WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.399 You're listening to a wake up call on demand from 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:11.960 KFI AM six fortys. 3 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:14.800 I first spoke on a microphone nineteen eighty five. So 4 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:18.559 what is that? Is that thirty seven years? I'm sorry? 5 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:22.519 Is it thirty nine years now? Nineteen eighty five? To oh, yeah, yeah, 6 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:25.640 thirty nine years? Good God. I think I'm gonna go 7 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.239 in the other room and collapse. You know, I'm gonna 8 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:29.480 take a break and change my diaper. 9 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:34.159 Okay, and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. 10 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:42.719 Here's Bill handle. Okay. It is a Thursday morning, almost 11 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.799 into the week, August eighth, and we've got well, first 12 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.119 of all, I want to say hello. Let's start with Neil. 13 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:57.840 Good morning, Neil, Neil, Neil. Oh, Neil's not here today, 14 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:03.640 all right, Neil's at Disneyland, and he's probably how many rides? Ay, 15 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:06.879 you're a Disneyland person considering, so how many rides can 16 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:08.239 you actually get? 17 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:11.640 Depending on how good you are planning, you can get 18 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:12.799 a good ten or twelve minutes? 19 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:16.799 Oh come on, yeah, ten or twelve. 20 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:19.359 There's so much more to do. 21 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.879 And see that's true, that's true. You know I went 22 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:27.640 to Disneyland within a couple of years after it opened. 23 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:32.000 Did I tell you the story of Disneyland and Marjorie No, Okay, 24 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.760 Disneyland opened up in nineteen fifty five, and you know, 25 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:40.000 Marjorie's one hundred and fifty years old, so they would 26 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.760 and it's an amazing story, the Wonderful World of disney 27 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:47.560 It was originally the Disneyland Show, and it was ABC. 28 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.840 ABC was a new network. It kept the big stations 29 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.519 and sold off all the crappy stations and now you 30 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:59.519 have ABC, American Broadcasting Company that no one was watching. 31 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:04.719 So they needed content. Disneyland opens up in July nineteen 32 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:13.400 fifty five and the two companies, Disneyland desperately needed some publicity. 33 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:17.759 ABC desperately needed content. So the two companies cut a 34 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:23.520 deal that Disney would provide content Mickey Mouse Show the 35 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.199 Disneyland Show, which turned out to be a Wonderful World 36 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:30.120 of Disney at Morphed and it was a one hour 37 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:34.400 commercial for Disneyland, all right. So that's how it opened 38 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:42.240 up so early early those days, ABC would run commercials 39 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:44.919 during the day because they had more inventory, you can imagine, 40 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:49.080 and it was about Disneyland, and they would do the 41 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.120 early rides and I mean, you know, that one of 42 00:02:53.159 --> 00:03:00.439 the rides was the Safari ride, what the Jungle Cruise cruise? 43 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:02.680 That was it? That opened up the day that Disneyland 44 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.479 opened and it's been real still open today. And one 45 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.000 of the commercials, and I'm talking about a couple of years, 46 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:13.080 three years after Disneyland opened up, they they did a 47 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:19.439 commercial where there's this little girl who sees the hippopotamus 48 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:24.080 and it's scared to death. She's maybe just a toddler 49 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:29.080 and then grabs onto her older brother's leg so frightened. 50 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.319 That was Marjorie. 51 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.400 I love it, Yeah. 52 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:40.560 And we try to get We tried to get the 53 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.280 archives of that commercial. And in those days they didn't 54 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:49.639 keep much. They had the kinescopes, which is the process 55 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:54.479 they use for broadcasting. Uh, and it just it in 56 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.479 terms of keeping in terms of keeping records, in other words, 57 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.639 that we go on TV and a film camera would 58 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:05.639 actually film that commercial on television and that's how they 59 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:11.520 recorded and kept archives. And so in any case, so 60 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:13.280 we're still looking for that commercial. 61 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:16.120 That would be fun to have it wouldn't Somebody's got it. 62 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.120 And here we are, I don't know how many years later, 63 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.720 and every time Marjorie goes to Disneyland and sees the hippopotamus. 64 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:25.720 She grabs a leg of who's ever seen. 65 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:30.360 That's okay, I do the same thing. 