August 12, 2025 • 26 mins
(Tuesday Aug 12,2025)
Will the Trump administration’s war on DEI make it harder for LAPD to recruit African Americans. California’s next ‘big one’ might not be what we expect, researchers say. How much do ADUs ease the housing shortage? Armies tormented by drones innovate ways to spot, jam, and zap on the cheap.
Will the Trump administration’s war on DEI make it harder for LAPD to recruit African Americans. California’s next ‘big one’ might not be what we expect, researchers say. How much do ADUs ease the housing shortage? Armies tormented by drones innovate ways to spot, jam, and zap on the cheap.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty wet.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It five dam six forty Bill Handle on a Taco Tuesday,
August twelfth. As we continue on with the show on
this August twelfth Taco Tuesday, Damn, I'm good, aren't I?
Just in case you didn't get its first time around. Now,
a big issue with the LAPD not enough Black recruits,
(00:29):
not even close. And what makes it even harder is
the DEI program, or the lack of the DEI program
Diversity and Inclusion program, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. And as
you know, the fight with not only business, particularly the
(00:49):
university's going completely crazy with the president. So convincing young
black people to become cops has been tough enough in
the past.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now, man, it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
The last two training Academy classes have not included one
black graduate. Generous pay pensions, I mean, it's a good
buck to be a cop. Police agencies across the country
have struggled to get cops, particularly black ones, since the pandemic,
and finding enough new officers regardless of race is getting
(01:25):
very difficult. One of the big reasons, and I've talked
to cops, is to be a cop.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I mean, the pay is good, dangerous as hell.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
We've just had a few police officers who were killed
in the last week when responding to active shooter situations
or ambushed. So it's dangerous enough anyway. But the politics
of being a cop. One cop told me, here are
the choices. You go to a situation, for example, maybe
a domestic fight, domestic conflict situation, and let's say there
(02:02):
is a threat, so you shoot, usually it's the guy.
You shoot the guy and you get sued by his
family or him, or you don't shoot him and you die.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Those are your choices. Boy, has that changed? Huh?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
At LAPD the number of black recruits, especially women black
women officers man, that has been dropping four years, even
with DEI programs that are in place, and of course
now they're going away very quickly now. The new chief
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald, shut down the DEI program during
(02:43):
an administrative shuffle this year, and then you have massive
cuts to federal agencies university programs, and all of a sudden,
the police departments are saying, when are.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
We going to be hit?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Because the police get a lot of federal money, particularly
for equipment for training programs, Captain Shannon Enox White, who
represents the LAPD seven hundred or show black officers, said,
when we swore an oath to protect the constitution and
(03:19):
the organization's very mission statement, and it elevates DEI, I
don't see how we can step.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Away from that.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's part of policing and black department officials are expressing
super frustration.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Also, many of the department's older black officers are nearing retirement.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
They don't want to deal with this, and they're not
being replaced.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The LAPD is grappled with a bunch of issues when
it comes to finding and retaining any cops of the future.
And here's the good and bad news about the LAPD.
They're not getting enough police officers, it's that simple. At
the same time, they are not lowering their standards. It
is hard to become a cop. It takes typically two
(04:12):
hundred and fifty days or so to complete, after the
background check, after the polygraph screening, after a series of
tests each applicant is required to undergo, and lastly the
psychological screening, which a lot of potential cops are bounced
from becoming police officers. They don't want shoot them up cops.
(04:37):
They're not interested in heroes. What they want are cops
that are calm, that are not going to panic, that
are going to de escalate. That's what they need and
as a last resort, use violence as a police officer.
(04:57):
So right now they're saying no, not only is it
difficult to get officers potential officers, and particularly black officers
and particularly black women officers, but there's lack of support
for black people in uniform.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
There is.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
What they're arguing is within the police department and women. Heretofore,
when women first joined the police department, and I remember
this with big numbers, I mean it used to be
an outlier when occasionally you'd see one, but when matter
of fact, I think the first black woman captain has
recently been named. And so women had a problem with
(05:39):
anti women sentiment in the police force once they joined,
but black women had it even worse because you have,
for the most part, or you used to have cops
coming from other police departments or coming from the military,
and it's that's very old school, and there's still police
(06:00):
officers out there. This new group of police officers, it's
a very very different world. And you I tell you
you want to cop, what did the cops start with?
