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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI AM six forty Bill Handle Here it is a
Wednesday morning, January fourteenth. Some of the stories we are
looking at in the world of Donald Trump and the administration.
A hearing expected today in a lawsuit filed by Minnesota
and the Twin Cities challenging the administration's immigration enforcement operation,
(00:31):
saying it's a federal invasion bill.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And Hillary Clinton refused to testify on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And this is the House Oversights Committee in the Jeffrey
Epstein probe, and Bill Clinton said, you're dreaming.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And so they're talking.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Mike Johnson is talking about a contempt of Congress where
they're going to throw Bill Clinton in jail. Give me
a break. And then I love this one. There's a
new bill introduced giving California has more power to challenge
federal officers in state court. Senate Bill seven forty seven,
titled the No Kings Act. Have you noticed the names
(01:05):
of bills that are introduced have changed a little bit?
The big beautiful bill, the No Kings Act. Today, I
think Democrats are introducing the No Dicks Act Act.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's just we've reached another level, haven't we.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, there is a clash going on between the City
of Los Angeles and the State of California, and it
has to do with zone zero wildfire regulations.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What is zone zero.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's an area that's five feet around the house in
terms of vegetation, in terms of combustible wooden products, you know,
teak chairs, that sort of thing. And LA is moving
towards a more lenient approach, which is kind of surprising.
(02:01):
And this is in light of studies that are done
that homes that were of cleared vegetation were more likely
to survive wildfires. Now, once the state passes its law,
of course the city those laws disappear.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But the state isn't doing much.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You know, it had a self imposed deadline of January first,
twenty twenty three to create new laws. Well here we
go three years later, not nothing yet. So marathon discussions
go on about these rules. What do residents do in
(02:41):
these hazard zones? What do they have to do from
the first five feet zone zero to make them ember resistant.
The city council says, We're going to do our own virsion.
That's going to be a far more lenient. If you ever,
listen to Dean Sharp, and Dean talks about fire resistant homes,
to make your house a little bit more fire resistant,
And I paid attention to that. And that is the
(03:04):
louvers where you know, up in your in the attic,
you know, where you keep paintings and some of your
more priceless objects. No, I'm sorry, that's that's the loof.
I got it, but spelled the same way I might add.
And so those stop the embers from flying in, and
(03:26):
embers half these hot embers actually cause a huge percentage
of fires. Now, if you're talking about fire that goes
right up to the house, even radiant heat, the house
is going to explode in flames. Now, Critics of Zone zero,
this five foot zone, are worried about the financial burden,
(03:49):
the labor required to comply the impact to urban ecosystems.
And while fire safety advoc could say, come on, guys,
give me a break. If you're gonna prevent homes from
exploding in flames or basically catching on fire, you gotta
do everything you can. And a big one is the
(04:11):
vegetation around the home. And you my, the Persian palace
had eucalyptus, still does eucalyptus trees right next to the house.
Eucalyptus trees when a fire comes down the pike, are
basically tiki torches. It is incredible how quickly and how
(04:34):
powerfully they explode into flames.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So here I am in my new house.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's all cacti, cactuses, cactusennas, and I don't have much
that's around my house. And of course I did do
the loovers around the house, so I'm trying as hard
as I can. There is there was a an overhang
that was made out of wood. I replaced it, so
(05:00):
I actually pay attention. Of course, my house is going
to explode when the next fire comes. And so this
zone zero, now here's what LA is doing. First of all,
San Diego and Berkeley they have regulations that match the
strictest options that the State Board of Forestry is considering.
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LA not so much so. The zone zero regulations at
this point apply only to rural areas where the Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection response to fires, and urban
areas city areas that have a very high fire hazard.
This according to cal Fire, and that includes Silver Lake,
(05:43):
Echo Park, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, No surprise there. So the
requirement that we are looking at the state and that
is there'll be no wooden or combustible fences out built
things within the first five feet of a home at all,
and also required removing dead vegetation, twigs, leaves from the
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ground around the house, roof gutters, and roofs themselves. You know,
it used to be that we had here. They were
shake roofs, wooden roofs.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Man, did they burn up?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Nothing like having a wooden roof When a fire comes down.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You want to start with the kindling on yah house. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And you know what they did.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They passed a law about forty years ago saying that
all wood shingles have to be replaced either by tile,
asphalt concrete roofs. You know they have concrete that looks
like tiles. That's what I have at home. And it
took a long time because you can't force people to
replace their roofs. Roof flash roof. Yeah, a roof last
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about thirty years, so when you replace, you have to
do it. Do you have a wooden roof at home? No,
but I did growing up. We have a composite I know, Yeah,
of course you do. That's the law, you have to
do it now. But that's just one of the regulations.
