About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of Mesa explosion; Microsoft Outlook outage; U.S. economy update — FOX 10 Talks from FOX 10 Phoenix, published November 14, 2026. The transcript contains 19,195 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time. There was breaking news yesterday out in East Mesa. We were trying to piece it all together. There were reports of a shooting. We know a lot more about it now, 24 hours later. But still, the fact that..."
[00:00:00] Speaker ?: I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time.
[00:01:00] Speaker 1: I'll see you next time.
[00:01:30] Speaker 2: I'll see you next time. There was breaking news yesterday out in East Mesa. We were trying to piece it all together. There were reports of a shooting. We know a lot more about it now, 24 hours later. But still, the fact that there was an IED involved, you see the evidence markers right there. We're going to get the very latest information from the folks at the Mesa Police Department. Also today, Microsoft's massive outage, 74 countries and counting impacted by this thing. It wasn't just here in the USA. So what happened? We're going to talk to a cloud expert. Also, a doctor's going to join us this hour with some new information on GLP-1s. Millions are on them, so you're going to want to stay tuned for that. And then Thanksgiving's number one most forgotten item. Look, this is a public service presented by both Celeste and me to help you out. Because if we tell you now what it is, which we're going to.
[00:02:55] Speaker 3: Yeah, in a few minutes.
[00:02:56] Speaker 2: And there are a few other items on that list that...
[00:02:59] Speaker 3: You can maybe buy it today. And then you just keep it in the house.
[00:03:02] Speaker 2: Exactly.
[00:03:02] Speaker 3: Ron, because Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away. Can you believe it?
[00:03:05] Speaker 2: I can believe it. I'll tell you one other thing.
[00:03:07] Speaker 3: Scoot on over, Ron. Oh, wait. You scoot on over.
[00:03:10] Speaker 2: All right, Brian, do you like us like this? Talking to our director. There we go. The thing about it is, this is going to blow your mind. DoorDash did a survey on Thanksgiving Day. What are the things that people forgot the most? This number one item is so forgotten, Celeste. I know. People were ordering it nationally every 10 seconds on Thanksgiving Day.
[00:03:33] Speaker 3: To have it DoorDash to their home. Because when you're at home, you're busy making something. The green bean casserole. Then you've got the turkey in the oven. The mashed potatoes you've got to smash.
[00:03:41] Speaker 2: You don't want to burn the rolls.
[00:03:43] Speaker 3: No, that would be the worst.
[00:03:44] Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about...
[00:03:45] Speaker 3: Nobody likes burnt buns, Ron.
[00:03:46] Speaker 2: Celeste, no.
[00:03:48] Speaker 3: Nobody likes burnt buns.
[00:03:48] Speaker 2: Listen, let's move forward and talk about what was going on out in this area. You know, booming area out there in East Mesa around Crisman and Southern. And take a look. Once it all came together, neighbors out there were talking about it.
[00:04:03] Speaker 4: Somebody dropped a huge garbage can off the top of a truck or something. It was just a real different type of a sound. I just want to know what happened.
[00:04:11] Speaker 5: And is there something I should be concerned about? Because our neighborhood is normally quiet. So is there something that could happen again in the future?
[00:04:18] Speaker 4: You know, you hate to make any assumptions, but it's just there's so much crazy stuff going on in the world.
[00:04:23] Speaker 2: Well, so the story is the officer was responding to a call of shots fired nearby. And that's when the explosion happened. And take a look right there. That photo giving all the evidence you need to understand what was going on. So we asked Detective Laura Cervantes to join us from Mesa Police.
[00:04:45] Speaker 3: I'll move that in for you. Scoot on over for me.
[00:04:46] Speaker 2: So now we've had about 24 hours to piece it all together. Give us the kind of the big headlines and walk us maybe through the timeline.
[00:04:54] Detective Laura Cervantes: Like you'd brushed up on or talked about, Mesa Police responded to a call or a report of shots fired in the area. Officers responded. And when we have calls like that, we like to what we talk about is canvas the area. We send officers into a perimeter and trying to locate whatever we can that may explain why the shots were fired or why the caller made the call that they had made. An officer was in the area quite a bit north of where the call originated out of. And he was in a residential area in a little four-way stop sign intersection in that residential area. He had his overhead lights on and he had his window cracked down so he could hear what was going on around him. And then he reports to the dispatcher that he just heard an explosion and was able to verify that, like you saw in the pictures, his car had damage done to it. So there were two different scenes then at that point. Yeah, we were investigating something completely different and then that explosion caused a second scene to start.
[00:05:51] Speaker 2: We're going to roll some of the video from that area. By the way, if you just look off in the distance, it's difficult to see, but there it is clear as a bell right across the street. So what's the timeline on all of this as it's unfolding?
[00:06:05] Detective Laura Cervantes: The original call for service comes out just before 6 o'clock in the morning. And I believe this incident happened right at about 6.30. So there was a little bit of time.
[00:06:16] Speaker 3: So at the second scene, walk us through what happened. Something gets thrown on the officer's patrol vehicle and then what happens?
[00:06:24] Detective Laura Cervantes: So like you guys saw in the video, which is awesome again, this wasn't video of ours. This was a neighbor's ring camera. And as you can see in the video, there is a little wall at the residential area where there were two male subjects that were behind that pony wall. We call it a pony wall. You can see a fire or something lighting a device. So you can see in that lighting, there's flickering. So an ignition was lit. There was flickering of the light. And then that device gets thrown over the wall at the patrol car. Wow.
[00:06:56] Speaker 2: So it's very early in the morning. It's still dark, basically. Right. Sun hasn't come up yet. And so does the officer see what's happening or is it simply the sound or he feels the explosion? What do you know?
[00:07:11] Detective Laura Cervantes: So that's something that's really cool that we even get to talk about. Like you said, it's nighttime. It's six o'clock in the morning. A lot of people aren't up yet. People are sleeping. Right. And most neighborhoods are relatively quiet. There's no one around, no movement. So he's just listening and seeing to see what it is you could hear or see that would be unusual in the area. And as you can see and imagine, it's a bright light and a very loud noise. If you think about fireworks, right, if you've ever been at a fireworks display, and I'm not saying that that's what this is, but something that creates a loud noise, it's startling, right? It causes you to jump in even if you're anticipating it. So here you have an officer who's not expecting or hoping not to find anything, right? And then all of a sudden there's this bright light, loud noise, and you're right next to it. So the sound of that, what that could do to your eardrums, the ringing, the unexpected shock. I can't even imagine.
[00:08:07] Speaker 2: One quick technical note, and then Celeste's got a bunch more questions for you. We realize we're having a few technical issues with YouTube. We hope to be back up on YouTube within a minute or two or three. But you, of course, can watch us on Fox 10 TV. We're live on Fox 10 TV and on the Fox local app.
[00:08:23] Speaker 3: Yeah, so the video's not rolling, Ron, but in the chat I did put it on YouTube so people knew. So when the explosive device hits the patrol vehicle, it obviously shakes the officer. He's like, what is happening? Was he injured or obviously taken to the hospital and be checked out?
[00:08:40] Detective Laura Cervantes: The extent of his injuries we haven't released. But, again, if you think about just what it would be like for you to hear it.
[00:08:48] Speaker 3: Was he able to call for backup at that point or did he have a partner?
[00:08:51] Detective Laura Cervantes: Yeah, so we have our radios. So he went out on the radio and says, something exploded in my patrol car, and then other officers were able to get to him. He, you can see in the video, he backed up really quickly. At that point, you don't know what's going on. Is there going to be another one? Is there something else that's happening? You've got to get yourself out of the area.
[00:09:07] Speaker 3: It looks like they, from the image, Ron, I don't know if we have the image of the patrol vehicle. It looks like they were aiming for, like, is that the gas tank?
[00:09:15] Detective Laura Cervantes: The damage is, there's a little black cover that should have been on that gas tank that's not there anymore.
[00:09:19] Speaker 2: So how quickly then were these guys arrested? I mean, was it literally a matter of minutes or seconds, or did it take a while? Did they try to run? How did they locate them?
[00:09:30] Detective Laura Cervantes: So officers arrived on scene really quickly to be with that officer. And at that point, we began our investigation now to that specific incident. Very quickly, they were, I say very quickly, because it was relatively soon. And they were able to detain three people. Once the news, we were out there and we talked to you all, we left the scene. And within hours, by the end of the day, we were able to arrest two males.
[00:09:59] Speaker 3: And then what about the first scene? Was there still an investigation going on there? Yes, that was something that was handled. What a busy day for this neighborhood. A busy morning. What a way to wake up, right?
[00:10:08] Speaker 2: And to hear about an IED on the streets of one of our major cities in America.
[00:10:14] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[00:10:15] Speaker 2: I mean, it sounds like something you'd expect to hear on the other side of the world.
[00:10:17] Speaker 3: Yeah, and some war-torn country or something with a big conflict going on.
[00:10:22] Speaker 2: Right. Well, is there any additional information that you either need from people who might have clues, etc., or is everything just kind of proceeding as planned from here?
[00:10:33] Detective Laura Cervantes: As of right now, everything's kind of proceeding as planned. But it's a great time to talk about fireworks, right? We're getting ready to come up to fireworks season for the, or I'm sorry, New Year's Day. And they're going to start being sold December 24th. And just a reminder, if you were to go on our website, we have listed what legal fireworks are and what ones aren't legal. There is a when they're legal to be sold. There's when they're legal to be used and where and what kinds. And it's a good reminder of when that time comes, what's out there.
[00:11:05] Speaker 2: Detectives, Hervantes, we really appreciate your time. Thank you. Hopefully the officer's going to be you just fine.
[00:11:10] Speaker 7: Yes. Yeah.
[00:11:10] Speaker 2: Okay. Hey, we actually have a situation today. Celeste, where we can talk about a lot of good police work. Ready?
[00:11:18] Speaker 7: Yes.
[00:11:18] Speaker 2: Let's go to the other side of the valley. East side, west side, we don't care. We cover it all. Let's go to Goodyear. Did you hear about this? Unbelievable. Good work, Goodyear PD. They make a major drug bust. So they stopped this car. And Celeste, here are the two people that got arrested, I-10 and Cereval. The car was stopped and a canine alerted officers and a search got underway. So they did apparently have some fentanyl powder in their vehicle, Celeste.
[00:11:46] Speaker 3: Oh, really?
[00:11:48] Speaker 2: You know, and you hear about this and you say to yourself, like a half a pound, a pound, how much? 15 pounds of it. The drugs were found hidden inside a secret compartment in brick stamped with a Rolex logo?
[00:12:05] Speaker 3: Well, these are the boxes that you see behind them. Right. It looks like the word Rolex was like, it looks like etched in with a knife or something.
[00:12:13] Speaker 2: That's a weirdly thought out crime right there, Celeste. My goodness. And then, probably in the more unbelievable category, we had a couple of other stories we wanted to share with you. One was this. This poor business, Celeste, has been targeted three times in a row. Watch this.
[00:12:32] Speaker 8: This is a big impact on us because now we're open, but the money we make is just going to fix the window. And not pay the staff or anything else.
[00:12:41] Speaker 2: Yeah, so this restaurant is called Jewel's Bakery and Cafe. It's in Phoenix. Third time they've been targeted. And this time, the guy stole not just the cash. He took the whole cash register with him.
[00:12:54] Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
[00:12:54] Speaker 2: It is unbelievable. And there's the damage done. So they lost out on that day's money. They had damage they had to clean up. It's really a mess. So anybody that knows anything about that break-in, middle of the night, sounds like it could be the same person hitting them up over and over again. One more thing before we go to break, Celeste.
[00:13:12] Speaker 3: This, Ron.
[00:13:13] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[00:13:13] Speaker 3: I'm surprised you want to bring it up now because we could have a really good conversation about this.
[00:13:17] Speaker 2: Well, we could talk about it for the rest of the hour. My gosh. This is a streaming show, Celeste. There are no rules. 170 miles an hour, guys, clocked on the 202. Near McClintock. By the way, the speed limit in the area is 65. Usually, they give you a cushion of about maybe 10 miles an hour. But there's no cushion if you're going 105 over the limit.
