 1: collectively that has an impact on the total economy. You 329 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: want to you want to you want to see like 330 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: scary stuff like type in hyper inflation in Venezuela. Just 331 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: read the Wikipedia page on that. In twenty fourteen, in Venezuela, 332 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: their inflation rate was sixty nine percent. In twenty fifteen 333 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: it was one hundred and eighty one percent. By twenty 334 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: seventeen it was over four thousand percent. If things could 335 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: get out of hand very quickly, especially if you have 336 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: supply problems, which is part of the reason we've had this. 337 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: But again, much of this was government created. All the 338 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 1: lockdowns where government created, you know, the supply chains. The 339 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: roots of this are making trade deals with China over 340 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: twenty years ago, so all the companies were incentivised to 341 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: move their factories to China, and as long as everything 342 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: worked perfectly, that was wonderful. And now everything's not working perfectly, 343 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: and you have shipping boats stacked up from here to 344 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: Hong Kong. It's all government policies, all right, we got 345 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: more covered up, John and ken caf I go. You 346 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: know him, ye hate him. The blustering buffoon Gavin Newsom 347 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: went on Fox eleven on Friday night. The issue is 348 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: with Elex Michaelson. Fresh off of being at some of 349 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: the Americas, he decided to opine on a whole bunch 350 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: of different subjects, including the recall in San Francisco, the 351 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: districttorney chess about that and more. Will play with some 352 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: of the obnoxious clips. Again. This is all because he's 353 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 1: angling to be president. California is in the rear view mirror. 354 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: He is looking for bigger things, and if it doesn't 355 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: happen in twenty four, it'll happen in twenty eight. He's 356 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: a shoeing to be reelected. So he's got that job 357 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: until twenty twenty six anyway, So now it's time to 358 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: raise the national profile in his own buffoonish As I've said, 359 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: and I'll say it again, there is not going to 360 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: be a president in Newsom's not going to happen. I 361 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: can't wait till the first time he debates other presidential 362 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: candidates in a primary. Yeah, it won't be so much 363 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: about debates. It'll just be about how he comes across 364 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 1: when the greater American people take a look at him. 365 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: He's an automatron. He's boring, he's full of jargon and 366 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: but no honorable. But the thing is that the secret 367 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: that we've only we've rarely seen just a couple of times, 368 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: is when he's challenged, his brain freezes and he gets 369 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: real upity. Only a couple of times with reporters, usually 370 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: from smaller cities like Fresno, has anybody challenged him, and 371 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: he starts stumbling and stuttering like somebody pulled out his 372 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: power pack. And he gets really upset because he lived 373 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: a lot of that challenged him about the PG and 374 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: E donations. Yeah, yeah, that was one of the times, 375 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 1: dealing with all the fire damage, and he doesn't handle 376 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: it well. And when the other candidates start mixing it 377 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: up and some hostile reporters who think he's nothing but 378 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: an empty headed pretty boy, then we'll dad, we'll see 379 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: some good entertainment because he has been a coddled, little, 380 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: spoiled rich boy since he was born, and he has 381 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: no idea what it's like to deal with criticism. All right, well, 382 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: we got an email link for Deborah Mark. How exciting 383 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: our listener wanted to call attention to this story for 384 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark's. Um. Well, all right. It is the u 385 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: Lin Dog Meat Festival. It kicked off in China last week. 386 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: It's going to run for ten days. Yes, there still 387 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: is a small percentage of people in that country who 388 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 1: do consume dog meat. It's officially known as the Light 389 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: Tea and Dog Meat Festival. It is smaller than in 390 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: past years, but you can drop by and eat dog 391 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: meat stew and crispy dog meat. And who would want 392 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: to do that? Thousands of visitors go every year. Really, 393 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: this is are meat eating a species. You know, you dogs, 394 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: your pet man and woman. Mine is scrawny. Some dogs 395 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: look kind of Beatyum, I should center the article. The 396 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: Newsweek has a picture and it is a stall where 397 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: they have the dogs hooked up like they do the pigs. No, oh, yeah, 398 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: it's it's I'm staring at it here. Looks like they 399 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 1: were skinned. There's no fur on them, you see, so, 400 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: but it's still just do is hanging by its mouth 401 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: from a meat hook. That is it's a little bit weird. 402 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: Is that there's a live dog in the background, looks 403 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 1: like kind of a husky, just kind of standing there. 