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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're list Saints.
- 0:01Speaker 2: I am six forty the Bill Handles show on demand
- 0:05Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app I Am six forty Bill Handle
- 0:10Speaker 2: Here he is A Thursday morning, July two and coming
- 0:15Speaker 2: up behind Saturday, of course, the Fourth of July big doings.
- 0:18Speaker 2: This time around two hundred and fifty years the United
- 0:21Speaker 2: States has been around. Now, what does the Fourth of
- 0:24Speaker 2: July mean to a whole lot of people? Well, Burger's
- 0:27Speaker 2: hotdogs on the grill. Also, fireworks. Fireworks are a huge
- 0:32Speaker 2: part of July fourth, and there are some fireworks in
- 0:36Speaker 2: the fight now on July fourth fireworks. And it has
- 0:41Speaker 2: to do with these various companies, fireworks companies that are
- 0:45Speaker 2: now using drones. And if you've ever seen one of
- 0:50Speaker 2: those drone displays, one of those extravaganzas in the sky,
- 0:54Speaker 2: I mean they're brilliant. I mean it is extraordinarily you
- 0:58Speaker 2: can do with drones. Here's what's going on is that
- 1:02Speaker 2: when you talk about these fireworks or talk to these
- 1:04Speaker 2: fireworks companies, they're saying that is just additive. We can
- 1:08Speaker 2: do fireworks or drones or both. Well, there's a big
- 1:12Speaker 2: fight now about doing fireworks at all. And why Well,
- 1:17Speaker 2: Number one, environmentally people have a problem with him because
- 1:21Speaker 2: you've got that smell of cordite. I love the smell
- 1:25Speaker 2: of fireworks, and it can be dangerous in terms of
- 1:28Speaker 2: wildfires because embers or peak parts and pieces of fireworks
- 1:34Speaker 2: can come down and start fires. And of course the
- 1:37Speaker 2: danger of these fireworks. And I joke a lot about
- 1:42Speaker 2: kids blowing their hands off, but I refer to a
- 1:45Speaker 2: case that came down last year where some poor kid
- 1:49Speaker 2: did blow his hand off, which happens way too often,
- 1:53Speaker 2: and he sued the company that manufactured him and he one.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Of course, he won, and the court said even though
- 2:02Speaker 2: the kid was taking every precaution that he possibly could,
- 2:07Speaker 2: it didn't do enough because the fireworks were so defective.
- 2:11Speaker 2: And then it was argued that the court gave my
- 2:15Speaker 2: left handed compliment, and the court said, but he doesn't
- 2:17Speaker 2: have a left hand, so I really didn't do that.
- 2:19Speaker 2: In any case, they are dangerous as hell, those fireworks
- 2:25Speaker 2: that are safe and sane.
- 2:27Speaker 1: And here's also the problem.
- 2:28Speaker 2: It's jurisdictional in the sense that La County, for example,
- 2:32Speaker 2: does not sell fireworks safe in saying fireworks, I love that,
- 2:35Speaker 2: that's how they sell them. And you go across the
- 2:38Speaker 2: line of Ventura County, and literally it's across the street
- 2:41Speaker 2: where the county starts, and there are feet literally feet
- 2:46Speaker 2: that are on the other side of the county line.
- 2:48Speaker 2: You see all of these kiosks, all of these little stands,
- 2:52Speaker 2: these pop up plywood, cheap o creepo stands that sell
- 2:58Speaker 2: these packages of fireworks. And the other thing I noticed
- 3:01Speaker 2: is that it used to be home homemade fireworks or
- 3:06Speaker 2: home grown fireworks that you could buy at these kiosks,
- 3:09Speaker 2: at these little stands, or bottle rockets, and they were,
- 3:14Speaker 2: you know, the sparklers, which are very dangerous by the
- 3:18Speaker 2: way those things burn at three thousand degrees. It's kind
- 3:21Speaker 2: of crazy. Now it's almost professional fire fireworks. I don't
- 3:26Speaker 2: know if you've noticed that. We live on top of
- 3:29Speaker 2: this little hill and we overlook this little valley, and
- 3:34Speaker 2: so we see the tops of houses, and on July fourth,
- 3:38Speaker 2: we see the people who have fire works. I don't
- 3:42Speaker 2: even know if they're legal in the county that I
- 3:44Speaker 2: live in, in Orange County. They may or may not
- 3:46Speaker 2: be legal. I have no idea. But as I look
- 3:49Speaker 2: down and I see the fireworks, which we do, we
- 3:52Speaker 2: look down and man, these are professional, great fireworks. I mean,
- 3:58Speaker 2: how they held, you get them? Where do they sell?