[00:13:39] Speaker 3: Yes. Crazy. All right. Quick note. We are on YouTube. We're on a new stream. And so if you can refresh your page or maybe go back to Foxton Phoenix, we'll try to share that on social as well. Here is a glance at your mystery camera. We'll be right back. Refresh. Even.
[00:14:24] Speaker ?: We'll see you next time. We'll see you next time. We'll be right back. We'll see you next time.
[00:16:24] Speaker 2: Here's a question Outlaw Dynamo is asking. What happened? I mean, for a minute or two there, or even 10, we just weren't on the stream. And then we rebooted, Celeste.
[00:16:50] Speaker 3: Well, what's crazy is that the chat worked. So we were all talking about it in the chat, but the video wasn't working. And so they've added a new stream and you guys have been able to find us. By the way, if you are watching on television, you can go to YouTube, search up Foxton Phoenix, and click on the live menu button that you'll see. And then it'll take you right to what we have going on right here. And you can chat. You can vote in the poll that's connected to the chat.
[00:17:14] Speaker 2: Stay in the chat and vote.
[00:17:15] Speaker 3: Yeah, and just chat it up. Chat it up.
[00:17:17] Speaker 2: Be a chatter. On FTT. That could be our whole new promotional announcement. Chat it up. Let's bring in BB. Brian knows what to do.
[00:17:26] Detective Laura Cervantes: Yes, he does.
[00:17:26] Speaker 2: Okay, so looks like we have a little bit of a political showdown. I think everybody knew going in that Hakeem Jeffries was definitely going to be the Speaker of the House for the Democrats in the upcoming session of Congress starting next year. But all of a sudden, there's now a challenger, and it's a very prominent name, Celeste. We're talking about kind of a showdown now between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen. We will not be supporting Chuck to be reelected as the Democratic leader.
[00:17:58] Speaker 9: I'm supporting Chuck Schumer.
[00:18:00] Speaker 10: We're Democrats. We always have a difference of opinions, and everyone's going to express it, and we'll see what happens. There's a lot of time between now and then. I don't see a problem with it.
[00:18:09] Speaker 11: We've been given an opportunity, and we need to make sure that we use it in a way that meets the needs of the country. And so that really is what this debate is all about. How do we best organize ourselves to do that, and who can do that?
[00:18:24] Speaker 3: Oh, interesting.
[00:18:26] Speaker 2: So what's going to happen, Celeste, is that Schumer says he has. By the way, you need 28 votes for you because just the Democrat senators are voting on this. He says he's got enough, but here's what's going to happen. They are not actually going to cast their vote, these senators, until December 1st. Yeah. So we still have close to three weeks to go, and there's going to be some arm-twisting and some politicking. Yeah. And it's all the new incoming senators who are like, sorry, we feel like we do need change even at the highest levels here in D.C.
[00:19:00] Speaker 3: So I looked up kind of where they differ.
[00:19:03] Speaker 2: Okay.
[00:19:04] Speaker 3: Okay. This is, I looked up some information. This is according to CBS News. Okay. When it comes to Democratic leadership, Van Hollen calls for new leadership and changes in strategy. Well, Schumer, you know, he says, you know, I've been here since, he wants to continue leading after serving since 2017 in kind of like an elevated role. When it comes to economic priorities, we know that's a big deal for a lot of American families. Van Hollen says, emphasizes working class economic reform and challenging special interests. Well, Schumer, according to this report, says, emphasizes affordability, legislative accomplishments, and governing experience. You know, governing experience, Ron, what do you think that means?
[00:19:43] Speaker 2: You've been there for a long time.
[00:19:45] Speaker 3: Like career politicians. And that is just a nice way to say. But I think it's going to be interesting because you have the young incoming Democrats, as you mentioned, versus those career politicians that have been there for quite some time.
[00:19:59] Speaker 2: So we'll check in in about three weeks, see how that goes. The video, by the way, talk about some miles going on here. Wow, look at this. So that's Steve Whitcoff, chief negotiator for the administration, arriving in Russia. Jared Kushner was there to greet him as well. Maybe he came in on an earlier flight.
[00:20:18] Speaker 3: Wow, he must be, Kushner doesn't even have a coat on.
[00:20:20] Speaker 2: That's a tough guy. Wow. That's a tough guy. And he's smiling? Action right there. My gosh. So there's one thing to keep in mind if you're ever flying into Russia. It could be a cloudy, foggy day. It could be cold. Look at that.
[00:20:33] Speaker 3: Like 360 days of the year. There's five days. Yeah. You know, because this is winter in Russia.
[00:20:41] Speaker 2: So you know where they went from there, from Moscow, was to, by the way, the cows are in Idaho.
[00:20:46] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[00:20:47] Speaker 2: And not Russia. Meaning it's Moscow, Idaho. It's Moscow, Russia.
[00:20:54] Speaker 3: Oh, Moscow.
[00:20:55] Speaker 2: Anyway, then they went immediately to Dublin, Ireland. Oh, wow. And not just a crack again as Celeste. They were there and they actually met there with Vladimir Zelensky.
[00:21:05] Speaker 3: At a pub? Could be.
[00:21:07] Speaker 2: I don't know where. Probably someplace for a fancy meal. But we're going to wait to see what happens there. Now, let's get everybody up to speed on our poll question this morning. There was a brand new poll. A couple of interesting notes here. There are multiple reports that J.D. Vance is really thinking hard about whether he wants to spend the rest of his life in public office. And he may not even run for president in 2028. He has, you know, he's a father of four kids. Yes. Et cetera. He's been talking about that. So we don't even know if he's going to run. But a new poll came out late yesterday that actually put Marco Rubio in front for the GOP. 60 percent of you guys are saying, good, Rubio for president in 2028. But only 14 percent say J.D. Vance would be the best choice. 23 percent say, look, we need a complete break, clean break. We need a Democrat to be our next president. And then 3 percent say, give me a different voice besides these two, which are in the administration. Give me a Ron DeSantis or somebody else.
[00:22:06] Speaker 3: And here are your numbers on YouTube. And the new poll puts Marco Rubio ahead of J.D. Vance here as GOP nominee for 2028. 46 percent say we need a Democrat to be our next president. 39 percent say, good, Rubio for president in 2028. 8 percent say, I want Ron DeSantis. I was thinking Ron Hoon, but 7 percent said Vance would be the best choice and he'd be a great president. By the way, there is also or there was a poll within the chat. So we're going to try to set that up for you as well so you don't have to leave. But let's get to Big D.
[00:22:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. By the way, thanks for the compliment there, Celeste. I feel like I need to at least be a mayor of whatever city.
[00:22:45] Speaker 3: Aren't you the unofficial mayor of Mesa already? I guess so. I mean, you know, I think about it. Thank you. I'll think about it. Right in candidate, Big D, right in.
[00:22:52] Speaker 12: So many good comments on Fox10Phoenix.com slash poll as well as on YouTube. Gregory Gman Jones in Cottonwood says, Ron DeSantis for president in 2028. I've been a big supporter of his for a long time now. Mike in Tempe says, I really like J.D. Vance and I really like Ron DeSantis. But yes, I think Rubio would be the best for president right now. But that could change. And Rich in Mesa says, I think that Rubio has a resume for the job that is hard to duplicate. Further ahead of other Republicans and further ahead of any Democrat contenders. Really interesting comments. Keep them coming, guys. All right.
[00:23:30] Speaker 3: Oh, they're putting some names in the chat, Ron. Stevie Wonder for president, according to Mr. Parley.
[00:23:36] Speaker 2: All right. You know? I mean, why not, Celeste? The only thing, you have to be American born and you have to be 35 years old. So he fits the category.
[00:23:45] Speaker 3: Absolutely. And by the way, Big D's mic is hot, Brian, if we can drop that, please, my friend.
[00:23:50] Speaker 2: Let's do this. Let's bring in David Lenthecum right now. Dave reached out early this morning. Our Dave, our executive producer to David saying.
[00:23:58] Speaker 3: David to David.
[00:23:59] Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a D2D kind of a thing here. By the way, he's an influencer and a cloud computing analyst. And we all wondered when we got up and drove into work this morning if we would even have email access. What's been happening in the last, gosh, now about 28 hours?
[00:24:15] Speaker 13: Yeah, this has been a unique outage. And the fact of the matter is that we're seeing global disruption. We even see that last year in the big Microsoft disruption. So never seen it this widespread, never seen it this impactful. And it's not just impacting the big enterprises out there and the governments. It's actually impacting many small businesses, people who depend on email for their livelihood. And so everybody's kind of running around in a circle, putting the pressure on Microsoft, trying to get this fixed. We're hearing different, you know, stories that are coming out of Microsoft. We don't know what's going on. We don't know if it's a cyber attack. We don't know if it's just an internal screw up. And so everybody is kind of running around in a circle with their hair on fire.
[00:24:52] Speaker 3: You know, what's crazy is that I'm sure there's lots of people sitting around boardrooms and thinking, what is happening, especially at Microsoft? How did this happen? Do you think AI could possibly be involved in this? I mean, there's a lot that AI works on, and we just don't have any control over it.
[00:25:10] Speaker 13: Well, it's definitely involved because Copilot, which is one of their AI systems, is one of the ones you can't get to. So evidently, it's not working very well as well. Now, if there's a cyber attack, AI was probably going to be weaponized to do that. That's because it's part of the majority of the cyber attacks that occur these days. That's been the case for a long time, not just in the last few years since ChattyPT started to make its way up. Ultimately, the big AI play is going to be if they used it for maintenance. And that's what the rumor is right now, that they used AI instead of people that replaced many people. I don't know if you saw it, Microsoft just decided to get rid of 60,000 people. Yes, they did, yeah. And suddenly, AI didn't work out as well as they thought it was going to work out.
[00:25:52] Speaker 2: Shocker.
[00:25:53] Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's not a Copilot. It's a NoPilot.
[00:25:55] Speaker 2: Yeah, this may be the ultimate AI slop situation of all time, for goodness sakes. Yeah, no kidding.
[00:26:01] Speaker 3: So do you think companies, David, have become too dependent on Microsoft, Google, Amazon, some of these other systems? But here's on the other side of the coin. What other choice do we have?
[00:26:15] Speaker 13: Well, according to my clients and a bunch of other people who were screaming at me last night is that they want to get out of it. They brought Microsoft out of their supply chain. You've got to remember, it's not just the fact that we're leveraging Outlook and Exchange servers. The fact of the matter is we're using the Microsoft Cloud, and there's so many back-end systems that we're using every day that are integrated with that cloud. So even if we're not a primary Microsoft user, we're going to still be impacted from events like this. And so to get Microsoft out of your life, it's going to be a fairly tough thing to do, and you're going to have to limit the number of software systems that are there right now. But the reality is this is the second time this happened in the last year, and so people are thinking about dumping Microsoft rather quick and going to Microsoft-free environments. Obviously, there's Google, Amazon Web Services, things like that. They have their own issues, but in many cases, it's going to be so limiting. I think it's going to be very difficult for the enterprises to get off the Microsoft infrastructure to go someplace else. So they're talking about that now, but I'm like, okay, where are you going to go? What are you going to do? And are you going to have the same capabilities? And are you willing to pay the migration costs to go over to this new system? And typically, don't ask the dollars, they're going to say no.
[00:27:19] Speaker 2: All right. So we've got about a minute left here. I had seen a report that could have been that the process responsible for establishing secure connections got overwhelmed and caused the servers to stop processing requests. What does that mean?
[00:27:38] Speaker 13: That means that the servers that sit in front of the system that validate that you're authorized to get email from the server, for some reason, got saturated. Now, that's going to be the cause. The root cause of that is what is up for basically discussion right now. In other words, how did that happen? Well, chances are other servers were taken offline, and so that's how the servers got saturated. So even though the symptom was the fact that these security servers got saturated, at the end of the day, it's probably these servers being taken offline that caused the saturation to occur. So we need to watch out in terms of what people are telling us. We understand what happened, why did it happen, and we don't know why yet. At least Microsoft doesn't know why yet, or at least they're not telling us.
[00:28:22] Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, you mentioned a lot of businesses were quite frustrated. I think there were a lot of employees who were like, great, don't have to check my email today.
[00:28:30] Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. We heard from a lot of them.
