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Revolting Against Police Drones + Should Teens Vote? · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, a story I want to share with you. And
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  Speaker 2: this is going on across California. And police departments are
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  Speaker 2: expanding their drone as first responder programs. And boy, what
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  Speaker 2: a public backlash that is. Because there are the people
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  Speaker 2: that are against this are basically saying this is warrantless surveillance,
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  Speaker 2: corporate overreach. And the pushback is huge because you have
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  Speaker 2: local policy hearing, local police hearings and these battles over
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  Speaker 2: the boundaries of what neighborhood surveillance is all about. And
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  Speaker 2: so this is heated public debates. Well, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: you got some landmark privacy litigation happening. There is a
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  Speaker 2: 2021 law in California that mandates explicit local board approval
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  Speaker 2: for the use of, quote, military equipment, of which drones
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  Speaker 2: are part of that. And the police are looking increasingly
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  Speaker 2: as to drones as potential first responders. Very good way
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  Speaker 2: of dealing as a first response, knowing exactly where things
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  Speaker 2: take place. For example, You have drones overhead at car
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  Speaker 2: accidents in real time. So the dispatchers know how many ambulances,
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  Speaker 2: how serious this is. And this is in real time. Well,
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement is pushing to broaden this use beyond just
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  Speaker 2: emergency response to everyday patrols. And oh boy, are citizens
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  Speaker 2: concerned about this because that's warrantless searches. And the worry
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  Speaker 2: is that cities are hoarding too much of these data
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  Speaker 2: collected by drones. Do drone makers have too much power information?
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  Speaker 2: That's another question. The police department in San Francisco, for example,
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  Speaker 2: asked commissioners to approve a policy allowing drones for a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of uses, including public safety response. OK, we're talking
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  Speaker 2: probably about demonstrations, active investigations, training, community outreach. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: don't quite know how you use a drone for community outreach,
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  Speaker 2: but okay. The problem here is it's like everything else.
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  Speaker 2: The technology is there. The laws aren't catching up. We
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  Speaker 2: know about what the police can and cannot do on
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  Speaker 2: the ground. They can't break into your house. They're not
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  Speaker 2: allowed to come in and search your home without a warrant.
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  Speaker 2: They can't search your car without your permission unless there
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  Speaker 2: are circumstances that allow the police to do that. There
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  Speaker 2: are almost no laws that talk about the use of drones.
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  Speaker 2: And there's not enough use of them out there. They
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  Speaker 2: haven't been around long enough to have some good court cases. So,
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  Speaker 2: and by the way, we don't even know what military
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  Speaker 2: equipment is. Are drones, can they be used for military,
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  Speaker 2: as military equipment? Of course they can. Are we allowed
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  Speaker 2: to use them? For example, after Daryl Gates, former police chief,
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  Speaker 2: was the first chief to use armored personnel carriers with
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  Speaker 2: a big ramming device to crash into these safe homes,
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  Speaker 2: these crack houses. that were boarded up you couldn't get into.
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  Speaker 2: Massive metal doors and windows, and there was no way
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  Speaker 2: for the cops to get in. They knew it was happening.
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  Speaker 2: So Daryl Gates took an armored personnel carrier and basically
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  Speaker 2: made a tank out of it and just rammed through.
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  Speaker 2: And the city council said, you can't do that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: First they did it, then the law. Same thing is
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  Speaker 2: going on with the drones. First the drones, then the laws.
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  Speaker 2: And drones are not crashing into a single building. Drones
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  Speaker 2: are out there and they can see what we do,
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing. For example, drones overhead. Should drones be
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  Speaker 2: allowed to hover over your backyard just to see what's
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  Speaker 2: going on? Well, helicopters do. You know, they sit around and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they will go over people's yard all the time,
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  Speaker 2: especially if people are sunbathing and they're nude. You'll see
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  Speaker 2: a couple of cops in the helicopter up there just hovering.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I get them to leave. With binoculars. Will,
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  Speaker 2: who had been on a helicopter for a bunch of years,
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  Speaker 2: how often does that happen, Will? I shouldn't say. You
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  Speaker 2: can't say? How often did you experience it? Not you looking,
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  Speaker 2: mind you, because I understand you're paying attention to the traffic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: of course, yeah. But how often did the helicopter, all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden you see a bunch of people, nude sunbathing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you the honest truth. I've looked
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  Speaker 2: in every pool in every backyard in Southern California. I almost,
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  Speaker 2: almost never, ever see anybody using their pools, ever. At all?
