November 29, 2024 • 27 mins
Wayne Resnick fills in for Bill on this Black Friday. State of housing and homeless busing. Coffee talk. Don’t let the sun go down on us. Heavy Petting
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. It's the Bill Handles Show. He's back on Monday,
Wayne Resnik. Here some of the stories we're watching for you.
The Canyon Crest fire which started in Fontana and grew
very quickly. Oh, we have currently by the way, it's
it's two hundred and fifty acres.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I was going to tell you that. Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet,
Michelle Cube, you forgot for a moment which host you
were working with. I did. I'll leave you of course
I have the latest from this. By the way, I'm
going to give a website here because people in that area.
This is where you can also find out the evacuation
(00:43):
warning parameters, the borders of the evacuation order areas. Let
me say it a different complicated way, the different locations
that together form the boundaries of the area, which if
you are in them, you are under an event sacuation
warning Fire dot c A dot gov is where if
(01:06):
you're in Riverside County, you're anywhere near this Canyon Crest
fire that started in Fontana, you can find out if
you need to start thinking about or at least be
ready for possible evacuation. We'll keep an eye on that
fire for everybody, all right, ladies and gentlemen. It's never
really a normal home buying market. It's never just normal.
(01:35):
It cycles through being a buyer's market, a seller's market,
a nobody's market. And we are entering another weird time
for people looking to buy or sell a home. But
now there's a complication that I don't think anybody alive
has had to deal with before. So the things that
(01:58):
are cyclical. Housing prices peaked over the summer. Many many
areas had record home prices over the summer. The increase
in the cost of houses is slowing down somewhat right now.
Prices are still going up, just not as much. It's
(02:18):
like the inflation thing. Also, mortgage rates were very low
in the summer, or at least relatively low. They're starting
to go up again. But people who've been been looking
for a home for a while, they're kind of used
to that. But now there's another thing going on. And
(02:40):
I Len Gonzales, now, do you know why I invited
you to be here for this segment?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
If you want, I'm still trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh, I'm sorry, are you not? Do you not, or
are you being sarcastic right now? No?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, I was actually I was trying to work on
some other stuff and I.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, that's fine. Well it's because can
I say, can I say what you do when you're
not here? A kfi? Oh sure, why not? I'm an
open bu you're a realtor. I am, yeah, So that's
why I said you could jump in if you wanted to. Anyway,
I'm going to pay a tition.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, so here's the thing that's going on that nobody
alive has dealt with before, and it's this. It used
to be you had a house, you sold a house,
you paid a six percent commission, and half of that
went to whoever the agent that represented the buyer. Basically,
the seller of the house paid for the buyer's agents commission.
(03:37):
And then a bunch of homeowners got together and sued
the National Association of Realtors and said, this is a
violation of antitrust laws to do it this way, and
we're paying too much to sell a home because we're
actually subsidizing the buyer. And there was a settlement and
NAR was ordered to pay over four hundred million dollars
(04:00):
out and to change the way that business is done.
So what's confusing now is nobody knows how to write
the agreements about how much is the seller's agent going
to get? And then the buyer now has to deal
with the question of how much commission do I want
(04:21):
to pay whatever real estate agent or realtor I use
to help me buy a home. Because usually the buyer
doesn't have to think about that, and now they do.
So that's not everybody confused because nobody's one hundred percent
sure what's required what's not required. Can you still have
(04:44):
the seller pay the buyer's realtors commission if everybody agrees
to it? Yes, Apparently the answer is yes, but not
everybody wants not every seller is going to want to
agree to that. And now apparently, and I don't know
if this is happened to you yet, you got a
buyer and they go, hey, uh, you know, I got
(05:07):
a buyer and they'd like to come see this house.
And then the seller's agent says, do you have in
writing an agreement with this buyer about how much commission
you are going to get if they buy this house. No,
we don't have anything in writing you're not allowed to
look at the house exactly that. So you, when you
(05:28):
say exactly that, means you are well aware of this
new phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I am one hundred percent aware. There's been a quite
a learning curve with it, and I have several clients
that they actually don't like it. I have a seller.
I have a seller. He's paying commission to the buyer's agent.
So he's paying the six percent we'll say, to the
person selling the house and the person that comes in
(05:52):
with the buyer. And now when he goes to buy
a house, he says, well, I want it fairs fair.
