October 11, 2023 • 31 mins
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You're in for a real treat today because in each
of our three hours, I'll call it the Trifecta of
El Segundo time stories. We have quite a collection. Then
they're all dealing with the race card, all three but
from very distinct angles, birds, your ring camera and the
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black sit. What I remember the break sit when British
left the Europe. Yes, this according to the Elsigondo Times reporter.
Is the black sit Black Americans leaving because we're too
racist leaving the country. Is that right? They found a woman, Yeah,
they found a woman who's in Costa Rica. I'll read
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you one key sentence in the story coming up. We'll
probably do that one first this hour. We're gonna do
one each hour, these three stories, because they're just they're gems.
They really are gems. I was just reading the one
about the birds. I scroll down. Who wrote this one? Oh,
the drought reporter? Good lord, right, yeah, The Times has
a drought reporter that was in their that's in their
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climate change section. Yeah. Yeah, you found that one first,
that one got that actually emailed that one to me.
That is the first thing I read this morning. I
got up at six in the morning, went to the
La Times because it makes me happy. I get a
good laugh. And man, they out did themselves. I saw
the bird, the racist bird story, and then the racist
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ring camera story. I said, oh my god, this I
saw that one this morning. I'm like, are you kidding me?
Because I have a ring camera, I'm racist? Oh damn it.
I don't pass the Times test. I look at birds,
I get a diverse bird. We talked about your bird faster.
That's right. So you know what we might do as
a daily feature if it's funny enough. Uh, just randomly
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take a look at the Times website during the show
and just read some of the ridiculous story. See how
many times it's what's their their four main categories? Is
is race, climate? And uh there's something else some other
left time? Would you say LGBTQ or or is that
under gender? I don't know, Yeah, well I'll think of
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it later.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Did I get the clown music ready?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The guess a different world? An update now on what's
going on in another part of the world, and of
course that's Israel against Hamas. One thing that kind of
happened today which definitely bears watching is Hesbelah Hesbola's in
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Lebanon and apparently there was some well some firing back
and forth between the Israeli army and Hesbela militants in Lebanon,
which if this breaks out into something, this would be
of course to the north of Israel. Hesbola is an
a run backed Shiite group committed to again the destruction
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of the Jewish state. Now they have an alliance with Amasque,
but they didn't always because apparently they were on opposite
sides when there was a Syrian civil war. I mean
this goes back on to Sunni versus She is right,
that whole thing religious two distinct flavors of Islam, and
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Hamas is a Sunni Muslim group. They have a thousand
year feud going on and it's over their relationship with Muhammad,
right right. I think we talked about this years ago
in reference to stuff going on in a rock and
a rock versus Iron, right, and there was an alms
those countries. There was an element with al Qaeda as well.
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Right now. There is also an Israeli lawmaker who well
shades of Putin, who wants to deploy a doomsday weapon
against Hamas. The name is a revital I guess nicknamed
Tally Gottlive, an Israeli lawyer and member of the Kanesset,
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posted multiple times on x with of course people's book
called Twitter about the possibility of nuclear warfare, making the
argument that to go in there with ground troops to
try to root out Hamas would maybe not work, It
would be very very long and time consuming and possibly
cause a lot of deaths. This is a woman, by
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the way, and she mentioned Jericho, which is a reference
to Israel's initial ballistic missile program developing the nineteen sixties
and of course named for the Biblical city. They actually
started this program jointly with France, but France with drew
in nineteen sixty nine and Israel's maintained the system, and
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they had the first jerichas they called Jericho on the
model was ready in nineteen seventy three during the Yam
Kippur War. Now this is one person, one politician. I
don't necessarily believe that this is going to gain a
lot of ground with the rest of the Israeli government
of the military. But her words were, but why should
Israel need to develop an intermediate range ballistic missile? Oh,
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this is an analyst, given that it's declared adversaries Iron
and several Arab states are all within much shorter range.
The answer may be that Israel is a security and
fuse state always considers worst case scenarios and plans for contingencies.
So this is just some of the chatter that's going
on out there.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I sometimes when you see someone go out on a
limb like that, it looks like, oh, she's just one
person shooting off her mouth, or maybe she was asked to.
It's like, would you do this? Would you plant the
seed and the minds of everyone else? Put it out
there and see what the response is and then if
people say, what the hell is this? Hey, that was
just opinion of one person. But I doubt it's the
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opinion of one person, because I do think Israel's mindset
is that there are multiple enemies who want to annihilate them,
and so they have gained out a lot of this
for many, many years, and all that changes is the
severity of the weapons that they have developed. And the
thing is that it makes what happened all that and
we're shocking when you think of how much money they
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have spent and how the system they have to defend
themselves and all the people that they're able to call up.
It's just mind boggling how Mas was able to pull
this off. And there's a there's a great story to
be told there on what happened. One day there will
be right, I honestly believe. I mean, some people think
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this is going to topple Netta Yahu from power there
because they just were not They didn't see this coming.
Somebody screwed up big time. Probably probably most of it's
like what a plane crashes, though it's multiple factors all
at the same time. So there, there's it's it's probably
a number of people stopped doing their job properly. Yeah,
there was no country on the planet more on the
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defensive than Israel, which has been for decades. And you're right,
they always have to be ready for anything, especially with
all these groups. I was watching ABC News last night
and they did about They did almost the entire newscast
John Muir, John Muir, David Muir, David Yes, so, and
it was grewsome stuff. I mean they showed a kid's
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bedroom where the blood was still all over the sheets.
It was just terrible things, and all the you know,
the neighborhood where the kids had been beheaded. And they
also showed that not too far away the music show
where two hundred and sixty people were more a festival. Right,
it's all in the same area. And one of those
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two sites I forget which either the neighborhood or the
music festival. Right next to it was the fence that
divided Israel from Gaza. I mean, they were right there
on the literal border and I'm thinking, wow, and I
read today I read a story about how everything is
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Israel is constantly monitoring Gaza. They have all kinds of
surveillance tactics that can't imagine. They have extensive intelligence operations.
So it's like I've read that somebody didn't get the
word that this was coming. It was a see through fence.
