1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: And we continue at two o five in the afternoon 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Waning's in Culver City. 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 2: Well, this is a first. The video feed is just 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 2: working perfectly, and it's the radio station that's not. Everything's 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 2: fine now, but hey, we're broadcasting live on the radio 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: on seven ninety KABC in southern California and a ten 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: KSFO in the Bay Area. We are also streaming live 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 2: on video every single day from noon to three. 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And earlier in the week I 26 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: showed the picture of the decorated golf cart on fourth 27 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: of July that included life size Betsy Ross Sex doll. 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 2: I don't think I can find that really quickly. Oh 29 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 2: I can. I can find it really quickly. Here we go, 30 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: in case people missed it, this is the golf cart 31 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 2: picture that Johnny has shared on the show. 32 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: I don't even know where you'd go about buying a 33 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: Betsy Ross Sex doll. 34 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 2: Well, Johnny, a wise man once said, there's a kink 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: for anything. 36 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: It probably bought it from China, along with everything else. 37 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: All Right, we know that fire victims trying to rebuild 38 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,079 Speaker 1: their homes. The process is moving at a glacier's pace. 39 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: But Randy, it doesn't look like there's any help on 40 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: the horizon. 41 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 2: The pace of the rebuild in the Eaton Canyon area 42 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 2: and the Pacific Palisades is at a crawl. We have 43 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 2: updates on everything that's going on related to the fires. 44 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: Now that we are at the eighteen month point, let's 45 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 2: first check in with the survivors of the Altadena fire 46 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 2: and Eaton Canyon. Here is CBS Los Angeles, Hey, Johnny. 47 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 2: The logo that they're about to put on the screen 48 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 2: for rebuilding SoCal. What's the second word after recovery? 49 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: Accountability. 50 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 3: It has been a year and a half since the 51 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 3: La wildfire has destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. 52 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 4: For many survivors, the dream of rebuilding is still a 53 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 4: long way from reality. 54 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 2: If at eighteen months we're still at nowhere, then at 55 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 2: what point does this community actually come back? 56 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying if I was a victim, I 57 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: would just move on because there's no end in sight. 58 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,399 Speaker 4: I are destroyed more than sixty eight hundred structures in all, 59 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 4: the City of La says it's issued twenty nine certificates 60 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 4: of occupancy for rebuilt homes, and the county. 61 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: Has issued So for just the Palisades we're at a 62 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: rebuild a year and a half later of point four 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: percent and this just considered record pace. 64 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 4: One in an unincorporated area. That's less than one percent. 65 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: Well, slowly but surely, we have seen Pacific Palisades rise 66 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 3: from the ashes. Skycal flew over the Palisades burn zone. 67 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 3: This afternoon. You can compare the immediate aftermath of the 68 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 3: wildfire on the top left of your screen, and below 69 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 3: it what six months of recovery looked like last July. 70 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 3: In fact, we flew today. 71 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 4: And they Eton fire destroyed more than nine thousand structures 72 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 4: and at more than one hundred homes have been rebuilt there. 73 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 2: That's okay, so unincorporated LA County is doing a little 74 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 2: better than the city of La but it's still one 75 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 2: percent of homes have been rebuilt. Pathetic in eighteen months, 76 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 2: and after everyone said, local, state, even the Feds, We're 77 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 2: going to move heaven and earth to get people back 78 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: in their homes, it's not happening. Of course, you ask 79 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 2: the majority of the people, what's the biggest hold up? Oh, 80 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,239 Speaker 2: eighteen months later, they're still dealing with their insurance company. 81 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: Well, it has to be the insurance companies and the government, 82 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: because not everyone can hire my contractor. 83 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 4: Just a little more than one percent. 84 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 3: Cbsla's Jasmin Biel is live in Altadena with a cluser. 85 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 3: Look at we're eating fire survivors stand on the road 86 00:04:58,760 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 3: to recovery. 87 00:04:59,640 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 5: Jazz. 88 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 6: Yeah, pat just take a look at this map. Behind 89 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 6: me here inside the even Fire Collaborative. 90 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 2: It just shows you. 91 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 6: The scope of the devastation, right, all of that red 92 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 6: indicating every home that was destroyed. 93 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: But that is uh spooky to watch. It's all red. 94 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: This looks like voting precincts in Utah. 95 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 2: Between They have. 96 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 6: Now started putting these little blue stickers of homes that 97 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 6: have been rebuilt. Yes, there are not many on the 98 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 6: board right now, and fire survivors tell me these numbers 99 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,679 Speaker 6: tell only a part of the story. 