September 25, 2025 • 25 mins
Neil and Amy are in for the vacatioining Bill Handel.
Neil finds himself agreeing with Don Lemon's opinion (that's a first...) about the Charlie Kirk
Memorial being about Christians claiming divine permission to rule, leading to commentary that explores the differences between politics and politicians, and the twisted role religion is starting to play in all of it.
Also, by 2040, the majority of new US homeowners will be Hispanic. And LAX drops in global airport rankings, but the CEO believes in the future.
Neil finds himself agreeing with Don Lemon's opinion (that's a first...) about the Charlie Kirk
Memorial being about Christians claiming divine permission to rule, leading to commentary that explores the differences between politics and politicians, and the twisted role religion is starting to play in all of it.
Also, by 2040, the majority of new US homeowners will be Hispanic. And LAX drops in global airport rankings, but the CEO believes in the future.
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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 Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Good Thursday morning to you. Nil Savedra here with the
morning crew. Handle still on vacation. We'll be back on
Monday and we should all be together then. Not a
big fan of Don Lemon. I don't know whether I misspoke.
(00:30):
I said that he wasn't a smart man.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't think that's fair. But he says dumb things.
I'll put it that way. He says many things that
I go, Eh, that doesn't that the logic and the
reason doesn't tie together nicely.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And I like that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I like reason that you could parse and take apart
and see and mechanically it makes sense. No formal or
informal logical fallacies that break apart in your in your hand,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I just.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I talk about being a rationalist. That's what I am.
I'm not a Republican, I'm not a democrat. I'm a rationalist.
People are going to do things I like, people are
going to do things I don't like. There are also
going to be things that I believe are important and
things that I believe are not important, and this particular
(01:26):
statement by Don Lemon. I don't agree with his whole
statement about Charlie Kirk's funeral and the memorial, so I
don't want to really get into the fact that it
was just that it was Charlie Kirk's funeral per se.
What I want to get into is some comments that
were made and something called dominion theology. I am a theologian.
(01:53):
Since I was about eighteen or nineteen, I've been answering
people's questions about theology and Christian philosoph fee the concept
and problem of evil, heavy questions that are important to
me as a Christian philosopher. For lack of a better term,
I suppose and an apologist, somebody who builds arguments for
(02:14):
others to understand or to defend the ideas of Christianity.
Something Don Lemon said struck with me. He's you know,
Don Lemon identifies as a Christian himself. Some people say, well,
he's married to another man. I don't care. He claims
(02:36):
that he has a relationship with Christ. I believe he said.
The event wasn't just a man about a man who died.
This was about a movement claiming divine permission to rule.
And that's what caught my eye, removed the part that
they came together under the horrible circumstances of a man
(02:59):
being a fascinated for his views, even put aside Demand's views,
some of which baffle me, some don't, and then others
that I've just seen misrepresented to the emp degree. You
go back to original quotes and things like that, and
you go, Okay, well that's not that. But there are
(03:21):
things that he said that I would not. But when
I read that, the movement claiming divine permission to rule,
he referred to it as a revival meeting wrapped in
a memorial, a political rally dressed his church. And I
(03:42):
think that's poignant, and I think that is part of
the movement as a whole. I've said many times that
my beliefs, you know what we're up against. News Right now,
I'll come back. I'll talk more about this, what deion
theology is, and where I stand as a Christian philosopher
(04:04):
and an apologist and a theologian on this belief system
and how it plays out in the USA, and the
dangers of it in my view.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So go nowhere.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It is Neil Savadra in the morning show KFI AM
six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning,
Neil Savadra in the morning crew.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Here for you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Bill Handle will be back on Monday. Happy to be
with you this Thursday and tomorrow for Foody Friday, So
thanks for sticking around. Also, you've got Carrie and Shannon
coming up at nine, so go knowwhere. Dominion, theology, and
something that was said by the former CNN host Don Lemon.