66 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.480 Yeah, you know what, I lost my clock here on 67 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:36.360 my computer. I can't. I can't believe I do that. 68 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:38.199 You know, how do you lose the clock? 69 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.360 Because it's on the computer and I press buttons and 70 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:43.839 I tried to get the newspapers and the zoom at 71 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:51.800 the same time, and every time I press anything ive nine, Yeah, thanks, 72 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:53.000 I'll figure it out. 73 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:54.399 No, it's not it's six nine. 74 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:56.839 Yeah, I know, you know. I lost it again. I 75 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.040 can't believe I lost it. I'm not going to press 76 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.600 a damn thing all right while I'm looking. Hello Cono, 77 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.560 Hello Bill, okay, hello what I'm trying to find the 78 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:09.560 clock and I just I can't do it. 79 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.759 Maybe she could just get you a digital clock that's 80 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:12.000 not on. 81 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:16.720 I'm looking, but the digital clocks are so big. Oh no, 82 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:23.360 I just lost you guys. Come on, Oh like, come on, guys, 83 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.879 for god's sake, where's digital clock? I don't jeez, I 84 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.360 don't see it. So you're you know you're gonna until 85 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:32.040 I figure it out. Let me take my watch up. 86 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:33.639 Well, we can hear you. That's all we really need. 87 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.839 Yeah know when I can see you. But the three 88 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:42.120 things that I desperately need is I need Obviously I 89 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.160 have to see you. I need my clock. Those are 90 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:49.160 the two things. And then my newspapers because I read 91 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.480 the newspapers, which I did not this morning. I have 92 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:53.720 the New York Times, the LA Times, of Wall Street journals. 93 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:55.439 So by the end of the show, I'm done with them. 94 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.399 So I have some idea of what the world's about. 95 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:01.160 You know who has bigger problems than you? Who Taylor Swift? 96 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.480 Oh yeah, we're going to talk about Taylor Swift's. I 97 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:05.600 mean end of the world stuff too is here. You know, 98 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:07.879 World War three is about to explode. We know that 99 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.600 the Eastern Seaboard is about to go underwater, and you know, 100 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.279 get thousands of people that are drowned. But that's nothing 101 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:19.240 compared to the Taylor Swift. Uh. The Taylor Swift concerts, 102 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.800 three of them that have to uh that have been 103 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:26.000 canceled because of terrorist threats. Did you see video of 104 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:29.000 those people who were will not be able to people 105 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:33.399 were flying in from America, uh to go And so 106 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:35.439 today we're going to have a report on how many 107 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:40.279 suicides there are because people missed the Taylor Swift concert 108 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:44.120 because Swifties are crazy. I mean they're like her. 109 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.199 Crying suicide. 110 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.000 No, it's it's it's beyond loving her. It's well into 111 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:57.399 mental illness. I mean there is. Yeah, but the Beatles 112 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.959 fan were teenage girls. If you remember that, and that 113 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:02.759 was it, you know. I mean I was a big 114 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:08.040 Beatles fan. But you know, was I going to kill myself? No? No, 115 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:11.399 although I have to tell you if it's a question 116 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:15.759 between a Beatles fan, a Beatles show, and a Costco burrito, 117 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:21.680 it's pretty close. Okay, Oh there it is. Clock. 118 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.240 Hold on, hold on, Hold on, ladies and gentlemen, we're 119 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:26.279 back in business. 120 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:32.560 Okay, clock, okay, hold on clock almost as I'll do 121 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:40.240 it now. It's a timer in five minutes. Damn. Okay, 122 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:40.879 let's move on. 123 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:46.160 Stuck in space, NASA officials say that the two astronauts 124 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:48.879 who took a ride on the Boeing Star Line are 125 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:51.240 up to the International Space Station and we're supposed to 126 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.600 be there for a month. Well they've been there for 127 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:55.160 like two months now because they got up there on 128 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:59.120 June sixth, and now NASA is saying they might not 129 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:03.800 be able to return until February of twenty twenty five. 130 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:05.639 That's if they have to catch a ride on a 131 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:06.800 SpaceX crew. 132 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:12.240 Direct, you're gonna have to actually get an elon musk ride. Boy, 133 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:16.199 that's not embarrassing for either NASA and more importantly, that's 134 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:20.160 not embarrassing for Boeing. I'll tell you what. They're scared 135 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.480 to death. Those astronauts get on the board that spacecraft 136 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:25.720 start going back to Earth and the door blows off, 137 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.240 and NASA is saying, ain't gonna happen on our watch. 