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Friday March the 6th.

It is a foodie Friday.

It is an ask handle, anything Friday.

And also we're going to have some other fun topics.

Today is not heavy duty, yeah, I generally do that and I like to throw at you heavy duty

topics only to make your life a little bit more miserable if I can.

At the end of the show, if I can walk away going, you know what?

People who are more upset and depressed than they were when they started the show, I'm

a happy camper.

So in my view, this story is happy camping to say the least and I'm not alone.

The president summarily removed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristine Ome

and the only as much as I agree with that where he did the appropriate and the right thing,

my only complaint, the only disagreement I would have criticism is he didn't do it

quickly enough because there was mounting bipartisan criticism of her leadership at the

of her department.

I mean, she was that bad.

And it didn't just have to do with the deportation agenda that she pushed and pushed and pushed

like crazy and was so proud of, but also dismantling FEMA, for example.

So how did Trump announce it?

Social media, of course.

And immediately said that she would be replaced by Senator Mark Wayne Mollum who is a staunch

defender of Donald Trump and has been in the Senate.

So he is instantly going to be confirmed because not only are the Republicans in charge

of the Senate, so that's sort of a given.

They give the president basically what he wants and instantly that's both sides.

President brings up a nominee if it's a Republican president, there will be a Republican

vote to confirm same thing on the Democratic side.

And not only is he a Republican, but also a Republican staunch supporter of the president,

but also he's just well liked, I mean, they just like him in the Senate.

And so that helps him enormously.

And so Nome who has been fired will now move, and this is hilarious, in turn, her new

role as special, special envoy for the shield of the Americas.

Yeah, I don't know what that means either.

I have no idea.

I don't think the president knows what that means.

He is going to announce this new shield of America's program on Saturday in Florida,

I think at Mar-a-Lago.

Why not?

When in doubt you fire someone and you create some kind of position and there you go.

And then in the post, he praised Nome as having served us well and praised her for numerous

and spectacular results, especially on the border exclamation mark.

And why?

Well, I mean, from the beginning, she was a mess totally unqualified, by the way, to run

a department, a cabinet position.

I mean, totally, and not that she's the only one that's totally unqualified.

There are plenty of unqualified people in positions of great responsibility in this

administration, where the only qualification necessary is loyalty to the president.

That's it.

Your loyal, you get a job.

And if you are disloyal, you're in a lot of trouble.

Okay, but we've talked about that.

She went over the top.

I mean, she really did it.

For example, she spent $200 million on a campaign, a TV campaign, $220 million, which

starred her.

And they were so ham-handed that you looked at these, we talked about the commercials,

Neil and I, when these things were up and you go, come on, this can't be real.

So she's telling illegal immigrants to self-deport of which hundreds of thousands did, or get

picked up and you'll never be able to come back.

And there she is on a horse in front of Mount Rushmore, and there she is in front of

a Nicaraguan prison.

There she is in the full garb and regalia of an ice agent.

There she is in the ice baseball cap.

There she is.

She is.

It really was.

You're absolutely right.

It was a Saturday night live skit that she was on.

And I'll tell you what nailed her, a couple of other things nailed her because that was

just fun.

That was her just being a pompous, self agri- and grandizing ass.

No, I'm not talking about the president.

I'm talking about Christy Nome.

A complete self agri- and grandizing ass is what she was.

Would put her over the, and everybody basically who wanted any kind of credentials or

competence in that position was sorely disappointed.

It's what she said at the last hearing that just occurred, the Senate hearing, in which

a couple of things happened.

Thing number one, she refused to apologize to the families and to the individuals, those

two people that were killed by ice agent.

She had called them domestic terrorism and talked about Renee Good and Alex Pretty, who

were both shot at those demonstrations.

Both having no weaponry, both basically being completely innocent.

And she called them domestic terrorists.

I mean, literally within minutes after the shooting, they were not domestic terrorists.

She never would back pedal on that one.

She never would apologize straight out, wouldn't do it.

And was asked, will you apologize to those people?

And the answer was, no, actually she deflected and said, I give them my condolences and it's

horrible and someone has killed, it's just some kind of clap trap.

And the other thing when she was asked about the $220 million that she spent on those ads,

of which it even offended Republicans, I mean, that was way over the top.

She said the president had okayed it, specifically asked, did the president okay this?

Yes, sir.

The president knows about it and he okayed it.

