WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:05.080 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:05.679 six forty. 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:10.519 And this is KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here 4 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:13.240 on a Friday morning, August twenty third. 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:15.480 Let's see what's going on. 6 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:21.839 Oh, Robert Kennedy expected today to endorse Donald Trump. And 7 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.879 the deal is a quid pro quo. You give me 8 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:28.199 a really high position in the administration, I will endorse you. 9 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:30.000 And it looks like Trump. 10 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:32.679 Has bought it. Because it looks like Trump has bought it. 11 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:35.719 All right, So the big news last night, Oh, before 12 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:38.439 we get to that, just really quickly, the podcast, the 13 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:45.679 Bill Handles Show podcast is dropping again yesterday. It's Tuesday Thursdays, 14 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:49.600 and yesterday was crazy memorabilia. The stuff that people pay 15 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:53.759 for and what they sell is just completely insane, that is. 16 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:59.359 And you can hear it on Spotify. iHeart iHeart app 17 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.200 radio app. Also I'm trying to think of all the 18 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.719 platforms Apple. In any case, it's Tuesdays and Thursdays, the 19 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:11.079 Bill Handle Show podcast. You can also go to the 20 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.239 Bill handleshowpodcast dot com for the website. All right now, 21 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:20.280 last night, Vice President Harris accepted the Democratic nomination. What 22 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:26.359 a shocker, and in a well anticipated hugely anticipated speech 23 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.519 and it was the biggest speech. 24 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:31.640 Of her career. Usually that happens with accepting the nomination. 25 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:37.319 She did and did it pretty well, I thought, And 26 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:42.599 that is do the normal just soaring rhetoric that you 27 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:47.040 hear from nominees at that point and at the same 28 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:50.640 time a personal attack on Donald Trump. And that is 29 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:52.840 going to be the way this campaign is going to go. 30 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.560 It is going to be a this is hope. 31 00:01:58.400 --> 00:01:58.719 Joy. 32 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:03.159 Joy is an immense part of the campaign. And then 33 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:08.599 my question is on the joy part. Did it morph 34 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.280 into joy or was that plan from the beginning, because 35 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.280 as the convention started to keep in mind that she 36 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.960 had already won the nomination, they had voted early virtually 37 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:22.759 so this was just to I guess, conclude it in 38 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.000 some way symbolically. But it was described by virtually every 39 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:29.599 commentator or every news outlet. 40 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:33.360 It was a party. That's what this was. It was 41 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:34.039 a party. 42 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:39.840 And everybody that I was watching was, in fact saying 43 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.840 that the exuberance in the hall, the electricity did you 44 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:46.639 hear for those of you that watched it or for 45 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:50.479 those of you that didn't, Every time a speaker would 46 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.879 be there and there was any kind of a phrase, 47 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.120 a short, succinct phrase, the screaming that came from the hall. 48 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:00.919 How many people were up there? Twousand people and in 49 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.280 unison they all yelled. One of them, of course, is 50 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:10.120 Kamala Harris's mantra, right when we fight, we win. And 51 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:13.960 every time someone says that the whole place just exploded 52 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:18.319 with that phrase or any phrase that was uttered by 53 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:22.680 a speaker, I mean there was real excitement there, real excitement. 54 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:23.840 Also a quick. 55 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:27.800 Note, were there more balloons dropped than at any other time. 56 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:30.879 It may get to the point where the hall is 57 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:35.080 going to be nothing but balloons twelve feet deep in 58 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.639 the next few elections. But I want to spend a 59 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.039 couple of minutes talking about just some of the takeaways, 60 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:44.840 because it would take me a very long time to 61 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.080 go through all of it. She spoke for forty minutes. 62 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.159 She hit on many different points, and I don't want 63 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:56.080 to hit everyone. But overriding it are two main issues. 64 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.520 One is we're going to be in a better place. 65 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:07.039 We're doing pretty well now versus the Republicans portraying. 66 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.639 America as this miserable place. 