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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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- 0:17Speaker 1: it is Aday, Wednesday, January twenty eight. Some of the
- 0:21Speaker 1: stories we're looking at a real heartbreaker so far. The
- 0:26Speaker 1: winter storm that has hit the eastern part of the
- 0:28Speaker 1: United States and the Midwest has claimed at least thirty lives,
- 0:34Speaker 1: and around one hundred and seventy five million people remain
- 0:37Speaker 1: under cold alerts for frigid temperatures that are coming down again.
- 0:42Speaker 1: There's this arctic blast, that's the word I'm looking for.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Arctic blast coming in on top of all the other
- 0:48Speaker 1: storms and looks like today interest rates the FED is
- 0:52Speaker 1: going to keep them about the same, matter of fact,
- 0:55Speaker 1: the same, Okay. One of the things, here's a Donald
- 1:00Speaker 1: Trump's story which is not necessarily bad, but necessarily crazy
- 1:05Speaker 1: as always, and he is talking about the permitting process
- 1:09Speaker 1: here at southern California after the Palisades and eating fire,
- 1:13Speaker 1: and he says rightly so that it's just not moving
- 1:17Speaker 1: quickly enough. One of the things about building in southern
- 1:20Speaker 1: California is probably the most restrictive building codes in the
- 1:24Speaker 1: United States. They make it very, very difficult to build
- 1:27Speaker 1: I have built, and it's just a nightmare. And so
- 1:30Speaker 1: what the President is saying, you're not moving fast enough,
- 1:33Speaker 1: which is true. You're not giving enough resources, which is true.
- 1:39Speaker 1: And so what he has done is he signed an
- 1:41Speaker 1: executive order and moved right into nuts. Of course it
- 1:45Speaker 1: is because that's what he does. After the first executive
- 1:49Speaker 1: order that happened yesterday was that he has ordered all
- 1:53Speaker 1: science classes in the United States to declare that the
- 1:57Speaker 1: United States is the center of the universe. Really important. Now,
- 2:02Speaker 1: the other executive order is saying that the federal government
- 2:07Speaker 1: is going to be taking over the city and the
- 2:11Speaker 1: state permitting process. The feds are going to eliminate the
- 2:17Speaker 1: city and the state and the county building codes and
- 2:21Speaker 1: how building is to be done to expedite it. Okay,
- 2:24Speaker 1: fair enough, here's the problem. He can't do it. The
- 2:30Speaker 1: federal government does not have the authority to preempt local
- 2:35Speaker 1: building codes. Why because they are local building codes that
- 2:41Speaker 1: are not under the jurisdiction of the federal government. That
- 2:44Speaker 1: doesn't seem to matter, because well, frankly, he doesn't care.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Because the President feels that everything, everybody, every move, every
- 2:53Speaker 1: law can be either preempted or is already under the
- 2:56Speaker 1: jurisdiction of the US, of course not, because in that
- 3:01Speaker 1: case there would be no codes at all, that we
- 3:04Speaker 1: would have no local ordinances that control what we do.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Parking meters. They just raised the price of parking meters
- 3:12Speaker 1: who from fifty cents an hour to seventy five cents
- 3:15Speaker 1: an hour. The Feds have come in and said we'll
- 3:18Speaker 1: take over the parking meter issue in the city of
- 3:21Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Sure, why not, and we'll take it all over.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Now he's got a point, and here is the response.
