WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.120 You're listenings camp. I am six forty the bill handles 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:10.480 show on demand on the iHeartRadio. F Maybe I'm really 3 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:13.400 in the calendar. Yeah, I'm looking at my calendar and 4 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:17.559 I'm so anxious for Christmas because I'm such a bad Jew. 5 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:26.519 On that December twenty fourth air of Christmas. Nice, thank you. Okay, 6 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:32.759 here's what I want to talk about New DA in La. 7 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:37.560 George Gascon, who I think it's fair to say it's 8 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:40.520 one of the weirdest, about the weirdest DA LA's ever had, 9 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:48.439 sweeps into office as this ultra pro defense prosecutor, almost 10 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:50.320 to the point where you know, where you see a 11 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.240 prosecutor table and a defense table at trials, it's almost 12 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.200 as if they're only the defense table, prosecutors and the 13 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:00.240 defense lawyers at the same table. So he's sweeps in 14 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:04.920 the office in the aftermath of George Floyd and the 15 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:10.280 anti police and the anti prosecutorial movement that came in. 16 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.079 You know, black lives matter, and it's ill, but beyond 17 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.040 just black lives matter, the entire criminal justice system. So 18 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:22.359 he sweeps into office based on this insane pro defense philosophy, 19 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:29.159 no more death penalty, small crimes, small misdemeanors, theft that 20 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.359 just you know, vandalism. We're not going to try them 21 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.040 at all. We're not even to prosecute. We're not even 22 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:38.519 a file charges. And it's just on and on. Where 23 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:46.879 enhancements for drug for gang membership or heinous crimes off 24 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:50.400 the table. And one which really pissed me off that 25 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:54.200 when there was a parole hearing and family members were 26 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:58.200 asked or were allowed to testify the prole hearings as 27 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.439 to the heinousness of the crime and how they're family 28 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:04.879 members usually were killed. Prosecutors usually join that. Gascone said, 29 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:12.080 no prosecutors. Nope, no prosecutors. Well, he lost by twenty points. 30 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.680 Over twenty points. I mean, we knew that George Gascone 31 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.360 was being swept out. So new guy in town, new 32 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.759 sheriff in town. Oh, we got a new sheriff here, 33 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:26.400 Nathan Hochman, promising to restore justice and balance and says, well, 34 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.719 the DA's office just has lost its way over the 35 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:30.599 last four years and blew me. A lot of people 36 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:36.120 agree with that. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who swore Hawkman in former governor, 37 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:43.960 said that Los Angeles has failed. We need a prosecutor 38 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:50.280 who is fair, who is not pro not hard ass prosecution, 39 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:55.039 and hawkman just bringing back the prosecutor's office to a 40 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:59.120 reasonable position. He's not particularly left wing or right wing. 41 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:04.319 He is just a reasonable position. That's what we have 42 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:14.280 to do. Now. At the swearing in ceremony, hundreds of people, prosecutors, cops, 43 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:20.400 victims' rights organizations were cheering, standing up and cheering. When's 44 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:22.840 the last time you would ever think a prosecutor would 45 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:26.240 be standing in a crowd waiting to cheer on a 46 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:31.479 new DA. That's how much he was hated by the 47 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:39.520 prosecutor's office. Schwarzenegger blamed Gascogne for a lot of us 48 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:42.120 for a rise in lawlessness and chaos in La County. Now, 49 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.599 I want to give you a reality check for a moment. Now, 50 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:49.000 let's look at the stats. Violent and property crimes did 51 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.280 rise twenty nineteen to twenty twenty three, mainly under Gascon's watch, 52 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.560 but that was during the post pandemic crime and hit 53 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:05.400 other California counties with conservative DA's even harder, and criminologists 54 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.439 are looking at and saying, you know what, the idea 55 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:12.120 that Gascone or any progressive prosecutor be blamed for the 56 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:17.399 ebbs and flows of crime trends shouldn't happen. I mean, 57 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:23.920 maybe it was his influence, but was it primarily his influence? 58 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:29.040 Was it because of Gascon and his policies? You know, 59 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:35.519 not necessarily so on mister Greemer crimes hawkman Veau vowed 60 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:42.319 to bring charges where Gascone didn't, but he is offering diversion, 61 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:47.800 restitution programs addiction issues. He plans to have prosecutors offer 62 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:51.519 a choice between prison or an eighteen month intensive rehab program. 