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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:04Speaker 1: six forty.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Keays bucking test can fine AM six forty handle here Onday, Wednesday,
- 0:18Speaker 2: August nineteenth, And I thought I would jump into what's
- 0:21Speaker 2: going on in the Mid East? So how unusual not
- 0:23Speaker 2: having done that story in a while, have we? Or
- 0:25Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be doing that story in a while?
- 0:27Speaker 2: Am I? So here's the latest and it's uh, this
- 0:32Speaker 2: is typical of the administration up down sideways. What's gonna happen.
- 0:37Speaker 2: For example, there was to be a tariffs that were
- 0:39Speaker 2: kicking in at midnight yesterday or this morning in about
- 0:45Speaker 2: two and a half minutes. This is against Canada, about
- 0:48Speaker 2: two and a half minutes before the terrorists kicked in. Whoops, Okay,
- 0:51Speaker 2: we're gonna hold off on the tariffs. And the same
- 0:53Speaker 2: thing has been going on, of course, with what's going
- 0:56Speaker 2: on with the run. So the president has been alternating
- 1:00Speaker 2: between claims that Tehran is begging for a deal to
- 1:06Speaker 2: we're going to renew our military attacks. Wait a minute,
- 1:10Speaker 2: why would we need to redo military attacks if they're
- 1:12Speaker 2: begging for a deal. Well, it turns out, according to
- 1:16Speaker 2: Iran that they're not begging for a deal. Matter of fact,
- 1:22Speaker 2: they are saying, there's nothing on the table, that cease
- 1:26Speaker 2: fire sixty days is gone, and we never got any place,
- 1:30Speaker 2: and we don't have anything in mind at this point
- 1:33Speaker 2: moving forward. And so they do have a new strategy. Now,
- 1:37Speaker 2: keep in mind, this is the same the same government
- 1:43Speaker 2: that the President Marco Rubio said we have regime change.
- 1:47Speaker 2: It's a totally different government. Not quite. I guess it's
- 1:50Speaker 2: difference because it is different because now the leadership and
- 1:54Speaker 2: the new Ayatola, you know, the Grand Puba, the Imperial
- 1:58Speaker 2: Wizard now of Iran one has gone even more right wing,
- 2:02Speaker 2: hard line leadership. And now they're emphasizing which ahead and
- 2:06Speaker 2: before offensive operations as well as defensive action. That memorandum
- 2:12Speaker 2: of understanding expired. The Straight of Horror Moves issue is
- 2:17Speaker 2: still in dispute. Well, wait a minute, no it's not.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Why is that because the United States controls the strait?
- 2:24Speaker 2: Wait a minute, how come a fraction of the ships
- 2:26Speaker 2: are going through because we control the straits? None of
- 2:32Speaker 2: this makes any sense. And the Strait of Ho Horror
- 2:36Speaker 2: Moves used to be a free international waterway controlled by
- 2:40Speaker 2: no one, and now Iran is de facto controlling it.
- 2:45Speaker 2: That's the country that's stopping international shipping by going through.
