Latest / The Bill Handel Show / Super El Niño | Kono's Last Day

Transcript

Super El Niño | Kono's Last Day · The Bill Handel Show

0:00
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
0:04
Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
0:07
Speaker 2: Good Wednesday morning to you. Neil Saavedra and the morning
0:10
Speaker 2: crew here. Handel's back to, not tomorrow, next week from
0:15
Speaker 2: his safari. And he will regale us with stories of
0:18
Speaker 2: nanomoles and adventures and people of different skin color. Because
0:24
Speaker 2: you know that's the only thing Handel sees. You're different
0:28
Speaker 2: than me. All right, climate. When it comes to climate,
0:37
Speaker 2: when it comes to meteorologists, when it comes to scientists,
0:42
Speaker 2: science is mostly observational. You either are able to put
0:46
Speaker 2: it in a petri dish and observe it through experimentation.
0:51
Speaker 2: You can experience something forensically by trying to rebuild something
0:55
Speaker 2: in reverse with mathematics or any of these things. And
0:58
Speaker 2: then There is simple observation based on trends, patterns, and
1:05
Speaker 2: things that we know from the past. And that's what
1:10
Speaker 2: is done, simplifying, of course, because I'm not an expert
1:14
Speaker 2: by any stretch of the imagination of these things. But
1:17
Speaker 2: when it comes to weather, it's kind of difficult. And,
1:22
Speaker 2: you know, even when we go back to medicine, we
1:25
Speaker 2: go back to COVID, there were mathematic models is what
1:31
Speaker 2: they used to kind of see how it was going
1:33
Speaker 2: to spread and when it was going to spread, where
1:36
Speaker 2: it was going to spread, how it was going to
1:38
Speaker 2: spread type of thing. And a lot of those models
1:41
Speaker 2: actually were pretty damn good. You know, they hit a
1:44
Speaker 2: lot of the numbers pretty well. But they don't always
1:48
Speaker 2: get it right. So we're left hanging. And when it
1:51
Speaker 2: comes to El Nino, El Nino, the warnings keep climbing.
1:59
Speaker 2: And right now you have some officials coming out that
2:04
Speaker 2: know this stuff way better than we do, saying that
2:07
Speaker 2: they're officially concerned. So from top government officials, you got
2:11
Speaker 2: local news meteorologists, They're warning that this super so-called super
2:16
Speaker 2: El Nino in the Pacific Ocean has been consistent. And
2:20
Speaker 2: those patterns are what they're looking at. They're looking at
2:22
Speaker 2: those patterns. Experts say that the data that's coming out
2:26
Speaker 2: is super clear. And this has to deal with the
2:29
Speaker 2: temperature of the surface. of the ocean around the equator.
2:35
Speaker 2: They're well above normal. This raises the odds of this
2:39
Speaker 2: extraordinarily wet winter in California. Now, I've heard different things.
2:44
Speaker 2: You go, you know, a lot of it's going to
2:46
Speaker 2: hit Northern California, but we'll get some here, certainly in
2:50
Speaker 2: Southern California. That gives the potential of flooding. You get
2:55
Speaker 2: those coastal erosion we're hearing a lot of right now,
2:58
Speaker 2: mudslides and the like. And these things can cause damage. Now, me,
3:07
Speaker 2: I'm a romantic. I like the wet weather. I like
3:11
Speaker 2: fires in home, you know, soups, stews, all those things
3:16
Speaker 2: that go with cuddling up and being warm when it's
3:20
Speaker 2: raining outside. But all these indicators are pointing to something
3:26
Speaker 2: a little more dubious and problematic. Because flood, especially when
3:32
Speaker 2: we've been fairly dry, I mean, Amy and I talked
3:35
Speaker 2: about this a little bit earlier, that it looks like
3:36
Speaker 2: there's a possibility of rain maybe this weekend. But we
3:39
Speaker 2: haven't had any major stuff. We had a couple of
3:43
Speaker 2: storms that were much better than anticipated that came through
3:47
Speaker 2: a month or so ago. Pacific hurricanes, most notably Hurricane Marie.
