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Speaker 2: And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 2: not Bill Handle, indeed not Bill Handled. Chris Merrill back
Speaker 2: and ya this morning. Thank you so much for making
Speaker 2: us a part of your morning. Kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Before we dive right into the news here, Amy, I
Speaker 3: just wanted to commend you because you asked the question
Speaker 3: I wanted the answer to so badly when you were
Speaker 3: talking to the woman from the Sandy Yes, talking about
Speaker 3: the eagles.
Speaker 2: Right, and I wanted to know what was going to
Speaker 2: happen with.
Speaker 3: The the body of the one that didn't survive that storm.
Speaker 3: And we found the answer to that if people weren't listening,
Speaker 3: what did Sandy say?
Speaker 4: So what happened was was the one eagle that died
Speaker 4: in that snowstorm Shadow the mail took a couple like
Speaker 4: a day or later, took the little baby's body out
Speaker 4: of the nest bowl where the other two were and
Speaker 4: basically put it on the side of the nest. And
Speaker 4: then like a day later, Jackie the mom said you
Speaker 4: can't have him here and picked him up and flew
Speaker 4: off with him and then dropped him in the.
Speaker 2: Forest in the woods. Wow.
Speaker 4: I mean it's just like but it's like crazy that
Speaker 4: you're just like she was like, no, I can't have
Speaker 4: him here. I don't want to look at this anymore.
Speaker 4: He needs to go and you know, rest in peace
Speaker 4: or whatever an eaglet does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you have to wonder what kind of emotions
Speaker 3: they're actually going through, because I know we tend to
Speaker 3: anthropomorphize these animals.
Speaker 2: And we go, okay, well this is the emotion.
Speaker 3: But I wonder what emotions they are or if it's
Speaker 3: sort of a I mean I don't want to be
Speaker 3: crass about it, but almost like a house cleaning, like
Speaker 3: you know, this doesn't belong here any longer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be. Yeah, when she's lost so fascinating
Speaker 4: to me. Yeah, when she's lost the eglets in the past,
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's bizarre, like they just you know,
Speaker 4: they're in the nest still and they just sit and
Speaker 4: stare at them, and sometimes the other chicks will like
Speaker 4: curl up next to them and stuff. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: just weird to I mean, it's and it's beautiful and
Speaker 4: amazing and sad to watch how they respond to.
Speaker 3: So experience, isn't it all the emotions that are wrapped
Speaker 3: up into one and that, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: To watch them.
Speaker 3: Well, it was a great question, and I'm so glad
Speaker 3: that you asked that and talked about it, because I
Speaker 3: think a lot of us wanted to know. All Right,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's awkward, but you know, they got two
Speaker 3: other chicks they.
Speaker 2: Have to raise.
Speaker 4: It's circle of life stuff. And actually, and like we've
Speaker 4: talked about, by that chick not making it, it actually
Speaker 4: might have given the other two a better chance to
Speaker 4: survive because they only have a fifty percent chance of
Speaker 4: making it to adulthood.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, that's so interesting to me, so interesting.
Speaker 3: All right, let's uh, let's get into the news that
Speaker 3: we have here, including the breaking news yesterday, because as
Speaker 3: we know, during any Trump administration, we learned from the
Speaker 3: first one, it is a.
Speaker 2: Fire hose of chaos.
Speaker 3: So we go from the signal app controversy to don't
Speaker 3: pay attention to that we are going to drop massive
Speaker 3: tariffs on what, for meat people is the largest purchase
Speaker 3: they will ever make in their lives. President Trump yesterday
Speaker 3: announcing twenty five percent tariffs on all cars shipped to
Speaker 3: the United States. That is a significant escalation in the
Speaker 3: global trade war, or they might say the global trade battle.
Speaker 3: Hard to say what semantics they'll use. It would also
Speaker 3: address the parts that are being manufactured outside of the
Speaker 3: United States as well. Now the tariffs are aimed at
Speaker 3: expanding America's auto manufacturing prowess. And for decades, because of
Speaker 3: the free trade agreement which was signed during the Clinton
Speaker 3: years and then renegotiated and resigned during Trump won, automakers
Speaker 3: have treated Canada, Mexico, and the United States as one
Speaker 3: big country, no tariffs among them. They can move freely
Speaker 3: between them. But now they can't. Remains to be seen
Speaker 3: exactly what's going to happen when it comes to the
Speaker 3: retaliatory effects of this. Will China retaliate, Will Japan retaliate?
