WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.320 You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KF I 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:05.719 am six forty. 3 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.640 And this is KFI bill Handle here. It is a 4 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:13.759 Monday Morning, August twelfth. Neil, By the way, that was 5 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:15.880 very good commercial. But I have a question to ask you. 6 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:21.079 Since most people don't and can't spell diarrhea, why would 7 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:25.039 you send them to Lemon Law Lawyers dot com diarrhea? 8 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:30.000 Don't quite understand that, okay, just a reference to a 9 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:35.679 very effective commercial that Neil occasionally disgusting, but effective. All right, 10 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:40.000 Good morning everybody, Monday morning, August twelfth, as we start 11 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.439 the week, And actually the week was just the Olympics 12 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.640 for the most part, which is kind of neat. There 13 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:51.640 wasn't any huge massive numbers of people killed. One there 14 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:54.600 was an attack in Gaza, but that's sort of a given. 15 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.759 So last night, if you watched the closing ceremonies, which 16 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:02.439 I did, and I think most of us did, it 17 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.359 was my opinion, okay, and we're going to go around 18 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:08.120 and ask this morning to a little survey. I thought 19 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.719 the closing ceremonies were kind of lame. I didn't think 20 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.079 it was any big deal. I mean, the circus lay 21 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.519 people bouncing around the stage, for way too long the 22 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.079 Olympic rings. Putting those up and raising them was half 23 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:28.040 an hour too long. The singers, Yeah. 24 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:29.719 You know, I wasn't overly thrilled. 25 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:31.079 It was just one neat part of it, and that 26 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.280 was the piano. If you know what I'm talking about. 27 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:36.200 That's worth seeing. The piano being raised up on just 28 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:40.599 literally going straight up on these cables, and the piano player, 29 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:44.920 that French guy, really good piano player, obviously, is playing 30 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.519 the piano as it's going straight up, and he's sitting 31 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:52.280 like an astronaut, sits in a capsule on his back 32 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:54.840 and still playing the piano going up. I thought that 33 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:58.640 was kind of neat. Now the story now is immediately 34 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:02.560 switches over to Angeles and what normally happens at the 35 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:06.439 end of the closing ceremonies Usually the new city gets 36 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:09.919 ten or fifteen minutes to promote itself, which it did 37 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.599 last night. Being Los Angeles, that I thought was the 38 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:16.240 lamest part of all. The flag being turned over to 39 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:20.520 Karen Bass kind of neat. And then it started because 40 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.080 it has to be some kind of a Hollywood twist, 41 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.360 because Paris, I mean, I don't know how they're going 42 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:29.680 to come anywhere near Paris, because you talk about a draft, 43 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.960 a backdrop, you talk about a stage. It was all 44 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:39.879 of Paris for the Olympics, of phenomenal opening ceremonies all 45 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:42.599 through it. What do we do now, what does Los 46 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:45.199 Angeles do? We have the Hollywood Sign, we have freeways 47 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.719 that are always jammed, so we knew there was going 48 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.000 to be a Hollywood spin. And there it starts, Tom 49 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:58.759 Cruise repelling down and going on to the stage, coming off, 50 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:00.639 and then he takes the Olympic flag and it was 51 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.360 all of course pre videoed, and he gets on his 52 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.680 motorcycle and takes the Olympic flag and goes through southern California. 53 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.879 And then you had various bands, performers playing Red Hot 54 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:14.520 Chili Peppers. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Boy, there's a band 55 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:18.560 for you. That's a massive, internationally known band. I mean, 56 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:24.039 come on, guys, yeah, it's just I mean, what do 57 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:26.800 you do with that? And then I mean the whole 58 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:29.479 thing was kind of I thought, pretty lame. I did, 59 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:32.120 because there's not much you can do and whatever the 60 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.639 Hollywood spin is going to be. I don't know how 61 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:38.319 you compare it with Paris. I don't I mean as 62 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.719 far as a city is concerned, I mean, the only 63 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:42.960 thing that's kind of neat. We're going to have I 64 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.919 think the Ocean Swim, which is going to be here. 65 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:52.520 It is our pan to Paris, right, our our respond 66 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.680 to Paris, and how lovely it is is we're going 67 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.120 to have the ocean swim right in front of the 68 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:01.319 Hyperion wastewater plant in Marina del Rey, and that way 69 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:06.080 we'll connect the two Olympics. But that's basically it for me, 70 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:10.000 not a big one. All right, Amy, Uh what grade 71 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.319 do you give closing ceremonies? Oh? I give him a 72 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:17.600 good B. All right? What do you think of opening ceremonies? 