3:55
Speaker 2: actually produce these pounding waves and all those surges that
4:00
Speaker 2: we saw battering Southern California's coast and those communities. So
4:04
Speaker 2: we're seeing some of this. You've got a rare marine
4:07
Speaker 2: life popping up in Southern California, but the possibility of
4:11
Speaker 2: this destructive weather, that is just hovering over us as
4:18
Speaker 2: to where it's going to come. I think it's hard
4:22
Speaker 2: to know these things i'm not a scientist i just
4:24
Speaker 2: know that we've been promised things in the past that
4:27
Speaker 2: haven't shown up uh they end up getting here and
4:30
Speaker 2: they're significant but not as significant as they were man
4:34
Speaker 2: i'll eat my words i suppose if it comes and
4:37
Speaker 2: it comes heavy but you have um Just yesterday, Daniel Swain,
4:43
Speaker 2: he's this prominent climate scientist at UCR Agriculture and Natural Resources.
4:50
Speaker 2: He took to social media to issue his most alarming
4:53
Speaker 2: update yet on El Nino's potential. He says, based on
4:56
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing now, I'm officially concerned, pointing to forecast
5:01
Speaker 2: models that show increasingly high confidence in a very wet
5:05
Speaker 2: California winter. The crazy thing is, We had been in
5:12
Speaker 2: a drought. I think Handel had said we were still
5:14
Speaker 2: in a drought. I don't believe we are. I don't
5:17
Speaker 2: think California is currently in a drought. I could be wrong,
5:21
Speaker 2: but I don't believe that we are. But with that
5:24
Speaker 2: comes the concerns of, you know, dry land, which doesn't
5:29
Speaker 2: absorb the water as quickly, strangely enough. And what comes
5:33
Speaker 2: with that is that flooding or that flash flooding that
5:36
Speaker 2: that the the Actual ground just can't absorb the water
5:43
Speaker 2: in the amount that's coming our way. So these sea
5:47
Speaker 2: surface temperatures are what they're watching. The tropical Pacific, they've
5:51
Speaker 2: surged past three degrees Celsius above average. global map that
5:58
Speaker 2: they're looking at from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
6:04
Speaker 2: Seeing all these things, of course, NOAA said El Nino
6:07
Speaker 2: will continue to strengthen through the end of the year. 75%
6:12
Speaker 2: chance of a historic event that surpasses the strength of
6:15
Speaker 2: all recorded El Ninos dating back to 1950. Is it
6:20
Speaker 2: going to show itself? We shall see. And what are
6:23
Speaker 2: they Saying, I mean, is this I'm looking when they
6:27
Speaker 2: say this is going to start. Hitting. If we're looking
6:33
Speaker 2: at this month, we're looking at next month. If we
6:37
Speaker 2: have to wait into December or even January for it,
6:41
Speaker 2: we are going to see how this ends up panning out.
6:47
Speaker 2: Any prep that you should do or that you need
6:50
Speaker 2: to do, you should do. That's for sure. Better safe
6:53
Speaker 2: than sorry. You know, we've been hearing stories for some time,
6:57
Speaker 2: years and years, about people leaving Los Angeles. And I
7:00
Speaker 2: love Los Angeles. I love my city. I love California.
7:05
Speaker 2: I really do. Is it getting harder and harder to
7:09
Speaker 2: love it? Yeah, it's like family. I love my family.
7:13
Speaker 2: I don't like them all the time. I'm sorry. That's
7:17
Speaker 2: the reality. It's a tribal thing. We make our own tribes.
7:21
Speaker 2: We grow up, make our own tribes. Can't put the
7:23
Speaker 2: tribe back in the bottom. Anywho, when it comes to L.A.,
7:27
Speaker 2: I have a love-hate relationship. I really love living in L.A.