63 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:52.839 And I don't know who's going to pay for that, 64 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:57.519 because that's always a question. He is going to pursue 65 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:02.120 death verdicts again, which Gascon took off the table. He'll 66 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.160 only do it in rare cases, which by the way, 67 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:08.160 is in rare cases anyway. Even when California did have 68 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:10.560 the death penalty, which it still does, but it was 69 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.720 a moratorium because Gavin Newsom is saying no death penalty. 70 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:17.720 We're not going to kill anybody while I'm the governor. 71 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:20.519 But it's only a moratorium. Next governor can institute it, 72 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.319 and so we haven't had an execution. I don't know 73 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:31.560 fourteen years now the death penalty. Californians want the death penalty. 74 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.199 I had the pleasure, and I use that word selectively, 75 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.600 I had the pleasure of witnessing an execution here in 76 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:42.000 the state of California, and it was one of the 77 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:48.480 best days of my life. I thought it was hugely entertaining, 78 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:54.000 hugely entertaining. Hawkman announced the formation of task forces to 79 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:59.079 deal with homelessness, fentanyl, human trafficking, organized retail crime, residential burglary, 80 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.920 and hate crimes. And also he's going to clean out 81 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:07.199 the higher end of the prosecutor's office, which always happens. 82 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:11.160 New DA comes into town, gets elected, it is his 83 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:17.720 or her closest advisors, senior people to where the DA was. 84 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:20.560 I mean, just you bring in your own people and 85 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:25.319 you fire the ones that followed or believed in the 86 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:30.480 previous administration, the policies. In this case, everybody who staunchly 87 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:35.519 believed in what Gascon was doing. People that he promoted gone. 88 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.360 I mean, they're still in the prosecutor's office. They're not 89 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:44.120 going to be great. Story about Todd Spitzer, who had 90 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:49.680 someone who was very high up in Rucklehouse's administration when 91 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:54.279 he was the DA, and it was someone who absolutely 92 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:59.079 defended the former DA. I mean, just crazy defended him 93 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.920 and was one of this senior prosecutors. I think, if 94 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:07.839 I remember correctly, was assigned to the intern program dealing 95 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:11.680 with high school students who wanted to be prosecutors or cops. 96 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:17.319 Big change and Todd. If I have that wrong, I 97 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.079 know Todd listens, let me know, and I'll correct myself. 98 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.360 I don't want to mention names, but I will correct myself. 99 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.920 I'd say, Nah, Handle, you're wrong like you normally are. Okay, 100 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.959 coming up the Great Grocery Squeeze. Neil has talked about 101 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:38.160 this food deserts, and we're not talking about a grocery 102 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.480 store in the middle of the Mohave. We're talking about 103 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:47.160 food deserts where there are no grocery stores in populated areas. 104 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:52.600 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 105 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:53.240 six forty. 106 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:59.639 Today, the Court dives headfirst into the issue of transfer 107 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.040 gen the gender rights. There's a challenge Tennessee's ban on 108 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:07.519 gender affirming care for miners, and the Court's going to 109 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.879 deal with that. We'll see which way it goes. There's 110 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.360 a legitimate argument there. You know, obviously I'm in favor 111 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.879 of transgender rights across the board, but the argument is 112 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:19.439 do we want to discriminate or do we want to 113 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:27.920 outlaw transgender affirming care to miners, transgender affirming care surgeries 114 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:30.439 to miners? Yeah, think can say no. I think it's 115 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:36.200 a legitimate argument for sure. All right, let's continue on. 116 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:38.639 Then I want to go off politics for a while 117 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:41.559 until we go back to politics coming up at eight 118 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:46.919 twenty with Donald Trump's newest selection, and I'll talk about that. 119 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:50.159 So now I want to talk about a story came 120 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.879 out in the Atlantic, and this is the concept of 121 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:58.360 food deserts and what's a food desert? Americans who live 122 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:02.240 in low income communities with no access to fresh groceries 123 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:08.440 and why Well, the consensus is that the population isn't 124 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:12.000 big enough, stores can't make enough money, and they just 125 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.000 don't have what it takes to attract a supermarket either 126 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:20.679 too poor, too parsley, too sparsely populated. And the argument 127 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:24.759 that there is a racist pattern of corporate redlining, which 128 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.879 I don't know how extensive that is. I believe some 129 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.080 of that is true. Rather, when did food deserts rive. 130 