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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM 640.
- 0:04Speaker 2: KFI AM 640. Bill Handel here. Thursday morning, September 10th.
- 0:12Speaker 3: Tomorrow morning or tomorrow is September 11th. 25 years, the
- 0:18Speaker 3: anniversary of that horrific attack on the World Trade Center
- 0:21Speaker 3: and the Pentagon. And we are commemorating the most serious
- 0:28Speaker 3: attack on the homeland that has ever experienced in the history.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Of our country.
- 0:32Speaker 3: And we are going to replay this broadcast that happened
- 0:38Speaker 3: 25 years ago. And I was on the air from
- 0:40Speaker 3: 5 a.m. right through, I think it was 2 o'clock.
- 0:46Speaker 3: or 1 o'clock, and it was just a brutal, brutal morning.
- 0:50Speaker 2: And so we're going to play it.
- 0:51Speaker 3: And I was watching it happen, and I was broadcasting
- 0:55Speaker 3: in real time. And that is something that when people
- 0:58Speaker 3: ask me what's the most memorable broadcast of my life,
- 1:02Speaker 3: it was that morning. So tomorrow morning, we will be
- 1:05Speaker 3: doing this broadcast. I haven't heard it in a few years,
- 1:09Speaker 3: and it still sends chills up and down my spine.
- 1:12Speaker 3: It's a compilation of those hours that I was broadcasting
- 1:15Speaker 3: the highlights. Okay, moving over, there's a neat museum opening
- 1:20Speaker 3: up in Exposition Park, the Lucas Museum, billion dollars. And
- 1:25Speaker 3: it looks like this giant spaceship. And Exposition Park is
- 1:30Speaker 3: actually just a world-class museum area. For example, LA received
- 1:35Speaker 3: one of four decommissioned space shuttles. It's pretty impressive to see.
- 1:40Speaker 3: You'd have to go to LA to see that, see
- 1:42Speaker 3: one of those. And the Lucas Museum is something that
- 1:45Speaker 3: has never, ever existed before. And it is extraordinary.
- 1:50Speaker 2: As I said, it's a.
- 1:51Speaker 3: Billion dollars paid for by George Lucas and his wife.
- 1:55Speaker 3: They wrote a check and paid for it. And most
- 1:59Speaker 3: of the exhibits are his exhibits, his property. I mean,
- 2:03Speaker 3: what a collector he is. He has 40,000 pieces of
- 2:08Speaker 3: memorabilia and exhibits, of which I don't know how many,
- 2:13Speaker 3: a few thousand are actually going to be exhibited. So
- 2:19Speaker 3: there is an issue here, and I just don't understand it.
- 2:22Speaker 3: It's called the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. And the
- 2:26Speaker 3: question is, is it a private development or a public work?
- 2:31Speaker 3: And why are we doing this? Well, there's a $ 1. 9
- 2:36Speaker 3: million lawsuit.
- 2:37Speaker 2: $ 1.
- 2:37Speaker 3: 9 million against this billion-dollar museum by an electrical contractor.
- 2:43Speaker 3: And the contractor says that this museum is not private,
- 2:51Speaker 3: is public, and should have been subjected to the red
- 2:54Speaker 3: tape as a public work. Why? Because the state granted
- 2:58Speaker 3: the museum a 99-year lease. at an annual rate of
- 3:01Speaker 3: $ 30 subsidize the whole thing. So this is not private. Now,
- 3:06Speaker 3: these are one of four recently brought lawsuits by contractors
- 3:10Speaker 3: saying they haven't been paid. Now this is pennies. I mean,
- 3:12Speaker 3: it's a, if they haven't, that's legitimate, you know, that's
- 3:15Speaker 3: why God invented courts. So you argue one of them, $ 35, 000.
- 3:19Speaker 3: That's what we're talking about here.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Who's part of this lawsuit.