- 3:29Speaker 1: First of all, Mayor Karen Bias and Governor Newsom say,
- 3:32Speaker 1: as usual, you're out of your mind. Mister president, you
- 3:35Speaker 1: are crazy. You have no jurisdiction here. Now, if you
- 3:38Speaker 1: do want to help and really make an impact, just
- 3:43Speaker 1: give us more money or short of money, as opposed
- 3:47Speaker 1: to what you're doing, and that is limiting the amount
- 3:50Speaker 1: of money that comes into the state because it's a
- 3:52Speaker 1: blue state, because it's all politics, even to the point
- 3:55Speaker 1: where federal judges have told the administration you cannot stop
- 4:00Speaker 1: money from going into California. You can't do it. You
- 4:05Speaker 1: can't just arbitrarily say, you know, various programs, we're stopping
- 4:09Speaker 1: the programs because it's California. We're not helping, we're pulling
- 4:13Speaker 1: back on FEMA. That is the issue that we need money,
- 4:19Speaker 1: and the problem is so overwhelming. I mean, if we're
- 4:24Speaker 1: talking about sixteen thousand homes, structures, businesses that were totally
- 4:28Speaker 1: destroyed in the Palisades and the eat and fire, it's
- 4:32Speaker 1: almost insurmountable. It's breathtaking in how difficult this is going
- 4:37Speaker 1: to be. And frankly, LA needs all the help it
- 4:41Speaker 1: can get from the county, from the state, and from
- 4:44Speaker 1: the Feds. And the way the President wants to do
- 4:47Speaker 1: it saying I will take over the process or the
- 4:51Speaker 1: federal government, which means I and he has ordered in
- 4:56Speaker 1: this executive order the Homeland Security Secretary know who she is,
- 5:01Speaker 1: and FEMA to preempt state and local permitting authorities. He
- 5:07Speaker 1: can say that all he wants, and it's just there's
- 5:11Speaker 1: no mechanism for it. But he's just saying it. Now, what, well,
- 5:16Speaker 1: you want to build, you have to go through the
- 5:19Speaker 1: permitting process exactly the way it was before, and the
- 5:25Speaker 1: city is making attempts to speed it up. But when
- 5:29Speaker 1: you go from ridiculously slow to exorbitantly slow, I mean,
- 5:36Speaker 1: it goes so how about this punitively insanely slow to
- 5:41Speaker 1: integ from intergalactically slow. I think that describes it. And
- 5:46Speaker 1: so the president one way, absolutely right, we have to
- 5:49Speaker 1: speed it up, and the other way, just give us
- 5:51Speaker 1: some money because that's all the FEDS can do, and
- 5:55Speaker 1: leave me alone, Leave us alone. Okay. Hollywood Burbank Airport
- 6:00Speaker 1: one of the neatest airports out there, small regional airport
- 6:03Speaker 1: you would not expect to see in southern California. It
- 6:08Speaker 1: is not a major airport, although there are plenty of
- 6:13Speaker 1: airlines flying out of that. American flies out of their
- 6:15Speaker 1: Southwest flies out of there, and it's really close to
- 6:19Speaker 1: Van Ey's Airport. What about ten twelve miles away Van
- 6:22Speaker 1: Eyes being a general airport in the census private planes
- 6:27Speaker 1: for the most part, the busiest one in the world
- 6:29Speaker 1: by the way, and air traffic is completely crazy. Well,
- 6:34Speaker 1: this story refers to what happened in Washington, d C.
- 6:39Speaker 1: At Reagan International about a year ago when that Blackhawk
- 6:42Speaker 1: military helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet. Sixty
- 6:47Speaker 1: Seven people died and it was a mid air collision.
- 6:51Speaker 1: And whenever these collisions happened, whenever an airline accident happens,
- 6:56Speaker 1: the National Transportation Safety Board jumps in and starts it's investigating,
- 7:01Speaker 1: and they did. In this case NTSB, the chairperson, Jennifer Homendi,
- 7:08Speaker 1: basically said, the FAA ruined it. The faas it fault here,
- 7:12Speaker 1: the air traffic controller just screwed the pooch. There were
- 7:15Speaker 1: a whole series of mistakes. Whenever you look at these
- 7:17Speaker 1: airline crashes, it's not just a single cause. Almost never,
- 7:21Speaker 1: it's also it's always a number of causes and the
- 7:24Speaker 1: perfect storm hits. And in this case, there was too
- 7:29Speaker 1: much traffic going on. The FAA should have known, did know,
- 7:33Speaker 1: and did nothing about it. And so Jennifer Homendi just
- 7:38Speaker 1: nailed the FAA for this. Two independent agencies still under
- 7:43Speaker 1: the executive branch, and up to this point the administration
- 7:47Speaker 1: has left them alone. There is they've let these agencies
- 7:52Speaker 1: do their own. Now they're separate, quasi independent agencies, and
- 7:58Speaker 1: she said it's the FA. Okay. Further on, they're studying
- 8:03Speaker 1: other airports, and what we're hearing is the next airport
- 8:09Speaker 1: where a collision will happen if things don't change dramatically,
- 8:15Speaker 1: is Hollywood Burbank. The one that whenever any of US
- 8:21Speaker 1: flies out of that's where we want to come out of.