- 4:01Speaker 2: So the danger part I understand the pollution part. I
- 4:07Speaker 2: also understand the danger in terms of physical danger. Yeah,
- 4:10Speaker 2: the pollution part I don't care about because you know
- 4:12Speaker 2: how much pollution can it possibly cause. The possibility of
- 4:18Speaker 2: fire is a big one, both wildfires and home fires.
- 4:22Speaker 2: But how do you beat fireworks? I mean, I mean
- 4:27Speaker 2: fireworks are fireworks. You know, the exploding shells, the colors,
- 4:33Speaker 2: although you can beat those colors with a drone display,
- 4:36Speaker 2: and just you know the smoke that comes out in
- 4:39Speaker 2: that wonderful smell that happens, I don't think you can
- 4:42Speaker 2: beat that. And at the same time, the drone stuff
- 4:44Speaker 2: is terrific. I'm in favor of both. But now, of
- 4:48Speaker 2: course there is a fight, and you've got the environmentalists,
- 4:52Speaker 2: which you're fighting like crazy, saying we shouldn't do this,
- 4:55Speaker 2: and then you have jurisdictions that are saying nope.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 5:01Speaker 2: You go to the show at the Rose Bowl, which
- 5:03Speaker 2: used to be a tremendous fireworks show, it's drones now
- 5:07Speaker 2: Grand Park its shrones now, Hanson Hanson Dam in the
- 5:11Speaker 2: San Gabriel Valley drones more Obey Lake Cunningham up North
- 5:16Speaker 2: have all gone to drones. Now if you put the
- 5:20Speaker 2: two together, both thrones and fireworks. As I said, man,
- 5:24Speaker 2: is that a show? And the fireworks debate, of course,
- 5:29Speaker 2: has entered some very serious political culture wars, as it
- 5:32Speaker 2: always does, but more so than ever. Right wing influencers
- 5:36Speaker 2: are slamming the anti fireworks crowd, targeting the Coastal Commission
- 5:41Speaker 2: because the Coastal Commission is in there and is denying
- 5:44Speaker 2: permits because at certain areas along the coast you have
- 5:48Speaker 2: to have the Coastal Commission say okay to it too. Well,
- 5:52Speaker 2: no no, so we may see the end of real fireworks.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Matter of fact, fireworks are so important. At my wedding,
- 6:02Speaker 2: we made sure there were fireworks, really good fireworks. There's
- 6:08Speaker 2: a video of my wedding, isn't there ann that's available
- 6:11Speaker 2: where it shows the fireworks display? And where do you
- 6:14Speaker 2: see that? Where do we have that? What platform do
- 6:18Speaker 2: we have that? On Instagram? On inst that bill handle
- 6:24Speaker 2: show Okay, and there's my wedding and right behind me
- 6:28Speaker 2: I had the fireworks display go off, and it wouldn't
- 6:32Speaker 2: have been the same. Big fan of fireworks and very entertaining.
