September 1, 2025 • 32 mins
(Sept 01,2025)
Neil Saavedra takes over for Bill on this Labor Day Monday. Residents raise concerns about fires in the Sepulveda Basin. Rudy Giuliani injured in a car crash. Frightening video shows child walking on monorail track at Hersheypark Pennsylvania.Top New York Times editor’s apartment building vandalized with paint and graffiti.
Neil Saavedra takes over for Bill on this Labor Day Monday. Residents raise concerns about fires in the Sepulveda Basin. Rudy Giuliani injured in a car crash. Frightening video shows child walking on monorail track at Hersheypark Pennsylvania.Top New York Times editor’s apartment building vandalized with paint and graffiti.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Good morning, Good morning, I'm rich, Yes, good morning,
it's Chevity. Chevin D's Green's outside KFI AM six forty
Nil Savedra and the morning crew in Handle has the
(00:23):
day off.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Happy Labor Day to you. Hope you're enjoying yourself wherever
you are. Stay out of the poop beaches. The problem
with the beaches is they have sees in them, and
you don't want eat seas on your body. So and
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apparently rip currents and all kinds of stuff at La Beaches.
So if that wasn't enough to worry about. And I
think if Will's around, he's gonna pop in with us
on this one. San Fernando Valley residents are pissed and
they want, you know, action here. Lots of fires in
the subulblit of Basin and there was a big town
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hall meeting in Los Angeles. City officials got out there.
Everybody's you know, doing their thing, and Seno residents and
like ares saying we just we need protection. You have
homeless people setting fires that get out of control, and
the city officials set anywhere between two hundred and thirty
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three and two hundred and seventy five unhoused people are
living in the Supulblica Basin. Yeah, and so you see
these you're over in that area, and you see these
all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I live right near Lake Bebo across basically across the
street from.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
The border of the suppulvill.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Of floodbasin there, and I would say, on average, it
seems like every other day there's a smoke plume going up.
Somebody has caught something on fire. I've lived with my
own eyes. I've seen, you know, people trying to cook
right under a tree, under the you know, canopy of
a tree and not thinking that, oh gee, that tree
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could catch on fire. You know, it's just like it's
it's a complicated problem.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
But if it's not a complicated, right, I know, I
know it's not. It's you cannot live in the streets
and you cannot make makeshift cooking apparati. I find the
homeless in my area are unscrewing the sides of light
poles rewiring them for electricity in their tents. Yeah. Yeah,
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that's uh. I'm pretty good with electricity, and that makes
me nervous. Yeah, And and you know, when we have
a wind event.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Now, for me, I live on the on the north
side of the park, so usually if there's a Santa
Ana wind event in the valley, it's blowing it towards
the south, towards Ensino, which really has those people upset
because if you know, God forbid, we have another wind
event like we had last January with the fires and
something lights off in that park, it it's going to
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head towards Ensino, house to house to house, and that's
that's the big that's the big fear.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So they're saying that through the first two hundred and
forty days of the year, LA Fire Department has responded
to two hundred and fifty four fires in the area,
the vast majority of which were related to either you know,
warming fires, rubbish fires, or you know, trying to cook
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something that's that's absolutely ridiculous. Anywhere else you'd get nailed
for arson.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And interestingly, this is going to be in just a
couple of years an Olympic venue. There's that we are
having archery there and BMX bike and fire jumping yes,
and fire jumping yes exactly. So somehow it's going to
go from what it is right now to an Olympic
venue quickly, maybe, well, think about that's not just there,
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that's not just the supulvit of Basin, that's La as
a whole.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, La. You know. I I was up in San
Francisco in July, and I had heard so much about
San Francisco. It had gotten so bad up there. So
we went, we my family went up there, and I
was blown away and how clean it was really. Yeah,
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so they and i'd heard also that they were, you know,
they were fed up. People were fed up with the
crime and everything. I mean being in the tender Loin
still smelled like urine, but it didn't have trash in
the streets. It was cleaner than Los Angeles by far.
Wow that's changed recently then, Yeah, that's what I could.
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That's when I tell people that are like, yeah, that's
that's you were. But I, you know, I felt fine
walking around, and you know, my head's on a swivel.
I'm a pretty aware guy of my surroundings. But it
was I was blown away how much nicer it was
than LA. In my view, there's trash everywhere, there's graffiti.
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Now do they have graffiti? Yes, they had graffiti and
things like that, But I will tell you I saw
very few homeless people, and it looked clean. It looked
like the streets were clean. It looked like everything looked
clean to me. And La does not does not look
that way to me. And I look at it with
loving eyes. You know, I love my city, and so
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I probably look at it and give it more. And
I feel like, this is what my wife says about me.
I look at him with loving eyes.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I try not to see all the flaw inside beauty
inside beauty.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But you know what I'm saying, So I give it.
I give it a pass on a lot of things
because I love it so much. And then and then
everyone's want to catches my eye. I look and I go,
is that what I think I'm seeing?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So this is one of those things where we have
called the city before when we see homeless structures going
up right next to a school, an elementary school or something,
and inevitably you will get your council person's representative who says,
sir or madam or whatever. You know, being homeless is
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not a crime. No, but crapping on the streets, starting fires,
starting fires, peeing on the streets, stealing, fashioning, weapons out
of metal pieces, and I've seen that. Yep. I've been
at a stoplight before and I'm seeing somebody fashion one.
