You're List Saints KFI AM six forty. The bill handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. The Firearms Policy Coalition, in conjunction with the National Rifle
Association, the California Rifle and Pistol Association, and the Second Amendment Foundation have
filed a lawsuit against this new excise tax on guns, gun parts, and
ammunition. This took effect on Monday. This was Assembly Bill twenty eight.
The proponents of it said it would generate almost one hundred and sixty million dollars
in its first year, and that money can go to fund programs for gun
violence prevention, for gang intervention, and who knows what else. So the
lawsuit wants to block the new law, says it's a violation of the Second
Amendment because it is a special tax on gun owners, which it is for
sure a special tax on gun owners. We have similar taxes in this society.
Alcohol has a special tax, tobacco has a special tax. And what
alcohol and tobacco and guns have in common, and I don't think anybody's gonna
want to argue with me about this, is that they are legal. These
are all legal things. In the hands of the wrong person or misused can
cause big problems for individual people or for society as a whole. So in
that sense, guns are just like alcohol and tobacco. We don't want to
completely make them illegal. Well now we can't even if you wanted to,
but there's some level of responsible ownership and use of these products. Here's where
they're different, though, and that's what's behind this lawsuit. Only guns are
connected to a constitutional right. There's no constitutional right to have alcohol or tobacco.
There is a constitutional right to have a gun, with of course the
exceptions that exist and so forth, and regulations and requirements. But the core
bottom line is the Second Amendment is implicated. Just like, say, if
you wanted to put a special tax on printing presses. I know, I
know what you're saying. Oh my god, it's twenty twenty four. Nobody's
using printing presses anymore. Yes, I'm just trying to make the point.
A special tax on printing presses would be different than a special tax on booze
or tobacco because a printing press is to print material, which is a form
of communication, which has First Amendment protection. So it's the same idea.
So in any event, here comes this lawsuit. Now we talk about this
with Bill on do they have a case all the time, this issue of
standing and you know, do you have the right to file a lawsuit?
And you can't file a lawsuit unless you've been hurt by this law. So
they had to find somebody who's been hurt by this new tax, and they
say that they have and her name is Danielle James. And the way that
she has been hurt by this tax on guns, according to the lawsuit,
is she was gonna buy a gun, specifically a six hour P three sixty
five ex Macro I guess, a little semi automatic pistol. She was going
to purchase this gun, as is her Second Amendment right, and she put
it off because this tax increased what it would cost to buy the gun.
So now she has to save up the money to get the gun. And
she says, I would buy this gun now, but because it's gonna cost
me eleven percent more, I'm not going to. Therefore, this tax has
infringed on my exercise of a Second Amendment right. Then there's a guy that
they found, Josh Gerkin, who is from Orange County who sometimes is a
firearms instructor at the local gun ranges and he purchases, you know, quite
a bit of ammunition, and he says, I'm gonna have to buy less
ammunition because it costs eleven percent more. So that's the basis. Now,
listen, I you know, I don't know how compelling these two examples are.
I'm not gonna lie to you. I can't believe that you have the
money for this gun. But if it's eleven percent more, not only do
you not have the money for the gun, but you're not gonna have the
extra eleven percent for all long time. And the other guy, I guess
observation there is he's saying, well, I might cut back. Okay,
have you cut back? Have you, for example, been unable to teach
a class because you could not afford the ammunition? I'm not sure here,
but I get the idea. I get the core idea behind the lawsuit,
which is there's a Second Amendment right in play, and if the government puts
a special tax on a constitutionally protected right, that's illegal. And that's the
theory. And I'm not saying they're right, and I'm not saying they're wrong.
I'm saying that's what's happening. And By the way, anyone who's surprised
by this lawsuit is kind of a dullard because you could have seen this coming
miles and miles away. And then I want to leave you with this because
listen, one thing I really believe everybody can agree on is that you should
be at least minimally responsible with your firearm. You know, if you have
kids in the house, you got to keep that firearm locked up. A
guy in Pennsylvania now has been arrested and charged because a three year old child
in the house accidentally shot a lady in the back and there were apparently other
young children in proximity to this gun. Now where was this gun, because
sometimes you hear about a kid finds the gun in its hiding place or something
like that, where there's been some effort to hide the gun and it failed.