- 2:50Speaker 2: So right now, Iran's military believes that they're in a
- 2:54Speaker 2: strong position to extract concessions from the US and they're saying,
- 2:59Speaker 2: let's move forward with our weapons system to bridge the gap,
- 3:03Speaker 2: the weapons gap that we have. One of the things
- 3:05Speaker 2: that has made it much easier for even third third
- 3:11Speaker 2: world countries to fight is the use of drones. Drones
- 3:15Speaker 2: have changed everything. A drone ron uses, a drone takes off,
- 3:21Speaker 2: uses the drone takes off with explosive and then goes
- 3:25Speaker 2: Let's say it's going to land in a in a
- 3:27Speaker 2: US Army base in somewhere in the midiet so you know, Bahrain,
- 3:32Speaker 2: the Emirates or whatever. And that drone costs thirty five
- 3:36Speaker 2: thousand dollars, it is shot down by US anti missile
- 3:41Speaker 2: systems that the missiles cost four million dollars each. Boy,
- 3:45Speaker 2: how long is that going to last? And so the
- 3:49Speaker 2: new leadership is saying, we're going for it, and the
- 3:52Speaker 2: thinking is that the longer they hold out, the more
- 3:56Speaker 2: pressure there will be on the president. Absolutely true, there's
- 4:00Speaker 2: no question about it. And they're playing chicken now because
- 4:04Speaker 2: if it turns out that the war continues, and right
- 4:08Speaker 2: now it's basically a war of attrition. It's a sort
- 4:11Speaker 2: of a war, not a war. We're in the middle
- 4:13Speaker 2: of fighting, we're not actually engaged in fighting. There are
- 4:17Speaker 2: occasional drones being flown out, but for the most part,
- 4:20Speaker 2: a few attacks on international shipping that doesn't pay attention
- 4:24Speaker 2: to Iran, where Iran says, this is where you go
- 4:26Speaker 2: through the straits and if you don't, we're going to
- 4:29Speaker 2: bomb the hell out of you. And they have attacked
- 4:30Speaker 2: a few ships, which is why Iran really does control
- 4:34Speaker 2: the strait of her moves right now that things are changing,
- 4:39Speaker 2: the longer they hold out, the weaker they think the
- 4:42Speaker 2: president is going to be. I happen to agree with that.
- 4:46Speaker 2: I think the president is on a timeline, and if
- 4:49Speaker 2: it turns out that nothing is accomplished between now and
- 4:54Speaker 2: the midterms, the president will lose all power. And once
- 4:59Speaker 2: a new Congress a new president comes in. They assume
- 5:02Speaker 2: it's not going to be nearly as belligerent an administration,
- 5:07Speaker 2: that a new administration will do everything to bail out
- 5:11Speaker 2: of this war with Iran, and I have no agree
- 5:14Speaker 2: with that. So that's the latest until we get off
- 5:18Speaker 2: the air, and then Gary and Shannon will tell you
- 5:21Speaker 2: how it has changed this morning, how we've gone the
- 5:24Speaker 2: other way because now the strait will be open. No
- 5:26Speaker 2: it's not. The straight is closed. No, no, this trade
- 5:28Speaker 2: is open. We control the straight, well really do we? No,
- 5:30Speaker 2: we don't. But we'll find out what happens. What is
- 5:35Speaker 2: it hour by hour? Note now that the president is
- 5:37Speaker 2: changing his mind. Okay, oh real quickly, Neil Dodgers, you
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- 6:02Speaker 1: Gallpin Ford Broadcast booth.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Okay, a word about polls. A story about polls that
- 6:08Speaker 2: came out in the La Times because it was an
- 6:09Speaker 2: La Times story, LA story, and that had to do
- 6:13Speaker 2: with the fake poll regarding Karen Bass and her mayoral
- 6:18Speaker 2: run to get re elected against the city council person
- 6:25Speaker 2: Nithia Rahman. Those two are going to be running in
- 6:27Speaker 2: the general election for mayor. Now, a couple things about polls,
- 6:32Speaker 2: depending on which side of the poll you're on. How
- 6:35Speaker 2: you rate is how you react. Okay, politician winning a
- 6:40Speaker 2: poll right ahead of the opponent, and the poll show it,
- 6:45Speaker 2: The poll show me ahead, there's no question. Look at
- 6:48Speaker 2: the numbers. Look how far ahead I am the people
- 6:51Speaker 2: are with me? Okay. The other side of that is,
- 6:54Speaker 2: don't pay attention to the polls. If you're losing, poll
- 6:58Speaker 2: numbers mean nothing. You hear that every single time. You'll
- 7:02Speaker 2: never hear a politician say, yeah, I'm losing in the
- 7:06Speaker 2: polls and I got to get those numbers up. Nope.
- 7:09Speaker 2: And so the poll that showed Karen Bass winning substantially
- 7:14Speaker 2: beating her councilperson opponent, Nthia Raman turned out to be fake.
