Speaker 1: It's later with Mo Kelly caf I AM six forty.
Speaker 2: We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and if
Speaker 2: you've been listening to KFI, we have been covering the
Speaker 2: latest as it relates to the fires in Ventura County.
Speaker 2: And you may have known that is a fire which
Speaker 2: started this afternoon and quickly grew to more than ten thousand,
Speaker 2: five hundred acres. There have been multiple injuries which have
Speaker 2: been reported, multiple houses, unfortunately, which have been engulfed in flames.
Speaker 2: And the latest information I have and maybe Mark Ronner
Speaker 2: may can correct me or update me if there's something
Speaker 2: which is conflicting or an additional information to this. But
Speaker 2: a number of residents were transported to hospitals to be
Speaker 2: checked for smoke inhalation. There have been some difficulties as
Speaker 2: far as getting water over the fires and dropping the
Speaker 2: water over the fires, just because of the location and
Speaker 2: also the high winds. If you are new to California
Speaker 2: or if you haven't lived here most of your life,
Speaker 2: the Santa Ana winds, they are an annual occurrence and
Speaker 2: you may not get it, but it's something that we
Speaker 2: always have to deal with and we may not think
Speaker 2: much of it until we have situations like these from
Speaker 2: which we do have these fires.
Speaker 1: It's very dangerous.
Speaker 2: It makes it very easy for these fires to spread
Speaker 2: very quickly over a large area of terrain. And Mark
Speaker 2: di digniss anything as far as the fires, it's not that.
Speaker 1: I'm aware of.
Speaker 3: We're trying to stay on top of it, and I'll
Speaker 3: let you know as soon as I find out anything new.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we will continue to update you over the
Speaker 2: course of the evening regarding the Ventura County fires. If
Speaker 2: you're just tuning in, it's engulfed more than ten thousand,
Speaker 2: five hundred acres and a number of structures have burned down.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: I was watching actually I think it was KTLA, and
Speaker 2: they had a reporter out there and you could see
Speaker 2: the homes burning in the background. I felt like it
Speaker 2: was almost gratuitous. I felt like I was watching someone's misery. Well,
Speaker 2: I knew I was watching someone's misery, but I felt
Speaker 2: bad seeing it happening in real time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always rough as a reporter.
Speaker 3: I had to cover lots of fires, house fires, trailer fires,
Speaker 3: you name it, and you always have to thread that
Speaker 3: needle of letting people know information that they need to have.
Speaker 3: At the same time, there are people there who've lost
Speaker 3: or in the process of losing their homes, and maybe
Speaker 3: they don't want to be photographed.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: It's very difficult, right. I don't know how I would
Speaker 2: respond in that situation. I'm pretty sure I would not
Speaker 2: be approachable. I would not be amenable to an interview. Intellectually,
Speaker 2: I could understand the value of the information, but that's
Speaker 2: not a time for me as an individual. If I'm
Speaker 2: one of the people most affected, that's not the time
Speaker 2: to have a conversation with me.
Speaker 3: No, And you really, as a reporter, you have to
Speaker 3: read the room. You have to be a little bit
Speaker 3: empathetic and try to figure out who does look approachable,
Speaker 3: because that's one of those times you don't want to
Speaker 3: intrude upon somebody unless they're completely open to it. And
Speaker 3: I had to put myself between a photographer once and
Speaker 3: some guy who just charged at us because he didn't
Speaker 3: want us there at all.
Speaker 2: It's a very difficult situation. I've never been in those situations.
