February 26, 2025 • 23 mins
(February 26, 2025)
Why do women live longer than men? Amid budget chaos, more than 700 national park employees take buyout. L.A County Supervisors vote 5 to 0 to let Calabasas landfill accept more fire debris.
Why do women live longer than men? Amid budget chaos, more than 700 national park employees take buyout. L.A County Supervisors vote 5 to 0 to let Calabasas landfill accept more fire debris.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings kf I AM six forty the bill handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f KFI AM six
forty bill handle on a Wednesday morning, Someday, February twenty six,
almost to the end of the month. And some of
the stories we're looking at, it looks like Ukraine in
(00:21):
the US may have cut a deal. It looks like
Zelensky has caved. The President wanted a whole chunk up
to fifty percent of the minerals that Ukraine has in
exchange for ending this war. And it looks like that's happening,
although the US support for Ukraine is still up in
the air. And if you're buying eggs, remember the government
(00:43):
said it's going to be a twenty percent increase so
far as the forty percent increase since the start of
the year. Now here's a question, medical question, and it
is very simple. New York Times did an article on this.
Why do women live longer than men? Considering that aren't
as strong, aren't as smart, they don't have the skill set. Sorry,
(01:09):
I'm looking at science here. I'm looking at science that
women aren't as smart. Well, okay, maybe i'm extrapolating here.
And maybe I have that wrong, Okay, But getting back
to the actual facts. In the US, women have a
life expectancy of about eighty eighty years. It's seventy five
(01:30):
years for men. And this is regardless of where women
live in the United States. It doesn't matter geographically how
much money they make. It's across the board, all of it.
It's costs every de demographic every geographic area. Women simply
live longer than men by statistically five years. And they're
(01:53):
trying to figure out what happens. By the way, that's
during times of famines and epidemics and even when they'll
country is starving, women last longer. So there's the doctor
Dina Duball, professor of neurology at uc San Francisco, that's
one of the lead scientists looking at this, and what
(02:14):
she says is, let's look at some of the reasons,
very complicated, and what we do have to look at
is not just longevity, because women living longer than men
doesn't necessarily mean they are living better. Women, even though
they are living longer, tend to have shorter health spans.
(02:35):
The number of healthy years that women have, so we're
talking quality of life. I mean we've often said, I've
often said, the last thing I want to do is
be a vegetable. My dad, before he died, he made
me promise for twenty years, Bill, if I'm ever in
(02:56):
a wheelchair or I ever cannot get out of a
hospital bed, you have to kill me. You promise me,
you'll kill me, give me your word. He was so
frightened of not having any quality of life, and of
course I promised him, and at to black my mind,
thinking if you think I'm going to prison for twenty
years to help you out, old man, you're out of
your mind. So I had no intention, and he willed
(03:18):
himself to die by the way he did. It's quality
of life that women don't have as well as men do. Also,
women are physically more frail than men in old age. Again,
quality of life more vulnerable, particularly after menopause, to develop
cardiovascular disease Alzheimer's disease. Women have a greater share of
(03:41):
Alzheimer's disease for all of these reasons. So here's what
we know so far. The studies have been done and
we're just starting to really get the idea. There's a
growing body of research that now we go to the
molecular level that the double X set of female chromosomes
women are double X men or x y. That may
(04:04):
impact longevity the very hormone itself, although they don't know
exactly why. There's the twenty eighteen study doctor Dubal did
looked at genetically manipulated mice with different combinations of sex chromosomes,
reproductive organs, and real simple two X chromosomes. The ovaries
lived the longest, mix with mice with X Y chromosomes
(04:27):
shorter lifespan, So they're trying to figure that out. Don't
know exactly what's going on. There was second something about
that second X chromosome that was protecting mice from dying
earlier in life, even if they had scientifically what's known
as testes vernacularly known as gonads, balls, nuts, uvas, cahanes.
(04:51):
You understand now, Neil, what I'm referring to, Yes, sir, okay,
thank you very much. Clear picture, okay. And then there
are here's a word that's kind of fun, epigenic factors.
What the hell is an epigenic factor? Well, environment, how
about that for a spelling bee? Environmental or lifestyle elements,
(05:12):
climate stress, chronic stress, all of that impacts genes how
it's done, we don't know. Does it affect a role
in lifespan, We don't know, and there's a lot we
don't know, and they're just trying to figure this out.