- 3:26Speaker 3: And this thing opens on September 22nd, in Exposition Park,
- 3:31Speaker 3: and I can't wait to see it. And it's being
- 3:33Speaker 3: described by the museum's attorney as one of the largest
- 3:38Speaker 3: private cultural gifts in American history, more than a billion dollars,
- 3:42Speaker 3: every penny of it private. No public funds, no public financing,
- 3:46Speaker 3: no public debt. And the fact that this is, quote,
- 3:50Speaker 3: a public work or being claimed as a fiction, and
- 3:54Speaker 3: it's somehow being used for leverage in a routine payment dispute.
- 3:59Speaker 3: by a subcontractor who is suing. Now, the museum attorney,
- 4:05Speaker 3: and this is kind of important because a private entity
- 4:10Speaker 3: is very different than a public entity legally, because there's
- 4:13Speaker 3: a lot more hoops to go through if it's a
- 4:15Speaker 3: public entity, and there's a lot more protections for the public,
- 4:20Speaker 3: I'm assuming, or I'm understanding. So the attorney noted that
- 4:25Speaker 3: the lease the museum has with the city and state
- 4:29Speaker 3: makes it perfectly clear it's privately funded. And rent is
- 4:34Speaker 3: one part of this larger exchange where the city uses
- 4:40Speaker 3: public benefits for a private museum. And by the way,
- 4:43Speaker 3: this is not new. It's happened a bunch of times before.
- 4:47Speaker 3: Because the museum is saying, yeah, we're getting it for
- 4:50Speaker 3: $ 30 a year, but we've already paid $ 490, 000 to the state.
- 4:59Speaker 2: As part of the lease.
- 5:01Speaker 3: And that was when parking was partly unavailable during construction.
- 5:07Speaker 3: It rose to $ 2. 1 million per year when it was
- 5:10Speaker 3: fully unavailable.
- 5:11Speaker 2: $ 2.
- 5:11Speaker 3: 1 billion for a year rent. Man, that sure sounds
- 5:17Speaker 3: like a private entity paying rent to the city or county.
- 5:22Speaker 2: That's my view of it.
- 5:22Speaker 3: Plus, The museum is upgrading an adjacent soccer field, two
- 5:29Speaker 3: new parking areas, more than 1,300 spaces for the state,
- 5:34Speaker 3: renovations at a nearby park, and the privately maintained 11
- 5:40Speaker 3: acres of public park space is going to be available
- 5:43Speaker 3: to the state for use up to five times a year.
- 5:47Speaker 3: And this fight, I don't understand because listen to this.
- 5:53Speaker 3: originally the museum was going to be in Chicago, but
- 5:56Speaker 3: it was so tied up in lawsuits that George Lucas said, nah,
- 6:02Speaker 3: don't want to do it there. And then he chose
- 6:04Speaker 3: San Francisco and was looking at purchasing a piece of
- 6:09Speaker 3: property on Treasure Island of which the city wanted a
- 6:13Speaker 3: lot more money than it was appraised for.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Then he goes to Los Angeles that says, Oh, you bet.
- 6:23Speaker 2: We want this thing.
- 6:25Speaker 3: I mean, it is a unique, one-of-a-kind museum on this planet.
- 6:32Speaker 3: And so this started, whoa, the lease agreement was in 2017. Now,
- 6:38Speaker 3: let's talk about other lease agreements for a moment, okay?
- 6:42Speaker 3: Billionaire Eli Broad, or Broad, leased for $ 1 per year
- 6:49Speaker 3: from the city for 99 years to build his museum,
- 6:52Speaker 3: a world-class art museum. And Broad ended up offering $ 7. 7
- 6:57Speaker 3: million for the 90-year lease. And no one's arguing that
- 7:00Speaker 3: that isn't a private museum. Eric Garcetti, former L.A. mayor,
- 7:06Speaker 3: who was mayor at the time, said in an interview,
- 7:09Speaker 3: public land should be used for public good. How do
- 7:12Speaker 3: you argue that the museum is not for public good?
- 7:16Speaker 3: And people are saying that.
- 7:18Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy.
- 7:19Speaker 3: This is using the legal system to just screw things up.