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.480 Didn't happen until the nineteen eighties. Before that, small towns, 131 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:42.320 poor neighborhoods had grocery stores, sometimes even several. The term 132 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.799 food desert was coined in nineteen ninety five by a 133 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:49.399 task force studying this new phenomenon. For example, let me 134 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.480 give you an example of a food desert. There's a 135 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:57.519 high poverty, majority black neighborhood in Washington, d c. In 136 00:09:57.559 --> 00:09:59.759 the nineteen sixties, it had more than half a dozen 137 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:05.200 grows grocery stores. By the nineteen nineties, the number had 138 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:10.159 dwindled to two. Today none zero. And this is also 139 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:15.120 going on across rural America. Until the nineteen eighties, almost 140 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:18.120 every small town in North Dakota had a grocery store, 141 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:23.960 some had several. Now half of the rural residents of 142 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.480 North Dakota live in a food desert. By the way, 143 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:32.559 the USDA defines a food desert as a low income 144 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:35.519 census tract where the nearest grocery store is more than 145 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.679 ten miles away in a rural area, more than one 146 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.519 mile away in a city. Now, I don't know how 147 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:45.080 many people live more than a mile away from a 148 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:51.799 grocery store. I do now where I live, and so 149 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:56.080 I'm in a food desert. And then right outside of 150 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.360 a mile, like one point one miles from my house 151 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:06.360 is a Gelson, So I am in a food desert. 152 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.120 So there were a bunch of state and federal programs 153 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.559 tried to address food deserts, giving tax break subsidies to 154 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:19.759 supermarkets to go to these areas. That's failed. There are 155 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.320 more now than there were in twenty ten. So what 156 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:28.440 happened well in the thirties is when things changed. A 157 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.440 and P, which was the biggest supermarket in the country, 158 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:36.519 was supplanting local grocery stores and what became market dominant 159 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:40.600 and Congress the investigation said A and P had a 160 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.639 huge advantage that had nothing to do with greater efficiency, 161 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:47.440 better service, legitimate ways of competing, which is why the 162 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:50.080 law allowed them to do what they did. A and 163 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.799 P was using its sheer size to pressure suppliers into 164 00:11:54.879 --> 00:12:00.200 giving it preferential treatment over small retails retailers, and the 165 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:04.320 food manufacturer had no choice. A and P said, you 166 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.120 sell us for a lower price, or we're not buying. 167 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:11.440 And what are they going to do? So they charge 168 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:17.519 food manufacturers charge independent grocers more money. Well, Congress in 169 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:21.399 nineteen thirty six passes the Robinson Patman Act, and what 170 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:26.399 is that Well, it bars price discrimination. It is illegal 171 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:31.120 for suppliers to offer president preferential deals for retailers who 172 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.120 demand them, but it does allow businesses to pass along 173 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:41.000 legitimate savings. For example, if a supermarket or supermarket chain 174 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:46.559 buys by the truckload, that's going to be less money 175 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:49.399 they're going to that they're going to be able to 176 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:54.399 buy that product, those groceries for less money. What this 177 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:59.679 nineteen thirty six law said is that anybody who buys 178 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:04.320 buy a truckload has to be allowed to buy it 179 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.279 at the same price. You can't have that kind of discrimination. 180 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.840 So in nineteen fifty four, the eight largest supermarket chains 181 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:16.519 had twenty five percent of the entire grocery sales. Same 182 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.639 thing in nineteen eighty two. Now it's the three biggest 183 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:26.720 market chains. So what is going on, Well, it was 184 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.360 in the nineteen eighties when that all went away under 185 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:36.639 Reagan and this law that was passed disappeared because it 186 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:40.799 was a regulatory act that the government forced this kind 187 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:44.759 of non discrimination activity, and Reagan said we can't have 188 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:51.519 governmental intervention here. Reagan hated bureaucracy. So then it blew 189 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:58.399 up and now they're in the same position that Walmart 190 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:02.399 buys at a a ridiculously low price because it buys 191 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:06.159 by the palette full. It buys by the container, buys 192 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.840 by the shipload and gets great prices. But if I 193 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.600 buy by the shipload the same product, I have to 194 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.240 be able to get the same price. That's what this 195 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.960 act does. And there's a move to bring it back 196 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.480 because the mom and poppers have disappeared. They're just gone. 197 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:30.639 You know, the seven to eleven is going to be 198 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:36.919 the seven one hundred and eleven. All right, we're done. See, 199 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.639 I mean that's analysis. Okay, Neil, we've been talking about 200 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:45.480 that legal analysis, show analysis. You put the ass in analysis. 