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Speaker 1: It's time for swampoint.
Speaker 3: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
Speaker 3: and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipop.
Speaker 4: Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 4: are done.
Speaker 1: The other side never quits.
Speaker 2: So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 5: So that now you train the squat.
Speaker 1: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 1: what has been.
Speaker 4: You know, mervans have always been gone at present, they're
Speaker 4: not stupid.
Speaker 2: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 1: Why have the people voted for you? With na swamp watch,
Speaker 1: they're all countera. Well, let's start with something.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, just because it was was making its
Speaker 2: way around social media, you may have seen that President
Speaker 2: Trump on truth social took a line it looks like
Speaker 2: from It's supposed to be a quote by Napoleon, but
Speaker 2: the closest resemblance to it is a Rod Steiger line
Speaker 2: that he uttered while he was playing Napoleon in the
Speaker 2: old movie Waterlo Waterloo, Trump wrote, he who saves this
Speaker 2: country does not violate any law. The official White House
Speaker 2: account on Twitter also shared the message, and the quote
Speaker 2: from a president with his own ambitions appeared to come
Speaker 2: from that movie called Waterloo with the Rod Steiger as Napoleon.
Speaker 3: I did not you shirt the crown. I found it.
Speaker 1: In the Gutta and I I picked it up with
Speaker 1: my sword, with my sword, and it.
Speaker 3: Was the people, Alexis. The people will put it on
Speaker 3: my head.
Speaker 5: He who saves a nation.
Speaker 3: Violates no law.
Speaker 2: Now everybody's trying to say that Trump is trying to
Speaker 2: be Napoleon. Trump's firings of the members of independent agencies
Speaker 2: and boards has prompted a string of legal fights. We
Speaker 2: could see the first real challenge of these ongoing firings
Speaker 2: taken to the Supreme Court to reconsider, potentially overturn a
Speaker 2: ninety year old decision that shields certain officials, certain executive
Speaker 2: branch officials from being removed after a political shift in
Speaker 2: the White House. So we know that Trump fired the
Speaker 2: heads of the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems
Speaker 2: Protection Board, as well as the Director of Office of
Speaker 2: Government Ethics and the Special Council who oversees the office
Speaker 2: that investigates the whistleblower complaints. Some of those officials have
Speaker 2: said that Trump violates federal laws passed by Congress that
Speaker 2: created those agencies that limited the president to removing their
Speaker 2: members only for cause in cases of neglect or do
Speaker 2: neglect of duty, or of malfeasance. Now, specifically, Hampton Dellinger
Speaker 2: is the head of the Office of Special Counsel. This
Speaker 2: is not special counsels appointed by the Justice Department. It's
Speaker 2: not Jack Smith, it's not those guys. It's called the
Speaker 2: head of the Office of Special Counsel. This agency is
Speaker 2: charged with safeguarding government employee whistleblowers and enforcing certain laws,
Speaker 2: specifically ethics laws. And he had actually been fired in
Speaker 2: a one sentence email back on February seventh, but there
Speaker 2: was no reason for firing him, at least not in
Speaker 2: that email. And his argument was he has to be
Speaker 2: told of inefficiency, neglect, or of malfeasance in office, and
Speaker 2: that that never happened.
Speaker 1: So he sued.
Speaker 2: Judge Amy Burma Jackson of the DC District Court allowed
Speaker 2: him to keep his job for a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: while she enters a preliminary or she considers whether to
Speaker 2: enter into a preliminary injunction. The temporary injunction is usually
Speaker 2: not appealable. This preliminary injunction would be and to short
Speaker 2: circuit that, the Trump team went to the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: yesterday trying to ask for the power to fire those officials.
Speaker 1: Not clear exactly what's going on.
Speaker 2: I know that there's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 2: people ring in their hands that say that the sixth
Speaker 2: conservative majority in the Supreme Court means they'll go for Trump.
