Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Right now, we are watching the House of Representatives as
Speaker 2: it continues its vote for speaker. For the one hundred
Speaker 2: and nineteenth Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to hold
Speaker 2: onto his seat. We only know of one one Republican
Speaker 2: who has said that he would not vote for Mike Johnson.
Speaker 2: That's Thomas Massey out of Kentucky, and he needs every
Speaker 2: other Republican basically to vote for him if he is
Speaker 2: going to maintain that speaker's gable.
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson sent up a Hail Mary on x just
Speaker 1: moments before the vote began, saying he will work closely
Speaker 1: with Elon Musk and Ramas Vivik Ramaswami on spending cuts.
Speaker 1: He committed in this post to a number of new
Speaker 1: steps aimed at reigning in the size and scope of
Speaker 1: the federal government, trying to corral those votes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is the biggest issue that he's facing, is
Speaker 2: is the defectors, those people in the Republican Party who
Speaker 2: have been at least questioning whether they would vote for him.
Speaker 2: Said that spending an agreements to spend are the things
Speaker 2: that have really cost him for the most part, big
Speaker 2: quadruple whammy of viruses hitting the United States. Everybody seems
Speaker 2: to have something right now. Infections caused by flu, by covid,
Speaker 2: by RSV, and neurovirus all started to surge over the
Speaker 2: Christmas time, of course, when everybody got together and they said,
Speaker 2: it's only going to rise as people go back to
Speaker 2: work and we see the peak of the annual flu season.
Speaker 2: There have been hospitals in parts of California, Illinois, Indiana,
Speaker 2: New Jersey, New York City are all having mask mandates.
Speaker 2: At least in hospitals in New York City, people have
Speaker 2: been urged to consider wearing a face mask on public transportation.
Speaker 1: You mentioned when we were talking about the Tesla truck
Speaker 1: crash in front of the Trump Tower in Vegas that
Speaker 1: Elon Musk was working with investment jrigators directly. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned the Apple lawsuit with Siri and evesdropping.
Speaker 3: Did you know the news today about that or you
Speaker 3: just prescient?
Speaker 4: Oh the settlement? Yeah, yeah, I knew that.
Speaker 1: Oh then never mind, You're not as magical as I
Speaker 1: thought you were. Uh, it's like one are the odds
Speaker 1: birthday gifts.
Speaker 3: No, I just thought it was quite the coincidence that
Speaker 3: you use that as a.
Speaker 1: Reference or trying to break news on this show. Listen,
Speaker 1: I was trying to give you more credit. The NTSB
Speaker 1: says that this plane that crashed in Fullerton into the
Speaker 1: warehouse near the airport is a kit built plane, essentially
Speaker 1: an aircraft you build at home, then an owner can
Speaker 1: assemble and maintain it once the construction is complete. On
Speaker 1: these bad boys, if you're wondering, the FAA does inspect
Speaker 1: the aircraft and clears it for flight. There are about
Speaker 1: eleven thousand of these things, various models of them currently flying.
Speaker 2: Was the sound, by the way, what we believe happened
Speaker 2: is the pilot and a passenger, I think it was
Speaker 2: his daughter, had taken off from the airport at Fullerton
Speaker 2: and experienced some problem whatever it was, and immediately called
Speaker 2: to return to the airport. And you can hear in
Speaker 2: this uh this audio, the air traffic controller saying, Okay,
Speaker 2: we've cleared the runways every this is all you. We've
Speaker 2: shut everything down, waiting for you immediate lighting. Rvey.
Speaker 3: Can you make a left turn?
Speaker 4: Coming?
Speaker 3: Romeo traffic no factor, you're number one.
Speaker 4: Win calm runway six clear to land or run.
Speaker 1: That an instant.
Speaker 4: Nothing's going to move till we rectify this or work
Speaker 4: on a thank you for your patient shutting down airport
Speaker 4: thanks what moment the airport is closed?
Speaker 2: An extensive de lay. Now you can hear there's they
Speaker 2: kind of mashed them together, but there's a moment there
Speaker 2: where you hear the pilot saying, oh my gosh, and
Speaker 2: it kind of sounds like there's a young woman in
Speaker 2: the background gasping.
