1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: Can't find AM six forty. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 2: Check in with the moistline and leave us your messages 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 2: your fury one eight one eight seven seven Moist eighty 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 2: six eight seven seven Moist eighty six and we'll announcing 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 2: this every hour. 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark the winner of. 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 2: The Golden Mica Award for Best Newscast under fifteen. 9 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 3: Minutes my three o'clock newscast last year. 10 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: Congratulations, Thank you, John. We have Michael Monks here. Good 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: to see you, John. Yeah, turn on his microphone. Sorry, 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: that's SIRR. Yeah. 13 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 2: I was so happy for Deborah that I yes, I know, 14 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: I know you were speechless. You went to this this 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: news conference today the Service Employees International Union and the 16 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 2: Roosevelt Institute, and they wanted to set the record straight 17 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: about what happens when you jack up minimum way by 18 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 2: twenty five percent to twenty dollars an hour. 19 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: Go ahead, tell me what they were saying. 20 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 4: Sure, this is of course about the big day today 21 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 4: for more than a half a million fast food workers 22 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 4: across California. Yeah, who got a significant raise to day 23 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 4: if they were making the previous minimum, which was sixteen 24 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 4: and as of today is now twenty dollars. 25 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: Twenty five percent raise. You ever get a twenty five 26 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: percent raise. 27 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 4: Well, I hope to be so lucky someday. But this 28 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 4: was something that the legislature did in response to organized 29 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 4: labor within the fast food industry. You'll recall last year 30 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,199 Speaker 4: a lot of fast food workers said we've had enough 31 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 4: of what our wages are and we want to make 32 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 4: more and so now this is what it is. 33 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 2: Maybe they should acquire a skill and that's how you 34 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 2: make more money. 35 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: And that is. 36 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 4: Something that I think you would have heard from the 37 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 4: Roosevelt Institute today and some of the other organizations that 38 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 4: participated in this virtual news conference where they wanted to 39 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 4: basically sell the benefits of today's news. And what they 40 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 4: say is, you might be thinking about low skill workers, 41 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 4: or you might be thinking even about teenagers right when 42 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 4: you pull up to a McDonald working their first job, 43 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 4: saving up for a car. Maybe, but apparently, according to 44 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 4: the data that was provided to us at the news conference, 45 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 4: that's a minimal number of the people who are working. 46 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 2: They say that, well, it didn't used to be right, 47 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: but now when you're paying twenty dollars an hour. You're 48 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: expected to be able to raise a family of four 49 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: on a burger flipping job. 50 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 4: Most of the workers are over the age of twenty five, 51 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 4: and seventy percent of them are women, and a great 52 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 4: number of those, these folks said this morning, are the 53 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 4: soul breadwinner. 54 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: Did anybody talk about whether these jobs have that value, 55 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: whether it's worth twenty dollars an hour or just because 56 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: they have this labor pool of unskilled people they're trying 57 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 2: to this is a wealth transfer program, a welfare program. 58 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 2: Force companies and business owners to pay ridiculous wages for 59 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 2: work that isn't skilled. You don't need an education, you 60 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 2: don't even need to speak English. 61 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: The work itself is not worth much. You see. 62 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 4: Berkeley Economic mix professor Michael Reich said today that these 63 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 4: are companies that have seen record profits in recent years. 64 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 4: And one thing he said to the point that you're 65 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 4: making is that if these companies decide to lay people off, 66 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 4: that's fewer burgers or tacos that they can assemble to sell. 67 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: And so that's the math that they've got to run. 68 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 2: Well, Actually, what they're doing is they're headed for automation. 69 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 2: Is what the companies are doing. 70 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: El poil. 71 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: Loco told investors this month it was automating for starters, 72 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 2: it's sauca making because of anticipated wage inflation. Jack in 73 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,839 Speaker 2: the Box is testing friar robots and automated drink dispensers 74 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: to reduce their labor needs. 