August 12, 2026 • 28 mins
(August 12, 2026)
435 arrests, $12MIL in OT: LAPD issues report on ICE protests. Will Paramount leave California? Executives say it’s on the table. Crowley scores hail Mary win over democratic socialist Hong. FAA hires 2,000+ gamers to be air traffic controllers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to bill handle on demand from kf I
AM six fortyf HI.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
AM six forty bill handle here on a Wednesday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
August twelfth. It is a hump day.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Some of the big stories we're looking at good news
on inflation. Inflation slowed for the second month in a
row to three point four percent in July, and the
latest consumer price index showed that prices rose point one
percent on a monthly monthly basis, in line with the
economist expectations. And you are going to hear a lot
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with the administration taking credit. I guess some extent it
should about how inflation is being cut. The problem is
it doesn't. If even inflation is zero and we're told
how great it is, go to the supermarket, you're still
going to end up with pretty higher. It's already baked
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in to where prices are just well, they're insanely high.
And I don't think people want the stats. Okay, Now,
there's a report came out yesterday about the LAPD Los
Angeles Police Department, which has been the poster child across
the country for years and years about police activities, and
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what the report did is detail some of the challenges
the department faced when it was responding to protests last year,
the immigration protests, and the report said that officers performed
pretty well when dealing with these large, sometimes violent crowds. Now,
what critics of the report didn't address, or they said
(01:42):
didn't address, was the use of less lethal weapons and
aggressive actions by officers against.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Members of the media.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Now we've had we had a reporter here at the
station that was shot with less un a lethal weapons
during covering a protest, and we had a talk show host,
a former talk show host that was also shot. And
it is from what I understand, it is no fun.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Those hurt those less than lethal weapons and then occasionally
someone loses an eye, and oh my god, you got
to stop all of that. And so, I mean, there's
all kinds of questions asked, but the report said, for
the most part, the police did a pretty good job.
On top of that, during these protests, the department spent
over twelve million dollars just in overtime in the two weeks,
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and the officers made four hundred and thirty five arrests. Okay,
so now the negative stuff. The report blamed poor planning
coordination for issues with the department's response to these protests
that are erupted on city streets, and it was again
inn opposition to the administration's immigration policies. And you don't
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see many protests now because the administration, even though they're
going and certainly they are deporting lots of people and
arresting lots of people, they're really doing it in a
much more low scale way. You know, you don't have
these huge events that are covered by the media and
they just making Ice look horrible. Okay, So what the
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report said, the reason the cops did pretty well is
because they were looking at unprecedented unrest that sometimes devolved
into violence and vandalism.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But that's most protests.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
There aren't many one peaceful protests out there because there
are people there that as an excuse, use these protests
and overreact. Now here is what some of the criticism
is missing from this report sixty two pages, at least
in the view of some long time observers of the LAPD.
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I think some negative observers that the report didn't talk
about the use of less than lethal weapons that left
hundreds of people injured and drew strong condemnations from human
rights groups, didn't specify as to who was shot, didn't
specify as to how many rounds were fired from these
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less than lethal weapons. Now, the report went further, and
I was for the most part a pro LAPD. Report
largely blamed the protesters for instigating violence and injuring officers,
which for the most part is true, saying that agitators
intent on taking advantage made it impossible to avoid using force. Now,
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usually whenever I hear agitators, that to me is a
croc that's used a lot to describe what protests are.
In this case, I absolutely buy it. I absolutely buy it.
And the report said that the LAPD was not prepared
to deal with protective equipment and improvise weaponry. In other words,
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the protesters had some new protective equipment and quote improvised weaponry,
including people with oven mits to pick up those tear
gas canisters while they were on the ground and emitting
the tear gas, picking them up and throwing them back
on the cops. And you see that sort of happening.
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But those are hot and it's not easy to get them.
So what do you do? You use ovenmits? Now, did
you ever think of that that they would use of admits?
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You know, it never occurred to me.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Also, people lobbied, well, they used leaf blowers to redirect
the tear gas going in their direction. Again, who would
think of leaf blowers? I mean, they did stuff that
the police just didn't think. And do you expect the
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police to anticipate everything?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I don't know, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
The report said the cops were also targeted with rocks, bottles,
commercial grade fireworks, molotov cocktails. We see that all the time.
And the report said timely communication was a concern. The
department lacked the necessary number of radio waves frequency and
when the less than lethal weapons proved ineffective, that's when
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they deployed tear gas twice. It was the first time
the department had used that measure since at least the
nineteen seventies. So the bottom line with the report is
that I guess they give the cops a B on
this one if I had two grade it. The department
spent seventeen million dollars in personnel costs in the two weeks,
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twelve of which was just for overtime. And so how
do the cops do well? I you know, I think
the cops, for the most part do a good job.
