August 9, 2024 • 27 mins
Newsom threatens to take money from counties over homelessness. California earthquakes: Advanced early warning systems alert millions. The rise of luxury doomsday prepping. Air taxi service plans for 2026 LA launch at USC, SoFi, and LAX.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF. I
am six forty. She's homeless and this is KFI Bill
Handle here on a foody Friday, August ninth. A lot
going on foody Friday means that eight o'clock Neil and
(00:23):
I engage in our foody Friday love fest of food.
Is that fair to say gross or love feast? No,
you're making it weird food, okay, but in not that
kind of way, you know, like for example, Neil, Neil
is one of my best friends, but not in that
kind of way making it worse. Okay, thank you. Moving on,
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and that is, oh what a shocker. Handle is coming
up with another discussion of homelessness, you betcha, and it
is the number one political issue you would you would
think the cost of housing, et cetera be, you know,
far greater in the minds of California's actually is homelessness.
Governor Newsom ran on a platform of dealing with homelessness.
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So did Karen Bass the mayor. So did her opponent
Paul Caruso. It was all about homelessness and dealing with
the homeless issue. Of course, has it's been just crazy Also,
there's been we've conflated. Now homeless is connected to mental illness.
Mental illness is homelessness, and even the two are who
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are there in the strictly being linked. Now governmental thinking
has gone to if we take care of the mentally ill,
we'll deal with homelessness. I don't know how that works anyway.
So yesterday Newsom in Pacoimba and behind him the freeway
and he has a press conference and there is there's
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Newsome and you can see you can see pretty slick,
looking good, very well quaifed, and you could see on
his face imagining that behind the reporter thousands of people
with placards screaming Newsome for President, Newsome for President. I mean,
can he be more obvious? I don't think so. In
any case, he says that he's going to take away
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state funding from counties that don't show improvement on homelessness,
and pointed to La County, particularly you, La County, and
he said, this is a sincerely held belief. We need
local government to step up. This is a crisis. Act
like it. He's telling La County specifically. He is really frustrated.
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And by the way, his warning about stripping money from
counties that aren't doing the job. Isn't new, but man,
he's getting very serious. He's halfway through his second and
final term, and he is putting public pressure and he's
blaming local leaders, and LA County in particularly is become
the biggest target. Well because La County has what only
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sixty thousand homeless people, certainly more than any other county
in the United States. And the governor again criticized LA
for delaying implementation of the law that expands criteria for
people to be detained against their will. Now, this is
where the Democratic Party and the Democrats had done a
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complete reversal. They're now in favor of taking people against
their will and dealing with them if their home was
basically forcing them into shelters never going to happen, of course,
because there were lawsuits prior to Ronald Reagan. You know,
they actually used to put people that were mentally ill
in mental facilities. I mean we had state facilities for
(03:41):
the mentally ill. We had Looney Wards yeah, Camera Rio
State Hospital. Yeah, I mean all was one. Yeah you
see camera you see Channel Islands was I think a
huge mental facility that was Camerio State Hospital. All right,
fair enough, anyway, he's attempt to, well, remember what he
(04:01):
did a couple of weeks ago, homeless encampments on state property.
Caltran's controls. We're going to tear them down, just tear
them down. But what if there's no place to put
these people? Don matter, We've got to tear them down.
I mean, it's getting pretty frustrating out there with the
homeless people.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Can I tell you something, Bill, Do you remember some
years ago that they passed that law that you couldn't
have these homeless in La We called them gar cities,
these little gar cities that popped up all over the place,
but that you couldn't have one within five hundred feet
of a school. And I'm in Hugo Soto Martinez's district,
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District thirteen. And they don't enforce that.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Now, of course they don't.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
They have been the schools, but it's a law and
they're not even enforced.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I know they're not. And that's Newsome's that's Newsom's issue.
And to the extent of the state has any influence whatsoever.
He's saying, you ain't going to get state money, which
is a lot of money for the whole home for
the homeless problem, and right now, under law, or at
least under what federal law is and state law is,
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you cannot clear an encampment if there isn't a shelter
bed available. Well that's changing too now it's you can
clear an encampment if the encampment is in the way
of your life, which every encampment is for the most part,
unless you go buy a freeway and a few freeway
off ramps that I've experienced, you know, they're really bushy
as you go off the freeway and there's areas that
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are really dense and you just see the top of
tents in there. It's like people are camping out in
the jungle and they're way the hell out of the way. Yeah,
those are okay. Used to be. I told you coming home,
I would get off the freeway and then go make
a left. It was an overpass at that point. The
entire the entire sidewalk from edge of the overpass to
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the edge was an encampment and they clean that out.
I don't know where the people went. And that's the problem.
We're not doing enough, even though there's money there, because
where do you put people? I mean, if shelters you
can put temporarily. And they can build shelters like crazy,
but that is temporary. You known't staying shelters for the
rest of your life. They have to go someplace, and
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that is the issue. And Newsom is as frustrating. He goes,
I'm giving you money. I'm going to stop giving you money.
