WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:06.400 You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles Show on demand on the iHeartRadio 2 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:10.880 app. You are listening to the Bill Handle Show. Here's Wayne Resnick. 3 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.960 All right, everybody, it's KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 4 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:20.719 app. And that guy just told you what's going on. Bill's back on 5 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.600 Monday. I'm Wayne. Some of the stories we're watching for you here. 6 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:31.960 Hurricane burrows now a Category two storm and is sending winds, rainfall. Dangerous 7 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:39.679 storm searches over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. At this point, at least ten people 8 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.119 have been identified as deceased because of this storm. There are a lot of 9 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:51.679 people missing, and they're saying it's going to get stronger again before it hits 10 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:57.600 somewhere. It could hit northeastern Mexico or South Texas over the weekend. Jobs 11 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.560 report is in for June. We added two one hundred and six thousand jobs, 12 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.519 a little bit less than in May, but still pretty good, especially 13 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:11.640 given that interest rates are still high. Now I'm about to proposition you, 14 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:17.480 well, I'm about to tell you about all the propositions that are going to 15 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:21.959 be on the ballot in November because it is time we start to wrap our 16 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.680 heads around the things we're going to be asked to vote on, particularly because 17 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:30.480 of some trends that I'm seeing in these propositions. So here we go, 18 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.719 in no particular order, although it's kind of in the order that they're numbered. 19 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.079 You got Prop two. Now, why are we starting with Prop two 20 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:47.280 and not Prop one? Because Prop one was that mental health proposition that was 21 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:53.560 voted on in March. So Prop two borrow ten billion dollars to build some 22 00:01:53.879 --> 00:02:01.200 schools. You know, these bond initiatives are basically a government entity agreeing to 23 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:07.199 go into debt. And we have a massive budget deficit. You know, 24 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.560 newsem made a bunch of cuts to stuff because of this unprecedented deficit that we're 25 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.960 facing. And you will be asked to vote to borrow ten billion dollars to 26 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:23.120 build some schools. Prop three reaffirm the right of same sex couples to get 27 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:29.360 married. It wasn't that long ago in the history of California. I think 28 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:35.000 it was two thousand and eight there was a proposition that was passed that said 29 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.520 marriage is between a man and a woman. So you can you can see 30 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:45.280 how societies change over time, and it wouldn't be surprising to hear that one 31 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.280 hundred years ago they said marriage is a man and a woman, but now 32 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.759 we don't. But this was just in two thousand and eight that a majority 33 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:55.759 of voters said, yes, marriage should be a man and woman. So 34 00:02:55.800 --> 00:03:04.560 the problem is have to amend the state constitution to fix that. So that's 35 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.879 what Prop three would do, and then Prop four and we're right back to 36 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:15.560 borrowing ten billion dollars again. And this is for climate programs, wildfire, 37 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:23.400 forest programs, one point two billion dollars for sea level rise. There's drinking 38 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:29.960 water and groundwater money. Some of this I'm having trouble linking directly to the 39 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.319 issue of climate. But let's borrow ten billion to build schools. Let's borrow 40 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:42.319 ten billion dollars to save the planet. And let's also do this with Prop 41 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:50.280 five. Right now, if your local government wants to borrow money for say 42 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:54.199 housing or infrastructure bonds, they have to get a super majority of the voters 43 00:03:54.199 --> 00:04:00.280 to approve it. So Prop five would amend the constitution of the state to 44 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:05.759 make it easier for the local governments to borrow the money. Wow. So 45 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:10.840 it's still also it's about, Hey, the state is saying the state legislature 46 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.840 is saying, we want to borrow a lot of money for stuff, and 47 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:15.839 then they're saying, we also we want to make it easier for your county 48 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:24.639 or your city to borrow money as well. Prop thirty two will raise the 49 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:29.720 state minimum wage to eighteen dollars an hour. And this thing was proposed like 50 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:30.879 three years ago. And when it was proposed, I don't know if you 51 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.319 remember, it was a big deal. Okay. The people who supported it 52 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:39.759 were like, this is the greatest thing that's ever happened. And the people 53 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:44.160 who didn't like it said they're going to destroy the state. An eighteen dollars 54 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:47.639 an hour minimum wage is insane. Well, here we are three years later, 55 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.959 and there have been some changes already. The minimum wage is already sixteen 56 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:57.800 dollars an hour. You've got the fast food minimum wage, twenty dollars an 57 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:03.800 