August 1, 2025 • 27 mins
(Friday 08/01/25)
How California utilities fought the removal of old power lines. Air marshals, reassigned from commercial flights, ‘serve sandwiches and lice check’ on ICE deportations flights. The latest weapons against wolves: AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson. Why South Park did an about-face on mocking Trump.
How California utilities fought the removal of old power lines. Air marshals, reassigned from commercial flights, ‘serve sandwiches and lice check’ on ICE deportations flights. The latest weapons against wolves: AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson. Why South Park did an about-face on mocking Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listen Saints Camp I AM six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iheartradiof It is a
Friday morning, a Foody Friday, August one, and since Neil
is back, we will be engaged in Foody Friday at
eight o'clock and at eight thirty it's back again. Ask
handle anything, which we always have a rip roaring good
(00:22):
time with. Now the investigation into the Eaten particularly the
eaten fire in this one, because this was a not
a derelict, but an abandoned transmission line. And I'm going
to explain how a line that is not energized can
(00:43):
cause a fire when there's no electricity going through it,
because it was effectively abandoned. First, let's talk about how
fires are created or they are And we now know
that these utilities, these power lines are responsible for for
a lot of them. We didn't have that information before.
And now a few lawsuits what Edison got hit big time.
(01:07):
You have several utilities up north that got nailed for fires.
So state regulators knew and have known that old transmission
lines that are not being used can.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Set off wildfires.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And so in two thousand and one, the state regulators
proposed a safety rule would have forced Edison and the
other utilities to remove abandoned lines unless they could prove
they would use them in the future.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Had to prove, yeah, we're going to use them. Well,
guess what.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Under the pressure of the utilities, the lobbying group, which
is enormous, the state, the Public Utilities Commission revised that
rule in two thousand and five and allow the utilities
to keep these abandoned lines in place until the executives
decided they were permanently abandoned and if they could ever
(02:01):
reasonably be used ever kind of sort of, if we
think we might use them at some future point, we're
allowed to keep them. Now, the line that is suspected
of causing the fire was out of service since nineteen
seventy one. I mean, look at how long that life
(02:23):
was a Vietnam War, and it's been out of service
since then. And former PUC President Michael Peeve said, if
we knew then what we know now, perhaps we would
have come to a different conclusion. Really perhaps, so this
abandoned power line that suspected of causing the fire would
(02:43):
have been removed years ago under that rule proposed by
the Public Utilities commission the staffers years ago. It would
have been removed, but the regulation forcing it to be
removed was weakened. Why because of the utilities lobbying efforts
very powerful. So here's what they did. They didn't just
(03:05):
turn it around the PUC. What they did was say,
let's study the proposal several years and ultimately watering it
down and allowing the old lines to remain up until
executives decided they were permanently abandoned. And no one knows
(03:26):
what that means. So one of those old lines, the
Edison's masays Silmar line again LASACE service during the Vietnam War.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That's at the center of these dozens of lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And the lawsuits are claiming that it ignited the Eaton
fire on January seventh, killing nineteen people, destroying ninety four
hundred homes and other structures. And I'm going to tell
you in a minute how it's possible for a fire
for a transmission.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Line that isn't live to cause a fire.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
How does a non energized power line cause a fire.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'll tell you that in a minute. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
A guy with the named Rafi Stepanian, electrical engineer who
was part of the safety team that proposed the two
thousand and one rule to take down the abandoned line
said that the commission members, in terms of revising.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The law just caved.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Said there was a lot of pressure on us to
agree with utilities on everything, and the utilities pretty much
rewrote the rules themselves and went on to say this
fire could have been prevented.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Edison, senior vice president comes back and says, we have
these inactive lines still available because there is a reasonable
chance we're going to use them in the future, even
though lines were put up parallel to that line, and
Menon went on to say the company inspects and maintains
the dormant lines to ensure their safety in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He is asked in front.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Of a committee, this is hilarious if we wanted to know.
This is an Assembly member where if we want to
know where all the inactive lines are, is there a
place we can get that information? Peterson says not as
of today, Assembly Member. I guess I would say so
(05:28):
in part because the service territories are so large and
the pieces of equipment are so numerous that a registry
of a specific element may or may not exist. We'll
go back and take a look at it. But wait
a minute, didn't he say that the company inspects and
maintains the lines. And now we turn around and he says, well,
(05:49):
we really don't know where they are, and we don't
have a record of where they are. Huh, good luck. So,
since the two thousand and five decision that opened it
up for the utilities, if they reasonably think that they
could ever use the lines again, they can keep them
out there unab abandoned. You know, this is a huge problem.