7:31
Speaker 2: I like the people of L.A. mostly. And there's so
7:35
Speaker 2: much good about Los Angeles and Southern California as a whole.
7:39
Speaker 2: Taxes suck. And I think I'm not a fan of
7:44
Speaker 2: a two party system. I'm even less of a fan
7:46
Speaker 2: of a single party system, which is what we have
7:48
Speaker 2: here in California. And it makes for, you know, just
7:53
Speaker 2: a pain sometimes. By the way, we have confirmation that
8:00
Speaker 2: Mayor Bass is coming on at 830 to talk about
8:04
Speaker 2: Nithya Raman's culling. her calling the chief of police, LAPD,
8:12
Speaker 2: fascists and all that garbage. So I'll be anxious to
8:15
Speaker 2: hear from the mayor. So there are things to love,
8:20
Speaker 2: but we hear the stories about people leaving Los Angeles,
8:23
Speaker 2: mostly been about escaping California as a whole, right? Cheaper states, Texas, Arizona, Nevada,
8:28
Speaker 2: the same names come up. Younger people are doing it.
8:31
Speaker 2: The thought was always it's conservatives going to more conservative places.
8:35
Speaker 2: They want to be able to go to a place
8:37
Speaker 2: where they feel safe, where it's friendly to small business,
8:41
Speaker 2: all of these things, and even big business, right? Because
8:44
Speaker 2: we had a butt ton of big businesses moving out,
8:47
Speaker 2: but younger people, are moving out as well. And they're
8:50
Speaker 2: taking a different approach. Instead of leaving California altogether, many
8:54
Speaker 2: of them are going to places like San Francisco, which
8:58
Speaker 2: is hella expensive. So I'm not sure what that decision is. Fresno,
9:03
Speaker 2: which is lovely. Bakersfield, Sacramento. And one reason is that
9:08
Speaker 2: they still want to live in California, but they're looking
9:11
Speaker 2: for cheaper housing, better job opportunities. The Bay Area especially
9:16
Speaker 2: is attracting young workers because of Our artificial intelligence industry
9:21
Speaker 2: is booming there. Yeah. Thank you. We need to maybe
9:24
Speaker 2: get a recording or something because. Something like that. I
9:27
Speaker 2: don't want to hate you just because I mentioned AI. Well. Yeah.
9:34
Speaker 2: We'll work on that.
9:35
Speaker 1: Yeah.
9:36
Speaker 2: You work on that. I'm going to give that job
9:38
Speaker 2: to you. And you do hosting. Yeah. And I'll do
9:41
Speaker 2: the hosting part, which is funny because a lot of
9:44
Speaker 2: young people have problems with the old AI technology. Fresno
9:52
Speaker 2: is really on the top of the most surprising destination,
9:56
Speaker 2: I guess you'd say. The city's seen a lot and
9:59
Speaker 2: it's got more and more people moving in from Los
10:02
Speaker 2: Angeles and the Bay Area, including younger residents, and that's
10:05
Speaker 2: the pattern. Housing's still much cheaper than in the coastal
10:09
Speaker 2: California areas, and the city offers a lot. Access to
10:13
Speaker 2: outdoor activities, you don't have the traffic, the high prices
10:17
Speaker 2: in L.A., I did a television show many, many years
10:21
Speaker 2: ago that I hosted with a partner and, you know,
10:24
Speaker 2: we do them throughout L.A., but then they started broadening
10:28
Speaker 2: it out and we'd go to other places and spend
10:30
Speaker 2: some time in Fresno. And we passed through Fresno on
10:33
Speaker 2: the way up to San Francisco and like when we
10:36
Speaker 2: go there. I like Fresno. I think they've got a
10:39
Speaker 2: great food scene and the people are nice. Yeah, there's
10:43
Speaker 2: a lot of flatland and stuff like that out there,
10:45
Speaker 2: but it's got a lot to offer as well. I
10:48
Speaker 2: understand that as a place to go. And you can
10:52
Speaker 2: afford the city. So a lot of difference there seems
10:54
Speaker 2: to be on the age. Older Californians, especially the baby
10:58
Speaker 2: boomers and us, the Gen Xers, are much more likely
11:02
Speaker 2: to leave the state for places such as Arizona. I
11:05
Speaker 2: like Arizona a lot. I like Nevada. Texas is good, but, man,
11:09
Speaker 2: they have some weather issues. Utah is gorgeous. But younger
11:14
Speaker 2: people are looking differently. They're more likely to want to
11:18
Speaker 2: stay here, stay nearby. Millennials who leave Los Angeles are
11:25
Speaker 2: often choosing these places like San Francisco or Bakersfield. They'll
11:29
Speaker 2: also go into Riverside, Sacramento. Gen Z, a little different.