hour. Healthcare our workers are on an already passed minimum wage plan that will 58 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:08.000 get them up to twenty five dollars an hour, So eighteen dollars an hour 59 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:13.759 minimum wage doesn't seem quite as crazy in terms of the numbers. You will 60 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:16.199 be asked to vote whether you want that or not. Also would you like 61 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:23.319 rent control in your city or unincorporated area. Well, there's a state law 62 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.920 that, for the most part, says your city or county cannot put in 63 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.120 rent control. And Prop thirty three is asking you to say, yeah, 64 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.319 I want them to be able to put in rent control. Great if you're 65 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:45.160 a renter, terrible if you're a landlord. Here's an interesting one, because 66 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:48.879 this one's personal. Prop thirty four. If I just tell you what it 67 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:57.560 requires, it doesn't seem personal healthcare provider. Certain health providers who get money 68 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:04.519 from a federal prescription drug program must spend almost all the money on patient care 69 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:09.279 directly on patient care. You know you're gonna have to spend a little bit 70 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:13.000 on administrative costs, but if you're getting money from this program, most of 71 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.959 it should go to actually provide the thing that the money's for, which seems 72 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:23.079 like that's what should be happening with any government program. But in this case 73 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:29.639 it seems to be aimed at one place, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. If 74 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:33.000 you follow the news, you know that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation does good work. 75 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:44.879 They also get involved a lot in housing development and stopping developments from happening, 76 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.279 and this sort of thing advocacy in the area of housing, and they 77 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:54.120 will fund ballot measures and have funded ballot measures. I think they gave money 78 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:58.839 to that rent control proposition that I just told you about. So the idea 79 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:00.839 here is saying, hey, you're not going to be able to use money 80 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:04.240 that you were given by the FEDS for treating patients. We're not going to 81 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:12.920 be able to use it for your political goals. And those are the main 82 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.480 ones that you should know about. What's the difference between an initiative and a 83 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:24.319 referendum. A referendum is when we vote to change a law or get rid 84 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:27.720 of a law that already exists, And of course, an initiative is when 85 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.680 it's a new idea. All right, Hey, everybody is now a super 86 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:35.839 informed voter, so I don't want to hear any bs about low information voters. 87 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:43.439 I just solved that problem. Speaking of housing, after we get some 88 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:47.639 news from Heather Brooker, who would have thought that Mayor Karen Bass, who 89 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:54.000 was elected largely on a promise to build lots of affordable housing in LA and 90 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:58.240 make it easy to do so, would end up being a big nimby. 91 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:05.639 You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KFI AM six forty, Danny Trayjo, 92 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:13.519 actor, entrepreneur, public figure, was apparently involved in a fight at 93 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:18.920 an Independence Day parade up in the Sunlintahunga neighborhood. He was in the parade, 94 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:24.360 riding in a very cool convertible, this old convertible car, and somebody 95 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:30.480 threw a water balloon at him. Now Danny Treyjo is eighty years old. 96 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:35.320 He got out of the car, he went over and he threw a punch 97 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:43.200 at the balloon thrower. The balloon thrower punched back and knocked down National Treasure 98 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:50.600 Danny Treyjo. Then other people got involved, and I guess they're saying that 99 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:56.480 some woman ran over and tried to hold down Danny Trayjoe. But by the 100 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.799 time the cops got there, everybody had dispersed, nobody was arrested, and 101 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:07.919 there's no indication here that he was seriously hurt. So thank goodness for that. 102 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.960 Waenne. Can I tell you something really quick. I met Danny Trejo 103 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:16.720 here at iHeart a couple of months ago in the in the elevator could not 104 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.919 have been nicer. We rode up together at least five floors, and he 105 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:26.159 was lovely and so kind and so I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm 106 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.679 glad he's okay. Yeah. Now, look, it's sort of like, 107 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.879 I mean, the balloon thrower started it, there's no question, but I 108 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:33.720 don't I don't know if the smartest thing is to get out of the car 109 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:37.840 and go escalate it. Yeah, I mean, even at eighty, I 110 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.960 had no idea he was eighty. I mean, he's really in good health. 