WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:05.040 You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:09.960 six forty and this is kfive am a six forty 3 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:12.560 bill handle here on a foody Friday, September thirteenth, on 4 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:15.839 a shaking Friday. Well aaskill was a shaky Thursday, but 5 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:21.559 sort of after shake shakes. And that this is why 6 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.079 I get paid what I do, because I am so 7 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.239 good at this making it clear and concise and to 8 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:30.519 the point. I'm going to be talking about shaking. Coming 9 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:33.399 up the next hour, Susan Huff seismologist, We're going to 10 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:36.840 talk about the earthquake that happened yesterday and the after shocks. 11 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.880 Oh also, before we get into the Boeing strike, I 12 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:43.880 want to quickly remind you about what Amy and Neil 13 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.079 are doing to help the Union Rescue mission. And they 14 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:51.920 are both repelling twenty five stories down from the roof 15 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:57.159 of the Universal Hilton September twenty seventh and twenty eighth. 16 00:00:57.560 --> 00:00:59.759 Is that you each of you different days or you 17 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:00.679 both at the same time. 18 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:02.280 I think we're both doing Friday. 19 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:07.359 Right, Yeah, Okay, well I think the people can do it. Yeah, 20 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:09.680 if you raise a thousand dollars or more. I mean, 21 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:10.879 you don't have to write the check. But if you 22 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:15.280 raise a thousand dollars or more, you can also repel 23 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:20.959 down that building. And notice that I wasn't invited to that. 24 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:24.359 And it's called over the Edge, by the way, the 25 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:27.599 promotion because I'm assuming everybody assumes I'm already over the 26 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:31.760 edge and I've reached that point. I don't know anyway. 27 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:33.640 Their goals to reach two million people. They help the 28 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:35.920 homeless at the Union Rescue Mission. It's a great event. 29 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:40.280 So go to just help one dot org. Just help 30 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:44.439 one dot org and watch these two people on the 31 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.040 Morning Team do their repelling. You have to yell all 32 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:47.879 the way down. You know that. 33 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:51.439 I have a feeling I will be Yeah. 34 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.840 You have to record that too, I mean yeah, and 35 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.560 we'll play it on the show. That'll be a nice 36 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.640 promo intro segment. Maybe I'm going to dress like a 37 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:05.159 big fat spider Man. Yeah, that would be great. You 38 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.599 and a body spider Man suit. That would be fantastic. 39 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:14.319 I love that, yes, stomachman. All right, Boeing, you've got 40 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:18.680 thirty three thousand union members have started walking off the job. 41 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.080 These are the union members at Boeing, the International Machinist Unions, 42 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.159 and they are they've taken a hike. Now. A couple 43 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:30.960 of things about Boeing. Very interesting company, enormous influence, I 44 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.199 mean insane influence. It was at one point the only 45 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:41.599 major heavy aircraft manufacture in the world. Airbus hadn't existed, 46 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.439 Boeing owned it completely. There was McDonald douglas and a 47 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:48.120 few others, but nothing like Boeing. And they were considered 48 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:51.680 probably one of the finest manufacturers on the planet. They 49 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.919 were the pride of the United States, help with our 50 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.439 balance of power. And then McDonald douglas bought Boeing and 51 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.240 then it went in the toilet. The being counters came 52 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:06.840 in and so Boeing has one non union plant, and 53 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.039 you would and this is a company that has been 54 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:13.599 unionized for a very long time. So contract is up. 55 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:16.280 They've been negotiating. They have one hundred and fifty thousand employees, 56 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:20.319 by the way, and they have been negotiating with the union. 57 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:26.000 The union cut a deal with Boeing. They said, yeah, 58 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.360 and it was a pretty good deal too, twenty five 59 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:34.520 percent raise over four years. The new plant they're building 60 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:39.360 none is union instead of non union. And guess what happened? 61 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:44.080 Union said no, the worker said no, because here's what 62 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:50.240 happens during the course of a strike negotiations. You've got 63 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:54.039 management of the union representing the workers, and they go 64 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.400 in and negotiate with the company. And they will negotiate 65 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.240 and either goes on for a long time, either a 66 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.919 strike or goes right. They usually come to terms and 67 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:04.639 then union management goes back to the workers who have 68 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.479 to vote on the contract. I just can't arbitrarily say 69 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.000 we have a contract. The voters have the workers have 70 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.199 to vote the union members. And what they did is 71 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.439 the union management went to the voters. The union members 72 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:21.879 said we've got a deal. Okay, let's go to work. 73 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:27.480 Union by ninety six percent said nope, ain't going to happen. 