WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.559 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:15.000 Coming up at bottom of this hour. The progress is 5 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:18.239 hard to nail down when it comes to recovering from 6 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.359 the wildfires. On the one hand, you've got home actually 7 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:26.640 being built in Palisades, and then in Altadena you've got 8 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:32.039 no permits being issued. This is the worst case scenario 9 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:35.840 for people who have already suffered three months after the 10 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:38.479 loss of their home in many cases, in some cases 11 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:40.399 the loss of family members, loved ones. 12 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:44.960 This is the dichotomy that everybody predicted money versus no money, 13 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:49.039 ease to rebuild versus not easy to rebuild. And there's 14 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:51.079 one thing when it comes to having the money to 15 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:54.520 rebuild your home or a home or stay in the neighborhood, 16 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:59.000 and another when it's the permit process, when the when 17 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:02.359 the wheels greased for some and not for others, that's 18 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:06.640 when you start getting really skeptical and annoyed well with government, and. 19 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:11.159 For decades, very few people just in general, ever have 20 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:15.439 to deal with a permitting process for local governments like this, 21 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.040 and when they do in an emergency situation like this, 22 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.319 you see how broken the system is. It's not built 23 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.560 for you to get your life back together. So we'll 24 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:27.840 talk about that at the bottom of the hour. 25 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.920 The story we've been following for you is just a nightmare, 26 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.760 and it started with just that missing thirteen year old 27 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.239 boy out of the valley over the weekend. On Sunday, 28 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:40.439 went to go see his soccer coach we now know 29 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:44.519 in Lancaster, took the train out there and did not 30 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.359 come back. Brother calls the cell phone, The soccer coach 31 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.200 answer says, the kid's busy. Then dad calls, and then 32 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.760 the family calls the police and says, the kid has 33 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:55.319 not come home. 34 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:56.680 There's something amiss here. 35 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:58.959 Yet the soccer coach, the family will tell you with 36 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.480 somebody that the family trusted, somebody that actually helped the 37 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.159 family search for the thirteen year old boy. Well, his 38 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:08.840 body was discovered in Oxnard along a road on Wednesday, 39 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:13.520 and now that soccer coach, Mario Aquino has been charged 40 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.800 with the murder special circumstances murder. 41 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:22.479 Yesterday you mentioned the phone call. The boy's father, Daniel 42 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.680 said he called the coach after when he was when 43 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:27.840 the boy was missing, and the coach had insisted he 44 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:32.240 dropped the team off near the family's home. Investigators said 45 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.360 that they were able to use information from cell phones, 46 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.680 cell phone towers, and other tracking systems to figure out 47 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.639 that the suspect did visit the Oxnard area near McGrath 48 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:45.520 State Beach in Santa Clara River. A foot search by 49 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:48.719 LAPD FBI led to the discovery of the boy's body. 50 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:51.800 They've also said that, or at least they're keeping under 51 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.759 wraps how exactly he died. But we know that the 52 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:59.120 charges against this guy include a special circumstance allegation of 53 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.400 murdered or the commission or attempted commission of ludax with 54 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:05.400 a child that would make him eligible for the death penalty. 55 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.240 The DA has yet to decide on that. 56 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:12.800 To make matters worse, this quote unquote soccer coach had 57 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:16.560 been investigated by the Sheriff's department last year for what 58 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:23.560 well allegations of an unrelated sexual assault. This seems to 59 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:30.039 be another kid that's involved. This was a February twenty second, 60 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:32.080 twenty twenty four incident. 61 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.479 He was charged last Wednesday with this incident. 62 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:41.919 The coach, according to criminal files, says they say that 63 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.719 took advantage of a position of trust and confidence in 64 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.840 committing that assault. So you are right if your mind 65 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.319 has gone to, oh god, how many other kids, because 66 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.120 that's where everyone's mind has gone to, law enforcement included. 67 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.240 If this guy was working as a travel soccer coach, 68 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:03.520 a youth travel soccer coach, how many other kids, maybe 69 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:06.439 from families that don't speak English as well. Was this 70 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:15.840 guy taking advantage of not taking advantage of excuse me, assaulting? Yeah, 71 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:18.519 because it's an assault on the whole family, isn't it. 72 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:22.360 This was a family that moved from El Salvador for 73 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.720 a better life for their kids. This little boy, Oscar 74 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:28.879 was ten years old at the time, moved here three 75 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:29.519 years ago. 76 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:31.079 By the way it comes. 77 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:35.240 Here, he's a standout soccer player, very gifted, you know, 78 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:37.720 very popular in school, very gifted at soccer. 79 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:40.439 Has this coach who ends up killing him, living his 80 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:41.279 body in a field. 