WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:04.879 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:09.439 six forty. It's the Bill Handles Show. He's back on Monday, 3 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:12.919 Wayne Resnik. Here some of the stories we're watching for you. 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.679 The Canyon Crest fire which started in Fontana and grew 5 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:20.359 very quickly. Oh, we have currently by the way, it's 6 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:22.399 it's two hundred and fifty acres. 7 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:23.000 Thank you. 8 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:27.079 I was going to tell you that. Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet, 9 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:30.480 Michelle Cube, you forgot for a moment which host you 10 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:34.479 were working with. I did. I'll leave you of course 11 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.320 I have the latest from this. By the way, I'm 12 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.159 going to give a website here because people in that area. 13 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:43.600 This is where you can also find out the evacuation 14 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:49.640 warning parameters, the borders of the evacuation order areas. Let 15 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:54.679 me say it a different complicated way, the different locations 16 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:58.119 that together form the boundaries of the area, which if 17 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.439 you are in them, you are under an event sacuation 18 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:06.879 warning Fire dot c A dot gov is where if 19 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.159 you're in Riverside County, you're anywhere near this Canyon Crest 20 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.079 fire that started in Fontana, you can find out if 21 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:14.959 you need to start thinking about or at least be 22 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.239 ready for possible evacuation. We'll keep an eye on that 23 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:23.640 fire for everybody, all right, ladies and gentlemen. It's never 24 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:33.920 really a normal home buying market. It's never just normal. 25 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:39.400 It cycles through being a buyer's market, a seller's market, 26 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:45.680 a nobody's market. And we are entering another weird time 27 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:50.280 for people looking to buy or sell a home. But 28 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.439 now there's a complication that I don't think anybody alive 29 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:58.719 has had to deal with before. So the things that 30 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:04.400 are cyclical. Housing prices peaked over the summer. Many many 31 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:10.120 areas had record home prices over the summer. The increase 32 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:15.639 in the cost of houses is slowing down somewhat right now. 33 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:18.759 Prices are still going up, just not as much. It's 34 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:23.479 like the inflation thing. Also, mortgage rates were very low 35 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:28.360 in the summer, or at least relatively low. They're starting 36 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:32.080 to go up again. But people who've been been looking 37 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:33.400 for a home for a while, they're kind of used 38 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:39.840 to that. But now there's another thing going on. And 39 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:42.840 I Len Gonzales, now, do you know why I invited 40 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:45.639 you to be here for this segment? 41 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.240 If you want, I'm still trying to figure that out. 42 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.319 Oh, I'm sorry, are you not? Do you not, or 43 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:54.840 are you being sarcastic right now? No? 44 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.039 No, I was actually I was trying to work on 45 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:58.199 some other stuff and I. 46 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:01.759 Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, that's fine. Well it's because can 47 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.960 I say, can I say what you do when you're 48 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.319 not here? A kfi? Oh sure, why not? I'm an 49 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.639 open bu you're a realtor. I am, yeah, So that's 50 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.960 why I said you could jump in if you wanted to. Anyway, 51 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:15.919 I'm going to pay a tition. 52 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:17.039 Okay. 53 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.560 Well, so here's the thing that's going on that nobody 54 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.919 alive has dealt with before, and it's this. It used 55 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:25.800 to be you had a house, you sold a house, 56 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.240 you paid a six percent commission, and half of that 57 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:33.000 went to whoever the agent that represented the buyer. Basically, 58 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:37.520 the seller of the house paid for the buyer's agents commission. 