67 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:15.520 Where unemployment is rife, illegal aliens have taken your jobs, 68 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:20.160 Inflation is out of control. Even though it's under three percent, 69 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.439 it's the worst crime we have ever experienced in the country. 70 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:29.639 Not really, crime is down this year pretty substantially. It's 71 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:33.120 going to be that kind of attack. There's two realities here. 72 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:40.240 There are two realities. One is hope and one is change, 73 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:46.399 and one is joyfulness. Now Biden's Biden's administration, which she 74 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:51.360 was part of. She's keeping most of the policy. She's 75 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:57.519 gonna have to differential state, differential, differential, cell, differentiate, differentiate. 76 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.120 Thank you, Bill oh Peek. 77 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:03.560 No, as always, what if people think when I do that, 78 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:07.639 this clown gets paid for talking and I can do 79 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:08.560 so much better. 80 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:10.480 Two things I want to point out to you. 81 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:18.240 One you're absolutely right and two you're absolutely right. Now 82 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:25.560 it's going to differentiate, or try she will differentiate from Biden, 83 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.000 but at the same time, not really. She is simply 84 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:32.439 going to put it in I think terms that are 85 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.199 more palatable. Look what we did a lot of it is. 86 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:38.399 Look how extraordinary the Biden administration was. Look what he 87 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.759 brought to the table, Look what he did, and it 88 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.079 was extraordinary. One of the most successful presidencies in the 89 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:46.319 history of the United States. 90 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:48.199 That's the way it's being portrayed. 91 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:52.360 As far as Donald Trump is portraying her presidency or 92 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:56.199 the Biden administration as the worst in the history of 93 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.040 this country, the worst economic peril we've ever been, and 94 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:03.240 far worse than the Great Depression, far worse than the 95 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:07.839 Great Recession. And you know, for some is that true. 96 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:12.560 I don't know. I don't think so. Illegal alien has 97 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:13.600 not taken my job. 98 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:18.120 I have yet to meet somebody who says an illegal 99 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.800 migrant has taken my job. I'd like to know anybody 100 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:26.240 who has had that happen. But that is the premise. 101 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:29.120 I mean, Trump does go and point to a crowd 102 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:33.920 of ten, fifteen, twenty thousand people and say, migrants have 103 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:40.959 taken your jobs. Yep, certainly has a lot of personal 104 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.480 attacks are going on, a lot of truths are being 105 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:49.720 undone and on more. Well, I'm going to say on 106 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:54.920 the Republican side there is more let's just say playing 107 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:56.759 with the truth, and is the Democrat side. 108 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:58.560 But that doesn't mean the attacks aren't coming. 109 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:01.240 I'm going to go and deal with some of these 110 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.879 when we come back in terms of what she said, 111 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:07.800 what she meant, how much of it is real, what 112 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:12.000 kind of rhetoric? And then Donald Trump's response, We know 113 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.279 how with the kind of personal attacks, the only issue 114 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.600 is how they're going to sign, how they're going to 115 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.920 how they're going to come off. What are they what's 116 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.959 he going to signal? One of them was great last 117 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:28.199 night in the middle of it, and she talked about 118 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:33.240 coach Walls, right, and he tweeted he was no coach, 119 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:37.920 he was an assistant coach. Don't call him a coach. 120 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:40.959 That was a Donald Trump tweet. 121 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.680 The Republicans should stop using they take your jobs and 122 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:49.600 start using they take your down payments for home loans, 123 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:51.800 because that's true. 124 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.920 Now in California, we don't know how many people are 125 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:59.879 not going to get those home loans. And I'd love 126 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:04.319 to see the attack on they're giving illegal aliens home loans. 127 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:05.720 That is a legitimate attack. 128 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:10.360 Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic nomination and a speech that 129 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:14.800 went almost forty minutes, and I'm going. 130 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.920 To give her pretty good grades. 131 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.040 She's no Tim Walls. I'll tell you that she's no Oprah. 