Speaker 2: But we've seen plenty of rulings in the last few
Speaker 2: years since it became that six to three ideological makeup,
Speaker 2: where the rulings have gone completely against the way that
Speaker 2: you think they would break down. A lot of five
Speaker 2: to four decisions with sort of mixed groupings ideologically in
Speaker 2: those that had the opinion and those that had the
Speaker 2: dissent in the court. We will continue to see news
Speaker 2: coming through sort of filtered through Washington d C. About
Speaker 2: the ongoing talk now that they have started between Russia
Speaker 2: and the United States concerning Ukraine. Now right now it's
Speaker 2: just US and Russia. That doesn't make Vladimir Zelenski happy,
Speaker 2: But at least the Trump administration by way of Marco Rubio,
Speaker 2: the new Secretary of State. They are trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what Russia wants, what it will take for them
Speaker 2: to come to the table and talk about ceasefire. The
Speaker 2: hope is that they'll turn around and ask Ukraine the
Speaker 2: same things. Although we kind of know what Ukraine wants.
Speaker 2: Ukraine wants to join NATO, they want to know that
Speaker 2: the other countries in Europe will continue to defend it
Speaker 2: against Russian aggression. To be honest, I just on our side,
Speaker 2: on the United States side, nobody appears to be up
Speaker 2: for that. Pete Hegseth said that's unlikely. President Trump has
Speaker 2: said that that's unlikely. Jd Vance said that's unlikely. Although
Speaker 2: all of them have said there's nothing that's off the table,
Speaker 2: but they've already given up that negotiating point. There are
Speaker 2: land disputes that need to be worked out. Russia has
Speaker 2: annexed regions in eastern Ukraine. Finger quotes annexed that may
Speaker 2: be property that Ukraine has to give up. Ukraine may
Speaker 2: have to withdraw from the Kersk region, and then Russia
Speaker 2: potentially sees some of Crimea given back to Ukraine, possibly
Speaker 2: the European Union would be expected to fund a lot
Speaker 2: of the reconstruction and as far as a peacekeeping force,
Speaker 2: if there is such a thing that's required in the ceasefire,
Speaker 2: it's going to be made up mostly of Europeanian of Europeans.
Speaker 2: Ker Starmer, the British Prime Minister, had suggested that British
Speaker 2: troops could be on the ground and would be glad
Speaker 2: to help, although they don't really have a great position
Speaker 2: right now. Their military has been hurting in terms of
Speaker 2: sheer numbers, and then the other sidelight issue to all
Speaker 2: of this is what's in it for the United States.
Speaker 2: There is a potential for the Ukrainian government to provide
Speaker 2: America with some of the critical minerals that they are
Speaker 2: sitting on in exchange for continued aid. Maybe that's just
Speaker 2: a sales pipeline where we take some of those minerals,
Speaker 2: we write a few checks, and we continue to at
Speaker 2: least fund what is going forward in terms of their
Speaker 2: ability to self defend. But there's a lot of that
Speaker 2: stuff that's still going on. A lot of those talks
Speaker 2: are still going on. Like I said, in Russia, Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry in Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States
Speaker 2: are supposed to meet for the first time Tomorrow. Secretary
Speaker 2: of State Marco Rubio meets with his counterpart on the
Speaker 2: Russian side, sergay Lavrov, for what will be the first.
Speaker 1: Round of discussions. In all of this, a.
Speaker 2: Couple of stories that we are following internationally. Egypt is
Speaker 2: looking at a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians
Speaker 2: out of Gaza. That would counter President Trump's proposal which
Speaker 2: was moved everybody out and start over. The state run
Speaker 2: newspaper in Egypt said. The proposal calls for establishing secure
Speaker 2: areas within Gaza where Palestinians could live initially, while Egyptian
Speaker 2: and international construction firms remove and rehabilitate the infrastructure there. Well,
Speaker 2: it's been about three years of living under constant threat
Speaker 2: of Russian airstrikes, and Ukrainians could see the end of
Speaker 2: the war soon, but they're afraid that it's going to
Speaker 2: come with unfavorable terms.
