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Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty bill Handle here it is a
Speaker 2: Taco Tuesday, October seven.
Speaker 1: Burbank Airport.
Speaker 2: Now, for those of you that don't know Hollywood Burbank,
Speaker 2: I used to be Bob Hope and that well, it's
Speaker 2: Hollywood Burbank, and then it became Bob Hope and now
Speaker 2: it's just Burbank Airport. It's about ten minutes from the station,
Speaker 2: and it is probably the nicest airport in southern California.
Speaker 2: Not so much the way it looks because it's been
Speaker 2: around for a while, it's just the way it operates.
Speaker 1: There are two terminals. I think they're building a third terminal.
Speaker 2: It is easy. Parking is simple. I mean unlike lax.
Speaker 2: I picked up Lindsay over the weekend and she has
Speaker 2: come back from Europe and went, oh my god, it
Speaker 2: was a crap show and its forty minutes just to
Speaker 2: get into that you it was just nuts. So here's
Speaker 2: Burbank Airport, in my opinion, one of the best airports
Speaker 2: in the country. If you can bail out and or
Speaker 2: people do everything they can to leave and come back
Speaker 2: on Burbank. Well, there's a big issue with air traffic controllers,
Speaker 2: as you can imagine, and Burbank Airport is the poster
Speaker 2: child because it got hit the worst with this TSA.
Speaker 2: Air traffic control controllers, specifically air traffic controllers during the
Speaker 2: shutdown do not get paid, but they must go to work,
Speaker 2: and there is a shortage of air traffic controllers and
Speaker 2: they are working now in many cases ten hours a day,
Speaker 2: six days a week. It is one, if not the
Speaker 2: most stressful job that exists. I mean, you're putting airplanes
Speaker 2: in the sky and you're telling them where to go,
Speaker 2: at what level, what speed, coming in and leaving, you
Speaker 2: make a mistake and three hundred people die or three
Speaker 2: hundred people could die.
Speaker 1: And so it is a mess.
Speaker 2: And what happened at Hollywood Burdbank a pilot came in
Speaker 2: and asked for directions was flying in, and the pilot
Speaker 2: got a recorded message saying there is no air traffic
Speaker 2: controllers because of understaffing, we have none here that can
Speaker 2: help you. WHOA, that's pleasant, all right now? If you
Speaker 2: were on that airplane and you got that news, that
Speaker 2: wouldn't be pleasant. I'm assuming that the pilot didn't share
Speaker 2: that with the people on the plane, but it was
Speaker 2: it was trade.
Speaker 1: It was crazy.
Speaker 2: And it also what happens is during these times is
Speaker 2: that people call in sick.
Speaker 1: They're not getting paid. They probably will get paid.
Speaker 2: Historically they've always gotten paid retroactively, but right now they
Speaker 2: can't make the mortgage, they can't buy groceries, so they
Speaker 2: have to go into savings, they have to go into
Speaker 2: credit cards. And so during these times, and this is
Speaker 2: across the board with the government workers, those that are
Speaker 2: forced to work without pay, and that is a huge
Speaker 2: number out of the four million employees.
Speaker 1: So they call in sick.
Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, there was
Speaker 2: only a small uptick and air traffic controllers calling in sick.
Speaker 2: The delays now people was that airplanes were still taking
Speaker 2: off and landing because the rules kick over when there
Speaker 2: are no air traffic controllers. I mean, they're still flying
Speaker 2: going on, but the pilots effectively have to control themselves.
Speaker 2: And these if I remember, I don't remember what you
Speaker 2: call them, but they are not only air traffic controllers
Speaker 2: at the airport, but they're also regional controllers that as
Speaker 2: soon as you leave airspace and the regional people take over.
Speaker 2: Those still seem to be working, but the delays are astronomical.
Speaker 2: As of five pm out going this yesterday, outgoing flights
Speaker 2: at Hollywood Burbank delayed an average of two hours two
Speaker 2: and a half hours. The longest delay was three almost
Speaker 2: four hours, just short of four hours. Oh man, oh
Speaker 2: the name of that the control tower.
Speaker 1: If it's unmanned. Then you have air.