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  Speaker 1: Ever.
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  Speaker 2: Naked or not? Naked or otherwise, yep.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The point is that happens. So why not drones do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing? Why is that? Why would that be illegal? Now,
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  Speaker 2: the good part of drones is drones can go into
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  Speaker 2: burning buildings, for example. Drones can go into... Buildings where
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  Speaker 2: there's a bad guy in there holed up and they
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  Speaker 2: send in these tiny little drones to find out where
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  Speaker 2: he or she is. Usually he is. And then the
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  Speaker 2: police know exactly in what part of the building. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that is tremendous use. I mean, that's a first responder incident.
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  Speaker 2: A school has an active shooter situation going. And go
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  Speaker 2: to the drones. Where is the shooter?
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  Speaker 4: Which room?
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  Speaker 2: That's technology. So the civil libertarians are going, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be very careful about that. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're right in the sense we don't have laws. We
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  Speaker 2: don't have rules. We don't have regulations yet because this
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  Speaker 2: is such new stuff. And as I told you before,
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  Speaker 2: I have experienced new technology before the laws kicked in
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  Speaker 2: in the world of IVF. I was doing surrogate parenting
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  Speaker 2: and we knew IVF was coming. We just didn't know
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  Speaker 2: how to deal with it. The technology came, and again,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't know how to deal with it. We now do.
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  Speaker 2: We now have laws. We now have regulations, and you're
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  Speaker 2: going to see the same thing with drones. Also, those
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  Speaker 2: flock cameras that are all over town in real time.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going through, they know who you are. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the good side of it is you've got a bad
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  Speaker 2: guy getting away, and you have a driver's license plate,
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  Speaker 2: and there they are. The cameras pick it up. Flock
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  Speaker 2: sees who owns the car, and there's the bad guy
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  Speaker 2: picked up. But they're also picking you up. Ooh, that's
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  Speaker 2: a violation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Which way do you go on that? I'm more towards
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  Speaker 2: the cops on this one because I'm less afraid of
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  Speaker 2: the cops than the bad guys. That's the way I
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  Speaker 2: view it. Okay, coming up.
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  Speaker 1: The FDA.
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  Speaker 2: The FDA. And inspection of food. Neil, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: join me on this one because this is an issue
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  Speaker 2: that you have given into, dove into, have dived, will dive.
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  Speaker 2: We all dive. We'll be back.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: Some stories we're looking at, a real unfortunate story. 64
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  Speaker 2: neck and neck. So we'll see what happens. That's next Tuesday, too.
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  Speaker 2: Not only we have the propositions, of course, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: So you have to really read the proposition and the
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  Speaker 2: legislative analysts to get any kind of an idea of
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  Speaker 2: what is actually happening. All right. Neil is coming aboard
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  Speaker 2: on this one and a story that came out of
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  Speaker 2: The Washington Post. They did a investigation. that the FDA
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  Speaker 2: basically doesn't inspect the foreign facilities that export into the
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  Speaker 2: United States the vast majority of fresh produce, read Mexico primarily.
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  Speaker 2: And let me go through this. Neil, are you kind
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  Speaker 2: of surprised at the number of foodborne illnesses that come
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  Speaker 2: out of Mexico and other countries that we don't do
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  Speaker 2: a good job inspecting that are so relatively low? Because
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  Speaker 2: I would guess the number, considering the risk and the
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  Speaker 2: oversight the U.S. doesn't have, I'm surprised we only get
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  Speaker 2: two or three cases a year of massive stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're playing the odds and playing the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: If you remember, they....
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  Speaker 4: Outbreak with the lettuce not long ago, that particular Mexican facility,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it had been checked or inspected for
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  Speaker 4: seven years. So you'd think And this is the simple stuff.
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  Speaker 4: This is, you know, no poop on your food. This
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  Speaker 4: is not like this isn't, you know, like they're not
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  Speaker 4: cleaning the machinery or anything. This is something that has
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  Speaker 4: gotten into the stream of our food. By way of the,
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  Speaker 4: you know, picking most probably.
