WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:05.559 You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handle Show on demand on the 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:19.000 iHeartRadio app. You are listening to the Bill Handle Show. And this is 3 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:24.719 KFI AM six forty bill Handle. Here it is a Taco Tuesday, June 4 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:28.559 eighteenth. Okay, by the way, good for you, Kono. You 5 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:34.840 just heard that phone ring on the cell phone. And sometimes I unfortunately I 6 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:39.439 have my phone here is I don't put it on silent. I put it 7 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:43.679 on rings, so I'll get that. And I love the fake calls, 8 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:47.000 you know, the scam calls, and sometimes I answer them and I have 9 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:50.359 great times with those people. I mean I can't understand a word. They 10 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:55.359 say, it's probably some some, but well it is somebody in India named 11 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:03.200 Fred or Bob and don't understand a word. Okay. Now today the LA 12 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:08.400 Unified school Board meets. And I love to talk about LA Unified because I 13 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.560 grew up in LA Unified. And it's one of those school boards that is 14 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.280 ungovernable. It's that simple. I mean you just can't deal with it. 15 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.959 Too many students and there are too many languages, and it's too spread out, 16 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.400 and there are too many cultures. It's just very, very difficult to 17 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:29.120 deal with them. So anyway, today they're meeting about a ban of cell 18 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:34.680 phones in schools, and that's a little controversial because there's two sides of that. 19 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:38.159 First of all, those people that say, you know, kids using 20 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:44.040 cell phones in school, I mean they are distracted and the bullying and they're 21 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:48.280 not paying attention in class, and there really isn't that much interaction, social 22 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:53.680 interaction, social intercourse, social intercourse where people talk to each other and kids 23 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:57.200 have a way of just connecting. All that is gone when you have cell 24 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:01.239 phones. And that's true to one extent, because cell phones are a huge 25 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:07.640 distraction, there's no question about it. And there are some school boards, 26 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:12.439 some schools that say that's it. You're done with cell phones, even to 27 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:14.639 the point where you come in in the morning and you put them in these 28 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:16.840 pouches and the school administration keeps someone then you get them at the end of 29 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:21.400 the day. Also, there's technology out there that just shuts them down. 30 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:27.000 It can't use your cell phone during school hours. But the other side of 31 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.560 it, and this is where parents and this is certainly where I was, 32 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:36.400 and that is it's all about safety. How many times have you seen students 33 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:40.680 in trouble. Unfortunately, during mass shootings where you have kids go, I'm 34 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:45.840 frightened. I'm frightened. You can ping the phones and know exactly where they 35 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:51.560 are. There's technology there. You can have administrators, you know, tell 36 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:54.080 the students, you know, go behind, you know, shut down the 37 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.599 doors, which they do anyway, but it gives law enforcement idea, what's 38 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.520 what part of the school is in trouble where the students are as they say, 39 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.599 we're next to the cafeteria, we're in the cafeteria. Well, if 40 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.719 they don't have cell phones, and if they can't call nine to one one 41 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:14.360 or their parents, it just makes it that much more difficult. And it's 42 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.759 so dangerous even going to school today. You know, I'm not a big 43 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:22.360 fan of home learning, never have been, but I got to tell you, 44 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.199 I'm looking at it a whole different way. There was just another mass 45 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:29.840 shooting. Wasn't there a school shooting a couple of days ago. Yeah, 46 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:34.800 it's just completely crazy. So the big argument is safety, And I don't 47 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.199 know which way the school board is going to go. Even if they pass 48 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:44.080 it a resolution is not going to put it into effect. What it does 49 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:50.919 is direct staff to develop and present to the public policies dealing with this, 50 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:55.800 and then what do you do? Now? Can you block off the entire 51 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:00.960 school? Technologically you can. You can put a block and then some administrator 52 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:09.360 or administrators can unlock the block all of a sudden, allowing students to have 53 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:14.120 access to at least communicating with their cell phones. There's no easy answer here, 54 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:20.079 There really isn't. It goes it cuts both ways. I liked the 55 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.720 idea that my kids had cell phones. Actually they were the last kids in 56 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:27.439 the class they have cell phones. I think they were twelve years old, 57 