Speaker 2: Traffics called Tracon, which interestingly is a private organizations as
Speaker 2: rated by the FAA and uses radar technology.
Speaker 1: Old technology.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing is that we that is in
Speaker 2: the United States, we have a technology that.
Speaker 1: Came in in the sixties.
Speaker 2: Now, one thing that the federal government did is they
Speaker 2: did pay a company to revamp the entire air traffic
Speaker 2: control system, and the company screwed it up. It got
Speaker 2: even worse. So are they making a move? If you're
Speaker 2: going to fly, let me make a suggestion. If you
Speaker 2: have to fly from here to San Francisco, for example,
Speaker 2: instead of using a Hollywood Burbank, I would suggest flying
Speaker 2: out of Stuttguard, Germany. They have very good technology. They
Speaker 2: know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: You know what the median salary is for an air
Speaker 3: traffic controller, I do not it's approximately about one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty five thousand dollars. And that's not enough, right,
Speaker 3: It can be depending on you know, experience and stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Well, the training is years, literally years, because it is
Speaker 2: a job that is number one, very technical, very difficult
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: But the lives that are on the line. All right now, I.
Speaker 2: Want to share with you what's going on with the shutdown,
Speaker 2: and it all is a predicator on healthcare demands. The
Speaker 2: Democrats won, that's it. The Republicans want a stop gap measure.
Speaker 2: And this happens all the time, is continuing resolution, which
Speaker 2: says we can't agree on a bunch of stuff, but
Speaker 2: we'll negotiate later, and in the meantime, let's pass the
Speaker 2: measure that allows the government to keep on functioning.
Speaker 1: Because, as I talked to, as.
Speaker 2: I spoke in my last segment, air traffic control, for example,
Speaker 2: among many others, are forced to work by law and
Speaker 2: are not getting paid. And so the Republicans are saying,
Speaker 2: we always pass one of these and we're not asking
Speaker 2: for anything more or not negotiating additional bills or amendments.
Speaker 2: We just leave it exactly alone the way it is
Speaker 2: for another month, another two months till the end of November,
Speaker 2: and the Democrats say no, no, no, we're not going
Speaker 2: to cross that line anymore. We are going to have
Speaker 2: the extension of the health care healthcare demands. Now, the
Speaker 2: Republicans are cutting healthcare.
Speaker 1: But it depends on how you perceive cutting.
Speaker 2: Let's say you get a raise temporary rays because of
Speaker 2: whatever situation, temporary situation.
Speaker 1: In this case, it was COVID.
Speaker 2: And then your boss kicks it back and says, you
Speaker 2: know what, We're going to.
Speaker 1: Go back to where we were.
Speaker 2: Well, you're well, your wages are being cut, aren't they
Speaker 2: And your boss says, no, they're not being cut. We're
Speaker 2: just not going to keep the money being paid. We
Speaker 2: told you it was temporary, and temporary is now over.
Speaker 2: That's what's going on here. The problem is that temporary
Speaker 2: allowed tens of millions of low income, middle income workers
Speaker 2: to afford insurance under Obamacare. They now have insurance because
Speaker 2: of the extension, because of the added but COVID regulations
Speaker 2: that allowed them to have it, which the government paid
Speaker 2: for subsidized.
Speaker 1: And here is the difference.
Speaker 2: The Republicans want to cut it all or cut a
Speaker 2: lot of it, and the Democrats are saying, you can't
Speaker 2: cut it because so many people are now going to
Speaker 2: be uninsured. Again, this also has to medicate. We're talking
Speaker 2: tens of millions of people. I mean, we're seventy million
Speaker 2: people are going to be affected somehow or another, and
Speaker 2: tens of millions are either their insurance is going to
Speaker 2: double or they're simply not going to be able to
Speaker 2: afford insurance at all. And the Democrats are saying, this
Speaker 2: ain't gonna happen. And either you keep those extensions going
Speaker 2: because so many people desperately needed, or we're not going
Speaker 2: to vote the budget in that's all, We're not going
Speaker 2: to have a budget, and the government shuts down. And
Speaker 2: there is a philosophical difference, and it really is a
Speaker 2: philosophical difference.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration wants to.