So the zone zero and here's the last stat I'm
going to give you. A recent study looked at the
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five major wildfires in California in the last decade, not
including the Eaton Palisades fire. Twenty percent of the homes
with significant significant vegetation in zone zero survive only twenty percent.
The ones that complied with zone zero regulations were about
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twice as much in terms of survivability.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That tells you something. Zone zero.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It's like patient zero, right, you walk into a zone
zero and you get HIV. That's not true at all
all right Now, cardboard, actually I think does get recycled.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Plastic does not. It is a myth, It is a dream.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
New report just came out by the state's waste agency
shows that plastic yogurt containers, shampoo bottles, restaurant takeout trays
being recycled in the single digits. How about polyprolene polypropylene
gets recycled. Now, the good news is colored shampoo bottles
(08:32):
and detergent bottles, they're all the way up to five percent.
Plastic bags, they just don't. It's a waste of time.
They should just say, just put cardboard in there and
then give you little small plastic trash cans because the
rest of it is just a waste of time. And
(08:54):
we're you know, the problem is is that our society,
the amount of garbage that we generate, I mean, Neil
and I have talked about to the food that we
throw away could feed half the world. But in terms
of the plastic recyclables. So let me give you a
little bit of history. And I've done this before. It's
my lunch box story that I have not done in years.
(09:16):
And this was before goes back aways. When I was
in grade school, This was before plastic bags were even around.
Zip block didn't exist, None of those bags even happened.
And so when I went to school, and my dad
is the one who packed my lunch, well, the other
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kids had sandwiches with a crust cut out white bread
and covered in wax paper, not plastic. And my dad,
we were just recent immigrants from Brazil and easy Eastern European,
so my father had a whole different view of life.
And he was a union electrician, so he would take
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his lunch in the workmen's lunch you know, the ones
were made of metal and they have that arch that
curve part of the top and you would put a
thermos bottle in there on the top.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And that's what I used to take to school.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Everybody else had Batman, Superman, Davy Crockett lunch boxes. I
had the workman's lunchbox. So the kids had, you know,
they were there sandwiches and they do used to exchange sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let me tell you what my dad did for me.
This is the lunch back box story. Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
My dad would pack my lunch with The sandwich was
two pieces of rye bread with one piece of bologney
between the two, because boloney was the cheapest meat you
could get, and it was summer May June hotter than hell.
I would open up my lunch box and there was
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the bologney that had stuck to the side of the
punch box and I peeled it off, put it between
the two pieces of dry rye bread and then I
would eat it. And no one, I mean no one
would exchange sandwiches with me. Let me tell you, sixty
(11:19):
years later, I'm still in therapy over just that issue.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Bullies would give you their milk money.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, it was, Yeah, it was very very rough.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But the point I'm making it was sandwiches were wrapped
in wax paper, which I don't think can be recycled today,
can it? But knowing who the hell uses wax paper?
And Neil, you the wax paper is used in cooking,
isn't it for? And you're doing something these.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Wax paper and many different things, candy making, all kinds
of stuff. Okay, I will tell you My belief is
until we have home units to recycle certain things for
daily use, it won't be recycled.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And I use a lot.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Of different plastics and three D printing and manufacturing at
my home shop, and you have to learn to recycle
them yourselves because no one else is going to do it.
There's just no money in it, so you have to
do it yourself to save money is the best way
to do it. Well, I think we'll have little recycling
centers at our own home.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
We're a long way away. You know the Pacific garbage
dump if you will. It's a size of Texas and
it floats out there in the Pacific and it's all
garbage and it swirls around. And if you look at
landfill's plastic does not decompose and now the supermarkets now
if first of all, no plastic bags anymore in California.