Speaker 1: Right the daughter, Yeah, a couple things. Rarely do you
Speaker 1: hear a pilot and I don't know because I don't
Speaker 1: hear a lot of home pilots on the air traffic
Speaker 1: control communication device, but rarely do they sound like that,
Speaker 1: even when they're about to crash.
Speaker 4: Right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, wouldn't it be nice if everyone had access to
Speaker 1: an air traffic controller for like moments in life where
Speaker 1: you're freaking out and you call and you're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I just got rear ended and they're like, ma'am,
Speaker 1: what we're going to do is we're going to bring
Speaker 1: in the police and you're going to pull to the side.
Speaker 3: Somebody just like the calm.
Speaker 4: On either runway six or two four doesn't matter. Six
Speaker 4: or two four their favor choice.
Speaker 1: Calm wins six miles per hour.
Speaker 4: You're number one the plane.
Speaker 2: After that exchange, the plane turned left toward one of
Speaker 2: the runways but crashed about thousand feet short. Plane crashed
Speaker 2: into a furniture building. Bulletin Police department said that the
Speaker 2: two pass in the plane, believed again to be the
Speaker 2: pilot and his.
Speaker 4: Daughter, died.
Speaker 2: The aerial footage showed the plane resting just below the
Speaker 2: hole on the building's roof and for the people inside,
Speaker 2: they said nineteen people sustained injuries in addition to the
Speaker 2: two deaths. Some of the injuries were pretty serious. Eleven
Speaker 2: people were put in the hospital. Others were treated at
Speaker 2: the scene. About eight people treated at the scene, and
Speaker 2: obviously police evacuated the area near the crash site. The
Speaker 2: FAA usually comes in and does their own investigation into
Speaker 2: situation like this, and Fullerton Airport, by the way, is
Speaker 2: the same place where the plane was landing that crashed
Speaker 2: into the KFI tower twenty years ago, almost almost exactly
Speaker 2: twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: John Paoli had to go rebuild that thing. God rest
Speaker 1: his soul also from Nevada.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that. Up next, Gaven.
Speaker 1: Newsom continues to hit some points.
Speaker 2: Hits these are I mean, these are kind of low
Speaker 2: hanging fruit.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: But this, if it wasn't Gavin Newsome, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: conflicted because like, on one hand, I'm like, absolutely, let's
Speaker 1: do something about the ultra processed foods that are killing us.
Speaker 1: And on the other hand, I'm like, hands off my twinkies.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't Gavin news so I won't be conflicted.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing is it's they're not going to
Speaker 2: take away I mean the cancer warning.
Speaker 4: For example, if Vivic Murphy, the.
Speaker 2: Other one different Vivid gets his way and he wants
Speaker 2: to put warning labels on alcohol, doesn't mean you can't
Speaker 2: get it right. Same with cigarette. I mean you could
Speaker 2: still buy cigarettes. It maybe the heads up this stuff
Speaker 2: is going to kill yet, right as if you didn't
Speaker 2: already know right As of right now, Mike Johnson has
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty eight votes uh Hakeem Jeffreys one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty six to be the next Speaker of
Speaker 2: the House for the one hundred and nineteenth Congress. They
Speaker 2: gaveled ind today and this is their first order of business.
Speaker 2: They got a bunch of other stuff that they'll be
Speaker 2: doing as well, but this will be the first And again,
Speaker 2: Mike Johnson is going to need just about every republic
Speaker 2: and left. Thomas Massey out of Kentucky's the only one
Speaker 2: who said that he would definitely not vote for Johnson.
Speaker 2: There have been some others that were on the fence
Speaker 2: that have voted in his favor.
Speaker 4: So far.
Speaker 1: A lot of money to be made in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and nobody's leaving anything on the table. The Caesars Superdome
Speaker 1: will be the epicenter for the Super Bowl, right but
Speaker 1: Verizon has a game plan to ensure that they make
Speaker 1: cash from this as well. Verizon's going to transform stadiums
Speaker 1: and venues across all of the NFL markets into a
Speaker 1: massive coast to coast event called FanFest on February ninth
Speaker 1: on field Access, live music, local chefs, meet and greets
Speaker 1: with NFL legends like Marshall Falk, Jason Witten, Tiki Barber,
Speaker 1: Derek Brooks. You can claim free tickets on a first come,
Speaker 1: first serve basis by going to Verizonfanfest dot com so
Speaker 1: you get the free tickets, but they're going to probably
Speaker 1: nail you on parking and then everything else.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's good for them. I mean, that's a smart prize.