It was a chain link fence. Oh, they blasted through
it pretty easily for Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't much of
a fan. It was easy to go through. But it
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just seemed like, hey, somebody should have said, hey, what's
going on over there? Because they were. They were practicing
this for months. I like you said, we've learned it
may have been a year in the planet.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, I think one aspect maybe that caught them by
surprise was it was a holiday.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, so with the Moss would recognize a holiday and
not attack.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No, they don't care about that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Oh then why do you think.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'm saying the Jews were the Israelis were caught by
surprise because they were because they were at home celebrating
the holiday.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah. I mean that to me would put me more
on guard, thinking, now that's when they'd like to get
us well, when we were quote celebrating, right, we're not
paying attention.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That's why I have to walk through metal detectors when
I go through go to temple.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's like America's watching the super Bowl, right, that's a
good time to everybody's caught up in something. Did you
did you go to temple over the weekend?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Not over the weekend but for Russia, Shan and yumkie
pre services yet.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And just wondering what the security issues are like now
in the SYNAGOGUEUS, i'd get my back checked.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I have to go through a metal detector. And it's
been that way all my life.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, no, I remember that because we had we had
a number of bar mitzvahs and bar Mitzvah services at
synagogues that we went to. Kids were smaller, and I
remember read it going through the metal detectors.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
The prayer shawl that I wear when I'm in services,
I keep it in a bag and my bag has
to be checked by security every time.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
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I'm nevause sure what hour I'm in. And you know,
in just a couple of weeks we're turning back the clock.
So you're gonna be okay. No, no, I'm never okay.
The beginning to open, I barely get daylight savings time. Yeah,
I know it's gonna get dark early, it is, but
it's going to be lighter a little earlier, like seven
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or eight thirty or seven thirty or whatever. Yeah. Well,
you know I'm big on the light, a later light
rather than early light. But all right, Well, as we
promised you, each hour after one point thirty, we'll do
the first of the three stories. They also Gonda Times
has an incredible trifecta of race stories involving rather odd topics, birds,
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ring cameras, and people leaving the country. We'll start with
the birds. Birds, since yeah, and John's got a special
interest in birds. So now we'll find out if John
lives in a racist neighborhood. You know, based on their criteria,
it must be because there's a great diversity of birds
in my backyard. Oh and I looked at that story,
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and I said, I don't. I don't because all I
see are damn ravens or crows, whatever the hell they are.
That's about all I have. And they peck on my roof.
It's ridiculous. They're up there causing a I think, is
there construction going on next door? Like, Oh no, it's
those ravens. They walk around up there and they pound
on the Oh they make a lot of noise, yeah,
because they're big, heavy birds. They're fat birds. Oh, they're
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fat birds. So scare them. Thrown something up there. We
have yellow warblers in our backyard. I don't think I
even know what a warbler is. Day we'll bird watch together.
The Deborah usually jumps and said, yeah, let's do that. Yeah,
the three of us can get together in bird But
she'll scare all the bird's way. Really, birds are vegan,
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aren't they too much?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Burns?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I mean burns? Birds are vegan? Yeah? I think they
they do. I always think a bird seed and stuff,
but oh yeah, yeah, but they do. They do peck
at the ground and they eat insects.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Right, I bet an eagle to get it, a little
dog or something like that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Oh that kind of bird. Why do you why do
you need to go there. I don't I don't have,
but we don't need we don't need that visual. We
love it all right, the the death do all well.
It's going to be a while to really sort this out.
But the Israeli military says in more than twelve hundred people,
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including one hundred and eighty nine soldiers, have been killed
since this whole thing started over the weekend. In Gaza,
eleven hundred people have been killed, thousands have been wounded
on both sides. Gaza is not a place to be
right now for a lot of reasons. Everything is cut off.
They've lost power, people have to have private generators now,
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and of course there's a hospital there too, trying to
deal with this because as you know, there's still a
lot of incoming missiles. Hamas is still firing missiles into Israel,
but there are a lot of missiles coming from Israel
into the Gaza strip, and nobody's quite sure of the
situation of the toll there. Egypt and international groups are
looking for what they call the humanitarian corridor to try
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to get some aid into Gaza because right now it
is completely cut off and we're waiting to see if
the Israeli military does do a ground invasion to try
to root out Hamas. I realize these are religious fanatics
consumed by hatred. But do you think any of these
Humas guys, after a few days of the Israeli bombardment
one of them is going to say, maybe we shouldn't
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have done this. I would think more than one like
that wasn't a good idea? Whose idea was this? Yeah?
And again you're right, you think about that because obviously
the invasion had quite an impact to the Israeli people
are horrified. They may not feel safe. That was kind
of the goal here. But yeah, if the blowback is
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going to be tremendous, if there was one government and
one group of people, I would not want to rile
up by threatening them with casual extinction. It would be
the Israelis. Honestly, they Derek, you'll agree with this. I
mean they are going to fight to the death, absolutely
with all the energy and force they can collectively muster. Yes, yeah, America,
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it's not going to do that. Like half of America.
It's like, fine, you're the new Dick to Okay, he
was still good at that pole work of people just
said I surrendered. Yeah. It was like it was like
half the Democrats and because we've had a cushy life
here not involved in that part of the world is
always war torn and what's what's the name of a
new leader? Eight off? Okay, fine, come on right in
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not Yeah, you almost look at this broadly. You think,
what if Hamas expect Israel, we turn around and say,
all right, we understand, we're going to give you a
territories back. Yeah, sure, no problem, I mean, simply, but
that's not gonna happen. The thing is, when when you're
trying to destroy an anime, you have to go for
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the kill. You can't just you know, nick them, do
some modest damage, half leave them, half day. You've got
to crush them entirely, because if you don't, then you're done.
And so what they did was a terrible tragedy and
they killed a lot of people, but it still was
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only a tiny frame action of the population of Israel.