(06:16):
How the utilities get away with it? And then finally,
as I was looking at this, how is it possible
that an abandoned line that is not energized can ignite
a fire? There's no electricity going through it. Here's how,
by a process of induction it can ignite. There are
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enough lines that are right near that abandoned power line,
right near it, that the electromagnetic power of the force
that's going through those lines is enough, if it's close enough,
is enough to energize a power line right next to it.
(07:02):
And that seems to be what happened. The power line
that particularly one was abandoned, had not been maintained, became energized.
It fell to the ground and ignited the fire. That's
what the lawsuits claim. Ah, God bless these utilities. And
unfortunately the billions of dollars are going to be paid
(07:26):
out to the victims of the fire, which they should get.
That money that's going to be sucked up by us
because we get to pay all of the utility costs.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Of course we could.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay, now here's a job and a job description. You
must be able to say ham and cheese or turkey
in fifteen or twenty different languages. And why Well, because
if you want to be an air marshal, you sort
of have to do it. Because air marshals now are
(08:00):
have been reassigned, or a couple hundred of them, not everybody,
and it's a small number, but it's a fun story.
Have been reassigned from commercial flights where they're there for security,
anti terrorism, etc. And now they're on ice deportation flights
to serve sandwiches and check for lice on these deportation flights.
(08:23):
And they are chartered and some are military. And this
is a CNN story, so I don't know about the
checking lice.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That is what is being reported. And so for the.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
First time federal air marshals are guarding some of those
thousands of deportation flights that are going to be operated
by ICE this year, thousands of flights. Two sources familiar
and documents seen by CNN said some are doing this willingly,
some under intense pressure, and they are not happy being
(08:58):
flight attendants. Now, when did the air marshall program come
into being? Well, because of airplane hijackings in the sixties
and because of the nine to eleven attacks, air marshal
the service went through the roof, and that is to
provide security, get on the airplane, and no one knows
who an air marshal is. These guys are hidden on airplanes,
(09:22):
they are armed, and no one has an idea who
they are. Now air marshals, which is this is a
subject that I love to talk about because I've talked
about my friend Dubie, who was in the Israeli Air
Force and flew fighters for years and years and then
became a pilot for l All Airlines, and he talked
(09:43):
about how almost.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Every flight, if not every flight l ALL.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Takes, there's an air marshal aboard because the first attacks,
the first terrorist attacks and hijackings were on l all airplanes.
You know, everybody hates the Jews and they the air marshals.
And he said, you don't know who they are. Some
are in coach and they look like businessmen. Some look
like students with backpacks going to Israel for vacation or
(10:12):
to travel. Some are dressed as Hasidic Jews, the black
hats with the long beards. Some are businessmen that get
to sit in the in first class. That's the fun one.
Those guys have the most fun. They love it. But
that is what air marshals are about. That's the reason
(10:33):
they're there. Well, the Air Marshall National Council, group that
lobbies for air marshals, sent a cease and desist letter
to Department of Homeland Security and the TSA saying, you
know what, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The Trump administration is.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Undermining security on commercial aircraft by redeploying air marshals onto
these ICE flights. And now the numbers are pretty small
because at this point it's being reported that there are
about two hundred of these air marshals out of over
three thousand, and so we're only talking a very few number.
(11:13):
But where's it going to go? Well, terrorism is way down,
I don't know the last time a terrorist attack on
an airplane. Security is insane. Those doors are locked in
the cockpit and literally you could have terrorists in the
back of the airplane shooting up half of the people
(11:34):
in the airplane and threatening to kill the other half,
and that cockpit door does not open up.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So security is much tighter.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We have the magnimeters, magnanimeters that you go through, you
have tsa with the wands.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's just more difficult. If you happen to look.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
As if you happen to look like a Muslim, you
are screwed. You are going to be get a cavity
search because maybe illegal, but that's reality. If you ever,
if you ever have the joy of going through Heathrow
Airport in London, there are lines to go in like
all of all airports EU citizens, European Union citizens and
(12:22):
then non citizens where the rest of us go. And
then there's another line, a security line that backs up
where they search everybody's everything and that line is all pakistanis.
That's where you find the pakistanis in that line. Oh,
welcome to the world of air travel and racism. Now,
(12:47):
is there an issue of these deportees causing trouble. Aren't
they handcuffed? Well, of course they're handcuffed when they're brought
aboard the airplane. And I don't even know if they're
handcuffed where they're seated.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So here's what the air marshals are doing, not only
the guarding them, they're the flight attendants.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They're going around and.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Would you like some coffee syrup? Would you like a drink?