And does it widen to shrink the disparities between men
(05:33):
and women. What we do know is women live longer.
It's that simple. Now, there's a couple of constitutional issues.
If you remember Prohibition, that was the eighteenth Amendment and
it was deemed a huge mistake because Prohibition was overturned
with the twenty first Amendment, realizing that we just did
(05:54):
it wrong. There was an argument that the nineteenth Amendment
giving women the right to vote have been No, I'm
not going to go there. That's just a little bit
of history that I thought i'd throw in. Okay, moving
on there. All there is a move to undo the
twenty second Amendment, and that is that president only has
(06:16):
two terms. Okay. Now, going back to the science of
women living longer than men, that is a given, and
that is for the most part all over the world,
our lifespan in this country has actually dropped. Our mortality
rate in term has actually increased relative to our age.
(06:40):
You know, do you remember and I've been around long
enough to remember sixty five was considered pretty old. It
was people retired at sixty five. You know, people died
at sixty six, sixty seven. Today you hear someone dying
in their late sixties, and you go, my god, that
is so young. Someone dying in their seventy these early seventies, Oh,
(07:02):
come on. It takes about late seventies before you go, okay,
that's not a problem them dying. And of course eighties
and nineties you go, there's a life well lived. Even
eighty five is not considered an extraordinary long life span anymore.
We live longer. Except it has turned around. It has
gone the other way, primarily because of the opioid crisis,
(07:25):
where one hundred thousand people have died one hundred and
ten thousand people die of overdoses every year. That number
is dropping, but not quickly enough. But the science behind
this and trying to figure out other than those obvious
factors gun deaths, for example, why do males die more
(07:45):
of gunshot wounds of gun deaths and females because they
hang around guns more. It's a kind of a guy
thing to do. And gang bangers killing each other. You
don't see many women gang members flying around, you know,
shooting at each other. So there are are definitely some
things that are obvious and you can point to. Then
there are the medical aspects of this. Researchers investigating the
(08:10):
role of sex hormones, and of course I immediately go
into the joke, how do you make a hormone? And
I'm not going to do that. The role of sex
hormones like estrogen, how connected is that to longevity? And
on top of the longevity, they're also talking about the
immunity part of that too. It turns out there's data
(08:30):
just came out that at least before menopause, the female
immune system tends to be better, more on it, responses
are better. They're just trying to figure out the difference
between men and women, and not just the obvious ones.
You know, we have different plumbing and men are I
(08:52):
guess they're you know, Neil, and I mean, well, there
are some sort of givens. Are men more excitable than women?
I think women are more excitable. I think is a
general idea. I mean, certainly we know women are much
worse drivers. As a matter of course, that's that's a
matter of science. We know that, particularly if there's a
(09:13):
certain ethnic varieties of women who drive. I'm not going
to get into that because I don't need the emails,
but there are just some givens. Behavioral play plays a
key role. Women are generally less likely than men to
smoke or drink heavily, more men alcoholics, more men smokers
(09:39):
than women. Women also tend to be more health promoting,
and they're more conscious of their own health than men do.
They go to doctors more so, more regularly. It's just
they just think of themselves and their bodies and and
and a much greater way than men do. Now do
(10:05):
men really care about their bodies very much? Neil? You
ever look at yourself in the mirror when you wake
up in the morning? Do I ever look at myself
in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
I look the other way. I try and avoid it. Yeah,
me too. Women are much more conscious about what they
look like. And if you're less conscious about what you
(10:25):
look like, I mean, it's sort of a given. But
I'm talking about science here. These studies have been done.
Then you let yourself go to pot So the other thing.
During COVID, men died at a higher rate. Why because
they were more likely to hold jobs that expose them
to the virus, food preparation, construction, more likely to be homeless,
(10:48):
more likely to be in prison where COVID spread. And
when you look at, for example, the number of men
who are in prison versus the number of women, and
we have the highest population in the world of our citizens,
our residents in prison not only in terms of sheer numbers,
(11:10):
but also per capita, and prison does not do well.