[00:28:32] Speaker 3: Then they flooded, though. Those email boxes flooded with all those emails.
[00:28:36] Speaker 2: Hey, David, how can people connect with you?
[00:28:39] Speaker 13: I have two podcasts. David Linthicum is my AI Associated Podcast, and of course, my Cloud Computing Insider Podcast. Talk about cloud computing and cybersecurity. We'd love to have you back again sometime.
[00:28:49] Speaker 3: David, we like your gaming chair, too, dude. That's really cool. Thank you.
[00:28:54] Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Mystery Camp time.
[00:28:56] Speaker 7: Mystery Camp time.
[00:29:13] Speaker ?: Mystery Camp time. Mystery Camp time. Mystery Camp time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
[00:31:19] Speaker 2: Thank you. This week and we love his penmanship and we also love his choice of cameras because this one is just a lovely little stream flowing in a mountain town somewhere. You got a highway over to the right. You have all the leaves are now off these trees. So it's got to be in the northern half somewhere of the USA. It looks like a big hill over there. Those cars are having to climb. What do you think, Celeste?
[00:32:12] Speaker 3: I'm going to go with Pennsylvania.
[00:32:14] Speaker 2: All right.
[00:32:14] Speaker 3: What about you, Ronald?
[00:32:15] Speaker 2: Well, let's see. Brandon says Oregon. Linda says West Virginia or Pennsylvania.
[00:32:20] Speaker 3: Patrick Perry says Pennsylvania also. Okay.
[00:32:23] Speaker 2: All right. I think I'm going to go like in Ohio.
[00:32:28] Speaker 3: Okay.
[00:32:29] Speaker 2: Okay.
[00:32:29] Speaker 3: All right. Here you go. Here we go. Here is your mystery camera this morning. There it is.
[00:32:34] Speaker 2: There it is. Mystery camera.
[00:32:35] Speaker 3: And it is Tannersville, Pennsylvania.
[00:32:39] Speaker 2: Nice. So I just thought. What does it say there at the very bottom, though?
[00:32:42] Speaker 3: It says, look for Bigfoot. Happy Friday.
[00:32:46] Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
[00:32:47] Speaker ?: Kelly.
[00:32:48] Speaker 2: Kelly Law is starting the. See, we have a story coming up in a little while that it's National Starter Rumor Day. That's a rumor. We're starting one right now.
[00:32:55] Speaker 3: Yeah, we are. Bigfoot is.
[00:32:56] Speaker 2: Kelly says if you're ever in.
[00:32:58] Speaker 3: Tannersville.
[00:32:59] Speaker 2: Tannersville. Keep an eye out for Bigfoot.
[00:33:02] Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be the. Oh, wait. Let's go back. Let's see.
[00:33:06] Speaker 2: Ryan says he's in the camera shot. Oh, just next to the river. See him down there?
[00:33:11] Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. I see him. Yeah. So we have a sighting live. Yes, we sure do. A live Bigfoot sighting. Right?
[00:33:17] Speaker 2: Where is all the news media?
[00:33:20] Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
[00:33:21] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[00:33:22] Speaker 3: That is crazy. Look, he's not moving.
[00:33:24] Speaker 2: I know. He's frozen. Apparently, it was very cold last night. Okay, so there you go. Now, listen. There's a new survey out this morning we've got to talk about. You guys in the chat, you can join as well. Yeah. But they're out with the list, state by state, of people's favorite sides. Oh, yeah. So good. And so, to me, this is always so fascinating. Ready? Here we go. So, the whole West, except for Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Utah and Colorado are all about the carrots.
[00:33:52] Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
[00:33:53] Speaker 2: Nevada's about the green beans. Of course. But everybody else says, give me those mashed potatoes.
[00:33:57] Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. They're so good.
[00:33:59] Speaker 2: Yes.
[00:34:00] Speaker 3: Mashed potatoes, there is... When you put, like, a sour cream, a Philadelphia cream cheese, whole milk, butter. Oh, do you put that in your potatoes? Yeah. Holy cow. Oh, my gosh.
[00:34:09] Speaker 2: I know people in my family that would have some issues with that.
[00:34:11] Speaker 3: Would they really? They're lactose intolerant? Correct. Oh.
[00:34:14] Speaker 2: I don't want to tell you how it manifests itself, but you don't want to be around.
[00:34:18] Speaker 3: I'm sure I can figure it out. But, you know, there is something about mashed potatoes. Make it creamy mash. Mm. Okay.
[00:34:25] Speaker 2: Now, what's blue up there in New England? You've got stuffing in Vermont. Stuffing. And squash in New Hampshire. Good old New Hampshire. Just trying to see if there's anything. Oh, how about biscuits? Gravy. There's a gravy. And biscuits in Tennessee. Oh, man.
[00:34:38] Speaker 3: I... Oh, go ahead. No, no, no. It's okay. Let's go to Big D.
[00:34:41] Speaker 2: Any of those are your favorites there, buddy?
[00:34:42] Speaker 12: Who do you side with? I'll take them all. Five of each, please. Okay.
[00:34:48] Speaker 3: Ron, I was out by your house, actually. Dave, do you like biscuits?
[00:34:51] Speaker 12: Yeah, sure.
[00:34:52] Speaker 3: He loves biscuits.
[00:34:53] Speaker 12: Yeah.
[00:34:53] Speaker 3: Okay, I was out by your house, and I went to Costco. Okay, the one in Queen Creek? Uh-huh, Queen Creek, Ellsworth. Uh-huh. And they had a pack of, like, I think 10 huge biscuits. Okay. For $6.99.
[00:35:05] Speaker 2: Wow.
[00:35:05] Speaker 3: That they had already made. Oh, my gosh, they were delicious. You know what?
[00:35:08] Speaker 2: We need to talk about this Walmart situation, because I think it's $35, and you get all... The bird, and all the fixings, and the size, and even a dessert for $35?
[00:35:19] Speaker 3: And I think it's cheaper if you want to do a ham. Okay. You know? And so, yeah, that's a thing, too.
[00:35:24] Speaker 2: I don't know how they're pulling that off, but we should really look into that. That sounds like quite a deal, and hopefully everybody will match.
[00:35:30] Speaker 3: What's your favorite side, Ron?
[00:35:31] Speaker 2: Your favorite side? Honestly, Celeste, just to pull it up one more time, I guess I'm going to go with the, it's not the cornbread. You know what it is? It's Arkansas and North Dakota. It's the corn.
[00:35:45] Speaker 7: Oh.
[00:35:46] Speaker 2: I just love corn. Man, that is one vegetable I could eat all day and all night. Now, when it comes to desserts, though, I've got to put you guys right on the line here. Okay. And nearly all of the West, even including now Nevada and Kansas, are saying, give me the pumpkin pie.
[00:36:00] Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so good.
[00:36:00] Speaker 2: I think that's so classic, you sort of have to go that route.
[00:36:03] Speaker 3: Absolutely. I'm actually surprised, like you think of like a New York cheesecake, right? Yeah. Some people are saying cheesecake. Wisconsin's with us, but everybody else around the Great Lakes are going cheesecake. And I'm surprised that New York, are they going pound cake? Looks like it's apple pie. Oh, it's apple, it's a little bit farther to the north. Yeah, that's Pennsylvania.
[00:36:20] Speaker 2: Yeah, pound cake and PA.
[00:36:22] Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's maybe Rhode Island? Where's Rhode Island down in there? They might be going pound cake, too, Ron.
[00:36:27] Speaker 2: They're so little. Oh, you know what? They are pound cake. Good one, Celeste. Good catch. All right, so there you go with your desserts. Now, let's talk about this. There is a new survey, Celeste. I love that DoorDash came out with this.
[00:36:40] Speaker 3: Yes.
[00:36:40] Speaker 2: And we present this as a public service. Always. The number one most forgotten item. Actually, let me give you the top five. Okay, this is according to DoorDash.
[00:36:51] Speaker 3: I have not seen this list. Actually, I have.
[00:36:53] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Okay. I think. No, this is actually hilarious. You know what? Actually, I'm going to start at seven. Number seven most forgotten item is aluminum foil.
[00:37:03] Speaker 3: Oh, interesting.
[00:37:04] Speaker 2: You know, you're like, oh, don't we have it somewhere? And then you realize you're out. Sage is six.
[00:37:08] Speaker 3: Oh, I believe that.
[00:37:10] Speaker 2: Toothpicks is number five. Mm-hmm. Cake pans, number four.
[00:37:14] Speaker 3: Cake pans.
[00:37:14] Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I mean, you're like, you already bought your Costco pie or whatever.
[00:37:19] Speaker 3: Well, or maybe you're traveling. You're going over to a family member's house and you don't want to take your nice casserole dish. Right. And so then you need a cake pan.
[00:37:25] Speaker 2: Peelers. You've got to have like a potato peeler, right? Okay. Graters.
[00:37:30] Speaker 3: What number are we on now?
[00:37:31] Speaker 2: Now we're all the way up to number two. That was graders.
[00:37:33] Speaker 3: Graters is number two?
[00:37:34] Speaker 2: Do you know what number one is?
[00:37:36] Speaker 3: Most forgotten item?
[00:37:37] Speaker 2: Yes.
[00:37:37] Speaker 3: I was going to say cranberries. Meat thermometers. Oh, meat. I love my meat thermometer.
[00:37:43] Speaker 2: You've got to get that temperature up. Yeah. So, here's the thing. DoorDash said it was such a panic situation in America last year, but now they're getting the word out, that people were, this is national. You add up how many people were like, oh, I need to put a meat thermometer on my emergency DoorDash order. They were averaging selling one every 10 seconds on Thanksgiving Day.
[00:38:06] Speaker 3: Well, because you can't, you know, I don't even know if the birds, I haven't seen this in a while. Maybe you guys in the chat can share. Yeah. The birds used to have this little thing that would pop out and it would tell you when the bird was done.
[00:38:16] Speaker 7: Yeah.
[00:38:16] Speaker 3: But a lot, some of the birds that I have, and I buy the generic bird. I don't mind the generic bird. Okay. And then I just butter it up and I put some special seasonings on there.
[00:38:24] Speaker 2: Butter up that bird.
[00:38:25] Speaker 3: Butter the bird.
[00:38:26] Speaker 2: Okay.
[00:38:26] Speaker 3: And, but I don't see that little pop out thing anymore. So I always have a meat, I have a meat thermometer, an electric meat thermometer. I use it on my turkey burgers. I use it on my, my chicken when I make chicken. Wow. My turkey. I love my meat thermometer.
[00:38:42] Speaker 2: Don't forget the meat thermometer. Now, Celeste's story of the day, we always encourage you to tune in at 645. But again, to let you know what Celeste wanted to talk about this morning, apparently it's Italy versus KFC.
[00:38:55] Speaker 3: Well, speaking of poultry, we love chicken around here. Who doesn't love chicken? Yeah. Okay. So we're talking about, yeah, this is kind of a wild story. Here is KFC. Believe it or not, they arrived in Italy in 2014, Ron. Oh, I'm sure they're all over the place. Oh my gosh, they have 150 KFC restaurants in Italy. In Italy.
[00:39:14] Speaker 2: So all over Rome, all over Venice. Yes, all over the place. Lawrence, yeah.
[00:39:18] Speaker 3: But now they're at the Dolomites.
[00:39:20] Speaker 2: Okay.
[00:39:21] Speaker 3: Okay. Beautiful. So the highest peak in Italy, they have this brand new KFC, and it's causing a little bit of concern.
[00:39:28] Speaker 2: Oh, in Cortina. Yes. Cortina del Pazzo.
[00:39:31] Speaker 3: Where the Olympics were.
[00:39:32] Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. So apparently they're now going to fight against it, Celeste. Yes. Well, before I give you my opinion. Okay. Let me take you into the heart of the Dolomites. Here's what it actually looks like. Ready?
[00:39:46] Speaker 3: Ready.
[00:39:46] Speaker 2: I shot this for you a few years ago.
[00:39:49] Speaker 3: That's so sweet. Here we go.
[00:39:51] Speaker 2: It's 12 noon in the little Italian village of Cortina del Pazzo, or just Cortina as they call it up here. These mountains. Amazing. And even more amazing. Everywhere I looked around there, I'm like, how beautiful. I mean, look, the wide open fields of little poppies or whatever was growing there.