I'd like a coke, diet or regular. We offer cranberry juice.
And here's a snack. And they do offer snacks, ham
and cheese and or turkey or whatever they'll say or
offering because these flights can be very long. Matter of fact,
the US is we reported cut a deal with Sudan
(13:34):
to house some of these illegal migrants that were deported
on these airplanes. That's a long flight. So you get
two sandwiches and maybe you get two cokes. Now you
can't stand up near the restroom, you know, And then
the question is, you know, put your seats up, you know,
the tray seats because we're about to land. All that stuff.
(13:56):
And I don't know how many languages they do that in.
But what do you do when you're in handcuffs. So
the bottom line is if you are going to get deported,
if you are in illegal if you are an illegal migrant.
I feel like Christy, Naomi, Christy. Now you will be
on an airplane and there will be an air marshall.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I wonder if they're in uniform.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I guess they are serving up coffee and sandwiches. All right.
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(14:43):
Now south Park. Interesting news with south Park. I love
this the Oh no, let's do the Wolves. Yeah, we'll
do south Park next. Wolves, gray wolves. They almost became extinct.
I mean they were virtually wiped out by hunting by
ranchers because they eat cows and calves and any lambs
(15:07):
and sheep and everything that these people raise out in
the Great Plains.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, they were almost wiped out.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And they used to be in Montana, they used to
be in Wyoming, and they were almost wiped out, as
I said, and there are no natural predators, so how
were they wiped out by humans? So in nineteen ninety
five they were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park. They have
(15:40):
exploded in numbers and they are protected federally. Ranchers can't
do jack about them. And what they're doing is eating
that cattle. I mean, they are pretty vicious animal. Now
they just do what they do. It's not like they
go out of their way to eat calves, but they're well,
(16:02):
actually they do go out of their way to eat calves,
but that's nature. But ranchers are saying, wait a minute,
we almost killed them off. Granted, that's horrible. You reintroduce them. Fine,
Now they're growing in huge numbers. They are now a
real danger to us. By the way, the reason they
were all shot and virtually became extinct is because of
what they do because of ranchers, and there used to
(16:25):
be a bounty on them.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well those days are gone.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So population has swelled since nineteen ninety five. And as
you can imagine, cattle and sheep attacks have sword and
they are risk and they are totally protected. So you
know what the feds are doing. This is a federal issue.
The Feds are using drones to deal with this, drones
(16:52):
and how does that work? Well, just the drones flying
overhead is not going to do anything.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But a drone.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Flying overhead singing horrible songs for example ac DC music
big time that seems to scare them off, even to
the point where there's one recording of the fight between
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in the movie Marriage Story.
I mean, they are doing everything they can, and the wolves,
(17:22):
for the most part, are just sort of.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Looking up and going okay, why not.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So they're using the sounds of gunshots and people screaming,
and some of that seems to be working, but it
seems that it's all drone technology and is that gonna work?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Who the hell knows.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I'm guessing no, because these wolves are pretty smart.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
They go in packs.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
They are exploding in population, and the only way they're
gonna be able to straighten then straighten this whole situation
now is the Fed are going to have to allow
the shooting of these wolves like they did before. And
will they be protected I don't know, you know, will
they continue to be protected at some well not under
the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I think the rules probably will change. Change.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Surprises are not being changed already. Maybe it's what's a
natural predator for a wolf?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
None? There is none, I wouldn't think so there is
no natural predator. So these things, when they're allowed to breed,
they start breeding. Maybe they start using some kind of
birth control. And I mean, I seriously, birth control. You
can do that in food supplies. They do that with mosquitoes.