Speaker 2: Pour money into the border protection and into the military,
Speaker 2: and does not want to pour money into social programs.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't believe in social programs. Why because of waste,
Speaker 2: because of fraud. By the way, I want to make
Speaker 2: a point, there is no such thing as waste or
Speaker 2: fraud in the military.
Speaker 1: It doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: The military is clean of waste, and fraud and immigration.
Speaker 2: There is no fraud or waste at all. It's only
Speaker 2: in the social programs that exist. The philosophical difference is
Speaker 2: that the government should not support people who need money
Speaker 2: and need help, or should limit the amount of money
Speaker 2: that goes to these people. And it is a big
Speaker 2: one because we're talking about well the cuts, well the
Speaker 2: cuts or the lack of the extension is going to
Speaker 2: be about a trillion dollars over the next ten years.
Speaker 2: And that bill passed by the way, the Tax and
Speaker 2: Spending bill, which cut everything past this summer under the
Speaker 2: big beautiful bill, and it went through there, and so
Speaker 2: you've got the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Ten million additional
Speaker 2: Merrick will become uninsured in the next decade, between Medicaid
Speaker 2: and other healthcare programs, the Democrats insisting on an extension
Speaker 2: of those programs, the money that was paid, the subsidies
Speaker 2: that were put in during COVID, And so which way
Speaker 2: is it going to go, Who's going to win, who's
Speaker 2: going to lose? Right now, no one is compromising. Compromise
Speaker 2: doesn't exist anymore in this government.
Speaker 1: And the real.
Speaker 2: Issue, the political issue, because that's all everybody cares about, Now, frankly,
Speaker 2: that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: Who's going to be blamed for it?
Speaker 2: Now, up to this point, the Republican's been blamed for it,
Speaker 2: and it costs them political points. The longest shutdown of
Speaker 2: the government in the history of the United States happened
Speaker 2: during Donald Trump's first tenure thirty five days. We'll see
Speaker 2: what happens this time around as to who gets blamed.
Speaker 2: And the Democrats are saying, you have no ho to
Speaker 2: the Republicans, you have no heart. Do these people deserve
Speaker 2: medical care? Do they deserve subsidize insurance? And the Republicans
Speaker 2: are saying basically no. And then the Republicans are saying,
Speaker 2: don't we have to keep the government going? How do
Speaker 2: you have these people working and not get paid those
Speaker 2: that are never going to get paid. The President is
Speaker 2: talking about he has to furlough jobs and I mean
Speaker 2: literally just lay him off. Which way is it going
Speaker 2: to go? Well, what's more important? And now it's a
Speaker 2: question of your philosophical view on this. Frankly, I think
Speaker 2: that it is more important to have someone insured than
Speaker 2: it is the border issue, because I don't think let's
Speaker 2: say I don't have insurance, is my job being taken
Speaker 2: away by an illegal alien.
Speaker 1: Not really. I don't know that many people have lost
Speaker 1: their jobs.
Speaker 2: If I can't get insurance, that affects me big time.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. It just keeps on going.
Speaker 2: Now you're going to hear something about the Insurrection Act
Speaker 2: and it's just a weird It's not weird, but it
Speaker 2: is part of the US government and it was put
Speaker 2: into place in seventeen ninety two, just when the US
Speaker 2: was created. And it has to do with if there
Speaker 2: is an open rebellion against the United States, the President
Speaker 2: has the right to invoke the Insurrection.
Speaker 1: Act if there is, you know, a.
Speaker 2: Well insurrection. I'm thinking of how else to describe it.
Speaker 2: I have an over trying a group of people trying
Speaker 2: to overturn the government.
Speaker 1: Riots.
Speaker 2: Now, it has been used thirty times by a president,
Speaker 2: but you it is used and virtually every time asked for.
Speaker 1: By a governor or a mayor.
Speaker 2: Last time was in nineteen ninety two when the president
Speaker 2: that's HWHW. Bush number one was asked to call in
Speaker 2: federal troops in Los Angeles because of the Rodney King riots.
