May 7, 2025 • 23 mins
(May 07, 2025)
Implementing Real ID. In a bid to blunt gentrification after Los Angeles wildfires, nonprofits look to buy burned lots. Why are young people so unhappy? They spend hours decorating their fridge shelves… then someone messes with them.
Implementing Real ID. In a bid to blunt gentrification after Los Angeles wildfires, nonprofits look to buy burned lots. Why are young people so unhappy? They spend hours decorating their fridge shelves… then someone messes with them.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Handle here on a humpday, Wednesday, May seventh, and we
finished it with our Pope news. We'll be talking about
that for sure. I noticed that the popes take a
new name, and that became really important back in the
nineteen thirties when Cardinal Secola became pope and he did
(00:28):
not want to be known as Pope Scola, so he
took a new name.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I used that before. And by the way, I love that, truly.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, Will shaking his head and going, come on, seriously, Handle,
all right, let me tell you what's going on in Altadena.
And this is really good. And I think you're gonna
be interested in the stats.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You know. I like stats when they tell us something.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
There's a story in the La Times about this woman,
Michelle Williams, who lived in a nineteen twenties cottage and
it was destroyed and she was there for seventeen years.
She rented, and she received a proposal from her landlord
she could have the burn lot. All she would have
to pay is five hundred and sixty five thousand dollars
cash within fifteen days.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That was a little tough.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Obviously she couldn't qualify or she couldn't come up with money.
And she's not alone. Thousands of homes were destroyed in Altadena,
and this is a very special area because a lot
of people don't have much money. They're living in homes
at our generational grandparents bought these houses for a couple
(01:41):
of reasons. They were affordable, and a lot of African
Americans bought these houses because the entire southern California was redlined,
which means that you couldn't buy a house if you
were black in neighborhoods, so you could in this island
of homes, and they got nailed. These people are not
(02:02):
of the same socioeconomic level as people in the Palisades.
So how do these mainly homeowners, how can they stay there?
Because the fear is and it's happening, And this is
eighty already where property owners have simply sold the land.
(02:23):
They just they don't want to build, they can't qualify,
there's no way they can afford it. So developers come
in and eighty of them have been bought so far,
and a lot more being negotiated. And gentrification is going
to happen because the land is several hundred thousand dollars
a lot. Today it costs seven hundred dollars a square
foot to build, so if you're building a thousand square feet,
(02:49):
that's seven hundred thousand dollars. So you're into this a
million one, a million two. Who can afford it? So
what happens the land? The landowner sells off to these
developers who come in. So what is going on to
save those neighborhoods? And they're trying for sure. So in
(03:11):
terms of Aschelle, she went to the Neighborhood Housing Services,
the Neighborhood Housing Services of La County, and they came
up with the money and they're going to build it
or give her enough money to build a house and
then sell it to her an affordable price. The county
(03:31):
is buying the property. Wow, that's a pretty good deal now.
The chief executive of the Neighborhood Housing Services of La
County said that their organization and a coalition of nonprofits
are looking to raise more money.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
How much do they have, we don't.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Know, to purchase a couple of hundred burned properties and
then to build homes and ideally sell them to people
from Altadena.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
At an affordable price to those people.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And the numbers are staggering because so far they've been
able to buy lots and arrange financing to rebuild and
sell to the property owner, and they've hit the magic
number of.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Two lots two. How is that for a success story?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
There are thousands of lots of homes that were.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Burned. And so if you're doing.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Two every let's say six months, because this has been
going on for a while, that's what for a year?
At what point do you reach six thousand? That's a
success story. Heart's in the right place. You can't argue
with that. And this is not giving someone a couple
(05:00):
one hundred dollars a food voucher or a snap you know,
a food stamp.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
This is a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We've talked about this before and this is kind of fun.