As a matter of fact. I want to claw back money,
which he actually is doing with San Diego. San Diego,
I got a ten million dollar grant that he says
they didn't do what they promised to do and didn't
do what the agreement was. I want my money back.
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Big problems. Is there an answer to homelessness? Yes? Yes,
if you happen to be homeless, here is the answer.
Get a home that cures the problem. Damn, I'm good.
I should run for office on that one. Okay. I
don't know if you felt the earthquake. I rarely feel them.
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And this was what last week. It started shaking and smartphones,
the apps were sent to millions. The warning was sent
to millions of Californians. This was Tuesday, and this was
the current County earthquake. And theoretically you get the warning
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a few seconds before the quake hits. Now This not
only is kind of neat technology and they've been working
on it for years and years anticipating that it's necessary,
but it literally can save lives. Now, what do you
do in five seconds or eight seconds? Well, I'll tell
you what you do. You get the hell away from
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for example, bookcases, you get away from anything falling. If
you happen to be a Jehovah's witnesses going door to door,
you get under that archway in the front door immediately,
just to protect yourself. Also, you're supposed to dive under
a desk. Remember that one when they came out what
was the earthquake? Folks came out and we all had
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to practice diving under tables. And then my question was
what if you get an ikea table that is going
to collapse very quickly, And they wouldn't answer that question.
You need a sturdy death I need a sturdy table.
In any case. It literally can save lives because if
you look at the majority of lives that are lost,
especially toddlers, it's always next to a boo bookcase, It's
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always next to a piece of furniture that falls over,
because not that many people actually anchor their furniture to walls,
which I've never understood. The TVs that aren't anchored, they're
not on the wall, you know, just go on a
piece of furniture. They fall over. And so this gives
you a few seconds to either get your kid or
your loved one out of the way, or if you're
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having all kinds of marital issues, pushing your loved one
towards the TVs is about to fall. In any case,
it's just a question of warning. And the apps are
coming like crazy now. The current county one have what
I have? I think I have shake Alert on mine.
Let me look, I have a couple of them. Oh,
I have earthquake, which I press and it's you know, Oh,
(09:19):
I don't even know if I've downloaded that one, but
I've got shake Alert. I've got earthquake. I've never been
warned on one of these, and it was a pretty
good quake that happened on Tuesday. So I don't know.
And then you wonder, you know, how is it possible
that this technology It's really not a lot of technology.
(09:41):
If you think about it, you think it is, but
it's really not. And it's real simple. Here's the science.
You've got earthquakes that happen. Let's say one hundred miles away. Well,
the rumbling moves basically at the speed of sound, that's it.
So speed of sound is seven hundred and twenty years
hundred fifty miles per hour at sea level, and so
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to go one hundred and fifty miles take several minutes,
and so you're going to actually have time if you
can get the early warning. Now where the new technology is,
it can figure out almost instantly the where is the quake,
how deep it is, what area, geographical area, and the magnitude.
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And these apps have the ability to actually reconfigure the magnitude.
For example, the current quake was originally five point nine
and then it went to five point two within just
a couple of seconds. So you get an idea of
where you are. And of course the closer you are
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to the quake, the less time that you have. But
I analogize this to the sensors the airbags where they
got the technology. I mean, think about this, How is
it possible that you get into a head on Kalipe
and the airbag goes off before the impact, literally upon impact,
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before you go flying into the steering wheel. How is
that possible? Well, the sensors are so advanced that and
they can act instantaneously to that extent. And I'm putting
this together. And for those of you that are in
the science of this, go ahead and email me and say,
handle you are completely wrong on this one because I'm
just analogizing and I'm speculating here. But I think that's
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what's going on with simply the algorithm the technology involved.
But if let me ask you real quickly, Amy, did
you feel the current quake on Tuesday? I didn't. I
was already asleep. Okay, Yeah, me too, Cono, did you
feel it? Did not? Okay? Did you kneel? Yes, sir,
I did? Okay? And and did you feel it all right? You?
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Did you have one of those apps on your phone?
Those did? Yeah? Did it go off? Yep? It sure did?
Wownd awesome. Mine didn't come on really very depressing. I
could have died, Yeah, you could have. Yeah. If I
ever do that, I've always absolutely promised that I'm gonna
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if I'm gonna die and I have any say in
it all, I'm gonna do it on the air, and
we're gonna promote it forever. All right, guys, we're done
so or is it. I've got just it says earthquake.
But I thought I had shake alert here too. Nope,
I guess not all right, Now, spend a word or
two talking about doomsday prepping. Now, doomsday prep prepping. I
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love this stuff. Especially you go to if you're a Mormon,
for example, you know exactly what I'm talking about. I
would go through Saint George at one point in Utah
where I would travel around. And if you go to
the Walmart, for example, there my kids went to school.
