WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.000 You're List Saints KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.679 Show on demand on the iHeartRadio f. 3 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:09.279 It is the Bill Handles Show. He'll be back from 4 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:14.560 vacation at on Monday. That's when he's coming back. President 5 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:18.120 Elect Trump is asking the Supreme Court to block a 6 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:21.679 law that would require TikTok to either sell itself or 7 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:28.839 shut down. He wants as president when he becomes president 8 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:33.119 on January twenty, he wants to negotiate a resolution to 9 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:37.640 the TikTok problem that he can save TikTok while also 10 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:43.479 addressing the national security concerns that we have about TikTok. 11 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:46.399 So he's asking them to block the law and then 12 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:48.719 he'll handle it and we'll see what they say about that. 13 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:56.399 Lapt Lieutenant Mark Garza has filed a legal claim against 14 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.159 the city. Now, the legal claim is the precursor to 15 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:05.760 a lawsuit. That's typically what happens. You can't in most cases. 16 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:07.719 Just sue. 17 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.640 In most situations, first you file a claim, you say, hey, 18 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.079 I think you did this wrong and I want whatever 19 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:19.599 I want from you, and it gives an opportunity for 20 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:23.040 the thing to be settled without involving the courts. But 21 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:31.480 typically claims are denied in almost every avenue of life. 22 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.359 So I'm guessing there will come a lawsuit after this. 23 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:40.400 But here's what he's saying. So he was in charge 24 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:44.719 of the Mission Division Gang Unit. He's in charge of 25 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:48.120 that unit and the officers, some of them in that 26 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:53.599 unit were under investigation last year because of allegations that 27 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:58.519 they were illegally stopping people, illegally searching vehicles, and in 28 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.280 some allegations, stealing. 29 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.560 From the people that they pulled over. 30 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:10.599 So Lieutenant Garza says in this claim that he went 31 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:18.080 to the authorities back in June of last year and said, 32 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:21.400 I think some of my guys are doing what they 33 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:25.759 call ghost stops. That means you're pulling somebody over, you're 34 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:29.479 not documenting it, you're not turning on your body camera 35 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:33.520 or your dash camera, you're not telling dispatch where you 36 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:38.560 were totally off the books with no record of it 37 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:45.879 pulling people over. So you know, the LAPD has refined 38 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.400 their body camera footage policies now. Back when this was 39 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:57.199 going on, the requirement on Lieutenant Garza was to only 40 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.120 look at body camera footage or sports footage if there 41 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:04.400 was a complaint or there was a use of force 42 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:10.680 or there was a pursuit, So if in fact officers 43 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:17.120 are performing ghost stops, there's no way that anybody would 44 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:22.560 ever see anything anyway. And he was saying, look, we 45 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:26.240 can't just limit our review of this stuff, because then 46 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:28.800 the way if people are misbehaving, it makes it easier 47 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:31.520 for them to keep getting away with it. So he 48 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.280 started to look into it, and that's when he says 49 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:40.240 he learned that there were videos of officers breaking rules, 50 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:44.680 but that they had been excluded from any audits of 51 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:48.719 LAPD video footage. And what that would mean is every 52 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:50.919 time there was an audit, they would get a perfect 53 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:57.520 score because somewhere the auditors had been ordered to take 54 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:02.840 out any incomplete body camera videos. If i'm gonna check 55 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:09.120 on you, I'm only gonna check full encounters. If any 56 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.280 part of that encounter is missing, I'm not even gonna 57 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.400 look at it. So all an officer would have to 58 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:19.639 do is to delay turning on their dash cam or 59 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:22.560 their bodycam because they knew if they did that, it 60 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.600 would be a partial video of the encounter and they 61 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:30.439 wouldn't audit it. And also, the claim is that the 62 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:34.800 people checking the videos for misconduct were told specifically if 63 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:37.560 you see a gang officer doing something they're not supposed 64 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.879 to do, just don't do it, don't say it, don't 65 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:47.879 report it. So he went to the authorities and he said, 66 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:50.240 I think some of these guys. This