April 1, 2025 • 23 mins
(April 01, 2025)
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill this week. ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan speaks on the extended-stay astronauts and their 286-day mission. Sales tax will rise across L.A County starting today… Why? How will it affect you? Don’t tell ChatGPT these 5 things. California waives environment laws to speed utility rebuild after fires.
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill this week. ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan speaks on the extended-stay astronauts and their 286-day mission. Sales tax will rise across L.A County starting today… Why? How will it affect you? Don’t tell ChatGPT these 5 things. California waives environment laws to speed utility rebuild after fires.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty, KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody. Neil Savader in for mister Bill
Handled today. Happy Tuesday to you. I will be with
you the remainder of the week. Bill will be back
on Monday from his vacation in Italy, and just talked
(00:23):
to him yesterday, having a blast, but looking forward to
coming home as well and connecting with you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So just stick around.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And you got Gary and Shannon coming up at nine,
so go know where. Right now, we bring to the
table ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Good morning, Jim Mording.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Neil, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I am well? How about yourself, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I'm okay. Haven't been in space for two hundred and
eighty six days. Like our friend Sunny Williamson Poach Willmore.
They did their first interview post landing yesterday and talked
about their time in space, said that it was fine.
They didn't feel trapped, they weren't stuff, they weren't stranded.
They were just doing a different mission from the one
they were intended to do. The one that was supposed
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to last nine days lasted two hundred and eighty six days,
thirty six times longer than their original mission had been planned. So, yeah,
they pivoted, they did their job, and now they're back
home feeling good.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Now I understand the reasoning.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know, the whole thing that, hey, space is a
curvy road, I think is one of the terms that
they use.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You never know where it's going to go.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I get all those things, But, like you said, thirty
plus times longer than anticipated, why do you think the
pushback or the bristling as it was suggested that they
were stranded. Of course they're not stranded. They were going
to come home. But yeah, it why the pushback on
that so much? It seems odd to me?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, you know, I think you're right, But I think
that there's this fear of seeming out of control, right,
that you're your destiny is not your own. When you're
aboard the International Space Station and going into space, it
carries with it the risks that you might not get
back home at all. We always knew that that was
the case, so that the actual occurrence that they have
(02:15):
to stay in space much longer than they had to before,
it's not an emergency. It's not you know, something dire.
They weren't running out of food or oxygen. Everything was fine,
So I think that's sort of it. They changed their mission,
they carried it out for much longer than they intended to.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, I just think it'd be a whole different movie.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
In Apollo thirteen when you have them go Houston. We
have a curvy road in space. Not a problem, We're fine,
just a curvy road. To me, it's like, I like
the fact that they're going listen. We're here to get information,
We're here to learn things. Every mission is important, no
(02:56):
matter how large, and know how to matter how small,
and we are always focused on doing whatever we can
with the time we have up there. But I think
the pushback is weird to me, like everything's fine eats,
especially because I think it was Boeing who built the
ship that took me up there, and that was during
a time when Boeing was well, it wasn't a lot
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of good press.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Sure, we're still having their pr challenges too, you know, Yeah,
the seven eighty seven and then this Boeing Starliner situation,
and you know, so there's plenty of blame to go around,
and butch Wilmore was asked about that, and you know
who's really to blame that. There was their starship, the
Boeing starship that took them up there. There was a
technical problem. NASA said, Okay, listen, we're going to bring
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the thing back by itself. We're going to leave Sonny
and Butcher up on the ISS. It came back fine,
by the way, there was no problem with it when
it came down, and they were able to take apart
and figure out what's wrong. So who gets the blame
for this? Listened to Butch willmore Neil, So I thought
it was going to play for me, but it didn't
diet it anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
He says this when he kind of points the finger
at himself.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, right, yeah, not only is it Boeing, not only
is it NASA, but he says there were questions that
as crew flight test chief, I should have asked, and
I didn't ask. So he sort of takes some of
the responsibility himself. And I think that's sort of you
know what the NASA mentality or the astronaut maybe the
military mentality that we're all in this together. And so, yeah,
(04:27):
NASA has some responsibility. Boeing does too, and so does
the captain and that was that was butch.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The system, and this is mentioned, the system has to
be built on trust.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It just has to. Yeah, I mean these are huge.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Brains dealing dealing with all this, including the people that
are going up in space. You have to at some
point say I can't know everything. I'm going to have
to lean on somebody that has that ability. I think
it's noble to want to point the ish, you know,
pointing finger at yourself, say I'm culpable for part of
the issue as well, was anything said about what was
(05:05):
learned with that extra time, how that extra time was
utilized to the benefit of humanity in the space program.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, there were all those experiments that were on the
plate either to be done by Sonny and Bush or
by someone else. So they had their hands full doing
some agricultural experiments. They had a couple of spacewalks that
they had to go out and do do maintenance on
the International Space Station, so they had plenty to do
every day. Sonny, by the way, spent two hours every
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day Neil exercising. They're doing you know, whatever she does
isometrics or resistance training.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm sorry, what exercise?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
What is that exercise? Like this woman is fifty years old.
