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Speaker 1: KFI Bill Handle and the Morning Crew on a Wednesday morning,
Speaker 1: August fourteenth. Some of the stories we're looking at Tropical
Speaker 1: Storm Ernesto in Puerto Rico, lots of rain and dismissing
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico by the way, it's going right past. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter when you have a storm of that size,
Speaker 1: going to be a hurricane too. So that's one of
Speaker 1: the big stories we're looking at. And then last yesterday,
Speaker 1: President Biden made his cancer funding announcement. The cancer moonshot,
Speaker 1: as he has been describing it four years. Spending in
Speaker 1: this case was one hundred and fifty million dollars in
Speaker 1: grants to cut the cancer death rate in half. I
Speaker 1: think twenty forty five, I think, is what he said.
Speaker 1: All right, Now, we had that earthquake that happened a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago. It was small magnitude four point
Speaker 1: five for earthquake. Yeah, no damage was reported. I didn't
Speaker 1: even feel it and where was it. It was a
Speaker 1: small rupture, I mean a small few hundred feet of
Speaker 1: a fault and it's known as the Puente Hills thrust
Speaker 1: fault system, which you probably never heard of. You know,
Speaker 1: Puente Hill's fault thrust system a big deal. Well, we
Speaker 1: know how dangerous the San Andrea's fault is. We know
Speaker 1: how horrific an earthquake if it moved along the San
Speaker 1: Andreas fault, because it is huge. You can in Palmdale
Speaker 1: you can actually see the fault line, the Palmdale budge
Speaker 1: a bulge. If you go up there, you can actually
Speaker 1: see where that fault line lies. It's right there at
Speaker 1: the surface. It's called the Palmdale Bulge. Fat people usually
Speaker 1: go there a lot, see the bulish fat people. Well,
Speaker 1: as we know how dangerous San Andreas is, it doesn't
Speaker 1: compare with a twenty Hills thrust fall system, not even close.
Speaker 1: Because what the twenty Hills thrust system does it goes
Speaker 1: directly underneath the most congested part of southern California. And
Speaker 1: if it goes, man, we're looking at some real, real damage.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a worst case scenario. If the
Speaker 1: San Andreas fault really does this thing and zips all
Speaker 1: the way to the La County Mountains, they're looking at
Speaker 1: a death toll of eighteen hundred people. That's a seven
Speaker 1: point eight percent quake or a seven point eight quake
Speaker 1: on the Richter scale. All right, so now let's look
Speaker 1: at a seven point five magnitude earthquake on the Pwenty
Speaker 1: Hills thrust fault system. Okay, it's not as big as
Speaker 1: the San Andreas fault, but according to the US Geological
Speaker 1: Survey and the Southern California Earthquake Center, you're looking at
Speaker 1: three three thousand to eighteen thousand deaths and far far
Speaker 1: more dangerous, a lot more damage. Now we know the
Speaker 1: San Andreas fault. It's average every hundred years, and we're
Speaker 1: sort of due for it, which means it's coming next week.
Speaker 1: I just want to point that out. And there's a
Speaker 1: good chance you're not going to be alive that listen
Speaker 1: to the show. So our ratings are going to go
Speaker 1: down fairly dramatically. However that happens. We're due about every
Speaker 1: hundred years, the big one, the Puente Hills thrust fault,
Speaker 1: across its line going right under Southern California. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Korea Town, Downtown LA. I mean, all of it.
Speaker 1: Really dense areas that happens every thousand years, give or take.
Speaker 1: Is what the seismologists are saying, and they don't know
Speaker 1: the last time it happened, no idea. Not we know
Speaker 1: the earthquakes that have hit the last one hundred, one
Speaker 1: hundred fifty two hundred years, that's easy. This one we
Speaker 1: have no idea. And what happens is the point the
Speaker 1: Hills Thrust fould is also under the La Basin directly,
Speaker 1: and that's soft sediment, so that is even worse. By
Speaker 1: the way, the last major quake on the San Andreas
Speaker 1: fault was eighteen fifty seven, and that was about seven
Speaker 1: point eight, and so we're due. We're absolutely due. Nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven the Whittier Narrows earthquake five point nine, Whittier downtown.
Speaker 1: The buildings were in real trouble because what ends up happening.