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  Speaker 2: But let me ask in terms of the numbers, isn't
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  Speaker 2: it impossible to look at the food that's coming in? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And so, as you said, what they do is sample.
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  Speaker 2: The FDA does the same thing with food production in
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  Speaker 2: the U.S., you know, major plants. We have different rules
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  Speaker 2: in America.
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  Speaker 4: The circumstances are different, whereas we have rules at the
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  Speaker 4: picking point and things like this. This is most commonly
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  Speaker 4: due to people that are picking using going to the
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  Speaker 4: bathroom in the fields and things like that is when
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  Speaker 4: there's problems. I don't want to get too detailed, but
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  Speaker 4: if you get food poisoning, there's different kinds of food poisoning.
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  Speaker 4: I've had food poisoning before where my doctor said, this
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  Speaker 4: specific thing you have is because somebody had not washed
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  Speaker 4: their hands or after using the bathroom or things like that,
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  Speaker 4: they can tell as to what the issue is. And
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  Speaker 4: we're better at that here in the United States than
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  Speaker 4: some other countries are. But you're absolutely right. There's no
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  Speaker 4: way to sit through everything. You're playing the numbers always.
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  Speaker 4: But seven years?
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  Speaker 2: That's a long time. And that's a major. And we're
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  Speaker 2: not talking about a small producer. We're talking about one
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  Speaker 2: of the biggest production plants ever. And in the country,
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Farms, Domexico, which is huge with the iceberg lettuce.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing I want to point out is every
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  Speaker 2: time you're sick, you have a stomach issue. I've got
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  Speaker 2: the stomach flu. No, you don't. No one gets the
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  Speaker 2: stomach flu. No, there's not really. I don't think there
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  Speaker 2: is the stomach flu. It doesn't exist. It's food poisoning.
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  Speaker 2: It's poop. It's people, people getting poop on your food.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So we say you've got a stomach bug, but yes,
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  Speaker 4: the vast majority of the time, that's just food poisoning.
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  Speaker 2: It is so much fun. The other thing is what
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  Speaker 2: the FDA can do. And I've always, I just am
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  Speaker 2: marveling at this science. They, so let's say you have
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  Speaker 2: a salmonella outbreak or an E. coli outbreak. They can
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  Speaker 2: figure out not only what part of the country, but
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  Speaker 2: which part, factory, which farm, which row of cabbages it
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  Speaker 2: came from. And I find that incredible that there's that
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  Speaker 2: kind of technology out there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they have to be able to trace these things,
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  Speaker 4: and there's often arguments as to who does this better.
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  Speaker 4: We actually are pretty strict in the U.S. We get
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people that say, oh, but Europe, you know,
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  Speaker 4: those little toppings, those colorful toppings you put on ice cream,
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  Speaker 4: they call them jimmies or whatever they are, the little sprinkles.
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  Speaker 4: Some of those are not legal in the U.K. because–
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  Speaker 4: They have certain dyes in them. And so people go, oh,
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  Speaker 4: the U.S., you know, we're relaxed. But we're not. We actually,
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  Speaker 4: the FDA and the USDA is actually pretty big when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to the risk-based stuff and the generally recognized
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  Speaker 4: as safe materials. But, you know, things are going to
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  Speaker 4: get through, especially on stuff that is not cooked, things
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  Speaker 4: that remain raw like lettuce or certain veggies and things
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 2: OK, coming up, we're talking a little bit about next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: There's a ballot measure in Culver City and it's talking
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  Speaker 2: about giving 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote.
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  Speaker 2: What is that about? Don't you have to be 21? Well,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you what's going on in Culver City
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  Speaker 2: and other cities throughout California and the rest of the country, too.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: Calendar this one. And this is November 14, where Neil,
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  Speaker 2: when Neil broadcasts his Saturday show, The Fork Report, from
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  Speaker 2: 2 to 5 o'clock. And occasionally he'll do it out
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  Speaker 2: a year. He is broadcasting from the Wild Fork store.