Speaker 3: Will South Korea retaliate? Well, we see European countries. Remember
Speaker 3: we've got the Volkswagen, which is your Audi's and your
Speaker 3: poor and your volks are coming from Europe, your Mercedes BMW's,
Speaker 3: Will they retaliate. We don't know how this is exactly
Speaker 3: going to play out. What we do know is most
Speaker 3: auto industry experts are saying the price on the vehicles
Speaker 3: will increase, at least temporarily. Even if these manufacturers bring
Speaker 3: things back here to the United States, or they do
Speaker 3: more manufacturing and more assembly here in the United States,
Speaker 3: there will be a time where this has to ramp up.
Speaker 3: It's not an instantaneous thing, which means prices are going
Speaker 3: to go up as a result, shares General Motors plunging
Speaker 3: more than seven percent after hours Ford and Stalantis. Stalandis
Speaker 3: makes the Jeeps and the Rams used to be used
Speaker 3: to be Chrysler. They fell by four percent. Ford and
Speaker 3: Stalantis did so. Interestingly enough, the German automakers didn't lose
Speaker 3: as much in their stocks. They're down, but they're down
Speaker 3: less than two percent, whereas the American manufacturers.
Speaker 2: Are down more than that. So really really interesting to
Speaker 2: watch how this is going to play out.
Speaker 3: It's also curious, and we'll talk more about this at
Speaker 3: seven thirty this morning. I'm so curious as to how
Speaker 3: long this tariff will remain in effect. And we already
Speaker 3: heard the President Amy had the clips this morning. We
Speaker 3: already heard the President almost hedging on this a little bit,
Speaker 3: as the President said.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, with China, maybe you know, maybe we.
Speaker 3: Work on the TikTok issue, and maybe we can get
Speaker 3: them to hand over some control of TikTok and then
Speaker 3: we'll reduce some of the auto tariffs. So it stands
Speaker 3: to reason that everything we've seen from this administration is
Speaker 3: a negotiating tactic. It stands to reason that this would
Speaker 3: be used for negotiations in some way, shape or form
Speaker 3: as well. Now, what does he want from the other countries?
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 3: Is this all about putting another star in the flag
Speaker 3: for Canada? Probably not, But again I hate the pull
Speaker 3: of trump Ism, but we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 2: Amy.
Speaker 4: Oh and before we move on, I'm gonna ask you again.
Speaker 4: You said yesterday or you said the day before, heads
Speaker 4: will rule over this signal thing, and then yesterday yesterday
Speaker 4: you said, oh my gosh, I'm wrong, nobody's going to
Speaker 4: lose their job. Do you have a new prediction today?
Speaker 4: Are you sticking with your second prediction?
Speaker 3: We'll staying with where I was yesterday, So up in
Speaker 3: the air, although I did see that it is we're
Speaker 3: moving away from the journalist it's the journalist's fault to
Speaker 3: it's the app's fault. So well, I talk, We've got
Speaker 3: some of that in the wake up call as well,
Speaker 3: and excuse me, you did wake up a goal. Well
Speaker 3: they got some of that in handle on the news.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever, it's early.
Speaker 3: But then, well I've got more on this too at
Speaker 3: seven o'clock as well, the signal fallout.
Speaker 4: Okay, Christie's headed south of the border. You have a
Speaker 4: Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noam visited the prison in El
Speaker 4: Salvador where all those Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration
Speaker 4: have been held since their removal from the United States.
Speaker 4: The administration says they are gang members of Trend. They
Speaker 4: are Ragua, and they said that's why they were sent there.
Speaker 4: Noam got to see where they are living now, and
Speaker 4: there's a bunch of them. It's a huge prison. Apparently,
Speaker 4: inmates are packed into cells. They're not allowed outside. Not
Speaker 4: a place you want to be. They hold you in
Speaker 4: cells of seventy people and you're in the cell for
Speaker 4: twenty three and a half hours a day.
Speaker 2: Okay, So yard time is limited, is what you're saying.
Speaker 4: And apparently even the yard time is not outside all right.
