August 5, 2025 • 24 mins
(Tuesday Aug 05,2025)
Texas redistricting move would ‘trigger’ new California maps, Newsom says. ‘Drones as first responders’ programs sweep city police departments. Americans are spending more time at home alone. A zoo in Denmark wants to feed your pets to its predators.
Texas redistricting move would ‘trigger’ new California maps, Newsom says. ‘Drones as first responders’ programs sweep city police departments. Americans are spending more time at home alone. A zoo in Denmark wants to feed your pets to its predators.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're list Saints KFI AM six forty. The Bill handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
F CAL I not can't find handle.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Here Tuesday morning, August five, and oh god, politics, politics,
It does not stop the polarity that is going on,
the bipolarity, the just fighting that goes on between Democrats
(00:32):
and Republicans.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Is, I don't know if we're ever going to go
back to bipartisan or independence or nonpartisan tickets. It just
doesn't exist anymore. So here's what's going on in Texas.
The President said I want more congressional districts that are Republican. Now,
(00:56):
how does the president have a right to just arbitrarily
say I want more Republican districts. Well, it turns out
that state legislatures every ten years take information from the census,
and based on the census, they draw congressional districts and
(01:16):
usually determines it's determined by party and ethnicity. And because
the census has all that information, so what they're doing
is they're redrawing the map. And what does that mean, Well,
you have a democratic district that is safely democratic.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And what the redistricting.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Does is take the line and move it around, so
all the Democrats in that immediate area are in one district,
leaving let's say purple districts only the Republicans, and they're
doing that to five different districts, and that means five
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new Republican districts.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
They herefore could go either way.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's jerry mandering, dancing around, and it's done every ten
years by both parties. The difference this time around is
the President ordered this to be done, requested, but a
request from the president is an order in Republican circles,
and that's exactly what Texas is doing right now. And
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they are going to pass a bill that does that
because the legislature has the ability to do that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Can they do it midterm? Yes, it seems they can.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And so you have the Democrats trying to stop it,
and they really can't because the majority of Republicans in
the Senate and I think they have an assembly also
in the state legislature, and.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So they've left.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
The Democrats have come up and they're leaving Dodge, which
means that there are not enough legislators in the state
of Texas to form a quorum. There has to be
a minimum number of legislators to pass a bill and
they're just out of there no quorum. Well, what happens
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when they're no quorum? Well, a bill can't be passed. Now,
does the governor have a right to bring them back
and does the rest of the legislature have a right
to bring them back? Yes, the governor has a right
to have them arrested out of state. And that's what
he said, that he is sending state troopers to these
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democrats wherever they are, arresting them and dragging them back
into the state.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Can it be done?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, it can? Will it be done? Can you imagine
the political fallout?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What are they going to do?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Put handcuffs on these guys and drag them out of
buildings and restaurants and hotel rooms and friends and families
homes can't wait for them. One oh, and there are
no civil or criminal penalties for this. Now, there are
penalties in certain circumstances. If they're purposely leaving and somebody
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or an organization is paying their expenses to leave, he
can argue that's the governor that this is bribery, that
is criminal that he can have them arrested for. And
so this whole thing is a clustered truck of enormous proportions. Okay,
while that's going on, this is a red state. You've
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got the governor of California Newsom and the governor of
New York Local are saying we're going to do exactly
the same thing, and we're going to create more democratic strongholds.
So therefore we're going to flip hours the other way.
Here's a difference though, in both cases, because of the
fear of the political involvement and the political influence, both
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states have created an commission to redistrict where politics are
not to be involved, and so California Newsom is trying
to change it. Now, there are some real parameters they
have to do this now. I mean, there is not
enough time. He needs to put up a bill in
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a special election in November. Ballots have to be printed,
they have to be distributed, the legislature must have hearings.
So it has to happen, I mean right now now here.
This is the interesting part, and I guarantee you this
is going to go on, and that is there'll be
a special election to move the election process, to move
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the the redistricting process away from the Independent Council. The
independent organization. Back to the legislature, you will see the
Republicans fighting that and arguing the governor is undoing the law.
The law says, well, how about the fact that you've
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done it in Texas that will be deflected.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's going to go crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's much like when Kamala Harris was nominated for president.