(18:41):
They release millions of sterile mosquitoes. And as the mosquitoes stoop,
if they're stooping sterile mosquitoes, they don't reproduce. I don't
know how you stoop a mosquito. I guess the penises
don't really rely. Really small play dumb bill, you know,
(19:05):
really small penises, Tiny little penises.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Okay, coming up, Actually this is a good segue to
tiny little penises. South Park just came out. It's wow,
twenty eighth season. If you can think about that twenty
seventh season and South Park. It's the greatest show ever
toilet humor, political commentary, profane statements, viscerating wide swaths of
(19:38):
people describing this show basically except doing it well. Celebrities,
religious groups, foreign governments, ethnicities.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I have been attacked.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So South Park opens up on Comedy Central and returned
last week after a pretty long hiatus, and it was
a political moment. Oh my god, Trump is going to
be nailed. That's low hanging fruit. The second term would
have been a great target for south Park.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well not so much.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, south Park still did what South Park does,
but it didn't go directly.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
After Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
There was a twenty sixteen episode where a local elementary
school teacher, mister Garrison, he triumphs in an election over Hillary
Clinton and adopts a Trump style blonde combover. This was,
I mean, it was pretty brutal, and the show's co
creator Matt Stone said looking at previous presidential elections has
(20:46):
been a mind scrabble for mind scramble for him and
his co creator Trey Parker, and the reason they didn't
want to tackle the twenty twenty four campaign directly in
this season. He said, I don't know what more we
could possibly say about Trump. It's all out there. So
(21:09):
here's what they did. What's their solution to the trump erasatire?
What they were going to do? Well, they're using the
president as something of a trojan horse for mocking another
subject entirely.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So Trump's is not a bullseye.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
In this episode, although sort of a left handed way
he is.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The ceremony is or excuse me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
The episode is titled Sermon on the Mount, oh okay,
and the jokes well about AI generated video of Trump's
very small penis, and that addresses the camera. There's a
recurring gag involving the President cozing up in bed with
(22:00):
Satan and prodding Satan into stooping. But the true target, okay,
is Paramount, Comedy Central's parent company.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That's who they're targeting.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Although you know, you think arguing that Trump has a tiny,
not just a small, but a tiny little penis is
not an attack on him. So Paramount's investment in South
Park is obviously clear because the same week that the
premiere aired, the company paid Parker and Sewn one point
five billion dollars for fifty new episodes.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Do the math on that one.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
And that came a few days after Paramount canceled The
Light Show, with Stephen Colbert saying that for the reason
they said it were for financial reasons, we don't know there.
It could be because Late Night is in trouble, it's
losing money or so the reporting is saying, but Stephen Colbert,
(23:06):
who was probably I would say the most viscerous anti
Trump late night comic, I mean, he was vicious to Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And so.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
What Paramount wants to do or wanted to do, is
sell itself to Skydance and needed FCC permission. And there
was a lawsuit filed by Trump against CBS, which is
owned by Paramount in a sixty minute episode that aired
(23:39):
in which Kamala Harris was interviewed, and Trump claimed that
CBS aired and edited the Kamala Harris episode to make
her look better than she actually was, ensues for twenty
billion dollars. By the way, constitutional scholars say, that's completely crazy.
There's no chance that would have prevailed. It didn't matter,
didn't matter. They need did the permission of the FCC.
(24:01):
It was up in the air. They settled with Trump
for sixteen million dollars going into his presidential library, the
one to be And guess what the FCC did. They
okayed it after the settlement, they okayed it. So the
(24:23):
Sermon on the Mount episode mashes up the satire with
jokes about people's growing trust of AI, the decline of
woke terminology. Trump sues South Park, the town for five
billion dollars after local parents disagree with the administration is
(24:45):
bringing religion into school publicly protesting, the townspeople are joined
by Jesus himself, who threw clenched teeth said even he's
involved with a lawsuit against Trump, and he urges the
townspeople hold your complaints because you're gonna have some serious consequences.
(25:07):
You really want to end up like Colbert, So twisting
the knife even further, and a parody of sixty Minutes
portrays its journalists is constantly hedging to avoid displeasing the president.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
The segment opens up.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You know how they do the clock sixty minutes tick
tick tick tick.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
They have a ticking bomb.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Okay, that's south Park, but not a direct hit on
President Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And for the first time, by the way, the president
in this case, President Trump's face is actually used over
his tiny animated body.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Well, yeah, there's a couple things that are used. They
actually use a deep fake as well of someone else's
an actor's body with Trump's actual face on it. It's
pretty spectacular in creativity. But these guys have always been
no holds barred against anybody which is why I've always
(26:09):
loved them. They're there, there's not one side or the other.
They just plow through all the stupidity throughout life.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's why I think it's been accepted by Comedy Central.
When they make fun of the corporation itself and would
otherwise be nailed on political correctness and would have their
show would have been canceled in seconds.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
The first show would have gone. But since they offend.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Everybody and everything, I think it's a lot to do.