201 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.919 I do, thank you so much. Okay, here's a question. 202 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:54.519 When does the telescope become a serious national security risk? 203 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:55.480 A telescope. 204 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:02.039 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from a sixty. 205 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:07.279 December fourth Hume Day, and a lot of stuff going 206 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.720 on today, as you would think, Oh, just so many 207 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:16.559 fun fun nominees. And I'm gonna be doing the latest 208 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:22.000 Tulci Gabbard ahead of National Intelligence. Another beautiful pick, and 209 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:25.120 I'll be doing that. And the Supreme Court is going 210 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:28.480 to deal with transgender rights. It's hearing a challenge to 211 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.679 Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care for minors, and we'll 212 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:35.399 see which way the Court's going to go on that one. 213 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.200 And by the way, both sides have a legitimate argument 214 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:44.360 on those. Sometimes people are nuts on each side of 215 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:48.879 an argument. There's one side that's crazy. For example, gay rights, Okay, 216 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:52.559 we want to stop our next door neighbors who are 217 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:58.200 gay for marrying. We want to discriminate. That's crazy. Abortion 218 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:03.039 legitimate argument both sides. You know. I'm on one side 219 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:07.000 of it, but it's legitimate. So that one also, I 220 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:08.840 think is legitimate. I'll talk about that over the next 221 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.320 few days, for sure. Now here's a question, and I 222 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.159 saw this article and and pointed this out, and it's 223 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:17.919 just an interesting question. Not only the question, but the 224 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:20.159 guy who's involved in the middle of this. It's an 225 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:28.440 astronomer named Zilky or zilchko iv Che or Ivit del Kay. 226 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.759 He's clearly Croatian of some kind, and he is the 227 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:36.000 fifty nine year old director of the Vera Reuben Observatory. 228 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.720 The United States is developing this in the Chilean High 229 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.240 Desert and has been for twenty years. It's a billion 230 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:49.559 dollar telescope and he's being stopped by the government. The 231 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.799 United States government saying, well, we have to change this around. 232 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:56.399 He doesn't even know who he's talking to, no idea. 233 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:02.080 The government is so concerned with security, didn't even know 234 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:08.240 which agency, and so he's communicating through intermediary intermediaries at 235 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:13.079 the National Science Foundation. It's like Hamas and Israel negotiating 236 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:19.680 through Katar. That's what's happening here. One person, several people 237 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:25.839 who knows. Now, this satellite is on a mountaintop in Chile, 238 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.079 the at Kama Desert, and it's like the James Webb 239 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:32.240 space telescope of a few years ago. It's going to 240 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.440 be able to see the far edge of the universe, 241 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:38.559 but the web telescope can only see a tiny fraction 242 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:42.519 of the sky. The Vera Rubin will be able to 243 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:46.559 point to and lock onto a big section of the 244 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:52.599 sky and after thirty seconds share it with everybody. There's 245 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:57.480 an algorithm in real time. Well, here is the problem, 246 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:01.559 and that if it's able to grab large sections of 247 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:09.240 the sky and it's instantly readable by astronomers all over 248 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:14.119 the world spy satellites, it's going to be able to 249 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:18.359 see spy satellites and all of a sudden, every astronomer 250 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.279 on the planet can see a spy satellite, and the 251 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:25.039 United States, in our case, I would say, is a 252 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:28.160 little bit careful about the Russians knowing where are spy 253 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:36.359 satellites satellites are specifically. So now comes these negotiations and 254 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.880 spy satellites which can be seen by the vera rubin. 