That sounds horrible. I don't want to do that with gravity. Well,
she got back and yesterday during this interview, she said, yeah,
I'm back up to three miles a day running. So
you know, my boy is none the worse for wear,
because then I think it's a lesson to a lot
of fifty nine year olds. And you know what, if
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you want to stay healthy, whether you're in zero gravity
or the gravity you're feeling, and you know Ventura, then
it gets some movement under your belt every day.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I know you're gonna say, yeah, it's a message all
of us. We need to go to space, Neil, and
then work out two hours each day in space. Well, Jim,
it's always a pleasure to talk to you, sir, Jim Ryan,
ABC News correspondent. All right, so New Taxis. You gotta
love that. California is gorgeous. And I will tell you,
(06:35):
just coming back from Italy, which is stunning and fabulous.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The food is great. I even love driving there.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
We rented a car and drove a lot. I liked
their freeways or whatever they call them. They call them
Otto something rather, I can't remember cool name though, And so.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
We were on a one A four and we were
I just like the way they drive.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But being out there, you start thinking it was rainy
and stuff and you start missing the temperate, just the
perfect weather we have here in California.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I know it's a little overcasting, but it's perfect. I
know why we live here in southern California for those
types of things. But man, it's getting hard to love
our city and love California, our state, because taxes keep
going up. And I wish I could blame it on
someone other than ourselves, because we keep voting this in
(07:30):
and earlier. It's like, why do we keep telling people
to get out the vote. They're making it worse. They're
getting out the wrong vote. I couldn't be more in
agreement with you, my dear friend. So don't be surprised
if there's a few extra sents run up on your
next receipt this week. So it starts today, yay. Los
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Angeles County residents will see a sales tax increase on
their purchase due to voter approved measure that's ports County
run homeless services because we need to throw more money
at homeless and the homeless concerns here. None of it
has done anything, anything, none of it. When you hear
(08:16):
the quotes that the city gets to build housing, it
is mind blowing. And they are doing everything to ruin
the city for this problem. I live in an old
part of the city. It's built in one hundred and
nineteen twelve, so it's one hundred and some years old, right,
(08:39):
gorgeous area. I mean it's old and it's city living.
But these houses are being taken down because they're on
R two or four lots whatever, and they're building these
these cracker box six eight unit condos and no homeless
(09:03):
person can afford them. They go for a million and
two or whatever they are for I don't know, eight
hundred square feet, a thousand square feet, I mean, they're
not huge. And the reason they can do that is
because the city is saying, hey, we need more housing.
So we're doing all these stupid things with the money
that we have, and now we're giving them more money.
(09:24):
So nine point five sales tech's going to jump to
nine point seventy five. And the weird thing about this
is there was already something on the books called Measure
H that was set to expire in twenty twenty seven.
So basically what this was to preemptively say we want
to keep that quarter'spective percent add another quarter percent to
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it forever. Because there is never ever a time where
the government takes your money and then gives it back.
All these temporary taxes, whatever they want to call him,
they end up coming for good because they spend the
same with you. I mean, you make more money, you
(10:09):
get a raise, you spend it. You don't shove that away.