75 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: And who are you going to complain to? Then you 76 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: end up shouting at as well. 77 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 2: It's like shouting at AI on the phone when you 78 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: talk to customer service. What I'm saying is it does 79 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 2: lose jobs. The number of people with fast food jobs 80 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 2: went dropped by six times the rate of all other 81 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,119 Speaker 2: industries this year. 82 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 4: This is what you've been hearing from the restaurant industry 83 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 4: throughout this process, streaming up to today, is that hey, 84 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 4: we can you know, if we do this, we're going 85 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 4: to see fewer jobs. We might even see fewer locations. 86 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 4: What the purpose of today's news conference was to try 87 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 4: to counter that narrative and to. 88 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 2: Say that counter the narrative is what with the set 89 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 2: of lies? This is what makes me crazy. And this 90 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 2: is not about you, but just general news coverage is like, oh, 91 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 2: we have two narratives. No one side's telling the truth, 92 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 2: the other side is lying. The truth is yeah, jobs 93 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 2: get lost. They're going to go to automation. The higher 94 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 2: raise wages. 95 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: Just do simple math. You can't afford to have that 96 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: many employees. 97 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 2: And somebody owns a McDonald's franchise as a middle class 98 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 2: business owner. It's not a billionaire McDonald's executive. This is 99 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 2: another live that the union's constantly push. That is some stuff. 100 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: It's the local guy that's getting screwed. 101 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 4: When you drive past the McDonald's on the street and 102 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 4: you pay any attention to the stock market, think, oh, 103 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 4: a McDonald's stock went up, so that McDonald's guy must 104 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 4: be extremely wealthy. 105 00:04:58,279 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: Oh. 106 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 4: A lot of folks don't understand that almost all of 107 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 4: these restaurants that you see that you recognize as national 108 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 4: brands are locally owned or are at least regionally owned 109 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 4: by smaller operators. But the argument that was made today 110 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 4: by the union, by the think tank out of New York, 111 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 4: by the UCLA Labor Center this morning, these are folks 112 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 4: who said that industry has seen a lot and one 113 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 4: interesting component for your consideration, John, as offered by them, 114 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 4: of course, was that the restaurant, the prices of food 115 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 4: at these fast food restaurants have gone up over forty 116 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 4: six percent in the past decade, compared to about twenty 117 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 4: eight percent for other consumer goods, and so their argument 118 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 4: is they're already jacking up the price. One other argument 119 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 4: that was made is that the starting minimum wage in 120 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 4: fast food is sixteen dollars, and because of the unique 121 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 4: labor market that we have right now, you might see 122 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 4: a lot of workers competing for companies competing for workers 123 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 4: rather and so the starting wage might already be higher 124 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 4: than that. So what might not necessarily be a twenty 125 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 4: five percent increase across the board for all workers. It 126 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 4: might be a buck here, a couple of bucks there 127 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 4: for those folks. It doesn't necessarily take the sting out 128 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 4: of what the operators on the food price increase. You 129 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 4: go to the grocery store, prices are about thirty percent 130 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: higher just in grocery stores. Well, that's what they were 131 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 4: saying everything. 132 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: So that's that's all the ingredients for the food they sell. 133 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 2: I mean, there's a massive amount of inflation because the 134 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 2: government pump trillions of dollars that we didn't need into 135 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 2: the money supply between the Federal Reserve and all the 136 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 2: spending that went on in Washington. So that's where you 137 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 2: get inflation from and then you know, obviously all the 138 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 2: prices are going to go up. 139 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 4: And what these folks said this morning was that those 140 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 4: prices have been going up prior to the COVID money 141 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 4: that you just referenced, and it's been trending that way 142 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 4: for years, all the while seeing record profits. Again, this 143 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,679 Speaker 4: is the characterization offered by those Well, yes. 144 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 2: But it is not profits for the franchise e in 145 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 2: the neighborhood, and that that is the big lie they 146 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 2: This is the misdirection play. They make you want to 147 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 2: hate a McDonald's executive. It screws the family that owns 148 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 2: a McDonald's franchise. 149 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 4: And we don't know what kind of money those folks 150 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 4: are making because they're not usually publicly traded companies. 151 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: The one McDonald's is. The franchise e is not a 152 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: publicly traded in. It's a local business. 