59 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.759 And then a bunch of homeowners got together and sued 60 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:45.560 the National Association of Realtors and said, this is a 61 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.479 violation of antitrust laws to do it this way, and 62 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.719 we're paying too much to sell a home because we're 63 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:57.159 actually subsidizing the buyer. And there was a settlement and 64 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.919 NAR was ordered to pay over four hundred million dollars 65 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.960 out and to change the way that business is done. 66 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:09.080 So what's confusing now is nobody knows how to write 67 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.960 the agreements about how much is the seller's agent going 68 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:16.720 to get? And then the buyer now has to deal 69 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.959 with the question of how much commission do I want 70 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:25.399 to pay whatever real estate agent or realtor I use 71 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:29.759 to help me buy a home. Because usually the buyer 72 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:34.639 doesn't have to think about that, and now they do. 73 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.720 So that's not everybody confused because nobody's one hundred percent 74 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:43.920 sure what's required what's not required. Can you still have 75 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:49.879 the seller pay the buyer's realtors commission if everybody agrees 76 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:54.839 to it? Yes, Apparently the answer is yes, but not 77 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:57.000 everybody wants not every seller is going to want to 78 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:59.560 agree to that. And now apparently, and I don't know 79 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.920 if this is happened to you yet, you got a 80 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:07.120 buyer and they go, hey, uh, you know, I got 81 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:08.959 a buyer and they'd like to come see this house. 82 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:14.680 And then the seller's agent says, do you have in 83 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:18.839 writing an agreement with this buyer about how much commission 84 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:20.839 you are going to get if they buy this house. No, 85 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.839 we don't have anything in writing you're not allowed to 86 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.560 look at the house exactly that. So you, when you 87 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.879 say exactly that, means you are well aware of this 88 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:31.759 new phenomenon. 89 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.199 I am one hundred percent aware. There's been a quite 90 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:37.639 a learning curve with it, and I have several clients 91 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.800 that they actually don't like it. I have a seller. 92 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:46.199 I have a seller. He's paying commission to the buyer's agent. 93 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.959 So he's paying the six percent we'll say, to the 94 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.639 person selling the house and the person that comes in 95 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.000 with the buyer. And now when he goes to buy 96 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.480 a house, he says, well, I want it fairs fair. 97 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.439 Now when I go, I don't want to have to 98 00:05:59.439 --> 00:05:59.879 pay again. 99 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:05.279 Right that the tradition is making it hard to get 100 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:09.439 the new normal in place. Yes, that's exactly right, because nobody, 101 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.920 nobody who bought a house recently, is used to the 102 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:14.879 idea that they, out of their pocket, would have to 103 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:17.720 pay their realtors. So people are trying to figure out 104 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.319 the rules, and it's this. It's one thing when people 105 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:21.839 who want to buy a house or sell a house 106 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:26.279 are confused and don't quite know what to do, and 107 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:31.600 now the real estate agents themselves also are confused. So 108 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.600 hopefully this gets worked out because a lot of people 109 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:38.920 want to buy houses. Yes, and I understand supply is 110 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:39.839 up a bit. 111 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:42.199 It started there. 112 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.920 Yes, yeah, so that's one good thing for buyers. Anyway, 113 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:49.360 that's what happened with your real estate commissions. All right, 114 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:52.160 Michelle Cuba is here in for an this morning, and 115 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:55.879 we just heard a nice promotion for the fourteenth annual 116 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:00.360 Pastathon that is going on, and that guy should make 117 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:05.959 a face like that. I clapped, Oh, I can't see 118 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.079 your hands. I can't see your hands. I only saw 119 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.199 your your head and your face do a thing that 120 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.639 made it sound like either I was wrong that it's 121 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:18.319 the fourteenth annual or that you yourself were shocked to 122 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:23.040 finally realize that it's the fourteenth annual Postathon. So they 123 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:25.160 told you about how you can donate, and we'll tell 124 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.639 you again a little bit later in the show, but 125 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:32.279 we should talk for a moment about the auction experience 126 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:40.040 items that are available during Postathon, which benefits Caterina's Club 127 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:44.319 Chef Bruno's charity that feeds all those hungry kids every 128 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:50.800 week all over southern California. If you go to KFIAM 129 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:56.839 six forty dot com slash Pastathon, you will be able 130 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:01.439 to bid on many items, including co host an Hour 131 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:06.120 with John Coe Belts. That's my favorite one. The only 132 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:14.399 auction item where the item hates it. John does not. 133 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:20.720 He doesn't like it, but we love it so much. 134 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:23.680 You would co host an Hour with John Coe belt 135 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.680 one to four pm Monday through Friday. I mean only 136 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:31.040 one of those hours. We pick the topics. You get 137 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.000 to rant with John about the issues of the day, 138 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.039 and oh, it says something else here that is a 139 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:40.840 little foreshadowing. It says make sure you drink enough caffeine 140 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:43.279 to keep up with him. You could also bid on 141 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:45.960 going to a Dodgers game with Gary and Shannon, or 142 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:51.200 a Kings game with Uncle t Bones himself Tim Conway Junior. 