Speaker 2: I've done reporting, but usually it's for entertainment. It was
Speaker 2: for sports, and it's a different animal altogether. And there
Speaker 2: are people who are the victims in a fire like this,
Speaker 2: and there are some people who are suffering due to
Speaker 2: collateral damage. I mean power has been cut to some
Speaker 2: of the customers in the area just to the high
Speaker 2: wind and fire dangers. You know, you're not even directly
Speaker 2: impacted by the fires, but you're still losing power, and
Speaker 2: so this is a problem which would go well into
Speaker 2: the week, possibly into the weekend. You said there was
Speaker 2: a wind advisory I think until tomorrow from four o'clock
Speaker 2: tomorrow at four o'clock tomorrow. So look, if you are
Speaker 2: in that area, obviously follow all evacuation orders. And Southern
Speaker 2: California Edison had already shut power by seven am to
Speaker 2: fourteen thousand customers fourteen thousand customers across La County, Riverside County,
Speaker 2: San Bernardino County, and of course Ventura County, and that
Speaker 2: number is probably going to go up throughout the day,
Speaker 2: probably into tomorrow, as we continue to deal with the
Speaker 2: Santa Ana wins, something we have to unfortunately deal with
Speaker 2: every single year. And when you were reporting, Mark, what
Speaker 2: capacity were you reporting, Well, I've done everything except sports,
Speaker 2: So I mean this would have been general assignment crime
Speaker 2: bee type of st where you head out to pretty
Speaker 2: much any awful thing that's going on. You know, I
Speaker 2: don't know how, especially the KFI reporters, because usually when
Speaker 2: we're doing fire coverage or earthquake coverage or some sort
Speaker 2: of disaster coverage, they have to watch this up close,
Speaker 2: somehow divorce themselves from the emotions of the moment and
Speaker 2: be clear in their reporting and information gathering to make
Speaker 2: sure that we have the most accurate story possible. But
Speaker 2: you're seeing a lot of lives impacted, sometimes irrevocably.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're doing the work of getting people the information
Speaker 3: that they need, and it's not easy work. You really,
Speaker 3: you've got to be smart and sensitive at the same time.
Speaker 3: Like if your house is on fire and you're looking
Speaker 3: at potentially having no place to live, pretty much the
Speaker 3: last thing on earth you want is some dope coming
Speaker 3: up to you and saying, how do you feel about this?
Speaker 2: You know, and not only that the person hasn't even
Speaker 2: fully processed it. You are watching presumably your life, all
Speaker 2: of your belongings, sentimental value, going up in flames, and
Speaker 2: you don't even know really where you're going to be
Speaker 2: that night. You're not even sure where you're going to
Speaker 2: put your family. If it's the whole family. You don't
Speaker 2: even know what tomorrow was going to bring because you
Speaker 2: didn't know that you were going to be in this
Speaker 2: situation today.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
Speaker 3: And as a reporter, you have to show the same
Speaker 3: degree of understanding for somebody who lives in a trailer
Speaker 3: park that you would for somebody who lives in a
Speaker 3: million dollar home. They're all people's homes, and we often
Speaker 3: lose sight of that.
Speaker 2: We think that because someone is of a certain economic level,
Speaker 2: they won't have the same problems as someone who who
Speaker 2: is more economically disadvantaged.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: Money insulates you from many of life's problems, including especially
Speaker 3: having a place to stay, a roof over your head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's a sentimental value which cannot be replaced.
Speaker 2: And I remember, actually here's of sports tie in. I
Speaker 2: remember talking to Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and now this was
Speaker 2: years after his house had burned down, but he was
Speaker 2: talking about his music collection, all the things that you
Speaker 2: couldn't replace. He was less concerned about the trophies from
Speaker 2: high school, but he was more concerned about his music
Speaker 2: collection and the pictures of his parents who are no
Speaker 2: longer living.
Speaker 1: Things things like that that.
Speaker 2: Yet you may have had a career of excess, and
Speaker 2: you may have more money than most who are in
Speaker 2: your orbit, but those are moments where they forever changed.
Speaker 3: You, absolutely, and you've got pets to worry about, so
Speaker 3: many things that you just can't take for granted when
Speaker 3: you're asking people questions about what they're going through at
Speaker 3: the moment.