You should, I should, but we don't, and the government
doesn't either. And in some areas it's even worse. Cities
whose current rate is ten point two five percent will
increase to ten point five, ten and a half percent. Alhambra, Carson,
(10:35):
Culver City, Glendale, Long Beach, nor Walk, South Pass. I mean,
these are these are places that are getting hit hard
with taxes.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And still we have to deal with homeless.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Not because there's not enough money, because there's plenty of
money to throw at this. I know, Handle and I
disagree on this because he says, you just got to
keep throwing more money at it, and you don't. You
need a triage system first. Vets, I'm sorry, Vets. Women,
children get them off immediately. It's a black eye on
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these United States. To have anybody that fought for this
country on the streets at all period, worring for anything.
That's a start. Women, children, that's a start. Then separate
those that are self induced mental issues via drugs and
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those with mental issues that need to be institutionalized somehow.
And the ACLU can kiss my ass if they think
that they are coming out and allowing people to live
on the streets like feral humans is the right thing
and their civil rights to do. But until we have
a plan like that, not one cent is going to
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be worth anything. Not a quarter cent, it doesn't mean anything.
You can't start with the money and then look for
some way to solve it. You got to have a
plan first, and right now, just building housing is not
a plan. If these people could live in a house,
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we wouldn't have problems. They have mental issues. They can't live.
You can put them in a house. They're still going
to sleep on the floor, They're still gonna crap everywhere,
They're still gonna do all these things because they're feral.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There are issues at hand.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So man, I would give up more than a quarter
cent if I thought it would actually go to something.
But we don't even know where the money, the billions
of dollars that have already been put aside and earmarked
for this, we don't know where they've gone. You know,
we got to get Monica Rodriguez, councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who
last year or maybe two years ago, was coming out
publicly and saying, hey, we don't the money, we have
(12:59):
no way of trying the money we already have, and
if I remember correctly, she was poo pooed by the
by the mayor's office. And now it comes out just recently,
we don't know where the money is or what it's
being used for. So more taxes with nothing, you know,
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nothing being helped. Auto Strata, that is it? Thanks Elizabeth.
My friend Elizabeth texted me, is auto Strata? Isn't that
the cololest name for your your highways and byways there
in Italy? All right, hey, don't tell chat GPT these
five things. The reality is chat GPT and AI.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm sorry. I'd love it now.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I know, as an artist and somebody who's designed and
illustrated and done all these things that my fellow artists
and creators are none too thrilled about. Some of its features.
I get all that. I get that there's discussions to have. However,
recently I was working on some code. I was coding
(14:06):
something at our duino is a type of electronic controller,
and I was having problems coding it. There was a
problem in my code and I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And it helped me. I could put the code in
there and say what am I not seeing? And it
told me.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It fixed the situation that probably would have taken me forever.
I've done many different types of things with electronics, with
you know, all kinds of things, figuring out three D
printing issues, whatever it is, it can be wonderful. However,
if you don't know how to use it or how
to give prompts, and you don't know how the information
(14:45):
with any particular service you're using, whether it's chat, GPT
or any of the other options that you have out there,
Gemini or any of these others. You you know, Claude
and the co pilot, whatever it is Gemini. You have
to know what their rules are for keeping your information,
(15:06):
how long they're going to they're going to keep it,
because you do get kind of relaxed talking to it,
because it it's like a person.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
They're like well, what about this or what about that?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Many of these that are out there, So keep these
things confidential and you're going to be better off for it. Obviously,
identity information, social security, driver's licensed passport numbers, data, birth addresses,
phone numbers, keep those away. Medical results if you are
going to have AI check your medical results, take anything
(15:42):
off that identifies you, just the test results. Redact anything
that identifies you. It can be helpful. Sometimes financial accounts
guard your bank, your investments account numbers, all these, don't
put that information proprietary corporate information. Now we get these
(16:03):
admonitions here, don't use AI for doing X, Y and
z because you don't want to put anything proprietary in there.
Samsung band Chat GPT after an engineer leaked internal source
code to the service, was trying to probably figure something
out and log ins. I know that there's all these
(16:24):
different AI agents that can help you with.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Real world world.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Tasks and keeping things organized, but keep in mind your credentials,
your digital passwords, your pins, security questions, any of these
things can be highly problematic and combite you in the ours, so.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Learn what system you're using.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Claude by default doesn't use your chats for training delete
your data after two years. Open ais Chat, GPT, Microsoft's
co Pilot, Google's Gemini. They do use your conversations, but
off they offer an opt out in settings, So if
your privacy is of concern, try that delete often be
(17:13):
a little extra paranoid. Delete every conversation after it's over.