Amy or an LAPD doesn't? Police officers start at about sixty
thousand dollars a year right out of the academy, or
(06:22):
fifty thousand dollars a year, and then you've got plenty
of cops that are making six figures or more, and
the pensions are pretty good after twenty years, so it's
not a bad gig.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
They start at ninety one thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
They start at ninety one thousand dollars, and that's right
out of the academy.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Will in the academy. In the academy, they start at
ninety one thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's just like here at KFI, we're right out of
college and you have your degree in broadcast journalism.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You start at about ninety thousand dollars here, don't you.
I think it's nine point one thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Ah Okay, I got the figures wrong, fair enough, all right.
The study just came out and it had to do
with the massive earthquake on March twenty eighth that ruptured
in me and Bar.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It's over there in Asia someplace.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And it has a fault there that looks almost the
same as our San Andrea's fault, and we're looking at
the big one coming. When the San Andrea's fault you
can actually see the bulge, you can actually see where
the teutonic plates meet. I mean, it is crazy, and
(07:47):
there is where earthquakes are going to happen big time.
And so what would it look like a San Andreas
fault earthquake? Would it be a repaid a repeat of
eighteen fifty seven and that went from Monterey County all
the way through La County seven point seven to seven
point nine. They don't know exactly it was eighteen fifty seven.
(08:10):
How about the nineteen oh six San Francisco quake which
began offshore and actually ruptured in two directions. And the
bottom line is, even though the faults are nearly identical,
don't bet on an identical sequel. It just may not
(08:30):
be the same. And what happened the Me and Mar
earthquake ended up rupturing a much longer section of the
fault than scientists even expected. And how does that bode
for us? Well, the bottom line is, frankly, we don't know.
The seismologists don't know how deep, how far. Even though
(08:54):
they study the quake they know where it runs. They
know how deep it is is, they know how the
earth connects, but they don't know how long the rupture is.
And the co author of the study said, it came
as a surprise that you could get such a long rupture,
and that's what happened with the Me and Mar quake. Now,
(09:18):
the Me and Mar quake wasch just happened. Killed thirty
eight hundred people. That was in Me and Mar, sixty
three people in Thailand. High Rise buildings were damage even
as far away in Vietnam as Ho Chi Minh City.
Homes were damage in the Uli area of China, and
damage was estimated because it's all rural in most parts
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of it. Damage was estimated at one nine hundred dollars
because it's very cheap to live there, actually one point
nine billion dollars. The most powerful quake and Me and
Mar in the last seventy nine years.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
The scary part is we're due overdue. Now.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
We have some of the most earthquake resistant building codes
in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Actually, but when it comes.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
To a big quake, we're not going to see thousands
thousands of people die because our building codes are simply
too good. We're going to see massive damage that we're
going to see, but you're not going to see much
loss of life because of that. I mean, when I
built the Persian Palace, I could not believe what the
(10:30):
code was. I would the foundations alone. I thought I
was building a new runway at Lax, I mean massive foundation,
and everything tied together, and everything bolted together. So the
magnitude seven point seven earthquake, well it's called the Sedang Fault,
(10:54):
ran three hundred and seventeen miles long, which is very long.
Signs didn't expect it. For example, the nineteen o six
earthquake San Francisco that ruptured along two hundred and ninety
six miles of the San Andreas Fault. Now the MEMR
fault three hundred and seventeen miles California, the nineteen oh
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six two hundred and ninety six, which is not substantially less,
but less. The eighteen fifty seven earthquake even less at
two hundred and twenty five miles.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So what the scientists are.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Trying to do is develop a model simulating earthquakes over
the millennia on the San Andreas fault, and they're saying
that the San Andreas Fault is far more complex.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Than any of the others.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And maybe the San Andreas fault will rupture in smaller,
separate earthquakes we don't know, or it could be a
much larger earthquake we don't know, not only rupturing from
long the fault from montere to Los Angela's counties and
our bulges out in Palmdale, but also maybe into San
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Bernardino Riverside Imperial Counties.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Now we're looking at a magnitude eight or more.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The nineteen ninety four earthquake, that one was relatively constrained.