74 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:32.279 And now they're back on the negotia at the negotiating table, 75 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.360 they have no deal. And what happens when you don't 76 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.279 have a deal. You're not happy with the working conditions. 77 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.319 I know, I talk about crazy safe, you know, working 78 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.120 eighteen hour days or anything of that, but no benefits, 79 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:51.560 work hours over time guarantees, pension plans. Those are the 80 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:55.279 things that are normally negotiated certain plants opening up being 81 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.600 union or non union as in this case, and so 82 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.399 the vote is taken. Actually one percent of the time 83 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.839 when the union hierarchy tells the union members, Okay, we 84 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:08.720 got a deal, they vote unanimously or almost unanimously to 85 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:12.639 go forward. Not this time around, they said no, thank you. 86 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.240 And I think it took the union leadership for a 87 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:20.199 loop and now they're back to square one. Boeing is saying, hey, 88 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:23.240 we have a deal. What's going on. We're in good faith. 89 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:27.720 You said yes, and the union membership membership said absolutely not. 90 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.720 And so you're going to see thirty three thousand while 91 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:35.319 you're seeing thirty three thousand workers union members walking off, 92 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:38.319 which is going to shut down Boweing just shut it down. 93 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:43.040 They will not be producing any new jets. And depends 94 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:47.199 on how long this goes, it's another hit to Boeing. 95 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.759 Boeing is in trouble. Its stock is down sixty percent 96 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.560 year to year. They've had remember the Max crashes, the 97 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.160 Max eight crashes, and they had the door flying off, 98 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:01.240 and they've had all kinds of problems the MCASSA, the 99 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.680 software system, and what they did was beyond horrific. I 100 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.120 don't even know we've talked about this before. The shortcuts 101 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:12.600 they've taken so be prepared for that'll be a big 102 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:17.199 story for a while. Be prepared for big news on that. 103 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.360 And just before we end, just a quick story. Every 104 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.120 time I get on an airplane, I always ask what 105 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:24.720 kind of aircraft it is. And it used to be 106 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.480 if it wasn't Boeing, I was really uncomfortable. And now 107 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:32.839 it's the exact opposite. If it was if it's Airbus, 108 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:35.920 I'd rather be on that plane. And I always look 109 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:38.519 at the little placard, the registration placard that you have 110 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:40.600 in the and the doorjam. They have those on the 111 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.839 airplanes and they're like Vin. You know those little tin 112 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.120 Vin placards things, those metal ones that go in the 113 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:50.240 door jam, and it'll tell you what year the airplane 114 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:52.319 was built. That's serial number. I mean, it's all right 115 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:56.240 there and it's VIN number. And if it is a 116 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:58.240 newer plane, it used to be if you had a 117 00:06:58.279 --> 00:06:59.959 new plane, oh my god, you had the safest pl 118 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:02.800 the world. Youdn't have to you know, brand new parts everything. 119 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.360 Now I questioned the new plane. If I got on 120 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:07.519 an airplane the other day to Las Vegas and the 121 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:11.079 plane was twenty two years old. It was a Bowling 122 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:14.720 seven thirty seven and I said, okay, I feel pretty good, 123 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.000 and I've been on planes that were brand new, and 124 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.639 I start sweating bullets. Who would have ever thought that's boweling. 125 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:25.920 Yesterday we had an earthquake which hit us right on 126 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:27.839 the air. I think it was seven point thirty in 127 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:31.839 the morning, and Amy was doing her news and boom, 128 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:35.680 she felt it and started shaking. Now, I happened to 129 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.199 be in Orange County at the time. I'm broadcasting from 130 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.000 Orange County about half the time, and I didn't feel 131 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.759 it at all, but everybody else did. With this. Susan Huff, 132 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:49.519 a seismologist with the US Geological Survey in Pasadena. Susan, 133 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:54.759 thank you for joining us. Greatly appreciated by the way. Yeah, 134 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.079 do I call you Susan or your excellency or doctor 135 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:00.879 Huff or how do you? How are you known? 