But then again, I'm pro cop almost across the board
versus the bad guys, even though you know, things fall
through the cracks. I mean, nobody's perfect, and when you
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look at the job the cops have to do, I
think it's almost impossible. I once interviewed a police officer
and he said, during a shooting, during when someone pulls
out a gun, for example, I've got two choices, he said.
Either I shoot them and now I'm on trial and
i am looking at discipline at best and I'm being
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sued of course, or I let them shoot me. Those
are my choices, just as an aside. As I finish
this segment. One hundred and twenty claims for damages have
been filed against the city in connection during those police
actions during the pro immigration protests. One hundred and twenty
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already lawsuits already stemming from the twenty twenty process protests
over the killing of George Floyd. And this is going
to tie up the city for years if it goes
to trial. And so here is the other issue. If
someone is hurt during those protests, it is an immediate
lawsuit against the police for police misconduct, overreaching and physical damages,
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being hurt almost immediately, no matter whether the police are
at faults or not. Even when someone is killed by
the police after pulling a gun on the cops, what
you hear is lawsuit being filed. The police shouldn't have
acted the way they did. And I've heard and talked
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about story after story when the police shot, usually a
young man who had pulled a gun, and then the
mother files the lawsuit for wrongfold.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That's saying you.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Could have wounded him, You could have shot him in
the knee or the leg. Really, okay, why don't you
get into a situation like that and see what happens?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
All right, We're done with that.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
The Hollywood situation continues to get not so great. Here
in La this is you know, we have fears of.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Detroit.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You know, the old saying with Detroit is and the
last person leaves turn out the lights because Motown ended
up being a ghost town. And we're looking at something
similar here when it comes to Hollywood. The very thing
that we grew here. Basically what had happened, you know,
you had it going on in the East Coast other parts,
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and they needed a place where the weather was good
all year round and they moved everything out here. We
know the story of Hollywood Land. Back in the twenties
in the hills, it was a housing area. It was
a housing area up in the hill now Hollywood called
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Hollywood Land, and some of the structures are still there.
But all of the mystique and all of the lore
of Hollywood and the movies is right here. This is
where it started. And to think that we're at a
point where Paramount right now is maybe calling the bluff
of the attorney. Uh, but at this point they're saying
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they could move out of California as soon as October
one if they can't settle this antitrust lawsuit blocking.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Neil, Neil, you started the segment without.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Me, yes, because how dare you? Well, whatever you were doing.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I was peeing and I was making coffee.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Uh, and it was and it was a pretty close
and I just that just takes me a few minutes.
So I don't even know what the hell you said.
But because I was peeing and I was making coffee,
and I don't have a radio in the bathroom or
in the kitchen at.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
This norm, do you care about the audience? I get
hold of that.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
No, I do care about the audience. I care about
the audience.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I truly care about the audience, just not as much
as I care about peeing or making coffee.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Is your colostomy bag full?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Wow? You know what?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
We were keeping it a secret that both of us
have colostomy bags and we like to box.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Speed bag. In any case, you just started, so.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You know you did and your story and I did
hear the last part of it as I ran into
the studio, and it is a I think you pointed
out correctly while all of this that these politics are
going on and the threat to leave in the lawsuit,
that Paramount is being hit by by states because they're
trying to stop uh this merger.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
The merger would go on.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I mean, the merger is going on income hell or
high water, and these states would file lawsuits no matter
whether Paramount stays or not.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
If Paramount were to stay.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I think California is still going to join that lawsuit.
And the problem is in this I'm defending the movie
companies now. It is just too damn expensive. As you
pointed out it is. There are so many other places
around the world that even in the United States, that
are far cheaper, not only in terms of labor and
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they have good quality or a highly skilled people too.
It used to be that Hollywood was it, but other
states have created programs and they do stock or they
do tax breaks and in some cases actually subsidize the films.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
When you're using Canada.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
For Los Angeles, yep, and they're shooting the streets of
you know, Ontario or whatever, or Toronto for La that's
that's a problem that well it's certainly not movie industry
is here.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, Well, that's as far as the back lot is concerned.
And using cities for other cities. I mean, that's happened forever.
Go to the back lot of Universal or Fox uh and.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Or water of that.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
But when you aren't, when in La studio is using
another country for their own city.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Exactly, Well, it's the question of costs.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
First of all, they get away with it because movie
making is pretty skilled and people believe it. It's not
oh boy, that's Toronto, that's Ontario, that's Croatia. No that
you buy it. There's no question. And the point is
that these states, these countries realize there's a lot of
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money to be made when movies come in. They don't
have to build infrastructure it's just money coming in and
everybody wants a piece of it. And it's not just
states Georgia, Tennessee that are sucking sucking movies out of
Southern California, but as I said, other countries, Canada being
one of them, where labor is well, just the amount
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of money, just the difference in terms of the currency exchange.
