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KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here. It is a Tuesday morning, February the fourth. Then, since it is Tuesday, and since it is eight o'clock, it is time for a tech segment with Rich Tomorrow, kfi's tech reporter, host of Rich on Tech here on Saturdays KFI and that's eleven am to two pm. And you can follow him rich on well Instagram, at rich on Tech website, rich on tech Dot TV.
Morning Rich, Hey, Good morning to Bill Hockey Tuesday.
Good good to you.
Yes, real quickly before we get into the topics, big congratulations, big kudos. Your show, syndicated show just got into New York.
And for those of us.
That are sort of familiar with all this, getting into New York is almost a miracle.
I mean that that's no small deal.
I'm not kidding. I wrote this on my Instagram. The first question I asked when I heard I was getting a show was will it be on in New York City? And the answer was no. And that was that was two years ago, and I've been asking, I've literally been begging ever since, and finally they said, okay, I think we think you're ready. And so this weekend, the same show that you hear in LA will be on in New York City.
Now, I've been doing a handle on the Law since nineteen eighty five. It's on two hundred and sixty stations give or take, you know what.
You know what city. It's not in New York. Yeah, yeah, well I'm.
Telling you you know New York here too, Bill Miracle, I've been producing the Jesus Show that has been on for over two decades and it's national.
I don't think we're on in New York. Yeah.
It's it's not easy to do it really is. It's it's it's a big, big deal. So congratulations and.
Very well done.
Yeah, thank you. This is this was a big part of it, Bill, doing this with you. You know, I learn from the best, and you know this is this helped this. You know, people want good tech information and you know, hopefully we can give it to all.
Yeah, you don't have to suck it up. Okay, that's fine. Uh what was it?
It's Premier Radio, right, are they syndicating you?
Yes?
Yeah, the radio the same.
Syndication company that I work with, and uh, you know, as powerful as they are, and they're the biggest syndication company in the world. Getting into New York is almost impossible, So good for you. All right, let's move right into who just went was that you?
Okay, no, all right, I don't know who that was.
Let's talk about iPhones unlocking locked cabinets at stores like CBS. Going to CVS and trying to get a bottle of shampoo that's in a locked case and you have to call the clerk over done lock it is. It's like beyond horrible. And there's now technology this sort of bypasses that.
Yeah, this is pretty common in the LA area I know, and mohere I live, they have locked up everything, uh slowly but surely. And so yes, like you said, you got to go into these aisles. It makes you almost not want to shop there because you got to call someone and wait for someone to come over and unlock the case. And in the case of a Walmart that I went to, not only do they unlock the case and give you the product, but then they lock it
up in a secondary case. So you bring it to the kech here in a lock.
Box, I know, you get a yeah, a razor blade and it comes into a box that you can shoe box size box.
Yes, crazy, Yeah, So what does this do?
So?
What does this does? How does it undo that?
So CBS is trying to use technology to help shoppers. So the idea is that you have the CVS app installed on your phone. You're logged in, and when you go to one of these shelves, you can use the app on your phone to unlock the box and so that you can you know, pull out your deodorant or whatever you need, the shampoo bottle and then it locks back up and so you don't have to call someone over. You can do it from your phone. And the idea is to make this easier, but also they know who
you are. It's not going to be for everyone. You're logged into the app. It gets people to download the app, It eases some of the frustration. Right now, they're testing this at just a handful of stores, but they're expecting or hoping to expand it to more stores before rolling it out to every store. If it works, I mean, the idea is that you know, hopefully this still cuts down on thefts, but it makes it easier for people to shop there.
Yeah, But the whole point of course is security, which you've just undone some security. And so what you're saying is that the safeguards that they know who you are, they know what time it's being done, they can timestamp at all of that is enough to charity whether you can unlock those ridiculous cabinets.
Is that the philosophy.
