Speaker 1: KFIM six forty years later with Mo Kelly. We're live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and as you've been listening
Speaker 1: to KFI, we've been continuing our coverage of multiple fires
Speaker 1: throughout southern California. Let's first check in with Chris Adler,
Speaker 1: who is reporting from the Tribuco Canyon or Airport fire
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Chris, how are you? Are you safe?
Speaker 3: I am thanks moo.
Speaker 4: You know what people are are followers on social media
Speaker 4: and we're with how fashionable my jacket is as supposed
Speaker 4: to my safety?
Speaker 3: But no, mo, I am, I am watching.
Speaker 4: I'm watching the bills of smoke right now that are
Speaker 4: rising up from the can in. There are flames scattered
Speaker 4: throughout the canyon, so it's in multiple areas as we speak.
Speaker 4: I'm watching airplanes drop retardant and water from helicopters. Now,
Speaker 4: as the sun goes down, the helicopters might still be
Speaker 4: able to fly, but the planes for safety will not
Speaker 4: be dropping this retardant, so that will stop this evening.
Speaker 4: But the water drops, I'm told mice may still continue
Speaker 4: throughout the night. But the smoke has turned from a
Speaker 4: gray to a red as the sun.
Speaker 3: Is setting here in Tribuco Canyon.
Speaker 2: Well, let's reset.
Speaker 1: This fire began around one thirty pm along the thirty
Speaker 1: two two hundred block of Tribuco Creek Road, near the
Speaker 1: Tribuco Flyers Club. More than two thousand acres have been
Speaker 1: burned from your information, from what you can see, have
Speaker 1: there been any structures which have been damaged.
Speaker 4: At this time, there's it's zero percent surrounded. But firefighters
Speaker 4: say they are not concerned because it's blowing upward and outward,
Speaker 4: and they say that right now no homes are threatened.
Speaker 4: There were some mandatory evacuations for some areas warnings for others.
Speaker 4: We saw people coming down leading horses and other livestock
Speaker 4: down the road, trying to get the horses out just.
Speaker 3: For safety in case this does take a turn.
Speaker 4: But right now there are no homes threatened and no
Speaker 4: homes have been touched by this fire.
Speaker 1: You're telling us there's a lot going on as far
Speaker 1: as these retardant drops. What is the air quality like?
Speaker 1: Is it easy to breathe or is there a high
Speaker 1: level of smoke?
Speaker 3: You know what, it's blowing away.
Speaker 4: However, from where I'm standing here at this base, where
Speaker 4: I'm surrounded by cal fire trucks and firefighters who it
Speaker 4: seems like they're going in and coming out in waves,
Speaker 4: some going in, some coming out, just back and forth.
Speaker 3: And from this point it's cloudy. You know, there's a bit,
Speaker 3: there's a little.
Speaker 4: Bit of coughing going on, but for the most part,
Speaker 4: the firefighters where I'm at or not wearing the respirators.
Speaker 4: I'm not wearing my respirator right now. As I was
Speaker 4: coming up through the canyon, I did start to cough
Speaker 4: a bit in certain areas.
Speaker 3: But the wind is blowing this fire. It's blowing away.
Speaker 4: It seems to be blowing away from us from the
Speaker 4: direction of the smoke, and so right now, you know,
Speaker 4: the people were concerned that this might shift and it
Speaker 4: might go towards homes, but at this point it's not
Speaker 4: doing that.
Speaker 5: Mo.
Speaker 4: But the firefighters say, you know, they're they're going to
Speaker 4: be watching this, they're going to be fighting this fighter
Speaker 4: fire throughout the night. And there's about there's more than
Speaker 4: one thousand firefighters from multiple agencies, some from out of state,
Speaker 4: even from Arizona, who are here to.
Speaker 3: Fight this fire.
Speaker 1: Okay, when you say that there are some coming from
Speaker 1: Arizona I'm quite sure someone who is listening to this
Speaker 1: and knowing that there are multiple major fires going on
Speaker 1: right now, may be concerned about resources.
Speaker 2: Have any of the firefighters.
Speaker 1: There talk to you or express concern about having enough
Speaker 1: resources to not only fight this fire, but possibly not
Speaker 1: be spread too thin to deal with the other fires.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and that is always a concern for the firefighters.