73 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:20.759 Parts of it? I really enjoyed. I think it went 74 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:23.399 way too long overall. I gave him an A. And 75 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:26.560 by the way, I gave B minus maybe C plus. 76 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:32.639 And would you give open a closing ceremonies? I give them, 77 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.360 uh C plus B minus. Okay, we're in the same 78 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:41.959 place opening. Uh d oh see I loved opening. Ah. 79 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.800 I don't know where Neil went. He's out someplace. Kno, 80 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:48.600 let's start with you have a television set. I have 81 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.920 a television set yet? Okay, did you and you didn't 82 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:55.439 watch I watched the Olympics. Uh yeah, all right, but 83 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.040 not the no, not the closing ceremonies. I'm not into 84 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.560 the whole. Then the big stars. Oh you know what 85 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.040 I was saying yesterday is how we look at the 86 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:09.040 athletes who amateur versus professionals. You know, you got the 87 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:11.800 NBA players that come and represent whatever country, and these 88 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.759 guys make tens of millions of dollars a year. Okay, great, 89 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.240 it's almost a throwaway. They're going to the Olympics. In 90 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.560 the meantime, you've got people that have spent a lifetime 91 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:26.160 as real amateurs, I mean a lifetime preparing for these games, 92 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.480 and they're never going to make any money and it's 93 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.040 strictly a love of that sport since they've been six 94 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:36.519 years old. For me, that's what the Olympics stand for. 95 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:39.639 I mean, when you have these big international stars, you know, 96 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.959 you know Simon Biles for example, you know who you 97 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:48.439 know is going to make a fortune. It's come on, 98 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.399 you know, you know already she's gonna make more money 99 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.759 than you can imagine. And oh here's me. Well yeah, 100 00:05:56.319 --> 00:06:02.839 Simon Biles. Yeah, anyway, you know she is going to 101 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:07.079 make a fortune. And the NBA player. I mean, okay, 102 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.439 you got Lebron James. Oh boy, he really needs sponsorships, 103 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:14.279 doesn't he. In the meantime, you've got the shot putters. 104 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:16.639 What do you do? What do you do with your 105 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:21.759 life when you've spent your whole life at shot put? Well, 106 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:23.759 you go out and get a job like everybody else does. 107 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:25.759 You're a real human being. So I think there's a big, 108 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:26.439 big difference. 109 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:30.680 I really do. Okay, we're done. 110 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.639 Oh by the way, Neil, what grade do you give 111 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:36.800 you or gone for a moment? What grade do you 112 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.839 give The opening closing ceremonies. 113 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:43.600 They were French, they were okay. 114 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.480 Okay, by the way. The Olympics themselves I thought were great. 115 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.600 I really they were very interesting, very very well. A 116 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:56.560 lot to talk about, looking at you, Australia. But with 117 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:59.279 the whole pop and luck and break dancing. 118 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.639 Yes, go yeah, no, I that's going to be interesting. 119 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:05.319 I can't wait to see what new events are going 120 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:09.680 to be at the Olympics coming up in twenty twenty eight. 121 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.720 Breaking will not be part of it. Really, they took 122 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:16.040 away breaking. Huh they said nope, oh interesting And baseball 123 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:19.959 was there once and you know again, ballplayers professional ballplayers. Yeah, 124 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.720 that doesn't do much. That really doesn't to me. We're 125 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:28.040 going to do LA panhandling, Yes, yeah, we're gonna do that. Yeah, 126 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:32.439 you know, gridlock sports. Okay, And now the story is 127 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:36.399 going to be Los Angeles LA the twenty twenty eight games, 128 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:42.279 and who was the It was Marshawn who was the 129 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:51.120 French hair won four goals, that great French swimmer Katie 130 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:56.319 lu Duquet, who did a very good job. All Right, 131 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:57.920 you'll always make fun of me with the names. 