11:34
Speaker 2: They're showing up in San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield, and other cities.
11:40
Speaker 2: So those who do leave California, it seems Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Washington,
11:47
Speaker 2: and Utah seem to be the popular choices that are
11:51
Speaker 2: building more focus there. So you look at this playing
11:56
Speaker 2: field and what's going on, there is an exodus that
12:02
Speaker 2: has been leaving California for sure. And that hasn't disappeared
12:07
Speaker 2: by any stretch. But more people are still leaving the
12:13
Speaker 2: state than moving in. That's a key. But that gap
12:18
Speaker 2: is shrinking. And that gap is getting smaller in especially
12:22
Speaker 2: than it was during the pandemic. And I think a
12:25
Speaker 2: lot of that was the laws. I know I don't
12:28
Speaker 2: say nice things about the governor very often because I
12:31
Speaker 2: think he's a pud. I you know, he just irks me.
12:38
Speaker 2: Everything seems like it's a show, you know, to be
12:42
Speaker 2: able to say, look what I did. And it's nothing.
12:44
Speaker 2: There's nothing in the box. Just got a name on it.
12:46
Speaker 2: But I will say, at the beginning of the pandemic,
12:49
Speaker 2: he was the only leader that I thought was actually leading. Now,
12:54
Speaker 2: then he went and took a hard right or left,
12:58
Speaker 2: as the case may be, and started shutting everything down,
13:00
Speaker 2: including the schools and restaurants. And there just wasn't evidence
13:04
Speaker 2: about that stuff. That bothered me big time. I think
13:07
Speaker 2: it's going to be decades before we pull out of
13:11
Speaker 2: the mess and damage that was done by very stupid,
13:14
Speaker 2: non-scientific knee-jerk reactions to that. So there was a lot
13:20
Speaker 2: of moving out then for those things, but the latest
13:24
Speaker 2: numbers right now are showing that the idea of young
13:27
Speaker 2: people simply packing up and leaving California isn't really happening.
13:33
Speaker 2: Many younger Angelenos are finding ways to stay in the
13:37
Speaker 2: state here, but they're looking for a place where they
13:39
Speaker 2: can afford to live, where they can afford to work,
13:43
Speaker 2: eventually build a life, because now they have to care
13:46
Speaker 2: about those things.
13:47
Speaker 3: As a Gen Z myself living in Los Angeles, I
13:51
Speaker 3: recommend getting hit by a car and suing whoever hit you.
13:55
Speaker 3: That's the only way I'm able to afford.
13:57
Speaker 2: My rent here. You were hit by a car?
14:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was rear-ended, but I've been hit by a
14:03
Speaker 3: car before, and that I also sued for.
14:06
Speaker 2: It wasn't a truck? No, no. It's just weird to
14:09
Speaker 2: think that a car did all that damage.
14:12
Speaker 3: What?
14:13
Speaker 2: Kono? What's the problem?
14:15
Speaker 3: Nothing.
14:16
Speaker 2: Why are you looking at your phone?
14:18
Speaker 4: Confirmation on 8 o'clock.