132 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.319 But she did come off as well as I've ever 133 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.160 seen her. And she was able to do two hits, 134 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.399 and that is describe what she is going to do 135 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:37.360 while and talk about I think almost play a separate 136 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.200 part than Joe Biden, when in fact she's probably going 137 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:45.519 to simply maintain the Joe Biden agenda, but she's going 138 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.840 to paint it in I think, a different light. It's 139 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:52.559 almost like Pope Francis, who in fact is as conservative 140 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.720 as any other pope has been, but he paints it 141 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.720 in a very different light. And I think that where 142 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:05.039 Harris went. Now, what she did is spend an enormous 143 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.159 amount of time talking about the future, talking about hope, 144 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.879 and then the theme is going to be joy that 145 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.559 the Democrats are bringing this campaign versus what Donald Trump 146 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.159 is bringing. And that's a cynical It couldn't be worse. 147 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:21.639 Life is terrible. 148 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:22.480 I connect with that. 149 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.320 Do you know that even though I'm not a big 150 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:27.799 fan of Donald Trump, and I think the personal attacks 151 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.799 I think are and I just don't like the outright lies. 152 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.360 I mean, just straight out lies. 153 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:36.519 That's a big difference in that, as I said earlier, 154 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.639 the worst economic point we've ever been in the history 155 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:40.320 of the United States. 156 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:41.480 See really, by that. 157 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.679 She gets elected, it's guaranteed World War three will start. 158 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.200 You really get that, I mean, you know that's a 159 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:56.080 little bit far. I really believe that, and so I 160 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:59.559 do believe that the Republican campaign is going to be 161 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:09.000 absolutely personal and portraying this apocalyptic view of what America 162 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:12.840 is going to be if it turns out that the 163 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:17.120 Democrats win. On the other side, she portrays a person 164 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:21.360 who has no guardrails, who thinks more of himself than 165 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:22.679 he does of the country. 166 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:23.519 I believe that. 167 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:30.120 Usually people are owed by the presidency. Virtually every president 168 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:34.519 I have seen in my lifetime is totally awed by 169 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:37.440 the presidency. Donald Trump is not. He is owed by 170 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:42.320 Donald Trump. That I guarantee you is the truth. And 171 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.799 you know, it's interesting. He is a guy who has 172 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.320 been able to pull off being insanely wealthy yet at 173 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.600 the same time a populist. By the way, it's not 174 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.639 the only person who's ever done this, if you notice 175 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.840 last night and certainly Walls and Harrow has talked about 176 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:02.360 their middle class upbringing. I'm one of you. We are 177 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.159 in it together. I grew up in a middle class home. 178 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:10.960 My parents gave me everything I needed. My parents made 179 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.759 me the person I was. You don't hear that from 180 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:13.440 Donald Trump. 181 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:15.279 You don't. 182 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.639 What you hear is make America great again. And I'm 183 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:21.600 going to do it. And by the way, he's not 184 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.240 alone in doing that, being a very wealthy guy and 185 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.919 connecting with the people on a populist level. 186 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:27.639 You know who did that. 187 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:29.159 More than any other president in the history of the 188 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:34.840 United States, Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt, who created social Security 189 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.200 and kept this country going through the depression. A lot 190 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:42.799 of people argue that he really didn't do much and 191 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:47.279 all he did was start a socialist government. Well, in reality, 192 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:50.200 people were starving by the millions. And I don't care 193 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.559 what anybody says about Franklin Roosevelt. 194 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:54.799 He literally kept. 195 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.480 Millions and millions of people from starving through governmental programs 196 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.440 which prior to that Republican administrations A La Hoover simply 197 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:03.919 didn't do. 198 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.799 And so here he is for the little guy, which 199 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:08.200 he was. 200 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:12.840 And Roosevelt had a ton of money and it didn't 201 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:17.720 seem to bother people. The same time Trump comes from 202 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:23.360 a ton of money. He is a billionaire. He started rich, 203 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:28.159 and he made himself even richer with his real estate empire. 