138 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.319 So thank you to Boweing. 139 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:38.120 Yeah, yeah, back off Arrowhead. So Arrowhead or the company 140 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:42.840 has been pulling water out of the San Bernardino Mountains 141 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:45.639 since nineteen o six. There are springs up in the 142 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.960 mountains and Arrowheads been bottling that water and selling it. 143 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.159 Well. Now the federal government is saying. 144 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:57.960 And they've decided not to renew a permit the US 145 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.440 for a service is denied Blue Tritons permit to extract 146 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.000 water after environmental activists claim that the removal of the 147 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:06.559 water is harming wildlife. 148 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.120 Now look at this, what a business model this is. 149 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:17.679 Can you imagine any manufacturing or service provider where you 150 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:24.200 pay nothing for the base product. Let's say your auto company, 151 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:27.320 your manufacturing cars, you pay nothing for the metal or 152 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:30.039 the electronics, or the steering wheel or the wheels. This 153 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.240 is arrowhead. They pay nothing for the water, or virtually nothing. 154 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.440 I can't even imagine how much they don't pay to 155 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:42.279 the FEDS for the water. And so the natural spring water, 156 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:46.279 I guess, is going to be natural tap water. You know, 157 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:49.679 there are a lot of companies that basically just filter 158 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:54.399 water and here you go, here's a bottle of water. 159 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:57.240 But think how high their water bills must be. 160 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:01.960 You know what, don't know how expensive water is when 161 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:03.480 they sell it to you in a bottle for three 162 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:04.279 bucks a bottle. 163 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.919 All right, another day, another attack on Metro. A man 164 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.240 has been arrested after he allegedly attacked a woman at 165 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.799 a Metro station in Pasadena. Happened on the A Lines 166 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:22.799 Allen station about five forty yesterday yesterday morning. According to witnesses, 167 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.000 the guy punched the woman, knocked her to the ground, 168 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.200 dragged her onto the dirt, kicked her onto the tracks, 169 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:31.440 and then dragged her out onto the two ten freeway 170 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:32.960 and then he ran off. 171 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.440 And now they've arrested him. 172 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.200 Okay. You know what we have to do amy is 173 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:41.039 sort of change the way we approach news, and that is, 174 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.720 I think, at a given time every day, you do 175 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:50.360 the today's metro attack report, and you simply do the 176 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.279 report as to how many people were attacked on metro 177 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:57.600 and what happened and if anybody died. Good news is 178 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:02.360 no one died today, And it's uh, every day. When's 179 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:04.960 the last time we didn't do a. 180 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:09.960 Metro attack yesterday? Although the attack happened yesterday. 181 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:15.759 Okay, so we missed the timing. Okay, but it was 182 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.360 a metro attack yesterday, and it's early. It's only six 183 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.519 twenty two or six twenty three, where I think it's 184 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.440 what six twenty one. We're on this minute delay business. 185 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.159 In case I say something wrong and you say something. 186 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:31.039 Wrong, Oh, don't look me into that. 187 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:35.799 It's the broadcasting a little inside baseball. I thought i'd 188 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.120 share with everything. I share everything with everybody. 189 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:38.360 I know. 190 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:43.919 I've gotten such grief from management over the years, saying 191 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.240 you have to share everything. I go, Yeah, of course 192 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:51.879 I do. Well if people are if they deign to listen, 193 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:55.679 and they're kind enough to listen, all right, you know 194 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:59.320 what I'll share what's going on? Okay, let's continue on. 195 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:01.879 Okay, wait, there's more speaking of Metro. 196 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.440 Oh yeah, so down in Long Beach then or over 197 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:10.240 in Long Beach, a man has been shot by police. 