14:21
Speaker 2: All right. Woo-hoo! We got Dr. Jim Keeney joining us
14:26
Speaker 2: at 8. We've got Mayor Bass joining us at 8.30. So, man,
14:32
Speaker 2: you're welcome on Steve Kono's last day.
14:35
Speaker 4: What a good show I produced for you today.
14:37
Speaker 2: Yeah. And Mayor Bass. Anna's going to be pissed if
14:39
Speaker 2: she hears that. You know who's doing what around here.
14:45
Speaker 2: Neil Saavedra and the Morning Crew, happy Wednesday to you.
14:48
Speaker 2: Let's get back into it, shall we go? Another thing
14:51
Speaker 2: that we're paying more for here in California, in Southern California,
14:55
Speaker 2: is water. You know, I don't know if it's a
14:59
Speaker 2: dude thing or what. We take great pride in our grass.
15:04
Speaker 2: And we had this grass, even– talked to Dean Sharp
15:14
Speaker 2: about it. And he's like, yeah, this is great grass.
15:15
Speaker 3: And it is.
15:16
Speaker 2: It's gorgeous grass. However, it is not as drought tolerant.
15:20
Speaker 2: It's native to California. But we can't, we get a
15:26
Speaker 2: lot of sun the way our house is. It just
15:31
Speaker 2: gets so much sun. And it kills it. It just
15:37
Speaker 2: kills it. It's really hard unless you're going to go
15:41
Speaker 2: overboard with watering. But those, you know, restraints they put
15:46
Speaker 2: on us in Los Angeles, it's hard to keep grass green.
15:51
Speaker 2: And your water bills are insane. I mean, there's three
15:54
Speaker 2: of us and one of us is just a little
15:56
Speaker 2: tiny human, nine years old. And it's, you know, we
16:02
Speaker 2: don't have a big house, 1400 square feet or whatever
16:06
Speaker 2: it is. It's not a huge house. Um, the backyard
16:10
Speaker 2: is almost all concrete. And yet it seems like we're
16:16
Speaker 2: paying out the nose all the time for water, water bills,
16:20
Speaker 2: getting a lot more expensive. And if you're feeling it,
16:23
Speaker 2: you are not alone. New nationwide survey, 500 large drinking
16:28
Speaker 2: water utilities, utilities, um, went into this survey. They found
16:37
Speaker 2: that the average water bills have gone up by 1.6
16:41
Speaker 2: times faster than inflation. It's bypassing inflation. Californians, we are
16:48
Speaker 2: paying some of the highest bills in the nation. That
16:51
Speaker 2: goes with anything. We don't get, we have the most
16:55
Speaker 2: fertile land on the planet. I mean, we have gorgeous
17:00
Speaker 2: land out here in SoCal. and beyond, but like even
17:06
Speaker 2: things we produce, we don't get for cheaper. It seems
17:09
Speaker 2: that everything here in California is more expensive. This report
17:15
Speaker 2: by Food and Water Watch, it's one of those, you know,
17:20
Speaker 2: nonprofit advocacy groups. It shows that four water utilities in
17:25
Speaker 2: California rank among the top 10 most expensive in the
17:31
Speaker 2: United States. I'm tired of winning this particular category, most
17:36
Speaker 2: expensive in the United States, gas and everything else. Private utility,
17:43
Speaker 2: San Jose Water Company was number one. And San Jose
17:47
Speaker 2: is lovely. No problem with San Jose. Others include Escondido,
17:53
Speaker 2: Santa Barbara, Marin Municipal Water District, expensive, expensive, expensive. And
17:59
Speaker 2: the research also found that more than half Of the
18:03
Speaker 2: 25 most expensive water systems they looked at here in California,
18:08
Speaker 2: or right here in California, they include San Jose is
18:13
Speaker 2: number 11, San Francisco, number 14, Sacramento, 15, and Oceanside, 19.
