WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.040 You're listen Saints KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:08.640 show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.960 forty Bill Handle here on a Thursday morning, December nineteenth. 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.000 Amy, you just came in and was just announced about Bonnie. 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:20.199 Willis, Fannie Willis, Fanny Willis funny, Yeah, yeah. 6 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:24.320 The Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis has been disqualified 7 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:28.600 from prosecuting President elect Trump, which makes all the sense 8 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:29.120 in the world. 9 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.359 She hires a special prosecutor who's never had experience as 10 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:34.039 a prosecutor. 11 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:35.000 She's stooping him. 12 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:39.000 And you know that isn't not by the way, that 13 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:43.520 is not a per se conflict. That is not on 14 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:47.840 its face of conflict. A DA can hire a special 15 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.079 prosecutor who he or she is stooping. Now not in 16 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:58.560 open court, that's not allowed. But the optics are so horrible, 17 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:02.840 and it was she should have. 18 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:04.640 Gone a long long time ago. 19 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.359 Now moving over to LA Unified School District, And as 20 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.359 you know, I went through LA Unified School District, started 21 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:17.560 in kindergarten, graduated high school. So I spent every moment 22 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:21.200 before I went to college at LA Unified and so 23 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:23.680 I always use LA Unified as sort of the poster 24 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:29.439 child of any conversation I have about school districts. Also, 25 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.439 LA Unified is one of the school districts that is. 26 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.920 Not good. Now everybody attacks them. 27 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:44.159 However, to be fair, they teach LA Unified teaches and 28 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:50.079 I don't know, forty languages, an enormous number of migrants 29 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:52.799 that can come in, illegal migrants that come in because 30 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:56.480 they can't ask those kids English as the second language 31 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:02.040 is primarily that's probably the largest single English's second language 32 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:03.079 program in the country. 33 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:06.519 That's easy to say. So here's what's happening. 34 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:10.759 Principals who work their asses off, and they really do. 35 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.759 They've said their workload is just too heavy and the 36 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:18.800 pressure to raise student achievement is just too much. Because 37 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:20.800 that's what's going on. So you know what they've done. 38 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:27.919 They've unionized. They've unionized, which I've never heard of. They're 39 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:33.800 now part of the Teamsters, which the thought of senior management. 40 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:37.039 Actually they're considered middle management in terms of administration and 41 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:42.240 school district. You know, it doesn't make any sense, Neil, 42 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.400 you were part of management when you were here. 43 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:52.599 Yes, and interesting so that people like Chris Little and 44 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:54.719 me were dual because we were mad. 45 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:57.639 We're also members of after. Yeah. But the point is, but. 46 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.919 I didn't go to the meetings. I didn't go to 47 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:03.000 meetings and I didn't talk to people about Yeah. 48 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.400 But the point I'm making is the thought of management 49 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:10.039 being part of a union, and yeah, it's range. 50 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:13.599 It is strange. It just doesn't happen. It really doesn't. 51 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:18.719 I remember our last contract negotiations and Amy Kno, I 52 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.039 don't know if you know this, and if you don't know, 53 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.120 this is I was asked to sit on the committee 54 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:28.000 on behalf of AFTER here at the at the building. 55 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:32.520 Because every radio group or even station, some are unions, 56 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:35.280 some are not union. And I was asked to because 57 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:37.319 I'm a lawyer. They didn't know how bad I was, 58 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.800 but I'm a lawyer, and they said, would you sit 59 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:43.599 on the committee? I said, you know, I got to 60 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:47.080 tell you I'm a business person too. Maybe you don't 61 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:50.360 want me to be on the committee. No, you're a 62 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.439 member of AFTRA and we want you to sit on 63 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.439 it and you can represent. And I said, here's the 64 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.800 problem you're going to have, right, you're at owe with management, 65 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.680 here's the union, and you're asking for more benefits, more 66 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:08.400 money management during the course of those discussions, say no, 67 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:11.840 it's like when I negotiate a contract three hundred and 68 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:14.000 sixty four days a year, I'm the most wonderful thing 69 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.560 at the station. I'm the best thing since sliced bread. 