100 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: Okay, let's just assume for one minute that you're able 101 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: to get everything done quickly. Clean up the debris, get 102 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: the permits, get the money from your insurance company, find 103 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: the right contractor rebuild. Do you want to live in 104 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: a community where everything else looks like a bomb just 105 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: went off. 106 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: Doesn't seem like a very appetizing prospect, that's for sure. 107 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 7: This is where our dog loved to play ball. 108 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 6: Standing on the lot where her Altadena home once stood, 109 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 6: Alma Apudacca holds one of the few things that survived 110 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 6: they eaten fire, a small Buddha statue, and. 111 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 7: It's overlooking everything. I don't know, it's just it makes 112 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 7: me feel better. 113 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 6: Everything else was reduced to ash. Now a year and 114 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 6: a half later, she's still waiting for the chance to rebuild. 115 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 7: We just started where we literally got into permitting about. 116 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 2: A week ago at a doc. We're just moving so fast, 117 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 2: aren't we. 118 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: A year and a half later, they're still dealing with 119 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 1: the regulatory process. 120 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 2: Apparently they just started the regulatory process, which tells me 121 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: that it took eighteen months to settle up with their 122 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 2: insurance company. 123 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 6: Says she expected the first year after the fire to 124 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 6: be difficult. She never imagined year two would be even harder. 125 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 7: You're supposed to get over the fact that your house burned, 126 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 7: you're supposed to find her rental, you're supposed to rebuild 127 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 7: your new house. And it happens all within thirty six months. 128 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 7: That's like, how does that happen? 129 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 6: And she's far from alone. A new survey by the 130 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 6: victims assistance nonprofit the Department of Angels, paints a sobering 131 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 6: picture of the recovery. Eighteen months later, two out of 132 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 6: every three fire survivors remain displaced, nearly half have already 133 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 6: lost or will lose their insurance housing coverage within the 134 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 6: next year, and just twenty eight percent who lost homes 135 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 6: or confidence. 136 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh those emergency moratoriums that Ricardo Laura put in place, 137 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 2: that oh you can't drop people that have been in 138 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: a fire disaster zone. Well, those time limits are coming 139 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 2: up real soon, and you think State farm is going 140 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 2: to renew any of those policies. 141 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: Good job, Ricardo. 142 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,679 Speaker 6: Confident they'll fully recover. 143 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 8: We're at a year and a half and a lot 144 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 8: of people need to be out by the end of 145 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 8: the month. Where are they going to go? Without a doubt, 146 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 8: there's going to be hundreds on the street. 147 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 2: Remember back in April when the county was about to 148 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 2: send a two year property tax bill to all these 149 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: people and then decided, you know what, that's heartless. Instead, 150 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 2: we'll defer it until twenty thirty and they'll have to 151 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,559 Speaker 2: pay five years of property taxes all at once. 152 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: The unions want their money. 153 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 6: Ki Garnsen is on the Altadena Town Council and also 154 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 6: lost his home and the Eaten fire. He and other 155 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 6: community advocates have been pushing for insurance, accountability and mental 156 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 6: health resources. He says there has been movement, though just. 157 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 8: Over half of the losses have now put in their 158 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 8: plans for permits. 159 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 6: Others say what's keeping Altadena moving forward is in paperwork. 160 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 9: It's the people. 161 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 5: So we have diapers, we have strollers here. 162 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 2: I know where you can get some diapers. 163 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: They might be overpriced, but they bought a lot of them. 164 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 10: Sometimes we have air filters. 165 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 6: The Even Fire Collaborative has grown into a coalition of 166 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,599 Speaker 6: more than two hundred organizations, coordinating everything from rebuilding resources 167 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 6: and financialists. 168 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: Hey wait, that's Gavin's crooked nonprofit. 169 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: Baby to Baby, look at that. 170 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 6: Distance, to emotional support. Organizers say it's become one of 171 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 6: the fastest large wildfire recoveries in recent history. 172 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 11: Myself, I don't know how to navigate a disaster, so 173 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 11: we can connect to you here at the collaboratory with 174 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 11: a disaster case manager. 175 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 2: Then they walk with you, we say, like they walk 176 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: with you. 177 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 6: Home, Kapadacca says, even if the road home has taken 178 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 6: longer than she ever imagined, with many of her neighbors 179 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 6: never coming back, She's not giving up. Yeah, and back 180 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 6: here alive. I mean every month the collaborative tells me 181 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 6: they change out this art installation. For example, right behind me, 182 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 6: just some of the faces here are the fire survivors. 183 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 2: And of course, can we focus a little less on 184 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 2: the artwork of the place where people are getting their 185 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 2: lives put back together, and more on the putting their 186 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 2: lives back together. 187 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: It's good to see they focus on what's important. 188 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 6: Many of those items that were lost to the eat 189 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 6: and fire. The collaborative helps. They say, over the last 190 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 6: eighteen months, more than thirty thousand people and every month 191 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 6: here they see six thousand visitors live here in Altadena, 192 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 6: Jasman Vil, CBSLA. 