I've been in a drive through before. I've seen somebody
fashion a blade on a curb. I see people walking
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around with parts of pipe, long sticks. I saw a
half naked, pregnant, completely drugged out of her mind, young
girl walking down my street in front of my home.
I've had to get people that are doped up, that
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are leaning on the fence of our house, going are
you are you okay? Do you need some help there? Yeah?
I mean there's I don't know when somebody's gonna look
at this and say, this is not the kind and
loving thing you think it is to let people live
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like this.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Sometimes compassion is tough love. Yeah, it's all the time.
Compassion is tough love.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's the whole point is saying we don't want you
to live like this because you're better than that. Anybody
that lets them live that way say is this is
what you're worth?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
This?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
This is what you're worth. You want to get criminals
out of jail, but you want to keep innocent people
in jail is bizarre to me. But anyways, I appreciate
your perspective there will. I know you see these things
on the daily and obviously, if for the first two
hundred and forty days of the year, LA Fire Department
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responded to two hundred and fifty four fires is pretty insane.
Let's go to the streets, shall we. Rudy Giuliani is
in the news and very weird story as a matter
of fact, following it yesterday when it came out. Originally,
you know, we get alerts as to what's going on,
of course, and it came out and it said I
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think the very first headline I saw was like Giuliani
in freak accident, a freak car accident or something. I'm like, okay,
kind of interesting. So let's break this down a little bit.
And you've heard Amy talking about this as well. So
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he is a fractured vertebra, and he has I guess
he's scuffed up a little bit. He's got lacerations, contusions,
all those fun medical words that they use when you're
banged up. It's left arm, has some injuries, lower leg.
But this is what went down. Apparently he was in
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a rented Ford Bronco being driven by his spokesperson, Ted
Goodman and they were flagged down on the side of
a New Hampshire highway. So they're flagged down by somebody,
a woman who was apparently in a domestic violence situation
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of some kind. So they're flagged down. It appears that
either Giuliani or Ted Goodman or both did what they
could call the law enforcement. Law enforcement got there. So
once law enforcement was there, they were no longer needed.
They got back in the car, got back on the
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highway and then was struck from behind by a Honda
driven by a nineteen year old woman. So in that
they get a crash. It was so close to the
original scene where they stopped for the domestic violence that
the state troopers or whoever showed up went to ran
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over to help them and saw what was going on.
So you have the nineteen year old woman and Ted
Goodman that had some some issues as well, nothing life
threatening as far as injuries were, and they were taken
to a hospital for treatment. But the cars apparently both
cars went forward and then into the highway median and
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left the vehicles incredibly damaged. So it when you're when
you think about it, you're going you're just now pulling
back into the highway, so they couldn't have been going
too fast, but the car that hit them probably was
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and pushed them all into the median there because if
they had gotten any speed, they'd be further far enough
away from the state troopers who were there for the
original incident. So what a weird story that has, you know,
all these different steps to it. And the first thing
I thought about is, wow. You know, Rudy Giuliani at
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one time was referred to as America's mayor, cleaned up
New York Times Square and did a lot, held our
hands and was a point of strength during nine to eleven.
And now he's a punchline mostly, and we're weird. Americans
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are weird. We love to lift people off up, but
we love twice as much to tear them down. And I,
you know, some of the things he's said and done
since sounds crazy. I'm sorry they do. He sounds crazy. Oh,
the amusement park story, you didn't hear that yesterday? Yeah? No,
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he's fine and is reacting to that. The boy that
was at that amusement park that was crawling on the
monorail track. Yeah, now someone climbed up and got him.
Is there a Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Yeah, some kid
couldn't find his parents or something and just you. She's like,
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holy hell, I know. It's a weird thing to see
a kid, a tiny little kid, walking on a monorail. Yeah,
a little weird. AnyWho, back to Rudy Giuliani, he is
a squirrel. I'm sorry. Even when Handle's not here, you
got to give the people what they want. They want Handle.
I'm having a diet Coke, I'm eating, I'm warming up
(13:24):
for Tata's from Costco. I don't know what day it is.
I don't know who I am. I got married twice
during the first segment of the show. I don't know
what I'm doing. I'm being handled in the best way possible.
So god speed, mister Giuliani. But man, yeah, you have
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found yourself in some very strange places since you were
referred to as America's mayor. May you find your way back, sir,
and in good health. And I feel like we need
to boove from what we were doing and have a
small intervention. You've seem really bothered by the boy walking
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on the monorail.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's so upsetting.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, it took me. I thought it was Disneyland at first,
but it's actually Hershey feel or whatever that thing is.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Feel better now that you said the monail was not working.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
My understanding is the mono rail was not in service.