81 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.680 There are also some law enforcement sources who have been 82 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:49.519 saying that the coach was an immigrant from El Salvador, undocumented. 83 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.199 So this is one of those stories that's going to 84 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:52.759 be making. 85 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:56.120 Headlines nationally, nationally as soon as it starts getting some 86 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:57.240 amount of speed. 87 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:00.480 Because this guy was here illegally. How many kids did 88 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.360 he victimize while he was here illegally? And under what guys, 89 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.279 and under what administration's policies. 90 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:10.399 And and like you say, taking advantage of other kids 91 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.079 and families who may have been undocumented because they don't 92 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:15.439 want to raise their hand and bring attention to themselves. 93 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:19.279 Sheriff Luna says that the original case against this guy 94 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.399 that they investigated but apparently didn't charge, was that he 95 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:26.600 had befriended a family there in Silmar. They were allowing 96 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.759 their teenage son to stay with the coach at his 97 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:33.279 residence up in Palmdale, And while they did file a 98 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:36.720 criminal report with the Palmdale Sheriff Station alleging sexual abuse 99 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.959 of the child, the kid was sixteen at the time. 100 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.879 Detectives during that investigation learned that there was yet another 101 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.560 unrelated child sex abuse case being handled by the Department 102 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:52.959 LAPD's Foothill Division that involved this guy. So you had 103 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.000 at least two other cases that were being investigated with 104 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:57.319 this we're reported. 105 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.759 If you're here illegally, if you don't speak English, what 106 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:02.319 are the chances you report something like this? 107 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:05.360 You don't, I mean, you don't report it. 108 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.480 A lot of times even if you do, if you 109 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.800 are here, if you were born here, if you speak English, 110 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:13.480 it's unreported. A lot of families feel a lot of 111 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.360 shame about that, especially if the parents rubber stamp the 112 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:17.879 kids spending time with the coach. 113 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.639 Everyone feels shame everyone. 114 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:21.959 Maybe they seek out therapy for the child or the 115 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.000 family or what have you. But I bet a lot 116 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:25.759 of these don't go report it. It's like rape, It's 117 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:27.920 like any of these things. You know, there's a degree 118 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.000 of shame that come with them. What's why the numbers 119 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.680 are so low from what they truly are. So if 120 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.399 there are two boys that their families are here illegally 121 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:42.639 and they reported this, imagine what this guy is capable 122 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:44.639 of or was capable but he did. 123 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:48.240 Yeah. 124 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:52.920 The idea of artificial intelligence being used in conjunction with 125 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.639 our nuclear power plants. There's one functioning nuclear power plant 126 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.439 in California and there's a company that wants to use 127 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.279 AI along with Diablo Canyon, Well, what. 128 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:04.000 Could go wrong? 129 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:07.560 Well we'll talk about what even they say about using 130 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:09.680 AI when it comes to nuclear path I don't know. 131 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.519 I've kind of my my thought process and AI has 132 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:16.839 evolved quite a bit. I'm kind of like humans AI, 133 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:20.079 what's the what's the drop off there? 134 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:22.360 I mean, what's more dangerous? 135 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:27.800 Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from 136 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:29.800 KFI AM six forty. 137 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:32.519 Stories. We're following for you. 138 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.920 Today's US stocks rising big swings, however, still rock Wall 139 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:39.759 Street for a second straight day. It's like the S 140 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:42.279 and P five hundred has added one point two percent 141 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:45.160 after giving up most of an early four point one 142 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:48.839 percent gain. So it's again up and down. We don't 143 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.839 really know until the closing bell. Really, we could give 144 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:55.399 you updates as the day progresses, but like we saw yesterday, 145 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.720 it's just it's up, it's down, and you don't know 146 00:07:57.759 --> 00:07:59.639 where the dust is settles until it does. 147 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:05.800 Just the Air Force is reversing its ban on including 148 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.360 preferred pronouns in your email signature. In a news release 149 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.040 that came out, the Air Force had said it was 150 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.639 rescinding the earlier directive to cease the use of preferred 151 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.399 pronouns the he hymn, she heard, ay them whatever, to 152 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:21.279 identify your gender, identity and professional communications. All airmen and 153 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:25.439 civilian employees may now include their preferred pronouns back in 154 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:26.519 their email signature. 155 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:31.319 Blocks you know, I heard you start talking, and I 156 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:35.960 completely stopped listening once you said the word pronouns. And 157 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:43.039 it's not because I am old and refuse to accept change. 158 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:45.200 It's just because I honestly know I'm going to be 159 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.840 confused and I don't have the bandwidth for it right now. 160 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:53.200 When you get into pronouns, into policies using pronouns and 161 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.840 things like email signatures, you lost me, Like, what a 162 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:01.679 luxury for anybody to be upsetsed with a policy over 163 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.240 how you sign your emails? Who's even reading email anymore? 