An exception to all of this, by the way, is
deep Seek, which I really like, but it uses servers
in China.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You should keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I just think that the logic that deep seek uses
is phenomenal. The way it processes information is like none
other that I've used. But according to its privacy policy,
it can retain your data indefinitely. There's no way to
opt out.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You can use.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Temporary chat will be helpful, or you can go through
like Duck dot Ai, which of course privacy search engine.
Duck dot Go uses this and makes it anonymous and
stuff like that. But just keep an eye on what
you're doing otherwise it can be very very helpful.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Hey, I want to remind you of a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You've got Amy's wiggle Wagglewak coming up this weekend. Amy
you can find her at Amy K King on Instagram.
Right correct Okay, So that's a good start. Follower there.
I would love for you to join me on social
media as well, at fork Reporter. At fork Reporters all
the food stuff and if you like art, my I've
(18:26):
opened up my Maker you know, my Maker creative side.
It's all the non radio stuff for the most part.
You can find me at savco Industries dot com not
dot com, just at Savco Industries on instagram s a
A v COO Industries and I do three D printing,
(18:49):
laser cutting, I do woodwork, do some metalwork, do some illustrations.
There's some stuff on there, but I like like minded
people or if you just enjoy art and those types
of things, you can join the conversation there. And that's
kind of a new one I just started. I think
maybe a thousand people are following. So I'd love to
have you join me there because that is that is
(19:12):
like just a different side of things, all right. So
environmental laws. I have mixed feelings about environmental laws. I
think they are important on one side and then they
are ludicrous on the other. We cause havoc to the environment,
just like animals do. We are an animal and we
do things. I get it that are different. We build roads,
(19:33):
we have factories, we have all those things. California is
looking to waive some environmental laws to speed in the
utility of rebuilding after the fires. Here's the thing that
I have to question about this. So you've got Gavin Newsom,
the gav. He is suspending California environmental laws for utility
(19:58):
providers working on reinstalling key infrastructure. So first thing first,
we're gonna have to bury those lines, get those power
lines underground, no sparking, no issues, totally different situation.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Now is the time. We can't go back.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So you have California Environmental Quality Act commonly known as CEQA,
and then you have California Coastal Act for the utilities
there in the burn zones of the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Here's my concern on this.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
On one side, the environmental stuff needs to be waived
so we can get this stuff done quickly. We just
got to move on this. These people are hemorrhaging money
in the fire sights because they're still paying their mortgages
and stuff that doesn't stop, and they're still paying utilities
or whatever I would imagine they're paying, or unless some
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of that has been waived. However, what I don't hear
people talking about is the fact that there are more
than likely going to be changes to the way these
places are built that were built fifty years ago. They're
going to have fire suppression additives, I would imagine, they're
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going to have other things built in that weren't around,
or weren't needed, or weren't part of the building process
fifty years ago. So even waiving these things, which I
think is the right thing to do, they're still going
to be added costs and delays because of the new
(21:38):
things that you're going to have to put on to
make the house more fire resistant and also make it
you know, there's other laws dealing with climate and there's
other environmental things that are outside of just the CEQA
and the California Coastal Act. And I don't hear anybody
(22:00):
really poke pointing at that saying, hey, that's going to
be a part of this rebuild that is going to
cause more delay and going to cause more cost. That
isn't about these things being waived by GAFF, So we
shall see. My heart goes out to these folks. You know,
you're living your life and I don't care how much
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money you make.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But I've never understood that people, well they're rich, they
can no, it doesn't mean nobody is so rich that
they can lose a multimillion dollar house, and like, you
still have a family in it. You have memories that
cannot be replaced. You have the memories of walking those
halls and being connected. How my eight year old doesn't
want us to get a new couch. It's like this
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is the only couch I've ever known. I'm all, dude,
it's a couch, you know. And then people are dealing
with that. So I have a little heart in this situation.
But I think there it's still going to be an
uphill battle, and both locations, the Eaten fire and the
Palisades fire and the tap dancing and wordsmithing that comes
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out of politicians.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I think we still it waits.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
We have to wait to see what that's going to
translate into when they start building these homes, actually building them.