I think it happened yesterday or Saturday. And if you
haven't seen the video, it's out there in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
They have a theme park, Hershey theme Park, and it
looks actually looks kind of fun water park and all that,
and they have a monorail there as well. And I'm
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going to say five year old maybe six five or
six year old was walking along the monorail.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Now, how did he get up there?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Well, that's the weird day. There's the rub, but that's
what twelve feet high? Oh at least, yeah, at least
probably more like twenty five as much. Yeah, it's up
at least twenty feet yeah, right, because they and then
a couple of fellas. One guy got there first, climbed
up the side. So if they've got to climb up
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the side to get to him, he obviously you know,
it's pretty high up. But he's walking and people are yelling, honey,
stop stop what he's covering his ears like it was
too loud, so yeah, I'm thinking maybe five years old.
But he's covering his ears and then someone goes up
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up there and get him. Apparently he's he was lost
or lost his parents. But how you climb up on
a monorail.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
You don't just end up there like, oh I made
the wrong turn and here I am. Yeah, because physically
do that. You know, I'm thinking Disneyland. This was not Disneyland,
but I'm thinking, Okay, there's a couple of the mono rail,
you know, the stations that you can get up too,
but you can't just walk on the monorail on the
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rail itself.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Well, but if the rider's closed, like you said, there's
a station and maybe he just crawled up the station
went out onto what the tracks are.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, that must have been what he did.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
And they didn't have any kind of either security there
or workers there manning it right, because because the attraction
was closed exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So you think the kid was smart enough to go, hey,
you know what, I need to get eyes up. I
need to go high so I can see where my
parents work. Ory, why would you walk on that thinking
that's going to be the best place for you to
be strolling about?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Well, because he's a kid, and maybe he was looking
for his parents on the monorail and they picked him up,
and he hugged the guy who rescued him, so he
was probably just scared and looking for mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, I'm glad that he's okay, but yeah, and then
and started going on about her good boy was lost
in Target one time, my.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Three year old.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
He just I turned around, he was gone, and I
literally lost my mind. Greamy his name, asking the Target
employees to lock all the doors because I just I
knew he was in the parking lot with some weirdo
and I was freaking out. And he was in the
toy section looking at Thomas the tank engine. But they can,
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they can get away from pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Oh yeah, uh. Max Is the was never a runner.
He was he was like he runs now, but he
was like he always stay like. He wasn't the kid
with a fork in the electrical outlet. He just he's
curious enough and like he'd climb things. And then sometimes
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when he was probably like you said, maybe two ish
or three ish, they get the zoomies and they just
dart off and if you aren't, you know, eyes on,
they're thirty feet away in his snack, like I remember that, Yeah,
but he wasn't it. That would be in more open areas,
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Like he'd do that in open areas, maybe at Disneyland.
I remember Tracy having to be on his six all
the time. But me, growing up, we were like you
remember those at Sears they had the round racks and
you'd hide in the middle of them.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That was my favorite thing.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, we all did it. And you'd hide in those
racks and scare the crap out of your mom because
you didn't know where you were. I remember my younger brother,
he was just a litlin and he must have let
go of my mom's hand at some point, looked around
and sought another woman hand and assumed that, hey, this
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has got to be my mom. And I'm walking with
my mom and I'm like, why is he holding that
other lady's hand, and then kind of moves off. There
was a time, gosh, back when you did stuff like this. Well,
like we my wife and I always go whenever we
have a story about you know, our parents are holding
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you on the front seat with no seat belts in
a bug buick with a steel dashboard. Uh, you know
that came to a point or something like that, and
we look at each other and go as the seventies,
we were raising the seventies, you know, that's just the
way it was. But my mom left us in a car,
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a running car, while she ran into the bank real quick.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Okay, did you see that The kids and just got
carjacked in East LA yesterday?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well this was in the seventies, I know, but you
can't do that anymore. They didn't carjack back then.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
They did.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
There were three Mom went in to go run into
the seven to eleven and somebody jumped in, took off
in their car with three kids in.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The Backseatle's then that becomes kidnapping. Yes, well, I would
park the car, I'd bring it back, said sorry, I
thought it was mine. Here's your car and your kids.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I don't want to with those three kids.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah. Yeah, there was something in the fact that had
a foul stench. I think one needs to be changed.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
It was the two year old.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Wow, but they're all okay, right.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
They all went to the hospital. But they're all out
of the hospital now, good, So that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Good. So I think it was my little brother that
put the car and were neutral or something. Oops and
like that. But that's when strangers came and helped you.
That's like and so some guy jumped in and you know,
grabbed it and stopped it, and we're like, wow, this
guy's totally ruined all the fun? What's that about? Before
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we went in the street? But you did, you know
the fact that my that my mom did not lose
children is amazing. Seven kids? Seven kids? Like you have
a bad math day and you're coming home with four
kids and going, wait a second, I thought I counted them.
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So that when you see things happening and everybody jumps
in and like where are the parents? You know they
forget that kids and this may freak people out or
actually little humans with their own brain, their own desires,
and you've got to be up on that stuff. And
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even with two parents tag teaming there, they can be
quick and situations can you know, push you out of control.