143 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.600 You could also co host later with Mo Kelly, our 144 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:02.320 evening show here on KFI, which will be for sure 145 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:09.039 a more cordial experience, definitely. Or if you don't want 146 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.679 to be on the radio, you can have our own 147 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:16.480 House Whisperer Dean Sharp whisper Your House, a three hour 148 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.200 exclusive in home design console with Dean and his lovely 149 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.279 wife Tina. Must be in LA and Orange County for 150 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:30.279 that one. Or now everybody has feet pretty I mean 151 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.039 pretty much. I apologize if somebody is listening and you 152 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:36.000 don't have feet. I know not every single human being 153 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.440 currently now has feet, I am aware of that, but 154 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:45.600 most people have at least a foot. Most people, I 155 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:50.559 bet ninety nine zero point four percent of all people 156 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:56.919 listening now have at least one foot. So you could 157 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.840 bid on a pair of handcrafted sandals from our own 158 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:01.240 Angel Martinez. 159 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:03.639 And can I tell you something because I have five 160 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:08.440 pairs of these. These are the most comfortable flip flops 161 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:11.559 I have ever had in my entire life. 162 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.600 They're amazing. Even bought them for my husband. They're very, 163 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.120 very nice. And you will get a pair of these 164 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.519 sandals plus a custom sandal kit, each of them designed 165 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.559 and handcrafted by Angel Martinez. Hey, you know they have 166 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:29.159 a heel cup and an art support built in. That's 167 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:32.080 why they're so comfort So they're super super comfortable when 168 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.279 you walk around on them. Anyway, you can check them 169 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.960 out at now. Is this pronounced naughty? Is that what's 170 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:41.919 going on here? But it's Nauti USA dot com na 171 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:46.559 u t I USA dot com as a nautical for 172 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:49.559 the beach where you would wear these sandals, although you 173 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:53.240 don't have to wear them at the beach. Please tell me, Michelle, 174 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:58.320 there's not a surprise twilight zonesque clause in this auction 175 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:00.960 where if you bid on these and you win them, 176 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.159 that you're only allowed to wear them at a beach. No, 177 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.120 you can wear them anyway, because that would be a 178 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:07.440 bunch of bs right there. You can wear them anyway, 179 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.159 all right. So those are some of the things that 180 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.039 you can bid on if you would like to have 181 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.720 a nice experience involving someone at KFI. Now we talked 182 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.000 about you got to drink your caffeine to be with John. 183 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.320 The most important thing at a radio station is coffee. 184 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:31.360 And I'm not wrong. F the microphones. We don't even 185 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:32.919 care if we came in one day and there were 186 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.960 no microphones. As long as there was still coffee, we'd 187 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.559 be happy. And we just go to the top of 188 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.440 the building and scream the show. I don't drink coffee. 189 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:49.440 I never have. I don't either. Well, what is happening earlier? Mutants? No, 190 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:54.000 you are like mutineers. This is a mutiny going on, 191 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.240 all right. Well, look, every place has an odd duck 192 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:01.639 or two, So just quickly let me tell you what 193 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.080 I wanted to talk about, because because this is one 194 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.080 of the most controversial things that I have ever heard about. 