Speaker 4: When I was at the command post speaking with OC
Speaker 4: Fire Authority, they said, you know, this is a reminder
Speaker 4: that these fires can shift. They can shift quickly with
Speaker 4: the Santa Ana winds and the dry weather and the
Speaker 4: dry brush. This is a vegetation fire. They don't know
Speaker 4: exactly how it started, but the firefighters say, this is
Speaker 4: a reminder that these fires can spread. We've got multiple
Speaker 4: fires going on right now, and it's a reminder for
Speaker 4: people to to be prepared and be ready and be
Speaker 4: ready for evacuations because a fire can pop up at
Speaker 4: any time anywhere in southern California, and they want the
Speaker 4: public to be prepared.
Speaker 1: From what we can see, we don't know what necessarily
Speaker 1: started the fire.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 4: They don't know. We don't have any report on what
Speaker 4: started it. When I asked firefighters. They said, that's still,
Speaker 4: of course under investigation. But he said, you know, with
Speaker 4: the heat and the wind and the dryness in the area,
Speaker 4: he says, basically, it's not surprising they do at this
Speaker 4: time of year typically do get fires in this region.
Speaker 3: So you know, it's not certain.
Speaker 4: We don't have a definitive answer as to what exactly caused.
Speaker 3: The fire did start after just before one thirty.
Speaker 4: But what is interesting about this fire is how quickly
Speaker 4: it has grown to nearly two thousand acres and just
Speaker 4: a matter of hours.
Speaker 1: Well, we know that it's been, you know, inescapably hot
Speaker 1: no matter where you've been in southern California. We know
Speaker 1: that this hot weather has played a role. But have
Speaker 1: firefighters expressed to you as far as how much of
Speaker 1: a role this heat wave has played in either spreading
Speaker 1: the fire, growing the fire, or impacting the fire.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the heat, they say, the heat making it
Speaker 4: so so so dry, the ground so dry, and even
Speaker 4: though we have all of that rain over the last
Speaker 4: few years, and so we had a very rainy winter
Speaker 4: season last season, the.
Speaker 3: Ground is dry right now.
Speaker 4: If we had had if we had had much more rain,
Speaker 4: this fire may not be as big as it was
Speaker 4: as it is, so that's why OC fire authority is
Speaker 4: saying the dryness of the vegetation, how dry it is
Speaker 4: is is the reason why this is spreading so quickly.
Speaker 2: Chris Thatdler, of course, be safe out there.
Speaker 1: I can't see you, so I can't comment on what
Speaker 1: you're wearing, but I care about your safety more than anything.
Speaker 1: Thank you for checking in with us, and we know
Speaker 1: you're going to be out there. We'll probably hear from
Speaker 1: you again later on tonight.
Speaker 2: Is that correct? You be checking in with the news, Joe.
Speaker 3: We'll check in a little bit later with an update.
Speaker 2: All right, it's later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1: Now we'll check in with Corbyn Carson on the other
Speaker 1: side of this break and find out what is happening
Speaker 1: with the line fire with Kelly six Fri live everywhere
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app and as we continue to get
Speaker 1: at least the latest with these multiple fires going on,
Speaker 1: not just in southern California but extending as far as
Speaker 1: the Veda. You may have heard the news by now
Speaker 1: that Governor Gavin Newsom has activated the National Guard in
Speaker 1: response to the massive line fire in San Berdanino County,
Speaker 1: where at last I checked over eleven thousand people were
Speaker 1: under evacuation orders. Right now, we have kfi's own Corbyn Carson,
Speaker 1: who is on scene with his eye view of what's
Speaker 1: going on. Corbyin i' i ask you, as I asked
Speaker 1: Chris Adler, first, are you safe?
Speaker 6: Yeah, currently very safe, but looking at these bright orange
Speaker 6: flames that have started dotting the mountain ridge lines here
Speaker 6: and in mentone. This is at the base of the
Speaker 6: fire where a lot of this was really threatening homes.
Speaker 6: It's moved more east, which has taken this dark haze
Speaker 6: with it and making it a lot easier.