Now when I go, I don't want to have to
pay again.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Right that the tradition is making it hard to get
the new normal in place. Yes, that's exactly right, because nobody,
nobody who bought a house recently, is used to the
idea that they, out of their pocket, would have to
pay their realtors. So people are trying to figure out
the rules, and it's this. It's one thing when people
who want to buy a house or sell a house
(06:21):
are confused and don't quite know what to do, and
now the real estate agents themselves also are confused. So
hopefully this gets worked out because a lot of people
want to buy houses. Yes, and I understand supply is
up a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It started there.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yes, yeah, so that's one good thing for buyers. Anyway,
that's what happened with your real estate commissions. All right,
Michelle Cuba is here in for an this morning, and
we just heard a nice promotion for the fourteenth annual
Pastathon that is going on, and that guy should make
a face like that. I clapped, Oh, I can't see
(07:05):
your hands. I can't see your hands. I only saw
your your head and your face do a thing that
made it sound like either I was wrong that it's
the fourteenth annual or that you yourself were shocked to
finally realize that it's the fourteenth annual Postathon. So they
told you about how you can donate, and we'll tell
you again a little bit later in the show, but
(07:28):
we should talk for a moment about the auction experience
items that are available during Postathon, which benefits Caterina's Club
Chef Bruno's charity that feeds all those hungry kids every
week all over southern California. If you go to KFIAM
(07:50):
six forty dot com slash Pastathon, you will be able
to bid on many items, including co host an Hour
with John Coe Belts. That's my favorite one. The only
auction item where the item hates it. John does not.
(08:15):
He doesn't like it, but we love it so much.
You would co host an Hour with John Coe belt
one to four pm Monday through Friday. I mean only
one of those hours. We pick the topics. You get
to rant with John about the issues of the day,
and oh, it says something else here that is a
(08:37):
little foreshadowing. It says make sure you drink enough caffeine
to keep up with him. You could also bid on
going to a Dodgers game with Gary and Shannon, or
a Kings game with Uncle t Bones himself Tim Conway Junior.
You could also co host later with Mo Kelly, our
evening show here on KFI, which will be for sure
(09:02):
a more cordial experience, definitely. Or if you don't want
to be on the radio, you can have our own
House Whisperer Dean Sharp whisper Your House, a three hour
exclusive in home design console with Dean and his lovely
wife Tina. Must be in LA and Orange County for
(09:24):
that one. Or now everybody has feet pretty I mean
pretty much. I apologize if somebody is listening and you
don't have feet. I know not every single human being
currently now has feet, I am aware of that, but
most people have at least a foot. Most people, I
(09:45):
bet ninety nine zero point four percent of all people
listening now have at least one foot. So you could
bid on a pair of handcrafted sandals from our own
Angel Martinez.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And can I tell you something because I have five
pairs of these. These are the most comfortable flip flops
I have ever had in my entire life.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They're amazing. Even bought them for my husband. They're very,
very nice. And you will get a pair of these
sandals plus a custom sandal kit, each of them designed
and handcrafted by Angel Martinez. Hey, you know they have
a heel cup and an art support built in. That's
why they're so comfort So they're super super comfortable when
you walk around on them. Anyway, you can check them
(10:34):
out at now. Is this pronounced naughty? Is that what's
going on here? But it's Nauti USA dot com na
u t I USA dot com as a nautical for
the beach where you would wear these sandals, although you
don't have to wear them at the beach. Please tell me, Michelle,
there's not a surprise twilight zonesque clause in this auction
(10:58):
where if you bid on these and you win them,
that you're only allowed to wear them at a beach. No,
you can wear them anyway, because that would be a
bunch of bs right there. You can wear them anyway,
all right. So those are some of the things that
you can bid on if you would like to have
a nice experience involving someone at KFI. Now we talked
about you got to drink your caffeine to be with John.
(11:22):
The most important thing at a radio station is coffee.
And I'm not wrong. F the microphones. We don't even
care if we came in one day and there were
no microphones. As long as there was still coffee, we'd
be happy. And we just go to the top of
the building and scream the show. I don't drink coffee.
I never have. I don't either. Well, what is happening earlier? Mutants? No,
(11:50):
you are like mutineers. This is a mutiny going on,
all right. Well, look, every place has an odd duck
or two, So just quickly let me tell you what
I wanted to talk about, because because this is one
of the most controversial things that I have ever heard about.
If you're a coffee person, there are a lot of
(12:10):
hotels now that are trying to put a little morge
into their coffee service in the room. Like right now,
you go to a hotel, maybe they have a currig
or they have that cheap I don't forgot who makes it,
but it's like a weird thing. We have to open
up to packet and pour it into a cone and
stick it in a flimsy plastic machine. Well, a lot
(12:33):
of them are starting to go top notch coffee snob
and put pour over coffee setups in the room. Now,
for those of you not familiar, if you're going to
do pour over coffee, you need a kettle of some
kind to heat your water, which must be one hundred
(12:55):
and ninety five degrees or else what are you doing? Man?
And you need coffee freshly ground, so you need a
grinder and some whole beans. Then you need a chemex
or some other pour over flask and a filter and
(13:15):
it's a whole ritual. Sounds like a lot of work.