Speaker 1: I mentioned.
Speaker 2: American and Russian officials are meeting tomorrow in Saudi Arabia
Speaker 2: discussing ways to end the war, but Kiev won't be
Speaker 2: participating at least yet, and some Ukrainians are worried that
Speaker 2: they're going to be sidelined in this whole process. I
Speaker 2: mentioned this week starts spring training. The first spring training
Speaker 2: game of twenty twenty five is going to be Thursday
Speaker 2: between the Cubs and the Dodgers. Down the road a
Speaker 2: little bit, one of baseball's best players is going to
Speaker 2: switch things up. Angels outfielder. I use that word intentionally.
Speaker 2: Mike Trout said he's going to switch positions. He said
Speaker 2: he just kind of threw everything on the table when
Speaker 2: he was talking with team officials as in what's best
Speaker 2: for him body wise to stay on the field. He said,
Speaker 2: the conclusion is, I'm going to go to right field.
Speaker 2: He's been a career center fielder since his major league
Speaker 2: debut at the Angels thirteen fourteen years ago. He's played
Speaker 2: right field in that entire time, fourteen years. He's played
Speaker 2: right field just eleven time, sorry, seventeen times. So looks
Speaker 2: like that's where he's going to be.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: President Trump pardoned a bunch of the January sixth rioters.
Speaker 2: Some defendants are now looking to have other charges erased.
Speaker 2: For example, a guy named Edward Kelly pardoned despite the
Speaker 2: fact that he assaulted police at the US Capitol. But
Speaker 2: he's now fighting in another case because in November a
Speaker 2: jury convicted him of conspiring to murder the FBI agents
Speaker 2: who investigated him dissipating in January sixth, including evidence that
Speaker 2: he had a kill list of targets. He's now saying
Speaker 2: that that conviction should be tossed out as well, because
Speaker 2: he believes that the Trump pardon covers offenses related to
Speaker 2: events that occurred at or near the Capitol on January sixth.
Speaker 2: He says it extends beyond that. Other defendants have been
Speaker 2: arguing similarly that they should be absolved of other alleged
Speaker 2: crimes like illegal gun possession or you know, child pornography.
Speaker 2: Their argument is those things were discovered during the January
Speaker 2: sixth investigation. Dozens of defendants have joined forces on social
Speaker 2: media to try to compile and publicize the names of
Speaker 2: at least one hundred and twenty four people who had
Speaker 2: a hand in their convictions, most of them prosecutors. There
Speaker 2: are a few judges' names in there, and FBI agents,
Speaker 2: and the post of names, with about sixty thousand views,
Speaker 2: includes pictures and disparaging remarks and demands for accountability. Back
Speaker 2: on the twenty seventh of January, prosecutors down in Houston
Speaker 2: announced they were looking for Andrew Tacki, a January sixth
Speaker 2: defendant who was being looked for on a charge of
Speaker 2: online solicitation of a minor. Now that happened a long
Speaker 2: time ago. It was eight years ago that that charge
Speaker 2: came out. He had been serving a seventy four month
Speaker 2: sentence after pleading guilty to violence at the Capitol. Prosecutors
Speaker 2: said he sprayed police officers with bear spray four separate
Speaker 2: times and hit one law enforcement officer with a medal whip.
Speaker 2: The Harris County DA's office that had asked federal prison
Speaker 2: officials to hold him, but instead he was let out
Speaker 2: of a Colorado jail back on January twentieth.
Speaker 1: After the pardon.
Speaker 2: The DA's office said rearresting people like this Andrew Tacki
Speaker 2: who were released pending state warrants will require significant resources.
Speaker 2: He was eventually tracked down, but just about well it
Speaker 2: was the sixth of February at home.
Speaker 1: An' white took them to be found at home. Federal agents.