We haven't had anything like that with Max before, but
there's sometimes in those gosh, what are they like big
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playgrounds or something or where they have all these little
places where they climb up and then run around, and
it's got the the bridges and that you have to
be at both ends, and you have to you have
to both be watching or one in there. And trust me,
it's not me. I'm not climbing in those things. They're
not made for a two hundred and fifty five pound man.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I one time had to climb through the tube.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, and I'm like, oh my god, listening breaks,
I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Not to mention it was Chuck e Cheese. Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
He wouldn't. He was afraid to come out.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You're probably immune to everything now though it was always
my son, never my daughter, No boys or she would
always just look at their twins and she would just
look at him disappointed. She mastered the disappointe. Nice job
you made mom climb in there, jerk. Alrighty, Greenwich Village.
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Let's go to New York, shall we. There's a vintage
a building there, apartment building, Greenwich Village, and it happens
to be the you know place where New York Times
Executive editor Joseph Kahan lives. Okay, got to live somewhere, right.
It was defaced with red paint and graffiti on Friday morning,
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very early hours. You know, it's a mess there, red
paint everywhere, and then on the base of the steps
that read Joe con lies Gaza dies. So this is
a longgoing and ongoing situation where I guess there are
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those that believe that The New York Times is not
doing right by the coverage they're doing in the war
in Gaza. Backlash apparently on their headquarters in Times Square
was vandalized last month, also with the red paint similar
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spray painted sentiment New York Times or NYT lies Gaza dies.
No restumate at this point. New York Police Department said
that the investigation remains open and ongoing, and the Time
says it's working with police. Obviously, you can disagree, you
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can even hate war. How can you not the thought
of women and children. I know that's old school, but
the thought of women and children dying in Gaza is horrific.
Innocent non military men also seeing the destruction of any place,
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I mean, the thought of that is so foreign to us.
Outside of New York on nine to eleven, outside of
Hawaii during Pearl Harbor. There, we have not been attacked,
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we haven't had boots on the ground in the sense,
or we haven't been bombed to oblivion. It's hard to imagine.
You see pictures. I have friends and family that have
been to Ukraine during the war, and the pictures I've
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seen are horrific. I mean, you can't imagine that kind
of destruction that's going on. I get all that, but
there there's an old joke back when I studied theology
about pastors writing their notes for Sunday and that the
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janitor was sweeping up afterwards and grabbing the notes. And
there was a point said, argument gets weak here speak
louder and that concept of well, you got to put
the passion where you don't have the good argument. And
in this case, I find that if you go to terrorism,
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which is what this is, this is somebody wanting to
force their view. This isn't a protest. This to me
screams I don't have a good argument or I can't
articulate that argument, So I'm going to spray pain a
slogan and I'm going to deface property. These are the
same wing nuts that throw paint or things on artwork,
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because what they're doing is saying we are if they're
not making a statement of look, you think this is
so important and precious when life is No, I don't
see that. I see something that took time and effort
and energy and creativity, and you're trying to destroy it
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because you're not smart enough to make an articulate argument
or to raise enough people up and a voice that
has power. So you throw a slogan it's basically a
vandalism bumper sticker on the side of a building where
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other people live as well and work, and other people
own the building and the like, and people that work
for the city that now have to come clean it
up because you're too stupid to be able to articulate.
You don't have the ability even if your cause is right.
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And we've gotten to the point where there is no protests.
There is tiny armies of terrorism, domestic terrorism to try
and strike fear into people rather than people to understand.
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And this is nothing new. I mean, you go to
the Inquisition, you go you know with Christianity, you can
go to just about every religion at some point, not
being able to articulate the benefits of their own faith
and believe, so they try and force it on people.
There's been people in the seat of power who found
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a faith and then forced it upon the people. There
are conquerors who came colonizers, whatever you want to call them,
that would come and force their beliefs, and you know
what you'd get. You'd get pollution, you get weird beliefs,
part Catholicism, part voodoo, all kinds of things, because we
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feel the need to force our beliefs on other people
without being able to make an argument or to change
a mind intellectually. Over and over. I've said this on
this program and others, that we get to the point
where we're so emotional, we only no emotion. We don't
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know how to use reason. When you take classes and
giving speeches and debate, you learn to persuade, and that's
not to force, that's to ask questions or say, is
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there a better way to do this? When we get emotional,
we lose that focus, like I will you want to
hear something crazy. Decades from now, there is a large
possibility that Trump will be seen as a very effective president.
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And I'll tell you why there's so much emotion now.
When the motion leaves, there's only what took place and
what didn't. We saw that with Nixon a pariah. Then
all of a sudden, Nixon's not a big deal now
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because you get away from you get distance from these things,
and then people just look at the facts, and we
don't have that when we're arguing or trying to convince
people of what's going on somewhere, So we throw paint
on something, which to me is just a motive. That's
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no different than someone tagging their names somewhere because they
want to be famous with their crew or within people
around them or what have you. But I will tell
you that more and more we see this stupidity of
people destroying things, defacing things because they can't argue their case.
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And that's a bad state that we get into. We're
supposed to be smart, we're supposed to be articulate and
be able to explain to somebody. Listen, there are people dying. Yeah,
well that's because you care about this war. There's people
dying all over the place. Well, you're doing war, so
you're buying paint. So I have a hard time looking
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at these things and saying, okay, that's a value. Okay,
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Happy Labor Day to you. Hope you're enjoying yourself wherever
you are. Stay out of the poop beaches. The problem
with the beaches is they have sees in them, and
you don't want eat seas on your body. So and
(00:46):
apparently rip currents and all kinds of stuff at La Beaches.