164 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.159 I know, I know it's just me that's not reading 165 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:09.679 email anymore, but you. 166 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.440 Never really have who goes to the emails signature to 167 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.519 be concerned about someone else's exactly. 168 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:17.519 Why I say it's a luxury. 169 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.879 If that's where you're looking to be aggrieved, good Lord, 170 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.440 you have won life. 171 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:28.879 We in the great state of California have one nuclear 172 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:32.840 power plant that is still up and running. And although 173 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:37.600 there have been discussions about decommissioning Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power 174 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.159 Plant just up along the coast north of San Louis Obispo, 175 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:44.519 and it is slated to begin the decommissioning process in 176 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:48.080 a few years, it is still going because we still 177 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.120 use nuclear energy here in the state of California. 178 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:57.360 PGNE runs Diablo Canyon, which is very troubling to say 179 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:57.799 the least. 180 00:09:57.799 --> 00:09:59.799 Well, they're not going to start any fires with a 181 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:01.440 with the nuclear power plant. 182 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:04.000 We hope that would be quite no. 183 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.320 But it is a nuclear power plant, right that is 184 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:12.600 run by pg and E. They received some new hardware, 185 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:17.519 eight Navidia H one hundreds, which are among the world's 186 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:22.080 mightiest graphical processors. Their purpose to power a brand new 187 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:28.240 AI tool designed for the nuclear energy industry. Now, this 188 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.960 is just meant to help workers there at the plant 189 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:36.799 go through all these technical reports and regulations millions of 190 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:41.080 pages of intricate documents from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that 191 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:44.120 go back decades while they operate and maintain the facility. 192 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.039 What they are is basically computers to read and I'm 193 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:49.679 assuming tell you when you're in compliance, what needs to 194 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.919 be tweaked if it does, and just to make sure 195 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:53.679 everything's in order. 196 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:53.960 Yeah. 197 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:59.000 There was one statistic that I saw from marine Za Zowalik, 198 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.080 from pg and E Vice president of Business and Technical Services. 199 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:05.960 She says, we spend probably fifteen thousand hours a year 200 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:11.120 searching through multiple databases that's a full time job for 201 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.799 three people for an entire more than three people for 202 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.679 an entire year, working eight hours a day. That's all 203 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:21.120 they would do is search these databases. And the hope 204 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:26.000 is that these supercomputers and AI would get that stuff 205 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:29.080 done in an absolute fraction of the time. But it's 206 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:33.320 important to point out that the company itself, this AI 207 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:38.240 startup called Atomic Canyon, which works there in San Luis Obispo, 208 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:41.720 that even they say, you can put this on the record, 209 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:46.679 Trey Lauderdale's the chief executive, the AI guy in Nuclear 210 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.399 says there is no way in hell I want AI 211 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:54.320 running my nuclear power plant right now, and that the 212 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:58.360 things that his computers and his company will be doing 213 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.960 have to do with simple database searches. 214 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.720 Well, AI, and I'm not simple, but I mean. 215 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.080 It is simple though in the world of AI, we're 216 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.360 at the very rudimentary stage of AI. Yes, what AI 217 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:13.240 is doing right now is child's play compared to what 218 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:15.399 it eventually will be able to do, but we are 219 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:16.200 not there yet. 220 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.360 Well, and they don't even here's the thing, they don't 221 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.240 even know what AI would be sure. 222 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:23.159 With a nuclear power plant. 223 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:27.200 Exactly goes back to the highest math class you ever 224 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.679 took and do you remember knowing all the stuff you 225 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.039 didn't know, like all the things that were possible with 226 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:36.440 equations and things that you knew you would never know 227 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.960 because of the potential exactly. That's kind of where we're 228 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:42.759 at with AI right now. Like us dumb dumbs are 229 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:46.440 like it makes a song, Oh look, it reads a book. 230 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.840 It can help me on my college essay. But it 231 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:51.919 is going to do things we can't even conceive, we 232 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:52.919 can't even begin. 233 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:53.240 To think about. 234 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:56.639 So Trey Lauderdale again, CEO of this company that put 235 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:59.600 this thing together, He said that they are in talks 236 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:02.200 with other nuclear facilities around the country as well as 237 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:07.919 groups who are interested in building out small modular reactor facilities. 