70 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:21.000 The day I negotiate my contract. Eh, you're not so good. Yeah, 71 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:26.839 you're pretty much replaceable. It's a horrible situation. So I 72 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.079 told and you know, the guy who was doing I 73 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.639 don't want to mention his name, who was the union 74 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.879 guy here? I said, here's the problem you're going to 75 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:38.680 have is that I'm going to sit down on our side, 76 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:41.920 your side of the table, and every time management comes 77 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:43.600 up with some statement, I'm going to look at you 78 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:48.920 and go, they're absolutely right, and I'm going to keep 79 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.480 on saying that over and over again. 80 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:55.839 Needless to say, I was not invited to sit on 81 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:01.560 great idea, sir. Yeah, once again, the fantastic guy. Yeah, 82 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:03.680 so something very unique. 83 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:07.360 LA Unified School principles are now unionized, and they're saying 84 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:09.360 there's too much work, too much pressure, and they're right, 85 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:14.800 and the pressure to bring up scores, especially at LA Unified. 86 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:16.240 I mean it is difficult. 87 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.959 I mean, there's a what a fifty, there's a sixty 88 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.879 percent dropout rate because well, you've got people that are 89 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.319 coming over the border. Our tax system is such that 90 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.160 number one, you can't ask if someone is illegal or not. 91 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.279 By law, those kids have to go to school. They're 92 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:39.240 more difficult to teach by the very nature of who 93 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:41.879 they are. And Vietnamese kids who don't speak a word 94 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.639 of English and Chinese kids, and there's no other school 95 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.120 district in the country that has this kind of problem 96 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:49.720 and they're set to the same standards. 97 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:54.040 I going to tell you, if I were a school principal, no, no, 98 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:57.560 if I was a teacher, I'd quit because it's that difficult. 99 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.120 And in La Unified, it's more more difficult than anybody 100 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:07.160 else or any other school district. So on, behalf of 101 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:09.519 those of you here at the station who are members 102 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:13.639 of AFTRA, and that's most people on the air. Management 103 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:17.439 is absolutely right at every. 104 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.879 Point and handsome. 105 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.519 And you're right, yeah, all right. Now a story I 106 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.399 want to share with you. Oh this is I love 107 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:31.759 stories like this. Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It's really a unique 108 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:37.000 cemetery in Hollywood and was created in eighteen ninety nine. 109 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:39.519 It's been around for a while and the people who 110 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:45.360 are buried there, Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock, Cecil 111 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:49.279 b De Mill, Johnny Ramone. I mean it goes on 112 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:53.360 and on, Quincy Jones. I mean it is a very 113 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:55.800 famous cemetery and also was the first one to make 114 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:59.480 itself a park where people walk through and they have 115 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:04.360 film festivals and it's just they were the first ones 116 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:08.079 as cemetery to do an annual Dia de las mortes 117 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.160 where they exhume some Mexican people that are buried there 118 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.360 and celebrate diad les mortes and put them back in 119 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:15.839 the ground. 120 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:19.240 It is a very unique cemetery. 121 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:24.439 Well, if you go there, there is a hundred foot tall, 122 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:30.959 five story mausoleum that is now on the west edge. 123 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:36.920 It's the Gower Court Mausoleum. It's opening up in January 124 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:44.000 and it's going to house thirteen thousand dead people in crypts, 125 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:52.920 niches for urns, family condos. Now, the guy who owns 126 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.959 it says, we're not going to build any more cemeteries 127 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.000 in la That's true, You're not gonna get any more. 128 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.720 There's just simply not going to be there. So what 129 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:01.199 do they do? 130 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.199 And this is the wave of the future. If you 131 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:12.600 can't go out, you go up. Didn't Michelle Obama say that? Okay, 132 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:17.040 probably not. And so the cemetery still has land to 133 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.759 provide in ground burials, but it doesn't matter. The future 134 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:25.560 is clear. It is going up. When you think about 135 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:31.439 burial being buried in a cemetery, I mean, that's a 136 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:36.080 lot of space for you know, well, how much value 137 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:37.919 it is I don't know. I mean I have a plot. 138 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:42.960 Oh God, the amount of money that it costs is unbelievable. 