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.120 and I wouldn't give them cell phones. It was after that, well, 58 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.519 that was a long time ago, when they were twelve years old, when 59 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:38.959 the school shootings issue were not that big a deal, but the number of 60 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.240 students who had them, mainly for safety's sake. I told him no, 61 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:45.920 I said, absolutely not, and they go but everybody has them, you 62 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:48.519 know how the kids say that everybody has them. So I called him on 63 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.279 it, and I called them the teacher and I said, do you mind 64 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:54.560 if I come in there and just asked a question of the students, and 65 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:58.639 the teacher said sure, And I walked in, Boys and girls, this 66 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:00.759 is mister Handel Barb. We're in Pamela's father and I said, I have 67 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:03.959 one question. Do you mind if I ask you this, how many of 68 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:12.680 you have cell phones? Every single hand went up. Okay, you get 69 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.920 cell phones? Now do my kid use them during school? Yeah? They 70 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.639 did. They were part of that crowd. And I spend way too much 71 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:24.680 time on cell phones, which I think is inappropriate. What is it The 72 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:30.000 average kid spends five six hours a day on cell phone on social media, 73 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:31.199 and of course that's where they get it. I mean, they don't sit 74 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.800 in front of a computer for the most part. It's all on cell phones. 75 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:38.920 So when you say security, what's the security they're getting? Say? 76 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:42.519 You want it for safety and secure just for safety, not for I'm talking 77 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:46.519 about at school. A couple of things they can do. They can block 78 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:51.319 the entire school from cell phones being used. I mean, what does a 79 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:56.160 child need a phone at school for? You said safety? What does that 80 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:59.160 mean? Yeah, in case the kid is in danger in his classroom. 81 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:03.959 We're in the cafeteria. This is where it's happening, So they need a 82 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.240 phone in there. The kids, well, you know, no, they 83 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:10.639 don't need af phone. The kids need phones. What do you do? 84 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:15.360 It's like a fire extinguisher, you break the glass and someone breaks So every 85 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.759 kid's gonna call nine one one. Rather have every kid call nine one one 86 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:24.399 than no kid called nine one one. But you have a phone or some 87 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:29.279 set, and who holds that? Who holds a phone? Well, I 88 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:34.920 don't understand the purpose of having multiple phone. Kids having phones in school is 89 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.560 such a distraction. Yeah, it is. However, the other side of 90 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.720 it is exactly what I told you. What if parents have to reach their 91 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:46.560 kids, What if there's an emergency at home, they go to the office. 92 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.839 That's how they did it with us. I understand the today, but 93 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.639 it was fair, but it was safe. In those days. We didn't 94 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:58.439 have mass shootings. We didn't have that at all. Amy. How many 95 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:03.519 mass shootings do we report in schools over the last month. There haven't been 96 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:11.879 that many in school. That doesn't help my point, Amy, Come on, 97 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.600 Amy, you know why he was asking. All right, I understand. 98 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.040 Hey, listen, I got a kid who's in school. I get 99 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.720 it. But it's like, there's got to be a better way than everyone 100 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:24.120 don't know a better way. I mean, there's to I don't know. 101 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:27.399 There may be, because there might be, Sorry, but the vast majority 102 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.879 of kids go to school and there aren't school shootings, yeah, the vast 103 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:36.600 majority in America kids there are. But there are points where the kids know 104 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.240 they can call mom and dad. I think their security there. There are 105 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.240 a bunch of reasons, yes and no. But anyway, we are out 106 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:46.240 of time. Amy. When I go to you, please back me up. 107 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.639 I really would like I'll do better, Bill. I'd like to see 108 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:56.519 you here tomorrow, truly. Now, interesting thing about FEMA. Let me 109 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:05.759 tell you what FEMA describes as major disasters in the official DEMITA definition, and 110 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:13.720 that is we're talking about, oh, I don't know, floods certainly, 111 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:24.759 earthquakes certainly, tornadoes absolutely and so and what happens with FEMA and they move 112 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:30.720 in with critical infrastructure, the state or the local municipality has to call ask 113 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.720 for FEMA's help. They can't on their own go in. And here is 114 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:43.360 where FEMA does not come in, and that is during heat waves. No, 115 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.679 and during wildfires. It's not FEMA. It is during floods, it 116 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:54.279 is during earthquakes. And so there's a whole body of people I'm talking about, 117 00:08:54.360 --> 00:09:01.399 legislatures and environmentalists that are saying, hey, come on, why because 118 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.000 heat you know, generally, heat kills more people in the United States than 119 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:09.759 any other natural disaster, if you want to call it a natural disaster. 