Do you know the Republicans filed a lawsuit saying that
Kamala Harris can't run because there was no primary. They
actually try to stop the Democrats from going forward with
their nomination because they didn't follow the primary rules. And
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of course it turned out a party doesn't need a primary,
but it doesn't stop either party from going nuts. So
is it going to happen? If it does not happen,
if the Blue states do not pass bills allowing the redistricting,
then you've got five more Republican, five more Republican congress people,
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and that will keep the Congress Republican.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's just such a mess, drives you completely crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Okay, Now drones, drones are now a part of life
big time, and they're buzzing around and they're delivering. At
first they came out and we're delivering medicine. If you
remember the very first drones, and now they're delivering pizza,
and now they're delivering whatever the hell they're delivering. Now
(07:31):
that's just kind of fun. But I'll tell you where
drones are not only in my opinion, necessary, but man,
what a job they're doing. And they are drones as
first responders. Dfrs skyrocketing and popularity among police departments across
the country. The FAA streamlined the process for agencies to
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adopt the program this spring, and what previously took a
year to get a permit from the FCC permission, now
you can do it in days. Law enforcement and drone
industry leaders have come together and they are using drones
as first responders.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
When you have a camera in the sky, you can.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
See things that cops can't normally see, and that offers
a huge potential for privacy invasion. According to of course,
one of the civil libertarians, senior researcher with the Electric
Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, Well, the police.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Say, well hang on a minute.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Dfrs serve as that eye in the sky and they
stream footage to officers before they can enter or do
enter a potentially dangerous situation.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's almost like robots.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's very similar to robots that go in into dangerous situations,
and that's being used by police forces all over the country.
This happens to be the eye in the sky. Oh
my goodness, that is horrible. Well, here's what the cops say.
We don't have crystal balls. We don't know what we're
going into. And that's according to Roxanna Kenaday.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Chief of Police and Chula Vista.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And there's no public list of the agencies that have
adopted these programs. All kinds of gray areas around what
constitutes a DFR version of a drone program that makes
creating definitive count official.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No one really knows how many.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They think around fifty agencies have launched these programs between
twenty eighteen and twenty eight twenty four. But man, they're
gaining ground really fast. According to a DFR manufacturer, a
handful of departments per week are in fact adopting drones,
and so far the FAA has approved waivers for at
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least three hundred agencies to adopt drone responder first responder
programs so far this year for six months, and so
certainly the FVAA is in favor of this. So These
are different from tactical drones that have been used in policing.
(10:19):
Unlike earlier drones, what these dfrs do. These new ones
their launch from docs positioned around the city, their control
from inside police station. They don't need to be within
an officer's line of sight.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Which was the previous rule, which is why.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
They require, by the way, that special permit permission from
the FAA.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And here is what Kennedy, Toulvista police chief said.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
The drone's average response time is under two minutes, outpacing
patrol units. In Redmond, Washington. Drones arrive at the scene
before an officer does about seventy five percent of the
time they are deployed. And what is so special about drones. Well,
let's say someone calls in and said, there's an armed
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man or woman, usually a man, who is now going
up and down the street.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Up goes the drone.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And now you have a drone looking for someone who
is there where cops would normally have to go street
to street.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Let's say an overdose scenario.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
According to the guy who heads the program in Laredo,
in an overdose scenario, an officer could drop a dose
right onto the scene, talk to a bystander through the
drones loud speaker and say hey, here's what you do
to save a life. That's just an example of what
could happen. Is it happened yet? Probably not? But how
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about low priority calls, a suspicious person walking near private property. Well,
the drones help police realize it's unnecessary to send a cop. Now,
of course, the similar libertarians say that these drone first
responders can encourage police intrusions in places they couldn't normally view.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, police do that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
They look at places where they can't normally look at.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's the point of drones.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Now, I'd rather have a drone flying around protecting my house,
my business.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Than not privacy.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
How about the guy next door who has a pair
of binoculars on the second floor. How about the helicopter
that goes overhead and doesn't respond because there's no call,
just flies around the city just looking down what's going on?
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And if there is a call, they then are sent
to that place. And they have those huge lights with
a zillion lumen power. And I got to fly in
one of those ones, and they fly around and around.
You want to get sick, you want to throw up,
Get in one of those helicopters that go round and around.