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  Speaker 2: in Laguna Niguel, and I will join him for that broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: And we're inviting you to join us. And boy, there
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  Speaker 2: are samples. But this is not Costco samples where the
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  Speaker 2: be fun. We're looking forward. It's always fun. And so
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  Speaker 2: join us for the broadcast. Okay. Now this is an
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  Speaker 2: interesting topic, which I've brought to the table for several years,
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  Speaker 2: many years, actually. And that is, well, Culver city coming
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  Speaker 2: up on Tuesday on the vote is going to vote
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  Speaker 2: on a local ballot measure. the voters, that would eventually
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  Speaker 2: give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in city
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  Speaker 2: and school board elections. And if it passes, it would
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  Speaker 2: make Culver City one of the few municipalities, not only
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  Speaker 2: in California, but across the country, to expand voting rights
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  Speaker 2: to people under 18. So here are the arguments. Why
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  Speaker 2: should people under 18, why should they have the vote?
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  Speaker 2: Because the vote right now is 21 years or older. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's 18 years or older. And here's the argument, is
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  Speaker 2: that when you're 16 and 17 years old, you are crazy. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: it should be girls should vote and guys should not
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  Speaker 2: because of the maturity factor. The argument in favor is 18-year-olds, well,
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  Speaker 2: they're able to drive, they're able to smoke, and probably
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  Speaker 2: more importantly, they're able to fight for this country. And
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  Speaker 2: if they're willing and able to die... Remember our army,
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  Speaker 2: armed forces are volunteers. Then you think they should be
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  Speaker 2: able to vote. Now, the other side is what were
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  Speaker 2: you like when you were 16? How crazy were you
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  Speaker 2: and how many issues were you looking at? And 16
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  Speaker 2: year olds don't have the maturity. Now, I find that
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  Speaker 2: argument kind of funny because how many voters out there
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  Speaker 2: in general have the maturity to vote? No, because as
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  Speaker 2: I say, you pay attention to the commercials. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: look what's going on politically. We're not talking about the issues.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about attacking the other guy. And what does
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  Speaker 2: that have to do with issues? What the hell does
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  Speaker 2: that have to do with what's happening? Well, on local elections,
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  Speaker 2: it probably affects us more than even national elections in
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  Speaker 2: certain areas, certain issues. And so should 16-year-olds have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to vote? Because I don't think they're any less mature. Well,
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  Speaker 2: of course they are. But do they look at issues
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  Speaker 2: far less and with less understanding? than 18-year-olds. Argument goes
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  Speaker 2: the other way. So let's do a survey. Amy, 16-year-olds,
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  Speaker 2: should they vote? Hell no. This is local elections, mind you,
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  Speaker 2: because not in statewide. We're only talking really local elections. Neil,
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  Speaker 2: should 16-year-olds vote?
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  Speaker 1: Nope.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Will, should 16-year-olds vote?
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  Speaker 1: Nope. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And should 16-year-olds vote? No. Ooh, Mario? Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It's unanimous. 16-year-olds should not vote. Well, as far as
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  Speaker 2: the vote is concerned, you know, I'm sort of mixed
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  Speaker 2: on that. But I will tell you, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: 16-year-old girls should be able to vote. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: women should be able to vote at all. 1920, the
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  Speaker 2: worst year in the history of the United States when
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  Speaker 2: women were given the right to vote. What the hell happened?
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  Speaker 2: That's when this country went to hell in a handbasket.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, the Hollywood sign. What is going on with
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  Speaker 2: the Hollywood sign? And there's news there.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: We still have a lot more to cover. Well, it's
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  Speaker 2: our last segment. So we're going to have a good
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  Speaker 2: time with this one. And don't forget, Tuesday coming up
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  Speaker 2: is our midterm election. And please go vote. Do not
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  Speaker 2: squander your franchise to vote. too many people died so
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  Speaker 2: you could vote. Don't care which way you vote, but
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  Speaker 2: please do. OK, now let's look at cities and their landmarks. OK,
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  Speaker 2: you've talked about Paris. Of course, it's the Eiffel Tower.
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  Speaker 2: You think of London and it's Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Eiffel Tower was the 1800s. late 1800s. Westminster Abbey was, what,
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  Speaker 2: the 1300s is when it first went up, so that's
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  Speaker 2: been around for a while.
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  Speaker 3: St.