(12:47):
It's all paper bags which can be recycled. And have
you gone shopping for produce with those bags? They now
have a composable or compostable bags that are so flimsy,
are so disgusting. The other day, I went and bought
some oranges. As I dropped the oranges into the bag,
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the orange, the bag basically became a funnel and so
in goes the orange, Out goes the orange at the
bottom of the bag. And I'm going, great, that's what
I want. You know, that's just terrific. All right, We're done. Hey,
we're all putting together. The Morning Crew put together a
GoFundMe page for Kno's car exploded, the engine exploding. He
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put together this go fund campaign to help him buy
a car. And so it's well, I know he works
here at iHeart. What does that mean a huge amount
of money? Right, and he has to get a new
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car and we're helping him. This is just us on
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We're doing it ourselves, and so the only way to
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Speaker 1 (14:22):
We can help hopefully.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, Cono, get a car, Gonna buy a good piece
of it. Okay, Uh, yeah, Cono, you can suck up.
You sick a fantic son of a guy.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And oh Bill, thank you, thank you so much, exactly
what I know, thank you, Yes, yes, okay. Ice free zones.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Now, there is a little bit of issue in Chicago, Portland,
LA with ice agents.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
As you know.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Uh, they're pretty aggressive about hiring people, about picking up people,
and uh they're hiring tons more that government is. And uh,
the bottom line is a lot of people are being
arrested and harassed and a lot of people are frightened.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Christin Ohm, who is our head of homeland security, keeps
on saying that all those arrests are only the worst
of the worst.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, look at the video, give me a break. The
worst of the worst.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So what's happening is you have cities and in this case,
La County voted unanimously yesterday to bar immigration enforcement from
county owned spaces. Lindsay Horvath, Supervisor District three, announced this
motion to establish these enforcement free zones. And since June six, Man,
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the ICE agents really came down.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I mean, they descended on our region.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
They were rating businesses, they were detaining people by the dozen,
going to the home depots, the low's and picking up
these guys who Hispanic, glad you know. And now a
lot of them were illegal, There's no question about it.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But you know, the level of this.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I think most of us are in favor of immigration
reform and some control of our border. Very few people
say our border should be open, open, arms come on down.
Very few of us say that. But the level at
which the administration is handling this, there isn't a lot
of humanity involved in this. The administration thinks all of
(16:32):
these people are criminals. And this came to a head
a couple of days ago last week actually in the
fatal shooting and Minnesota of Rene Good. And how could
you have missed the video if you watch the news
at all or pay attention to what's going on. She
(16:52):
was in a car, in a suv and was stopped
by Ice agents and she was pulling away, so the
video seems to show, and she was shot by the
ICE agent. And there's a little bit of controversy. Was
she actually going for the Ice agent, which the administration
is saying and he shot her in self defense. Was
(17:15):
she moving away from the Ice agent after one of
them tried to grab the handle of the door of
the car. We really don't know, now, you know one
of the things, and you think they were trained to do.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
If a car is rolling towards you, don't you just
move out of the way.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
The car was not moving very fast, wouldn't you just
move out of the way. I mean it was the
car glanced off this guy and was moving away as
far as folks who are on one side of the coin. Now,
the administration is saying, oh no, the car was going
straight for this agent who then turned around and shot
(17:56):
her a bunch of times through the windshield. To the uh,
it's gotten, it's it's in an uproar.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Right now.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You get to ignore law enforcement giving you a direct command.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
H I think you know what I do? Did did
the law enforcement. Did they say you got to get
out of the car? I don't know what they said, Yes,
so you've got to leave, and yeah you okay, I
I think you can't ignore. I certainly wouldn't. But at
the same time, if you're pulling away, if she was
pulling away and not aiming for the ice agent again,
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just moving out of the way, and you chase them.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I mean, I can't imagine a LAPD officer doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And I also can't imagine LAPD or sheriffs or any
other agency saying she was a domestic terrorist, she was
part of professional agitation?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Is you know what's interesting about that whole thing to
begin with, is you have Tim Waltz actually putting in
a law saying in his state that you can shoot
someone a law enforcement can shoot someone in a car
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that's coming towards them, even if they have a distance
between them and the car, and you.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Can move out of the way. Yes, okay. I find
that he's kind of insane.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Walt signed that police Reform bill which said that officers
don't need to wait until impact from a vehicle.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
They can shoot.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh yeah, no, but if there's a distance to move
out of the way, there's a huge distance there needs
to be hit.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
So they can be forty feet away. Listen to this.