It is a lot of work. Now, if you're a
super coffee snob, you may welcome this, and the hotels
that are doing this say, we think the making of
the coffee in the room should be a pleasant and
relaxing and mindful experience. But here's what's happening. You don't
know what kind of coffee person is renting your hotel room.
(13:37):
You have no idea. So for every person who walks
in and goes, oh man, this is kick ass, this
is unbelievably cool, there's somebody who walks in who goes,
I just want a curig or something. I don't want
to go through all of this Michigoths for a cup
of freaking coffee. So if this is important to you,
I guess my word of wisdom is, from now on,
(13:58):
you book a room at a hotel, and it's important
to you find out what they got going on coffee
wise in that room, so you don't get an unpleasant
surprise that they thought was going to be super pleasant
for you. So I don't think i'd want it. I
don't want that. If I want a nice, fancy coffee,
(14:19):
I'll go to the professionals. So that's what's going on. Plus, also,
the price of coffee is going to go way up.
There's been a drought in Brazil, reserves are low, and
Arabica beans the prices on the futures market are going up,
so expect your cup of fancy coffee to also cost more.
(14:42):
Now you can't. This is for the coffee people. You
could just drink some robusto, you filthy animal. You could
do that if you want, Except guess what price of
even filthy, disgusting robustos also going up, So you can't win.
Switch to tea or four loco if they still sell it.
(15:05):
They did capping out of four loco, so is it
three loco?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
They took one of the locos out got too crazy
out there? That's loco. That's like saying we've removed harpo
from the Marx Brothers movies. What are you doing, ladies
and gentlemen, It's a documentary on the Beatles, except there
will be no mention of George. Who wants it at
that point? All right, let's talk about this facility in Colorado.
(15:37):
If you're inside of it, you'll notice a couple of things.
One thing is right out the window, you see the
rocky mountains, very beautiful. Another thing you'll notice is it
kind of looks like a college dorm. There's dudes walking
around with like hiking boots and rock band the T shirts.
But it is not fun in games inside of this
place because outside around owned it are armed guards. Why
(16:05):
what are they doing in there, Well, here's what they're doing.
They are building a system to detect geoengineering. Some people
call it solar radiation modification. This is when you put
(16:26):
the main way of doing it, as I understand it
is you blow a bunch of aerosols, mostly carbon dioxide.
You blow that up into the air so it reflects
back the Sun unto itself so that it would not
warm the Earth as much. And this is one of
the approaches that has been discussed what to do with
(16:48):
global warming. Well, what if we blocked out some of
the energy from the Sun. And everyone agrees that this
probably would work in the sense that it would cool
the planet, but we don't know what other catastrophes it
would cause. Catastrophes to weather patterns, catastrophes to agriculture, to
(17:09):
local economies, to all kinds of stuff. So while there
is an agreement that we should look into it, we
don't want anybody going rogue with it. We don't want
some other country deciding to do a little geoengineering on
their own. It wouldn't even have to be a country.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
It could just be some super rich guy who decides
to do it, I don't know, like a guy who
bought a social media platform and changed the name from
two syllables to one syllable and ruined that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So the United States, in cooperation with several other countries,
are developing and have already developed a lot of a
system to detect if some rogue entity were to blow
a bunch of aerosols into the atmosphere, because we want
(18:04):
to know if it's happening. And it's pretty sophisticated because
here's what they do. Every few weeks. They launch a balloon.
It's not a birthday balloon, it's not a milar balloon.
It's a very special balloon that goes up seventeen miles
into the sky. Sometimes they launch it from Boulder, Colorado,
(18:28):
sometimes from Alaska or Hawaii, but also New Zealand, an
island near the coast of Africa called Reunion Island, even Antarctica.
And up this balloon goes, and it's carrying this box
with the size of I think a lunch box maybe,
(18:49):
and it's got a little gizmo's in there, wires and tubes,
and what it does is it sucks in some air
and it analyzes the air for the presence of an
unusual amount of these aerosols and relays the information in
real time back to Colorado. So you send the balloon
up and if it goes, hey, man, there's way way
(19:10):
more aerosols here than they're supposed to be. Boom, we
would know something is going on. And they even have
some testing equipment that would allow them to figure out
because you would know where the aerosols are right now
that whoever the evil genius Madman put in the air,
(19:32):
they have equipment that can tell them when and where
they were released. It's like a shot collar system, but
for aerosols. So that is what they're working on. It
involves the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who are working
(19:54):
with NASA, who are working with these other countries that
I mentioned, all in the spirit of cooperation because while
we pursue this as a possible intervention for global warming,
we don't want someone to get carried away and cause
a lot of trouble. So that's what's going on there.
