October 24, 2024 • 26 mins
After decades of talk, it’s actually coming: A rail connection to LAX. L.A.’s promise of a ‘Car-Free’ Olympics is running short on money and time. This powder removes as much CO2 from the air as a tree. Meh: Candy corn story.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
KFI AM six forty Bill Handle Morning Crew except for
Neil hopefully he's back tomorrow, a little under the weather.
And of course Amy is here, as is Cono. And
and it doesn't really matter. I give them credit only
you know, I only give them credit because you give
them credit. Amy, You always thank everybody at the end
(00:28):
of the show. And it's so sickophantic.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Now, people work really hard. Yeah, and and I appreciate that.
Oh okay, Now I'm trying. I'm trying to understand. I
really am.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We've got twelve more days until the presidential as well
as senatorial as well as congressional elections, and tomorrow at
seven thirty, I'm going to go through the propositions. Now,
a rail system connecting the Metro to Lax looks like
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it's going to open up La Airport Lax one of
the busiest and most poorly designed airports in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And that horseshoe.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
That they built, and it is got awful. If you've
ever been both dropping people off, particularly people that are
being picked up at the bottom level.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It just completely gets crazy. And there's really if you're
taking the metro.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's no way to get there without a bus somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And so here's what happened in nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Of course, La County population went crazy, traffic became even crazier.
So civic leaders began this push for a light rail
system to connect everything.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
All right, more passengers are.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Pouring through or we're pouring through La X what is
it now, eighty million a year or something nuts, And
so the planners saw it. This was an obvious destination
for the connection between the metro lines and LAX which
didn't exist still does it. So the Blue line between
Long Beach and downtown started nineteen eighty five. Here we
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are forty years later, and we have hundreds of thousands
of residents and tourists go on to one Worldway at
the airport every week. And you know what, you can't
take the metro. Most world cities that have actually even
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third world countries that have subway metro systems, you know,
light rail systems that take you around the city can
take you to the airport. Nope, not La Except. It
look like it's going to be ready early next year,
at least what they say.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You've got the people Mover train.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Those automated people mover trains opening up early next year,
and it's going to connect LAX to the Metro rail
system from the K line and the C line which
used to be the Green line. How is that for
really confusing us? And so I'm going to give you
a few this may help you. If you're on Metro,
you're gonna be able to board the people Mover at
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the La X Metro Transit Center station at Aviation Boulevard,
because there's not just a question of building the line itself.
You have to build these transit centers where people come aboard,
drop their cars or dropped off, and then you jump
on the Metro and theoretically you take it directly to
the airport.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, And so if you're coming from downtown you're going.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
To LAX, you have two ways to do it, the
A line to the C line or the E line
to the K line, and you get to the transit
center and then you go on the people mover upstairs,
take the elevator up all right, Then it gets a
little convoluted as to how you're going to get anywhere
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near there, because depending on what part of the city.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Even on the metro system. It's going to take you.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
One stop and you switch, or two stops and you switch.
So that's a delight, isn't it. So most major airports
offer this. It didn't happen at lax Y.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A bunch of factors, and some of them are makes
sense and some of them are purely disgusting. In the
nineteen nineties, the then Green Line was expected to offer
the direct connection lax And to two miles short, which.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Means they had to say you have to take a bus.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The closest the line got. The plan was it would
be nine hundred yards from the air from the runways,
and that really screwed things up. Airport officials concerned about
here's one they stopped it. They didn't go forward because
the airport officials were concerned about potential lost parking profits.
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If you had a direct line, isn't that special? Doesn't
that help you? Also the FAA come in. They had
concerns in nineteen ninety one about the line's potential interference
with antenna systems, obstruction of the line of sight from
airplanes simply because of the layout of the airport.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And the bottom line is lax is so choked.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It is almost impossible to get in there, very difficult.
