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Grand Canyon Flash Flood | Hurricane in Southern California? · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: Monday morning to you. Neil Svedra in the morning crew
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Speaker 1: handles out today. What a story coming out this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Powerful flash flood hitting the Grand Canyon there in Arizona
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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon. And just, you know, after all this weather.
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Speaker 1: We've been hearing about Nepal, the horrific and blockbuster-esque visuals
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Speaker 1: coming out of there with the mud walls of mud
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Speaker 1: and debris and water sweeping humanity up like ants. And
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Speaker 1: then to, you know, come to Saturday afternoon and seeing
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Speaker 1: all this major damage in our own backyard, basically. leaving
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Speaker 1: several people missing and unaccounted for. Flooding happened around Bright
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Speaker 1: Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch. And this just heavy rains.
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Speaker 1: That's it. I mean, it's a hole. A big, beautiful hole,
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Speaker 1: but the Grand Canyon's a hole. And what happens? You know,
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Speaker 1: we've got plenty. We almost have the Grand Canyon in
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Speaker 1: potholes in L.A., but imagine how how a torrential it
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Speaker 1: has to be to fill that area so quickly to
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Speaker 1: make that rush. So heavy rains come down, a couple
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Speaker 1: different storms, I think, are coming through, rushed through the canyon,
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Speaker 1: carrying mud and rock and debris and destroying all these footbridges, right?
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Speaker 1: So you've got these footbridges, they get taken out, the
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Speaker 1: flood also forced tons of rescuers to quickly evacuate people
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Speaker 1: from the area, more than 60 hikers. I mean, because
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Speaker 1: think about it, on a Saturday, I mean, it's a
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Speaker 1: hot Saturday. I don't think we saw any reprieve of
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Speaker 1: the heat until yesterday. Yesterday was a lovely day. So
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Speaker 1: these are your hardcore hikers, most likely. Visitors, all these
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Speaker 1: people being flown out by helicopter. I mean, it's not
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Speaker 1: time to grab your burro and try and get up.
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Speaker 1: But they're being pulled out of Phantom Ranch in the north.
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Speaker 1: Is it K-Bab? I don't know the trail there. K-A-I-B-A-B.
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Speaker 1: But sadly, officials confirmed that a 46-year-old man was found
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Speaker 1: dead near Crystal Rapids along the Colorado River. There are
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Speaker 1: about 15 people at this point still missing. As far
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Speaker 1: as I know, we had any updates that you know of. Amy,
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Speaker 1: as far as that tally of 15 people being looked
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Speaker 1: for going down at all?
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Speaker 2: I've heard, no, I've heard still 14 or 15. Okay.
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Speaker 2: And one person killed.
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Speaker 1: The 46-year-old man is the one that was found so far.
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Speaker 1: So the flooding caused massive problems beyond the trails, not
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Speaker 1: just there, but large rocks, debris were pushed into the river.
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Speaker 1: The main water pipeline that serves Grand Canyon Village was
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Speaker 1: badly damaged. So now you've got all these water problems
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Speaker 1: on top. Officials have asked residents to conserve water, stop
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Speaker 1: overnight stays, any of the overnight stays that people had
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Speaker 1: plans in parts of the park, several popular areas, including
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Speaker 1: Phantom Ranch, which we mentioned, Bright Angel Campground, and this
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Speaker 1: North Kebab Trail. I hope I'm pronouncing it right. So
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Speaker 1: they're all still closed. Rescue teams are continuing. Of course,
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Speaker 1: they're doing anything they can do to scout. But the
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Speaker 1: interesting thing that comes with this is that water moves.
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Speaker 1: It moves that it's pushing. So they have to calculate
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Speaker 1: and basically guess where if there's any nooks or crannies
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Speaker 1: where things might have been pushed into things. I say things.