238 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:12.480 There's been discussion about that technology where individual neighborhoods may 239 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:16.399 have these tiny nuclear power plants to run a smaller grid, 240 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.559 for example, and how they would want to start integrating 241 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.519 the technology from the company into this nuclear space. He 242 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.240 said he's not the only entrepreneur he's looking at ways 243 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:30.799 to use AI into the nuclear energy field. The question 244 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.720 that has to be asked though, and one of the 245 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:36.200 things that we have to be careful about, not just 246 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:40.919 in nuclear but in all aspects of AI, is what safeguards. 247 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:40.840 Do we have? 248 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:45.440 What in the I mean the old cliche of the 249 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.559 computer is out of control and you walk up to 250 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:49.679 the wall and you try to unplug it and it 251 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:50.399 doesn't work. 252 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:52.399 It's still moving, it's still going. 253 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.000 I mean, that kind of a cliche situation is what 254 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:59.799 they have to be able to prepare for and safeguard again, 255 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:02.919 and they're not even sure that they have all of 256 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:04.120 the answers to those questions. 257 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:07.120 Let's just say that this story about AI being used 258 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:11.360 at California's Diablo Canyon is probably the only AI story 259 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:13.759 we're ever going to be able to wrap our heads around. 260 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.519 Because all they're doing is looking through records millions and 261 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:17.360 millions and millions. 262 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:19.039 This is where we probably tap out. 263 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.200 That's we've reached the ceiling of our. 264 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.120 Okay, all right, coming up negs. First, homes have begun 265 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:32.000 rebuilding after the Palisie Palisades fire, and not a single 266 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:35.320 home building permit has been finalized in Altadena. 267 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:36.399 A tale of two fires. 268 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:40.720 When we return, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on 269 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.519 demand from KFI AM six forty. 270 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:46.039 Top of the hour. 271 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.559 We'll talk more about what's going on with the terrorists, 272 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:51.039 but specifically why it is that China is not going 273 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:54.919 to be backing down. It's going to take some major 274 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:59.759 shift in the thinking of Shi Jinping if he's going 275 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.399 to down at all to Donald Trump. So you got 276 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:05.320 two guys, neither one of them is willing to bow down. 277 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.480 Yeah, it's a battle of the egos in the political capital, 278 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:10.320 that's for sure. 279 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:12.279 We do have good news to tell you about. 280 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:16.519 We've talked about the company Colossal Biosciences before they. 281 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:21.399 Try. They're trying to bring back lost species. That's their 282 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:22.000 whole deal. 283 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:25.519 And they say they've genetically engineered wolves with white hair 284 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:31.559 and muscular jaws like the dire wolf, the extinct dire wolf. 285 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:33.320 They range in age. 286 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:36.320 They say the wolf pups from three to six months old. 287 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.759 They've got the long white hair, they've got the jaws. 288 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.840 They are much larger than gray wolves. Dire wolves. Their 289 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:47.480 closest living relatives today are the gray wolves. This doesn't 290 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:52.080 mean that dire wolves are necessarily coming back, but they 291 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.279 this is what they do. They've previously announced similar projects 292 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.240 to genetically alter cells from living species to create the 293 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:03.879 animals resembling the extinct wooly mammoths, dodos and others. 294 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:07.960 Now, that is a big bird. Don't play it. Don't 295 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.440 do it. I just said it. We don't need to 296 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:12.279 redo it. We don't. 297 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:18.000 Don't don't hello, you know whatever that soundboard is, get 298 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:18.559 rid of it. 299 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:20.320 Escape. It's a regionalism. 300 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:21.159 Escape. 301 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.279 Is that still a thing? Is the escape button? Does 302 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.480 it still work on a I hate myself? 303 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:27.840 Yeah? 304 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:33.519 Thank you? That is you know, big be. 305 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.360 Are you done? 306 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:47.120 You need to calm down. We were supposed to get 307 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:47.639 right into that. 308 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:54.679 Well, oh, there was a thing in the Palisades. That 309 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.720 fire was three months ago, yesterday, if you can believe that. 310 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.480 The fire then started later that night in Alta Dina 311 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.160 up in the hills above Altadena. And as we've said 312 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.799 many times, we said it that day and the weeks 313 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.319 after that, this is a tale of two different, very 314 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:16.319 different fires because of the locations the geography won the 315 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:22.079 Palisades technically the city of Los Angeles, Alta Dina in 316 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:22.920 the county of. 317 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.920 La Well, and it was a very interesting conversation that, 318 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:27.839 like you said, we saw play out in real time, 319 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.720 you know. You and I saw the forecast on that 320 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:32.920 Monday and we thought, oh hell, things are going to 321 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:35.599 break loose. This is this forecast is this is not 322 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:37.759 the boy who cried wolf. This is