198 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.240 This happened near Fifth Street and Pacific Avenue at the 199 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:18.440 Metro station, and witnesses say a man was walking near 200 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.360 the station and was seen taking a gun out of 201 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:25.679 his backpack and putting it in his waistband. Officers confronted him. 202 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:29.039 There was some sort of confrontation there, and then police 203 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:29.720 shot him. 204 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.360 This is actually good news for the police department because 205 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:39.360 they can shut down their firing ranges for practice and 206 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:44.840 just send their the practice teams to the Metro and 207 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:46.840 here you go, and you're going to get some really 208 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:51.240 good practice. It's pretty crazy. It really is the same. 209 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.000 Would anybody go on Metro? I mean I would not 210 00:12:54.200 --> 00:13:00.000 get near a Metro line. I remember when Metro first 211 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.720 opened up and we did a whole story the first 212 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.480 one opened up, I don't remember how many years ago, 213 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:07.639 and a bunch of us had to report and KFI 214 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.200 I went there. It was all homeless people, that was it. 215 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.639 Even back then, it was all yeah, it started as 216 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:17.120 a homelessly homeless encampment where people just lived on the 217 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:21.360 Metro buses. It was like a cruise ship. It was 218 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:25.799 a moving hotel that went back and forth from station 219 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:27.960 to station and you could stop. You oh, you know 220 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:32.240 what it is. It's like those drive and hop off 221 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:35.320 buses you do in Hollywood that it goes around and 222 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:37.759 you can get off anytime and get back on. That's 223 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.039 what Metro was like for homeless people. 224 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:42.960 I didn't realize it had always been that. 225 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:44.759 Way, like, oh, yeah, no, it's from day one. 226 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:47.120 There was an issue with that dare up in the 227 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.559 Bay Area, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system that was 228 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.360 really really nice when it opened, Like my mom used 229 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:55.159 to drop us off and we'd go and ride the 230 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:58.279 bar all day like because that's what it was clean 231 00:13:58.360 --> 00:13:59.720 and it was fast and it was fun. 232 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.639 And well, if you fly into Oakland, you fly into 233 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:07.759 SFO San Francisco International or which is way south of 234 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.240 the city, or you can go to Oakland across the 235 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:14.200 Bay and it's the same ride. And flying into Oakland 236 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:18.000 is a lot cheaper, always has been than into San Francisco. 237 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.720 And then you would get on the Metro and the 238 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.399 problem is when you got on the Metro station which 239 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:26.559 was about a mile away from the airport or a 240 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.200 mile and a half. You had to get on a 241 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.799 bus and then you had to get off the bus 242 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:34.399 and go to the metro station. And the metro station 243 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:38.519 there was the station of death. It was such a 244 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:41.679 sketchy area that you would good chance you would die 245 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:46.600 because it was that kind of area, and I always 246 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.159 enjoyed it. Well, I didn't enjoy the death part, but 247 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:55.080 I really enjoyed the ride on bart Then I think 248 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:57.039 it's now to the airport, so you don't have nearly 249 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:57.679 as much fun. 250 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:58.840 Yeah. 251 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:00.679 So, speaking of the death part, would you want to 252 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.159 know if you are going to die? No, Well, the 253 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:08.000 family of a French explorer who died in that submersible implosion, 254 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.159 remember it was going down to see the Titanic and 255 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:14.440 it imploded. The family has filed a more than fifty 256 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:18.559 million dollar lawsuit saying the crew experienced terror and mental 257 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.679 anguish before the disaster, and accused the subs operator of 258 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:24.120 gross negligence. 