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Speaker 1: hoping about debris. But the reality is, if we're still
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Speaker 1: looking for people, it's a good possibility that there's people
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Speaker 1: along with the those foot bridges that have been torn apart,
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Speaker 1: the rocks that have come down, all that stuff that
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Speaker 1: is going to cause more problems. But the rescue teams
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Speaker 1: are continuing to search for the people who are still
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Speaker 1: missing while officials are assessing the damage. So you have
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Speaker 1: infrastructure issues. You have the basic water damage, and then
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Speaker 1: you have the possible loss of life or rescues. The
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Speaker 1: hope against hope, the air pockets are created or something,
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Speaker 1: and the devastation gives that opportunity for someone to make it.
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Speaker 1: Hope is a crazy thing. Hope and faith are crazy. uh,
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Speaker 1: very close cousins. And to just think Saturday, we're a
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Speaker 1: couple of days out from that, um, almost two complete
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Speaker 1: days at this point. And as they look for that more, uh,
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Speaker 1: this is the thing that, uh, is the kick in
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Speaker 1: the pants. You're looking at the possibility at least of
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Speaker 1: more rain and thunderstorms. So you have a, the rescue
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Speaker 1: mission as it is, as it stands, um, but also
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Speaker 1: the possibility of more issues coming with thunderstorms and rain.
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Speaker 1: That could cause obviously additional flooding, make situations even more
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Speaker 1: dangerous for anybody who has hopefully survived, but also those
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Speaker 1: that are jumping in to find the rescue workers there.
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Speaker 1: So the Park Service is doing what you would imagine,
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Speaker 1: warning people to stay away from the closed areas, give
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Speaker 1: the space to the crews for them to work, make
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Speaker 1: the canyon safe again, and find anyone that could possibly
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Speaker 1: still be alive. And prayers go out to those folks.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy happening. I mean, flash is in the name
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Speaker 1: of flash flood. This is not something, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: can look at rain. Rain obviously falls, but for this
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Speaker 1: to come and hit this way so quickly, pretty crazy happening.
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Speaker 1: when Nepal's going on and all these other things as well.
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Speaker 1: All right. So we've talked about the homeless, the unhoused
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Speaker 1: and all that many times. And I have complained that
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Speaker 1: my frustration with the way we, we name things, we
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Speaker 1: tend to name things and try and put them in
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Speaker 1: these little pods and we do a poor job. And
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Speaker 1: by we, I mean, usually politicians and, and community activists
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Speaker 1: and the like try and cram a large issue, multi-leveled,
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Speaker 1: multi-faceted issue into one kind of name, like the unhoused,
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Speaker 1: like homelessness. And then what it does is it pre-assumes
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Speaker 1: how you're going to fix it, right? If you're homeless,
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Speaker 1: you need to get a house. If you're unhoused, you
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Speaker 1: need to get into a house. So that presupposes what
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Speaker 1: the solution is going to be. But that definition is
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Speaker 1: bad at best. It does not encapsulate the entirety of
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Speaker 1: what's going on. You have massive mental problems. You have
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Speaker 1: massive drug problems. But it goes beyond that. Those are
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Speaker 1: the ones obvious. And I'm always like, women, children, and
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Speaker 1: veterans first. Get them off the streets. Take care of them.
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Speaker 1: It's a horrible shame that anyone is on the streets,
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Speaker 1: I know. But get those women, children, dogs off the street.
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Speaker 1: And veterans, for Pete's sakes. But this is another, this
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Speaker 1: story out of the Times. really shows that there are
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Speaker 1: deeper issues because you know those RVs you see everywhere?
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Speaker 1: Are they unhoused? Are they homeless? Not in their eyes, mostly.
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Speaker 1: Many of them are not counted. Many of them are
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Speaker 1: pushed aside and people don't understand that they are in
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Speaker 1: the homeless arena as well. So the desert areas of
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Speaker 1: Antelope Valley, there are hundreds, hundreds of people living in
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Speaker 1: old RVs. Now, I see them constantly in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: and they move them around post-haste. And I know in
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Speaker 1: District 7, Monica Rodriguez, Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who, full disclosure,
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Speaker 1: is a friend of mine, that she has done some
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Speaker 1: really wonderful groundbreaking work. changes, life changes for these people
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Speaker 1: that live in RVs where they were not livable. They
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Speaker 1: were not livable. They were barely drivable. She's destroyed, along
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Speaker 1: with her partners, over 400, I think, and gotten them
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Speaker 1: into actual homes, which I think is more than they've
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Speaker 1: done in the city of L.A. So it can be done.