404 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: He's thinking, I should I should get out of here. 405 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: The good news, Debra Mark, is that when they first 406 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: launched the festival more than a decade ago, ten thousand 407 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: plus dogs were slaughtered during its big days, but the 408 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: numbers way down. Members of the public in China and 409 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: activists have caused a significant get reduction in the number 410 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: of dogs killed for this festival and general consumption. M 411 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: I'm speechless, I really am. I can't even imagine. Actually, 412 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: I do have a story coming up about dog meat, 413 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: but it's not this story. But I just I don't understand. 414 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: Dogs are pets right in most of the world they 415 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: asked to make the ten million dogs and four million 416 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: cats are killed for their meat every year in China. 417 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: But this is a place that Deborah has a lot 418 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: of people, and there are many ready, John, there are 419 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 1: many food and secure people there. Then grow a garden. 420 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: I'm growing a vegetable in fruit garden right now. Do 421 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: you know what the meat consumption rate is around the world? 422 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: Eighty six percent of people around the world. Well they're 423 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: not enlightened. Well it's nane sure, Oh yeah, totally. Things 424 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: have changed. She used to hesitate those kind of things. 425 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: In Japan. Ninety six percent of people in Japan eat meat, 426 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 1: Russia ninety four, U asked, ninety I would have thought, well, 427 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: the Japanese do have a lot of state. Only only 428 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: India among the major countries, only India is very vegetarian, right, 429 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: and that's connected to some of some of the religions 430 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: that are very popular there. So now growth. But I 431 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: am terribly angry with India because on my animal hierarchy, 432 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: they do consume one animal that they should not what, 433 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: and that is lamb. Oh yeah, I like lamb. I 434 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: hate going out to dinner with people who order lamb. 435 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 1: I do too. I didn't know you were so hostile 436 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,479 Speaker 1: towards lamb eaters. Well we both are you talking? I'm 437 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: talking to you, yeah, her, I know, yes, I don't 438 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: know why. I just I don't know why. I look 439 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 1: at big cows and think, well, you know, they can 440 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: afford to go down. But cows are so they're nice, 441 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: they could afford to go down, think kind of. But 442 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: little lambs, you have a sauce spot for it. Yeah, 443 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 1: I just think it's horrific. Mary had a little lamb 444 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure I hate. I'll love lamb chops er Oh, 445 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: a little more jelly delicious? Yeah, I never got the 446 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: mint jelly thing. That's just weird. Your poodle recipe, she'll 447 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: enjoy it. No, thank you, I'll pass. But the bottom 448 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: line here is that, and in fact, the majority of 449 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: the Chinese public more than half, think that the dog 450 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: mey trade should be banned. Yes it should, So there's 451 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: hope deber market it should be banned. So do you 452 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: want me to send you this picture? No? No? No? 453 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: You know how much meat the world eight in twenty 454 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: twenty three hundred thirty three million tons of meat, three 455 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: hundred thirty three million tons. And what's the obesity rate? Uh, 456 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: the obesity rate around the world. I don't know. Yeah, well, 457 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: you know you don't have a lot of Opie East vegans. 458 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: I think I just saw a story though, that that 459 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: popular keto diet, which I guess is heavy on the 460 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: proteins right, has got some real benefits. It's like very 461 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: low on carbs. Oh, John to the what's his name, Adkins? Yeah, no, 462 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: Carr When I gain weights from carbs. It's not from meat. 463 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: What carbs do you? Oh? French fries? What do he 464 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: comes pasta? Oh? Pasta. I had a lot of pasta. 465 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: I get bloated. Up, I get bloated. We got more covernan. 466 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,719 Speaker 1: How do I look in these dress? John and Ken 467 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,199 Speaker 1: showed coming up after four o'clock. Well, this is very exciting. 468 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 1: The issue is with Elex Michaelson on Fox eleven Friday night. 469 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: Not only had Governor knew Simon, but the second Gentleman 470 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: was there, the second Gentleman and Kamala Harris, the vice president. 471 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: That's what's what's the name of the second gentleman? His 472 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: name is Doug m Hoff m Hoff all right, anyway, 473 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 1: we'll get into that after. It's only new similar to 474 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: play with some of his Knoxis audio. We've got one 475 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: Kamela Harris clip too from the show. Yes, cut nines 476 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: word salad from Camel Hars. But I'm all hungry. I 477 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 1: could use a word salad. The guy that was running 478 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: for president not that many years ago, because he was 479 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 1: the lawyer for Stormy Daniels who had a lawsuit against 480 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 1: Trump over well, you know, basically having sex with Trump anyway, 481 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: he has pled guilty. Michael Lavanatti, of course lived a 482 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 1: high life about all sorts of jets, super airplanes. He 483 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: spent tons of money he didn't have, so looked like 484 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: basically what he did was he stole from his clients. 