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- 0:00Speaker 1: Your listen Saints k Fly AM six forty the bill
- 0:03Speaker 1: Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Bill Handle here. Well,
- 0:08Speaker 1: actually I'm not here. I recorded this before, but we're
- 0:11Speaker 1: pretending I'm here. While the crew takes a break, we're
- 0:14Speaker 1: rolling out the absolute best, most marginal moments of the
- 0:17Speaker 1: year so far. Grab your coffee. The best of the
- 0:20Speaker 1: bill Handle Show starts right now. Okay, what I do
- 0:24Speaker 1: want to cover is the World Cup. FIFA is coming
- 0:29Speaker 1: to town. The US, Canada, and Mexico are going to
- 0:34Speaker 1: be hosting the various games. And what they did originally
- 0:39Speaker 1: is they promise free public transportation for ticket holders. If
- 0:43Speaker 1: you had a ticket, you had free transportation to go
- 0:45Speaker 1: to the venues. Well, what happened is is that FIFA
- 0:52Speaker 1: recognized the financial challenges of hosting the games in general,
- 0:56Speaker 1: said okay, we'll let you and by the way, FIFA
- 0:58Speaker 1: controls all this, we will let you charge a price
- 1:03Speaker 1: to the to cover the cost of providing the transportation.
- 1:09Speaker 1: So New Jersey said, okay, at least we can cover
- 1:12Speaker 1: some of the costs so to go from downtown Manhattan
- 1:18Speaker 1: where a lot of people are staying, to MetLife Stadium.
- 1:22Speaker 1: I think it's a eight or ten minute ride. It's
- 1:28Speaker 1: going to cost one hundred and fifty dollars for a
- 1:31Speaker 1: round trip ticket. Normally you pay thirteen dollars for that
- 1:35Speaker 1: ticket for a round trip ticket. This time around, it's
- 1:38Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars. And that there was so
- 1:44Speaker 1: much backlash they graciously lowered it to one hundred and
- 1:48Speaker 1: five dollars, but only because some sponsor, some unnamed corporate
- 1:54Speaker 1: donors decided to jump in. So this all starts tomorrow. Now,
- 1:59Speaker 1: the World Cup generates a bucket of money, but for who.
- 2:05Speaker 1: For FIFA, that's it. FIFA is going to take in
- 2:09Speaker 1: thirteen billion dollars from tickets, parking, merchandise, on site concessions, sponsorships,
- 2:15Speaker 1: TV rights. In the meantime, the cities and states, they
- 2:20Speaker 1: get to pay for stadium retrofits, security, transportation, administration, administration,
- 2:25Speaker 1: fan zones where people weren't actually in this statement that stadium.
- 2:29Speaker 1: That's a big deal people who don't have tickets. And
- 2:33Speaker 1: not only does FIFA not share tournament revenue, local organizers
- 2:39Speaker 1: are saying that those contracts that they signed with FIFA,
- 2:43Speaker 1: there is no way that money can be made or recouped.
- 2:48Speaker 1: It is impossible. Now, when FIFA goes into countries like
- 2:54Speaker 1: Russia and Qatar, they just order up new stadiums. What's it,
- 2:58Speaker 1: we'd like a new stadium, and of course those countries
- 3:00Speaker 1: say absolutely yes. The problem is is that when you're
- 3:04Speaker 1: dealing with democracies, there's a lot of deal making and
- 3:10Speaker 1: there's a lot of negotiations, which incidentally, at first Glan said, okay,
- 3:14Speaker 1: thank you, we're going to get some some kind of
- 3:19Speaker 1: a benefit. No, no, FIFA gets at all. For example,
- 3:22Speaker 1: there's now a forty eighteen competition in the World Cup
- 3:26Speaker 1: and FIFA they get all the money. Now, managing partners
- 3:32Speaker 1: across three countries, dozens of city states, transportation agencies, stadium authorities,
- 3:39Speaker 1: host committees, satellite stadium towns. I mean, that is a big,
- 3:42Speaker 1: big deal. The problem is is that the cities aren't
- 3:46Speaker 1: getting the benefit. FIFA gets all of the money. And
- 3:51Speaker 1: here's what FIFA can do. If a city doesn't like it,
- 3:56Speaker 1: We'll go to another city. That's all because unlike the Olympics,
- 4:03Speaker 1: which you have cities that are going wait a minute,
- 4:06Speaker 1: this is costing us way too much money. FIFA the
- 4:08Speaker 1: World Cup people are still just they want and so
- 4:12Speaker 1: it's billions and billions of dollars, and right now the
- 4:18Speaker 1: preparations are only making things a lot tougher for the hosts. Now.