(20:15):
So the guys in the in the you know the
National Tour t shirts from when they saw the National
four years ago. Inside, Oh, don't try to get close
to them because the arm guards will not let you.
All right now, this might get a little gross for you,
because sometimes animals are not all furry and cuddly, but
(20:35):
they're always fascinating. Here's some animals in the news, never upsetting.
This is heavy petting. And let's talk about the green
(20:56):
spoon worm if we may. This is I want to say,
it's basically a sea monster. It is this long thing
named for its nose, which is shaped like a spoon
(21:17):
and also has a like a mouth part on it
that sticks out of the ground and sucks up like plankton,
another organic organic material that's in the water. It could
be algae, it could be rotten stuff. Even poop, it
could be it could be fish poop. They're like vacuum cleaners,
(21:40):
but only this long nose part sticks out. The rest
of its body is hidden underground, except the nose is
ten times longer than the body. They're also a bright
green because of a pigment call bonellin, which is poisonous,
(22:02):
and that's how they worn Predators don't chomp on me.
You may see my long, beautiful green nose flowing around
in the ocean sucking up poop, but do not chomp
me because you will die. Okay, But here's the thing.
Here's the thing. They don't all look like that, the
(22:23):
green ones, those are the ladies. Because here's what's going
on with this animal. The sex of one of these
animals is based on chemistry, not genetics. Chemistry. Here's what happens.
Larva hatch of this spoon worm and they go and
(22:47):
they're floating in the ocean. If the larva lands on
the seafloor, it becomes a female with the green, long nose.
But if a larva lay on a female spoonworm, it
becomes a dude. What, yes, that would be? That would
(23:12):
be like, I don't even if fetuses. This is going
a long way to try to get the analogy, but
I don't care. Let's say human fetuses grew outside of
the body, and the rule was if you put the
fetus in a wool blanket, it turns into a boy.
But if you put it in a in a cotton
(23:33):
pretale sheet, it turns into a girl. It's kind of
like that that's weird. Here's the other part. Okay, this
is not the only animal where this happens, by the way,
there aren't that many, but there's a couple of others.
So a larva comes and lands on a female and
definitely says, oh, damn it, Now I have to be
(23:55):
a dude. Not that there's inherently anything wrong with being
a dude, except as to this particular animal. Being a
dude means being absorbed into the body of the female
and existing only to fertilize her eggs. Wow, they become
(24:18):
the male of the species. Are basically little, tiny parasites
that get absorbed by the female and the sole reason
for their existence is to fertilize their eggs. And a
particular scientist said the following about it. I'll tell you
(24:38):
the scientist's name, Tronde Rogers oscars at the more for
Skiing Research Institute, and where he said it's being it's
like being reduced to a living testicle. Where is that institute?
I don't know. To me, based on the name of it,
(25:00):
I would say Cleveland. What was the name of it? Again?
The more Foresking Research Institute m with a slash through it. R. E. F.
O r skiing anyway, So that's no fun to be
(25:22):
a dude spoon worm. Oh my god, Norway, that's where
it is. Yeah, of course it is. Okay, let's finish
with this. There was a mystery at a school. The
only bad thing about this story is because we know
what the segment is, we kind of will know how
(25:44):
it ends. But at a school in Japan, a kindergarten,
someone was stealing the shoes of the children. You know,
in Japan, they take their shoes off when they go
in and then they give the kids these little slipper
things to wear, but they don't always wear those, and
they put them in a cubby and they were disappearing.
(26:07):
And at first the parents and the people of the
school were like, oh no, oh great, we have a
shoe pervert. We have a children's shoe pervert comeing into
the school and stealing the shoes. So they put up
a security camera and the very next day they caught
the thief. Well they didn't catch the thief, but they
caught the thief on camera. And it's a weasel. It's
(26:31):
a weasel, which you know, there's some places where you
can have a weasel as a pet and people who
have weasels at pets will give them toys for the
sole purpose of the weasel hiding it. They like to
take things and hide them apparently, so it was a
weasel coming in and taking the shoes and putting them
who knows where. Nobody knows where the weasel. The shoes
(26:51):
will never be recovered because nobody knows where the weasel's
hiding place is. It's a wild weasel, it's not somebody's pet. Oh.
Now they put netting over the cubby holes so the
weasel can't take the kid's shoes, and the weasel is
still on the loose.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh. I was gonna say they should set up somebody
to sit there, and when the weasel shows up, they
should follow the weasel, because.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Then they're gonna end up with a whole pile of shoes.
I don't true. I guess they don't.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I wonder if they hide them all their stuff in
the same place or if they spread it out. Oh,
I don't know, because you'd have to Is a ferrets
do that too? Ferrets will steal your stuff and take it. Yep,
fer it's a basis.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
You have to ask the weasel.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I'll have to find a weasel to ask him.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Maybe there's one upstairs.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I'll go, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
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Wayne Resnik. Here some of the stories we're watching for you.