She made that up, at least according to President Trump.

And by the way, I believe that the, I believe the president when he said he didn't okay

because I don't think, well, for one thing, nobody self-aggrandizes in my administration except me.

That's for starters.

All seriousness was she went so over the top.

And the other thing, yes, I want to talk about this a little bit later on.

And this is what Cash Patel does and other cabinet members do is the way they travel, the way they fly.

They use the government, government aircraft like it was their own and their billionaires.

That's what they do.

Now, is that, is that stealing money?

It is not.

Have they ever been accused of stealing money?

No, absolutely not.

Have they been accused?

And I think successfully the accusation flies is the way they fly.

The Department of Homeland Security under her just bought two very high in Gulfstream jets, fully appointed.

And I talk about with first, first class seats and kitchens and all of it and bought two of them and the Republicans and even the Republicans going, why?

Well, because that's the way, that's the way they fly because these are civil servants.

These are representatives and they, what they do is they run our departments.

And damn it, if we're not going to give them aircraft or we're not going to give him them the ability to fly like none of us will ever experience in our lifetimes and would never experience unless we were billionaires.

But man, we want them to have it, don't we?

Cash Patel just did that too and going to private places, that's what I love.

Cash Patel ends up in Italy and he ends up celebrating with the American men's hockey team winning the gold and they're all drinking beer and dancing and Patel is there go, what, what are you doing there?

Well, I had some business there.

Don't know what it was, but he had some business, that's the other thing.

All you do is sneak in one, one talk to a group of six graders in one school and that's official business down.

You get to fly the way they fly.

I get good to go a lot further, but she actually deserved to get canned and the president handled it.

I thought very well.

He calls her seconds before she gets up on a stage, she's doing a speech at some governors or police officers association and she's up there swiling as if nothing happened.

And literally a few minutes before that, she gets a call from the president and he cans her.

And didn't even, she didn't even refer to it at all, it's like it didn't happen.

And on top of that, she said that she's still going to appear at some kind of an awards ceremony and just ignored the fact that she was canned, which I think is absolutely hilarious.

She pretends it didn't happen, although she posted that she was fired and of course, praise the president and said he was a wonderful human being and he praised her.

You're a wonderful human being did a great job even though I fired you and you're going to be a special envoy to a new program that I have no idea what it is nor will I ever have, but you're the envoy to it.

So that's going on.

And the other complaint I have made about her is the way she flies these cabinet heads, man, they they fly like billionaires on government jets.

And man, the jets are incredible.

The planes.

Well, the big one is Air Force one.

I mean, that's sort of a given and no one has a real complaint about Air Force one.

As a matter of fact, every president will say that what do you miss the most when asked when leaving the presidency and they all say the same thing?

We miss Air Force one.

That's the way to fly.

Now, did you know that the press that accompanies the president, they have to pay for their flight, the government issues them a bill.

So whenever you see these reporters from the news outlets, they're paying or the news outlets are paying first class plus 20% for the flight.

Now, are comfortable seats and while the people, the president and his staff and his, his guests and who is every taking.

And again, depending on who he takes, whether they get charged or not, and I'm assuming depends on the category, they get some of the best food in the world.

There's a chef, there's a full kitchen aboard Air Force one, but when you go behind that curtain or that when you go into the compartments where the press is now they're getting the same food that we're getting when we fly and they all come from the same company, the crappy food corporation and they are, that's what they eat.

But it's, you get a full meal.

I mean, it's a cook.

You can order what you want on the airplane Air Force one.

Now, no one has a problem about that.

And that is a Boeing 747.

And then Air Force two, the vice president, a 757, also very luxuriously appointed Air Force one has a full bedroom in the front of it.

And the note is at the nose.

And the current one has two couches that make into beds.

The new one coming out has a king size bed in the front bathroom just for the president.

And it is not those little crappy, so to speak, bathrooms that you see, we fly with even first class passengers.

I have to use those little crappy bathrooms that airplanes have.

Nope.

It's a full blown bathroom with a shower and I mean, it's just what it is.

And it's a neat way to go.

And the only president who has ever slummed Air Force one is Donald Trump because the Trump airplane is more or less sketch lots of gold, less of guilt.

I think there are actually pillars in the airplane, marble pillars holding up the plane inside.

I've no idea.

But it's pretty impressive to say the least.

And then you have, well, for example, here's another one.