Speaker 1: And now it's better because modern co modern building codes
Speaker 1: take into effect earthquakes. So now you have foundations, you
Speaker 1: bolt down houses. You know, when I prior to the
Speaker 1: Persian Palace, I lived in Hancock Park adjacent I had
Speaker 1: a duplex building was built in nineteen twenty seven. It
Speaker 1: was not bolted to the foundation, sat on the foundation. Now,
Speaker 1: when I bought it, I immediately retrofitted it bolted it down,
Speaker 1: put up all kinds of reinforcements along the wall, made
Speaker 1: the walls thicker, more resilient to earthquakes, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people didn't, and what ended up happening during the
Speaker 1: quake is you had houses that just literally slipped a
Speaker 1: few inches off the foundation because they weren't even bolted down.
Speaker 1: Complete losses. You can't put a house back onto a foundation,
Speaker 1: complete loss and that is the problem because this quake
Speaker 1: or this fault goes underneath parts of the city that
Speaker 1: are not retrofitted that the homes are very old. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you, Neil, your house is what nineteen ten is?
Speaker 1: Has it been earthquake retrofilled? Nineteen twelve?
Speaker 2: Yes, completely, that was one of the first things we
Speaker 2: looked at. It's been the foundation was all shored up
Speaker 2: and it was bolted down.
Speaker 1: And was that the previous owner, Yes, yes, they did it.
Speaker 2: But you know what's funny is we've talked to a
Speaker 2: lot of people who grew up here around it and
Speaker 2: passed down generationally, and the chimney has come down maybe
Speaker 2: five times and now it's a completely different setup. But
Speaker 2: those brick chimneys came down all the time.
Speaker 1: You know, You can't put in a brick chimney in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles anymore. They don't let you.
Speaker 2: So ours is not that anymore. It's stucco and all
Speaker 2: of that. And it's a firebox.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you can put You can put brick up
Speaker 1: to a firebox level. But going up, if you have brick,
Speaker 1: that's all fake. Yeah yeah, which makes a lot of
Speaker 1: sense because you don't want to be near a chimney
Speaker 1: made out of brick if you're walking when the big
Speaker 1: earthquake comes. So just a quick strap everything down, please,
Speaker 1: You know, for those of you that are into that
Speaker 1: kinky stuff, you already have all of the equipment you need,
Speaker 1: just in anticipation of the earthquake which is going to come.
Speaker 1: We're done, guys, all right. Donald Trump tried to get
Speaker 1: a new judge in his hush money case and once
Speaker 1: again asked that Juan Mershon, the judge, be removed, and
Speaker 1: judge had stop it. You're doing this over and over again.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to rehash everything I've already ruled. And
Speaker 1: this has to do with Mershon's daughter having been involved
Speaker 1: in some political democratic political activity, and Mershon said no,
Speaker 1: all right, now talking about what happened with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I find fascinating is,
Speaker 1: for example, you've got Walls who made that comment I
Speaker 1: don't know how many years ago about when he was
Speaker 1: in the Army reserves and it was weapons of war
Speaker 1: and he hated that and I was in the war
Speaker 1: and he wasn't, and Vance nailed him on that. He's
Speaker 1: a liar. He was never in combat. And this was
Speaker 1: a statement that Walls made and he did make it,
Speaker 1: by the way, And what's happening is the Democrats and
Speaker 1: Walls are deflecting it and saying he just talks about
Speaker 1: walls service and twenty four years in the service and
Speaker 1: he's proud of it and won't denegrate a Dvance. Okay,
Speaker 1: So with that, I'm going to give I'm going to
Speaker 1: give Walls a pass for whatever he said. I also
Speaker 1: give Donald Trump a pass for what he says a lot,
Speaker 1: because Donald Trump generally shoots from the hip and he
Speaker 1: says things, and you know, that's who he is. The
Speaker 1: problem is he doesn't stop saying it over and over again.
Speaker 1: Talking about Kamala Harris and her race. She's not black,
Speaker 1: She's just decided to be black. Now huh, doubles downs,
Speaker 1: doubles down on it. So in his interview, this is
Speaker 1: Trump and Musk, and this was really touted is a
Speaker 1: big deal on X two hours softball interview. Trump sort
Speaker 1: of did it again. In this case. He is talking
Speaker 1: about United auto Workers union and he has had a
Speaker 1: fight with Faine, who was president of the Auto Workers
Speaker 1: for a long time. The auto workers they're Democrats, you know.