Oh well, they don't have the means to make a big,
big assaultage which described it. Which is why you don't
do that. Okay, I mean you did. You didn't harm
their their their military force, their weaponry, you know, their ammunition,
their their capability of plotting and strategizing, and they have
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a nuclear weapon too. I just I really that is
just a dumb idea on a practical level. All right,
we'll have war on the story later on in the
show with a couple of guests. When we return, though,
we're going to talk about birds your neighborhood racism. It's
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an El Sagundo time special Birds Johnny Ken KFI. Have
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From the radio from one until four. Then after four
o'clock it's Johnny Cannon demanded podcast. It's the same show,
but you could listen to what you missed and listen
to it more quickly. How many people have grabbed it
and go? Why is this the same show? I was
expecting more material? Yeah, right, okay, we're gonna do a
second show. Yeah, give you six hours. Did they want
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us to do that years ago, like put an extra
hour just on the podcast or something? I remember something
being disgusted if the only media outlet you looked at
was the El Segundo Times, and we call it that
it's the La Times, but their offices are now in
El Segundo. If that's all you looked at, you would
believe that the United States, California is the most racist
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place on the planet. You just have to conclude that
is story after story. But today, then yesterday, we found
a trifecta of what we call race stories in the
Al Siegundo Times, and they're really, in their own ways,
all humorous. We're gonna start with the bird story. We
kid you not. The headline of the story how LA's
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bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices.
Can you imagine waking up in the morning and reading
this LA's bird population, because at first I thought, oh,
you know, I love reading about bird populations. So they're
migrations historic redlining. And if you don't know what redlining is,
it's what insurance companies and real estate companies do, and
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banks and banks the mortgages. If they draw a red
line around a neighborhood, nobody's getting a mortgage. It's a
high risk, nobody's getting a loan. And that's considered racist,
even though that's just a business practice. Considered good investment
if you were a bank. Right, Well, you know they
normally what they do is they determine, uh, you know,
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what your ability to pay the loan is. Now, I'm sure,
and it's unfair in regards. Perhaps there's definite residents in
that redlined area that can do very well with the mortgage.
It's just exing out the whole neighborhood is probably a
little severe. That was the problem with it. Well, yeah,
I'm sure they went people should be evaluated on an
individual basis to whether or not they're a good risk,
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no matter what their race is or income or whatever.
And then you have to go through the whole detail
of it. This is stuff that went on in the
nineteen thirties and nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, all right
there there there There was a lot of terrible things
that were done back then. Yes, but you know, most
of them have been fixed. However, apparently there was a
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time where it was too fixed. When we had the
mortgage meltdown and everybody got a mortgage. You know, oh,
income stated, fine, you make that much, we believe you.
Right there we go. We always love to cycle this country.
So they start the story and it's by h Durraini Paneda.
Draini Paneda. She's a staff writer who basically covers the drought,
not kidding you, that's what job at this and there's
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no drought right now, no, so she's got to do
something else. And of course what's big with the with
the elsign to have times and the assignment editors is
anything to do with race? Can you find anything? You're
on the drought? But what all right? Nature, birds, birdwires.
Bird watching can be racist. Well, it starts off with
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a couple of broadwatchers and in Boil Heights, right and
they found they're out there with their binoculars a house sparrow.
It says here the house sparrow is an urban creature
that thrives where people do. They're resilient, adaptable, and aggressive.
If you get the idea here, it means that in
the poorer neighborhoods or the ones that were historically redlined,
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this is probably one of the few birds you go
to see there. You're going to less than ten miles
to the northeast. They go to San Marino, which is wealthier,
and instead of just sparrows and ravens and common pigeons. Oh, No,
among the manicured lawns and mature trees, very different assortments
of birds. They found a band tailed pigeon. They also
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recognized acorn woodpeckers, a California tohee, dozens of turkey vultures,
a dark eyed juneco, a mocking bird, and Anna's hummingbird,
and a black phoebe. Now, John, have you spotted all
those in your neighborhood? Not the black phoebe? No, oh,
dark eyed juco juneco? John Coe, I told you I
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saw the yellow warbler, and I've seen cardinals. Did you
look up the warbler with the alsion times? As a
considered a good neighborhood, we have a diversity of birds, definitely, Okay,
we don't. It's not just how sparrows, how sparrows are
got ugly little birds, but the yellow warblers. There was
all family of them living in our backyard. Bright yellow fact.
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I saw it. I'd never seen one before, and I
went I went online to try to identify it. Oh,
I occasionally do hear in my neighborhood the good old woodpeckers.
I don't know if it's an acorn woodpecker. I'm looking
at a picture of one here. I don't know as
you go up to look at the woodpeckers, but I
can hear them, and it is true you do, or
their sound as they hit the trees. But anyway, it's
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called the luxury effect. Wealthier and typical, wider neighborhoods attract
a larger and more diverse population of birds. And that's
the bottom line with this. So white bird watchers in
white neighborhoods have a certain bird watching privilege. Yes, you
could argue that, yes, And my favorite the tree canopy,
of course, attracts divers city of birds because they like
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the shade, they like the trees right to venture into.
You're probably at home saying, where the hell does this
stuff come from? Well, according to the El Segundo Times,
in a new study, the researchers argue that the difference
in bird populations is a lasting consequent of racist home
lending practices from decades ago, as well as modern wealth disparities.
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And they even have a chart showing you where what
the desirable neighborhoods are. That's from the nineteen thirties. Yeah,
what the best neighborhoods. The declining neighborhoods, hazardous neighborhoods. I
guess the loan money and I have to say mine
turned up red. So I'm hazardous. You're in a hazardous neighborhood,
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I am.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And there's parts of Santa Monica that are too. Do
you see there is at Venice. I can't tell which
they're on that map there with the red. Now are
they hazardous because of maybe because of the threat of
tsunamis and flooding? I I didn't know that. It just well,
you're right, it doesn't say I mean, some just says
for investment purposes. All right, some areas are red and
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it looks like they've been at poor neighborhoods or maybe
dangerous neighborhoods. Yeah. Then the ones along the coast, I
gotta believe it's got to be the water, the ocean,
except for look at Palace Verdi's estates all green. It's
very desirable. So yeah, well they're high up. I guess
that's true. Historically, red lined non white community such as
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boil Heights have less tree canopy, greater housing density. Well
that's they have less birds. But that I mean, honestly,
what so I well, I'm supposed to feel guilt when
I go in my backyard and look at the yellow warbler.
I can't enjoy the yellow warbler. I have to stand
there and go you know the only reason I can
see this yellow warbler is because of my white privilege. Oh,
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they do mention them here. Forest birds such as yellow
rumped warblers, band tailed pigeons, acorn woodpeckers, and black throated
gray warblers are more abundant in these areas like yours. Yeah,
do you know which kind of warbler you've been looking at?