- 7:21Speaker 2: And how do we know it turned out to be
- 7:23Speaker 2: fake because the poll company itself said we're fake. None
- 7:27Speaker 2: of that was true. See that's really good evidence that
- 7:29Speaker 2: the poll was fake. And this is happening more and more.
- 7:32Speaker 2: That's the problem. And here's why. Because a well done
- 7:36Speaker 2: poll is expensive. You need a call center, you need
- 7:41Speaker 2: to hire interviewers, you need some kind of data processing
- 7:45Speaker 2: program involved. Well, that's no longer true. First of all,
- 7:50Speaker 2: you can't do phone anymore. Why Because people have ditch
- 7:52Speaker 2: land lines. They don't answer calls from unknown numbers on
- 7:57Speaker 2: their cells. So poll operators have tried to do how
- 8:01Speaker 2: do we figure this out? So now email and text messaging,
- 8:05Speaker 2: online surveys, some of which offer money if you fill
- 8:10Speaker 2: it out, will give you a dollar two dollars. And
- 8:12Speaker 2: that means that you have some really wild numbers coming
- 8:16Speaker 2: in on tom and those are for polling, legitimate polling
- 8:20Speaker 2: organizations that want to pull and they have a hard
- 8:22Speaker 2: time getting real numbers because it's different today. Then you
- 8:26Speaker 2: have a number of out and out fakes. It's that simple,
- 8:30Speaker 2: just fakes, and we don't know where they come from.
- 8:35Speaker 2: We don't know who they are. For example, of the
- 8:38Speaker 2: polling organization that gave bass a big lead that she said,
- 8:42Speaker 2: look it's a big lead. Look at this. This shows
- 8:45Speaker 2: you why I'm doing a good job. Let's get moving,
- 8:47Speaker 2: LA loves me. These are basically what she said, I'm paraphrasing,
- 8:52Speaker 2: and all of a sudden looking into it and the
- 8:55Speaker 2: La Times did an investigation saying, you know, we don't
- 8:58Speaker 2: really know who these people are. They are not a
- 9:02Speaker 2: well known polling organization. They sort of came out of
- 9:05Speaker 2: the Blue, and that's going on all over the country.
- 9:08Speaker 2: The same thing happened in I think Wisconsin with was
- 9:14Speaker 2: a kid rock and that was moving on that one
- 9:17Speaker 2: and was going to win. It turned out to be
- 9:20Speaker 2: that one was a fake two. And the Pew Research
- 9:27Speaker 2: Center just released a report a couple of years ago
- 9:30Speaker 2: showing these opt in surveys, that's what they're called, that
- 9:34Speaker 2: a bad job of capturing adults under thirty and Latino
- 9:38Speaker 2: adults there. They were way way off. So when you
- 9:42Speaker 2: look at the polls, and I do pay attention to polls,
- 9:44Speaker 2: I really do, more so than I should. But you
- 9:47Speaker 2: always have to look for the the was it plus
- 9:52Speaker 2: three or minus three the number they give you for
- 9:58Speaker 2: what do they call that margin of air? And so
- 10:01Speaker 2: you really don't know. And those are polls that are
- 10:04Speaker 2: legitimate that say that you really cannot nail it. The
- 10:07Speaker 2: other thing about polls, when they're done correctly, need relatively
- 10:11Speaker 2: few numbers. You know, when, for example, ratings are done
- 10:15Speaker 2: on TV, or it used to be done on TV
- 10:17Speaker 2: broadcast television, you'd have Nielsen, which is the big rating company,
- 10:22Speaker 2: to determine what the ratings are across the country. Twelve
- 10:27Speaker 2: hundred people. Twelve hundred people made that determination that was
- 10:33Speaker 2: considered statistically significant. Because you get the right twelve hundred people,
- 10:39Speaker 2: you get the right demographic. You weigh the demographics Latinos, Blacks, older, younger,
- 10:46Speaker 2: which is the way polls are generally done because they
- 10:48Speaker 2: break it up among demographics and then they ask questions
- 10:51Speaker 2: and it's more do you think thirty eight percent are
- 10:55Speaker 2: leaning one way or the other? You hear that all
- 10:57Speaker 2: the time. That's the language of polls. So the bottom
- 11:00Speaker 2: line is, oh, here's a shocker. Politicians are lying, but
- 11:06Speaker 2: they can point to a poll. Hey, I'm ahead of
- 11:09Speaker 2: the game, and the polls have shown is so far
- 11:13Speaker 2: in the primaries completely wrong information. All right, A story
- 11:18Speaker 2: I want to share with you about homelessness. We do
- 11:20Speaker 2: this a lot because homelessness is a huge issue obviously
- 11:22Speaker 2: here in southern California. And what the La City Council
- 11:26Speaker 2: just did on a vote of ten to three is
- 11:29Speaker 2: repeal a homeless camping ban. Now, there was a camping
- 11:35Speaker 2: ban in place that said if you're within X number
- 11:40Speaker 2: of feet of a school, you you couldn't camp here.