153 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 2: But you've seen how many restaurants have closed here in 154 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 2: Los Angeles just over the last well the last four years, 155 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 2: ever since COVID came. I mean, there's tons of restaurants 156 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 2: that don't exist anymore. There's empty storefronts everywhere. There's plenty 157 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 2: of restaurants I go to that are all gone now. 158 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: I mean they're working under the same constraints. If you 159 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: run a McDonalds or a burger king or a pizza 160 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 2: hut or something, it's the same the same issues. 161 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 4: The cost of doing business in California is expensive for 162 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 4: workers and for but also for the spaces that they're renting. 163 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 4: And the same is true for the workers who didn't 164 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 4: have to go out and find the housing. And that's 165 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 4: where you find yourself in a circular argument about these 166 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 4: jobs are unskilled. 167 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 2: On it, you don't need an education, you don't need skills, 168 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 2: you don't need anything. Right, you have a basket of 169 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 2: fries and shaking the basket. So if you can stand 170 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 2: up and wave your arm up and down, you've got 171 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 2: the job. That's why it's minimum wage, because you could 172 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 2: be replaced by virtually anyone on the planet. You could 173 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: get zoo animals to come in and shake the basket. 174 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 4: I think you wouldn't get an argument from the folks 175 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 4: this morning. What they were saying was that, sure, it 176 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 4: can be low skilled to shake the fries, but there's 177 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 4: an awfully long line of cars out there waiting to 178 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 4: get those fries, making it a pretty valuable commodity, and 179 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 4: so how about sharing some of that wealth with the 180 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 4: people who are working? 181 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm just saying the business owners are 182 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 2: not getting the big wealth. They're not, all right, Michael, 183 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 2: thank you very much. Thanks John Zaves. We got to 184 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 2: send you out to talk to the business owners next. 185 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: Okay, I want to hear that side of it. 186 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 2: I will tell you some more about that because the 187 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal, which actually covers business, I bet you 188 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 2: none of these people at the Roosevelt Institute or UCLA 189 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 2: you see Berkeley, none of them have ever run a business. 190 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 2: I guarantee that I'll tell you about people who do 191 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 2: run businesses and get their reaction. 192 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI am 193 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 5: six fording. 194 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 2: You really do have communists running Sacramento. Chief communist would 195 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 2: be Gavin Newsom, and he and the legislature about taking 196 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 2: money from corporations, taking money from small business owners and 197 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 2: transferring it to whoever they want to annoy it. And 198 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 2: when it comes to food service work, you're not going 199 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 2: to find jobs that require less skill less education. All 200 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 2: you have to be is breathing. And it used to 201 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 2: be a transitionary job for people in school. When I 202 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 2: was a kid, many of my friends had these transition 203 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 2: jobs high school and college, summer jobs after school, and 204 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 2: that's what it was. And a few older guys in management, 205 00:09:53,800 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 2: but they were a professional restaurant managers. Now this is 206 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 2: really sick, and it's really really screwed up the economy 207 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 2: because you know, you're paying these unskilled people twenty bucks 208 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 2: an hour, and eventually a franchise owner, who is generally 209 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 2: a middle class person can't afford it, and so then 210 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 2: you as the customer, have to pay more money, or 211 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 2: he's got to fire people and replace them with increasingly 212 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 2: artificial intelligence robots, some kind of technology. You heard today 213 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 2: Michael Monks went to this propaganda press conference from the 214 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 2: Service Employees International Union and the Roosevelt Institute, which is 215 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 2: one of those think tanks, and of course they had 216 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 2: their statistics and research that say no, no, no, Obviously 217 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: the companies could afford to pay more money, and. 218 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: Obviously they should see. There's no value on. 219 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 2: Work, whether your work is important, whether it's useful, it's 220 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 2: just that you showed up and you're breathing. They have 221 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 2: somebody few MEC, they have somebody from UC Berkeley, well 222 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: by the way the business on zoom because all these 223 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 2: people are so lazy they can't bother to show up 224 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 2: at a press conference live right. Wall Street Journal has 225 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 2: the truth. I'm not going to say it's a competing narrative. 226 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you it's the truth. And they 227 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 2: published this just a few days ago. California state law 228 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 2: raising fast food wages, some restaurants are already laying off 229 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 2: and reducing hours for workers as they try to cut costs. 