136 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.839 You know? Ryan Seacrest once called me doctor Sue. I 137 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:07.519 thought that was cute. But Susan is flying. 138 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:13.199 Okay, fair enough. Now let's talk about what happened yesterday. 139 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.160 And it's a normal or earthquake. It wasn't very big 140 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.560 relative to what we've had here. But what we're hearing 141 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.839 is the frequency of the quakes that are four point 142 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:29.560 zero or higher. That may be problematic. Would you talk 143 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:29.959 about that. 144 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:34.480 Yeah, there's a lot there to unpack. You know, earthquakes 145 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.559 around California. On a normal here we have about twelve 146 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:42.759 magnitude four greater earthquakes somewhere in the region. This year, 147 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.679 we've had somewhat more than that. But trying to read 148 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:48.679 the tea leaves is just it hasn't been a winning 149 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:53.519 game in seismology. That earthquakes still like popcorn kernels, These 150 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:57.759 little guys, moderately little guys, and they pop off apparently 151 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:01.279 on their own time, and nobody been able to find 152 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.919 any meaningful patterns that y'all want to know if the 153 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:08.039 big one's coming. We just don't have patterns. The one 154 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.679 thing we do have is statistics, and so when earthquakes happen, 155 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.320 we can calculate the odds of aftershocks and the odds 156 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.919 of earthquakes bigger than the one that's just happened. 157 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:22.759 But does that translate at all other than this one 158 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.559 was bigger than that one. We haven't had one in 159 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.279 X number of years. The last big big one we 160 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:31.879 had the nineteen oh six quake in San Francisco, the 161 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.759 north Ridge quake, the one in Alaska, which I think 162 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.519 took out Fairbanks or Anchorage or whatever it was. Literally 163 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:43.320 the entire waterfront disappeared. Is there any rhyme or reason 164 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:47.399 or is it truly just popcorn kernels popping? 165 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.600 Yeah, so the answer is yes or no. That you 166 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:55.039 stand back and earthquakes from the San Andreas happened, but 167 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:58.159 from regularity every few hundred years. The last big one 168 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.600 near us was actually eighteen fifty seven, so that was 169 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:04.799 a while ago. So in a geological sense, they might 170 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:09.159 be fairly regular, and we estimate that those odds, and 171 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:13.000 we use those those numbers to produce hazard maps. The 172 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:17.159 problem is human time skifts are too short. So you know, 173 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:20.600 two earthquakes happen one hundred years apart, or one hundred 174 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:23.759 and fifty years apart. That really in geologic terms, that's close, 175 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.799 But I'm here in terms that just makes all the difference. 176 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.960 Yesterday, shake alerts that did occur. With the technology today 177 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.679 we have on our phones the apps, and we're supposed 178 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.159 to get anywhere from what a few seconds to a 179 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:44.799 minute notice the shake alerts happened after the shaking started. 180 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:46.159 Would you comment on that? 181 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.200 Yeah, so shake alert is really designed to give you 182 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:53.720 warning when those big earthquakes happen. You know, when there's 183 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:56.279 an earthquake on the sand Andrea's fault or you know, 184 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:01.600 something which can cause damage, and then the system captures 185 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.120 the earthquake that started and it has a few seconds 186 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:07.080 to get the information to people, so you get that 187 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:10.159 heads up. If you're right on top of a magnitude 188 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.159 four and a half, most of the people who feel 189 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.240 it are going to be too close. There just isn't 190 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:17.759 going to be time to get the warning out. So 191 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:22.320 the system isn't really designed to provide meaningful warning for 192 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.720 four and a half and those earthquakes aren't going to 193 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.200 cause damage in California and imagery. 194 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:35.360 Do you have earthquake insurance for your home? I do not. 195 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.039 We have spent a fair amount of money doing retrofitting 196 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.200 on the crypt walls. For example, it's an older home. 197 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:46.159 The chimney was knocked bound by the Wittier Nearrow's earthquake 198 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.519 before we bought it, and so it's replaced with a 199 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.240 modular chimney. So it's a decision for every homeowner, you know, 200 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:57.080 to sort of weigh the cost benefit and hopefully to 201 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:00.559 put resources they can into making sure the home is 202 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.000 safe from an earthquake. 