It doesn't matter what time of day or night. Going
through their where it's bumper to bumper traffic. And as
you enter the airport and you're going to let's say
Terminal seven, which is around the horseshoe, and then you
have to come back, can take half an hour, and
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it is far quicker to walk, and you actually see
people dragging their luggage from terminal to terminal.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I hate those walks.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So it's going to happen, hopefully maybe. And then that
people mover thing, that automatic people mover. Do you remember
when Disneyland had the people mover, one of the first
people movers that existed in the world. Those automated people
movers as a ride until some kid got squished between
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the cars.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And that sort of stopped that one.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Also, they had the carousel that what is it American
carousel the theater that the audience moved around that stopped because
one of the workers got squished. You know, this squish
business really ruins things, doesn't it. Yes, on squish, No
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on the people.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Mover, it's happening. It's happening early next year or so
they say. Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Moving to the Olympics coming up in twenty twenty eight
are going to be car free.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
According to our mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's what she's promised, and local officials have a bunch
of projects they have to be completed before twenty twenty eight,
charging infrastructure, improving metro stations close to venues, but not
enough money has come in, either from the FEDS or sponsors,
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or the city or Metro. There's a three point three
billion dollar list of projects that Metro has to come
up with to make the games run smoothly. Of the
three point three billion dollars necessary, you know how much
has actually been funded five point two percent.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Is that a little bit of a shortfall.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And if the money doesn't come through a bunch of projects,
some critical projects are probably gonna have to be scuttled.
And why well, let's talk about the number of people
that come to the Olympics, right, huge number of tourists
and let me give you an idea of the number
of people every day, the equivalent of seven Super Bowls
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have to be transported. Metro board chair and County supervisor
Jana's hand Han is calling for fresh Olympic transportation. You
just have to reinvent this thing, and we're gonna have
to spend millions of dollars because or billions of dollars.
Millions of people are going to go to the Olympic
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and the Paralympic Games in twenty twenty eight. Metro is
responsible for moving those folks every day, like hundreds of
thousands of people every day, and we really don't have it.
We are not an infrastructure city when it comes to
mass transportation, and an immediate plan isn't even possible. Here's
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why we don't even know the full venue lists. Where
are these buses and the rail going to go because
we don't know they're going where they're going to go to.
We've got less than four years and buses are going
to be the workhorse here. Where do you find enough buses,
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Where do you train enough bus drivers? How do you
get our system ready? The task is daunting, according to
the deputy director of UCLA's Institute of Transportation Studies, Juan Matute.
And on top of that, the Olympic and the Paralympic
Organizing Committee has lost sponsors, they're not gaining sponsors, they're
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losing sponsors, and they're underfunded. So they're going to the
various cities. You know Inglewood where Sofi Stadium is. Do
I have that right? And is Sofi in Inglewood? So
they're going to Inglewood for example? Help us out going
to the city of Los Angeles, going to various cities
where the venues are which we don't know are there yet.
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It is a problem now LA twenty eight, which is
the organizing committee itself, they're putting on an event, the Olympics,
about seven billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
They're still a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Short for the hope for sponsorships, couldn't even get it now.
They're not paying for public transportation, but they are paying
for the athletes and the game personnel.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Another problem, and this is a big problem.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The games will have to be partially somewhat car free,
even if we did have the infrastructure, because most game
venues are going to not be allowed to have people
through their transporting through because of federal security regulations. The
security has gotten so insane now that it's completely crazy.
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Coliseum was built for the nineteen thirty two Olympics, and
I interviewed someone, an older guy earlier on who attended
the nineteen thirty two Olympics. He would walk up to
the gate and a cost a quarter to walk through
those that front archway, get into the stands and watch
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track and field.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nobody stopped him. There was no security. But then again,
that was nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
So what the LA officials, including Karen Bass and head
of Metro, They went to Paris and saw how Paris
handled it. Because Paris handled it beautifully. The problem is
LA is not Paris. Paris has a one hundred year
old subway and that was the workhorse of the Games
in terms of transportation, those trains pulling.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
In and out every few minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So to give you an idea of transporting people in
Los Angeles, the peak capacity of LA subway trains is
about fifteen hundred people. The light rail trains carry even
fewer riders. So what are the officials trying to do
since there are going to be waits, long waits, especially
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at the end of an event, and people are waiting
to get on a transportation system. Well, they want to
keep people engaged, so they're having pop up restaurants, street vendors, jugglers,
people who are singing and dancing. Do you ever give
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money to people that are on the sidewalk playing guitar
and they have the guitar case open and people throwing coins.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's what the city wants.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
By the way, you know what we call people that
have guitar cases and they're playing guitars in public places.