Up there, you would see the the prepping the survivalist,
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which is all part of doomsday prepping. Survivalist, the aisles
full of buckets of food and water. And they even
did something that I thought was fascinating. They have a
dehydrated water where all you do is add water and
it is all a matter of survival. Stop shaking your head, Neil.
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In any case, doomsday prepping in my world when I
was growing up was the atomic bomb. It was going
to be Russia attacking us. This was during the Cold War,
and we didn't think about survivalist civil war in the
United States. We didn't think about people roaming up and
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down the streets with guns and the political craziness that's
going on now. Nope, it was all about the atomic
bomb and what you did. One of my favorite places
to go. I don't know if you remember Sears. Sears
was this massive retail organization, been around for one hundred
and something years. Anyway, It was one of the biggest
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department store, if not the biggest ones out there. So
there was a series that was a couple of miles
from my house and they sold bomb shelters. You could
actually buy a bomb shelter and have it delivered and
out in the parking lot. The bomb shelter company had
put a bomb shelter in the parking lot, I mean
like underground, dug it out like a swimming pool, put
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it in there, and then covered it up and you
go walk through the bomb shelter. It's kind of neat.
That was doomsday. Well, they have much the same kind
of organizations, much the same kind of facilities, and the
retail of this stuff has gone explosive. Why because doomsday
is here again. But it's the political differences. It's civil
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war that's coming, it's the polarization, it's the craziness that's
going out there, and there are people out there that
are making a lot of money. Larry Hall, by the way,
he has a company called Survival, the Survival Condo complex.
He well, he sells things like how about this one,
a furnished nine hundred and fifty square foot unit listed
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at one point three million dollars as in a bunker
that's been dugout, and you can get some pretty high
end stuff. To say the least. You can either lease, buy,
or rent bunkers underneath that are full apartments, full living quarters, gyms, courts, countertops.
I mean, it is crazy. There's a company called Atlas
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Survival Shelters, super luxury bunkers, bulletproof hatches, gas tight, marine
gray doors, tampa proof air pipes, decom the contamination rooms.
I mean those can top two hundred thousand dollars even
an escape tunnel. And that's what's going on in today's
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world is you have the super wealthy who are super paranoid.
And I would guess that if doomsday does come people,
for example, a horde Gold, what do you think gold
is going to do? If doomsday is really here? What
does gold do? I once talked to a crazy ass
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survivalist and he and I were and he was with
the weapons, and he had places in his home and
he was putting a safe room into his house. And
we were talking about how do you anticipate doomsday? What
do you do? And I said do you store gold?
He goes, of course not, don't be stupid. And he
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and I agreed on this, gold is not going to
be worth anything. He I'll tell you what the currency
is going to be. And his eyes glistened and he
gave me the look and he said, ammunition. That is
what's going to be invaluable. That is going to be
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worth gold. And there's that kind of thinking. I was
just talking to Anne or was it Neil, saying, you
know what's going to happen. What would you do? I go, no,
I wouldn't. Now when I was building a house, when
I was building the Persian Palace, I was thinking of
putting in a safe room. Safe room being in the
event that someone breaks in and they're bad guys. You
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go in the room and you can't be touched. You know,
there's a big door, a metal door, a concrete they
you can't get into it. And you have a phone
line that connects separately than your normal phone lines. And
that makes sense. That's sort of kind of doomsday. But
that's the only thing that makes sense to me. The
atomic weapon, not so much the big bomb hitting LA
and I don't think so. And then if there really is,
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and some people are anticipating this, if there is really
is civil war that breaks out for any number of
reasons out there, politically or ostensibly, and probably is the
way people are thinking as a result of the pauloitics
is going on. I don't want to get into it,
but you know the way I feel. But it will
be as close to a civil war. I mean, January
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sixth may actually explode if whatever happens doesn't. If whatever
happens and a lot of folks like us anticipate, Now
you're talking about what now? What now? What do you do? Well,
you've got people that are in these doomsday shelters, and
I guess you wait until it is all boiled over,
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or you do what I do and say, you know what,
I don't want to be around. Tell you what else
people are doing, And this I am doing, and that
is people are scrambling to get foreign citizenships and foreign's residencies.
For example, malta little island in the Mediterranean. It's its
own country. You can become a multi citizen. It's like
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a you know the mal Tesers. You know those little
ball that are malt and chocolate. They are fantastic. You
can become a Malteser by investing or donating the government
eight hundred thousand dollars buying real estate to a certain extent,
and they will give you a visa. A lot of
countries have this investment visa where you become a citizen.
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Now I'm going to say something that I have never
said before. I have told you often that at some
point when I retire, I want to move to Italy
for part of the year. I just have this thing
about moving to Italy. And it turns out that my
dad was born in Poland. Now, he left Poland as
an infant and went to Yugoslavia where he grew up
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and he lived, and that's where basically he came from.
But he was born in Poland. I can get Polish citizenship.
I'm going to become a Polock. I am absolutely applying
for Polish citizenship. And you know why, because then I
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get an EU passport. Poland is part of the European Union.