is in June 67 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:55.120 of last of Yes, twenty twenty three int he had already, 68 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:59.680 according to him, reported his suspicions. Now in August, two 69 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:05.000 months later, it came out in an LA Times report 70 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:10.279 that internal affairs at LAPD got a search warrant for 71 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:17.800 the officers' lockers at the Mission Division station. That is, 72 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.399 I'm not going to say it's never happened before. That's 73 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:27.439 very rare for an internal affairs investigation to result in 74 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:33.560 a search warrant for everybody's lockers. So now you have 75 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.720 these officers are under investigation. They're accused of breaking the law, 76 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:39.839 they're accused of trying to cover it up. There's a 77 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:45.839 search warrant being served. They take Garza off duty. He's 78 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:51.240 facing discipline, he's got a Board of Rights hearing coming up. 79 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.040 He could be fired. 80 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.959 And his former boss, the captain at the time, James 81 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:04.079 Townsend and Argent and several former officers from this gang. 82 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:08.639 There's also one officer who's facing criminal charges already for 83 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:13.279 allegedly stealing a knife and some brass knuckles from two 84 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:17.319 different people that he had pulled over. And he's pled 85 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.879 not guilty. He's got a preliminary hearing coming. So here's 86 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:23.360 the thing. He thought maybe these officers were doing something wrong. 87 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:27.120 It turns out maybe he was right. But he's being 88 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.920 swept up in the whole thing. And I guess it's 89 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:33.360 whether you think it's fair that somebody who tried to 90 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:36.240 bring it to the attention of the department is going 91 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.040 to be punished the same way that the officers who did. 92 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:45.120 The bad things can be punished. All right, here we go. 93 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:46.759 Oh my god. 94 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.319 You wouldn't think that people who love to read books 95 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.399 could be every bit as hostile and annoying as sports fans. 96 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:04.079 You would think of people who love to read books 97 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:14.079 as being quiet, intelligent, wearing a cozy sweater, not making waves. 98 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:18.480 But in fact, there is a battle royale going on 99 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:23.879 between people who say listening to an audio book is 100 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.000 the same as reading a book and other people who say, 101 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:30.439 my name. 102 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.639 Is Michelle Cube, and I will not stand for this. 103 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:37.319 It is not the same. Not. May I interview you, 104 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.240 yes about this issue? Yes? You may. Okay. 105 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:43.879 Now I'm going to ask you some questions because I'm 106 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:48.319 going to try to elicit the origin of your anger 107 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.600 about the idea that somebody would listen to an ebook 108 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.759 and then say that they read the book or counted 109 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:57.879 as having read a book. So my first question for 110 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:02.160 you is, are you currently in any kind of book club? 111 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:04.319 I am not in a book club? No, okay? 112 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:09.560 Are you currently do you peruse or engage in good 113 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:12.439 Reads the website good Reads? I do not? 114 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:20.600 Okay, So hold on, just sit tight for me for 115 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.800 a second. Okay, okay, because I'm going. 116 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:27.439 To talk about why most of the people who are 117 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:30.680 arguing about this are arguing about it. And then since 118 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:32.879 this I don't think would apply, well, lo, let me 119 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:36.240 one more question. Are you or have you ever been 120 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:40.080 involved in any kind of reading challenge? 121 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.320 Yes? Okay, there it is. Then it's just wasn't It was. 122 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.879 Not a good Reads no reading challenge, but you have 123 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.240 involved in a reading challenge. Okay, So here we go, 124 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.240 so for you, see, ladies and gentlemen, For some people, 125 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:59.840 the reading of books has become a competition sport, and 126 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.919 good Reads allows users to issue reading challenges. But reading 127 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:09.600 challenges can come from almost anywhere, and they are very 128 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.080 often in the form of read this number of books 129 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.960 in this amount of time. So this is where it 130 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:21.240 becomes an issue. There are people who say you should 131 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:22.840 not if you're in a reading challenge. 132 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.320 This means you're in a competition. 