You know what, I call them beggars. That's what they are, beggars.
So it's going to be buses, and there has to
be a supplemental bus system that's gonna cost a billion
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dollars and no one knows how.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It's going to be paid for.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Maybe the city's gonna take a percentage of the money
that those musicians get paid when the coins are tossed
into the guitar or violin cases. Usually it's guitars. Very
few people pay play violin, and I've seen some great
players right street art and perform searchus Lay started as
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street performers in Montreal and Robin Williams started doing street performance,
and I've seen some really good ones. You ever seen
anybody juggle a chainsaw or three chainsaws? I've seen that
second time out. They were a lot shorter when they
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were juggling. Okay, we're done with that. Now here's an
interesting fact, and that is if we produce no more
CO two, and of course CO.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Two is the primary cause of climate change, global warming.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
If we produce no more CO two, we still have
to take it out of the air because there's so
much out there.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So there is something brand new that has.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Just been developed UC Berkeley is called very cleverly called
COF nine.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
How's that for a clever name? And what it does
is it traps CO two.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And then it can be released, put deep underground, released
at whatever time on an industrial level because the technology
is all there.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
We're not talking about weird bizarre technology.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I think it's Denmark where they've come up with a
plant that takes CO two and puts it in these
huge cylindrical concrete forms about twenty feet high and they're
about eight feet to cylinder like giant cans, and they're
made of rock, and they capture CO two out of
the air and then puts it into the ground and
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it can't be released. Well, this is a much cheaper
way of doing it with this little powder that's being developed.
And so this really bodes well because we have to
come up with technologists to deal with this because it's
not going to be fun. I mean, we definitely have
climate changes going in the wrong direction. I am not
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particularly happy about well, I'm happy about the fact that
I won't be around, but my kids, my grandkids, they
are not going to be happy campers living in this world.
We have already seen the storms becoming stronger. The hurricanes
are they're more of them, they are stronger. The flooding
going on around the world is happening more and more.
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The heat waves are getting heateer, the drought is getting droughtier,
and of course the rains. I mean, it is not fun.
So just a little bit of the technology here. What
these are. It's a powder and if you look at
it under a microscope, they look like tiny basketballs with
billions of holes. And they're held together with carbon the
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same process that turns carbon into diamonds. And they loosen
up the CO two. They capture the CO two and
they loosen enough, loosen up the CO two and let
them go with heat and.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Not a lot of heat either. It is fairly easy
to do this right now.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's capturing carbon dioxide at least ten times faster than
any other process.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's more durable.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You can run it through between one hundred and three
hundred cycles, so it's not as if this stuff wears out.
And the only problem is, and it's not a problem,
is the money that's being spent, because it's going to
have to happen on an industrial scale, and it is.
What we're being told is effectively some kind or many
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kinds of large metal boxes that air can pass through
without the powder being blown away. So it's just fans
picking up the air passing them through these little carbon
cof nine nine nine. This powder sucks up the CO
two and on heat it's released and it's no expensive,
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no exotic material or new technology. And we're being told
this can happen within two years. Putting this together, I
mean we have to come up with something because the
amount of CO two is going through the roof.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And I have a prediction.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
For example, cows which produce methane the same way you
and I produce methane, and with me producing more methane
than most cows are so bad for the environment, not
only because the amount of water is produced or it takes,
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the amount of feed that it takes and the land
that it takes to grow the feed, and the methane
that's produced every time a cow farts. And if you
go to any kind of a cow farm, isn't that
what they call them people that raise cows?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Aren't they cow forms?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
No, I'm not getting any help here from anybody on
the show.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You guys just you know, you guys, just let me
die on the vine.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You know that it is not fun.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Herds of cows, clutch of cows, pods of cows. In
any case, you're going to see meat. And this is
just environment. It's going to be a specialty process. It's
not gonna be a general it's gonna be like caviar. Uh,
it's gonna be rarer and you're gonna pay a lot
of money for it. And that's just the meat part.
And so there's gonna be I don't know how many
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ways of removing CO two and methane from the environment,
but we've got to move in that direction very quickly.
