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bill Handle. Here it is a Thursday morning, July eighteenth, as we're
looking at yet another heat wave. You know, as hot as it is.
I guess it's been cool the last couple of days relative to what it's
going to be. And some of the top stories we're looking at. Jd
Vance accepts the GOP nomination for Vice president. What a shocker that is.
And tonight it's going to be the crowning of Donald Trump as the official nominee
and he's going to give a speech tonight. Can't wait for that one.
Now, I want to talk about another issue of homelessness. Supreme Court granted
city's more power to ban sleeping outside, So you got homeless people have to
make a choice, try to get into a shelter or maybe going to jail
or getting a fine which keeps going. And you've got public records this is
obtained by cal Matters, show that most cities and counties have ignored a recent
state law aimed at reforming dangerous conditions in those shelters. Now, when you
think of shelters, do you think that there are dangerous places to be.
You don't, and yet they are. In twenty twenty one, after reports
of maggots, flooding, sexual harassment, and shelters, the state legislature created
a new system requiring local governments to inspect the facilities after the complaints, file
annual reports on shelter conditions, plans to fix safety issues, on building code
violations. Okay, that's the law. Five of California's fifty eight counties actually
complied, and I filed shelter reports LA and Orange County two out of the
five, which is kind of neat that we actually have complied. But I
think LA and Orange County more committed to sheltering the homeless and many other counties
why well, La County has almost sixty thousand homeless Orange County. I don't
even know how many are Orange County And how do they get this information?
Police call log, shelter incidant reports. Wreckords obtained by cal Matters show that
a lot of these reports aren't being filed. There was a information, but
not a report filed, of a child falling out of an unreinforced window in
San Mateo. Multiple allegations, sexual harassment, deaths, mold vermin food shortages.
California spent at least one point five billion dollars on shelters and related solutions
since twenty eighteen, and none of it seen to work. Because here's what's
happening with shelters their store. They are a short term solution, a stop
gap solution for people until they get into medium or long term housing. That's
the ultimate goal. The problem is, long term housing is hideously expensive.
I mean half a million dollars per unit expensive. So what's the cheapest way
of dealing with the homeless folks? Put them in shelters. It's bunk beds,
it's a single room, it's a kitchen, one mental health provider maybe.
And the law says you have to report serious violations. But here's the
problem with the law. It's up to the county and the city to figure
out if the violation is serious enough to report. It's the cities and counties
that have that responsibility on this law. So you have a violation, let
me give you an example. You have a violation, a serious violation of
a city shelter and the city must investigate and then if it's serious enough,
off goes the report to the state. Now, what if the city views
that it's not serious enough. Right If I'm running a city government and I
send an investigative team out to one of my shelters, one of our shelters,
and there are kinds of violations, Do I turn around then and send
the report to the legislature, to the California authorities, and then turn around
and have to fix the shelter per what the legislature wants. In other words,
guard yourself. So like airplane manufacturers submitting their inspections of their airplanes to
the FEDS, same thing with maintenance, but a Southwest got nailed because maintenance
has to be reported to the FAA, inspectors have to come out. Well,
you don't need an inspector will tell you what we've done. And of
course all kinds of problems arise. The same thing happens with shelters. So
this bill needs a lot more, many more teeth. And here is something
as we look back, and I just I'm reminded of this. You know,
until the nineteen eighties, people were poor, poor, poor in California
could still afford rented rooms or cheap hotels. People who otherwise are living in
shelters. Today we go back to the eighties, they could actually afford to
live someplace. Well, you have gentrification, wage stagnation, federal cuts to
housing and cash AIDS AIDS itself, drug epidemics. So this is a wild
figure. In less than three decades, the state went from thirty seven thousand
dedicated beds for mental ill patients thirty seven thousand the state had to nineteen eighty
three. By nineteen eighty three it was twenty five hundred. This is a
problem that becomes insurmountable. Is it fixable? It is, And I've said
this over and over again. You have to throw lots and lots of money
at this to the exclusion of everything else if you're going to make a real
den or it's incremental, which it is, because I don't know at what
point we've reached more beds than people becoming homeless, more shelter space than people
becoming homeless. I think right now we're still beating it. You build a
bed, one point three people become homeless, Well, that is unsustainable,
and when it turns around, then you get little bits and pieces and hopefully
it works. Okay, Venmo, I do not use Venmo, Kono said,
he uses Venmo and said she uses Venmo. Neil. Neil uses Venmo,
and I don't use Venmo because I don't like paying people for anything.