120 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:15.480 And while wildfire fires aren't a natural disaster, which I think they are simply 121 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:20.320 because we live in society where wildfires, you have electrical fires, you have 122 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:24.039 people that are negligent that are go out there, and you can control that 123 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:31.480 somewhat, but how do you control the heat. You can't. And it 124 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:37.879 turns out that wildfires and the toxins that come out of that and straight out 125 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:41.240 heat. I mean, we're gonna see I guarantee you you're going to see 126 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:46.039 people out of this heat wave that's going across the country. It's going to 127 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:48.679 break records across the country. It's going to be in the mid nineties in 128 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:54.039 New York. You're going to see eastern cities hitting above one hundred. Now 129 00:09:54.240 --> 00:10:00.480 you go out to Phoenix, go to the Inland Valley, you go out 130 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.600 in various parts of southern California, you can hit one hundred. Right. 131 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.279 Las Vegas hits one hundred just as a matter of course during the summer, 132 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:18.080 but Atlanta hitting one hundred, Charleston hitting one hundred, and it is humid 133 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:24.519 So what turns out, You know, they have the heat index where adding 134 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:31.639 the heat to humidity makes it that much worse. So let's go to New 135 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.919 York, which can be very humid. So you hit ninety six in New 136 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.360 York, you add the humidity of the heat index, it feels like it's 137 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:45.639 two hundred and forty six degrees, which is not pleasant. And so FEMA 138 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:50.720 is well, the FEDS are being asked to include wildfires and heat to the 139 00:10:50.799 --> 00:11:00.639 natural disaster. One of the climate one of California's senators, in which one 140 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:07.159 it is, says, these twin climate fueled catastrophes are now consistently year after 141 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:11.799 year. They vastly exceed the economic and technical capabilities of state and local governments 142 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.279 to manage them. They just can't afford it. It's that simple. They 143 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.320 just can't afford them anymore, because year after year, whatever resources we have 144 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.600 locally, county wise, statewide doesn't even come close to what is necessary. 145 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.960 Only the FEDS can help. And why is it only the Feds can help? 146 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.919 Well, we're out of money. Are the Feds out of money? 147 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.759 Of course not? You know why, because the Feds can print money, 148 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:41.840 and we've reached points in terms of national debt that I never thought could be 149 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:48.759 sustainable. And now I look at the national debt and it is unlimited thirty 150 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:54.080 billion, thirty trillion, fifty trillion, one hundred trillion, a gazillion. 151 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.320 It doesn't matter. For some reason, it all keeps working. But the 152 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:00.720 Feds are the only ones that can help, and they help throw FEMA. 153 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.000 So how does all that change? Well, the bill, the act that 154 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.799 actually allows FEMA to exist is something called the Stafford Act, and the Stafford 155 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:18.240 Act calls for FEMA only to be called in and the natural disasters have to 156 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:26.600 meet their criteria. Heat doesn't, wildfires don't. I'm talking about the what 157 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.440 happens as a result of wildfires. Wildfires per se. FEMA doesn't come in 158 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:35.279 and put out wildfires, but FEMA does come in and help people deal with 159 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:43.759 the aftermath of wildfires. Well, it makes a lot of sense. So 160 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:50.080 here's what the Stafford Act does define major disasters any hurricane, tornado, storm, 161 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.039 high water, wind, driven water, tidle weight, tsunami. Because 162 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:58.159 we get so many of them, earthquake, volcanic eruptions. That's a very 163 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:03.000 big problem in the United States. Landslides are part of it. Mud slides 164 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:13.360 snowstorms, drought, drought, not heat, but drought, not wildfires, 165 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:18.679 and not what happens as a result of wildfires. So that's going to change. 