- 4:25Speaker 1: One of the things is the crowds. American football stadiums
- 4:29Speaker 1: deal with crowds the size all the time, but those
- 4:34Speaker 1: fans have cars and they have to be parked. FIFA
- 4:38Speaker 1: is demanding huge parking lot, real estate, extra large security cordens,
- 4:45Speaker 1: space for VIP tents, Jersey sales, photo ops. For example,
- 4:50Speaker 1: you go to MetLife Stadium, You're paying one hundred and
- 4:52Speaker 1: fifty dollars round trip from Manhattan to MetLife. There is
- 4:56Speaker 1: no parking at all at MetLife Stadium. During FIFA you
- 4:59Speaker 1: get figured out yourself. Wow. So just to give you
- 5:04Speaker 1: an idea of parking for Democratic Republic of Congo match
- 5:10Speaker 1: against Uzbekistan one hundred dollars in Kansas City, Ecuador playing
- 5:15Speaker 1: Corrousal one hundred and twenty five dollars Dallas. It's going
- 5:21Speaker 1: to be one hundred and twenty five dollars Boston Haiti
- 5:24Speaker 1: versus Scotland one hundred and seventy five dollars. All that
- 5:27Speaker 1: goes to FIFA every dime. And the people that go there,
- 5:31Speaker 1: let's say people coming into New York to see the
- 5:33Speaker 1: world to see the FIFA World Cup. They come in,
- 5:38Speaker 1: but they don't go to shows. They just get drunk
- 5:42Speaker 1: at the stadium, so you have you know, New York
- 5:46Speaker 1: doesn't do that well. As a matter of fact, the
- 5:48Speaker 1: argument is they do worse during the World Cup than
- 5:51Speaker 1: they normally would. And the other thing I'm going to
- 5:55Speaker 1: end it with this is that for the first time,
- 5:58Speaker 1: a local hosts and cut a deal with sponsors, their
- 6:04Speaker 1: own sponsors to recoup some of the money, as opposed
- 6:07Speaker 1: to FIFA making all the arrangements. I mean, FIFA has sponsors,
- 6:10Speaker 1: but the local committees cannot cut a deal with any
- 6:16Speaker 1: sponsor that has already sponsored, that is already involved in FIFA,
- 6:20Speaker 1: which makes sense. So the only thing that's left because
- 6:23Speaker 1: Coke and American Express and everybody is going to be
- 6:27Speaker 1: involved of course in the World Cup. So the only
- 6:30Speaker 1: thing that's left is law firms, supplement companies. You're going
- 6:37Speaker 1: to see local ads for penis extensions, more girth, extra length, sponsonators.
- 6:48Speaker 1: I mean, that's what we're going to be seeing World Cup.
- 6:52Speaker 1: God bless us. Yeah, all right, coming up, and you've
- 7:03Speaker 1: got FIFA coming, the World Cup coming, to Sofi, don't you.
- 7:09Speaker 1: So that's and are you gonna be able to park
- 7:11Speaker 1: anywhere near Sofi? No, it'll be like the super Bowl.
- 7:15Speaker 1: They park us off campus and make us shuttle in.