Therefore I get to it's basically a way so you
don't have to go in, you know, in the line
for furners. You can stay. No one has to bother you,
worry about visas or any of that. But that's piece
of advice I'm giving those people that come from immigrant families,
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which are huge number. If your grandparents, for example, came
from a different country, you're probably eligible for citizenship of
those countries. So I'm going to have three passports. My
niece is going to have five passports. You can do
that now. So once I get this, there'll be no
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more polish jokes in my life. I'll tell you that
right now. I will be offended if you come up
with one.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Can you even use the term pollock anymore?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Isn't that offensive?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Well, yeah, of course it's offensive, But I don't know
if you can use it or not. Where did that
come from?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Is that another language?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I don't know. No, No, just it's a derivative of
It's the the racist terms that come out of parts
of history. You know, for example, the Chinese when they
were brought over to work at on the railroads, there
were chinamen is what they were called. Today that's considered
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super pejorative. That is a phrase that was in use
and then became something a way to say, you know what,
that's not so much used colored people. You can't use that.
I don't're not just saying we're not talking by the way,
we're not talking about words, and I'm not talking about
descriptions that are out and out racist, because there are
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and I don't want to go into that that have
always been racist. But that's just a reference to can
you use the word pollock anymore? You know what? I
don't know. We should look that up, you know what,
And I'll tell you what. Why don't we take the
FCC complaint that's going to be file today and see
what they have to say about it? All right, I'm
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on it, all right, thank you? Do you remember and
we just played the Kono just played the Jetson song?
You know, the opening theme to the Jetson is one
of my favorite all time commercials or television shows. And
you had those flying cars, and when I was a kid,
we knew the future was going to be here and
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it was going to be flying cars, and you'd have
individual cars and families would have them. And it comes
out turns out that yeah, you really can't because you
got to know what the hell to do to pilot him.
So obviously the answer is you have to have an
air taxi if you want to go from A to B,
and there has to be a pilot there, unless you
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have pilotless air taxis. And that's where we're going. However,
right now there is a company, Archer Aviation, announcing plans
for a twenty twenty six launch in LA ahead of
the World Cup, and it plans to use existing infrastructure
at SCLA International Airport, Hollywood Burbank Sofi Stadium where and
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were able to look at these things take off and
it is they are just large, huge drones, is what
they are, which are stable, they're easy to fly. You
really don't need a lot of piloting experience or expertise.
And okay, there's another futuristic company. The FAA has cleared this.
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It's going to be ready to go. This is absolutely
legit and the FAA has gotten involved. Local and state
agencies have not involved. By the way, LA is Southern California,
of course, is the most difficult place you can do
this because the restrictions and the regulations are so much
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and the head of Archer. The guy who's CEO said,
here's where we're gonna go. Because it's landing space, it's
building infrastructure. Sc has four helipads that aren't used. It's
not simple because you know, citizens aren't able to use
helipads anymore. You know that buildings used to be on
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top of buildings, you could fly private helicopters can't do that.
In the city of la All you do is see
helicopters that are either governmental owned, news copters, police copters,
that sort of thing. Here's a Disneyland story for you.
When I was a kid, there used to be a
helicopter service that delivered people to Disneyland out of Lax
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out of Lax and I remember doing that and I
got a little upset because two of them went down,
and I flew the helicopter between those two and they
went down in a matter of weeks, and right in
the middle of that, I got on the helicopter. Well,
obviously you needed those. They were big sacorse keys and
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they were obviously piloted. They had two pilots. But we're
on our way. The technology is such that they're going
to look like giant drones. The Archer folks are looking
at FBO's flight flight based operations, the private airport terminals.
You go to Hollywood Burbank, for example, you got the
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big terminals where you go in, but there are FBOs
where private planes go and they land right near the terminal.
They ran right near the building you go in and
their service. Well, they're going to use those because you
can land a drone right next to them. And it's
all coming, It is all coming. Can't wait. How much
are gonna cost? Well, they're saying it ain't gonna be
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that much money. Good luck. Ultimately, Archer says, it's going
to match the cost of a ride haling your taxi service.
Come on, really, who are we kidding now? What they're
saying though right now when they open up in twenty six,
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it's going to be the cost of a premium car service.
And how much does a premium car service cost? What
a couple of to go to lax from let's say
our station would be two hundred bucks maybe to rent Alumo.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I use Alto and they're fantastic, and I consider them
a premium And it was maybe I don't know, one
hundred and thirty dollars or something like that to take
from my house.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Okay, so that's not huge. The problem is that's for
the whole car. You can throw five people in it.
You're not gonna be able to do that on an
air taxi. All right, I can't wait. We're gonna talk
much much more about that, and will certainly report when
she sees that first that first air taxi land and
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am six forty. She's homeless and this is KFI Bill
Handle here on a foody Friday, August ninth. A lot
going on foody Friday means that eight o'clock Neil and
(00:23):
I engage in our foody Friday love fest of food.