230 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 2: Particularly pizza joints have plans to cut hundreds of jobs 231 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 2: just leading up to the April first mandate. And here's 232 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 2: how they're doing it. Pizza Hut is laying off all 233 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 2: their delivery people. Michael Hayde's profile the Pizza Hut driver 234 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 2: for eight years. You know, buddy, after eight years, you 235 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 2: really should have moved on. 236 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: Uh. 237 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 2: He got a notice in December that his last day 238 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 2: would be in February, and they offered him four hundred 239 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 2: dollars in severance. 240 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 6: Uh. 241 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 2: He made hundreds of dollars a week in wages and 242 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 2: tips as a delivery driver. Instead, he went on unemployment. 243 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 2: Pizza Hut was my career for nearly a decade. You 244 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 2: know what you've you've you got to do better than 245 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 2: a Pizza Hut delivery guy for a career. 246 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: That is not a career. See, the mentality is upsided. 247 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: When you were in. 248 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 2: College, would would you have considered pizza Hut delivery a 249 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 2: career or were you gonna stick with broadcasting? 250 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 3: I always wanted to be a news. 251 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 2: Anchor, right, but that's a career. That's a profession. You 252 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 2: got trained in that. Right now you're award winning, that's right. 253 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 2: The pizza delivery drivers got awards. 254 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,959 Speaker 3: Uh maybe for the best pizza delivery driver. 255 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 2: So that that's uh, okay, that's Pizza Hut. Now let's 256 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 2: see here, oh, Round Table Pizza. That's four hundred franchises 257 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 2: are laying off one two hundred and eighty delivery drivers 258 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 2: this year. That's the combined total between Pizza Hut and 259 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 2: Round Table twelve hundred and eighty. 260 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: Uh. What is vitality bowl? Sounds like one of those. 261 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 3: It sounds like something id. 262 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, it does, vitality ball. I don't need anything that's 263 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 2: described as a bowl. But I got a restaurant. Something 264 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 2: comes in a bowl. 265 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: I don't order it. 266 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Most of my meals are in a bowl. 267 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, balls mean, there's a lot of offensive foods 268 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 2: in there that they've mixed, a lot of vegetation. He now, anyway, 269 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 2: this guy Brian home, he has two vitality bowls. He 270 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 2: runs the stores with two employees. 271 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: That's it. And they take longer now to make a 272 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: customer's a kai bowls. 273 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 2: What's a cop well, a sie acai a sie. 274 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 3: It's it's a fruit. 275 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 6: It's very healthy, has a lot of uh, I think 276 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 6: anti oxidants, and. 277 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 3: It's it's like this frozen slushy. 278 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 6: Fruit and you add berries and other things and maybe 279 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 6: some carib chips, almonds, maybe some coconut shreds. There's no meat, 280 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 6: just no, it's very yummy. Almond butter in there too. 281 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: There's no butter in almonds, all right. McDonald's Chipotle Jack 282 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 2: in the Box have said they're going to raise menu 283 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 2: prices to offset the cost. So it's gonna be more 284 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 2: money for this what used to be cheap food. Many 285 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 2: restaurants are reducing hours, closing during the slower parts of 286 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 2: the day, or serving menu items that take less time 287 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 2: to make. Scott Roderick oons eight McDonald's restaurants in northern California, 288 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: I can't charge twenty dollars for happy meals. I'm leaving 289 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: no stone unturned. The guy who owns those two Vitality 290 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 2: bowls said he's turning down opportunities to open new locations. 291 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 2: He's going to expand in other states. No more Vitality. 292 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: In California, the number of people working in fast food 293 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 2: dropped one point three percent over the first nine months 294 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 2: last year. Once they announced the minimum wage increase, private 295 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 2: employment in the state declined only two tenths of a percent. 296 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: So the drop in fast food was six times the 297 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: rate of everything else combined. You at the federal minimum wages, 298 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: it's only seven dollars and twenty five cents. Wow, I 299 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 2: don't think anybody actually gets that. But that's the official 300 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 2: federal wage. 301 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 6: I remember when I was making minimum wage, when I 302 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 6: was working, you know, as a sixteen year old. I 303 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 6: think it was three point fifty an hour. 304 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 3: Uh back in the day. 305 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can remember too something. Uh all right. 306 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 2: El poile Loco said it's automating, it's salsa making, and 307 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 2: they expect wage inflation of twelve to fourteen percent. 308 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: I'd mentioned this before. 309 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 2: Jack in the Box testing Friar robots and automated drink dispense. 