They can be.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Forty feet away all the time in the world to move,
but they.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Can shoot shooting a moving vehicle if it's being used
as a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Okay, let's say that's you can how far hit them?
How far?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Fifty feet, one hundred feet, I don't know if you're
a marketable hundred feet okay.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Where As the bullet, I just love how it's a
it's a you know, it's a deadly weapon when it's
used by a guy in a U haul, and then
all of a sudden when.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
It's used towards law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's like, yeah, but you see the guy in the
U haul was aiming for he was plowing into a group.
The argument with this this woman Good, Nicole Good, is
she was pulling away from the officer that is going.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
To be the orders for her to leave the car.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's not arguing that, so I'm not arguing that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
But what I'm saying is this, assuming that she even
ignored a lawful order to get out of the car. Uh,
the circumstances beyond that, for example, high speed chases are
no longer allowed because they're just too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
There is uh So.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The siren goes on behind and the cock goes moving
over and move over.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All right, all right, Neil, we got another topic. Okay,
you and I will yell at this. Uh Now, the
Kennedy Center, as you know, is no longer the Kennedy Center.
It is Donald J. Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Donald Trump fired everybody the entire board, named himself the
chair and renamed the building. And he said it was
falling apart, and it may very well have been. I
have no idea, but you know his name is on there.
The Institute for Peace is now the Donald Trump Institute
for Peace. There's a new class of warship, which is
(21:30):
the Trump Class of Warship. The Trump Gold Card is there.
Don't forget Trump accounts, Trump r X. There's a proposed
coin coin, semi Quincentennial Coin, and that's celebrating two hundred
fifty years of America.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Why not the America. By the way, Trump his picture America.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
The beautiful National Parks Pass has Trump's picture on it.
I mean, this goes on and on, but let me
point something out, and that is there are a lot
of buildings named after presidents and items and documents.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean, look at all of our currency.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Has a picture of dead presidents on there, and we
even have a state or a city.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
There's a Washington, d c.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And there's a state of Washington named after George Washington.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
After he died. Because that seems to.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Be the way it has gone in the United States.
So there's a list here of what was named after
presidents and how long it was between the presidencies and
naming buildings. Right now, there's going to be a mad rush.
Wait till the last week of Trump's ten year as president.
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How many in addition to the pardons that are going
to go across the board like crazy. All presidents do that,
by the way, But how many buildings and items are
going to be named? Okay, so the years between presidents
and naming buildings. The Truman Building forty seven years, Carter Hall,
the Naval Academy Jimmy Carter was a member of he
(23:09):
went to Annapolis. The Eisenhower Executive Office Building thirty eight
years afterwards, the Johnson Education Building thirty eight years after
the presidency, the Bush Courthouse nineteen years afterwards, the Ford
House Office Building, thirteen years now. The quickest one, the
quickest naming of various buildings or locations was after John F.
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Kennedy when he was assassinated. The Kennedy Federal Building less
than a year, Kennedy Space Center less than a year.
Cape Kennedy, which has gone back to Cape Canaveral and
the Kennedy Space Center there. And the reason they went
back to Cape Canaveral because it's been known as Cape
Pernavial for four hundred years and they thought, Okay, we'll keep.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
The old name. Why not?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Now, how many presidents have things named after him after
them during their tenure zero?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And so what we should do is have.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
A football pool, right, we should put money into the pool,
all of us here, and then we guess what is
going to be named next after the president. Look what's
happening in the White House, the West wing, the East
wing destroyed, rebuilt, and the residence in the east wing.
(24:30):
Can you imagine what the residence is for him and Milania?
You ever seen pictures of Trump Tower and his two floors?
A little baroke, don't you think?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
How about the Oval Office right now?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
A little bit baroke? Don't you think? Guild Gold gilt,
gold gilt, everything. I mean this, you know, why not?
You know, all things named for Trump? And this is
just the start. We're gonna see a lot of Trump
stuff going on, and believe me. And then the question
is will the next president, especially a Democratic president, remove
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the name. I doubt it's gonna stay Donald D. A.
Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I don't think
it's gonna stay that way. I don't know, I don't know.
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KFI AM six forty Bill Handle Here it is a
Wednesday morning, January fourteenth. Some of the stories we are
looking at in the world of Donald Trump and the administration.