It's thirty percent different. So a dollar that A costs
here the same to do the same thing is seventy cents.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
When are we going to become Detroit?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Was my question, Exactly at what point do we lose
the very industry that this.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't think it's going to be I don't think
it's going to be Detroit. But it's already cost Southern California.
It cost Hollywood a huge amount of money because you
just can't compete. And you've got California with these insane
restrictions and laws, and you have other You go to Georgia,
for example, go to Atlanta, and not only do they
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have a part of the city, you have an entire
city department that's just just going around and saying, come
to us, come to us for movie making. And here's
what we will do for you, La. I think what
happens is Hollywood is so used to being the center
of all movie making that is sort of a given.
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Now realistically, most of the highly skilled people to make
up people, that the sound people are here in Hollywood.
I mean, you've got a big choice, and this is
the depth of knowledge and experiences here. But you know,
the costs override that they really do. You know, as
I said in the previous segment, you know Lord of
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the Rings was all New Zealand, and if you look
at Game of Thrones, you can go to Croatia and
do Game of Thrones. You can do tours of the
Game of Thrones because those buildings that are not town
Dubrovnik was used as a big part of it. So
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Paramount is it going to leave? Who the hell knows?
I think it's leaving anyway. And this lawsuit now does
this work to stop the move or to stop the
merger of these companies. You know, the problem is Paramount
is arguing that taking these two massive companies is actually
giving me more competition, is actually going to be better
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for the consumer.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
This reminds me of Big Pharma when they realistically said
this is exactly what they said. Lowering the prices of
drugs helps the consumer. It's good for the patient to
raise the prices. That lowering the prices hurts. And here's
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a paramount saying that mergers help, they give you more competition.
Come on, give me a break. And I get that right.
Lowering the prices hurts, raising the prices help. Yeah, I
got that right.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Fair enough. Okay, what happened last night?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Bunch of primaries happened, and then the big issue was
going to be the Democratic Party was really Yet the
Republican Party isn't split because the president controls the Republican Party,
I mean almost completely. Now the Democrats there is a
huge fight afoot and that has to do with the
progressives the liberals can't use that word anymore, and moderate Democrats.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And the results were mixed.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Now what the country is looking at is the Michigan
Senate race. That was important, the governor's races. I don't
think we're important at all because it doesn't affect us.
You know what happens in Wisconsin, what happens in Michigan
with the governorship, eh, you know, how does it affect us?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Now?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
The Senate and the House Oh boy, does that affect
us big time? Those to me and most people, those
are really important races.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And they were sort of mixed down the middle.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And I don't want to get into specifics as to
who won. The names don't really matter, but the issue is, well,
one name matters, and that was the victory of the
David Crowley, who is a moderate winning and he wasn't
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supposed to win over state Francisca Hong, who is a socialist,
a democratic socialist who is also crazy. I mean she
is a fruitcake, and she was way ahead in the polls.
And that's what goes to show you how diverse and
literally how difficult it is for the Democratic Party right
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now because they have left wing and I mean crazy
left wing and moderates and the Republicans want the crazy
left wing to win. Why well, because here we are,
the voters, and what are we looking at.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I mean a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
A lot of us want super liberals, and you know
the super liberals. I mean, I believe what a lot
of says universal healthcare. I know a lot of people, Oh,
we don't want socialist medicine really because our medical system
works so well. Medicare for all why should medicare only
be for people over sixty five? Well, maybe because we
paid into it all of these years and we pay
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taxes all these years.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
That's an argument.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And we are seeing, for the first in a very
long time, the Democratic Democratic Party is in trouble. And
it shouldn't be because people are so pissed off at
this administration, at this Republican Party. It should be a
cake walk coming in the midterms, and it looks like
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it's not going to be because you are going to
see these socialist Democrats or democratic socialists, super left wing
taking big parts and taking big positions. It's do you
remember George McGovern when he ran against Richard Nixon, George
McGovern being a very very liberal, left wing candidate against
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Richard Nixon. And Richard Nixon was not a crazy right winger.
McGovern was a crazy left winger. How close was it?
Forty nine out of fifty states went for Nixon. How's
that for a close race. It was the biggest landslide
in the history of the United States. Why because the
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extremists were going on. You know, Donald Trump is not
an extremist. I mean he backs the extremist because they
elect him. But he doesn't care. You think he really
cares about abortion? He doesn't. You know what he cares about?
Mail in ballots? Do you think he cares about inflation? Eh?