310 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 2: Excalibur Pizza says it's going to eliminate seventy three driver 311 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 2: positions twenty one percent of its workforce. Fat Brands owns 312 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 2: round Table said many operators in the state are shifting 313 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 2: to outside delivery services because of rising costs, and this 314 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 2: is you know, it just goes on and on with this. 315 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 2: So it's a bad thing if you're running a business. 316 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 2: It's a bad thing for the customers, and eventually it's 317 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 2: a bad thing for some of the employees because people 318 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: are going to lose their jobs and there's going to 319 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 2: be other jobs that never materialize. They're not going to 320 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 2: fill jobs, they're not going to add. It becomes a 321 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 2: dying industry. And I think you can imagine, not too 322 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,479 Speaker 2: far down the road, that the entire system will be automated, 323 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 2: that they'll be able to have robots, machines, computers cook 324 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 2: all the food for you. You know, a little hamburger 325 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 2: patty will come out of a machine, flip on the 326 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 2: g Well, you'll have a robot flip the burger over, 327 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 2: add the cheese and whatever else, and it goes down 328 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 2: to the assembly line and all these mechanical arms will 329 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 2: move in and out, creating the mcburger kind. 330 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 3: Of like AI and our jobs. 331 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 2: Yes, right, exactly, there's gonna be no people working. What 332 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 2: do you think is going to happen when everybody has 333 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 2: to stay home? 334 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 3: That's going to be very scary and very dangerous. 335 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: Yeah. 336 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 2: Remember what happened when when we had COVID. How many 337 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 2: people went crazy? How many people got violent? Yes, that's 338 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 2: going to happen like one hundredfold once everybody's replaced by 339 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 2: automation or AI. 340 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 341 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 5: six forty three o'clock. 342 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 2: I cannot believe the clowns that we've had running California. 343 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 2: Some of them moved on to the Biden administration. One 344 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 2: of them is Julie Sue. Julie Sue used to be. 345 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: Well. 346 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 2: She's currently the Acting Secretary of Labor for Joe Biden. 347 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 2: She used to run the Labor Department in California. She 348 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 2: was in charge when the unemployment department lost over thirty 349 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 2: billion dollars to fraudsters during the COVID unemployment payoffs. She 350 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 2: was running the department when we were looted by hundreds 351 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 2: thousands of criminals around the world access are unemployment funds, which, 352 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 2: by the way, we're on the hook for Newsom thought 353 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 2: he was going to get the federal government to bail 354 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 2: him out on this, but Julie Sue was in charge. 355 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 2: Knewsom picked her and stood by her. They cost us 356 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 2: thirty billion. We're going to have to pay for this. 357 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 2: The only good thing is that word has gotten around 358 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 2: the Senate on what a disaster she is, and so 359 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 2: nomination has been blocked, permanently blocked. But she's the acting secretary, 360 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 2: so she may fill out Biden's term. Anyway, we'll talk 361 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 2: to Will Swam from the National Review about Julie Sue, 362 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 2: who really is one of the most incompetent bureaucrats, who 363 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 2: was hired by the most incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom. Speaking 364 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 2: of incompetence, Thomas Buckley for the California Globe wrote a 365 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 2: piece today about the High Speed Rail sixteen years Sixteen 366 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 2: years ago. 367 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: We passed the high speed Rail. 368 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 2: Referendum to borrow ten billion dollars ten billion dollars, and 369 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,479 Speaker 2: Thomas Buckley decided to look back in time as to 370 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 2: what the original referendum said when we agreed to borrow 371 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 2: the money, and it was supposed to be an eight 372 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 2: hundred mile system that would go from San Diego to Sacramento. 373 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 2: Did you know that eight hundred miles from San Diego 374 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 2: to Sacramento sixteen years later not one foot of track. 375 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 2: In fact, it said that it's the text of the 376 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 2: proposition said, by approving this bond measure, this would connect 377 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 2: San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim and link Sacramento, 378 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 2: San Francisco, the Central Valley, LA, the Inland Empire, Orange 379 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 2: County in San Diego. That was supposed to be the 380 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 2: whole network. Total price forty billion dollars, forty billion dollars. 381 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 2: Now it's going to cost at least triple that one 382 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 2: hundred and thirty billion just LA to San Francisco, no 383 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 2: track to Anaheim or San Diego or Sacramento. Three times 384 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 2: as much and they don't even discuss Sacramento in San Diego. 