(04:53):
Never been a fan of Don Lemon. Handsome as hell,
I'll give you that, but he's to me, he always
says kind of stupid things, and I don't know him personally,
so I'm not going to say he's a stupid man,
because smart people can say stupid things too.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
A just I've never.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Never really jibed with his take on things, like i'd
hear something that does that make sense to me. But
he did say something recently recently in a live stream,
and he was talking about the Charlie Kirk memorial, which
I don't want to get into its per se. I
(05:33):
just want to get into his touch on theologically what
this means and how it appeared to him. He says
it was a movement claiming divine permission to rule. It
was a revival meeting wrapped in a memorial, a political
rally dressed as a church. He went on to say
(05:54):
that the language was unmistakable, terms like take the nation
back for God, restore America's covenant, this is a holy calling.
That it was simply just religious nationalism on full display.
And I don't disagree with the concept of Christian nationalism
(06:15):
being a point of focus with conservatives right now. I
will tell you there is nothing in scripture that makes
christ a conservative or a liberal, and the Church and
the truth therein transcend any made up, man made constructs
of politics. I've been doing talk radio for a long
(06:39):
time and I always hated talking about politics because nobody
talks about politics. All the hosts, for the most part
that you hear talking quote unquote about politics, aren't talking
about politics, the philosophies of politics, the construction of a
system in civics. They're talking about politicians under the guise
(07:04):
of talking about politics.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So I've never liked it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's people that memorize people's names in Congress and senators
and they talk about that and act like they're talking
about politics, and they're not. The philosophies of politics fascinates me.
The Constitution fast fascinates me. But again, most people don't
(07:31):
talk about politics. They talk about politicians. I think the
problem with Christianity being mixed. I truly believe the Christian
right is worshiping an idol, and that idol is that
conservatism is the way for America, and that Christian conservatism
(07:55):
is the way for America. And to me, that is
no different than a theocracy. That is no different than
Sharia law with Muslims, and it is no different than
going back to some of the worst times of Christianity,
whether it was the Inquisition, whether it was the Crusades.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That showed the outright.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Ignoring of context of scripture and the use of faith
to plow through and combine with politics. Did you know
there's actually a theory, a scholarly theory, as to why
(08:43):
Judas turned his back on Christ. The belief is that
Judas was a militant and believed the Masshiak, the Messiah,
was more of a military leader or should have been,
(09:04):
to come and take over Rome rather to be a
spiritual leader, and in being disappointed in the fact that
Christ himself was not worried give unto Caesar. What is
Caesar's give to God? What is God? A direct separation
(09:26):
where he would say, focus on the things of God.
This is temporal. Now their dominion. Theology gets into some
deep stuff that I'm not going to get into. Hear
about the Second Coming, about pre trib post trib, all
these different things getting into you know, the millennial, and
(09:50):
it gets complicated, and the rapture and whether you believe
that there's going to be a rapture, which is the
belief that Christians will be taken up into he in
prior to judgment and things going on on earth. There
is the belief of a thousand year reign on the earth.
There are beliefs that in the end times or eschatology,
(10:12):
the study of end times in scripture like the Book
of Revelation, that it doesn't refer to the USA, meaning
there is no reference that really seems like the USA
even is an existence in the end times potentially. Now
(10:33):
some disagree with that. And all that is to say
this that if you lose sight of the purity of scripture,
that it is about the Gospel, which simply means the
good news that mankind has separated themselves from the knowledge
of God and the will of God for so long
(10:56):
that are the distance could not be bridged by simply
being good or by changing laws or living by the law.
Christ said he didn't come to abolish the law, came
to fulfill it. So in my book, I believe that
Christians are here to change the heart of mankind, not
(11:18):
the laws of mankind, and that the laws would be
unnecessary under the fulfillment and living in the light in
the path of Christ. So to make it about getting
divine permission to take over the US and have dominion
(11:41):
over the US, to me is counter to the very
heart of Scripture. And I can't stand when I hear
a preacher or someone speak as if everyone serving God,
loving God, and learning about God is a conservative or Republican.
(12:05):
The entire planet in universe is made by God as
his creation, in my belief, and there is not favor
or anything with the US specifically the need And I
could even argue about it being a Christian nation, which
(12:27):
I don't believe that it is in its current state,
and I believe that it started with certain Christian principles,
but there is not supposed to be a government formed religion.
That's why we left. The revolution was about so think
(12:47):
twice about the Kingdom now beliefs and the dominion theories.