139 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:45.480 And matter of fact, I think I'm going to sell it. 140 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:49.559 And there's a whole story there. But the point is 141 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:53.279 is that when you talk about going into a building 142 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:58.399 like this where your loved one is buried or cremated 143 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:04.200 and there's it just is I guess bigger connection is 144 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:10.320 what they're saying. I don't see it because you look 145 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:14.200 at a placard on the wall and there is your 146 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:19.039 loved one, or you look at a tombstone or a 147 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.720 placard on the ground there is your loved one. 148 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:23.080 So I don't see it. 149 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:26.480 But I'm told that there is a connection. Now, no 150 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:32.480 one in my family has scrips. Everybody that I am 151 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.159 related to who is dead, which is basically everybody. My parents, 152 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:41.600 my grandmother are all buried in one cemetery, which, by 153 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.320 the way, because my parents and my family are so cheap, 154 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:49.480 there are you know, it's location, location locations the cemeteries 155 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.639 and yeah, yeah, big time, and they were in the 156 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:59.919 cheap section. That's what they do. And this is really strange. 157 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:05.600 I love this. So the officials initially wanted this is 158 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:14.039 the city wanted to classify is housing house dead people? 159 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:20.039 So the cemetery says no, it is storage. And what 160 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:24.799 is the difference, Well, because if it is housing, you 161 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:30.559 have to provide toilets and kitchens, and dead people tend 162 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:34.519 not to use those facilities. Although it's kind of interesting 163 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:37.039 because right next to the crematorium part of it there's 164 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.399 a barbecue joint and I find that very very interesting 165 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:42.840 that they did that. I don't know who made that 166 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:47.080 a point, made that decision, and so you have that issue, 167 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:53.000 and so storage is what they got. Engineering construction, it 168 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:57.679 was impossible because the entire building is a vertical mass, 169 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:02.840 a cantilever that the parts of it stick out twenty 170 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:09.440 feet straight out at seismic stability, internal openness because you 171 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:13.360 walk through it and it is a park. It feels 172 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:18.639 like a park with crips of dead people all around you. 173 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:24.120 And it is landscaped, and it was designed by a 174 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:28.200 major landscaper. And the plantings will grow more luxuriant or 175 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.840 luxuriant over time, so you're gonna have over spilling over 176 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:38.120 overgrown foliage. You ever seen gardens of Babylon? You ever 177 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:42.440 seen photos of that Nebuconezer And the Gardens of Babylon 178 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:49.000 was this entire city that had overflowing plants. And that 179 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:54.639 reminds me of that. The quartz stone was quarried in Brazil, 180 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:59.879 corded in Brazil. I mean, this is real expensive stuff. 181 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:06.799 Thirteen thousand people are going to be parked there. Just yeah, 182 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.720 I love it. I love it. You know how many 183 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:12.000 times have I done death topics? 184 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:17.080 Kono and quite a few? Yeah. 185 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.519 Do you ever see me more excited about topics than 186 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.120 death topics? No? 187 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.639 You do have a weird fascination with it, I really do. 188 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.879 I know, for some reason, I just really like death 189 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:33.919 and dead people and stories about dead people and worms. 