Speaker 2: They haven't done that before.
Speaker 3: Same.
Speaker 2: So Governor gavenusom is isuan in an executive order trying
Speaker 2: to limit the access limit access to ultra processed foods.
Speaker 2: He says that he wants California to be nation leading
Speaker 2: when it comes to nutrition and health standards. And if
Speaker 2: that's the case, then why not make here's a simple thing,
Speaker 2: why not make sodas not the number one thing that
Speaker 2: people buy with their snap benefits?
Speaker 4: You can, you can.
Speaker 2: You want to make a real difference, you start putting
Speaker 2: barriers around the kinds of foods that people can buy
Speaker 2: with their state benefits, targeting the absolutely But that's how
Speaker 2: you're going to have to do this. I mean people
Speaker 2: are going to again. I use the example of the
Speaker 2: timely reference of Vivek Murphy, the Surgeon General, and his
Speaker 2: desire to put warnings on alcohol. I don't have a
Speaker 2: problem with that at all, because you're not taking away
Speaker 2: the right for people to buy and consume alcohol. But
Speaker 2: if you do really want to make a difference, then
Speaker 2: you got to fight to take it out of people's
Speaker 2: hands and their mouths.
Speaker 1: The kind of only way to do this, and I
Speaker 1: only bring this up is because it kind of got
Speaker 1: me to quit smoking, which is, they say, just as
Speaker 1: equally as hard to do as quitting ultra processed foods was.
Speaker 1: You got to shame people, and we're not doing that. No,
Speaker 1: just watch the television for twelve minutes, and we are
Speaker 1: holding up onto a pedestal these five dollars menus that
Speaker 1: where you get a chicken sandwich and a double cheeseburger
Speaker 1: and fries and McNuggets on the side or whatever nuggets
Speaker 1: on the side. I don't mean to target McDonald's, but
Speaker 1: I'm just saying because I love McDonald's, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like we as a society hold these things up on
Speaker 1: a pedestal, like isn't this so great? Aren't quantities of
Speaker 1: food so great? You can get all of that. You
Speaker 1: come to our restaurant, you get seven lights of food
Speaker 1: for nineteen ninety nine. When we stop doing and you've
Speaker 1: got to follow the money. People are making money off
Speaker 1: of this, and that's the problem. But when smoking became
Speaker 1: one of those things where you had to hide from people.
Speaker 1: That's when you saw the numbers plummeting. Is when you
Speaker 1: said you can't smoke in bars, you can't smoke in restaurants,
Speaker 1: you have to go in the alleyway. And then you
Speaker 1: felt like a heroin addict and all of that. That's
Speaker 1: when it was like, what am I doing right? And
Speaker 1: so if you're going to do this, maybe the light
Speaker 1: way to shame people would be having sections at the
Speaker 1: grocery store where it's like the bad zone or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't like the old like the adult adult section
Speaker 2: in the video or exactly you used to have behind
Speaker 2: my little beaded curtains.
Speaker 3: I'm glad our minds both went there.
Speaker 2: Now, this order does direct state agencies to develop recommendations
Speaker 2: to limit the health harms of ultra processed foods, foods,
Speaker 2: and calls for proposals to reduce the purchase of candy, soda,
Speaker 2: and other unhealthy foods made with synthetic eyes or aditives
Speaker 2: by recipients of government food benefits. So it does take
Speaker 2: that step of at least limiting, but it doesn't put
Speaker 2: it off. It doesn't say no altogether. Listen, you can
Speaker 2: go through and for the most part just clearly point
Speaker 2: out things that should not be bought with government benefits,
Speaker 2: government food benefits. And I don't want to get into
Speaker 2: brand names or anything like that, but.
Speaker 1: Just to avoid any sort of lawsuits, although you never
Speaker 1: be able to do that, but to shield you from
Speaker 1: successful lawsuits, I guess you could tie it to the
Speaker 1: fact that if you're getting government assistance, it's also the
Speaker 1: government that's responsible for your health care. So if we're
Speaker 1: paying for your health care, we've got to say in
Speaker 1: what you're putting in your mouth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that would be one way to do it.