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I'm a big fan of drones. Civil libertarians are going
to be fighting this. They're going no place with this,
because this is truly technology and a good way. And
they deliver pizza, which is even more important. You call,
the pizza, is delivered hot, and even if it is
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the wrong pizza I didn't order, pepperoni, out comes the
drone and it's delivered back to you in five minutes.
Tell me that is not magic. Tell me that is
not an appropriate use of drones. Now moving over to
how miserable we are are because we're spending a lot
more time at home. We spend an average of ninety
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nine more minutes at home than we did in twenty
two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Four year old spend one hundred and twenty four more
minutes at home than two decades ago, and thirty percent
of Americans spend their time socially socializing and communicating in person.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I have no idea what that means. Now, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, we're voluntarily spending an extra COVID lockdown worth of
time each year, more than three weeks more alone each year, and.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We societis as sociologists.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And you know, the rest of the crowd who studies
is saying, you know what, we're not getting much attention
with this.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
There are plenty of healthy activities at home. Maybe that's
why playing with your children, playing with yourself, pursuing a hobby.
There's a lot of things you can do at home.
But being at home home really affects your lifestyle. You're
more sedentary, and that means lack of exercise, social isolation,
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and that doesn't bode well. I mean being alone at home,
I kind of like it. Well I'm forced to do
that because well I'm forced to do that. But living
in communities, for example, where you can walk, where there's green,
green zones, but that's where people who have money. So
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people who have money generally are more fit than people
who don't. Why better nutrition, more exercise, certainly, more interaction
on a fun level because you're not out there hustling
for work or hustling for food.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And so society has a real problem.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And here is the disparity between the rich and the poor,
which is getting wider and wider, as we know, as
housing is getting more and more expensive, as food is
getting more and more expensive. Living is getting more and
more expensive. Frankly, we as Americans don't have time to
do this stuff that helps our health, helps our mental state.
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And I've often said the best way of dealing with
America and its social ills is to get rich. And
if you can get rich, I mean, that's an easy one.
If you get rich, you'll do better. Now, however, we've
got some real, real issues. Is there a way to
deal with it. Yeah, it's a philosophical difference. It is society.
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It is cities putting in new parks, dealing with having
people interact with each other, social centers. I mean it
used to be there were senior centers in every single
park in the city. I remember when I was playing
there was a senior center there. We had this was
summertime where we effectively had camp during the summer, and
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it was free and it was paid by the school board. Yeah,
those days are certainly gone. So the good news is
we're spending more time at home alone so we can
watch football by ourselves.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And the bad.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
News is we are spending more time at home alone
watching football, and it doesn't do us. It doesn't do
us physical health and or mental health.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
All right coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
We talked about this before, and this is kind of
fun unless you're one of the animals that are being
donated so predators can eat you. And it's a zoo
in Denmark that is asking for your donations. Your dog,
your lovely pet, dog that's been with you for a lifetime,
that it's closer to family, give it to us so
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our people or our animals can eat it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
It's a great story, it really is, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And before I go on talking about how your pet
is going to be eaten by a mountain lion in Denmark,
Neil birthday time, you've got.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
To announces that's the Saguay Thank you. Yes, this Saturday,
August ninth, we're gonna be celebrating my birthday. But the
reality is it's an excuse for us all to get together.
Sounds super douchey otherwise, but August ninth at Disconso Restaurant
in Los Angeles. It's right there near the labri at Tarpits.
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It's fantastic and I'd love to have you there. Two
to five will be me broadcasting live, and then Tiffany
Hobbs will broadcast from five to seven. She's perfectly lovely
and it's a VIP of affair and you'll get some
complimentary apps. They'll have some drink specials, all kinds of stuff,
some swags, some giveaways.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
RSVP.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Go to your email and send an RSVP to r
SVP at Disconso Restaurant dot com. RSVP at Disconso Restaurant
dot com, full name and number of guests, and I
will be thrilled to shake your hand and welcome you
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Don't bring your pets because they're probably not going to
come home with you.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
With that being said.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
The Alborg Zoo in Denmark is asking for donations. Not
usually zoos asked for donations in terms of money, all right,
they want grants, they want money. Well, in this case,
the zoo wants your guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even
small horses to feed to their predators. M last week
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or last Thursday, and a Facebook post the zoo noted
that it welcomed animals regardless of circumstance that might be
nearing the end of their lives, and these animals would
be gently euthanized by trained employees. I'm assumming that since
they're being gently euthanized. They won't be killed with sledgehammers.