And if you have more men, let's say prison was
the only factor, women would last a whole lot longer
than men simply because of the number of men they're
in prison. So they're trying to figure it out. How
am I going to end. Let's go back to the
(11:31):
nineteenth Amendment when women were given the right to vote. Okay,
let's not because I don't need the grief from Amy
or Ann on this one. We're gonna do the I
think I'm gonna do the chicken story tomorrow. That's it.
I yell do that because I want to go what's
happening with the National Parks And the reason we're going
with a chicken story tomorrow because I have to do
(11:53):
a promo for it. And I just came up with
a great promo that's going to sound stupid as hell. Okay,
now let's talk about what's happening with the National Parks
And as you know, there's a huge shakeup going on
in the federal government. To Musk has come in, President
has decided and is going forward with They're just taking
(12:14):
the entire federal government, shaking it up and seeing what
falls out of the box. And I think the poster
child at what's going on is what's happening at the
National Park Service? And what is going on? First of all,
let's start with the National Park Service in and of itself.
It's probably the most beloved federal agency that exists. I mean,
(12:37):
everybody loves the Park Service. And so the Trump administration
continues the campaign to slash federal workforce. More than seven
hundred of the Park Service folks, full time employees, have
taken the buyouts that they're resigning. We're out and they'll
keep benefits and pay until September. The rest of them, well,
(13:00):
we go to mosque saying, I want to see five
things you did last week. By the way, that deadline
is done, and now we'll see how many of those
people that either didn't appropriately right the five things or
did not write the five things. There's a lot of
confusion because some agencies said, nah, don't do it. That's
(13:20):
up in the air. But I want to talk about
what's happening here. Seventeen hundred full time permanent staff members
have lost their jobs. It's about nine percent of the workforce.
In addition, and this is not being covered, the staff
members that are remaining can't travel anymore for work purposes
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unless it's to support national security or immigration enforcement, which
a lot of people that stand those ticket takers don't
really have a lot to do with national security. The
entrance of parks, no credit cards for gas, for service vehicles,
buying toilet for restrooms off the table right now, which
(14:05):
makes just a gun awful mess. And according to the
senior vice president for the National Parks Conservation Association, folks
that deal with this, it's the cuts aren't restored. It's
just not going to be the same park service. It isn't.
The park's gonna have to close down effectively. Summertime is coming.
People by the tens of millions go to the National
(14:27):
parks and they're not getting in and all of a sudden,
you've got the government spinning and going, wait a minute,
maybe we went too fast on this. Okay, So what happens, well,
seasonal workers that come in during the summer, which the
park can't function without them. These are people that are
(14:49):
ticket takers and they're maintenance people and the rescue people.
We're all told that any offer you have to come
back the summer has been rescinded. Done, you're not coming
back in until someone realized realizes, you know, we're not
gonna have very many happy Americans who can't get into
the park and a big sign that says closed. And
(15:12):
then my guess is someone is going to spray paint.
Talk to your government, talk to Trump. And so I
think they realize on two different levels, one politically the
optics of it, and two just deciding to keep the
parks open. So those seasonal workers have now they've now
(15:33):
been brought back. Okay, you're coming back. Not only have
they been brought back in other words, their offer to
rescind the offer to come in has been rescinded, but
they're actually bringing in about fifteen hundred more workers than
last year, seventy seven hundred versus sixty three hundred that
(15:55):
worked at the parks. What's happening here? And I'm reading
some articles about this, said, people who work for the
FEDS who voted for Trump and still feel very strongly,
there's still strong Trump reporters. Trump supporters believe in what
he is doing and taking up the government are saying,
(16:18):
you know what, this is going too fast. They just
decided arbitrarily that my job should be gone, and no
one actually looked to see what I do. No one
paid attention to see how valuable I am. Case in point,
they released, I don't know, fired several hundred people that
actually did the security at the National Weapons Nuclear Weapons
(16:41):
Regulatory whatever that physical space was that holds nuclear weapons,
and the security personnel will let go until the next
day they realized, we don't have anybody to guard this
place anymore. You think someone jumped the gun here. So
that was a big And that's what's happening. It's going
(17:02):
very very quickly. And for those of you that support
what Trump has done, and in many cases I do,
by the way, because there are during Biden and the
previous administrations, I mean just the number of workers got up,
up up, and there really hasn't been a solid accounting
of what the government does and spends, and there should
be the problem is you throw out the baby with
(17:23):
the bathwater? Do you throw out the baby and the
container and the bath as well as a life source
whole house water filtration system that's in the home. Notice
how I did that? Okay? Notice what I just did there? Okay,
this is how you keep clients. I just want you
to know that. Okay, I think we're done on that one.