Speaker 2: The other thing is, and you're going to have the
Speaker 2: hardest issue is you can't, like you said, you're not
Speaker 2: going to be able to just tell people not to
Speaker 2: do it. There's got to be some sort of there's
Speaker 2: got to be some sort of a cost.
Speaker 3: Maybe there's an incentive.
Speaker 4: There is a carrot and a stick.
Speaker 2: The incentive is obviously, listen, with all the stories we've
Speaker 2: done about ozembic and all these smaglatides, the glp ones,
Speaker 2: we talk about the incredible benefits that have come from
Speaker 2: these these types of drugs. It's not the drug that
Speaker 2: is giving you the benefit. Necessarily. The drug is turning
Speaker 2: off that thing in your brain that tells you that
Speaker 2: you're still hungry or that you want that food or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's the fact that you're losing weight that is making
Speaker 2: the huge difference in your health. That's the thing. It's
Speaker 2: not the drug, it's it's what the drug did to
Speaker 2: your chemical brain that then allowed your body to reduce
Speaker 2: its weight and that I feel better, I can sleep better,
Speaker 2: I can move again. I don't have muscle and bone
Speaker 2: aches or anything like that. I don't know, my cholesterol
Speaker 2: cleared out, whatever it is. Those are the benefits. If
Speaker 2: you could teach people that those benefits come from making
Speaker 2: simple food choices, then there would be a huge difference.
Speaker 1: Or just making smarter choices, like I love a nice
Speaker 1: casserole or lasagna or whatever, but there's ways to make
Speaker 1: it so it's not.
Speaker 4: So don't eat it four times a day.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, you know we made a joke about well,
Speaker 2: pizza right, is that what you're gonna say?
Speaker 4: Pizza right?
Speaker 2: It's not an everyday thing. It's not every day, it's
Speaker 2: not even an every month thing. It's just when it's
Speaker 2: appropriate or fun, it's okay to eat whatever the hell
Speaker 2: you want. You just can't have seven servings of it.
Speaker 4: I'll bet you I could.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen you put down some food.
Speaker 4: I could.
Speaker 2: But I can't do it all the time. No, I
Speaker 2: can't do it all the time. And that's frustrating because
Speaker 2: I really want to. But anyway, the one thing that
Speaker 2: he didn't do is he didn't talk about our FK
Speaker 2: Junior and all of this.
Speaker 3: And listen, he's trying to get a leg up over there.
Speaker 2: He's trying to do this before Trump takes office, before
Speaker 2: our FK becomes the Secretary of Health and Human Service.
Speaker 2: He's trying to do it so that he could say, uh, listen,
Speaker 2: uh listen, we've been doing it for a long time, forever.
Speaker 1: Right, They've followed California's path, just like the government always
Speaker 1: can and should.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah blah. We didn't get a
Speaker 2: chance to talk about it yesterday. New laws for the
Speaker 2: state of California. And there's one that is going to
Speaker 2: be a particular there's one that has me scratching my head.
Speaker 4: And I'll explain which one it is and why I
Speaker 4: don't quite get it.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, it about cannabis.
Speaker 1: It is not Is it about fertility treatments with egg retrieval?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Is it about crosswalks?
Speaker 4: Yes, story out of DC.
Speaker 2: It looks as if Mike Johnson is going to lose
Speaker 2: the first speakership vote. We just saw Republican Congressman Ralph
Speaker 2: Norman of South Carolina vote for Jim Jordan to be
Speaker 2: Speaker of the House. So there's now two Republicans who
Speaker 2: voted against Mike Johnson. Of course, Thomas out of Kentucky
Speaker 2: was the other one, and he could only Mike Johnson
Speaker 2: could only afford one defection, and we saw that with
Speaker 2: Thomas Massey. Ralph Norman of South Carolina is the second one.
Speaker 2: So this looks unlikely that he would get the first
Speaker 2: Scott has ballot Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: We don't know.
Speaker 2: And again this is like you said earlier at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the show, this is when all the deal
Speaker 2: making takes place. Mike Johnson has said he's not going
Speaker 2: to make any deals. That's not how he does his job.
Speaker 2: But we'll see if there are. If he's not making deals,
Speaker 2: someone might be.