- 7:18Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Oh, by the way, that one hundred and
- 7:20Speaker 1: twenty five one hundred and twenty five dollars transportation fee
- 7:26Speaker 1: if you bring your own car in, which, of course
- 7:28Speaker 1: parking is it's impossible. But if you bring your own
- 7:31Speaker 1: car in, you can park for one hundred and seventy
- 7:36Speaker 1: five dollars, but you have to walk a mile. Hey
- 7:41Speaker 1: there's a World Cup. I love it all right. Now,
- 7:44Speaker 1: this is a story. Remember that mama bear's death in Monrovia,
- 7:48Speaker 1: and all of a sudden people got very upset about that.
- 7:51Speaker 1: How dare you kill a mama bear under any circumstances? So,
- 7:56Speaker 1: state lawmakers are considering legislation mandating non solution to human
- 8:02Speaker 1: wildlife conflicts Senate Bill eleven thirty. The Wildlife Coexistence Program,
- 8:10Speaker 1: or We Like Bears to Stay Alive, is providing public education,
- 8:15Speaker 1: technical assistant non lethal deterrence like barriers and noise machines. Okay,
- 8:20Speaker 1: so there it is. So a bear is eating your
- 8:23Speaker 1: toddler and you whip out a noise machine. Okay, that works.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Senator Catherine Blakespear, Insinnita's Democrat, of course, believes that the
- 8:35Speaker 1: bear's death, including the state's decision to kill four wolves
- 8:39Speaker 1: last year, that we're preying on cattle. Well, it raised
- 8:43Speaker 1: public concern because you can't hit those wolves either, no
- 8:47Speaker 1: matter how many animals they decide to have for dinner.
- 8:50Speaker 1: And she said that made everybody realize we have to
- 8:54Speaker 1: do better here. So at a legislative hearing, blake Spear
- 8:59Speaker 1: told the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water that
- 9:04Speaker 1: a three year state initiative offering similar services are seeing
- 9:09Speaker 1: positive results until it was discontinued two years ago after
- 9:14Speaker 1: running dry and realizing that bears were going deaf because
- 9:19Speaker 1: of the noise of batement. By the way, I have
- 9:21Speaker 1: no idea if that's true or not. My guess is no,
- 9:24Speaker 1: because it's very difficult to give a bury hearing test,
- 9:27Speaker 1: although they have tried. The bill also renames the state
- 9:31Speaker 1: program that reimburses ranchers who lose livestock to wolf's. Now,
- 9:35Speaker 1: that is interesting because let's say the market is such
- 9:39Speaker 1: that livestock is worth less than a cost to actually
- 9:43Speaker 1: raise them, which is hard, which is not hard to do,
- 9:46Speaker 1: and it happens quite often. You just let your cattle
- 9:48Speaker 1: go and then you do wolf Appreciation Day and have
- 9:54Speaker 1: them come in and eat your cattle. So that's been
- 9:59Speaker 1: called the wolf Fly Livestock Coexisting and Compensation Program. Okay,
- 10:06Speaker 1: fair enough. And so who is supporting this organization or
- 10:11Speaker 1: this legislation? Well, the National Wildlife Federation, Defenders of Wildlife,
- 10:17Speaker 1: California State Association of Counties, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Citizens
- 10:22Speaker 1: for Los Angeles Wildlife. Who is against that that bill?
- 10:28Speaker 1: California Farm Bureau, California Cattleman's Association, certain food providers that
- 10:36Speaker 1: make bear jerky, neil, Come on, you know bear jerky
- 10:43Speaker 1: is pretty good, isn't it not bad?
- 10:46Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about any of this because
- 10:48Speaker 2: black and brown bears aren't allowed in your neighborhood.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Wow wow, see, and I get in trouble for stuff
- 10:56Speaker 1: like that.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Not you in trouble. It's the truth. You live in
- 11:00Speaker 2: a gated neighborhood. Fancy.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Oh wow? Okay, and you are really good to homeless
- 11:09Speaker 1: people because they camp out in your front yard and
- 11:12Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. Congratulations. Different philosophy. You know, you look
- 11:16Speaker 1: at life very differently than I do.