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Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
And then after they are completely dead, they're going to
be used as food for the predators like the European links.
Lions and tigers and bears also part of the zoo's
predator exhibits. And so what's going to happen? Why is
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the zoo broke and they can't afford food? Not? Really,
what they want to do is mimic the natural food
chain by feeding whole prey to the predators. And the
post went on to say, this way nothing goes to waste.
We ensure natural behavior, nutrition and well being for our predators. Huh,
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and our needs vary throughout the year. There actually may
be a waiting list now for horses. Certain conditions must
be met, including the horse not having recently been treated
for an illness. Also chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs. Now that's
only during weekdays between ten am and one pm and
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no more than four at a time. And so look
at the difference. There is a massive movement here in
the United States which has recently come up, and I
love it, and that is people adopt dogs at the
last stages of their lives. There's a neighbor that I
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had previous house, and there was this dog that was
old and blind, and the guy adopted him so he
could end his life without being euthanized, which that's pretty
special for someone to do that. In the meantime, the
zoo says, no, let's let our predators eat those guys.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And incidentally, this is not the first time Denmark zoos
have come under fire for their approach to death. In
twenty fourteen, the Copenhagen Zoo euthanized a healthy, young giraffe
named now dead Marius. It used to be just Marius,
and that is because his genes were already well represented
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among the captive giraffes, much like what happens here at KFI.
Our genes are much well representative among our hosts. So
they killed it and the zoo invited members of the
public to watch the autopsy of this giraffe as an
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educational opportunity, and then fed Marius to some of its
big cats, including the lions. Now weeks later the euthanize
four of those lions. This is really nice. This is
the circle of life, Neil, As you pointed, out. Actually,
it's a circle of death, and the lions were killed
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to prevent the male lion from reading with his daughters.
They got these animals from Tennessee and brought them over there,
and so they want didn't and they wanted to prevent
a newly arrived young male from attacking the cubs, because
what lions do is they tend to eat the cubs
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of other male lions who reproduce.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Man, that's interesting stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, I'd go to the zoo, especially this one in Denmark.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
All right, we're done with that. KFI A M.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
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Speaker 2 (23:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
F CAL I not can't find handle.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Here Tuesday morning, August five, and oh god, politics, politics,
It does not stop the polarity that is going on,
the bipolarity, the just fighting that goes on between Democrats
(00:32):
and Republicans.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Is, I don't know if we're ever going to go
back to bipartisan or independence or nonpartisan tickets. It just
doesn't exist anymore. So here's what's going on in Texas.
The President said I want more congressional districts that are Republican. Now,
(00:56):
how does the president have a right to just arbitrarily
say I want more Republican districts. Well, it turns out
that state legislatures every ten years take information from the census,
and based on the census, they draw congressional districts and
(01:16):
usually determines it's determined by party and ethnicity. And because
the census has all that information, so what they're doing
is they're redrawing the map. And what does that mean, Well,
you have a democratic district that is safely democratic.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And what the redistricting.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Does is take the line and move it around, so
all the Democrats in that immediate area are in one district,
leaving let's say purple districts only the Republicans, and they're
doing that to five different districts, and that means five
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new Republican districts.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
They herefore could go either way.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's jerry mandering, dancing around, and it's done every ten
years by both parties. The difference this time around is
the President ordered this to be done, requested, but a
request from the president is an order in Republican circles,
and that's exactly what Texas is doing right now. And
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they are going to pass a bill that does that
because the legislature has the ability to do that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Can they do it midterm? Yes, it seems they can.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And so you have the Democrats trying to stop it,
and they really can't because the majority of Republicans in
the Senate and I think they have an assembly also
in the state legislature, and.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So they've left.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
The Democrats have come up and they're leaving Dodge, which
means that there are not enough legislators in the state
of Texas to form a quorum. There has to be
a minimum number of legislators to pass a bill and
they're just out of there no quorum. Well, what happens
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when they're no quorum? Well, a bill can't be passed. Now,
does the governor have a right to bring them back
and does the rest of the legislature have a right
to bring them back? Yes, the governor has a right
to have them arrested out of state. And that's what
he said, that he is sending state troopers to these
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democrats wherever they are, arresting them and dragging them back
into the state.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Can it be done?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, it can? Will it be done? Can you imagine
the political fallout?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What are they going to do?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Put handcuffs on these guys and drag them out of
buildings and restaurants and hotel rooms and friends and families
homes can't wait for them. One oh, and there are
no civil or criminal penalties for this. Now, there are
penalties in certain circumstances. If they're purposely leaving and somebody
(04:12):
or an organization is paying their expenses to leave, he
can argue that's the governor that this is bribery, that
is criminal that he can have them arrested for. And
so this whole thing is a clustered truck of enormous proportions. Okay,
while that's going on, this is a red state. You've
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got the governor of California Newsom and the governor of
New York Local are saying we're going to do exactly
the same thing, and we're going to create more democratic strongholds.
