WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.839 You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:09.960 six forty KFI AM six forty Bill Handle. Here. It 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:15.560 is a Tuesday morning, February the fourth, yesterday was and 4 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:20.719 I think also Sunday was a day without immigrants. Now 5 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.640 I didn't even notice it, and this was a demonstration 6 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:29.879 to show the United States how valuable immigrants. Read also 7 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:34.759 illegal immigrants are and I'm of the ilk they are. 8 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:41.439 You know, without illegal immigrants, without illegal migrants are well, 9 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:48.240 the agricultural industry would just collapse. It's construction today in 10 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.280 southern California is I don't know what percentages of illegal migrants. 11 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.479 It's huge. And I talked to contractors, I talked to 12 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.759 business people, and it is just very very rough doing business. 13 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.840 Incredibly valuable, more valuable in terms of industry than they 14 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:06.840 are not now in terms of socially. Do they cost more? 15 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:09.840 Do they not cost more? And there's arguments all over 16 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:15.000 the place. Now it is now very tough to be 17 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:21.040 an illegal immigrant in this country, very very tough, because 18 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:25.120 we have it was always somewhat difficult, but today under 19 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:29.359 this new administration and the President ran on the anti 20 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:34.120 illegal immigrant that was one of his major selling points. 21 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:37.560 And he got it. I mean, he was able to 22 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:42.200 get the nerve of America because we as Americans do 23 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:46.560 not like illegal immigrants, illegal immigration. We don't like it. 24 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:50.920 We don't think it's fair. The rules aren't being followed 25 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.439 in terms of coming in this country. Oh, they're not 26 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:57.239 committing any crimes. Well they did. They're living in this 27 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:01.079 country illegally, which is a crime. See. A lot of 28 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:06.319 the concept of the pro immigrant the entire movement is 29 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.080 that it should not be a crime to come into 30 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.199 this country. It really is not a crime. That we 31 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:16.639 should have open borders. Well, welcome to reality. So now 32 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.960 you have millions of people, hopefully millions of people throughout 33 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.800 the country who didn't go to work. A day without immigrants, 34 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.520 all right, and they're trying to analogize it. A day 35 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:33.080 without immigrants is a day where you don't get work, 36 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:37.240 where things aren't being done, where somehow our economy stops 37 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.639 to it just shuts down. Well, a day without immigrants 38 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:47.240 basically came up to be a day without immigrants for 39 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:51.759 a pretty limited number of businesses. No big deal. I'm 40 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:53.439 going to shut down the one to one freeway a 41 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:56.400 couple of days ago. Wait it, good for them, because 42 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:00.479 that really is going to help their position. Because if 43 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:07.039 I had any kind of pro illegal immigrant feelings and 44 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.240 I'm sitting there for four hours on the freeway because 45 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.360 of a demonstration, boy, that's going to make me feel 46 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:15.719 even stronger about being on their side. Also, I'm watching 47 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:20.080 some video of these demonstrations by the thousands of people 48 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:24.879 that are demonstrating. I don't see one American flag. Now, 49 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:28.000 it could be that that's simply the video that the 50 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:33.400 media outlet is showing, But even the liberal media is 51 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:37.919 showing these people by the thousands without one American flag. 52 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:43.560 It's all Mexican flags. It's all Mexican flags. And here's 53 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.680 the question. If you like Mexico so much, go why 54 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.000 are you arguing here? I mean, if you want to 55 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:54.159 stay in America, at least have the brains to put 56 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.039 up American flags and say we want to be here. 57 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:03.159 America is where we want to work. America is where 58 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:05.120 we want to be able to take advantage of the 59 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:12.120 opportunities which do not exist in Mexico. Mexican flags. What 60 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:15.159 do they think which pr genius came up with this? 61 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.399 Here's the story. If you remember a bunch of years ago, 62 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.680 there was the million person march, and we're not talking 63 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:26.279 about the million man march for African Americans. We're talking 64 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:29.759 about the million person march