Speaker 2: Others are concerned that there will be some sort of
Speaker 2: retaliation for investigating the Capital Riot Department of Justice leaders
Speaker 2: have demanded a list of all the agents involved. The
Speaker 2: agent sued, saying that it would put them that their
Speaker 2: families at risk from the now pardoned and at large
Speaker 2: convicted felons. So the federal government temporarily agreed not to
Speaker 2: make the list public, and the judge is trying to
Speaker 2: figure out should this be a long term ban. A
Speaker 2: district judge said, if this information is released, I think
Speaker 2: there's no question that it would put a number of
Speaker 2: FBI agents in significant and immediate danger. And like I said,
Speaker 2: some of these January sixth people who have been pardoned
Speaker 2: are taken it upon themselves to publicize those names. Timothy
Speaker 2: Lewis Hale Cosanelli is a guy from New Jersey served
Speaker 2: three years in prison for his role in the January sixth.
Speaker 2: He created the post on Twitter that asked fellow defendants
Speaker 2: to name their prosecutors. He said, I'd like to see
Speaker 2: the judges exposed. One person responded, not sure what you
Speaker 2: can do about them, but they probably don't like their
Speaker 2: names out there after releasing a bunch of angry bees.
Speaker 2: Another one said take a names and kick an ass.
Speaker 2: Another one every time a name would be posted this
Speaker 2: Timothy Lewis Hale Quassanelli would write got him. He was
Speaker 2: an army reservist at the time that he stormed the Capitol. He,
Speaker 2: they said, was among the first to enter the building
Speaker 2: and was ordering others to advance into the building. They
Speaker 2: said he made harassing and derogatory statements to police. He
Speaker 2: spoke of a coming revolution. Another woman who helped smash
Speaker 2: a window with a battering rams shouted through a bullhorn,
Speaker 2: added her prosecutor's name to list. She accused the prosecutor
Speaker 2: of telling lies and called for consequences such as prison
Speaker 2: time or termination of the allegations as if they are substantiated.
Speaker 2: Things like murder plots and illegal gun possession and child pornography.
Speaker 2: Those better not be those better not be pardoned as
Speaker 2: a result of what the President did. When we rebuild,
Speaker 2: and we will rebuild in the Palisades and the Altadena areas,
Speaker 2: there is a new plan that might take flight, and
Speaker 2: that is builders permitting their own projects be unheard of
Speaker 2: in a place like California, where they've got to have
Speaker 2: their fingers and everything. The La Times is out with
Speaker 2: the story today about how irreverend bumper stickers have taken
Speaker 2: over La we wanted to know what your what your
Speaker 2: favorites were.
Speaker 1: We'll talk. We'll play a bunch of them a little
Speaker 1: bit later.
Speaker 3: Spencer from Fountain Valley. There used to be a car
Speaker 3: in my neighborhood when I was younger. The bumper sticker said,
Speaker 3: do not tailgate or I'll flick a bigger on your windshield.
Speaker 1: Always a classic.
Speaker 2: As we race to rebuild after the fires over in
Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades and also in Altadena, there is going to
Speaker 2: be a bureaucratic mess that takes place. Even if it
Speaker 2: runs as smooth as it ever has, the sheer number
Speaker 2: of permits that have to be pulled for the thousands
Speaker 2: of structures that need to be rebuilt would be a problem.
Speaker 2: So we're trying to figure out the most creative way
Speaker 2: to grease the skids on that, not in a negative way,
Speaker 2: but just to make sure that all of it gets built.
Speaker 2: Our friend Dean Sharp, host of Home with Dean Shark
Speaker 2: on the Weekends here on KFI, has done this, has
Speaker 2: dealt with permits, has had to deal with the bureaucracy
Speaker 2: that comes with the building or improving properties that you're on, Dean,
Speaker 2: is it a sweater day today?
