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Bass vs Raman in the Final Mayoral Debate, Production Companies Flee and More Habitable Worlds · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: Great fun had by all. Now, last night, there was
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  Speaker 2: the debate between Nithya Raman and Karen Bass over running
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  Speaker 2: for mayor. And policy wise, the two are very similar.
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  Speaker 3: Nithya Raman is pretty left wing, though.
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  Speaker 2: She's the darling of Democratic Socialist Karen Bass, a major
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  Speaker 2: I guess, machine politics with the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 3: And so they came to blows, a lot of it
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  Speaker 3: over leadership.
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  Speaker 2: Karen Bass saying that Nithya Raman, not ready for the
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  Speaker 2: big time, not prepared to be the mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Now is not the time to change course.
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  Speaker 2: It's always never the time to elect a new mayor
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  Speaker 2: or a new president. Remember Joe Biden, it's not the
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  Speaker 2: time now. We need my leadership. We can't change things.
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  Speaker 2: That's generally what happens. Now, a couple of points were made.
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  Speaker 2: I think one of the big ones, and this is
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  Speaker 2: the one that I think is going to nail Karen
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  Speaker 2: Bass more than anything, was the issue of her being
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  Speaker 2: in Ghana when the Palisades fire broke out and she
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  Speaker 2: wasn't here. And she apologized profusely. I regret to this
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  Speaker 2: day that I wasn't here during the Palisades fire. Here's
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  Speaker 2: the problem, the way I see it, is that during
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  Speaker 2: her campaign for mayor, she promised not to leave Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: I am the mayor of Los Angeles. I will stay
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  Speaker 2: here and deal with city issues. I will not travel.
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  Speaker 2: Where was she when the Palisades fire broke out?
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  Speaker 3: She was in Ghana. What was she doing in Ghana?
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  Speaker 2: She was part of an American delegation there to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: the inauguration of the new Ghanaian president. Because being there,
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  Speaker 2: watching a new president being sworn in in Ghana has
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  Speaker 2: so much to do with the city.
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  Speaker 3: Of Los Angeles. She's a liar. Straight out.
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  Speaker 2: Straight out lied about it. And now she is sorry
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  Speaker 2: she did that. Okay, well, I would be too. Now,
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  Speaker 2: could she have done anything as the mayor? Probably not.
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  Speaker 2: But at least she wouldn't have been affected by this accusation.
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  Speaker 2: So a couple of other issues. Number one is, or
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  Speaker 2: another one is homelessness. You, Karen Bass, have not done
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  Speaker 2: enough about homelessness. And I, Nithya Raman, will. Well, Karen
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  Speaker 2: Bass is doing everything she can. She has her program
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  Speaker 2: started from day one. I think it's called Let's Help
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  Speaker 2: the Homeless, even though we can't do anything. But she
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  Speaker 2: is attempting and throwing lots of money in. So there
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  Speaker 2: is no issue. You can't accuse her of not paying
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  Speaker 2: attention to homelessness. There was an issue of the police chief,
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  Speaker 2: Jim McDonald, who is being accused of cooperating too closely
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  Speaker 2: as police chief, LAPD, with ICE officials and not doing
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  Speaker 2: enough to protect the, well, I can't say the citizens
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  Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, but Los Angelinos. And he's accused of
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  Speaker 2: being too much in cahoots with ICE. And Karen Bass
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  Speaker 2: and Nithya Raman wants McDonald replaced. Karen Bass says we
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  Speaker 2: can't replace him before the Olympics. It would throw the
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  Speaker 2: entire police department in disarray. Let me ask you something.
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  Speaker 2: If hiring a new police chief a year and a
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  Speaker 2: half before the Olympics would put the department in disarray,
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  Speaker 2: don't you think that would be not a great choice
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  Speaker 2: for a police chief? You think a year and a
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  Speaker 2: half would be enough for a new police chief to
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  Speaker 2: get things rolling at LAPD? So that was a big one.
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  Speaker 2: And so it really wasn't the policy. They're both in
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  Speaker 2: favor of homelessness. They are dealing with homelessness. They're both
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  Speaker 2: in favor of dealing with security. It was personal. You're
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  Speaker 2: not ready as far as Rahman is concerned, as far
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  Speaker 2: as Karen Bass is concerned. You don't have leadership. That's
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  Speaker 2: Bass talking about Rahman, and it all boils down.