133 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:31.320 And you listen to a book on tape, you should 134 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.399 not be allowed to count it towards the goal of 135 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:36.519 the reading challenge. 136 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.080 You have to actually look at it with your eyes. 137 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:42.639 Words on a page or maybe a kindle is allowed, 138 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:48.960 but not listening to it. Yes, and now the reading challenge, 139 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.159 where are they coming from if they're not coming from 140 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:52.720 good Reads and you're not in a book club. 141 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:56.679 Okay, this is going to sound weird, but it's something 142 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.799 I've done all my life. It's a challenge I do myself. 143 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.879 And it started when I was in elementary school and 144 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.720 during the summer, my mom sent me to the local library, 145 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:09.879 you know, for like you go to library for a 146 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:14.840 few hours and some peace and quiet probably, but they 147 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:17.799 at the time gave us a challenge. You know, you 148 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:20.879 had to read like ten books for the summer. And 149 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:25.240 ever since that time, I do this every year where 150 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.000 I challenge myself to read x amount of books every year. 151 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:30.480 That's where it came from for me. All right. 152 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:32.720 So you don't like the idea of people who have 153 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.399 said I did the ten books and they were all ebooks. 154 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.519 You hate that. You think that's cheating. This is the 155 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.559 This is the equivalent of doping the kindle. 156 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:45.919 The kindle is fine. I prefer actual books. Oh you whaw, 157 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.600 but the kindle is fine. Like I'm okay with the kindle. 158 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:50.879 I'm not okay with the audio books. 159 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.480 Okay, not fair. Now let's talk about why. Maybe you 160 00:10:55.639 --> 00:11:00.840 have a point. The idea here is that if you 161 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:06.000 are listening to a book, you can do other things 162 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.039 at the same time. You can put on an ebook 163 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:13.279 and you can listen to it while you're making dinner. 164 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:15.519 You can listen to it while you're out on your walk, 165 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:19.320 you can listen to it while you're pretending to pay 166 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:23.320 attention to your kids when they think you're playing with them, 167 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:26.559 or even when you're driving around and you can't really 168 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:28.559 read a book while you're driving. You can't really read 169 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:33.200 a book while you're working out. And so the idea 170 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.320 is that it gives audiobook listeners an unfair advantage because 171 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.399 they are multitasking and someone reading a paper book or 172 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:45.240 a kindle book. Can't do that. That's the argument. That's 173 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:49.639 the basis for the argument. So, first of all, it 174 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:54.000 would be irrelevant except that y'all are making the reading 175 00:11:54.039 --> 00:12:00.360 of books now a competition. That's the first thing, And 176 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:04.879 the second thing is depending on the person. How do 177 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.399 you know if I'm making dinner and listening to an ebook, 178 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:17.879 how do you know that it's not my comprehension of 179 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:25.200 the book that's suffering from the multitasking rather than the cooking. Now, 180 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:30.600 I suppose that the point here is, well, what you 181 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:34.240 can do is you can just put on an ebook 182 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.559 and not even pay attention to it, but just you 183 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:38.919 hear it like you hear that it's on, and then 184 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:45.000 you count it as having read a book, as opposed 185 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.480 to putting it on and sitting intently listening to it 186 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:50.759 and counting it as reading a book. 187 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.039 But can't. Here's where you come in. 188 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:55.759 I'm going to challenge you, can't the same thing really 189 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:58.480 happen with reading a paper book where you can kind 190 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.600 of just scan it and not really be. 191 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.320 Engaged, I'm sure, and still say I read it. 192 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:05.879 And then somebody goes, oh, well, what about this scene 193 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.039 in this scene and you're like, I don't really want 194 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.440 to remember all of that because I did read it. 195 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:14.240 Technically my eyes scanned each line on each page, but 196 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:18.080 my I didn't internalize any of it. If you do 197 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.159 a book that way and you don't really remember that 198 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:24.039 much about it, have you read it? No, So what's 199 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.120 the point of this challenge? It's like, who can perfunctorily 200 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.720 scan a book or have a book on in the background. 