Is that fair to say gross or love feast? No,
you're making it weird food, okay, but in not that
kind of way, you know, like for example, Neil, Neil
is one of my best friends, but not in that
kind of way making it worse. Okay, thank you. Moving on,
(00:46):
and that is, oh what a shocker. Handle is coming
up with another discussion of homelessness, you betcha, and it
is the number one political issue you would you would
think the cost of housing, et cetera be, you know,
far greater in the minds of California's actually is homelessness.
Governor Newsom ran on a platform of dealing with homelessness.
(01:09):
So did Karen Bass the mayor. So did her opponent
Paul Caruso. It was all about homelessness and dealing with
the homeless issue. Of course, has it's been just crazy Also,
there's been we've conflated. Now homeless is connected to mental illness.
Mental illness is homelessness, and even the two are who
(01:30):
are there in the strictly being linked. Now governmental thinking
has gone to if we take care of the mentally ill,
we'll deal with homelessness. I don't know how that works anyway.
So yesterday Newsom in Pacoimba and behind him the freeway
and he has a press conference and there is there's
(01:51):
Newsome and you can see you can see pretty slick,
looking good, very well quaifed, and you could see on
his face imagining that behind the reporter thousands of people
with placards screaming Newsome for President, Newsome for President. I mean,
can he be more obvious? I don't think so. In
any case, he says that he's going to take away
(02:15):
state funding from counties that don't show improvement on homelessness,
and pointed to La County, particularly you, La County, and
he said, this is a sincerely held belief. We need
local government to step up. This is a crisis. Act
like it. He's telling La County specifically. He is really frustrated.
(02:37):
And by the way, his warning about stripping money from
counties that aren't doing the job. Isn't new, but man,
he's getting very serious. He's halfway through his second and
final term, and he is putting public pressure and he's
blaming local leaders, and LA County in particularly is become
the biggest target. Well because La County has what only
(02:58):
sixty thousand homeless people, certainly more than any other county
in the United States. And the governor again criticized LA
for delaying implementation of the law that expands criteria for
people to be detained against their will. Now, this is
where the Democratic Party and the Democrats had done a
(03:19):
complete reversal. They're now in favor of taking people against
their will and dealing with them if their home was
basically forcing them into shelters never going to happen, of course,
because there were lawsuits prior to Ronald Reagan. You know,
they actually used to put people that were mentally ill
in mental facilities. I mean we had state facilities for
(03:41):
the mentally ill. We had Looney Wards yeah, Camera Rio
State Hospital. Yeah, I mean all was one. Yeah you
see camera you see Channel Islands was I think a
huge mental facility that was Camerio State Hospital. All right,
fair enough, anyway, he's attempt to, well, remember what he
(04:01):
did a couple of weeks ago, homeless encampments on state property.
Caltran's controls. We're going to tear them down, just tear
them down. But what if there's no place to put
these people? Don matter, We've got to tear them down.
I mean, it's getting pretty frustrating out there with the
homeless people.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Can I tell you something, Bill, Do you remember some
years ago that they passed that law that you couldn't
have these homeless in La We called them gar cities,
these little gar cities that popped up all over the place,
but that you couldn't have one within five hundred feet
of a school. And I'm in Hugo Soto Martinez's district,
(04:42):
District thirteen. And they don't enforce that.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Now, of course they don't.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
They have been the schools, but it's a law and
they're not even enforced.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I know they're not. And that's Newsome's that's Newsom's issue.
And to the extent of the state has any influence whatsoever.
He's saying, you ain't going to get state money, which
is a lot of money for the whole home for
the homeless problem, and right now, under law, or at
least under what federal law is and state law is,
(05:10):
you cannot clear an encampment if there isn't a shelter
bed available. Well that's changing too now it's you can
clear an encampment if the encampment is in the way
of your life, which every encampment is for the most part,
unless you go buy a freeway and a few freeway
off ramps that I've experienced, you know, they're really bushy
as you go off the freeway and there's areas that
(05:33):
are really dense and you just see the top of
tents in there. It's like people are camping out in
the jungle and they're way the hell out of the way. Yeah,
those are okay. Used to be. I told you coming home,
I would get off the freeway and then go make
a left. It was an overpass at that point. The
entire the entire sidewalk from edge of the overpass to
(05:57):
the edge was an encampment and they clean that out.
I don't know where the people went. And that's the problem.
We're not doing enough, even though there's money there, because
where do you put people? I mean, if shelters you
can put temporarily. And they can build shelters like crazy,
but that is temporary. You known't staying shelters for the
rest of your life. They have to go someplace, and
(06:20):
that is the issue. And Newsom is as frustrating. He goes,
I'm giving you money. I'm going to stop giving you money.
As a matter of fact. I want to claw back money,
which he actually is doing with San Diego. San Diego,
I got a ten million dollar grant that he says
they didn't do what they promised to do and didn't
do what the agreement was. I want my money back.
(06:42):
Big problems. Is there an answer to homelessness? Yes? Yes,
if you happen to be homeless, here is the answer.