Now I'm going to be eating steaks for a long time,
so I'm gonna be gone by the time this really happens.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
But it's for those of you that are younger. Have
your kids.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Mine are twenty nine and they're gonna be around for
a while, and their kids and it's just not gonna
be fun, certainly not environmentally. Okay, we're done with that. Now,
got a question to ask you or I got a statement?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay. Two kinds of people in this world.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
People that hate candy corn like I do, and people
that have absolutely no taste buds and or are starving
and have not eaten anything for the last five years
and are about to die of starvation. Candy corn, It's
one of the worst confections slash, edible, whatever you want
to call it, that has ever been put together. Okay,
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survey says, let's start with amy. Yes to candy corn,
Yes or no?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's a loaded question. I hate it, but I still
eat it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's that is even sicker. And yes to candy corn,
yes or no? Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh god, God, oh jeez, You're disgusting. Wow Kno, yes
or no. I'm gonna go with the no, me too.
All right, Well, candy corn is kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm gonna give you a little history of candy corn, which,
by the way, when I say it's one of the
most disgusting confections that have ever been produced or invented,
it's not me saying that this is a medical fact.
The American Medical Association has issued a medical directive saying
this stuff is horrible.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Okay, it's been around for one hundred years. How did
it happen?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The Wonderly Candy Company started making up One of their
employees named George Renager actually invented it, and that was
in the eighteen eighties. Now, keep in mind, candy corn
first appeared when the US was an agrarian society. It
was all farms, and at that time, this tricolor design
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three colors of candy corn was actually considered revolutionary.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
In the nineteen hundreds. This was hard stuff to make.
A lot of men.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It was always men who worked in factories needed to
work together to produce candy corn. Sugar, corn, syrup, other
ingredients cooked into this slurry. And these big kettles, fondant
and marshmallow added to give it that smooth texture. And
the way it worked as men were called stringers were
walking backwards with these pots and poured the candy into
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trays that had the little shape. And it took three
passes to make white, yellow, and orange.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I mean this was really labor intensive.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So one pass it had to dry halfway through or
third through. Next pass dried, next pass after that. Now
it's still the same today, except the machines do it
again now, as you can imagine, manufacturers use what's called
a cornstarch molding process, and it's still made into three
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color passes. I didn't know this because I'm not a
big fan. But there are seasonal candy corn.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Did you know that? I didn't know that seasonal?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
For example, Thanksgiving that's the fall candy corn, brown, orange
and white, Christmas inspired reindeer candy corn, green, white and red,
Valentine's Day, pink, red and white, Easter bunny corn in
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pastel colors.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And they have various.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Other seasonal candy corn varieties apple, pumpkin, spice, cinnamon flavors.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, absolutely disgusting stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Okay, here is an interesting if you ever get on
Jeopardy question, Okay, what was it first called?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Now you don't know this, but if you had to guess.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Amy come up with a name for a candy corn,
if you had to come up with it, I know
this is just throwing it out at you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So crap. Sugar triangles, All right.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Sugar triangles, that's not bad. Cono, can you come up
with some kind.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Of a name. No, of course, not all right? And
can you come up with some kind of a name.
Heavenly delight?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh, that's vomitous, heavenly delight. Okay, let me tell you
what it was originally called chicken feed? Would you have
ever guessed that chicken feed cono. I couldn't come up
with a name either. By the way, the boxes were
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illustrated with a rooster logo and the tagline was something
worth crowing for?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Isn't that clever? Boy?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I'll tell you that was one of the original great
pr people who should never have gone onto making a
living with this stuff. There is a National candy corn
Day October thirtieth. Boy, that's a big deal. How do
you get a how do you get a day? When
you go to your congress person? This national By the way,
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these are national days, a national hamburger Day, National cheeseburger Day,
National Tomaine poisoning Day, salmonella whatever day, right, salmonella, burger days.
The congress person just introduces it and it goes on
to the calendar. And what Congress does is vote yay, ayayayyay.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And that's one of them. Let's put on the calendar
and it's automatic. Anybody can do it.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So, oh, we should call the national KFI Morning show day.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Oh, we have to work on that. I think we
can do it. And would you get our low congress
person to do it?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Adam Schiff actually represents and I don't know he's running for Senate,
but he's still going to be in the House for
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KFI AM six forty Bill Handle Morning Crew except for
Neil hopefully he's back tomorrow, a little under the weather.