I think it is a distraction, and I think it
is an idol. And the combination of politics and the
things of God being mixed together is a pollution that
is ever more getting harder to separate because people are
(13:12):
mixing them up so much. And I think it does
not It doesn't help the US. It merely damages the faith.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Neil Servader in the morning crew here with you on
a Thursday morn Tomorrow I'll be with you as well.
Bill Handle's coming back and joining the Crazy group on Monday,
and we'll all be together again. A quick reminder, if
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Speaker 1 (15:34):
You guys are awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, here goes the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Wah wah. I can say that as a Latino man.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They did a study, and by they, I mean the
National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, and they found
that during this crazy time of high prices and home
prices just going skyrocket that and you've got the borrowing
costs and everything that go with it, right, very unaffordable,
(16:07):
it seems for many people in the US, Hispanic Americans,
which I'm not crazy about that particular term, but are
becoming homeowners at a faster rate than any other group.
It's a little over a third, about thirty five percent.
That's two hundred and thirty eight thousand new Hispanic households
(16:28):
formed in twenty twenty four. White Americans accounted for about
twenty two point two percent. Black Americans represented twenty point
three percent of its overall growth, which is, you know,
pretty crazy. What what's the representation of Blacks in the
(16:49):
United States? Nine percent, thirteen percent something along there, Whereas
you know, the Hispanic population is growing massively as well.
So it's just interesting to see these changes. And Hispanic
Americans have also been affected by the housing affordability crisis.
(17:10):
Who hasn't, but the rate of Hispanic home ownership fell
year over year for the first time in a decade.
That this is now seeing growth and what was that
twelve point six So yeah, so if you represent twenty
point three percent of overall growth as an African American
(17:31):
in the United States, that's you know, actually pretty good
when you think about they represent only roughly just under
thirteen percent of population. But this is also a reshaping
of the American dream.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And I love this.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
The family nature and structure of the Hispanic or Latino
homes has been you know, there can be a very
traditional structure and embracing that American dream is a very
interesting thing. And I think home ownership is important. And
(18:09):
I told somebody a long time ago something I learned.
You have two options. I believe this about a lot
of things, but you have two options. To pay someone
else's mortgage or to pay your own. If you're renting,
you're paying that person's mortgage and you're buying that place
for them. And if you're going to own, then you're
(18:34):
paying your mortgage and you're going to get what comes
with it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And I know a lot of people just want to
rent now, and that's fine if that's your lifestyle. I
wanted a guard. I wanted a space of my own.
I wanted to be there with my wife and my
boy and say this is our house. And my wife
wanted that too, and so that's the direction we went.
But when I first heard that and put it into
(18:59):
perspective that you're gonna pay someone's mortgage period if you're
renting or if you're you know, buying down your mortgage,
so you might as well do it for yourself. And
that was the thing that changed and made me go, boom,
this is it all right? More to come go Nowhere
It is Neil Savandra and the Morning Crew kf I
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AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good
Thursday morning, Neil Savadra in the Morning Crew with you.
I'm with you again tomorrow morning for Foody Friday, and
then of course handles back and the cruise altogether, one big.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Happy family of psychosis.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
On Monday, Lax being living here in Los Angeles my
whole life, and knowing that Lax was never a pleasure.
It was never something that you went, Yay, let's go there.
I'm gonna I can't wait to have to drive you
there to the airport, or better yet, pick you up.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That'll be great, let's do it. And it is.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You know, they joke about it being a test of
a relationship if you take somebody or pick somebody up
from the airport. There's one person in my life, one
person that doesn't care, doesn't bother in this license.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
My wife.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
My wife, if she loves you, she will pick you up,
drop you off, and not complain, visit you in the hospital.
If it's miles and miles away, she'd she'd and without complaint.
I'll huff and puff at the airport and she'll go,
(20:38):
it's not that bad. And I'm like lax. Yeah, And
as there's like false walls boarded up, you know, and things,
and it's like we had to walk four miles to
another it just it's not pleasant. This is Los Angeles, man.