Get a home that cures the problem. Damn, I'm good.
I should run for office on that one. Okay. I
don't know if you felt the earthquake. I rarely feel them.
(07:04):
And this was what last week. It started shaking and smartphones,
the apps were sent to millions. The warning was sent
to millions of Californians. This was Tuesday, and this was
the current County earthquake. And theoretically you get the warning
(07:25):
a few seconds before the quake hits. Now This not
only is kind of neat technology and they've been working
on it for years and years anticipating that it's necessary,
but it literally can save lives. Now, what do you
do in five seconds or eight seconds? Well, I'll tell
you what you do. You get the hell away from
(07:48):
for example, bookcases, you get away from anything falling. If
you happen to be a Jehovah's witnesses going door to door,
you get under that archway in the front door immediately,
just to protect yourself. Also, you're supposed to dive under
a desk. Remember that one when they came out what
was the earthquake? Folks came out and we all had
(08:10):
to practice diving under tables. And then my question was
what if you get an ikea table that is going
to collapse very quickly, And they wouldn't answer that question.
You need a sturdy death I need a sturdy table.
In any case. It literally can save lives because if
you look at the majority of lives that are lost,
especially toddlers, it's always next to a boo bookcase, It's
(08:32):
always next to a piece of furniture that falls over,
because not that many people actually anchor their furniture to walls,
which I've never understood. The TVs that aren't anchored, they're
not on the wall, you know, just go on a
piece of furniture. They fall over. And so this gives
you a few seconds to either get your kid or
your loved one out of the way, or if you're
(08:53):
having all kinds of marital issues, pushing your loved one
towards the TVs is about to fall. In any case,
it's just a question of warning. And the apps are
coming like crazy now. The current county one have what
I have? I think I have shake Alert on mine.
Let me look, I have a couple of them. Oh,
I have earthquake, which I press and it's you know, Oh,
(09:19):
I don't even know if I've downloaded that one, but
I've got shake Alert. I've got earthquake. I've never been
warned on one of these, and it was a pretty
good quake that happened on Tuesday. So I don't know.
And then you wonder, you know, how is it possible
that this technology It's really not a lot of technology.
(09:41):
If you think about it, you think it is, but
it's really not. And it's real simple. Here's the science.
You've got earthquakes that happen. Let's say one hundred miles away. Well,
the rumbling moves basically at the speed of sound, that's it.
So speed of sound is seven hundred and twenty years
hundred fifty miles per hour at sea level, and so
(10:02):
to go one hundred and fifty miles take several minutes,
and so you're going to actually have time if you
can get the early warning. Now where the new technology is,
it can figure out almost instantly the where is the quake,
how deep it is, what area, geographical area, and the magnitude.
(10:23):
And these apps have the ability to actually reconfigure the magnitude.
For example, the current quake was originally five point nine
and then it went to five point two within just
a couple of seconds. So you get an idea of
where you are. And of course the closer you are
(10:45):
to the quake, the less time that you have. But
I analogize this to the sensors the airbags where they
got the technology. I mean, think about this, How is
it possible that you get into a head on Kalipe
and the airbag goes off before the impact, literally upon impact,
(11:07):
before you go flying into the steering wheel. How is
that possible? Well, the sensors are so advanced that and
they can act instantaneously to that extent. And I'm putting
this together. And for those of you that are in
the science of this, go ahead and email me and say,
handle you are completely wrong on this one because I'm
just analogizing and I'm speculating here. But I think that's
(11:28):
what's going on with simply the algorithm the technology involved.
But if let me ask you real quickly, Amy, did
you feel the current quake on Tuesday? I didn't. I
was already asleep. Okay, Yeah, me too, Cono, did you
feel it? Did not? Okay? Did you kneel? Yes, sir,
I did? Okay? And and did you feel it all right? You?
(11:51):
Did you have one of those apps on your phone?
Those did? Yeah? Did it go off? Yep? It sure did?
Wownd awesome. Mine didn't come on really very depressing. I
could have died, Yeah, you could have. Yeah. If I
ever do that, I've always absolutely promised that I'm gonna
(12:14):
if I'm gonna die and I have any say in
it all, I'm gonna do it on the air, and
we're gonna promote it forever. All right, guys, we're done
so or is it. I've got just it says earthquake.
But I thought I had shake alert here too. Nope,
I guess not all right, Now, spend a word or
two talking about doomsday prepping. Now, doomsday prep prepping. I
(12:37):
love this stuff. Especially you go to if you're a Mormon,
for example, you know exactly what I'm talking about. I
would go through Saint George at one point in Utah
where I would travel around. And if you go to
the Walmart, for example, there my kids went to school.
Up there, you would see the the prepping the survivalist,
(13:01):
which is all part of doomsday prepping. Survivalist, the aisles
full of buckets of food and water. And they even
did something that I thought was fascinating. They have a
dehydrated water where all you do is add water and
it is all a matter of survival. Stop shaking your head, Neil.