111 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.879 I would not want to mess with Danny Treyo. Oh no, I 112 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:50.000 would never want to mess with Danny Treyo. All right, So anyway, 113 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:56.120 let's hope that he's a totally fine and able to go oversee his empire of 114 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:03.559 taco restaurants, donut shops, coffee shops, sex toys. You weren't here 115 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:09.120 at KFI when he came in. He was promoting Man. I don't want 116 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:15.120 to google it right now. It was some sort of a marital aid. 117 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.399 If my memory serves me, maybe I'll look it up during the break. 118 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:22.919 Also, in terms of the way that Danny Treyhoe has been able to monetize 119 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:28.279 his uh celebrity, as long as we're going on this detour, yeah, 120 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:33.000 I know there is a there's a video game, a mobile game, it's 121 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:37.480 called this is all in everything I'm about to tell you is so embarrassing. 122 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:45.279 It's called Guns of Boom and it's one of these you know, cartoonish you 123 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:50.200 run around, you shoot people and there's different guns or whatever. And some 124 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:56.440 years ago they had a special event in this game called trey Ho Tournament, 125 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:03.120 and so he obviously they paid him money to be able to call it trey 126 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:09.279 Ho Tournament. And then instead of the regular announcer voice in the game like 127 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:16.279 kill, double kill, whatever, it was Danny Treyhoe's voice. That's amazing. 128 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.159 It was really really crazy. So he he he is a great, 129 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:26.600 you know, performer, and he's a pretty savvy businessman. Yeah, legend 130 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:31.600 legendary. All right. Now, let's get to the main topic at hand, 131 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.360 and that is changes that La Mayor Karen Bass has made to the very 132 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:45.480 famous, very controversial Executive Directive one ED one. You may remember this was 133 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:48.120 a huge part of her campaign. In the first weekend office she signed Executive 134 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.559 Directive one and this was basically the basic idea was, we're gonna make it 135 00:11:52.799 --> 00:12:01.039 much easier for developers to build one hundred percent affordable housing developments. If you 136 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:07.320 want to build an apartment building and it's all affordable housing, then you can 137 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.440 get your approval within a few weeks. Previously, and I think still for 138 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:18.919 most developments months, sometimes years, it takes to get approval. And so 139 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.480 housing advocates were like, this is fantastic, no more screwing around, and 140 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:31.559 Karen Vass's office said over eighteen thousand units of income restricted housing have been proposed 141 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:37.000 so far because of this executive order. However, as you might imagine, 142 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.320 there was immediately yelling and screaming from homeowners from neighborhood groups who said, listen, 143 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:48.639 you can't. We don't want you to build lower income apartment buildings and 144 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:54.480 the like everywhere, like we definitely don't want you building one next door to 145 00:12:54.679 --> 00:13:00.879 me, and so they of course started fighting back with all that got to 146 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:07.279 slow down or even completely kill these projects now. So if you're Mayor Karen 147 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.039 Bass, what do you do? Do you say, listen, I believe 148 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.799 in a certain thing, and what I believe in is we must build affordable 149 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:20.080 housing everywhere. Too bad, so sad for you? Or do you compromise? 150 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.159 And apparently there has been a compromise, and the mayor's office say that 151 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:33.960 she has made changes to this Executive Order, and the main change is this, 152 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:43.440 if you live now in a historic district, you will be protected from 153 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:48.879 having these fast tracked affordable housing developments built in your neighborhood. Like for example, 154 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.919 I'm trying to think of one off the top of my head. Windsor 155 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:58.039 Village is one. Windsor Village is in mid LA. It's like Wilshire. 156 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:03.720 I think it's will Sure at the north and crenshot of the right goes down 157 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.320 to Olympic and it's a designated historic zone. And the people who live there, 158 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.279 as you might imagine, don't want to see some new low income apartment 159 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.279 building going up, and so now they won't have to worry about it. 160 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:24.440 Now this program already restricts building the low income housing developments in single families owned 161 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:30.799 neighborhoods, which is over seventy four percent of the land here in LA. 162 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.639 They've taken away some more of the areas where you will be able to build 163 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:41.559 these things. And I'm not I don't honestly, I don't have an opinion 164 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:48.919 about whether it's right or wrong. What cannot be denied is the availability of 165 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:56.279 locations to build affordable housing is shrinking. It's being taken away, and there's 166 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.840 some of these people. The housing advocates are saying, you know, you 167 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:05.360 have historic district, but within those historic districts, not all of it is 168 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.320 historic in any way. You've got like vacant lots that happen to be in 169 