So if that wasn't enough to worry about. And I
think if Will's around, he's gonna pop in with us
on this one. San Fernando Valley residents are pissed and
they want, you know, action here. Lots of fires in
the subulblit of Basin and there was a big town
(01:09):
hall meeting in Los Angeles. City officials got out there.
Everybody's you know, doing their thing, and Seno residents and
like ares saying we just we need protection. You have
homeless people setting fires that get out of control, and
the city officials set anywhere between two hundred and thirty
(01:30):
three and two hundred and seventy five unhoused people are
living in the Supulblica Basin. Yeah, and so you see
these you're over in that area, and you see these
all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I live right near Lake Bebo across basically across the
street from.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
The border of the suppulvill.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Of floodbasin there, and I would say, on average, it
seems like every other day there's a smoke plume going up.
Somebody has caught something on fire. I've lived with my
own eyes. I've seen, you know, people trying to cook
right under a tree, under the you know, canopy of
a tree and not thinking that, oh gee, that tree
(02:08):
could catch on fire. You know, it's just like it's
it's a complicated problem.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
But if it's not a complicated, right, I know, I
know it's not. It's you cannot live in the streets
and you cannot make makeshift cooking apparati. I find the
homeless in my area are unscrewing the sides of light
poles rewiring them for electricity in their tents. Yeah. Yeah,
(02:40):
that's uh. I'm pretty good with electricity, and that makes
me nervous. Yeah, And and you know, when we have
a wind event.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Now, for me, I live on the on the north
side of the park, so usually if there's a Santa
Ana wind event in the valley, it's blowing it towards
the south, towards Ensino, which really has those people upset
because if you know, God forbid, we have another wind
event like we had last January with the fires and
something lights off in that park, it it's going to
(03:11):
head towards Ensino, house to house to house, and that's
that's the big that's the big fear.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So they're saying that through the first two hundred and
forty days of the year, LA Fire Department has responded
to two hundred and fifty four fires in the area,
the vast majority of which were related to either you know,
warming fires, rubbish fires, or you know, trying to cook
(03:40):
something that's that's absolutely ridiculous. Anywhere else you'd get nailed
for arson.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And interestingly, this is going to be in just a
couple of years an Olympic venue. There's that we are
having archery there and BMX bike and fire jumping yes,
and fire jumping yes exactly. So somehow it's going to
go from what it is right now to an Olympic
venue quickly, maybe, well, think about that's not just there,
(04:11):
that's not just the supulvit of Basin, that's La as
a whole.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, La. You know. I I was up in San
Francisco in July, and I had heard so much about
San Francisco. It had gotten so bad up there. So
we went, we my family went up there, and I
was blown away and how clean it was really. Yeah,
(04:37):
so they and i'd heard also that they were, you know,
they were fed up. People were fed up with the
crime and everything. I mean being in the tender Loin
still smelled like urine, but it didn't have trash in
the streets. It was cleaner than Los Angeles by far.
Wow that's changed recently then, Yeah, that's what I could.
(04:57):
That's when I tell people that are like, yeah, that's
that's you were. But I, you know, I felt fine
walking around, and you know, my head's on a swivel.
I'm a pretty aware guy of my surroundings. But it
was I was blown away how much nicer it was
than LA. In my view, there's trash everywhere, there's graffiti.
(05:20):
Now do they have graffiti? Yes, they had graffiti and
things like that, But I will tell you I saw
very few homeless people, and it looked clean. It looked
like the streets were clean. It looked like everything looked
clean to me. And La does not does not look
that way to me. And I look at it with
loving eyes. You know, I love my city, and so
(05:42):
I probably look at it and give it more. And
I feel like, this is what my wife says about me.
I look at him with loving eyes.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I try not to see all the flaw inside beauty
inside beauty.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But you know what I'm saying, So I give it.
I give it a pass on a lot of things
because I love it so much. And then and then
everyone's want to catches my eye. I look and I go,
is that what I think I'm seeing?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So this is one of those things where we have
called the city before when we see homeless structures going
up right next to a school, an elementary school or something,
and inevitably you will get your council person's representative who says,
sir or madam or whatever. You know, being homeless is
(06:32):
not a crime. No, but crapping on the streets, starting fires,
starting fires, peeing on the streets, stealing, fashioning, weapons out
of metal pieces, and I've seen that. Yep. I've been
at a stoplight before and I'm seeing somebody fashion one.
I've been in a drive through before. I've seen somebody
fashion a blade on a curb. I see people walking
(06:57):
around with parts of pipe, long sticks. I saw a
half naked, pregnant, completely drugged out of her mind, young
girl walking down my street in front of my home.
I've had to get people that are doped up, that
(07:20):
are leaning on the fence of our house, going are
you are you okay? Do you need some help there? Yeah?