It's you know, using Venmo means you're paying. Now using Venmo also means
you're receiving, So you know, I have sort of a mixed bag.
And of course with the Venmo among other apps, allows you to send money
seamlessly. And what happens is we're turning into each other's accountants, is what's
happening. So tools like Venmo and split wise make it easy to ask friends
to chip in for a pizza if someone pays. All right, let's say
I'm buying a pizza and my understanding is you're helping me buy a pizza,
and then you really they don't think they're helping you buy a pizza. Sort
of a misunderstand This happens all the time, and there actually is a reason
I'm saying this. It's kind of difficult to say, hey, yesterday we
went to the pizza parlor or went to a meal and I paid for it.
You sort of misunderstanding. So I instead of you go, instead of
saying hey, yeah, I want you to pitch in, you just send
a Venmobill. That's it. You just sort of send, you know,
please pay for this, and the money is sent, and what it does
is take all of the conflict out of it. And so a deep friendship,
I don't care how deep it is or how old or how treasured it
is, always contain some degree of score keeping payback. You know. For
example, let's say you cover the check at a dinner next time out,
do you what do you expect? Matter of fact, I think one of
the few places where money is not expected to be paid back is when I
take Neil to lunch. I always pay, And that has happened ever since
the early days. When I was taking Neil out for lunch, I went
to the restroom and I asked the waitress, the female waitress in this case,
for the check, and she said, it's already been taken care of
by the gentleman you're with, Neil, and Neil, if you remember,
I looked at you and I said, Neil, not only do I think
you're a moron, whatever a steam I have for you just dropped ten points.
Okay, I just want to let you know I'll pay for lunch,
because what is my rule? Whoever makes the most money pays. It's that
simple. And not only do I make a good living, I also know
that Neil works for iHeart and so therefore, if I didn't have my law
practice, Yes, if I didn't have my law practice, if I didn't
have everything else going, it wouldn't it would be a different deal. I
don't even reach for my wallet anymore. No, No, you actually,
if the check is thrown in front of you, you toss it to me
like a frisbee. Yeah, I'm not touching it. Yeah, exactly.
But you know ninety million US Venmo users. And this goes way back started
with PayPal. You know who created PayPal. One of the founders of PayPal,
Elon Musk. That's where he got all his money to start SpaceX and
Tesla, et cetera. And so asking for here's another one. Asking for
anything less than five bucks is considered so cheap, is considered so penny.
Anti is that the word is considered such a drag and people are doing it
now changes the way social intercourse is being handled. Amy, do you use
Venmo? I don't. I use zell, but I think I have a
Venmo account, but don't use it. Yeah, I don't. I mean
it's I'm just not interested. You know, if I'm buying dinner, I'm
buying dinner, and I'm not shy about saying, hey, I paid for
dinner last time, you're buying this time, and or we split the bill
or whatever. But that is interaction that that may be an uncomfortable That may
be an uncomfortable encounter because, as I said, I think you're buying and
it's on you, and you think, no, we're gonna split it and
all of it, and it gets uncomfortable. What do you say, Let's
split the bill? Sometimes? What do you do? Sometimes I tell the
server, Hey, I'll put it on two bills here, let's take two
credit cards. That's uncomfortable when one party thinks one way and the other one
and that and Venmo makes it so much easier to do that, and it
is just the way we change. It's just another way the internet is taking
away interactions. You don't talk as much. You certainly don't write as much
when you do, for example, texts, it's all in little bits and
pieces. Certainly if you tweet, it's in little tiny bits and pieces.