- 11:44Speaker 2: This homelessness, basically, it's not setting up and camping and
- 11:48Speaker 2: doing smores over and open fire. This is homeless people
- 11:51Speaker 2: living in tents and that's camping. And so the city
- 11:56Speaker 2: Council has rescinded the camping bans on a locations throughout
- 12:01Speaker 2: Los Angeles where homeless people tend to congregate. Now, Councilmember
- 12:06Speaker 2: Hugo Sodomiria Soda Martinez, who was in favor of the
- 12:13Speaker 2: repealing the band, said, displacing our neighbors from block to block,
- 12:17Speaker 2: or in many cases, from district to district doesn't help
- 12:20Speaker 2: them find housing. Absolutely true. In most cases, it makes
- 12:24Speaker 2: it much harder for us to help them because they
- 12:27Speaker 2: lose their belongings, they get fine, many times, they are arrested,
- 12:31Speaker 2: and to me, that as a policy that does not work. Now,
- 12:34Speaker 2: obviously there are two sites this coin, one of them
- 12:37Speaker 2: saying we don't want people who are homeless camping in
- 12:41Speaker 2: front of our houses and using our sidewalks and our
- 12:46Speaker 2: gutters as toilets. We want them out of here, and
- 12:50Speaker 2: so we love these bands saying you can't do that. Parks,
- 12:54Speaker 2: for example, we don't want homeless people in parks because
- 12:56Speaker 2: that makes it impossible to use the park. And so
- 13:00Speaker 2: that's true. Both sides are true. Now here is the point,
- 13:04Speaker 2: and it's being made obvious, or it's being proposed by
- 13:08Speaker 2: those people that are in favor of lifting the band
- 13:12Speaker 2: saying well, this really doesn't help because it just moves
- 13:15Speaker 2: the problem someplace else, which is fine for me. I
- 13:19Speaker 2: have no problem whatsoever taking whoever's homeless near my house
- 13:23Speaker 2: and moving them to Nil's neighborhood, no problem whatsoever. The argument, though, is,
- 13:30Speaker 2: are we simply kicking the can down the road. Of
- 13:34Speaker 2: course we are, because are homeless people not going to
- 13:38Speaker 2: be homeless? Of course they are. Are they going to
- 13:39Speaker 2: stay homeless? Of course they will. And then there are
- 13:42Speaker 2: two issues, and that is we give them housing. We
- 13:45Speaker 2: give them temporary housing, but as Neil points out, a
- 13:47Speaker 2: lot of people don't even want housing because they're mentally ill,
- 13:50Speaker 2: they're drug addicts, and they're not going to give up
- 13:53Speaker 2: their pets for example, and their belongings in those three
- 13:57Speaker 2: shopping carts full of just trash. And so what's the answer.
- 14:02Speaker 2: As I said, the answer is always there. And the
- 14:06Speaker 2: people who are pro housing for the homeless are absolutely right.