Every year there's something called the World Happiness Report and
we talk about it and the United States has dropped
to its lowest ranking. I think Sudan and Yemen are
happier places than we are. We're pretty miserable. And here's
(05:34):
what happens. How do they come up with this these figures,
this ranking? Well, the question is what's the world's happiest country,
and inevitably it's Finland or Denmark, Sweden. Those guys are
at the top, and they get there by asking people
in different countries to answer a single self assessment question,
(05:57):
self assessment question about life satisfaction. However, some surveys are
looking at this and it turns out people in different
cultures answer in many different ways. Depends on where you live,
depends on whether money is important, depends on culture.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Depends on.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Just the way people look at life. We, for example,
look at money very differently than other countries do they
pall for example, They just don't look at it the
same way. So there is the Global Flourishing Study. It's
a new study and it's based on a survey taken
by a bunch of institutions, including Harvard at the Human
(06:44):
Flourishing Program, and it uses self reporting and collects some
real comprehensive data on well being from half a dozen
dimensions in twenty two countries, two hundred thousand people it
followed over five years. There is some serious research, it's
(07:07):
not just a single question.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And here's what they did find.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Happiness declines gradually in young and middle adulthood. Then turns
upward in life. Starting at about fifty, you get happier now.
Of course they didn't ask me because I would skew
it completely.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Bill. Are you unhappy yes? Were you always unhappy? Yes?
When did you start being unhappy?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Uh? Probably at the age of two weeks? And are
you going to stay unhappy?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yes? Okay, fair enough. Now here comes the.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Interesting part, and this is I think no surprise to kneel.
And that is one of the facets of this. One
of the happiness levels you can point to.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Has to do with religion.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The more people are involved in religion, not just religion,
but being involved in churches and synagogues, the happier they are.
There is a correlation between the US becoming secularized. We
just don't go to church or synagogue anymore. After my
girls were bought MITZVD, I stopped. I wasn't interested. And
(08:27):
that's what happens to many many of us. And I
don't know how it works in the Christian religion when
people stop going to church in our cases because the
kids were no longer involved because they went to the
day school there. And so it's a direct correlation organized religion.
(08:50):
People who are organized religion meet at church or synagogue
or mosques where they have pot lucks. Do they have
pot lu and mosques, by the way, I don't know.
I've often thought about that, huh. Anyway, certainly churches do,
and there is just this camaraderie. There is just this
(09:12):
connection with other people, and connections to humans is really
important to lifestyle and happiness. For example, I was just
talking to Anne about we are doing off the air
about the pope and religion, and you know, I'm not
very religious, and Neil, let me ask you, the more
(09:34):
religious someone is, do you believe the happier someone is.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I don't know about religious that means a particular thing
to me, but I think that if you are faithful
and dedicated to your faith, I think that it can
be incredibly uplifting. I mean a lot of atheists that
don't have understanding of hope. Genuinely, they don't understand. They're
(09:59):
pretty dark outlook on things. And it doesn't mean they're
bad people any way, shape or form, but there's nothing
nowhere to put there's hope is part of faith. So
I find faith is part of happiness. I think it
can be. Yeah, absolutely, I was.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I was talking to I mean one of the things
that was talking to Anne, and then people do believe?
I mean, you know, obviously, and I don't understand it.
You know, do I understand?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Did Jesus really feed the multitudes on one package of
fish sticks?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
How the hell do I know?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Did he walk across the Galilee without pontoon shoes on?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
How the hell do I know? Does it seem plausible?
Not to me? But and I am miserable?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Does that mean, Neil, you believe in a package of
fish sticks and therefore you are happier?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yes, thank you for every reason.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I am happier than you, for you are a miserable bastard.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And I don't even think faith can help you. I
think you're just done.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That's probably true.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
It's like George and Michael said you got to have faith? Yeah,
you got to have faith.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Is that? Did Michael Bolton say that you have to
have faith?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
George?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Michael? It wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh, I thought there was Michael Bolton during a period
of time.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
By the way, as far as am I accusing Michael
Bolton to do anything here, am I right on that
that name?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
No Michael Bolton not at all different.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, no, I know that, but just uh, some reason
that came to mind. And uh, I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'm a big Bolton fan, but I agree with Neil.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Faith is important. Faith and hope are both. They go
hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Have you ever heard of fridge scaping? I hadn't, and
then and pointed this out. The Wall Street Journal wrote
about this because someone there realize there's something here that's fun.
It took the internet by storm last year, or maybe
you missed it.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I certainly did.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And fridge scaping is about sprucing up your refrigerator, the
inside of your refrigerator, not putting magnets outside with.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
All those crazy places you've been to.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
No, it's to make every nook and cranny of their
refrigerators look whimsical. And they looked pretty deeply in this
into this and the Wall Street Journal talk to experts
and they're looking at the reason to temporarily escape the
current economic political uncertainties and what It's just a neat way.