Speaker 2: So we're going to continue to follow the fires in
Speaker 2: Ventura County. We will have updates from the KFI twenty
Speaker 2: four hour newsroom over the course of the evening as
Speaker 2: we Wax and Wayne talking about things going on around
Speaker 2: in southern cal And also we have an update as
Speaker 2: far as a presidential election. Of course, you know by
Speaker 2: now that Donald Trump has formerly been declared the president's elect,
Speaker 2: the forty seventh president elect. And we'll also have some
Speaker 2: audio from President Vice President Kamala Harris. She did give
Speaker 2: her concession speech today. We'll play just a little bit
Speaker 2: of it. I thought it was enlightening in many ways
Speaker 2: and something that I personally believe she should have delivered
Speaker 2: last night, or some semblance of it. We'll get into
Speaker 2: that next just later with Moe Kelly KFI AM six
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Speaker 2: I'm quite sure it was emotional for a lot of people,
Speaker 2: but surprisingly enough, when you looked at the viewership, the
Speaker 2: TV viewership, it wasn't as riveting, or people seemingly were
Speaker 2: not as interested. If you looked at the primetime coverage
Speaker 2: of the presidential election, it averaged forty two point twenty
Speaker 2: nine million viewers across eighteen cable and broadcast networks from
Speaker 2: seven to eleven pm Eastern or four to eight pm
Speaker 2: Our time. Now, that's down from four years ago, which
Speaker 2: drew fifty six point nine two million viewers, and it's
Speaker 2: the least watched election night since two thousand, when they
Speaker 2: first started this measurement. So, if anything, and this is
Speaker 2: just me spitballing here, I get the sense, if I
Speaker 2: were to read into those numbers, that is probably indicative
Speaker 2: of the collective exhaustion most people had with the presidential
Speaker 2: election cycle, which seemingly never ended, and it was forever,
Speaker 2: every single day it was something about the presidential elect
Speaker 2: across all those eighteen cable and broadcast networks, and so
Speaker 2: when we finally got to the finish line, people weren't
Speaker 2: tuning in.
Speaker 1: And if you look at.
Speaker 2: The total votes cast for both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: both candidates received fewer votes this time around than in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Kamala Harris was minus seventeen million, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: was minus three to four million. So neither party, let's
Speaker 2: just put it in a party context, neither party increased
Speaker 2: from twenty twenty. Neither party had the type of enthusiasm
Speaker 2: that they had in twenty twenty. So take that for
Speaker 2: whatever it's worth. And last night I was disappointed, just
Speaker 2: for any politician or elected official. If you have a
Speaker 2: watch party and you have literally thousands of people who
Speaker 2: show up to support you, you gotta a You gotta
Speaker 2: address them. You have to, even if it's an if
Speaker 2: it's an incomplete address you don't know, say hey, we're
Speaker 2: still watching the numbers.
Speaker 1: We don't know where it's going to go.
Speaker 2: We're gonna wait till every vote is counted and then
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. Then you know, when we fight,
Speaker 2: we went whatever it may be, you still acknowledge the
Speaker 2: people who brought you to that point. And I thought
Speaker 2: that Kamala Harris made a mistake in the sense of
Speaker 2: what I believe to be is good campaign practice and policies.
Speaker 2: But she did get around to her concession speech today,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to play a little bit of it
Speaker 2: because there's some things that I thought were interesting to
Speaker 2: me that she decided to focus on and decided to highlight.
Speaker 2: She gave it at the same location where she was yesterday,
Speaker 2: at Howard University. And for me, I know it well
Speaker 2: because like my whole family went to Howard University. So
Speaker 2: in my mind I can see it, and I know
Speaker 2: what people who aren't there could see as far as
Speaker 2: how big that area is.
Speaker 1: Here's just a little bit.
Speaker 5: So let me say my heart is full today. My
Speaker 5: heart is full today, full of gratitude for the trust
Speaker 5: you have placed in me, full of love for our country,
Speaker 5: and full of resolve. The outcome of this election is
Speaker 5: not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not
Speaker 5: what we voted for. But hear me when I say,
Speaker 5: hear me when I say, the light of America's promise
Speaker 5: will always burn bright as long as we never give up,
Speaker 5: and as long as.
Speaker 1: We keep fighting.
Speaker 5: To my beloved Doug and our family I love you
Speaker 5: so very much. To President Biden and Doctor Biden, thank
Speaker 5: you for your faith and support.
Speaker 1: To Governor Walls.
Speaker 5: And the Walls family, I know your service to our
Speaker 5: nation will continue. And to my extraordinary team, to the
Speaker 5: volunteers who gave so much of themselves, to the poll
Speaker 5: workers and the local election officials, I thank you. I
Speaker 5: thank you all.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 5: I am so proud of the race we ran and
Speaker 5: the way we ran it and the way we ran it.
Speaker 5: Over the one hundred and seven days of this campaign,
Speaker 5: we have been intentional about building community and building coalitions,
Speaker 5: bringing people together from every walk of life and background,
Speaker 5: united by love of country, with enthusiasm and joy in
Speaker 5: our fight for America's future. And we did it with
Speaker 5: the knowledge that we all have so much more in
Speaker 5: common than what separates us. Now. I know folks are
Speaker 5: feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 5: But we must accept the results of this election. Earlier today,
Speaker 5: I spoke with President elect Trump and congratulated him on
Speaker 5: his victory. I also told him that we will help
Speaker 5: him and his team with their transition and that we
Speaker 5: will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 1: Dignified response dignified. That's what you're supposed to do. It's
Speaker 1: not anything special. That's what you're supposed to do. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to.
