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It is a Tuesday morning, the twelfth day of November to Taco Tuesday coming up this Saturday, November sixteenth, Join me at the La Lawyers Philharmonic and Legal Voices concert. They do this every year at Barnhum Hall in Santa Monica.

And it's the lawyers, Judges, etc.

It's an orchestra made up of legal people that aren't suing you, and it's a terrific orchestra. Classical music, movie, classics, contemporary music. I think they're doing Beauty and the Beasts some stuff from there. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. And just go to La Lawyers phil as In Philharmonic La lawyersphil dot Org. Tickets are like twenty to ninety dollars and half of that is deductible, so's

Is it is it true that they carry their instruments in their own hand and they have no cases?

Uh huh, Well, but they do all wear suits, so that's very good on both sides.

Is it?

Is it?

And they do it in their underwear because they like to, you know, deal with briefs.

Yeah, we can do this for a while. Why don't we not? We probably can, Yeah, that's probably true. This is why Neil's part of this show. Now.

Friday night, there was a meeting that sort of slipped through the cracks, I guess after the reaction to the Trump election, and the California Air Resources Board approved major changes to the low Carbon Fuel Standard. Basically, it's a program aimed at encouraging use of cleaner fuels with financial incentives. So the board voted twelve to two, seven hours of comments, one hundred people, four hours of discussion.

And here is the heart of the controversy.

How do you wean Californians off gasoline and diesel? Because in order to clear the states or clean the state's dirty air and reducing the state's role in climate crisis, how do you do that without raising.

The cost to consumers.

Well, they've tried, they've tried, and the reason they're really pushing hard is that the board made this an emergency.

Issue to push for cleaner fuels.

Why, because we had an election on Tuesday, which Donald Trump has denied the existence of climate change and have targeted California environmental programs. And I told you California is going to get into a war almost immediately with Trump. And here's the problem with this new program. The potential effects.

On our fuel prices are unknown. We have no idea.

The board itself a few months ago said our fuel prices are going to increase forty nine cents a gallon by next year.

And the pushback was so.

Hard to go no, no, no, that was we weren't predicting that. We're saying that it could under very broad circumstances.

Now here's a really weird one. Who's against it? Who's for it? Now? This is to reduce screenhouse gases.

Right.

Environmentals and environmentalists.

And consumer advocates oppose the rules, warning that the changes will boost alternative fuels.

What's wrong with that? Like biofuels, And here is the problem.

Biofuels made from commonre soybeans, they say have limited upsides. And part of this is oil companies are allowed to stay in business because they can buy credits. Because it expanded the credits, we'll go ahead and produce crap fuels that pollute the environment, and to the extent that we can, we'll buy the credits from biofuels. And what's happening is the consumers are saying, or the environment is saying, that doesn't do anything. If you really want to clean up

It doesn't exist.

And I'm gonna love it because you've got people in Louisiana, for example, they're going to be flooded out for the fourth time this year, and they're going to stand up and go, Nope, not a problem. Or people in the wildfire areas that can't get insurance, they can't get home insurance. No, no, not a problem. There is no climate change there. I don't buy it. Okay, hurricanes, how about that forest fire in New York? Whoever heard of a forest fire on

And this is going to affect us.

I mean, can you imagine waking up sometime next year in its fifty cents a gallon more for gas?

Because we don't pay enough for gas.

Actually, in the world of Donald Trump, we don't pay enough for gas.

California should pay a lot more for gas.

It's not only is it going to be a fascinating presidency. As I told you, they're going to be major, major changes in the way we live. But part of the fascination is the all outright battle between our state and the Feds. And it's going to be a lot of fodder for us, that's for sure. Okay, if you ever have kids go to college, and I have, there are two days during their first year which is always kind

You go there, you go to Ikea and you.

Buy the crap or target and the kids go in, set up the bedding, et cetera, et cetera.

The next time out is and this goes on.

Every years parent day at school. Now Parent Day is a real party and people get plastered. And who gets plastered more than the kids? The parents get plastered more than the kids. That's the new normal where you have these high jinks at fraternities, hijinks like killing kids during you know, their first weeks in the fraternity, their pledge weeks. This is where the parents come out and what do they do well? Their tours around campus send there are

Okay, Nicole beat again.