Yeah, I mean it sounds like a good idea because you know, if it works for the consumer. I mean, to me, like, I've stopped going as a stores that I know, or I've stopped buying things that those stores that I know are locked up. So if I knew that, oh, I can walk into the CBS. I've got the app on my phone. Yeah, it's a little headache to log
in and sign up and all that stuff. But at the same time, if I can do that, I know I can go into that store, it might actually be a better process because I know I can walk straight to that aisle, grab what I need, unlock the case, grab what I need, and get out of there without waiting for someone. So it might actually be a good thing for sales. But balancing the idea that people just apparently steal everything they can get their hands on at these stores.
Yeah, and waiting for someone in this day and age, when they keep a skeleton staff no matter what, and you're waiting for a clerk who the last thing the clerk wants to do is come over there and open the case and then relock it. Or you're looking at it. I don't think so put it.
Back in, right.
You feel guilty now once they bring it over, like once they open the case. You know, if you're buying like shampoo or deodorant, whatever it is. You know, people like to linger, they like to look at the labels, they like to smell it. But you can't do any of that when the person comes over. It's like this pressure of like, okay, let me just choose. Well, just take that one and you run out of there, you know, all.
Right, Rich were don't talk about the super Bowl? And uh yeah, I don't want to. Okay, it's here's what's gonna happen. We when I watch the Super Bowl and the Chiefs are probably gonna win, and or they're not going to win.
Okay, we're done now.
The reason I am switching gears is during the break, Neil was talking about a segment that you were talking about on your show this past weekend about this new trailer, an electric trailer, and he got so excited about well, he's been so excited about he wanted to talk about it, and I go, okay, so what's tell me about it?
Because this is new stuff, isn't it.
Yeah, it's really really cool. So this got a lot of publicity. A couple of years ago they came out with the video that showed off some of the But now I actually went up to Fremont, California, up near San Francisco to actually try this thing out. So it's called the Pebble Flow and it's a it's a high tech RV, so it's it's been reinvented from the ground up. It's all electric. A lot of guys from Tesla and SpaceX and Rivian and NASA, those are the people that
are building this thing. And basically the guy who started it told me like, hey, you know, I really during the pandemic, I really wanted to start rving, but it was a pain to back this thing up, all the considerations you had to have, and he said, so there has to be a better way to get r ving to a new generation of people like myself that are smartphone centric and so I think the neatest feature, besides all the you know, the fact that this thing looks
really nice, the neatest feature Bill is that you take an iPad. This thing is in your driveway or on the street, and you use the iPad to drive it around, like to a parking spot. So it's not like driving per se. But it's moving, so you can spin it around. Three hundred and sixty two.
Well it moves on it and I'm looking at it is, but does it moves on its own?
Yes, it moves on its own. It's wild. You you literally control it with an iPad app. And so when I first they said here, take the controller. They didn't tell me how to do it. They just said try it. And so I'd start putting my hands on the iPad. And when you start seeing this thing move, this giant you know, six thousand pounds RV, your brain thinks, oh, this thing's just gonna roll down the street, right because
you've never seen it unhitched moving. And sure enough you stop, you take your hand off the iPad, it stops moving. You rotate it around, it stops moving. I mean, it's such a cool feature that that alone is enough to make a lot of people. You know, Okay, I can move over this thing into my parking lot now or
my campsite, but it keeps going. So you've got this magic hitch feature, which means you put the thing near your car, the hitch on the back of your car, and it will find the hitch and hitch itself, just like you know the guy who worked on the Space station. That's who worked on this seriously. And then it's got this other feature where it automatically levels itself out and it gets to your campsites. You don't have to figure
out how to make it level. You just tap a button and it will figure out the ground, where to put the things up and down whatever you need to do. Really cool and by the way, all electrics, so you can use it as a ADU if you want in your driveway, I mean obviously check your local regional laws or whatever. You could use it as a mobile office. You can use it to charge your EV because it's got a big battery and solar on the top. Price tag over one hundred thousand dollars for this pebble flow.
It's beautiful and I'm looking at a video of it, and now do you need a super car to.
Tow it, or can you do it with an SUV for example, Yeah, you should be able to.