195 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.720 If you're a coffee person, there are a lot of 196 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:14.399 hotels now that are trying to put a little morge 197 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:18.480 into their coffee service in the room. Like right now, 198 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:20.320 you go to a hotel, maybe they have a currig 199 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.279 or they have that cheap I don't forgot who makes it, 200 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.039 but it's like a weird thing. We have to open 201 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.399 up to packet and pour it into a cone and 202 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:32.919 stick it in a flimsy plastic machine. Well, a lot 203 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.320 of them are starting to go top notch coffee snob 204 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:46.320 and put pour over coffee setups in the room. Now, 205 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.320 for those of you not familiar, if you're going to 206 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:52.279 do pour over coffee, you need a kettle of some 207 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.000 kind to heat your water, which must be one hundred 208 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:57.320 and ninety five degrees or else what are you doing? Man? 209 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:03.080 And you need coffee freshly ground, so you need a 210 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.879 grinder and some whole beans. Then you need a chemex 211 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:15.039 or some other pour over flask and a filter and 212 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:17.440 it's a whole ritual. Sounds like a lot of work. 213 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:19.519 It is a lot of work. Now, if you're a 214 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:23.320 super coffee snob, you may welcome this, and the hotels 215 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:25.799 that are doing this say, we think the making of 216 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.200 the coffee in the room should be a pleasant and 217 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:33.840 relaxing and mindful experience. But here's what's happening. You don't 218 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:37.080 know what kind of coffee person is renting your hotel room. 219 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.960 You have no idea. So for every person who walks 220 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:41.960 in and goes, oh man, this is kick ass, this 221 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:46.120 is unbelievably cool, there's somebody who walks in who goes, 222 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:48.440 I just want a curig or something. I don't want 223 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:51.000 to go through all of this Michigoths for a cup 224 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:55.360 of freaking coffee. So if this is important to you, 225 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:58.519 I guess my word of wisdom is, from now on, 226 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.399 you book a room at a hotel, and it's important 227 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.240 to you find out what they got going on coffee 228 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:06.639 wise in that room, so you don't get an unpleasant 229 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.440 surprise that they thought was going to be super pleasant 230 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:15.000 for you. So I don't think i'd want it. I 231 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:19.519 don't want that. If I want a nice, fancy coffee, 232 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:26.480 I'll go to the professionals. So that's what's going on. Plus, also, 233 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.960 the price of coffee is going to go way up. 234 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:33.600 There's been a drought in Brazil, reserves are low, and 235 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:38.159 Arabica beans the prices on the futures market are going up, 236 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:42.000 so expect your cup of fancy coffee to also cost more. 237 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.320 Now you can't. This is for the coffee people. You 238 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:50.679 could just drink some robusto, you filthy animal. You could 239 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.720 do that if you want, Except guess what price of 240 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:58.000 even filthy, disgusting robustos also going up, So you can't win. 241 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:03.919 Switch to tea or four loco if they still sell it. 242 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:10.000 They did capping out of four loco, so is it 243 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:10.639 three loco? 244 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:10.919 Now? 245 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:14.000 They took one of the locos out got too crazy 246 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:17.639 out there? That's loco. That's like saying we've removed harpo 247 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:23.080 from the Marx Brothers movies. What are you doing, ladies 248 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.000 and gentlemen, It's a documentary on the Beatles, except there 249 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:30.200 will be no mention of George. Who wants it at 250 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:36.840 that point? All right, let's talk about this facility in Colorado. 251 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:39.720 If you're inside of it, you'll notice a couple of things. 252 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:41.480 One thing is right out the window, you see the 253 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:45.159 rocky mountains, very beautiful. Another thing you'll notice is it 254 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.679 kind of looks like a college dorm. There's dudes walking 255 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.759 around with like hiking boots and rock band the T shirts. 256 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:56.519 But it is not fun in games inside of this 257 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:04.879 place because outside around owned it are armed guards. Why 258 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:07.840 what are they doing in there, Well, here's what they're doing. 259 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:18.440 They are building a system to detect geoengineering. Some people 260 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:26.080 call it solar radiation modification. This is when you put 261 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:28.559 the main way of doing it, as I understand it 262 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:33.120 is you blow a bunch of aerosols, mostly carbon dioxide. 263 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.919 You blow that up into the air so it reflects 264 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.279 back the Sun unto itself so that it would not 265 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.159 warm the Earth as much. And this is one of 266 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.720 the approaches that has been discussed what to do with 267 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:51.679 global warming. Well, what if we blocked out some of 268 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:55.240 the energy from the Sun. And everyone agrees that this 269 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.279 probably would work in the sense that it would cool 270 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.600 the planet, but we don't know what other catastrophes it 271 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:09.400 would cause. Catastrophes to weather patterns, catastrophes to agriculture, to 272 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:14.240 local economies, to all kinds of stuff. So while there 273 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.880 is an agreement that we should look into it, we 274 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.759 don't want anybody going rogue with it. We don't want 275 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:25.240 some other country deciding to do a little geoengineering on 276 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:28.880 their own. It wouldn't even have to be a country. 