And of course Amy is here, as is Cono. And
and it doesn't really matter. I give them credit only
you know, I only give them credit because you give
them credit. Amy, You always thank everybody at the end
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of the show. And it's so sickophantic.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Now, people work really hard. Yeah, and and I appreciate that.
Oh okay, Now I'm trying. I'm trying to understand. I
really am.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We've got twelve more days until the presidential as well
as senatorial as well as congressional elections, and tomorrow at
seven thirty, I'm going to go through the propositions. Now,
a rail system connecting the Metro to Lax looks like
(01:08):
it's going to open up La Airport Lax one of
the busiest and most poorly designed airports in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And that horseshoe.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
That they built, and it is got awful. If you've
ever been both dropping people off, particularly people that are
being picked up at the bottom level.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It just completely gets crazy. And there's really if you're
taking the metro.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's no way to get there without a bus somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And so here's what happened in nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Of course, La County population went crazy, traffic became even crazier.
So civic leaders began this push for a light rail
system to connect everything.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
All right, more passengers are.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Pouring through or we're pouring through La X what is
it now, eighty million a year or something nuts, And
so the planners saw it. This was an obvious destination
for the connection between the metro lines and LAX which
didn't exist still does it. So the Blue line between
Long Beach and downtown started nineteen eighty five. Here we
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are forty years later, and we have hundreds of thousands
of residents and tourists go on to one Worldway at
the airport every week. And you know what, you can't
take the metro. Most world cities that have actually even
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third world countries that have subway metro systems, you know,
light rail systems that take you around the city can
take you to the airport. Nope, not La Except. It
look like it's going to be ready early next year,
at least what they say.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You've got the people Mover train.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Those automated people mover trains opening up early next year,
and it's going to connect LAX to the Metro rail
system from the K line and the C line which
used to be the Green line. How is that for
really confusing us? And so I'm going to give you
a few this may help you. If you're on Metro,
you're gonna be able to board the people Mover at
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the La X Metro Transit Center station at Aviation Boulevard,
because there's not just a question of building the line itself.
You have to build these transit centers where people come aboard,
drop their cars or dropped off, and then you jump
on the Metro and theoretically you take it directly to
the airport.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, And so if you're coming from downtown you're going.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
To LAX, you have two ways to do it, the
A line to the C line or the E line
to the K line, and you get to the transit
center and then you go on the people mover upstairs,
take the elevator up all right, Then it gets a
little convoluted as to how you're going to get anywhere
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near there, because depending on what part of the city.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Even on the metro system. It's going to take you.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
One stop and you switch, or two stops and you switch.
So that's a delight, isn't it. So most major airports
offer this. It didn't happen at lax Y.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A bunch of factors, and some of them are makes
sense and some of them are purely disgusting. In the
nineteen nineties, the then Green Line was expected to offer
the direct connection lax And to two miles short, which.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Means they had to say you have to take a bus.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The closest the line got. The plan was it would
be nine hundred yards from the air from the runways,
and that really screwed things up. Airport officials concerned about
here's one they stopped it. They didn't go forward because
the airport officials were concerned about potential lost parking profits.
(05:24):
If you had a direct line, isn't that special? Doesn't
that help you? Also the FAA come in. They had
concerns in nineteen ninety one about the line's potential interference
with antenna systems, obstruction of the line of sight from
airplanes simply because of the layout of the airport.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And the bottom line is lax is so choked.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It is almost impossible to get in there, very difficult.
It doesn't matter what time of day or night. Going
through their where it's bumper to bumper traffic. And as
you enter the airport and you're going to let's say
Terminal seven, which is around the horseshoe, and then you
have to come back, can take half an hour, and
(06:13):
it is far quicker to walk, and you actually see
people dragging their luggage from terminal to terminal.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I hate those walks.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So it's going to happen, hopefully maybe. And then that
people mover thing, that automatic people mover. Do you remember
when Disneyland had the people mover, one of the first
people movers that existed in the world. Those automated people
movers as a ride until some kid got squished between
(06:46):
the cars.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And that sort of stopped that one.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Also, they had the carousel that what is it American
carousel the theater that the audience moved around that stopped because
one of the workers got squished. You know, this squish
business really ruins things, doesn't it. Yes, on squish, No
(07:12):
on the people.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Mover, it's happening. It's happening early next year or so
they say. Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Moving to the Olympics coming up in twenty twenty eight
are going to be car free.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
According to our mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's what she's promised, and local officials have a bunch
of projects they have to be completed before twenty twenty eight,
charging infrastructure, improving metro stations close to venues, but not
enough money has come in, either from the FEDS or sponsors,
(07:46):
or the city or Metro. There's a three point three
billion dollar list of projects that Metro has to come
up with to make the games run smoothly. Of the
three point three billion dollars necessary, you know how much
has actually been funded five point two percent.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Is that a little bit of a shortfall.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And if the money doesn't come through a bunch of projects,
some critical projects are probably gonna have to be scuttled.