204 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:32.480 And no one seems, certainly on the Republican side, no 205 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:33.799 one seems to resent it. 206 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:35.519 As a matter of fact. 207 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.279 I think they even admire it on some level, is 208 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.679 that he is so wealthy and he did it by 209 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:43.200 fighting the man. 210 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.759 And I'm going to fight the man for you. 211 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:51.279 Why because it's a deep state, because it's the intelligence 212 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:56.440 community is there, They're traders, and it's very weird. The 213 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:00.720 realities here are very strange. So what you saw is 214 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:03.360 at one point, how great America is going to be, 215 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:06.600 how she is going to. 216 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.120 Basically bring the same. 217 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:15.320 Sort of the same philosophy and the same programs as 218 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:17.600 Joe Biden's going to continue with Joe Biden. 219 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.679 At the same time, there was no hope with Joe Biden. 220 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:22.960 There wasn't. 221 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:26.480 The convention would have been a very different animal had 222 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:29.279 Joe Biden stood up there and accepted the nomination. 223 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.879 It was a lot of depressed a lot of depressed 224 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.600 people who. 225 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.519 Reluctantly are forced to vote for Joe Biden because they 226 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.600 won't vote for Donald Trump. And now that has changed. 227 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.679 Now it's joy and it really is. You can see 228 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.279 it at the convention. I mean, she has been able 229 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.279 to electrify, she's been able to ignite the Democratic Party. 230 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.120 Now we get to see is it a honeymoon that 231 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:57.879 then is going to. 232 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.200 Numbers are going to be lowered and. 233 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:05.159 It's going to be much much more of a wipeout 234 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.480 that was certainly the case when it was Joe Biden. 235 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.799 Or is she going to continue with her numbers going up? 236 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:15.639 Tell you one thing, at this point, the Republicans are 237 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:16.440 sweating bullets. 238 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:17.960 There is no question about that. 239 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:24.000 They are, really, particularly Donald Trump. He has argued that 240 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:26.799 Joe Biden should be in the race, not Kamala Harris. 241 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:30.600 It is unconstitutional for her for him not to be 242 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:34.240 the nominee, and a coup took place. I mean, throwing 243 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:37.279 a lot of stuff out there, as if a nominee 244 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.960 can't just say I don't want to run because I'm 245 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:46.039 going to lose, so I can't wait. This is just 246 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.519 the start and it's going to be fascinating from now 247 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:54.039 until the election in November. This is the time when 248 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.120 it's good to have this job. You know, there are 249 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:59.559 times when it's not, and there are times when it's great. 250 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.480 Time is going to be great, all right. The other 251 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:04.399 thing that's going on I want to share with you 252 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:05.399 PG and E. 253 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:08.919 And the fires that have occurred because of what PG 254 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.440 and E did or more importantly didn't do. 255 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:18.559 I when forest fires or wildfires. 256 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:20.759 Were being reported more and more. I didn't really blame 257 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.600 the utilities that much. I always thought that it was 258 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.279 ignited by someone and the utilities. You know, those power 259 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:32.159 lines going down really didn't do it. Those power lines 260 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:36.879 going down really did do it. PG and E has 261 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:42.200 reported to state regulators sixty two agnitions in high fire 262 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.840 areas so far this year, sixty five for the entirety 263 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:50.320 of twenty twenty three already sixty two. Twenty nine of 264 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.039 them occurred just the last few weeks the heat wave 265 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:57.000 in July. So what is going on? Well, PG and 266 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.480 E is, first of all, they got nailed, I mean 267 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:03.840 nailed after the campfire. For example, they settle for twenty 268 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:08.360 five billion dollars. Also had to file for bankruptcy. I 269 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:10.039 mean there was no way they were going to just 270 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:12.240 accept all those lawsuits or deal with them. So they 271 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.159 had to go to bankruptcy court to figure out what 272 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.440 to do and hold off all of the settlements or 273 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:23.240 at least the lawsuits going forward until the settlements were reached. 