[00:40:21] Speaker 3: Are those hiking trails or ski mountain trails or what are those?
[00:40:25] Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the kind of where the little rock slides come down. This was in September and it was so beautiful. It's 12 noon. All right. That's enough of that guy.
[00:40:34] Speaker 3: So apparently they're launching. This is the number that I just looked up. Yeah. They have plans to open 30 new Italian restaurants in KFC, Italian restaurants, KFC.
[00:40:44] Speaker 2: Restaurants in Italy. Yes. Still doing KFC things. Yes. Bucket of chicken.
[00:40:48] Speaker 3: I mean, like that view right there, Ron, with like a bucket of chicken, some biscuits, gravy, corn. You let your corn on the cob.
[00:40:55] Speaker 2: I do like corn there. That would be amazing. Yeah, I went and got a bucket this week, as a matter of fact, on $10 Tuesday. Come on. You can't tell me they're not going to like that. So anyway, I just don't get it. You go to all these other places in Europe and you see a McDonald's in every town. So I don't know. It seems like they're kind of picking on them. There should be enough room for everybody. Yeah.
[00:41:16] Speaker 3: And there probably are because there's a lot of people who love chicken.
[00:41:19] Speaker 2: We got to hit a break. But before we do, it's National Start a Rumor Day. Oh, Ron. We've already started one. Thanks to Kelly Laws, we're starting a rumor that Bigfoot is hanging out in Pennsylvania.
[00:41:30] Speaker 3: Keep it going, everybody. Tell everybody you know.
[00:41:32] Speaker 2: Yeah. But what? So this prompted a question, and I love it if you have an idea here. So the question is, can you think when you were a kid of a rumor that you heard and you're five or six or seven years old and you don't know what's what, where you heard a rumor and you believed it and then later you thought, that probably really wasn't true. Can you think of one?
[00:41:56] Speaker 3: Well, I looked up some old rumors because I couldn't remember them. But this is one that I did hear as a child. Going outside with wet hair will make you sick. Oh, yeah. According to doctors. Now, you know, my nana, my tiaz, my mother will still tell you, and my mother's watching right now, they will still tell you that's the case. But according to this, doctors, they say viruses cause colds, not wet hair.
[00:42:21] Speaker 2: And how about this one? If you go swimming within an hour after you ate food, you'll probably fall right to the bottom of the lake. You won't be able to swim. I mean, I heard that one when I was a kid.
[00:42:34] Speaker 3: Yeah. And then it kept me inside when I had wet hair. Or did it keep you from swimming?
[00:42:39] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
[00:42:40] Speaker 3: You know, at least for a little bit.
[00:42:41] Speaker 2: Well, we had a family member who had a house on a lake. We had to wait a little while just to be on the safe side. Fancy. I always, I had heard that there was, this is so dumb. Some kid told me this, and I believed it for years. I was so, so frightened of the concept that he said, you know, right next to the bowling alley in Omak, Washington, that empty field, there's quicksand in there. You'll never go in or you'll go right through it. He told you there, were you, were you seeing? And so I was always, I remember driving by and I'm like, oh, that's got to be quicksand.
[00:43:12] Speaker 3: Well, it's like that Gilligan's Island episode of the quicksand. You're probably thinking, I don't want that, I don't want that to be me. Maybe, maybe it was that. You know?
[00:43:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, so let's not start any more rumors today. We've already started one with Bigfoot. I think that's got to do with it today.
[00:43:25] Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. All right. If you spread the word, Bigfoot, we have a signing. Also, we have this beautiful shot for you here on this Friday, everyone. It's a cloudy day here in this very beautiful city around the nation.
[00:43:37] Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, up next, we're talking with a doctor. Some of the newest information on GLP-1s. It's all coming up on FTT.
[00:43:55] Speaker ?: We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.
[00:46:34] Speaker 2: We'll be right back. We have rain coming in here, supposedly, later today.
[00:46:57] Speaker 3: Later on tonight and into tomorrow. And then by the end of the 10-day forecast, I think our high is in the high 60s. I think it's like 69 or something. Ron, the low is like 48 on that day in 10 days. We are... We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back.
[00:47:11] Speaker ?: We're going to be right back.
[00:47:11] Speaker 3: We're going to be right back.
[00:47:11] Speaker 2: We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back.
[00:47:13] Speaker 3: We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back.
[00:47:14] Speaker ?: We're going to be right back.
[00:47:14] Speaker 3: We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back.
[00:47:19] Speaker 2: We're going to be right back. We're going to be right back. Steak out your local park. Dr. Sunal Harder is joining us now. And this is really great because, you know, there's just so much talk about the GOP-1s. And I'm sure we all know people that have tried every possible way to lose weight and it's not working. And now it's actually working. They feel better. They feel healthier. They're not carrying that extra 50 pounds. So tell us just a little bit about the evolution of these peptides and kind of where we are in this moment of time.
[00:47:55] Speaker 14: Okay. So not all peptides are the same. That's what people need to remember. Peptides actually are little short chain amino acids and they're building blocks to proteins in our body. But that does not mean that all peptides are the same. Now, you're right about GOP-1s. These medications actually have changed the way we treat obesity, heart disease, also diabetes. And what is so amazing about these medications is these medications have cardiovascular benefits. And they are amazing. There's emergent science about peptides. But again, we have FDA-approved peptides like Ozampic, ZepBound, Wigoe, Manjaro. Those are approved by FDA. And now we have the new peptides that are on the market that do not have an FDA approval. Now, why does it matter, right? Because FDA actually goes through vigorous stages to approve a medication. And why is that necessary? Because medications, we need to know about not just dosage and safety, but what are the long-term consequences? What are the side effects? What is the purity of these medications that are coming out of the pharmacies? This is important, and good human studies are necessary to go through the FDA trial.
[00:49:12] Speaker 3: Well, some of these peptides, I remember there was even some of my kids in high school, they were saying there's talk of peptides to make you look more tan. Yes. To help you in different ways cosmetically, for muscles to make you stronger. Your thoughts on those?
[00:49:31] Speaker 15: Because some of them, they're not FDA-approved, right? They are not FDA-approved.
[00:49:35] Speaker 14: And in fact, in October 30th of this year, the Department of Health and Human Services actually did come up with an interim policy where six of these peptides now have better access through compounding pharmacies and licensed physicians. They are not FDA-approved, and that's the difference. So although there's an interim policy about loosening some restrictions on those peptides, on who can make it, they are not FDA-approved. So we still do not have safety data on these peptides.
[00:50:04] Speaker 2: But they're in this special category now that must mean they're being looked at and probably are headed that way. And what are some of those? Is reddit trutide? I keep hearing about reddit trutide.
[00:50:15] Speaker 14: So reddit trutide actually is actually touted to come out on the market next year. Oh, is that right? So it is a medication. It is triple receptor agonist medication. Again, has amazing effects on weight loss. Actually the best so far, but it is not out yet. So it is in the stage three trials of FDA, and it's supposed to come out next year. So if you see reddit now on the market, they're coming out of compounded pharmacies and not from FDA approval.
[00:50:45] Speaker 2: So what, oh, sorry, Celeste, but that's one of the big six. Correct. What are two or three others?
[00:50:50] Speaker 14: That is actually not one of the big six. Well, that's not one of the six. So the big six, and we will have to go to the website to look at all the six. They're on the HHS and FDA website, the ones that have an interim okay from, right? But not FDA. I want to make it very clear. What are some of them? Right. One is, I think, epitalon is one of them.
[00:51:11] Speaker 2: What does it do?
[00:51:12] Speaker 14: So these are some of the peptides that have very small animal data, and one of them actually has a small human data. When I say small, very small number of people were in the study. And that's why these studies are not as good, because when we clear it through FDA, what we look at is, what is the safety dosage? What do these medications or peptides do in the long term, like 10, 15 years down the line? And can everybody safely take it? And none of these medications actually have that kind of data at this point, and hence not FDA approved. You mentioned the retitrutide.
[00:51:48] Speaker 3: Did I say that correctly? Correct. You did. Is that the one, one of the big concerns I've heard from people is that with like a GLP-1 or something, is that you would lose muscle mass. Even if you still work out, there's a chance of that. Is that the one that would not allow you or would not allow you to lose muscle mass?
[00:52:06] Speaker 14: This is such a good question. It's my favorite question, too. So none of these medications directly impact your muscle mass. What happens is these medications are so powerful in helping to lose weight. And if you are losing weight rapidly without actually doing resistance training and without eating enough fiber and protein, you're at risk of losing muscle mass because of overall weight loss. Yeah. So they don't have a direct impact. They do not cause your muscle to melt away. But because they are so potent in making you lose weight, and if you're not doing any of these three things to protect your muscle, there's a risk of losing muscle.
[00:52:44] Speaker 2: There have also been some questions raised about possible links to cancer. Have you been able to investigate some of that? What have you heard so far?
[00:52:51] Speaker 14: So those are not established at this point. But I'll tell you one side effect that actually FDA just announced, that we all should be a little bit careful, and all patients who are on GLP-1 should know about. Now, there's no reason to fear or stop these medications, but vision loss was actually seen in some of these GLP-1 medications. Now, we do not know if the medications directly cause it, or they're just associated with diabetes, high blood pressure, and medication use. Now, the incidence of this is 6.4 in 100,000 patients. So you can see it's rare, yet everybody who's on these medications should follow up with their primary care doctors or licensed physicians who are experts in using these medications on a regular basis. They should be getting these medications through their doctors. They should have eye checkups every year, and they need to pay attention to their blood pressure, because this is like a little stroke in your eye. So although the risk is very, very low, it's something that people who are using GLP-1 medications need to watch out for. Do our bodies create peptides naturally, right?
[00:54:00] Speaker 3: Yes, we do. And so using these is, I guess, is our body not creating as many of them, or?
[00:54:07] Speaker 14: That is such a good question again. And this is where people think, because we have it naturally, that the peptides they're getting on social media or WhatsApp are also natural. And they are not. There's a difference. These peptides are packaged with other things that, if they're coming from non-pharmacy-based resources, you don't even know what's in it, what dose is in it. And in fact, a survey showed that about 50% of users who are buying these peptides from online resources, like WhatsApp and other resources, land up in the emergency room. Oh, wow. So at this point, a compounded pharmacy that is regulated by state, and if they do have permission from HHS, that is one place you can get these non-FD approved peptides.
[00:54:52] Speaker 2: So if you're going to a compounding pharmacy, you want to ask them what?
[00:54:56] Speaker 14: Correct. You want to ask them if they actually have instructions about, you know, if they are one of those pharmacies that are allowed to make the non-FD approved peptides.
[00:55:06] Speaker 2: But from HHS. Correct. And as far as, just to double back on that cancer, right now you're not overly concerned about cancer?
[00:55:12] Speaker 14: No, we don't have data that is suggesting that the GLP-1 medications are causing cancer. But again, the world of peptide is changing. We are getting so much information, and I am excited about this. I think they are amazing. However, we have to navigate this carefully. Social media, unfortunately, is faster than medical research, and a lot of people get their information from social media, and this is important to discuss. We need good, randomized human trials that establish safety, long-term safety, efficacy, purity of these medications, and finally, FDA approval to use these medications.
[00:55:49] Speaker 3: Because a lot of people are purchasing them on, like, TikTok shops.
[00:55:52] Speaker 15: They are, and they're injecting them, and younger people are injecting them. Not knowing where they're coming from, or maybe they're coming from another country.
[00:55:58] Speaker 14: Correct. Correct. And even within our country, we don't know exactly what ingredients go with this.
[00:56:04] Speaker 2: I'm thinking back to when we first really started talking about it. It was like new hope for people who have diabetes. Yes. That was where we were just a couple or three years ago, right?