It affected only a portion of La County, the San
Frano Valley particularly, and that was a six point seven earthquake,
and it did some pretty serious damage, and it looked
(12:36):
like we were on.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The verge of the next big one.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So I mean, that's you know, there's no place, no
place in the United States you can live that doesn't
have some kind of natural disaster waiting. Hurricanes in the
southeast portion Florida coast line and up North Carolina and Georgia.
You've got flooding along the Mississippi. Now you have flooding
(13:03):
all over the country, wildfires, particularly in northern California and Colorado.
In that area part of the country. And then of
course where we are earthquakes. The only thing that's good
about earthquakes is they come and go very quickly. They're
just sort of done. You look around and go, okay,
(13:24):
I'm alive. When it comes to flooding, that's a little
bit different. When it comes to hurricanes, that's a little
bit different. South Dakota. How dangerous is South Dakota? I mean,
lots of snow, you run out of food, you can
always hunt moose. All right, we're dud. We have a
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huge housing shortage, particularly here in California, and there's a
bunch of reasons for it, and we've gone through that before,
but let's just bottom line it for a moment, a
huge housing shortage. Zoning, the cost of building, the permitting,
price policies, they just almost impossible to build. Well, one
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of the things that California did to keep up with
the housing demand is they passed the ADU law. We
passed it allowing a separate structure on our property. I
was going to do one, and I'll explain why I
didn't in a moment. I was going to build the
Pergean Palace. So what people can do if they have
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room in their backyard is to build an ADU called
a step mother facility or step mother unit, and it
allows the homeowner to rent it. And that's the big
deal is renting it and increasing the supply of housing.
That was the point. So accessory dwelling a du step
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mother housing.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Sh and it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Is booming in some parts of California because some homewner
owner homeowners take advantage to build that second housing union
in their bake backyard. Now they can cost a ton
of money, but residents see them as investments that not
only can they get rent from them, but increase property value,
especially for people that are buying property to rent. So
(15:32):
here is the problem is most of the people that
are building ADUs are not building them to rent. They're
building them to simply have more house. They use them
as an office, they use them as a second bedroom.
When you have people come over and you don't want
(15:54):
them to stay at your house, you don't have the room,
you put them back in that adu I had, I
was going to build one the Persian Palace.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I had the room.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And the reason I was going to build one because
when I got into it and my wife kicked me out,
of the house and said you're gone for a couple
of days because I acted out. I'm very much of
a toddler at home, and it used to be that
I would stand in the corner for a few hours
and then with the ADU, it's go to the.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Unit back there.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And people just want the extra room, offices, playrooms, just
an extra an extra room back there. Guests come over
instead of bothering you in the house, you can put
them up in the adu. They have their own little kitchen.
They have to have a kitchen, although it can be
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very small. They have to have a bathroom, and they
can be a small studio, which most of them are.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Some are one in two bedrooms.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Neil, I know you have your garage that you have
that you use for your workshop. If you were to
build an a du would you even dream of renting
it out.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, we've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
As a matter of fact, my shop will most likely
be expanded and turned into a granny flat at some time.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The answer to that was supposed to be no. I
just want to let you know there we've talked about it,
because you know, family and.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Stuff like that, but we we've talked about renting it out. Yeah,
putting all that in there, but it would take a
lot of renovation. It's enclosed, but it's not it's made
to be my shop. It's not me.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Understood, you'd have to basically tear it down and build
a new structure there.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But have ADUs really helped? No? Not really? And why
have they not helped? Because, as I said, the.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Majority of adu are not being rented out. The majority
of ADUs that are rented out are actually lower income
and middle income homeowners that are barring the money to
build a DUS.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
A huge number are people.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Who are wealthy and just want the extra room and
have the room to build the extra room.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's the other thing there. You have to have the room.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And I don't know what the permitting process is, how
close to your house you can do it. And as
I said, I was going to build one just to have,
just to have one, and I didn't want to spend
the money, and I had no intention of renting it out.