Well, apparently this gun was sitting on a table, already locked and
cocked and loaded. He was the dude, this guy, Brian Zigfree,
who's forty one. He was like, you know, handling the gun,
puts it down right there on the table with all these kids around. So
all the three year old had to do was pick it up and by happenstance,
point it in the wrong direction, and get the trigger pulls. So
I guess I just want to leave, like on a note of solidarity with
everybody, which is everybody agrees this guy is a total jerk and should be
criminally punished for that. Right, don't disappoint me with angry tweets or whatever
you're gonna do. All right, we'll get some news from Heather Brooker in
the KFI newsroom and then some room room news. GM paying millions and millions
of dollars because of something going on with their cars, and it's not the
first time. Apparently you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI Am six
forty. We got some information in if you feel like the rent is it's
too damn high here in southern California, well here's some stats to prove it.
Although you might be surprised. Yes, California has some of the highest
per square foot rental costs in the country. But we're not number one or
number two, three, or four. We're number five average of two dollars
and ninety six cents per square foot. If you want to pay more on
average, you can go to Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York or Washington DC.
If you want to pay as little as possible, you can go to
North Dakota, where the average rental is only a dollar eight cents per square
foot. Also, we have the eleventh smallest average apartment size in the country.
The average California apartment is eight hundred and fifty one square feet, five
percent below the national average. If you want the tiniest average apartment possible,
get on up to Alaska. And if you want the biggest, you got
to go to Georgia. Apparently the average apartment size in Georgia is over one
thousand square feet. Now let's talk about some car news. GM will pay
a little bit over one hundred and forty five million dollars in penalties because a
federal investigation found that about six million of their cars were spitting out more emissions
than they were saying. Not only do they have to pay the money as
a penalty, they have to give up about fifty million metric tons in carbon
allowances. These are their cars from the twenty twelve to twenty eighteen model years,
and they were spitting out about ten percent more carbon dioxide than the initial
compliance reports said. Now, this is not like the Volkswagen thing. You
may remember the Volkswagen thing in twenty whatever it was fifty teen sixteen, where
Volkswagen was found to on purpose with a special device, cheat in the testing
of their emissions. They would put this thing on the car and then test
it and then go, oh, these are our emissions, ha ha.
So they got in big trouble. Now, GM is not accused of doing
anything like that. I don't believe that they did anything like that, but
they did. They screwed up and understated the amount of emissions. So they're
going to have to pay that money. The EPA is not making them recall
any of these cars that are spitting out a little more emissions than they're supposed
to. It's not the first time that GM has paid money for fuel and
emission related problems. Last year apparently they paid one hundred and twenty eight million
for fuel economy penalties because they didn't meet the requirements. Now, before that,
guess what, That fuel economy program has been in place for like forty
years, and before last year they had not paid any kind of fine for
forty years. So it's not like they're a nair Dwell company. But uh
yeah, I've been caught with a few problems. Now, oh man,
okay, street racing. We know street racing is a problem. We know
that law enforcement tries to do something about it, but it's almost impossible.
I think Bill even talked about this on the show very recently about the laws
that they passed just don't work. So there's another solution that somebody is trying.
And the idea is, well, what if you could give the experience
of street racing, but not on the streets. And that is what Leadfoot
City hopes to provide. It's the first ever automotive sports theme park. They'll
be a restaurant, they'll be a bar, there'll be an event space,
they'll have an amphitheater. I'm sure that they'll have concerts. They'll have a
burnout pit and and a mile long drag strip. And the way that they're
gonna do this is they want it to feel like not that you're on a
dragstrip at a racetrack. That's not what they want you to feel like.