Speaker 1: The union guys vote for Democrats. And Trump is trying
Speaker 1: to get and has succeeded to some extent to get
Speaker 1: union voters go for him. He is in favor of
Speaker 1: the union, the unions, and the union worker, which you
Speaker 1: have some questions about that. So during the interview with Musk,
Speaker 1: he says, you're the greatest cutter. I mean basically, this
Speaker 1: was saying we're talking about must not tolerating workers to
Speaker 1: go on strike. Trump goes on, I mean, look what
Speaker 1: you do. You walk in, you just say you want
Speaker 1: to quit. They go on strike. I will mention the
Speaker 1: name of the company. But they go on strike, and
Speaker 1: you say, that's okay, you're all gone. Now. It's against
Speaker 1: the law for any worker to be fired for going
Speaker 1: on strike. It's illegal. They are protected when they go
Speaker 1: on strike, and Trump has said, you know, good for
Speaker 1: you for firing workers that go on strike. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: the UAW got a little bit upset and they came
Speaker 1: out and they filed The UAW has filed a labor
Speaker 1: relations complaint saying that somehow Trump and Musk's haid something illegal,
Speaker 1: which you know, they're trying to get people to try
Speaker 1: to interfere with strikes all or that's crap, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just bs. Of course they're going to go no
Speaker 1: place with that. But the point is is that it
Speaker 1: is a difficult move for a Republican to try to
Speaker 1: convince union workers that he or she is on their side.
Speaker 1: That is not easy to do. Trump to some extent
Speaker 1: has succeeded by arguing, I'm the guy that protects your jobs. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean he can argue with that one all day long. However,
Speaker 1: you know, to go on and interview and say I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled with you if there's a strike, you fire them, congratulations. Huh.
Speaker 1: Now here is what one of the arguments that Trump
Speaker 1: is saying he is in favor of the auto workers specifically,
Speaker 1: and that is he wants to put one hundred percent
Speaker 1: tariff on Chinese made EV's electric vehicles, which will protect
Speaker 1: American workers. And that you know, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: if you make it prohibitive for Chinese made evs or
Speaker 1: any product to come into the United States by putting
Speaker 1: one hundred percent tariff, boy, that shuts down the market.
Speaker 1: And you know how big the Chinese sold EV market
Speaker 1: is in the United States. You know how many Chinese ees
Speaker 1: they actually sold last year or this year? Zero? Not
Speaker 1: a one is being sold in America. So let me
Speaker 1: get this straight. All right, I'm going to protect union
Speaker 1: workers by putting one hundred percent tax on cars that
Speaker 1: are not coming in now that no one is selling.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to protect you because they can't sell
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure they won't And it's
Speaker 1: is that gonna fly with union workers? No, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I don't think so. So you know, and
Speaker 1: I know you know where I said politically as far
Speaker 1: as Trump and Harris is concerned. So I'm not going
Speaker 1: to get into that, but I will tell you that
Speaker 1: the Trump campaign at this point is scrambling. What's the message?
Speaker 1: We have to do something. They were not prepared for
Speaker 1: Joe Biden to drop out oh, by the way, here
Speaker 1: is also here's the new tactic. It is unconstitutional for
Speaker 1: Harris to run for president. It was a coup. Why
Speaker 1: because because Joe Biden won the primary and now Harris
Speaker 1: is the nominee. That is unconstitutional. I can't wait for
Speaker 1: that lawsuit to be filed for sure, And I guess
Speaker 1: the argument is therefore, if it is unconstitutional for Harris
Speaker 1: to run, one of two things happen. Either Joe Biden
Speaker 1: must continue running even though he doesn't want to, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna call the political police and arrest him if
Speaker 1: he bails out. So I don't think that's a problem there.
Speaker 1: The other issue, of course, it is not unconstitutional. And
Speaker 1: the whole the lawsuits are going to file. And by
Speaker 1: the way, have you noticed the rigged election talk is
Speaker 1: now starting to ramp up. It is now coming. The
Speaker 1: rigged election talk is now starting to really ramp up.
Speaker 1: And as of right now, there's honeymoon going on with
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. We don't know if that's going to continue
Speaker 1: on the polls half turned could be because she was
Speaker 1: just nominated. No one knows, no one has any idea.
Speaker 1: But if the polls continue to somehow prevail in Harris's
Speaker 1: in Harris acide on Harris's side and she gets traction.
Speaker 1: You will see it's a rigged election. Explode and the
Speaker 1: lawsuits are going to start flying. Guaranteed they were. Last time,
Speaker 1: sixty three lawsuits were filed federally and across states to
Speaker 1: hold the election invalid. Can't wait for this one to happen.
Speaker 1: So anyway, and by the way, the Trump campaign is very,
Speaker 1: very professional. I mean, he's got top notch advisors doing
Speaker 1: the work. He's just not listening of them. That's the problem. Harris,
Speaker 1: I think, parrots ever thing her advisor says. If you
Speaker 1: go up there and say hello to Kamala Harris, you
Speaker 1: go hello, madam Vice President, what will happen? She'll look
Speaker 1: at you, but you'll look over your shoulder because there's
Speaker 1: a teleprompter behind you in which she talks to you.