[00:56:14] Speaker 14: And to be fair, these medications actually... That's what I wanted to ask about. Go ahead. These medications have been around since early 2000. So these are not the GLP-1 medications, FDA approved, Ozempic. That group has been around since early 2000. In 2021, they got approved for weight loss and obesity. And this is where our conversations have changed. And now they have evolved into even newer peptides and conversation about, what about the BPC? One of the six peptides that now is touted to be a very, you know, evolving peptide. What is that one supposed to do? So that one, they are right now claiming to be used for colitis, a type of inflammation of your colon. But I, again, I keep going back to the same statement, not FDA approved, but that's one of the medications that is under that category of colon, inflammation of colon treatment. So, you know, I think there is a lot coming through. I'm excited about what's happening, but I also want good data to back it up and not just anecdotes or social media information to promote these medications.
[00:57:17] Speaker 3: There are a lot of really smart people working on in science labs, right? How these work and how they can help humans. Correct.
[00:57:25] Speaker 2: And that's probably why you say you're excited for the future. It's got to go through the process, but potentially there's a lot out there.
[00:57:30] Speaker 14: Correct. Potentially. And science has to evolve. I'm always excited about new studies and new medications because that means human benefit and we get to work with these medications, but it has to be done in the right way.
[00:57:42] Speaker 3: And looking better longer, Ron. Looking better longer. It's everybody's goal.
[00:57:47] Speaker 2: Age gracefully.
[00:57:48] Speaker 3: Believe it or not, I'm 150 years old. That's how I feel too so much.
[00:57:53] Speaker 2: We've got to have you back on again.
[00:57:54] Speaker 3: Thank you. Have a good day. Thank you.
[00:57:56] Speaker 16: Nice to see you.
[00:57:57] Speaker 2: By the way, as we get ready to say our goodbyes here, don't forget you rodeo fans. You know what's going on in this town? The Hondo Rodeo is going on. And, Celeste, some of the very biggest names in country music are going to be there this weekend. For example, tonight, Tim McGraw. Oh, my goodness. And Miranda Lambert. And that's after you get the rodeo.
[00:58:19] Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. We haven't lived unless we've gone to this event, Ron.
[00:58:23] Speaker 2: Well, it's the third annual. It's just getting bigger every year. Look at that lineup there. Blake Shelton. They got a... Leonard Skinner on Sunday. Parker McCollum. Oh, my gosh.
[00:58:31] Speaker 3: These are huge names. Yes.
[00:58:33] Speaker 2: This is like country thunder with a rodeo added on to it. We love our rodeos here.
[00:58:38] Speaker 3: And Leonard Skinner to, oh, my gosh, to seal the deal. Hey, you guys, thank you so much for hanging with us here at 1057. We're going to take a quick break. Anita and Ty are coming up next. And more to come on FTT. Have a great weekend. We'll see you. Nice work, everybody.
[00:59:05] Speaker ?: Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Welcome on in.
[01:01:45] Speaker 17: Well, someone's in a little bit of a mood today. Who? You.
[01:01:48] Speaker 5: What did I do?
[01:01:49] Speaker 17: I don't know. You're spicy. No. Like a little burrito from Taco Bell with that extra hot sauce and onions.
[01:01:56] Speaker 5: That's one way to put it. All right. Well, welcome on in. Happy Friday. We've got a special guest. Guess who it is? Shocker. It's Crystal.
[01:02:05] Speaker 18: Let everybody guess.
[01:02:06] Speaker 5: Oh, well.
[01:02:07] Speaker 18: They probably would have guessed it. They probably would have guessed it, yeah.
[01:02:10] Speaker 5: We've got some changes on the horizon, and you can see outside. I know. It's so nice. A little cloudy out there.
[01:02:14] Speaker 18: You pointed up, and I was like, well, we're at our studio. Skylight. Crystal, there's a skylight. There's a light camera behind us. Yeah. We have clouds, and we are about to see some rain. Hold on.
[01:02:25] Speaker 5: Real quick. Before we get to that, Anita requested this, and they punched it up for you. The bird cam. Well, now there's no birds. Oh, no. There's no birds. All right. Well, we tried. Okay. Sorry, Crystal.
[01:02:35] Speaker 18: That's what you get for cutting into my way. I'm kidding. Let's take a look at this. This is our live camera view that we just have behind us here. We've got the clouds. We are dry right now, but we do have rain that's on the way, and the temperature is barely warming up because of that, because of the clouds and the moisture. In fact, the forecast high is like mid-upper 70s, but it might even be a little bit of a struggle to get there. Take a look. Okay. I'm sorry. Hold on. Dave just said a bird is back.
[01:02:59] Speaker 5: Oh.
[01:02:59] Speaker 18: Oh, a bird is back. Oh, two birds are back.
[01:03:02] Speaker 5: We're never going to get through your weather forecast. Three birds are back. Oh, four. Oh. We got the wrong end to that bird. A decent exposure of the bird.
[01:03:10] Speaker 18: Okay.
[01:03:13] Speaker 17: I think on that note, we should end the show. This is a wildfire. Oh, now they're fighting.
[01:03:16] Speaker 5: Now they're fighting. All right. Sorry, Crystal. We're going to stop.
[01:03:19] Speaker 18: Okay. We'll regroup ourselves here and take a look at Fox Vision. That's not an easy thing to do. Really. So the clouds have been spreading across the map. We've also got rain that's coming up from the southwest. This is pretty much time and how we were expecting it to. You know, yesterday we talked about there was still a little question. Would it be afternoon to like early evening arrival? And then by this morning, it was like all the models were kind of pointing to an early afternoon arrival. And that's still how it's looking right now. So if we zoom in, the storms that are just starting to move over the international line are moving through like Pima County. And they've just started to bring some rain showers into far southwestern Maricopa County. And then that line will continue moving to the northeast. So eventually, we are going to see some scattered showers as well as a few thunderstorms up into the valley. It could start as early as like noon, I would say. But I think the main body of moisture will probably move by in those early afternoon hours, it looks like. So here's the future cast. Now, this model is doing okay in terms of placement of the rain. It's not doing great in terms of how much rain that it is showing. So it's a little like underdoing it, so to speak. But there's 2 o'clock, and notice it does have some scattered stuff starting to move into the valley, as well as through just approaching Tucson. More isolated the farther north you go. But this passes through about 5 p.m. The valley is cleared out. So as we get into this evening, aside from a few isolated showers, the valley really looks pretty good. And then in the high country, we get these scattered showers with the first system. Remember, the first system is running over southern Arizona. And then right on its heels overnight and into tomorrow morning, a second system whirls by to the north, which gives us another round of rain up in the high country. And that does include at our higher points, the Kaiba Plateau, San Francisco Peaks, potentially the tip-tops, like, say, near Baker Butte or Mormon Mountain of the Mageean Rim, and then over into the White Mountains, as well. There's that turnover to some snow showers. That system moves out pretty quickly. So this is midday or so on Saturday. The showers are already to the east. And then this is later in the afternoon. We are dry again on Saturday. So if you have plans Saturday afternoon in the valley, don't cancel them, because it should be dry as we go through the afternoon hours. Overall, also, it just doesn't look like a huge amount of rain is coming with these next couple of storms. So the light green indicates, like, maybe a few hundredths of an inch to around a tenth of an inch. The deeper greens indicate maybe a quarter of an inch or a little more. So generally, even at our higher elevation points, which typically say our bigger rain totals, under a half an inch for these next couple of rounds. The only exception to that would be if you get a stronger thunderstorm, which can briefly dump a lot of rain. And then your total might be a little higher in very isolated pockets. The thing is, this is not the only storms in the 10-day forecast. We're watching what's really like a parade of storms rolling through. They're breaking off in the general pattern. They're rolling into our area. So next Tuesday and even next Friday, so we're talking like a week from now, we are watching for the possibility of additional storms. Those ones would drag in even cooler air with moisture, which means that not only would we talk maybe some rain or storm chances, but possibly better mountain snow chances as well with the winds increasing, just because each system would likely drop our temp some. So speaking of which, these are the forecast highs today, and like I said, I have 78 for Phoenix, but gosh, we're only at 70. So it might be maybe more like mid-70s, I would say, as we go into this afternoon and we see temperatures in the only 50s up in Flagstaff, 60s in Sedona, and then the 10-day shows you that drop, drop, drop that I was talking about. So as we go into Saturday, we're in the low 70s, small spike back to the upper 70s by Monday, another system Tuesday, low 70s again, and then behind that, colder air could drop us into the 60s with mornings in the 40s, which that's going to truly feel like fall, cool. Cool, yeah.
[01:06:46] Speaker 17: It'll be a big change.
[01:06:47] Speaker 7: All right.
[01:06:47] Speaker 17: I want it to be cool on Thanksgiving so that when we cook the turkey, open the doors, maybe put the fireplace on.
[01:06:55] Speaker 18: There's nothing worse than when you're hot and you're cooking all that food and you're just like, everybody stay away from me.
[01:06:58] Speaker 17: I know. And then you don't want to eat. I'm thankful for my family. I'm thankful for my family. We had, as breaking news yesterday, the explosion in Mesa, and this is Mesa neighborhood, ended up hurting a police officer. So one of the guys who was arrested made his first court appearance, and we have that for you.
[01:07:20] Speaker 19: Depositing an explosive, a class four felony, session of a weapon by a prohibited person, a class four felony, criminal damage, a class five felony, and disorderly conduct involving deadly weapons or dangerous instruments. It was a firecracker. A class six felony. All right. Based upon the information contained in the form four, I am inclined to find probable cause for those violations. However, before I do so, I am going to hear from the state if the state would like to make an argument. I have nothing to add regarding probable cause, Your Honor. It was a firecracker. All right, sir. You do have the right to remain silent.
[01:07:59] Speaker 17: So two men were arrested. They were arrested because of this incident, and we had the surveillance footage that was taken from, like, someone's doorbell cam, and you can actually see the police report that we have here. So you can see them throw the item. The two males walk back into the house. As the men enter, that's when the item explodes and the patrol vehicle drives off because the officer was scared. Flash from the object was big enough to turn the camera from night vision to daytime vision.
[01:08:26] Speaker 5: And we also got some additional information and pictures of the damage that was done to the patrol car. So we're going to have much more on the news at noon coming up in about an hour from now. Yeah. This is the big story that has a lot of people talking. Look at this. The owner of this BMW was pulled over for going 105 miles an hour over the speed limit. You can see his radar gun there. 170 miles an hour. So this is on the Loop 202 near McClintock in Tempe. But this is now getting national attention. I saw this story now everywhere because can you imagine going 170 miles an hour on a highway?
[01:09:04] Speaker 17: But here's the thing. He told the police.
[01:09:05] Speaker 5: Yeah, he had an excuse. Wait until you hear this.
[01:09:07] Speaker 17: He was going to be trading the car in, and this was just one final joyride. Nothing joyous. That could have been very catastrophic.
[01:09:16] Speaker 5: Yeah. Unbelievable. All right. Well, do you want to do what you're reading? Sure. Our top stories on the website?
[01:09:21] Speaker 17: That's actually our top story today that you guys are all really interested in, the state troopers arresting that driver. 170 miles per hour. I can't even imagine how fast that is.
[01:09:32] Speaker 5: Yeah, that is insane. I wanted to know what time of day it was. We'll have to look into that. I do, too.
[01:09:36] Speaker 17: That's exactly what I was thinking. Obviously, it's late at night, but, you know, unless it's like 1 o'clock in the morning, there's still a lot of cars out there, though.
[01:09:46] Speaker 5: All right. This is number two most clicked on story. This is pretty interesting. 12 people hurt following a big crash in Tucson. There was multiple vehicles involved. This was right in the area of Twin Peaks Road in the Tucson area, just north of the Tucson area, along the I-10.
[01:10:00] Speaker 17: Goodyear K9 sniffs out 96K in Rolex-stamped fentanyl bricks hidden inside a secret compartment. That looks legit, you say.
[01:10:09] Speaker 5: Well, they have another picture that we showed, and it's, like, wrapped up, and they just wrote in marker, Rolex.
[01:10:15] Speaker 17: Oh, because that's how Rolex would ship its product. I mean, if you're familiar with that. Is that, like, the stamping right there, not on the drugs? That's on the drugs itself. That's on the drugs itself? Okay. Well, 13.2 pounds of fentanyl, and a 27-year-old and 24-year-old arrested. They're being held on $200,000 bond. I mean, A for creativity. I don't know.