So therefore we're going to flip hours the other way.
Here's a difference though, in both cases, because of the
fear of the political involvement and the political influence, both
(04:57):
states have created an commission to redistrict where politics are
not to be involved, and so California Newsom is trying
to change it. Now, there are some real parameters they
have to do this now. I mean, there is not
enough time. He needs to put up a bill in
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a special election in November. Ballots have to be printed,
they have to be distributed, the legislature must have hearings.
So it has to happen, I mean right now now here.
This is the interesting part, and I guarantee you this
is going to go on, and that is there'll be
a special election to move the election process, to move
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the the redistricting process away from the Independent Council. The
independent organization. Back to the legislature, you will see the
Republicans fighting that and arguing the governor is undoing the law.
The law says, well, how about the fact that you've
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done it in Texas that will be deflected.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's going to go crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's much like when Kamala Harris was nominated for president.
Do you know the Republicans filed a lawsuit saying that
Kamala Harris can't run because there was no primary. They
actually try to stop the Democrats from going forward with
their nomination because they didn't follow the primary rules. And
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of course it turned out a party doesn't need a primary,
but it doesn't stop either party from going nuts. So
is it going to happen? If it does not happen,
if the Blue states do not pass bills allowing the redistricting,
then you've got five more Republican, five more Republican congress people,
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and that will keep the Congress Republican.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's just such a mess, drives you completely crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Okay, Now drones, drones are now a part of life
big time, and they're buzzing around and they're delivering. At
first they came out and we're delivering medicine. If you
remember the very first drones, and now they're delivering pizza,
and now they're delivering whatever the hell they're delivering. Now
(07:31):
that's just kind of fun. But I'll tell you where
drones are not only in my opinion, necessary, but man,
what a job they're doing. And they are drones as
first responders. Dfrs skyrocketing and popularity among police departments across
the country. The FAA streamlined the process for agencies to
(07:54):
adopt the program this spring, and what previously took a
year to get a permit from the FCC permission, now
you can do it in days. Law enforcement and drone
industry leaders have come together and they are using drones
as first responders.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
When you have a camera in the sky, you can.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
See things that cops can't normally see, and that offers
a huge potential for privacy invasion. According to of course,
one of the civil libertarians, senior researcher with the Electric
Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, Well, the police.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Say, well hang on a minute.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Dfrs serve as that eye in the sky and they
stream footage to officers before they can enter or do
enter a potentially dangerous situation.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's almost like robots.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's very similar to robots that go in into dangerous situations,
and that's being used by police forces all over the country.
This happens to be the eye in the sky. Oh
my goodness, that is horrible. Well, here's what the cops say.
We don't have crystal balls. We don't know what we're
going into. And that's according to Roxanna Kenaday.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Chief of Police and Chula Vista.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And there's no public list of the agencies that have
adopted these programs. All kinds of gray areas around what
constitutes a DFR version of a drone program that makes
creating definitive count official.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No one really knows how many.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They think around fifty agencies have launched these programs between
twenty eighteen and twenty eight twenty four. But man, they're
gaining ground really fast. According to a DFR manufacturer, a
handful of departments per week are in fact adopting drones,
and so far the FAA has approved waivers for at
(09:58):
least three hundred agencies to adopt drone responder first responder
programs so far this year for six months, and so
certainly the FVAA is in favor of this. So These
are different from tactical drones that have been used in policing.