This story has twins that are Junior's, University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin. Who's gone to a bunch of these things and says the new normal is now parents are drinking and dancing and having a rip roaring good time. For example, University of Michigan Parents weekend in September. The football game started at noon, the drinking started at eight thirty in the morning.

The parents were real happy.

Didn't know who won that game, by the way, but either real happy or really sad by the way.

She does not like this.

De Leone does not like the cheap beer, so she takes many bottles of Tito's vodka and stuffs it into her fannic pack and then drinks like crazy in the morning. So by the time she gets to the game, which of course they search for bottles of booze, she's already having a good time.

And it doesn't even matter with a cheap beer, she says.

The frat houses are disgusting, but you make the best of it. A giant tent is set up overlooking the lake. There's the University of Michigan. We're dancing, we're hanging out with kids, we're pregaming, and we're just having the time of our lives.

There's a one story.

Of a senior at usc alyssa broad She went on TikTok and saw a post of her dad downing jello shots at ten am in the morning and then dancing around. Now you know, first of all, I'm not a drinker, as you know, so I don't hang around those crowds. But it seems to be that we have sort of switched over where you have these staid parents.

But there is when you think.

About it, it's a time in your life. And I did this with my daughter University of San Francisco or San Francisco University, when she went to school and.

There, and it's a Jesuit school, by the way.

So the drinks, I mean, they offer drinks, little tiny cups of wine and some wafers and that was all they offered.

It was very, very boring.

And then there was a lot of discussion in parties and there was a lot of stuff about Jesus.

Why I sent my Jewish daughter to that.

School is she happened to be a good student and they gave her a scholarship. They gave her a Merit scholarship. And by the way, just a quick story, and that is she got a Merit scholarship.

And I went to the school and I said.

Hey, listen, I mean appreciate that she got a scholarship, but tell you what, you know what I can afford it.

We put the money away for her college education.

I started a college fund when the girls were born, and it's fully funded now because I put money in every month for the last eighteen years. So why don't you take the money and give it part of the scholarship fund and give it to some kid who can't afford the school.

And it's a private university. And they said no.

Now, our program is if you have a merit scholarship, you have to accept the scholarship. Otherwise your daughter is not accepted in I said, wait a minute, hang on, hang on. You're telling me that you are not going to accept her unless she takes the scholarship.

And they said, yep, wow, that is so weird.

It's like at the synagogue where my girls were bought mitzvad or banot Mitzvad. They asked for a big donation, and do you want a room named after you?

I wouldn't. I'm not a building or anything, but a room. You want a room?

And I said, the only thing I want is I want the urinals in the men's bathroom, just with this urinal.

Is not a product of but this urinoal was.

Donated by you buy yeah, donated by the Handle Family Trust.

That's all I wanted. So therefore, you can sell off the room name, you can do whatever.

I just want the urinals, you know that little plaque over each urinal. And they said no, and I said, a minute, what if I say, either I get the urino mention or you don't get the money. They stood by their ground, so I paid them anyway. Now on the other side of the coin, just a little anecdotal story. A very very very dear friend of mine whose daughter is a doctor, and she, when she was in med school,

So she said, would.

You donate money to put in these various they're actually outdoor toilets, but very sophisticated outdoor toilets, chemicals and doors and locks and I mean all of that. Basically, they were toilets, the communal toilets that had all the technology of a assesspool toilet, that sort of thing, a leeching toilet, and say, would you know, donate and give us some money for one? I go, sure, But the only requirement is my name over the door. This toilet courtesy of

You know you're gonna see that's right. I don't know why I went off on that tangent.

Oh, parents and school and donations and all that stuff. Okay, a quick story I want to share with you about sales meetings and long lunches. Now we know they have faded in the past, or they were part of the past, but that process has speeded up a new generation of executives basically reimagining how business is going to get done. They're hyper connected, they're digitally savvy twenties and thirty somethings. They don't make many sales calls, They avoid emails, they don't pick up the phone.

How do they connect LinkedIn and then follow up with a text?

If they go to a party, they're ordering mocktails, non alcoholic beer when they're out with older clients. One of them, the co founder of supercopy dot Ai, a AI marketing startup, said I'll order the lightest possible logger, let.

Them drink the whiskey. So what's going on with this? Well, there's a.