132 00:07:57.959 --> 00:07:59.279 I know that I know. 133 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.519 And what were we talking about? New Orleans? How I 134 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.000 pronounced it nolins New I always mispronounced New Orleans for 135 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.040 some reason. It's, uh, that's the way I pronounced it. 136 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:15.040 Go figure, what was the other one? Uh that I am? Well, 137 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:20.399 Simon Biles, Yeah, and I always say gym nasts I do, 138 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.639 I do what there was one other one? Uh? And 139 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:28.120 that you pointed out how I completely mispronoun pronounce don't 140 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:32.240 don't know anyway, So much for that I digress. What 141 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:35.720 a shocker. So LA is now going to be in 142 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.080 the news because that's where the new uh, where the 143 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.279 next summer games are going to be held. The point 144 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:46.360 is that we call it the Summer Games. Do you 145 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:51.960 know They're really not going to be the Summer Games anymore. 146 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.960 The Winter Games are going to be the Winter Games. 147 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.159 But the Summer Games, well, it's going to be tough, 148 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:06.200 and I'll tell you why. Because there is something that 149 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:11.440 causes people to die and is called the heat, right, 150 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:18.120 extreme heat, and the summer is hot. Now, I know 151 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.840 that sounds fairly stupid, but let me tell you what 152 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:28.240 heat stress is. Heat stress is measured in something called 153 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:31.399 the wet globe temperature. You ever heard of that wet 154 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.639 globe temperature, Well, that is a big thing when it 155 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:39.399 comes to sports events, particularly the Olympics. It's a combination 156 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.919 of heat, humidity, wind speed, sun angled cloud cover. And 157 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.519 by twenty fifty, the experts are telling us that heat 158 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:49.759 street stress in almost all the cities in the eastern 159 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.320 part of the US are going to shoot past the 160 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.960 eighty two point one degree limit of the wet bulb 161 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.840 globe temperature, which means it's going to too dangerous. 162 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:02.799 It's going to be too hot. 163 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:06.320 To hold the Olympics in those cities. There are a 164 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:09.480 huge number of cities that will no longer be able 165 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.919 to host the Olympics. Simply because of the wet globe 166 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:19.480 temperature states around the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, eastern half 167 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:23.320 of Texas. That's off the table. The Atlanta Games that 168 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:25.519 were held in nineteen ninety six could never be held 169 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:33.240 again because of the temperature climate change. Eastern China, Beijing 170 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:41.519 and Shanghai, which would be in the running gone. So 171 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:46.919 do we change the timing of the summer Olympics so 172 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:52.519 it doesn't coincide with these peak heat periods. Well, guess what, 173 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:58.279 Sydney Olympics. The two thousand Games were held in September, 174 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:05.039 after the summer. It was September and October. End of 175 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.440 September October. The Rio de Janeiro Games in twenty sixteen 176 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:13.120 was held in August, which is the middle of winter 177 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:18.960 in Brazil. That's how they will will pull that off 178 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:21.159 because if they held it actually in the summer. And 179 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:24.960 it's interesting, it's summer to the western world, right, it's 180 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.039 our summer that the Games are held, not their summer. 181 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.399 You've got cities like London, Oslo, Stockholm. 182 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.679 They're actually going to be more attractive. 183 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.600 Because they will be able to stomach this because you 184 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:43.399 got as climate change in the world gets warmer. You know, 185 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:45.440 you've got cities way up north that are going to 186 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:49.159 do pretty well. Noma, Alaska will be very nice to 187 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:55.679 hold the Summer Games. Barrow, Alaska, which is the northernmost 188 00:11:56.039 --> 00:12:02.480 town two hundred eskimos there. That's Barrel, Alaska. That's gonna 189 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.879 be great for the Summer Games. Brisbane is where the 190 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:10.600 Games of twenty thirty two are set. And that's northern 191 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:14.279 Australian state of Queensland. And it gets so hot in 192 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:17.879 the summer that it's going to hold the Summer Games 193 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:22.120 in the middle of its winter because it can just. 194 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.399 Get insanely, insanely hot. 195 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.240 More than ten countries have expressed interest in hosting the 196 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.639 twenty thirty six Summer Olympics. 197 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:32.759 You imagine that's what they do. 198 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:37.279 They go out about ten years, ten twelve years is 199 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:39.480 when they select. And it used to be that cities 200 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.720 would just say no. After the Montreal Olympics, after Beijing, 201 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.399 I mean, everybody's just losing their shirts. 