Neil Savader in for Bill Handle KFI and heard everywhere
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iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody. Neil Savader in for mister Bill
Handled today. Happy Tuesday to you. I will be with
you the remainder of the week. Bill will be back
on Monday from his vacation in Italy, and just talked
(00:23):
to him yesterday, having a blast, but looking forward to
coming home as well and connecting with you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So just stick around.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And you got Gary and Shannon coming up at nine,
so go know where. Right now, we bring to the
table ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Good morning, Jim Mording.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Neil, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I am well? How about yourself, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I'm okay. Haven't been in space for two hundred and
eighty six days. Like our friend Sunny Williamson Poach Willmore.
They did their first interview post landing yesterday and talked
about their time in space, said that it was fine.
They didn't feel trapped, they weren't stuff, they weren't stranded.
They were just doing a different mission from the one
they were intended to do. The one that was supposed
(01:05):
to last nine days lasted two hundred and eighty six days,
thirty six times longer than their original mission had been planned. So, yeah,
they pivoted, they did their job, and now they're back
home feeling good.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Now I understand the reasoning.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know, the whole thing that, hey, space is a
curvy road, I think is one of the terms that
they use.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You never know where it's going to go.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I get all those things, But, like you said, thirty
plus times longer than anticipated, why do you think the
pushback or the bristling as it was suggested that they
were stranded. Of course they're not stranded. They were going
to come home. But yeah, it why the pushback on
that so much? It seems odd to me?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, you know, I think you're right, But I think
that there's this fear of seeming out of control, right,
that you're your destiny is not your own. When you're
aboard the International Space Station and going into space, it
carries with it the risks that you might not get
back home at all. We always knew that that was
the case, so that the actual occurrence that they have
(02:15):
to stay in space much longer than they had to before,
it's not an emergency. It's not you know, something dire.
They weren't running out of food or oxygen. Everything was fine,
So I think that's sort of it. They changed their mission,
they carried it out for much longer than they intended to.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, I just think it'd be a whole different movie.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
In Apollo thirteen when you have them go Houston. We
have a curvy road in space. Not a problem, We're fine,
just a curvy road. To me, it's like, I like
the fact that they're going listen. We're here to get information,
We're here to learn things. Every mission is important, no
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matter how large, and know how to matter how small,
and we are always focused on doing whatever we can
with the time we have up there. But I think
the pushback is weird to me, like everything's fine eats,
especially because I think it was Boeing who built the
ship that took me up there, and that was during
a time when Boeing was well, it wasn't a lot
(03:18):
of good press.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Sure, we're still having their pr challenges too, you know, Yeah,
the seven eighty seven and then this Boeing Starliner situation,
and you know, so there's plenty of blame to go around,
and butch Wilmore was asked about that, and you know
who's really to blame that. There was their starship, the
Boeing starship that took them up there. There was a
technical problem. NASA said, Okay, listen, we're going to bring
(03:40):
the thing back by itself. We're going to leave Sonny
and Butcher up on the ISS. It came back fine,
by the way, there was no problem with it when
it came down, and they were able to take apart
and figure out what's wrong. So who gets the blame
for this? Listened to Butch willmore Neil, So I thought
it was going to play for me, but it didn't
diet it anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
He says this when he kind of points the finger
at himself.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, right, yeah, not only is it Boeing, not only
is it NASA, but he says there were questions that
as crew flight test chief, I should have asked, and
I didn't ask. So he sort of takes some of
the responsibility himself. And I think that's sort of you
know what the NASA mentality or the astronaut maybe the
military mentality that we're all in this together. And so, yeah,
(04:27):
NASA has some responsibility. Boeing does too, and so does
the captain and that was that was butch.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The system, and this is mentioned, the system has to
be built on trust.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It just has to. Yeah, I mean these are huge.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Brains dealing dealing with all this, including the people that
are going up in space. You have to at some
point say I can't know everything. I'm going to have
to lean on somebody that has that ability. I think
it's noble to want to point the ish, you know,
pointing finger at yourself, say I'm culpable for part of
the issue as well, was anything said about what was
(05:05):
learned with that extra time, how that extra time was
utilized to the benefit of humanity in the space program.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, there were all those experiments that were on the
plate either to be done by Sonny and Bush or
by someone else. So they had their hands full doing
some agricultural experiments. They had a couple of spacewalks that
they had to go out and do do maintenance on
the International Space Station, so they had plenty to do
every day. Sonny, by the way, spent two hours every
(05:32):
day Neil exercising. They're doing you know, whatever she does
isometrics or resistance training.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm sorry, what exercise?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
What is that exercise? Like this woman is fifty years old.