193 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 4: Pretty powerful, Osmond, thank you. 194 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: So that's what's going on in Eaton Kenyon. And one 195 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: percent of homes that have been burned down in the 196 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 2: Eaton Canyon fire have been rebuilt one percent. 197 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 198 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: if your home burned down in that fire, and you're 199 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: expecting Karen Bass and the County of Los Angeles and 200 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: others to move heaven and earth to get you back 201 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: in a home, you're never getting out of that Hampton 202 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: end ever. 203 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 2: Hope you like the waffles. I was about to say 204 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 2: the same stupid joke. 205 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,079 Speaker 1: They are good. Sometimes they have apple cinnamon. 206 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 2: Well, John, that's what's going on in Eaton Canyon. Let's 207 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 2: see how the Palisades is doing. Here's a report from 208 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 2: Fox eleven and our buddy Matthew Sedamar. 209 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 11: Tonight, Mark's exactly a year and a half since the 210 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 11: deadly Palisades fire. 211 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 3: Fox levens Matthew Sedorff is in the Palisades with a 212 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 3: look at the rebuild. 213 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 2: Matthew, Well, I finally got a break from Boyle Heights. Buddy. 214 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, but the air is poisonous over there too. 215 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 12: Christine, this is what we're now seeing in a Palisade's 216 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 12: a lot of empty wots still out here, but other 217 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 12: homes are now under construction. Of the thousands of properties destroyed, 218 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 12: less than thirty families are able to return home. 219 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 2: And this is being touted is a success. Well, it's 220 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 2: that Karen Bass can do. Spirit, You got a Karen 221 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 2: Bass fails on this. Gavin Newsom fails on this. The 222 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 2: federal government isn't doing a damn thing about this either. 223 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: Well, the thing about insurance, which is the immediate problem 224 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: that these homeowners are having, the Feds do not regulate insurance. 225 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: The feds can deal with the EPA, the Feds can 226 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,239 Speaker 1: deal with other federal agencies. But what you need immediately 227 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: is money, because without the money, how do you get 228 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: the permits? How do you hire a contractor how do 229 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: you do all of the things that you need to 230 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: do to rebuild? And that's all regulated at the state level. 231 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: Of all the elected officials that we have in the 232 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: state of California who have failed us, the insurance Commissioner 233 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: is the top of the list because he could have 234 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: these companies scared to death. He could be burning up 235 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: their phones, he could be threatening them with all kinds 236 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: of regulation. He could be doing whatever he could do 237 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: with the power of that office to force them. And again, 238 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: I want to be clear here, we're not asking for 239 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: anything other than what was in those contracts. But it's 240 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: the job of the State of California and the California 241 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: Department of Insurance to require that these companies fulfill their 242 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: obligations in contracts with homeowners that they themselves signed. And 243 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: they're refusing to do that, and no one's forcing them to. 244 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 2: I'm very kind of sketched. 245 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 12: Oh, we know, sounds of rebuilding now echoing across Pacific Palisades, 246 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 12: eighteen months after the fire destroyed almost everything. In a 247 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 12: lot of ways, it feels like it's been a day, 248 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 12: and then in a lot of ways, it feels like 249 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 12: it's been every day of those eighteen now exactly a 250 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 12: year and a half later, some watts are still empty. Well, 251 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 12: others are finally rising from the ashes, and a few 252 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 12: appear almost done. 253 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 2: It nice to see some houses going up and. 254 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 13: But there's a lot more to go. 255 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 2: It's just it's a mess around here. 256 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 12: City of La data shows of the almost six thousand 257 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 12: homes destroyed in the Palisades fire, four hundred and nineteen 258 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 12: have now been issued rebuilding permits. 259 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 2: So only twenty five percent of the homes have a 260 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 2: permit let alone beginning the rebuilding process. 261 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,359 Speaker 1: This is beyond pathetic. 262 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 2: Karen Bass will tell you, hey, we're faster than Lahina. 263 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: Well, just that's an island. 264 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 12: Properties have received certificates for occupants. 265 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 14: It's going slower than I think is. 266 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 2: Hey, look at this guy, he's got a prad hat. 267 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: I love it being reported out there. 268 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 12: Michael Geller lost both his home and business to the fire. 269 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 12: This is the original sign. 270 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 9: We were able to recover it. 271 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 14: We had it resurfaced and refinished. 272 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 12: But the sign that survived now hangs inside his new store. 273 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 12: As they opened their doors again, it. 274 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 2: Feels like. 275 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 14: It was just yesterday and now we're back, which is 276 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 14: kind of a good thing but also kind of tough 277 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 14: to swallow that a whole year and a half has 278 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 14: gone by and we're kind of still in this position. 279 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 9: For many year. 280 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 12: Recovery has been slow and the pain hasn't faded. But 281 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 12: with every new foundation, the Palisades takes another step forward. 