Speaker 2: Those were riots, I mean, that was No one argued
Speaker 2: that that wasn't legitimate. Well, here's what the president is doing,
Speaker 2: and nobody Well, of course, you know, it's no surprise.
Speaker 2: But I don't think any other president would consider using
Speaker 2: the Insurrection Act to deploy the military if the courts
Speaker 2: prevent him from deploying the National Guard to protect federal
Speaker 2: buildings and conduct law enforcement operations. So he has to
Speaker 2: first declare, and he is considering doing that. That's happening
Speaker 2: in Portland, what's happening in Chicago, what's happening in la
Speaker 2: a full blown rebellion.
Speaker 1: Against the United States.
Speaker 2: Stephen Miller, white House Deputy Chief of Staff, who is
Speaker 2: the author of a lot of this stuff, says that
Speaker 2: it's illegal insurrection when the ruling stifle the White House agenda.
Speaker 1: The insurrection is.
Speaker 2: The courts that in fact are rebelling against the government
Speaker 2: of United States, against the Constitution. Here's the problem in
Speaker 2: terms of what we're experiencing. If you are against the administration,
Speaker 2: you are against the Constitution. This administration does not interpret
Speaker 2: the Constitution. This administration is the Constitution. We are the
Speaker 2: Constitution of the United States. Therefore, if you go against us,
Speaker 2: even saying something against us or for God forbid, you
Speaker 2: have demonstrations and they're out of control, and local law
Speaker 2: enforcement says, we can handle it. The governor says we
Speaker 2: can handle it, and the President said no, he declares
Speaker 2: an insurrection and therefore brings in the troops.
Speaker 1: It is a tough one. And then of course it'll
Speaker 1: go to court.
Speaker 2: And the position that the administration is taking is an
Speaker 2: insurrection is what it's defined as. Whatever the President says
Speaker 2: it is. If the President says it, it must be so.
Speaker 2: And under constitutional authority, remember seventeen ninety two, the president
Speaker 2: has the right to then bring in federal troops and
Speaker 2: he decides, you know, I mean theoretically, Well, here's what
Speaker 2: Portland is saying.
Speaker 1: The chief, the police chief of Portland is saying.
Speaker 2: This quote, insurrection is one city block, that's what's going
Speaker 2: on here. And the President says, no, it's not. It's Portland,
Speaker 2: which is a hell hole. Portland is on fire. Well,
Speaker 2: he's describing Portland like Los Angeles during the Watts riots,
Speaker 2: during the Rodney King riots, where there is where there
Speaker 2: were thousands of people out there all over the city
Speaker 2: and the city was burning.
Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody argued against that.
Speaker 2: And so there's a federal judge, And this one is
Speaker 2: absolute hilarious.
Speaker 1: I want to end with this.
Speaker 2: The federal judge who put a halt on it temporarily,
Speaker 2: who say you can't go into Portland. You have to
Speaker 2: stop at this point, although they're on their way, you
Speaker 2: can't do it, is.
Speaker 1: Not a radical left wing judge.
Speaker 2: Usually judges that rule against the administration are radical left
Speaker 2: wing judges who.
Speaker 1: Should be impeached.
Speaker 2: This one is simply a judge who has lost her way.
Speaker 2: And you know why she's a judge who has lost
Speaker 2: her way because she's.
Speaker 1: A Trump appointee.
Speaker 2: And you can't have a Trump appointee a radical left
Speaker 2: wing judge, because how does the president put into place
Speaker 2: a radical left wing judge? So she just lost her way.
Speaker 2: It's pretty scary stuff. Now, is he going to do
Speaker 2: what he's considering doing it? He said he's considering. If
Speaker 2: the courts go against him, then he says he will. Well,
Speaker 2: he says he may. I think he will, that's my opinion.
Speaker 2: But there's no question that the president truly believes that
Speaker 2: insurrection is defined by what he says it is.
Speaker 1: That's it. He defines what the constitution is.