Speaker 3: So it's like when I was in elementary school in
Speaker 3: the Great White North and there was a snowstorm and
Speaker 3: we had recess. We had recess was in the gymnasium
Speaker 3: or the cafetorium, as it were, So maybe that's where
Speaker 3: their yard time is. Rumor has it that indeed Christy
Speaker 3: Nome was scared straight when she went there and does
Speaker 3: not in fact want to be held hostage in El
Speaker 3: Salvadorian prison. Did she say that, oh, this is great,
Speaker 3: this is so what a wonderful place this is.
Speaker 2: No, there's two ways to spend this.
Speaker 3: They either say this is a really nice place and
Speaker 3: why are people complaining, or they say this is the
Speaker 3: worst place on earth, and if you're in the United States,
Speaker 3: you should get out now before you end up here.
Speaker 4: That's what she said. She stood in front of several
Speaker 4: of the prisoners and said, don't come here, don't break
Speaker 4: our laws, or you could end up here.
Speaker 3: That sounds like not a lot of fun for any
Speaker 3: of us, a vacation nobody wants to take. Continuing, the
Speaker 3: Trump administration now canceling funding for dozens of studies that
Speaker 3: look for new vaccines and treatments for COVID nineteen and
Speaker 3: other pathogens that could potentially cause future pandemics. What they
Speaker 3: say is, oh, the pandemic's over, so we don't need
Speaker 3: to we don't need to keep looking at things so done.
Speaker 3: The research is not, however, just about COVID. Nine of
Speaker 3: the terminated awards funded centers that conduct research on antiviral
Speaker 3: drugs to combat so called priority pathogens that, of course.
Speaker 2: Could lead to new pandemics.
Speaker 3: According to one senior National Institute of Health official, this
Speaker 3: includes the antiviral projects designed to cover a wide range
Speaker 3: of families that could cause outbreaks or pandemics. But Amy King,
Speaker 3: I think there's a positive here. There could be a
Speaker 3: really silver line. There could be a real silver lining
Speaker 3: to this dark cloud.
Speaker 4: And what might that be.
Speaker 3: Well, yesterday you were talking about the city of Los
Speaker 3: Angeles is in the hole like a billion dollars, right,
Speaker 3: And Mayor bast went to Sacramento and said, can you
Speaker 3: give us two billion dollars? And part of the reason
Speaker 3: that we are short on our budget is because we
Speaker 3: got really lazy when we had those COVID funds coming in.
Speaker 3: So the economy was kind of tanking. We did the
Speaker 3: bailouts a couple of rounds during Trump won and another
Speaker 3: big round during Biden, and the local and state governments
Speaker 3: took that money and then all of a sudden, we
Speaker 3: had we had surpluses. If you remember, the state of
Speaker 3: California was plus something like fifty years seventy five billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Right, So if you got it, spend it right right.
Speaker 3: Well, if all of a sudden we don't have the
Speaker 3: means to see another pandemic coming, and if we don't
Speaker 3: have the ability to fight that pandemic with something like
Speaker 3: Operation Warp Speed, which was a Trump initiative to try
Speaker 3: to get the vaccine out faster during during the COVID pandemic,
Speaker 3: then it's entirely possible the economy tanks again and we
Speaker 3: have to have another bailout, which could provide funding to
Speaker 3: the City of Los Angeles that they don't have right now.
Speaker 4: See Oh see, yeah, great.
Speaker 2: See how that works.
Speaker 4: You're smart that thank you.
Speaker 3: All we need is a good pandemic and suddenly all
Speaker 3: of our financial bows go away because we just borrow
Speaker 3: against the national debt.
Speaker 2: All right to you?
Speaker 4: Uh, speaking of debt. Facing a one billion dollar deficit,
Speaker 4: LA City lawmakers have moved forward to spend more money.
Speaker 2: Oh good.
Speaker 4: City Council approved a package emotions aimed at protecting illegal
Speaker 4: immigrants in Los Angeles at ten to was a ten
Speaker 4: to nothing vote. They said, we're going to move forward.
Speaker 4: At least that's not final approval yet, but move forward
Speaker 4: with policies to require businesses to notify the city of
Speaker 4: all ICE enforcement activity, as well as informed workers of
Speaker 4: their rights ahead of raids. And the council directed staff
Speaker 4: to identify more than five hundred thousand dollars to maintain
Speaker 4: immigration legal services.