385 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 2: And the latest business plan, Oh yeah, that's what that's 386 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 2: what inspired this investigation. This report is High Speed Rail 387 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 2: has a new business plan. Every year or two they 388 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 2: come up with a business plan, and there's big laughs 389 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 2: in this one. They claim that if they if they can, 390 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 2: if they can just build I guess La to San Francisco. 391 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 2: There would be well, let me go, let me go 392 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 2: to what it was originally promised. Okay, if they were 393 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 2: going to do the whole thing right Sacramento to San 394 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 2: Francisco to La to Anaheim to San Diego, there was 395 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 2: going to be one hundred and seventeen million passengers a year, 396 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,239 Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen million. That means all of us 397 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 2: in California would ride this thing three times a year. 398 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 2: They would make a billion dollars an annual profit. They 399 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 2: would need fourteen billion dollars in federal funding. They would 400 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 2: need private investment mint from outside companies. They wouldn't use 401 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 2: any state tax money. This would create four hundred and 402 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 2: fifty thousand new permanent jobs one hundred and sixty thousand 403 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 2: construction jobs. Actually, instead of a four hundred and fifty 404 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 2: thousand new permanent jobs, they've created six thousand. That's a 405 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 2: little over one percent of the promised jobs. Yep, not 406 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 2: four hundred fifty thousand, six thousand, one percent. There was 407 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 2: also this concept they floated a few years ago to 408 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 2: have the system generate its own power with solar panels 409 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 2: from Bakersfield to said they were going to spend two 410 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million dollars in solar panels. That has 411 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 2: kind of disappeared though. They also claimed that about twelve 412 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 2: million people will ride it every year just to go 413 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 2: from Merced to Madeerra. No, I'm sorry, Shafter to Madera. 414 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 2: It's supposed to be Bakersfield to Merced, but actually the 415 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 2: train station is in Shafter, outside of Bakersfield, and it 416 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 2: takes you to Madera, which is outside Merced. And they 417 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 2: think you're gonna get twelve million people every year to 418 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 2: go from Shafter to Madera. Uh, they said, boy, if 419 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 2: we ever get it to San Francisco, you're gonna get 420 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 2: just as many people riding it as you do for 421 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 2: the Northeast cart or service Boston, New York City, Washington, 422 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 2: d C. In fact, it'll carry two and a half 423 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 2: times the number of people who take the train Boston 424 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 2: to New York to Washington, d C. If they can 425 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 2: just get it into the Silicon Valley from Central Valley. 426 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 2: All this stuff is absurd fantasy. They know they're lying, 427 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 2: they know they're full of it. But Gavin Newsom the 428 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 2: legislature never stop it because they're bribed by the unions 429 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 2: who will get a few construction jobs for their dues, 430 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,959 Speaker 2: paying members, and that's what keeps this thing alive and 431 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 2: some people getting paid. But there's no track laid down 432 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:31,360 Speaker 2: after sixteen years. I am California voters and citizens put 433 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 2: up with things that nobody else does anywhere in the nation. 434 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 2: The other forty nine states. You don't have stuff like this, 435 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 2: not to this extent, for this long, with absolutely nothing 436 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 2: to show for it. After three o'clock we'll get onto 437 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 2: the case of Julie Sue. She managed to blow thirty 438 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 2: billion dollars slightly less than the original cost for high 439 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 2: speed rail. She blew it all in a matter of 440 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: months by badly mismanaging the unemployment payouts during COVID, And 441 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 2: of course she got a promotion to be US Labor 442 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 2: Secretary under Biden, but she can't get confirmed. So talk 443 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: with Will Swain from National Review about all that. 444 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 445 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 5: six forty. 446 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with 447 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 2: Will Swain to explain how Julie Sue is still the 448 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 2: acting Labor Secretary. How did she get such a promotion 449 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 2: after blowing thirty billion dollars to fraudsters and criminals the 450 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 2: COVID unemployment money. She was in charge of the unemployment department. 451 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 2: She's been Biden's acting Labor Secretary now for a little while, 452 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 2: but she can't get the permanent position because enough senators 453 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 2: know that she's incompetent. Will Swain, we'll talk about it 454 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 2: when we come back. I mentioned just a few minutes 455 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 2: ago we were talking about the fast food minimum wage 456 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 2: increase because Michael Monks from KFI News went to this 457 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 2: news conference by the Service Employees Union and something called 458 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 2: the Roosevelt Institute, and they had all kinds of propaganda. 