That sounds horrible. I don't want to do that with gravity. Well,
she got back and yesterday during this interview, she said, yeah,
I'm back up to three miles a day running. So
you know, my boy is none the worse for wear,
because then I think it's a lesson to a lot
of fifty nine year olds. And you know what, if
(06:05):
you want to stay healthy, whether you're in zero gravity
or the gravity you're feeling, and you know Ventura, then
it gets some movement under your belt every day.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I know you're gonna say, yeah, it's a message all
of us. We need to go to space, Neil, and
then work out two hours each day in space. Well, Jim,
it's always a pleasure to talk to you, sir, Jim Ryan,
ABC News correspondent. All right, so New Taxis. You gotta
love that. California is gorgeous. And I will tell you,
(06:35):
just coming back from Italy, which is stunning and fabulous.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
The food is great. I even love driving there.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
We rented a car and drove a lot. I liked
their freeways or whatever they call them. They call them
Otto something rather, I can't remember cool name though, And so.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
We were on a one A four and we were
I just like the way they drive.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But being out there, you start thinking it was rainy
and stuff and you start missing the temperate, just the
perfect weather we have here in California.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I know it's a little overcasting, but it's perfect. I
know why we live here in southern California for those
types of things. But man, it's getting hard to love
our city and love California, our state, because taxes keep
going up. And I wish I could blame it on
someone other than ourselves, because we keep voting this in
(07:30):
and earlier. It's like, why do we keep telling people
to get out the vote. They're making it worse. They're
getting out the wrong vote. I couldn't be more in
agreement with you, my dear friend. So don't be surprised
if there's a few extra sents run up on your
next receipt this week. So it starts today, yay. Los
(07:54):
Angeles County residents will see a sales tax increase on
their purchase due to voter approved measure that's ports County
run homeless services because we need to throw more money
at homeless and the homeless concerns here. None of it
has done anything, anything, none of it. When you hear
(08:16):
the quotes that the city gets to build housing, it
is mind blowing. And they are doing everything to ruin
the city for this problem. I live in an old
part of the city. It's built in one hundred and
nineteen twelve, so it's one hundred and some years old, right,
(08:39):
gorgeous area. I mean it's old and it's city living.
But these houses are being taken down because they're on
R two or four lots whatever, and they're building these
these cracker box six eight unit condos and no homeless
(09:03):
person can afford them. They go for a million and
two or whatever they are for I don't know, eight
hundred square feet, a thousand square feet, I mean, they're
not huge. And the reason they can do that is
because the city is saying, hey, we need more housing.
So we're doing all these stupid things with the money
that we have, and now we're giving them more money.
(09:24):
So nine point five sales tech's going to jump to
nine point seventy five. And the weird thing about this
is there was already something on the books called Measure
H that was set to expire in twenty twenty seven.
So basically what this was to preemptively say we want
to keep that quarter'spective percent add another quarter percent to
(09:47):
it forever. Because there is never ever a time where
the government takes your money and then gives it back.
All these temporary taxes, whatever they want to call him,
they end up coming for good because they spend the
same with you. I mean, you make more money, you
(10:09):
get a raise, you spend it. You don't shove that away.
You should, I should, but we don't, and the government
doesn't either. And in some areas it's even worse. Cities
whose current rate is ten point two five percent will
increase to ten point five, ten and a half percent. Alhambra, Carson,
(10:35):
Culver City, Glendale, Long Beach, nor Walk, South Pass. I mean,
these are these are places that are getting hit hard
with taxes.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And still we have to deal with homeless.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Not because there's not enough money, because there's plenty of
money to throw at this. I know, Handle and I
disagree on this because he says, you just got to
keep throwing more money at it, and you don't. You
need a triage system first. Vets, I'm sorry, Vets. Women,
children get them off immediately. It's a black eye on
(11:13):
these United States. To have anybody that fought for this
country on the streets at all period, worring for anything.