Speaker 5: It is not a sweater day. I'm inside, I'm in
Speaker 5: my studio designing, so things are nice and cozy.
Speaker 1: That's why, Okay, just.
Speaker 2: The basics of when I'm rebuilding a house, even if
Speaker 2: it was just a single house, single house fire, what
Speaker 2: is the permit process for that?
Speaker 5: That's there's a lot to it. There really is a
Speaker 5: lot to it. There is. Well, let me just I
Speaker 5: don't want to bury the lead. I just want to
Speaker 5: start by saying that some of the proposals that are
Speaker 5: being forwarded right now by the city council members that
Speaker 5: they're considering about this idea of self reporting permitting, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm in favor of it. I think that I've got
Speaker 5: there's absolutely no problem with cutting through red tape, especially
Speaker 5: at a time like this. It's an idea that's already
Speaker 5: proven to work. It's working in a lot of places already,
Speaker 5: places like San Diego, San Diego County. City of Bellflower
Speaker 5: has been doing this for like ten years now. I
Speaker 5: think it's gonna help. But just understand, streamlining the permit
Speaker 5: process is way. It is a much bigger snake to
Speaker 5: wrangle than most people think, and so this is not
Speaker 5: going to be just a panacea, because there's so much
Speaker 5: more that goes into permitting, to your question than simple
Speaker 5: simply checking the plans against the building code, which by
Speaker 5: the way, is the easiest part of the entire thing.
Speaker 5: And you would think most home owners think, well, that's
Speaker 5: the whole thing, right, No, no, it's not. Actually in
Speaker 5: my experience, and I do a lot of custom homes,
Speaker 5: obviously almost all exclusively custom homes, we get held up
Speaker 5: with the city when it comes to the planning department
Speaker 5: and zoning requirements and endless zoning ordinances. And let me
Speaker 5: tell you, the Palisades is an area where there are
Speaker 5: zoning requirements and ordinances overlapping on top of each other
Speaker 5: in multiple ways. So the idea of hey, let's streamline
Speaker 5: the permitting process in plan check for just looking at
Speaker 5: your plans and asking the question do they comply with
Speaker 5: building codes? That's kind of plan check one oh one.
Speaker 5: That does not take very long to do with a
Speaker 5: residential home. And so when you even if just a
Speaker 5: single house, you just lost your house in a house fire,
Speaker 5: everything else, all things being equal, you're going to have
Speaker 5: to jump back through the zoning hoops, all the regulations
Speaker 5: that have been laid on top of that, and also
Speaker 5: prove that the house that you're planning to build comports
Speaker 5: with the building code. But like in the Palisades, you know,
Speaker 5: it's like, there's the Palisades Commercial Village Zoning Area, there's
Speaker 5: the Neighborhood Specific Plan, there's the Brentwood Palisades Community Plan.
Speaker 5: Parts of the Palisades are governed by the Brentwood Pacific
Speaker 5: Palisades Dual Coastal Plan Zone. Other parts are governed by
Speaker 5: the Mulholland Specific Parkway Specific Plan. There's the Hillside Ordans,
Speaker 5: the relatively new anti mansioning Ordinance. And yes, some Pacific
Speaker 5: Palisades homes are subject to the dreaded California Coastal Commission.
Speaker 5: And everything I just mentioned has nothing to do with
Speaker 5: whether the plans for the house that you're submitting are
Speaker 5: in accordance with the building code. That's just zoning stuff.