202 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:48.360 And as I've said over and over. 203 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.919 Again, one of the most fascinating aspects of the modern Olympics. 204 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:54.840 Is there exactly two twice. 205 00:12:55.440 --> 00:13:00.519 The Olympics have made money twice in nineteen thirty two, 206 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.639 both in Los Angeles and then the other cities have 207 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:09.039 lost their shirts up to including astronomical amounts of money 208 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:12.720 that are almost impossible to figure out. It's said that 209 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:16.799 Beijing spent sixty billion dollars. But it was their coming 210 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:19.799 out party two. They wanted to establish themselves as a 211 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:25.879 world power. So pardon me. Six cities have made their 212 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:33.320 bids public official. In India, I've met the bad No 213 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:38.799 one's ever heard of that. In Indonesia, Neu Santrara or 214 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.240 Nusantra by the way, no one's heard of that because 215 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:46.000 it's a new capital that's under construction. Qatar is pitching Doha. 216 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.720 Turkey is bidding Istanbul. I would go to that because 217 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.440 Istanbul is one of the great great great cities to 218 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:58.080 visit in the world. Poland Chile are putting forward their capitals, 219 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.480 and all of them have to look at the heat 220 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:08.000 stress limit. According to this organization called a Carbon Plan, 221 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:14.919 it's a nonprofit think tank. Only Santiago is below the threshold, 222 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:19.679 by the way, year round for the summer Olympics. So 223 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:23.440 how hot you think it's going to be, Well, it's 224 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:27.320 going to be hot Beijing if it comes back because 225 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:28.799 a lot of cities want to come back for the 226 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:34.960 third time. Paris was the first game's Modern Olympics considered 227 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.240 where the Olympic the traditions were established. I mean the 228 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:40.799 game's eighteen ninety six when the modern Olympics were started, 229 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.720 But it was really Paris nineteen hundred where it all 230 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:52.000 came to fruition. Beijing couldn't do it at all, Okay, Athens, Rome, Atlanta, Tokyo, 231 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:59.039 Soul wouldn't work, Barcelona wouldn't work. The twenty twenty Games 232 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:01.840 in Tokyo and they were held in twenty twenty one 233 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:06.639 because of the pandemic, the hottest on record, way above 234 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:10.240 the safety threshold, and in Tokyo about one or one 235 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.559 hundred athletes actually suffered heat related illnesses. Did you know that? 236 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.960 So we're gonna get the games, it's gonna be hotter 237 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.399 than hell. Streets are going to Oh that's the other thing. 238 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.679 Karen Bass called for no cars on the streets, No 239 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:32.039 cars for you. She wants public transportation. Neil, if you 240 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.159 want to go to the Games, any of the events, 241 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:38.039 you're going to be taking the metro new you're going 242 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.320 to be taking here it is, here's the event your 243 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:44.879 life in your hands event, And yeah, it's going to 244 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:48.720 be very very interesting, to say the least. All Right, now, 245 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.840 a bill has just been introduced in the Senate California 246 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:55.399 Senate Senate Bill six ' ten wants to repeal current 247 00:15:55.559 --> 00:16:01.200 rules that classify state and local lands into moderate high, 248 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:06.480 very high hazard severity zones. Wants to get rid of 249 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:13.679 the classifications. Right now, we have classifications that that tell 250 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.039 us our property is either in a moderate, high or 251 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:22.919 very high hazard area. Well, this is a legislative proposal 252 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:27.960 to overhaul that completely and re shape the fire the 253 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:32.600 housing policies deal with development and fire prone areas. The 254 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.440 problem is that they're all fire prone area now. And 255 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:40.360 what this does is empowers the state Fire Marshal to 256 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:44.840 designate lands, not the local authorities to designate lands as 257 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:50.279 quote wildfire mitigation areas. There would be no more tiered system. 258 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:54.879 It's not moderate or high or low risk. It's now 259 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:59.519 wildfire mitigation areas which the state Fire Marshal will designate 260 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:05.759 and the rules will now attached to that. Now, in reality, 261 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:09.759 is a lot going to change. Well, this is why 262 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:12.240 there's such a debate. First of all, I always look 263 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.559 at people, I always look at who backs up these bills, 264 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:22.079 and this one is the developers, California Building Industry Association, 265 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:26.599 the Housing Action Coalition, the MB Action folks. Yes, in 266 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:28.079 my backyard folks. 