18:18
Speaker 2: That's the researchers saying that charged bills totaling more than
18:23
Speaker 2: $ 1, 100 last year for typical indoor water usage for a
18:29
Speaker 2: household of three. I don't see those bills much. The
18:34
Speaker 2: way we pay our bills, they're split. My wife and I,
18:37
Speaker 2: she takes some, I take some, and we take care
18:40
Speaker 2: of them. And so I don't see the water bill unless,
18:44
Speaker 2: or know about it, unless my wife goes, holy hell,
18:47
Speaker 2: did you see the water bill? And when you break
18:50
Speaker 2: down these numbers, it's yet again another opportunity for us
18:54
Speaker 2: to get, you know, taken in the shorts. And the
18:57
Speaker 2: water bills in California are high. Los Angeles, we rank
19:03
Speaker 2: 32 out of 500. Still high. I mean, 32 comparatively,
19:07
Speaker 2: you go at first, you go, okay, 32, it's not
19:10
Speaker 2: too shabby. But out of 500, yes, we're very high
19:13
Speaker 2: up there. Annual water bill estimate at about $ 1, 000. California,
19:19
Speaker 2: definitely overrepresented as one of the more expensive states. This
19:24
Speaker 2: is across anything. This is food. This is water. This
19:30
Speaker 2: is taxes. This is gas. This is home ownership, everything.
19:38
Speaker 2: And we continue to say, oh, we've got a housing
19:41
Speaker 2: issue in Los Angeles. No, we don't. We don't have
19:44
Speaker 2: a housing issue because if you get a house, you
19:48
Speaker 2: still can't afford it. because you're paying a butt ton
19:51
Speaker 2: of money for your land tax, for one, and then
19:58
Speaker 2: everything else you're going to be paying. So the politicians
20:02
Speaker 2: like pointing at housing as the biggest problem, but it's
20:05
Speaker 2: really not. You get a house, you got to turn
20:08
Speaker 2: the water on. You're screwed. Got to pay for gas.
20:12
Speaker 2: You're screwed. There's nowhere to run. And the same politicians
20:18
Speaker 2: that are saying, look at this, it's horrible. I can't
20:20
Speaker 2: believe it. And pointing to Trump, the reality is this
20:24
Speaker 2: is in California. This is a California problem. We keep
20:30
Speaker 2: having the problems here because we keep Voting for the
20:35
Speaker 2: same patterns in the same way every single time, expecting
20:39
Speaker 2: to have a different outcome. Merger.
20:41
Speaker 4: Boom.
20:42
Speaker 2: Skydance logo.
20:45
Speaker 1: Right.
20:45
Speaker 2: Promptly added right there. The Warner Brothers landmark water tower.
20:50
Speaker 2: Like that. You realize like that had to be at
20:54
Speaker 2: the ready. And I know they're a full one, a
20:56
Speaker 2: functioning design house and prop makers. And they have. everything
21:02
Speaker 2: they need to make that and get it up there themselves.
21:05
Speaker 2: But you're talking lickety split. I mean, since, uh, well,
21:11
Speaker 2: as blazing saddles at the end of blazing saddles, when
21:14
Speaker 2: they came, came, you know, it's a Western comedy. They
21:18
Speaker 2: come ripping out right there out of Warner brothers onto, uh, this,
21:24
Speaker 2: the street, which is, uh, olive, in one direction, and
21:29
Speaker 2: then it's Barham as you go up there. And they
21:32
Speaker 2: come ripping out of that, and then it pulls back,
21:34
Speaker 2: and you can see that big Warner Brothers tower. Of course,
21:37
Speaker 2: in cartoons and everything else, that Warner Brothers tower was
21:41
Speaker 2: a big deal.
21:41
Speaker 1: It is.
21:43
Speaker 2: I even, during the fires, those January fires, I went
21:50
Speaker 2: over there and took pictures of Because you could see
21:53
Speaker 2: all the red and the dark smoke coming up over
21:56
Speaker 2: the water tower there. It's this big iconic water tower now.