Not really, it's that mail in ballot business that just
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Do you think he cares how many of us get vaccinated? When,
of course not. And those are issues that are important
to us, to me at least because melee in ballots.
How's going to change? How's that going to change your life?
Universal health care that's going to change your life. Retirement
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funds that's going to change your life, the cost of goods,
the cost of living. That's going to change your life,
as if it already hasn't happened. So mixed races, huh, well,
mixed race also mixed races.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
See how that works.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Okay, this is a bit of news that I thought
was kind of fine and I couldn't agree more. And
this is the administration, particularly the FAA is hiring about
two thousand new air traffic controllers because obviously there is
a shortage, big time shortage of air traffic controllers, and
in a couple of instances they had to shut down
the control tower and not allow planes to land or
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take off. They had to shut down the airport because
there weren't enough people in the control tower. So what
the FAA is done is they're hiring the next generation
of air traffic controllers and they want to see skills
that are already in place, for example and specifically frequent gaming.
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They want gamers, they want video gamers, and saying that
this makes sense because gamers have problem solving skills and
multitasking abilities, and what they do is they can do
several things at one time when they're shooting down aircraft
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or moving around and killing people in the video game.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
And that ability to look at.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Different scenarios simultaneously is exactly what air traffic controllers do.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And it makes so much sense. Now, are there some downsides?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, they're very easy to train in terms of the
skill set. But can you imagine going into a control
tower and having fifteen mainly young people screaming.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah I got them. Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
All of them screaming at the same time in the
control tower. That is entertainment with a capital E. And
this is what the FAA said. I've said this four years.
I also think that fighter pilots or at least drones
should be controlled by gamers because again, they what they
do is they fire drones in the games, and they're
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very good at it, and they spend hundreds or thousands
of hours doing it.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
They are definitely bringing them into that field as well.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
What about Pamela.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
A listener gave a talk back and said, what about
Pamela doing this for the FAA?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, she should as a matter of fact, it's a
great that's a job.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah right now after she got canned from her baking job.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And so she got canned from her baking job.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, yeah, us their baking job because they no, she
was no, she was great and they loved her. Just
they lost a couple of accounts and it was a
commercial bakery and she was last one hired, and you
know it was a heartbreaker. So yeah, the FAA discounts.
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Yeah yeah, but look what. Lego had a brick Factor competition,
so builders were invited nationwide to showcase their skills and challenges.
Winners were offered roles right at the spot with the
company IKEA printed where will you stand? These are instructions
directly inside the assembly instructions. Amazon went on Tinder and
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Amazon placed targeted mobile ads for the Amazon Web services
aws for engineering roles directly into user feeds on Tinder.
They had a much greater success on Grinder, I must say,
but unfortunately the peopleeople who answered on Grinder were way
too busy doing other stuff. Here's a couple of fun
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ones Volkswagen. Volkswagen needed specialized mechanics in Germany, and so
the undercarriage of several fleet vehicles needed to be a repair.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
So they went to.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Repair shops rival repair shops, and underneath the cars there
were secret job advertisement to move people into Volkswagen.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
This is Here's where's my favorite one?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Here?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I thought this was absolutely great Google.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
When they were looking for people, they displayed and this
is on a billboard a web address in the form
of a math puzzle. The message read first ten digit
prime found in consecutive digits of e dot comie and
it was some kind of a you know, scientific scientific sign.
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No sign of the company's name on the ad at all.
If you crack the second puzzle on that web page,
it revealed part of a recruiting stunt and got some
really high end people. Google, by the way, receives more
than three million applications every year, of which point two
percent lead to actual hires. So they're trying to get
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different ways of grabbing people and doing it in very
clever ways. And you know, I think one of the
most wanted jobs in the world happens to be a
professional Lego constructor. And you're working for Lego and they
go all over the world and make those Lego stores.
They make those huge enormous Lego characters and buildings of
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iconic monuments, you know, Mal Rushmore, the Eiffel Tower. So
it makes a lot of sense to state and they
need so much sense. This is where I'm surprised that
it hasn't happened before. And this just happened in April
and the FAA said this is what we need and
so you're going to see gamers. I think it's great,
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super super clever.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
You know, there's a story of one of the old
managers back when we were Clear Channel, and this was
before you know, the the Internet and all of that stuff,
and he was hiring someone and he said, well, come
meet me at noon or whatever it was. And guy said,
what's your address and your office number and all that,
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and he said, I want someone resourceful.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Find out yourself. And that was part of the test.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, you know, and some great questions that are almost unanswerable.