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  Speaker 3: And then the.
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  Speaker 2: Issue is, I would get rid of the police chief.
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  Speaker 3: That's what Rahman says.
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  Speaker 2: Bass says it's absolutely the power of the mayor to
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  Speaker 2: fire the police chief. You say you'd get rid of
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  Speaker 2: him before the Olympics. What worries me, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you have any idea what it takes to identify a
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  Speaker 2: police chief.
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  Speaker 3: With Karen Bass.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she was on the council, as was Nithya Raman
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  Speaker 2: for years, as was both of them voted for McDonald
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  Speaker 2: as the police chief. Karen appointed, Nithya Raman confirmed part
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  Speaker 2: of the city council. So I don't know where they're
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  Speaker 2: going with that. And so the issue becomes personal. Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: who am I going to vote for? And as usual,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to come out with my voting guide, which
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  Speaker 2: we'll do.
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  Speaker 3: Prior to the election.
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  Speaker 2: And the rules are always the same with my voting guide.
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  Speaker 2: If you vote down the line based on my vote,
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  Speaker 2: if you follow in any way the vote that I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to cast, which I'll tell you which ones, which
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  Speaker 2: ones I'm in favor of, propositions particularly, you are fired
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  Speaker 2: as a KFI listener. You will not be allowed to
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  Speaker 2: listen to this or any show on KFI if you
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  Speaker 2: follow the voting guide. It is a voting guide of
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  Speaker 2: which I am and throwing down, which I'm going to follow,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not allowed to do so.
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  Speaker 3: So right now, it's pretty close.
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  Speaker 2: Karen Bass and Ithia Rahman were the two highest vote-getters
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  Speaker 2: in the primary, and the way California works is the
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  Speaker 2: two highest vote-getters go off unless one gets over 50%.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's automatic, but then the two highest vote-getters run
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  Speaker 2: in the general election, and that's Rahman and Bass, even
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  Speaker 2: though both are Democrats. It just happens to be that
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  Speaker 2: way in California. And so Bass was ahead during the primaries.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was 34% to Rahman's 29%. And now
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  Speaker 2: that has reversed in many polls with Rahman being ahead
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  Speaker 2: of Karen Bass. Here's the problem. People don't like either
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  Speaker 2: one of them. Karen Bass is not particularly likable. I'm
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  Speaker 2: nailing her on that Palisades fire issue. You know, she
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  Speaker 2: promised she'd be around and she just outright lied about it.
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  Speaker 3: But is that.
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  Speaker 4: Worth putting Rahman in office?
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  Speaker 3: No, but it's worth not voting. Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: I'm stuck in the same position that everybody else is
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  Speaker 2: stuck in most of the time. It's the lesser of
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  Speaker 2: two evils, or in my case, in the last presidential.
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  Speaker 2: I voted– it was a write-in vote for Karumba, the
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  Speaker 2: dead gorilla who had that little kid.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was at the– St. Louis, was that correct?
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  Speaker 3: So there you go. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you hate Rahman, Neil, and you talk a
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  Speaker 2: lot about Nithya Rahman.
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  Speaker 4: I don't hate anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no.
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  Speaker 3: I mean politically you're not a fan. I'm not a.
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  Speaker 4: Fan of the DSA period.
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  Speaker 5: However, it is interesting to note that all the other
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  Speaker 5: DSAs on– Democratic National or Democratic Socialists of America are
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  Speaker 5: voting for Bass or putting themselves behind Bass and not Rahman.
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  Speaker 4: And that tells me that she's not ready to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's me. She's not ready.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that she has their vote. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if either one of them is ready. Karen Bass has
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  Speaker 2: not shown to me to be a good leader at all.
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  Speaker 4: Agreed. But I think she's learned some stakes and she's
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  Speaker 4: bringing in some smart people to surround her with.
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  Speaker 2: OK, so the argument becomes that incumbency almost automatically puts
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  Speaker 2: you in a position where you're going to win a
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  Speaker 2: second term or a third term.