in favor of Hispanics, illegal Hispanics, 65 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.319 same philosophy. But this was a huge demonstration and it 66 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:38.399 was all Mexican flags. I mean, among tens of thousands 67 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:43.600 of people, maybe saw one American flag. And my housekeeper, Maria, 68 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:49.240 went to that march and I said to her, I says, 69 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.959 I go, Maria, you can do anything you want on 70 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:55.519 the weekends. This she took off the day without my permission, 71 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.040 you know, without asking can I take the day off? 72 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.240 Which I probably would have given her anyway. And she 73 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:05.319 went down there and marched, and I said, you ever 74 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:10.240 do that again on my time, you are fired. And 75 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:12.759 she looked at me with eyes a little bit bright, 76 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.399 and I said, now, let's have a reality check, Maria. 77 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:19.480 My kids are in private school, so they're not affected 78 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:23.240 about as to how many illegal aliens come into this country. 79 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:27.160 They're not affected at all. Talk about your grandkids who 80 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:31.040 go to public school, and the schools are not allowed 81 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:33.720 by law to ask whether someone is legal or not legal, 82 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:36.079 because every kid who is in the United States is 83 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:40.839 entitled free public education through high school. So now you 84 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.399 guys are out there marching by the tens of thousands, 85 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:50.680 hundreds of thousands, and you're demanding that there's no such 86 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:54.319 saying as illegal immigration, that people should be here, no 87 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.399 matter what I said. So, my kids have twenty eight 88 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:01.079 children in the school room. How many kids you think 89 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:02.399 are going to be in the school room that your 90 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:09.720 grandchildren are in forty fifty Because there are so many 91 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.879 children that are coming in over the border and they 92 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.319 have to be able to go to school. That's the law. 93 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.399 So what do you think that's going to cost your 94 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.160 family in terms of the education? And she sat and 95 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:26.439 thought about it. She became the most anti illegal immigration 96 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.240 person out there. Damn it. No, keep them out, keep 97 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:35.199 them out, all right. We're still talking about we will 98 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.639 for a very long time. We're in the aftermath of 99 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.199 the Eton and the Palisades fire, as well as other 100 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:43.480 fires out there, the two big ones that destroyed over 101 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:46.279 ten thousand homes and businesses. I mean, it was just 102 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:50.279 completely crazy, and a lot of the blame is we're 103 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:54.800 looking around to see who to blame. Was it Edison 104 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:59.120 and was that a spark that caused the first part 105 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:03.439 of the fire was at Arcis the start of the fire. 106 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:06.600 The fire could have been put out if there was 107 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.680 enough water pressure, if that reservoir in the Palisades had 108 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:14.160 water and wasn't empty at the time, if the fire 109 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:18.360 department had anticipated and put firefighters in front of the fire. 110 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:22.199 Or is it, for the most part kind of impossible 111 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:24.680 to put blame or at least the level of these 112 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:28.240 fires because winds were going at one hundred miles an hour, 113 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:32.560 and the experts, at least the ones I quoted, said, 114 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:37.120 there is no way on God's Earth that any fire 115 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:42.439 department anywhere in the world could have successfully fought this fire. 116 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:45.360 I mean, this is one of those once in a 117 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.480 thousand years events where it was that dry and the 118 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.160 winds were that powerful. So one of the accusations was, 119 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.120 and it was true, there wasn't enough water. There wasn't 120 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.160 enough water pressure, especially up in the higher parts of 121 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:03.519 the Palisades. So the President put a lot of blame 122 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:06.879 on Newsom and the bear of the fire departments. There 123 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:10.279 wasn't enough. And what he did is he ordered the 124 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.199 US Army Corps of Engineers to open two dams last 125 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.759 Friday in central California, letting in over two billion gallons 126 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.399 of water flow out of those reservoirs, and this was 127 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.000 with the intent to send water to southern California, which 128 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:27.199 has been fire completely ravaged by fire. And he went 129 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:31.040 on truths social saying, the water is flowing in California. 