Black throated gray water No? No, no, it's definitely bright yellow.
Oh that's the yellow rump. Probably the yellow rumped warbler.
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Probably the yellow rumped warbler.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I thought you were really getting into this so you
would know. I thought you were going to become an expert.
I don't. I can't remember all the species I'm probably remembering,
Like what the different species of flowers or trees or birds.
It's like I like looking at them in the moment,
and I'll look them up online. But then you know,
five minutes later, I've forgotten what I what I read.
I just can't seem to retain the names of all
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these things right, But maybe if I did it every day.
See when I was a little kid, let's say about
seven eight years old, I had my cup scout binoculars,
and I took a lawn chair and I went in
the backyard and I threw out some sliced bread, and
I'd sit at the other end of the yard and
looked through the binoculars and look marvel at all the
birds that came to eat the bread. And I remember
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seeing that were we had blue jays, we had cardinals,
we had obviously you grew up in an affluent green area.
Well you ever said that you didn't, I, well, there
were a lot of trees. It wasn't affluent, but they
we had a lot of trees too, and there was
a lot of birds there. There was, there were plenty
of birds. I can't say that I ever cared. I
was just in the backyard playing with football. I didn't
notice any birds. Let's they got. I've always had this
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weird bird thing, bird bird fetish. Yes, that's really an
unkind word to use. But by the way, now that
you brought this up, huh, all right, is I one
of our friends they had this little fluffy dog. It
looked like looked like a mop, the mop, the fuffy
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end of a mop. And some big hawk came one
day and shoop left right in front of the family,
picked it up and flew off, and they found the
remnants of the dog. Let us wear the neighbors horrible.
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All right, we'll continue on, of course after two o'clock.
We'll have a special guest on the show. The Consul
General of Israel to the Pacific Southwest will join us
right after the news at two o'clock to talk about
what's going on, of course, with the attack by Hamas
inside of Israel last weekend. That'll come up after the
news at two o'clock. One of my favorite stories of
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the week from Lovely San Francisco is maybe not a surprise,
but obviously a lot of major cities in this country
are seeing a scourge of stolen cars, particularly hitting up
like the Hyundai and Kias. You probably know about that
by now, because of the way they can rig it
to steal the car easier. Anyway, there are people in
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San Francisco who are tracking their stolen cars by tracking
their parking tickets. Not kidding you, Susan Ashton is fighting
a ticket she got last month on San Francisco's Park
Street for blocking a driveway. San CrOx goes for a
woman named Christy Gagan, who was written up a month
ago that on Turk Street for getting in the way
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of street sweeping. Neither women can match somebody named Zuela Toruno,
who's pushing back on each of the eight tickets she
received in May on Stillman Street in San Francisco. They're
fighting the citations because the cars were stolen then parked
illegally by eves. They're using the parking tickets to track
where their cars are because San Francisco parking control officers
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don't give a crap if the cars parked illegally and
they want the money. They just ticket the car. And
apparently there is a possibility they could get into the
system to find out if it was a reported stolen car,
but it doesn't look like it's done in practice. Yeah,
they don't. They don't bother. You know, that's a great
way for San Francisco to crack a lot of these crimes. Right,
Oh yeah, at least return the car. If you're returning
(28:30):
the car. Sure they're getting tickets, but instead they're harassing
the people who had their cars stolen because that's the
only name they have as far as the car getting
a printing ticket. But if somebody will don't know the
thief's name right right, So now you have to go
what to court and try to prove that your car
was stolen in September and there's tickets from October. I mean,
(28:52):
I guess if you filed a stolen car report, it
would be in the record somewhat, I know. But it
seems like they could get their act together and coordinate this.
So when a parking ticket officer comes up in a
legally parked car, he can find out if it's a
stolen car, right and not ticket it. The license plate
should match right away. Why can't they have a database
of stolen cars? They could, It could be done. They
(29:14):
just don't do it because they don't care. They figure,
you know, these people, some of them are going to
pay their tickets. So this woman found her car in
the night of August eighteenth. Her Infinity SUV was taken
from outside her home. When she reported the theft of police,
She also visited the social network next door, where several
posters suggested she plug her license plate into a website
(29:36):
for the San Francisco Parking ticket agency. By Monday, sure enough,
she was ticketed in the Fillmore neighborhood, where thieves had
apparently abandoned it. Her husband drove waited for police. They
told him not to touch it when they arrived an
hour and a half later, hour and a half. Oh, oh,
they hadn't arrived in an hour and a half. He
drove the car to the police station. The car was
full of stolen property, credit cards, burglary tools, motorcycle part
(30:00):
So the guys that look like a shop shop who
set up inside my car? This total anarchy. So they
stole the car and then they used it to steal
a bunch of other stuff. Yeah, they stored the stems.
Then they kuped the car, and she gets the ticket. Yes,
she gets the ticket. Right, you can't live there. Car
owners reported more than six thousand stolen cars to San
(30:21):
Francisco Police in both twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two,
And of course San Francisco Police tells the chronicle, Oh,
we recover most of the cars. We do. Yeah, is
it because the people who got the parking tickets helped
you work. I want I want to prove for that.
I don't believe that. Yeah, it says here San Francisco
parking officers could locate stolen cars, but it would require
a technological fix, so fixed because non police agencies don't
(30:44):
have access to law enforcement databases. You see, that's where
the stolen cars are. So fix it that they should
fix it. All this can be fixed, and it can
be fixed very quickly to attach one database to the
other exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Know.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Again, it's more important to collect the ticket money, right,
I have to help people stall cars, right, especially God.
I mean a huge percentage of people have had their
cars broken into or stolen in San Francisco, big percentage.
I've seen those polls. Yeah, right, hardly anybody, I think.
I think almost every person in San Francisco at least
knows of somebody who's had their cars broken into, her stolen.
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You're in for a real treat today because in each
of our three hours, I'll call it the Trifecta of
El Segundo time stories. We have quite a collection. Then
they're all dealing with the race card, all three but
from very distinct angles, birds, your ring camera and the
(01:05):
black sit. What I remember the break sit when British
left the Europe. Yes, this according to the Elsigondo Times reporter.