259 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:28.120 Yeah, now that's interesting. The lawsuit for wrongful death may 260 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.679 work or not work, but this is emotional distress that 261 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:38.000 they're also really suing for, and I think it's quite 262 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.440 a lawsuit. The lawsuit says the crew may well have 263 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:47.080 heard fiber the carbon fiber's crackling noise grow more intense 264 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:50.720 as the water pressure pressed on the titan's hole. They 265 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:55.600 could have heard it. Okay, not necessarily hurt it, but 266 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:59.360 they could have. And I get those questions all the 267 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.720 time on handle on the law. I could have been 268 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:07.000 in an accident. I could have been hit. I could 269 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.240 have been beat up when I was in the gang area. 270 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.639 Were you well, no, but I could have. And then 271 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:18.080 I always share exactly the same philosophy of law. And 272 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:20.320 this is why I'm such a great lawyer. And that is, 273 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:24.279 if my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather. But 274 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:29.559 she doesn't, so therefore she could have been, but she's not. 275 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:32.159 And that's the concept here. 276 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:37.000 Ain't gonna fly, Okay, Debbie's not done yet. 277 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:41.360 Tropical Storm Debbie has made its second landfall in the US. 278 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:42.679 It happened early this morning. 279 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:47.639 This time it came on to shore in South Carolina 280 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:51.960 with fifty mile an hour winds, torrential rains spawning tornadoes, 281 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.440 and they're expecting some pretty severe flooding and it's crawling 282 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:56.960 along in about five miles per hour. 283 00:16:57.519 --> 00:16:58.039 It was a. 284 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.080 Category one hurricane on Monday when I first came ashore 285 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:05.240 in Florida. It's lost some power since then, but it's 286 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:07.960 dumped more than a foot of rain over parts of Florida, Georgia, 287 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:08.960 and South Carolina. 288 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:10.240 It's killed at least five people. 289 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:12.839 Yeah, it's a bad one. It's about well. We knew 290 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:14.240 it was going to be a bad one, and we 291 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:16.480 didn't know early on where it was going to go, 292 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:18.799 because originally I thought maybe it was going to go 293 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.720 into the Gulf Midway, where we could have said, Debbie 294 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.960 does Dallas, and unfortunately we are not a I would 295 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:28.960 have loved for that to have happened. 296 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:32.079 It was looking good for a while. 297 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.799 Then the Dow dipped again, So the Dow Jones Industrial 298 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.480 Average was trading up is more than four hundred points yesterday, 299 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:41.480 looking like we were going to have another day of 300 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:47.119 rallying after that one thousand point loss on Tuesday or 301 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:50.599 on Monday actually, but nope, it fell, so it ended 302 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.039 up down two hundred and thirty four points yesterday. 303 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:56.160 So it looks like we are right there on the 304 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:01.480 precipice of the recession, or at least the y mcdownturn sore. 305 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:05.519 The happening. We don't know, and then we kind of 306 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.640 saying we're gonna have a soft landing, which we have 307 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.279 not had. I mean, this economy has been roaring. 308 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:11.079 Uh. 309 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:13.640 And this also means if there's this much of a 310 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:16.759 slow down, if the stocks drop dramatically and stay there, 311 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:21.640 even though it's there in the stock market is insanely high, 312 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:22.680 it's still up for the year. 313 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:25.160 It's still up over thirty nine thousand. 314 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:28.000 I know. It's I mean, it's nuts, it really is. 315 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:32.640 And then we'll see ah an interest rate drop by 316 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.720 the Feds, probably September when the next meet or in 317 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.079 an emergency they can do it immediately, but that's not 318 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:38.640 going to happen. 319 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:42.799 So it was a year ago today that Lahina was 320 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.599 almost wiped completely off the map. 321 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:47.680 Remember the flames, oh yeah. 322 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:52.160 Started on Maui and just tore through Lahina and basically 323 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:55.319 destroyed this small historic town. 324 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:58.279 But researchers are saying. 325 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:03.640 That they are optim mystic because the reefs, coral reefs, 326 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:06.400 are recovering from the impacts of the wildfire. 327 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:08.200 And that big tree is it a banyon tree? 328 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.440 What's the yes, the big it is it's a Banyan 329 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.079 tree in the middle of town or the middle of 330 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:13.039 the historic here. 331 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.559 It's growing and it's beautiful. 