- 8:24Speaker 1: Lax Is a disaster. Lax Is considered one of the
- 8:29Speaker 1: worst airports in the world, much less in the country,
- 8:33Speaker 1: and it is just a complete whorehouse in the sense
- 8:38Speaker 1: it's so scrambled up. No no, I apologize to whorehouses
- 8:42Speaker 1: all over the world, because certainly the airport is far
- 8:45Speaker 1: worse than that. So we have this neat regional airport
- 8:48Speaker 1: here ten minutes from here, and they're building a new terminal.
- 8:53Speaker 1: But you park valley parking is the same cost as
- 8:56Speaker 1: parking in the structure. You walk off an airplane, you
- 9:00Speaker 1: throw your ticket in a kiosk on the way down
- 9:03Speaker 1: to the parking area, you walk out, there's your car
- 9:06Speaker 1: waiting for you. I mean, it is delightful until you're
- 9:09Speaker 1: on an airplane that's going to be involved in a
- 9:11Speaker 1: mid air collision. Then it's not so delightful. Because if
- 9:15Speaker 1: you think if you have a problem with landing, let
- 9:17Speaker 1: me tell you the problem you have when you go
- 9:19Speaker 1: straight down and land, and that's the fear that is
- 9:23Speaker 1: going on. And the culture has to change. The FAA
- 9:29Speaker 1: simply has to undergo a major shift. And at this
- 9:35Speaker 1: point we haven't heard much for the from the FAA
- 9:38Speaker 1: air traffic controllers. We do know they're overworked. We do
- 9:43Speaker 1: know that control towers are understaffed to the point where
- 9:47Speaker 1: they will just shut down an airport. If you have
- 9:52Speaker 1: a control tower where there are not enough air traffic
- 9:57Speaker 1: controllers that show up for work, they just shut down
- 10:01Speaker 1: the airport. I mean the whole thing. I mean, that's
- 10:04Speaker 1: the kind of disaster. So FAA responded and said, immediately
- 10:11Speaker 1: following that crash at Reagan Washington National Airport, we acted
- 10:18Speaker 1: to improve safety, whatever that means. We began using innovative
- 10:22Speaker 1: AI tools to identify similar hotspots with high volumes of
- 10:27Speaker 1: mixed helicopter and airplane traffic. And that seems to be
- 10:31Speaker 1: a problem. And the real problem is the FAA has
- 10:35Speaker 1: known for years the possibility of a collision in Washington
- 10:42Speaker 1: at the airport and did nothing about it. And what's
- 10:45Speaker 1: really problematic is we're hearing that the next one right here,
- 10:52Speaker 1: right here in southern California at Hollywood Burbank. And that's
- 10:57Speaker 1: not any fun to heart. By the way, I really
- 11:02Speaker 1: enjoy flying out of there are no skyways and so
- 11:07Speaker 1: that you cannot get on a skyway, you had the
- 11:09Speaker 1: airplane lands and the steps roll up and you have
- 11:14Speaker 1: to get out, and it's I don't know if you've
- 11:17Speaker 1: ever seen anybody in wheelchairs get off that airplane. Uh,
- 11:22Speaker 1: one of these planes. It's so entertaining because you have
- 11:25Speaker 1: the stairs and the wheelchair goes thumpa down and people
- 11:31Speaker 1: flying off the wheelchairs. I mean that is going to
- 11:33Speaker 1: the airport and enjoying yourself looking at planes taking off
- 11:37Speaker 1: and landing. Nothing better than that, all right? Uh, Now,
- 11:42Speaker 1: we in this country are a nation of foreigners. It's
- 11:45Speaker 1: just that simple. Uh. If you're big into karaoke, you're
- 11:49Speaker 1: a Filipino. If you happen to like cocaine a lot,
- 11:55Speaker 1: you're probably Colombian. Uh. If you happen to go be
- 11:59Speaker 1: big into dog I'm not going to go there because
- 12:01Speaker 1: I don't need the emails. I mean, it just goes on.