- 6:37Speaker 2: His kids get seriously hurt. No, not so good. So
- 6:41Speaker 2: if you have a kids, don't do it at home.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Just don't do it because it really is kind of
- 6:46Speaker 2: dangerous saying kind of stupid. Okay, administration, certainly not when
- 6:51Speaker 2: it comes to Trump, his kids, his family, his business
- 6:54Speaker 2: is no chance. And this is another episode and how
- 6:59Speaker 2: we have a brand new kind of presidency that.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Will probably never have again.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Any case, There's a story I want to share with
- 7:08Speaker 2: you in New York Times and this has to do
- 7:10Speaker 2: with conflicts of interest, and of course it has to
- 7:13Speaker 2: do with our president and conflicts of interests. So let's
- 7:17Speaker 2: start with the fact that Donald Trump is by far
- 7:20Speaker 2: the wealthiest president we have ever had. We haven't had
- 7:24Speaker 2: too many billionaire presidents. And the story is, this story
- 7:30Speaker 2: became big because it just was released that the president
- 7:36Speaker 2: made two point two billion dollars. Made two point two
- 7:39Speaker 2: billion dollars, not is worth two point two billion dollars,
- 7:43Speaker 2: but total revenue of the companies that he is involved
- 7:47Speaker 2: with that he previously owned. Does he own them now? Well,
- 7:50Speaker 2: he says no, because he transferred all ownership interest over
- 7:55Speaker 2: to his two sons who now run the companies. So
- 7:59Speaker 2: what normally happens well, virtually every senior member of the
- 8:03Speaker 2: administration and every president modern day president thinks starting maybe
- 8:08Speaker 2: Eisenhower or Truman, or Truman didn't have any money to
- 8:11Speaker 2: deal with anyway, what they did, these presidents and senior
- 8:15Speaker 2: members of the administration is put their assets into a
- 8:19Speaker 2: blind trust, meaning that they truly had no idea of
- 8:26Speaker 2: where the investments are, where those assets are being held
- 8:30Speaker 2: at bank, at brokerage company. There was a firewall that
- 8:34Speaker 2: was thirty feet high. Well, but that's not the law,
- 8:40Speaker 2: that's simply policy. That's simply what the presidents did.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Legally. Can they do what Trump does? Yeah? And what
- 8:49Speaker 1: does Trump do? Well?
- 8:51Speaker 2: How about selling his name all over the place making
- 8:54Speaker 2: the kind of money that he has made. He has
- 8:57Speaker 2: argued when questioned about all this money made, I don't
- 9:01Speaker 2: talk to the people that handle my money.
- 9:03Speaker 1: I never talked to my kids about it.
- 9:04Speaker 2: I never talked to anybody about the money that I'm
- 9:08Speaker 2: making or not making. Now, he came out against crypto
- 9:12Speaker 2: really hard, and then all of a sudden changed his
- 9:16Speaker 2: tune and is now in favor of crypto and has
- 9:19Speaker 2: in fact pardoned a couple of crypto gangsters who have
- 9:23Speaker 2: made hundreds of millions of dollars, been convicted of ripping
- 9:27Speaker 2: people off. He has pardoned them, and his company that
- 9:31Speaker 2: he and his family have been engaged in made a
- 9:35Speaker 2: billion dollars a billion dollars just out of crypto.
- 9:38Speaker 1: We're talking his first year.
- 9:40Speaker 2: In office, the kind of money that he has made.
- 9:43Speaker 2: And the argument is this a conflict, Well, of course
- 9:48Speaker 2: it's a conflict, but not legally a conflict. So as
- 9:53Speaker 2: these interviews are going on, because this is kind of
- 9:56Speaker 2: a big story and Republicans hard knows for Republicans that
- 10:01Speaker 2: have been asked this question, members of Congress, for example, saying,
- 10:04Speaker 2: don't you find it at least unsettling that the president
- 10:08Speaker 2: is making this much money? And by the way, on
- 10:11Speaker 2: his name, let's not kid ourselves. Do you think the
- 10:15Speaker 2: deals that are being cut in Katar and the Emirates
- 10:18Speaker 2: with his two sons, Trump facilities, Trump golf golf courses,
- 10:25Speaker 2: Trump office towers. Oh, they would have happened even if
- 10:28Speaker 2: he wasn't the president. Okay, you believe that. So what
- 10:32Speaker 2: are these Republicans say when asked? Isn't there an issue here?
- 10:37Speaker 2: Is this kind of unsettling for you? What he's doing
- 10:40Speaker 2: is within the law. He is within the law. That's
- 10:45Speaker 2: the position. But okay, do you have a problem with
- 10:49Speaker 2: at all, even the perception, even the fact that this
- 10:53Speaker 2: is happening. It's within the law. There is no question.