Speaker 3: So this was the thing that sticks out to me
Speaker 3: is it would require businesses to notify the city. So,
Speaker 3: in other words, if you have if you're running a
Speaker 3: restaurant and you get word that ICE is coming, or
Speaker 3: if ICE shows up, they knock on the door and
Speaker 3: they see we want to see who's here and whatnot,
Speaker 3: then then your restaurant would have to contact the city.
Speaker 3: In other words, it's a half a million dollars to
Speaker 3: enforce a snitch system. So snitch out ICE as quickly
Speaker 3: as you can so that the city knows what ICE is doing.
Speaker 2: Now, what are they gonna do with that information? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: That's a good question.
Speaker 2: Oh, you told us ICE is here. What are we
Speaker 2: gonna do?
Speaker 3: Put on a social media post complaining about it, or
Speaker 3: we're gonna make a TikTok that says ice is coming,
Speaker 3: Ice is coming, but half a million dollars later, and
Speaker 3: now you have a new reporting requirement that your restaurant
Speaker 3: don't worry about seating that six top. You got to
Speaker 3: call the city, sit on hold, because as we all know,
Speaker 3: contacting the city is always always an expedient process.
Speaker 4: And what if you don't make and what if you
Speaker 4: don't call, can you get in trouble?
Speaker 3: Well, I would assume that's gonna be a high priority
Speaker 3: to make sure that you get fined for not calling them,
Speaker 3: because they got to make up this five hundred thousand
Speaker 3: dollars that they're spending on the snitch hot hot line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know how do they enforce it. I don't
Speaker 3: have any idea. I don't think they think through this.
Speaker 3: I think they think, oh, we're gonna do We're gonna
Speaker 3: do this thing. We want to we want to fight
Speaker 3: the policy, we want to protect the citizens, and let's
Speaker 3: put the onus on everybody else. And if they don't
Speaker 3: accept this onus because they've got their own stuff going on,
Speaker 3: then we're gonna wrap them all up in it.
Speaker 2: I don't have any idea what their plan is. I
Speaker 2: don't think they have any idea what their plan is.
Speaker 4: Just to clarify the five hundred thousand dollars is actually
Speaker 4: for legal aid. They had a series of motions that
Speaker 4: they said, yeah, let's move forward with these. One of
Speaker 4: them was for legal aid, another one was the snitch program.
Speaker 4: The other one was to inform workers of their rights.
Speaker 4: So there's several things going on.
Speaker 2: It's an unfunded snitch program. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that clarity because now we know that there
Speaker 3: won't be anybody answer the phone when you call the snitch.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: So have you ever missed an email at work? An
Speaker 3: important email? Have you ever sent an email that is
Speaker 3: very important? And you probably click on that little flag
Speaker 3: that says high priority. Everyone needs to take a good
Speaker 3: hard look at this and then crickets. Nothing comes back.
Speaker 3: You don't hear a word. Do you follow up or
Speaker 3: do you walk away? The Aly County Sheriff's Department announcing
Speaker 3: they planned to retest about four thousand DNA samples because
Speaker 3: they learned that the agency used the testing kits over
Speaker 3: a roughly eight month period that were found by the
Speaker 3: manufacturer to occasionally deliver incomplete results.
Speaker 2: According to the Department.
Speaker 3: Officials at Scientific Services Bureau learn only Monday about a
Speaker 3: notice that was sent to the agency last year by
Speaker 3: a DNA testing kit manufacturer that said a specific lot
Speaker 3: of kits were prone to the intermittently poor performance with
Speaker 3: potential to cause incomplete results in profiles. That notice was
Speaker 3: sent to the department in August of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: directed to a person who's no longer with the department,
Speaker 3: which means it went into the email ether it is
Speaker 3: lost in the void. The notice by the manufacturer recommended
Speaker 3: that the use of the effected kits be discontinued, but
Speaker 3: the department kept using them for about eight months because
Speaker 3: the person who got the email again wasn't there any longer.
Speaker 2: So how many investigations have been impacted? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Sheriff's Department says in a statement, however, that the use
Speaker 3: of the affected kits may have led to incomplete or
Speaker 3: suboptimal results, but not likely to have falsely identified any individual.
