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Speaker 1: here's not Bill.
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Speaker 2: Good Friday Morning, Neil Savedra Here, the gang's all here,
Speaker 2: Amy k King, We've got Cono, Will and Ann and me.
Speaker 2: Bill will join us on Monday. Good Morning. How you doing, Amy,
Speaker 2: I'm doing fabulous. Okay, you sliding. She's sliding out of
Speaker 2: her own show, changing gears, getting the news done.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Kono's asleep.
Speaker 3: He's resting up for the for the final four.
Speaker 2: You know, I know I've bust his chops all the time,
Speaker 2: but that dude's built like like a pit bull. You
Speaker 2: ever pat that guy in the back. He's solid. He's solid.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you there's a rule of thumb for those
Speaker 2: of us who have let's say scrapped once or twice.
Speaker 2: You never get beat by someone bigger than you. They
Speaker 2: don't fight. They don't ever fight. They're these big guys, right,
Speaker 2: they don't want to fight. Kno would make me nervous,
Speaker 2: like I saw Kno, Like that would be the guy
Speaker 2: I would try a buddy up to and avoid.
Speaker 3: So you're saying he's scrappy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's uh. He's a dense dude. He's uh.
Speaker 3: And you're not talking about mentally.
Speaker 2: No, no, No, he's actually got a great sense of
Speaker 2: humor and you need to be smart to have a
Speaker 2: great sense of humor. And I bust his chops all
Speaker 2: the time, and he makes me laugh. So I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: that's my Friday love. That might have been a nice
Speaker 2: thing Neil's ever said. I say nice things to you
Speaker 2: to me, I say nice things to you just off the.
Speaker 4: Air and like under your breath. Yeah, not out loud.
Speaker 4: I buy you Celsius. You do you do?
Speaker 2: I do appreciate without even asking. That saves me like
Speaker 2: five dollars, that's how much they are. Something like that.
Speaker 5: Very mad.
Speaker 2: I gotta start looking at things before I grab them
Speaker 2: for you and probably going up. No, he's a great dude.
Speaker 2: That's why I bust his chops. He's like family, we
Speaker 2: got ann How you doing any I'm doing good, your
Speaker 2: little tefises. I know, dental stuff sucks, and dental stuff
Speaker 2: is like nothing nothing nothing nothing. Oh my god, oh
Speaker 2: my god, oh my.
Speaker 3: God, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, uh, you know, dental stuff is like
Speaker 2: the termites of the human world. You don't see anything
Speaker 2: until you see everything, and it's like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went from all good to like literally just
Speaker 3: laying on the floor crying.
Speaker 2: Ah, get the bugman in here to poke at your
Speaker 2: teeth and go, yeah, this one's got Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I'm on antibiotics, so oh, good for you. We'll
Speaker 3: get it taken care of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but those aren't even fun. No, antibiotics. It just
Speaker 2: a matter of fact. They're anti fun because you can't drink.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: The look on your face was like, oh crap last night.
Speaker 2: She's a tequila girl too, so that's not like, oh
Speaker 2: I'm having a Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, she's a little side of a moxscility.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be good. Amy King wiggle wagglewalk.
Speaker 3: Wiggle wagglewalk. Coming up on Sunday, just two days away.
Speaker 3: We're very excited. I tell you more about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how can people donate? I think it's a big
Speaker 2: deal or purse?
Speaker 3: This is the easy thing. There's two things. One, there's
Speaker 3: still time for you to sign up if you would
Speaker 3: like to walk with us, and we would love to
Speaker 3: have you come and spend Sunday morning with us walking
Speaker 3: around the Rose Bowl. So you can do that. It
Speaker 3: can't if I am six forty dot com slash wiggle
Speaker 3: And if you have a dog, bring your dog along
Speaker 3: as long as he's good around other dogs. And if
Speaker 3: you don't have a dog, that's okay too. You can
Speaker 3: walk without a dog. And if you're looking for a
Speaker 3: dog they do have a Wiggle Waggle wagon at the event.
Speaker 3: And last year the dog that I walked for the walk,
Speaker 3: I borrowed him basically for the walk. We got him
Speaker 3: adopted that day. So if you are looking for a dog,
Speaker 3: you might want to go and check out the Wiggle
Speaker 3: Waggle Wagon. You can donate or you can join the
Speaker 3: team either one at KFI AM six forty dot com.
Speaker 3: Hope you'll join us on Sunday morning starts at eight
Speaker 3: walk is it nine?