130 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:34.360 Now you have enough water basically to fight the fires, 131 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:37.200 and it's heading to farmers throughout the state and to 132 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.200 Los Angeles. Yeah, we got a couple of major problems 133 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:45.000 with that, okay, because if there had been that water, 134 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.879 for example, if Newsom had ordered, well, if anybody had 135 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:52.960 ordered that water to be distributed, would that have done anything. 136 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:58.279 Absolutely not. And here's why, because even this water doesn't 137 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:02.399 come to Los Angeles, it just doesn't. What do you 138 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:04.639 do with you need water, but it doesn't come here. 139 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:10.919 And this is in reservoirs that are they hold extra 140 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:13.879 water for a dry summer that's coming up, that's when 141 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.360 we really need the water, and it's being let out. 142 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:25.279 I mean, this is totally contrary to logic. This hurts 143 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:29.440 far more than it helps. The California Department of Water Resources, 144 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.519 the director said, there's no coordination or a little between 145 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.600 the FEDS and the state and local water managers at 146 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:39.399 this point. And she went and said these reservoirs were 147 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:44.159 federal reservoirs. State of California wasn't even part of the decision. Usually, 148 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.679 the state of California is part of the decisions as 149 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:51.399 to how much water is let go. The State Water 150 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:55.240 Project supplies water from northern California to southern California, including 151 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:59.799 to La Los Angeles. Water supply comes from state reservoirs, 152 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:05.360 partly from the Colorado River. It is completely separated from 153 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:10.519 the water system that the two lakes. These reservoirs come from. 154 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.279 Where the water goes is into the Central Valley, agriculture, 155 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:20.240 large farms, nut citrus, grasses for animal feed. It doesn't 156 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:25.080 come to Los Angeles. And so to argue that the 157 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.720 fault is with the water officials, the fault is with 158 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:33.080 how it is being managed in southern California. Read the 159 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.679 liberals control at all because it's democratic city, it's a 160 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:42.480 democratic state. Therefore, the fault lies with the water managers. 161 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:45.759 And had there been enough water, there would have been 162 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:51.279 plenty of supply in the Palisades. Here's the problem. The 163 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.519 system is not made to bring up that amount of 164 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.279 water in that amount of time. The fire experts will 165 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.159 say there is no system that is designed anywhere that 166 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.879 can supply water to that level, to that length of time. 167 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:12.960 So what's happening on this one is, unfortunately, if it 168 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.919 turns out to be a very dry summer, certainly a 169 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:22.399 dry winner. We're in drought anyway. Even we've been a 170 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:24.799 drought for about ten or twelve years. Even with the 171 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.759 heaviest rainfall we've had in decades a couple of years ago, 172 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.240 that still doesn't change it because we'd have to have 173 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.879 that kind of rain for several seasons in a row, 174 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:37.679 which we're not going to. So what happens when we're 175 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.159 short of water this summer because we won't have them 176 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.960 the water in the reservoirs, We're going to see you sometimes. 177 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.600 And this is not just Trump people do this. Politicians 178 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.759 do this where they make decisions simply for political purposes, 179 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:57.080 completely at odds to what makes sense, what's logic. And 180 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.759 that's across the board. By the way, I'm making that accusation. 181 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.320 Nothing is more important than getting re elected or furthering 182 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:08.879 your political agenda. Nothing, all right, coming in a little 183 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:16.639 offshoot story about the fires and insurance, good luck, because 184 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:23.480 now you've got a real problem. Oh, it's did he RFK? 185 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.639 Was he? Yes? He was confirmed by the committee, right, Yes, 186 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:32.759 he's been approved by the committee on a fourteen to 187 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:37.080 thirteen votes right around party line, straight down party line. 188 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:41.399 So he is probably going to be new Secretary of Hies. 189 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:45.879 Of course, there's nobody, nobody that's going to be nominated, 190 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:53.960 no matter what qualifications at all, that will not get through. Okay, 191 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.879 all right, right now, it's a story about the fires. 