- 7:23Speaker 3: You're a plaintiff and you're arguing for a $ 35, 000 dispute
- 7:28Speaker 3: that this should be renamed or reinterpreted as a city,
- 7:37Speaker 3: a public museum. It makes no sense. Okay, I'm going
- 7:42Speaker 3: to switch gears for a moment and talk about credit cards.
- 7:47Speaker 3: Credit cards have changed the way we shop. It used
- 7:51Speaker 3: to be you'd pay cash. And real money is real money.
- 7:56Speaker 3: I mean, you touch it, you feel it, you know
- 8:00Speaker 3: you've spent it. Not with credit cards. Credit cards, you just, well,
- 8:06Speaker 3: it used to be you sort of knew what was
- 8:09Speaker 3: happening with credit cards. If you go back a ways,
- 8:13Speaker 3: this goes to show you how old I am. If
- 8:15Speaker 3: you go back a ways, you'd use your credit card
- 8:16Speaker 3: at the counter, and the clerk would take out this
- 8:21Speaker 3: clunky thing and put the credit card in and take
- 8:24Speaker 3: out a piece of paper with carbon in it and
- 8:27Speaker 3: would roll the top of it over, and you would
- 8:30Speaker 3: sign it, and there was a carbon copy that you
- 8:32Speaker 3: would keep, and the top went.
- 8:34Speaker 2: To the store. I mean, you knew you were using
- 8:36Speaker 2: a credit card. Today, what do you do? You swipe.
- 8:42Speaker 3: Literally, you just pop it into the little reader or
- 8:48Speaker 3: you use your iPhone to pay for things. And to
- 8:53Speaker 3: the point where you went from cash to credit cards
- 8:57Speaker 3: and sort of didn't pay attention much as you move
- 9:00Speaker 3: through it. And then you went from credit cards without
- 9:03Speaker 3: paper to Payless and And now we're moving into your
- 9:07Speaker 3: eyeballs being able to shop via your device.
- 9:12Speaker 2: What is happening? Well, that's the biometrics.
- 9:17Speaker 3: And the companies who are developing this, they're saying it's
- 9:21Speaker 3: a faster checkout and it's convenient for you. That's what
- 9:24Speaker 3: that's about. Leaving out the science, the studies, that it
- 9:30Speaker 3: makes you buy a whole lot more. that literally if
- 9:35Speaker 3: you're paying for something and you're tapping that little machine
- 9:39Speaker 3: and the payment goes through, that's very easy to forget
- 9:43Speaker 3: you're doing that. You're buying a lot more and it
- 9:46Speaker 3: happens so quickly. Gee, at the end of the month,
- 9:50Speaker 3: when you look at your statement, if you look at
- 9:51Speaker 3: your statement, unless you say, here it is, and you
- 9:54Speaker 3: don't look at the credit card purchases, wow, am I
- 9:57Speaker 3: really paying that much? I mean, I look at mine
- 10:01Speaker 3: every month and same thing. Did I really spend that
- 10:06Speaker 3: much money, which I didn't even pay attention to? So
- 10:13Speaker 3: some suggestions from the experts.
- 10:17Speaker 2: Use a pen and paper.
- 10:19Speaker 3: And use your printer, download, print out the last six
- 10:22Speaker 3: to 12 months of your credit card, look at the
- 10:24Speaker 3: bank statements and circle what you've bought. And you're going
- 10:28Speaker 3: to be doing a lot of circling for sure. Calculate
- 10:34Speaker 3: your amnesia tax. What did you spend? What did you
- 10:39Speaker 3: forget you spent? Look at every single line item carefully.
- 10:44Speaker 3: Look at wants versus needs when you buy. You pay
- 10:48Speaker 3: attention to that, then all of a sudden things change
- 10:52Speaker 3: fairly dramatically.
- 10:55Speaker 2: What was something for?
- 10:58Speaker 3: And then the big one, which I think makes the
- 11:01Speaker 3: most sense, is if you can't, well, you really can't
- 11:05Speaker 3: because you have to use credit cards today. But if
- 11:07Speaker 3: you can pay cash, that's the way to do it.