They want you to feel like you're in the city, like you're on Sepulvida
and now you can go And they said this is designed for racing hobbyists or
those looking to put the hammer down on their personal vehicles and feel the adrenaline
rush. And the guy behind it, the creator of this attraction, whose
name is Achilles Thomas. I hope he's not a heel. I'm sorry,
I shouldn't have he said. Hey, even mom can come in her minivan
as long as the car is safe, meets our minimum safety criteria. She
can get on this dragstrip. She can send the kids over to the game
section at this park. She can get on the drag strip and put the
pedal to the metal. I know people will go and do it. I
don't think the people who are causing the problem with the street racing are gonna
do it because they're not gonna see it as an acceptable alternative. Because part
of the thrill for the street racing near Doells is that you're not supposed to
be doing it. So the second you say, well, you can do
the same thing. You can go really fast and race your buddy, but
it's allowed, they're like, no, thanks. The adrenaline rush comes because
it's forbidden. All right. Now, we're gonna get news from Heather Brooker,
and then for the next part of the show, we're gonna talk about
food. Yes, we're gonna do Foody Friday. Neil is off today,
but we're still gonna bring you Foody Friday and a possibly desperate attempt to make
a certain food seem healthy. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI
AM six forty some of the stories following for you. Over in Britain,
they had a big snap election and the Conservative Party that has been controlling things
for fourteen years is not going to be controlling nothing anymore. The Labor Party
has won the crucial number of seats that secures them a majority in the Parliament.
There, all right, let's get into this. We're gonna do some
Foody Friday. I know that Neil is off, but I like Foody Friday
on a Friday, and I like food, and I like the first subject
of today's Foody Friday? Ice cream. Is there anybody on this show who
doesn't like ice cream? To me, this is a very yeah. I
didn't think anybody would speak up. There might be one of you that doesn't
like ice cream, but I'm guessing you're too afraid. I mean, I
like non dairy ice cream, Okay, all right, that counts. I
like the real stuff. Can't have the real stuff. I'm sorry. Oh
my well, all right, So everybody who loves ice cream, right,
yes, So here's the thing. We all love ice cream in some form
or another. Nobody says ice cream is healthy. Nobody walks around and says,
hey, you know, I'm trying to eat more healthy, so I've
started eating more ice cream. But there are some dietitians who are trying to
make ice cream sound healthy. For example, and I will name them.
There's a dietitian named Shelley. Oh, don't giggle when I say her name.
I swear to God her name is Shelly Balls. And she said in
an interview with Yahoo that, well, one of the benefits of icecream nutritionally
is that a serving of ice cream has about twelve percent of your daily requirement
for calcium. And calcium is a nutrient that we most of us, don't
get enough of. It's under consumed in our normal eating pattern. So how
about that when you have that ice cream cone, you're getting some calcium also,
she says six grams of protein preserving plus or minus a little bit,
depending on the brand, And that's the same amount of protein in a hard
boiled egg or an ounce of almonds. Okay, fine, there are obviously
sources of calcium that are healthier than ice cream and protein. But fine.
Now Here comes Stephanie Vanta Zelfton, another dietitian who was talking to Yahoo,
and she said, and I want to believe that whoever wrote this is mischaracterizing
what she said, but it says she often recommends ice cream as a dessert
option for her diabetic clients. Now the thinking is this, Okay, ice
cream has sugar, yes, but it also has fat and protein. So
if you combine the fat and the protein with the sugar, it actually reduces
the spike that you might see if you ate something that was more sugary.
I mean, this makes I guess I could see this that it would be
better if you're diabetic, it would be better to eat ice cream than to
eat cotton candy. But I also I would think, and I don't want
to bum anybody out, but if you're diabetic, maybe the best dessert option
is not dessert. So now, of course, if you follow anything on
social media, you see this new trend which is to really try to make
ice cream healthier. And it's all these people who are basically making ah I
want to say fake ice cream. It's all these fitness people. I'm sure
you've seen them on your TikTok, your Instagram reels, whatever where they're taking
Like, take some cottage cheese. This is true. If you haven't seen
this, I'm about to make you go yuck. Maybe take some cottage cheese
and some protein powder and maybe some I like stevia, and put it in
the blender and then pour it in a dish and then put it in the
freezer. And that's ice cream. And boy is it healthy. It might
be healthy, but it's not ice cream. Also, the people that are
talking about, oh, what you do is you take your ice cream and
then you put other stuff in it to make it healthier, like chia seeds
and hemp seeds and oats. Yeah, if I'm gonna give an ice cream
cone to a horse, I might do that. Oh. I love ice
cream, don't get me wrong. I love it. I love it too
much. I really do love it too much. Remember when Nancy Pelosi was
in the news because she did some video from her house and she was showing
off her kitchen and she opened up this fancy refrigerator and like she had an
entire refrigerator that was nothing but pints of super premium ice cream. Remember that?