Speaker 2: To see these fires.
Speaker 6: But we've got a lot of information here in the
Speaker 6: last May I'm about the last hour from fire officials.
Speaker 6: One of the better news is that the fire is
Speaker 6: now surrounded five percent. They crews have surrounded the fire
Speaker 6: five percent. It was three percent for most of the day,
Speaker 6: so that is some good news. This thing is currently
Speaker 6: listed at more than twenty three out one thousand acres.
Speaker 6: There has not been any buildings or homes damaged to burn.
Speaker 6: That's also some good news. And really it was really
Speaker 6: hot when I got here. That's what these firefighters are
Speaker 6: dealing with. You've been hearing that it's also a little
Speaker 6: bit of win kicked up here and now and again,
Speaker 6: but now again the concern is I'm looking at flames
Speaker 6: across the ridge here and then more into the fire
Speaker 6: as it moves, as it's moving more.
Speaker 2: East in this direction.
Speaker 6: Multiple agencies had just provided that new intion. Like I said,
Speaker 6: that there's still that thirty six thousand homes that are threatened.
Speaker 6: San Bernardino County Fire Protection District Chief Dan Monsley says
Speaker 6: when the fire floaded over the weekend, he was really concerned.
Speaker 2: But this is what it is now.
Speaker 7: The fire is still danger. Yesterday, I was worried about
Speaker 7: Angel Soaks Mountain Home village. I was worried about forest falls.
Speaker 7: The fires make any eastern project movement, and it still
Speaker 7: has the possibility of doing that.
Speaker 2: We've been challenged by the weather.
Speaker 7: Besides being very hot and as you know, trout and
Speaker 7: the historic low temperatures or excuse me, low humidity and
Speaker 7: fuel moistures. These thunderstorms have been moving this fire around.
Speaker 7: Today the fire is moving northeast, and we're concerned with
Speaker 7: the citizens of Big Bear.
Speaker 6: So now that movement that was moving just east and
Speaker 6: they're still kind of battling these stubborn flames along the
Speaker 6: ridgeline above the Angelus Oaks area. They're now also starting
Speaker 6: to push of a little bit more concern towards bigs
Speaker 6: bears as you heard there. So during the night they're
Speaker 6: going to be looking for some cooperation from the weather.
Speaker 6: Hopefully that the temperatures drop again as they're supposed to
Speaker 6: over the next few days. That could be good, but
Speaker 6: a lot of work here to still be done.
Speaker 1: The reason I asked you about this is because if
Speaker 1: you were safe, because usually with these big fires it
Speaker 1: may not be close to structures, but there's always a
Speaker 1: question of air quality, I asked Chris Hadler, and I'm
Speaker 1: asking you as well, given the size of this fire,
Speaker 1: which is much larger than the Tribuco Canyon fire, what
Speaker 1: is the air quality like?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's been bad all day.
Speaker 6: I mean it's people from I was coming from Orange
Speaker 6: County this afternoon. You could see that dark haze that
Speaker 6: everybody's pretty much been able to see all the way
Speaker 6: over there in Orange County. And this was before the
Speaker 6: new fire sparked off in Tribuco Canyon and it has
Speaker 6: extended all the way in my drive across Orange County
Speaker 6: to San Bernardino County, and it was so bad when
Speaker 6: I first got here, you couldn't even see the San
Speaker 6: Bernardino Mountains. It was just blacked out in this kind
Speaker 6: of gloomy, dark smoke that you couldn't really see deep.
Speaker 6: And then as that started moving east with the light
Speaker 6: wind or whatever, you could start seeing a little bit
Speaker 6: more of the ridgeline, which started showing some of these
Speaker 6: spot fires we're seeing now that crews are trying to
Speaker 6: get in and clean up. And when I say spotfires,
Speaker 6: you're thinking something small. These are pretty big fires. It's
Speaker 6: just that these mountains are so large they look small
Speaker 6: from the distance as the closest that you can get
Speaker 6: to them. And one of the other interesting things that
Speaker 6: we heard from officials here in this recent news briefing
Speaker 6: is about evacuation orders and about the resources that are
Speaker 6: really kicking up thanks to the governor's order. One of
Speaker 6: the big people talking about that with San Bernardino County
Speaker 6: Sheriff Shan and Dikis. He says there's multiple resources to
Speaker 6: help out with the evacuations and of course the protection
Speaker 6: of people's homes.