- 12:04Speaker 1: If you really like chandeliers in every room in your house,
- 12:07Speaker 1: and you like red flocks wallpaper, you're probably Iranian. The
- 12:11Speaker 1: point I'm making is that we are truly a nation
- 12:16Speaker 1: of immigrants and have been forever. So the argument that
- 12:21Speaker 1: we no longer want immigrants here, well, I mean there's
- 12:24Speaker 1: an argument, and that is that when we had open immigration,
- 12:30Speaker 1: we needed people. We needed people in this country. Today
- 12:35Speaker 1: we don't need people. And I'll tell you the problem
- 12:39Speaker 1: that we also may be having is not only do
- 12:43Speaker 1: we not need people, our population is falling in California
- 12:50Speaker 1: now it is flat. And the only reason it's flat
- 12:55Speaker 1: is we still have some limited immigration, legal immigration, and
- 12:59Speaker 1: we have ethnic groups. I just like having kids, and
- 13:02Speaker 1: there's certain ethnicities where children are a big part of it,
- 13:06Speaker 1: and they have more kids than the national average. You know,
- 13:11Speaker 1: for example, Latino populations, I don't know what is it
- 13:14Speaker 1: two three point two or three point four. If you're
- 13:17Speaker 1: a Caucasian male, if you're a Caucasian couple, chances are well,
- 13:23Speaker 1: this is a fact that you are not keeping up
- 13:26Speaker 1: with the population. Married people or even couples who have
- 13:31Speaker 1: children are not having enough. If you are a Jewish
- 13:36Speaker 1: Caucasian male, you're not even having sex if you've been
- 13:39Speaker 1: married for any length of time. So there are no
- 13:42Speaker 1: children that are being born. Our population is flat and
- 13:48Speaker 1: that does not bode well. Why is that? And this
- 13:52Speaker 1: is a census bureau. They just came out with this information.
- 13:55Speaker 1: And what happens when I can cough through this, I
- 14:01Speaker 1: don't know why I'm coffee so much this morning. And
- 14:04Speaker 1: what happens is if we don't keep replacing ourselves, that
- 14:08Speaker 1: ain't good. And why is that not good? Because we
- 14:12Speaker 1: are an aging population, look at the baby boomers. Social
- 14:16Speaker 1: Security is paid for by workers that are working. The
- 14:20Speaker 1: cost of medical care is as people get older, becomes astronomical.
- 14:26Speaker 1: When social Security, for example, first came out, I was
- 14:30Speaker 1: nineteen thirty five during the FDR range in the middle
- 14:34Speaker 1: of the depression. People retire at sixty five and they
- 14:37Speaker 1: died at sixty six. The whole point was to keep
- 14:41Speaker 1: people in their very limited old age in reasonable comfort,
- 14:48Speaker 1: because it used to be prior to that, if you
- 14:50Speaker 1: didn't have family, you'd be out on the street and
- 14:52Speaker 1: you would just not survive. So social Security kicks in,
- 14:55Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, now we have a major change. Well,
- 14:59Speaker 1: no one anticipated the extraordinary length of time we now
- 15:04Speaker 1: live relative to what it was in the thirties. My mother,
- 15:10Speaker 1: who retired at sixty two, died at ninety eight. Do
- 15:16Speaker 1: you know how much money she sucked out of my paycheck?
- 15:21Speaker 1: Do you have any idea of what my mother took
- 15:24Speaker 1: out of my taxes her living to ninety eight, man
- 15:30Speaker 1: I resented that. It was not only did I not
- 15:36Speaker 1: particularly like her because that was my mother, but let
- 15:40Speaker 1: I got to the point where I've said this before.