(12:47):
It's sort of a hobby, but it's your refrigerator, which
is really very strange.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I do this, do you?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I do it, but not to that extreme. But there's
something esthetically pleasing about having my refrigerator organized in a
certain way. And like, you know, I don't put like
other decorations and things in there, but I do enjoy
a visually pleasing refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's so bizarre. It's so bizarre now.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, one person interview said, well, manicuring the contents of
myridge fridge is a fun way to spend.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
A few hours.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
The one downside is leaving the door open too much
to look at the wonderful work that I've done. And
some people see the shelves and drawers and a way
to left to leave leftover chicken casseroles. And what they
do is, in addition to leaving leftovers and buying new
products of course, new produce and meats, et cetera, is
(13:45):
that fridge scapers are decorating them with the same care
that they wouldn't decorating a room.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I mean, does that tell you have absolutely no life? Now?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They tend to divide themselves into two categories. Oh no,
this gets deeper, I'll believe me. Okay, there's the casual
stylus who spends a few hours just jazzing up the
inside of the refrigerator, you know, decanting the drinks and
yogurt and jams into glass containers and playing placing fruits
and veggies and bowls and vases and vases or vases,
(14:20):
and just making it look clean and neat and just
kind of you know, I have one of these at home,
not the I'd live with one of these people, Okay.
Then there are the decorators who decorate the inside of
those refrigerators, lining the shells with baskets, photos next to
(14:45):
the milk and cheese, twinkle lights when the door is open,
and they choose a theme. Now there's one popular fridge scaper,
Lindsay Judish.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
She did the fridge interior by themes.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
The Great Gatsby is one theme, Bridgerton another theme. The
Winter Solsice is another theme. Now, the Gatsby one is
art deco.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Aaron Pitpgrass is known for really intricate fridge scaping. She's
forty four years old, described herself as a max maximalist,
loves vintage decor. She stumbled across a social media video
last year showing strings of lights in the fridge, and
(15:40):
then it wasn't until an old Peewee's playhouse Christmas special.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's when inspiration took her. So what did she do?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
What does she do to decorate the inside of her
vintage nineteen fifties refrigerator as an homage to Peewee's Food
in refrigerator segment. Well, what people do is typically this
is a big deal, is you open the door and
there's your Peewee's Food refrigerator segment, and you uncontrollably start.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Master bating pee wee Herman.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
The hell someone's not muting? Okay, moving on. She then
began the fridge scaping. A string of color lights outlined
the shelves. They were adorned with strands of garland. Then
artificial fruit was scattered around, eggs and broccoli stocks and butter.
(16:47):
Then there was a small metal stand that was the
base for a Christmas tree made of green grapes, and
there were plastic googly eyes that were put on a
slab of meat and a wedge of cabbage. Wow, isn't
that impressive. There was one Reddit user last year really
(17:10):
limited the fact that their spouse had taken to fridge
scaping and had taken over the world, and he posted
that flowers, fancy baskets, jars were taking over at the
expense of access to the food and adjusting the decor
to even grab the leftovers was creating a strain in
the household. Now that is and I'm looking at a picture.
(17:32):
This is his insanity, is what this is. It's almost
you go to one of those very high end grocery
stores that take the produce and make this extraordinary, almost
a sculpture of the produce.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
That's what these people do.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Now, the people who are fridgescapers say, wait a minute,
this isn't just about aesthetics, because displaying fruits and vegetables
rather than shoving them in drawers means less weight, less weights,
healthier eating, better tracking of when food is ready to eat.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
That that's true.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I mean i will take food and I'll put at
the back of a drawer, and then all of a sudden,
I'll realize that g I can make penicillin out of this.
I mean it can get pretty rough, but that's a
fascinating This is when you have too much time.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
This is when you know I'm thinking of taking this up.