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:15.080 a historic district. Why shouldn't you be able to throw up an apartment building 170 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:18.279 there? And then the other thing is apparently she's clamping down on the number 171 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:24.399 of concessions that developers will get because, let me tell you something, nobody 172 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:31.320 builds affordable housing out of the goodness of their heart. I mean, habitat 173 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:37.600 for humanity, but you get what I'm Developers build to make money, period, 174 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:43.480 and they don't mind including some affordable housing if they can do other things 175 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:50.960 that'll make them some money. So a lot of times they'll a developer will 176 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.600 present a proposal and will say, oh, yes, we will build affordable 177 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.480 housing. However, you know in that area the height of the building would 178 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:02.240 normally be restricted to this Hi, we want to go higher. Can you 179 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:06.840 please give us an exception? Also, normally there'd be this much open space 180 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:10.200 that would be required in the development. Will you please allow us not to 181 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:15.279 have it? Will you please allow us to have zero clearance from the property 182 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:19.639 lines. Also, normally there'd have to be eighty parking spaces on this development, 183 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:25.240 would it be okay if we only had thirty? And so what ends 184 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:27.600 up happening is you get a few units of affordable housing and then you get 185 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:34.240 traffic problems and parking problems and crowding and blight. And apparently they're not going 186 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.399 to be able to get as many concessions, but they also won't be able 187 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.960 to build in as many places. So let's check in in another year or 188 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:49.519 two or probably ten is a smart timeline for this kind of thing, and 189 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.840 see how much affordable housing we have here in LA and ten years. Okay, 190 00:16:53.919 --> 00:17:00.399 let's get some news from Heather Brooker and then why are they so old? 191 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:06.480 How can this be? Who am I talking about? Oh you'll find 192 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:11.880 out. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty. 193 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:18.079 Over in Britain, the Labor Party has won the number of seats necessary to 194 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:22.920 make them in charge of their parliamentary government and they will therefore have a new 195 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:29.559 Prime Minister in a few hours. This after the current leader, Rishi Sunak 196 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:36.880 called a snap election and his Conservative party lost Bigley over there, and we 197 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:40.759 got some good news on the job front, another two hundred and six thousand 198 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:44.519 jobs added in June. It was a little bit less than in May. 199 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:51.400 May was two hundred and eighteen thousand, But almost all economists are saying this 200 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:57.519 is a sign of the economy being strong, even given the problems that we 201 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:03.480 have, like the interest rates still being so high. For example. Okay, 202 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:11.079 politicians, they're old. This is not news. This has been a 203 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:18.119 main topic of discussion on KFI, in the news media, in interviews at 204 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:23.079 the water cooler at the July fourth weekend cookouts. Old old, old old. 205 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:30.200 Everybody's old. Biden is so old. Trump is pretty old too. 206 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:41.200 Also, the median age in the Senate is almost sixty six. Now. 207 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:48.279 It's not that sixty six is deathbed old, particularly not now in twenty twenty 208 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.640 four, with what we know about medicine and prolonging life and everything. But 209 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.839 it's old compared to the country as a whole. In fact, there are 210 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:03.880 a lot of people who call the United States of America a gerontocracy where the 211 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:12.400 power is concentrated among the old people, and it's a concern. It's a 212 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:17.920 concern for a lot of people I think it depends on what you know the 213 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:22.440 specific old person that we're talking about. But you have situations like I remember 214 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:29.279 Diane Feinstein who would not resign from her Senate seat. She was coming up 215 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:37.240 on ninety there were tons of concerns about her health. Mitch McConnell, I 216 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:41.400 think he's eighty two. There was the few incidences where it looked like he 217 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.759 was freezing up at some public appearances and people said, what is going on 218 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:49.519 with him? And eventually he did say, Okay, I'll step down from 219 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:55.480 my role as Minority leader. Then, of course Biden's performance at the debate 220 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:02.640 Trump. There's fifty million videos of Donald Trump seeming to lose his train of 221 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:11.240 thought at campaign events. So we know that at least at the national level 222 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:21.480 that are representatives skew older than the population at large. But why how did 223 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:26.920 this happen? Well, it is true that the population of the country has 224 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:33.240 gotten older. The median age now in this country is thirty nine. In 225 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:41.880 nineteen eighty it was thirty. Boomers are staying in the workforce, they're not 226 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:47.759 retiring at the same rate that they used to, and this includes people in 227 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:55.319 politics. So that explains a little bit why the politicians are getting older. 