The Canyon Crest fire which started in Fontana and grew
very quickly. Oh, we have currently by the way, it's
it's two hundred and fifty acres.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I was going to tell you that. Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet,
Michelle Cube, you forgot for a moment which host you
were working with. I did. I'll leave you of course
I have the latest from this. By the way, I'm
going to give a website here because people in that area.
This is where you can also find out the evacuation
(00:43):
warning parameters, the borders of the evacuation order areas. Let
me say it a different complicated way, the different locations
that together form the boundaries of the area, which if
you are in them, you are under an event sacuation
warning Fire dot c A dot gov is where if
(01:06):
you're in Riverside County, you're anywhere near this Canyon Crest
fire that started in Fontana, you can find out if
you need to start thinking about or at least be
ready for possible evacuation. We'll keep an eye on that
fire for everybody, all right, ladies and gentlemen. It's never
really a normal home buying market. It's never just normal.
(01:35):
It cycles through being a buyer's market, a seller's market,
a nobody's market. And we are entering another weird time
for people looking to buy or sell a home. But
now there's a complication that I don't think anybody alive
has had to deal with before. So the things that
(01:58):
are cyclical. Housing prices peaked over the summer. Many many
areas had record home prices over the summer. The increase
in the cost of houses is slowing down somewhat right now.
Prices are still going up, just not as much. It's
(02:18):
like the inflation thing. Also, mortgage rates were very low
in the summer, or at least relatively low. They're starting
to go up again. But people who've been been looking
for a home for a while, they're kind of used
to that. But now there's another thing going on. And
(02:40):
I Len Gonzales, now, do you know why I invited
you to be here for this segment?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
If you want, I'm still trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh, I'm sorry, are you not? Do you not, or
are you being sarcastic right now? No?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, I was actually I was trying to work on
some other stuff and I.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, that's fine. Well it's because can
I say, can I say what you do when you're
not here? A kfi? Oh sure, why not? I'm an
open bu you're a realtor. I am, yeah, So that's
why I said you could jump in if you wanted to. Anyway,
I'm going to pay a tition.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, so here's the thing that's going on that nobody
alive has dealt with before, and it's this. It used
to be you had a house, you sold a house,
you paid a six percent commission, and half of that
went to whoever the agent that represented the buyer. Basically,
the seller of the house paid for the buyer's agents commission.
(03:37):
And then a bunch of homeowners got together and sued
the National Association of Realtors and said, this is a
violation of antitrust laws to do it this way, and
we're paying too much to sell a home because we're
actually subsidizing the buyer. And there was a settlement and
NAR was ordered to pay over four hundred million dollars
(04:00):
out and to change the way that business is done.
So what's confusing now is nobody knows how to write
the agreements about how much is the seller's agent going
to get? And then the buyer now has to deal
with the question of how much commission do I want
(04:21):
to pay whatever real estate agent or realtor I use
to help me buy a home. Because usually the buyer
doesn't have to think about that, and now they do.
So that's not everybody confused because nobody's one hundred percent
sure what's required what's not required. Can you still have
(04:44):
the seller pay the buyer's realtors commission if everybody agrees
to it? Yes, Apparently the answer is yes, but not
everybody wants not every seller is going to want to
agree to that. And now apparently, and I don't know
if this is happened to you yet, you got a
buyer and they go, hey, uh, you know, I got
(05:07):
a buyer and they'd like to come see this house.
And then the seller's agent says, do you have in
writing an agreement with this buyer about how much commission
you are going to get if they buy this house. No,
we don't have anything in writing you're not allowed to
look at the house exactly that. So you, when you
(05:28):
say exactly that, means you are well aware of this
new phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I am one hundred percent aware. There's been a quite
a learning curve with it, and I have several clients
that they actually don't like it. I have a seller.
I have a seller. He's paying commission to the buyer's agent.
So he's paying the six percent we'll say, to the
person selling the house and the person that comes in
(05:52):
with the buyer. And now when he goes to buy
a house, he says, well, I want it fairs fair.