22:00
Speaker 2: Got that Skydance logo on it. But the Warner Brothers
22:04
Speaker 2: is still on there. Yes.
22:06
Speaker 3: Yeah.
22:07
Speaker 2: Barely dry on Paramount's $ 111 billion merger with Warner Brothers
22:13
Speaker 2: Discovery yesterday.
22:16
Speaker 4: No time like the present.
22:17
Speaker 3: Nope.
22:20
Speaker 2: They went up there. And it was up there. And
22:28
Speaker 2: you've got one of the first things, I guess, as
22:31
Speaker 2: CEO Larry Ellison. First act, finalize that and says, you know.
22:39
Speaker 2: I know we bash Trump all the time for those
22:42
Speaker 2: things because he loves putting his name on everything, but
22:44
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. That's a human thing. It's a dude thing probably,
22:48
Speaker 2: but everybody wants to put their, their sign seal on,
22:52
Speaker 2: on things, right? It just really barely done, barely done.
22:59
Speaker 2: And it's like, Hey, can you put my name up
23:02
Speaker 2: on there? Can you go ahead and put my name
23:04
Speaker 2: on there? That's my stapler. It just is, uh, I came,
23:09
Speaker 2: I want some cake. Get the reference code now? No? Yeah? Okay.
23:15
Speaker 2: So yes, historic day, not just for Skydance, but the
23:19
Speaker 2: entire industry, said Ellison. I don't know how I feel
23:23
Speaker 2: about it still. I really don't. I don't think it's
23:26
Speaker 2: a salve for the dying industry and Hollywood moving out.
23:32
Speaker 2: I think it's too little too late. And I don't
23:35
Speaker 2: know that this is going to save much of anything.
23:38
Speaker 2: I have a lot of friends and family in the industry,
23:42
Speaker 2: and it just seems like it's sparse when it comes
23:46
Speaker 2: to the day-to-day. You know, the stuff that's the beating
23:49
Speaker 2: heart all the time. There's still work. You know, you
23:53
Speaker 2: can still get work. You know, and there's stuff going on.
23:59
Speaker 2: I'm building a prop right now, as a matter of fact,
24:02
Speaker 2: for a short film. There's stuff out there. There's work
24:06
Speaker 2: out there, but it's sparse for sure. All right, turn
24:09
Speaker 2: from that to Kono. We just have a couple minutes, buddy.
24:13
Speaker 2: You're leaving today, and people are writing in saying they've
24:16
Speaker 2: listened to Handel since you were in utero.
24:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too.
24:24
Speaker 2: You're leaving us. Today's your last day. It's unfortunate that
24:26
Speaker 2: Handel's not here. We want to send you off in
24:29
Speaker 2: the best way possible. Tell everybody again as to where
24:31
Speaker 2: you're going.
24:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, so a sports complex is opening up.
24:35
Speaker 2: In Ontario.
24:36
Speaker 4: So it's called Ontario Sports Empire. It's a part of
24:41
Speaker 4: the Tower Buzzers. So there's the Tower Buzzers, the Dodgers
24:44
Speaker 4: minor league team. And then right next to it is
24:48
Speaker 4: a massive sports complex opening up October 24th. So I'll
24:53
Speaker 4: be operations supervisor there.
24:55
Speaker 2: And how does the public experience it?
24:59
Speaker 4: Well, the public experiences it by coming in. There's public
25:03
Speaker 4: fields in the morning until they're rented out, so you
25:06
Speaker 4: can also rent fields out. I think earlier I said
25:09
Speaker 4: there was 48 fields. There's only 44 fields, but it's rugby.
25:13
Speaker 2: That's still huge. It's still massive.
25:15
Speaker 4: I did a walkthrough the other day. It's absolutely massive.
25:18
Speaker 4: Still under construction right now, but it will be done.
25:21
Speaker 4: So 44 fields, baseball fields, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, flag football.