I mean there's I don't know when somebody's gonna look
at this and say, this is not the kind and
loving thing you think it is to let people live
(07:43):
like this.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Sometimes compassion is tough love. Yeah, it's all the time.
Compassion is tough love.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's the whole point is saying we don't want you
to live like this because you're better than that. Anybody
that lets them live that way say is this is
what you're worth?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
This?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
This is what you're worth. You want to get criminals
out of jail, but you want to keep innocent people
in jail is bizarre to me. But anyways, I appreciate
your perspective there will. I know you see these things
on the daily and obviously, if for the first two
hundred and forty days of the year, LA Fire Department
(08:24):
responded to two hundred and fifty four fires is pretty insane.
Let's go to the streets, shall we. Rudy Giuliani is
in the news and very weird story as a matter
of fact, following it yesterday when it came out. Originally,
you know, we get alerts as to what's going on,
of course, and it came out and it said I
(08:47):
think the very first headline I saw was like Giuliani
in freak accident, a freak car accident or something. I'm like, okay,
kind of interesting. So let's break this down a little bit.
And you've heard Amy talking about this as well. So
(09:07):
he is a fractured vertebra, and he has I guess
he's scuffed up a little bit. He's got lacerations, contusions,
all those fun medical words that they use when you're
banged up. It's left arm, has some injuries, lower leg.
But this is what went down. Apparently he was in
(09:29):
a rented Ford Bronco being driven by his spokesperson, Ted
Goodman and they were flagged down on the side of
a New Hampshire highway. So they're flagged down by somebody,
a woman who was apparently in a domestic violence situation
(09:55):
of some kind. So they're flagged down. It appears that
either Giuliani or Ted Goodman or both did what they
could call the law enforcement. Law enforcement got there. So
once law enforcement was there, they were no longer needed.
They got back in the car, got back on the
(10:15):
highway and then was struck from behind by a Honda
driven by a nineteen year old woman. So in that
they get a crash. It was so close to the
original scene where they stopped for the domestic violence that
the state troopers or whoever showed up went to ran
(10:39):
over to help them and saw what was going on.
So you have the nineteen year old woman and Ted
Goodman that had some some issues as well, nothing life
threatening as far as injuries were, and they were taken
to a hospital for treatment. But the cars apparently both
cars went forward and then into the highway median and
(11:03):
left the vehicles incredibly damaged. So it when you're when
you think about it, you're going you're just now pulling
back into the highway, so they couldn't have been going
too fast, but the car that hit them probably was
(11:23):
and pushed them all into the median there because if
they had gotten any speed, they'd be further far enough
away from the state troopers who were there for the
original incident. So what a weird story that has, you know,
all these different steps to it. And the first thing
I thought about is, wow. You know, Rudy Giuliani at
(11:50):
one time was referred to as America's mayor, cleaned up
New York Times Square and did a lot, held our
hands and was a point of strength during nine to eleven.
And now he's a punchline mostly, and we're weird. Americans
(12:15):
are weird. We love to lift people off up, but
we love twice as much to tear them down. And I,
you know, some of the things he's said and done
since sounds crazy. I'm sorry they do. He sounds crazy. Oh,
the amusement park story, you didn't hear that yesterday? Yeah? No,
(12:38):
he's fine and is reacting to that. The boy that
was at that amusement park that was crawling on the
monorail track. Yeah, now someone climbed up and got him.
Is there a Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Yeah, some kid
couldn't find his parents or something and just you. She's like,
(13:00):
holy hell, I know. It's a weird thing to see
a kid, a tiny little kid, walking on a monorail. Yeah,
a little weird. AnyWho, back to Rudy Giuliani, he is
a squirrel. I'm sorry. Even when Handle's not here, you
got to give the people what they want. They want Handle.
I'm having a diet Coke, I'm eating, I'm warming up
(13:24):
for Tata's from Costco. I don't know what day it is.
I don't know who I am. I got married twice
during the first segment of the show. I don't know
what I'm doing. I'm being handled in the best way possible.
So god speed, mister Giuliani. But man, yeah, you have
(13:47):
found yourself in some very strange places since you were
referred to as America's mayor. May you find your way back, sir,
and in good health. And I feel like we need
to boove from what we were doing and have a
small intervention. You've seem really bothered by the boy walking
(14:09):
on the monorail.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's so upsetting.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, it took me. I thought it was Disneyland at first,
but it's actually Hershey feel or whatever that thing is.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Feel better now that you said the monail was not working.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
My understanding is the mono rail was not in service.
I think it happened yesterday or Saturday. And if you
haven't seen the video, it's out there in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
They have a theme park, Hershey theme Park, and it
looks actually looks kind of fun water park and all that,
and they have a monorail there as well. And I'm
(14:40):
going to say five year old maybe six five or
six year old was walking along the monorail.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Now, how did he get up there?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Well, that's the weird day. There's the rub, but that's
what twelve feet high? Oh at least, yeah, at least
probably more like twenty five as much. Yeah, it's up
at least twenty feet yeah, right, because they and then
a couple of fellas. One guy got there first, climbed
up the side. So if they've got to climb up
(15:12):
the side to get to him, he obviously you know,
it's pretty high up. But he's walking and people are yelling, honey,
stop stop what he's covering his ears like it was
too loud, so yeah, I'm thinking maybe five years old.