Speaker 1: A year after that panel blew out of the Boeing
Speaker 1: seven thirty seven MAX during flight, the FAA says the
Speaker 1: company needs to change its culture and put safety above profits.
Speaker 3: Let me repeat that.
Speaker 1: A year after the panel the door blew off mid flight,
Speaker 1: they say, maybe you worry less about the almighty buck
Speaker 1: and more about not killing people.
Speaker 3: Seems a little late to the game.
Speaker 4: Good timing.
Speaker 2: Meteorologists are looking for a strong snow and ice storm
Speaker 2: followed by very cold conditions along the eastern two thirds
Speaker 2: of the United States. This warning that came out today
Speaker 2: talked about the polar vortex, said that it could plunge
Speaker 2: as far south as Florida, and starting tomorrow, they said
Speaker 2: millions of people are going to be hit by moderate
Speaker 2: to heavy snow from Kansas City to DC, likely just
Speaker 2: south of that. After that, temperatures are expected to be
Speaker 2: of as much as twenty five degrees below normal, which
Speaker 2: is already chilly in January, but below normal for that
Speaker 2: cold spell.
Speaker 1: Do you have some free time this weekend? Because Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus is trying to get people to binge. It's
Speaker 1: streaming TV and movies for free this weekend. They want
Speaker 1: to make a dent in their strategic popcorn reserve. Experts
Speaker 1: are calling it a canny promotion. It's in eighth place
Speaker 1: right now. Apple TV plus when you look at streamers
Speaker 1: and they want up at subscriber base. So the two
Speaker 1: day offer this Saturday and Sunday is intended to give
Speaker 1: yours a taste of what's behind that Apple paywall and
Speaker 1: get them hooked.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, I already watched a bunch of stuff. We watched,
Speaker 2: uh we finished Shrinking of course, oh yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: then wanted last night to watch it again. There was
Speaker 2: a moment where I was like, we could watch that
Speaker 2: final episode again or the last episode, don't know if it's.
Speaker 4: The final episode.
Speaker 3: Why did you want to rewatch it?
Speaker 2: Because we needed a palid cleanser for after what well
Speaker 2: actually everything to set up the Agency, which is on
Speaker 2: Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I thinking about getting into that. I just
Speaker 1: I wanted My brother told me that I would like
Speaker 1: Lioness as well. He's like strong female lead and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, and I'm just like, I'm just not a
Speaker 1: spy person.
Speaker 2: The Agency is much more spy e yeah, a lot
Speaker 2: less action, but I've heard it's fantastic. It's very well done.
Speaker 2: Michael Fassbender is really great as the main character. So
Speaker 2: we were talking earlier also about the security protocols in
Speaker 2: New Orleans that the ballards and other safety things that
Speaker 2: were to be placed along Bourbon Street and Canal Street
Speaker 2: ahead of not only the Sugar Bowl, but the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and Marti Graus, et cetera. That they're in the
Speaker 2: process of doing it, and they had temporary ballards and
Speaker 2: temporary barricades up early as.
Speaker 4: A psychodrope on the sidewalk.
Speaker 3: I don't think the concrete barriers would have stopped them.
Speaker 2: No, That's the thing is, the sidewalks would also have
Speaker 2: been covered by ballards.
Speaker 4: Can't.
Speaker 2: You can't get past those things that are set up.
Speaker 2: I mean they have big ones that are like hydraulic
Speaker 2: gates that come up. You see those in front of
Speaker 2: military installations. They have those in some of the areas.
Speaker 2: They were also using in some cases temporary ballards that
Speaker 2: are designed to when you hit them with a car,
Speaker 2: basically dig into the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: Next time I was there on Bourbon Street a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, they had those white cement blockages that
Speaker 1: you see in front of courthouses or what have you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, krail, krail is the metal one. That's the term
Speaker 4: for it. Anyway, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yah, The white yeah, in construction sites.
Speaker 1: All right, So new California laws going into effect. Some
Speaker 1: of them are well, here we go. Cannabis cafes are
Speaker 1: addressed in the new laws. Local jurisdictions, they say, could
Speaker 1: give the green light to permit certain cannabis retailers to
Speaker 1: prepare and sell drinks and food that do not contain cannabis.
Speaker 3: So go for the weed, stay for the turkey wrap.