It was only going to be effectively a second bedroom,
a guesthouse. And then I realized there was nobody in
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my life that I wanted to come over and visit
us and stay there, and there was no one in
my life that wanted to come over to stay there.
So it was going to be my man cave is effectively,
effectively what it was going to be. I was going
to be there, to be left alone, to pick my nose,
(19:08):
to do all the things that guys do, belch and
just have a rip roaring good time. And I didn't
do it. Why No, because my kids left. They left
the house finally, at the age of thirty eight, they
decided to go off on their own. And so why now,
(19:30):
so I've downsized? Do I have room for an adu?
I do, but I have to it would ruin the backyard.
And I happen to be married someone who would say,
there is no chance that you're going to build an adu.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
One of the things about Wars is the use of drones.
That's the new technology that these suicide drones being launched
by Russia, for example, against Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian buildings, civilian buildings,
as well as military targets and drones are well, let
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me give you an example of how much a drone
actually costs.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You go to Amazon.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
They're ninety nine ninety nine except during prime days, wherein
they're eighty nine, ninety day, ninety nine. And they're filled
with explosives, and they fly, and they cost virtually nothing,
and they can be unleashed by the hundreds. So how
do you defend One of the things about new technology
(20:35):
offensively is there's a race for new technology technology defensively.
So right now the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East,
across Africa rewriting the rules of combat. These small, expendable,
fairly cheap, deadly drones are becoming more and more prevalent,
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and there's a race on to thwart these new killers,
and tacticians are grappling how do you defend against massive
attacks hundreds of drones without spending a fortune. Now, technology
to shoot them down is done. It can be well
relatively easy to be done. There's enough software, there's enough technology,
(21:22):
there are enough programs out there startups. The point is
how expensive is it to shoot down a drone that
costs very little money? Hundreds of drones that cost a
moderate amount of money without spending a fortune. That is
(21:42):
what's going on with the new technology, and there is Well,
there was an exercise called fly Trap, and this was
the US and British troops using new device is some
developed by the Army, by the service, some from private companies,
(22:05):
to track, to jam, to shoot down drones. Army Lieutenant
Colonel Jeremy maderis a leader of the exercise, says it's
very much a cat and mouse game. So one of
the devices is the Terrestrial Laser or excuse me, the
Terrestrial Layer System. Brigade Combat Team man pack or also
(22:31):
known as TILTSA victum. I don't know what are you
gonna do with That's what's the acronym for that. And
it's a backpack and it has an antenna looks like
cactus coming out of a backpack connected to a wire
to a screen about the size of a smartphone. And
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this is for foot soldiers on the move, and it
scans for nearby drones and it jams the signal in
smaller version resembles two walkie talkies big ones and using
radio signals. And this technology was developed during World War Two,
which mostly focused on using radar to pinpoint large fast objects.
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They're using that and then shooting down the drums or
jamming the drums.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And normally when a drone and they move.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Don't move too fast, what do the soldiers do? They
pick up their weapons and start shooting at this thing.
It's low flying, it's fairly slow. You can't shoot those,
it's almost impossible to hit one. So what this technology does,
it's almost like the AEGA system AGIAS system on battleships,
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and you've seen those those huge gatling guns that basically
put up a wall of lead. And what these systems
do is the soldier aims at to the general area
where the phones are coming in and it calculates where
the drone is coming from, where it's going to be.
It's like the Patriot missile system and then sends up
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the bullets to shoot it down.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And again the whole.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Issue is the technology is there in Israeli company what
a shaker, Israeli military company has developed one of these systems.
And the whole point is to make the shooting of
these drones down less expensive than launching the drones. That's
(24:37):
the secret here and the reason I bring this up
is you're going to see, and it's happening right now
in anticipation of Friday's meeting between Putin and the President.
Is the amount, the number of drones that are being
launched from Russia are astronomical, going on right now. And
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drones are not only the president, they are the future.
And the technology to stop the drones are the present.
They are the future. That's this technology is the future.
So onwards and upwards to the next technology. Death rays,
that's what's going to happen, deathrays, sound waves. Sure, why
(25:26):
not playing heavy metal so it wipes out the forces
coming at you.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That's what happened in Panaa, Panama.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
When we got rid of Noriega and he will hold
up in the hold up in the presidential palace. And
so they played heavy metal with static for days and
days at a time, and they he had to finally surrender.