192 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.159 You think I'm going to do a story or two 193 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:04.039 about the fires in the next week, two weeks, months, years. 194 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.759 So here is the latest State Farm, State Farm General, 195 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:12.159 the holding company we'll just call it State Farm, which 196 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:17.159 is California's largest home insurer, has asked for an emergency 197 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:23.399 rate hike of twenty two percent, saying that well, we're 198 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:25.679 in a lot of financial trouble. Of course you are. 199 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.039 And why who are they asking? How come they just 200 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:35.320 don't raise their rates like every other business does. Well. 201 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.600 We passed in nineteen eighty eight a ballot measure here 202 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:42.879 in California, Prop one OZ three, and it gave the commissioner, 203 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:47.840 insurance commissioner the power and boy this is powerful stuff, 204 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:53.080 the authority to review a just reject proposed rate hikes. 205 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:57.639 So there's no such thing as an insurer raising rates 206 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:04.559 without the the commissioner saying uh eh, you know, yeah, no, 207 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:06.679 now this one. I don't know how he's gonna say 208 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.320 no on this one. State Farm already said it's received 209 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.080 eighty seven hundred claims and has paid out more than 210 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:18.399 a billion dollars, and it expects to pay out significantly more. 211 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:24.320 This is the costly, costly, costliest natural disaster, certainly in 212 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.919 southern California. Now, the companies also had already asked for 213 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:32.720 rate hikes of thirty eight percent for rental dwellings and 214 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:37.000 fifteen percent for tenants, and this is going to go 215 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:40.320 in effect May one. And so this latest request, and 216 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:44.480 they're saying it outright, I love this corporate language is 217 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:49.559 necessary to rebuild the company's capital base so it will 218 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:54.360 not have to further constrain the company's ability to provide 219 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:58.440 home insurance in the state. That's corporate tac for. We're 220 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:01.759 gonna go broke if you don't give us this raise, 221 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.200 we are out of here. We are not going to 222 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:09.279 have enough money to pay these claims. And also said, 223 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:10.919 and I've been saying this a long time, it has 224 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:14.320 lost almost three billion dollars over the last nine year period, 225 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.600 and that includes gains from investment income. The insurance companies 226 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:23.080 make a lot of money from investing the money, I 227 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.200 mean a ton of money. So what they're saying is 228 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:29.519 we lost almost three billion dollars state Farm over the 229 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:34.399 last nine years including our investment income. And last year's 230 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.480 State Farm financial rating was downgraded. For those people that 231 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:43.000 are saying insurance insurance companies are making just money fist 232 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:46.360 handover fist, and they're making a fortune, and that's why 233 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.840 they're charging us so much, because they just are able 234 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.279 to make so much money, it's not true. Course, all 235 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:54.279 you need the insurance commission and say hello to hello 236 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.720 and yes to everything, and when they asked for a 237 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.639 rate cut or a rate increase, the insurance commissioner can 238 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:02.759 actually get them rate cut when they asked for a 239 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.679 rate increase. It's not just we're asking. They have to 240 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:10.919 provide tons of information and backup and say here's why, 241 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.480 and it's looked at by the commission and the commissioner. 242 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:20.240 So State Farm has about twenty percent of the insurance market. 243 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:24.080 Homeowners market in twenty twenty three, about a million homeowners 244 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.759 has about a million point eight other policies too, But 245 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:31.960 this is all about homeowners. It's this big, big stuff. 246 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:38.159 So in March, the state farm last Mart's announced it's 247 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.200 going to be renewing seventy two thousand home, apartment and 248 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:48.679 property policies in California. Why well, reconstruction costs. Well, I 249 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:50.960 was talking to some people last night. They have a 250 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:54.799 very expensive home living in the Palisades, and they have 251 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:58.440 insurance they had to get they had to get the 252 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:00.799 Fair Plan because they couldn't they're running surable, They're in 253 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.799 a high risk area, high fire risk area, and so 254 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:05.960 they had to go to the California Fair Plan, which 255 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.319 I'd explained to you what it is. It is a 256 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:12.039 plan that is a plan of the last resort that 257 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:17.240 insurance companies fund all of them. And it's only fire insurance. 