166 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:24.039 That's going to change. By the way, COVID wasn't part of it 167 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:31.919 until President Trump approved COVID a Major Disaster Declaration for all States, tribes, 168 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:37.399 all territories under the Stafford Act, and it was an immediate it was an 169 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:43.000 emergency measure which has gone away. Okay, that's easy, that is a 170 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.120 yes. Just wanted to share with you heat and wildfire, smoke not major 171 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:50.840 disasters. Can you imagine that? All right? Before we get to Mike. 172 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:56.240 Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Rockies in Colorado, first Pitching five 173 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:00.600 forty. Listen to every play of every Dodgers game on A five seven the 174 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:05.720 LA Sports Live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and you can stream all 175 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:13.440 the games NHD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Now, 176 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:20.240 it is time for Tech Tuesday Today Mike Dubuski, ABC News Technology reporter 177 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:22.440 out of New York. Mike is always thanks for taking the time to be 178 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.799 with us. Okay, yeah, great to be Yes, it is you're 179 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.000 absolutely right. Let me there's a topic here that I went to share. 180 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:31.559 When I saw it, I went, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm 181 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:37.919 going right to it. The slowest electric vehicle currently on sale from a major 182 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:43.480 automaker. And before you answer that question, I have an EV and it 183 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:50.039 is a rocket. Because these things are motors, there's no delay. I 184 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.879 mean, it just starts moving. The torque is insane. So, uh, 185 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:58.720 which one is not so fast? I've never seen a slow one. 186 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:03.360 Yeah, So fifteen miles an hour is the top speed of the electric vehicle 187 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.120 that I got to have a go on yesterday. It is not a car. 188 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.159 It is an electric vehicle, but it only has two wheels. It's 189 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:15.639 a folding scooter from Honda, and it's called the Moto Compacto. So this 190 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:20.679 takes inspiration from a product that Honda sold in Japan in the nineteen eighties that 191 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.519 was called the Moto Compo. It was kind of an interesting little gas powered 192 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.519 folding scooter that was designed to fit into the back of your hatchback. And 193 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:35.559 this has sort of garnered some attention in the automotive space among car enthusiasts saying, 194 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.759 hey, that was kind of an interesting little you know, mobility solution. 195 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.559 You know, you drive to the parking lot, and then you take 196 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.279 the scooter from the parking lot to the train station or to your office or 197 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.399 something like that. I'm a little confused. Yeah, I'm starting a little 198 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:52.679 confused. Does it. Is it like one of those fat people scooters that 199 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:58.000 you see in the supermarket, four hundred pound people on the scooter and then 200 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:03.279 driving along into the market or into various places public places. Not quite. 201 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.799 So you want to envision something like a large pizza box or maybe a big 202 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:11.320 briefcase. That's kind of the size of this thing. It's very narrow, 203 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.720 it's a sort of the width of a pizza box as well, and it 204 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:19.600 has a six point eight amp hour battery, which means that it's good for 205 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:23.720 about fifteen miles an hours its top speed, and it does get there pretty 206 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.759 briskly, I will say, just riding around here in New York City, 207 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:30.200 you know, I was able to max this thing out pretty quickly. And 208 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.200 that gets to kind of what you were referencing at the beginning here, which 209 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:37.720 is that electric vehicles you get all your torque instantly, right, there's no 210 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:42.799 mechanical loss. All the power is available to you. But This is a 211 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:48.240 pretty small electric scooter, and it is designed to be portable. The handlebars 212 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:52.080 sort of fold up into the body of the machine. The wheels tuck up 213 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:56.320 underneath the frame, and there's a little handle that you can kind of carry 214 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.720 it into work with you. And it's kind of heavy. I will tell 215 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:03.919 you how heavy was this thing around. It's a little bit more than forty 216 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.119 pounds. I believe it's like forty two pounds or so. Yeah, that's 217 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.160 not terrible, terrible, And it is heavy, but that's not terrible. 218 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.839 No, but not like walking around with like a briefcase for instance. You 219 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.240 know. It is, you know, a little hefty eer, but it's 220 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:21.200 not unmanageable. I would say. Honda sort of sees this as what they 221 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:23.920 call a last mile solution, where a lot of people will take the train 222 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.319 into work, for instance, but the train station is kind of far from 223 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.559 their office and they got to walk that last little bit of you know, 224 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:37.039 distance. This is designed for bridging that gap, essentially on hot days here 225 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:38.880 in New York City. We're expected to go through a heat wave later this 226 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.440 week. The idea is that instead of spending all that time out in the 227 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:48.119 ninety