Speaker 3: Tell that to the defense attorneys. So this is an
Speaker 3: interesting one too, because not only do I believe that
Speaker 3: the manufacturing company should have issued more than just one email,
Speaker 3: which of course probably ended up in the junk mail
Speaker 3: folder anyway, but my wife recently left the company involuntarily.
Speaker 3: The problem is my wife and her department were wiped
Speaker 3: out because the company is trying to I think they're
Speaker 3: trying to sell, so they're trying to, you know, make
Speaker 3: their balance sheets look right.
Speaker 2: So my wife gets these emails. It says.
Speaker 3: Security access code to get to this whatever. So she says,
Speaker 3: somebody at the company is trying to log into this
Speaker 3: other it's a portal. She works at health insurance, so
Speaker 3: she tries to get money from health insurs so it's
Speaker 3: a it's a portal, so somebody's trying to log in,
Speaker 3: for instance, to medical right, but in order to log in,
Speaker 3: you have multi factor authorization. So she'll get a notice
Speaker 3: this says, here's your multi factor authorization code. And she
Speaker 3: looks at it and she goes, oh, somebody at that
Speaker 3: company is trying to log in. But what they don't
Speaker 3: realize is they fired the person who has the multi
Speaker 3: factor authorization phone, meaning her, So she just deletes it.
Speaker 3: So the company is left going, how do we access
Speaker 3: this portal? And the company that runs the portal is saying, well,
Speaker 3: you just have to use your multi factor authorization. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: her own company is saying, well, that person's not here anymore,
Speaker 3: and they go, well.
Speaker 2: That's the only way we can let you in. That's
Speaker 2: the other authorized user.
Speaker 3: So imagine if you are the person at at the
Speaker 3: sheriff's department, former person of the sheriff's department, who got
Speaker 3: the email and they went, huh, that's probably info they'd
Speaker 3: want to know. Probably shouldn't have gotten.
Speaker 2: Rid of me. Whoop delete. That's exactly what I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: That is what's going on here.
Speaker 3: Somebody saying, oh, that's probably important for them to have
Speaker 3: no whoop dalite all done.
Speaker 4: Skis putting at least a pause on a Trump plan,
Speaker 4: and this one they're doing it voluntarily. The Social Security
Speaker 4: Administration announced that it is pushing back the rollout of
Speaker 4: a new measure by two weeks and also lowering the
Speaker 4: number of people who are going to be affected by it.
Speaker 4: So the planned policy was supposed to kick in on Monday,
Speaker 4: would have required everybody filing benefit applications who cannot verify
Speaker 4: their identities through their online mysocial security account to go
Speaker 4: to a field office to complete the claim. Currently, you
Speaker 4: can apply over the phone too. Now, the new identity
Speaker 4: verification policy will only apply to those filing for retirement,
Speaker 4: survivors or family benefits. It kicks in April fourteen. People
Speaker 4: applying for disability benefits, supplemental security income, Medicare will continue
Speaker 4: to have the option of flyle filing over the phone,
Speaker 4: so they're scaling it back a little bit and delaying
Speaker 4: it a little bit.
Speaker 3: What we know is that one of the big hits
Speaker 3: to the budget of the United States is the social
Speaker 3: program payouts, the Medicare, Medicaid, social Security, and one way
Speaker 3: to try to balance the budget is to cut some
Speaker 3: of those payoffs, modify Social Security. We've been hearing since
Speaker 3: we were first into the workforce, social Security won't be
Speaker 3: there when we're ready to retire. And yet the idea
Speaker 3: of removing something like that is deeply, deeply unpopular, mostly
Speaker 3: because we've been paying into it our whole lives and.
Speaker 2: Now you're telling me I can't get anything out of it.
Speaker 3: So one way that you can reduce that is by
Speaker 3: stopping some people from being able to collect their benefits
Speaker 3: by making it more difficult. So this is great, what
Speaker 3: a great plan. We'll just to make Social Security inaccessible
Speaker 3: for a number of people, especially I mean old folks,
Speaker 3: you know, boomer's trying to get into the retirement They
Speaker 3: were sometimes digitally challenged, and this is a great way
Speaker 3: to keep them from taking their money, and that really
Speaker 3: helps to balance a budget.