- 14:12Speaker 2: We have to give these people permanent housing, every one
- 14:16Speaker 2: of them, building them housing to the tune of and
- 14:21Speaker 2: are you ready for this. When you build a housing unit,
- 14:24Speaker 2: let's say you build an apartment building or some kind
- 14:26Speaker 2: of facility that has individual apartments in their individual units
- 14:30Speaker 2: with a bathroom and the kitchen. All of that runs
- 14:36Speaker 2: several hundred thousand dollars per unit. Why because developers do
- 14:40Speaker 2: it for a third of that cost. Because with the
- 14:43Speaker 2: housing that you build, in order to make it work,
- 14:46Speaker 2: you need rehabity be part of it. You need social
- 14:50Speaker 2: workers to be part of it, you need training facilities
- 14:53Speaker 2: to be part of it, communal kitchens because people who
- 14:59Speaker 2: are that don't have the wherewithal, they don't know how
- 15:02Speaker 2: to cook because they just don't deal with it. We're
- 15:05Speaker 2: talking about people that have some real severe problems, but
- 15:07Speaker 2: we have to give them housing that becomes problematic. And
- 15:12Speaker 2: so I think that bill.
- 15:14Speaker 1: You don't think that a law that says you can't
- 15:17Speaker 1: camp within five hundred yards of a school.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Is not helpful? I think it is. But I'm all
- 15:27Speaker 2: I'm saying is that they're simply going to go to
- 15:30Speaker 2: someplace else in the park or in front of a business.
- 15:33Speaker 2: But it does better in front of a state, right,
- 15:37Speaker 2: But it doesn't change the underlying premise that we have
- 15:42Speaker 2: to deal with homeless folks some way or the other.
- 15:44Speaker 2: So either we have a couple of choices. Either we
- 15:47Speaker 2: cut a deal with Albuquerque and pay them to have
- 15:51Speaker 2: all of our homeless people. We somehow convince these people
- 15:56Speaker 2: to move south of the border. Hey, you gonna have
- 15:59Speaker 2: a lot, bigger, better time in Tijuana, better facilities, better roads,
- 16:04Speaker 2: and just much better better bathrooms. As if the entire
- 16:08Speaker 2: city it's open sewage. But that means you can go
- 16:10Speaker 2: wherever you want. That's not going to work. It's just
- 16:13Speaker 2: spending a lot of money. And as I've said, that's
- 16:16Speaker 2: the only answer, is spending insane amounts of money to
- 16:19Speaker 2: the detriment of everything else we already spend. I don't
- 16:23Speaker 2: even know what the budget is for the homeless people
- 16:26Speaker 2: in La La County. It's north of a billion dollars.
- 16:30Speaker 2: Is it helping incrementally little bits and pieces, it's helping
- 16:35Speaker 2: big picture? Well, you've got a bunch of console people.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Ten to three said that band is gone. Okay, Now
- 16:44Speaker 2: here's the story I didn't even know sort of existed,
- 16:47Speaker 2: and that is there is something called rolling resistance when
- 16:53Speaker 2: you buy a tire, and rolling resistance mean that these
- 16:58Speaker 2: tires generate less heat as they bounce against the road
- 17:02Speaker 2: and lose less energy than tires who are do not
- 17:06Speaker 2: have low resistance low rolling resistance as part of the
- 17:10Speaker 2: manufacturing process. And so there's a California just to prove
- 17:15Speaker 2: the first efficiency standard for replacement car tires that new
- 17:19Speaker 2: car tires or excuse me, replacement tires have to match
- 17:24Speaker 2: the rolling resistant numbers as the new tires, which you know,
- 17:30Speaker 2: really yeah, I had no idea, but I guess replacement
- 17:34Speaker 2: tires are built without the same energy efficiency based on
- 17:40Speaker 2: the kind of friction they have on the road. And
- 17:42Speaker 2: this was interesting. This took years in the running to
- 17:45Speaker 2: put this together because there's all kinds of controversy which
- 17:48Speaker 2: I don't get, but it makes sense if you think
- 17:51Speaker 2: about it, because state energy officials say that you're going
- 17:55Speaker 2: to spend more money for the tires being built to
- 17:58Speaker 2: the standards of new ones, about twenty six dollars per set,
- 18:02Speaker 2: but you're gonna have fuel savings and cutting driving expenses
- 18:07Speaker 2: and it's going to be positive for you. Oh okay,
- 18:11Speaker 2: really now, is this too much government? Is this overreached
- 18:15Speaker 2: by government? I didn't know that. I don't know if
- 18:18Speaker 2: you knew that replacement tires are not the same not
- 18:23Speaker 2: the same quality, because they are the same quality, but
- 18:25Speaker 2: this really obscure method of examining them in terms of
- 18:30Speaker 2: overall mileage gas mileage, and of course now the MPG
- 18:36Speaker 2: is so important with the cost of gasoline being so high.