And why well, let's talk about the number of people
that come to the Olympics, right, huge number of tourists
and let me give you an idea of the number
of people every day, the equivalent of seven Super Bowls
(08:33):
have to be transported. Metro board chair and County supervisor
Jana's hand Han is calling for fresh Olympic transportation. You
just have to reinvent this thing, and we're gonna have
to spend millions of dollars because or billions of dollars.
Millions of people are going to go to the Olympic
(08:54):
and the Paralympic Games in twenty twenty eight. Metro is
responsible for moving those folks every day, like hundreds of
thousands of people every day, and we really don't have it.
We are not an infrastructure city when it comes to
mass transportation, and an immediate plan isn't even possible. Here's
(09:19):
why we don't even know the full venue lists. Where
are these buses and the rail going to go because
we don't know they're going where they're going to go to.
We've got less than four years and buses are going
to be the workhorse here. Where do you find enough buses,
(09:40):
Where do you train enough bus drivers? How do you
get our system ready? The task is daunting, according to
the deputy director of UCLA's Institute of Transportation Studies, Juan Matute.
And on top of that, the Olympic and the Paralympic
Organizing Committee has lost sponsors, they're not gaining sponsors, they're
(10:02):
losing sponsors, and they're underfunded. So they're going to the
various cities. You know Inglewood where Sofi Stadium is. Do
I have that right? And is Sofi in Inglewood? So
they're going to Inglewood for example? Help us out going
to the city of Los Angeles, going to various cities
where the venues are which we don't know are there yet.
(10:27):
It is a problem now LA twenty eight, which is
the organizing committee itself, they're putting on an event, the Olympics,
about seven billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
They're still a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Short for the hope for sponsorships, couldn't even get it now.
They're not paying for public transportation, but they are paying
for the athletes and the game personnel.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Another problem, and this is a big problem.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The games will have to be partially somewhat car free,
even if we did have the infrastructure, because most game
venues are going to not be allowed to have people
through their transporting through because of federal security regulations. The
security has gotten so insane now that it's completely crazy.
(11:25):
Coliseum was built for the nineteen thirty two Olympics, and
I interviewed someone, an older guy earlier on who attended
the nineteen thirty two Olympics. He would walk up to
the gate and a cost a quarter to walk through
those that front archway, get into the stands and watch
(11:45):
track and field.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nobody stopped him. There was no security. But then again,
that was nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
So what the LA officials, including Karen Bass and head
of Metro, They went to Paris and saw how Paris
handled it. Because Paris handled it beautifully. The problem is
LA is not Paris. Paris has a one hundred year
old subway and that was the workhorse of the Games
in terms of transportation, those trains pulling.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
In and out every few minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So to give you an idea of transporting people in
Los Angeles, the peak capacity of LA subway trains is
about fifteen hundred people. The light rail trains carry even
fewer riders. So what are the officials trying to do
since there are going to be waits, long waits, especially
(12:38):
at the end of an event, and people are waiting
to get on a transportation system. Well, they want to
keep people engaged, so they're having pop up restaurants, street vendors, jugglers,
people who are singing and dancing. Do you ever give
(13:02):
money to people that are on the sidewalk playing guitar
and they have the guitar case open and people throwing coins.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's what the city wants.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
By the way, you know what we call people that
have guitar cases and they're playing guitars in public places.
You know what, I call them beggars. That's what they are, beggars.