(17:47):
All right, Let's end up with what's going on with
the County Board of Supervisors. They just voted five two
zero to allow the Calabasis Landfill to accept potentially toxic
wildfire debris outside of its typical service area. Now, when
you talk about toxic debris that goes into landfills normally
(18:11):
that are designed for that, they have more safeguards, they're lined,
they have sensors. I mean, all kinds of technology doesn't
exist in normal landfills. And what's going on, well, that
toxic debris and those fires are going into the regular landfills. Now,
I want to make a comparison here. Do you remember
(18:34):
Deep Water Horizon, that oil well that blew up in
the Gulf of Mexico. Excuse me the Gulf of America
because I still want to remain on the air because
the FCC otherwise is going to shut us down as
federal agency. So you have to say Gulf of America.
And the damage that was done to the Gulf area
along the shoreline was just astronomical. It was crazy. So
(18:59):
now you have that owned the deep water horizon and
the damage was instant and massive. So what do they do?
They started writing checks like crazy. Did they set up
any safeguards? Nope? I mean they had a choice, do
we just start writing checks or do we just suck
(19:21):
it up and know there's going to be fraud and
we don't have time to set up the safeguards. That's
what's happening here. The toxic debris that is on the
properties that were burnt, and we're talking about I mean,
the lumber is easy, but the plastics and the oils
and the things that are the manufactured goods that are
(19:42):
in a house, the cabinets that are filled with formaldehyde,
for example, the wood, the plywood all have toxic aspects
to them. And so normally the city or the county
would say, and the county owns Calabasas that landfill would
say you can't do it here, you have to do
it over there. Well, they're saying you can do it here.
Why because these are exitgen circumstances. They say, we have
(20:06):
no choice. We've got to get this stuff out of
here as quickly as possible. Now, what is there something
that's going to give here? And I'll tell you what's
giving and that is the level of toxicity. No one
knows because they're not testing for it. The fact that
we know toxic materials are going into landfills close to
(20:29):
the populator will be populated areas FEMA is not testing.
What FEMA is doing is just let's move this crap
out and get started. Which way do you go? Do
you wait? And here's what the authorities are saying. If
we have to truck this stuff miles and miles away,
it's going to slow everything down. And right now, we've
(20:50):
got to get rid of this debre right this second.
And they're moving at I mean it's a rapid pace.
They're going through this like lightning, and they're saying, hey,
you know what, this is what we're doing. We've got
to do it quickly, and we have to release a
matter of fact, the county has said not only does
landfill going to have this, but they've also given permission
(21:12):
to other landfills in the county to expand the amount
that is put in the landfill at any given time.
I mean, all the rules are being waived. I mean
the law allows those rules to be waived in emergency circumstances,
which I don't think anybody's gonna argue this is. And
as you can imagine, there was a hearing on this
before this vote. And how many people do you think
(21:32):
showed up and started screaming, especially in those areas, you know,
how dare they stop this from going on? Yeah, well
they're the neighbors. It's easy for me. It's easy for
you to say, hey, come on, guys, we've got to
get rid of this debris. And when they say you
don't live here, we do. Yeah, that's true. So nothing
(21:57):
good is going to become a come of this. Well
maybe there is a silver lining someplace, but it's hard
to see. You've got the of course, the destruction of
the homes. People became homeless. Now the people in the
palisades there's homeless, and there's homeless. Very few of them
ended up on the street or in dumpsters. Same thing
in Altadena, but in terms of their financial hit, in
(22:20):
terms of the fact they've lived in the homes for
so for generations in Altadena specifically, I mean, that's a
huge hit. They're gonna rebuild. Will there be money? Yeah?