Speaker 5: And I don't know how to cut through that stuff, honestly. Well,
Speaker 5: I mean it takes I don't want to say, a
Speaker 5: bigger man than you. It takes a team effort of
Speaker 5: people in the right political position, I think to make
Speaker 5: that a priority. Because even Gavin Newsom, for example, Gavin
Speaker 5: Newsom has issued an executive order just last week that
Speaker 5: would loosen a building permit rule if you recently built
Speaker 5: your house and you still have the plans on file,
Speaker 5: I mean within the last I don't know what the
Speaker 5: limit was, but let's just say you built a house
Speaker 5: in the last four years and you live in the
Speaker 5: palais Age and you lost it in that fire. His
Speaker 5: executive order would make it simple where you just go,
Speaker 5: I've already been approved for all of this stuff. You know,
Speaker 5: cuts basically to the front of the line because we've
Speaker 5: had everything approved. It's going to take that kind of creativity,
Speaker 5: I think, to get some of that stuff out of
Speaker 5: the way. But let me ask you quickly, I don't
Speaker 5: know if if you would even envision how this would work.
Speaker 5: But one of the things that Rick Caruso had said
Speaker 5: was he wants to see AI used for permitting, where
Speaker 5: instead of days or weeks to get human eyeballs on
Speaker 5: some of these building plans, you shove them into AI.
Speaker 5: They basically tell you whether or not their code compliant
Speaker 5: and what changes need to be made, so that within
Speaker 5: hours you know and can make your you know your
Speaker 5: addendums or make your changes and then get that building
Speaker 5: permit process, you know, down five percent of what it
Speaker 5: would have been otherwise. Have you heard much of that
Speaker 5: you if you, is that a real thing that exists
Speaker 5: or is he kind of pie in the sky so far? Well,
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I don't know if it's a
Speaker 5: real thing that exists. That's not something we've experienced thus far.
Speaker 5: But then again, you know, two years ago, the amount
Speaker 5: of things that AI is involved in has just gone
Speaker 5: through the roof, so it's not outside of the realm
Speaker 5: of possibility. And again, I mean know, I don't really
Speaker 5: have a problem with it. Why not run it through
Speaker 5: an algorithm first and then let it red flag things
Speaker 5: and then let a human being look at those red
Speaker 5: flags and resolve those things instead of having somebody to
Speaker 5: go through and pick through all the numbers and so on.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of infrastructure that would have to be
Speaker 5: built into that because like when, for instance, in your plans,
Speaker 5: it's not just looking at a plan set. The structural
Speaker 5: engineer has to submit along with their plans, they have
Speaker 5: to submit their load calculation. So now we're going to
Speaker 5: tell a structural engineer that those calculations have to be
Speaker 5: put in a particular software format that AI knows how
Speaker 5: to read, to double check and so on. That's all
Speaker 5: human checked right now. So theoretically sure, and again I
Speaker 5: don't have any problem with it, But still that conversation
Speaker 5: gear is still just about building code compliance and has
Speaker 5: nothing to do with all of the other things that
Speaker 5: we have to wrestle with when we're trying to build
Speaker 5: a place, a specific kind of house on a specific
Speaker 5: kind of lot anywhere in southern California.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is right allegory During COVID,
Speaker 2: restaurants were allowed to open up sidewalk a dining and
Speaker 2: in many places it's still allowed because it turned out
Speaker 2: to be fun and popular and it's a good way
Speaker 2: for a restaurant to kind of soft expand without buying
Speaker 2: new property. Is this a scenario you think where where
Speaker 2: we change permitting because of a disaster.
Speaker 1: I mean that we've seen creep.
Speaker 2: Let's use the ninety four northrich earthquake as the last
Speaker 2: time that we saw something like this, that we saw
Speaker 2: the creep of bureaucracy where everybody gets to pile on
Speaker 2: and like you said, you had all those different zoning
Speaker 2: groups and boards and everybody's got a piece of the pie.
Speaker 2: Is this one of those scenarios where we it kind
Speaker 2: of snaps us back into reality and we say we've
Speaker 2: done too much and we are strangling what should be
Speaker 2: a pretty healthy construction process here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. I think I think it is,
Speaker 5: and so I'm hopeful about that. I wish it is
Speaker 5: something that we could have accomplished earlier. And honestly, I'll
Speaker 5: be just one hundred percent honest if this had only
Speaker 5: been an issue with the Alta Dina fire, the Eaten fire,
Speaker 5: I don't think we would see this happening the same way.