- 11:18Speaker 2: I'm a man of the people.
- 11:19Speaker 1: You are a man of the people. Okay. This bill,
- 11:22Speaker 1: by the way, already went through the Senate Committee on
- 11:25Speaker 1: Appropriations in a five to one vote. All right, so
- 11:30Speaker 1: it looks like the environmentalists on this one are probably
- 11:36Speaker 1: going to win. And why is that? Because California is California.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Can you imagine in Wyoming or south of North Dakota
- 11:43Speaker 1: something like this happening. Not a chance, But that's California.
- 11:50Speaker 1: We're super liberal. I mean five to one. I'm surprised
- 11:53Speaker 1: that there was one person on the committee that voted
- 11:56Speaker 1: against this. Maybe living in a cattle district or a
- 12:00Speaker 1: beef district. I have no idea. But the bottom line, well,
- 12:06Speaker 1: you know, be prepared. You can't get near those bears.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Well you don't want to anyway, So you get one
- 12:12Speaker 1: of those air horns with in front of a bear.
- 12:17Speaker 1: Unless you're getting between a bear, a mama bear, and
- 12:21Speaker 1: a couple of baby bears. Man, then you get out
- 12:23Speaker 1: of dodge very very quickly, for sure. Now you got
- 12:29Speaker 1: red light cameras which do a pretty good job of
- 12:31Speaker 1: stopping people from blowing through red lights. Also in a
- 12:34Speaker 1: really good revenue call for the city. Well, how about
- 12:38Speaker 1: speeding cameras? Do they do a good job. Well, this
- 12:44Speaker 1: is a year after cameras were installed in San Francisco
- 12:48Speaker 1: and the data is in and no surprise, but I
- 12:51Speaker 1: think the numbers are surprising. Drivers are slowing down. Experts
- 12:56Speaker 1: say the technology is going to be the same or better.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Ones cameras are installed in Los Angeles. One year analysis
- 13:06Speaker 1: that has occurred, and here's some figures. Excessive speeding that's
- 13:13Speaker 1: ten miles per hour more than the speed limit has
- 13:16Speaker 1: dropped nearly eighty percent in San Francisco. Now there's no
- 13:22Speaker 1: such thing as a speed limit anymore. It just doesn't exist.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Go on the freeway and if you see anybody driving
- 13:28Speaker 1: sixty five miles an hour, it's as if they're pedaling
- 13:31Speaker 1: a bicycle. I mean, you go past them seventy five
- 13:36Speaker 1: miles an hour, and I tend to try to keep
- 13:38Speaker 1: it to between seventy and seventy five, and I'm just
- 13:44Speaker 1: sometimes not even keeping up with traffic. Well, freeways they
- 13:49Speaker 1: have radar, but it doesn't matter. You know, they say
- 13:52Speaker 1: radar controlled, and I guess they have airplanes flying overhead.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I have no idea where these radar facilities are or
- 13:59Speaker 1: the div ices are on the freeway, but this is
- 14:02Speaker 1: on the streets. And what a success this is. So
- 14:06Speaker 1: LA is installing one hundred and twenty five cameras part
- 14:09Speaker 1: of the pilot program and looking for a reduction in speed,
- 14:15Speaker 1: because the number of deaths go up dramatically when speed occurs.
