20 MAY 2024 · iHeart’s Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff joins Bill to discuss the FAA bill that would force the agency to craft ‘real world’ rules for airplane evacuations, Biden signing sweeping aviation safety reform bill into law, new airline-refund rules, and why flying budget airlines might not be as cheap as it seems.

20 MAY 2024 · The show closes with Amy talking with the Executive Director of Best Friends Animal Society Brittany Thorn on National Rescue Dog Day.

20 MAY 2024 · Amy takes us ‘Out and About’ to The Valley Hive and talks with co-owner Keith Roberts for World Bee Day TODAY.

20 MAY 2024 · Virginia Duplessis, is the founder of https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/. For more than 35 years, Futures Without Violence has been providing groundbreaking programs, policies, and campaigns to prevent childhood trauma and end gender-based violence around the world. Take a listen.

20 MAY 2024 · Campus Protestants: In the aftermath of the arrests of 47 protesters and the clearing of a Gaza Solidarity Encampment, a confrontation between police and protesters was replaced by simmering hard feelings and questions about what will come next. Minimum Rage: You’ve heard for months that the economy in California can be traced back to one singular devilish law: $20 minimum wage at major fast food restaurants. Turns out, THAT was a lie. LA Law: The Law Makers, Law Breakers and times that there oughta be a law. Wild California: UC San Diego surfers have been https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2024/02/16/bioluminescent-waves-photos-san-diego-beaches over the past week.

20 MAY 2024 · Can’t Afford to California: Home prices in California reached a new record high in April as sales increased despite elevated mortgage rates and the state’s seemingly insurmountable housing shortage. Cost of Cars: When comparing how many miles people drive gasoline, hybrid and electric vehicles, 3-year-old gas cars are driven 12,813 miles a year while EVs are driven 20 percent less, or 10,256 miles. Plug-in hybrids are driven 12,199 miles, or 4.8 percent less than gasoline cars, while standard hybrids are driven 12,471 miles, or 2.7 percent less than gasoline models. Can’t Relate: The notion that bots will one day be an adequate substitute for human contact misunderstands what loneliness really is, and doesn’t account for the necessity of human touch. Young or Dumb: Consumers, especially the rich, are spending big on the colossal, growing longevity industry — spas, food subscriptions, gym memberships and pills.

20 MAY 2024 · There’s No Business Like...: Stream a little stream for me. Here’s the dirty dirt going on in all aspects of entertainment. A Sandwich Just Isn’t a Sandwich: Ankle socks at the gym are out, says Gen-Z. The Rest of the Stories: It’s a question that has https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2018/12/12/a-hot-dog-is-a-taco-a-steak-is-a-salad-a-pop-tart-is-a-calzone-let-the-cube-rule-explain/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2 — and one that fed a years-long legal battle in an Indiana city.Are tacos considered sandwiches. According to one judge in Fort Wayne, Ind., the answer is yes. And he says burritos are sandwiches, too.

19 MAY 2024 · Three of the biggest questions of our time are: Will the earth survive humanity? Will humanity survive itself? Or, will we finally figure out a way to live with ourselves and with the earth?It’s easy to be pessimistic about the answers. When you consider how our power to effect the planet continues to grow while our wisdom does not, perhaps pessimism is the most rational conclusion. The renowned evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson put it this way:“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.”There’s no question in my mind that he was correct. At this point in our story we are essentially infants playing with loaded guns.But I think there may still be room to hope. I think it’s possible, perhaps even probable, that we’ll turn this around. And what is that hope anchored to? Divine intervention? No. Innate human goodness? No. My hope is anchored to the very thing that caused our problems to begin with—good old-fashioned human self-interest.I don’t expect us to ever stop looking out for number one. But what is possible is that we may learn enough about what’s really holding us back versus what really causes us to thrive—for example, the inseverable connection of our own health and well-being to nature—that we make changes to our behaviors, not because we care so much about the future of the planet, but because we care so much about us. I don’t know how probable it is, but it’s at least possible, and so I hold out hope.Personally, I don’t really care what gets us there as long as we get there. If I can convince you that it’s in your own self-interest to make your yard a haven for songbirds then I’ve done my job. I don’t care whether they end up in your trees because of your love for birds or your love of yourself, and neither do the birds for that matter.So, you see, I’m not afraid of the power of human self-interest, only ignorant self-interest. We are not gods. We are not visitors here. We are not foreign to this place, but our problem is we like to think we are. Our species is a product of this world. We are inextricably connected to it and we are at our best when we are most connected to it.That’s good news. And the even better news is: it won’t require self-sacrifice or altruism or even the improvement of basic human nature to get there. All it will take is a little informed self-interest. Because as creatures in this world it turns out that what is truly in our best interest is also best for just about everything else.Old beliefs die hard, even when they are demonstrably false. But I was born into a world of smog and gasoline automobiles and processed food and would never have dreamed of seeing blue skies over Los Angeles, electric cars and solar panels, or organic food competing for shelf space at mainstream grocery stores. Yet, here we are.Things can change very fast once we decide we want something for ourselves. So, on this Sunday afternoon, I say don’t worry about saving the planet, worry about saving yourself. Get out there and truly build yourself a beautiful life, and the rest will follow.

19 MAY 2024 · Ocean Breeze Florals in Newport Beach- a family owned and run flower shop. They do flowers for all occasions. Take a listen!

19 MAY 2024 · Chef Omari brought the most beautiful and tasty tomahawk steak and gifted a lucky listener with a $250 gift card to the Palm. Take a listen to all the Palm has to offer.