274 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:27.720 And so they've now been looking at what they can do. 275 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:31.080 One of the things that you would think they would 276 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:35.320 do is clean up all of the brush and the 277 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:40.480 ignitable fuel that's around these power poles, because in case 278 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:43.799 there is a good healthy win down the lines go 279 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:44.759 ignite fires. 280 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:46.720 You know what, they're not doing that anymore. 281 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:52.440 Why well, because they have one hundred and fifty thousand 282 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.039 of them to do. Oh no, actually one hundred and 283 00:16:55.120 --> 00:17:00.600 ninety thousand of them to do, So that art is 284 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:04.440 sort of being set aside. What they're doing is relying 285 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:08.240 more heavily on new power line settings at areas that 286 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:11.599 are at high risk of fire. And what they do 287 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.759 these are sensors where the electric line shuts off within 288 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:22.119 a tenth of a second when any of the power 289 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:28.359 lines touch anything. Be it a bird that somehow connects 290 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.480 two power lines. And you've seen a lot of birds 291 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.039 on power lines. It's fine if they're on a single 292 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:38.440 power line. Not so fine when somehow through the bird, 293 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.759 two power lines touch and the electricity is conducted. 294 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:45.559 Now, to be fair, that's pretty entertaining. 295 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:49.720 To see a bird get fried, they actually get vaporized, 296 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:53.400 and always see his feather feathers flying around. But the 297 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:58.200 danger is so extraordinary that a fire can ignite, and 298 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.680 look at what happens with all of a sudden in 299 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.400 a matter of and We've heard Amy report on this, 300 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.839 We've heard this on national news. A fire can start 301 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:10.839 and then double in a matter of hours, and you 302 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:11.920 just never know when. 303 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.039 It's going to happen. So there, we're not gonna be 304 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:16.240 able to stop arsonists. 305 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.200 We're not going to be able to stop fires ignited 306 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:25.240 by lightning, although that's pretty rare, but something can be Well, 307 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:27.440 you can arrest arsenists, but you know, what do you 308 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:28.759 do about arsenists other. 309 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:29.440 Than arrest them? 310 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.799 But what can be done is lower the risk of 311 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:39.119 fires by power lines, and that seems to be the 312 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:43.319 majority of fires that occur in wooded areas, and so 313 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:45.839 they're doing everything they can. They have to because the 314 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:49.960 liability is so insane. The reason PG and E is 315 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:55.400 the big news is because it is the largest utility 316 00:18:55.480 --> 00:19:00.400 that we have in California, seventy thousand square miles. They 317 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:04.920 cover in northern central California, and so there's a lot 318 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:08.880 of work they have to do and it's going reasonably well. 319 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:09.319 Now. 320 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:13.039 The reality is if you are even in high risk areas, 321 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:17.000 and this is like the recall of the air bags, 322 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.640 since you have so many to do, what do you 323 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:24.759 do about the ones that are not being able to 324 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:30.640 be fixed for years. If you're talking about with for example, 325 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.519 in the airbag millions had to be recalled. Okay, if 326 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:35.680 you're number one, or two or five, it's going to 327 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:36.559 happen very quickly. 328 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:38.240 What happens if you're number three million? 329 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:42.519 And that's the case going on, which is a lot 330 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:46.200 of reason why they changed how they deal with the 331 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:49.640 fires ignited about power lines. First of all, the years 332 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.240 it would take, the extraordinary effort and the money that 333 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:56.279 would be spent, and they're saying, it's better off. We're 334 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:59.759 better off, they're better off dealing with these sensors, grabbing 335 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:03.559 them early. And if you're going to clean vegetation, which 336 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:06.000 they're going to in the high high risk areas as 337 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:07.759 opposed to every place else. 338 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.160 Okay, a quick word about lawsuits. 