(20:59):
And then you come out you have the voice of
the mayor. I remember it from you know, all the
different mayors that would come on there, you know, welcome
back to Los Angeles, world class city and it's like
stepping over the homeless smells of urine. You're like, yeah,
(21:23):
this is great, thanks for that. But and you know what,
and the passenger count has been dropping. So not only
have we just recently dropped in global airport rankings, you know,
because they rank these things on all kinds of stuff.
(21:43):
It was the third busiest airport back in twenty nineteen.
Well we've dropped so much now it dipped to the
eleventh spot. That's a global ranking, and they say that
out out of like the one hundred world's top airports,
only a small a small handful have bounced back slower
(22:06):
from the pandemic than LAX. It hit us really hard.
And the drop in in ridership is not just while
people aren't going on trips, No, they are. They're finding
that they're using the regional airports. They're going to the
(22:26):
smaller airports, so they've seen enough ticking passenger counts. So
it's just people wanting to avoid LAX. I mean, when
you fly out of Burbank or whatever they call it, Burbank, Hollywood,
Bob Hope Bob Hope.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Be Would.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Or whatever it is, it's a lovely experience. I was
flying out of there once a month a year or
so ago to go to Las Vegas as a partnership,
and you know, they practically knew your name by then.
You're just super friendly, kind, easy to get through. Everything
(23:12):
didn't take long, and you can do that. You go
to Ontario, what a delight long beach, super pleasurable, and
you go to LAX and it's like chewing foil.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
But the new CEO is hopeful.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
The problem is you can't build really beautiful buildings on
top of a crap hole of infrastructure. And if you
remember back in August, I think it was when they
had that sewage blockage there, so LAX Airport shut down
(23:53):
the restrooms and customs facilities and all those things at
Terminal seven. More than twelve thousand international travelers arriving in
Los Angeles, many for the first time, keep in mind,
had to be pushed around and sent elsewhere throughout LAX
for processing. So it's not just making it prettier but
(24:16):
more efficient. And they're going to work towards that with
the automated people mover and all of those new you know,
multi billion dollar overhauls, But they're going to have to
get the basics right because every time they freshen it up,
it doesn't seem to get any better. They've done a
couple of overhauls over there that just it's almost like
(24:37):
you got to knock the whole damn thing down and
raise it again. So fingers crossed to see if the
new you know, we've yeah, I don't know if you've
heard Olympics are coming and that means, oh, guests are coming.
So we're going to bring out the good China. Whereas
those of us that actually pay taxes and live here
get the crap every day, wait till the guests come. Well,
(24:59):
how about we get the good China. I want the
good China now, Mommy. Neil Savadra in the morning.
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Good Thursday morning to you. Nil Savedra here with the
morning crew. Handle still on vacation. We'll be back on
Monday and we should all be together then. Not a
big fan of Don Lemon. I don't know whether I misspoke.
(00:30):
I said that he wasn't a smart man.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't think that's fair. But he says dumb things.
I'll put it that way. He says many things that
I go, Eh, that doesn't that the logic and the
reason doesn't tie together nicely.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And I like that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I like reason that you could parse and take apart
and see and mechanically it makes sense. No formal or
informal logical fallacies that break apart in your in your hand,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I just.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I talk about being a rationalist. That's what I am.
I'm not a Republican, I'm not a democrat. I'm a rationalist.
People are going to do things I like, people are
going to do things I don't like. There are also
going to be things that I believe are important and
things that I believe are not important, and this particular
(01:26):
statement by Don Lemon. I don't agree with his whole
statement about Charlie Kirk's funeral and the memorial, so I
don't want to really get into the fact that it
was just that it was Charlie Kirk's funeral per se.
What I want to get into is some comments that
were made and something called dominion theology. I am a theologian.
(01:53):
Since I was about eighteen or nineteen, I've been answering
people's questions about theology and Christian philosoph fee the concept
and problem of evil, heavy questions that are important to
me as a Christian philosopher. For lack of a better term,
I suppose and an apologist, somebody who builds arguments for
(02:14):
others to understand or to defend the ideas of Christianity.
Something Don Lemon said struck with me. He's you know,
Don Lemon identifies as a Christian himself. Some people say, well,
he's married to another man. I don't care. He claims
(02:36):
that he has a relationship with Christ. I believe he said.