We just live a different life, all right. Fun story. They came
out of the Atlantic. And this has to do with parents not caring if
their kids get married anymore. Used to be oh my god, my kids
are getting married. They're gonna have any kids. They're gonna have kids,
so that's great. Yeah, parents don't care anymore, and they shouldn't.
And I'll tell you why, because they shouldn't. My daughter Barbara is getting
married. Oh god, how excited is she? Dad? You're excited?
No, I'm not. Oh my god, I want to have kids.
I don't care. Really, that's right, you know, go ahead,
not your socks off, doesn't matter. By the way, I'm not alone
at all. Marriage used to be really interesting. Marriage used to be political.
Literally, marriage had nothing to do with anything other than politics. Your
families combining. You would have royal houses combining for alliances, the Medici,
the King of France, the King of England, and I mean it's just
all it was all political alliances. Then you have arranged marriages, which still
happen among orthodox super fundamentalist Jews. And you have arranged marriages India for example,
arranged marriages, and sometimes that's political or making sure that the spouse is
on the same economic and social level. And so then this crazy ass idea
somehow came into being that you want to get married for love, and getting
married was still a socioeconomic issue because for women it was the end all be
all women in work. You find a good husband that can support you,
that is the win for women. Well, of course that changed completely,
and what you have now is women that are basically equal. They's still a
glass ceiling. But the majority of people dual income families and have kids.
And it used to be that it was really important. Well, let me
give you an example. My parents had no business having kids. I mean
clearly. I mean, you know, you listen to me and you understand
that. But they had no business having kids legitimately. And why did they
have kids? Because they were supposed to, because that was just a thing
to do. You got married and you had children. It's that simple.
It was societal pressure. You know, I got married. Why did I
have kids? Because I'm out of my mind, That's why I had kids.
My daughter I went to lunch the other day with my daughter, Pamela,
and she said, Dad, you really didn't want us. I go,
yeah, I did. I'm fine with that, or maybe I didn't,
you know, I was sort of up in the air. Certainly your
mother wanted children far more than I did. But oh, come on,
dad, you really didn't want it to have us. I go, no,
come on, stop it. I mean, I love you guys.
If I had to do it over again, that's exactly a dad. If
you had to do it over again, you wouldn't do it. And I
said, come on, that's not true. Until the check came and I
realized how much money I would have saved if Pamela was not there for lunch.
And I looked at her and go, you know, you're absolutely right.
But here's what it's about about having children and not caring if you're married
or not. It really is today about putting kids in this world, and
it is a very different world than it used to be. I'm actually pretty
happy that I'm at the end well not the end of my life certainly,
but I'm not starting my life and I'm not in my twenties and I'm not
beginning my career because frankly, for my kids and their kids, it's not
going to be a fun place to live with climate change, with what's going
on politically, with the wars that are coming, water wars because there's not
enough water cyber wars, the pollution, particularly climate change, that's changing everything.
Look at every day, the storms are here, the heat wave.
It's getting hotter and hotter, and it's getting wetter and wetter, and it's
getting more hurricaneer and hurricane here, and droughdier and drowdier. I mean,
it's not a place to be particularly, And you know what, most most
of parents just want the kids. They just want stability. Don't care if
you're married, I want you to be stable kids. Yeah, it doesn't
matter. There's no social stigma anymore. And by the way, the vast
majority of people who do live together, I mean not the vast majority,
but the majority of people who just live together and have kids are unmarried.
It's a whole new social interaction. There's new social contracts involved. So my
daughter is getting married, Barbara, And of course I'm paying for the wedding
naturally. Isn't that fun? Yeah, And we were going to have it
at a major venue and I said, no, I don't think so.
To give you an idea of the social end of my life, okay,
and I'm not talking about social end end of my life, but the social
part of my life, I've limited my daughter's wedding to one hundred guests.
That's it. No, I'm not going to no more than one hundred.