203 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:04.919 Countan, are you aware of what's going to happen to 204 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.559 your credibility if a big quake comes and you are 205 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:10.639 not covered and we're looking at the rubble that your 206 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:11.399 house used to be. 207 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:17.799 So there was one house in the area that I 208 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.320 was not willing to purchase because I wasn't sure it 209 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:26.720 was it was well built. I'll say that the house 210 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:28.639 that I live in and the work that we've done 211 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.679 on it, I think I'm comfortable with that risk. 212 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:35.279 Okay, fair enough. And that's something that I've talked about 213 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:39.480 and played with and dealt with for many many years now. 214 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.320 When we talk about, you know, and we're sitting on 215 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:44.960 the San Andreas fault, we hear about that all all 216 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:48.200 the time. Of course, that's very southern California. And then 217 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:51.399 these other faults. From what I understand, there are like 218 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:54.639 dozens and dozens of these faults coming off of the 219 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:56.759 San Andreas and not even being connected to it. 220 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.480 Yeah, so California has lots of and we know about 221 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:04.360 the San Andreas it's the main plate boundary fault, but 222 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:07.799 all of California is really a plate boundary zone, and 223 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:11.679 the San Andreas has this this funky bend in it. 224 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.480 It's that kink and you're trying to fly two plates 225 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.799 past each other with a kink. What that does is 226 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:22.159 it squeezes the Greater Los Angeles region, and you squeeze 227 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.559 the region and things go up, so that it's pushing 228 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:29.000 the mountains up. With earthquakes like north Ridge and especially 229 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.240 soul Mar excuse me, in nineteen seventy one, we've got 230 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:36.559 these other faults that go through the area, mostly east west. 231 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:39.960 As a consequence of thought, so yeah, the San Andreas 232 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:42.559 is actually some distance from us in Los Angeles. It's 233 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.960 up near Fort Pjone, and so that's how that helps 234 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.639 us a little bit. The strong is shaking from an 235 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.919 earthquake is going to be we expect, directly along the faults. 236 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:55.600 So we've got a little bit of distance from the 237 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:59.159 San Andreas. It is these these faults minifolds through the 238 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.639 through the only area that we definitely worry about. 239 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:08.840 Okay, Susan huh, thank you greatly, appreciate your time. Well, 240 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:12.639 thank you, all right, we'll do that again. She knows 241 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:14.960 her stuff. Although there's a real question, is too earthquake 242 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.720 insurance at her house. We'll have that discussion at some 243 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:21.120 point when the big one hits. Now, as we talk 244 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:25.480 about how we live in southern California, a lot of 245 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:29.639 a lot of us live along the beach. Well, a 246 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.879 lot of Southern California is the beach. It just happens 247 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:37.240 to be one of the probably I think, one of 248 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.360 the areas in the world that people just look at 249 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:46.879 and say, not only does it is emblematic of do 250 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:49.879 I have that word right, emblematic of Southern California, but 251 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.840 this is movie land. The beach is along southern California. 252 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:57.799 I mean, they're absolutely gorgeous. And you've heard of wars 253 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:02.480 being fought for water, for territory, sand wars are being fought. 254 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:04.519 I mean, what do we do when you go to 255 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:10.039 the beach in during the summer, in the fall southern California. 256 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:14.159 You go, you have these beautiful beaches, You sit in 257 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.919 the sand. The sand goes up the crack of your 258 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.960 butt so it feels like sandpaper. You can't get it out. 259 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:24.200 I'm not a big, big beach fan, but a lot 260 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.919 of people are. And here is the problem. Beaches are 261 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:34.679 disappearing in some places and not in others. And the wars, 262 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:38.120 and these are interesting wars we're talking about legal wars 263 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:42.799 and some physical stuff going on are happening. It's among 264 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:45.039 rich people because they're the only ones that have the 265 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:51.799 money to fight these fights. But you have cities now 266 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:57.440 fighting each other. Ocean Side for example, and San Juan 267 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:02.399 cupastrant Nos, San Juan cupas Stran I think it is. 268 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:06.440 Oceanside is in one fight. Laguna