Speaker 2: Concede, call the other side, congratulate them, and if you
Speaker 2: are a part of the city administration, then you pledge
Speaker 2: to help them in that transition.
Speaker 1: You know, let's just chalk as they say, that's standard.
Speaker 5: A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we
Speaker 5: lose an election, we accept the results. That principle, as
Speaker 5: much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny,
Speaker 5: and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it.
Speaker 5: At the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty
Speaker 5: not to a president or a party, but to the
Speaker 5: Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 2: Now, if you are a Kamala Harris supporter, you may
Speaker 2: ask a question, well, what's next for her?
Speaker 1: Historically?
Speaker 2: And I know when I say historically, we're an unprecedented time.
Speaker 2: So history usually doesn't matter when you're talking about present
Speaker 2: day politics. But historically, when you lose an election on
Speaker 2: Donald Trump aside, because you can't use the history to
Speaker 2: talk about Donald Trump, but historically, when you lose a
Speaker 2: presidential election, that's usually the end of your political career.
Speaker 2: Usually you go on and do something else. You may
Speaker 2: move into the private sector, you may go on the
Speaker 2: lecture circuit, but you usually move on from politics because
Speaker 2: there's really nowhere else for you to go. Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: she could possibly be in the future, maybe someone's attorney
Speaker 2: general candidate or something, if there were a Democratic president
Speaker 2: down the road, But as far as her political future,
Speaker 2: this is probably it because there's nowhere else for her
Speaker 2: to go, unless she were to take a step back
Speaker 2: and run for governor or something like that. But this
Speaker 2: is probably the end for her because that's just the
Speaker 2: way it usually is, especially when you're a vice president.
Speaker 1: You can look at.
Speaker 2: Paul Ryan when he was a part of that ticket,
Speaker 2: that was pretty much the end of his political career. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Dan Quail that was the end of his career. Al
Speaker 2: Gore that was the end of his career. Now you
Speaker 2: had George H. W. Bush who managed to become president.
Speaker 2: He was like the only one to move from vice
Speaker 2: president to president, from administration to administration in the past
Speaker 2: maybe one hundred and forty years or so. So it's
Speaker 2: rare that it does happen, but usually when it doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: That's the end. When you run for president and you lose,
Speaker 2: you're pretty much done. John Kerrey didn't do anything after that.
Speaker 2: Michael Ducaccus didn't do anything after that. John McCain went
Speaker 2: back to the Senate, but didn't do anything after that.
Speaker 2: And that's what usually happens. This is probably the end
Speaker 2: of her political career, and that's just the way it goes,
Speaker 2: you know, That's just where it goes. And the Democrats
Speaker 2: will have to regroup and look at themselves and see
Speaker 2: what they did wrong or see what they can improve upon,
Speaker 2: because for the next at least two years, can't say
Speaker 2: four years, next two years, they're going to be subject
Speaker 2: to the whims of the Republican Party because they probably
Speaker 2: won't be able to take over the House. I'm just
Speaker 2: looking at the numbers and the tea leaves. The math
Speaker 2: is not looking good for them at this moment. But
Speaker 2: still they have a lot of racists have to finish
Speaker 2: counting and deciding. So it looks more like this it's
Speaker 2: going to be a Republican House, Republican Senate, Republican Oval Office,
Speaker 2: and a Republican or i should say, conservative Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: So there's not much the Democrats can do in the
Speaker 2: near term except try to change something in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six in the midterms.
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Speaker 1: If you've ever been shopping, We've all been shopping, but some.
Speaker 2: Of us are a little bit more I would say
Speaker 2: sensitive to sales. It could be I don't know, Amazon
Speaker 2: Prime Day, could be Black Friday. You think there's a sale,
Speaker 2: everything's going to be deep discount. I need to go
Speaker 2: buy something, something that I don't even need, something I
Speaker 2: may not even be able to afford, but it's marked
Speaker 2: down seventy percent.
Speaker 1: I can't pass up the deal. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 2: That's not usually me, but I can say, if I'm honest,
Speaker 2: it's gotten me.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like, oh, this computer is seventy percent off.