228 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:59.519 But if you look at the fact that the median age is thirty nine and 229 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:03.440 the media agent in the Senate is almost sixty six, and about twenty five 230 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:12.000 percent of congress are over seventy, that doesn't match up. Another part of 231 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:19.079 the problem is the bar to access running for office. It heavily, heavily, 232 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.880 heavily, heavily, heavily favors heavily, heavily. They're not I could 233 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:27.160 say heavily for the next twenty minutes, and it would not be enough to 234 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:37.759 emphasize how heavily it favors incumbents. There should probably be some advantage to being 235 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:41.640 the incumbent when you're running for reelection. Name recognition would be one of them. 236 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:44.400 Another would be if you've done a good job, you would have a 237 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:48.799 specific record that you could point to in your campaigning. But in this case 238 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:56.000 it is skewed so insanely. For example, let's go back to twenty eighteen. 239 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:03.079 That midterm, they're four hundred and thirty five congressional districts and there were 240 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:08.440 only forty four of them that were considered a toss up. And a toss 241 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:14.720 up they if it's if it's decided within five points. It's a toss up 242 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:21.200 forty four out of four to thirty five. Then let's go back a couple 243 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:25.839 of years to the twenty twenty two, thirty six elections for the House were 244 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:32.720 considered competitive out of four hundred and thirty five. Competition declines. There are 245 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:37.440 so many races now where there's no opponent, particularly at the primary stage. 246 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:42.359 There's no opponent. It's not that there's somebody running against the incumbent, but 247 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:47.039 they don't have as much money, and they don't have as much name recognition. 248 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:48.680 Maybe they don't have as much access to the media. There isn't even 249 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:53.559 one there. So as the competition goes down, the average age goes up, 250 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:56.759 because you stay. Once you're in, you stay and stay and stay 251 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:02.839 and stay. I mean Joe Biden was in the Senate for thirty six years 252 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:10.200 and then became Vice president. Guys in government a long long time. Another 253 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:15.119 reason, and this has to do with why the incumbent almost invariably wins, 254 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:21.920 is because of how polarized we are. We're very polarized now politically, and 255 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:26.240 what that means in practical terms is very few split tickets anymore. It used 256 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.720 to be people would split their tickets all the time. Meaning let's say they're 257 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:36.119 a registered Democrat and they go and vote in a national election, presidential, 258 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:40.039 general election, maybe they'd vote for the Democrat for president, but they'd vote 259 00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:45.000 for a Republican guy for state Senate or for House. That doesn't happen as 260 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:48.559 much anymore. People just go i'm this, I'm an R, I go 261 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:57.559 R R. That's it. And so that means most congressional elections are decided 262 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:02.440 by the primaries, and as I already said, in a lot of primaries, 263 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:11.000 there's not even an opponent to the incumbent. So we've allowed the politicians 264 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:18.279 to gin up the system through jerrymandering and also honestly by the fact that we 265 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:26.119 put up with their insane level of rhetoric all the time, and we've allowed 266 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.039 them to make it harder and harder and harder for new blood to come in. 267 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:34.799 It's not that new blood never comes in, but it's very, very 268 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:40.039 difficult. So there's a big move now that there should be age limits, 269 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:45.200 age limits to holding office. In fact, in North Dakota they passed a 270 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:51.799 ballot measure to amend the state constitution that would say you cannot run for Congress 271 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.759 in North Dakota. If you will be eighty one by the end of your 272 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:02.839 term, it's not much of an age limit. But that's something I don't 273 00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:04.519 know that age limits are the answer, because if you have an age limit, 274 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:08.160 you might have a dynamite candidate who happens to be over the age limit. 275 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:14.200 You wouldn't be allowed to elect them to represent you. It's giving us 276 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:19.720 more choice, though it's making it less expensive to run for office, and 277 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:26.640 honest to God, that alone would do a lot to help this issue. 