So it's going to be buses, and there has to
be a supplemental bus system that's gonna cost a billion
(13:32):
dollars and no one knows how.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It's going to be paid for.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Maybe the city's gonna take a percentage of the money
that those musicians get paid when the coins are tossed
into the guitar or violin cases. Usually it's guitars. Very
few people pay play violin, and I've seen some great
players right street art and perform searchus Lay started as
(14:02):
street performers in Montreal and Robin Williams started doing street performance,
and I've seen some really good ones. You ever seen
anybody juggle a chainsaw or three chainsaws? I've seen that
second time out. They were a lot shorter when they
(14:22):
were juggling. Okay, we're done with that. Now here's an
interesting fact, and that is if we produce no more
CO two, and of course CO.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Two is the primary cause of climate change, global warming.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
If we produce no more CO two, we still have
to take it out of the air because there's so
much out there.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So there is something brand new that has.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Just been developed UC Berkeley is called very cleverly called
COF nine.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
How's that for a clever name? And what it does
is it traps CO two.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And then it can be released, put deep underground, released
at whatever time on an industrial level because the technology
is all there.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
We're not talking about weird bizarre technology.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I think it's Denmark where they've come up with a
plant that takes CO two and puts it in these
huge cylindrical concrete forms about twenty feet high and they're
about eight feet to cylinder like giant cans, and they're
made of rock, and they capture CO two out of
the air and then puts it into the ground and
(15:39):
it can't be released. Well, this is a much cheaper
way of doing it with this little powder that's being developed.
And so this really bodes well because we have to
come up with technologists to deal with this because it's
not going to be fun. I mean, we definitely have
climate changes going in the wrong direction. I am not
(16:01):
particularly happy about well, I'm happy about the fact that
I won't be around, but my kids, my grandkids, they
are not going to be happy campers living in this world.
We have already seen the storms becoming stronger. The hurricanes
are they're more of them, they are stronger. The flooding
going on around the world is happening more and more.
(16:23):
The heat waves are getting heateer, the drought is getting droughtier,
and of course the rains. I mean, it is not fun.
So just a little bit of the technology here. What
these are. It's a powder and if you look at
it under a microscope, they look like tiny basketballs with
billions of holes. And they're held together with carbon the
(16:47):
same process that turns carbon into diamonds. And they loosen
up the CO two. They capture the CO two and
they loosen enough, loosen up the CO two and let
them go with heat and.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Not a lot of heat either. It is fairly easy
to do this right now.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's capturing carbon dioxide at least ten times faster than
any other process.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's more durable.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You can run it through between one hundred and three
hundred cycles, so it's not as if this stuff wears out.
And the only problem is, and it's not a problem,
is the money that's being spent, because it's going to
have to happen on an industrial scale, and it is.
What we're being told is effectively some kind or many
(17:40):
kinds of large metal boxes that air can pass through
without the powder being blown away. So it's just fans
picking up the air passing them through these little carbon
cof nine nine nine. This powder sucks up the CO
two and on heat it's released and it's no expensive,
(18:05):
no exotic material or new technology. And we're being told
this can happen within two years. Putting this together, I
mean we have to come up with something because the
amount of CO two is going through the roof.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And I have a prediction.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
For example, cows which produce methane the same way you
and I produce methane, and with me producing more methane
than most cows are so bad for the environment, not
only because the amount of water is produced or it takes,
(18:44):
the amount of feed that it takes and the land
that it takes to grow the feed, and the methane
that's produced every time a cow farts. And if you
go to any kind of a cow farm, isn't that
what they call them people that raise cows?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Aren't they cow forms?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
No, I'm not getting any help here from anybody on
the show.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You guys just you know, you guys, just let me
die on the vine.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You know that it is not fun.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Herds of cows, clutch of cows, pods of cows. In
any case, you're going to see meat. And this is
just environment. It's going to be a specialty process. It's
not gonna be a general it's gonna be like caviar. Uh,
it's gonna be rarer and you're gonna pay a lot
of money for it. And that's just the meat part.
And so there's gonna be I don't know how many
(19:45):
ways of removing CO two and methane from the environment,
but we've got to move in that direction very quickly.