282 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 13: It's just me a long ordeal. 283 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the city really let us. 284 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 14: Down, will they say? 285 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 9: What? 286 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 2: And we're going to keep the same idiots in charge 287 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 2: back in charge in November, aren't we? 288 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: Well? What's wild is at the city counts level, that 289 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: area did what they needed to do. They probably have 290 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: the best member of the LA City Council representing them 291 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: in Tracy Park. But in terms of the mayoral election, 292 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: you have the person who was in charge throughout this disaster, 293 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: Karen Bass, and someone who's worse, Nitti I Raman. And 294 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: that is a crime that that is the choice that 295 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: we have, especially when city voters had the option of 296 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt in the primary and they chose a socialist 297 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: and a communist instead. 298 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 2: It's going to be a fun November doesn't kill you. 299 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 14: Makes you stronger, and that's just how we've been rolling along. 300 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 2: And a lot of ways. 301 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 12: It is hard to believe that has now been a 302 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 12: year and a half, but it's good to see construction 303 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 12: picking up. 304 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 13: Well. 305 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 12: I've in Pacific Palis States Snai, Matthew sied or Fox Levenues. 306 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 2: So there you go. That is the update on what's 307 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 2: going on in the Pacific Palace. Rebuilding is very, very slow. 308 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: Only thirty homes have been cleared for people to move 309 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 2: back in a year and a half later. 310 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: I would like to know of those displaced by the fires, 311 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: where did they end up. I bet you a lot 312 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: of them ended up in Orange County or out of state. 313 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: I bet you very few of them. Knowing what they 314 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: know about Los Angeles, government relocated to other portions of 315 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: the city. 316 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 2: Well, and we kind of have data to back that up. 317 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 2: This County of Los Angeles, which is a ten million 318 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 2: person county, had a population drop of fifty thousand people 319 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 2: from twenty twenty five to twenty twenty six. Fifty thousand people, 320 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 2: which could be a lot of the people that lost 321 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 2: their homes in these fires. 322 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you have to go through something like this 323 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: to really understand how bad government is. And I would 324 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,959 Speaker 1: imagine that many of them are like so many other Californians, 325 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 1: and by that I mean people who don't pay very 326 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: close attention to local government. But when you're forced to 327 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: deal with government and their inefficiencies up close and personal, 328 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: it's impossible to deny, it's impossible to ignore. 329 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 2: That's what we have seen in the last eighteen months, 330 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 2: as very little help is going to help the thousands 331 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 2: and thousands of victims that are still dealing with this 332 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 2: every single day. 333 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: Okay, So I just asked that question to Grok and 334 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: the answer kind of surprises me. Actually, after the Palisades Fire, 335 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 1: victims mostly relocated within the greater Los Angeles area. The 336 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: statistical breakdown is based on available data from FEMA, the 337 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: Red Cross, and local reports. Sixty five to seventy percent 338 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: stayed in Los Angeles County. They don't have a distinction 339 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 1: between LA County and LA City, but sixty five to 340 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,880 Speaker 1: seventy percent stayed in the county. 341 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 2: A lot of them went to Santa Monica. 342 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: I do know that, yes, Santa Monica and Culver City 343 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,919 Speaker 1: and the South Bay are the top three. Fifteen to 344 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: twenty percent moved to neighboring counties, including Ventura County. A 345 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: bunch of them ended up in Seam Valley and Thousand Oaks, 346 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: Orange County, and then Riverside in San Bernardino Counties, the 347 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: Inland Empire, a lot in Palm Springs. Ten to fifteen 348 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: percent left southern California altogether, where some went to other 349 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: parts of California, including the Bay Area and the Central Coast, 350 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: and a smaller portion relocated out of state, primarily to Arizona, Nevada, 351 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: and Texas. So there you go. Eight hundred two two 352 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: two five two two two is telephone number one eight 353 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two. 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This has been a trend that we have 388 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: seen where the locals hear all of these things that 389 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: they don't like about AI, data centers, cloud services, data centers, 390 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 1: using up their water, driving up their energy bills, and 391 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 1: they say, I don't don't care how many jobs this 392 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: is creating. I don't care if you say you're using 393 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: reclaimed water. We don't want it. 394 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 2: And that's what happened in Monterey Park where the voters 395 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 2: actually said we're banning data centers. Well, the locals in Gilroy, Garlictown, USA, 396 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 2: they're fed up about the data centers too, even though 397 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 2: a lot of these complaints are kind of unfounded. Let's 398 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 2: see what they all have to say. Here is kpix 399 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 2: in the Bay. Hey, that rhymed right now? 400 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 15: In five thirty members of a Bay Area community are 401 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,719 Speaker 15: not giving up their fight against a new data center. 