A hearing expected today in a lawsuit filed by Minnesota
and the Twin Cities challenging the administration's immigration enforcement operation,
(00:31):
saying it's a federal invasion bill.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And Hillary Clinton refused to testify on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And this is the House Oversights Committee in the Jeffrey
Epstein probe, and Bill Clinton said, you're dreaming.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And so they're talking.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Mike Johnson is talking about a contempt of Congress where
they're going to throw Bill Clinton in jail. Give me
a break. And then I love this one. There's a
new bill introduced giving California has more power to challenge
federal officers in state court. Senate Bill seven forty seven,
titled the No Kings Act. Have you noticed the names
(01:05):
of bills that are introduced have changed a little bit?
The big beautiful bill, the No Kings Act. Today, I
think Democrats are introducing the No Dicks Act Act.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's just we've reached another level, haven't we.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, there is a clash going on between the City
of Los Angeles and the State of California, and it
has to do with zone zero wildfire regulations.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What is zone zero.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's an area that's five feet around the house in
terms of vegetation, in terms of combustible wooden products, you know,
teak chairs, that sort of thing. And LA is moving
towards a more lenient approach, which is kind of surprising.
(02:01):
And this is in light of studies that are done
that homes that were of cleared vegetation were more likely
to survive wildfires. Now, once the state passes its law,
of course the city those laws disappear.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But the state isn't doing much.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You know, it had a self imposed deadline of January first,
twenty twenty three to create new laws. Well here we
go three years later, not nothing yet. So marathon discussions
go on about these rules. What do residents do in
(02:41):
these hazard zones? What do they have to do from
the first five feet zone zero to make them ember resistant.
The city council says, We're going to do our own virsion.
That's going to be a far more lenient. If you ever,
listen to Dean Sharp, and Dean talks about fire resistant homes,
to make your house a little bit more fire resistant,
And I paid attention to that. And that is the
(03:04):
louvers where you know, up in your in the attic,
you know, where you keep paintings and some of your
more priceless objects. No, I'm sorry, that's that's the loof.
I got it, but spelled the same way I might add.
And so those stop the embers from flying in, and
(03:26):
embers half these hot embers actually cause a huge percentage
of fires. Now, if you're talking about fire that goes
right up to the house, even radiant heat, the house
is going to explode in flames. Now, Critics of Zone zero,
this five foot zone, are worried about the financial burden,
(03:49):
the labor required to comply the impact to urban ecosystems.
And while fire safety advoc could say, come on, guys,
give me a break. If you're gonna prevent homes from
exploding in flames or basically catching on fire, you gotta
do everything you can. And a big one is the
(04:11):
vegetation around the home. And you my, the Persian palace
had eucalyptus, still does eucalyptus trees right next to the house.
Eucalyptus trees when a fire comes down the pike, are
basically tiki torches. It is incredible how quickly and how
(04:34):
powerfully they explode into flames.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So here I am in my new house.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's all cacti, cactuses, cactusennas, and I don't have much
that's around my house. And of course I did do
the loovers around the house, so I'm trying as hard
as I can. There is there was a an overhang
that was made out of wood. I replaced it, so
(05:00):
I actually pay attention. Of course, my house is going
to explode when the next fire comes. And so this
zone zero, now here's what LA is doing. First of all,
San Diego and Berkeley they have regulations that match the
strictest options that the State Board of Forestry is considering.
(05:22):
LA not so much so. The zone zero regulations at
this point apply only to rural areas where the Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection response to fires, and urban
areas city areas that have a very high fire hazard.
This according to cal Fire, and that includes Silver Lake,
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Echo Park, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, No surprise there. So the
requirement that we are looking at the state and that
is there'll be no wooden or combustible fences out built
things within the first five feet of a home at all,
and also required removing dead vegetation, twigs, leaves from the
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ground around the house, roof gutters, and roofs themselves. You know,
it used to be that we had here. They were
shake roofs, wooden roofs.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Man, did they burn up?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Nothing like having a wooden roof When a fire comes down.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You want to start with the kindling on yah house. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And you know what they did.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They passed a law about forty years ago saying that
all wood shingles have to be replaced either by tile,
asphalt concrete roofs. You know they have concrete that looks
like tiles. That's what I have at home. And it
took a long time because you can't force people to
replace their roofs. Roof flash roof. Yeah, a roof last
(06:52):
about thirty years, so when you replace, you have to
do it. Do you have a wooden roof at home? No,
but I did growing up. We have a composite I know, Yeah,
of course you do. That's the law, you have to
do it now. But that's just one of the regulations.