Speaker 5: That's Barstal PD, Culton PD, Montclair, Redlands upland Chino, Fontana, Ontario,
Speaker 5: Rialto and Saramonydino PDEs Pino Fontana, Ontario, Realto and Saramony
Speaker 5: Doin PDEs. That increased our surge from approximately thirty people
Speaker 5: in the mountains and thirty people down in the valley
Speaker 5: to about seventy each day, and as of today, that
Speaker 5: surge is now increased to one hundred and fifty and
Speaker 5: of the operational period this evening, we'll almost be doubling
Speaker 5: those numbers with the National Guard who have been preplaced
Speaker 5: by the Governor in state oes at the National Guard
Speaker 5: Armory in Ontario, and we'll be deploying them.
Speaker 2: So a lot of resources will be out there.
Speaker 6: Already, he was talking about some people trying to take
Speaker 6: advantage of the situation.
Speaker 5: We've only had one case of a potential of burglary
Speaker 5: or looter and those subjects have been arrested.
Speaker 7: Just like I said, I.
Speaker 5: Am telling anybody right now if you haven't an arrest
Speaker 5: more or anything, and you enter these areas, we've had
Speaker 5: a number of arrests already. One in particular was a
Speaker 5: motorcycle rider on a stolen motorcycle that entered that meet
Speaker 5: and they are now in jail. We are not messing around,
Speaker 5: and like I said earlier, your homes are our homes
Speaker 5: and we're going to be all of this. I don't
Speaker 5: have an overriding concern that there are looting crews or anything.
Speaker 6: Like that in our area, but he said, really the
Speaker 6: main reminder was to get ready when evacuation warnings are issued,
Speaker 6: and it's again similar to those areas that the fire
Speaker 6: is headed towards, like in Big Bear, and then heed
Speaker 6: those evacuation orders when they are issued so fire crews
Speaker 6: can get in and do their job. What has been
Speaker 6: brought up multiple times in these mountain areas when it
Speaker 6: comes to these evacuation orders is that there are limited
Speaker 6: ways in and out of these communities, and all that
Speaker 6: gets even trickier when fire and lawn fuseement enforcement crews
Speaker 6: have to get in and get out and try to
Speaker 6: protect homes and property and lives. And then on top
Speaker 6: of that you have any potential falling trees, power lines,
Speaker 6: and other issues that can get people trapped.
Speaker 1: We know from what you've told us that there has
Speaker 1: been a surge and resources. You mentioned the number of
Speaker 1: participating law enforcement agencies. I can imagine that there are
Speaker 1: a number of also participating out of area fire agencies
Speaker 1: as well. Do we have a number of how many
Speaker 1: different fire crews or agencies are involved.
Speaker 6: We have about seventeen hundred. More than seventeen hundred personnel
Speaker 6: that are on scene. We have all kinds of I'm
Speaker 6: just looking over the incident command here. They are one
Speaker 6: hundred and almost two hundred engines, water tenders, helicopters that
Speaker 6: are fifteen of them, including that Quick Reaction Force which
Speaker 6: is the CH forty seven Shinnooks, which those things can
Speaker 6: drop three thousand gallons of water per drop and they
Speaker 6: do it in tandem and it shared throughout southern California.
Speaker 2: So I know they're busy. They've already dropped a.
Speaker 6: Million gallons of water and fire retardant on eighty five
Speaker 6: fires this year, so I'm sure they're just hopping around
Speaker 6: from each of these different areas today. But again, on
Speaker 6: top of that, you have the thirty five dozers, thirty
Speaker 6: seven hand crews, and then the different agencies. You got Aarrowbear,
Speaker 6: you got California Conservation Corps, the Department of Corrections is
Speaker 6: even in on this, and then of course the Governor's
Speaker 6: Office caltrans. We heard from CHP just everybody really getting
Speaker 6: involved in trying to get this thing under control.