190 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.120 December twenty five up next week not only Christmas Day, 191 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:42.879 but also the first day of Hanukkah, which happens relatively 192 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:49.000 rarely because the calendars are way different now here. We 193 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:55.440 exchange gifts. We've been doing that. Amy came in and yeah, 194 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:59.720 made some cookies, made homemade cookies. And I usually I'm 195 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:02.639 not interested in going out and getting gifts or baking anything, 196 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:05.840 so I give gift cards. I'm going to tell you 197 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.360 right now, spending five bucks for a two dollars gift 198 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.440 card is a waste of. 199 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:17.679 Time, your captain generosity. Yeah, it's way too expensive to 200 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:19.799 do that. So Neil, I brought you. 201 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:22.000 I don't normally every now and again, I'll bring you 202 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.360 a gift. Yeah, and this year, I'm gonna open it 203 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:25.120 right here on the air. 204 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:27.440 Yeah, please do. Yeah, I'm gonna open it here on 205 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:29.840 the air, handmade by the way. Of course it is, 206 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:33.039 because that's what you do. I got you. This thing 207 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.720 is really and open this up for me. I'm too 208 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:40.360 lazy to do that, probably best. I made it stupid 209 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.039 proof so ann I'll be able to get through. 210 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.759 It's like wrapped in so she has to take a 211 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:48.840 pair of scissors and uh do all of that so. 212 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:51.519 We can't even open his own gifts here. She started 213 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:51.879 it first. 214 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:54.600 Okay, Yeah, of course she did. Okay, and I have 215 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:58.919 fingernails too. Go figure that one out. Okay, here it goes, 216 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:03.080 and maybe ladies and gentlemen behind here he is. I 217 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.600 feel like I'm opening up and Oscar win here. 218 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:08.559 If you don't say the winner is anymore. 219 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.679 Oh, it's an ornament for your tree. 220 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:16.720 Oh, we have to take on Instagram. 221 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:24.120 What it's a It's a limit oversized lamictal pill ornament. 222 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.519 That you put up. We have to take a picture 223 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:33.879 of yours. This is very this is very funny. Neil 224 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.120 does just great stuff. And it's in the shape of 225 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:38.159 a mintyal pill. 226 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:42.039 Yeah, and it's a two hundred and that's und and 227 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:46.120 it's name brand is I don't know it's it is 228 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.320 a name brand because it's do you take the good stuff? 229 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:54.279 I used to, but Kaiser stopped that because you know, 230 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:58.039 I used to say that I needed the good stuff 231 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:03.919 and my doctor said okay, And then it went to 232 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:08.759 the formulary where a doctor now cannot prescribe the real stuff. 233 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.519 So it's all generic and I take a lot of it. 234 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.399 You know that I have to go every six months 235 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:18.600 to a psychiatrist at Kaiser to get my limitdo the 236 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.080 anti anxiety drugs It used to be my internist. Who 237 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:25.639 we give it now it's a psychiatrist. 238 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:28.480 Isn't it for like bipolar? And it's sent for a 239 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:29.000 lot of stuff. 240 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:32.519 It was originally it was a pill that was designed 241 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.159 for an anti seizure drug, and then it turns out 242 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:40.039 that it's also an anti anxiety drug. And by the way, 243 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:42.360 the two hundred milligrams, which is a hell of a dose. 244 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:44.200 I take two. 245 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:47.080 Twenty five in the morning and I take two twenty 246 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:52.000 five at night. And this would make a rabid dog 247 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.279 docile and the sweetest, the sweetest dog you've ever met. 248 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.200 It takes you down to a nine. 249 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.879 Yeah, so every six months, I have to go to 250 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:05.080 a shrink. I have to go to my shrink to 251 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:10.480 get my LIMITDL. 252 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:11.879 Does he need it? 253 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.120 No, it's been the same for years and years, and 254 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:19.120 so it's always it's fifteen minutes with a shrink, literally, 255 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:22.679 and okay it takes that long. No, not even I mean, 256 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:27.399 it's just is everything, okay, everything's fine. Any changes in 257 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:31.960 your attitude, any changes in you know, your anxiety? No, 258 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:37.080 no changes have you been particularly anxious at all? And 259 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:40.440 I said, no, anything different about what you're doing? And 260 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:44.519 I said, well, I have this desire to run over kittens, 261 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:47.279 and the shrink looked at me and. 262 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:51.879 Goes, really, and it's starting to type, oh boy, we 263 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.320 got a live one. Yeah, and then at some point 264 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:59.399 I said that not really. So here I am. 265 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:04.160 Three of the four of us in my family are 266 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:11.240 on this kind of stuff, the anti anxiety drugs, sorry, Bud, 267 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.480 And it ain't Marjorie and my two daughters and I are. 268 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:19.920 On stuff like this and that's probably what twenty times 269 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:21.279 larger than an actual pill. 270 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:26.400 Yeah. Yeah, by the way, the generic isn't the blue pill. 271 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.480 I used to and I used to, let me tell you, 272 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:33.839 I used to mix up the pills so I would 273 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.440 have no anxiety in the biggest direction you've ever seen 274 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:38.240 these pills. 