Let me talk about that all right.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Well, today is the last day to have the real
id or yesterday was the last day that you had
the real ID, which allows you to get on airplanes
and get into federal buildings. Otherwise you are not coming
into a federal building. I wonder people who are arrested
and going to trial for some criminal offense. Can they
(18:54):
not go into a federal building and not be tried
if they don't have a real Idly there's probably that's
an excten, is my guess. In any case, the real
ID you have to have. And how do you get
the real ID. You go to the DMV and the
issuing new a new driver's license and the real ID,
and I'm looking at mine. There's usually a star in
(19:15):
the right hand corner, and the technology is better, it's
harder to forge. And in the case of California real ID,
there's a little bear, California bear with a star in
the middle, and there's your real ID. Okay, you have
to have it, now, why don't you have it? Eighty
one percent of travelers have real IDs. They met the
(19:38):
requirements eighty one percent in the United States. That means
twenty have not twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's even better.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In California, fifty eight percent have a real ID.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
That means forty two percent have not gotten it.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So the lines that the DMV are long, long, long,
because you have to have it the way you can't
get on an airplane. Well, Christinome, who is head of
Homeland Security, says, I'll tell you what We're going to,
not stop you if we're getting on an airplane, but
bring a passport that'll work, or bring a military idea.
You have to have a picture on it, or tribal
(20:16):
ID if you happen to be a Native American.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And what makes this so funny, and.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
What makes people who have not yet done this such
morons is the real ID law was passed by Well,
was recommended by the nine to eleven Commission, and sign
into law in two thousand and five, twenty years ago.
(20:49):
It was supposed to be rolled out in two thousand
and eight, and it was and you were supposed to well,
actually you were supposed to have it done by two
thousand eight.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Hm.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Well, since people weren't doing it, the implementation has been
repeatedly delayed, over and over and over again. And at
what point do Americans take this seriously? I mean, I
complied early on because I was told and I believed it,
(21:23):
We're not gonna let you get on airplanes at least domestically.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So I got my my early ID or real ID
early on.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Have you seen the videos of hundreds and hundreds of
people that are circling Department of Motor Vehicle buildings all
over the country. Come on, guys, you can't be that
dumb and guess what they are. This is proof positive
(21:53):
that if you look at the average IQ of Americans
across the board, you get very close to par golf.
Americans have a way of just not complying.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Very often.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
They just don't. We're not really good at following the law.
All right, we're done another day, another eighty cents because
we work at iHeart should be a dollar, but it's not.
And we're back again tomorrow. Neil is here with me
starting at six o'clock. At five o'clock, it's Will Cole Scheiber.
(22:33):
With Cole Schreiber, I always screw it up with not Amy.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Amy's gone for the week. It'll be Heather Brooker.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And then we got Kno and we have an everybody
here as we start all over again and see if
I can offend as many people as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
How do I do today? Neil?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Ten out of ten, sir, excellent?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Okay, have a good one. Gary and Shannon up next.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Handle here on a humpday, Wednesday, May seventh, and we
finished it with our Pope news. We'll be talking about
that for sure. I noticed that the popes take a
new name, and that became really important back in the
nineteen thirties when Cardinal Secola became pope and he did
(00:28):
not want to be known as Pope Scola, so he
took a new name.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I used that before. And by the way, I love that, truly.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, Will shaking his head and going, come on, seriously, Handle,
all right, let me tell you what's going on in Altadena.
And this is really good. And I think you're gonna
be interested in the stats.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You know. I like stats when they tell us something.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
There's a story in the La Times about this woman,
Michelle Williams, who lived in a nineteen twenties cottage and
it was destroyed and she was there for seventeen years.
She rented, and she received a proposal from her landlord
she could have the burn lot. All she would have
to pay is five hundred and sixty five thousand dollars
cash within fifteen days.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That was a little tough.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Obviously she couldn't qualify or she couldn't come up with money.
And she's not alone. Thousands of homes were destroyed in Altadena,
and this is a very special area because a lot
of people don't have much money. They're living in homes
at our generational grandparents bought these houses for a couple
(01:41):
of reasons. They were affordable, and a lot of African
Americans bought these houses because the entire southern California was redlined,
which means that you couldn't buy a house if you
were black in neighborhoods, so you could in this island
of homes, and they got nailed. These people are not
(02:02):
of the same socioeconomic level as people in the Palisades.
So how do these mainly homeowners, how can they stay there?
Because the fear is and it's happening, And this is
eighty already where property owners have simply sold the land.