Speaker 2: That also gives them the ability to host ticketed live
Speaker 2: events on their premises. Premises Miners who make money by
Speaker 2: producing online content should get some extra financial protection the
Speaker 2: Cougan Act. This expands the Cougan Act, which is named
Speaker 2: after one of the world.
Speaker 4: Famous child actors.
Speaker 2: Longtime law requires parents open a trust and set aside
Speaker 2: at least fifteen percent of their child actor's gross earnings.
Speaker 2: The rules have been expanded to include these new kid influencers.
Speaker 2: Child influencers paid for online content like.
Speaker 1: The kid that opens the toys in the boxes, That
Speaker 1: Kid's gotta be seventeen, still making all kinds of money
Speaker 1: prem Several education bills signed into law this year, ranging
Speaker 1: from rules to protect young people from being outed against
Speaker 1: their will to rules that require elementary schools to offer
Speaker 1: free menstruation products.
Speaker 4: I just think that's a funny.
Speaker 1: Term, menstruation product products. You would rather just say period stuff,
Speaker 1: period stuff.
Speaker 2: You can't sell a tuning kit for an e bike.
Speaker 2: Usually a tuning kit you can modify the speed capability
Speaker 2: of an electric bike, so it's no longer to find
Speaker 2: as an e bike those will be prohibited. Already has
Speaker 2: speed guidelines for bikes. For example, a Class one bike
Speaker 2: has a motor that kicks in when rider is pedaling
Speaker 2: tops out of twenty miles an hour. Class three motor
Speaker 2: is meant to stop at twenty eight. Those bikes can
Speaker 2: include speedometers, and they said modifying speed of e bikes
Speaker 2: is already illegal and unsafe.
Speaker 1: I was talking to a friend who's got a couple
Speaker 1: of kids thirteen fifteen, and she's like, yeah, my kids
Speaker 1: love the e bike we got, you know, go sixty
Speaker 1: miles an hour. And I had to bite my freaking
Speaker 1: tongue because I don't have kids. So I feel like
Speaker 1: that means I sit it all of those conversations out right,
Speaker 1: But I wanted to say, what the hell are you doing.
Speaker 1: They don't even know the rules of the road. They
Speaker 1: haven't been a learner's permit. Hell, yet they don't know
Speaker 1: about turns and all those things.
Speaker 3: And I is that antiquated? Am I Am?
Speaker 1: I in the minority now of thinking that if you've
Speaker 1: got something that goes sixty miles, that's a car and
Speaker 1: you're unprotected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would also say I would push back on
Speaker 2: the whole sixty mile an hour thing.
Speaker 4: They go fast, sixties a little.
Speaker 3: Well whatever, I don't remember forty it was too fast too.
Speaker 4: It's too fast.
Speaker 2: But here's the one that I think is strange. If
Speaker 2: it's if you find a parking spot within twenty feet
Speaker 2: of any marked or unmarked crosswalk, you're going to have
Speaker 2: to find a new spot. Starting this year, you can
Speaker 2: be ticketed for parking within twenty feet of a crosswalk,
Speaker 2: even if there is no no parking sign posted.
Speaker 3: Now, riddle me that is What is the point behind.
Speaker 4: That part of a two year legislation. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's no reasoning. In this article from the Daily News,
Speaker 1: a no parking.
Speaker 2: Zone decreases to fifteen feet if there is a curb
Speaker 2: extension present, Who's going to pay them? Do they then
Speaker 2: have to mark those spots as red?
Speaker 4: Do they do?
Speaker 2: These jurisdiction now have jurisdictions, I should say have the
Speaker 2: requirement to go and mark all of these as no
Speaker 2: parking spots, even though you don't have to have a
Speaker 2: sign present. It's something to do with pedestrian safety, something
Speaker 2: to do with somebody being able to see somebody getting
Speaker 2: into the crosswalk without having their view obstructed by a
Speaker 2: car that's in the parking spot.
Speaker 4: But that's that.
Speaker 2: I just feel like that's going to eventually be taken
Speaker 2: to court by somebody who gets.
Speaker 4: Ticketed for that.
Speaker 1: Here are the playoff implications for the final week of
Speaker 1: the regular season in the NFL. The Ravens can clinch
Speaker 1: the AFC North tomorrow with a win over the Browns or.