I mean they he couldn't take it anymore. Actually they
caught him. But that's besides the point. Okay, KFI am sixty.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It five dam six forty Bill Handle on a Taco Tuesday,
August twelfth. As we continue on with the show on
this August twelfth Taco Tuesday, Damn, I'm good, aren't I?
Just in case you didn't get its first time around. Now,
a big issue with the LAPD not enough Black recruits,
(00:29):
not even close. And what makes it even harder is
the DEI program, or the lack of the DEI program
Diversity and Inclusion program, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. And as
you know, the fight with not only business, particularly the
(00:49):
university's going completely crazy with the president. So convincing young
black people to become cops has been tough enough in
the past.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now, man, it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
The last two training Academy classes have not included one
black graduate. Generous pay pensions, I mean, it's a good
buck to be a cop. Police agencies across the country
have struggled to get cops, particularly black ones, since the pandemic,
and finding enough new officers regardless of race is getting
(01:25):
very difficult. One of the big reasons, and I've talked
to cops, is to be a cop.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I mean, the pay is good, dangerous as hell.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
We've just had a few police officers who were killed
in the last week when responding to active shooter situations
or ambushed. So it's dangerous enough anyway. But the politics
of being a cop. One cop told me, here are
the choices. You go to a situation, for example, maybe
a domestic fight, domestic conflict situation, and let's say there
(02:02):
is a threat, so you shoot, usually it's the guy.
You shoot the guy and you get sued by his
family or him, or you don't shoot him and you die.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Those are your choices. Boy, has that changed? Huh?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
At LAPD the number of black recruits, especially women black
women officers man, that has been dropping four years, even
with DEI programs that are in place, and of course
now they're going away very quickly now. The new chief
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald, shut down the DEI program during
(02:43):
an administrative shuffle this year, and then you have massive
cuts to federal agencies university programs, and all of a sudden,
the police departments are saying, when are.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
We going to be hit?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Because the police get a lot of federal money, particularly
for equipment for training programs, Captain Shannon Enox White, who
represents the LAPD seven hundred or show black officers, said,
when we swore an oath to protect the constitution and
(03:19):
the organization's very mission statement, and it elevates DEI, I
don't see how we can step.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Away from that.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's part of policing and black department officials are expressing
super frustration.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Also, many of the department's older black officers are nearing retirement.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
They don't want to deal with this, and they're not
being replaced.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The LAPD is grappled with a bunch of issues when
it comes to finding and retaining any cops of the future.
And here's the good and bad news about the LAPD.
They're not getting enough police officers, it's that simple. At
the same time, they are not lowering their standards. It
is hard to become a cop. It takes typically two
(04:12):
hundred and fifty days or so to complete, after the
background check, after the polygraph screening, after a series of
tests each applicant is required to undergo, and lastly the
psychological screening, which a lot of potential cops are bounced
from becoming police officers. They don't want shoot them up cops.
(04:37):
They're not interested in heroes. What they want are cops
that are calm, that are not going to panic, that
are going to de escalate. That's what they need and
as a last resort, use violence as a police officer.
(04:57):
So right now they're saying no, not only is it
difficult to get officers potential officers, and particularly black officers
and particularly black women officers, but there's lack of support
for black people in uniform.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
There is.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
What they're arguing is within the police department and women. Heretofore,
when women first joined the police department, and I remember
this with big numbers, I mean it used to be
an outlier when occasionally you'd see one, but when matter
of fact, I think the first black woman captain has
recently been named. And so women had a problem with
(05:39):
anti women sentiment in the police force once they joined,
but black women had it even worse because you have,
for the most part, or you used to have cops
coming from other police departments or coming from the military,
and it's that's very old school, and there's still police
(06:00):
officers out there. This new group of police officers, it's
a very very different world. And you I tell you
you want to cop, what did the cops start with?