402 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 15: Construction on the facility in Gilroy is now underway, but 403 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 15: people in town are voicing their displeasure with the project 404 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 15: and how it was approved. Kevin Coe spoke to them 405 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 15: about their concerns. 406 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 9: Lamb Insopulvida is one of about sixty thousand people who 407 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 9: call Gilroy home. 408 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 5: It's not necessarily a small pound, but people know each 409 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 5: other and they feel like a community. 410 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: Right, Okay, what do you think the odds are that 411 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: this guy and so many of his friends and neighbors 412 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: in Gilroy, when they make a martini, it's not the 413 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: cocktail onion, it's not the twist. It's not the olive 414 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: that has a pimento in it. It's not the olive 415 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 1: with blue cheese in it. It's the olive with a 416 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 1: clove of garlic in it. I think that's kind of required. Luckily, 417 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: you know, I'm one of those people you can never 418 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 1: use enough garlic. I would do very well in Gilroy. 419 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 1: You do very well with vampires. 420 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 5: And that's why I think this has all been so 421 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 5: like blindsiding that they would do this to the community. 422 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 9: He's talking about this new Amazon data center, which is 423 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 9: already under construction. He's concerned about the potential amount of 424 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 9: water electricity. 425 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 2: Now, again, this is one of the things that you 426 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 2: know some of these data Yeah, they're using up a 427 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 2: lot of water because they need to power all the 428 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 2: air conditioning to cool all the servers. But from what 429 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 2: I have read in the research I have done a 430 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 2: lot of these data centers, they're using reclaimed water, which 431 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,719 Speaker 2: is water that's not potable, so you can't drink it anyway. 432 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 2: And they're just recycling it over and over and over again. 433 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 2: And if that's what they're doing, great, there's a legitimate 434 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 2: question as to then why is PG and E jacking 435 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 2: up my bill? And that might be just PG and 436 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 2: E screwing you. 437 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like they're using FIJI. 438 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 9: And other utilities it will use and in turn possibly 439 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 9: take away from Gilroy residents. That's why he created South 440 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 9: Valley Community Resistance, a group of locals standing against the 441 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 9: data center and its approval process. 442 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,679 Speaker 5: I'm concerned about how it was passed. There was not 443 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 5: a lot of transparency. 444 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 9: The data center is being built just down the road 445 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 9: from the Gilroy premium outlets on Comino or Royal Drive. 446 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 9: The problem. 447 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 2: So, thanks to the data center, you'll be able to 448 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 2: buy a bunch of crap on Amazon and then you'll 449 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 2: be able to return it at the outlets. 450 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: I love buying crap on Amazon. Whenever I'm supposed to 451 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: be writing a column and I have no motivation, what 452 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: I end up doing is buying a bunch of stuff 453 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: I don't need. 454 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 9: Property has been designated for industrial use since nineteen eighty 455 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 9: one in Gilroy. That meets projects can be approved without 456 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 9: a public hearing. 457 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 2: So it's not even like this is farmland that's being 458 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 2: turned into a data center. This wasn't some garlic grove. 459 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 2: This was already land that was already designated to be industrial, 460 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 2: and you know it's industrial. A room with a bunch 461 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 2: of servers. 462 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: My assumption was that it was a bunch of old 463 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: Blockbuster videos. 464 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,959 Speaker 2: You know, I heard the I kind of love this idea. 465 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 2: I heard this on a podcast recently, one of those 466 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 2: tech bros that host one of those big tech bro podcasts. 467 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 2: And at some point, because of the pushback of the 468 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 2: data centers, they're going to try to get single family 469 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 2: homeowners involved. Imagine a scenario where the big companies, the Anthropics, 470 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 2: the open Aiyes, the Amazons, the Metas, what have you. 471 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 2: Instead of building a giant data center, what if they 472 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: went to a single family home and said, hey, we 473 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 2: will pay for solar on your roof, a backup battery, 474 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 2: if we can use a tiny part of your garage 475 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 2: for some servers. That would be kind of cool. 476 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: Well, and we talk about this in the Accountability podcast, 477 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: because there's also another option, which is instead of going 478 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: to cities in California, you can go to the Indian 479 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: tribes and just put these things on tribal land. 480 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 2: I mean, you could definitely have the server firm on 481 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,679 Speaker 2: the first floor and the casino on the second floor. 482 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: Hey, you can play the buffalo machine. Well, that server 483 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: does what it does. 484 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 5: We got the chance. 485 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 2: They could probably figure out a way, the same way 486 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,719 Speaker 2: that the professor got the radio to work on Gilligan's Island. 