Speaker 5: The simple fact of the matter is there are a
Speaker 5: lot of people with a lot of money and a
Speaker 5: lot of influence in the Palisades, and you know, in
Speaker 5: the world that we live in, money talks, influence is effective.
Speaker 5: And because of that, I think this is probably going
Speaker 5: to be a reality and will end up betting fitting
Speaker 5: everybody else. But I think that's the I mean, there
Speaker 5: were none of these discussions when the entire city of
Speaker 5: Paradise burnt to the ground a few years back. You know,
Speaker 5: it is the fact that it has hit a wealthy,
Speaker 5: influential area and people with influence. That's okay, fine, let's
Speaker 5: let's see it go through and thin out some of
Speaker 5: this bureaucratic red tape.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a good point.
Speaker 2: They have all the money, they have, all the power,
Speaker 2: they have all the influence. What they don't have is
Speaker 2: the patience exactly. That combination is going to be could
Speaker 2: be the death knell for some of this permitting progress.
Speaker 1: Hey Dean, it's always great to talk to you on
Speaker 1: a Monday.
Speaker 2: Happy President's Day, you too, Bud, always here to help
Speaker 2: all right. Up next, there was a little shake her
Speaker 2: over the weekend, little Malibu or I.
Speaker 6: Felt both of them.
Speaker 1: I know you did.
Speaker 6: I took a sleeping pill, okay, because I was very
Speaker 6: sleep deprived.
Speaker 1: And why are you so sleep deprived?
Speaker 6: It's a long story, but I felt it. I woke
Speaker 6: up and that.
Speaker 2: Made you even more sleep Well, we'll talk about that. Also,
Speaker 2: do not this is specifically for you, Deborah. Do not
Speaker 2: go to the Greek island of Santorini. Why because they
Speaker 2: are dealing with hundreds of earthquakes. Yeah, you would not
Speaker 2: like it. Not comfortable, not a good vacation for you.
Speaker 2: Egypt is said to be developing a plan to rebuild
Speaker 2: Gaza without forcing anybody out. That would be different than
Speaker 2: President Trump's proposal to depopulate the Gaza strips.
Speaker 1: The US would be able to take it over.
Speaker 2: The Egyptian officials said they've been discussing this plan with
Speaker 2: diplomats from Europe, diplomats from other Arab countries, as well
Speaker 2: as ways that they might be able to fund it.
Speaker 2: And again, the polar vortex is back. This is a
Speaker 2: normal pattern that actually gets stronger in winter and keeps
Speaker 2: some of the coldest weather bottled up near the north Pole.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it comes down move south. We're going to see
Speaker 2: it again this week, they said. Between Maine and Montana
Speaker 2: and as far south as Oklahoma, people could see temperatures
Speaker 2: into below freezing for the most part. Couple small earthquakes
Speaker 2: hit Malibu Friday and Saturday. First one was a late
Speaker 2: Friday night registered at a three point seven, and then
Speaker 2: the second quake was about six thirty Saturday morning, measured
Speaker 2: about a three point five struck in roughly the same area.
Speaker 2: Some people in Ventura County say that it felt like
Speaker 2: a pretty sharp jolt. Some car alarms went off. There
Speaker 2: was a third one, but it was way out to
Speaker 2: the east of US. The third quake measured about three
Speaker 2: point five near the San Jua Sindo Mountains in Riverside County.
Speaker 2: That would have been about two in the afternoon on Saturday.
Speaker 2: The epicenter near Idlewild, just south of Idlewild, Greece is
Speaker 2: dealing with a series of earthquakes.
Speaker 1: They guess.