The event wasn't just a man about a man who died.
This was about a movement claiming divine permission to rule.
And that's what caught my eye, removed the part that
they came together under the horrible circumstances of a man
(02:59):
being a fascinated for his views, even put aside Demand's views,
some of which baffle me, some don't, and then others
that I've just seen misrepresented to the emp degree. You
go back to original quotes and things like that, and
you go, Okay, well that's not that. But there are
(03:21):
things that he said that I would not. But when
I read that, the movement claiming divine permission to rule,
he referred to it as a revival meeting wrapped in
a memorial, a political rally dressed his church. And I
(03:42):
think that's poignant, and I think that is part of
the movement as a whole. I've said many times that
my beliefs, you know what we're up against. News Right now,
I'll come back. I'll talk more about this, what deion
theology is, and where I stand as a Christian philosopher
(04:04):
and an apologist and a theologian on this belief system
and how it plays out in the USA, and the
dangers of it in my view.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So go nowhere.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It is Neil Savadra in the morning show KFI AM
six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning,
Neil Savadra in the morning crew.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Here for you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Bill Handle will be back on Monday. Happy to be
with you this Thursday and tomorrow for Foody Friday, So
thanks for sticking around. Also, you've got Carrie and Shannon
coming up at nine, so go knowwhere. Dominion, theology, and
something that was said by the former CNN host Don Lemon.
(04:53):
Never been a fan of Don Lemon. Handsome as hell,
I'll give you that, but he's to me, he always
says kind of stupid things, and I don't know him personally,
so I'm not going to say he's a stupid man,
because smart people can say stupid things too.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
A just I've never.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Never really jibed with his take on things, like i'd
hear something that does that make sense to me. But
he did say something recently recently in a live stream,
and he was talking about the Charlie Kirk memorial, which
I don't want to get into its per se. I
(05:33):
just want to get into his touch on theologically what
this means and how it appeared to him. He says
it was a movement claiming divine permission to rule. It
was a revival meeting wrapped in a memorial, a political
rally dressed as a church. He went on to say
(05:54):
that the language was unmistakable, terms like take the nation
back for God, restore America's covenant, this is a holy calling.
That it was simply just religious nationalism on full display.
And I don't disagree with the concept of Christian nationalism
(06:15):
being a point of focus with conservatives right now. I
will tell you there is nothing in scripture that makes
christ a conservative or a liberal, and the Church and
the truth therein transcend any made up, man made constructs
of politics. I've been doing talk radio for a long
(06:39):
time and I always hated talking about politics because nobody
talks about politics. All the hosts, for the most part
that you hear talking quote unquote about politics, aren't talking
about politics, the philosophies of politics, the construction of a
system in civics. They're talking about politicians under the guise
(07:04):
of talking about politics.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So I've never liked it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's people that memorize people's names in Congress and senators
and they talk about that and act like they're talking
about politics, and they're not. The philosophies of politics fascinates me.
The Constitution fast fascinates me. But again, most people don't
(07:31):
talk about politics. They talk about politicians. I think the
problem with Christianity being mixed. I truly believe the Christian
right is worshiping an idol, and that idol is that
conservatism is the way for America, and that Christian conservatism
(07:55):
is the way for America. And to me, that is
no different than a theocracy. That is no different than
Sharia law with Muslims, and it is no different than
going back to some of the worst times of Christianity,
whether it was the Inquisition, whether it was the Crusades.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That showed the outright.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Ignoring of context of scripture and the use of faith
to plow through and combine with politics. Did you know
there's actually a theory, a scholarly theory, as to why
(08:43):
Judas turned his back on Christ. The belief is that
Judas was a militant and believed the Masshiak, the Messiah,
was more of a military leader or should have been,
(09:04):
to come and take over Rome rather to be a
spiritual leader, and in being disappointed in the fact that
Christ himself was not worried give unto Caesar. What is
Caesar's give to God? What is God? A direct separation
(09:26):
where he would say, focus on the things of God.