Bunch of reasons why this is happening, including increased competition, the pandemic employee turnover. Decision makers are now a lot more of them. The old ways of doing business just aren't there anymore. First of all companies have clamped down on quote, excessive spending and entertaining. They just don't do that anymore. And how often do we take clients for lunch?

Occasionally, but not like we used to.

The biggest change in the word culture is simply the rise of technology and the generation that comes with the rise of technology. And here is the fun part, and that is and this is I think this is a good rule.

The bar for selling is so much higher than it used to be.

And according to the chief revenue officer for one of these internet.

Companies says that a lot of these party tricks.

Don't really work anymore, and he sells technology to small restaurants. You can't just wine and dine and buddy up to someone and expect a result. You have to be able to demonstrate competence as a seller, because your selling experience is indicative of what your company.

Is doing and the support that it's going to give. In other words, the.

Professionality of sales is extraordinary. Why it's very difficult to get salespeople into good positions without a lot of experience. There isn't a lot of there aren't too many backbenches, or there is not too too many of these training programs. They are just to expend. They want people to know what they're doing. Okay, fair enough, So now it's going that way. But here's the problem with it. With the Internet, which makes it far easier to contact people, how do

Pencils, who distributes pencils, who does.

Office supplies, who thinks about selling pencils and doing a startup about selling pencils, knows that you've just bought pencils, and all of a sudden you get three thousand emails.

Pitching you for pencils. So you know what's going on.

The professionality is staying there. A lot of people are going back to figuring out and networking. Of course, is everything going almost back to the old days where it's one on one, where they're going back to meetings. And in radio, for example, radio sales programming, it used to be where you'd have not program directors per se. Well, you'd have program directors, but you would have promoters going to the radio stations to.

Promote songs, or.

Promote albums, or to promote product done by the people on their label.

And there were very unsavory things going on. And then the Internet and.

Algorithms took care of all of that. So you know what's happening in radio, And I see this every day. We're going back to old school bags of cash and files of cocaine because that worked then and then it stopped working. And now, I mean, Neil, you've seen the bags going around and people sniffing, sniffling all down, up and down the halls.

No, when I got into radio in the late eighties, a lot of that stuff had already gone away.

But they did have the you know, four martini lunches.

I remember those.

I do too, You could have a lunch.

We'd have sales managers go out and spend three hours to pitch a client and come back with an eleven dollars bill. Oh absolutely, we see that all the time. And boy are those days gone. Those days are gone. I don't even think that salespeople even have expense accounts anymore.

I don't think it exists.

Yeah, you know, I've been asked, Bill, would you please go out to lunch with this client or prospective client. I go, yeah, all right, you know, I mean, I'll take the time. It's an important client, and I appreciate the support, and it had been wonderful with us. And then I'm told and by the way, you're picking up lunch, what welcome to iHeart. I'm telling you, vials of cocaine and bags full of money are gonna do it once again.

We're gonna go back to the old days, old school works. Okay.

Interesting story about San Francisco forty nine er Stars star Nick Bosa October twenty seven.

He crashes a televised.

Postgame interview to show off his Make America Great hat again hat clear violation of the NFL rules, No issue. Now, how does Pro football deal with this? Does the league penalize a player days before the election, risking potential backlash from fans and even more importantly, former president soon to be president elect Donald Trump.

So what did the NFL do?

Well, as teams who are thirty five yards out or thirty yards out and they're on their fourth down, they punted, That's what they did. And they waited until the election had come and gone, and then they find Bosa and fifty five dollars over this past weekend. So here's it's fascinating. The timing of what Bosa di is places the league in a real thorny situation because any punishment could have been perceived as a statement against Trump.

He's wearing the MAGA hat. If you look at history, it didn't.

Take long for the NFL to issue fines for similar violations.

I mean, right, and.

There Rule five, Section four, Article eight on game days when players are visible prohibited from wearing, displaying, otherwise conveying personal messages, either in writing or illustration. Well, I mean Bosa clearly knew he breached that one. I mean he wore that cap. Matter of fact, he pointed to the cap and even before the final was issued, he knew it was going to hit and he said, doesn't matter what it is, it was well worth it. I'm wearing the hat. Took two weeks for the NFL to issue

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