You know, I think we're still around as offensive as
we are.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
No one has left untouched. I'd say we yeah, well yeah,
I mean you we we attack, We attack everybody on
this show. You gotta you gotta touch.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
That TDS thing made you a little, a little different
when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Trump, although I do not don't do much about Amy,
who is basically a wet Protestant white person who eats
lettuce sandwiches on with mayonnaise on wonderbread.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's bottom line, aside from the wonderbread. You're right, of course, Ok,
Well was she so white? She refers to Gary Hoffman
as a person of color.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now, that's very funny. This is KF. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
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Speaker 1 (27:31):
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You're listen Saints Camp I AM six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iheartradiof It is a
Friday morning, a Foody Friday, August one, and since Neil
is back, we will be engaged in Foody Friday at
eight o'clock and at eight thirty it's back again. Ask
handle anything, which we always have a rip roaring good
(00:22):
time with. Now the investigation into the Eaten particularly the
eaten fire in this one, because this was a not
a derelict, but an abandoned transmission line. And I'm going
to explain how a line that is not energized can
(00:43):
cause a fire when there's no electricity going through it,
because it was effectively abandoned. First, let's talk about how
fires are created or they are And we now know
that these utilities, these power lines are responsible for for
a lot of them. We didn't have that information before.
And now a few lawsuits what Edison got hit big time.
(01:07):
You have several utilities up north that got nailed for fires.
So state regulators knew and have known that old transmission
lines that are not being used can.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Set off wildfires.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And so in two thousand and one, the state regulators
proposed a safety rule would have forced Edison and the
other utilities to remove abandoned lines unless they could prove
they would use them in the future.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Had to prove, yeah, we're going to use them. Well,
guess what.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Under the pressure of the utilities, the lobbying group, which
is enormous, the state, the Public Utilities Commission revised that
rule in two thousand and five and allow the utilities
to keep these abandoned lines in place until the executives
decided they were permanently abandoned and if they could ever
(02:01):
reasonably be used ever kind of sort of, if we
think we might use them at some future point, we're
allowed to keep them. Now, the line that is suspected
of causing the fire was out of service since nineteen
seventy one. I mean, look at how long that life
(02:23):
was a Vietnam War, and it's been out of service
since then. And former PUC President Michael Peeve said, if
we knew then what we know now, perhaps we would
have come to a different conclusion. Really perhaps, so this
abandoned power line that suspected of causing the fire would
(02:43):
have been removed years ago under that rule proposed by
the Public Utilities commission the staffers years ago. It would
have been removed, but the regulation forcing it to be
removed was weakened. Why because of the utilities lobbying efforts
very powerful. So here's what they did. They didn't just
(03:05):
turn it around the PUC. What they did was say,
let's study the proposal several years and ultimately watering it
down and allowing the old lines to remain up until
executives decided they were permanently abandoned. And no one knows
(03:26):
what that means. So one of those old lines, the
Edison's masays Silmar line again LASACE service during the Vietnam War.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That's at the center of these dozens of lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And the lawsuits are claiming that it ignited the Eaton
fire on January seventh, killing nineteen people, destroying ninety four
hundred homes and other structures. And I'm going to tell
you in a minute how it's possible for a fire
for a transmission.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Line that isn't live to cause a fire.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
How does a non energized power line cause a fire.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'll tell you that in a minute. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
A guy with the named Rafi Stepanian, electrical engineer who
was part of the safety team that proposed the two
thousand and one rule to take down the abandoned line
said that the commission members, in terms of revising.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The law just caved.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Said there was a lot of pressure on us to
agree with utilities on everything, and the utilities pretty much
rewrote the rules themselves and went on to say this
fire could have been prevented.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Edison, senior vice president comes back and says, we have
these inactive lines still available because there is a reasonable
chance we're going to use them in the future, even
though lines were put up parallel to that line, and
Menon went on to say the company inspects and maintains
the dormant lines to ensure their safety in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He is asked in front.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Of a committee, this is hilarious if we wanted to know.
This is an Assembly member where if we want to
know where all the inactive lines are, is there a
place we can get that information? Peterson says not as
of today, Assembly Member. I guess I would say so
(05:28):
in part because the service territories are so large and
the pieces of equipment are so numerous that a registry
of a specific element may or may not exist. We'll
go back and take a look at it. But wait
a minute, didn't he say that the company inspects and
maintains the lines. And now we turn around and he says, well,
(05:49):
we really don't know where they are, and we don't
have a record of where they are. Huh, good luck. So,
since the two thousand and five decision that opened it
up for the utilities, if they reasonably think that they
could ever use the lines again, they can keep them
out there unab abandoned. You know, this is a huge problem.