255 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:43.720 You know, it goes in the opposite direction too, because 256 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:48.279 big telescopes. For example, during Apollo, potential landing sites on 257 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:53.640 the Moon were figured out by big telescopes. They inspected 258 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:58.359 damage panels on Skylab, on the shuttles made in flight 259 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.079 to find out where those tiles had been damaged or not. 260 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:08.119 They flipped the shuttle over and one of these spy 261 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.559 scot satellites or one of these big telescopes was able 262 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.799 to see literally from the grounds. It's with that kind 263 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:20.559 of specificity. And so if you have this telescope up 264 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:24.240 there and here the whole sky, and all of a sudden, 265 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:30.240 here's a spy satellite. Instantly people can figure out which country, 266 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:35.960 which model, how big the camera is. And so the 267 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:38.640 national government, our government is a little bit upset about that. 268 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:44.480 So here's what they decided to do. And therefore this 269 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:49.640 is where this astronomer got really interested in this or negotiated. 270 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:55.400 They negotiated that before it goes to astronomers all over 271 00:19:55.440 --> 00:20:00.000 the world. In real time, it goes to the military. 272 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:05.559 It's censorship program they have, but it's not really sophisticated. 273 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.440 So you have these sensors who are not particularly astronomers 274 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:13.519 and brilliant about it, take marking pins and draw across 275 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:18.240 the image. Now these satellites, this one in particular, we're 276 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.680 talking about tiny little dots to figure out where the 277 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:24.480 universe is and how far these galaxies are. And all 278 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:27.759 of a sudden, you have this honking marking pen going 279 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:31.839 across the screen and he goes, come on, that's kind 280 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.519 of insane. So here is the negotiation up to this point. 281 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:39.319 Because they haven't finished yet. Okay, we'll get an algorithm, 282 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:44.160 we'll write it. That then goes to you guys, and 283 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:50.480 if there is something moving across the sky asteroid doesn't matter, 284 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:54.599 spacecraft of any kind, and it can tell because it's 285 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:58.039 a time lapse. If there's anything moving, it goes to 286 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:03.000 the military to figure out and they have eight nine 287 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:04.960 days to figure it out, which then goes back to 288 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:10.359 the astronomers. They know what should not be seen, and 289 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.640 then that information is released. This telescope is as good 290 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:19.400 as the James Web telescope billion dollars over twenty years. 291 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:22.640 And as you know, telescopes can read people reading a 292 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.359 newspaper from two hundred miles up. I mean literally the 293 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:29.880 headlines and you can actually see the stories, so it 294 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:34.240 can get pretty specific. So that seems to be the 295 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:36.519 negotiation going on so far. It's just kind of fun. 296 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:38.720 I like the story of the guy with the marketing pen. 297 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:43.440 You know, the sensor, you know redacted, whole sections of 298 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:44.920 the universe redacted. 299 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:50.559 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 300 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:53.480 six forty. 301 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:56.720 Pastapon is still going on until the eighth. You can 302 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.559 still donate and we'd love for you to do so, 303 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:04.119 and you can go to any Wendy's that's still happening. Wendy's. 304 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.000 You donate five bucks and you get coupons for a 305 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:09.279 lot more than five dollars worth of wendy stuff. 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That's forty tons, almost 314 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.039 one hundred thousand dollars over where we were at the 315 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.240 same time last year, and we blew through one point 316 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:51.599 three million dollars last year to help feed the kids, 317 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:54.759 and man, without you, it just doesn't happen. We're half 318 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:59.519 of the total. We're half of the budget of Katerina's Club. 319 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:05.519 By Bruno likes us so much. Okay, something that we've 320 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:07.319 been talking about a long time that I sort of 321 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:10.319 personally am involved with, and that is the number of 322 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:13.680 colleges that close each year. And I've been talking about 323 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.240 it and it's such a concern that the federal government 324 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:19.839 actually looked at this, and this is the Federal Reserve 325 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:24.039 Bank of Philadelphia. Because now we want real numbers. Now, 326 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:27.359 we want science, Now, we want real surveys, because quite 327 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:30.319 often we come up with stuff that seems to be 328 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.279 but there's no there's no there there without scientific background. 329 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:38.359 This is now a real report coming up with real 330 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:44.319 numbers under the worst case scenario, assuming a one time 331 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:47.480 fifteen percent drop in students, like right now, that's a 332 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:51.839 demographic cliff. It's called eighty colleges right now would shut 333 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:57.359 down one hundred thousand students twenty thousand staff members. Now nationally, 334 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:01.839 that's not a whole big number, but the trend is there. 