And that's the other feature that it has built into It actually has its own electric motor in it, so we try driving it with the motor on and off. So when you have the motor on, it actually helps propel your car forward. So it's using the idea that a lot of people might be using EV's, Like the kind of people that might buy this might also have an EV, so you know, if you're trailing something behind
your EV, you're gonna use a ton of energy. So this actually will propel itself to save the energy from your car. They say, I think they said you get about double the mileage that you would typically get if you weren't if you weren't propelling.
And are they selling? You know, what sizes do they come in? That's the first question.
So it's one size right now, and it's you know, they put a lot of thoughtful features into it. It's got a nice big kitchen. It's got a sleeping area, another sleeping area kind of a pull out bed like a murphy bed that turns into an office area. You've got you know, like I said, a ton of storage.
Oh the other thing that's cool are the glass. The glass on this thing has an electrostatic feature so that you tap a button on it and the glass goes frosted, and then you tap the button again and the glass goes clear. So in the bathroom it's got that and also on the other windows. So one size right now. They're hoping, you know, in the future to make different sizes. But this thing is a startup, you know, they got
to get off the ground. They've got to get people interested in actually purchasing this thing and proving that they can, you know, make this thing better over times.
Absolutely gorgeous. Yeah, I can see why Neel that all excited about that.
Would I buy one a you know, i'd rent one first, but they're probably not for rent. All right, really quickly, let's talk about the Super Bowl coming up and how you can watch it in four K this year for free. First question is why, I mean, is there a big difference? And two how do you watch it for free? Because I assume it's going to cost you money otherwise.
Yeah, yeah, I mean you could watch it, you know, obviously over the air, but this is the first time they're going to be streaming it in four K for free, you got to get the two B app t U b I. This is Fox's free, free ad supported streaming service. But the trick is, even if you have the app, you still have to have two things to watch this in four K. You have to have a four K enable TV, which duh, I mean if you're going to be watching it four K, But you also have to
have a four K enabled streaming device. That's a Roku that's a Fire TV stick or a Fire TV device, an Apple TV or an Android TV that runs Google. All of those have to be four K, plus your TV has to be four K. Those two things for this to line up and give you four K for free on the Super Bowl. The other thing bill is to be Typically you can download the app and just
start watching for the Super Bowl game. They of course got smart and said no, we want to collect a lot of email addresses, so you do have to sign in with your email address. It's still free, but my advice is to do this now. Don't wait until people come over to your house to set this up. Download it now, sign up now. Make sure you're ready to go for the big game on.
Sunday, Okay, are you going to be watching?
Of course I'm rooting for the Chiefs because of you know, Taylor Swift and my wife.
Wow, you know what, I wouldn't admit that, Cono cut that out? Would you? For the when we do?
Are you going to use the dumb but we.
Already we already have rich don't you don't any of that? All right, we'll catch you this weekend. Congratulations on New York, by the way, and we'll see a next We'll see an next Tuesday.
All right.
For those of you that are unfortunately have been affected by the fires and their thousands and those who know people affected, which is tens of thousands, what's going on right now is people looking at their homes and they have to remove what was once there burn toxic, explosive in some cases, remnants of houses, possessions, and so the issue of how long it may take to rebuild right now is not even on the table.
It's how long will it be to remove the debris that's the problem.
So you have an estimated sixty one hundred homes burning out Tadena, fifty five in Palisades, and everyone wants the debris remove.
From their property.
Like now, there are a couple of things about this that I want to share with you that I was talking to a contractor. And by the way, no one wants to take the debris. I mean, it's a real nimby issue. So residents in the San Gabriel Valley near Lario Park, that's where the Eaton fire is going to have its garbage spread, they're thrilled with that one, the debris. And then the Topanga the Palisades fire going to go to a location near Topanga Canyon and Pacific Coast Highway
owned by the county. All right, So the US Army Corps engineer, the colonel who's in charge, who's overseeing the phase two debris removal process, said that that stage stage two will take less than a year. And it used to say, or the word was it was taken to say, three months to make a dent. Karen Vass said, no, it's closer to one month, and there are a lot
of issues going on. Number one, the logistical challenge. First phase can only be done by the EPA as long as it's still around, and that's hazardous materials, paints, cleaners, car batteries.