This is temporal. Now their dominion. Theology gets into some
deep stuff that I'm not going to get into. Hear
about the Second Coming, about pre trib post trib, all
these different things getting into you know, the millennial, and
(09:50):
it gets complicated, and the rapture and whether you believe
that there's going to be a rapture, which is the
belief that Christians will be taken up into he in
prior to judgment and things going on on earth. There
is the belief of a thousand year reign on the earth.
There are beliefs that in the end times or eschatology,
(10:12):
the study of end times in scripture like the Book
of Revelation, that it doesn't refer to the USA, meaning
there is no reference that really seems like the USA
even is an existence in the end times potentially. Now
(10:33):
some disagree with that. And all that is to say
this that if you lose sight of the purity of scripture,
that it is about the Gospel, which simply means the
good news that mankind has separated themselves from the knowledge
of God and the will of God for so long
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that are the distance could not be bridged by simply
being good or by changing laws or living by the law.
Christ said he didn't come to abolish the law, came
to fulfill it. So in my book, I believe that
Christians are here to change the heart of mankind, not
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the laws of mankind, and that the laws would be
unnecessary under the fulfillment and living in the light in
the path of Christ. So to make it about getting
divine permission to take over the US and have dominion
(11:41):
over the US, to me is counter to the very
heart of Scripture. And I can't stand when I hear
a preacher or someone speak as if everyone serving God,
loving God, and learning about God is a conservative or Republican.
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The entire planet in universe is made by God as
his creation, in my belief, and there is not favor
or anything with the US specifically the need And I
could even argue about it being a Christian nation, which
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I don't believe that it is in its current state,
and I believe that it started with certain Christian principles,
but there is not supposed to be a government formed religion.
That's why we left. The revolution was about so think
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twice about the Kingdom now beliefs and the dominion theories.
I think it is a distraction, and I think it
is an idol. And the combination of politics and the
things of God being mixed together is a pollution that
is ever more getting harder to separate because people are
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mixing them up so much. And I think it does
not It doesn't help the US. It merely damages the faith.
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Neil Servader in the morning crew here with you on
a Thursday morn Tomorrow I'll be with you as well.
Bill Handle's coming back and joining the Crazy group on Monday,
and we'll all be together again. A quick reminder, if
you are so inclined, Amy King and I are going
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around and gets tons of money and doesn't do anything
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Speaker 1 (15:34):
You guys are awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, here goes the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Wah wah. I can say that as a Latino man.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They did a study, and by they, I mean the
National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, and they found
that during this crazy time of high prices and home
prices just going skyrocket that and you've got the borrowing
costs and everything that go with it, right, very unaffordable,
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it seems for many people in the US, Hispanic Americans,
which I'm not crazy about that particular term, but are
becoming homeowners at a faster rate than any other group.
It's a little over a third, about thirty five percent.
That's two hundred and thirty eight thousand new Hispanic households
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formed in twenty twenty four. White Americans accounted for about
twenty two point two percent. Black Americans represented twenty point
three percent of its overall growth, which is, you know,
pretty crazy. What what's the representation of Blacks in the
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United States? Nine percent, thirteen percent something along there, Whereas
you know, the Hispanic population is growing massively as well.
So it's just interesting to see these changes. And Hispanic
Americans have also been affected by the housing affordability crisis.
(17:10):
Who hasn't, but the rate of Hispanic home ownership fell
year over year for the first time in a decade.
That this is now seeing growth and what was that
twelve point six So yeah, so if you represent twenty
point three percent of overall growth as an African American
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in the United States, that's you know, actually pretty good
when you think about they represent only roughly just under
thirteen percent of population. But this is also a reshaping
of the American dream.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And I love this.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
The family nature and structure of the Hispanic or Latino
homes has been you know, there can be a very
traditional structure and embracing that American dream is a very
interesting thing. And I think home ownership is important. And
(18:09):
I told somebody a long time ago something I learned.
You have two options. I believe this about a lot
of things, but you have two options. To pay someone
else's mortgage or to pay your own. If you're renting,
you're paying that person's mortgage and you're buying that place
for them. And if you're going to own, then you're
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paying your mortgage and you're going to get what comes
with it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And I know a lot of people just want to
rent now, and that's fine if that's your lifestyle. I
wanted a guard. I wanted a space of my own.