Speaker 2: I don't need a computer, but when might I have
Speaker 2: another opportunity to buy a computer for seventy percent off?
Speaker 2: And then you get it and you realize, you know,
Speaker 2: I really didn't need to spend this four or five
Speaker 2: hundred dollars on this computer that I didn't need with
Speaker 2: money I really didn't have, just because it was marked
Speaker 2: out That is what I felt the moment that I
Speaker 2: saw that I read that the La County Board of
Speaker 2: Supervisors has approved the purchase of the Gas Company Tower.
Speaker 1: You know about it.
Speaker 2: It's downtown, it's just sitting there, it's vacant. It was
Speaker 2: appraised at a value of six hundred and thirty two
Speaker 2: million dollars back in twenty twenty during the pandemic. Six
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty two million dollars. They're going to buy
Speaker 2: it for two hundred million dollars, which is less than
Speaker 2: one third of the price.
Speaker 1: Is it a great deal. Yes, it's a great deal.
Speaker 2: I just didn't know, and maybe I'm just late to
Speaker 2: the party, but I didn't know that the La County
Speaker 2: Board of Supervisors was in the real estate business of
Speaker 2: buying skyscrapers.
Speaker 1: Never in my life.
Speaker 2: If I heard about the La County Board of Supervisors
Speaker 2: and it's not unanimous, it's not animus. In fact, Jennison said,
Speaker 2: hell no, and that's a quote, and that's where I
Speaker 2: come out on this.
Speaker 1: Hell no, I don't know.
Speaker 2: If they're going to buy the building and turn it
Speaker 2: into homeless housing. I don't know if they're gonna buy
Speaker 2: the skyscraper and turn it into a museum and maybe
Speaker 2: they'll put a I don't know, a rooftop club. You
Speaker 2: can go there in the summer. I don't know if
Speaker 2: they're gonna turn it into a concert venue. I don't
Speaker 2: know what they're gonna do with it. Mark, I know
Speaker 2: you had the story what they're gonna put like the
Speaker 2: La County Board of Supervisor's main offices.
Speaker 1: There are some stupid stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I think I have that coming up, and I am
Speaker 3: not one hundred percent school done it yet, so I
Speaker 3: will defer to you.
Speaker 1: Moh, that's okay.
Speaker 2: But the disapproval, I mean it's been approved.
Speaker 1: Four to one. Four to one.
Speaker 2: They gave county officials the final green light to move
Speaker 2: ahead with buying the tower for two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: And if you have two hundred million dollars laying around
Speaker 2: that you're just not using because this is an impulse buy.
Speaker 3: You never know when you're gonna need something to tag. Well,
Speaker 3: they're already tagging it. Oh okay, I mean it's legendary
Speaker 3: for it being tagged.
Speaker 1: All right. If you've seen the building they've had, they've done.
Speaker 2: Stories on this, this building being tagged.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong. It's a nice building. Well,
Speaker 1: who doesn't love art, it's two hundred million.
Speaker 2: In other words, it wasn't like the La County Board
Speaker 2: of Supervisors. To the best of my knowledge, they're free
Speaker 2: to correct me. It wasn't like they were already in
Speaker 2: the market for a skyscraper. It'd be different like, for example,
Speaker 2: twall and nine, we were in the market for a car.
Speaker 2: So if we were to see a heavily discounted car
Speaker 2: which met our needs, that's one thing. But for example,
Speaker 2: if we were not in the market for a house,
Speaker 2: and we come across a house which is seventy percent off,
Speaker 2: too good to pass up, and let's say it's listing
Speaker 2: at seven hundred thousand dollars when usually it's two point
Speaker 2: one million, that's probably an ill advised purchase. Now, if
Speaker 2: you happen to be a real estate developer, if you
Speaker 2: happen to be a house slipper, and it's something that
Speaker 2: you normally do, then you are to go ahead and
Speaker 2: do that because that's what you do. You can turn
Speaker 2: it into a monetary opportunity, but it's within your sphere.
Speaker 1: Of what you do.
Speaker 2: But the Eli County Board of Supervisors, last I checked
Speaker 2: they're not in the business.
Speaker 1: Of real estate. I don't know. What do you mean
Speaker 1: you don't know?
Speaker 6: I don't know, because if you look back, I think
Speaker 6: this was in June where they purchased that high rise tenement.