(13:21):
In any case, doomsday prepping in my world when I
was growing up was the atomic bomb. It was going
to be Russia attacking us. This was during the Cold War,
and we didn't think about survivalist civil war in the
United States. We didn't think about people roaming up and
(13:43):
down the streets with guns and the political craziness that's
going on now. Nope, it was all about the atomic
bomb and what you did. One of my favorite places
to go. I don't know if you remember Sears. Sears
was this massive retail organization, been around for one hundred
and something years. Anyway, It was one of the biggest
(14:04):
department store, if not the biggest ones out there. So
there was a series that was a couple of miles
from my house and they sold bomb shelters. You could
actually buy a bomb shelter and have it delivered and
out in the parking lot. The bomb shelter company had
put a bomb shelter in the parking lot, I mean
like underground, dug it out like a swimming pool, put
(14:26):
it in there, and then covered it up and you
go walk through the bomb shelter. It's kind of neat.
That was doomsday. Well, they have much the same kind
of organizations, much the same kind of facilities, and the
retail of this stuff has gone explosive. Why because doomsday
is here again. But it's the political differences. It's civil
(14:50):
war that's coming, it's the polarization, it's the craziness that's
going out there, and there are people out there that
are making a lot of money. Larry Hall, by the way,
he has a company called Survival, the Survival Condo complex.
He well, he sells things like how about this one,
a furnished nine hundred and fifty square foot unit listed
(15:13):
at one point three million dollars as in a bunker
that's been dugout, and you can get some pretty high
end stuff. To say the least. You can either lease, buy,
or rent bunkers underneath that are full apartments, full living quarters, gyms, courts, countertops.
I mean, it is crazy. There's a company called Atlas
(15:36):
Survival Shelters, super luxury bunkers, bulletproof hatches, gas tight, marine
gray doors, tampa proof air pipes, decom the contamination rooms.
I mean those can top two hundred thousand dollars even
an escape tunnel. And that's what's going on in today's
(15:58):
world is you have the super wealthy who are super paranoid.
And I would guess that if doomsday does come people,
for example, a horde Gold, what do you think gold
is going to do? If doomsday is really here? What
does gold do? I once talked to a crazy ass
(16:18):
survivalist and he and I were and he was with
the weapons, and he had places in his home and
he was putting a safe room into his house. And
we were talking about how do you anticipate doomsday? What
do you do? And I said do you store gold?
He goes, of course not, don't be stupid. And he
(16:40):
and I agreed on this, gold is not going to
be worth anything. He I'll tell you what the currency
is going to be. And his eyes glistened and he
gave me the look and he said, ammunition. That is
what's going to be invaluable. That is going to be
(17:00):
worth gold. And there's that kind of thinking. I was
just talking to Anne or was it Neil, saying, you
know what's going to happen. What would you do? I go, no,
I wouldn't. Now when I was building a house, when
I was building the Persian Palace, I was thinking of
putting in a safe room. Safe room being in the
event that someone breaks in and they're bad guys. You
(17:21):
go in the room and you can't be touched. You know,
there's a big door, a metal door, a concrete they
you can't get into it. And you have a phone
line that connects separately than your normal phone lines. And
that makes sense. That's sort of kind of doomsday. But
that's the only thing that makes sense to me. The
atomic weapon, not so much the big bomb hitting LA
and I don't think so. And then if there really is,
(17:45):
and some people are anticipating this, if there is really
is civil war that breaks out for any number of
reasons out there, politically or ostensibly, and probably is the
way people are thinking as a result of the pauloitics
is going on. I don't want to get into it,
but you know the way I feel. But it will
be as close to a civil war. I mean, January
(18:08):
sixth may actually explode if whatever happens doesn't. If whatever
happens and a lot of folks like us anticipate, Now
you're talking about what now? What now? What do you do? Well,
you've got people that are in these doomsday shelters, and
I guess you wait until it is all boiled over,
(18:32):
or you do what I do and say, you know what,
I don't want to be around. Tell you what else
people are doing, And this I am doing, and that
is people are scrambling to get foreign citizenships and foreign's residencies.
For example, malta little island in the Mediterranean. It's its
own country. You can become a multi citizen. It's like
(18:56):
a you know the mal Tesers. You know those little
ball that are malt and chocolate. They are fantastic. You
can become a Malteser by investing or donating the government
eight hundred thousand dollars buying real estate to a certain extent,
and they will give you a visa. A lot of
countries have this investment visa where you become a citizen.
(19:18):
Now I'm going to say something that I have never
said before. I have told you often that at some
point when I retire, I want to move to Italy
for part of the year. I just have this thing
about moving to Italy. And it turns out that my
dad was born in Poland. Now, he left Poland as
an infant and went to Yugoslavia where he grew up
(19:42):
and he lived, and that's where basically he came from.
But he was born in Poland. I can get Polish citizenship.
I'm going to become a Polock. I am absolutely applying
for Polish citizenship. And you know why, because then I
(20:03):
get an EU passport. Poland is part of the European Union.