(02:23):
They just they don't want to build, they can't qualify,
there's no way they can afford it. So developers come
in and eighty of them have been bought so far,
and a lot more being negotiated. And gentrification is going
to happen because the land is several hundred thousand dollars
a lot. Today it costs seven hundred dollars a square
foot to build, so if you're building a thousand square feet,
(02:49):
that's seven hundred thousand dollars. So you're into this a
million one, a million two. Who can afford it? So
what happens the land? The landowner sells off to these
developers who come in. So what is going on to
save those neighborhoods? And they're trying for sure. So in
(03:11):
terms of Aschelle, she went to the Neighborhood Housing Services,
the Neighborhood Housing Services of La County, and they came
up with the money and they're going to build it
or give her enough money to build a house and
then sell it to her an affordable price. The county
(03:31):
is buying the property. Wow, that's a pretty good deal now.
The chief executive of the Neighborhood Housing Services of La
County said that their organization and a coalition of nonprofits
are looking to raise more money.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
How much do they have, we don't.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Know, to purchase a couple of hundred burned properties and
then to build homes and ideally sell them to people
from Altadena.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
At an affordable price to those people.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And the numbers are staggering because so far they've been
able to buy lots and arrange financing to rebuild and
sell to the property owner, and they've hit the magic
number of.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Two lots two. How is that for a success story?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
There are thousands of lots of homes that were.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Burned. And so if you're doing.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Two every let's say six months, because this has been
going on for a while, that's what for a year?
At what point do you reach six thousand? That's a
success story. Heart's in the right place. You can't argue
with that. And this is not giving someone a couple
(05:00):
one hundred dollars a food voucher or a snap you know,
a food stamp.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
This is a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We've talked about this before and this is kind of fun.
Every year there's something called the World Happiness Report and
we talk about it and the United States has dropped
to its lowest ranking. I think Sudan and Yemen are
happier places than we are. We're pretty miserable. And here's
(05:34):
what happens. How do they come up with this these figures,
this ranking? Well, the question is what's the world's happiest country,
and inevitably it's Finland or Denmark, Sweden. Those guys are
at the top, and they get there by asking people
in different countries to answer a single self assessment question,
(05:57):
self assessment question about life satisfaction. However, some surveys are
looking at this and it turns out people in different
cultures answer in many different ways. Depends on where you live,
depends on whether money is important, depends on culture.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Depends on.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Just the way people look at life. We, for example,
look at money very differently than other countries do they
pall for example, They just don't look at it the
same way. So there is the Global Flourishing Study. It's
a new study and it's based on a survey taken
by a bunch of institutions, including Harvard at the Human
(06:44):
Flourishing Program, and it uses self reporting and collects some
real comprehensive data on well being from half a dozen
dimensions in twenty two countries, two hundred thousand people it
followed over five years. There is some serious research, it's
(07:07):
not just a single question.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And here's what they did find.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Happiness declines gradually in young and middle adulthood. Then turns
upward in life. Starting at about fifty, you get happier now.
Of course they didn't ask me because I would skew
it completely.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Bill. Are you unhappy yes? Were you always unhappy? Yes?
When did you start being unhappy?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Uh? Probably at the age of two weeks? And are
you going to stay unhappy?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yes? Okay, fair enough. Now here comes the.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Interesting part, and this is I think no surprise to kneel.
And that is one of the facets of this. One
of the happiness levels you can point to.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Has to do with religion.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The more people are involved in religion, not just religion,
but being involved in churches and synagogues, the happier they are.
There is a correlation between the US becoming secularized. We
just don't go to church or synagogue anymore. After my
girls were bought MITZVD, I stopped. I wasn't interested. And
(08:27):
that's what happens to many many of us. And I
don't know how it works in the Christian religion when
people stop going to church in our cases because the
kids were no longer involved because they went to the
day school there. And so it's a direct correlation organized religion.
(08:50):
People who are organized religion meet at church or synagogue
or mosques where they have pot lucks. Do they have
pot lu and mosques, by the way, I don't know.
I've often thought about that, huh. Anyway, certainly churches do,
and there is just this camaraderie. There is just this
(09:12):
connection with other people, and connections to humans is really
important to lifestyle and happiness. For example, I was just
talking to Anne about we are doing off the air
about the pope and religion, and you know, I'm not
very religious, and Neil, let me ask you, the more
(09:34):
religious someone is, do you believe the happier someone is.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I don't know about religious that means a particular thing
to me, but I think that if you are faithful
and dedicated to your faith, I think that it can
be incredibly uplifting. I mean a lot of atheists that
don't have understanding of hope. Genuinely, they don't understand. They're
(09:59):
pretty dark outlook on things. And it doesn't mean they're
bad people any way, shape or form, but there's nothing
nowhere to put there's hope is part of faith. So
I find faith is part of happiness. I think it
can be. Yeah, absolutely, I was.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I was talking to I mean one of the things
that was talking to Anne, and then people do believe?