Speaker 6: It was some two hundred and thirty or two hundred
Speaker 6: and seventy something units for Google gobs of money for
Speaker 6: the purpose of housing the homeless or bad This was
Speaker 6: behind it, the board of supervisors behind it.
Speaker 1: They I remember that. Sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, that was for the La County in
Speaker 2: the business of La County, right, So they're just expanding, MO,
Speaker 2: They're expanding their real estate profile.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. This is expanding.
Speaker 2: Oh I have yet to see anyone say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is going to be for the homeless.
Speaker 6: Well, well, if they look, if they set up their
Speaker 6: headquarters there, why not dedicate several floors to the un housed.
Speaker 6: They need the space. They keep talking about, we don't
Speaker 6: have the space by this building.
Speaker 2: You got the rooms. Okay, here we go. This is
Speaker 2: what Supervisor Janis Hahn had to say. None of it,
Speaker 2: I'm quoting quote. None of you here are going to
Speaker 2: convince me that this is a good idea. Hell no,
Speaker 2: I'm not too far off on this one. I'm on
Speaker 2: the hell no side. What if they named the building
Speaker 2: after you, the Moe Kelly Building. See look at him
Speaker 2: right down, look at it about it?
Speaker 6: See you're a radiolan. Can't see his face, it's all
Speaker 6: of a sudden his eyebrows.
Speaker 5: Enough.
Speaker 1: Well, since you bring that, I won't rule it out
Speaker 1: of hand.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, but but I but I will say this
Speaker 2: to be absolutely serious. It's not that it's seventy percent
Speaker 2: off or whatever. It's just that it's a two hundred
Speaker 2: million dollar purchase. And it doesn't seem like there was
Speaker 2: a clear plaid in place before the purchase was approved. Yes,
Speaker 2: they're going to be moving over county employees. Yes, this
Speaker 2: is going to be like the new headquarters and everything.
Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure. And I and according to a
Speaker 2: last Jennis Han, there hasn't been evidence given that this
Speaker 2: is necessary. This is an impulse purchase, largely because it's
Speaker 2: seventy percent off. Oh my gosh, the building is seventy
Speaker 2: percent off and it's not even Black Friday in November.
Speaker 1: I gotta have it. I just gotta have it.
Speaker 3: Well, Rule number one of American shopping mo is that
Speaker 3: you got to spend money to save money. And sub
Speaker 3: section one A of that is there's no such thing
Speaker 3: as enough ever.
Speaker 2: But but but talk about how what a great deal
Speaker 2: this is the cost of the building is going to
Speaker 2: be two hundred billion, but officials have estimated it will
Speaker 2: cost hundreds of millions to upgrade either this building or
Speaker 2: their old buildings to make it a worthy alternative.
Speaker 1: So it's not going to be.
Speaker 2: Just the cost of the building, because it's not even
Speaker 2: fitish yet. There's plenty more that they have to sink
Speaker 2: into this building. It's not like it's real estate term.
Speaker 2: It's not turnkey. It's not like you can just you know,
Speaker 2: PLoP down.
Speaker 1: The money and move in tomorrow. It's moving ready. No,
Speaker 1: it isn't a fixer upper. It's a two hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars fixer upper. I mean, come on, what is what?
Speaker 1: What is two hundred million for the county? What is
Speaker 1: wrong with this count Hey?
Speaker 7: Two hundred million dollars two one hundred billion dollars largely
Speaker 7: business offices just for the It doesn't do anything.
Speaker 6: You don't see the future. This could be converted. This
Speaker 6: can be converted low income housing, housing for the individuals
Speaker 6: who work for the county. All types of things can
Speaker 6: go at on a wee building.
Speaker 1: Wait, it's worse.
Speaker 2: No supervisors have toured the building themself.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, okay, they.
Speaker 3: Get some respect when they're talking about.
Speaker 1: On the internet. They haven't seen it at first. That's
Speaker 1: the new way. No, no virtual tours. You buy the
Speaker 1: house that you've never did walk or they have a
Speaker 1: slide show online they do for a building they have
Speaker 1: even walking with it.
Speaker 6: Okay, someone from the county, I know, I know, you
Speaker 6: don't want to take this ridicule lying down. Please please,
Speaker 6: You've got to come on the show so you can
Speaker 6: explain yourselves. You've got to come on so you can
Speaker 6: explain yourself.
Speaker 2: They were swayed by the sales pitch of this opportunity
Speaker 2: will not last forever.