339 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:13.920 One of the things that is fun, and this was 340 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:16.880 a law school where I really enjoyed this stuff, is 341 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:21.759 the history of something called emotional distress, right, either negligent 342 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:27.680 or intentional emotional distress. Now, historically you had to be 343 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:35.000 hurt to also have an emotional distress lawsuit. Going emotional distresses, 344 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:38.319 you're not hurt, it's just the emotions, and the law 345 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:41.079 said you had to actually be hurt before you could 346 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:47.480 file for emotional distress. Okay, now that changed a bit, 347 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:51.799 and for example, mothers seeing their kids run over. All right, 348 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:54.400 mother wasn't hurt, but you know, that sort of reached 349 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:58.559 the level where emotional distress flew. Another one that's really neat, 350 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:02.640 which is almost universe, is when families are dealing with 351 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:06.200 dead people. There are some cases that I remember, for example, 352 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.160 on the way to the grave site and the pallbearers 353 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:14.440 are bringing the coffin and Uncle Murray falls out the 354 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.759 bottom of the coffin and then starts rolling, and people 355 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:21.440 were there, the family members were there. There was a 356 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:25.759 lawsuit for emotional distress. Okay, fair enough, and now it's 357 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:29.000 more sort of accepted. But this is here's why it's 358 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:31.839 going to go. This is about as family oriented emotional 359 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:33.920 distress as it exists. 360 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:36.319 Jesse Peterson is thirty one years old. 361 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.920 She is a Type one diabetic and has a diabetic 362 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:46.200 She has a seizure. She came in she had some 363 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:50.279 kind of an episode, so she calls nine to one one. 364 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:52.920 She gets to the hospital. Okay, fair enough. 365 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:57.319 And the family doesn't know this and they start looking 366 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:00.920 for her file a missing person's where the hell she? 367 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:01.640 Where is she? 368 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:06.319 So they said that they found out that she went 369 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:10.839 to the hospital. The hospital never notified them that she 370 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:15.079 had died at the hospital. They were led to believe 371 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:17.599 that she had checked out of the hospital on her 372 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:23.559 own against medical advice. Well it turns out she didn't 373 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.680 and they were told she checked out. So they're now 374 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:30.880 doing the search. And I mean they're doing the search 375 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:34.160 with posters and calling the police, and they're on the internet, 376 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:38.359 and they're telling friends and they have strangers looking for them. 377 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:42.880 Okay, here's the problem. 378 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:45.880 She had called her mom, asked her to pick her 379 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.160 up from the hospital when she felt better, and she 380 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:50.000 comes to the hospital. 381 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:52.920 Nope, she's checked out. Oh my god. And then they 382 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:53.640 can't find her. 383 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:58.799 So it turns out that she had died at the hospital, 384 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:04.200 and the hospital telling mom and dad that she checked out. 385 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:06.200 It turned out that she hadn't checked out. 386 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:09.720 It turned out she had died that day, and they 387 00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:16.119 parked her in the morgue, and a death certificate, which 388 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:19.400 has to be issued immediately upon the death of someone 389 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:24.400 in the hospital, wasn't issued until a year later, when 390 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:29.039 they discovered that she was camped in the morgue and 391 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:34.000 the family finally found out about it, and here comes 392 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:35.160 a lawsuit. 393 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:37.680 Asking for twenty five million dollars. 394 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:40.599 Now, when I started this segment, I told you about 395 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:47.279 lawsuits for emotional distress, right, dealing with for the most part, 396 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:50.359 family members and death, Uncle Murray falling out of the 397 00:23:50.359 --> 00:23:53.359 bottom of the casket and rolling along in front of everybody. 398 00:23:53.400 --> 00:24:00.359 Big big settlements, moms getting seeing their children interviewed, seeing 399 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:02.559 their children injured, Big big settlements. 400 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:04.400 And I think is going to. 401 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:08.559