- 10:56Speaker 2: This is all legal. And here's the scary part is
- 11:00Speaker 2: that during the first term Trump was actually concerned about
- 11:04Speaker 2: the potential lease the appearance of conflict. His second term
- 11:09Speaker 2: didn't even pretend. And he says something very interesting about
- 11:15Speaker 2: these potential conflicts which are not conflicts within the law.
- 11:19Speaker 2: He said, you know what, I don't care. I just
- 11:24Speaker 2: don't care. And more telling, and he's absolutely right about this.
- 11:30Speaker 2: His supporters don't care. It doesn't matter. Now, this is
- 11:36Speaker 2: a populist president who is there for the little man.
- 11:41Speaker 2: He is there to cut taxes for middle class lower
- 11:45Speaker 2: class or middle class and lower class economic strata. And
- 11:51Speaker 2: he well, it's the big corporations, it's the billionaires, it's
- 11:56Speaker 2: the multi millionaires that have gotten all the breaks or
- 11:58Speaker 2: the majority of the breaks. But doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
- 12:03Speaker 2: It's I don't get any of this, I really don't.
- 12:07Speaker 2: And then this issue with the airplane, why aren't people offended.
- 12:11Speaker 2: It's granted it was a gift four hundred million dollars
- 12:14Speaker 2: from the government of Katar. Great, we'll accept it, and
- 12:16Speaker 2: Trump said, will take it? And I was there a
- 12:18Speaker 2: conflict there. I don't buy that. I think it's a
- 12:21Speaker 2: country that's just sucking up to the president, which is fine,
- 12:24Speaker 2: but they just the government has just spent four hundred
- 12:28Speaker 2: million dollars. That's the price of the airplane. We don't
- 12:30Speaker 2: even know what is going to cost or did cost
- 12:33Speaker 2: to U to redo the airplane for security purposes, put
- 12:38Speaker 2: in communications, harden the wiring case of there's a nuclear attack,
- 12:43Speaker 2: and in planes anywhere near their anti radiation a lot
- 12:47Speaker 2: of security that costs. I had heard over a billion dollars.
- 12:51Speaker 2: It may even be more than that, which is okay.
- 12:54Speaker 2: And what is happening with that plane is the taxpayer
- 12:59Speaker 2: is paying for all the security upgrades. The president is
- 13:02Speaker 2: going to use it for two years and then the
- 13:05Speaker 2: deal it's going to be donated to the Presidential Library.
- 13:09Speaker 2: It won't even be Air Force one. It'll be on
- 13:13Speaker 2: the library at the library. Whether it flies or doesn't fly.
- 13:16Speaker 2: I have absolutely no idea. But does anybody upset about that?
- 13:19Speaker 1: No, not at all. Well, how crazy is it? Okay?
- 13:23Speaker 2: Now it's July fourth, could be a lot of parties
- 13:26Speaker 2: that are going to occur, and there will be people
- 13:30Speaker 2: and historically have been people that rent Airbnb short term
- 13:36Speaker 2: rentals houses for blowout parties, and a.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Lot of people don't like them.
- 13:42Speaker 2: First of all, the home owners don't like them because
- 13:45Speaker 2: of the damage, noise, complaints from major from neighbors, injury risks,
- 13:50Speaker 2: all of it. And so about five years ago Airbnb
- 13:54Speaker 2: began using technology because this was really bad in terms
- 13:59Speaker 2: of people rent these homes just for the parties. And
- 14:04Speaker 2: so what they started using was machine learning technology basically AI,
- 14:08Speaker 2: the precursor of AI, to weed out these quote higher
- 14:12Speaker 2: risk bookings. And you can bet that technology is certainly
- 14:16Speaker 2: going to be working now and it does. And what
- 14:19Speaker 2: the company says, the technology uses quote hundreds of signals
- 14:23Speaker 2: like is the user making the reservation locally?
- 14:26Speaker 1: Is it a local person making.