Some properties can take longer than others.
Obviously, if you have a home solar system with batteries, that's going to be a different story. And the timeline for the EPA to accomplish removal has gone down from three months to one month. And this is a lot of pressure from the Trump administration and local officials. The Trump administration has come down hard and saying you have to clean this up as quickly as possible.
Some properties will be cleared earlier than others, clearly.
I mean, if you only have so many excavators, so many dump truck someone's got to go first and last. The second phase involves structural debris foundations, recyclables, trees, and up to six inches of soil that's on the property. That can take two to ten days per property. And here's what homeowners get to do. They get a choice. You can either do it yourself and assuming your insurance covers it, have your insurance pay for it. Or you can have it done for free. And that's using the
Army Corps of Engineers. Who is going to in this organization will clear the debris on your property.
So who is going to pay?
I mean, if it's free from the Army Corps of Engineers, they know what they're doing. Why would you ever do.
It for free? Aha?
Here is the catch here, and that is if the Army Corps of Engineer comes in and cleans out goes the foundation. And if you are building from scratch, starting with a lot, now you're subject to all of the codes, the new rules. For example, the setback. It used to be that the setback was five feet from the street. Well, under the new rule that've been passed a few years ago,
the setback is now eight feet. And if you tear out the foundations and have to build again on what is a lot, you now have to add another three feet worth the setback. And then we're talking about codes all over the place, the earthquake codes, I mean all of it. And so a lot of people are saying, wait a minute. If you keep the foundation and it's easy to find out if they're cracked or not, the
foundations in decent shape, that's an easy call. Then you use the existing footprint and you use a lot of the existing code. That's why you see when someone is remodeling their home and literally taking it down to the foundation, there's always one wallup.
They always keep one wallup because.
That makes it a remodel, not a new build, and there's a huge difference, and how many homes are actually going to be rebuilt. That becomes problematic because I was just told I was stunned this.
A couple days ago.
I was having a conversation with someone who really knows this stuff, and I said, how much does it cost to build your house? Because I built mine. I built a Persian palace, and I don't know. I paid three hundred dollars a foot square foot to build it. And he told me it's one thousand dollars a square foot today easily for a custom home. And all those homes
and Palisades were customed thousand dollars. So a five thousand square foot home, which is not unusual for the Palisades, is a five million dollar rebuild.
Hard costs.
That's the cost of a lumber, that's the cost of the appliances, the guy who hammer the lumber together. It's five million bucks for five thousand square foot home.
Let me tell you something.
Insurance policies don't cover that if you're on the Fair Plan. People that were uninsured and could only get the Fair Plan fire insurance which were covered the max.
There are three million dollars.
And as I do commercials for Reuben adjusting, it's all about the insurance companies.
If you have a.
Five million dollar rebuild, they won't give you five million dollars, or they won't give you two million dollars. You'll see, Okay, we'll give you one point five, we'll give you one point seven. You know, we'll replace your cabinets that were custom made with basically IKEA level cabinets, because look at the policy, it only says replacement of cabinets.
So it is a mess that's going on out there. Where to cover it?
And of course it's this has been it's it's not going to be news any longer. Certainly it's disappeared from the national news. You know the agenda, so you know, no one cares out there for us, Uh, it's it's a little closer. And of course for those people that are caught up in it, this is a nightmare that is going to go on for a very long time. And if people bought a home and they're going to rebuild it, let me tell you in the ride you're four, because I have built a home.
It's not easy stuff at all.
All right, A quick ask of you we do a segment every Friday at eight thirty. It's ask Handle Anything. And I need you to help me out on this. I can't do it without you. And it's based on the fact that all of us behind the mic, and for some reason people want to know intimate not intimate secrets, but what do people like when they're not behind the mic? And I get this constantly, so and said, why don't we just do and ask Handle Anything segment?