- 11:10Speaker 3: And if you listen to some of these experts, and
- 11:15Speaker 3: I've been listening to some of those financial experts, And
- 11:18Speaker 3: one of them and a couple of them made all
- 11:20Speaker 3: the sense in the world saying you have a credit
- 11:22Speaker 3: card and you're going to buy something. And you know
- 11:25Speaker 3: you're going to need it. And it's a fairly high
- 11:29Speaker 3: ticket item. What you do is you put the credit
- 11:32Speaker 3: card in the freezer. In a chunk of water. That
- 11:37Speaker 3: becomes water. a frozen piece of credit card. In other words,
- 11:42Speaker 3: you take a bowl, put the credit card in there,
- 11:45Speaker 3: and you let it freeze. And if you need it,
- 11:47Speaker 3: you defrost that little iceberg that you put together, making
- 11:52Speaker 3: it as difficult as possible for you to shop. And
- 11:56Speaker 3: the other thing, if you can, And unfortunately, not enough
- 11:59Speaker 3: people do this. I think maybe 30%. If you can,
- 12:03Speaker 3: with all of that, pay off that credit card at
- 12:06Speaker 3: the end of the month because there is nothing more
- 12:08Speaker 3: expensive out there in terms of interest than using your
- 12:12Speaker 3: credit card and not paying it off. I mean, we're
- 12:15Speaker 3: talking about 30% interest. And people bitch and moan about
- 12:20Speaker 3: interest rates on mortgages that go from 5% to 6%.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Can you imagine 30% interest rate? The old swiping of
- 12:29Speaker 3: the credit card. Now, the good news for me, and
- 12:32Speaker 3: I don't understand why, I have my credit cards that
- 12:35Speaker 3: do have that little speaker thing on them where I
- 12:38Speaker 3: can just tap. None of mine have ever worked. I
- 12:41Speaker 3: don't know why, but every time I get a new
- 12:43Speaker 3: credit card, it doesn't work. It's an aura thing that
- 12:45Speaker 3: I have. Computers, anything technological around me just doesn't work.
- 12:50Speaker 1: The tap doesn't work for you?
- 12:52Speaker 3: No.
- 12:52Speaker 2: And I've replaced it a couple of times. Tap doesn't
- 12:54Speaker 2: work for me.
- 12:55Speaker 1: I'm fairly confident it's not the technology.
- 12:58Speaker 2: No, it's me. No, it's me.
- 13:00Speaker 3: I have, I have, and Lindsay says this, I am
- 13:03Speaker 3: one of the few people that literally have some kind
- 13:05Speaker 3: of electromagnetic aura around me, uh, that causes technology to
- 13:10Speaker 3: not work by my phone. Uh, half the time doesn't work.
- 13:14Speaker 3: And I go to her and she goes.
- 13:15Speaker 2: It makes no sense.
- 13:16Speaker 3: We have the same phone and I'm the one that
- 13:18Speaker 3: set up the same phone with exactly the same apps.
- 13:20Speaker 2: And for me, they don't work.
- 13:22Speaker 3: And she goes, oh, you're just doing it wrong. So
- 13:24Speaker 3: I press the buttons and she goes, that should work.
- 13:27Speaker 2: And it doesn't.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Wow.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
- 13:31Speaker 1: And you folks control the media.
- 13:33Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
- 13:34Speaker 1: I know.
- 13:35Speaker 3: All right. Tomorrow's going to be a very special day.
- 13:38Speaker 3: After Foodie Friday at 830, it's going to be a
- 13:44Speaker 3: broadcast of the 9-11 Memorial Remembrance Day. of 9-11, 25 years.
- 13:53Speaker 3: And that morning I was broadcasting and we put together
- 13:57Speaker 3: a compilation, the highlights of what was happening in real
- 14:00Speaker 3: time as I was watching this happen. And we were
- 14:02Speaker 3: all talking about it and I was on the air.