Now when I go, I don't want to have to
pay again.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Right that the tradition is making it hard to get
the new normal in place. Yes, that's exactly right, because nobody,
nobody who bought a house recently, is used to the
idea that they, out of their pocket, would have to
pay their realtors. So people are trying to figure out
the rules, and it's this. It's one thing when people
who want to buy a house or sell a house
(06:21):
are confused and don't quite know what to do, and
now the real estate agents themselves also are confused. So
hopefully this gets worked out because a lot of people
want to buy houses. Yes, and I understand supply is
up a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It started there.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yes, yeah, so that's one good thing for buyers. Anyway,
that's what happened with your real estate commissions. All right,
Michelle Cuba is here in for an this morning, and
we just heard a nice promotion for the fourteenth annual
Pastathon that is going on, and that guy should make
a face like that. I clapped, Oh, I can't see
(07:05):
your hands. I can't see your hands. I only saw
your your head and your face do a thing that
made it sound like either I was wrong that it's
the fourteenth annual or that you yourself were shocked to
finally realize that it's the fourteenth annual Postathon. So they
told you about how you can donate, and we'll tell
you again a little bit later in the show, but
(07:28):
we should talk for a moment about the auction experience
items that are available during Postathon, which benefits Caterina's Club
Chef Bruno's charity that feeds all those hungry kids every
week all over southern California. If you go to KFIAM
(07:50):
six forty dot com slash Pastathon, you will be able
to bid on many items, including co host an Hour
with John Coe Belts. That's my favorite one. The only
auction item where the item hates it. John does not.
(08:15):
He doesn't like it, but we love it so much.
You would co host an Hour with John Coe belt
one to four pm Monday through Friday. I mean only
one of those hours. We pick the topics. You get
to rant with John about the issues of the day,
and oh, it says something else here that is a
(08:37):
little foreshadowing. It says make sure you drink enough caffeine
to keep up with him. You could also bid on
going to a Dodgers game with Gary and Shannon, or
a Kings game with Uncle t Bones himself Tim Conway Junior.
You could also co host later with Mo Kelly, our
evening show here on KFI, which will be for sure
(09:02):
a more cordial experience, definitely. Or if you don't want
to be on the radio, you can have our own
House Whisperer Dean Sharp whisper Your House, a three hour
exclusive in home design console with Dean and his lovely
wife Tina. Must be in LA and Orange County for
(09:24):
that one. Or now everybody has feet pretty I mean
pretty much. I apologize if somebody is listening and you
don't have feet. I know not every single human being
currently now has feet, I am aware of that, but
most people have at least a foot. Most people, I
(09:45):
bet ninety nine zero point four percent of all people
listening now have at least one foot. So you could
bid on a pair of handcrafted sandals from our own
Angel Martinez.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And can I tell you something because I have five
pairs of these. These are the most comfortable flip flops
I have ever had in my entire life.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They're amazing. Even bought them for my husband. They're very,
very nice. And you will get a pair of these
sandals plus a custom sandal kit, each of them designed
and handcrafted by Angel Martinez. Hey, you know they have
a heel cup and an art support built in. That's
why they're so comfort So they're super super comfortable when
you walk around on them. Anyway, you can check them
(10:34):
out at now. Is this pronounced naughty? Is that what's
going on here? But it's Nauti USA dot com na
u t I USA dot com as a nautical for
the beach where you would wear these sandals, although you
don't have to wear them at the beach. Please tell me, Michelle,
there's not a surprise twilight zonesque clause in this auction
(10:58):
where if you bid on these and you win them,
that you're only allowed to wear them at a beach. No,
you can wear them anyway, because that would be a
bunch of bs right there. You can wear them anyway,
all right. So those are some of the things that
you can bid on if you would like to have
a nice experience involving someone at KFI. Now we talked
about you got to drink your caffeine to be with John.
(11:22):
The most important thing at a radio station is coffee.
And I'm not wrong. F the microphones. We don't even
care if we came in one day and there were
no microphones. As long as there was still coffee, we'd
be happy. And we just go to the top of
the building and scream the show. I don't drink coffee.
I never have. I don't either. Well, what is happening earlier? Mutants? No,
(11:50):
you are like mutineers. This is a mutiny going on,
all right. Well, look, every place has an odd duck
or two, So just quickly let me tell you what
I wanted to talk about, because because this is one
of the most controversial things that I have ever heard about.
If you're a coffee person, there are a lot of
(12:10):
hotels now that are trying to put a little morge
into their coffee service in the room. Like right now,
you go to a hotel, maybe they have a currig
or they have that cheap I don't forgot who makes it,
but it's like a weird thing. We have to open
up to packet and pour it into a cone and
stick it in a flimsy plastic machine. Well, a lot
(12:33):
of them are starting to go top notch coffee snob
and put pour over coffee setups in the room. Now,
for those of you not familiar, if you're going to
do pour over coffee, you need a kettle of some
kind to heat your water, which must be one hundred
(12:55):
and ninety five degrees or else what are you doing? Man?
And you need coffee freshly ground, so you need a
grinder and some whole beans. Then you need a chemex
or some other pour over flask and a filter and
(13:15):
it's a whole ritual. Sounds like a lot of work.