Speaker 1: Last question, just a quick summary. Is it one of optimism,
Speaker 1: a feeling of optimism because the temperature is looking to
Speaker 1: come down in the next day or two, How is
Speaker 1: the weather going to figure in this the next day
Speaker 1: or two that is.
Speaker 6: Gonna be up to the potential wind and any and
Speaker 6: the heat, and then you can just never understand these
Speaker 6: new thunderstorms and lightning strikes. One of the officials thousands
Speaker 6: of those over the last couple of days. So hopefully
Speaker 6: it's looking good that they're gonna get I mean, we
Speaker 6: saw the containment or the fires surrounded has doubled at
Speaker 6: least today. It was some positive work yesterday, so we're
Speaker 6: hoping through the night again this thing will lay down
Speaker 6: and fire crews can really get some containment built.
Speaker 1: Corbyn Carson, thank you for that great update. I assume
Speaker 1: you're going to be out there for the rest of
Speaker 1: the evening and reporting.
Speaker 6: I'm never leaving this is now where I work from
Speaker 6: the remainder of katnam Jo.
Speaker 2: I'll be out here for some time. If you need
Speaker 2: me manage.
Speaker 1: One questure, we'll hear you. At least to KFI news Breaks.
Speaker 1: You got it, sir, It's Later with mokel. We have
Speaker 1: an update from Governor Newsom regarding THHC product regulations will
Speaker 1: go over next.
Speaker 8: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 8: KFI AM six four.
Speaker 1: And this is a part of a longer conversation that
Speaker 1: I've been having with you for many years now. If
Speaker 1: you had even listened to the mo Kelly Show when
Speaker 1: I was on weekends here, I made it very clear
Speaker 1: I was for decriminalization, not legalization. I wasn't about the
Speaker 1: recreational use of marijuana. Wasn't my thing and it's never
Speaker 1: been my thing for a number of reasons. But some
Speaker 1: of the concerns that I said back then, and people
Speaker 1: said like, oh, you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: It is inevitable. Look, that has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: I wasn't ever going to support it, and I never
Speaker 1: will for number of reasons. But my concerns originally had
Speaker 1: to do with Number one, was it going to be
Speaker 1: regulated as far as the amount of THCHC in different products?
Speaker 1: Number Two, when it came to DUIs driving down the influence,
Speaker 1: was there a test, a reliable test to find out
Speaker 1: whether someone was driving impaired as to what degree. When
Speaker 1: it came to THHC number three, the availability of products
Speaker 1: containing THC.
Speaker 2: Where I didn't.
Speaker 1: Believe even back then that it was going to be
Speaker 1: limited to just dispensaries. They're going to be these products
Speaker 1: which are going to pop up in grocery stores in
Speaker 1: other places because you know, because of what I saw
Speaker 1: is a lack of.
Speaker 2: Strict regulation of THC. Okay, lo and behold.
Speaker 1: Now a few years later, or more than a few
Speaker 1: years later, we are now seeing some of that calm
Speaker 1: to fruition.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has proposed THHC product regulations.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, who ever thought about that? I did?
Speaker 1: Citing concerns about children accessibility, Oh my gosh, who thought
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 2: I did?
Speaker 1: Newsom proposes the emergency regulations to protect children from dangerous
Speaker 1: products containing THC. The governor says they're popping up in
Speaker 1: grocery and corner stores across the state.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you're worried about that. Who said something
Speaker 2: about that? I know it sounds like Bill Clinton. I
Speaker 2: did not have sex with that woman, Hillary. I promise
Speaker 2: you what I know. Some of my characters go together
Speaker 2: and sometimes it's not like Alex Trebeck, oh no, sorry,
Speaker 2: we were talking about THHC and then it turns into
Speaker 2: William Shatner swawk, what is going on?
Speaker 9: Okay, you're just doing that debate me analogy? No, because
Speaker 9: yesterday was Star Trek Day that you're doing that dea.
Speaker 2: No, No, I look, I was not trying to bait you.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Mark, Ron.
Speaker 1: I didn't have to not have a chance to say
Speaker 1: good evening formally to you and a happy Star Trek
Speaker 1: data emo belated.
Speaker 2: Of course, yes, it's only logical to wish you that. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: no eighty half.