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  Speaker 3: And that's because everybody running, you can argue the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: You're not ready until you're there.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: It is, you know, the devil you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think both are not– it's horrible because I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we're a good choice. And then, of course, we
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  Speaker 2: had the third party.
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  Speaker 3: Who was that? Was that– Who also ran the Spencer Pratt?
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Spencer Pratt, his name.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought I thought he was a real possibility,
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  Speaker 2: except he wouldn't take that that red nose off that
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  Speaker 2: clown nose.
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  Speaker 3: He wouldn't take it off when he was debating.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 4: But at least he was something, you know, different in California.
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  Speaker 5: The problem is you're going to get Republicans in California
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  Speaker 5: voting or writing his name in, and then we're going
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  Speaker 5: to end up with Rahman.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Coming up. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, California and film production. And I want to
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  Speaker 2: spin in a different way and try to dive into
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  Speaker 2: we know why it's happening that production is leaving California. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But why California was the end-all, be-all. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to give you some film history that is kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Some handle history.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. A lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: One of the big stories is that the Papal Nodule
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  Speaker 2: and the prognosis is pretty good. So that is good
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  Speaker 2: luck for both him and the entire Catholic.
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  Speaker 3: World and for all of us, actually. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked or I've talked a lot about production in
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  Speaker 2: Southern California, leaving Southern California.
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  Speaker 3: Leaving California. California in general.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it used to be that California was the end-all, be-all,
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  Speaker 2: particularly Los Angeles. It wasn't too long ago it seemed
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  Speaker 2: like every TV show, movie, music, and video, every commercial
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  Speaker 2: was shot in California with L.A.
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  Speaker 3: Leading the way because L.A.
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  Speaker 2: Could be a stand-in for everything and everywhere. Mountains, beaches,
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  Speaker 2: old buildings, new buildings, old streets could fill in for anything. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that was a time and that was a place. And
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  Speaker 2: that's no longer the case because, well, right now, New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand is the go-to place and is supplanting L.A. because
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  Speaker 2: they have basically the same sort of the same look
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  Speaker 2: in many ways. Now, there is a TV show going
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  Speaker 2: on right now with a little bit of history here,
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  Speaker 2: and it's East of Eden. It's about what happened up
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  Speaker 2: in the Bay Area, Salinas area, the turn of the
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  Speaker 2: last century and early into the century. And it is
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  Speaker 2: based on John Steinbeck's book, East of Eden.
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  Speaker 3: Movie was made in 1955. Ilya Kazan directed it.
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  Speaker 2: Ilya Kazan, interesting history with him because he testified in
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  Speaker 2: front of the House of Un-American Activities.
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  Speaker 3: In the 50s and was a cooperator. He was cooperative.
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  Speaker 2: He cooperated with the government against the alleged communists, even
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  Speaker 2: to the point when he won an Academy Award.
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  Speaker 3: Half of the Academy.
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  Speaker 2: Half the people in the audience just up and walked
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  Speaker 2: out the door when he got his Academy Award. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's another East of Eden, and that's been directed by
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  Speaker 2: Yuvia Kazan's granddaughter, which is going on right now. And
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  Speaker 2: it is on Netflix and And it is terrific. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it is really, really good. And East of Eden originally
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  Speaker 2: was shot in Los Angeles. Well, this was shot in
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand. And so a little bit of history. Why
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles? Well, everybody knows that it is L.A., West Coast,
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  Speaker 2: and the early movie makers went to California because of
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  Speaker 2: the weather, the sunshine, a lot of days of sunlight.
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  Speaker 2: In those days, you needed a lot of sun, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of light to make the movies. And, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: it was actually New Jersey that was the center of
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  Speaker 2: movie making early on. And it was Thomas Edison who
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  Speaker 2: actually was involved early days of moviemaking. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: the earliest days he had a patent. He had several
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  Speaker 2: patents on movie cameras. And what happened was, is that
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  Speaker 2: other filmmakers did not want to pay him for every
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  Speaker 2: foot of film that was used. And so he had
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  Speaker 2: his thugs involved. go around and not only confiscate cameras
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  Speaker 2: that were not following his patent rules, they beat up
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  Speaker 2: the directors and the producers.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was thug city.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the big reasons that the filmmakers went
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  Speaker 2: to California was to get the hell out of the
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  Speaker 2: East Coast that was controlled by Thomas Edison and his thugs.