- 15:43Speaker 1: In her assistant living facility, she would walk in, she
- 15:45Speaker 1: wasn't very conscious. I would refuse to walk in by
- 15:49Speaker 1: myself because I know I would have grabbed a pillow.
- 15:54Speaker 1: It's just that simple. The point I'm making is it
- 15:57Speaker 1: is getting more and more difficult. We are getting older
- 16:00Speaker 1: and older, we are surviving longer. Are the Census Bureau
- 16:05Speaker 1: says our population is flat. When the population goes up,
- 16:10Speaker 1: we make in roads. When the population goes down, it
- 16:14Speaker 1: gets more expensive to survive for the rest of us,
- 16:16Speaker 1: which is why. And certainly over my lifetime of working,
- 16:23Speaker 1: we have seen social Security taxes climb and climb and climb,
- 16:26Speaker 1: and oh yeah, the social Security system is going to
- 16:29Speaker 1: be bankrupt by twenty twenty two. It's going to be
- 16:32Speaker 1: bankrupt by two thousand and thirty eight, it's going to
- 16:34Speaker 1: be bankrupt by twenty fifteen. I've heard that my entire life.
- 16:39Speaker 1: So we need immigrants. We need immigrants to take care
- 16:45Speaker 1: of me. Do you understand it's my turn now? Damn it?
- 16:52Speaker 1: Put down that karaoke machine and go to work again
- 16:57Speaker 1: and sing, and you can sing peelings, peelings, nothing more
- 17:03Speaker 1: than peelings. I don't know if you've gone to a
- 17:06Speaker 1: karaoke bar lately. Okay, we're done with that. Almost how
- 17:11Speaker 1: much time in a karaoke bar? You know, I don't know.
- 17:15Speaker 1: You have to you know, you have to be I
- 17:17Speaker 1: guess the Filipino to really really enjoy yourself. By the way,
- 17:21Speaker 1: look at ballute, which is one of the great delicate
- 17:24Speaker 1: in the yeah, in the Filipino world. Look it up,
- 17:27Speaker 1: ba l u T. I think it is bollute? Boy?
- 17:32Speaker 1: Does that tell you you really want to go to
- 17:34Speaker 1: a ballute party or a Super Bowl? You want to
- 17:36Speaker 1: go a Super Bowl party where not only your are
- 17:39Speaker 1: you hearing peelings on the karaoke, you're singing, you're eating ballute.
- 17:45Speaker 1: All right, let me tell you a story. This one's
- 17:47Speaker 1: kind of interesting. The last slaughter house in La County
- 17:51Speaker 1: permanently closed four months ago operational violations, bankruptcy, and now
- 17:58Speaker 1: the site is up for sale. What do you do
- 18:00Speaker 1: with an old when you're a packing plant, a slaughterhouse. Well,
- 18:06Speaker 1: recently it's been used for scavenger hunts. For birthday parties. Gee, mommy,
- 18:12Speaker 1: what's that? It's a butthole. That's what is from a cow.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Those are fun things to do. And by the way,
- 18:20Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever I don't know if
- 18:21Speaker 1: you've ever been to a slaughterhouse. What happens is they
- 18:25Speaker 1: take the cow's ears and tumors and buttholes, and after
- 18:30Speaker 1: the meat has been removed, grind it all up and
- 18:33Speaker 1: then at the other end hot dogs. So next time
- 18:36Speaker 1: you eat a hot dog, enjoy yourself, would you please.
- 18:40Speaker 1: In the meantime, there is this site where Manning Beef,
- 18:45Speaker 1: the company that went bankrupt and owned the slower the slaughterhouse.
- 18:50Speaker 1: It is up for auction. It's a three point seven
- 18:54Speaker 1: to four acre former meat processing facility and the city
- 19:00Speaker 1: of Pico Rivera wants to buy it for the purpose
- 19:05Speaker 1: of not letting another meat packing company take over the site.
- 19:10Speaker 1: They do not want a slaughter house there. I kind
- 19:13Speaker 1: of like slaughterhouses now, I mean not right next to me,
- 19:15Speaker 1: right next to your house, with guts and and trolls
- 19:19Speaker 1: flying out the door. I mean, it's really exciting stuff.