487 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 2: What if they could figure out how to harness the 488 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 2: kinetic energy of every single time a gambling attict like 489 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: John Phillips pulls the lever, it's generating electricity for the 490 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 2: data center. 491 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: Now that is green energy. 492 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 5: Before it was approved, I believe this wouldn't. 493 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,199 Speaker 1: Have Okay, notice how far away from the camera he is. 494 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: You think that's by design, that's what they do for 495 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: this particular channel. It's their style guide. Or do you 496 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: think because this man lives in Gilroy, he has such 497 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: strong garlic on his breath, they said, sorry, you're gonna 498 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: have to take a step back. 499 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 5: Wouldn't gotten approved. I believe the city council would have 500 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 5: seen that people don't want this. 501 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 9: According to Gilroy Mayor Greg Bozo, the project. 502 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you weren't aware, the mayor of Gilroy's 503 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 2: name is bozo. 504 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: Oh. There are a lot of people who think that 505 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: that's what their mayor's name is. 506 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 9: Jack was supported by all seven council members, including himself. 507 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 9: While the project will affect some farmland, Amazon says it 508 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 9: will add about two hundred and fifty new jobs and 509 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 9: tens of millions of dollars in local tax revenue. 510 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: As we move forward. 511 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 8: We have a balance that we must strike by maintaining 512 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 8: the culture and the history and the ag heritage of 513 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 8: our community combined with economic development. 514 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 9: Approving projects in industrial zones has never been an issue 515 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 9: like it has for this data center. 516 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 2: There is so much fear about AI and how it's 517 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 2: going to take everything away that this is how some 518 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 2: local communities are trying to fight back. But it might 519 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,880 Speaker 2: all be for nothing. I mean, there's already a lot 520 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 2: of situations where a lot of these companies have realized 521 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 2: they've over invested in the infrastructure that they have, and 522 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 2: AX is one of those companies where now they're leasing 523 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 2: out the data center infrastructure they already built to other 524 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 2: companies because they turns out they don't need it as 525 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 2: much because not that many people are using groc Besides 526 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 2: John I don't understand why people are so hostile to AI. 527 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 2: The moment I heard about it, I thought to myself, Wait, 528 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 2: in the future, I'm going to be able to be 529 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 2: even lazier than I am today. 530 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: Sign me up. 531 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 2: You know, I was wary about AI until I started 532 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 2: making graphics for this video broadcast that you get to 533 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 2: see during the commercial breaks, and now I am all 534 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 2: in Google Gemini powers every single one of those silly 535 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 2: pictures that I make. 536 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: I'm surprised you haven't done anything with Betsy Ross. 537 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,959 Speaker 2: I'm trying to. You know, there are certain safeguards that 538 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 2: are on these AIS. You can't just tell it to 539 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 2: generate anything. It took quite a few different queries to 540 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 2: get an approval from the AI to give me a 541 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 2: picture of Gavin Newsome wearing a diaper, and still they 542 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 2: added over his suit so I can't make him look 543 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 2: like baby Richard. 544 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 9: According to city administrator Matt Morley. 545 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 11: I'm not aware of a project such as this in 546 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 11: Gilroy that has created this issue. 547 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 2: Certain this guy has a picture of garlic in his office. 548 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: Yes, I didn't want to say anything, but Mayor Bozo 549 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: had a shirt that said Gilroy on it and the 550 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: logo for the town was garlic. 551 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 2: I mean that is what they are known for, the 552 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 2: gil I've always wanted to go to the Gilroy Garlic Festival. 553 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, certain towns are known for certain things. That 554 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: doesn't mean it needs to be in every single piece 555 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: of literature. I mean, Brentwood, California is known for OJ 556 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: Simpson killing Nicole. What do you think they should put 557 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: on on the website there? 558 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 8: What's going on in America. 559 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 11: In the cities? 560 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 2: A sure, hope Brentwood is known for something else? 561 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: Well, could you think anything else more famous than that 562 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: that they're known for? 563 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 2: Betty White lived there. 564 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 11: All over the country and certainly in California and the 565 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 11: Bay Area deal with this on a regular basis. 566 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 9: Morley says, Amazon checked all the boxes for environmental reviews 567 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 9: and committed to using one recycled water. 568 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 2: So this isn't going to use any extra water, which 569 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 2: some of these data centers don't do that, and they're 570 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 2: driving up the cost of energy. But it's also possible 571 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 2: that the energy monopolies are pushing up the cost because 572 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 2: they think the public thinks, oh, they'll blame AI instead 573 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 2: of blaming PG and Ean Sokal Edison and San Diego 574 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 2: Gas and Electric. 575 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: Well, maybe that's what they need to do. From a 576 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: pr standpoint. Let the world know they're only going to 577 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: use water that no one else wont so they should 578 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: all go buy it from Flint, Michigan. 