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  Speaker 2: And where to go? Well, it just so happened to
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  Speaker 2: be as far away as possible. Southern California. And that was,
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  Speaker 2: and it was created, turn of the last century is
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  Speaker 2: where Universal was created, Paramount.
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  Speaker 3: And so you have, by the.
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  Speaker 2: Way, it was old bunch of old European Jews that
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  Speaker 2: created all of those studios. Remember, if you remember, if
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  Speaker 2: you thought that the early studios were controlled by Jews,
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  Speaker 2: you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: It was absolutely the case.
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  Speaker 2: So when the films were being shot in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 2: because of Thomas Edison, he was there. And the first
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  Speaker 2: soundstage was built called the Black Mariah, who was neither
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  Speaker 2: black nor a Mariah. And it was an open building.
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  Speaker 2: that was on a turntable that was open to the sky,
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  Speaker 2: and it was to catch the sunlight. It would turn
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  Speaker 2: throughout the day as the sun moved across the sky.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at some of those early films
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  Speaker 2: or pictures of the Black Mariah, it's really interesting stuff
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  Speaker 2: how that all started. The first major, major motion picture
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  Speaker 2: that was filmed in Southern California was the Squaw Man.
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  Speaker 2: which was obviously an early silent. And can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: a film today named The Squaw Man?
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  Speaker 3: Go to a, what's the name of that restaurant? Oh
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  Speaker 3: my God. Cheesecake Factory. All right.
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  Speaker 2: And they have that wonderful sweet bread.
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  Speaker 3: And it used to be called Squaw Bread. Ask for
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  Speaker 3: Squaw Bread today.
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  Speaker 4: The brown, the sweet brown bread? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was known as Squabread.
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  Speaker 4: I never remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's delicious.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is. It's absolutely delicious.
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  Speaker 2: And when it lost its name, it lost its squashness,
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  Speaker 2: and it just wasn't the same. Okay, a story about
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  Speaker 2: our utility bills and another piece of history here in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles I want to share with you.
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  Speaker 2: lung cancer, but caught early enough. He had one of
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  Speaker 2: we're hearing. Now, a story in New York Post, an
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  Speaker 2: op-ed piece, which talks about utility bills. And this gives
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  Speaker 2: sort of another spin on utility bills here in Southern California, particularly. Now,
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  Speaker 2: green energy is not something that the Trump administration is
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  Speaker 2: a fan of. Matter of fact, trying to kill green
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  Speaker 2: energy across the board for political purposes, straight out.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Democrats, liberals like green energy, real conservatives like oil. And
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  Speaker 2: so based on that, boom, green energy is out. federally
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  Speaker 2: and the protections environmental protections have all been dumped but
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  Speaker 2: there is a deeper story and in this story in
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  Speaker 2: this op-ed piece the argument is forget about the politics
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  Speaker 2: let's look at why it is well i guess there's
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  Speaker 2: some politics involved why it's so expensive Cantor's Deli, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you've ever been to Cantor's. It's on Fairfax.
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  Speaker 2: It's been around almost 100 years. It's one of the
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  Speaker 2: great delis. They just got hit with a $ 34, 000 utility bill.
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  Speaker 2: Cantor's says its new utility bill is $ 10, 000 higher than
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  Speaker 2: it was in the past. And so the argument is
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  Speaker 2: made in this op-ed piece is, If the taxes and
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  Speaker 2: the homeless problem weren't enough in L.A., California is making
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  Speaker 2: it impossible for places like Cantor's to even survive.
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  Speaker 3: Cantor's is blaming electricity prices outright. And when you look at.
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  Speaker 2: Your electricity bill, boy, you're looking at some of the
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  Speaker 2: most expensive utilities out there. When I lived in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 2: the Department of Water and Power, which is actually one
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  Speaker 2: of the most efficient utilities, municipal-owned utilities, about half the
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  Speaker 2: price of Edison.