485 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: He's he's a thief, far beyond what anybody knew, because 486 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: you know, we knew about him trying to shake down Nike, 487 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: he knew about Stormy Daniels theft. But he stole ten 488 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: million dollars from five other clients that he had. Yeah, 489 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: these are California cases. Avanati was as usual, like newsome 490 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: obnoxious when these lawsuits first started coming up are these charges, 491 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: he was like, I'll beat him all and then he didn't. 492 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: So this is kind of like the last of the 493 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: cases against him, and now he just gave up and 494 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: he's pleading guilty to these charges about five clients in 495 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: California stealing ten million. One of him is a paraplegic guy. 496 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: Did you see that? Yeah, anile chair. Now he didn't care. 497 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I told you when I saw him in 498 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: the restaurant with fifteen beautiful models, that was his life. 499 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 1: That's what he was living for. He didn't care about 500 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: some guy who can't walk. It was probably he was 501 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: living for a booze and women in orgies and god 502 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: knows what else. The guy he stole from in the 503 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: wheelchair is Jeffrey Ernest Johnson. What a weird story this is. 504 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: Apparently he attempted suicide by jumping off the upper floor 505 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: of the Los Ange, his county jail. This is the 506 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: Twin Towers jail, and he won four million dollars. I 507 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 1: guess because they didn't watch carefully enough to prevent him 508 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: from jumping off the upper floor. And you know how 509 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,239 Speaker 1: these things were. Yeah, so Avanadi apparently stole a lot 510 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: of the money, the settlement money kept telling this guy 511 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: hasn't come through yet. That was funneled it through bank 512 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: accounts and laundered it in shell companies, including his race 513 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: car team and a Seattle coffee company to hide the money. 514 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: That's what Havanadi was doing with the money he stole 515 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: from the clients. Yeah, that's that's why he did. With 516 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: Stirmy Daniels. Daniel is supposed to get book profits. Oh 517 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: and he intercepted the checks and said, oh, I didn't 518 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: come in yet. Yeah. A lot of people accept that 519 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: because they trust the lawyer to don't look after their 520 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: case for them, and they all right, I let me know. Yeah, 521 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 1: anywaday to What was he expecting to turn around enough 522 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: money to pay these people off. He was just never 523 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: going to pay them. I don't think he well, he 524 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,719 Speaker 1: never he never seemed to pay him. I don't think 525 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,719 Speaker 1: he aired. He just kept saying, Oh, I didn't come 526 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: in yet. Yeah, I'm making a call. Yeah, they're looking 527 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: into it. He was also charged with the tax evasion. 528 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: He took settlement money from a woman by the name 529 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: of Alexis Gardner, the ex girlfriend of a Miami Heat 530 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: player by the name of Hassan White. Two point seven 531 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: five million dollars he took from her. With all his 532 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: television appearances, can you imagine how many high profile people 533 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: called up to have him represent them in their lawsuit? 534 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: Oh I didn't think of that. Yeah, he got so 535 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: much attention for story. Daniels is now considered the star attorney. Yeah, 536 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: his phone was probably ringing constantly, and he would just 537 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: look at you know, the size of the pay day 538 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: cut a deal. Money gets sent to Alvanati. You always 539 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: have the check sent to your home, never have it 540 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: sent to the attorney never. I guess he's figuring that 541 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: some of these prison sentences will overlap. I mean, he's 542 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: already been sentenced to two and a half years for 543 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: the Nike case, and then he also got convicted in 544 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: the bankruptcy fraud case, and then we have more fraud 545 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: cases than we have the California case. I guess he 546 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: just gave up and said, well, you know what, how 547 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: long can they keep me in jail? But if condicted 548 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 1: on all accounts, he could face a maximum sentence of 549 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty three years. That's what he should get. 550 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: Never see him again, That's exactly what he should get. 551 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: And then that defamation against Brett Kavanaugh with that whack 552 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: job Julie sweat Nick and the fake orgies that she 553 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: claimed Kavanaugh was organizing. 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