I remember I once I got a job in sales
and I went for my interview.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
August twelfth. It is a hump day.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Some of the big stories we're looking at good news
on inflation. Inflation slowed for the second month in a
row to three point four percent in July, and the
latest consumer price index showed that prices rose point one
percent on a monthly monthly basis, in line with the
economist expectations. And you are going to hear a lot
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with the administration taking credit. I guess some extent it
should about how inflation is being cut. The problem is
it doesn't. If even inflation is zero and we're told
how great it is, go to the supermarket, you're still
going to end up with pretty higher. It's already baked
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in to where prices are just well, they're insanely high.
And I don't think people want the stats. Okay, Now,
there's a report came out yesterday about the LAPD Los
Angeles Police Department, which has been the poster child across
the country for years and years about police activities, and
(01:21):
what the report did is detail some of the challenges
the department faced when it was responding to protests last year,
the immigration protests, and the report said that officers performed
pretty well when dealing with these large, sometimes violent crowds. Now,
what critics of the report didn't address, or they said
(01:42):
didn't address, was the use of less lethal weapons and
aggressive actions by officers against.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Members of the media.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Now we've had we had a reporter here at the
station that was shot with less un a lethal weapons
during covering a protest, and we had a talk show host,
a former talk show host that was also shot. And
it is from what I understand, it is no fun.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Those hurt those less than lethal weapons and then occasionally
someone loses an eye, and oh my god, you got
to stop all of that. And so, I mean, there's
all kinds of questions asked, but the report said, for
the most part, the police did a pretty good job.
On top of that, during these protests, the department spent
over twelve million dollars just in overtime in the two weeks,
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and the officers made four hundred and thirty five arrests. Okay,
so now the negative stuff. The report blamed poor planning
coordination for issues with the department's response to these protests
that are erupted on city streets, and it was again
inn opposition to the administration's immigration policies. And you don't
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see many protests now because the administration, even though they're
going and certainly they are deporting lots of people and
arresting lots of people, they're really doing it in a
much more low scale way. You know, you don't have
these huge events that are covered by the media and
they just making Ice look horrible. Okay, So what the
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report said, the reason the cops did pretty well is
because they were looking at unprecedented unrest that sometimes devolved
into violence and vandalism.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But that's most protests.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
There aren't many one peaceful protests out there because there
are people there that as an excuse, use these protests
and overreact. Now here is what some of the criticism
is missing from this report sixty two pages, at least
in the view of some long time observers of the LAPD.
(03:57):
I think some negative observers that the report didn't talk
about the use of less than lethal weapons that left
hundreds of people injured and drew strong condemnations from human
rights groups, didn't specify as to who was shot, didn't
specify as to how many rounds were fired from these
(04:19):
less than lethal weapons. Now, the report went further, and
I was for the most part a pro LAPD. Report
largely blamed the protesters for instigating violence and injuring officers,
which for the most part is true, saying that agitators
intent on taking advantage made it impossible to avoid using force. Now,
(04:42):
usually whenever I hear agitators, that to me is a
croc that's used a lot to describe what protests are.
In this case, I absolutely buy it. I absolutely buy it.
And the report said that the LAPD was not prepared
to deal with protective equipment and improvise weaponry. In other words,
(05:05):
the protesters had some new protective equipment and quote improvised weaponry,
including people with oven mits to pick up those tear
gas canisters while they were on the ground and emitting
the tear gas, picking them up and throwing them back
on the cops. And you see that sort of happening.
(05:27):
But those are hot and it's not easy to get them.
So what do you do? You use ovenmits? Now, did
you ever think of that that they would use of admits?
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You know, it never occurred to me.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Also, people lobbied, well, they used leaf blowers to redirect
the tear gas going in their direction. Again, who would
think of leaf blowers? I mean, they did stuff that
the police just didn't think. And do you expect the
(06:02):
police to anticipate everything?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I don't know, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
The report said the cops were also targeted with rocks, bottles,
commercial grade fireworks, molotov cocktails. We see that all the time.
And the report said timely communication was a concern. The
department lacked the necessary number of radio waves frequency and
when the less than lethal weapons proved ineffective, that's when
(06:30):
they deployed tear gas twice. It was the first time
the department had used that measure since at least the
nineteen seventies. So the bottom line with the report is
that I guess they give the cops a B on
this one if I had two grade it. The department
spent seventeen million dollars in personnel costs in the two weeks,
(06:52):
twelve of which was just for overtime. And so how
do the cops do well? I you know, I think
the cops, for the most part do a good job.
But then again, I'm pro cop almost across the board
versus the bad guys, even though you know, things fall
through the cracks. I mean, nobody's perfect, and when you
(07:13):
look at the job the cops have to do, I
think it's almost impossible. I once interviewed a police officer
and he said, during a shooting, during when someone pulls
out a gun, for example, I've got two choices, he said.