I mean, you know, obviously, and I don't understand it.
You know, do I understand?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Did Jesus really feed the multitudes on one package of
fish sticks?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
How the hell do I know?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Did he walk across the Galilee without pontoon shoes on?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
How the hell do I know? Does it seem plausible?
Not to me? But and I am miserable?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Does that mean, Neil, you believe in a package of
fish sticks and therefore you are happier?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yes, thank you for every reason.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I am happier than you, for you are a miserable bastard.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And I don't even think faith can help you. I
think you're just done.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That's probably true.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
It's like George and Michael said you got to have faith? Yeah,
you got to have faith.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Is that? Did Michael Bolton say that you have to
have faith?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
George?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Michael? It wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh, I thought there was Michael Bolton during a period
of time.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
By the way, as far as am I accusing Michael
Bolton to do anything here, am I right on that
that name?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
No Michael Bolton not at all different.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, no, I know that, but just uh, some reason
that came to mind. And uh, I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'm a big Bolton fan, but I agree with Neil.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Faith is important. Faith and hope are both. They go
hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Have you ever heard of fridge scaping? I hadn't, and
then and pointed this out. The Wall Street Journal wrote
about this because someone there realize there's something here that's fun.
It took the internet by storm last year, or maybe
you missed it.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I certainly did.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And fridge scaping is about sprucing up your refrigerator, the
inside of your refrigerator, not putting magnets outside with.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
All those crazy places you've been to.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
No, it's to make every nook and cranny of their
refrigerators look whimsical. And they looked pretty deeply in this
into this and the Wall Street Journal talk to experts
and they're looking at the reason to temporarily escape the
current economic political uncertainties and what It's just a neat way.
(12:47):
It's sort of a hobby, but it's your refrigerator, which
is really very strange.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I do this, do you?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I do it, but not to that extreme. But there's
something esthetically pleasing about having my refrigerator organized in a
certain way. And like, you know, I don't put like
other decorations and things in there, but I do enjoy
a visually pleasing refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's so bizarre. It's so bizarre now.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, one person interview said, well, manicuring the contents of
myridge fridge is a fun way to spend.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
A few hours.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
The one downside is leaving the door open too much
to look at the wonderful work that I've done. And
some people see the shelves and drawers and a way
to left to leave leftover chicken casseroles. And what they
do is, in addition to leaving leftovers and buying new
products of course, new produce and meats, et cetera, is
(13:45):
that fridge scapers are decorating them with the same care
that they wouldn't decorating a room.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I mean, does that tell you have absolutely no life? Now?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They tend to divide themselves into two categories. Oh no,
this gets deeper, I'll believe me. Okay, there's the casual
stylus who spends a few hours just jazzing up the
inside of the refrigerator, you know, decanting the drinks and
yogurt and jams into glass containers and playing placing fruits
and veggies and bowls and vases and vases or vases,
(14:20):
and just making it look clean and neat and just
kind of you know, I have one of these at home,
not the I'd live with one of these people, Okay.
Then there are the decorators who decorate the inside of
those refrigerators, lining the shells with baskets, photos next to
(14:45):
the milk and cheese, twinkle lights when the door is open,
and they choose a theme. Now there's one popular fridge scaper,
Lindsay Judish.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
She did the fridge interior by themes.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
The Great Gatsby is one theme, Bridgerton another theme. The
Winter Solsice is another theme. Now, the Gatsby one is
art deco.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Aaron Pitpgrass is known for really intricate fridge scaping. She's
forty four years old, described herself as a max maximalist,
loves vintage decor. She stumbled across a social media video
last year showing strings of lights in the fridge, and
(15:40):
then it wasn't until an old Peewee's playhouse Christmas special.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's when inspiration took her. So what did she do?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
What does she do to decorate the inside of her
vintage nineteen fifties refrigerator as an homage to Peewee's Food
in refrigerator segment. Well, what people do is typically this
is a big deal, is you open the door and
there's your Peewee's Food refrigerator segment, and you uncontrollably start.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Master bating pee wee Herman.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
The hell someone's not muting? Okay, moving on. She then
began the fridge scaping. A string of color lights outlined
the shelves. They were adorned with strands of garland. Then
artificial fruit was scattered around, eggs and broccoli stocks and butter.