Is the black sit Black Americans leaving because we're too
racist leaving the country. Is that right? They found a woman, Yeah,
they found a woman who's in Costa Rica. I'll read
(01:28):
you one key sentence in the story coming up. We'll
probably do that one first this hour. We're gonna do
one each hour, these three stories, because they're just they're gems.
They really are gems. I was just reading the one
about the birds. I scroll down. Who wrote this one? Oh,
the drought reporter? Good lord, right, yeah, The Times has
a drought reporter that was in their that's in their
(01:48):
climate change section. Yeah. Yeah, you found that one first,
that one got that actually emailed that one to me.
That is the first thing I read this morning. I
got up at six in the morning, went to the
La Times because it makes me happy. I get a
good laugh. And man, they out did themselves. I saw
the bird, the racist bird story, and then the racist
(02:11):
ring camera story. I said, oh my god, this I
saw that one this morning. I'm like, are you kidding me?
Because I have a ring camera, I'm racist? Oh damn it.
I don't pass the Times test. I look at birds,
I get a diverse bird. We talked about your bird faster.
That's right. So you know what we might do as
a daily feature if it's funny enough. Uh, just randomly
(02:32):
take a look at the Times website during the show
and just read some of the ridiculous story. See how
many times it's what's their their four main categories? Is
is race, climate? And uh there's something else some other
left time? Would you say LGBTQ or or is that
under gender? I don't know, Yeah, well I'll think of
(02:54):
it later.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Did I get the clown music ready?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The guess a different world? An update now on what's
going on in another part of the world, and of
course that's Israel against Hamas. One thing that kind of
happened today which definitely bears watching is Hesbelah Hesbola's in
(03:17):
Lebanon and apparently there was some well some firing back
and forth between the Israeli army and Hesbela militants in Lebanon,
which if this breaks out into something, this would be
of course to the north of Israel. Hesbola is an
a run backed Shiite group committed to again the destruction
(03:39):
of the Jewish state. Now they have an alliance with Amasque,
but they didn't always because apparently they were on opposite
sides when there was a Syrian civil war. I mean
this goes back on to Sunni versus She is right,
that whole thing religious two distinct flavors of Islam, and
(04:01):
Hamas is a Sunni Muslim group. They have a thousand
year feud going on and it's over their relationship with Muhammad,
right right. I think we talked about this years ago
in reference to stuff going on in a rock and
a rock versus Iron, right, and there was an alms
those countries. There was an element with al Qaeda as well.
(04:21):
Right now. There is also an Israeli lawmaker who well
shades of Putin, who wants to deploy a doomsday weapon
against Hamas. The name is a revital I guess nicknamed
Tally Gottlive, an Israeli lawyer and member of the Kanesset,
(04:43):
posted multiple times on x with of course people's book
called Twitter about the possibility of nuclear warfare, making the
argument that to go in there with ground troops to
try to root out Hamas would maybe not work, It
would be very very long and time consuming and possibly
cause a lot of deaths. This is a woman, by
(05:05):
the way, and she mentioned Jericho, which is a reference
to Israel's initial ballistic missile program developing the nineteen sixties
and of course named for the Biblical city. They actually
started this program jointly with France, but France with drew
in nineteen sixty nine and Israel's maintained the system, and
(05:26):
they had the first jerichas they called Jericho on the
model was ready in nineteen seventy three during the Yam
Kippur War. Now this is one person, one politician. I
don't necessarily believe that this is going to gain a
lot of ground with the rest of the Israeli government
of the military. But her words were, but why should
Israel need to develop an intermediate range ballistic missile? Oh,
(05:50):
this is an analyst, given that it's declared adversaries Iron
and several Arab states are all within much shorter range.
The answer may be that Israel is a security and
fuse state always considers worst case scenarios and plans for contingencies.
So this is just some of the chatter that's going
on out there.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I sometimes when you see someone go out on a
limb like that, it looks like, oh, she's just one
person shooting off her mouth, or maybe she was asked to.
It's like, would you do this? Would you plant the
seed and the minds of everyone else? Put it out
there and see what the response is and then if
people say, what the hell is this? Hey, that was
just opinion of one person. But I doubt it's the
(06:32):
opinion of one person, because I do think Israel's mindset
is that there are multiple enemies who want to annihilate them,
and so they have gained out a lot of this
for many, many years, and all that changes is the
severity of the weapons that they have developed. And the
thing is that it makes what happened all that and
we're shocking when you think of how much money they
(06:54):
have spent and how the system they have to defend
themselves and all the people that they're able to call up.
It's just mind boggling how Mas was able to pull
this off. And there's a there's a great story to
be told there on what happened. One day there will
be right, I honestly believe. I mean, some people think
(07:15):
this is going to topple Netta Yahu from power there
because they just were not They didn't see this coming.
Somebody screwed up big time. Probably probably most of it's
like what a plane crashes, though it's multiple factors all
at the same time. So there, there's it's it's probably
a number of people stopped doing their job properly. Yeah,
there was no country on the planet more on the
(07:37):
defensive than Israel, which has been for decades. And you're right,
they always have to be ready for anything, especially with
all these groups. I was watching ABC News last night
and they did about They did almost the entire newscast
John Muir, John Muir, David Muir, David Yes, so, and
it was grewsome stuff. I mean they showed a kid's
(07:57):
bedroom where the blood was still all over the sheets.
It was just terrible things, and all the you know,
the neighborhood where the kids had been beheaded. And they
also showed that not too far away the music show
where two hundred and sixty people were more a festival. Right,
it's all in the same area. And one of those
(08:18):
two sites I forget which either the neighborhood or the
music festival. Right next to it was the fence that
divided Israel from Gaza. I mean, they were right there
on the literal border and I'm thinking, wow, and I
read today I read a story about how everything is
(08:40):
Israel is constantly monitoring Gaza. They have all kinds of
surveillance tactics that can't imagine. They have extensive intelligence operations.
So it's like I've read that somebody didn't get the
word that this was coming. It was a see through fence.