But he's covering his ears and then someone goes up
(15:32):
up there and get him. Apparently he's he was lost
or lost his parents. But how you climb up on
a monorail.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
You don't just end up there like, oh I made
the wrong turn and here I am. Yeah, because physically
do that. You know, I'm thinking Disneyland. This was not Disneyland,
but I'm thinking, Okay, there's a couple of the mono rail,
you know, the stations that you can get up too,
but you can't just walk on the monorail on the
(16:04):
rail itself.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Well, but if the rider's closed, like you said, there's
a station and maybe he just crawled up the station
went out onto what the tracks are.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, that must have been what he did.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
And they didn't have any kind of either security there
or workers there manning it right, because because the attraction
was closed exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So you think the kid was smart enough to go, hey,
you know what, I need to get eyes up. I
need to go high so I can see where my
parents work. Ory, why would you walk on that thinking
that's going to be the best place for you to
be strolling about?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Well, because he's a kid, and maybe he was looking
for his parents on the monorail and they picked him up,
and he hugged the guy who rescued him, so he
was probably just scared and looking for mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, I'm glad that he's okay, but yeah, and then
and started going on about her good boy was lost
in Target one time, my.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Three year old.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
He just I turned around, he was gone, and I
literally lost my mind. Greamy his name, asking the Target
employees to lock all the doors because I just I
knew he was in the parking lot with some weirdo
and I was freaking out. And he was in the
toy section looking at Thomas the tank engine. But they can,
(17:16):
they can get away from pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Oh yeah, uh. Max Is the was never a runner.
He was he was like he runs now, but he
was like he always stay like. He wasn't the kid
with a fork in the electrical outlet. He just he's
curious enough and like he'd climb things. And then sometimes
(17:43):
when he was probably like you said, maybe two ish
or three ish, they get the zoomies and they just
dart off and if you aren't, you know, eyes on,
they're thirty feet away in his snack, like I remember that, Yeah,
but he wasn't it. That would be in more open areas,
(18:03):
Like he'd do that in open areas, maybe at Disneyland.
I remember Tracy having to be on his six all
the time. But me, growing up, we were like you
remember those at Sears they had the round racks and
you'd hide in the middle of them.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That was my favorite thing.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, we all did it. And you'd hide in those
racks and scare the crap out of your mom because
you didn't know where you were. I remember my younger brother,
he was just a litlin and he must have let
go of my mom's hand at some point, looked around
and sought another woman hand and assumed that, hey, this
(18:45):
has got to be my mom. And I'm walking with
my mom and I'm like, why is he holding that
other lady's hand, and then kind of moves off. There
was a time, gosh, back when you did stuff like this. Well,
like we my wife and I always go whenever we
have a story about you know, our parents are holding
(19:06):
you on the front seat with no seat belts in
a bug buick with a steel dashboard. Uh, you know
that came to a point or something like that, and
we look at each other and go as the seventies,
we were raising the seventies, you know, that's just the
way it was. But my mom left us in a car,
(19:27):
a running car, while she ran into the bank real quick.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Okay, did you see that The kids and just got
carjacked in East LA yesterday?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well this was in the seventies, I know, but you
can't do that anymore. They didn't carjack back then.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
They did.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
There were three Mom went in to go run into
the seven to eleven and somebody jumped in, took off
in their car with three kids in.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The Backseatle's then that becomes kidnapping. Yes, well, I would
park the car, I'd bring it back, said sorry, I
thought it was mine. Here's your car and your kids.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I don't want to with those three kids.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah. Yeah, there was something in the fact that had
a foul stench. I think one needs to be changed.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
It was the two year old.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Wow, but they're all okay, right.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
They all went to the hospital. But they're all out
of the hospital now, good, So that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Good. So I think it was my little brother that
put the car and were neutral or something. Oops and
like that. But that's when strangers came and helped you.
That's like and so some guy jumped in and you know,
grabbed it and stopped it, and we're like, wow, this
guy's totally ruined all the fun? What's that about? Before
(20:38):
we went in the street? But you did, you know
the fact that my that my mom did not lose
children is amazing. Seven kids? Seven kids? Like you have
a bad math day and you're coming home with four
kids and going, wait a second, I thought I counted them.
(21:01):
So that when you see things happening and everybody jumps
in and like where are the parents? You know they
forget that kids and this may freak people out or
actually little humans with their own brain, their own desires,
and you've got to be up on that stuff. And
(21:21):
even with two parents tag teaming there, they can be
quick and situations can you know, push you out of control.
We haven't had anything like that with Max before, but
there's sometimes in those gosh, what are they like big
(21:43):
playgrounds or something or where they have all these little
places where they climb up and then run around, and
it's got the the bridges and that you have to
be at both ends, and you have to you have
to both be watching or one in there. And trust me,
it's not me. I'm not climbing in those things. They're
not made for a two hundred and fifty five pound man.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I one time had to climb through the tube.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, and I'm like, oh my god, listening breaks,
I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Not to mention it was Chuck e Cheese. Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
He wouldn't. He was afraid to come out.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You're probably immune to everything now though it was always
my son, never my daughter, No boys or she would
always just look at their twins and she would just
look at him disappointed. She mastered the disappointe. Nice job
you made mom climb in there, jerk. Alrighty, Greenwich Village.