The Department of Homeland Security, Christie Nome, bought in October of 2025 to Gulf Streams, G 700s, about $200 million for top officials, particularly a secretary that's a secretary to use, considering the most spacious and modern business sets in the industry.

Also, the department has been leasing a luxury Boeing 737 bedroom, queen size bed, showers, kitchen bar.

Large screen TVs.

It's good to be a cabinet head, isn't it?

Especially when you're Christie Nome and you start writing checks like crazy.

Now, the vice president, first lady cabinet members typically fly on a 757 also sections with specialized communications, not crazy luxurious.

And then you have a bunch of Gulf Streams use by high ranking department of defense government officials.

Top of the line comfort, but top of the line comfort in the world of business jets, not top of the top of the line.

Oh, look at how terrific we fly.

I think I'll go to the bedroom in front, wake me up when we're about ready to land to kind of thing.

Man, I bet you that's what she's going to miss the most is flying around.

She gets to go back to South Dakota.

I guess that a commercial plane unless the president lets her have it, but at least for use.

Bottom line is I don't think anybody bothers with the Air Force one.

Essentially, the other one, Putin has and his Air Force one, which is considered the most luxuriously appointed one.

The government accepted Donald Trump, accepted it from Qatar, a 747 jumbo Blasto 5000, the latest jet with $400 million and he's now outdo at what they're doing is

they're converting it to an Air Force one kind of thing at a couple of billion dollars.

That one is seriously great.

And here's another really factoid before we leave one of the one of the most modern and luxurious jets that were flying around with Mexico.

Mexico.

And when Obrador became president, he looked at this thing, he goes, we're not, well, I'm not flying this thing.

We're selling it immediately and they did.

Okay, done with that.

I want to move over to I told you Fridays are just fun.

Now there are certainly crazies out there in our society and a lot of them.

And usually they were relegated to the crazy parts of the geography of our town.

For example, crazy people screaming, well, in this case, about vaccines, right?

How horrible vaccines are and how they cause autism and all kinds of diseases.

Well, it used to be that that was fringe.

Today, it's mainstream.

That's what the internet has done has made the crazy stuff mainstream.

And it used to be that, as I said, as many times, the only way these nuts could ever make themselves be heard is on the street corner with a bullhorn.

Now they have five million followers on a particular website, a particular chat box.

So let me tell you the latest on the vaccine situation.

God, I love this stuff.

Veterinarians are seeing a huge drop off in pet vaccination.

Why?

Because pet owners are very skeptical about vaccines.

I don't know if you've ever seen an autistic dog.

I had one.

It was I vaccinate my pets always have.

And one of them for some reason got autism because of the vaccination.

Man, you do not want an autistic dog.

They won't look at you.

They bark weirdly.

They don't do a good job of communicating.

What's a matter with you?

Well, you don't want to vaccinate your pets because look what the vaccines do to your pets.

And not there are many variants of how people experience or

display autism on the spectrum.

Not arguing that but connect those to vaccine for me. Would you please?

You can't you can't and therein lies the story about my autistic dog.

There was a horrible child's book.

No, he was I said, he had an issue.

And so there is this interview of with Terry Austin who's president of the Amanda Foundation.

Here in Southern California and they've been offering pet vaccines for decades.

And now Terry has been running into people who just know I'm not going to vaccinate my pet.

Okay, fine.

So you don't want to vaccinate your pet.

The problem is is that there are there are diseases that are transmitted

from pets animals to humans.

And there are a few that are really bad.

Your dog is not vaccinated for rabies, for example, and gets rabies pretty rare.

But once gets rabies and bites someone, if not treated immediately, that is a hundred percent fatal.

Hey, those old vaccines will kill you every time.

The core vaccine for pets include rabies, distemper, parvo, K9 hepatitis.

I gave my kids those vaccines, by the way, and it worked out really well.

They do not have parvo, they do not have rabies.

One study found that the rabies vaccine prevented nearly 300 dogs from being infected in a year.

Yep.

I mean, that is very, very rare.

I mean, that's one in Zillians, but you know what?

Whoever gets it, it's a hundred percent.

And they're also lifesaving according to Austin.

That way you keep your pet around for 12, 14, 15, 16 years.

And of course, the owner is concerned about side effects.

It's the old side effects story of vaccines on your pet, right?

When all of a sudden you've got a big terrier or a laboratory that thinks it's a chihuahua because of the vaccine, because of the side effects.