459 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 2: There's another story out on how much how much the 460 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,959 Speaker 2: prices are going to go up at all these chains 461 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 2: for McDonald's. Do you know ninety five percent of McDonald's 462 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 2: are owned by local franchise owners. I told you there's 463 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 2: this propaganda that comes from the liars in the media 464 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 2: and these think tanks and the liars in the Service 465 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 2: Employees Union, that you're going after the big billionaires at McDonald's. 466 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: No, you're not. 467 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 2: Ninety five percent of the franchisees are local business people. 468 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 2: Starbucks prices. They say, that's going to go up to 469 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 2: how much are people going to pay for Starbucks? 470 00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 3: Wow, it's already expensive. 471 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: Is there any limit? 472 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 2: Or you know, that's a that's a drug, that's caffeine. 473 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 2: So these are addicts. 474 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 6: I don't think it's going to make a huge difference 475 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 6: that's in a place like Starbucks. I really don't because people, yeah, 476 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 6: like you said, they're addicted to getting coffee there. 477 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: Did people object when the price of heroin goes up? 478 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you. 479 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,719 Speaker 2: Or meth I don't know. Com I see it's not 480 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 2: on your menu. No, Anti Ann's and Cinnabon in California. 481 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 2: There's a guy named Alexander Johnson. He runs those franchises 482 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 2: and he's thinking of either laying people off for closing 483 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,439 Speaker 2: some locations or raise prices. That's what he has to 484 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 2: do because of this stupid minimum wage law. This this 485 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 2: is terrible. Jack in the box are going to the 486 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 2: prices are going to go up six to eight percent. Yeah, 487 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 2: it's one thing to get a bad burger when you're 488 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 2: only paying three dollars for it, But were you paying 489 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 2: fifteen dollars and you get a bad burger? 490 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 6: Okay, So what's your limit to getting a burger or 491 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 6: a bagel? 492 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: Oh? 493 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 2: Man, there's there's a place I go to that I 494 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 2: really like. And I remember maybe ten years ago, I 495 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 2: was paying nine dollars and something for two burgers in 496 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 2: a soda. Now it's seventeen seventeen. It's it's more than double. 497 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 2: And I'm trying to think. What was the other thing 498 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 2: I thought of everything. 499 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: I go to? 500 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 2: Oh, bagel, Yeah, yeah, bagel was to seventy five. It's 501 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 2: five and a quarter. One bagel, withes one bagel with. 502 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 3: Cream cheese, cream cheese. 503 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I'll just stop eating. 504 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 3: You can you a smoothie? 505 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: Just stop eating? You know? 506 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 2: I skipped dinner a lot of nights. You do partly 507 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 2: because I don't want to. I don't want to pay, 508 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 2: you know. 509 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 6: I think I think you do well enough that you 510 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 6: can you don't need to skip a See. 511 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 2: I'm kind of damaged that way. I grew up. I 512 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 2: know my parents are no money. No, I know I 513 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 2: can't I. 514 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 3: Skip a meal. Come on, live a little. I killed it. 515 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 2: I can't order something if there's not food at home 516 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 2: to pay like twenty dollars for an entree just a plate? 517 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: Apasta? 518 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 2: Right, minimum twenty Oh, I know, twenty to thirty, right, 519 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 2: And then you know they had service fees and delivery 520 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 2: fees and everybody wants a tip, and I'm looking at 521 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 2: one meal and it's going to be like thirty. 522 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,719 Speaker 1: Four dollars, and it is. 523 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 2: There are times I've ordered this online and I just 524 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 2: canceled the order because it gets to all the extra 525 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 2: charges and you know those. 526 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 6: Service We took my daughter out to dinner for an 527 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 6: early birthday dinner last night, and there was a service fee, 528 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 6: but the service was really really good, and I really 529 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 6: enjoyed the place. 530 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: But it are you on my nerves? Are you supposed 531 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: to pay a tip on top of the shoe? Yes? See, yes. 532 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: When I get to double service fees, then I don't 533 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: go there anymore. Yeah. 534 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 3: Well, you know we've talked about a certain. 