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  Speaker 3: Of other utilities.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a relative bargain, even though the electricity
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  Speaker 2: costs were ridiculously high. I moved into San Diego Gas
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  Speaker 2: and Electric, the highest cost of utility.
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  Speaker 3: In the country.
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  Speaker 2: And thank goodness I have a solar system. Otherwise, my house,
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  Speaker 2: I would be paying $ 1, 500 a month for electricity, straight out.
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  Speaker 2: That's how expensive electricity is. And green energy looks cheaper, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's getting cheaper and cheaper, whereas now it competes. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't because it depends on massive subsidies. Well, it helps
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  Speaker 2: the planet. Well, look at China pumping out coal at
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  Speaker 2: an unbelievable rate. even though China is a leader in
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  Speaker 2: solar technology, the coal plants that it's building are far,
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  Speaker 2: far out doing anything in the world of solar.
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  Speaker 3: So what's going on with this?
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  Speaker 2: Why? Well, legislators in Sacramento have spent years piling mandates
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  Speaker 2: on top of mandates on top of mandates.
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  Speaker 3: By 2045, the state's.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be, by law, by the way, 100%
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  Speaker 2: carbon-free electricity, zero emissions.
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  Speaker 3: Now, these folks only look at wind and solar.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look at nuclear power, which is, without nuclear power,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot meet this goal. Oh, no, you can't have
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  Speaker 2: nuclear power. Oh, my God, we're afraid of what might happen.
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  Speaker 2: We're scared to death that your nuts might become nightlights
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  Speaker 2: if there is a leak. Well, you know, it's pretty
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  Speaker 2: safe right now. I mean, the nuclear power folks have
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  Speaker 2: done a hell of a job. But then you had Fukushima,
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  Speaker 2: which just shut down everything. So California, highest or near
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  Speaker 2: highest retail rates in the continental United States. We've outpaced
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  Speaker 2: most other states in the cost of electricity. And residential
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  Speaker 2: customers in California reporting bills that have doubled, even tripled,
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  Speaker 2: it is so damn expensive. And it's tough for people to,
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  Speaker 2: it's tough for businesses to stay in business. So what
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  Speaker 2: has the government done in California? Investigations, data requests, expressions
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  Speaker 2: of concern. But the underlying policy architecture, which has been
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  Speaker 2: there for years and years, it's all about rate payers
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  Speaker 2: continuing to fund all this, which, of course, they do.
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  Speaker 2: Because any time business costs go up, they have to
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  Speaker 2: be passed on to consumers. Also, look at the liability
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  Speaker 2: these utilities now have here in California, right? Well, look
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  Speaker 2: at the Palisades fire. Who's going to get hit? You
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  Speaker 2: bet it's going to be, I think it's LA, LADWP.
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  Speaker 2: And so this liability is astronomical. I mean, we're talking
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  Speaker 2: in the billions and billions of dollars. So, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: this op-ed piece gives us one or some of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons outside of isn't green... I don't know what's going
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  Speaker 2: on with a frog in my throat. Outside of isn't
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  Speaker 2: green good. The bottom line, and I've advocated this from
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  Speaker 2: the beginning, nuclear power.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, nukes.
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  Speaker 2: And if there is a leak, like there was in
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  Speaker 2: Fukushima or in Russia... Hey, OK, so you have entire towns.
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  Speaker 2: Half the country has to be evacuated because of the danger.
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  Speaker 2: And you have three headed frogs. I get that. And
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  Speaker 2: you have kids that are being born. And the only
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  Speaker 2: job they're ever going to have is a stand ins
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  Speaker 2: for Flipper. I understand that that is a problem. But
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  Speaker 2: without it, you know, we're going to have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of three-headed frogs out there if we do it right.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up. Oh, this is a fun one. Is there
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  Speaker 3: life on Uranus? Probably. Can't hear you, Neil.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you say?
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  Speaker 3: Is there life on Uranus?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I thought you said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. It's probably the case.
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  Speaker 2: But going beyond Uranus, and I don't even want to
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  Speaker 2: do that. It's too good. They named that planet Jupiter.