So the zone zero and here's the last stat I'm
going to give you. A recent study looked at the
(07:14):
five major wildfires in California in the last decade, not
including the Eaton Palisades fire. Twenty percent of the homes
with significant significant vegetation in zone zero survive only twenty percent.
The ones that complied with zone zero regulations were about
(07:35):
twice as much in terms of survivability.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That tells you something. Zone zero.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It's like patient zero, right, you walk into a zone
zero and you get HIV. That's not true at all
all right Now, cardboard, actually I think does get recycled.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Plastic does not. It is a myth, It is a dream.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
New report just came out by the state's waste agency
shows that plastic yogurt containers, shampoo bottles, restaurant takeout trays
being recycled in the single digits. How about polyprolene polypropylene
gets recycled. Now, the good news is colored shampoo bottles
(08:32):
and detergent bottles, they're all the way up to five percent.
Plastic bags, they just don't. It's a waste of time.
They should just say, just put cardboard in there and
then give you little small plastic trash cans because the
rest of it is just a waste of time. And
(08:54):
we're you know, the problem is is that our society,
the amount of garbage that we generate, I mean, Neil
and I have talked about to the food that we
throw away could feed half the world. But in terms
of the plastic recyclables. So let me give you a
little bit of history. And I've done this before. It's
my lunch box story that I have not done in years.
(09:16):
And this was before goes back aways. When I was
in grade school, This was before plastic bags were even around.
Zip block didn't exist, None of those bags even happened.
And so when I went to school, and my dad
is the one who packed my lunch, well, the other
(09:37):
kids had sandwiches with a crust cut out white bread
and covered in wax paper, not plastic. And my dad,
we were just recent immigrants from Brazil and easy Eastern European,
so my father had a whole different view of life.
And he was a union electrician, so he would take
(09:57):
his lunch in the workmen's lunch you know, the ones
were made of metal and they have that arch that
curve part of the top and you would put a
thermos bottle in there on the top.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And that's what I used to take to school.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Everybody else had Batman, Superman, Davy Crockett lunch boxes. I
had the workman's lunchbox. So the kids had, you know,
they were there sandwiches and they do used to exchange sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let me tell you what my dad did for me.
This is the lunch back box story. Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
My dad would pack my lunch with The sandwich was
two pieces of rye bread with one piece of bologney
between the two, because boloney was the cheapest meat you
could get, and it was summer May June hotter than hell.
I would open up my lunch box and there was
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the bologney that had stuck to the side of the
punch box and I peeled it off, put it between
the two pieces of dry rye bread and then I
would eat it. And no one, I mean no one
would exchange sandwiches with me. Let me tell you, sixty
(11:19):
years later, I'm still in therapy over just that issue.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Bullies would give you their milk money.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, it was, Yeah, it was very very rough.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But the point I'm making it was sandwiches were wrapped
in wax paper, which I don't think can be recycled today,
can it? But knowing who the hell uses wax paper?
And Neil, you the wax paper is used in cooking,
isn't it for? And you're doing something these.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Wax paper and many different things, candy making, all kinds
of stuff. Okay, I will tell you My belief is
until we have home units to recycle certain things for
daily use, it won't be recycled.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And I use a lot.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Of different plastics and three D printing and manufacturing at
my home shop, and you have to learn to recycle
them yourselves because no one else is going to do it.
There's just no money in it, so you have to
do it yourself to save money is the best way
to do it. Well, I think we'll have little recycling
centers at our own home.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
We're a long way away. You know the Pacific garbage
dump if you will. It's a size of Texas and
it floats out there in the Pacific and it's all
garbage and it swirls around. And if you look at
landfill's plastic does not decompose and now the supermarkets now
if first of all, no plastic bags anymore in California.