[01:10:37] Speaker 5: I don't know either. All right, so this is the time of the year where, obviously, you're going to be spending a lot of money, you guys. We get into the holiday season. You got groceries.
[01:10:44] Speaker 17: Oh, so you already got my gift?
[01:10:46] Speaker 5: Not yet.
[01:10:46] Speaker 17: Oh.
[01:10:47] Speaker 5: I got to see what you want first.
[01:10:49] Speaker 17: Okay. Oh, a Rolex.
[01:10:50] Speaker 5: A Rolex. That is out of my budget, unfortunately, but I can maybe draw you one on paper. But this is the time of the year where maybe you could earn some extra cash.
[01:11:00] Speaker 17: A lot of people looking to pick up some jobs, and a lot of retailers are hiring for the holiday. So you could just get a nice part-time gig. John Diaz is joining us, and you are with the Chandler Fashion Center. You guys are going to be hosting a hiring event, which is pretty cool. How does that work?
[01:11:16] Speaker 20: Yep, so it's a virtual hiring event. Oh. So, essentially, we have contacted all of our retailers in our mall and kind of consolidated all of their job openings and put them on our website. So anyone that kind of wants a one-stop shop of what's open at Chandler Fashion Center, they can go to our website, ChandlerFashionCenter.com slash jobs, and then scroll all of the jobs that are there. There are jobs from a Build-A-Bread workshop to Abercrombie & Fitch to Lululemon, even Seafood City if you want to work at a grocery store. Oh, fine. Wow.
[01:11:41] Speaker 5: Okay, now this is kind of the best perk, though. Sometimes you get the employee discount, even with these seasonal jobs, right?
[01:11:47] Speaker 20: Yes, 100%. You definitely get those different perks. You get to kind of take a look behind the curtain, see kind of how your favorite retailers operate. And, obviously, if you're kind of passionate about a certain brand, whether that's in fitness or jewelry, you kind of get a nice up-close seat to the action there. Yeah.
[01:12:02] Speaker 17: So how many different retailers do you guys have? How many different retailers are hiring? Do you know if there's a specific number of people they're looking for? Sure.
[01:12:10] Speaker 20: So we have over 180 retailers at Chandler Fashion Center. On our website right now, there's over 50 retailers that are participating. However, most of them have multiple positions available. If they're hiring seasonally, there's usually a plethora of those positions available, not just one.
[01:12:25] Speaker 5: And I know it probably depends on which place you're going through, but is it a pretty easy process of just putting in an application and they call you? Or how does it kind of work?
[01:12:33] Speaker 20: Yeah, 100%. It's usually as simple as that. You hire or you put in an application online through their listing, which you'll find on our website, and then they'll contact you for an interview. A lot of them are also holding hiring events in person, so always check their websites as well. They might be doing an in-person hiring event at their specific location.
[01:12:49] Speaker 17: What advice would you offer? What tips? Let's say a little bit of both in person and online.
[01:12:55] Speaker 20: Yeah, for sure. I mean, just make sure your resume is up to date.
[01:12:58] Speaker 17: What if you're 16 and this is the first job you're applying for, or 15?
[01:13:01] Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, you could put extracurriculars on there, anything, any recommendations from teachers and whatnot to kind of put your best foot forward.
[01:13:07] Speaker 5: I love this. And this is a great way. I mean, maybe if you want to foray this into an actual career, this is a good way to kind of get your foot in the door, too, to kind of, you know, meet those supervisors, the managers, and then maybe see if this turns into a longer career.
[01:13:20] Speaker 20: Yeah, absolutely. A lot of these seasonal jobs, they do end up, you know, as a part-time job or even a full-time job, if you make a really good impression. It kind of depends case by case on the retailer and what their needs are, but it definitely doesn't hurt to kind of put your best foot forward there. For sure.
[01:13:32] Speaker 17: Really quick, website and your deadline. Yes.
[01:13:35] Speaker 20: You've got 10 seconds. Chandler Fashion Center dot com slash jobs. Their postings are up at the end of the month.
[01:13:40] Speaker 17: Awesome. Thank you. Appreciate it. Really quickly.
[01:13:42] Speaker 5: What year was it? We're going to do this one real quick on this Friday. NHL legend Wayne Gretzky made his NHL debut.
[01:13:50] Speaker 17: 84.
[01:13:50] Speaker 5: Okay, good question. Good guess. Yes, I have no idea.
[01:14:20] Speaker ?: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
[01:16:20] Speaker 5: Thank you. And we're getting quite a few guesses in the chat there.
[01:16:56] Speaker 17: 1978. Is that a, what's that one up on top? Louis Gonzalez. 88.
[01:17:02] Speaker 5: 1988. Okay. Yeah.
[01:17:03] Speaker 17: 78. What did I say?
[01:17:06] Speaker 5: I don't remember. You said 84. I said 84.
[01:17:08] Speaker 17: I should know this.
[01:17:09] Speaker 5: Do we get a drum roll?
[01:17:10] Speaker ?: Do we get a drum roll?
[01:17:10] Speaker 17: Please.
[01:17:11] Speaker 5: Oh, here we go.
[01:17:13] Speaker 17: I love this.
[01:17:15] Speaker 5: 79. All right. Well, you're close.
[01:17:18] Speaker 17: Way to go, everyone.
[01:17:19] Speaker 5: Yeah, some people got it very close.
[01:17:20] Speaker 17: Someone commented that Taco Bell is not spicy, so I guess I have to find a different restaurant to make you my spicy burrito from. We are entering Thanksgiving and the holidays, so a season of giving, of perhaps gratitude.
[01:17:35] Speaker 5: Being thankful. That's right there in the name, isn't it?
[01:17:37] Speaker 17: Thanksgiving.
[01:17:38] Speaker 5: Thanksgiving. So our next guest, Yogi, is going to help us talk about being thankful for everything. Yogi, thanks for coming in. You have a podcast, and I love the name of it. You call it Yoganation. Yes. Cool. The spirit of gratitude. I love this. So let's start at the very beginning, if you can, and tell us why you wanted to start a podcast about that very topic.
[01:17:58] Speaker 21: Yes. The inspiration was my daughter, who suffers from turrets. Being in middle school, she was severely teased and bullied, yet that didn't stop her from writing two books. The second book, called The Terrible Bullies, which was the number one release on Amazon when it came out, and this was when she was 14. Wow. And this was when we were living in California, so when we moved to Arizona, she only had one college that she applied to, and down in Southern California, Chavin University, thinking that she'd become a screenwriter. She didn't accept it. There was no plan B. However, she worked at the Rhodes-Carlton. So I'm thinking to myself, how does this individual, granted she's our daughter, be able to overcome this, these set of challenges, the adversity, and become accomplished at such a young age? So that was the aha moment, how adversity shapes success. Through the lens of gratitude, around what I consider our five core pillars, which is courage, resilience, appreciation, awareness, and humility.
[01:18:57] Speaker 17: I think that gratitude is so important. It can be difficult to live in gratitude when you are facing adversity, or whether you're, maybe you're just having a really bad day at work, or maybe you're dealing with people who are the exact opposite. They constantly complain. And you really have to, right? Like, you really have to remind yourself of the things to be grateful for.
[01:19:19] Speaker 21: Yes, absolutely. And amongst the 100 guests that I've had on now, I think there are three themes that are consistent among each and every one of them. And that's character, faith, and family. So I think that's where you become rooted, in my opinion, in terms of being appreciative, having the awareness of being grateful, even at those tough moments.
[01:19:41] Speaker 5: Now, in theory, it sounds easy when it's on paper, but how do you, I guess, for people that maybe struggle to then apply it to their daily lives, what is some advice that maybe you could give to these individuals to apply this to day-to-day?
[01:19:53] Speaker 21: Yeah, I think, and that's part of the messaging of the guests who provide a blueprint, who provide a process, in terms of what they do, which is, you know, number one, writing three things down, the things that they're grateful for.
[01:20:07] Speaker 5: Can it be the same thing every day? Or does it have to be different?
[01:20:10] Speaker 21: It can be the same, slightly different. But one of, when I had Dr. Ish Major, who was one of the guests, I mean, he had a show with Nick Cannon, you know, psychiatrist of the celebrities. And what he'd like to propose is that you take a worry and you stick it to a cloud, because in five minutes, that cloud is not there or it changes. So it's fleeting, right? A worry is fleeting at that moment.
[01:20:33] Speaker 17: Do you think that the more you practice gratitude, the more you focus on gratitude, the more you have to be grateful for?
[01:20:39] Speaker 21: Absolutely, every day. I agree. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, it's, to me, that's one of the foundations of how we live a purposeful life and how we project our energy onto others.
[01:20:50] Speaker 17: Even, even taking something negative and maybe looking for the positive in it, I think is very helpful. Right.
[01:20:56] Speaker 21: I mean, every, each of these guests have some sort of struggle or challenge. And so it's important to have comfort and familiarity with, well, you know, if Dr. Nda Kubain experienced this, I can live through it. You know, Farouz Ben Yusuf, who survived breast cancer, she can survive it, so can I. So it's just that positive messaging.
[01:21:18] Speaker 17: Yeah, I agree.
[01:21:19] Speaker 5: What's been some of the feedback that you've been getting? Because you've been, how long have you been doing this podcast now? Less than two and a half years.
[01:21:25] Speaker 17: Wow. And 100 guests already.
[01:21:26] Speaker 5: That's great. You're really whipping them out. Yeah. You're getting those podcasts. The sales job. Good for you. Good for you. Good for you. But what is, what has been the feedback from some of your listeners?
[01:21:35] Speaker 21: Oh, it's been incredible. I mean, I think for me, I value and measure success based on some of the comments that I get. Because I'm really the messenger. The guests have the message. And Adam Sud, who's an addiction behavioral researcher, you know, he talks about having empathy towards those that have addiction. It's not them that's the problem. It's the addiction. And he has a different way of how to treat it. But the comments about his episode or his reels, that strikes a nerve to me. It's like, okay, I've done my job. If we can just help support one person, get through it, that's a good day. Yeah.
[01:22:11] Speaker 17: It's an interesting point, too, is that everyone has such a different perspective. Yes. Which is, it's nice when you can sit down and talk to all these different people, all these different experts. Yeah. Because one person will look at a situation one way and another person might have a totally different response, answer, what have you.
[01:22:30] Speaker 21: Well, Anita, that's why I think, to me, the success of the podcast is based on the diversity of guests that I have on, in terms of their age, profession, background, culture. Because ultimately, it's the listener that has to identify themselves through the storytelling of these guests.
[01:22:45] Speaker 5: Do you have a dream guest? Oh, that's a great question. There's three. Okay, let's go.
[01:22:50] Speaker 21: There's three. First is Paris Jackson. Yeah. Daughter of Michael Jackson. Oh, wow.
[01:22:54] Speaker 17: And why is that?
[01:22:55] Speaker 21: Because Michael Jackson, growing up, he was my inspiration behind this. I mean, that's, to me, his.
[01:23:00] Speaker 17: He's your idol.
[01:23:01] Speaker 21: He's my idol, exactly. You know, that's number one. Number two is Snoop Dogg.
[01:23:07] Speaker 17: Ah, that would be amazing.
[01:23:08] Speaker 5: That would be good.
[01:23:09] Speaker 17: Again, gratitude, gangsta. If he brought some libations with him or whatever you want to call him.
[01:23:16] Speaker 21: Well, I'll just stick with the non-alcoholic beverages. And the third is Jim Nance, the CBS commentator for the Masters and the Super Bowl in the NFL. Because growing up, I always liked to read parenting books, and his stuck to me.
[01:23:33] Speaker 17: I think if you put it out in the universe, you'll probably have them on within the next year or two.
[01:23:38] Speaker 21: Yes.
[01:23:39] Speaker 17: You have to believe that.
[01:23:40] Speaker 21: Well, and I like to dream, right? I mean, that's how I find my guests. It's like, who can I have on that would be so inspiring? And that's where I've had a Colonel Edward Mike Fink, a NASA astronaut. I've had a great Grandmaster, Ernie Reyes Sr., who, you know, taught or who tested Tony Robbins on his first black belt.
[01:23:59] Speaker 17: Wow. A lot of history.
[01:24:01] Speaker 21: Yeah.