Speaker 2: That's a it's called a quiet cut like.
Speaker 4: That to to get Social Security?
Speaker 2: Is it sixty six now, right?
Speaker 4: So you're not talking about like eighty five and ninety
Speaker 4: year old people.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, I know some boomers that are sixty
Speaker 3: six and they.
Speaker 4: Act like eighty five or nineteen year old.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what though, I hit my mid
Speaker 3: forties and all of a sudden, I realized exactly what
Speaker 3: my parents were experiencing as the development of the Internet
Speaker 3: and then social media and everything else grew up. Because
Speaker 3: now AI is becoming such an influence in the world,
Speaker 3: and so fast too. I mean, we didn't have AI
Speaker 3: anything until a couple of years ago, and now all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, it's AI everywhere.
Speaker 2: And who's keeping up.
Speaker 3: And who's not? And what can I do and all
Speaker 3: this stuff? And I can't keep up with AI. My
Speaker 3: wife is pretty good at it, and she's older than
Speaker 3: I am. She hates when I tell people that, But
Speaker 3: this a I'm sort of sitting back going, you know what,
Speaker 3: let me know when I need to learn AI. But
Speaker 3: until then, I'm just gonna kind of relax a little bit.
Speaker 3: The other one I'm bad at too, is video editing.
Speaker 3: Do you do video editing at all?
Speaker 4: It is not my favorite things.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm so terrible at that.
Speaker 4: I actually have some great people here who do a
Speaker 4: great job at it.
Speaker 3: Right, you know what is in radio? Everything has to
Speaker 3: be digital. There's got to be all the you know,
Speaker 3: the the video component to everything.
Speaker 2: And I can't keep up. I got it.
Speaker 3: This is why we only hire young producers like Ann
Speaker 3: so that she can take care of things like this.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Off to West Texas we go. Doctors treating people hospitalized
Speaker 3: for measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico have a
Speaker 3: new problem, come to find out, so many of the
Speaker 3: people that they are treating in the hospital for measles,
Speaker 3: a completely preventable disease, now have vitamin A toxicity. At
Speaker 3: Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbuck, which is near the epicenter
Speaker 3: of the outbreak, patients have been found to have abnormal
Speaker 3: liver function on routine lab tests.
Speaker 2: And why is that?
Speaker 3: Because they've been told by the Internets and probably the
Speaker 3: Director of Health and Human Services that you can simply
Speaker 3: treat your measles with vitamin A, so they're taking too
Speaker 3: much of it. Too much vitamin a can have serious
Speaker 3: health consequences. There is no evidence either that it can
Speaker 3: prevent measles, but don't let that deter you from listening
Speaker 3: to your ant on Facebook. According to actual doctors, the
Speaker 3: only way to prevent infection with the measles virus is
Speaker 3: through the measles Mump's Rebella vaccine. It's ninety seven percent
Speaker 3: effective against measles after two doses. Kennedy has said that
Speaker 3: he does encourage vaccination, but it is a personal choice.
Speaker 3: So your vitamin A, your cod liver oils actually could
Speaker 3: be doing more harm than good. We're always trying to
Speaker 3: figure out if we're going to have enough charge in
Speaker 3: our evs to get too from wherever we're headed and
Speaker 3: get stuck in traffic on the way. How do we
Speaker 3: make sure we always have a full charge.
Speaker 4: Stay in California because electric vehicle charging ports now outnumber
Speaker 4: gas nozzles across the state. The milestone comes as the
Speaker 4: federal government's moving to depriotur deep priortorize perfect the shift
Speaker 4: away from gas powered cars. Of course, in California we
Speaker 4: still have the mandate twenty thirty five not gonna be
Speaker 4: able to sell new gas powered cars. But I think
Speaker 4: Trump eliminated that map mandate nationally. But in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 4: California had one hundred and seventy eight thousand, five hundred
Speaker 4: total ev ports compared to about twelve thousand gas nozzles.
Speaker 2: But that includes the ones in people's garages too.
Speaker 4: Right, and the ones that don't work probably all right.
Speaker 3: So of the one hundred seventy eight thousan five hundred
Speaker 3: total ev ports, how many are accessible and functional? The
Speaker 3: ev ports they're a little bit like the McDonald the
Speaker 3: ice cream machine. Right, it's kind of a hit and miss.