201 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:34.799 I don't know. 202 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:35.840 I just listen. 203 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.240 I just think if you're going to say you're reading 204 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.240 a book and you're listening to it on tape, it's 205 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.399 not the same. It's not the same thing. It's not 206 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.919 the same experience. It's not the same because in a book, 207 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.679 you're supposed to lose yourself in a book, you're supposed 208 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.399 to take it to the beach and sit there and 209 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:55.879 you know, read and just you know, have that imagination. 210 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.799 If you're doing too many other things, you're not really 211 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:00.679 enjoying story. 212 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:04.480 All right, Well, I think people I think people have 213 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.039 a good idea of where you're coming from, where I'm 214 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:09.919 coming from, and I just do want to say this. 215 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:14.240 I think that the that the good news here is 216 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:20.759 that you that you have enough space that you're holding 217 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:23.279 enough Did you hold space for wicket by the way, 218 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.919 I did? Okay, so you had you had space for wicket. 219 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:34.399 You have space for this ebook controversy thing, which means 220 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:38.799 I'm gonna say that means your life isn't as bad as. 221 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:40.960 It could be. No, it's not as bad as it. 222 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:44.519 So let's so we're gonna I'm gonna say, let's focus 223 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:47.240 on the fact that our lives could be worse and 224 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:51.320 we would literally not have one synaps available in our 225 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:55.240 brain to even think about whether listening to an ebook 226 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:58.799 should entitle you to market as having read a book 227 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:00.399 for the purpose of a challenge. 228 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:04.360 And that's good. It is good. And by the way, 229 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:07.799 I'm reading the Wicked Book books again. There's four of them. 230 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:11.200 Oh dear lord, you people, then you know what I thought. 231 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.960 The first one was great and the other ones get 232 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.039 a little wonky, Yes they do. 233 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.600 But I'm enjoying, you know, reading them again just for 234 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:20.240 the fun of it. 235 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.759 Well, it's probably good for Hollywood that everybody is so 236 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:29.080 obsessed with all things Wicked, because otherwise, uh, Hollywood is 237 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:30.279 struggling somewhat. 238 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:31.840 Here's the thing. 239 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:35.559 When there is a strike at some point there's always 240 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:43.519 a settlement, and those settlements almost always, I think, always 241 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:52.039 make production more expensive. So when there's a strike and 242 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.919 work stops, studio executives take a look at, Hey, how 243 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.519 much does it cost us to make a movie anyway? 244 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:00.919 Maybe we don't need to make make it here. We 245 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:06.480 can't save money by stiffing the writers anymore or the 246 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.120 actors anymore, because you know, they went on strike and 247 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:10.879 we had to settle and we had to give them 248 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:15.919 something meaningful, So we can't really find cost savings there. 249 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:17.720 How could we find cost savings? 250 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:18.440 Then? 251 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:23.039 Oh, let's make our movies and TV shows in other 252 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:27.559 parts of the country where the other costs that we 253 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:32.480 can kind of control can be controlled. We can move 254 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:35.960 to cheaper places. And that is why you know, there's 255 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:40.159 so much filming that goes on in Georgia now, and 256 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:45.000 New Mexico is coming in hot as possibly the number 257 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:49.759 two out of la place for film and TV production 258 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:57.159 because Georgia has put a lot into attracting production for years. 259 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:01.279 They have a no capax incentive program. 260 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.039 Billions of dollars. 261 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:10.279 Have been given in tax incentives to Hollywood studios. 262 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:11.000 With no there's no limit. 