258 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:23.160 It's not liability, it's not theft, it's not flooding pipes breaking, 259 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:29.799 none of that, only fire insurance. And it pays three 260 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:34.920 million dollars total. Now three million dollars construction costs. Granted, 261 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.440 that's very few of us have homes that would cost 262 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:43.279 three million dollars to rebuild. Go to the Palisades, you 263 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:49.079 have homes five six thousand square feet easily. And I 264 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.160 was talking to my construction guy who did the remodel 265 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:54.880 on my house, Polo, who boy understands this, and he's 266 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.640 got a couple of homes that he's rebuilding for some clients. 267 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:00.720 And I said, so, what is a cat to rebuild 268 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:05.200 a home four hundred square feet six hundred square feet? 269 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:07.440 He goes, no nice custom home like that is a 270 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:11.880 thousand square one thousand dollars square foot to rebuild. So 271 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.079 if you have a five thousand square foot home, that's 272 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:20.200 a five million dollar rebuilt hard construction costs, and you 273 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.319 can only get three million dollars. So what do you do. 274 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:27.160 People lose their homes, They just they're done. They sell 275 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:29.799 the land, get they get their three million dollars. They 276 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:31.799 got a piece of land and they sell it. And 277 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:33.720 if they have no mortgage, which a lot of people do, 278 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:35.319 they take their money and they run. And if they 279 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:40.559 do have a mortgage, they're screwed. So this is not fun. 280 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.960 I mean, we're in some real dire straits here. I mean, 281 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.759 living in California was expensive enough, but if you're a homeowner, 282 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:54.000 can you imagine you just don't have insurance? My policy 283 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:56.359 was canceled at the Persian Palace before I sold it. 284 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.599 I mean just canceled. You know, they wouldn't renew. And 285 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:01.960 I'm going, okay, so I'll get another policy. I couldn't 286 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:05.680 find one. Finally I did after two and a half weeks. 287 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.960 I was bere for two and a half weeks, waking 288 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:12.240 up in the morning knowing I'm not insured. Let me 289 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:14.319 tell you how pleasant that was. So I ended up 290 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:18.079 finding a policy for a higher deductible less coverage twice 291 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:23.880 the price. That's California unfortunately. All right, good, I put 292 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.920 you in a good mood. Now, I really want to 293 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:46.079 put you in a good mood, very strong, good for you. Cono. 294 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:52.160 That's the Arsonists theme song, Handle in the Morning Crew. 295 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.559 It's on a Tuesday morning, February fourth, just having soda. 296 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.440 So let me bring it up for a moment. What 297 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:01.279 kind of a dirt bag you need to be? And 298 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:04.359 I know it's got psychological problems to light things on fire, 299 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:08.680 like to cause fires that you know will cause damaged. Yeah, 300 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.599 it's it's a little complicated. Uh. And a lot of 301 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:13.599 them have mental problems. And when you have someone that's 302 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:15.680 mentally ill to the point where they don't know that 303 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.079 if it's right or wrong what they're doing. You know, 304 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:19.440 what do I mean, what do you say about that? 305 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:21.960 Here's the problem with arsenists. I'm going to go through 306 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:24.440 it in a moment. What kind of people who does it? 307 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:31.319 But when you have the cereal wildfire, arsonists and for 308 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:35.920 whatever reason, they light up out there in the brush, 309 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:38.559 in the brush and they put an incendiary device. So 310 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:43.880 that is the real criminal mind the ones that just 311 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:47.319 really don't care. They're looking at it because it looks neat, 312 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.279 or they're enjoying a sexual component. Not usually, not usually, 313 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:57.319 but think about this, arsens happened every single day in 314 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:01.880 the city. Now we're talking about dumpster fires, car fires, 315 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:06.680 people burning garbage in alleys. I mean, it's