degree weather, you can kind of unfurl this thing and scoot yourself to 228 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:52.400 work by a battery electric conveyance twelve miles of range is what they are quoted 229 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:56.000 as doing, which will get me to work, but not home from work, 230 00:17:56.119 --> 00:18:00.480 and that means I will need to charge at the office in New York 231 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.839 City and that takes about three and a half hours from nothing to a full 232 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.839 chart. So which is not all it thinks the way as you kind of 233 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:12.119 weigh this thing out, Yeah, I'm assuming that the battery is very small 234 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:15.799 and you can just remove it and plug it in any place at work. 235 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.799 I mean, you don't have to take the whole thing in, do you. 236 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:23.200 So you actually can't remove the battery from the frame of this thing. 237 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.799 Because it's foldable and because it's meant to be relatively compact, you're kind of, 238 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.480 you know, limited to bringing this thing into work with you. It's 239 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:36.519 not like you can remove the battery separately like you would in like an electrically 240 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:41.720 assisted bicycle or in an e scooter in some cases. Interestingly enough, pricing 241 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:45.400 wise, this thing kind of splits the difference between those two market segments. 242 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.960 It's nine hundred and ninety five dollars it's available as a Honda part technically, 243 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.680 so you can pick it up at you know, a Honda service center or 244 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.880 an accurate service center. Really undercuts a lot of the pedal assisted e bikes 245 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:00.240 that we've seen hit the market recently, but it is a couple hundred dollars 246 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.960 more expensive than an e scooter, for instance, or a traditional pedal bike, 247 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:07.519 so Honda seemingly kind of splitting the difference between those two segments of the 248 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:14.480 micro mobility market. I'm assuming it's already selling in Japan right It has been 249 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:18.519 on sale here in the United States since the beginning of November, and interestingly 250 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:22.799 enough, we've seen a lot of auto enthusiasts really take to this. They 251 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:26.279 have fond memories of the old Moto Compo from the eighties. People have you 252 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:30.480 know, kind of done this up with more power. A type R version, 253 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.119 which is sort of Honda's Performance division, has been floating out there on 254 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:37.240 the internet that that some you know, third parties have kind of cobbled together 255 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.000 with like a fast version. But yeah, for the most part, this 256 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.160 is this is meant for sort of low speed travel against fifteen miles an hour 257 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:48.559 side, it's not very fast, but when you're out there riding around on 258 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:52.160 a briefcase is this is pretty brick And if you're walking, I mean, 259 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.960 if it's planning walking, fifteen miles per hour is pretty clever. What's it 260 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:00.960 called, the Compacto, the Moto Pacto. Yeah, that's what they're calling 261 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.519 it. It's designed to kind of reference the early Honda Moto Compo. That's 262 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:11.279 a play on that and kind of referencing sort of the compact nature the fold 263 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.000 ability of this thing. I should have named it, you know, the 264 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:19.759 five thousand model Blasto Motocompacto. I mean, it was right. Okay. 265 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:27.119 The Surgeon General of the United States wants warning labels for social media, much 266 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:33.960 like the warning labels on cigarette packs. And that is a big deal. 267 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:40.279 So let's talk about number one, how necessary that is? And number two, 268 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:47.200 what are the chances of it happening in light of the power of these 269 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:52.279 major tech firms. Right, So let's address number one first. Bevec Murphy, 270 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:55.240 the US Surgeon General, and with a big op ed in the New 271 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:59.240 York Times yesterday, he also spoke to us here at ABC after that op 272 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:03.200 ed was published about what he calls the defining public health issue of our time. 273 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:10.119 Which is Team Mental Health, specifically with regard to social media's impact on 274 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.200 the mental health of young people in this country. He lays out a pretty 275 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:18.119 frightening portrait. In this op ed, he says adolescents who spend more than 276 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:22.279 three hours a day on social media face double the risk of things like anxiety 277 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.440 or depression. The average amount of time that this age group spends on social 278 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:32.400 media bill four point eight hours, just under five hours a day on social 279 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:37.240 media platforms. That's why he's now recommending the Surgeon General's warning label be applied 280 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:41.599 to social media platforms, and this would kind of work. We think similarly 281 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.640 to the warning labels that you see on things like packets of cigarettes, right 282 