That's a start. Women, children, that's a start. Then separate
those that are self induced mental issues via drugs and
(11:34):
those with mental issues that need to be institutionalized somehow.
And the ACLU can kiss my ass if they think
that they are coming out and allowing people to live
on the streets like feral humans is the right thing
and their civil rights to do. But until we have
a plan like that, not one cent is going to
(11:55):
be worth anything. Not a quarter cent, it doesn't mean anything.
You can't start with the money and then look for
some way to solve it. You got to have a
plan first, and right now, just building housing is not
a plan. If these people could live in a house,
(12:20):
we wouldn't have problems. They have mental issues. They can't live.
You can put them in a house. They're still going
to sleep on the floor, They're still gonna crap everywhere,
They're still gonna do all these things because they're feral.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There are issues at hand.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So man, I would give up more than a quarter
cent if I thought it would actually go to something.
But we don't even know where the money, the billions
of dollars that have already been put aside and earmarked
for this, we don't know where they've gone. You know,
we got to get Monica Rodriguez, councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who
last year or maybe two years ago, was coming out
publicly and saying, hey, we don't the money, we have
(12:59):
no way of trying the money we already have, and
if I remember correctly, she was poo pooed by the
by the mayor's office. And now it comes out just recently,
we don't know where the money is or what it's
being used for. So more taxes with nothing, you know,
(13:23):
nothing being helped. Auto Strata, that is it? Thanks Elizabeth.
My friend Elizabeth texted me, is auto Strata? Isn't that
the cololest name for your your highways and byways there
in Italy? All right, hey, don't tell chat GPT these
five things. The reality is chat GPT and AI.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm sorry. I'd love it now.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I know, as an artist and somebody who's designed and
illustrated and done all these things that my fellow artists
and creators are none too thrilled about. Some of its features.
I get all that. I get that there's discussions to have. However,
recently I was working on some code. I was coding
(14:06):
something at our duino is a type of electronic controller,
and I was having problems coding it. There was a
problem in my code and I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And it helped me. I could put the code in
there and say what am I not seeing? And it
told me.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It fixed the situation that probably would have taken me forever.
I've done many different types of things with electronics, with
you know, all kinds of things, figuring out three D
printing issues, whatever it is, it can be wonderful. However,
if you don't know how to use it or how
to give prompts, and you don't know how the information
(14:45):
with any particular service you're using, whether it's chat, GPT
or any of the other options that you have out there,
Gemini or any of these others. You you know, Claude
and the co pilot, whatever it is Gemini. You have
to know what their rules are for keeping your information,
(15:06):
how long they're going to they're going to keep it,
because you do get kind of relaxed talking to it,
because it it's like a person.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
They're like well, what about this or what about that?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Many of these that are out there, So keep these
things confidential and you're going to be better off for it. Obviously,
identity information, social security, driver's licensed passport numbers, data, birth addresses,
phone numbers, keep those away. Medical results if you are
going to have AI check your medical results, take anything
(15:42):
off that identifies you, just the test results. Redact anything
that identifies you. It can be helpful. Sometimes financial accounts
guard your bank, your investments account numbers, all these, don't
put that information proprietary corporate information. Now we get these
(16:03):
admonitions here, don't use AI for doing X, Y and
z because you don't want to put anything proprietary in there.
Samsung band Chat GPT after an engineer leaked internal source
code to the service, was trying to probably figure something
out and log ins. I know that there's all these
(16:24):
different AI agents that can help you with.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Real world world.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Tasks and keeping things organized, but keep in mind your credentials,
your digital passwords, your pins, security questions, any of these
things can be highly problematic and combite you in the ours, so.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Learn what system you're using.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Claude by default doesn't use your chats for training delete
your data after two years. Open ais Chat, GPT, Microsoft's
co Pilot, Google's Gemini. They do use your conversations, but
off they offer an opt out in settings, So if
your privacy is of concern, try that delete often be
(17:13):
a little extra paranoid. Delete every conversation after it's over.