It is a lot of work. Now, if you're a
super coffee snob, you may welcome this, and the hotels
that are doing this say, we think the making of
the coffee in the room should be a pleasant and
relaxing and mindful experience. But here's what's happening. You don't
know what kind of coffee person is renting your hotel room.
(13:37):
You have no idea. So for every person who walks
in and goes, oh man, this is kick ass, this
is unbelievably cool, there's somebody who walks in who goes,
I just want a curig or something. I don't want
to go through all of this Michigoths for a cup
of freaking coffee. So if this is important to you,
I guess my word of wisdom is, from now on,
(13:58):
you book a room at a hotel, and it's important
to you find out what they got going on coffee
wise in that room, so you don't get an unpleasant
surprise that they thought was going to be super pleasant
for you. So I don't think i'd want it. I
don't want that. If I want a nice, fancy coffee,
(14:19):
I'll go to the professionals. So that's what's going on. Plus, also,
the price of coffee is going to go way up.
There's been a drought in Brazil, reserves are low, and
Arabica beans the prices on the futures market are going up,
so expect your cup of fancy coffee to also cost more.
(14:42):
Now you can't. This is for the coffee people. You
could just drink some robusto, you filthy animal. You could
do that if you want, Except guess what price of
even filthy, disgusting robustos also going up, So you can't win.
Switch to tea or four loco if they still sell it.
(15:05):
They did capping out of four loco, so is it
three loco?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
They took one of the locos out got too crazy
out there? That's loco. That's like saying we've removed harpo
from the Marx Brothers movies. What are you doing, ladies
and gentlemen, It's a documentary on the Beatles, except there
will be no mention of George. Who wants it at
that point? All right, let's talk about this facility in Colorado.
(15:37):
If you're inside of it, you'll notice a couple of things.
One thing is right out the window, you see the
rocky mountains, very beautiful. Another thing you'll notice is it
kind of looks like a college dorm. There's dudes walking
around with like hiking boots and rock band the T shirts.
But it is not fun in games inside of this
place because outside around owned it are armed guards. Why
(16:05):
what are they doing in there, Well, here's what they're doing.
They are building a system to detect geoengineering. Some people
call it solar radiation modification. This is when you put
(16:26):
the main way of doing it, as I understand it
is you blow a bunch of aerosols, mostly carbon dioxide.
You blow that up into the air so it reflects
back the Sun unto itself so that it would not
warm the Earth as much. And this is one of
the approaches that has been discussed what to do with
(16:48):
global warming. Well, what if we blocked out some of
the energy from the Sun. And everyone agrees that this
probably would work in the sense that it would cool
the planet, but we don't know what other catastrophes it
would cause. Catastrophes to weather patterns, catastrophes to agriculture, to
(17:09):
local economies, to all kinds of stuff. So while there
is an agreement that we should look into it, we
don't want anybody going rogue with it. We don't want
some other country deciding to do a little geoengineering on
their own. It wouldn't even have to be a country.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
It could just be some super rich guy who decides
to do it, I don't know, like a guy who
bought a social media platform and changed the name from
two syllables to one syllable and ruined that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So the United States, in cooperation with several other countries,
are developing and have already developed a lot of a
system to detect if some rogue entity were to blow
a bunch of aerosols into the atmosphere, because we want
(18:04):
to know if it's happening. And it's pretty sophisticated because
here's what they do. Every few weeks. They launch a balloon.
It's not a birthday balloon, it's not a milar balloon.
It's a very special balloon that goes up seventeen miles
into the sky. Sometimes they launch it from Boulder, Colorado,
(18:28):
sometimes from Alaska or Hawaii, but also New Zealand, an
island near the coast of Africa called Reunion Island, even Antarctica.
And up this balloon goes, and it's carrying this box
with the size of I think a lunch box maybe,
(18:49):
and it's got a little gizmo's in there, wires and tubes,
and what it does is it sucks in some air
and it analyzes the air for the presence of an
unusual amount of these aerosols and relays the information in
real time back to Colorado. So you send the balloon
up and if it goes, hey, man, there's way way
(19:10):
more aerosols here than they're supposed to be. Boom, we
would know something is going on. And they even have
some testing equipment that would allow them to figure out
because you would know where the aerosols are right now
that whoever the evil genius Madman put in the air,
(19:32):
they have equipment that can tell them when and where
they were released. It's like a shot collar system, but
for aerosols. So that is what they're working on. It
involves the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who are working
(19:54):
with NASA, who are working with these other countries that
I mentioned, all in the spirit of cooperation because while
we pursue this as a possible intervention for global warming,
we don't want someone to get carried away and cause
a lot of trouble. So that's what's going on there.
(20:15):
So the guys in the in the you know the
National Tour t shirts from when they saw the National
four years ago. Inside, Oh, don't try to get close
to them because the arm guards will not let you.