25:28
Speaker 4: And then they have massive screen for showing parties and
25:33
Speaker 4: then three separate playgrounds on the complex itself.
25:36
Speaker 2: So that's very cool. So it's a place that people
25:39
Speaker 2: every day. Yeah.
25:41
Speaker 4: Tournaments, AYSO, perfect game, any type of sporting events that
25:46
Speaker 4: want to have a elevated experience. That's this where you
25:50
Speaker 4: want to go.
25:51
Speaker 2: It sounds crazy cool. And it sounds like one of
25:53
Speaker 2: those things that the neighborhoods are probably stoked to have.
25:57
Speaker 4: It definitely, because I used to live when I visited
26:00
Speaker 4: at that Ontario center, kind of. So like Ontario airport,
26:04
Speaker 4: but it's closer to Chino, which I used to live
26:07
Speaker 4: in Chino on central, that's Starbucks central in Philadelphia. So
26:12
Speaker 4: even when I look back and like when I used
26:14
Speaker 4: to live out there, I'm like, I didn't even know
26:16
Speaker 4: this could be built here. It's so big. And just,
26:20
Speaker 4: it makes your eyes pop of like, oh, this is something.
26:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. I was out at, hey, Big Boss,
26:28
Speaker 2: how are you, sir? I was out at the Lucas
26:31
Speaker 2: Museum the other day, and it was crazy because I
26:35
Speaker 2: couldn't wrap my head around how they built it there.
26:38
Speaker 4: I'm like, where was the space? Yeah, that's how I
26:40
Speaker 4: felt about it. And now I see it, and it's
26:42
Speaker 4: so wide open because these fields are incredibly big, like,
26:47
Speaker 4: So big. Some of the multi-purpose fields is what they
26:50
Speaker 4: call them for rugby and lacrosse. I mean, you can
26:52
Speaker 4: have three different games on one field.
26:55
Speaker 2: It's insane. It looks incredible. We love you. We're going
26:59
Speaker 2: to miss you here. You're part of the big crazy
27:03
Speaker 2: family that is The Morning Show, so that's kind of
27:05
Speaker 2: nuts to think about you leaving.
27:08
Speaker 4: Just so the audience knows, I did call Bill before
27:11
Speaker 4: his departure to Africa because I had jury duty the
27:14
Speaker 4: day that I thought I was going to tell him.
27:17
Speaker 4: And yeah, that phone call sucked.
27:19
Speaker 2: I called you too, by the way. I called Neil. Yeah.
27:22
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, man.
27:23
Speaker 4: Because it wasn't planned. It was very boom, boom. And
27:27
Speaker 4: then because of the grand opening is so soon, they
27:29
Speaker 4: were like, can we get you in as soon as possible?
27:32
Speaker 2: You're like a younger brother that I like. I'll leave
27:37
Speaker 2: that there.
27:38
Speaker 4: And I appreciate it because right now I'm the younger
27:40
Speaker 4: brother that my brother sometimes doesn't like.
27:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Well, we are going to be in touch,
27:45
Speaker 2: my friend. Anytime, anything you need, we are still here
27:48
Speaker 2: for you.
27:48
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. And again, follow me, ProKono. On Instagram, P-R-O-K-O-N-O.
27:53
Speaker 2: The audience loves you, man. It's Kono. They're going to
27:55
Speaker 2: miss you. I appreciate it. I do, I do. All right,
27:58
Speaker 2: we'll be back with more. We're going to talk with
28:00
Speaker 2: Jim Keeney, Dr. Jim Keeney coming up, and then the
28:04
Speaker 2: mayor of this beautiful city of ours, Los Angeles. So
28:08
Speaker 2: go nowhere. This is Neil Saavedra in the morning, crew.
28:11
Speaker 2: Let's go to the top of the hour. You can
28:13
Speaker 2: hear us everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
28:16
Speaker 1: You've been listening to The Bill Handel Show. Catch my
28:18
Speaker 1: show Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and
28:22
Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.