Beach is another fight 269 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.399 to keep the sands on the beach, and people who 270 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:15.440 own beachfront property like beachfront property and they want to 271 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.720 keep their beachfront property because they spent millions of dollars 272 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:23.080 for their homes. Now in California, you may not know this, 273 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:29.000 but that beach belongs to the state. You can have 274 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.919 a home on the beach waterfront, but the sand itself 275 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:36.559 nobody owns. Which is why you can go to Malibu 276 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:40.159 and walk along the beach and look up and you 277 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.480 see houses that belong to I don't know, Dustin Hoffman, 278 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:51.279 Michael Eisner, Pierce Brosnan, major people would pay twenty thirty 279 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.559 million dollars from their homes and they're not happy with 280 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.720 people romping around their sand. And there have been lawsuits 281 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.960 been these homeowners that have blocked access to the beach, 282 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:07.799 which is the illegal. There have been homeowners who have 283 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.000 done everything they can to keep people away because well, 284 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.680 if I'm spending twenty five million dollars and I'm on 285 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.839 beach from property, I don't want this riff raft walking 286 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:22.359 in front of my house. Those lawsuits are still going 287 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.480 on even though the land is owned by the state, 288 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.680 and the latest has to do with sand and people 289 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.599 moving sand in and out. Now. The problem is that 290 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:38.400 geologically speaking, you can have one beach next to another 291 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:43.599 beach and one is gaining beachfront, the other one is 292 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:48.599 losing beachfront because of the way the oceans and the 293 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:52.240 tides roll along and sand is deposited or taken away, 294 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:59.200 and therein lies the problem rich people having less beach, 295 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.839 for example, you have other people having more beach, so 296 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.960 the land is worth more. And by the way, it 297 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:13.559 is Capistrano Beach not San Juan. Capistano Beach next to 298 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:19.279 Pendleton ocean Side is a case in point. Capistrano Beach 299 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:25.359 is gaining, ocean Side is losing. And you have a 300 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:29.519 couple of people who have actually who own homes. They 301 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:34.119 have gone in with the tractors, you know, the big 302 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:38.839 buckets and actually move beach from one beach to the other. 303 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:40.920 Now you have to have a lot of money to 304 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:45.960 do that. That's a lawsuit going on. It's the sand Wars, 305 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:48.839 and you're gonna see more and more of those cities 306 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.400 suing each other, neighbor shuing each other. What's the bottom 307 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:54.680 line the takeaway here? Why in God's name was you 308 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:58.680 ever want to buy beach front property in southern California? 309 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:02.160 First of all, to any beach that rich people live on, 310 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:04.839 Newport Beach, Malibu. And what are you paying twenty five 311 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.160 million dollars for a piece of land that you're gonna 312 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:11.079 have to put your house on still in twenty years. 313 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:16.480 And let's not forget about the sand up along the 314 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:20.960 crack of your butt. That's very important. I don't go 315 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.319 to the beach. Do you go to the beach? Neil? 316 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:28.240 Sure on occasion? Okay? Amy? Are you a beachgoer? 317 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:31.839 I love the beach and I almost never go Wow? 318 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:38.279 All right, Kno beach all the time? Huh? And and 319 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:40.079 last one, yeah, beach. 320 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:41.799 I love the beach, love the beach. 321 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:47.960 I hate the beach. If you really want beach, you 322 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:51.839 go to the nearest hardware store and pick up thirty 323 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.279 grit sandpaper and it does exactly the same thing. 324 00:19:57.599 --> 00:19:59.960 You also fight land and mountains and the desert. 325 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:04.039 Okay, I think we're done with that right, And a 326 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.880 quick word about what Amy and Neil are doing on 327 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.559 I think is the twenty seventh Right of September, because 328 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:12.480 it's going over two days twenty seven and twenty eight. 329 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:19.200 They are repelling down the Universal Hilton in Universal City 330 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.960 and repelling twenty five stories. Can't wait to see that. 331 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:26.079 And if you would like to repel, you can join. 332 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:29.319 Matter of fact, you can help across the board for 333 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.680 the charity. It's the Union Rescue Mission and it's helping 334 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.920 the homeless people. And just go to just help one 335 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.240 dot org. Just help one dot org. Donate if you 336 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.559 can come up with one thousand dollars or get a 337 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:44.240 bunch of people to come up with a thousand dollars, 338 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:48.680 you get to repel down the outside of that building. 