[01:24:01] Speaker 17: How do people find you? How do they listen to you?
[01:24:03] Speaker 21: Great question. So, it's YogNation, Y-O-G-G-N-A-T-I-O-N.
[01:24:07] Speaker ?: Okay.
[01:24:07] Speaker 21: That is the website. That is the handle.
[01:24:09] Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
[01:24:10] Speaker 21: And it's on streaming, both streaming and social media platforms. So, you can find YogNation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you turn into your favorite streaming platform. And then on social media, it's YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Great. All YogNation. Thank you. All YogNation. Thank you.
[01:24:26] Speaker 17: Thank you so much for coming in. We are grateful for you. Thank you. Thank you.
[01:24:30] Speaker 5: My honor. All right. We're going to take a quick live look right now. These are live images coming in. Dave, who is this speaking? Okay. This is kind of a-
[01:24:43] Speaker 17: Majority What's Next Democrat event.
[01:24:46] Speaker 5: In Washington, D.C. Yeah. So, we're going to listen in here for just a quick second.
[01:24:49] Speaker 22: Big and bold ideas. They do not want marginal change. They do not want small bureaucratic changes in a bill. They want big swings. So, what does that mean? If those are the lessons from this election. It means going forward that, number one, we have to be ruthless about fighting for a middle class. That means passing legislation, as we just heard in our last panel, that takes big swings, first of all, to mop up what President Trump has done with the war and the tariffs and the Medicaid cuts. But it also means putting our money where our mouth is on big swings on health care and prescription drugs and housing, and then daring the President to veto them. Number two, we have to have accountability for people who broke the law and who stole taxpayer dollars. That is, we have to be a country of rules and laws, so picking signature cases of people that really abused the law and taxpayer dollars and going and demonstrating that you can't do that. This should not be a controversial statement. It has become controversial, including for me last night, when the Department of Justice indicated that they are again threatening to criminally indict me for those exact words on accountability. And then number three, we need to make sure that a very unsexy group of people are thinking very hard about how to Trump-proof the government going forward so that no leader can do this again, no leader can enrich themselves on the backs of the American people, Democrat or Republican. So we had a great night on election night, right? It gave us hope in a way that I think I'm so glad for my Gen Z staff that they got to experience what it was like to feel hope on an election night, right? It was great. I was particularly thrilled, I got to say, as a good Midwesterner to see all the wins in the Midwest. Thank you.
[01:26:49] Speaker 5: All right, so you've been listening to a press conference that is currently underway. These are some of the Democrats outlining what they hope to accomplish as they take control of the House and the Senate next session.
[01:27:01] Speaker 17: Okay, a couple of housekeeping things and some fun things. Well, they're not fun. No, this is not fun. Sometimes we have trending stories. So Costco is recalling its whipped cream, and this is the can that it looks like, if the use by date, all the information that you need there. They're saying that there is a voluntary recall was issued for certain cans of the Kirkland Signature Real Heavy Whipped Cream. It may contain small amounts of cleaning chemicals. It's called Alamance Foods, which produces the whipped cream. And so there have been cases where people have gotten sick already. I don't know. So they're saying, take it right back to your Costco. They will refund your money. But gosh, you have to think about this right before Thanksgiving. Yeah.
[01:27:47] Speaker 5: A lot of people might have that on their table or in their fridge right now.
[01:27:49] Speaker 17: Well, we buy that every year because we get our pumpkin pie.
[01:27:52] Speaker 5: Oh, from Costco.
[01:27:53] Speaker 17: Because it's like $5.99.
[01:27:55] Speaker 5: It's so huge and good.
[01:27:56] Speaker 17: And you know what else they have? Go on. Side note.
[01:27:58] Speaker 5: What?
[01:27:58] Speaker 17: Pumpkin cheesecake.
[01:28:00] Speaker 5: Oh, really?
[01:28:01] Speaker 17: I'm just going to tell you now, do yourself a favor, everyone. If you have a Costco membership, buy it. Okay. If you don't, find a friend who does and go buy it.
[01:28:10] Speaker 5: And have them buy it for you.
[01:28:11] Speaker 17: I think it's like, it's under $20. It's massive, and you can also freeze it, but you won't want to.
[01:28:17] Speaker 5: You won't want to. You're just going to eat the whole thing?
[01:28:19] Speaker 17: If you like cheesecake and pumpkin, forget it.
[01:28:22] Speaker 5: You heard it here first, folks. Anita, the cheesecake pumpkin lover.
[01:28:26] Speaker 17: A pumpkin or a pecan?
[01:28:29] Speaker 5: My mom makes a pecan pie. Really? Yeah, and an apple pie. She's a really good baker.
[01:28:34] Speaker 17: Oh.
[01:28:35] Speaker 5: Not so much a good cook, but she is a pretty good baker.
[01:28:39] Speaker 17: Did you just say that to your mom? No, she knows. She knows. She watches.
[01:28:42] Speaker 5: No, she knows that her cooking, her desserts outweigh her other cooking abilities.
[01:28:49] Speaker 17: On that note, have a fantastic weekend, everyone. I'm staying away from him.
[01:28:53] Speaker 5: We'll leave you with the bird cam.
[01:28:55] Speaker 17: Bye. Bye.
[01:29:23] Speaker ?: Bye. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
[01:31:23] Speaker 2: Let's go. Let's listen in for a bit. Let's go.
[01:31:57] Speaker 10: Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
[01:32:29] Speaker ?: Let's go.
[01:32:29] Speaker 10: Let's go.
[01:32:31] Speaker ?: Let's go.
[01:32:31] Speaker 10: factory because it was too dirty I was tired my uncle would come over say dale ganas you know what that means it's not because I love to work it's because I knew that if I did give ganas if I gave one more hour of work I could bring a paycheck home to my family because we want to do the simple thing to make more money to take care of your family and if you could take care of your family that means you're a good dad and that's not even a Latino thing that's an American thing right now too many Americans feel that they're giving everything they have but they just can't make it so what's next right that's why we're having this whole thing here right big-ass truck politics comes down to one thing it's fighting for working-class America and against the billionaire class Democrats we are at our best when we take people's sides not when they're playing hall monitors and not when imposing these purity tests for too long we've been afraid to talk like normal people this big-ass truck politics is what unites Democrats like never before it is our DNA to fight working class people if you want to see what it looks like look at what happened two incoming freshmen blue dog Bobby Pluto and progressive caucus member Randy Villegas they ran for the America who measured their wealth by how many hours they work in a week winning movements believe in addition and not subtraction the answer is not Randy or Bobby it's Bobby and Randy together that's how we have a winning coalition people do not need any more ideological fights they don't need another lecture they need someone to stop the insurance company from screwing them to stop corporate landlords from raising their rent using AI to stop big tech data centers from raising a rent taking a water and costing us even more money it's simple especially for your parents out there every father and mother wants to feel like they are provider and a protector our jobs as Democrats is to make that possible make them feel like that again work should bring dignity to a family a paycheck to let a mom believe that their kids future is going to be better for them and they may actually enjoy life so here is the plan we need a new deal a new deal for middle-class America we need the Senate to even start acting today a federal jobs program to play millions of Americans who are going to be laid off by AI who are going to be laid off by AI a $20 an hour minimum wage a very generous child tax credit and a universal everyone can have and for God's sakes a housing plan a housing plan to build 8 million homes to give young families a chance to actually get a house and please stop wall street from buying up those same houses and outing out people
[01:35:32] Speaker 2: okay so uh Ruben Gairo speaking at this uh big confab here the plans being put forward not so much there at the podium but i'm sure in a series of meetings kind of going on behind the scenes as Democrats gather in Denver yeah he's fired up he is you know it's interesting too because i saw his name on yet another list along with mark kelly for possible candidates for 2028 would that be something if both arizona senators in the end decide they're going to run for president which by the way uh that's our poll question today marco rubio moves into the lead among possible republican candidates in the latest poll 61 say good i want him to be president 28 only 14 percent are on the vance train right now 22 say no we need a democrat to be the next president and then you're getting some votes for ron de santos as well does how's that look on youtube well um let's scroll
[01:36:29] Speaker 16: up here if we can yeah um dave's got to get it adjusted here they're doing like 12 things we'll refresh yeah and then take a look we got over 2200 votes so that's pretty good 40 say good rubio for president seven percent vance would be the best choice uh 45 say we need a democrat and eight percent say they want ron de santos or a different republican to run there you go to win one of the big issues it seems like
[01:36:52] Speaker 2: as we were approaching this uh particular election cycle and one that could be with us for a while is education yes absolutely therefore as usual our timing does is perfect yes ah yeah absolutely we have
[01:37:03] Speaker 16: the superintendent of the tolleson union high school district and with us jeremy kias thanks for joining us this morning oh thank you for having me so we're kind of celebrating here i mean you and um the educators throughout the district have been working hard for six years to try to bring up the uh grade for the district and now you're an a-rated um district with how many a-rated
[01:37:23] Speaker 9: schools so we have five a-rated schools and two b schools and we're very excited about the change uh back in 2018 we had all c's one d and one a so now having five a's and two b's we're very excited
[01:37:36] Speaker 2: about that is amazing change that's a huge change really incredible so how'd you do it well i wouldn't
[01:37:42] Speaker 9: say that there's just one silver bullet it was a it was a combination of things uh first the the district used to have below average teacher pay and and that was causing issues with retention and when you are constantly turning over teachers it's hard to get anything going any any real momentum so we've been steadily increasing teacher pay uh for the past 10 years actually since i first came over there as as chief financial officer and now we're the highest paying district in the state in regards to teacher pay and that's led to 95 96 retention we finally got above the state average for average years of experience and so we've had those same teachers there once you can keep the same people in place then you can work on their professional development and you can invest in them so we've had several programs where we've invested into our teachers so that way we can increase their capacity and what they're able to do for our students we also didn't just trust our own opinion we brought in some national experts several years ago when i brought forward a strategic plan with the board and we worked to put it together along with the rest of our district leadership i told them one of the pieces that we need is we needed input from from nationally recognized individuals in this area so we brought in some consultants some outside consultants to assess our system let us know how we could improve it and so we've managed to put all that together and and yes between a combination of that and a lot of hard work we've managed to get to where we are today i'm just curious when those consultants came in
[01:39:03] Speaker 16: what did they identify as the weakest point and how have you been able to address that and kind of
[01:39:08] Speaker 9: you know turn things around well uh one of them in particular west ed it wasn't like a single point that they identified they basically left us with a book like right it would be like if someone was coming in to assess the cardinals right now about like what do you need to work on different things yeah have you ever had someone you know analyze a golf swing yeah it's not going to be one thing but uh you know we uh we put those into digestible pieces and uh we were like look we're not going to tackle everything all at once but uh let's talk about what we can tackle and let's just keep knocking things off one at a time one at a time one at a time until we start to build some momentum and then we'll start to see some positive change and then that'll reinforce our our momentum to keep going with more positive changes so we've been doing that and incrementally we've been making those improvements and we've
[01:39:53] Speaker 2: seen those results what would you say um well for example i mean let's just talk let's talk brass tax here people might think uh that maybe they're in education and they're thinking about getting out or maybe they've considered as a career but they just looked at it and said the pay is too low where did you manage to elevate to average teacher salary in your district well i'd say you know
[01:40:16] Speaker 9: money's not a motivator more money's a motivator uh so it's it's you have to you have to put yourselves in a position where you can steadily keep giving increases because there isn't just like a mark that you can hit and all of a sudden stay at that level and everybody's going to stay like each raise you need to be able to give a each year you need to be able to give a meaningful raise in order to keep retaining those staff inflation's always going to go up right we're never going to have it where inflation is just at zero percent and there's no inflation from year to year right and if you're not given a raise that is at least equal to or greater than inflation then you're you're essentially asking people to work for for something that is going to give them lower you know lower um be able to have a lower lifestyle than what they just had in the year prior so you have to always beat inflation with inflation at 3.4 percent it means you need to have raises above 3.4 percent our raises have been between five and ten percent annually for the last decade so that's you know really been able to keep that momentum and that positive energy where we're getting the best out of those corporations aren't even able to keep up with that right we've we've been able to do it because of community support we had nine years that we were on the ballot and the voters approved all the questions that we brought forward to the ballot now these these past two years the community support has not been there some of our questions have been turned down these last couple of years and so that's that's going to change things for us we're going to have to reassess and and figure out where we can make some compromises but prior to that we had nine years in a row where the voters were supporting us and as long as they're supporting us we're able to give them back a strong education system and so uh people look at it and