Speaker 3: You'll be lucky if it works when you get there.
Speaker 3: And whenever they have a lineup of the ev charging stations,
Speaker 3: there might be seven chargers there and you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 3: if just three of these work, I'm going to be
Speaker 3: in luck.
Speaker 4: But alas, and it takes a while, like it takes
Speaker 4: three minutes to fill up a gas tank. They're saying
Speaker 4: that there are more than one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 4: thousand chargers at what is called level two that will
Speaker 4: charge fourteen to thirty five miles per hour of charging.
Speaker 3: All right, So if those are in your garage and
Speaker 3: you can plug it in and when you get home
Speaker 3: at night and let it charge for ten or twelve
Speaker 3: hours overnight, that's not so bad. But if you are
Speaker 3: not at home and you have to stop and wait
Speaker 3: for that, I mean, this is one of the big
Speaker 3: hang ups, isn't it. For the adoption of evs. It's
Speaker 3: the accessibility, right I mean, even if we can find
Speaker 3: the chargers, it takes so long, and there's a it's
Speaker 3: an inconvenience right now, whereas.
Speaker 2: Filling up your gas tank.
Speaker 3: You fill up your tank once every week or two,
Speaker 3: Like you said, five ten minutes, you're in and out.
Speaker 3: This is why I also think that Elon Musk's Tesla
Speaker 3: diner will catch on. I think other people are going
Speaker 3: to take this on the fact that his name is
Speaker 3: associated with that brand, I think it is going to
Speaker 3: make it tough for his diner to be compelling for
Speaker 3: a number of people. However, I do think that's the
Speaker 3: way to go. You have to offer some other kind
Speaker 3: of distraction while the cars are charging.
Speaker 4: There's one I can't remember the name of it opened
Speaker 4: a couple of months ago down in Orange County that is, like,
Speaker 4: it's a convenience store, and I think it might have
Speaker 4: like some food offerings, and it's got thirty five charging stations.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's either businesses start putting in charging stations
Speaker 3: or you're gonna have entire businesses growing up around charging stations.
Speaker 2: It could go one way or the other.
Speaker 3: And if if you've got a business that requires people
Speaker 3: to be there for a period of time, you're probably
Speaker 3: smart to invest in the infrastructure to put that in.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking movie theaters, I'm thinking bowling alleys, you know,
Speaker 3: these sorts of places where you can do that. And
Speaker 3: I mean, at what point do we start seeing this
Speaker 3: sort of thing popping up at places like Chavez Ravine.
Speaker 3: You know, I drove to the I drove to the
Speaker 3: Dodger game. I parked my car, I plugged it in,
Speaker 3: and I went and I watched the game. And when
Speaker 3: I came out three four hours later, I had another
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty miles of charge. You know, I
Speaker 3: don't know how feasible that is. I don't know exactly
Speaker 3: what the cost is going to be. And I also
Speaker 3: don't know how long it's going to take before the
Speaker 3: infrastructure catches up to our demands to make things go faster,
Speaker 3: because the last thing you want to do is invest
Speaker 3: a bunch of money in infrastructure on say level two
Speaker 3: or level three chargers, and then you know, five years
Speaker 3: down the road, suddenly we go up. This whole technology
Speaker 3: from byd in China has gone so well, but we
Speaker 3: have to we have to reinstall new infrastructure. Then you're
Speaker 3: in a then you're in a bit of a bind,
Speaker 3: and and you've you've wasted some money. So I understand
Speaker 3: why some places are holding off before they do that.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but the thing that sketches
Speaker 3: me out, and mind you, I have I have three
Speaker 3: hybrids in my house right now. My son's car is
Speaker 3: a hybrid, which was my car and I sold it
Speaker 3: to him. My vehicle's a hybrid. My wife's uh lit
Speaker 3: Ford Maverick is a hybrid as well. So I'm I'm
Speaker 3: a big fan of of the different energy sources. What
Speaker 3: scares me a bit about the evs uh is that
Speaker 3: and it's not so bad here, but if I travel
Speaker 3: at all, and I understand if I travel, I got
Speaker 3: to stop, and I'm gonna take a I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: half an hour an hour to charge. I understand all
Speaker 3: of that, right. What worries me and sketches me out
Speaker 3: is these stories about cars being stuck in snowstorms. I
Speaker 3: know this seems like a weird freak out, but imagine
Speaker 3: you're driving and then all of a sudden, you're say
Speaker 3: you're going from here, and you're driving to Lubbock, Texas
Speaker 3: because you have to go visit your crazy.