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  Speaker 2: for way, way too entertaining. Uh, I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about other planets, uh, where are there aliens out there? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there are just not the way we deal with them.
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM six 40.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to bill handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 6: six 40.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the stories we're looking at, uh, Those carriages
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  Speaker 2: in New York been around for, what, 150 years through
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  Speaker 2: Central Park and the city are going to be horseless
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  Speaker 2: carriages because city of New York just had no more horses.
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  Speaker 2: Then we have the Pope who has lung cancer, but
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be okay. All right, a
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  Speaker 2: story I want to share with you about habitable planets.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about looking for Earth-like planets out there. Well,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of astrobiologists said that we have it all wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There was an experiment, garden crests sprouting under light to
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  Speaker 2: mimic a K dwarf star. Now, what is a K
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  Speaker 2: dwarf star? It burns cooler than our star and it
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  Speaker 2: creates and you have planets.
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  Speaker 3: Around it that are bigger than Earth.
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  Speaker 2: You put that together and you have planets that, as
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, are better than Earth.
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  Speaker 3: Life may thrive far more.
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  Speaker 2: In the light of these stars and planets slightly larger
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  Speaker 2: than larger than Earth, known as super Earths. And it's
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  Speaker 2: all about these K dwarfs, this kind of star. And
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  Speaker 2: scientists are calling these super habitable worlds. Now, how does
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: that work? Well, first of all, the planet itself is
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  Speaker 2: 20 to 30 percent, twice as massive as Earth. It's
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the right distance from the star for water to flow.
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  Speaker 2: It has stronger gravity, which gives the planet a thicker atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: and a warmer, more stable climate. And that fuels the
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  Speaker 2: growth of plants and animals or their equivalents. And it
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  Speaker 2: has a bigger iron core, stronger magnetic field, blocks cosmic
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  Speaker 2: radiation better. And what it does is simply create more
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  Speaker 2: life at an earlier stage and more diversity. Also, the
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  Speaker 2: amount of water that's there would not be huge deep oceans.
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  Speaker 2: There would be more oceans spreading over the entire planet
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  Speaker 2: and there would be lakes and seas and shallow ponds.
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  Speaker 2: And where are the most biodiversable habitats.
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  Speaker 3: In the world?
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  Speaker 2: Tide pools, oceans that are not particularly deep. You go
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  Speaker 2: down to deep oceans, there's very little life. You go
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  Speaker 2: near the surface, we have nothing but life. And so
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: look at what happened with us. Starting with the single
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  Speaker 2: cell animals and within a couple of billion years, look
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  Speaker 2: at the diversity of life on our planet.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine that.
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  Speaker 2: An atmosphere that is more likely to create life, and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden you have a planet that is far.
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  Speaker 3: More likely to have life on it.
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  Speaker 2: So what these astrobiologists are saying, don't look for Earth-like
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  Speaker 2: planets that mimic Earth. Look at these planets that are
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  Speaker 2: part of the K dwarf suns.
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  Speaker 3: Really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Don't look for Earth twins because Earth may not be
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  Speaker 2: the ideal archetype. It just happened here, but it can
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  Speaker 2: just happen there. Wait, so that's... That's not about us
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  Speaker 2: being able to live there. That's about evolution being able
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  Speaker 2: to take place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we would be able to live there, I
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  Speaker 2: would think. Well, not if it's a progressing planet.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: No, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we would be taking lessons from giant cockroaches
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: who have huge brains and would probably eat us. But
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: it's a really interesting way of looking at extraterrestrial life,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: not aliens that come to Earth in those flying saucers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is real science and experiments have proved
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: this kind of connection between a K dwarf star. burns,
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  Speaker 2: not as bright, is going to last longer. And by
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: the way, we have half a billion years left to go.
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  Speaker 2: 500 million years from now, our sun is exploding.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye. It's over. Okay.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: That roller coaster death that happened in Georgia. I want
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: to dive into a little bit of how it happened.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know and why it shouldn't have happened, and
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: some of the safety features involved, and how different states
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: deal with safety features. And I'll come up with that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Regulations and what the companies that make them and run
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  Speaker 2: them are doing. This is KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: You've been listening to The Bill Handel Show.
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