267 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.519 The other folks that are against. 268 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:35.960 This bill are the firefighters themselves that like it the 269 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.839 way it is. And I think that this one makes 270 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:41.480 sense to me, and I'll tell you why. One of 271 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:46.400 the fears is it's going to take away from local powers, 272 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:48.960 policing powers, and the state is going to take it over, 273 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:53.680 and we want to keep local control. Well, let me 274 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.000 tell you about local control in terms of building and 275 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:02.200 policy and getting zoning. You talk about how much more 276 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:06.359 influence you think a big builder has in local politics 277 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.799 than in the state. And the state Fire Marshal is 278 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:14.759 going to designate where these areas are and what the 279 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:17.079 mitigation has to be. By the way, that's not going 280 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:19.000 to change. We're still going to see the same thing. 281 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.960 We can't have wood roofs, and you have to have 282 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:26.720 two hundred feet of space before vegetation kicks in, and 283 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:28.599 you have to do all the stuff you have to do. 284 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:30.359 I mean, that's not going to change. 285 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.640 What it is going to do is simply give the 286 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:36.640 state Fire marshal the power to make the decisions, because 287 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.400 right now it's the state fire marshal for state lands. 288 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:45.640 Local county LA has its own designation in terms of 289 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:50.440 the severity of the where the possibility of fire areas 290 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:53.720 where the damage is most going to occur. And then 291 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.200 the other situation is and I've heard this all the 292 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.759 time from people. Dean Sharp talks about this, and it 293 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.039 makes a lot of sense when you talk about fire mitigation. 294 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:08.200 The two hundred feet area, the roofs, the fence that 295 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:12.279 the embers don't come in, that's all for embers. If 296 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:15.480 there is a fire coming in the kind that we 297 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.599 see and it's sweeping. 298 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:21.079 Through, there isn't anything anybody can. 299 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.319 Do about that except get the hell out of there. 300 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.200 All the fire mitigation on the planet is not going 301 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:31.519 to help, and so there's only so much we can do. 302 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:35.720 And frankly, how many of us do what we should 303 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:40.559 do well? And what do the city's enforce or not enforce. 304 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:44.680 I mean, when's the last time you saw the fire 305 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.960 marshal come out and check out your yard to see 306 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:52.799 if you have a two hundred feet of clearance. And 307 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.799 I'm in the hills, there are trees all over the 308 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:57.759 hills where I'm at in Big Bear. 309 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:01.759 They do do they Yeah, Big Bear A couple times 310 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:05.400 a year they come out and they contact us if 311 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:10.400 it's not what they want to see, and then we 312 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.039 need to trim them back or do whatever. 313 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:13.359 Yeah. 314 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:16.000 The only time I can remember doing that is when 315 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:19.519 I first moved in and there was sort of grass 316 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:23.720 before I built the house, there was grass and vegetation, 317 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:26.440 and I do remember at that point the fire marshals 318 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:28.440 coming out saying, got to take care of it. And 319 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:30.119 I gave the guy a couple hundred dollars and he 320 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.160 mowed the lawn for me, and it all worked out. 321 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:35.480 And ever since then, I've never mowed a law in 322 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:39.920 my life, Neil, I wasn't going to start then. Okay, 323 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:44.519 never have I mowed a lawn, and I'm very proud 324 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:48.680 of that. So when I was a kid, no, let 325 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:50.119 me put it this way. When I was a kid. 326 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:54.440 You know how you have chores to do as a kid, Well, 327 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:57.599 one of my chores was watching the gardener mow the lawn. 328 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:03.079 All right, I'm want to tell you a story about 329 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:05.480 a woman by the name of Leona Helmsley. 330 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:09.359 You probably don't know her name, but she is a billionaire. 