535 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 6: Place place, yes, that we both really like, but don't 536 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 6: want to go because of that. 537 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 2: I went in there for lunch the other day and 538 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 2: I sat down and then I realized, oh, this is 539 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: that double service free pill. And I got up and 540 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 2: I walked out the back door. 541 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 6: And you know what, there's a difference between a four 542 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 6: percent service fee and a fifteen percent It's crazy. 543 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: Didn't you get screwed once they had an eighteen percent 544 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 2: service fee and then you put an eighteen percent And. 545 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: I told you. 546 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 6: The waiter came running after me, and I thought, oh, 547 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 6: maybe I left my purse, and. 548 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 3: He says, thank you, thank you. I left him. 549 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: I think a fort wanted to take you home. 550 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 3: I was so mad all right. 551 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 2: Now, on the other end of things, it looks like 552 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 2: the exit bag is coming to California. 553 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. 554 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 2: It looks like California will be the nation's first state 555 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 2: Well that will allow you to check out just because 556 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 2: you want to. There is a woman, I guess we 557 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 2: could call it the Queen of Death, Catherine blake Spear. 558 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 2: She's a state senator from San Diego, Catherine black Spear, 559 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 2: and she says it's about personal autonomy and making decisions 560 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 2: about your own exit. She's an attorney with a background 561 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 2: in a state planning. So you would be able to 562 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 2: eliminate yourself without a terminal prognosis. Oh you don't even have, 563 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,959 Speaker 2: you know, three months to live, a cancer diagnosis or anything. 564 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: You just would like to go. 565 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,719 Speaker 3: But I mean, you can just do that now, I know. 566 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 2: But you can get the state to I think the 567 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 2: state will supply the drugs. It says you can request 568 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 2: life ending drugs. So who gives that to you? A 569 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 2: new base war? It is our tax money is going 570 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 2: to pay for people to check out early. This is 571 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 2: a lower threshold than any other state. There is strong opposition. 572 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 2: Right now, you can request lethal medication as long as 573 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 2: you're able to make your own decision, swallow the drug yourself, 574 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 2: and you're expected to die within six months from a terminal. 575 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 3: De Oh okay, well there's that. 576 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: Okay, but not anymore with this new law. 577 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 3: That. 578 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: Oh that's the old law. 579 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 3: Oh got you, got you, gotcha? 580 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 2: No, No, Now you can just say I'm not feeling 581 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 2: it today. I'm not feeling it right now. I don't 582 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 2: think I want to stick around. This is a version 583 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 2: of the exit bag. 584 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: Well, John, I mean, I know any day you. 585 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 2: Could just drive over to you know, the California State 586 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 2: Death Office, find Catherine Blackspear sitting behind the desk, and 587 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 2: you just say to her, yeah, I'm ready to go. Wow, 588 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 2: can I have my medication? And how much is that 589 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 2: going to be? Oh, don't worry, we'll pay for it. 590 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 3: I don't know what to say about that. 591 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 2: Her proposal is set it Bill eleven ninety six, and uh, 592 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 2: you know they used to they had it for people 593 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 2: who you know, were in hospice, people with Alzheimer's and dementia. 594 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 2: But now they're just going to open it and open it 595 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 2: up for everybody's just sick. 596 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: Of being on the planet. And you know some days 597 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: that's tempting. 598 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 3: Don't say that. 599 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: When we come back. 600 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 2: Among other things, we are going to talk to We're 601 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 2: going to talk to Will Swain from the National Review 602 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 2: about this colossal failure named Julie Sue, who's Biden's Secretary 603 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 2: of Labor, and she was in charge of the labor 604 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 2: department here and she mismanaged, mismanaged. She allowed thirty billion 605 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 2: plus dollars to be stolen by fraudsters around the world. 606 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 2: She had absolutely no security checks to keep people from 607 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 2: stealing money. And remember even even Scott Peterson got a 608 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 2: check on death row. Well, Julie Sue has been blocked 609 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 2: by enough senators that she can't get the permanent position 610 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 2: in Washington. Will Swain is going to explain all this. 611 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 2: Also good news, they finally finished counting the votes for 612 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 2: La County District Attorney, so officially we have the matchup, 613 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 2: and there's a poll out on who would win if 614 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 2: we had the election today, and I wish we could 615 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,919 Speaker 2: have the election today. We'll tell you all about it 616 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 2: coming up. 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