277 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:34.240 It could just be some super rich guy who decides 278 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.119 to do it, I don't know, like a guy who 279 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:39.759 bought a social media platform and changed the name from 280 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:41.960 two syllables to one syllable and ruined that. 281 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:49.960 So the United States, in cooperation with several other countries, 282 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:54.160 are developing and have already developed a lot of a 283 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:59.440 system to detect if some rogue entity were to blow 284 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:04.640 a bunch of aerosols into the atmosphere, because we want 285 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:08.200 to know if it's happening. And it's pretty sophisticated because 286 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:12.519 here's what they do. Every few weeks. They launch a balloon. 287 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:17.480 It's not a birthday balloon, it's not a milar balloon. 288 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.119 It's a very special balloon that goes up seventeen miles 289 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:27.720 into the sky. Sometimes they launch it from Boulder, Colorado, 290 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:33.359 sometimes from Alaska or Hawaii, but also New Zealand, an 291 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:40.920 island near the coast of Africa called Reunion Island, even Antarctica. 292 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:45.519 And up this balloon goes, and it's carrying this box 293 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:48.960 with the size of I think a lunch box maybe, 294 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.759 and it's got a little gizmo's in there, wires and tubes, 295 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.480 and what it does is it sucks in some air 296 00:18:57.319 --> 00:18:59.839 and it analyzes the air for the presence of an 297 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.720 unusual amount of these aerosols and relays the information in 298 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:08.599 real time back to Colorado. So you send the balloon 299 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:10.799 up and if it goes, hey, man, there's way way 300 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:14.440 more aerosols here than they're supposed to be. Boom, we 301 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:18.920 would know something is going on. And they even have 302 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.880 some testing equipment that would allow them to figure out 303 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.519 because you would know where the aerosols are right now 304 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:31.319 that whoever the evil genius Madman put in the air, 305 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:37.519 they have equipment that can tell them when and where 306 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:42.880 they were released. It's like a shot collar system, but 307 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:48.920 for aerosols. So that is what they're working on. It 308 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:54.240 involves the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who are working 309 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:58.559 with NASA, who are working with these other countries that 310 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:04.119 I mentioned, all in the spirit of cooperation because while 311 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.640 we pursue this as a possible intervention for global warming, 312 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.039 we don't want someone to get carried away and cause 313 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:15.200 a lot of trouble. So that's what's going on there. 314 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:17.400 So the guys in the in the you know the 315 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:20.839 National Tour t shirts from when they saw the National 316 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:25.640 four years ago. Inside, Oh, don't try to get close 317 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.279 to them because the arm guards will not let you. 318 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.519 All right now, this might get a little gross for you, 319 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:35.880 because sometimes animals are not all furry and cuddly, but 320 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:40.440 they're always fascinating. Here's some animals in the news, never upsetting. 321 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:56.160 This is heavy petting. And let's talk about the green 322 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:03.839 spoon worm if we may. This is I want to say, 323 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:08.440 it's basically a sea monster. It is this long thing 324 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:16.079 named for its nose, which is shaped like a spoon 325 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:20.079 and also has a like a mouth part on it 326 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:27.319 that sticks out of the ground and sucks up like plankton, 327 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:31.279 another organic organic material that's in the water. It could 328 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:35.839 be algae, it could be rotten stuff. Even poop, it 329 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:39.480 could be it could be fish poop. They're like vacuum cleaners, 330 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:44.480 but only this long nose part sticks out. The rest 331 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:49.839 of its body is hidden underground, except the nose is 332 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:56.319 ten times longer than the body. They're also a bright 333 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:02.319 green because of a pigment call bonellin, which is poisonous, 334 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.599 and that's how they worn Predators don't chomp on me. 335 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:10.079 You may see my long, beautiful green nose flowing around 336 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:13.359 in the ocean sucking up poop, but do not chomp 337 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:16.839 me because you will die. Okay, But here's the thing. 