263 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.799 Bring all the production that you possibly can, and you'll 264 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.480 get tax incentives for all of it. Now, New Mexico 265 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:23.680 is coming up because they also have tax incentives. They 266 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:32.000 also are closer to California than Georgia, and they are 267 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:39.240 allowing massive buildout of production facilities. Netflix since twenty nineteen 268 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:44.519 has invested over half a billion with a B dollars 269 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:49.480 in productions in New Mexico and they are going to 270 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:53.680 build a massive expansion. They have studios in Albuquerque and 271 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:59.279 they are massively expanding them. Four new sound stages at least, 272 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.640 and Georgia and New Mexico are not alone. California now 273 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.799 and LA in particular are competing with at least thirty 274 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:11.599 eight states that have some kind of tax incentive to 275 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:18.920 attract film and television production. So yes, there's a ripple effect, 276 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:26.119 because it's not just direct film jobs that suffer when 277 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.400 productions go out of state. Productions typically don't. It's not 278 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.720 that I have a bunch of experience with making films 279 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.839 or television or any but if you're going to make 280 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:41.480 a big movie, you're not going to necessarily bring every 281 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.279 single person who's working on a movie from LA. Make 282 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:50.400 up people here, people, costume people, production assistants are likely 283 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:54.599 to be hired locally, where perhaps you can pay them 284 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:58.759 less because the cost of living is less. And so 285 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:03.119 if you're, say Deborah Humphries, who is mentioned in this 286 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:10.480 La Times article, a makeup artist, you know, it used 287 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:12.960 to be you could get work pretty easily, and then 288 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:16.480 it got harder. And some of it is because the 289 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:24.880 productions aren't happening here. Production down several percentage points in 290 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:27.920 just in the third quarter of this year, five percent 291 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:32.240 decline year over year third quarter twenty twenty four from 292 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:40.759 twenty twenty three. And the question becomes, what can we 293 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:48.079 do to keep that business here? There's a lot being done. 294 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.759 So for example, Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, they 295 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.119 want a double They actually want to more than double 296 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:00.440 the amount of money in the tax incentive program. 297 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:01.720 They want to more. 298 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:04.680 Than double it to seven hundred and fifty million dollars 299 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:08.559 that would be available every year in tax incentives for 300 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:13.880 film production. They got to get it approved by state lawmakers. 301 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:17.079 I don't know, you know how many people to Sacramento 302 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.839 want to vote to allocate that much more money to 303 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:25.279 something like this, But it could happen. And then Mayor 304 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:29.400 Bass put together this Council made up of industry leaders 305 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:32.400 in the entertainment industry to find other ways to keep 306 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:36.640 more of these productions here. They want to streamline the 307 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:40.880 permit process so you can film olive. If you have 308 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.319 ever tried to go somewhere and run across, you know 309 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:46.319 they're filming on a street and it's shut. 310 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:47.400 Down, you gotta go around. 311 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:50.440 I guess get ready for that to happen more often 312 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:54.079 because it'll be easier to shut down streets and film. 313 00:20:56.160 --> 00:21:00.759 But look, according to the La County Economic develop In Corporation, 314 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:04.839 the entertainment industry contributes over one hundred and fifteen billion 315 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:09.279 dollars to the economy every year. That there are over 316 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.640 six hundred and fifty thousand jobs related to this industry. 317 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:18.880 That includes the dry cleaners and the delivery drivers, the 318 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:23.119 couriers and things like that that are adjacent when. 319 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:25.000 You have film production. 320 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:28.200 So I don't know, man, I mean, you'd think it 321 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:33.759 wouldn't be that hard to keep Hollywood in Hollywood until 322 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:38.039 you realize that Hollywood, like any other business, is ultimately 323 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.480 about the money. So if it becomes cheaper to be 324 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:48.559 Hollywood in Albuquerque, then Albuquerque will be Hollywood all right here. 325 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.200 We go. Now you have been warned, and I will 326 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:55.640 say it again that this segment is not for children, 327 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:59.359 and it is not for the exceptionally squeamish. 328 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:05.240 Not so much. I mean this is a medical topic. 329 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:08.680 So when I say it's not for children, it's mostly 330 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:12.319 so that they don't get any ideas, but it is 331 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:16.160 also because it is of a medical nature that perhaps 332 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:17.039 you would feel. 333 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.440 Your child is too young to know about. 