275 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:45.160 The ships are different, similar, different. It's the little blue pill. 276 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:49.519 He's all my anxieties. Yeah. 277 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:53.359 So anyway, thank you. It's great stuff. And Neil has 278 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:57.000 done cards for me that are extraordinary. 279 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:59.160 I came across thank you, that's very nice. 280 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:02.559 I came across one from the old days where I 281 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:05.480 actually drew an illustration of you on the front. It 282 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.480 says happy Hanukah. What do you get the guy that 283 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:10.480 has everything? And you open up and it says not 284 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:11.200 a damn there? 285 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:12.440 You know what? 286 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:17.640 I you also made the card of that I used 287 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.319 for years and years and still yeah with your screaming face, 288 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.400 my screaming face. So let's do this, and let's take 289 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.440 a picture of my ornament, if you would, next to 290 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:27.559 the Christmas tree. 291 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:29.480 And do we still going to put it on the 292 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:31.519 Aldick Home Christmas? Yeah? 293 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:33.359 And which there are no ornaments now I'm going to 294 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:35.400 just do it for the pictures, for the purpose of 295 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:40.079 the photo. And then do we still have that card 296 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:43.119 with a scream at all? I have a few left? 297 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.799 Probably not, because that's great. It's a drawing to get 298 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.839 you more screaming at the top of my lungs. 299 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.599 All right. Oh, and thank you for the cookies so far, 300 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.839 so good? And what else? Amy makes lovely cookies? Do 301 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:01.039 you mean what else? Know? 302 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:04.519 What? What are their gifts? Have I gotten this morning? 303 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:10.240 I don't know. I want some? You want some more gifts? 304 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:10.799 Do you? Yeah? 305 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.519 Okay, I like getting. There's plenty of empty. 306 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:17.440 I know. 307 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:20.680 Thank you very much for the gifts. And where's mine? 308 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.440 Amy just brought one? She got me the cookies. 309 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.119 I brought you cookies, yeah, which is fine, and they're 310 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:28.759 good cookies. 311 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.960 All right, and you have t oh these are these? 312 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:38.200 Are you? What are these confetti cookies with all the 313 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:40.400 different colors of M and ms in there? 314 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.880 Is that? What they are? Confetti cookies? No? What do 315 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:49.599 they called it? With what they call their Christmas M 316 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.519 and M cookies? Okay, they're just red and green eminem's. 317 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:55.440 Oh speak, I picked all the other colors out just 318 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:56.960 for you. 319 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.319 Well the green eminem's. Let's go back to the little 320 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:02.839 blue pill? Does that actually work? 321 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.160 Yes? Or no? Okay, we're done with the topic that 322 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:12.880 we didn't do. So I learned a lot. You know, 323 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:16.079 it's the holiday season. I get it. It is the holidays. 324 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:16.720 I'm ready to go. 325 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:20.680 Tomorrow's last day, then some time off. I'll do Saturday's 326 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:22.440 show and then some time off. I'm looking forward to 327 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:24.400 being with my wife and my boy. 328 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:28.920 And Monday is my last show and we're good, No 329 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:33.000 you wish. It's my last show until the beginning of January. 330 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:37.519 So it's good times had by all. All right, Now, 331 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:41.880 politics are horrific. I mean, we have reached the point 332 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:46.599 where the polarization is so horrible. That doesn't matter if 333 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:50.039 you're a Republican. The Democrats are satan and if you're 334 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:52.480 a Democrat, the Republicans are satan. 