579 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 9: Along with clean and carbon free energy. He says, the 580 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 9: approval process includes multiple channels. 581 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,239 Speaker 11: We currently have a decision tree essentially that takes us 582 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 11: through the steps of approving a project. 583 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 2: You really should lean into it here and call it 584 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 2: a decision bulb, and. 585 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 11: We follow that decision tree. 586 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 9: That tree may have another branch later this summer. As 587 00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 9: Bozo and Calcium. 588 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 2: I can't ever get past it. 589 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: If you're the city clerk and you have to read 590 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: that name every time there's a vote, how do you 591 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: keep a straight face? 592 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 2: All rise for Boso. He doesn't even try to like 593 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 2: say no, no, no, it's Baso. He goes for it. 594 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 2: It's Boso. 595 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 9: Members consider amending Gilroy zoning cost I. 596 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 2: Will say in this story about Gilroy residents complaining about 597 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 2: the data center every shot of the city. It's a 598 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 2: beautiful placed. 599 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 9: To enhance public outreach that could delay projects even further, 600 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 9: But for residents like Landon, it protects what he loves. 601 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 9: About his city. 602 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 15: In August, the Gilroy City Council will consider the amendments 603 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 15: Kevin just mentioned. Construction on the Amazon Data center will continue. 604 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 15: It's scheduled to be operational by the end of this year. 605 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 2: There you go. That is the fight going on right 606 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 2: now in Gilroy over an Amazon data listener Carrie just 607 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 2: commented in the chat he said Brentwood is where Marilyn 608 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 2: Munroe's house was, and then he also told us in 609 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 2: a separate comment, don't forget rob Ryaner was murdered there. 610 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 2: I don't know if that's any better than being known 611 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 2: for the OJ murders. It really isn't. 612 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: I know that Kerry's trying to help, but it's just 613 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 1: another negative connotation, you know what I mean? 614 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 2: Yep, Crazy eight writes in Gemini is worse for protection. 615 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 2: But now Grock charges for image generation. Yeah. I started 616 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 2: making my Gavin new some pictures on Grock and then 617 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 2: it said you used your limit this week, pay us 618 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 2: thirty dollars a month or wait till next week. So 619 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 2: I said, screw you, Elon, I'm going to Google. I 620 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,479 Speaker 2: can't only make ten pictures of Gavin a week. 621 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: You've really gone wild with those graphics and people love them. 622 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 2: I have free reign to do whatever I want to 623 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 2: do in the morning after I take my pilates class, 624 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 2: and instead of sitting on the couch and playing my Nintendo, 625 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 2: I'm on my computer making silly little graphics for this 626 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 2: show and laughing like a hyena. 627 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: And I love them all. 628 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 2: And hey, if you're watching the feed right now, you're 629 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 2: going to see all of them during the break. 630 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: Well, just imagine what that Carol Burnett would have done 631 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: with you. And I don't mean that sexually. 632 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 2: No, he means the cartoons that they used to put 633 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 2: before the sketch. 634 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: But maybe she'd be into you sexually too. I don't know. 635 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 2: We really need to go to break. 636 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 637 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: a telephone number. There seems to be some debate going 638 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 1: on right now in chat as to just exactly where 639 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe lived, and there are some listeners who were 640 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: disputing that she lived in Brentwood. 641 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 2: So I guess it's only OJ that they're known for then, huh. 642 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: Well, and Rob Reiner not great, No, we have to 643 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: find something positive that's happened in Brentwood, California. 644 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 2: Well, you tried typing that into groc but Eli Mutt 645 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 2: charged you thirty bucks. 646 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,719 Speaker 1: Isn't that where Joan Crawford used to beat her kids too? 647 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 2: Is that positive? 648 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,800 Speaker 1: I don't know. They seem to do what they were told. 649 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: You didn't see them on any bikes, did you? 650 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 9: No? 651 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,399 Speaker 1: You did not? All right. There's a bar at San 652 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,280 Speaker 1: Francisco that has now prohibited cell phones. 653 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 2: And in fact it's something that this speakeasy has been 654 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 2: doing since two thousand and six, before the phones even 655 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,239 Speaker 2: got smart. But if you want to drink at this bar, 656 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 2: you're going to have to have an actual conversation with somebody. 657 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 2: For more on this scary concept, here is kpix in 658 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:04,760 Speaker 2: the Bay. 659 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 10: So, in a city that's launched thousands of startups, the 660 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 10: hottest trend in nightlife is going decidedly low tech or 661 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 10: e TI had looks at why more bars and restaurants 662 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 10: are putting down the phone and picking up the conversation. 663 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 13: The secret word you say quietly after pressing the nondescript 664 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,439 Speaker 13: buzzer in San Francisco's Tenderloin Hello Hello. 