And people are like, what's wrong with you, lady? And I
was like, why do you only have one refrigerator that's entirely full of ice
cream? But I'm never gonna pretend the ice cream is healthy. Let's talk
about this now. The weekend is coming, It's a holiday weekend. There's
gonna be a ton of cooking out going on. And cooking out has a
long history in this country. And one thing I found out that was amazing
is how the charcoal briquette was invented and the people, the four people that
are involved in making it. So you can go to the grocery store and
get a bag of Kingsford charcoal burgett. And I'm not being preferential to the
Kingsford brand, except that Eg Kingsford, who was a real estate agent,
is one of these four guys responsible for you having it. The other three
are Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and some guy named John Burrows who's probably
really mad that he's nowhere near his famous as these other people. But it
all started when, you know, Henry Ford was building cars and back in
the day the Model t's had wood. The running boards were wood, the
dashboards were wood, the spokes of the wheels were wood. You needed about
one hundred feet of hardwood for each car. So he got with this EG.
Kingsford was actually a real estate agent, and they worked together and they
bought this huge parcel of timberland up in Michigan, I think like three hundred
thousand acres, and they built a saw mill there and a parts plant there,
and they actually founded a town called Kingsford for the workers to live in.
And they started making the stuff for the cars. And then Henry Ford
said, look at all this wasted wood, though, what a waste of
money, this wood that we that aren't going into the parts. What can
we do with it? And so one of the chemists that Ford, found
a way to take this wood scrap and mix it with some other stuff and
create these little lumps of fuel and they called them charcoal bricketes. Now,
what is Thomas Edison's role. His role is he helped design a factory to
make these charcoal brickets right next to the sawmill there. And eventually, long
story short, Kingsford ended up getting the name on a charcoal bricket company in
the fifties. That's why the Kingsford brand is named after this guy. And
once that happened in the fifties where you could just walk into a grocery store
and get him, that's when barbecues went crazy in this country. And the
other thing is that the reason we associate grilling with men is because that's how
it was marketed. All the advertising about grilling out in the fifties and the
sixties. Not only was it always a man, always at the grill in
the ad, but you had an aggressive message that grilling was for men and
not for women. There was a food writer named Clementine Paddleford who wrote a
column in nineteen sixty where she said barbecue is fast becoming a national sport,
one for men only. And then in that same newspaper they were doing a
cookout competition and they put in the text they go the winners and their wives
could win these prizes, and you couldn't even enter if you were a lady.
Now that's going away, and now there's a lot of women who are
becoming grill masters, even like publicly so, and winning competitions and all of
that. But it did start out as a boys club. Hey, let's
get some news from Heather Brooker and then we'll close out Foody Friday with a
lawsuit about sodas and the potato chip that will rule the world. You're listening
to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty. Now we're doing Foody
Friday, and there's a lawsuit now against the makers of this soft drink brand
called Poppy. None of you've seen it in the stores, but it is
all over the place, and it is a prebiotic soda. Just as we
were talking about a move to try to take ice cream and do something with
it to make it healthier, well, the new trend is taking soda pop
another thing that nobody really is gonna say is healthy, and do something to
it so that you couldn't say it has health benefits. And so what's going
on with Poppy, and I think there's another brand called Allipop that's doing a
similar thing, is to put some fiber in it, prebiotic fiber, to
be exact. And then that is what Poppy touts and the other brands of
these pre biotic soda is tout that you get the soda taste, but you
also get pre biotic fiber and maybe there's less sugar than a regular soda,
but there's still some sugar in it. And this is big business. When
you take a drink and you do something to it like this, you're creating
a foot they call functional beverage. Right, there's this idea that like,
you're not drinking it just because you want a nice drength, you're drinking it
for a health reason as well. And this is apparently a thirteen billion dollar
market now functional beverages. Wow. By contrast, you know kombucha, which
I guess you could say is a functional beverage, but it's also natural about
a billion, maybe maybe one point one one point two billion a year.