It was a chain link fence. Oh, they blasted through
it pretty easily for Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't much of
a fan. It was easy to go through. But it
(09:01):
just seemed like, hey, somebody should have said, hey, what's
going on over there? Because they were. They were practicing
this for months. I like you said, we've learned it
may have been a year in the planet.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, I think one aspect maybe that caught them by
surprise was it was a holiday.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, so with the Moss would recognize a holiday and
not attack.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No, they don't care about that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Oh then why do you think.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'm saying the Jews were the Israelis were caught by
surprise because they were because they were at home celebrating
the holiday.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah. I mean that to me would put me more
on guard, thinking, now that's when they'd like to get
us well, when we were quote celebrating, right, we're not
paying attention.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That's why I have to walk through metal detectors when
I go through go to temple.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's like America's watching the super Bowl, right, that's a
good time to everybody's caught up in something. Did you
did you go to temple over the weekend?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Not over the weekend but for Russia, Shan and yumkie
pre services yet.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And just wondering what the security issues are like now
in the SYNAGOGUEUS, i'd get my back checked.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I have to go through a metal detector. And it's
been that way all my life.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, no, I remember that because we had we had
a number of bar mitzvahs and bar Mitzvah services at
synagogues that we went to. Kids were smaller, and I
remember read it going through the metal detectors.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
The prayer shawl that I wear when I'm in services,
I keep it in a bag and my bag has
to be checked by security every time.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
All right, when we come back, you'll have a chance
at some money, that's right. The cash contest continues. Johnny
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Speaker 1 (10:40):
I'm nevause sure what hour I'm in. And you know,
in just a couple of weeks we're turning back the clock.
So you're gonna be okay. No, no, I'm never okay.
The beginning to open, I barely get daylight savings time. Yeah,
I know it's gonna get dark early, it is, but
it's going to be lighter a little earlier, like seven
(11:01):
or eight thirty or seven thirty or whatever. Yeah. Well,
you know I'm big on the light, a later light
rather than early light. But all right, Well, as we
promised you, each hour after one point thirty, we'll do
the first of the three stories. They also Gonda Times
has an incredible trifecta of race stories involving rather odd topics, birds,
(11:21):
ring cameras, and people leaving the country. We'll start with
the birds. Birds, since yeah, and John's got a special
interest in birds. So now we'll find out if John
lives in a racist neighborhood. You know, based on their criteria,
it must be because there's a great diversity of birds
in my backyard. Oh and I looked at that story,
(11:43):
and I said, I don't. I don't because all I
see are damn ravens or crows, whatever the hell they are.
That's about all I have. And they peck on my roof.
It's ridiculous. They're up there causing a I think, is
there construction going on next door? Like, Oh no, it's
those ravens. They walk around up there and they pound
on the Oh they make a lot of noise, yeah,
because they're big, heavy birds. They're fat birds. Oh, they're
(12:04):
fat birds. So scare them. Thrown something up there. We
have yellow warblers in our backyard. I don't think I
even know what a warbler is. Day we'll bird watch together.
The Deborah usually jumps and said, yeah, let's do that. Yeah,
the three of us can get together in bird But
she'll scare all the bird's way. Really, birds are vegan,
(12:27):
aren't they too much?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Burns?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I mean burns? Birds are vegan? Yeah? I think they
they do. I always think a bird seed and stuff,
but oh yeah, yeah, but they do. They do peck
at the ground and they eat insects.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Right, I bet an eagle to get it, a little
dog or something like that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Oh that kind of bird. Why do you why do
you need to go there. I don't I don't have,
but we don't need we don't need that visual. We
love it all right, the the death do all well.
It's going to be a while to really sort this out.
But the Israeli military says in more than twelve hundred people,
(13:07):
including one hundred and eighty nine soldiers, have been killed
since this whole thing started over the weekend. In Gaza,
eleven hundred people have been killed, thousands have been wounded
on both sides. Gaza is not a place to be
right now for a lot of reasons. Everything is cut off.
They've lost power, people have to have private generators now,
(13:28):
and of course there's a hospital there too, trying to
deal with this because as you know, there's still a
lot of incoming missiles. Hamas is still firing missiles into Israel,
but there are a lot of missiles coming from Israel
into the Gaza strip, and nobody's quite sure of the
situation of the toll there. Egypt and international groups are
looking for what they call the humanitarian corridor to try
(13:48):
to get some aid into Gaza because right now it
is completely cut off and we're waiting to see if
the Israeli military does do a ground invasion to try
to root out Hamas. I realize these are religious fanatics
consumed by hatred. But do you think any of these
Humas guys, after a few days of the Israeli bombardment
one of them is going to say, maybe we shouldn't
(14:10):
have done this. I would think more than one like
that wasn't a good idea? Whose idea was this? Yeah?
And again you're right, you think about that because obviously
the invasion had quite an impact to the Israeli people
are horrified. They may not feel safe. That was kind
of the goal here. But yeah, if the blowback is
(14:32):
going to be tremendous, if there was one government and
one group of people, I would not want to rile
up by threatening them with casual extinction. It would be
the Israelis. Honestly, they Derek, you'll agree with this. I
mean they are going to fight to the death, absolutely
with all the energy and force they can collectively muster. Yes, yeah, America,
(14:56):
it's not going to do that. Like half of America.
It's like, fine, you're the new Dick to Okay, he
was still good at that pole work of people just
said I surrendered. Yeah. It was like it was like
half the Democrats and because we've had a cushy life
here not involved in that part of the world is
always war torn and what's what's the name of a
new leader? Eight off? Okay, fine, come on right in
(15:17):
not Yeah, you almost look at this broadly. You think,
what if Hamas expect Israel, we turn around and say,
all right, we understand, we're going to give you a
territories back. Yeah, sure, no problem, I mean, simply, but
that's not gonna happen. The thing is, when when you're
trying to destroy an anime, you have to go for
(15:38):
the kill. You can't just you know, nick them, do
some modest damage, half leave them, half day. You've got
to crush them entirely, because if you don't, then you're done.
And so what they did was a terrible tragedy and
they killed a lot of people, but it still was
(15:59):
only a tiny frame action of the population of Israel.