All right, So we're going for it. We tried it for a few weeks.
You get to ask me anything personal doesn't matter, and I basically answer the question because I'm a pretty open guy. And so here's what you do is you go to the iHeart app. It is free, click on to KFI during the show, and you will see a microphone in the right hand corner and just press the mic, click onto the mic and then just record fifteen seconds and ask me whatever question.
And for the most part, since.
I him reasonably honest, I mean at first I was completely honest. I was embarrassed the hell out of me. So it's just fun. And it's based on the fact that I get this too. What's Neil like in real life? You know, what are Gary and Shannon like when they're off the air. That's just an interest people have. And I've always had that, I mean ever since I started listening to talk radio.
What's the guy like?
You know?
Is he really that way?
You know? And there were people, you know, for example, Rush Limbaugh, you know who I met a few times. His Rush really is bombastic. He was the shyest guy in the world.
Yeah, he's pretty quiet. He was very quiet, very shy.
I mean, his politics were his politics, I mean, there's no question about it. But on the air where he was bombastic and one.
Of the hardest working talk show hosts I've ever seen.
Hours and hours he would be studying us for show. Yeah, I know.
And and he it was worth his tens of millions of dollars a year that he was getting.
But that's just jealousy.
What was it his last contract was like one hundred million or something, well.
I think it annually.
It was in the mid thirties. And that also I think included the jet. It's good to be Rush limbab.
But he was so cool, well not so much right now. No, no, basically being dead so that's not helpful. But he so we do that every Friday at eight thirty, and here's what happens.
And I'll do the show with the DNA testing tomorrow because we're out of time, of course. And what happens is you record those questions and Neil and Ann picked the questions because some of them are the same and they're repetitive, and they picked the questions and you and I get to hear them for the first time. I hear him the same time you and then I answer
the question and it's just great fun. If you care at all, I mean, if you're listening and you give a rats, okay, and if you're not in this, if you're not listening and you don't listen, well then it's not going to help you at all.
That makes sense, No, it does. Amy.
How often you get what's Neil like or what's Handle like in real life?
Never? I know, nobody cares.
No, I get it.
I do get it sometimes, Yeah, And I get it about Neil since Neil and I have really been friends with Neil for thirty years.
As you know, did you really sleep with him naked? Did you?
Uh? Yeah?
And the answer is yeah, for the most part.
I would not belittle you like that. And embarrass you in such a way.
And by the way, I know you use the word belittle in several forms.
There, I get that.
Be tiny you. I would not be tiny you, poor little little man.
Yeah.
No, Neil and I have had some adventures, of which some can be repeated, not all, but some.
It'll be in the book. Yeah you gotta get Yeah, you gotta you have to have some Our trips to Tijuana.
Oh god, remember that one, Oh god, I was We were in a just just a quick side story here. We were in one of our producers at that time. His parents lived in Tijuana, so we went down to spend the day because we were doing some kind of broadcast there. And we were in his pickup truck and going down Avenita Revolution, the big street in Tijuana, and I'm leaning out the window screaming.
To every woman, I saw what and that is?
Uh, let's just you know, slot hooker. You know, it's all all those I thought they were such Oh yeah, but they some of them were, but not the.
Ones that were was in the truck. It was your old lexus. Yeah, it was your lexus. Oh I don't remember that part. Okay, it was your.
Old lexus because I remember I almost just got out and joined.
Oh we came very close to we came very close to dying. All right, guys, we are done. Oh yeah, I'm taking phone calls eight hundred five to eight hundred. What's the number again, eight seven seven I just for I've been doing this for twenty years, and I forget the number. Yeah, eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty.
That's it. Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty.
Handle on the law, off the air, and I'm going to be answering any of your phone calls Marginal Legal Advice. And as always when I take calls Tuesdays and Thursdays, no interruptions, no news, no traffic, and no patience. So I go through them pretty quickly. Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. Starting in just a moment, coming up Gary and Shannon, and they're going to be talking about Rick Caruso's new program here in LA to get things moving for the fires and a whole lot more
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