Amy or an LAPD doesn't? Police officers start at about sixty
thousand dollars a year right out of the academy, or
(06:22):
fifty thousand dollars a year, and then you've got plenty
of cops that are making six figures or more, and
the pensions are pretty good after twenty years, so it's
not a bad gig.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
They start at ninety one thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
They start at ninety one thousand dollars, and that's right
out of the academy.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Will in the academy. In the academy, they start at
ninety one thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's just like here at KFI, we're right out of
college and you have your degree in broadcast journalism.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You start at about ninety thousand dollars here, don't you.
I think it's nine point one thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Ah Okay, I got the figures wrong, fair enough, all right.
The study just came out and it had to do
with the massive earthquake on March twenty eighth that ruptured
in me and Bar.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It's over there in Asia someplace.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And it has a fault there that looks almost the
same as our San Andrea's fault, and we're looking at
the big one coming. When the San Andrea's fault you
can actually see the bulge, you can actually see where
the teutonic plates meet. I mean, it is crazy, and
(07:47):
there is where earthquakes are going to happen big time.
And so what would it look like a San Andreas
fault earthquake? Would it be a repaid a repeat of
eighteen fifty seven and that went from Monterey County all
the way through La County seven point seven to seven
point nine. They don't know exactly it was eighteen fifty seven.
(08:10):
How about the nineteen oh six San Francisco quake which
began offshore and actually ruptured in two directions. And the
bottom line is, even though the faults are nearly identical,
don't bet on an identical sequel. It just may not
(08:30):
be the same. And what happened the Me and Mar
earthquake ended up rupturing a much longer section of the
fault than scientists even expected. And how does that bode
for us? Well, the bottom line is, frankly, we don't know.
The seismologists don't know how deep, how far. Even though
(08:54):
they study the quake they know where it runs. They
know how deep it is is, they know how the
earth connects, but they don't know how long the rupture is.
And the co author of the study said, it came
as a surprise that you could get such a long rupture,
and that's what happened with the Me and Mar quake. Now,
(09:18):
the Me and Mar quake wasch just happened. Killed thirty
eight hundred people. That was in Me and Mar, sixty
three people in Thailand. High Rise buildings were damage even
as far away in Vietnam as Ho Chi Minh City.
Homes were damage in the Uli area of China, and
damage was estimated because it's all rural in most parts
(09:41):
of it. Damage was estimated at one nine hundred dollars
because it's very cheap to live there, actually one point
nine billion dollars. The most powerful quake and Me and
Mar in the last seventy nine years.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
The scary part is we're due overdue. Now.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
We have some of the most earthquake resistant building codes
in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Actually, but when it comes.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
To a big quake, we're not going to see thousands
thousands of people die because our building codes are simply
too good. We're going to see massive damage that we're
going to see, but you're not going to see much
loss of life because of that. I mean, when I
built the Persian Palace, I could not believe what the
(10:30):
code was. I would the foundations alone. I thought I
was building a new runway at Lax, I mean massive foundation,
and everything tied together, and everything bolted together. So the
magnitude seven point seven earthquake, well it's called the Sedang Fault,
(10:54):
ran three hundred and seventeen miles long, which is very long.
Signs didn't expect it. For example, the nineteen o six
earthquake San Francisco that ruptured along two hundred and ninety
six miles of the San Andreas Fault. Now the MEMR
fault three hundred and seventeen miles California, the nineteen oh
(11:17):
six two hundred and ninety six, which is not substantially less,
but less. The eighteen fifty seven earthquake even less at
two hundred and twenty five miles.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So what the scientists are.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Trying to do is develop a model simulating earthquakes over
the millennia on the San Andreas fault, and they're saying
that the San Andreas Fault is far more complex.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Than any of the others.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And maybe the San Andreas fault will rupture in smaller,
separate earthquakes we don't know, or it could be a
much larger earthquake we don't know, not only rupturing from
long the fault from montere to Los Angela's counties and
our bulges out in Palmdale, but also maybe into San
(12:09):
Bernardino Riverside Imperial Counties.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Now we're looking at a magnitude eight or more.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The nineteen ninety four earthquake, that one was relatively constrained.
It affected only a portion of La County, the San
Frano Valley particularly, and that was a six point seven earthquake,
and it did some pretty serious damage, and it looked
(12:36):
like we were on.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The verge of the next big one.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So I mean, that's you know, there's no place, no
place in the United States you can live that doesn't
have some kind of natural disaster waiting. Hurricanes in the
southeast portion Florida coast line and up North Carolina and Georgia.