- 14:04Speaker 3: So that's tomorrow morning at 830. Also, oh, we're going
- 14:08Speaker 3: to talk about this convention that is going on, this
- 14:12Speaker 3: midterm Republican convention, which has never happened before. And this
- 14:16Speaker 3: was an idea of President Trump, And it has nothing
- 14:19Speaker 3: to do with the Democrats, nothing to do with the general.
- 14:21Speaker 3: It is the midterm Republican convention. And it was President
- 14:27Speaker 3: Trump last night talked for about two hours. He's also
- 14:30Speaker 3: talking tonight. And I'll give you the highlights, one of
- 14:32Speaker 3: them being if Congress stays Republican, every American gets $ 5, 000.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Which is going to cost $ 1. 2 trillion.
- 14:41Speaker 3: Now, a little bit of history. Dash cams. You know
- 14:45Speaker 3: where the use of dash cams actually started?
- 14:48Speaker 2: Big time? Russia. Who would have thought? Russia. Now, the
- 14:54Speaker 2: technology has been around forever.
- 14:56Speaker 4: Did the people in the cars know that there was
- 14:59Speaker 4: a dash cam?
- 15:00Speaker 3: Well, here's what they were using it for because cops
- 15:02Speaker 3: were so corrupt. And they wanted to prove that they
- 15:06Speaker 3: shouldn't have been arrested if they don't pay. Or there
- 15:09Speaker 3: was so much fraud going on with accidents, you know,
- 15:12Speaker 3: these contrived accidents, that this was to prove that people
- 15:17Speaker 3: were being scammed. It happens here too, but not like
- 15:20Speaker 3: it was in Russia. So that was 2013. And then
- 15:26Speaker 3: what ended up happening? Why did dash cams explode? Because
- 15:31Speaker 3: in Russia, I think it was 2013, this huge meteorite
- 15:35Speaker 3: came down and a dash cam or several dash cam
- 15:40Speaker 3: cameras picked it up.
- 15:41Speaker 2: That went around the world.
- 15:43Speaker 1: I remember that.
- 15:46Speaker 2: It was insane. And now if you look with dash cam,
- 15:51Speaker 2: they're ubiquitous.
- 15:53Speaker 3: Now, not only are they used to prove innocence or
- 15:57Speaker 3: prove guilt, cops have them. They have body cams. People
- 16:01Speaker 3: have them. Last night you saw on the news there
- 16:05Speaker 3: was a guy who stole a cop car and the
- 16:08Speaker 3: dash cam was on. And he ran into a house.
- 16:12Speaker 3: I mean, he's zipping along at 100 miles an hour.
- 16:14Speaker 3: And there he goes right into a house. And it
- 16:15Speaker 3: was all there on video. And the same thing happens
- 16:19Speaker 3: now where you video everything between ring cameras and dash cams.
- 16:23Speaker 3: How about that airplane that just went down, that Amazon
- 16:25Speaker 3: plane that crashed in Miami? There was so much video
- 16:30Speaker 3: out there. that, uh, that you saw everything is happening today.
- 16:35Speaker 3: We see video of everything that is happening between ring
- 16:41Speaker 3: cameras and between dash cams and security cameras in virtually, uh,
- 16:47Speaker 3: every store, almost every building, uh, that exists. We know
- 16:51Speaker 3: exactly what's going on and here is something new, which, uh, well,
- 16:56Speaker 3: it didn't take long.
- 16:57Speaker 2: For, uh, the folks to use, uh, their video.
- 17:02Speaker 3: Certainly their dash cams, to put up on TikTok or Instagram.
- 17:07Speaker 3: And now you've got people that are putting the crazy
- 17:10Speaker 3: stuff up there. It's not just cats mewing all day.
- 17:15Speaker 3: That's what Amy does. She puts up her cat video constantly.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Mewing? You mean meowing?
- 17:20Speaker 2: Yeah, mewing and meowing. Yeah, both. Are you mewish? Yes,
- 17:26Speaker 2: I am.
- 17:26Speaker 3: And if you ever go to... Amy's posts, it's nothing
- 17:33Speaker 3: but those damn cats. I mean, just get so sick
- 17:36Speaker 3: of cats you want to throw up. That's actually not true.