665 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 9: If you get to the past, petitionally. 666 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 13: Doesn't just open a door. 667 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 2: Hipster's love passwords. 668 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, this is like a prohibition era a bar. 669 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 2: I gotta admit. When I was wandering around Dublin over Christmas, 670 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 2: we did get a tip to a speakeasy that was 671 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 2: under a restaurant and you had to pull you had 672 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,239 Speaker 2: to press the golden pig's nose to get in, and 673 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 2: then a door opened up from a bookcase. I thought 674 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 2: it was pretty cool. It also helped that the cocktails 675 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:02,919 Speaker 2: at the speakeas were really good. 676 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 13: It opens a portal into another time, a time when 677 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 13: passwords great. 678 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 2: See, they always have to have the hidden bookcase. 679 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 1: This is like a game of clue. 680 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 13: Rented access to hidden rooms and liquor flowed freely, even 681 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 13: while the law insisted otherwise. Back then alcohol was prohibited. 682 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:25,400 Speaker 6: Welcome to Bourbon and Brand. 683 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 13: Today it's technology. 684 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:28,840 Speaker 1: And don't you sell phones? 685 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 2: Well? 686 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,800 Speaker 13: Here inside Bourbon and Branch. 687 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I'm salivating. 688 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 1: You really like that bourbon, don't you? 689 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 2: I like a good cocktail. I'll tell you that. 690 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 13: The cocktails are stiff, the lights glow amber, and conversations 691 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 13: happen face to face. Have phones ruined of the social scene? 692 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:49,799 Speaker 14: I think they have. 693 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:54,439 Speaker 13: General manager Anastasia Cortes says the speakeasy has been here 694 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 13: since the nineteen twenties. When new owners took over in 695 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 13: two thousand and six, they made one thing clear. 696 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,200 Speaker 1: No phones people are really looking for. 697 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,320 Speaker 2: By the way, that girl that was sitting at the table, 698 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,360 Speaker 2: she's gonna cheat because she has her Apple Watch and 699 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 2: you can text on that. 700 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,840 Speaker 1: That's how I cheated. Orange theory a way to engage. 701 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 13: With each other, and cities across the country, bars at 702 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,600 Speaker 13: restaurants are now enforcing the same rule, and the generation 703 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,520 Speaker 13: fueling it may surprise you. A twenty twenty six study 704 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 13: found sixty three percent of gen Z intentionally disconnect from 705 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 13: their devices. 706 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,520 Speaker 2: Well, they're the ones that were born with this stuff 707 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 2: and they're sick of it. 708 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 9: You know. 709 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 1: Over at Maddy's in San Francisco, they have a different 710 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: policy to make sure you're paying attention. 711 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 2: Check out yesterday's show if you don't get that reference. 712 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 13: Twenty four year old Addison Sutton admits it's not as 713 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:53,280 Speaker 13: easy as it sounds. Are you having withdrawals right now? 714 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,520 Speaker 12: She no, No, I have alcohol to fix that. 715 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:01,240 Speaker 1: You know, He's honest. 716 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,359 Speaker 2: If I don't have my phone on me, I do 717 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,200 Speaker 2: kind of get to a point where I don't know 718 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,239 Speaker 2: what to do with my hands. But if I am 719 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 2: nursing a drink, it does solve that problem. 720 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 8: Drink for that. 721 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:11,799 Speaker 1: That's why I'm here. 722 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 12: I go this way here. 723 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,560 Speaker 13: CEO Brian Sheehy gave us a tour of the original speakeasy, 724 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,760 Speaker 13: which still has all of its secret exits in case 725 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,840 Speaker 13: police came knocking. And this isn't the. 726 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 2: Ladies Okay, I got to go to this place. This 727 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 2: sounds like so much fun. 728 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: I could tell you're like, take a note. San Francisco 729 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,480 Speaker 1: has a lot of cool spots. 730 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 13: This is not the ladies room. And wild prohibition maybe 731 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:34,840 Speaker 13: long over. 732 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 2: So no women were actually allowed in the bar in 733 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,400 Speaker 2: the twenties. So the ladies room was actually the exit 734 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 2: for when the coppers came and knocking. 735 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 13: So one item that's strictly contraband have you ever had 736 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:52,480 Speaker 13: to boot anyone? Oh? Yeah, regularly, Because the only password 737 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 13: needed here isn't on your phone Google, it's whispered at 738 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 13: the door. 739 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,080 Speaker 10: Okay, So if you do pull out your phone, Bourbon 740 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 10: and Branch says, first timers get a warning. Repeat offenders 741 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,919 Speaker 10: they'll find the exit, and it's not the secret one. 742 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,160 Speaker 2: You're getting banned from the speak easy if you pull 743 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:15,960 Speaker 2: out your phone. 744 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: I know someone who makes everyone at the table take 745 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: their cell phone out and put it in the middle 746 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:28,279 Speaker 1: of the table when he sits down for dinner, so 747 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,000 Speaker 1: no one can have their cell phone. 748 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,040 Speaker 2: How do you deal with that? 749 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,640 Speaker 1: I cheat? Oh yeah, mine's in there. Don't worry about it. 750 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,080 Speaker 1: All right. That's going to do it for us. But 751 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: we'll be back tomorrow at noon for another edition of 752 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:46,840 Speaker 1: The John Phillips Show.