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Speaker 1: But many of these places don't have a regular address.
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Speaker 1: They don't have electricity. They don't have water hookups or
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Speaker 1: trash services. So you want to see something horrible. Look
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Speaker 1: this up. Go online. And you're going to see areas
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Speaker 1: filled with piles of garbage, abandoned cars. Some of them
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Speaker 1: have been torched, broken down RVs, debris is far as
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Speaker 1: the eye can see. You've got local residents that are
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Speaker 1: paying their taxes, that are paying their property taxes and
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Speaker 1: going through all these things. Say the situation has gotten worse.
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Speaker 1: It's changed what used to be a much cleaner part
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Speaker 1: of the desert. You go out there, yeah, that may
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Speaker 1: not seem like a lot, but there's some really beautiful
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Speaker 1: deserty areas out there, long stretches of land that you go, wow,
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Speaker 1: it's just a different style of life. And now you've
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Speaker 1: got piles of debris. These are not people that go,
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Speaker 1: we don't have anywhere to go and we're here. These
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Speaker 1: are people that are on the verge of not being
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Speaker 1: able to live properly. because I don't care how poor
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Speaker 1: I am. I am not throwing stuff in my front yard.
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Speaker 1: I am not pooping and defecating everywhere. That is not
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Speaker 1: normal behavior, using your yard or anywhere around you with
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Speaker 1: this garbage. So one of the biggest problems is officials
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Speaker 1: may not have accurate ideas at this point of how
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Speaker 1: many people are actually living there. The 2026 homeless count
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Speaker 1: reported only 671 RVs in the area, compared with over
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Speaker 1: 1,400 the year before. Sounds like a huge improvement, right?
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Speaker 1: Sounds like, hey, we're making some progress. It's not. They're
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Speaker 1: not being counted properly. Some are not even seeing them
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Speaker 1: as being homeless at all. Locals, local officials, residents say
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Speaker 1: they don't see hundreds of RVs being removed. They believe
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Speaker 1: the numbers. have been affected by mistakes in the counting process. Again,
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Speaker 1: we do this whitewash of, well, it's homeless or the unhoused.
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Speaker 1: That's not it. My wingnut city council person, you call
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Speaker 1: his office and their people say, you know, it's not
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Speaker 1: a crime to be poor. Is it a crime to
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Speaker 1: have a starving dog? Is it a crime to be
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Speaker 1: shooting up on the streets? Is it a crime to
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Speaker 1: urinate and defecate on the streets? Is it a crime
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Speaker 1: to gather garbage and call it your stuff? Is it
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Speaker 1: a crime to camp anywhere at any time for any reason?
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Speaker 1: You can't do it if you have a home. I
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Speaker 1: can't leave something in my front yard without my neighbor
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Speaker 1: saying something. But again, the response is the situation is
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Speaker 1: complicated because not everyone living in an RV is homeless
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Speaker 1: in the traditional sense. Well, let's stop the traditional sense
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Speaker 1: and saying that we have a nomadic people problem. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was so much easier when I was a kid
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Speaker 1: when you could actually go as a hobo for Halloween.
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Speaker 1: Do you know that that father and son night at
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Speaker 1: Maple Elementary School when I was a child was Hobo Night. Oh,
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Speaker 1: the good old days when you could call balls and strikes.
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Speaker 1: And now it's everybody's. I am done, absolutely done with
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Speaker 1: the smart having to apologize to the stupid, the successful
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Speaker 1: having to apologize to the poor, the clean having to
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Speaker 1: apologize to the dirty, the hardworking having to apologize to
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Speaker 1: people that on camera will tell news reporters that the
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Speaker 1: people calling in the homeless encampments are jealous because they
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Speaker 1: don't have to work and they don't have to live
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Speaker 1: in the rat race. I'm done with that. And I
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Speaker 1: don't care what your, I am not a conservative. I
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Speaker 1: am not a liberal. I'm a rationalist and I look
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Speaker 1: at both sides and I decide the compassion that is
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Speaker 1: often on the left that is needed to execute the things.