I do not want one of those big two hundred people weding. I don't
want to pay for it. So it's one hundred. That's it. You
know what my side is out of those hundred eight ninety two. On Brandon's
side, he's got a big family. Everybody hates me. Moe Kelly,
who is heard every single day Monday through right here on KFI. He's host
of Later with Mo Kelly, Our entertainment Maven, Good morning Mo, Good
morning Bill. Who's writing your life story? You know what? Nobody?
Nobody, No, nobody, I mean no one. Yeah, I've had
Yeah, I had a book publisher come to me and said, do you
want to write your story? And it was a vanity book, one of
those vanity guys that you pay them for it. No thanks, Yeah,
it's not that interesting, Mo. Now, Emmy nominations, let's start with
that. Any surprises because those dropped yesterday. I wouldn't say it's a surprise,
but if you've been watching the industry overall, I think you can officially
pronounce broadcast television dead. You have Netflix at the top spot with the most
Emmy nominations, and then FX, which is a cable network slash streaming in
second Netflix had one hundred and seven nominations. FX got ninety three, and
HBO Max got ninety one, and you have to go down about seven or
eight spots to get to ABC, which is behind Apple TV. Apple TV
Plus got seventy two nominations in ABC at thirty eight, which just means that
broadcast television as we know it, with the exception of a very few shows,
is completely irrelevant. Hey, when did that happen? Well, first
of all, when was non broadcast television even allowed to bring it to come
into the Emmy world. I can't remember the exact year, but I know
around twenty fourteen there was this shift and HBO started moving to the forefront because
you have shows like Game of Thrones and The Newsroom, and HBO really expanded
their television programming that people started looking at. Then cable and also Netflix was
starting to come on the scene and offering television offerings beyond just the movies in
the DVDs where you saw this shift in viewing habits, But now it's completely
it's complete let's quickly shift gears. Do we only have a co couple of
minutes. And that's the tent pole picture this year, Twisters, And I'm
assuming it's named after the Chubby Checkers fan club. That's it. What is
it about? And when you take big budget, what are you talking about
big budget? Well, it's in a two hundred million dollar range. And
this is a movie which is in the same universe as the nineteen ninety six
movie Twister, which stars Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. But it is not
a continuation of that storyline. It is not a sequel. I've already seen
and I was able to go to a special a screening of it. It's
an homage, if you will, to the nineteen ninety six movie. There
are a lot of Easter eggs and throwbacks, but it's not a story continuation
other than thematically where you have two people who are thrown together in this particular
iteration and they are trying to find out a way which they can better predict
and also understand what is happening inside the funnel cloud of a tornado. The
whole thing is about tornado, and I'm assuming they end up in Oz And
then you have the witches flying around or do I have that wrong? You
don't have it completely wrong. But it's very, very similar to the nineteen
ninety six movie. It doesn't cover a lot of new ground. Glenn Powell
also stars in it. He's he's eminently watchable, he's I think he's a
fine actor, and he has a great career in front of him. But
not a lot of is asked of him in this I'm assuming that the real
star of something like this would be the CGI. Oh. Absolutely. The
tornadoes are or twisters in this case, are definitely the villain and an on
screen character in persona. You feel them. There's an dominance about them,
and there's a brooding feeling where around any corner that you may look there will
be a tornado, and the movie does a good job of capturing that feeling.
All right, did you enjoy it? Did you think it was well
crafted? I think you walk out saying yeah, pretty good. No,
No, I thought it was okay when I waked out of the nineteen ninety
six this was wow. This one was not wow. Okay, all right,
mo, we'll talk tonight Monday, Well today's a Thursday, but Monday
through Friday later with Mo Kelly every single day seven to ten pm. Mo,
you have a good one. Talk soon. Okay, that's it.
We as done once again. This is a Thursday. Tomorrow is Foody Friday,
and it's Neil and I come here at six o'clock. Amy starts five
am with wake up call, and as always, you've got Kono and and
who will not be going home today because they live right here at KFI.
Okay, guys, you have a good one until tomorrow. KFI AM six
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