Speaker 2: What if you have an ugly kid? Can just bring
Speaker 2: the ugly kid?
Speaker 3: You're going to put your kid on a leash and
Speaker 3: bring him to the walk, You can do that. Are
Speaker 3: leash just for kids still a thing?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I haven't seen much. There was a picture
Speaker 2: recently that I saw online someone a teacher. I don't know,
Speaker 2: as a teacher. Maybe I don't know, some daycare or something.
Speaker 2: They had like one rope in the middle that had like, uh,
Speaker 2: like a maypole.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well and then it had like little darting off
Speaker 2: leashes from it and they were attached to children.
Speaker 3: You know what I would say, don't knock them until
Speaker 3: you try them. There was a kid in Disneyland. We
Speaker 3: were in the and It's a Small World.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: We were in the line and this kid who was
Speaker 3: like this tall, like maybe two feet tall, took off
Speaker 3: in a dead sprint and while his mom wasn't looking,
Speaker 3: and before she realized he was gone. He was like
Speaker 3: all the way down to the matterhorn. I mean he
Speaker 3: took off running.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, Yes, Neil, No, I'm looking at donate.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, oh you still haven't donated.
Speaker 2: Right, But what why are you laughing at that cono? Well,
Speaker 2: let's see where where are we at?
Speaker 3: Let's see both go to the wiggle Wagons see the
Speaker 3: KFI wake up called Wigglers. Yeah, and you can on me.
Speaker 3: There's Amy King and then you could donate to me.
Speaker 3: And there's a donate button. It's blue.
Speaker 2: Do I donate to you?
Speaker 4: Or this?
Speaker 2: The KFI wake up, Carl Wiggler either one.
Speaker 3: But you know, Mary Efron just made a donation. Thanks Mary.
Speaker 2: Well it says ninety six forty one dollar.
Speaker 3: Holy cow, we're really close. Yeah that's great. Our roll
Speaker 3: is ten thousand, but you know what, we want more
Speaker 3: because it all goes topacity in a humane Oh we're
Speaker 3: so close. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll tell you what. I will take
Speaker 2: you to ten grand? What yeah, so I will take you.
Speaker 2: I'll top it off to ten.
Speaker 3: Grand neil Seville, let's get.
Speaker 2: Let's get people going.
Speaker 3: All right, well, let's make it eleven.
Speaker 2: Then let's let people going.
Speaker 3: So absolutely.
Speaker 2: That's because that's awesome and that's for a great cause
Speaker 2: and they're under a lot of pressure. I'm happy to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, Thomas Beachman donated. Akiko Smith just join the team,
Speaker 3: Land oh, land in just the team. See, We've got
Speaker 3: people joining in all the time. And I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: This is going to be so much fun. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Do you give like a speech like a pep talk? Sure?
Speaker 3: I yep, you got it. You know what? You know
Speaker 3: how big our team is. This is bigger than last year.
Speaker 3: We've got fifty one people on our team.
Speaker 2: Holy smoke, we.
Speaker 3: Got a lot of people with a lot of dogs
Speaker 3: coming to walk with us. I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: That would be super cool. Good on you.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, yep, yep. So I hope you'll join us
Speaker 3: on Sunday morning starts at eight. Again, the walk starts
Speaker 3: at nine. All kinds of fun stuff going on, and
Speaker 3: if you are inclined to dress up your dog, there
Speaker 3: is a costume contest. They had some fantastic costumes last year.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I support that, but.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, as long as you donate it out, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what you said.
Speaker 2: So picture this and I'll do it during the break.
Speaker 2: So we're at nine, six, four to one. Oh, and
Speaker 2: we'll top you off alrighty, so uh, you know, let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and take a break now, and then we'll
Speaker 2: come back and we'll get into the news. Oh another thing,
Speaker 2: before we do that, you were talking about White Lotus,
Speaker 2: which I've never seen me either, so I asked Anne. Oh,
Speaker 2: so Cono was giving the thumbs up, I asked Anne.
Speaker 2: She's like, yes, I watch it. She described it to me,
Speaker 2: and it's freaking fantasy island.
Speaker 5: Or love boat. It's just but with crazy people. Yes,
Speaker 5: yeah like that. I'm like, you're just describing fantasy island.
Speaker 2: Smiles, everyone smile.
Speaker 3: You know what's funny is I did watch an episode
Speaker 3: of it, but I didn't love it. But then Will
Speaker 3: was saying that the second and the third are fantastic.
Speaker 3: It has that kind of feel, you know how like
Speaker 3: cinematography it you know, things look a certain way. It
Speaker 3: does sort of look like a fantasy island.