Wellness shots, those little things that taste awful that you take about a billion.
But these functional beverages have way more of a market share than that.
And so here comes a lawsuit saying, uh, first of all, you
don't have enough. You may be putting this prebiotic fiber in his soda,
but you don't have enough of it to really do anything. There are scientists
who are dedicated to figuring out how much prebiotic fiber in a can of soda
do you need to have an effect? And there was a researcher out of
the University of Illinois who did the research and wrote a report and said,
if you put seven and a half grams of prebiotic fiber in a soda,
it might forgive me for this. I'm not trying to be gross, but
it might help soften your stools or increase the number of powel movements that you
have every week. And the lawsuit is saying, oh, you know,
seven and a half grams might do something, but you have like two grams
and that's not nearly enough to be making these claims. And so I don't
know what's going to happen with this kind of a lawsuit. I would imagine
the FDA, which does have all kinds of rules about making health claims and
how to label your products, may refine the requirements for what you can put
on a can of this soda. I will tell you that I did try.
I'm not going to say which one. I did try. One of
these brands of SODA's not so much because I thought, oh, that's the
only way I'm going to get any prebiotic fiber, but because was on big
sale that week. It was on a super duper sale, and I love
a bargain. Uh, And I'm not gonna lie. They're weird. They
taste to me, they taste just weird, not bad, but weird,
Like there's the soda part, but you can sense the fiber part a little
bit separately, and it's not that enjoyable. Here we go, ladies and
gentlemen. Soon the world will be dominated by the great God Pringles, and
more specifically, mister P Pringles Mingles. Mister P apparently is the mascot of
Pringles, and mister P is gonna be the king of the snack world because
the parent company that owns Springles, Kelenova, used to be Kellogg's, changed
their name, spun off their cereal division, said well, do the cereal
thing really anymore. We're gonna focus on snacks, and they are pinning their
hopes on Pringles, which is already this is crazy to me. Three billion
dollars a year from Pringles and they're not happy. They're not satisfied with Pringles
selling three billion dollars a year. They want four billion dollars a year and
they say they can do it because the secret weapon of Pringles is since they're
a manufactured disc, it's not really a disc but I can't think of a
better word for the shape of a Pringles. We've all seen a Pringles.
But it's a manufactured crisp, and you can make it taste like anything anything
everything Bagel, carnaitis, taco, sharp white, cheddar and ranch teraoki,
hoban yerro, mango, bowl of breakfast, cereal steak and onions. I'll
stop now you get the point. There are I believe it's one hundred and
fifty or one hundred and sixty different Pringles flavors all over the world. And
this is how they're going to expand, because you see the area for expansion.
I don't know they're gonna make Americans buy more Pringles, but you expand
worldwide. You go to a place that doesn't have any Pringles. They're eating
some other kind of snack. Those are losers. We want to give them
Pringles. How are we going to get them to switch to Pringles. We'll
find a flavor that they like over there, you know that country had I
don't know, like in Belarus. They might have certain tastes and they'll figure
out what tastes do the people in Belarus like the most, and we'll just
engineer a Pringle. It tastes like that and there you go. And it's
a very successful strategy because all of these special flavors sell like hotcakes. They're
also expanding with you know, they're trying to do the healthy thing as well.
The trend here today on Foody Friday is things that aren't really healthy that
they try to make healthier. So, you know, they came out with
these harvest blends, Pringles multi grain, got sweet potatoes in there, that
kind of stuff. They're also getting into the spicy market with Pringles Scorching,
and I guess what's coming out now is Pringles Mingles, which is like a
puffed snack, so it's not like a manufactured disc. It's like a kind
of like a cheeto. I would imagine. It doesn't come in a can,
comes in a bag. And this is their plot to take over the
world. I think Pringles when I was a kid and when I was in
college, pringles were like I really thought Pringles were the best tasting thing on
the planet, and I easily could eat a whole tube of Pringles at once
easily. And then later as an adult, I bought some Pringles and I
don't know if they changed anything or not, but they didn't seem as good.
All Right, I am done here. Thank you to everybody on the
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