Speaker 1: You're acting like they bought a can of bean a
Speaker 1: magic beans.
Speaker 3: Two hundred million dollars for a building they haven't even walked.
Speaker 1: We deserve everything we get if I.
Speaker 7: Und a billion dollars mark.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a hell of a way to talk
Speaker 1: about the future.
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Speaker 2: We were real over last segment, and I'd blame to
Speaker 2: Walla Sharp because he was wasting time trying to defend
Speaker 2: Ellie County Board of Supervisors with that dumb ass move
Speaker 2: to buy a two hundred million dollar building just because
Speaker 2: it was marked down from six hundred and thirty two million.
Speaker 2: Didn't even need a building. But you know, we're gonna
Speaker 2: let that go. I'm not gonna bring up old stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna, you know, like hold on to it
Speaker 2: like a grudge or anything. My wife says I do
Speaker 2: that too much, so I'm trying to be better. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't like to fly, and I really don't like
Speaker 2: to fly since the pandemic, because before the pandemic, I
Speaker 2: was worried about ending up in the side of a mountain. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know that was just the flying aspect of it.
Speaker 2: And Rob and I appreciate you working the boards and
Speaker 2: I just don't laugh at me. Okay, I see you
Speaker 2: laughing at my fear of flying. I got bees and flying,
Speaker 2: all right. I'm an imperfect, complicated dude. But since the pandemic,
Speaker 2: the way people have been acting up on planes left
Speaker 2: and right.
Speaker 1: It's a whole different ball game.
Speaker 2: I gotta worry about the airplane and the people on
Speaker 2: the airplane, just random people who will decide, well, they'll
Speaker 2: get a wild hair up their ass and walk down
Speaker 2: the aisle and decide to open an emergency exit, or
Speaker 2: at least.
Speaker 1: Try that happened with me once.
Speaker 2: Okay, let meat stand down on my story so you
Speaker 2: can tell since you have first tam experience with it.
Speaker 3: There's not much to tell except I needed a change
Speaker 3: of pants. Promptly he was stopped, and they don't the door.
Speaker 3: The doors don't just open. I know this, the pressure,
Speaker 3: but still, but I didn't spot it till the guy
Speaker 3: was in the process of doing it and he was
Speaker 3: promptly stopped.
Speaker 1: But it'll get your attention, Yes it will, Yes, it will.
Speaker 2: And if you are probably like Mark Ronner, let's say
Speaker 2: you're fifteen sixteen rows back, you are subject to the
Speaker 2: whims of everything which is going on in the front
Speaker 2: of the plane, and you have no control of no say,
Speaker 2: you're just there. You're a passenger, You're an observer. You know,
Speaker 2: you're just a bystander. You grow up reading superhero comics.
Speaker 2: You think you're gonna do something, everything you don't realize.
Speaker 2: Everything in life tends to happen kind of fast, really fast,
Speaker 2: and you may not even realize it's happening until it's
Speaker 2: already happened. Exactly In this story, an unruly passenger was
Speaker 2: beaten to a pulp after attempting to open an emergency
Speaker 2: door on a flight from Brazil to Panama. They even
Speaker 2: have some video of it. Quote, a flight attendant started screaming.
Speaker 2: Let me stop right there. When a flight attendant loses
Speaker 2: her is ish or his ish either or you know
Speaker 2: that you're in trouble, because usually they are the marker
Speaker 2: as to whether you're in danger or not. When you
Speaker 2: have a lot of turbulence, what do you do? You
Speaker 2: look at the flight attendant to see if they're sweating,
Speaker 2: to see if they are uncomfortable, if they are worried.
Speaker 2: Because if they're worried, then it's time for you to
Speaker 2: be worried, because they can no longer hide their fear.
Speaker 1: So imagine a flight attendant screaming, screaming. All hell breaks
Speaker 1: loose after that. But let me get back to this.
Speaker 2: A flight attendant started screaming and another try to hold
Speaker 2: him back, but couldn't because he was too strong. The
Speaker 2: fight broke out Tuesday yesterday aboard a Copa Airlines flight
Speaker 2: from Brazil to Panama City, and they show photos of
Speaker 2: it there. At least there are a lot of young
Speaker 2: dudes on the flight because they had like seven or
Speaker 2: eight dudes beat the crap out of this guy. They
Speaker 2: beat him something awful, and I'm okay with that. I'm
Speaker 2: not against violence, especially when it comes to saving my life.