Speaker 1: As I was saying getting back to Governor, knew some
Speaker 1: and THAC these are some concerns that I had from
Speaker 1: the very beginning, and I knew there was going to
Speaker 1: come a point in time we need to have some
Speaker 1: sort of regulations for the amount of THHD end products,
Speaker 1: better regulations and parameters as far as what types of
Speaker 1: products which may contain even trace amounts of THHD available
Speaker 1: in stores. And even though I know the hip industry
Speaker 1: is worried about overregulation and how that may kill off
Speaker 1: some businesses, we talk to people who are in the
Speaker 1: legalized portion and the underground black market portion, and I
Speaker 1: know that it's a complex equation of trying to not
Speaker 1: hurt California legitimate businesses while at the same time trying
Speaker 1: to make sure that they are protected against the illicit,
Speaker 1: illegal black market weed and also making sure that there
Speaker 1: are protections for children. You know, it's I'm going to
Speaker 1: side with the governor on this one, and that may
Speaker 1: not be popular, but I'm going to side with them
Speaker 1: because I want more stringent regulations when it comes to
Speaker 1: THHD products, where they're able to be bought and how
Speaker 1: much THC is there is there a level of consistency
Speaker 1: in the dosage, you know, in the in the same
Speaker 1: way that there is a lack of regulations of the
Speaker 1: supplements market, that is less focus on because you don't
Speaker 1: have as many potential issues with that.
Speaker 2: That's that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And this is maybe made this confirmation bias for me,
Speaker 1: but this is not something I'm never going to get behind.
Speaker 2: As far as the recreational use market. Look, the fact that.
Speaker 10: These plus signed shops have popped up almost on every
Speaker 10: other corner. They're as prevalent as liquor stores, churches, and
Speaker 10: Chinese food in the urban community almost in every other corner.
Speaker 10: And now they are starting to make products associated with
Speaker 10: like vape pens, vape flavors, and things like that that
Speaker 10: make the idea of vaping thh products more friendly for
Speaker 10: younger eyes.
Speaker 1: And we also had to deal with the whole deal
Speaker 1: of the candy flavoring of the vaping you stuff like that.
Speaker 10: I look anytime there is regular elation on any product that,
Speaker 10: even though I know will probably get fifty eleven talkbacks
Speaker 10: and emails saying it's not addictive.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 10: The people that I grew up with, they smoked it
Speaker 10: all day.
Speaker 2: Long, every day stopped. I can tell.
Speaker 10: I'm just saying, if that's not addictive, then I don't
Speaker 10: know what addiction is.
Speaker 2: But okay, okay, we're not talking about that.
Speaker 9: To me.
Speaker 10: The fact that it's becoming more and more accessible to children,
Speaker 10: they're damn sure better be some more regulations on it,
Speaker 10: not just for the the edibles, the chocolates, the candies,
Speaker 10: everything having to do with it. If it is something
Speaker 10: that kids can have the ability to get a hold of,
Speaker 10: you damn sure better put a regulation on it.
Speaker 1: My greatest fear was always that it was going to
Speaker 1: be as available and accessible as cigarettes and alcohol.
Speaker 2: In other words, you can go to your routs or
Speaker 2: Vaughns whatever.
Speaker 1: We're not there yet, but we're almost there because we
Speaker 1: live in a very permissive society.
Speaker 2: Well to that end, Governor Newsome calling for stricter regulations
Speaker 2: on THC product and availability and things like that actually
Speaker 2: allows chain pharmacies Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and the like that
Speaker 2: are having financial struggles move that much closer to being
Speaker 2: able to carry it on their shelves. We know that's
Speaker 2: company that's coming, but you have to regulate it, right
Speaker 2: This helps them out tremendously, right A. They need this
Speaker 2: boon if they can have THAC on their shells ready
Speaker 2: for you to just go get it. Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not going to be naive anytime the government
Speaker 1: wants to regulate something that means they want to get
Speaker 1: a cut of the profits. Yeah, not naive. That's the
Speaker 1: way capitalism works. If they want to say you can't
Speaker 1: have it or you can have it, there's always a
Speaker 1: stipulation that the government gets a little bit of some
Speaker 1: of it. If you're going to sell that government gets
Speaker 1: a cut, or you're going to have to pay for
Speaker 1: this far or this license the regulations that it always
Speaker 1: works that way. So I'm not speaking about this from
Speaker 1: a point of naivete. I am saying that the concerns
Speaker 1: I had originally when we first started talking about the
Speaker 1: recreational use of marijuana, I still have today. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell too many stories, but I
Speaker 1: know that this stuff is addictive. I first, I've seeing
Speaker 1: too many family members. I know that it's addictive, and
Speaker 1: I know that they're starting with the experimentation of it
Speaker 1: much younger. Now, why because it is more readily accessible.