Speaker 1: All right. There is a complaint by an employee of
Speaker 1: La City attorney Heidi Feldstein Sodo, alleging that Feldstein Soto
Speaker 1: the office searched the emails of employees, particularly this one.
Speaker 1: And here is the issue, because this employee had been
Speaker 1: vocal about problems in the office and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden emails were looked at, and you would think
Speaker 1: that as an out and out violation. You can't do
Speaker 1: that or the other side of it. Hey, if it
Speaker 1: is a company email and it goes on the server,
Speaker 1: you're wide open to have it looked at by the company. Now.
Speaker 1: I always thought, and most people do that if you
Speaker 1: use a company server. There's no such thing as a
Speaker 1: private email. Neil, you were in management for many, many years.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the policy of iHeart that they can read
Speaker 1: anything that goes out on an iHeart server personal not personal.
Speaker 2: I can't you know, speak to that specifically as management
Speaker 2: because I'm not anymore. But I do recall seeing, you know,
Speaker 2: we get those things that would pop up saying that
Speaker 2: used to say, yeah, that they were their servers and
Speaker 2: using their email that they have a right to. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen that in a long time.
Speaker 1: But well, and here's ways I brought it up. This
Speaker 1: complaint has just been filed and it's not clear. It
Speaker 1: is not clear. I thought it was crystal clear. There's
Speaker 1: no such thing as a private email. If you're at
Speaker 1: work and it turns out that line is fuzzy, there
Speaker 1: may be a violation if a private email is looked
Speaker 1: into maybe and what an attorney was interviewed for this
Speaker 1: story said, you have to look at the intent of
Speaker 1: the employer. Whenever you say you have to look at
Speaker 1: the intent, boy, you're now in a mess, because how
Speaker 1: do you establish intent? Well, in this case, well, here
Speaker 1: are the rules according to it. There was a case
Speaker 1: that went at the Supreme Court in twenty ten City
Speaker 1: of Ontario versus Kwan, and the court said that the company,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, did have the right to
Speaker 1: go ahead interfere with or at least look at private
Speaker 1: emails and the privacy rights had not been violated. The
Speaker 1: search was reasonable going through emails. And here is is
Speaker 1: if it's, for example, to figure out what work has
Speaker 1: to be done, you're on vacation and you have a
Speaker 1: big project or there's an important project, does the employer
Speaker 1: have a right to go into your email, find out
Speaker 1: where it's going, how far it's gone, so they can
Speaker 1: switch it over to someone. Yeah, that's reasonable because that's
Speaker 1: for the benefit of the company. There's nothing unreasonable about that.
Speaker 1: How about just a phishing expedition. We're going to go
Speaker 1: through the emails and we have an algorithm that if you,
Speaker 1: for example, pornography was a big one. You can't do it.
Speaker 1: Of course, people have been caught looking at porno at work.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that's so unusual, because no one
Speaker 1: ever looks at porno at work. You know, They've been
Speaker 1: study after study saying that that just doesn't happen in
Speaker 1: American business. Right at work? Seriously, of course, they everybody
Speaker 1: looks at porno at work.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm looking at a lot of shocked faces here.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about business in general. Now, I have been
Speaker 1: caught doing it a few times, but my argument is,
Speaker 1: I'm doing this for the purposes of the show. Okay,
Speaker 1: sex with Chickens dot Com is not because I'm excited
Speaker 1: about it. It's because I'm doing a story on it.
Speaker 1: By the way, I want to point something out. When
Speaker 1: you go on the Internet, you can come up with
Speaker 1: any crazy, depraved act you can possibly think of, put
Speaker 1: a dot com after it, and just press search and
Speaker 1: you will find a world chat rooms clubs out there.
Speaker 1: But the point is the governor the company and I
Speaker 1: was told very early on saying, you go on the
Speaker 1: internet and you look, we have the ability to check
Speaker 1: it out. Well maybe not. Let's turn around for me
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Now I know you can't talk about
Speaker 1: well you know what people? Have people gotten in trouble
Speaker 1: during your tenure? Neil for inappropriate you.
Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know that I can say. Quite honestly,
Speaker 2: I really don't that's not no. I don't know that
Speaker 2: I could say, and I wouldn't want to I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want to say.
Speaker 1: So, okay, so how about this a hypothetical company. But
Speaker 1: you know what you did?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can mentioned names, but I think you know
Speaker 2: what you did.