331 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:13.640 Her husband created the Helmsley hotel chain. He dies and 332 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:17.319 leaves it to her, and she ran it. And she 333 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:22.880 was a psycho bitch of the first water. For example, 334 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:27.160 she had a habit. And this is not shtick. I'm 335 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:29.839 not making this up. What she liked to do is 336 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:34.880 fire employees on Christmas Eve. She did that on a 337 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:42.680 regular basis. Merry Christmas. She outscrewed Scrooge. The other thing 338 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:46.039 she did is in her will, she set aside twelve 339 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:51.279 million dollars for her Maltese trouble a little dog, twelve 340 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:52.519 million dollars for the dog. 341 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:57.119 Okay, now can a dog inherit? 342 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:05.200 No? A dog is property. It's not a person. Dogs 343 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:11.599 are property, not food, except in certain Asian countries. Dogs 344 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:17.519 are friends, but they are property, which means that the 345 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:23.000 all you can do is actually set up effectively a 346 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:27.319 trust for your dog's care after you die. And this 347 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:32.400 has to do people dying and literally directing someone to 348 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:34.599 take care of your dog and here or your pet. 349 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:37.960 Here is some money to do that. Now, the wealthy 350 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:39.960 can do it in a trust. I mean you can 351 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:41.799 do it too, but that's kind of crazy setting up 352 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:43.960 a trust for the benefit. What you do is you 353 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:45.920 at least aside some money, leave it to a friend 354 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.440 and say this is to take care of the pet, 355 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:51.920 and how much money you put aside. If you put 356 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:55.240 too much away for that, what ends up happening is 357 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:58.240 the heirs are going to attack it and go, that's 358 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:00.799 too much money to the dog. That's what happens in 359 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.279 helm That's what happened in Helmsley's case. You put twelve 360 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:06.960 million dollars aside, and her errors came back and said 361 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:09.599 twelve million dollars are you crazy? This is a dog 362 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:13.039 and it's gonna die in three years, and so the 363 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:15.200 judge reduced it to two million dollars. 364 00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:18.039 Ten million dollars went back to the estate. 365 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:23.359 And the number of people who are doing this, I 366 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:28.079 mean is crazy making. There is a company called Trust 367 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:32.680 and Will. It's estate planning service internet based. Nine out 368 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:36.240 of ten customers who owned pets named pet guardians. 369 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:37.279 In twenty twenty three, Nine out. 370 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:40.480 Of ten made provisions for their pet to be taken 371 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:44.559 care of. And that's especially important if you have a 372 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:47.680 pet that lasts a good long time. I mean, if 373 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:49.839 you've got an older dog. Yeah, okay, fine, it's gonna 374 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:50.480 be dead in a year. 375 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:54.279 But let's say a tarantula. You know those can live 376 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:54.920 for decades. 377 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:59.400 Did you know that if you happen to have a parrot, 378 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:04.680 those are around for sixty years. If you happen to 379 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:10.519 have a galopicos tortoise, for example, as a pet, it's 380 00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:14.480 gonna be around two hundred years after you die, and 381 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:17.759 someone's got to take care of them. And so what 382 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:19.720 do you do? Just let the galopicos tortoise out in 383 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:21.640 the street, You just dump it and let it roam around. 384 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:24.400 No, no, you got to take care of it. 385 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:28.640 And there are shelters actually now that encourage pet owners 386 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:32.640 to include pets in their wills. Now again, you can't 387 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:38.319 leave a pet money. Think of it this way. A 388 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:42.640 pet legally is like a garden nome. It is simply 389 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:45.640 a piece of property that is owned by someone. Now, 390 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:50.279 there are the equivalent of custody battles out there, and those, 391 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:52.559 by the way, those are the most vicious ones of all. 392 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:55.880 I talked to divorce lawyers, and they give you stories 393 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:00.759 of how horrible people are. Forget child custody that doesn't 394 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:07.240 come close to pet custody. And so someone dies, You die, 395 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:10.720 and you say, I want out of my will X 396 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:13.440 number of dollars to take care of my pet, and 397 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:18.359 please give it to Frederica over there. And by the way, 398 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:22.039 so Fredrika gets the money, nothing stops her from grabbing 399 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:24.519 the money and just going to Las Vegas with it 400 00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:26.799 and letting the you know, taking the pet over to 401 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:29.680