(06:16):
How the utilities get away with it? And then finally,
as I was looking at this, how is it possible
that an abandoned line that is not energized can ignite
a fire? There's no electricity going through it. Here's how,
by a process of induction it can ignite. There are
(06:41):
enough lines that are right near that abandoned power line,
right near it, that the electromagnetic power of the force
that's going through those lines is enough, if it's close enough,
is enough to energize a power line right next to it.
(07:02):
And that seems to be what happened. The power line
that particularly one was abandoned, had not been maintained, became energized.
It fell to the ground and ignited the fire. That's
what the lawsuits claim. Ah, God bless these utilities. And
unfortunately the billions of dollars are going to be paid
(07:26):
out to the victims of the fire, which they should get.
That money that's going to be sucked up by us
because we get to pay all of the utility costs.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Of course we could.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay, now here's a job and a job description. You
must be able to say ham and cheese or turkey
in fifteen or twenty different languages. And why Well, because
if you want to be an air marshal, you sort
of have to do it. Because air marshals now are
(08:00):
have been reassigned, or a couple hundred of them, not everybody,
and it's a small number, but it's a fun story.
Have been reassigned from commercial flights where they're there for security,
anti terrorism, etc. And now they're on ice deportation flights
to serve sandwiches and check for lice on these deportation flights.
(08:23):
And they are chartered and some are military. And this
is a CNN story, so I don't know about the
checking lice.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That is what is being reported. And so for the.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
First time federal air marshals are guarding some of those
thousands of deportation flights that are going to be operated
by ICE this year, thousands of flights. Two sources familiar
and documents seen by CNN said some are doing this willingly,
some under intense pressure, and they are not happy being
(08:58):
flight attendants. Now, when did the air marshall program come
into being? Well, because of airplane hijackings in the sixties
and because of the nine to eleven attacks, air marshal
the service went through the roof, and that is to
provide security, get on the airplane, and no one knows
who an air marshal is. These guys are hidden on airplanes,
(09:22):
they are armed, and no one has an idea who
they are. Now air marshals, which is this is a
subject that I love to talk about because I've talked
about my friend Dubie, who was in the Israeli Air
Force and flew fighters for years and years and then
became a pilot for l All Airlines, and he talked
(09:43):
about how almost.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Every flight, if not every flight l ALL.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Takes, there's an air marshal aboard because the first attacks,
the first terrorist attacks and hijackings were on l all airplanes.
You know, everybody hates the Jews and they the air marshals.
And he said, you don't know who they are. Some
are in coach and they look like businessmen. Some look
like students with backpacks going to Israel for vacation or
(10:12):
to travel. Some are dressed as Hasidic Jews, the black
hats with the long beards. Some are businessmen that get
to sit in the in first class. That's the fun one.
Those guys have the most fun. They love it. But
that is what air marshals are about. That's the reason
(10:33):
they're there. Well, the Air Marshall National Council, group that
lobbies for air marshals, sent a cease and desist letter
to Department of Homeland Security and the TSA saying, you
know what, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The Trump administration is.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Undermining security on commercial aircraft by redeploying air marshals onto
these ICE flights. And now the numbers are pretty small
because at this point it's being reported that there are
about two hundred of these air marshals out of over
three thousand, and so we're only talking a very few number.
(11:13):
But where's it going to go? Well, terrorism is way down,
I don't know the last time a terrorist attack on
an airplane. Security is insane. Those doors are locked in
the cockpit and literally you could have terrorists in the
back of the airplane shooting up half of the people
(11:34):
in the airplane and threatening to kill the other half,
and that cockpit door does not open up.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So security is much tighter.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We have the magnimeters, magnanimeters that you go through, you
have tsa with the wands.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's just more difficult. If you happen to look.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
As if you happen to look like a Muslim, you
are screwed. You are going to be get a cavity
search because maybe illegal, but that's reality. If you ever,
if you ever have the joy of going through Heathrow
Airport in London, there are lines to go in like
all of all airports EU citizens, European Union citizens and
(12:22):
then non citizens where the rest of us go. And
then there's another line, a security line that backs up
where they search everybody's everything and that line is all pakistanis.
That's where you find the pakistanis in that line. Oh,
welcome to the world of air travel and racism. Now,
(12:47):
is there an issue of these deportees causing trouble. Aren't
they handcuffed? Well, of course they're handcuffed when they're brought
aboard the airplane. And I don't even know if they're
handcuffed where they're seated.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So here's what the air marshals are doing, not only
the guarding them, they're the flight attendants.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They're going around and.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Would you like some coffee syrup? Would you like a drink?
I'd like a coke, diet or regular. We offer cranberry juice.