Speaker 1: I know what I did. I never got in trouble
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 2: Oh okay. So now so now you don't want me to.
Speaker 1: Say, Okay, okay, I never got you. You know why.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what my defense is. You know
Speaker 1: what my defense is. Here we go first amendment. Uh,
Speaker 1: looking at the show for research purposes, looking at that
Speaker 1: site for research purposes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the underage chickens was yes.
Speaker 1: And then the best defense in the world. And this
Speaker 1: happens across the board. If you're the best salesperson in
Speaker 1: the office, you get a pass. If you're indispensable, you
Speaker 1: get a pass. And the bottom line is how much
Speaker 1: you're making for the company, you get a pass. But
Speaker 1: this actually came up, and I did not know that
Speaker 1: there are a lot of restrictions to what a company
Speaker 1: can look at and cannot which I find. Then that's
Speaker 1: a case that's coming up. So there we go. I
Speaker 1: spun it off a little bit. Neil will never ever
Speaker 1: say anything he ever did with management, because Neil is
Speaker 1: a wuss. Because Neil is a wimp, and Neil is
Speaker 1: he's a gutlass wonder, Neil Wonder, Neil is a pandy waste. Okay,
Speaker 1: anything else i'd like to add, mean the octagon, Oh okay. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to hire a photographer, let's say you've
Speaker 1: got a wedding or a bar mitzvah Kinsiniera and you
Speaker 1: need a photographer, you cannot hire on Charles Omania anymore
Speaker 1: or omany not available because he now works for the
Speaker 1: State of California. Gavin Newsom hired him at two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year. It's a good gig. He's a
Speaker 1: state employee. Now he's pretty high end photographer. I mean
Speaker 1: his clients from Mark Zuckerberg, George W. Bush, Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: He's photographed all of them. Former photo journalist, war photographer
Speaker 1: went with Newsom to China last year as a freelancer.
Speaker 1: He has now been hired by the state to follow
Speaker 1: Newsom around and cover him. We photos for you. Now. Politically,
Speaker 1: of course, this has to do with Newsom's run for
Speaker 1: the presidency. I mean, there's no question about that. For example,
Speaker 1: the State of the State wasn't really a state of
Speaker 1: the State this year. What it was was a video
Speaker 1: state of the State that was interspersed and there was
Speaker 1: a lot of editing with pictures that Omeny took of
Speaker 1: new some doing things. There's a great picture of great
Speaker 1: shots of Newsom at one of the encampments and he's
Speaker 1: putting on he's in a hard hat and he's with
Speaker 1: a vest and he's cleaning up garbage after an encampment
Speaker 1: has been cleared, and you can see him. He's a
Speaker 1: regular guy, Newsome And strangely enough, there was a photo
Speaker 1: there photo op City, and Charles Omani is the guy
Speaker 1: who does it. Now. Is it fair to have a
Speaker 1: photographer follow the governor? That's a big yes and no.
Speaker 1: I think both. The argument goes on both sides. One
Speaker 1: obviously a cheap political attempt to get his best and
Speaker 1: as many shots as you can, knowing that you're going
Speaker 1: to run for president, and here you go. Here I
Speaker 1: am being a wonderful guy. Here I am serving up
Speaker 1: food at Thanksgiving to the homeless. Here I am cleaning
Speaker 1: up garbage, and I'm wearing my top, my hard hat,
Speaker 1: and so those are the pictures I'm going to come
Speaker 1: out straight for political purposes. On the other hand, you
Speaker 1: know this is history too, you know, to memorialize a
Speaker 1: governor and what a governor does in California, and we
Speaker 1: look at photos of presidents and past governors and they
Speaker 1: are historical pieces of information. Photos are a big part
Speaker 1: of it. I guess where is the line. You know,
Speaker 1: the governor having lunch during the pandemic and going through
Speaker 1: a drive through with a mask on is one thing.
Speaker 1: Going up to the French laundry, three star Michelin restaurant
Speaker 1: with a group of people and having a lunch that
Speaker 1: costs three hundred and fifty dollars ahead is another thing.
Speaker 1: Both are legitimate. It's just I mean, look at the optics,
Speaker 1: and Newsom is making sure we get plenty of optics.
Speaker 1: If he wasn't running for president, if he wasn't such
Speaker 1: a slick politician, I would feel much better. I would
Speaker 1: I'd also feel much better if he's dancing at a
Speaker 1: queencin Eira and was photographed doing that too. Go figure,
Speaker 1: which way do you go on that one? I don't know,
Speaker 1: it works both ways for me. Kfiam six forty Live
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