334 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:24.480 And it comes from the database maintained by the US 335 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:29.160 Consumer Products Safety Commission. They keep a database of emergency 336 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:33.200 room visits because they want to keep track of how 337 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:36.519 people are getting hurt or what kinds of problems that 338 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:39.279 they have when they come to the emergency room, to 339 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:45.119 see if there are any patterns involving products that they 340 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.240 should take a look at, as maybe these products are 341 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:51.480 too dangerous or more dangerous than we thought. 342 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:53.960 I can think of one example lawn darts. 343 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:56.680 You may remember a lawn darts where these darts with 344 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:59.119 metal spikes on the end, and you would throw them 345 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:02.079 on your lawn and people started getting hurt and showing 346 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:04.559 up in the emergency room, and eventually there was enough 347 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:07.759 data to cause the Consumer Product Safety Commission to say, 348 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:08.759 maybe we shouldn't have. 349 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:09.720 Wand darts anymore. 350 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:18.160 And so now please enjoy a reading from the US's 351 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:24.160 of things that people put in their bodies and needed 352 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:26.519 help getting out. 353 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:37.240 Here we go. I will start with the backside. 354 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:41.960 These are things that people came to the emergency room with. 355 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:44.960 The grammars terrible. I should have thought about how to 356 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:46.960 say it dramatically nicely. 357 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:48.240 That was terrible too. 358 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:52.960 People who showed up the emergency room had these things 359 00:23:53.160 --> 00:24:03.359 in their backside. Sometimes they'll put a quote from the 360 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:08.599 note from the doctor. The music is great, feels feels 361 00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:12.839 so good, Chuck MANGIONI, that's why you do it all right. 362 00:24:13.039 --> 00:24:16.920 Patient states that him and his wife got carried away 363 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:22.000 and a portion of a plastic screwdriver handle is in 364 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:28.160 his rectum. Oh, somebody had to go to the emergency 365 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:36.920 room for the removal of a xylophone mallet no cooking spray, 366 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:43.440 I assume in in the can. Also speaking of a 367 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:52.079 shampoo bottle, a lotion bottle, a can of deodorant, a broomstick, 368 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:57.759 three triple A batteries. 369 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:05.480 In another case, two double A batteries in another case, 370 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:10.319 one D battery. 371 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:16.759 Somebody presented with this problem tried to remove poop with 372 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:24.200 a pen a few days ago, lost pen in rectum, 373 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:28.359 a fifty cent piece, a scrub brush, a wire hangar, 374 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:35.680 two plastic bottles, and a shotglass. That was the original 375 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:38.720 title of becks to turn tables in a microphone. 376 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:43.279 In the same place. Yeah, yes, time. 377 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:46.960 Yes, same place, same time, same place, same bat time, 378 00:25:47.079 --> 00:25:54.160 same bat place, the tail of a toy dinosaur. Patient 379 00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:57.200 stakes he tripped in the shower and fell backwards and 380 00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:13.319 landed on a shampoo bottles who baby shark toy? Patient 381 00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:17.759 took klenazepam dose three times instead of once and has 382 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:26.759 a battery in rectum and has nausea. Marbles, darts, a 383 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:30.319 plastic lemon, a fake banana, a jello mold. 384 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:35.960 Wait, darts like now darts? Move a dart? 385 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:39.559 Yeah, now we will move on. 386 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:45.640 Now we will move on to the front of men. 387 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:49.759 If you understand what I'm saying, the urethra is the 388 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:56.200 medical term. These are things that we're in people's urethras 389 00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:00.640 when they came to the emergency room. Handle of a 390 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:05.720 plastic spoon, a plastic fork, a rolled up magazine page, 391 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:12.759 the ring from a power aid bottle, a pen cap, 392 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:17.759 a pen, a coffee stir a screw, a paper clip, 393 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.599 a wax straw. 394 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:28.839 A domino. How how did the phone is charging? 395 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:34.920 I don't know, a phone charging cable, a thermometer, an 396 00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:39.759 air pod was it an AirPod or an AirPod pro? 397 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:47.400 And finally, not to leave out the ladies, here are 398 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:51.680 just a few things that people had stuck inside them 399 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:55.200 that the ladies had stuck inside them in a place 400 00:27:55.279 --> 00:28:01.640 only a lady could. A plastic triceratops, a shot glass, 401 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:12.039