[01:41:46] Speaker 2: they say why can't this happen at the state level we're at the state level they i think a lot of people who are supportive of teachers want to see those bigger increases how'd you do it and yet we can't do it
[01:41:56] Speaker 9: it in a broader sense oh we absolutely could do it in a broader sense there's no reason why this shouldn't be happening at a state level um you have to put the right people into a room and tell them we're not letting you out of this room until you actually come up with the ideas that we need to be able to move this state forward uh once you do something like that um i actually was you know uh a little over a decade ago i was i was running a group where um we were doing just that working on what what can we do as a state to create a better education system for arizona and then um ducey came into office he did classrooms first and and we disbanded our group uh but if you put the right people in a room you actually could do this for arizona and arizona could be competing with connecticut vermont and some of the other states back east but we would have to make this as a priority for arizona we'd have to actually step forward and say we actually care about education
[01:42:40] Speaker 16: and we want to be leading the nation and we have just about a minute left but for folks a lot of folks moving here from other states they don't grade the districts the same so just remind us what goes into that letter a grade what that means really for a district absolutely so one of the best things about our
[01:42:54] Speaker 9: letter grade system as it exists today is it is a very comprehensive assessment uh proficiency on on the act test yes that's a good piece of it but you also have graduation rate you have the college and career readiness index you're looking at things like are they getting diploma seals you know are they are they earning things like being bilingual you know helps get you little bumps by getting your your diploma seal for being bilingual um are they taking cte courses career technical education are they taking those courses are they completing those courses but we have so many different aspects that we are looking at within our letter grade system that it isn't um something that is so isolated where it's like hey they go to school 720 days during high school let's just look at how they test on one day
[01:43:36] Speaker 2: it's a very comprehensive system okay big things going on in the tallest in school district so we really
[01:43:41] Speaker 16: appreciate your time and sharing some of that good news and you're approaching your 100th anniversary
[01:43:46] Speaker 9: that's big 100 years since our district has been out there go tallest really cool exciting all right
[01:43:51] Speaker 16: thank you thanks so much we have the mystery cam yeah we do on this friday the 13th oh look at that it's lunchtime they're fighting over the food hey that'll do it
[01:44:11] Speaker ?: so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so you so you you well
[01:46:38] Speaker 2: well it's an unusual mystery cam to say the least as kelly really tries to stump us he has
[01:46:47] Speaker 16: a lot of fun with these mystery cams um i we were just saying like how cool is this camera like at the bird feeder yes right it's kind of fun uh-huh fun at the feeder well so or fighting at the feeder because some of them are pecking at each other get out of my way louie is noticing that
[01:47:04] Speaker 2: one bird is kind of a bully yeah right oh look right there oh hey you know what there's enough feed to go around pal oh look he's back oh and the little guy oh no now there's
[01:47:14] Speaker 16: another squabble going on someone kicked him out right away oh oh good look there's one left
[01:47:19] Speaker 2: one left yeah this is like when you go to the diamondback game and you're rooting for the hot dog
[01:47:23] Speaker 16: or the other guy or whatever you know who's gonna win it survival of the fittest oh and
[01:47:28] Speaker 2: that one fell right off right off the rail oh look he said get out of here bird to the right is like no i'm sorry back up oh look at that
[01:47:38] Speaker 16: well all right so that's the so-called pecking order so it's hard out here in the bird world look at that yeah we could have to fight each other like that just for lunch i know it's not good all
[01:47:48] Speaker 2: right i like it it is the pecking order in the bird world if you guys have any guesses uh linda's saying give me arkansas for the win and uh i'll go with linda why not des what do you think um let's
[01:48:02] Speaker 16: see arkansas yeah okay that's what you guys are guessing um i'm gonna go i don't know i'll go oregon
[01:48:08] Speaker 2: okay we got an oregon we got an arkansas and we got desiree with the answer let's see kelly's
[01:48:15] Speaker 16: beautiful handwriting it is oh southfield michigan good job i think kelly has stumped us all week long
[01:48:23] Speaker 2: all week he sure has i like this one i like the bird feeder cam that's for sure hey i don't know if you're going to michigan what you expect to pay for gas prices but uh it's really very interesting to me des i have noticed everybody a lot of people say that gas prices were maybe the number one most aggravating thing for them looking out over the economy for the last several months uh let me just see the so an inflation report came out by the way we got an expert to talk about this here in about uh one minute uh year over year on the producer price index gasoline is up 76 diesel is up 115 and the overall rate is frankly shocking uh now it wasn't so bad in the last month maybe we've hit the peak on gas prices and it's coming down who knows but overall we're at 6.5 year over year so now one of the big questions is what's going to happen with interest rates and gas prices are down about 20 cents a gallon in one week we're at 411 here in arizona we're at 405 in phoenix we're actually at about 385 nationally or 387 to be precise so let's
[01:49:45] Speaker 16: find out let's predict the future let's we got an expert to do that yeah i was gonna say let's not
[01:49:50] Speaker 2: let's bring on scott uh so this is scott colbert he's chief economist with commerce trust hi scott can you hear us okay i can hear you can you not hear me oh my god there you go okay wonderful good where are you by the way are we on yeah you're on where are you great trying to figure out where you
[01:50:10] Speaker 1: are what what city are you in i'm in st louis unlike the bird feeder where i'm probably 500 miles away from that bird by the way i grew up very close to detroit okay great tiger fan so oh you're
[01:50:24] Speaker 2: you're the odd man out in st louis because they love their cardinals i was just there last week i rode all the way to the top of the arch have you done that yet you know i've been here 33 34 years
[01:50:34] Speaker 1: and only done it once like a one and done once is enough it's interesting though isn't it you don't expect kind of the egg crate kind of the ratcheting experience i i didn't know what to expect i thought it'd be more like a circus wheel yeah but it's got a very mechanical you know uh bent to it yeah that's
[01:50:54] Speaker 2: for sure well i love i really love st louis i've never been there before it's a great city that you call home uh what should we be worried about this last year of six plus percent inflation that came in today uh or do you think we've hit the peak or could we even go uh worse well certainly the electorate
[01:51:15] Speaker 1: and the political class didn't care for it much and i think that was your head you hit it right on the head with affordability and the most obvious thing people talk about and see and the price they see the most often is the price of a gallon of gas so clearly you know it's been a problem the the real problem is simply this that wages and salaries have basically not done any better than inflation from pre-covid to post-covid so inflation's up about 31 32 percent for the last six and three quarter years and wages and salaries on average have grown exactly the same but the average family isn't any better off so this is what's this is what's got them upset is it bad yeah it's bad is it close to peaking probably because you know we're working our way out of the tariff push and by june of next year we'll have worked our way through the energy push and then i think we can get back to a more normalized two and a half ish kind of percent but right now you know core inflation is clearly three
[01:52:16] Speaker 2: percent per year or better so what's your prediction federal reserve some people say they're going to come in at a quarter so as not to spook the market a lot of others say look for their credibility and to prove they are serious about really tackling inflation we're going to see a 50
[01:52:33] Speaker 1: basis point interest rate increase what do you think it'll be 25 because that will be the compromise between a couple of people that would like to see 50 and a couple of people that still probably don't even want to raise rates so you know 25 is going to be the answer the real question will be will it be a hawkish enough hike in other words in the press conference and will the you know the federal reserve members who talk after the meeting eventually and you know in public will they indicate that they're going to be going again in january or are they going to wait till the march meeting the pattern of course has been set to be every other meeting right now but it's quite possible that you could see them step the pace up and that's that's one way of avoiding a 50 basis point increase is to indicate
[01:53:17] Speaker 16: that they're likely to do a january hike as well so i was going to ask like to put this in simple terms you know for people at home watching who voted you know during the midterms they voted for change because of the frustration um you know with the change that we'll see you know in washington and throughout the country come january will they be able to actually do anything where consumers are going to be able to notice you know policy changes or the impact that they'll have you know as it relates to their wallet what we're paying for groceries and whatnot you know so the the four key takeaways
[01:53:50] Speaker 1: i think from the election are two of them are less inflationary the first of course is is that the regulatory environment for ai and data center build out and there's a plenty of cost push coming from that from electricians to copper to chips to construction materials that's that's a that's been a push on inflation that gets pushed out a bit because i think the regulatory processes will slow the ai data center build out so that's that's a policy change that's likely to occur i do think that a the blue tsunami if you will will target some of the tariffs that the executive branches put on it isn't their domain to be able to physically change them but i think they can embarrass the president enough to pull back on some of these tariffs because affordability is such an issue and i do think that the president has less appetite to go back and kinetically bomb iran and of course that's what spikes those oil prices so those three things are probably hopefully a little deflationary policy change takes a while but i think those three things are you know likely to help out in the near term the bad news and this is weird and i don't really see anybody talking about it but the way to get your budget reconciled and the debt ceiling raised which is going to have to be done compromise is generally that the democrats want something and that tends to be more spending and it probably has to do with the affordable care act and the extension of medicare and then the republicans want some tax break which is bad for the deficit right so it's less revenue more spending and that puts inflationary pressure up as the deficit has to be financed because there's more bonds coming to market that have to be sold okay well you heard it right here first from
[01:55:37] Speaker 2: scott so yeah we'll keep an eye on that for sure thanks for the heads up it makes a lot of sense but you know there are now some people focusing on what the president had to say just the other day which was we don't really need to deal with haran i mean is it possible that it's just status quo for a long time or that you know the situation just kind of lingers out there literally for so long that i don't know exactly how that will impact oil and gas prices long term but i know we're in a bit of a downturn now i just wonder if we're going to be at these elevated levels for years to come
[01:56:11] Speaker 1: even if we went back to normal and nothing had ever happened the reserves have been brought down across the entire planet we don't know how much china has drawn down their reserves but it's quite substantial and even if everything was just normal and they were shipping the oil again there would be a tremendous demand to replenish the reserves which i think keeps a premium on energy prices secondly let's face it the the iranians don't really trust us and i don't think we trust them at all and so no matter what agreement we make it's probably not likely to be long-lived no matter what it happens to be and third i think people don't they underestimate what the geography is like to try and protect 600 miles of coastline when you've got you know a um the ability to send drones and small missiles if you will at very slow moving large moving you know or large uh super tankers it's it's it's incredibly hard to think about protecting the entire gulf so i think that we're stuck with a bit of a i think i think we're stuck with iran having control of the strait we're going to have to give them something like taxation or there's going to be money paid to iran to let the ships pass in return we're hopefully to get you know some type of nuclear agreement for inspections and on the nuclear proliferation side hopefully that means we don't have to go back and bomb them again but i'm i the president is a lame duck president he's going to do whatever he wants to do i think he's shown that he has a fairly 10 year for the electorate anyhow thus the less the midterm uh blue wave so so i think there's a premium bid for oil unfortunately for quite a while okay all right really
[01:57:54] Speaker 2: good info in there you packed a lot in scott we appreciate you thank you scott sorry for so much no it's fantastic really we're putting you on the list again yeah okay that's scott colbert right there in beautiful downtown st louis with commerce bank thank you you gotta come back we could use the business here in town yeah i do want to come back to see a game at bush stadium oh there
[01:58:16] Speaker 1: you go you two will have to connect yeah i like ballpark village beautiful tickets you let me know and
[01:58:23] Speaker 2: we'll go to a game hey there you go awesome yeah thank you scott have a great friday thanks so much we'll see you happy friday does can you believe we have to already wrap up i know honestly right
[01:58:34] Speaker 16: the heck yeah this hour we should just go to the bird feeder that camera was too good really let's go
[01:58:38] Speaker 2: back is it gone oh look at that oh they're all full oh look at it they were waiting for us to bring them
[01:58:44] Speaker 16: back guys see go on with ron and they hear us chatting thank you birdies have a great friday the 13th good luck to you bye we'll see you monday