Speaker 3: A loss by the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Steelers can win the division with a Ravens a loss
Speaker 1: and win over the Bengals. Bengals need a win to
Speaker 1: stay alive for a wild card spot. Well, they also
Speaker 1: need the Dolphins and the Broncos to lose. Denver needs
Speaker 1: a win. They will clinch a playoff spot with a
Speaker 1: win over the Chiefs, who are resting everybody and Denver
Speaker 1: plays at home. The Dolphins need to win over the
Speaker 1: Jets and a Broncos loss, and if your head hurts
Speaker 1: sodas mine. You ever heard of slab city? Listen, we
Speaker 1: like the libertarian movement. The Last Free place in America
Speaker 1: sounds kind of nice.
Speaker 2: This is a piece of land out in the our
Speaker 2: section of the Sonoran Desert, ours being California's version of
Speaker 2: the Sonoran Desert, about forty five miles north of the border,
Speaker 2: referred to by its residents as the last free place
Speaker 2: in America. They said it's populated by drug addicts, eccentrics,
Speaker 2: army veterans, and hippies. Or, as the Wizard puts it,
Speaker 2: he's the guy who greets everybody. He's like the moose
Speaker 2: out in front. He says, everyone is one hundred percent
Speaker 2: sertifiably insane, and I mean that from a clinical perspective.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 1: This is what happens when you let mentally ill people
Speaker 1: build their own playground in the desert.
Speaker 3: Fascinating.
Speaker 2: They define it as an anarcho republic, a community of
Speaker 2: freethinkers who want to operate under their own rules.
Speaker 3: So this is just skid row and the desert.
Speaker 4: Sounds like it.
Speaker 2: The buildings resembled discarded junk sculptures made up of old tires,
Speaker 2: post apocalyptic vehicles, mannequin legs, and dollhouses that, of course
Speaker 2: prompts conspiracy theories about Stalin's relationship to dolphins.
Speaker 3: What I didn't know that was few.
Speaker 1: That's a conspiracy theory that I was blind to.
Speaker 2: Alongside these sculptures, people have no concept of private land ownership.
Speaker 2: They generally tend to employ what they refer to as
Speaker 2: an informal economy that's based on cash, water, and weed.
Speaker 2: A reporter for Spin magazine who went and checked this
Speaker 2: out encountered a roving group of actor musicians called Jester Jizz,
Speaker 2: one of whose songs revolves around.
Speaker 4: Seaman quality.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: Describing the group's on stage get up, Jonah Gurky said,
Speaker 2: everyone in the group wears clown paint and flowing robes.
Speaker 2: They play ethereal music from a boombox and perform free
Speaker 2: verse that ruminates on our cosmic origins, the chicken or
Speaker 2: egg question, and the decline of semen quality since nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty What.
Speaker 1: Do you think the semen quality at slab City is?
Speaker 1: Let's go a scale of one to ten. How about
Speaker 1: an old gas go around? Shall we are you sure? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: A little semen quality survey on a Friday. Let's see, guys,
Speaker 1: it is a town where everyone is certifiably insane. Drug addicts, eccentrics,
Speaker 1: army veterans, and hippies. Everybody is insane from a clinical perspective.
Speaker 1: Semen quality on a scale of one to ten, ten
Speaker 1: being the strongest swimmers.
Speaker 3: Jacob, Oh, I'm going to yeah.
Speaker 1: Debra, you want to weigh in on the semen quality.
Speaker 3: Sure, I'm going to say one.
Speaker 1: One, Yeah, well one, I'll go with a two point three.
Speaker 1: Give these people a little shout out.
Speaker 2: I'm going to surprise you here. I'm going to say
Speaker 2: a five. Wow, Well, because I think I think these people.
Speaker 2: We spent a lot of time talking about ultra processed foods,
Speaker 2: and that may be one of the reasons why we
Speaker 2: have such low quality.
Speaker 1: You think these people are making their own foods and things?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Oh they are, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: I don't think any of them got COVID shots. I
Speaker 2: don't think any of them have any sort of I
Speaker 2: don't think they have like n like. Yeah, they're wearing
Speaker 2: natural fibers. Yes, that's one way to put it. The
Speaker 2: one thing that's not making it higher is that they
Speaker 2: live in the desert.