the real deal. 323 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:42.039 That was the same forecast that now Karen Bass, we 324 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:44.799 realized got and still chose to leave the country. She's 325 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:46.599 got a lot of heat for getting the same forecast 326 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:49.319 we did where you and I, not mayors of the city, 327 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:51.400 said oh man, all hands on deck, this is going 328 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:52.200 to be a rough week. 329 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:53.240 And it was. 330 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.599 We also saw play out in real time the reaction 331 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:58.799 of the Palisades fire. 332 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:00.000 It was too. 333 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:02.680 Big and moving too quickly to get out in front of. 334 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:04.960 And that's why we saw what we saw in Paradise 335 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:07.680 when everyone was trying to get out in one road 336 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:09.960 and it was just devastation as people had to run 337 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.279 from their vehicles. And in real time we saw people say, 338 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.319 why is this taking so long? With all the money 339 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.119 that's in the Pacific Palisades, Why is this taking so long? 340 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:20.480 Why is there so much devastation? You didn't hear that 341 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:23.079 when the fire broke out in Altadena. You didn't hear 342 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:27.160 that reaction of where is everything, where's all the resources, 343 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.519 where's all the water? You just didn't hear that because 344 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:35.279 there are two different set of circumstances or expectations. I 345 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:37.920 should say when fires break out in La, there just 346 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:40.960 are A fire breaks out in the Suppulvita Pass and 347 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:43.519 you know it's going to be put out yesterday. You 348 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:45.039 know it's going to be put out right away because 349 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.640 of all the money that's there. A fire breaks out 350 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:52.240 up in the foothills and you don't intrinsically expect it 351 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.519 to be knocked down right away. And I'm not saying 352 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:58.160 anything about the firefighting resources or how they're directed or used, 353 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:00.680 or what the sense of urgency is based on the 354 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:01.880 location of a fire. 355 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:04.240 I'm just saying those are our reactions. 356 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:06.559 If you've lived in LA for any amount of years, 357 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:11.119 it's just realism. And now we're seeing that play out 358 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.480 in real time when it comes to building back and 359 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.000 we're seeing it play out the way that we would 360 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:17.599 have hypothesized. 361 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:20.480 Palisades are getting green lights. When it comes to permits. 362 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:24.440 In Altadena, not a single home building permit has been finalized. 363 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:28.000 There's at least one home on Depaw Street or near 364 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:32.880 Depaw Street that has that has begun the process of 365 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:36.200 rebuilding and within according to the construction company, they say 366 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:38.799 they should have a house done in about ten months, 367 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:45.480 which would be a significant milestone, especially and probably faster 368 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.000 than a lot of people assumed. Now, the blueprint of 369 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:51.119 this home is very similar to the blueprint for the 370 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:53.039 old home, which they're saying is one of the reasons 371 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:55.039 why the permit was approved so quickly. 372 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:56.440 Well in the old time new home. 373 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:59.000 Yeah, the old home was just finalized two years ago, right, 374 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:00.480 so it's exactly the same. 375 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:02.640 They're going through the same thing again, so. 376 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:06.160 They can keep you know, if the design is mostly similar, 377 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:11.079 and then they're adding things like some minor modifications for 378 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.440 fire protection. Uh, you know, they're not going to have 379 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.880 exposed rafter tails, special roof vents for fire zones, all 380 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:20.240 of that sort of stuff, new landscaping, all of that's 381 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:22.240 going to be done to protect the home. So they 382 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:25.240 were able to test resbestos back in February, they submit 383 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:29.400 their plans to the city. In March. The family opted 384 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:32.119 out of the Army Corps Debris. Remember the Army Corps 385 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:34.799 of Engineers was going to come in. They opted to 386 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.640 have their own company clear the lot because they could 387 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:42.079 assume that or I think probably rightly so, assume that 388 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:44.319 the company would be able to do it quicker than 389 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:47.799 the Army Corps of Engineers. Now again that's on the 390 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:53.079 palisade side. On the Alta Dina side, you've got people. 391 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:59.400 For example, Margo Stuber, one of the victims. She has 392 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:03.319 lost her house and she and her architect, Trinidad Campbell, 393 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:06.160 submit their plans at the beginning of March to rebuild 394 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.599 the home, and they were promised by the county that 395 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:10.920 there would be a two week turnaround time for a 396 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:15.039 first review and then a thirty day plan to issue 397 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:18.359 a permit once the application is submitted. The problem is 398 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.279 three different agencies had to look at that permit, planning, 399 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:25.839 the fire and building in safety, and each of those 400 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.240 agencies took the two to three weeks to review the plan, 401 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:31.400