(22:42):
Let's go to New York, shall we. There's a vintage
a building there, apartment building, Greenwich Village, and it happens
to be the you know place where New York Times
Executive editor Joseph Kahan lives. Okay, got to live somewhere, right.
It was defaced with red paint and graffiti on Friday morning,
(23:06):
very early hours. You know, it's a mess there, red
paint everywhere, and then on the base of the steps
that read Joe con lies Gaza dies. So this is
a longgoing and ongoing situation where I guess there are
(23:27):
those that believe that The New York Times is not
doing right by the coverage they're doing in the war
in Gaza. Backlash apparently on their headquarters in Times Square
was vandalized last month, also with the red paint similar
(23:48):
spray painted sentiment New York Times or NYT lies Gaza dies.
No restumate at this point. New York Police Department said
that the investigation remains open and ongoing, and the Time
says it's working with police. Obviously, you can disagree, you
(24:10):
can even hate war. How can you not the thought
of women and children. I know that's old school, but
the thought of women and children dying in Gaza is horrific.
Innocent non military men also seeing the destruction of any place,
(24:37):
I mean, the thought of that is so foreign to us.
Outside of New York on nine to eleven, outside of
Hawaii during Pearl Harbor. There, we have not been attacked,
(25:01):
we haven't had boots on the ground in the sense,
or we haven't been bombed to oblivion. It's hard to imagine.
You see pictures. I have friends and family that have
been to Ukraine during the war, and the pictures I've
(25:29):
seen are horrific. I mean, you can't imagine that kind
of destruction that's going on. I get all that, but
there there's an old joke back when I studied theology
about pastors writing their notes for Sunday and that the
(25:49):
janitor was sweeping up afterwards and grabbing the notes. And
there was a point said, argument gets weak here speak
louder and that concept of well, you got to put
the passion where you don't have the good argument. And
in this case, I find that if you go to terrorism,
(26:11):
which is what this is, this is somebody wanting to
force their view. This isn't a protest. This to me
screams I don't have a good argument or I can't
articulate that argument, So I'm going to spray pain a
slogan and I'm going to deface property. These are the
same wing nuts that throw paint or things on artwork,
(26:39):
because what they're doing is saying we are if they're
not making a statement of look, you think this is
so important and precious when life is No, I don't
see that. I see something that took time and effort
and energy and creativity, and you're trying to destroy it
(27:00):
because you're not smart enough to make an articulate argument
or to raise enough people up and a voice that
has power. So you throw a slogan it's basically a
vandalism bumper sticker on the side of a building where
(27:20):
other people live as well and work, and other people
own the building and the like, and people that work
for the city that now have to come clean it
up because you're too stupid to be able to articulate.
You don't have the ability even if your cause is right.
(27:41):
And we've gotten to the point where there is no protests.
There is tiny armies of terrorism, domestic terrorism to try
and strike fear into people rather than people to understand.
(28:02):
And this is nothing new. I mean, you go to
the Inquisition, you go you know with Christianity, you can
go to just about every religion at some point, not
being able to articulate the benefits of their own faith
and believe, so they try and force it on people.
There's been people in the seat of power who found
(28:25):
a faith and then forced it upon the people. There
are conquerors who came colonizers, whatever you want to call them,
that would come and force their beliefs, and you know
what you'd get. You'd get pollution, you get weird beliefs,
part Catholicism, part voodoo, all kinds of things, because we
(28:49):
feel the need to force our beliefs on other people
without being able to make an argument or to change
a mind intellectually. Over and over. I've said this on
this program and others, that we get to the point
where we're so emotional, we only no emotion. We don't
(29:11):
know how to use reason. When you take classes and
giving speeches and debate, you learn to persuade, and that's
not to force, that's to ask questions or say, is
(29:32):
there a better way to do this? When we get emotional,
we lose that focus, like I will you want to
hear something crazy. Decades from now, there is a large
possibility that Trump will be seen as a very effective president.
(29:54):
And I'll tell you why there's so much emotion now.
When the motion leaves, there's only what took place and
what didn't. We saw that with Nixon a pariah. Then
all of a sudden, Nixon's not a big deal now
(30:14):
because you get away from you get distance from these things,
and then people just look at the facts, and we
don't have that when we're arguing or trying to convince
people of what's going on somewhere, So we throw paint
on something, which to me is just a motive. That's
(30:38):
no different than someone tagging their names somewhere because they
want to be famous with their crew or within people
around them or what have you. But I will tell
you that more and more we see this stupidity of
people destroying things, defacing things because they can't argue their case.
(31:00):
And that's a bad state that we get into. We're
supposed to be smart, we're supposed to be articulate and
be able to explain to somebody. Listen, there are people dying. Yeah,
well that's because you care about this war. There's people
dying all over the place. Well, you're doing war, so
you're buying paint. So I have a hard time looking
(31:25):
at these things and saying, okay, that's a value. Okay,
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