335 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:54.440 They're all beeselbub. 336 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.160 Well, let me tell you about what happened in this 337 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:04.480 little town go near Sacramento. About twenty six thousand people 338 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:09.559 lived there, and two Republican candidates were running for office 339 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:15.400 or city council, and they tied and eighty two votes 340 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:19.920 to three thousand, eight hundred and eighty two votes. Now, 341 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:24.720 this has happened before, but it's a very different way 342 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:26.920 of thinking. First of all, they knew each other and 343 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:31.319 they were friends. And three people running for two slots. 344 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.640 One of them just cleaned up and got fifty eight 345 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:38.319 hundred votes, so he's in. Now you have Matthew Pratton 346 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:43.079 and Bonnie Rodriguez tied for the other seat. Now has 347 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:47.000 it happened before. It has not major elections, but minor elections, 348 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:51.119 and they've been settled by coin flips, drawing names out 349 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:54.920 of a bowl, a quick game of poker to. 350 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:56.440 See who wins. 351 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:02.160 And these two are longtime residents, well respected, and took 352 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:05.559 a while to know that the tie happened because California 353 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:12.279 counts votes very slowly. Now what do you do well 354 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:14.920 to both of them? They weren't going to do a recount. 355 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:18.279 Even though both had an argument they were going to win, 356 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.240 they simply weren't going to spend the money. So what 357 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:27.799 is going to happen? And people in town came up 358 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:29.240 with ideas to settle. 359 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:30.079 The matter matter. 360 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:34.240 Now, Galt is a rural area, so Pratton said, how 361 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:38.319 about a milking contest and whoever wins it becomes in 362 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:39.160 city council. 363 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:40.400 Okay. 364 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:44.839 Rodriguez's son said, how about the two of them chase 365 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.480 chickens and whoever gets the chicken first? 366 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:50.079 Okay. 367 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:55.359 Someone also in town suggested a wrestling match in jello. 368 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.440 Sure, why not? 369 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:01.279 You know? They ended up doing ended up drawing straws, 370 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:09.480 But how do you wo draws first? And so they 371 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:12.799 had to flip a coin to see who drew first, 372 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:18.279 So it was a little convoluted. The assistant city clerk 373 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:21.200 goes out and buys a three dollars pack of brightly 374 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:26.079 colored straws, breaks up the straws. The local police chief 375 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.319 is the official straw holder, and they figured this was 376 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:31.759 going to happen out in the hallway and just have 377 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:34.839 it done. Oh no, no, the whole town came out. 378 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:42.880 News cameras came out from adjoining villages. Well they are villages, 379 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:46.839 little tiny towns, and so here we go. 380 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:50.920 What happened? What happened? 381 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:58.480 Well, Pratton won the seat and said, here's what I'm 382 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:02.079 gonna do. I'm gonna to take that straw and I'm 383 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:04.920 going to frame it and put it in the city 384 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:12.839 council office. Now you've got Rodriguez, who has been has 385 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:16.039 lost the race for city council, who's not very happy. 386 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:17.079 But you know, they're friends. 387 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:19.640 They weren't going to say anything about each other. Matter 388 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:22.839 of fact, they're good friends. So what ended up happening 389 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:25.839 is sort of a final twist to the story. Another 390 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:29.400 member of the city council had just resigned, so one 391 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:32.799 of Pratton's first act as a member of the city council, 392 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:38.160 and this became unanimous. They had to fill that seat 393 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:45.759 and brought in Rodriguez, so they both won. The reason 394 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:48.319 I bring that up and why it just became a 395 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:55.119 national story because in light of the crazy negative stories 396 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:58.480 that are out there about politics today, you know, isn't 397 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:02.680 a joy and I have loved to see Harris and 398 00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:03.839 Trump draw straws. 399 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:05.079 How much money you think would save? 400 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:10.599 You know, east Side spend over a billion dollars in 401 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:16.240