And here's a snack. And they do offer snacks, ham
and cheese and or turkey or whatever they'll say or
offering because these flights can be very long. Matter of fact,
the US is we reported cut a deal with Sudan
(13:34):
to house some of these illegal migrants that were deported
on these airplanes. That's a long flight. So you get
two sandwiches and maybe you get two cokes. Now you
can't stand up near the restroom, you know, And then
the question is, you know, put your seats up, you know,
the tray seats because we're about to land. All that stuff.
(13:56):
And I don't know how many languages they do that in.
But what do you do when you're in handcuffs. So
the bottom line is if you are going to get deported,
if you are in illegal if you are an illegal migrant.
I feel like Christy, Naomi, Christy. Now you will be
on an airplane and there will be an air marshall.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I wonder if they're in uniform.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I guess they are serving up coffee and sandwiches. All right.
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Now south Park. Interesting news with south Park. I love
this the Oh no, let's do the Wolves. Yeah, we'll
do south Park next. Wolves, gray wolves. They almost became extinct.
I mean they were virtually wiped out by hunting by
ranchers because they eat cows and calves and any lambs
(15:07):
and sheep and everything that these people raise out in
the Great Plains.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, they were almost wiped out.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And they used to be in Montana, they used to
be in Wyoming, and they were almost wiped out, as
I said, and there are no natural predators, so how
were they wiped out by humans? So in nineteen ninety
five they were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park. They have
(15:40):
exploded in numbers and they are protected federally. Ranchers can't
do jack about them. And what they're doing is eating
that cattle. I mean, they are pretty vicious animal. Now
they just do what they do. It's not like they
go out of their way to eat calves, but they're well,
(16:02):
actually they do go out of their way to eat calves,
but that's nature. But ranchers are saying, wait a minute,
we almost killed them off. Granted, that's horrible. You reintroduce them. Fine,
Now they're growing in huge numbers. They are now a
real danger to us. By the way, the reason they
were all shot and virtually became extinct is because of
what they do because of ranchers, and there used to
(16:25):
be a bounty on them.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well those days are gone.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So population has swelled since nineteen ninety five. And as
you can imagine, cattle and sheep attacks have sword and
they are risk and they are totally protected. So you
know what the feds are doing. This is a federal issue.
The Feds are using drones to deal with this, drones
(16:52):
and how does that work? Well, just the drones flying
overhead is not going to do anything.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But a drone.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Flying overhead singing horrible songs for example ac DC music
big time that seems to scare them off, even to
the point where there's one recording of the fight between
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in the movie Marriage Story.
I mean, they are doing everything they can, and the wolves,
(17:22):
for the most part, are just sort of.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Looking up and going okay, why not.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So they're using the sounds of gunshots and people screaming,
and some of that seems to be working, but it
seems that it's all drone technology and is that gonna work?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Who the hell knows.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I'm guessing no, because these wolves are pretty smart.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
They go in packs.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
They are exploding in population, and the only way they're
gonna be able to straighten then straighten this whole situation
now is the Fed are going to have to allow
the shooting of these wolves like they did before. And
will they be protected I don't know, you know, will
they continue to be protected at some well not under
the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I think the rules probably will change. Change.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Surprises are not being changed already. Maybe it's what's a
natural predator for a wolf?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
None? There is none, I wouldn't think so there is
no natural predator. So these things, when they're allowed to breed,
they start breeding. Maybe they start using some kind of
birth control. And I mean, I seriously, birth control. You
can do that in food supplies. They do that with mosquitoes.
(18:41):
They release millions of sterile mosquitoes. And as the mosquitoes stoop,
if they're stooping sterile mosquitoes, they don't reproduce. I don't
know how you stoop a mosquito. I guess the penises
don't really rely. Really small play dumb bill, you know,
(19:05):
really small penises, Tiny little penises.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Okay, coming up, Actually this is a good segue to
tiny little penises. South Park just came out. It's wow,
twenty eighth season. If you can think about that twenty
seventh season and South Park. It's the greatest show ever
toilet humor, political commentary, profane statements, viscerating wide swaths of
(19:38):
people describing this show basically except doing it well. Celebrities,
religious groups, foreign governments, ethnicities.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I have been attacked.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So South Park opens up on Comedy Central and returned
last week after a pretty long hiatus, and it was
a political moment. Oh my god, Trump is going to
be nailed. That's low hanging fruit. The second term would
have been a great target for south Park.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well not so much.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, south Park still did what South Park does,
but it didn't go directly.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
After Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
There was a twenty sixteen episode where a local elementary
school teacher, mister Garrison, he triumphs in an election over Hillary
Clinton and adopts a Trump style blonde combover. This was,
I mean, it was pretty brutal, and the show's co
creator Matt Stone said looking at previous presidential elections has
(20:46):
been a mind scrabble for mind scramble for him and
his co creator Trey Parker, and the reason they didn't
want to tackle the twenty twenty four campaign directly in
this season. He said, I don't know what more we
could possibly say about Trump. It's all out there. So
(21:09):
here's what they did. What's their solution to the trump erasatire?