338 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:23.319 Here's the thing. They don't all look like that, the 339 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:29.319 green ones, those are the ladies. Because here's what's going 340 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:33.200 on with this animal. The sex of one of these 341 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:38.799 animals is based on chemistry, not genetics. Chemistry. Here's what happens. 342 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:46.960 Larva hatch of this spoon worm and they go and 343 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:51.559 they're floating in the ocean. If the larva lands on 344 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:56.920 the seafloor, it becomes a female with the green, long nose. 345 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:06.240 But if a larva lay on a female spoonworm, it 346 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:12.079 becomes a dude. What, yes, that would be? That would 347 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:17.039 be like, I don't even if fetuses. This is going 348 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:18.880 a long way to try to get the analogy, but 349 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.480 I don't care. Let's say human fetuses grew outside of 350 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:28.039 the body, and the rule was if you put the 351 00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:31.160 fetus in a wool blanket, it turns into a boy. 352 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:33.240 But if you put it in a in a cotton 353 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:36.880 pretale sheet, it turns into a girl. It's kind of 354 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:40.960 like that that's weird. Here's the other part. Okay, this 355 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:43.480 is not the only animal where this happens, by the way, 356 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:45.799 there aren't that many, but there's a couple of others. 357 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:52.160 So a larva comes and lands on a female and 358 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:55.519 definitely says, oh, damn it, Now I have to be 359 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:59.559 a dude. Not that there's inherently anything wrong with being 360 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.599 a dude, except as to this particular animal. Being a 361 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:09.519 dude means being absorbed into the body of the female 362 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:18.240 and existing only to fertilize her eggs. Wow, they become 363 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.359 the male of the species. Are basically little, tiny parasites 364 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:27.000 that get absorbed by the female and the sole reason 365 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:32.000 for their existence is to fertilize their eggs. And a 366 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:38.559 particular scientist said the following about it. I'll tell you 367 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:44.920 the scientist's name, Tronde Rogers oscars at the more for 368 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:50.279 Skiing Research Institute, and where he said it's being it's 369 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:55.559 like being reduced to a living testicle. Where is that institute? 370 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:00.119 I don't know. To me, based on the name of it, 371 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:02.920 I would say Cleveland. What was the name of it? Again? 372 00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:16.000 The more Foresking Research Institute m with a slash through it. R. E. F. 373 00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:22.880 O r skiing anyway, So that's no fun to be 374 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:28.279 a dude spoon worm. Oh my god, Norway, that's where 375 00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:34.440 it is. Yeah, of course it is. Okay, let's finish 376 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:40.640 with this. There was a mystery at a school. The 377 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:42.680 only bad thing about this story is because we know 378 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:44.799 what the segment is, we kind of will know how 379 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:50.039 it ends. But at a school in Japan, a kindergarten, 380 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:54.200 someone was stealing the shoes of the children. You know, 381 00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:56.119 in Japan, they take their shoes off when they go 382 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.319 in and then they give the kids these little slipper 383 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.480 things to wear, but they don't always wear those, and 384 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:06.359 they put them in a cubby and they were disappearing. 385 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:10.119 And at first the parents and the people of the 386 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:13.440 school were like, oh no, oh great, we have a 387 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:17.880 shoe pervert. We have a children's shoe pervert comeing into 388 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:20.319 the school and stealing the shoes. So they put up 389 00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:24.799 a security camera and the very next day they caught 390 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:26.920 the thief. Well they didn't catch the thief, but they 391 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:31.519 caught the thief on camera. And it's a weasel. It's 392 00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:35.160 a weasel, which you know, there's some places where you 393 00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:38.880 can have a weasel as a pet and people who 394 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:41.440 have weasels at pets will give them toys for the 395 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:43.720 sole purpose of the weasel hiding it. They like to 396 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:46.720 take things and hide them apparently, so it was a 397 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.200 weasel coming in and taking the shoes and putting them 398 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:51.920 who knows where. Nobody knows where the weasel. The shoes 399 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:54.960 will never be recovered because nobody knows where the weasel's 400 00:26:55.000 --> 00:27:00.119 hiding place is. It's a wild weasel, it's not somebody's pet. Oh. 401 00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:04.799