- 14:28Speaker 2: The reservation or for a one or two day stint,
- 14:31Speaker 2: And that flags whether this booking is characteristic of the
- 14:36Speaker 2: kind of reservations that would turn a house into a
- 14:40Speaker 2: party house. Also, another thing, it's a big one that
- 14:44Speaker 2: prevents these crazy parties, is that guests can't book an
- 14:49Speaker 2: entire home. We'll rent you a room we're still going
- 14:56Speaker 2: to be around. And that's how Airbnb actually started. If
- 14:58Speaker 2: you remember, it was people that owned homes and they
- 15:01Speaker 2: had an extra room and they would rent it for
- 15:05Speaker 2: people coming into town.
- 15:06Speaker 1: It was a direct.
- 15:09Speaker 2: Attack on hotels, if you want to call it an
- 15:11Speaker 2: attack or alternative to hotels.
- 15:15Speaker 1: So nope, only rooms, and if they are.
- 15:22Speaker 2: If the potential guests do make it into this quote
- 15:27Speaker 2: list of undesirables, they're redirected to book private room listings,
- 15:32Speaker 2: individual rooms, even hotels because Airbnb, strangely enough has hotels now,
- 15:38Speaker 2: even though it was built to as built to be
- 15:42Speaker 2: an alternate to hotels. To conflict and so, according to Airbnb,
- 15:47Speaker 2: last fourth of July, the system deterred more than twenty
- 15:50Speaker 2: thousand people in the US from booking an entire home.
- 15:54Speaker 2: Twenty five hundred people in California were redirected. In LA,
- 15:59Speaker 2: two hundred people were deterred. It doesn't seem like a
- 16:03Speaker 2: huge number of people as far as I'm concerned, But
- 16:07Speaker 2: I'm willing to bet that the company had no idea
- 16:10Speaker 2: this was going to happen, although in retrospect you can
- 16:12Speaker 2: know what's going to happen. Now Here is a stat
- 16:15Speaker 2: Airbnb in twenty twenty five, fewer than point zero six
- 16:21Speaker 2: percent of stays resulted in a report of a party,
- 16:26Speaker 2: and Airbnb recorded five hundred and thirty three million nights
- 16:33Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five that they were able to sell. Okay,
- 16:37Speaker 2: by the way, this machine learning tool uses vast amounts
- 16:40Speaker 2: of consumer data to make decisions, and there are detractors say, oh,
- 16:44Speaker 2: there's blind spots, there are false positives, and people who
- 16:48Speaker 2: are trying to rent legitimately are being nailed for it. Great, okay,
- 16:53Speaker 2: And so here's the argument. If something wrong happens and
- 16:56Speaker 2: we have to kill all of it. For example, if
- 16:59Speaker 2: a plane crash happens, we're done with airplanes because they're
- 17:02Speaker 2: too risky. Because people die in car crashes, no, we
- 17:06Speaker 2: can't have cars anymore. And certainly medical malpractice, which does happen,
- 17:11Speaker 2: It happens occasionally, which means that there should be no
- 17:14Speaker 2: surgeries anymore. I mean, it's always the argument, well, there
- 17:19Speaker 2: may be false positives. Welcome to life, give me a break, okay, Okay.
- 17:26Speaker 2: A story about something called kid maxing. Now what is
- 17:30Speaker 2: kid maxing? Well, kid maxing is about having kids. And okay,
- 17:36Speaker 2: so we've done the story of people having kids. Now,
- 17:39Speaker 2: keep in mind that we've done story after story of
- 17:41Speaker 2: people not having kids. It's just way too expensive. In
- 17:45Speaker 2: many cases, you don't want to put kids into the world.
- 17:48Speaker 2: The way it's going, it's a lot easier to be single.
- 17:51Speaker 2: There's a bunch of reasons. So it's more and more
- 17:54Speaker 2: difficult for people to have kids for a variety of reasons,
- 17:57Speaker 2: except for billionaires.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Who want kids.
- 18:01Speaker 2: And I'm talking about young billionaires either, I'm talking about
- 18:05Speaker 2: old billionaires.
- 18:07Speaker 1: There is just this.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Thing going on and a personal story, you bet, because
- 18:11Speaker 2: I've done this for three different older billionaires in their
- 18:15Speaker 2: sixties and seventies with wives that are a lot younger.
- 18:19Speaker 1: Well, what a shocker. And it turns out that.