(10:19):
Unlike earlier drones, what these dfrs do. These new ones
their launch from docs positioned around the city, their control
from inside police station. They don't need to be within
an officer's line of sight.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Which was the previous rule, which is why.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
They require, by the way, that special permit permission from
the FAA.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And here is what Kennedy, Toulvista police chief said.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
The drone's average response time is under two minutes, outpacing
patrol units. In Redmond, Washington. Drones arrive at the scene
before an officer does about seventy five percent of the
time they are deployed. And what is so special about drones. Well,
let's say someone calls in and said, there's an armed
(11:13):
man or woman, usually a man, who is now going
up and down the street.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Up goes the drone.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And now you have a drone looking for someone who
is there where cops would normally have to go street
to street.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Let's say an overdose scenario.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
According to the guy who heads the program in Laredo,
in an overdose scenario, an officer could drop a dose
right onto the scene, talk to a bystander through the
drones loud speaker and say hey, here's what you do
to save a life. That's just an example of what
could happen. Is it happened yet? Probably not? But how
(11:55):
about low priority calls, a suspicious person walking near private property. Well,
the drones help police realize it's unnecessary to send a cop. Now,
of course, the similar libertarians say that these drone first
responders can encourage police intrusions in places they couldn't normally view.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, police do that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
They look at places where they can't normally look at.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's the point of drones.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Now, I'd rather have a drone flying around protecting my house,
my business.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Than not privacy.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
How about the guy next door who has a pair
of binoculars on the second floor. How about the helicopter
that goes overhead and doesn't respond because there's no call,
just flies around the city just looking down what's going on?
(12:59):
And if there is a call, they then are sent
to that place. And they have those huge lights with
a zillion lumen power. And I got to fly in
one of those ones, and they fly around and around.
You want to get sick, you want to throw up,
Get in one of those helicopters that go round and around.
(13:22):
I'm a big fan of drones. Civil libertarians are going
to be fighting this. They're going no place with this,
because this is truly technology and a good way. And
they deliver pizza, which is even more important. You call,
the pizza, is delivered hot, and even if it is
(13:43):
the wrong pizza I didn't order, pepperoni, out comes the
drone and it's delivered back to you in five minutes.
Tell me that is not magic. Tell me that is
not an appropriate use of drones. Now moving over to
how miserable we are are because we're spending a lot
more time at home. We spend an average of ninety
(14:05):
nine more minutes at home than we did in twenty
two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Four year old spend one hundred and twenty four more
minutes at home than two decades ago, and thirty percent
of Americans spend their time socially socializing and communicating in person.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I have no idea what that means. Now, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, we're voluntarily spending an extra COVID lockdown worth of
time each year, more than three weeks more alone each year, and.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We societis as sociologists.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And you know, the rest of the crowd who studies
is saying, you know what, we're not getting much attention
with this.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
There are plenty of healthy activities at home. Maybe that's
why playing with your children, playing with yourself, pursuing a hobby.
There's a lot of things you can do at home.
But being at home home really affects your lifestyle. You're
more sedentary, and that means lack of exercise, social isolation,
(15:09):
and that doesn't bode well. I mean being alone at home,
I kind of like it. Well I'm forced to do
that because well I'm forced to do that. But living
in communities, for example, where you can walk, where there's green,
green zones, but that's where people who have money. So
(15:32):
people who have money generally are more fit than people
who don't. Why better nutrition, more exercise, certainly, more interaction
on a fun level because you're not out there hustling
for work or hustling for food.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And so society has a real problem.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And here is the disparity between the rich and the poor,
which is getting wider and wider, as we know, as
housing is getting more and more expensive, as food is
getting more and more expensive. Living is getting more and
more expensive. Frankly, we as Americans don't have time to
do this stuff that helps our health, helps our mental state.
(16:13):
And I've often said the best way of dealing with
America and its social ills is to get rich. And
if you can get rich, I mean, that's an easy one.
If you get rich, you'll do better. Now, however, we've
got some real, real issues. Is there a way to
deal with it. Yeah, it's a philosophical difference. It is society.