- 18:40Speaker 2: The commissioners unanimately approved the rule. This was the California
- 18:43Speaker 2: Commission that controls all of this, the California Energy Commission
- 18:48Speaker 2: that has the ruling over this, and they just changed
- 18:50Speaker 2: their tune and a couple now here's where it breaks
- 18:53Speaker 2: down because two of the major manufacturers were in favor
- 18:59Speaker 2: of the new restrictions or the new production figures. That
- 19:05Speaker 2: was Bridgestone and Michelin. But then you had Goodyear and
- 19:08Speaker 2: the United States Tire Manufacturer Associations went the other way,
- 19:13Speaker 2: arguing that it would be almost impossible to enforce these
- 19:16Speaker 2: for imported tires, which I don't know if that's true
- 19:20Speaker 2: or not, because the American market is so big. You know,
- 19:22Speaker 2: for example, the California emissions standards are the highest in
- 19:27Speaker 2: the world, and so you have plenty of manufacturers around
- 19:30Speaker 2: the world, Toyota, Audi, Volkswagen that meet the requirements, that
- 19:37Speaker 2: meet the standards of emissions here in California is such
- 19:40Speaker 2: a huge, huge market, so they sell it all over
- 19:42Speaker 2: the country that way. So I don't know if their
- 19:45Speaker 2: argument would apply or makes a lot of sense. But
- 19:48Speaker 2: here's the fun stat that I love about this. As
- 19:52Speaker 2: the rule kicks in that replacement tires have to have
- 19:56Speaker 2: the same energy rolling resistance as new tires, let me
- 20:03Speaker 2: tell you when that kicks in. Twenty thirty three m
- 20:10Speaker 2: twenty thirty three, eight years to change it around, just
- 20:14Speaker 2: to manufacture tires. I do understand a lot of that.
- 20:19Speaker 2: Now coming up a shopping app, a live shopping app.
- 20:25Speaker 2: Do you remember, of course QVC Shopping Network and how
- 20:28Speaker 2: people go crazy and buy junk out of control. There's
- 20:32Speaker 2: one that's even more out of control. I'm going to
- 20:34Speaker 2: share with you, and it just goes to show you
- 20:37Speaker 2: people are well, they just like to buy, don't they.
- 20:41Speaker 2: And now we have an app that really works. We'll
- 20:42Speaker 2: be back with that. What are you eating? You know,
- 20:44Speaker 2: by the way your stuff in your face? There?
- 20:47Speaker 1: An egg?
- 20:48Speaker 2: An egg? Oh? And how and what kind of egg?
- 20:53Speaker 2: I know, the kind that comes out of chickens. But
- 20:55Speaker 2: how are you cooking it? Scrambled scrambled eggs? Okay, we'll
- 21:00Speaker 2: come back and we'll talk about Neil scrambled eggs. And
- 21:04Speaker 2: it's a hell of a segment coming right up. Kf
- 21:07Speaker 2: I am six point forty. You've been listening to the
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