Speaker 4: But a lot of.
Speaker 1: Free balling, a lot of that probably will get you
Speaker 1: to the five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I'll get you there possible.
Speaker 2: Now, this whole thing, by the way of this used
Speaker 2: to be a military base. Slab City used to be
Speaker 2: Camp Dunlop, and it was a training ground for field
Speaker 2: and anti aircraft artillery units. And it had to be
Speaker 2: in an area that was accessible by planes that were
Speaker 2: taken off from carriers near San Diego.
Speaker 4: So you fly inland a little ways and this is
Speaker 4: where you do it.
Speaker 2: The government announced that the base was going to be
Speaker 2: named after Marine Corps Brigadory General Robert Dunlop after construction
Speaker 2: was completed. It was commissioned in nineteen forty two, fully
Speaker 2: functioning buildings, water roads, sewage collection. The base was used
Speaker 2: for three years during the war. By forty nine, basically
Speaker 2: they weren't doing anything out there, but the crew skeleton
Speaker 2: crew was out there until about nineteen fifty six when
Speaker 2: all of the buildings were taken down. They still had
Speaker 2: the slabs the foundations that these buildings were built on.
Speaker 2: That's why they now call it Slab City.
Speaker 1: This may play into the Dolphins because Russia's military is
Speaker 1: using specially trained dolphins to defend a critical naval base
Speaker 1: off Crimea. In fact, one of the most well known
Speaker 1: military dolphin training programs was run by the US name.
Speaker 1: These dolphins detect and mark underwater mines, They locate sunk
Speaker 1: in ships. They assist divers in underwater search and rescue missions.
Speaker 1: Dolphins have been used for decades by the military in
Speaker 1: various places on the globe.
Speaker 4: Dollin relationship to dolphins.
Speaker 1: He may have been one of the first too identified
Speaker 1: the use of dolphins in warfare.
Speaker 2: The federal government eventually conveyed the land of the state
Speaker 2: of California back in sixty one because Department of Defense
Speaker 2: realized they didn't really need it very much more, didn't
Speaker 2: have any restrictions, any recapture clauses or restoration provisions, and
Speaker 2: all of the former buildings had been taken off like
Speaker 2: I said, so the slabs were not supposed to be removed.
Speaker 2: Legislation did require that any revenue generated from the property
Speaker 2: would go to cal Stars, the state teacher's retirement system.
Speaker 4: There was an.
Speaker 2: Article in Trailer Life and RV magazine back in the
Speaker 2: mid eighties that told people, Hey, there's this funny, weird
Speaker 2: former military base out in the desert.
Speaker 4: You could go if you don't.
Speaker 2: Want to go to Palm Springs, or if you want
Speaker 2: to go to Palm Springs and make a rite, you
Speaker 2: could live out in the desert. And they said in
Speaker 2: about nineteen eighty eight, they said there were about two
Speaker 2: thousand trailers and RVs that were parked out there in
Speaker 2: this urgeting community.
Speaker 1: And it sounds nice, but that then that echo chamber
Speaker 1: was born, the echo chamber of crazy, but with no walls.
Speaker 2: An article in Smithsonian back in twenty eighteen said that
Speaker 2: this was a squatter's paradise where the locals said they
Speaker 2: considered it to be one of the last free places.
Speaker 2: And this article said, again this was from Smithsonian, there
Speaker 2: are clearly people there who don't want to be found.
Speaker 2: So there's something about disappearing.
Speaker 3: That's the desert for it.
Speaker 4: Desert offers that kind of an opportunity.
Speaker 1: A lot of law enforcement people have bunkers out in
Speaker 1: the desert just all so hot.
Speaker 2: I mean temperatures over one hundred and twenty sometimes in
Speaker 2: June July.
Speaker 1: Get acclimated ps circle back Hi go on Stallin train
Speaker 1: dolphins during the Cold War to attack enemy ships with
Speaker 1: harpoons you weaponized his dolphins.
Speaker 3: Boom. All right, I'm gonna go order the pizza.
Speaker 2: The Washington Post said that the population in this place
Speaker 2: is seasonal, balloons up to about four thousand people during
Speaker 2: the winter and then down to about one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty in the summer because of the heat. What you
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