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Speaker 1: But the rational and that is often on the right,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it comes off cold. As I've said before,
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Speaker 1: the left to me often takes an emotional stance wrapped
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Speaker 1: in an intellectual package. We swear this is intellectual, but
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Speaker 1: it's really emotional. And then the left, vice versa, is
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Speaker 1: that the right comes out, you know, blazing with pure
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Speaker 1: intellectual this, this, that, and that, but tries to pretend
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Speaker 1: like it's for compassionate reasons. And it's not. It's for
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Speaker 1: money reasons. It's for you want everything to stay white
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Speaker 1: or whatever it is. And we've got to get past that.
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Speaker 1: Antelope Valley is being plagued with this right now. And
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Speaker 1: we push it off because it's in the Antelope Valley. And, oh, technically,
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Speaker 1: they're not homeless, but they're living in destitute in these
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Speaker 1: horrible areas, and they're nomads, and they are falling off
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Speaker 1: the edge of the radar like everything else. So meteorologists,
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Speaker 1: was it two years ago, Amy? Was it two years
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Speaker 1: ago when we had all that talk about a hurricane
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Speaker 1: hitting Southern California? I was in Vegas, and I remember
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Speaker 1: that it was so intense that I couldn't get out.
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Speaker 1: I I couldn't get home for a couple of days. Right.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't a hurricane when it got to us. It
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Speaker 2: was a tropical storm, though.
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Speaker 1: But it was the same concern, right? Because we have
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Speaker 1: another one. Meteorologists are keeping an eye out on a
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Speaker 1: tropical storm system. It's developing off the coast of Baja, California.
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Speaker 1: And there's a chance, they say, that it could become
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Speaker 1: a hurricane later this week and possibly move towards Southern California.
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Speaker 2: Is that different than Carina? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Because there's a storm that spun up really quick over
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Speaker 2: the weekend, quickly became a Category 3, and now it's
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Speaker 2: a Category 4. It's called Carina. And it's in the Pacific,
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Speaker 2: way out at sea.
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Speaker 1: I don't see that in this particular story. But I
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Speaker 1: don't have a definitive answer for you. So this is,
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Speaker 1: you know, I just remember that last one. It came
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Speaker 1: on pretty quick, too. And it was pretty good rains.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a hurricane. But I was out in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: I was at the Encore or the Wynn. They have
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Speaker 1: their two properties there. If you need to be caught
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Speaker 1: in some torrential rain.
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Speaker 2: That's the place to do it.
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Speaker 1: Holy smokes. Probably some of the best room service I've
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Speaker 1: ever had.
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Speaker 2: Nice.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Really lovely. Yeah. All right, meteorologists are keeping an
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Speaker 1: eye on this because, as the National Hurricane Center says,
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Speaker 1: there's an 80% chance, 80%, that the system could develop
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Speaker 1: into a tropical depression within 48 hours. That chance increases
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Speaker 1: to 90% over the next seven days. Now, if it
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Speaker 1: does do that, if it does strengthen, it could become
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Speaker 1: a tropical storm by Friday or Saturday. A hurricane has
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Speaker 1: winds of at least 74 miles per hour, right? So
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Speaker 1: a tropical storm has winds between 39 and 74. So
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Speaker 1: if it hits in that tropical storm area, that could
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Speaker 1: still be kind of an exciting and intense storm with
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Speaker 1: some damage for sure. Good news is that even if
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Speaker 1: the storm becomes a hurricane over the ocean, it'll probably
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Speaker 1: weaken before reaching Southern California forecasters. think it could potentially
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Speaker 1: reach the area as a tropical storm though. And like
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Speaker 1: I said, 39 to 74 mile per hour winds, still
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Speaker 1: pretty significant. It could stick around into the following week
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Speaker 1: as well. Are we really going to get rain that quickly?