332 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.759 Yeah, Lahina started in the eighteen hundreds as a whaling 333 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:23.880 town and the history of it it's incredible and a 334 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.960 lot of those buildings that date back to those days. 335 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:31.440 I mean, you talk about history, it's absolutely great. Anybody 336 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:36.119 read James Mitchener's Hawaii, which is a phenomenal book, all 337 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:41.519 thousand pages of it, and it is based Lahaina is 338 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:45.519 a huge part of it. Also, I don't know if 339 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:48.920 you ever been to Molokai, the leper colony. Oh, that's 340 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:50.119 a lot of fun going there. 341 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:51.920 You can are there still? 342 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:55.000 Yeah, yeah, there's still there are still lepers there. Yeah, 343 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.240 yeah there or last I went, I don't know if 344 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:00.880 they stay. If you stay there, you know, the lepers 345 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:02.799 who stay there, you sort of have to have leprosy 346 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:06.920 is it's paid for all paid for by the government. 347 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.440 The government gives them a stipend and it's they're supported 348 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:12.240 one hundred percent by the government. But you have to 349 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:16.759 live there. And today leprosy is completely controlled. You know, 350 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:22.599 it's chronic. You know, fingers and appendages don't fall off anymore, which, 351 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.480 by the way, that's that is hugely entertaining with someone. 352 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:30.240 Schwantz literally falls off when they have leprosy. Okay, let's 353 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:30.680 just move on. 354 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:36.480 Okay, let's see the war rages on in Ukraine. Russian 355 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:40.319 forces are battling Ukrainian troops for a third day after 356 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:44.240 they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region. 357 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:46.759 So it was one of the biggest Ukrainian attacks on 358 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.440 Russia in the two year war. About a thousand Ukrainian 359 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:53.519 troops rammed through the Russian border early on the morning 360 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:57.400 of August sixth, with tanks and armored vehicles and covered 361 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:00.839 by swarms of drones and artillery from this from the sky. 362 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:05.680 Yeah, Vladimir Putin calls it a major provocation, as if 363 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:09.680 the attack on Ukraine was not a major provocation. Right. 364 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:14.039 I just think it's amazing how they spin these things 365 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:15.440 and things that we're going to believe it. 366 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:20.759 It's absolutely crazy and it's and I'll tell you what 367 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.440 I sort of didn't understand and why Putin didn't do this. 368 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:29.359 Usually when a country attacks a neighboring country, much like 369 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:34.240 what the Nazis did and other countries, it's because they're 370 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:38.160 there to liberate the people in that country, because they're 371 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:40.599 under the In this case, it would be the Ukrainian 372 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:46.839 government is treating the Russians on the eastern part of Ukraine, 373 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:50.079 that is with the border with Russia and treating him. 374 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:52.960 So the Ukrainian people who speak Russian begged Russia to 375 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:57.319 come in and save them. That's the way they spin. 376 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:00.319 And it's just it's horrific, it really is. You're absolutely right. 377 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:03.839 Amy, Costco's cracking down on membership moochers. 378 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:08.119 So you've probably seen it. You may have even tried 379 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:10.960 it us talking about to me or to the audience, 380 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:12.039 to the audience. 381 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:15.720 Using somebody else's card to get into Costco. Okay, well, 382 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:18.160 Costco's cracking down on that. So they're doing it in 383 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:21.079 a kinder, gentler way. But instead of like calling you 384 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:23.319 out for it, they're just having you scan the Costco 385 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:25.279 card before you go into the store. 386 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:30.079 Yeah, today, yesterday, It's exactly what happened to me. Exactly. 387 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:31.680 They put it in a couple of days ago. And 388 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:34.640 there's the scanning and you put your card up and 389 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:39.160 it scans. Although there are people right there at this point, 390 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:42.960 standing membership people, and as you walk in, they point 391 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:46.480 to the scanner and go here, scan here, as if 392 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:49.200 you're a special needs customer. Yeah, I know what a 393 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:52.960 scanner looks like, Thank you very much, but they still 394 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:56.240 I mean that is now the thing. You scan the 395 00:22:56.279 --> 00:22:59.920 card to get in the door, and if you are 396 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.880 either it is expired or let's say you don't have 397 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:06.799 a card, they gently move you over to the membership 398 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:11.279 line and go here, why don't you sign up as 399 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:11.839 a member? 400 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:15.400 Easy, easy, psy yep. 401 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:19.640