339 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.559 I can see repelling down the inside of the building. 340 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:53.319 That's called using an elevator. 341 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.440 That'd probably be smarter, Yeah, a lot easier to do, 342 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:57.319 all right. 343 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.559 I want to get serious for a moment, and this 344 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:01.680 one is this is a tough one. I've been covering 345 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:03.960 this for a while, and it's something that I am 346 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.319 particularly engaged in. And that's what's going on in Gaza 347 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.519 and what's happening in Israel, and that has to do 348 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.440 with the Kamas Israeli war. And as you know, I'm 349 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.000 totally biased on this one. So right there, you know 350 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:19.720 where I come from. I have friends in Israel, I've 351 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:22.839 been to Israel. I'm obviously of the he break American persuasion. 352 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:26.200 And here the here the parts that I just don't 353 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:29.599 understand from all sides. Well, first of all, there's just 354 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:33.240 been another one, another strike, a deadly strike on a 355 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:38.000 school turned into a shelter in central Gaza. Israel says 356 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:43.279 that this compound that was bombed was a command center 357 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:48.119 for Hamas. Kamas says that's not true at all. It 358 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:51.960 was simply a shelter and a school, That's what it was, 359 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:56.240 nothing more, nothing less. And now the condemnation of these 360 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:00.000 bombings are getting stronger and more often. In this case, 361 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:04.920 un Britain denounced it completely, saying this is horrific. It 362 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:11.160 is government of Katar calling it a horrifying massacre. The 363 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:16.400 Brits are calling this unacceptable violation of international law and 364 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:20.480 here's the part that I don't understand. The UN workers, 365 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:22.359 and by the way, most of them are Palestinians who 366 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:27.519 work for the UN. There nobody has admitted there are 367 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:30.039 any militants in any of these places have been bombed. 368 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.519 They don't exist. Every school, every shelter, every encampment that 369 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:39.039 has been attacked by Israel, Israel says there were militants there. 370 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:45.839 That's why we went Nope, no militants, no command centers, Nope, 371 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:51.440 no tunnels coming out in bedrooms hospitals. That's just not true. 372 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:54.680 And I would expect the I would expect Hamas to 373 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:59.240 say that, but the UN saying that, and then Israel 374 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:04.480 saying they are command centers. One of two things is happening. 375 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:07.160 Either Israel is bombing civilians just for the hell of it, 376 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:13.240 or those are command centers and strongholds of militants who 377 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:22.119 embed themselves into the civilian population. Okay, what do you 378 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.119 do with that? Who do you believe? Now? Do I 379 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:31.000 believe Israel is attacking civilians for the hell of attacking civilians? No? 380 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:34.559 I don't do. I think they are attacking civilians, Yeah, 381 00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:38.319 I do. Their purpose is to root out militants. This 382 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.400 is what Israel says, and it makes sense only because 383 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:43.200 I mean, can you imagine if it comes out that 384 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.640 they really did bomb a school just to kill the kids, 385 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:52.319 then they're on the same level of these cockroach terrorists 386 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.880 who bomb schools and well, for example, the ones Ramas 387 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.000 that took twelve hundred Israeli lives and raped and pillaged 388 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:04.039 innocent civilians. You know that was for the purpose of 389 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:09.720 killing civilians. Israel bombing Gaza and I mean into the ground, 390 00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:12.960 is it for the purpose of just we want to 391 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:16.480 take out a civilian at Arab population? You know, twenty 392 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:22.960 percent of Israel is Arab. There Israeli citizens. I mean, 393 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:25.400 you think if they wanted to kill Arabs, they start 394 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:30.200 at home. And you know that it's Israel's a democracy, 395 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:33.839 which means that those Arab, that Arab population has Arab 396 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:38.200 legislators in the Kanesse there are Arabs there now are 397 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:41.039 Arab treated like second class citizens and Israel you bet 398 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:44.400 you know this. We are all one, lovely people and 399 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:47.000 we're democracy and we treat everybody the same. That's a croc. 400 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:54.759 But the point is is Israel committing genocide as is 401 00:24:54.839 --> 00:25:00.279