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:51.799 where a warning label's big and gray and kind of scary looking obscures a big 283 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:56.319 portion of the packaging aimed at warning people about the dangers of the thing they're 284 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.839 about to buy or consume. With regard to social media, we don't know 285 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.960 specifically how this is going to crop up. Whether it's going to be a 286 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.839 pop up that appears when you open a specific app or visit a specific website, 287 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:11.240 or whether this is something that's going to appear next to certain content or 288 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.400 in a feed that will come later down the line. This is not something 289 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:21.279 that the Vic Murthy can just put forward by himself. This does require approval 290 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:26.119 from Congress. So there are some regulatory hurdles left to go over before we 291 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.920 see this show up in our own social media feeds now, and we have 292 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:36.759 to assume that, much like the Big Tobacco, the major platforms are going 293 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:41.160 to fight this simply because it's regulating them to some extent. Well, I 294 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:45.799 think the difference is when you had the CEOs of major Tobacco in front of 295 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:51.400 Congress, every single one of them lied through It was a all of mo 296 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:55.240 he lied through their teeth, every one of them. Nope, not addictive, 297 00:22:55.680 --> 00:23:00.480 not a health risk. I don't think that's happening with Facebook, YouTube, 298 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:07.440 any of those Instagram, any of those platforms. Certainly not. In 299 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:11.119 fact, we've seen a number of the heads of these tech firms appear before 300 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:15.559 Congress multiple times. In fact, it wasn't that long ago that Mark Zuckerberg 301 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:22.599 turned around during congressional testimony and personally apologized for his platforms effect on the young 302 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:27.920 children and the parents who were appearing at that hearing. So you know this 303 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:33.440 is certainly you know top of mind for many in the tech space. Interestingly 304 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:38.200 enough, we haven't seen many tech firms respond to this warning label idea specifically. 305 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:44.759 However, you can expect if this idea moves forward, for these companies 306 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:49.039 to mount a First Amendment a free speech argument. That's what we've seen the 307 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:53.480 tax that we've seen them take with other pieces of legislation and litigation in the 308 00:23:53.519 --> 00:24:00.480 past, that curtailing the influence of social media actually goes some way to fringing 309 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:04.599 on people's speech rights and actually cuts off people from finding community that they would 310 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:10.279 otherwise not have found. You can imagine the implications that this has for marginalized 311 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:15.240 communities. People who belong to the LGBTQ community have often cited social media as 312 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:19.039 a way to find community, you know, when often they were not accepted 313 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:25.160 in their own real life communities. What's more, we also see that this 314 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:32.640 the VIVEC Murphy has sort of made the comparison to the tobacco industry more clear 315 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:37.119 that you know, when these warning labels started appearing on tobacco products fifty years 316 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:41.559 ago, more than forty percent of American adults smoked daily. In twenty twenty 317 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.039 one, that figure was just under twelve percent. So we have seen a 318 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:52.079 pretty marked decline in American smoking habits after these labels were applied. Though that 319 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:56.279 was only one piece of a broader picture, right, The federal government had 320 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:00.160 other policies, yeah, programs in curtailing America's smoking habits. Similarly, the 321 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.200 VAC Murphy says, this is just one piece of a larger puzzle. It's 322 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:06.240 not going to be the be all and end all, but we got to 323 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:10.079 do something. Yeah. But the difference also is huge in terms of smoking, 324 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:15.319 because that causes people to die of cancer. And we're talking about adults 325 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:19.519 and older people who had the ability to vote. This is teenagers, and 326 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:25.279 so the number of people who have teenage kids is fairly limited, where the 327 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:27.880 number of adults who spoke was astronomical. I just wanted to point that out 328 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:33.960 that there were differences, certainly, But I mean, you look at the 329 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:37.400 the use factor among you know, how many kids are on social media. 330 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:41.400 It's huge, right, So you know, obviously this is kind of top 331 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:44.359 of mind for many. But that's not to say it is not a fraud 332 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:48.400 issue. Right, Whether you know kids can kind of get around these warning 333 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.920 labels or just scroll past them is obviously going to be a big point of 334 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.920 concern, but again, you know this is we've got a little bit of 335 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.119 regulatory road left to drive down before we get it enough. 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