Speaker 2: Well there's you know, it just describes like people going
Speaker 2: on vacation or going down there, and then the different
Speaker 2: personalities interacting and all that. I don't get a whole
Speaker 2: lot of TV time, very little, especially on adult themes.
Speaker 2: Now you ask me about a venture time the cartoon,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you all about it. Dumbball done. You know
Speaker 2: my kids, thank God, got a great sense of humor
Speaker 2: and watches the funny stuff. But I don't get to
Speaker 2: watch a whole lot of TV.
Speaker 3: So do you go back and watch like classic like Bugs,
Speaker 3: Bunny and stuff with Max?
Speaker 2: You know what we did early on a couple of problems.
Speaker 2: One the old stuff is racist as hell. Really, I
Speaker 2: mean seriously, he's using terms like cotton picking are you
Speaker 2: out of your cotton picking mine? And stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and it's like, uh, you know, it's like watching the
Speaker 2: Little Original Little Rascals again. You'll get through two minutes
Speaker 2: and you go, oh, my gosh, this is the most
Speaker 2: racist thing I've ever seen in my life. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of hard with modern sensibilities. But I do like
Speaker 2: the old stuff. He connects a little bit with Tom
Speaker 2: and Jerry and things like that, but not not the
Speaker 2: you know, Daffy Duck and all that stuff. From what
Speaker 2: I've seen. He likes the obscure stuff, adventure time like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he actually, And because I want him to have a good,
Speaker 2: solid sense of humor, I watch I let him watch
Speaker 2: stuff that, humor wise, is a little older than where
Speaker 2: he's at. I kind of raise him a couple of
Speaker 2: years older in some things and then protect him to
Speaker 2: be eight in other ways. And it's making his sense
Speaker 2: of humor. When we were on vacation, we walked into
Speaker 2: a bathroom and he pointed to the baby tage changing
Speaker 2: table and he goes, so, if I put a baby
Speaker 2: on there, what does it change into? And then he
Speaker 2: looked at me. He laughed, and I said, that's all
Speaker 2: I want. That's all I want. The kid could be
Speaker 2: dumb as a rock. I want him to be kind
Speaker 2: and funny. He'll figure out a way to make money.
Speaker 2: But I wanted to be kind and funny, and I
Speaker 2: thought that was hilarious. And then when I was videoing,
Speaker 2: I was video I take b roll sometimes on trips
Speaker 2: because like a moment or the gondolas were rocking at
Speaker 2: night and they were covered, and I was just videoing
Speaker 2: them and my eight year old comes up behind me
Speaker 2: and starts scoring my video. And I didn't notice at
Speaker 2: first he's behind me, going oh and scoring it. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? But he was making a dramatic
Speaker 2: moment that to me, I cherish. I don't care if
Speaker 2: the kid makes money, be kind and be funny. Alrighty,
Speaker 2: well that was not quick. Let's do handle on the
Speaker 2: news lead story. All right, Oh my god, it's all
Speaker 2: going to hell and basket. Stock market loses three point
Speaker 2: one trillion in value, worst one day drop since COVID. Yes,
Speaker 2: everything is wonky right now. President Trump's new tariff plan
Speaker 2: triggered global retaliation in some sorts. The fear that's going
Speaker 2: to hurt the economy. You know, we expected this. I
Speaker 2: talked with Joel Larsguard yesterday from how to Money, and
Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is, as much as we
Speaker 2: want to be intellectual about the stock market, it is
Speaker 2: not an intellectual endeavor. It is an emotional endeavor, and
Speaker 2: emotionally people are going to react. I don't know if
Speaker 2: the tariffs are going to work, but I will tell
Speaker 2: you this, they can. They can. So it is a
Speaker 2: strategy and we'll have to see it pan out and
Speaker 2: see what ends up happening at the end of all
Speaker 2: of this. But right now, this is going to be
Speaker 2: the knee jerk reaction. I find it interesting that it's
Speaker 2: the worst one day drop since COVID, and you know
Speaker 2: COVID that was a disaster closing everything down, so that
Speaker 2: could have been avoided as well. But there you go.
Speaker 3: So, speaking of tariffs, when we slap China slaps back.