Oh well, they don't have the means to make a big,
big assaultage which described it. Which is why you don't
do that. Okay, I mean you did. You didn't harm
their their their military force, their weaponry, you know, their ammunition,
their their capability of plotting and strategizing, and they have
(16:19):
a nuclear weapon too. I just I really that is
just a dumb idea on a practical level. All right,
we'll have war on the story later on in the
show with a couple of guests. When we return, though,
we're going to talk about birds your neighborhood racism. It's
(16:41):
an El Sagundo time special Birds Johnny Ken KFI. Have
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From the radio from one until four. Then after four
o'clock it's Johnny Cannon demanded podcast. It's the same show,
but you could listen to what you missed and listen
to it more quickly. How many people have grabbed it
and go? Why is this the same show? I was
expecting more material? Yeah, right, okay, we're gonna do a
second show. Yeah, give you six hours. Did they want
(17:19):
us to do that years ago, like put an extra
hour just on the podcast or something? I remember something
being disgusted if the only media outlet you looked at
was the El Segundo Times, and we call it that
it's the La Times, but their offices are now in
El Segundo. If that's all you looked at, you would
believe that the United States, California is the most racist
(17:41):
place on the planet. You just have to conclude that
is story after story. But today, then yesterday, we found
a trifecta of what we call race stories in the
Al Siegundo Times, and they're really, in their own ways,
all humorous. We're gonna start with the bird story. We
kid you not. The headline of the story how LA's
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bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices.
Can you imagine waking up in the morning and reading
this LA's bird population, because at first I thought, oh,
you know, I love reading about bird populations. So they're
migrations historic redlining. And if you don't know what redlining is,
it's what insurance companies and real estate companies do, and
(18:26):
banks and banks the mortgages. If they draw a red
line around a neighborhood, nobody's getting a mortgage. It's a
high risk, nobody's getting a loan. And that's considered racist,
even though that's just a business practice. Considered good investment
if you were a bank. Right, Well, you know they
normally what they do is they determine, uh, you know,
(18:46):
what your ability to pay the loan is. Now, I'm sure,
and it's unfair in regards. Perhaps there's definite residents in
that redlined area that can do very well with the mortgage.
It's just exing out the whole neighborhood is probably a
little severe. That was the problem with it. Well, yeah,
I'm sure they went people should be evaluated on an
individual basis to whether or not they're a good risk,
(19:07):
no matter what their race is or income or whatever.
And then you have to go through the whole detail
of it. This is stuff that went on in the
nineteen thirties and nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, all right
there there there There was a lot of terrible things
that were done back then. Yes, but you know, most
of them have been fixed. However, apparently there was a
(19:28):
time where it was too fixed. When we had the
mortgage meltdown and everybody got a mortgage. You know, oh,
income stated, fine, you make that much, we believe you.
Right there we go. We always love to cycle this country.
So they start the story and it's by h Durraini Paneda.
Draini Paneda. She's a staff writer who basically covers the drought,
not kidding you, that's what job at this and there's
(19:49):
no drought right now, no, so she's got to do
something else. And of course what's big with the with
the elsign to have times and the assignment editors is
anything to do with race? Can you find anything? You're
on the drought? But what all right? Nature, birds, birdwires.
Bird watching can be racist. Well, it starts off with
(20:09):
a couple of broadwatchers and in Boil Heights, right and
they found they're out there with their binoculars a house sparrow.
It says here the house sparrow is an urban creature
that thrives where people do. They're resilient, adaptable, and aggressive.
If you get the idea here, it means that in
the poorer neighborhoods or the ones that were historically redlined,
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this is probably one of the few birds you go
to see there. You're going to less than ten miles
to the northeast. They go to San Marino, which is wealthier,
and instead of just sparrows and ravens and common pigeons. Oh, No,
among the manicured lawns and mature trees, very different assortments
of birds. They found a band tailed pigeon. They also
(20:53):
recognized acorn woodpeckers, a California tohee, dozens of turkey vultures,
a dark eyed juneco, a mocking bird, and Anna's hummingbird,
and a black phoebe. Now, John, have you spotted all
those in your neighborhood? Not the black phoebe? No, oh,
dark eyed juco juneco? John Coe, I told you I
(21:16):
saw the yellow warbler, and I've seen cardinals. Did you
look up the warbler with the alsion times? As a
considered a good neighborhood, we have a diversity of birds, definitely, Okay,
we don't. It's not just how sparrows, how sparrows are
got ugly little birds, but the yellow warblers. There was
all family of them living in our backyard. Bright yellow fact.
(21:42):
I saw it. I'd never seen one before, and I
went I went online to try to identify it. Oh,
I occasionally do hear in my neighborhood the good old woodpeckers.
I don't know if it's an acorn woodpecker. I'm looking
at a picture of one here. I don't know as
you go up to look at the woodpeckers, but I
can hear them, and it is true you do, or
their sound as they hit the trees. But anyway, it's
(22:03):
called the luxury effect. Wealthier and typical, wider neighborhoods attract
a larger and more diverse population of birds. And that's
the bottom line with this. So white bird watchers in
white neighborhoods have a certain bird watching privilege. Yes, you
could argue that, yes, And my favorite the tree canopy,
of course, attracts divers city of birds because they like
(22:25):
the shade, they like the trees right to venture into.
You're probably at home saying, where the hell does this
stuff come from? Well, according to the El Segundo Times,
in a new study, the researchers argue that the difference
in bird populations is a lasting consequent of racist home
lending practices from decades ago, as well as modern wealth disparities.
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And they even have a chart showing you where what
the desirable neighborhoods are. That's from the nineteen thirties. Yeah,
what the best neighborhoods. The declining neighborhoods, hazardous neighborhoods. I
guess the loan money and I have to say mine
turned up red. So I'm hazardous. You're in a hazardous neighborhood,
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I am.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And there's parts of Santa Monica that are too. Do
you see there is at Venice. I can't tell which
they're on that map there with the red. Now are
they hazardous because of maybe because of the threat of
tsunamis and flooding? I I didn't know that. It just well,
you're right, it doesn't say I mean, some just says
for investment purposes. All right, some areas are red and
(23:31):
it looks like they've been at poor neighborhoods or maybe
dangerous neighborhoods. Yeah. Then the ones along the coast, I
gotta believe it's got to be the water, the ocean,
except for look at Palace Verdi's estates all green. It's
very desirable. So yeah, well they're high up. I guess
that's true. Historically, red lined non white community such as
(23:55):
boil Heights have less tree canopy, greater housing density. Well
that's they have less birds. But that I mean, honestly,
what so I well, I'm supposed to feel guilt when
I go in my backyard and look at the yellow warbler.