(16:38):
It is cities putting in new parks, dealing with having
people interact with each other, social centers. I mean it
used to be there were senior centers in every single
park in the city. I remember when I was playing
there was a senior center there. We had this was
summertime where we effectively had camp during the summer, and
(17:01):
it was free and it was paid by the school board. Yeah,
those days are certainly gone. So the good news is
we're spending more time at home alone so we can
watch football by ourselves.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And the bad.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
News is we are spending more time at home alone
watching football, and it doesn't do us. It doesn't do
us physical health and or mental health.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
All right coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
We talked about this before, and this is kind of
fun unless you're one of the animals that are being
donated so predators can eat you. And it's a zoo
in Denmark that is asking for your donations. Your dog,
your lovely pet, dog that's been with you for a lifetime,
that it's closer to family, give it to us so
(17:51):
our people or our animals can eat it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
It's a great story, it really is, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And before I go on talking about how your pet
is going to be eaten by a mountain lion in Denmark,
Neil birthday time, you've got.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
To announces that's the Saguay Thank you. Yes, this Saturday,
August ninth, we're gonna be celebrating my birthday. But the
reality is it's an excuse for us all to get together.
Sounds super douchey otherwise, but August ninth at Disconso Restaurant
in Los Angeles. It's right there near the labri at Tarpits.
(18:30):
It's fantastic and I'd love to have you there. Two
to five will be me broadcasting live, and then Tiffany
Hobbs will broadcast from five to seven. She's perfectly lovely
and it's a VIP of affair and you'll get some
complimentary apps. They'll have some drink specials, all kinds of stuff,
some swags, some giveaways.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
RSVP.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Go to your email and send an RSVP to r
SVP at Disconso Restaurant dot com. RSVP at Disconso Restaurant
dot com, full name and number of guests, and I
will be thrilled to shake your hand and welcome you
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Don't bring your pets because they're probably not going to
come home with you.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
With that being said.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
The Alborg Zoo in Denmark is asking for donations. Not
usually zoos asked for donations in terms of money, all right,
they want grants, they want money. Well, in this case,
the zoo wants your guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even
small horses to feed to their predators. M last week
(19:45):
or last Thursday, and a Facebook post the zoo noted
that it welcomed animals regardless of circumstance that might be
nearing the end of their lives, and these animals would
be gently euthanized by trained employees. I'm assumming that since
they're being gently euthanized. They won't be killed with sledgehammers.
(20:08):
Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
And then after they are completely dead, they're going to
be used as food for the predators like the European links.
Lions and tigers and bears also part of the zoo's
predator exhibits. And so what's going to happen? Why is
(20:33):
the zoo broke and they can't afford food? Not? Really,
what they want to do is mimic the natural food
chain by feeding whole prey to the predators. And the
post went on to say, this way nothing goes to waste.
We ensure natural behavior, nutrition and well being for our predators. Huh,
(20:56):
and our needs vary throughout the year. There actually may
be a waiting list now for horses. Certain conditions must
be met, including the horse not having recently been treated
for an illness. Also chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs. Now that's
only during weekdays between ten am and one pm and
(21:17):
no more than four at a time. And so look
at the difference. There is a massive movement here in
the United States which has recently come up, and I
love it, and that is people adopt dogs at the
last stages of their lives. There's a neighbor that I
(21:39):
had previous house, and there was this dog that was
old and blind, and the guy adopted him so he
could end his life without being euthanized, which that's pretty
special for someone to do that. In the meantime, the
zoo says, no, let's let our predators eat those guys.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And incidentally, this is not the first time Denmark zoos
have come under fire for their approach to death. In
twenty fourteen, the Copenhagen Zoo euthanized a healthy, young giraffe
named now dead Marius. It used to be just Marius,
and that is because his genes were already well represented
(22:28):
among the captive giraffes, much like what happens here at KFI.
Our genes are much well representative among our hosts. So
they killed it and the zoo invited members of the
public to watch the autopsy of this giraffe as an
(22:49):
educational opportunity, and then fed Marius to some of its
big cats, including the lions. Now weeks later the euthanize
four of those lions. This is really nice. This is
the circle of life, Neil, As you pointed, out. Actually,
it's a circle of death, and the lions were killed
(23:12):
to prevent the male lion from reading with his daughters.
They got these animals from Tennessee and brought them over there,
and so they want didn't and they wanted to prevent
a newly arrived young male from attacking the cubs, because
what lions do is they tend to eat the cubs
(23:35):
of other male lions who reproduce.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Man, that's interesting stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, I'd go to the zoo, especially this one in Denmark.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
All right, we're done with that. KFI A M.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Six.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
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