All right now, this might get a little gross for you,
because sometimes animals are not all furry and cuddly, but
(20:35):
they're always fascinating. Here's some animals in the news, never upsetting.
This is heavy petting. And let's talk about the green
(20:56):
spoon worm if we may. This is I want to say,
it's basically a sea monster. It is this long thing
named for its nose, which is shaped like a spoon
(21:17):
and also has a like a mouth part on it
that sticks out of the ground and sucks up like plankton,
another organic organic material that's in the water. It could
be algae, it could be rotten stuff. Even poop, it
could be it could be fish poop. They're like vacuum cleaners,
(21:40):
but only this long nose part sticks out. The rest
of its body is hidden underground, except the nose is
ten times longer than the body. They're also a bright
green because of a pigment call bonellin, which is poisonous,
(22:02):
and that's how they worn Predators don't chomp on me.
You may see my long, beautiful green nose flowing around
in the ocean sucking up poop, but do not chomp
me because you will die. Okay, But here's the thing.
Here's the thing. They don't all look like that, the
(22:23):
green ones, those are the ladies. Because here's what's going
on with this animal. The sex of one of these
animals is based on chemistry, not genetics. Chemistry. Here's what happens.
Larva hatch of this spoon worm and they go and
(22:47):
they're floating in the ocean. If the larva lands on
the seafloor, it becomes a female with the green, long nose.
But if a larva lay on a female spoonworm, it
becomes a dude. What, yes, that would be? That would
(23:12):
be like, I don't even if fetuses. This is going
a long way to try to get the analogy, but
I don't care. Let's say human fetuses grew outside of
the body, and the rule was if you put the
fetus in a wool blanket, it turns into a boy.
But if you put it in a in a cotton
(23:33):
pretale sheet, it turns into a girl. It's kind of
like that that's weird. Here's the other part. Okay, this
is not the only animal where this happens, by the way,
there aren't that many, but there's a couple of others.
So a larva comes and lands on a female and
definitely says, oh, damn it, Now I have to be
(23:55):
a dude. Not that there's inherently anything wrong with being
a dude, except as to this particular animal. Being a
dude means being absorbed into the body of the female
and existing only to fertilize her eggs. Wow, they become
(24:18):
the male of the species. Are basically little, tiny parasites
that get absorbed by the female and the sole reason
for their existence is to fertilize their eggs. And a
particular scientist said the following about it. I'll tell you
(24:38):
the scientist's name, Tronde Rogers oscars at the more for
Skiing Research Institute, and where he said it's being it's
like being reduced to a living testicle. Where is that institute?
I don't know. To me, based on the name of it,
(25:00):
I would say Cleveland. What was the name of it? Again?
The more Foresking Research Institute m with a slash through it. R. E. F.
O r skiing anyway, So that's no fun to be
(25:22):
a dude spoon worm. Oh my god, Norway, that's where
it is. Yeah, of course it is. Okay, let's finish
with this. There was a mystery at a school. The
only bad thing about this story is because we know
what the segment is, we kind of will know how
(25:44):
it ends. But at a school in Japan, a kindergarten,
someone was stealing the shoes of the children. You know,
in Japan, they take their shoes off when they go
in and then they give the kids these little slipper
things to wear, but they don't always wear those, and
they put them in a cubby and they were disappearing.
(26:07):
And at first the parents and the people of the
school were like, oh no, oh great, we have a
shoe pervert. We have a children's shoe pervert comeing into
the school and stealing the shoes. So they put up
a security camera and the very next day they caught
the thief. Well they didn't catch the thief, but they
caught the thief on camera. And it's a weasel. It's
(26:31):
a weasel, which you know, there's some places where you
can have a weasel as a pet and people who
have weasels at pets will give them toys for the
sole purpose of the weasel hiding it. They like to
take things and hide them apparently, so it was a
weasel coming in and taking the shoes and putting them
who knows where. Nobody knows where the weasel. The shoes
(26:51):
will never be recovered because nobody knows where the weasel's
hiding place is. It's a wild weasel, it's not somebody's pet. Oh.
Now they put netting over the cubby holes so the
weasel can't take the kid's shoes, and the weasel is
still on the loose.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh. I was gonna say they should set up somebody
to sit there, and when the weasel shows up, they
should follow the weasel, because.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Then they're gonna end up with a whole pile of shoes.
I don't true. I guess they don't.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I wonder if they hide them all their stuff in
the same place or if they spread it out. Oh,
I don't know, because you'd have to Is a ferrets
do that too? Ferrets will steal your stuff and take it. Yep,
fer it's a basis.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
You have to ask the weasel.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I'll have to find a weasel to ask him.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Maybe there's one upstairs.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I'll go, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
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