What they were going to do? Well, they're using the
president as something of a trojan horse for mocking another
subject entirely.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So Trump's is not a bullseye.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
In this episode, although sort of a left handed way
he is.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The ceremony is or excuse me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
The episode is titled Sermon on the Mount, oh okay,
and the jokes well about AI generated video of Trump's
very small penis, and that addresses the camera. There's a
recurring gag involving the President cozing up in bed with
(22:00):
Satan and prodding Satan into stooping. But the true target, okay,
is Paramount, Comedy Central's parent company.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
That's who they're targeting.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Although you know, you think arguing that Trump has a tiny,
not just a small, but a tiny little penis is
not an attack on him. So Paramount's investment in South
Park is obviously clear because the same week that the
premiere aired, the company paid Parker and Sewn one point
five billion dollars for fifty new episodes.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Do the math on that one.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
And that came a few days after Paramount canceled The
Light Show, with Stephen Colbert saying that for the reason
they said it were for financial reasons, we don't know there.
It could be because Late Night is in trouble, it's
losing money or so the reporting is saying, but Stephen Colbert,
(23:06):
who was probably I would say the most viscerous anti
Trump late night comic, I mean, he was vicious to Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And so.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
What Paramount wants to do or wanted to do, is
sell itself to Skydance and needed FCC permission. And there
was a lawsuit filed by Trump against CBS, which is
owned by Paramount in a sixty minute episode that aired
(23:39):
in which Kamala Harris was interviewed, and Trump claimed that
CBS aired and edited the Kamala Harris episode to make
her look better than she actually was, ensues for twenty
billion dollars. By the way, constitutional scholars say, that's completely crazy.
There's no chance that would have prevailed. It didn't matter,
didn't matter. They need did the permission of the FCC.
(24:01):
It was up in the air. They settled with Trump
for sixteen million dollars going into his presidential library, the
one to be And guess what the FCC did. They
okayed it after the settlement, they okayed it. So the
(24:23):
Sermon on the Mount episode mashes up the satire with
jokes about people's growing trust of AI, the decline of
woke terminology. Trump sues South Park, the town for five
billion dollars after local parents disagree with the administration is
(24:45):
bringing religion into school publicly protesting, the townspeople are joined
by Jesus himself, who threw clenched teeth said even he's
involved with a lawsuit against Trump, and he urges the
townspeople hold your complaints because you're gonna have some serious consequences.
(25:07):
You really want to end up like Colbert, So twisting
the knife even further, and a parody of sixty Minutes
portrays its journalists is constantly hedging to avoid displeasing the president.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
The segment opens up.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You know how they do the clock sixty minutes tick
tick tick tick.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
They have a ticking bomb.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Okay, that's south Park, but not a direct hit on
President Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And for the first time, by the way, the president
in this case, President Trump's face is actually used over
his tiny animated body.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Well, yeah, there's a couple things that are used. They
actually use a deep fake as well of someone else's
an actor's body with Trump's actual face on it. It's
pretty spectacular in creativity. But these guys have always been
no holds barred against anybody which is why I've always
(26:09):
loved them. They're there, there's not one side or the other.
They just plow through all the stupidity throughout life.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's why I think it's been accepted by Comedy Central.
When they make fun of the corporation itself and would
otherwise be nailed on political correctness and would have their
show would have been canceled in seconds.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
The first show would have gone. But since they offend.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Everybody and everything, I think it's a lot to do.
You know, I think we're still around as offensive as
we are.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
No one has left untouched. I'd say we yeah, well yeah,
I mean you we we attack, We attack everybody on
this show. You gotta you gotta touch.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
That TDS thing made you a little, a little different
when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Trump, although I do not don't do much about Amy,
who is basically a wet Protestant white person who eats
lettuce sandwiches on with mayonnaise on wonderbread.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's bottom line, aside from the wonderbread. You're right, of course, Ok,
Well was she so white? She refers to Gary Hoffman
as a person of color.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now, that's very funny. This is KF. I am six forty.
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