(12:47):
It's all paper bags which can be recycled. And have
you gone shopping for produce with those bags? They now
have a composable or compostable bags that are so flimsy,
are so disgusting. The other day, I went and bought
some oranges. As I dropped the oranges into the bag,
(13:12):
the orange, the bag basically became a funnel and so
in goes the orange, Out goes the orange at the
bottom of the bag. And I'm going, great, that's what
I want. You know, that's just terrific. All right, We're done. Hey,
we're all putting together. The Morning Crew put together a
GoFundMe page for Kno's car exploded, the engine exploding. He
(13:36):
drives seventy two miles each way to get to the
station and his car went completely put and so we
put together this go fund campaign to help him buy
a car. And so it's well, I know he works
here at iHeart. What does that mean a huge amount
of money? Right, and he has to get a new
(13:57):
car and we're helping him. This is just us on
the Morning Crew. It is not KFI. It is not iHeart.
We're doing it ourselves, and so the only way to
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dot com slash KNO and.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
We can help hopefully.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, Cono, get a car, Gonna buy a good piece
of it. Okay, Uh, yeah, Cono, you can suck up.
You sick a fantic son of a guy.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And oh Bill, thank you, thank you so much, exactly
what I know, thank you, Yes, yes, okay. Ice free zones.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Now, there is a little bit of issue in Chicago, Portland,
LA with ice agents.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
As you know.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Uh, they're pretty aggressive about hiring people, about picking up people,
and uh they're hiring tons more that government is. And uh,
the bottom line is a lot of people are being
arrested and harassed and a lot of people are frightened.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Christin Ohm, who is our head of homeland security, keeps
on saying that all those arrests are only the worst
of the worst.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, look at the video, give me a break. The
worst of the worst.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So what's happening is you have cities and in this case,
La County voted unanimously yesterday to bar immigration enforcement from
county owned spaces. Lindsay Horvath, Supervisor District three, announced this
motion to establish these enforcement free zones. And since June six, Man,
(15:42):
the ICE agents really came down.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I mean, they descended on our region.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
They were rating businesses, they were detaining people by the dozen,
going to the home depots, the low's and picking up
these guys who Hispanic, glad you know. And now a
lot of them were illegal, There's no question about it.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But you know, the level of this.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I think most of us are in favor of immigration
reform and some control of our border. Very few people
say our border should be open, open, arms come on down.
Very few of us say that. But the level at
which the administration is handling this, there isn't a lot
of humanity involved in this. The administration thinks all of
(16:32):
these people are criminals. And this came to a head
a couple of days ago last week actually in the
fatal shooting and Minnesota of Rene Good. And how could
you have missed the video if you watch the news
at all or pay attention to what's going on. She
(16:52):
was in a car, in a suv and was stopped
by Ice agents and she was pulling away, so the
video seems to show, and she was shot by the
ICE agent. And there's a little bit of controversy. Was
she actually going for the Ice agent, which the administration
is saying and he shot her in self defense. Was
(17:15):
she moving away from the Ice agent after one of
them tried to grab the handle of the door of
the car. We really don't know, now, you know one
of the things, and you think they were trained to do.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
If a car is rolling towards you, don't you just
move out of the way.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
The car was not moving very fast, wouldn't you just
move out of the way. I mean it was the
car glanced off this guy and was moving away as
far as folks who are on one side of the coin. Now,
the administration is saying, oh no, the car was going
straight for this agent who then turned around and shot
(17:56):
her a bunch of times through the windshield. To the uh,
it's gotten, it's it's in an uproar.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Right now.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You get to ignore law enforcement giving you a direct command.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
H I think you know what I do? Did did
the law enforcement. Did they say you got to get
out of the car? I don't know what they said, Yes,
so you've got to leave, and yeah you okay, I
I think you can't ignore. I certainly wouldn't. But at
the same time, if you're pulling away, if she was
pulling away and not aiming for the ice agent again,
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just moving out of the way, and you chase them.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I mean, I can't imagine a LAPD officer doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And I also can't imagine LAPD or sheriffs or any
other agency saying she was a domestic terrorist, she was
part of professional agitation?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Is you know what's interesting about that whole thing to
begin with, is you have Tim Waltz actually putting in
a law saying in his state that you can shoot
someone a law enforcement can shoot someone in a car
(19:10):
that's coming towards them, even if they have a distance
between them and the car, and you.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Can move out of the way. Yes, okay. I find
that he's kind of insane.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Walt signed that police Reform bill which said that officers
don't need to wait until impact from a vehicle.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
They can shoot.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh yeah, no, but if there's a distance to move
out of the way, there's a huge distance there needs
to be hit.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
So they can be forty feet away. Listen to this.