- 18:23Speaker 2: The sub cases these men never had children. In some
- 18:28Speaker 2: cases they wanted to start a family with their new
- 18:31Speaker 2: wife or the wife wanted kids. And it's an issue
- 18:35Speaker 2: that the argument is a gee, can they afford it? Yeah,
- 18:39Speaker 2: they can, as a matter of fact. But it's more
- 18:41Speaker 2: than that. It is a trend that is happening. First
- 18:44Speaker 2: of all, there are a lot more billionaires out there,
- 18:46Speaker 2: and second of all, amongst these they want to have kids.
- 18:49Speaker 2: A lot of it is for I want airs I
- 18:52Speaker 2: want my first male child with Chinese billionaires for example. Now,
- 18:58Speaker 2: I have done this, as I said, through so because
- 19:00Speaker 2: it's usually done through IVF, it's done through egg donation,
- 19:04Speaker 2: certainly done through surrogate parenting, because if a man is
- 19:06Speaker 2: married to a woman in her late forties, fifties, or
- 19:10Speaker 2: she's not going to be pregnant. And so I have
- 19:13Speaker 2: I helped many many couples. I've had twenty five hundred
- 19:15Speaker 2: kids through my surrogacy program. By the way, if I
- 19:17Speaker 2: have mentioned it before, and one of my early cases,
- 19:21Speaker 2: i'd never been I've never met a billionaire in my life.
- 19:25Speaker 1: I had never met a billionaire.
- 19:28Speaker 2: So when this gentleman will call him Richie Rich, Okay,
- 19:32Speaker 2: when mister Richie Rich came into my office to talk
- 19:36Speaker 2: about surrogacy, and he excused himself to go to the.
- 19:40Speaker 1: Restroom, I followed him. I followed him in.
- 19:44Speaker 2: And there he goes up to the urinal and I'm
- 19:47Speaker 2: right behind him. He said, Bill, what are you doing?
- 19:50Speaker 2: And I said, I've never seen a billionaire pee before.
- 19:54Speaker 2: I just wanted to see how that worked. And you
- 19:58Speaker 2: know what, it's exactly the same. It was kind of
- 20:02Speaker 2: interesting that there is no difference between u Peeing and
- 20:05Speaker 2: a billionaire peing.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Unless you're a man versus a woman. He didn't have
- 20:08Speaker 1: like a like a Wiener staff or something that came in.
- 20:13Speaker 1: He did not. No, he did not.
- 20:15Speaker 2: And even with and he was Chinese actually, and I
- 20:19Speaker 2: would think that, well, you know, it's God has not
- 20:23Speaker 2: been particularly good to you. But I didn't say that
- 20:27Speaker 2: because he's a billionaire. Stop shaking your finger there, Cono.
- 20:30Speaker 2: I'm going to stop right there. Okay, I am not
- 20:32Speaker 2: going to talk about Chinese and length of penises. I
- 20:36Speaker 2: will not be doing that. There'll be no reference to that.
- 20:40Speaker 2: But the point is, in his case, he wanted He'd
- 20:43Speaker 2: never had biological children, and he wanted kids, and that
- 20:46Speaker 2: was his reason for doing it. And so it's just, well,
- 20:50Speaker 2: this is turning out to be the ultimate status symbol
- 20:54Speaker 2: for ultimate wealth.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Here.
- 20:56Speaker 2: I am a man in my sixties seventies, and I
- 20:58Speaker 2: can still produce kids variety of reasons, and sometimes it's
- 21:02Speaker 2: just ego.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Now is there a downside?
- 21:06Speaker 2: You know, I'd love to see studies of what happens
- 21:08Speaker 2: to these kids, because my guess is, when a kid
- 21:13Speaker 2: is growing up with unbridled, unbelievable wealth, it's just not
- 21:18Speaker 2: the same as the billionaire who are all self made.
- 21:22Speaker 2: It's just not the same influence. Okay, we're done with that.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Coming up, and Neil, this is a story that you
- 21:30Speaker 2: can jump into, and that's the story of M and
- 21:32Speaker 2: MS and trying to find that blue color, the elusive blue.
- 21:39Speaker 2: We'll deal with that coming up. Kf I am six forty.
- 21:43Speaker 2: You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch my
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