(16:47):
Then there was a small metal stand that was the
base for a Christmas tree made of green grapes, and
there were plastic googly eyes that were put on a
slab of meat and a wedge of cabbage. Wow, isn't
that impressive. There was one Reddit user last year really
(17:10):
limited the fact that their spouse had taken to fridge
scaping and had taken over the world, and he posted
that flowers, fancy baskets, jars were taking over at the
expense of access to the food and adjusting the decor
to even grab the leftovers was creating a strain in
the household. Now that is and I'm looking at a picture.
(17:32):
This is his insanity, is what this is. It's almost
you go to one of those very high end grocery
stores that take the produce and make this extraordinary, almost
a sculpture of the produce.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
That's what these people do.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Now, the people who are fridgescapers say, wait a minute,
this isn't just about aesthetics, because displaying fruits and vegetables
rather than shoving them in drawers means less weight, less weights,
healthier eating, better tracking of when food is ready to eat.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
That that's true.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I mean i will take food and I'll put at
the back of a drawer, and then all of a sudden,
I'll realize that g I can make penicillin out of this.
I mean it can get pretty rough, but that's a
fascinating This is when you have too much time.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
This is when you know I'm thinking of taking this up.
Let me talk about that all right.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Well, today is the last day to have the real
id or yesterday was the last day that you had
the real ID, which allows you to get on airplanes
and get into federal buildings. Otherwise you are not coming
into a federal building. I wonder people who are arrested
and going to trial for some criminal offense. Can they
(18:54):
not go into a federal building and not be tried
if they don't have a real Idly there's probably that's
an excten, is my guess. In any case, the real
ID you have to have. And how do you get
the real ID. You go to the DMV and the
issuing new a new driver's license and the real ID,
and I'm looking at mine. There's usually a star in
(19:15):
the right hand corner, and the technology is better, it's
harder to forge. And in the case of California real ID,
there's a little bear, California bear with a star in
the middle, and there's your real ID. Okay, you have
to have it, now, why don't you have it? Eighty
one percent of travelers have real IDs. They met the
(19:38):
requirements eighty one percent in the United States. That means
twenty have not twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's even better.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In California, fifty eight percent have a real ID.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
That means forty two percent have not gotten it.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So the lines that the DMV are long, long, long,
because you have to have it the way you can't
get on an airplane. Well, Christinome, who is head of
Homeland Security, says, I'll tell you what We're going to,
not stop you if we're getting on an airplane, but
bring a passport that'll work, or bring a military idea.
You have to have a picture on it, or tribal
(20:16):
ID if you happen to be a Native American.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And what makes this so funny, and.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
What makes people who have not yet done this such
morons is the real ID law was passed by Well,
was recommended by the nine to eleven Commission, and sign
into law in two thousand and five, twenty years ago.
(20:49):
It was supposed to be rolled out in two thousand
and eight, and it was and you were supposed to well,
actually you were supposed to have it done by two
thousand eight.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Hm.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Well, since people weren't doing it, the implementation has been
repeatedly delayed, over and over and over again. And at
what point do Americans take this seriously? I mean, I
complied early on because I was told and I believed it,
(21:23):
We're not gonna let you get on airplanes at least domestically.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So I got my my early ID or real ID
early on.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Have you seen the videos of hundreds and hundreds of
people that are circling Department of Motor Vehicle buildings all
over the country. Come on, guys, you can't be that
dumb and guess what they are. This is proof positive
(21:53):
that if you look at the average IQ of Americans
across the board, you get very close to par golf.
Americans have a way of just not complying.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Very often.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
They just don't. We're not really good at following the law.
All right, we're done another day, another eighty cents because
we work at iHeart should be a dollar, but it's not.
And we're back again tomorrow. Neil is here with me
starting at six o'clock. At five o'clock, it's Will Cole Scheiber.
(22:33):
With Cole Schreiber, I always screw it up with not Amy.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Amy's gone for the week. It'll be Heather Brooker.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And then we got Kno and we have an everybody
here as we start all over again and see if
I can offend as many people as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
How do I do today? Neil?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Ten out of ten, sir, excellent?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Okay, have a good one. Gary and Shannon up next.
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