- 19:22Speaker 1: And then you want to have dinner right after that.
- 19:25Speaker 1: And so what are they going to use a site
- 19:26Speaker 1: for maybe affordable housing, maybe a public open space. Maybe.
- 19:34Speaker 1: Oh this one I love. Instead of a packing plant,
- 19:37Speaker 1: a sustainable, plant based food facility. I mean, how's that
- 19:42Speaker 1: for irony? Huh? Opening bid seven million dollars and Piko
- 19:47Speaker 1: Rivera actually has money set aside for this sort of thing.
- 19:52Speaker 1: And the entire issue is, well, we don't have packing
- 19:56Speaker 1: plants anymore, we don't have slaughterhouses anymore. And it's I mean,
- 20:03Speaker 1: it's huge business. We eat steaks, Neil, you go to
- 20:07Speaker 1: them when you do field trips, for example, and take
- 20:10Speaker 1: listeners on field trips. You go to slaughterhouses. No, but
- 20:14Speaker 1: I have been. I've been to meatpacking places and discussed houses.
- 20:19Speaker 1: It is completely disgusting. They're incredibly clean. And a fish
- 20:23Speaker 1: oh you just you know what you have this thing
- 20:25Speaker 1: for cows guts and pig guts. I get that. They
- 20:28Speaker 1: seriously are cleaner than you would expect. They're incredibly clean.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Manny Beef. This company was founded in the twenties. It
- 20:37Speaker 1: was a ranching business and then thirty years later it
- 20:40Speaker 1: became a meatpacking plant. Now this is a fun company.
- 20:44Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, there was a herd of cattle
- 20:46Speaker 1: I remember this escaped through an open gate and then
- 20:49Speaker 1: went for a stroll through the night, and they wandered
- 20:53Speaker 1: more than a mile away into a residential neighborhood. One
- 20:57Speaker 1: of the forty cows charged at a family of four
- 21:01Speaker 1: and was shot by law enforcement, which is kind of ironic.
- 21:05Speaker 1: They shot a cow that was meant to die at
- 21:07Speaker 1: the park at the Plant and Animal Outlook, which is
- 21:12Speaker 1: one of these organizations, these pro animal organizations, planted an
- 21:18Speaker 1: undercover worker at Manning Beef towards the end of twenty
- 21:21Speaker 1: twenty four and what they said Animal Outlook animals going
- 21:26Speaker 1: to slaughter while they appear to be conscious. One of
- 21:29Speaker 1: the things about slaughtering cattle and pigs and whatever is
- 21:34Speaker 1: you want to be as humane as you possibly can
- 21:38Speaker 1: while you're killing someone or some animal. And humane means
- 21:43Speaker 1: that you render that animal unconscious so when the death comes,
- 21:49Speaker 1: it is not painful at all. And that's I don't
- 21:53Speaker 1: know if you know this, but you know kosher meat.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Part of kosher meat, a huge part of kosher meat,
- 22:02Speaker 1: is that the animal must be slaughtered humanely. The jugular
- 22:07Speaker 1: vein has to be cut so it bleeds out, and
- 22:10Speaker 1: it has to not have a lot of pain. So
- 22:14Speaker 1: I bet you didn't know that, did you? And I
- 22:18Speaker 1: see Emmy's shaking her head. Right. The other part of
- 22:21Speaker 1: kosher meat is ridiculously overpriced, and it is. I'll tell
- 22:27Speaker 1: you one real quick. One. One of the worst days
- 22:30Speaker 1: in the history of Costco is when they stop using
- 22:34Speaker 1: Hebrew National hot dogs because Hebrew National hot Dogs doesn't
- 22:39Speaker 1: have don't don't have fillers. Most hot dogs that you
- 22:42Speaker 1: eat and you buy at the store, they're about thirty
- 22:45Speaker 1: percent sawdust. I don't know if you knew that. A
- 22:49Speaker 1: lot of fillers there not sawdust. Yeah, along a lot
- 22:54Speaker 1: of them. You can even taste it. It's a little
- 22:56Speaker 1: you know, dusty chalky. All right, We're done, Guy KF
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