Now I'm going to be eating steaks for a long time,
so I'm gonna be gone by the time this really happens.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
But it's for those of you that are younger. Have
your kids.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Mine are twenty nine and they're gonna be around for
a while, and their kids and it's just not gonna
be fun, certainly not environmentally. Okay, we're done with that. Now,
got a question to ask you or I got a statement?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay. Two kinds of people in this world.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
People that hate candy corn like I do, and people
that have absolutely no taste buds and or are starving
and have not eaten anything for the last five years
and are about to die of starvation. Candy corn, It's
one of the worst confections slash, edible, whatever you want
to call it, that has ever been put together. Okay,
(20:41):
survey says, let's start with amy. Yes to candy corn,
Yes or no?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's a loaded question. I hate it, but I still
eat it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's that is even sicker. And yes to candy corn,
yes or no? Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh god, God, oh jeez, You're disgusting. Wow Kno, yes
or no. I'm gonna go with the no, me too.
All right, Well, candy corn is kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm gonna give you a little history of candy corn, which,
by the way, when I say it's one of the
most disgusting confections that have ever been produced or invented,
it's not me saying that this is a medical fact.
The American Medical Association has issued a medical directive saying
this stuff is horrible.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Okay, it's been around for one hundred years. How did
it happen?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The Wonderly Candy Company started making up One of their
employees named George Renager actually invented it, and that was
in the eighteen eighties. Now, keep in mind, candy corn
first appeared when the US was an agrarian society. It
was all farms, and at that time, this tricolor design
(21:58):
three colors of candy corn was actually considered revolutionary.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
In the nineteen hundreds. This was hard stuff to make.
A lot of men.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It was always men who worked in factories needed to
work together to produce candy corn. Sugar, corn, syrup, other
ingredients cooked into this slurry. And these big kettles, fondant
and marshmallow added to give it that smooth texture. And
the way it worked as men were called stringers were
walking backwards with these pots and poured the candy into
(22:34):
trays that had the little shape. And it took three
passes to make white, yellow, and orange.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I mean this was really labor intensive.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So one pass it had to dry halfway through or
third through. Next pass dried, next pass after that. Now
it's still the same today, except the machines do it
again now, as you can imagine, manufacturers use what's called
a cornstarch molding process, and it's still made into three
(23:08):
color passes. I didn't know this because I'm not a
big fan. But there are seasonal candy corn.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Did you know that? I didn't know that seasonal?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
For example, Thanksgiving that's the fall candy corn, brown, orange
and white, Christmas inspired reindeer candy corn, green, white and red,
Valentine's Day, pink, red and white, Easter bunny corn in
(23:46):
pastel colors.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And they have various.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Other seasonal candy corn varieties apple, pumpkin, spice, cinnamon flavors.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, absolutely disgusting stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Okay, here is an interesting if you ever get on
Jeopardy question, Okay, what was it first called?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Now you don't know this, but if you had to guess.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Amy come up with a name for a candy corn,
if you had to come up with it, I know
this is just throwing it out at you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So crap. Sugar triangles, All right.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Sugar triangles, that's not bad. Cono, can you come up
with some kind.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Of a name. No, of course, not all right? And
can you come up with some kind of a name.
Heavenly delight?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh, that's vomitous, heavenly delight. Okay, let me tell you
what it was originally called chicken feed? Would you have
ever guessed that chicken feed cono. I couldn't come up
with a name either. By the way, the boxes were
(24:52):
illustrated with a rooster logo and the tagline was something
worth crowing for?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Isn't that clever? Boy?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I'll tell you that was one of the original great
pr people who should never have gone onto making a
living with this stuff. There is a National candy corn
Day October thirtieth. Boy, that's a big deal. How do
you get a how do you get a day? When
you go to your congress person? This national By the way,
(25:24):
these are national days, a national hamburger Day, National cheeseburger Day,
National Tomaine poisoning Day, salmonella whatever day, right, salmonella, burger days.
The congress person just introduces it and it goes on
to the calendar. And what Congress does is vote yay, ayayayyay.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And that's one of them. Let's put on the calendar
and it's automatic. Anybody can do it.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So, oh, we should call the national KFI Morning show day.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Oh, we have to work on that. I think we
can do it. And would you get our low congress
person to do it?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Adam Schiff actually represents and I don't know he's running for Senate,
but he's still going to be in the House for
a minute. All right, Good news. KFI AM six forty
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