- 14:22Speaker 1: If you're more than ten miles per hour above speed
- 14:24Speaker 1: limit on the streets, that seems to be the magic
- 14:28Speaker 1: number where all of a sudden critical mass is reached
- 14:31Speaker 1: and the numbers start of deaths start climbing fairly dramatically,
- 14:36Speaker 1: and it's alarming. It's gotten worse and worse. Now, let's
- 14:38Speaker 1: go back to San Francisco. They have spent a year
- 14:42Speaker 1: analyzing the data from these speed cameras and other sensing
- 14:46Speaker 1: equipment try to understand traffic patterns, track how many tickets
- 14:51Speaker 1: are issued. And the people installing them are saying this
- 14:54Speaker 1: is not a revenue issue. It's not a revenue call,
- 14:57Speaker 1: even though the city makes buckets of money. It's simply
- 14:59Speaker 1: a safety I think it's both absolutely okay. Here we
- 15:04Speaker 1: are one year mark in San Francisco. The drivers traveling
- 15:09Speaker 1: ten miles per hour or more above the posted speed
- 15:13Speaker 1: limit went from twenty five percent of all drivers a
- 15:17Speaker 1: quarter of the drivers on the streets in San Francisco
- 15:21Speaker 1: where you could drive, we're doing more than ten miles
- 15:24Speaker 1: an hour above the speed limit. So in comes this
- 15:28Speaker 1: pilot program with the cameras that drops to six percent,
- 15:34Speaker 1: from twenty five percent to six percent. And in the
- 15:38Speaker 1: last quarterly review, because they do this annually, but the
- 15:42Speaker 1: last quarterly review, now we're talking about the drivers traveling
- 15:48Speaker 1: at ten miles per hour or more above the posted
- 15:51Speaker 1: speed limit went again from twenty five percent before they
- 15:54Speaker 1: started the program to now two percent of drivers. I mean,
- 16:01Speaker 1: these numbers are just incredible. Now there's three years of
- 16:06Speaker 1: data coming from New York City and what they're finding,
- 16:10Speaker 1: of course, and it makes sense. It goes by location,
- 16:13Speaker 1: but and it takes a while, by the way, for
- 16:17Speaker 1: this to kick in. It doesn't happen overnight. Over a
- 16:21Speaker 1: five year period in New York saw a sixty percent
- 16:24Speaker 1: decline in motors being cited more than twice. So you
- 16:28Speaker 1: have to be sited a couple of times, and it
- 16:30Speaker 1: takes about a year for this to kick in. But
- 16:34Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to work, and we're going
- 16:37Speaker 1: to see these, and now we're going to not only
- 16:41Speaker 1: have stenciled speed limits on the road itself. I like
- 16:46Speaker 1: it when you know, for example, I'm in Orange County
- 16:49Speaker 1: and getting on the five Freeway with two lanes or
- 16:52Speaker 1: one lane, there's several places where not only do they
- 16:55Speaker 1: have the signage you know, make right turn over a freeway,
- 16:58Speaker 1: but also on the road itself, you're looking at the
- 17:02Speaker 1: painted road, which helps enormously. Well, this helps too. So
- 17:06Speaker 1: you've got stencil speed limits on the road, speed bumps,
- 17:11Speaker 1: red light cameras, all of it. Partnerships with the cops,
- 17:16Speaker 1: public health officials. But this looks like a real, seriously
- 17:21Speaker 1: good program. When's the last time you saw a governmental
- 17:23Speaker 1: program that you could actually say is good and the
- 17:28Speaker 1: government makes money out of it, and who can complain?
- 17:32Speaker 1: I want to drive over ten miles per hour over
- 17:34Speaker 1: the speed limit? Okay? Are you gonna pay money for
- 17:38Speaker 1: that one? Aren't you? Okay? Now, I don't know if
- 17:41Speaker 1: you've ever been to Sequoia National Park and the giant sequoias,
- 17:47Speaker 1: they are unbelievable or hundreds of feet high. They're enormous
- 17:52Speaker 1: in terms of girth, what their diameter is. Some of
- 17:57Speaker 1: them are three thousand years old. I mean, imagine they
- 18:01Speaker 1: were one thousand years old when Jesus was walking around.