I can't enjoy the yellow warbler. I have to stand
there and go you know the only reason I can
see this yellow warbler is because of my white privilege. Oh,
(24:17):
they do mention them here. Forest birds such as yellow
rumped warblers, band tailed pigeons, acorn woodpeckers, and black throated
gray warblers are more abundant in these areas like yours. Yeah,
do you know which kind of warbler you've been looking at?
Black throated gray water No? No, no, it's definitely bright yellow.
Oh that's the yellow rump. Probably the yellow rumped warbler.
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Probably the yellow rumped warbler.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I thought you were really getting into this so you
would know. I thought you were going to become an expert.
I don't. I can't remember all the species I'm probably remembering,
Like what the different species of flowers or trees or birds.
It's like I like looking at them in the moment,
and I'll look them up online. But then you know,
five minutes later, I've forgotten what I what I read.
I just can't seem to retain the names of all
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these things right, But maybe if I did it every day.
See when I was a little kid, let's say about
seven eight years old, I had my cup scout binoculars,
and I took a lawn chair and I went in
the backyard and I threw out some sliced bread, and
I'd sit at the other end of the yard and
looked through the binoculars and look marvel at all the
birds that came to eat the bread. And I remember
(25:26):
seeing that were we had blue jays, we had cardinals,
we had obviously you grew up in an affluent green area.
Well you ever said that you didn't, I, well, there
were a lot of trees. It wasn't affluent, but they
we had a lot of trees too, and there was
a lot of birds there. There was, there were plenty
of birds. I can't say that I ever cared. I
was just in the backyard playing with football. I didn't
notice any birds. Let's they got. I've always had this
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weird bird thing, bird bird fetish. Yes, that's really an
unkind word to use. But by the way, now that
you brought this up, huh, all right, is I one
of our friends they had this little fluffy dog. It
looked like looked like a mop, the mop, the fuffy
(26:08):
end of a mop. And some big hawk came one
day and shoop left right in front of the family,
picked it up and flew off, and they found the
remnants of the dog. Let us wear the neighbors horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
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Speaker 1 (26:36):
All right, we'll continue on, of course after two o'clock.
We'll have a special guest on the show. The Consul
General of Israel to the Pacific Southwest will join us
right after the news at two o'clock to talk about
what's going on, of course, with the attack by Hamas
inside of Israel last weekend. That'll come up after the
news at two o'clock. One of my favorite stories of
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the week from Lovely San Francisco is maybe not a surprise,
but obviously a lot of major cities in this country
are seeing a scourge of stolen cars, particularly hitting up
like the Hyundai and Kias. You probably know about that
by now, because of the way they can rig it
to steal the car easier. Anyway, there are people in
(27:22):
San Francisco who are tracking their stolen cars by tracking
their parking tickets. Not kidding you, Susan Ashton is fighting
a ticket she got last month on San Francisco's Park
Street for blocking a driveway. San CrOx goes for a
woman named Christy Gagan, who was written up a month
ago that on Turk Street for getting in the way
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of street sweeping. Neither women can match somebody named Zuela Toruno,
who's pushing back on each of the eight tickets she
received in May on Stillman Street in San Francisco. They're
fighting the citations because the cars were stolen then parked
illegally by eves. They're using the parking tickets to track
where their cars are because San Francisco parking control officers
(28:09):
don't give a crap if the cars parked illegally and
they want the money. They just ticket the car. And
apparently there is a possibility they could get into the
system to find out if it was a reported stolen car,
but it doesn't look like it's done in practice. Yeah,
they don't. They don't bother. You know, that's a great
way for San Francisco to crack a lot of these crimes. Right,
Oh yeah, at least return the car. If you're returning
(28:30):
the car. Sure they're getting tickets, but instead they're harassing
the people who had their cars stolen because that's the
only name they have as far as the car getting
a printing ticket. But if somebody will don't know the
thief's name right right, So now you have to go
what to court and try to prove that your car
was stolen in September and there's tickets from October. I mean,
(28:52):
I guess if you filed a stolen car report, it
would be in the record somewhat, I know. But it
seems like they could get their act together and coordinate this.
So when a parking ticket officer comes up in a
legally parked car, he can find out if it's a
stolen car, right and not ticket it. The license plate
should match right away. Why can't they have a database
of stolen cars? They could, It could be done. They
(29:14):
just don't do it because they don't care. They figure,
you know, these people, some of them are going to
pay their tickets. So this woman found her car in
the night of August eighteenth. Her Infinity SUV was taken
from outside her home. When she reported the theft of police,
She also visited the social network next door, where several
posters suggested she plug her license plate into a website
(29:36):
for the San Francisco Parking ticket agency. By Monday, sure enough,
she was ticketed in the Fillmore neighborhood, where thieves had
apparently abandoned it. Her husband drove waited for police. They
told him not to touch it when they arrived an
hour and a half later, hour and a half. Oh, oh,
they hadn't arrived in an hour and a half. He
drove the car to the police station. The car was
full of stolen property, credit cards, burglary tools, motorcycle part
(30:00):
So the guys that look like a shop shop who
set up inside my car? This total anarchy. So they
stole the car and then they used it to steal
a bunch of other stuff. Yeah, they stored the stems.
Then they kuped the car, and she gets the ticket. Yes,
she gets the ticket. Right, you can't live there. Car
owners reported more than six thousand stolen cars to San
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Francisco Police in both twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two,
And of course San Francisco Police tells the chronicle, Oh,
we recover most of the cars. We do. Yeah, is
it because the people who got the parking tickets helped
you work. I want I want to prove for that.
I don't believe that. Yeah, it says here San Francisco
parking officers could locate stolen cars, but it would require
a technological fix, so fixed because non police agencies don't
(30:44):
have access to law enforcement databases. You see, that's where
the stolen cars are. So fix it that they should
fix it. All this can be fixed, and it can
be fixed very quickly to attach one database to the
other exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Know.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Again, it's more important to collect the ticket money, right,
I have to help people stall cars, right, especially God.
I mean a huge percentage of people have had their
cars broken into or stolen in San Francisco, big percentage.
I've seen those polls. Yeah, right, hardly anybody, I think.
I think almost every person in San Francisco at least
knows of somebody who's had their cars broken into, her stolen.
(31:18):
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the Council General of Israel to the Pacific southwest of
you know, special guest concerning Israel against Hamas Johnny KENKFI
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