- 17:38Speaker 3: She puts up some great stuff on a regular basis,
- 17:41Speaker 3: like almost every day.
- 17:44Speaker 2: Okay.
- 17:45Speaker 4: You know, something that I think is coming and it
- 17:48Speaker 4: may sound a little nuts, but you know, people freak
- 17:50Speaker 4: out over the glasses, the meta glasses and stuff like that,
- 17:53Speaker 4: which are actually pretty fantastic and a great tool.
- 17:55Speaker 1: But, um, I think we're going to start having body
- 17:59Speaker 1: cams on civilians.
- 18:01Speaker 4: I think people, because there's crime in the streets and people,
- 18:05Speaker 4: you know, people coming at you with motorcycles and bikes
- 18:08Speaker 4: and all these things. I think people are going to
- 18:10Speaker 4: start recording on their bodies just like cops do. I
- 18:13Speaker 4: think you'll have clothing that has the ability to house both.
- 18:16Speaker 2: Front and back cams.
- 18:18Speaker 3: You can put cameras in and make buttons that have
- 18:22Speaker 3: a camera put in there.
- 18:23Speaker 2: And I think you're right.
- 18:24Speaker 3: I think everybody's going to video everything. Not only cameras
- 18:27Speaker 3: in front, but cameras in back. For that, for example,
- 18:31Speaker 3: you could get the video of that butt sniffer and
- 18:34Speaker 3: you'd have real time up close butt sniffing.
- 18:37Speaker 4: Could you imagine that video of guys sneaking up behind you?
- 18:43Speaker 1: Oh man, the internet will be great.
- 18:46Speaker 3: And that's the whole point that's moving because we're going
- 18:49Speaker 3: not only from security and not only proving innocence or guilt.
- 18:55Speaker 2: It's you're right.
- 18:56Speaker 3: Everything, everything you say, every encounter will be on video
- 19:02Speaker 3: and there will be zero privacy.
- 19:05Speaker 2: I mean, zero. Welcome to the new world. You're absolutely right, Neil.
- 19:09Speaker 3: 100% right. Okay, we are done. That's it for Thursday.
- 19:15Speaker 3: News and Brews are today, or was it yesterday?
- 19:17Speaker 2: Today.
- 19:18Speaker 1: It's happening right now.
- 19:20Speaker 3: Okay, News and Brews with Gary and Shannon, and they're
- 19:23Speaker 3: at the BJ's in where, Amy? Neal?
- 19:27Speaker 1: Rancho Cucamonga.
- 19:28Speaker 2: Rancho Cucamonga. And that's a lot of fun when you
- 19:30Speaker 2: do news and brews.
- 19:32Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon love BJ's.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's great. I mean, I love BJ's.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I love BJ's too.
- 19:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, who doesn't?
- 19:41Speaker 3: Strangely enough, I love their pizza. And you don't go,
- 19:43Speaker 3: do you go BJ's for pizza? I love their pizza.
- 19:46Speaker 3: They make great pizza.
- 19:48Speaker 1: They do. Nice buttery crust.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Oh, all of it. All of it.
- 19:51Speaker 3: So anyway, if you're in Rancho Cucamonga, stop by. This morning,
- 19:54Speaker 3: say hello to Gary and Shannon because they're broadcasting this morning.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Get your BJs on.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, very strong. Not bad, Neil. Not bad. All right.
- 20:05Speaker 2: That's coming up next.
- 20:06Speaker 3: Tomorrow morning is that very special broadcast where we remember
- 20:11Speaker 3: 9-11 and we've compiled what happened that morning as I
- 20:14Speaker 3: was broadcasting. And that's well, well worth listening to. I
- 20:17Speaker 3: don't usually pitch that sort of stuff.
- 20:19Speaker 2: But tomorrow, yeah.
- 20:21Speaker 3: Tomorrow is a definite listen to. Okay.
- 20:24Speaker 2: You've been listening to The Bill Handel Show. Catch my
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