yeah, a 316 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:10.279 big deal. When you have a wildfire. It's described by 317 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:19.160 one arsenist investigator is saying this literally has a serial 318 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:23.759 arsenist the wild land cereals. Arsenists has the power of 319 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:30.240 an atomic bomb at their fingertips. Think about that can 320 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:34.079 affect more people in a negative way. For example, let's 321 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:38.880 say the Palisades fire was started by an arsonist. Billions 322 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:43.200 and billions of dollars of damage, and how many seventeen 323 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:46.279 people die, and if it turns out to be an arsenist, 324 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:51.400 then they don't know. So looking at a story out 325 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:55.079 of CNN and talking to a fire and investigators for 326 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:59.240 Ellie County Eli Sheriffs, as he explains her, no such 327 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:02.880 thing as the typical arseness anybody. Everybody commits him for 328 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:07.759 all kinds of reasons. Some people have psychological problems, deep 329 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.640 seated ones, as you said. Others just want to see 330 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:17.559 what's going on. They like making an impact. They feel unimportant, 331 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:21.599 they feel like they don't count. Well, let's light a fire, 332 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:25.640 and boy do I count now, because I'm the one 333 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:33.039 that has created all of this, and that is insanely powerful. It's, 334 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:38.880 for example, people who assassinated JFK. We're talking about Lee 335 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:42.000 Harvey Oswald. Oswald who was just a loser his whole 336 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:46.640 life and never got any intention. And one of the theories, 337 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:49.279 and I buy this one, is he did this because 338 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:52.200 he wanted to make an impact, He wanted to feel important. 339 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:57.920 People are by far the biggest cause of fires, of course, 340 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:00.160 we know that, and has to do with either accident 341 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:05.640 or industrial like power plants, power poles going down. But 342 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:09.880 arson is a big factor about twenty percent of the 343 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:13.640 wild land or wildfires out there in the wild are 344 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:17.880 caused by humans. And it's exacerbated now because we've got 345 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:23.480 planet warming, dangerous fire weather, which makes it even more dangerous. 346 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:27.599 And so let's talk about fairly fascinated. We all are 347 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:32.240 by fire from when we were kids, right, we all play. 348 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:36.160 A lot of kids play with fire, and some adults, well, 349 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.000 let me put it this way, we continue to enjoy 350 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:45.960 enjoy it. Fire pits, candles, beach bonfires, you know, people 351 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:52.039 putting out cigarettes on each other during sex. What do 352 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:55.440 I have that wrong? I don't know, I don't I know. 353 00:23:55.480 --> 00:24:00.079 It's just it's enjoying fire. But by the time we 354 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.480 get older, we're sort of done with that. Well not 355 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:08.079 with these guys, not at all. And according to the experts, 356 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:13.359 seeing fire and the emergency response to fire, that's a 357 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:17.920 big one is what turns these people on. And what 358 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:24.039 is even more interesting is about twenty percent of arsonists, 359 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:28.839 maybe a little less, are people in the fire fighting industry. 360 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:34.880 We heard so many stories of firefighters who are arsonists, 361 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:37.039 and I think about it, it makes a lot of sense 362 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.640 because if you have a proclivity towards fire, if fire 363 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:46.400 is your thing, What a great place to be. For example, 364 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:49.880 the priests, the Catholic priest and the holy issue with 365 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:55.960 young boys. Is it a question of priests the whole nature? 366 00:24:56.960 --> 00:24:59.559 You become a priest to have sexu with young boys. No, 367 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:01.400 it's just a great place to be if you are 368 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:04.920 interested in that, because that is the climate that you're in. 369 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:08.279 Same thing with arsenists. I'm actually I think I'm making 370 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.880 the connection. If you are an arsenist and you love fire, 371 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.519 why wouldn't you go into firefighting? You get to see 372 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:17.440 the fire, you get to be near the fire, you 373 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:20.960 get to feel the fire for a living, and then 374 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.599 of course you go off and do your thing and 375 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:27.759 just light it up. And so we're going to find out, 376 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:31.440 you know, Arson is being investigated big time. All right, 377 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:35.319 this is KFI AM six forty. You've been listening to 378 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:38.119 the Bill Handle Show. 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