Are people going to lose their shirts? Yes? I don't
know if anybody's gonna be made a whole again, but
they're going to get a new house. Believe me, they
would gladly not have a new house, but for what
(22:43):
they're going through. Okay, we're done, guys. There's another dollar,
another day, another dollar. Sure that works, and we're back
again tomorrow morning. Wake up call with Amy. That's from
five to six. Neil and I come board at six
to write about now and of course Amy, Ann and
Kono always here. Cono. Oh, you're dressed differently today. You
(23:08):
don't have a sweatshirt in your baseball hat like you've
done every single day since I've known you. Oh, that's
exactly the way you're dressed. Yes, Yes, Okay, let's it guys,
Gary and Shannon up next. This is KF I am sixty.
You've been listening to the Bill Handle show. Catch my
(23:28):
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You're listenings kf I AM six forty the bill handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f KFI AM six
forty bill handle on a Wednesday morning, Someday, February twenty six,
almost to the end of the month. And some of
the stories we're looking at, it looks like Ukraine in
(00:21):
the US may have cut a deal. It looks like
Zelensky has caved. The President wanted a whole chunk up
to fifty percent of the minerals that Ukraine has in
exchange for ending this war. And it looks like that's happening,
although the US support for Ukraine is still up in
the air. And if you're buying eggs, remember the government
(00:43):
said it's going to be a twenty percent increase so
far as the forty percent increase since the start of
the year. Now here's a question, medical question, and it
is very simple. New York Times did an article on this.
Why do women live longer than men? Considering that aren't
as strong, aren't as smart, they don't have the skill set. Sorry,
(01:09):
I'm looking at science here. I'm looking at science that
women aren't as smart. Well, okay, maybe i'm extrapolating here.
And maybe I have that wrong, Okay, But getting back
to the actual facts. In the US, women have a
life expectancy of about eighty eighty years. It's seventy five
(01:30):
years for men. And this is regardless of where women
live in the United States. It doesn't matter geographically how
much money they make. It's across the board, all of it.
It's costs every de demographic every geographic area. Women simply
live longer than men by statistically five years. And they're
(01:53):
trying to figure out what happens. By the way, that's
during times of famines and epidemics and even when they'll
country is starving, women last longer. So there's the doctor
Dina Duball, professor of neurology at uc San Francisco, that's
one of the lead scientists looking at this, and what
(02:14):
she says is, let's look at some of the reasons,
very complicated, and what we do have to look at
is not just longevity, because women living longer than men
doesn't necessarily mean they are living better. Women, even though
they are living longer, tend to have shorter health spans.
(02:35):
The number of healthy years that women have, so we're
talking quality of life. I mean we've often said, I've
often said, the last thing I want to do is
be a vegetable. My dad, before he died, he made
me promise for twenty years, Bill, if I'm ever in
(02:56):
a wheelchair or I ever cannot get out of a
hospital bed, you have to kill me. You promise me,
you'll kill me, give me your word. He was so
frightened of not having any quality of life, and of
course I promised him, and at to black my mind,
thinking if you think I'm going to prison for twenty
years to help you out, old man, you're out of
your mind. So I had no intention, and he willed
(03:18):
himself to die by the way he did. It's quality
of life that women don't have as well as men do. Also,
women are physically more frail than men in old age. Again,
quality of life more vulnerable, particularly after menopause, to develop
cardiovascular disease Alzheimer's disease. Women have a greater share of
(03:41):
Alzheimer's disease for all of these reasons. So here's what
we know so far. The studies have been done and
we're just starting to really get the idea. There's a
growing body of research that now we go to the
molecular level that the double X set of female chromosomes
women are double X men or x y. That may
(04:04):
impact longevity the very hormone itself, although they don't know
exactly why. There's the twenty eighteen study doctor Dubal did
looked at genetically manipulated mice with different combinations of sex chromosomes,
reproductive organs, and real simple two X chromosomes. The ovaries
lived the longest, mix with mice with X Y chromosomes
(04:27):
shorter lifespan, So they're trying to figure that out. Don't
know exactly what's going on. There was second something about
that second X chromosome that was protecting mice from dying
earlier in life, even if they had scientifically what's known
as testes vernacularly known as gonads, balls, nuts, uvas, cahanes.
(04:51):
You understand now, Neil, what I'm referring to, Yes, sir, okay,
thank you very much. Clear picture, okay. And then there
are here's a word that's kind of fun, epigenic factors.
What the hell is an epigenic factor? Well, environment, how
about that for a spelling bee? Environmental or lifestyle elements,
(05:12):
climate stress, chronic stress, all of that impacts genes how
it's done, we don't know. Does it affect a role
in lifespan, We don't know, and there's a lot we
don't know, and they're just trying to figure this out.