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Speaker 1: I love summer. Do not get me wrong. I love
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Speaker 1: the summer. I love soaking up sun, being by the pool,
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Speaker 1: making a drink, grilling, all those things. But as rain
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Speaker 1: starts to come in, I'm ready for it. I like
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Speaker 1: to cuddle with my family. I like to put on
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Speaker 1: a fire if they don't outlaw it and make it
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Speaker 1: illegal in Los Angeles. I like to just enjoy weather
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Speaker 1: when we get some. So I don't want anybody hurt,
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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't mind seeing some weather come our way.
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Speaker 1: So one reason this storm has a chance to grow
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Speaker 1: is how it's been warming up. We've had so much heat.
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Speaker 1: unusually warm there in the water in the Pacific. So
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Speaker 1: Southern California's ocean temperatures are currently several degrees warmer than normal,
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Speaker 1: with water temperatures near Los Angeles reaching around 74 to
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Speaker 1: 76 degrees. I mean, I know that is not tropical,
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Speaker 1: but man, that's nice. Meteorologists say that a strong El Nino,
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Speaker 1: we keep hearing about this pattern, is helping create these
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Speaker 1: warmer conditions, which can give these tropical systems way more energy.
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Speaker 1: And they always promise this, though. You know, we're going
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Speaker 1: to have some weather. And then I always feel let
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Speaker 1: down when we get a couple of little storms. Nothing great.
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Speaker 1: So tropical storms making landfall in California. Very rare, as
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Speaker 1: we know. Last tropical storm to actually make landfall in
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Speaker 1: the state. was in 1939. Although other storms have weakened
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Speaker 1: before reaching California, we had, oh, it was Hurricane Hillary.
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Speaker 1: That was what the one was in 2023. So it
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Speaker 1: was three years ago. Recent example brought significant rain, if
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Speaker 1: you remember, flooding here, SoCal. But it weakened below a
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Speaker 1: tropical storm strength by the time it reached the area. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we had some rain. We had some other stuff. But
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Speaker 1: it didn't cause any of the damage and the craziness
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Speaker 1: that we all thought it was. Oh, Jo Kwon from
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Speaker 1: Spectrum One, our good friend, just hit. She's always in
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Speaker 1: the water. Says the ocean is like bathwater right now.
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Speaker 1: She's probably just getting back from surfing. God bless you,
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Speaker 1: Jo Kwon. Happy Monday to you. Neil Saavedra and the
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Speaker 2: Although that would be fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I'd watch it. Could you imagine? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: With all the red robes. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Team Vatican.
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Speaker 1: Could get ugly quickly. Hey, you know what I don't
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Speaker 1: want to happen in my life? My sunroof to explode.
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Speaker 1: I don't even have one. And the thought of that
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Speaker 1: freaks me out. And apparently this is happening. Listen up.
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Speaker 1: Those of you with sunroofs here in SoCal, car sunroofs
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Speaker 1: are supposed to be that feature that everybody wants, right?
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Speaker 1: You're driving around Southern California, either got your top down
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Speaker 1: or in most cases, a sunroof open. You see those
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Speaker 1: palm trees lining the sky, sunny, beautiful, boom. So apparently
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Speaker 1: in some cases, the glass suddenly shatters while the car
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Speaker 1: is being driven. Sometimes it just, it makes a loud bang.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like a gunshot. One driver was driving her 2025
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Speaker 1: Lexus SUV when her sunroof suddenly broke. Now, the sunshade
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Speaker 1: was closed in her case, so the glass didn't fall
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Speaker 1: directly on here. But that is that safety glass. That
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Speaker 1: is the way car glass is supposed to break. It's
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Speaker 1: supposed to break into small pieces and not shards so
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Speaker 1: that it's less dangerous. Could you cut yourself? I suppose
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Speaker 1: you could. But it's, you know, it's not like... It's
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Speaker 1: not like the shards of a window in your home
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Speaker 1: where I've seen people punch those. Yeah. I saw a
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Speaker 1: guy punch one of those newspaper stand thingies, you know,
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Speaker 1: where you can go up and you put a quarter
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Speaker 1: in or whatever it was and you lift it up.