Therefore I get to it's basically a way so you
don't have to go in, you know, in the line
for furners. You can stay. No one has to bother you,
worry about visas or any of that. But that's piece
of advice I'm giving those people that come from immigrant families,
(20:25):
which are huge number. If your grandparents, for example, came
from a different country, you're probably eligible for citizenship of
those countries. So I'm going to have three passports. My
niece is going to have five passports. You can do
that now. So once I get this, there'll be no
(20:49):
more polish jokes in my life. I'll tell you that
right now. I will be offended if you come up
with one.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Can you even use the term pollock anymore?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Isn't that offensive?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Well, yeah, of course it's offensive, But I don't know
if you can use it or not. Where did that
come from?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Is that another language?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I don't know. No, No, just it's a derivative of
It's the the racist terms that come out of parts
of history. You know, for example, the Chinese when they
were brought over to work at on the railroads, there
were chinamen is what they were called. Today that's considered
(21:30):
super pejorative. That is a phrase that was in use
and then became something a way to say, you know what,
that's not so much used colored people. You can't use that.
I don't're not just saying we're not talking by the way,
we're not talking about words, and I'm not talking about
descriptions that are out and out racist, because there are
(21:51):
and I don't want to go into that that have
always been racist. But that's just a reference to can
you use the word pollock anymore? You know what? I
don't know. We should look that up, you know what,
And I'll tell you what. Why don't we take the
FCC complaint that's going to be file today and see
what they have to say about it? All right, I'm
(22:11):
on it, all right, thank you? Do you remember and
we just played the Kono just played the Jetson song?
You know, the opening theme to the Jetson is one
of my favorite all time commercials or television shows. And
you had those flying cars, and when I was a kid,
we knew the future was going to be here and
(22:32):
it was going to be flying cars, and you'd have
individual cars and families would have them. And it comes
out turns out that yeah, you really can't because you
got to know what the hell to do to pilot him.
So obviously the answer is you have to have an
air taxi if you want to go from A to B,
and there has to be a pilot there, unless you
(22:54):
have pilotless air taxis. And that's where we're going. However,
right now there is a company, Archer Aviation, announcing plans
for a twenty twenty six launch in LA ahead of
the World Cup, and it plans to use existing infrastructure
at SCLA International Airport, Hollywood Burbank Sofi Stadium where and
(23:20):
were able to look at these things take off and
it is they are just large, huge drones, is what
they are, which are stable, they're easy to fly. You
really don't need a lot of piloting experience or expertise.
And okay, there's another futuristic company. The FAA has cleared this.
(23:42):
It's going to be ready to go. This is absolutely
legit and the FAA has gotten involved. Local and state
agencies have not involved. By the way, LA is Southern California,
of course, is the most difficult place you can do
this because the restrictions and the regulations are so much
(24:03):
and the head of Archer. The guy who's CEO said,
here's where we're gonna go. Because it's landing space, it's
building infrastructure. Sc has four helipads that aren't used. It's
not simple because you know, citizens aren't able to use
helipads anymore. You know that buildings used to be on
(24:25):
top of buildings, you could fly private helicopters can't do that.
In the city of la All you do is see
helicopters that are either governmental owned, news copters, police copters,
that sort of thing. Here's a Disneyland story for you.
When I was a kid, there used to be a
helicopter service that delivered people to Disneyland out of Lax
(24:47):
out of Lax and I remember doing that and I
got a little upset because two of them went down,
and I flew the helicopter between those two and they
went down in a matter of weeks, and right in
the middle of that, I got on the helicopter. Well,
obviously you needed those. They were big sacorse keys and
(25:11):
they were obviously piloted. They had two pilots. But we're
on our way. The technology is such that they're going
to look like giant drones. The Archer folks are looking
at FBO's flight flight based operations, the private airport terminals.
You go to Hollywood Burbank, for example, you got the
(25:31):
big terminals where you go in, but there are FBOs
where private planes go and they land right near the terminal.
They ran right near the building you go in and
their service. Well, they're going to use those because you
can land a drone right next to them. And it's
all coming, It is all coming. Can't wait. How much
are gonna cost? Well, they're saying it ain't gonna be
(25:53):
that much money. Good luck. Ultimately, Archer says, it's going
to match the cost of a ride haling your taxi service.
Come on, really, who are we kidding now? What they're
saying though right now when they open up in twenty six,
(26:14):
it's going to be the cost of a premium car service.
And how much does a premium car service cost? What
a couple of to go to lax from let's say
our station would be two hundred bucks maybe to rent Alumo.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I use Alto and they're fantastic, and I consider them
a premium And it was maybe I don't know, one
hundred and thirty dollars or something like that to take
from my house.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Okay, so that's not huge. The problem is that's for
the whole car. You can throw five people in it.
You're not gonna be able to do that on an
air taxi. All right, I can't wait. We're gonna talk
much much more about that, and will certainly report when
she sees that first that first air taxi land and
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