You've got flooding along the Mississippi. Now you have flooding
(13:03):
all over the country, wildfires, particularly in northern California and Colorado.
In that area part of the country. And then of
course where we are earthquakes. The only thing that's good
about earthquakes is they come and go very quickly. They're
just sort of done. You look around and go, okay,
(13:24):
I'm alive. When it comes to flooding, that's a little
bit different. When it comes to hurricanes, that's a little
bit different. South Dakota. How dangerous is South Dakota? I mean,
lots of snow, you run out of food, you can
always hunt moose. All right, we're dud. We have a
(13:49):
huge housing shortage, particularly here in California, and there's a
bunch of reasons for it, and we've gone through that before,
but let's just bottom line it for a moment, a
huge housing shortage. Zoning, the cost of building, the permitting,
price policies, they just almost impossible to build. Well, one
(14:14):
of the things that California did to keep up with
the housing demand is they passed the ADU law. We
passed it allowing a separate structure on our property. I
was going to do one, and I'll explain why I
didn't in a moment. I was going to build the
Pergean Palace. So what people can do if they have
(14:36):
room in their backyard is to build an ADU called
a step mother facility or step mother unit, and it
allows the homeowner to rent it. And that's the big
deal is renting it and increasing the supply of housing.
That was the point. So accessory dwelling a du step
(15:02):
mother housing.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Sh and it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Is booming in some parts of California because some homewner
owner homeowners take advantage to build that second housing union
in their bake backyard. Now they can cost a ton
of money, but residents see them as investments that not
only can they get rent from them, but increase property value,
especially for people that are buying property to rent. So
(15:32):
here is the problem is most of the people that
are building ADUs are not building them to rent. They're
building them to simply have more house. They use them
as an office, they use them as a second bedroom.
When you have people come over and you don't want
(15:54):
them to stay at your house, you don't have the room,
you put them back in that adu I had, I
was going to build one the Persian Palace.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I had the room.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And the reason I was going to build one because
when I got into it and my wife kicked me out,
of the house and said you're gone for a couple
of days because I acted out. I'm very much of
a toddler at home, and it used to be that
I would stand in the corner for a few hours
and then with the ADU, it's go to the.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Unit back there.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And people just want the extra room, offices, playrooms, just
an extra an extra room back there. Guests come over
instead of bothering you in the house, you can put
them up in the adu. They have their own little kitchen.
They have to have a kitchen, although it can be
(16:46):
very small. They have to have a bathroom, and they
can be a small studio, which most of them are.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Some are one in two bedrooms.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Neil, I know you have your garage that you have
that you use for your workshop. If you were to
build an a du would you even dream of renting
it out.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, we've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
As a matter of fact, my shop will most likely
be expanded and turned into a granny flat at some time.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The answer to that was supposed to be no. I
just want to let you know there we've talked about it,
because you know, family and.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Stuff like that, but we we've talked about renting it out. Yeah,
putting all that in there, but it would take a
lot of renovation. It's enclosed, but it's not it's made
to be my shop. It's not me.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Understood, you'd have to basically tear it down and build
a new structure there.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But have ADUs really helped? No? Not really? And why
have they not helped? Because, as I said, the.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Majority of adu are not being rented out. The majority
of ADUs that are rented out are actually lower income
and middle income homeowners that are barring the money to
build a DUS.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
A huge number are people.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Who are wealthy and just want the extra room and
have the room to build the extra room.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's the other thing there. You have to have the room.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And I don't know what the permitting process is, how
close to your house you can do it. And as
I said, I was going to build one just to have,
just to have one, and I didn't want to spend
the money, and I had no intention of renting it out.
It was only going to be effectively a second bedroom,
a guesthouse. And then I realized there was nobody in
(18:48):
my life that I wanted to come over and visit
us and stay there, and there was no one in
my life that wanted to come over to stay there.