278 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:33.559 You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KFI AM six forty. We're used 279 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:38.200 to the idea that men control everything because of the patriarchy, but in the 280 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:42.839 animal kingdom, there are many animals where it is the women who control everything, 281 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:48.680 and let's talk about some of them. Also parental advisory for this segment, 282 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:56.160 because there's some information about the bodies of some of these animals that you 283 00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:03.559 might not want to explain to your child. Let's start with the African savannah 284 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:07.799 elephant, which is the largest elephant. It's also the biggest land animal on 285 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:14.240 the planet. Women call the shots. They roll around in these groups. 286 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:19.279 Family units usually like ten adults and all the children, and then those units 287 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:26.200 will get together and form big clans, several hundred elephants all working together with 288 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:32.960 a single elephant lady as the boss. Where are we going? Where will 289 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:37.079 we sleep? When will we sleep? I'm going to take everybody to the 290 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.680 food and the water. And by the way, being able to know where 291 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.599 to go to get enough food and water for hundreds of elephants has got to 292 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:52.599 be a high level skill, because apparently one of these elephants needs three hundred 293 00:26:52.640 --> 00:27:00.720 pounds of vegetation and fifty gallons of water every day as they're so big. 294 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:10.160 Spotted hyenas, here's where I will repeat a parental advisory. The spotted hyena. 295 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:17.440 They're very smart, they're very social, and females lead the clans that 296 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:19.559 they hang out in, and you can get up to like ninety one hundred 297 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:25.640 hyenas all in a group led by the females. The females are not much 298 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:27.960 bigger than the male, although they're a little bit bigger, but they're way 299 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:33.480 more aggressive. See, we think of men as being the aggressive sex, 300 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:37.759 and it's true in a lot of cases, but in some cases it's flipped 301 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:42.200 and the females are very aggressive and the men are very docile, and that's 302 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:45.519 the case with the spot at hyaena. There's also another thing, one more 303 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:55.279 parental advisory. You've been warned. Female spotted hyenas don't have the kind of 304 00:27:55.640 --> 00:28:00.440 genitals that we would think of of a female. They have something that called 305 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:07.799 scientifically a pseudo penis. Now it's actually it's actually the cleatorus, but it's 306 00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:12.880 so long and big that it looks like a penis. And also they don't 307 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:19.720 have a vaginal opening, so if you're just looking at a hyena, you 308 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:25.400 can't tell if it's if it's a man or a lady hyena. By looking 309 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:30.519 there, you can't tell. This also gives the female total control over who 310 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:36.480 they mate with. They choose, and they choose because there's no other way 311 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:41.279 to do it. What will happen is when they decide I will reproduce with 312 00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:48.880 this guy, this pseudo penis retracts and it forms an opening, and then 313 00:28:48.960 --> 00:29:00.359 and only then can you know what happen. Thenobos one of our closest living 314 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:07.039 relatives, I think banobos and chimpanzees and bonobos live in these big social groups. 315 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.200 There's dudes there, there's women there. But the banobo communities led by 316 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:17.119 the ladies. And there's a very interesting thing, another parental advisory. I 317 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:22.559 didn't intend for this to be this way. It just is so the female's 318 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:30.200 lead. That also means the females resolve conflicts because you know, the bonobo's 319 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:34.119 fight any anybody food fight, I want to sleep here? No, I 320 00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:40.440 want to sleep here. They go at it. And what happens in these 321 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:45.480 banobo's communities led by the females is when there's a conflict, uh, the 322 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:56.519 female leader or one of the female leaders will will engage in sexual contact with 323 00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:04.119 the bonobos that were involved in the conflict. That's that's how the leader comes 324 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:10.119 in and says, hey, hey, everybody, everybody calm down here, 325 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:18.680 it does us no good to fight. They specifically they hug and they just 326 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:23.599 let's just say, they touch the private parts together. They don't actually have 327 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:27.680 like sexual intercourse or anything, but they do a little bit and apparently it 328 00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:33.039 regulates stress in the binobos and it makes it does make them calm down. 329 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:38.000 So there you go. Ladies can lead. All right, that was heavy 330 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:42.079 petting. We're gonna get some news from Heather Brooker and then a lawsuit has 331 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:47.079 been filed here in California, about a new tax on guns and bullets, 332 00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:49.359 and I'll tell you what they're the people behind the lawsuit are saying, and 333 00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:53.359 it's all part of guns in the news. When we continue. You've been 334 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:56.960 listening to The Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six 335 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:02.680 am to nine am, and any time on demand on the iHeartRadio app.