And does it widen to shrink the disparities between men
(05:33):
and women. What we do know is women live longer.
It's that simple. Now, there's a couple of constitutional issues.
If you remember Prohibition, that was the eighteenth Amendment and
it was deemed a huge mistake because Prohibition was overturned
with the twenty first Amendment, realizing that we just did
(05:54):
it wrong. There was an argument that the nineteenth Amendment
giving women the right to vote have been No, I'm
not going to go there. That's just a little bit
of history that I thought i'd throw in. Okay, moving
on there. All there is a move to undo the
twenty second Amendment, and that is that president only has
(06:16):
two terms. Okay. Now, going back to the science of
women living longer than men, that is a given, and
that is for the most part all over the world,
our lifespan in this country has actually dropped. Our mortality
rate in term has actually increased relative to our age.
(06:40):
You know, do you remember and I've been around long
enough to remember sixty five was considered pretty old. It
was people retired at sixty five. You know, people died
at sixty six, sixty seven. Today you hear someone dying
in their late sixties, and you go, my god, that
is so young. Someone dying in their seventy these early seventies, Oh,
(07:02):
come on. It takes about late seventies before you go, okay,
that's not a problem them dying. And of course eighties
and nineties you go, there's a life well lived. Even
eighty five is not considered an extraordinary long life span anymore.
We live longer. Except it has turned around. It has
gone the other way, primarily because of the opioid crisis,
(07:25):
where one hundred thousand people have died one hundred and
ten thousand people die of overdoses every year. That number
is dropping, but not quickly enough. But the science behind
this and trying to figure out other than those obvious
factors gun deaths, for example, why do males die more
(07:45):
of gunshot wounds of gun deaths and females because they
hang around guns more. It's a kind of a guy
thing to do. And gang bangers killing each other. You
don't see many women gang members flying around, you know,
shooting at each other. So there are are definitely some
things that are obvious and you can point to. Then
there are the medical aspects of this. Researchers investigating the
(08:10):
role of sex hormones, and of course I immediately go
into the joke, how do you make a hormone? And
I'm not going to do that. The role of sex
hormones like estrogen, how connected is that to longevity? And
on top of the longevity, they're also talking about the
immunity part of that too. It turns out there's data
(08:30):
just came out that at least before menopause, the female
immune system tends to be better, more on it, responses
are better. They're just trying to figure out the difference
between men and women, and not just the obvious ones.
You know, we have different plumbing and men are I
(08:52):
guess they're you know, Neil, and I mean, well, there
are some sort of givens. Are men more excitable than women?
I think women are more excitable. I think is a
general idea. I mean, certainly we know women are much
worse drivers. As a matter of course, that's that's a
matter of science. We know that, particularly if there's a
(09:13):
certain ethnic varieties of women who drive. I'm not going
to get into that because I don't need the emails,
but there are just some givens. Behavioral play plays a
key role. Women are generally less likely than men to
smoke or drink heavily, more men alcoholics, more men smokers
(09:39):
than women. Women also tend to be more health promoting,
and they're more conscious of their own health than men do.
They go to doctors more so, more regularly. It's just
they just think of themselves and their bodies and and
and a much greater way than men do. Now do
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men really care about their bodies very much? Neil? You
ever look at yourself in the mirror when you wake
up in the morning? Do I ever look at myself
in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
I look the other way. I try and avoid it. Yeah,
me too. Women are much more conscious about what they
look like. And if you're less conscious about what you
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look like, I mean, it's sort of a given. But
I'm talking about science here. These studies have been done.
Then you let yourself go to pot So the other thing.
During COVID, men died at a higher rate. Why because
they were more likely to hold jobs that expose them
to the virus, food preparation, construction, more likely to be homeless,
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more likely to be in prison where COVID spread. And
when you look at, for example, the number of men
who are in prison versus the number of women, and
we have the highest population in the world of our citizens,
our residents in prison not only in terms of sheer numbers,
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but also per capita, and prison does not do well.
