charged with fighting and preventing wildfires on state land is cal fire, they have a new director, joe tyler who was appointed by governor newsom in march. chief tyler joins us via skype in sacramento. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> you have en with the agency for a long time, 31 years, but you have been in this job as the director for just a few months how's it going? >> it has been an honor and a great opportunity to serve as the director and fire chief of cal fire, i never thought that i would be here. >> why not? >> well, i started my career as you said so many years ago in chester county, eventually making my way down to riverside, and back into the sacramento area and el dorado county. >> were you a firefighter at the time? >> i was a firefighter, i started from the lowest ranks of our department as a seasonal firefighter and made my way through every fire suppression rig that this department has.>> and what did that perspective give you as you start this job as director? >> it has given me a full depth and breadth of experience across the state working in multiple

. >>> tonight on kqed newsroom, we go in depth with the new head of california fire, joe tyler, we discussedcoping with a warmer california, the departments fatigued firefighting force and tyler's response to investigations that say his agency needs to do more to prevent wildfires. plus, we visit some friends, on tonight's edition of something beautiful. coming to you from our headquarters in san francisco, this friday, august 12, 2022. hello and welcome to kqed newsroom, i'm priya davi

question is for you: which one of these president's changed his name from leslie john tyler, franklin pierce, gerald ford or joe biden? >> from leslie? i'm going to go -- i'm just going to go gerald folder ford thinking he watched the airplane police squad series. kennedy: you have a point, jim, you're on the board. great job. >> bang. >> jimmy, i knew you could get one of these right eventually after 17 tries. chris hahn, your first question: what was president obama's preferred brand of cigarettes? marlboro, camel, new port, or hand roled and laced with pcp? >> oh, man. i'm going to say camel kennedy: you would be wrong. joe kamala was not for our -- camel was not for our former president. -marlboro. kennedy: scott, this is for you. you ready to play, scott? that's right. >> i'll give it a shot. kennedy: in what state was president george h.w. bush born? texas, massachusetts, rhode island, or iowa? >> oh, that must be massachusetts. kennedy: yes, scott horton is on the board. tied with jim. they each have one. and now that you have something on the board, you can press your luck if you want or wait for the ne

joe malioko welcome. good to have you with us >> thank you so much for having me on, tyler after hearing that, i think i need a drink >> i think we all need a drink we began by saying if inflation can lock it up in a bottle of bourbon, i said i'm willing to explore that so let's talk about what you had to do with your final retail prices in light of these input costs going up so much >> yeah, even though that july jeer over year cpi index is 8.5%, you know, what we're really seeing is a lot of cost items for us are going way, way beyond that as you just, you know, so well outlined i work between michters in kentucky and chatham imports in manhattan which, you know, sells gin and imports wine we're just seeing tremendous increases like you've never seen so much of the world's grain gets exported. >> forgive me for interrupting how much of these costs increases are directly or attributable to what's going on in ukraine and we can't ignore the fact that a lot of grain, whether it's corn, wheat, whether it's barley, comes out of either ukraine or russia? >> some figures i see are from ukraine. something like 17%

tyler. did you ever pretend to anyone? >> jeremy: no, i think i want to do -- i could always sing but i couldn't sing like the bands that i like, def leppard, joeally find my voice until later on in life, my own styling -- i sing a lot of karaoke. >> kelly: what's your go-to? i'm listening to your deep tones. >> jeremy: at six weeks of traveling, shattered right now. >> kelly: i love that, janis joplin. when you are not shattered, what are you singing at karaoke? >> jeremy: i don't know, probably -- "new york city" was one of my favorites, billy joel. a great thing to do because i had no money, sink or create a karaoke bar. he >> kelly: me too. is it true that sam rockwell used to lip-sync while you would hide and you would be one singing? >> jeremy: we did it a few times, yeah. >> kelly: he has no singing was whatsoever? >> jeremy: i was singing and he went up and performed it, and, yeah, i did that for a lot of my friends, actually. they would get phone numbers and step out of the deal. it was pretty awesome. >> kelly: you're the best wingmen ever. wow. get the numbers, that's all i'm saying. do you have a go to christmas song? >> jeremy: i l

tyler pager, thank you so much for waking up and joining us. thank you for getting up "way too early" with us on this friday morning. "morning joeal clear about what is on the ballot this year. your right to choose is on the ballot this year. >> the social security you paid for from the time you had a job is on the ballot. the safety of your kids from gun violence ishyperbole, the survil of our planet is on the ballot. your right to vote is on the ballot. even the democracy. are you ready to fight for these things now? then you need to do one thing, vote, vote! >> vote, vote, vote, vote, vote! >> you got it. >> president biden firing up a crowd in maryland as he returns to the campaign trail for his first rally ahead of the midterm elections. but tgs what he told donors earlier in the day that really got republicans riled up. we'll talk you through his remarks. >>> plus, the latest on the justice department investigation into donald trump. any moment now, we expect to see a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the fbi's search of