Speaker 2: Niece who's in the hospital with measles.
Speaker 3: And as you're driving to Texas, you're heading across the mountains,
Speaker 3: and then you get hit in the snowstorm and then
Speaker 3: you're stuck. Did you see the stories from a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago where they had a pile up on I
Speaker 3: forty and they were stuck there for fourteen hours. Your
Speaker 3: battery is not gonna hold up giving you heat for
Speaker 3: fourteen hours. That freaks me out. I don't want to
Speaker 3: freeze to death because my car ran out of juice.
Speaker 3: I know it's a dumb worry.
Speaker 2: I get it. I know I'm freaking out about.
Speaker 4: Silliness, but I don't think it's a dumb worry at all, Chris,
Speaker 4: I think it's very valid.
Speaker 2: Thank you for validating my feeling.
Speaker 4: You are more than welcome. But I think that that's
Speaker 4: what does Bill Handle call it, and I can't remember
Speaker 4: because he talks about it all the time. Range anxiety,
Speaker 4: range anxiety.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, mine's not range anxiety. It's freezing to death
Speaker 3: in the mountains. Anxiety doesn't have the same kind of
Speaker 3: ring to it as the range anxiety does. One other story,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna address this later a little bit later
Speaker 3: ont of the show, coming up at eight thirty, we're
Speaker 3: going to talk with our investigative reporter from ABC, Brad Garrett.
Speaker 3: But if you miss this, the Supreme Court held yesterday
Speaker 3: that federal firearms laws cover these so called ghost guns,
Speaker 3: the weapons that are made from kits, and these don't
Speaker 3: have the serial numbers on them, and these are.
Speaker 2: Harder to trace.
Speaker 3: The gun industry had challenged the Biden era regulation treating
Speaker 3: ghost guns like other firearms with the same licensing, background
Speaker 3: checks and serial number requirements.
Speaker 2: Federal Appeals Court in New Orleans set aside that regulation.
Speaker 3: They said that weapons parts aren't weapons, and so they're
Speaker 3: not covered by the Gun Control Act of nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 3: But the Supreme Court, which remember the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: What was it? You got the.
Speaker 3: Gorsich, Amy Cony, Barrett, Brett kamanall all named by President Trump.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court disagreed.
Speaker 3: In fact, Neil Gorsich wrote for the court, and the regulation,
Speaker 3: he says, stands.
Speaker 2: They did leave up with.
Speaker 3: The possibility that some kits might be so far from
Speaker 3: a finished gun that they would fall outside the regulation.
Speaker 3: So think of this like when you were a kid
Speaker 3: and you go to your grandpa's house and he had
Speaker 3: model cars that you could put together. I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe you did it with your grandpa. I did with
Speaker 3: my grandpa, and that was a special time for me.
Speaker 3: But what it was was just a bunch of parts
Speaker 3: connected to pieces of plastic and then we had to
Speaker 3: pull those off, and then you had to kind of
Speaker 3: file off the burrs, and then you were able to
Speaker 3: assemble your you know, your sixty seven Mustang or something, right,
Speaker 3: And that's kind of what these ghost gun kits are,
Speaker 3: and in some cases they end up printing them. I
Speaker 3: don't know if this addresses the whole three D printed guns,
Speaker 3: but there is an expansive definition, as has long been
Speaker 3: understood to reach everything from run of the mill rifles
Speaker 3: to novelty umbrella guns. According to Gorsich, the beerau of
Speaker 3: ATF was within the lost scope when it determined that
Speaker 3: covered weapons included kits that can readily be completed, assembled
Speaker 3: and restored, or otherwise converted to expel a projectile by
Speaker 3: the action of an explosive, in other words, guns.
Speaker 2: So that is that's the deal.
Speaker 3: If you've got if you're a ghost gun enthusiast, you're
Speaker 3: still gonna have to treat that like it's a regular firearm.
Speaker 2: Chris merrill In for Bill Handle. Okay, fine, we've got
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