Now realistically, a lot of them don't have vaccines because of cost.

Okay, that's a legitimate concern.

They're expensive, but she says, hey, wait a minute.

Right, most veterinarians pet stores, city shelters have days and programs where you can get free or very low cost vaccines.

So Amy, you vaccine your dog, you vaccinate your dog, don't you?

When I had a dog, I did.

Oh, yes.

Okay.

And the cats are, they're all up today.

Oh, yeah, cats dogs are all the same to me.

They all look all the same.

I couldn't dream of having a dog that wasn't vaccinated.

And you have a dog.

Of course it's fast.

I don't even, I don't even have to ask.

Of course you vaccinate your dogs.

And of course, maybe not your kids, but certainly your dogs.

And that's for sure.

Everybody's vaccinated.

Yeah, that's a big fan of vaccinations.

I like them.

I like them so much that I even with my kids, I either, I had not only all of the vaccinations that are recommended a few that were not.

And then just for fun, I just had to say, lean injected in them via syringe just because I just like.

The whole concept.

Okay.

Now, every year, there is a company called unclaimed baggage issues of report.

And the nation's only retailer of loss luggage from airlines.

And their found reports, third annual found report, what items were discovered this year.

And it gets really interesting.

The owner, Brian Owens said after 55 years of reclaiming lost and rejected goods, I often believe I've seen it all.

But then here comes something new.

Like this past year, a matching set of samurai swords, a fully assembled assembled robot, a dolce and cabana jewel jacket, gold plated golf clubs.

I mean, really crazy stuff.

Now, there's a lot of flying around and luggage is 99.99% delivered and picked up.

But even with 99.9%, if you have 10 billion flights a year, that's what happens.

So the most fascinating found finds, and this is according to them, a full beekeeping suit, a set of diamond studded grills made from 10 karat gold.

Yeah, for the old two there, the most valuable finds.

This one is kind of weird, a $35,000 Rolex in lost luggage, a $10,000 Chanel handbag, a $12,500 Balenciaga.

Do I have that right leather jacket, artifacts, historical artifacts, musical instruments, coin collections.

I mean, pretty impressive, famous trader Joe's tote bags.

That's their worth what, $25,000 each, not really.

But for some reason, they have become a thing.

There was this suitcase that was packed with rat poison.

There was a set of human bones.

Okay.

Why not?

And what ends up happening, and I don't know how this guy got the contract with every airline, but he did.

Also, the most valuable thing found was a set of white diamond earrings, valued it over $43,000.

I lost a pair of Bose headsets, not a pair of one that has two years, because most of us have two years.

And $300, and I left it on the plane.

And as I left the plane and the door, I'm out.

I want to go, oh my God, I left my headsets.

Can I run back in and get them?

Nope.

Once you're out the door of a plane, you're out the door of a plane.

So what ended up happening?

A $300 set of Bose, and that is a really good quality headset.

Noise suppressing headset, I know $300 right there.

And somebody ended up buying it because they auctioned it off, and that was one of those things.

The most common items close, you would think so, mobile phones, jewelry, it just goes on and on.

That's the found report.

You know where they are?

They are in Scottsboro, Alabama, at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Scottsboro.

What a weird place to go, huh?

All right, coming up.

Oh, here's one.

By the way, before we go, teak didgeridoo.

You know what a didgeridoo is?

That's the instrument that's used.

It's like, yeah, it's one of those Australian ounce of pure gold that was found.

A pure gold bar, which is worth what?

This morning, $5,200, a pair of firepoint, you know,

firepoint are those, how do you do those, the Hawaiian guys and the Samoan guys use them to twirl pair of batons.

That's what they are with fire on each end that they light and they do their thing pair of those.

There was a meteorite found that fell to earth in 1576.

There was a bionic knee, a powered prosthetic knee joint, integrated motor, electronic controls, metal housing.

But the model is still an online trial phases phases.

Can you imagine how valuable that is?

A fully assembled robotic unit was found, not a robot, a robotic unit that's used in industrial applications.

Just fun stuff.

All right, we're done with that.

Coming up, it's a foodie Friday.

A lot of fun things to talk about and we don't have a Costco.

No, we don't, but we're going to make it happen.

We'll be right back with Neal and ask I handle anything at the bottom of the hour.

So we're going to have a fun last hour of the last show of the week, KFI AM640.

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