An exception to all of this, by the way, is
deep Seek, which I really like, but it uses servers
in China.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You should keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I just think that the logic that deep seek uses
is phenomenal. The way it processes information is like none
other that I've used. But according to its privacy policy,
it can retain your data indefinitely. There's no way to
opt out.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You can use.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Temporary chat will be helpful, or you can go through
like Duck dot Ai, which of course privacy search engine.
Duck dot Go uses this and makes it anonymous and
stuff like that. But just keep an eye on what
you're doing otherwise it can be very very helpful.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Hey, I want to remind you of a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You've got Amy's wiggle Wagglewak coming up this weekend. Amy
you can find her at Amy K King on Instagram.
Right correct Okay, So that's a good start. Follower there.
I would love for you to join me on social
media as well, at fork Reporter. At fork Reporters all
the food stuff and if you like art, my I've
(18:26):
opened up my Maker you know, my Maker creative side.
It's all the non radio stuff for the most part.
You can find me at savco Industries dot com not
dot com, just at Savco Industries on instagram s a
A v COO Industries and I do three D printing,
(18:49):
laser cutting, I do woodwork, do some metalwork, do some illustrations.
There's some stuff on there, but I like like minded
people or if you just enjoy art and those types
of things, you can join the conversation there. And that's
kind of a new one I just started. I think
maybe a thousand people are following. So I'd love to
have you join me there because that is that is
(19:12):
like just a different side of things, all right. So
environmental laws. I have mixed feelings about environmental laws. I
think they are important on one side and then they
are ludicrous on the other. We cause havoc to the environment,
just like animals do. We are an animal and we
do things. I get it that are different. We build roads,
(19:33):
we have factories, we have all those things. California is
looking to waive some environmental laws to speed in the
utility of rebuilding after the fires. Here's the thing that
I have to question about this. So you've got Gavin Newsom,
the gav. He is suspending California environmental laws for utility
(19:58):
providers working on reinstalling key infrastructure. So first thing first,
we're gonna have to bury those lines, get those power
lines underground, no sparking, no issues, totally different situation.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Now is the time. We can't go back.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So you have California Environmental Quality Act commonly known as CEQA,
and then you have California Coastal Act for the utilities
there in the burn zones of the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Here's my concern on this.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
On one side, the environmental stuff needs to be waived
so we can get this stuff done quickly. We just
got to move on this. These people are hemorrhaging money
in the fire sights because they're still paying their mortgages
and stuff that doesn't stop, and they're still paying utilities
or whatever I would imagine they're paying, or unless some
(20:55):
of that has been waived. However, what I don't hear
people talking about is the fact that there are more
than likely going to be changes to the way these
places are built that were built fifty years ago. They're
going to have fire suppression additives, I would imagine, they're
(21:17):
going to have other things built in that weren't around,
or weren't needed, or weren't part of the building process
fifty years ago. So even waiving these things, which I
think is the right thing to do, they're still going
to be added costs and delays because of the new
(21:38):
things that you're going to have to put on to
make the house more fire resistant and also make it
you know, there's other laws dealing with climate and there's
other environmental things that are outside of just the CEQA
and the California Coastal Act. And I don't hear anybody
(22:00):
really poke pointing at that saying, hey, that's going to
be a part of this rebuild that is going to
cause more delay and going to cause more cost. That
isn't about these things being waived by GAFF, So we
shall see. My heart goes out to these folks. You know,
you're living your life and I don't care how much
(22:23):
money you make.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But I've never understood that people, well they're rich, they
can no, it doesn't mean nobody is so rich that
they can lose a multimillion dollar house, and like, you
still have a family in it. You have memories that
cannot be replaced. You have the memories of walking those
halls and being connected. How my eight year old doesn't
want us to get a new couch. It's like this
(22:47):
is the only couch I've ever known. I'm all, dude,
it's a couch, you know. And then people are dealing
with that. So I have a little heart in this situation.
But I think there it's still going to be an
uphill battle, and both locations, the Eaten fire and the
Palisades fire and the tap dancing and wordsmithing that comes
(23:10):
out of politicians.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I think we still it waits.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
We have to wait to see what that's going to
translate into when they start building these homes, actually building them.
Neil Savader in for Bill Handle KFI and heard everywhere
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