I wanted to be there with my wife and my
boy and say this is our house. And my wife
wanted that too, and so that's the direction we went.
But when I first heard that and put it into
(18:59):
perspective that you're gonna pay someone's mortgage period if you're
renting or if you're you know, buying down your mortgage,
so you might as well do it for yourself. And
that was the thing that changed and made me go, boom,
this is it all right? More to come go Nowhere
It is Neil Savandra and the Morning Crew kf I
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AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good
Thursday morning, Neil Savadra in the Morning Crew with you.
I'm with you again tomorrow morning for Foody Friday, and
then of course handles back and the cruise altogether, one big.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Happy family of psychosis.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
On Monday, Lax being living here in Los Angeles my
whole life, and knowing that Lax was never a pleasure.
It was never something that you went, Yay, let's go there.
I'm gonna I can't wait to have to drive you
there to the airport, or better yet, pick you up.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That'll be great, let's do it. And it is.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You know, they joke about it being a test of
a relationship if you take somebody or pick somebody up
from the airport. There's one person in my life, one
person that doesn't care, doesn't bother in this license.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
My wife.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
My wife, if she loves you, she will pick you up,
drop you off, and not complain, visit you in the hospital.
If it's miles and miles away, she'd she'd and without complaint.
I'll huff and puff at the airport and she'll go,
(20:38):
it's not that bad. And I'm like lax. Yeah, And
as there's like false walls boarded up, you know, and things,
and it's like we had to walk four miles to
another it just it's not pleasant. This is Los Angeles, man.
(20:59):
And then you come out you have the voice of
the mayor. I remember it from you know, all the
different mayors that would come on there, you know, welcome
back to Los Angeles, world class city and it's like
stepping over the homeless smells of urine. You're like, yeah,
(21:23):
this is great, thanks for that. But and you know what,
and the passenger count has been dropping. So not only
have we just recently dropped in global airport rankings, you know,
because they rank these things on all kinds of stuff.
(21:43):
It was the third busiest airport back in twenty nineteen.
Well we've dropped so much now it dipped to the
eleventh spot. That's a global ranking, and they say that
out out of like the one hundred world's top airports,
only a small a small handful have bounced back slower
(22:06):
from the pandemic than LAX. It hit us really hard.
And the drop in in ridership is not just while
people aren't going on trips, No, they are. They're finding
that they're using the regional airports. They're going to the
(22:26):
smaller airports, so they've seen enough ticking passenger counts. So
it's just people wanting to avoid LAX. I mean, when
you fly out of Burbank or whatever they call it, Burbank, Hollywood,
Bob Hope Bob Hope.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Be Would.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Or whatever it is, it's a lovely experience. I was
flying out of there once a month a year or
so ago to go to Las Vegas as a partnership,
and you know, they practically knew your name by then.
You're just super friendly, kind, easy to get through. Everything
(23:12):
didn't take long, and you can do that. You go
to Ontario, what a delight long beach, super pleasurable, and
you go to LAX and it's like chewing foil.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
But the new CEO is hopeful.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
The problem is you can't build really beautiful buildings on
top of a crap hole of infrastructure. And if you
remember back in August, I think it was when they
had that sewage blockage there, so LAX Airport shut down
(23:53):
the restrooms and customs facilities and all those things at
Terminal seven. More than twelve thousand international travelers arriving in
Los Angeles, many for the first time, keep in mind,
had to be pushed around and sent elsewhere throughout LAX
for processing. So it's not just making it prettier but
(24:16):
more efficient. And they're going to work towards that with
the automated people mover and all of those new you know,
multi billion dollar overhauls, But they're going to have to
get the basics right because every time they freshen it up,
it doesn't seem to get any better. They've done a
couple of overhauls over there that just it's almost like
(24:37):
you got to knock the whole damn thing down and
raise it again. So fingers crossed to see if the
new you know, we've yeah, I don't know if you've
heard Olympics are coming and that means, oh, guests are coming.
So we're going to bring out the good China. Whereas
those of us that actually pay taxes and live here
get the crap every day, wait till the guests come. Well,
(24:59):
how about we get the good China. I want the
good China now, Mommy. Neil Savadra in the morning.
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