Speaker 2: And as I said, bottom line is President Trump believes
Speaker 2: I am the Constitution of the United States. My job
Speaker 2: is not to enforce the law. My job is to
Speaker 2: enforce what I think. The law is what I believe,
Speaker 2: and if you are against me, then you are violating
Speaker 2: the Constitution. January sixth, rioters that was not a riot.
Speaker 2: Can't use the word riot. You have to use the
Speaker 2: word patriots. In overrunning the capital, the word is patriots.
Speaker 2: And of course everybody was pardoned, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's the world we live in, and I'm having a
Speaker 2: you know, obviously a lot.
Speaker 1: Of us having a tough time, and a lot of
Speaker 1: us aren't.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people who think that everything
Speaker 2: the president is doing is absolutely wonderful and believe that
Speaker 2: he is the constitution that he embodies America. And those
Speaker 2: of us who have some real problems, well, we're traders. Okay.
Speaker 2: Now we're going to get something really serious. And we've
Speaker 2: been talking about insurrection and civil rights, but now we're
Speaker 2: going to get really serious.
Speaker 1: Parking.
Speaker 2: If you live in the city of Los Angeles, which
Speaker 2: I used to but I'm still there all the time, parking,
Speaker 2: we're talking about meter parking, We're talking about the money
Speaker 2: you have to spend It used to be you put
Speaker 2: quarters in into meters and that would give you an
Speaker 2: hour quite a while ago, and I always ran out
Speaker 2: of quarters because, as I said this morning, I always
Speaker 2: used my quarters up at strip clubs, so I never
Speaker 2: had any. And then they went to credit cards, which
Speaker 2: is very easy to do, and it is why because
Speaker 2: it's expensive. Now, well, the metered spaces, the prices haven't
Speaker 2: gone up in more than a decade, so prices are
Speaker 2: going up fifty cents for the most of the city's
Speaker 2: thirty five thousand spaces right now, the prices are a
Speaker 2: dollar to eight fifty per hour.
Speaker 1: That one I don't understand.
Speaker 2: My dollar goes up to a buck fifty, and I
Speaker 2: think eight to fifty goes up to nine dollars an hour,
Speaker 2: And why are they doing that. It's a revenue call.
Speaker 2: That's actually more than a revenue call. Because here is
Speaker 2: the argument that's being made by the La City Transportation.
Speaker 1: It's a win win situation.
Speaker 2: It gets more people moving around, it's more expensive, so
Speaker 2: you're quicker to get in and out.
Speaker 1: The businesses love it, and so you know it's a
Speaker 1: good thing, right. I don't quite understand that.
Speaker 2: I do find a business person I understand it, but
Speaker 2: for the most part, you know, it's it's a straight
Speaker 2: revenue call. The city's going to get another fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 2: Have you seen a meter maid any place in the
Speaker 2: last bunch of years. I have not seen one of
Speaker 2: those meter maids. I have not. They still go around
Speaker 2: those little carts that they have. Amy you've just nodded
Speaker 2: you've seen meter maids. Yeah, they're not necessarily in the
Speaker 2: little carts, so they have little cars.
Speaker 1: And it's their parting enforcement. They're everywhere. Are they all
Speaker 1: named Rita? I don't know. I don't stop to ask.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, well, yeah, no kidding. Oh. Here's an interesting
Speaker 2: factoid which I didn't know until I started looking at this,
Speaker 2: and that is if you, let's say you have a
Speaker 2: few minutes left and someone is looking for the parking
Speaker 2: spot and you put in some money, uh, to give
Speaker 2: them some extra time, do you know that's illegal? You
Speaker 2: are not allowed to put in money to have someone
Speaker 2: else take your spot. They have to pay for themselves.
Speaker 2: Got stupid laws, right, you can't have a car full
Speaker 2: of pickles on Sunday. You know, those laws that were
Speaker 2: passed at the turn of the last century just crazy stuff. Okay,
Speaker 2: coming up, it's Rich Demurrow, and then a couple of
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Speaker 2: work in quantum physics, and so all this week we
Speaker 2: are getting information on who's going to get the various prizes,
Speaker 2: ending Friday with the Peace Prize, that's the big one.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're gonna do the ig Ig Nobel Prizes.
Speaker 2: It is one of the funniest segments you are going
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