Speaker 1: I know that when I was growing up and you
Speaker 1: were growing up Tuala, you had to find that one
Speaker 1: guy in the neighborhood, you had to go look for it.
Speaker 1: Now that just go down to the store and almost
Speaker 1: like in the way that you know, there's no difficulty
Speaker 1: trying to get it.
Speaker 10: You can actually have some use downsides that hey can
Speaker 10: you go in and get me a dime back?
Speaker 2: They like they used to do with a Hey can
Speaker 2: you go in and buy me a beer? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I'm just not I'm just not down for that,
Speaker 1: and I never will be.
Speaker 2: You And this is when my conservative comes out. It's okay,
Speaker 2: that's not conservative. It is it is caring about kids.
Speaker 2: Not conservative.
Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about the UH with THC weed regulation,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's that's what the prood say. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: a conservative view. Well, you know I clinch.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 1: As I get older, you know, I start moving over
Speaker 1: to that side.
Speaker 2: I wish people could see mark space. See mark space.
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Speaker 2: case you couldn't remember.
Speaker 1: Five six two eight one eight two one three three
Speaker 1: one zero four two four seven one four six zero nine.
Speaker 2: There's another one coming and we'll tell you about it next.
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Speaker 8: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: If you're like me, you have been fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: have the same number for more than twenty five years.
Speaker 1: So I don't think I've had a different number this century.
Speaker 1: But I'm also a person who doesn't have a landline.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a landline I think this century at all.
Speaker 1: There's no real use for it. There's no reason for it,
Speaker 1: not in my life. I mean, you know, there's no
Speaker 1: point in just calling home for an answer machine because
Speaker 1: I'm never home. It's easiest if you want to get
Speaker 1: in touch with me, you're gonna call me on my
Speaker 1: cell phone. You're gonna text me or email me, and
Speaker 1: that'll also hit me on my phone. But some people
Speaker 1: still have the need for either a landline, or they're
Speaker 1: going to get an additional line, or they want to
Speaker 1: change their number, and this may apply to you. Starting
Speaker 1: November first of this year, those who have two on
Speaker 1: three or three two three area codes could be assigned
Speaker 1: a number in the new seven three eight area codeunder
Speaker 1: certain circumstances. Okay, now two on three slash three two three.
Speaker 1: We all know that's the LA County area, but specifically
Speaker 1: it covers downtown La Alhambra, Bell Bell Gardens, Beverly Hills, Commerce, Glendale, Hawthorne,
Speaker 1: Huntington Park, Inglewood, Lynnwood, Maywood, Montabello, Monterey Park, Pasadena, Rosemead, Southgate,
Speaker 1: South Pasadena, Vernon, West Hollywood, and unincorporated portions of LA
Speaker 1: County like where I live right now. The new or
Speaker 1: the proposed new seven three eight area code is going
Speaker 1: to serve that same geographic area served by the two
Speaker 1: one three and three, two three area codes. Here's where
Speaker 1: it may unpact your life. Customers may be assigned a
Speaker 1: number in the new seven three eight area code when
Speaker 1: they request a new service or an additional line. For
Speaker 1: folks like me who already have a number and it
Speaker 1: hasn't changed in the past twenty five years or more,
Speaker 1: and you're in the two one three, three two three,
Speaker 1: it's not going to impact you. But if you want
Speaker 1: a second line, or you want a new line or
Speaker 1: something like that, then it may impact you. What's staying
Speaker 1: the same, Your telephone number, including the current area code,
Speaker 1: won't change, So what you have is not going to change.