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Speaker 1: They have the plexiglass. I saw a guy in Hollywood
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Speaker 1: once punch one of those out of anger. And the
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Speaker 1: thing that's different about plexiglass is is it breaks in
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Speaker 1: shards like that, but stays attached. So imagine it this way,
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Speaker 1: it shards pushed inward and he couldn't pull his hand
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Speaker 1: back out. Yeah. Anyways, Hollywood, good old Hollywood times, little
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Speaker 1: punk rockers hanging out, walking around the streets, seeing stupidity.
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Speaker 1: But this, you're just driving down the street and boom,
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Speaker 1: a few– this isn't just a few drivers, by the way.
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Speaker 1: Thousands of people have reported their sunroofs unexpectedly breaking to
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Speaker 1: federal safety regulators. So the number of complaints has been increasing,
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Speaker 1: nearly 500 reports during the first part of 2026 alone.
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Speaker 1: 17 different car manufacturers. So this is just one group,
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Speaker 1: more than 200 vehicle models.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: So in less, okay, 17 different car manufacturers, all these
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Speaker 1: different models, 200 vehicle models. Some of the complaints describe
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Speaker 1: sunroofs breaking while families were driving, including cases where glass
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Speaker 1: fell into the areas where children are sitting. Once again,
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Speaker 1: Not a good thing, but safety glass is much better
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Speaker 1: as long as the kid doesn't try and eat it.
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Speaker 1: Several possible reasons. To me, the first thing I think
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Speaker 1: of is heat is interacting with it in some way.
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Speaker 1: Another thing is they're saying is small rocks or other
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Speaker 1: road debris can hit the glass without the driver noticing.
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Speaker 1: But that... That's weird. Now, also safety glass could, a
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Speaker 1: small rock could hit it and it wouldn't break right away.
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Speaker 1: And then heat or temperature change could cause that. You know,
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Speaker 1: I work with glass, cutting glass and doing stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: And one of the ways you do it is you
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Speaker 1: use a glass cutter to engrave a line into it.
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Speaker 1: And then you put it between hot water and cold
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Speaker 1: water and it will break on the line. So that's
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Speaker 1: a possibility. Another thing, a weird thing is, how should
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Speaker 1: I say this? If you take ceramics, and often someone
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Speaker 1: would take pliers and take the ceramic off of your
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Speaker 1: spark plug, off of spark plugs, kids would do this.
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Speaker 1: Don't do this, kids. and you pop off that white part,
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Speaker 1: the ceramics, if you threw that at a window, it
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Speaker 1: shatters on a car, completely shatters. Don't ask me how
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Speaker 1: I know. But if there's something like that or it's
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Speaker 1: been manufactured poorly, I think if it's crossing all these
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Speaker 1: different planes, 17 different car manufacturers, 200 vehicle models everywhere,
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Speaker 1: There's got to be, if they're not all made by
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Speaker 1: the same company and put in, just like we had
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Speaker 1: problems with the crash bags, you know, for a while,
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Speaker 1: that we were hearing, those were coming from one particular place.
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Speaker 1: So I wonder if there's something, if there's something in
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Speaker 1: the make and the way it's made that there's something
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Speaker 1: not piercing but sharp on the edge. The edge liner
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Speaker 1: of the glass or something that when temperatures change or
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Speaker 1: something happens like that, that it pops through it. So
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Speaker 1: we'll have to see. Haven't been any recalls so far
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Speaker 1: that we know of. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has
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Speaker 1: been investigating this, but they haven't found enough evidence of
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Speaker 1: widespread safety defects. I don't know how you can say
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Speaker 1: 500 isn't. But since 2021, they've received over 2,800 complaints
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Speaker 1: about sunroofs unexpectedly breaking. That's enough for me to say
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Speaker 1: there's something there. The Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Palisade, Kia Telluride,
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Speaker 1: and Honda CR-V are some of the cars. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's happened to you. All right, stick around.
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