Either I shoot them and now I'm on trial and
i am looking at discipline at best and I'm being
(07:33):
sued of course, or I let them shoot me. Those
are my choices, just as an aside. As I finish
this segment. One hundred and twenty claims for damages have
been filed against the city in connection during those police
actions during the pro immigration protests. One hundred and twenty
(07:55):
already lawsuits already stemming from the twenty twenty process protests
over the killing of George Floyd. And this is going
to tie up the city for years if it goes
to trial. And so here is the other issue. If
someone is hurt during those protests, it is an immediate
lawsuit against the police for police misconduct, overreaching and physical damages,
(08:21):
being hurt almost immediately, no matter whether the police are
at faults or not. Even when someone is killed by
the police after pulling a gun on the cops, what
you hear is lawsuit being filed. The police shouldn't have
acted the way they did. And I've heard and talked
(08:41):
about story after story when the police shot, usually a
young man who had pulled a gun, and then the
mother files the lawsuit for wrongfold.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That's saying you.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Could have wounded him, You could have shot him in
the knee or the leg. Really, okay, why don't you
get into a situation like that and see what happens?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
All right, We're done with that.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
The Hollywood situation continues to get not so great. Here
in La this is you know, we have fears of.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Detroit.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You know, the old saying with Detroit is and the
last person leaves turn out the lights because Motown ended
up being a ghost town. And we're looking at something
similar here when it comes to Hollywood. The very thing
that we grew here. Basically what had happened, you know,
you had it going on in the East Coast other parts,
(09:41):
and they needed a place where the weather was good
all year round and they moved everything out here. We
know the story of Hollywood Land. Back in the twenties
in the hills, it was a housing area. It was
a housing area up in the hill now Hollywood called
(10:02):
Hollywood Land, and some of the structures are still there.
But all of the mystique and all of the lore
of Hollywood and the movies is right here. This is
where it started. And to think that we're at a
point where Paramount right now is maybe calling the bluff
of the attorney. Uh, but at this point they're saying
(10:26):
they could move out of California as soon as October
one if they can't settle this antitrust lawsuit blocking.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Neil, Neil, you started the segment without.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Me, yes, because how dare you? Well, whatever you were doing.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I was peeing and I was making coffee.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Uh, and it was and it was a pretty close
and I just that just takes me a few minutes.
So I don't even know what the hell you said.
But because I was peeing and I was making coffee,
and I don't have a radio in the bathroom or
in the kitchen at.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
This norm, do you care about the audience? I get
hold of that.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
No, I do care about the audience. I care about
the audience.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I truly care about the audience, just not as much
as I care about peeing or making coffee.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Is your colostomy bag full?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Wow? You know what?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
We were keeping it a secret that both of us
have colostomy bags and we like to box.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Speed bag. In any case, you just started, so.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You know you did and your story and I did
hear the last part of it as I ran into
the studio, and it is a I think you pointed
out correctly while all of this that these politics are
going on and the threat to leave in the lawsuit,
that Paramount is being hit by by states because they're
trying to stop uh this merger.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
The merger would go on.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I mean, the merger is going on income hell or
high water, and these states would file lawsuits no matter
whether Paramount stays or not.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
If Paramount were to stay.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I think California is still going to join that lawsuit.
And the problem is in this I'm defending the movie
companies now. It is just too damn expensive. As you
pointed out it is. There are so many other places
around the world that even in the United States, that
are far cheaper, not only in terms of labor and
(12:27):
they have good quality or a highly skilled people too.
It used to be that Hollywood was it, but other
states have created programs and they do stock or they
do tax breaks and in some cases actually subsidize the films.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
When you're using Canada.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
For Los Angeles, yep, and they're shooting the streets of
you know, Ontario or whatever, or Toronto for La that's
that's a problem that well it's certainly not movie industry
is here.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, Well, that's as far as the back lot is concerned.
And using cities for other cities. I mean, that's happened forever.
Go to the back lot of Universal or Fox uh and.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Or water of that.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
But when you aren't, when in La studio is using
another country for their own city.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Exactly, Well, it's the question of costs.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
First of all, they get away with it because movie
making is pretty skilled and people believe it. It's not
oh boy, that's Toronto, that's Ontario, that's Croatia. No that
you buy it. There's no question. And the point is
that these states, these countries realize there's a lot of
(13:47):
money to be made when movies come in. They don't
have to build infrastructure it's just money coming in and
everybody wants a piece of it. And it's not just
states Georgia, Tennessee that are sucking sucking movies out of
Southern California, but as I said, other countries, Canada being
one of them, where labor is well, just the amount
(14:10):
of money, just the difference in terms of the currency exchange.