So it was going to be my man cave is effectively,
effectively what it was going to be. I was going
to be there, to be left alone, to pick my nose,
(19:08):
to do all the things that guys do, belch and
just have a rip roaring good time. And I didn't
do it. Why No, because my kids left. They left
the house finally, at the age of thirty eight, they
decided to go off on their own. And so why now,
(19:30):
so I've downsized? Do I have room for an adu?
I do, but I have to it would ruin the backyard.
And I happen to be married someone who would say,
there is no chance that you're going to build an adu.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
One of the things about Wars is the use of drones.
That's the new technology that these suicide drones being launched
by Russia, for example, against Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian buildings, civilian buildings,
as well as military targets and drones are well, let
(20:10):
me give you an example of how much a drone
actually costs.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You go to Amazon.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
They're ninety nine ninety nine except during prime days, wherein
they're eighty nine, ninety day, ninety nine. And they're filled
with explosives, and they fly, and they cost virtually nothing,
and they can be unleashed by the hundreds. So how
do you defend One of the things about new technology
(20:35):
offensively is there's a race for new technology technology defensively.
So right now the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East,
across Africa rewriting the rules of combat. These small, expendable,
fairly cheap, deadly drones are becoming more and more prevalent,
(20:59):
and there's a race on to thwart these new killers,
and tacticians are grappling how do you defend against massive
attacks hundreds of drones without spending a fortune. Now, technology
to shoot them down is done. It can be well
relatively easy to be done. There's enough software, there's enough technology,
(21:22):
there are enough programs out there startups. The point is
how expensive is it to shoot down a drone that
costs very little money? Hundreds of drones that cost a
moderate amount of money without spending a fortune. That is
(21:42):
what's going on with the new technology, and there is Well,
there was an exercise called fly Trap, and this was
the US and British troops using new device is some
developed by the Army, by the service, some from private companies,
(22:05):
to track, to jam, to shoot down drones. Army Lieutenant
Colonel Jeremy maderis a leader of the exercise, says it's
very much a cat and mouse game. So one of
the devices is the Terrestrial Laser or excuse me, the
Terrestrial Layer System. Brigade Combat Team man pack or also
(22:31):
known as TILTSA victum. I don't know what are you
gonna do with That's what's the acronym for that. And
it's a backpack and it has an antenna looks like
cactus coming out of a backpack connected to a wire
to a screen about the size of a smartphone. And
(22:51):
this is for foot soldiers on the move, and it
scans for nearby drones and it jams the signal in
smaller version resembles two walkie talkies big ones and using
radio signals. And this technology was developed during World War Two,
which mostly focused on using radar to pinpoint large fast objects.
(23:15):
They're using that and then shooting down the drums or
jamming the drums.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And normally when a drone and they move.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Don't move too fast, what do the soldiers do? They
pick up their weapons and start shooting at this thing.
It's low flying, it's fairly slow. You can't shoot those,
it's almost impossible to hit one. So what this technology does,
it's almost like the AEGA system AGIAS system on battleships,
(23:47):
and you've seen those those huge gatling guns that basically
put up a wall of lead. And what these systems
do is the soldier aims at to the general area
where the phones are coming in and it calculates where
the drone is coming from, where it's going to be.
It's like the Patriot missile system and then sends up
(24:11):
the bullets to shoot it down.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And again the whole.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Issue is the technology is there in Israeli company what
a shaker, Israeli military company has developed one of these systems.
And the whole point is to make the shooting of
these drones down less expensive than launching the drones. That's
(24:37):
the secret here and the reason I bring this up
is you're going to see, and it's happening right now
in anticipation of Friday's meeting between Putin and the President.
Is the amount, the number of drones that are being
launched from Russia are astronomical, going on right now. And
(25:00):
drones are not only the president, they are the future.
And the technology to stop the drones are the present.
They are the future. That's this technology is the future.
So onwards and upwards to the next technology. Death rays,
that's what's going to happen, deathrays, sound waves. Sure, why
(25:26):
not playing heavy metal so it wipes out the forces
coming at you.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That's what happened in Panaa, Panama.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
When we got rid of Noriega and he will hold
up in the hold up in the presidential palace. And
so they played heavy metal with static for days and
days at a time, and they he had to finally surrender.
I mean they he couldn't take it anymore. Actually they
caught him. But that's besides the point. Okay, KFI am sixty.
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