- 18:05Speaker 1: I mean, these magnificent trees, these redwood trees and as
- 18:11Speaker 1: actually redwoods and sequoias are cousins, but same concept. And
- 18:14Speaker 1: I remember the first time I saw a giant sequoia,
- 18:17Speaker 1: I went, oh, my god, how many redwood decks? Do
- 18:21Speaker 1: you think one of these could make me?
- 18:24Speaker 2: Just what was more impressive? The length or the girth?
- 18:29Speaker 1: Both were very very good. So here's what's going on. Unfortunately,
- 18:34Speaker 1: the wildfires. Twenty percent of the trees, the sequoias have
- 18:41Speaker 1: burnt and they have been destroyed, and it's pretty scary
- 18:47Speaker 1: because there's nothing nothing like these trees. And scientists and
- 18:53Speaker 1: park managers are saying, my god, we do not want
- 18:56Speaker 1: this ever again. We don't want these fires.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Now.
- 18:59Speaker 1: Fires are important because that's how they germinate. They need fires.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Those cones, those pine cones don't open up until there's
- 19:06Speaker 1: a fire there, but not these extraordinary wildfires that go
- 19:11Speaker 1: way beyond that. And so they're trying to figure out
- 19:14Speaker 1: and what can you do, well more controlled burns. They've
- 19:19Speaker 1: planted almost seven hundred thousand these seedlings in an area
- 19:23Speaker 1: that burnt severely, but it takes hundreds of years for
- 19:29Speaker 1: these things to grow to full maturity. My parents had
- 19:35Speaker 1: a house which I lived in many years ago, and
- 19:37Speaker 1: I planted one of these, and when we moved, they
- 19:42Speaker 1: had it for twenty The house had it for twenty years,
- 19:44Speaker 1: and there it was. It was already eighty feet tall.
- 19:48Speaker 1: I mean, it was just extraordinary and I think is
- 19:52Speaker 1: still there. It probably is probably going to tear up
- 19:55Speaker 1: the foundation and destroy the house, because that's the other
- 19:58Speaker 1: thing they do. So are they doing any better? Well,
- 20:03Speaker 1: they're trying to. There's the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition with
- 20:08Speaker 1: eight primary members. Another nine organizations provide scientific research, funding
- 20:14Speaker 1: and support. And who is not in favor of saving
- 20:21Speaker 1: these trees. They were decimated by logging in the eighteen
- 20:25Speaker 1: hundreds and early nineteen hundreds, but everything that remains are
- 20:30Speaker 1: on public land Yosemite National Park, the Sequoia Kings Canyon
- 20:35Speaker 1: National Park, and a few others. And I didn't know this.
- 20:39Speaker 1: You know, the reddish bark can grow up to two
- 20:42Speaker 1: feet thick, which is why it sustains fire so well,
- 20:47Speaker 1: because they need fire. But the way it works is
- 20:50Speaker 1: natural fires, and the other way that the seedlings were
- 20:54Speaker 1: released and trees were able, or the seeds were released
- 20:59Speaker 1: in seedlings came out of it. The Indians used controlled burning.
- 21:04Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew that the Indians Native
- 21:08Speaker 1: Americans actually use control burning to deal with the environment
- 21:12Speaker 1: around there. So you know, I mean, there's not more
- 21:18Speaker 1: to say except that twenty percent of already been decimated
- 21:22Speaker 1: of the existing forests and to leave those or see
- 21:27Speaker 1: those disappear is extraordinary. Unfortunately, if you ever have a
- 21:31Speaker 1: chance to go into one of these forests, I mean
- 21:35Speaker 1: it's like you're in a cathedral. I mean, it really
- 21:39Speaker 1: is extraordinary. This is when you look at nature and
- 21:43Speaker 1: it really hits you. What doesn't hit me because I
- 21:46Speaker 1: just look at the big trees, but it hits you
- 21:49Speaker 1: in a huge, huge way. Don't let them go away?
- 21:53Speaker 1: Please please please all right? KFI am sixty. You've been
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