And if you have more men, let's say prison was
the only factor, women would last a whole lot longer
than men simply because of the number of men they're
in prison. So they're trying to figure it out. How
am I going to end. Let's go back to the
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nineteenth Amendment when women were given the right to vote. Okay,
let's not because I don't need the grief from Amy
or Ann on this one. We're gonna do the I
think I'm gonna do the chicken story tomorrow. That's it.
I yell do that because I want to go what's
happening with the National Parks And the reason we're going
with a chicken story tomorrow because I have to do
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a promo for it. And I just came up with
a great promo that's going to sound stupid as hell. Okay,
now let's talk about what's happening with the National Parks
And as you know, there's a huge shakeup going on
in the federal government. To Musk has come in, President
has decided and is going forward with They're just taking
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the entire federal government, shaking it up and seeing what
falls out of the box. And I think the poster
child at what's going on is what's happening at the
National Park Service? And what is going on? First of all,
let's start with the National Park Service in and of itself.
It's probably the most beloved federal agency that exists. I mean,
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everybody loves the Park Service. And so the Trump administration
continues the campaign to slash federal workforce. More than seven
hundred of the Park Service folks, full time employees, have
taken the buyouts that they're resigning. We're out and they'll
keep benefits and pay until September. The rest of them, well,
(13:00):
we go to mosque saying, I want to see five
things you did last week. By the way, that deadline
is done, and now we'll see how many of those
people that either didn't appropriately right the five things or
did not write the five things. There's a lot of
confusion because some agencies said, nah, don't do it. That's
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up in the air. But I want to talk about
what's happening here. Seventeen hundred full time permanent staff members
have lost their jobs. It's about nine percent of the workforce.
In addition, and this is not being covered, the staff
members that are remaining can't travel anymore for work purposes
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unless it's to support national security or immigration enforcement, which
a lot of people that stand those ticket takers don't
really have a lot to do with national security. The
entrance of parks, no credit cards for gas, for service vehicles,
buying toilet for restrooms off the table right now, which
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makes just a gun awful mess. And according to the
senior vice president for the National Parks Conservation Association, folks
that deal with this, it's the cuts aren't restored. It's
just not going to be the same park service. It isn't.
The park's gonna have to close down effectively. Summertime is coming.
People by the tens of millions go to the National
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parks and they're not getting in and all of a sudden,
you've got the government spinning and going, wait a minute,
maybe we went too fast on this. Okay, So what happens, well,
seasonal workers that come in during the summer, which the
park can't function without them. These are people that are
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ticket takers and they're maintenance people and the rescue people.
We're all told that any offer you have to come
back the summer has been rescinded. Done, you're not coming
back in until someone realized realizes, you know, we're not
gonna have very many happy Americans who can't get into
the park and a big sign that says closed. And
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then my guess is someone is going to spray paint.
Talk to your government, talk to Trump. And so I
think they realize on two different levels, one politically the
optics of it, and two just deciding to keep the
parks open. So those seasonal workers have now they've now
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been brought back. Okay, you're coming back. Not only have
they been brought back in other words, their offer to
rescind the offer to come in has been rescinded, but
they're actually bringing in about fifteen hundred more workers than
last year, seventy seven hundred versus sixty three hundred that
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worked at the parks. What's happening here? And I'm reading
some articles about this, said, people who work for the
FEDS who voted for Trump and still feel very strongly,
there's still strong Trump reporters. Trump supporters believe in what
he is doing and taking up the government are saying,
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you know what, this is going too fast. They just
decided arbitrarily that my job should be gone, and no
one actually looked to see what I do. No one
paid attention to see how valuable I am. Case in point,
they released, I don't know, fired several hundred people that
actually did the security at the National Weapons Nuclear Weapons
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Regulatory whatever that physical space was that holds nuclear weapons,
and the security personnel will let go until the next
day they realized, we don't have anybody to guard this
place anymore. You think someone jumped the gun here. So
that was a big And that's what's happening. It's going
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very very quickly. And for those of you that support
what Trump has done, and in many cases I do,
by the way, because there are during Biden and the
previous administrations, I mean just the number of workers got up,
up up, and there really hasn't been a solid accounting
of what the government does and spends, and there should
be the problem is you throw out the baby with
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the bathwater? Do you throw out the baby and the
container and the bath as well as a life source
whole house water filtration system that's in the home. Notice
how I did that? Okay? Notice what I just did there? Okay,
this is how you keep clients. I just want you
to know that. Okay, I think we're done on that one.