335 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:07.920 For a bunch of reasons. Higher education has come under 336 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:11.559 some serious pressure the last several years. And why are 337 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:14.079 fewer people going to college? And just a quick aside 338 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:16.920 my personal involvement. One of the schools that closed was 339 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:23.000 my law school. Whittier Law School is now defunct. It 340 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:26.279 is done, it is finished, it is out of business. 341 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.279 If you look at my law degree, and there it 342 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:35.079 is in a frame that I graduated natsuma kum laudy, 343 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:41.920 not kum laudy, not well loud, yes, because that was 344 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:49.119 my law school. So I graduated kumb loud because too loudy. Yes, 345 00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:53.160 And it's just shut down. So my school is one 346 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:55.759 of those victims. Thank god I graduated law school before 347 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:57.599 it shut down. Although a lot of people would argue 348 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:01.359 that why are the number of students way down? We'll 349 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:05.319 look at this the birth rate is down. We know 350 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:08.839 that a larger number of students are looking at the 351 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:14.680 value of a traditional college degree. Tuition has exploded. Borrowing 352 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:18.799 money from the US government to pay for school has 353 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:24.640 the highest borrowing costs more than fifteen years. I mean, 354 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:28.079 it is way way down. And the value of a 355 00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:33.799 college education. Well, I get asked all the time, should 356 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:35.759 my son go to law school? Should I go to 357 00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:38.599 law school? And I say no, Now you can go 358 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:41.319 to where I went to school. It's now a parking 359 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:45.640 lot and check out the school. Is it going to 360 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:49.079 help you hard to get a job? Now, when you 361 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:51.759 hear about these one hundred and eighty thousand dollars a 362 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:54.119 year jobs, are they out there first year? They are? 363 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:56.240 But you have to go in IVY League school. We 364 00:25:56.279 --> 00:25:59.400 have one in California, Stanford, Although UCLA and SC are 365 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:07.400 pretty good. We're talking Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Harvard, University of Chicago. 366 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:10.000 These are schools where if you're at the top, top, 367 00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:12.359 top of the class, you're going to get that kind 368 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:18.039 of job. The rest of us no. So, for example, 369 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:21.400 why did I go out on my own because there 370 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:24.880 wasn't a law firm on earth that would hire me, 371 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:29.480 that's why, and I was forced to go out and 372 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:35.519 start my own practice. And unfortunately, there are a lot 373 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:38.839 of people that are going to school and anesthesiologists. Look 374 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:42.319 at what anithesiologists make. I once was having a conversation 375 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:45.319 with an ant caesiologist about school. I mean they walk 376 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:47.640 into two hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year, three 377 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:50.319 hundred thousand dollars a year, I mean day one if 378 00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:53.359 their board certified. Yeah, how did they get there? How 379 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:55.880 long did it take? Where other people are working and 380 00:26:55.880 --> 00:27:00.000 making money. Four years of undergrad four years of med school, 381 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.640 five years of residency, So they're in their mid thirties 382 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:06.200 before they could even start. Oh, let's talk about the 383 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:09.480 five hundred thousand dollars student debt they have to come 384 00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:12.039 up with now. Granted, anestesiologists are able to pay that 385 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:15.960 debt off in about thirty minutes. However, you know, it's 386 00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:21.920 hard to start a family, buy a house when all 387 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:25.319 of your money is being spent on school and you're 388 00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:28.640 borrowing up to the hilt, and you're starting your career 389 00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:32.279 at thirty five or thirty six. I mean, that's a 390 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:33.240 tough week to go get. 391 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:36.599 A long what you get along with NST geologists because 392 00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:38.559 you both put people to sleep for a living. 393 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:40.839 You know. One of the things. I mean, I'll take 394 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:43.640 a lot of hit on this show. Deal. I don't 395 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:47.640 mind taking hits, and I usually agree with you putting 396 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:55.039 people this sleep is not one of them. Basinga yes, Okay, 397 00:27:55.519 --> 00:28:00.480 coming up? Oh the sucking up of Trump? Oh man, 398 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:04.680 how far is that going? Well, it is moving at 399 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:08.519 an indescribable pace. I'll do that story with you, and 400 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:11.759 then another Trump story, another spin which is fascinating, and 401 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:13.640