It's thirty percent different. So a dollar that A costs
here the same to do the same thing is seventy cents.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
When are we going to become Detroit?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Was my question, Exactly at what point do we lose
the very industry that this.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't think it's going to be I don't think
it's going to be Detroit. But it's already cost Southern California.
It cost Hollywood a huge amount of money because you
just can't compete. And you've got California with these insane
restrictions and laws, and you have other You go to Georgia,
for example, go to Atlanta, and not only do they
(14:54):
have a part of the city, you have an entire
city department that's just just going around and saying, come
to us, come to us for movie making. And here's
what we will do for you, La. I think what
happens is Hollywood is so used to being the center
of all movie making that is sort of a given.
(15:14):
Now realistically, most of the highly skilled people to make
up people, that the sound people are here in Hollywood.
I mean, you've got a big choice, and this is
the depth of knowledge and experiences here. But you know,
the costs override that they really do. You know, as
I said in the previous segment, you know Lord of
(15:37):
the Rings was all New Zealand, and if you look
at Game of Thrones, you can go to Croatia and
do Game of Thrones. You can do tours of the
Game of Thrones because those buildings that are not town
Dubrovnik was used as a big part of it. So
(15:58):
Paramount is it going to leave? Who the hell knows?
I think it's leaving anyway. And this lawsuit now does
this work to stop the move or to stop the
merger of these companies. You know, the problem is Paramount
is arguing that taking these two massive companies is actually
giving me more competition, is actually going to be better
(16:19):
for the consumer.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
This reminds me of Big Pharma when they realistically said
this is exactly what they said. Lowering the prices of
drugs helps the consumer. It's good for the patient to
raise the prices. That lowering the prices hurts. And here's
(16:45):
a paramount saying that mergers help, they give you more competition.
Come on, give me a break. And I get that right.
Lowering the prices hurts, raising the prices help. Yeah, I
got that right.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Fair enough. Okay, what happened last night?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Bunch of primaries happened, and then the big issue was
going to be the Democratic Party was really Yet the
Republican Party isn't split because the president controls the Republican Party,
I mean almost completely. Now the Democrats there is a
huge fight afoot and that has to do with the
progressives the liberals can't use that word anymore, and moderate Democrats.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And the results were mixed.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Now what the country is looking at is the Michigan
Senate race. That was important, the governor's races. I don't
think we're important at all because it doesn't affect us.
You know what happens in Wisconsin, what happens in Michigan
with the governorship, eh, you know, how does it affect us?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Now?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
The Senate and the House Oh boy, does that affect
us big time? Those to me and most people, those
are really important races.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And they were sort of mixed down the middle.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And I don't want to get into specifics as to
who won. The names don't really matter, but the issue is, well,
one name matters, and that was the victory of the
David Crowley, who is a moderate winning and he wasn't
(18:19):
supposed to win over state Francisca Hong, who is a socialist,
a democratic socialist who is also crazy. I mean she
is a fruitcake, and she was way ahead in the polls.
And that's what goes to show you how diverse and
literally how difficult it is for the Democratic Party right
(18:41):
now because they have left wing and I mean crazy
left wing and moderates and the Republicans want the crazy
left wing to win. Why well, because here we are,
the voters, and what are we looking at.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I mean a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
A lot of us want super liberals, and you know
the super liberals. I mean, I believe what a lot
of says universal healthcare. I know a lot of people, Oh,
we don't want socialist medicine really because our medical system
works so well. Medicare for all why should medicare only
be for people over sixty five? Well, maybe because we
paid into it all of these years and we pay
(19:19):
taxes all these years.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
That's an argument.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And we are seeing, for the first in a very
long time, the Democratic Democratic Party is in trouble. And
it shouldn't be because people are so pissed off at
this administration, at this Republican Party. It should be a
cake walk coming in the midterms, and it looks like
(19:45):
it's not going to be because you are going to
see these socialist Democrats or democratic socialists, super left wing
taking big parts and taking big positions. It's do you
remember George McGovern when he ran against Richard Nixon, George
McGovern being a very very liberal, left wing candidate against
(20:07):
Richard Nixon. And Richard Nixon was not a crazy right winger.
McGovern was a crazy left winger. How close was it?
Forty nine out of fifty states went for Nixon. How's
that for a close race. It was the biggest landslide
in the history of the United States. Why because the
(20:28):
extremists were going on. You know, Donald Trump is not
an extremist. I mean he backs the extremist because they
elect him. But he doesn't care. You think he really
cares about abortion? He doesn't. You know what he cares about?
Mail in ballots? Do you think he cares about inflation? Eh?