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All right, Let's end up with what's going on with
the County Board of Supervisors. They just voted five two
zero to allow the Calabasis Landfill to accept potentially toxic
wildfire debris outside of its typical service area. Now, when
you talk about toxic debris that goes into landfills normally
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that are designed for that, they have more safeguards, they're lined,
they have sensors. I mean, all kinds of technology doesn't
exist in normal landfills. And what's going on, well, that
toxic debris and those fires are going into the regular landfills. Now,
I want to make a comparison here. Do you remember
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Deep Water Horizon, that oil well that blew up in
the Gulf of Mexico. Excuse me the Gulf of America
because I still want to remain on the air because
the FCC otherwise is going to shut us down as
federal agency. So you have to say Gulf of America.
And the damage that was done to the Gulf area
along the shoreline was just astronomical. It was crazy. So
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now you have that owned the deep water horizon and
the damage was instant and massive. So what do they do?
They started writing checks like crazy. Did they set up
any safeguards? Nope? I mean they had a choice, do
we just start writing checks or do we just suck
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it up and know there's going to be fraud and
we don't have time to set up the safeguards. That's
what's happening here. The toxic debris that is on the
properties that were burnt, and we're talking about I mean,
the lumber is easy, but the plastics and the oils
and the things that are the manufactured goods that are
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in a house, the cabinets that are filled with formaldehyde,
for example, the wood, the plywood all have toxic aspects
to them. And so normally the city or the county
would say, and the county owns Calabasas that landfill would
say you can't do it here, you have to do
it over there. Well, they're saying you can do it here.
Why because these are exitgen circumstances. They say, we have
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no choice. We've got to get this stuff out of
here as quickly as possible. Now, what is there something
that's going to give here? And I'll tell you what's
giving and that is the level of toxicity. No one
knows because they're not testing for it. The fact that
we know toxic materials are going into landfills close to
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the populator will be populated areas FEMA is not testing.
What FEMA is doing is just let's move this crap
out and get started. Which way do you go? Do
you wait? And here's what the authorities are saying. If
we have to truck this stuff miles and miles away,
it's going to slow everything down. And right now, we've
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got to get rid of this debre right this second.
And they're moving at I mean it's a rapid pace.
They're going through this like lightning, and they're saying, hey,
you know what, this is what we're doing. We've got
to do it quickly, and we have to release a
matter of fact, the county has said not only does
landfill going to have this, but they've also given permission
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to other landfills in the county to expand the amount
that is put in the landfill at any given time.
I mean, all the rules are being waived. I mean
the law allows those rules to be waived in emergency circumstances,
which I don't think anybody's gonna argue this is. And
as you can imagine, there was a hearing on this
before this vote. And how many people do you think
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showed up and started screaming, especially in those areas, you know,
how dare they stop this from going on? Yeah, well
they're the neighbors. It's easy for me. It's easy for
you to say, hey, come on, guys, we've got to
get rid of this debris. And when they say you
don't live here, we do. Yeah, that's true. So nothing
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good is going to become a come of this. Well
maybe there is a silver lining someplace, but it's hard
to see. You've got the of course, the destruction of
the homes. People became homeless. Now the people in the
palisades there's homeless, and there's homeless. Very few of them
ended up on the street or in dumpsters. Same thing
in Altadena, but in terms of their financial hit, in
(22:20):
terms of the fact they've lived in the homes for
so for generations in Altadena specifically, I mean, that's a
huge hit. They're gonna rebuild. Will there be money? Yeah?
Are people going to lose their shirts? Yes? I don't
know if anybody's gonna be made a whole again, but
they're going to get a new house. Believe me, they
would gladly not have a new house, but for what
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they're going through. Okay, we're done, guys. There's another dollar,
another day, another dollar. Sure that works, and we're back
again tomorrow morning. Wake up call with Amy. That's from
five to six. Neil and I come board at six
to write about now and of course Amy, Ann and
Kono always here. Cono. Oh, you're dressed differently today. You
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don't have a sweatshirt in your baseball hat like you've
done every single day since I've known you. Oh, that's
exactly the way you're dressed. Yes, Yes, Okay, let's it guys,
Gary and Shannon up next. This is KF I am sixty.
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