Speaker 2: If you need violence to take out someone who's getting
Speaker 2: ready to take out all of us, by all means,
Speaker 2: proceed the flight.
Speaker 1: And this was relatively.
Speaker 2: Late in the flight, so it's not like something he
Speaker 2: decided to do early on.
Speaker 1: We're talking about thirty minutes before.
Speaker 2: Landing, so it seems to me they probably were already
Speaker 2: in the midst of their descent. And going back to
Speaker 2: Mark's story, if they were in there descent, they might
Speaker 2: have been might have been at a at an altitude
Speaker 2: where pressure was such he might have been able to
Speaker 2: get the door open. I'm not like a you know,
Speaker 2: an aerodynamics expert or you know, I have you know,
Speaker 2: and I've seen people jump out of planes in many
Speaker 2: movies so I know little something about this, but I've
Speaker 2: never you know, so I can only guesstimate that that
Speaker 2: was part of the calculation. Since the flight was in
Speaker 2: its descent thirty minutes or so before landing, that they
Speaker 2: may have been in an altitude where he could have
Speaker 2: forced the door open. The said flyer rushed to the
Speaker 2: back of the plane with a plastic knife from his
Speaker 2: food tray and attempted to take a flight attendant hostage
Speaker 2: with the goal of opening the plane door. Now me,
Speaker 2: I'm probably eyes closed, relaxing, hopefully snoring the last portion
Speaker 2: of the flight because I don't like takeoffs, I don't
Speaker 2: like landings. Me out and when we're getting ready to land,
Speaker 2: I need to have both my feet flat on the
Speaker 2: floor and I'm getting ready to brace for that impact.
Speaker 2: I've never had a really bad instance, but I did
Speaker 2: have a time landing at Burbank Airport. Have you ever
Speaker 2: landed at Burbank? Mark many times short runway, real short runway,
Speaker 2: and there are times where they've had planes skit.
Speaker 1: Off into the street. Oh god, oh true story. This.
Speaker 2: On my flight, I could tell that the pilot lost
Speaker 2: control after landing, and so we were wildly swaying and
Speaker 2: the wings were tipping almost scraped the ground. And this
Speaker 2: was a burbank, so it's a short runway, and so
Speaker 2: we didn't have a lot of time before we'd end
Speaker 2: up on Hollywood Way.
Speaker 1: Somehow, someway, he managed to stop. Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 3: If there's a round of applause in the cabin after
Speaker 3: that land no, you know, there there there was we all.
Speaker 2: It's almost like it was this eerie silence because like,
Speaker 2: you know, we almost bought it, right, yeah, And the
Speaker 2: flight attendant on fight was saying, like, long pause, thank
Speaker 2: you for flying American.
Speaker 1: They're like there's nothing she could say because we were
Speaker 1: all thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2: We barely escaped death, and so they anyhow. But my
Speaker 2: point is with this story, the passengers realized that the
Speaker 2: flight attendant was being taken hostage.
Speaker 1: So they got together. It might have been like a
Speaker 1: soccer team or something.
Speaker 2: They all seemed like the same age, and they got
Speaker 2: up and they collectively beat the crap out of this guy.
Speaker 2: The pictures of them, he's bloody, there's blood everywhere, and
Speaker 2: it's like strong shake.
Speaker 1: That's what I would want. That's too bad that he
Speaker 1: got injured.
Speaker 2: Geez well, look, look, if they would have killed him,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been angry. Oh yeah, right, that's looks.
Speaker 2: If you're trying to open the door, that's attempted murder.
Speaker 2: It is, so go ahead and handle it, street justice.
Speaker 2: That's why I don't like flying, because there are just
Speaker 2: too many idiots out there now, especially since the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Folks forgot how to act on a plane. Since the pandemic.
Speaker 3: They should hand out a sock with are a soap
Speaker 3: in it to all the passengers as you're boarding, so.
Speaker 1: They give out a code red like your full metal jacket.
Speaker 1: You need a code red. Sometimes you're damn right? Did
Speaker 1: you offer? Did you order the cord red?
Speaker 3: I want answers, I want the true you can't handle it?
Speaker 1: Did you order the call?
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Speaker 2: doing five and a half hours of election covers last night,
Speaker 2: let's just go and break. My voice is done, ky
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