Speaker 2: They would call it a swarm of earthquakes that have
Speaker 2: rattled the island of Santorini and some other minor islands
Speaker 2: in the area. It is a volcanic island in the
Speaker 2: a GNC. It's been shaken by tens of thousands of
Speaker 2: earthquakes if you want to count the smallest ones, but
Speaker 2: tens of thousands of them since late January, and everybody,
Speaker 2: not everybody, thousands of people have decided they want to
Speaker 2: get out of there, so authorities have banned construction activity
Speaker 2: on the island of Santorini. They have shut down schools,
Speaker 2: they have told everybody to stay away from the nearby islands. Now,
Speaker 2: no major damage has been reported, but scientists have said
Speaker 2: that this is unprecedented, even in a place like Greece
Speaker 2: where they do get earthquakes. They've not ruled out bigger
Speaker 2: earthquakes coming, saying that these all might be four shocks to.
Speaker 1: A big one.
Speaker 2: So they've identified the main faery port now at the
Speaker 2: foot of a big long slow and some other sites
Speaker 2: across Santorini as weak links, although they have not said
Speaker 2: that they couldn't be used in an emergency situation. They
Speaker 2: are trying to figure out what to do when they said,
Speaker 2: along with a new port in Santorini which is being built,
Speaker 2: there was a decision for setting up an escape port
Speaker 2: on part of the island where passenger ferries would be
Speaker 2: able to dock in an emergency. So they said that
Speaker 2: the earthquakes themselves have kind of slowed the pace over
Speaker 2: the last couple of days. Local authorities did extend the
Speaker 2: emergency measures for a third week, and they've reiterated calls
Speaker 2: for people to stay away from coastal areas, stay away
Speaker 2: from the steep hillsides that might be prone to landslides.
Speaker 2: They said that Santorini took its current shape after one
Speaker 2: of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, which was about
Speaker 2: thirty seven hundred years ago. Seismologists have said that this
Speaker 2: latest seismic activity as the results of the tectonic plates
Speaker 2: in the magma and has pushed subsurface layers of the
Speaker 2: island upwards in some areas, and they're suggesting that the
Speaker 2: big one could still come, even though the last few
Speaker 2: days have been a little quieter.
Speaker 1: So don't go to Santorini.
Speaker 6: I have been many, many years ago, and it's on
Speaker 6: my list to spend more time there.
Speaker 1: But not now. Let's wait. Yeah, let's wait until you
Speaker 1: know what.
Speaker 6: I have the worst luck and so you know what,
Speaker 6: if I do go, then for sure the.
Speaker 1: Big one's going to hit. Where were you last, Dubai? No,
Speaker 1: you was it, Dubai. You were going to go, You're
Speaker 1: going to fly through Israel.
Speaker 6: Oh, one week to the day that I was going
Speaker 6: to Israel. We were going to Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
Speaker 6: The Hamas attacked Israel literally on the Saturday. It was
Speaker 6: a Saturday.
Speaker 1: We were going very next Saturday. You were going to
Speaker 1: go on the fourteenth, Yes, And the attack happened on.
Speaker 6: The seventh exactly. And then Dubai, we have the massive flooding.
Speaker 6: I can go on and on and on.
Speaker 1: Remind me to get a copy of your track.
Speaker 2: Everybody says the opposite place of the exact other side
Speaker 2: of the world. We were talking earlier about the bumper stickers.
Speaker 2: Coming up at twelve twenty, we'll take some of your
Speaker 2: talkbacks about your favorite bumper stickers that you've seen.
Speaker 3: Hey, Gary, this is Tim and Burbank.
Speaker 4: I saw a bumper sticker years ago that has stuck
Speaker 4: with me all through the years. I don't know why
Speaker 4: it tickled me so much, but it said I can't
Speaker 4: see you, so don't pretend you're there.
Speaker 3: Kind of an existentialist message or something. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It just made me laugh. It's still best have a
Speaker 3: great day, all right.
Speaker 2: We'll do that coming up at twelve twenty, twelve thirty, sorry,
Speaker 2: twelve thirty, we'll go through those bumper stickers. If you've
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