Speaker 3: Part of the tariffs was that President Trump announced he
Speaker 3: was going to impose thirty four percent tariffs on imports
Speaker 3: from China. Well, China's finance minister said it's going to
Speaker 3: match mister Trump's plan for thirty four percent tariffs on
Speaker 3: goods from China with its own thirty four percent tariff
Speaker 3: on imports from the US. China's Ministry of Commerce also
Speaker 3: said it's adding eleven American companies to its list of
Speaker 3: unreliable entities, essentially barring them from doing business in China
Speaker 3: or doing business with Chinese companies. And they also said
Speaker 3: they're starting two trade investigations into American exports of medical
Speaker 3: imaging equipment, one of the few manufacturing categories in which
Speaker 3: the US is still pretty competitive internationally.
Speaker 2: Did they name the businesses those eleven unreliable entities? Because
Speaker 2: I don't see it.
Speaker 3: I do not see this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, story right, Yeah, it just says that there's eleven
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're also halting chicken imports.
Speaker 2: Got right, No more Chinese chicken, all right. New bill
Speaker 2: would require teams up to sixteen years old to ride
Speaker 2: in the back seat. We're going to talk about this
Speaker 2: a little bit later too, because the rules are interesting.
Speaker 2: As a dad of an eight year old who you know,
Speaker 2: you're not huge at eight to ride in the backseat
Speaker 2: if they're not tall enough. Middle schoolers up to age thirteen,
Speaker 2: how the hell is Cono going to drive from the
Speaker 2: back seat. You didn't see that coming, did this? You'd
Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, when you saw this story. You didn't
Speaker 2: think that was gonna strong dude. Though, strong dude, solid.
Speaker 2: You could throw a chair at him. I bet you
Speaker 2: wouldn't even break his jaw, like a big chair, like
Speaker 2: one of those those lazy boys something like that. So
Speaker 2: they're citing these crash statistics and we'll see what ends
Speaker 2: up happening with this. Small framed children, regardless of age,
Speaker 2: are disproportionately hurt and crashes when not in the back
Speaker 2: seat or the boost your seat. So we shall see.
Speaker 2: But we're going to talk about that a little bit later.
Speaker 2: I have some thoughts.
Speaker 3: Signal Gates not going away. The Acting Inspector General of
Speaker 3: the Defense Department is going to review Secretary of Defense
Speaker 3: Pete hegsas of the signal app that was the one
Speaker 3: used in the group chat with other national security officials
Speaker 3: that a journalist somehow got invited into. They were talking
Speaker 3: about military strikes against the Hooties in Lemon in Lemon
Speaker 3: in Yemen last month. They say that what they want
Speaker 3: to do is determine whether Hegseth and other Pentagon personnel
Speaker 3: complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of
Speaker 3: a commercial messaging application for official business.
Speaker 2: If I was him, I would just send out a
Speaker 2: bunch of garbage to a bunch of different people, make
Speaker 2: stuff up. Nobody would know what was real what wasn't.
Speaker 2: Then you cover yourself.
Speaker 3: Right, send out fake news.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and then you're golden. We've had to do
Speaker 2: that around here. I can't get into details, but it happens.
Speaker 2: Senate confirmed mimic Oz doctor Oz, to lead the Centers
Speaker 2: for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a party line vote
Speaker 2: fifty three to forty five yesterday, placing him in charge
Speaker 2: of overseeing more than one trillion dollars annual spending. Oprah
Speaker 2: gave us a lot of weird people, doctor Phil and
Speaker 2: Memo Oz, didn't they kind of they start out and
Speaker 2: then they kind of, you know, mem and Oz started.
Speaker 2: Wasn't there some like weird controversy about certain things or
Speaker 2: that he was I don't know that. Were they like
Speaker 2: vitamins or supplements or something that he was like? I
Speaker 2: don't know, but I don't know that I would take
Speaker 2: any medical advice from him, So we shall see how
Speaker 2: that goes.
Speaker 3: Cut too deep. Of course, we've been hearing about the
Speaker 3: layoffs associated with DOGE, and they did a lot of
Speaker 3: layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services. So
Speaker 3: yesterday Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior said, yeah, I think
Speaker 3: we cut too much. So they're going to bring back
Speaker 3: estimated twenty percent of the people who were laid off
Speaker 3: and also reinstates and programs. Okay, good, so well good
Speaker 3: if they need to come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a you've got to be able
Speaker 2: to correct, you know. Uh, it's ballast. You're trying to
Speaker 2: keep things, and it'd be worse if they you know,
Speaker 2: everyone says that they're just being crazy, and I can't
Speaker 2: argue with that, but if they're bringing people back, then
Speaker 2: they're obviously looking at the checks and balances to make
Speaker 2: sure everything is right.