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  Speaker 2: Louis has the Arch, which is fairly new. New York,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the Statue of Liberty, also turned the last
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  Speaker 2: century or before that in the 1800s. And L.A. has
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  Speaker 2: the Hollywood sign. Now, the Hollywood sign was 1923 because
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  Speaker 2: it originally was to promote a... uh, promote a group
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  Speaker 2: of houses being sold. It was, uh, a, uh, it
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  Speaker 2: was just a promotion for a subsection or a subdivision.
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  Speaker 2: And it was Hollywood land, as you know, and the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the land part, actually, the last four letters fell apart.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was left as Hollywood. Now, that Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: sign is iconic. And people come from all over the
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  Speaker 2: world to Southern California, and they go to see the
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood sign. They want to take a picture of themselves
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  Speaker 2: in front of the Hollywood sign. And it used to
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  Speaker 2: be so bad. It used to be such a mess
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  Speaker 2: up there because you go up the streets, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's Beachwood Drive, and these are tiny little streets and
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  Speaker 2: people live there and traffic was being blocked. So what
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  Speaker 2: ended up happening was one of the city council people,
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  Speaker 2: Tom LaBonge in 2011, cleared bush, cleared the brush around
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  Speaker 2: this Canyon Lake drive up there to make a way
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  Speaker 2: for viewing sites. And that is now known as the
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood sign lookout. You can see that on Google maps
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  Speaker 2: and it attracts not only tourists, but street vendors, fruta, fruta, frutas, frutas,
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  Speaker 2: that you can eat. And here is the problem, is
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  Speaker 2: that it's gotten so bad that these tourists are using
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  Speaker 2: and not only blocking up traffic, but using that entire
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  Speaker 2: area's public toilets and leaving all kind of vitreous on
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  Speaker 2: their plastic bottles and garbage that people They smoke up there.
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  Speaker 2: And the danger is not only does it make life
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  Speaker 2: miserable for the folks that live up there, it's a
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  Speaker 2: real fire hazard. Because what they're saying is we have
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  Speaker 2: such tiny streets anyway. If a fire breaks out, and
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  Speaker 2: this all happened because of the Palisades fire, and it
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  Speaker 2: took people on a whole different mindset in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the risk of fire. If there is a Saturday, for example,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got hundreds of people up there taking pictures
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  Speaker 2: of of themselves in front of the sign. Man, how
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  Speaker 2: do we get down the hill with these people? It
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  Speaker 2: used to be that you could go right up to
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  Speaker 2: the sign. You could actually sit in the O or
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  Speaker 2: the D and get pictures taken. Well, they did away
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  Speaker 2: with that. Here's a quick factoid. that I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: throw at you, Neil, because you always shake your head.
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  Speaker 2: And that is the Hollywood sign was falling apart. The
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  Speaker 2: city would not repair it. Who was it that put
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  Speaker 2: up the money to refurbish it and bring it up
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  Speaker 2: to the level it is now with steel and posts
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  Speaker 2: and to make it permanent and looking lovely? You know
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  Speaker 2: who put up that money?
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  Speaker 4: I think there was a couple of different individuals, but
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: the name that comes to mind is Alice Cooper.
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  Speaker 2: Uh hugh hefner ah hugh hefner put up most of
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  Speaker 2: the money i thought i thought different people paid for
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  Speaker 2: different letters could be that they sold off and this
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  Speaker 2: was in the 70s the early 70s yeah my understanding
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  Speaker 2: was hugh hefner was either the biggest uh certainly i
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  Speaker 2: think the biggest name okay so anyway uh hollywood sign
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: he only paid for wood W.O.O.D. A kid. A joke. Yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Do you remember when marijuana was legalized? It was I
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: think it was when. Yeah. Hollyweed. Someone came up there
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  Speaker 2: and changed the letters.
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  Speaker 4: And Oliver North, when he was on trial or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: it was Ollywood.
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  Speaker 2: They covered the H, I think. There's been a couple
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: of times. Yeah, you can't do that anymore. So the
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  Speaker 2: fun part is gone. But I can see if you're
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: living up there. First of all, why would you live
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: up there? I have no idea. All right, guys, we're done.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Show is over. Gary and Shannon up next.
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  Speaker 2: We come back again tomorrow, starting all over again. Will
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: and Amy, wake up call. The rest of us here. Well, no. Well,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Mario and Ann are always here. But Neil and I
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: come aboard at six o'clock and then we lock out
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and I say goodbye. So goodbye. This is KFI AM 640.
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