Not really, it's that mail in ballot business that just
(20:52):
Do you think he cares how many of us get vaccinated? When,
of course not. And those are issues that are important
to us, to me at least because melee in ballots.
How's going to change? How's that going to change your life?
Universal health care that's going to change your life. Retirement
(21:13):
funds that's going to change your life, the cost of goods,
the cost of living. That's going to change your life,
as if it already hasn't happened. So mixed races, huh, well,
mixed race also mixed races.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
See how that works.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Okay, this is a bit of news that I thought
was kind of fine and I couldn't agree more. And
this is the administration, particularly the FAA is hiring about
two thousand new air traffic controllers because obviously there is
a shortage, big time shortage of air traffic controllers, and
in a couple of instances they had to shut down
the control tower and not allow planes to land or
(21:51):
take off. They had to shut down the airport because
there weren't enough people in the control tower. So what
the FAA is done is they're hiring the next generation
of air traffic controllers and they want to see skills
that are already in place, for example and specifically frequent gaming.
(22:15):
They want gamers, they want video gamers, and saying that
this makes sense because gamers have problem solving skills and
multitasking abilities, and what they do is they can do
several things at one time when they're shooting down aircraft
(22:38):
or moving around and killing people in the video game.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
And that ability to look at.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Different scenarios simultaneously is exactly what air traffic controllers do.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And it makes so much sense. Now, are there some downsides?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, they're very easy to train in terms of the
skill set. But can you imagine going into a control
tower and having fifteen mainly young people screaming.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah I got them. Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
All of them screaming at the same time in the
control tower. That is entertainment with a capital E. And
this is what the FAA said. I've said this four years.
I also think that fighter pilots or at least drones
should be controlled by gamers because again, they what they
do is they fire drones in the games, and they're
(23:32):
very good at it, and they spend hundreds or thousands
of hours doing it.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
They are definitely bringing them into that field as well.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
What about Pamela.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
A listener gave a talk back and said, what about
Pamela doing this for the FAA?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, she should as a matter of fact, it's a
great that's a job.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah right now after she got canned from her baking job.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And so she got canned from her baking job.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, yeah, us their baking job because they no, she
was no, she was great and they loved her. Just
they lost a couple of accounts and it was a
commercial bakery and she was last one hired, and you
know it was a heartbreaker. So yeah, the FAA discounts.
(24:19):
Yeah yeah, but look what. Lego had a brick Factor competition,
so builders were invited nationwide to showcase their skills and challenges.
Winners were offered roles right at the spot with the
company IKEA printed where will you stand? These are instructions
directly inside the assembly instructions. Amazon went on Tinder and
(24:43):
Amazon placed targeted mobile ads for the Amazon Web services
aws for engineering roles directly into user feeds on Tinder.
They had a much greater success on Grinder, I must say,
but unfortunately the peopleeople who answered on Grinder were way
too busy doing other stuff. Here's a couple of fun
(25:05):
ones Volkswagen. Volkswagen needed specialized mechanics in Germany, and so
the undercarriage of several fleet vehicles needed to be a repair.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
So they went to.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Repair shops rival repair shops, and underneath the cars there
were secret job advertisement to move people into Volkswagen.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
This is Here's where's my favorite one?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Here?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I thought this was absolutely great Google.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
When they were looking for people, they displayed and this
is on a billboard a web address in the form
of a math puzzle. The message read first ten digit
prime found in consecutive digits of e dot comie and
it was some kind of a you know, scientific scientific sign.
(26:02):
No sign of the company's name on the ad at all.
If you crack the second puzzle on that web page,
it revealed part of a recruiting stunt and got some
really high end people. Google, by the way, receives more
than three million applications every year, of which point two
percent lead to actual hires. So they're trying to get
(26:25):
different ways of grabbing people and doing it in very
clever ways. And you know, I think one of the
most wanted jobs in the world happens to be a
professional Lego constructor. And you're working for Lego and they
go all over the world and make those Lego stores.
They make those huge enormous Lego characters and buildings of
(26:49):
iconic monuments, you know, Mal Rushmore, the Eiffel Tower. So
it makes a lot of sense to state and they
need so much sense. This is where I'm surprised that
it hasn't happened before. And this just happened in April
and the FAA said this is what we need and
so you're going to see gamers. I think it's great,
(27:11):
super super clever.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
You know, there's a story of one of the old
managers back when we were Clear Channel, and this was
before you know, the the Internet and all of that stuff,
and he was hiring someone and he said, well, come
meet me at noon or whatever it was. And guy said,
what's your address and your office number and all that,
(27:34):
and he said, I want someone resourceful.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Find out yourself. And that was part of the test.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, you know, and some great questions that are almost unanswerable.
I remember I once I got a job in sales
and I went for my interview.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
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