Speaker 3: We do have to know. This is what happens in
Speaker 3: corporate America all the time.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, just recently happened I don't know, in the other
Speaker 3: room a couple.
Speaker 2: Of months ago. Yeah, you know, like.
Speaker 3: They cut, and they make the cuts that are too deep,
Speaker 3: and then they go, oh, we really do need that.
Speaker 3: So and I think I was watching an interview with
Speaker 3: Elon Musk and he was saying, yeah, we've made some mistakes,
Speaker 3: and he goes and then we say we made a
Speaker 3: mistake and we fix it, which, whether you like what
Speaker 3: he's doing or not, it's kind of refreshing that he's
Speaker 3: like going, yeah, I screwed up and isn't admitting to it.
Speaker 3: I agree, because so many people won't. You'll never see
Speaker 3: Trump say he made a mistake. No ever.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this though. It's like I always say,
Speaker 2: don't follow the person that knows everything, because they don't
Speaker 2: follow the person and ask the right questions because they
Speaker 2: will get the answer sound advice, nil savana. Oh God forbid.
Speaker 2: We're not allowed to be reasonable anymore. Hurricanes Helene Milton
Speaker 2: and Burrow Beryl were so nasty last year that their
Speaker 2: names are being retired like a sports jersey because the
Speaker 2: World Meteorological Organization. Easy for me to say on Wednesday, officially,
Speaker 2: just replace the names of this trio because they killed
Speaker 2: a lot of people, more than three hundred people, caused
Speaker 2: more than one hundred and nineteen billion dollars in damage,
Speaker 2: So those names will no longer be a part of
Speaker 2: the horrible storms.
Speaker 3: Mexico is saying some nice things about the tariffs. There's
Speaker 3: the Economic Minister Marco Marcello Ibrand praised the what he
Speaker 3: calls presidential Sorry, preferential I'll get it right, preferential treatment
Speaker 3: received by Mexico. After US President Trump unveiled sweeping new
Speaker 3: global tariffs, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum said, the good treatment
Speaker 3: they're getting is because of Mexico's positive relationship with the US.
Speaker 2: I think you were right to say presidential treatment. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that works. Presidential treatment, preferential treatment. I think that hits
Speaker 2: it all right. Back to handle on the news. Riverside County,
Speaker 2: the first case of measles in seven years in Riverside
Speaker 2: County prompted health officials on Thursday to urge precautions and
Speaker 2: vigilance among residents. This stood out to me and annoys
Speaker 2: me a little bit. So the patient, identified only as
Speaker 2: a person from the eastern half of the country, tested
Speaker 2: positive for measles infection. But it's the officials came out
Speaker 2: and said the person had recently traveled outside the United
Speaker 2: States without naming the country. Why would you not name
Speaker 2: the country? Is this one of those political things where
Speaker 2: it's like, uh, Trump got busted for saying that the
Speaker 2: virus COVID came from China, Like we're not We're not
Speaker 2: allowed to say where they come anymore, because we don't
Speaker 2: want to offend anybody. Don't you want to know, like
Speaker 2: if there's a measles outbreak and some guy which was
Speaker 2: on a plane somewhere where he came back from without
Speaker 2: what f's all right?
Speaker 3: Amy U Mel Gibson make it his guns back. Justice
Speaker 3: Department officials say they will allow actor Gibson to own
Speaker 3: guns again. Concerns over giving him his gun rights back
Speaker 3: led to some very tense back and forth with the
Speaker 3: Justice Department's pardon attorney. Her name Elizabeth Oyer. She was
Speaker 3: shortly well. She was fired shortly after that, and mss
Speaker 3: Oyer had said that she had refused to recommend mister
Speaker 3: Gibson be included on a shortlist of people with criminal
Speaker 3: convictions who could have their gun rights restored, despite getting
Speaker 3: pressure to do so from seniors, and then a Department
Speaker 3: official apparently had tried to convince her to change her
Speaker 3: mind because mister Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump.
Speaker 2: So what was the reason he had his guns taken away?
Speaker 3: Must criminal conviction?
Speaker 2: I thought it was because he thought Jews caused all
Speaker 2: the wars. Now he wants to make sure he's armed.
Speaker 2: You can't take away my fleeto.