They can be.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Forty feet away all the time in the world to move,
but they.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Can shoot shooting a moving vehicle if it's being used
as a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Okay, let's say that's you can how far hit them?
How far?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Fifty feet, one hundred feet, I don't know if you're
a marketable hundred feet okay.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Where As the bullet, I just love how it's a
it's a you know, it's a deadly weapon when it's
used by a guy in a U haul, and then
all of a sudden when.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
It's used towards law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's like, yeah, but you see the guy in the
U haul was aiming for he was plowing into a group.
The argument with this this woman Good, Nicole Good, is
she was pulling away from the officer that is going.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
To be the orders for her to leave the car.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's not arguing that, so I'm not arguing that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
But what I'm saying is this, assuming that she even
ignored a lawful order to get out of the car. Uh,
the circumstances beyond that, for example, high speed chases are
no longer allowed because they're just too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
There is uh So.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The siren goes on behind and the cock goes moving
over and move over.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All right, all right, Neil, we got another topic. Okay,
you and I will yell at this. Uh Now, the
Kennedy Center, as you know, is no longer the Kennedy Center.
It is Donald J. Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Donald Trump fired everybody the entire board, named himself the
chair and renamed the building. And he said it was
falling apart, and it may very well have been. I
have no idea, but you know his name is on there.
The Institute for Peace is now the Donald Trump Institute
for Peace. There's a new class of warship, which is
(21:30):
the Trump Class of Warship. The Trump Gold Card is there.
Don't forget Trump accounts, Trump r X. There's a proposed
coin coin, semi Quincentennial Coin, and that's celebrating two hundred
fifty years of America.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Why not the America. By the way, Trump his picture America.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
The beautiful National Parks Pass has Trump's picture on it.
I mean, this goes on and on, but let me
point something out, and that is there are a lot
of buildings named after presidents and items and documents.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean, look at all of our currency.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Has a picture of dead presidents on there, and we
even have a state or a city.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
There's a Washington, d c.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And there's a state of Washington named after George Washington.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
After he died. Because that seems to.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Be the way it has gone in the United States.
So there's a list here of what was named after
presidents and how long it was between the presidencies and
naming buildings. Right now, there's going to be a mad rush.
Wait till the last week of Trump's ten year as president.
(22:48):
How many in addition to the pardons that are going
to go across the board like crazy. All presidents do that,
by the way, But how many buildings and items are
going to be named? Okay, so the years between presidents
and naming buildings. The Truman Building forty seven years, Carter Hall,
the Naval Academy Jimmy Carter was a member of he
(23:09):
went to Annapolis. The Eisenhower Executive Office Building thirty eight
years afterwards, the Johnson Education Building thirty eight years after
the presidency, the Bush Courthouse nineteen years afterwards, the Ford
House Office Building, thirteen years now. The quickest one, the
quickest naming of various buildings or locations was after John F.
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Kennedy when he was assassinated. The Kennedy Federal Building less
than a year, Kennedy Space Center less than a year.
Cape Kennedy, which has gone back to Cape Canaveral and
the Kennedy Space Center there. And the reason they went
back to Cape Canaveral because it's been known as Cape
Pernavial for four hundred years and they thought, Okay, we'll keep.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
The old name. Why not?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Now, how many presidents have things named after him after
them during their tenure zero?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And so what we should do is have.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
A football pool, right, we should put money into the pool,
all of us here, and then we guess what is
going to be named next after the president. Look what's
happening in the White House, the West wing, the East
wing destroyed, rebuilt, and the residence in the east wing.
(24:30):
Can you imagine what the residence is for him and Milania?
You ever seen pictures of Trump Tower and his two floors?
A little baroke, don't you think?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
How about the Oval Office right now?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
A little bit baroke? Don't you think? Guild Gold gilt,
gold gilt, everything. I mean this, you know, why not?
You know, all things named for Trump? And this is
just the start. We're gonna see a lot of Trump
stuff going on, and believe me. And then the question
is will the next president, especially a Democratic president, remove
(25:07):
the name. I doubt it's gonna stay Donald D. A.
Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I don't think
it's gonna stay that way. I don't know, I don't know.
This is KFI AM six point.
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