Speaker 1: Just in case you're still using a landline and you
Speaker 1: care about these things. The price of a call, the
Speaker 1: coverage area, and other rates and services won't change. Mark
Speaker 1: you and I are old enough to remember when you
Speaker 1: had to use an operator to dial a long distance call.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, and since I grew up with my grandparents,
Speaker 9: I'm sure they had those candlestick phones, those old timey ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Of course I still have, I believe it or not,
Speaker 9: from childhood occasional nightmares about trying to dial a number
Speaker 9: on a rotary phone, and I keep making a mistake
Speaker 9: and having.
Speaker 2: To start over.
Speaker 1: Look, my grandmother, my father's mother, who lived with us
Speaker 1: for a time, refuse to use was a touch tone
Speaker 1: phone to fancy. She was anti technology and the future. Seriously,
Speaker 1: we were like.
Speaker 9: The last trash family in our neighborhood to get a
Speaker 9: touch tone phone. Those were like items of the far
Speaker 9: flung star trek future.
Speaker 2: To us.
Speaker 9: We had a rotary phone until like well past the
Speaker 9: time everybody else got rid of them.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, our house had touch tone phones, but my grandmother,
Speaker 1: in her room, because she was living with us, refused
Speaker 1: to get a touchtone so it was a rotary phone.
Speaker 1: And that was why I learned how to use a
Speaker 1: rotary phone. And I'm not scared by it now. Elmer's
Speaker 1: working the board tonight. I doubt have you used a
Speaker 1: rotary phone before?
Speaker 11: I have, but never one in my house. It's just
Speaker 11: like happened chance I saw one and I had to
Speaker 11: play with it.
Speaker 9: In a museum.
Speaker 2: Or did you put it this way?
Speaker 1: Did you ever use a rotary phone in a telephone booth?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 9: Oh wow, see here's the deal. Wait for a really
Speaker 9: special day. When I was a kid, you go across
Speaker 9: the street use their rotary phone and play with their
Speaker 9: little electronic football game that was just like three lines
Speaker 9: of dots.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have one at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but telephone technology has changed so much now, I
Speaker 1: know Elmer does not remember a party line.
Speaker 2: I know you don't remember that.
Speaker 11: Is that one like you can't have the internet and the.
Speaker 1: No no no, a party line And this is going
Speaker 1: back to the early nineteen seventies. Depending on where you
Speaker 1: lived in the country, even the nineteen sixties party line
Speaker 1: is you'd have the best six or seven houses and
Speaker 1: they all had the same number, they just had a
Speaker 1: different ring so you would know when to pick up.
Speaker 1: But let's say I'm on a phone, any one of
Speaker 1: those six or seven houses could pick up and listen
Speaker 1: in on your call. And you were all waiting to
Speaker 1: use the phone at any given time. Now, my parents
Speaker 1: they had, I should say my grandparents, they had like
Speaker 1: a cottage, a little like kind of like a secondary
Speaker 1: house out in Colchester, Canada, just on the other side
Speaker 1: of the Ambassador Bridge leading from Detroit into Canada, and
Speaker 1: there was a party line there.
Speaker 2: So that's all we had.
Speaker 1: And there weren't that many houses, but we were all
Speaker 1: using the same freaking phone. And it got to be
Speaker 1: real stressful when you want to have a conversation with
Speaker 1: someone and the other five families families because it's only
Speaker 1: one phone per house, want to have a conversation with someone.
Speaker 2: Y'all, don't look.
Speaker 1: I grew up dreaming that I would one day have
Speaker 1: my own phone extension in my room. Not my own
Speaker 1: phone line, own phone number, taking it back to the story. No,
Speaker 1: just my own phone extension in my room. Now you're
Speaker 1: living like a king. Look at you. I got a
Speaker 1: phone I can put in my pants pocket, I can
Speaker 1: dial it on my computer.
Speaker 2: I can do whatever I want. I'm living the dream
Speaker 2: of science and technology that was only dreamed of in
Speaker 2: Star Trek and all sorts of science fiction.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, the iPhone now does more stuff than the
Speaker 9: Star Trek communicators ever did. We are living in the future.
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