Speaker 3: I don't think that was it. He pleaded no contest
Speaker 3: in twenty eleven to a back to recharge involving his
Speaker 3: ex girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, maybe he shouldn't have guns. In a
Speaker 2: rare appearance after her loss in November presidential election, former
Speaker 2: Vice president and potential gubernatorial candidate Kamala Harris on Thursday
Speaker 2: decried the rollback of fundamental rights under President Trump, urged
Speaker 2: people to prioritize self care and pledged to remain active
Speaker 2: in the fight safeguard constitutional protection. I wonder if self
Speaker 2: care means heavy dose of chardonnay.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe Trump is still saying you're fired. The head
Speaker 3: of US Cyber Command, General Timothy Huff, the military's offensive
Speaker 3: and defensive cyber unit chief, was fired. Top Democrats on
Speaker 3: the Senate and House Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner and Jim
Speaker 3: Hines denounced the firing. Who served of HUFFU served in
Speaker 3: the role since February of twenty twenty four. Not immediately
Speaker 3: clear why he was fired, but a couple others were
Speaker 3: fired as well, So one of them's moving around and
Speaker 3: going into a different area of the National Security Agency.
Speaker 3: But there's also been talked that they weren't loyal enough.
Speaker 2: Well, prerogative, I guess. Preventing future wildfire's big part of
Speaker 2: the rebuilding. We talked about this the other day when
Speaker 2: it comes to the Palisades and the Eaton fire burned areas,
Speaker 2: and one at the heart of those efforts is bearing
Speaker 2: the power lines. So the Campfire in twenty eighteen destroyed
Speaker 2: the town of Paradise, killed eighty five people. Dixie Fire
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one burned nearly a million acres of
Speaker 2: northern California. And here in southern California you had the
Speaker 2: Thomas Fire seventeen, the Wolsey Fire in twenty eighteen, And
Speaker 2: these are destructive and deadly wildfires that were caused by
Speaker 2: above ground power lines or power equipment. Now, we had
Speaker 2: a listener hit me up when we were talking about
Speaker 2: this the other day and say, well, they should switch
Speaker 2: out the wood poles with concrete poles. And I haven't
Speaker 2: done a deep dive on this, but you know, on
Speaker 2: the surface, I don't know that that would fix it.
Speaker 2: I think you're dealing anything above ground is going to
Speaker 2: be affected by the wind, could effectively topple over. The
Speaker 2: power lines, could hit each other and spark The arking,
Speaker 2: I think, is what's the problem. Not that the poles
Speaker 2: are catching fire. I think still from the things that
Speaker 2: we've seen, it's not the pole that catches on fire.
Speaker 2: It's the surrounding area that catches on fire with the
Speaker 2: sparking and all of that that takes place. So I
Speaker 2: don't know that concrete poles would change that equation, But again,
Speaker 2: haven't done a whole lot of deep dive on that.
Speaker 3: What a way to start this season. So you know,
Speaker 3: we've been telling you about all these break ins at
Speaker 3: athletes homes and it looks like Dodgers pitcher Blake Snow
Speaker 3: was the latest to fall victim to burglars. They broke
Speaker 3: into his home the day before opening day, so March
Speaker 3: twenty sixth, his homes up in the Seattle area. He
Speaker 3: was getting ready for opening day. Obviously, they say that
Speaker 3: luckily no one was home at the time. It's not
Speaker 3: clear if anything was taken, but somebody broke in through
Speaker 3: a window.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 3: It does because they know they're out of town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the weird thing. But you have to have
Speaker 2: good security.
Speaker 3: Well, even when you do, they use those jammers and
Speaker 3: cut off your security.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about that. You're 'to have to have
Speaker 2: personal people. There is nothing, you know. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to get in the details of our security, but i
Speaker 2: will tell you there is nothing like eyes on physical personnel.
Speaker 2: That is just the way it's got to be. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not about alarms. I mean, there's ways to better
Speaker 2: your alarm system too, and cut out the Wi Fi
Speaker 2: and have hard wire and all these different things, but
Speaker 2: you just have to have eyes on. You have to
Speaker 2: have armed people watching and taking care of things. Sucks,
Speaker 2: but that's the reality. Especially when you're at that point.
Speaker 2: You break into my house, you are gonna get horrilly
Speaker 2: crappy artwork that you couldn't sell anywhere. My wife hates
Speaker 2: jewelry except costume jewelry. Uh, there's like zero things a value.
Speaker 2: You can get a laser cutter that's about a thousand
Speaker 2: pounds that you would have to, you know, find somebody
Speaker 2: that would purchase. But other than that, you're not gonna
Speaker 2: some Legos. I think legos can go for pricing, you're not.
Speaker 2: There's nothing there, but you know, people with money, you
Speaker 2: gotta have eyes on. This is heard everywhere on the
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