Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Handle, morning crew, as we start yet another year,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. And for those of you that write checks,
Speaker 2: and I'm slowly getting away from it, you know, just
Speaker 2: writing twenty twenty five as opposed to twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: is always difficult. Michael Monks just reported the stock market
Speaker 2: is started up two hundred and forty.
Speaker 1: Points this morning, and so far it's been a terrific
Speaker 1: year for the stock market.
Speaker 2: We're well on the way. It's up two hundred and
Speaker 2: forty points to day. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: At the end of the year.
Speaker 2: Okay, a couple of things I want to share with you. Oh,
Speaker 2: let's talk about laws that have kicked in. Now every
Speaker 2: January when I come on the air and when we
Speaker 2: go back to work and the new year starts, a
Speaker 2: bunch of new laws that have kicked in. California, as
Speaker 2: you can imagine, passes more laws than any other state,
Speaker 2: not only in terms of the numbers because of the
Speaker 2: size of our state, which is by far the biggest
Speaker 2: state in the Union, but also because we have a
Speaker 2: legislature that passes a lot of laws. So even per capita,
Speaker 2: over five thousand laws were introduced last year by our
Speaker 2: state legislature.
Speaker 1: Five thousand. Who the hell knows what five thousand laws
Speaker 1: are about.
Speaker 2: And it's this legislature, it's our senators, and it's our
Speaker 2: assembly people that vote on this stuff. One thousand were
Speaker 2: signed into law. I have no idea how these guys
Speaker 2: and women and men keep track of this stuff, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to go through a few of them, and
Speaker 2: it talks about how much we have changed, how much
Speaker 2: we stayed the same political correctness wokeness if you will.
Speaker 2: Don't quite understand what wokeness is, but let's go through
Speaker 2: some of the laws that have kicked in as of January.
Speaker 2: For one of the things in terms of crime fighting
Speaker 2: and our ability to deal with crime in this state
Speaker 2: is we have gotten away from quote wokeness and realize
Speaker 2: that bad guys are really bad guys. You know, none
Speaker 2: of this kroc about it's our fault that they're bad.
Speaker 1: And so we had PSS passed Prop.
Speaker 2: Forty seven, and criminals were giving a lighter sentence, they
Speaker 2: were gonna go to this prison as long we're getting
Speaker 2: more rehab. There's an argument there and so new laws
Speaker 2: go into effect. You know what, We're gonna make it
Speaker 2: more difficult if you get tagged for retail crime.
Speaker 1: We're going to bring down the limit to where it's
Speaker 1: a felony.
Speaker 2: Now, property theft, shoplifting, car break and smash and grab, robberties.
Speaker 1: We're actually gonna.
Speaker 2: Take that seriously, and you're gonna go to prison sooner
Speaker 2: and we're gonna take and you're going to be a
Speaker 2: felon quicker.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: We're you know, we're just this Black Lives Matter movement,
Speaker 2: and not so much Black lives matter, but the whole philosophe,
Speaker 2: anti police, anti harsh on crime because somehow something wrong
Speaker 2: with something's wrong with society.
Speaker 1: That's sort of changing. A ban on forced outing of.
Speaker 2: LGBTQ youths by schools. This was hugely controversial. Does in
Speaker 2: certain states if a kid is transgender, the parents must
Speaker 2: be told by the school.
Speaker 1: That is the law.
Speaker 2: You go to Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Southern states. Well, in California,
Speaker 2: schools cannot tell by law. Can cannot call parents and
Speaker 2: say your daughter, your son is trans or part of
Speaker 2: the gay community is using the wrong bathroom. Now I
Speaker 2: don't know how that stays hidden.
Speaker 1: I don't know how a.
Speaker 2: Kid is trans without parents knowing about it. I've never
Speaker 2: been able to understand that. But you know, to me,
Speaker 2: and I'm part of the LGBTQ community, to me, it's
Speaker 2: not a big deal in terms of practicality.
Speaker 1: It certainly is a big deal in terms of the
Speaker 1: political statement.
Speaker 2: And that's mainly what it is, I would think, because
Speaker 2: it's hard for parents not to know, so the school
Speaker 2: can't call up and say, surprise your boys an address
Speaker 2: and just walked into the girl's bathroom. Oh, had no
Speaker 2: idea reparations for black residents. Remember the State's Reparations task
Speaker 2: Force that the states set up to look at should
Speaker 2: reparations be paid to Black Californians who whose family has
Speaker 2: been discriminated against in some part by the state, or
Speaker 2: who can prove their connection to their progeny of somebody
Speaker 2: who was a slave. And so what this does is
Speaker 2: simply affect well part of the reparations.
Speaker 1: And this is discrimination.
Speaker 2: Hair, hairstyles, braids, locks, twists, dreads.
Speaker 1: You can use them. They can't be discriminated against with
Speaker 1: the dreads.
Speaker 2: Now it gets interesting because there are white people that
Speaker 2: create dreads, which is.
Speaker 1: The strangest looking thing I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: But you know, the question is can a white person
Speaker 2: be discriminated and told by the school you can't have
Speaker 2: dreads while the law now says that a black cannot
Speaker 2: be discriminated an African American h.
Speaker 3: Well, you know again, part of their culture and their hair,
Speaker 3: that's what they're arguing.
Speaker 1: Is part of their culture. That's exactly it. And I
Speaker 1: can make some hairstyle. Well, you know, but let me
Speaker 1: ask you this.
Speaker 2: It's part of their culture in terms of certain Caribbean nations.
Speaker 1: Right, if you're looking at that.
Speaker 2: Now, let me tell you a guy that's born in
Speaker 2: let's say Santa Clarita, right, and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: decides in high school he's gonna wear dreads and it's
Speaker 2: part he argues, it's part of my culture.
Speaker 3: Okay, no, but the United States has a European culture.
Speaker 3: So for a long time African Americans were told that
Speaker 3: their hair wasn't professional.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, that's true, and I think this is
Speaker 2: where it's based on. And to your point, that is true.
Speaker 2: But then the issue becomes culture. People should wear their.
Speaker 1: Hair anyway they want to, you know, they should just
Speaker 1: be able to wear their hair.
Speaker 2: You know, if a girl in high school in Glendale
Speaker 2: wants to keep her mustache, then there should be no
Speaker 2: discrimination at all allowed.
Speaker 1: So let's move on.
Speaker 2: I want to finish up new laws that came in.
Speaker 2: As I said, it's started the last segment. Over five thousand,
Speaker 2: this is California. Over five thousand bills were introduced, a
Speaker 2: thousand were signed into law, and I'm just coming up
Speaker 2: with a few of them. Some of them ridiculous, which
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into. Some of them, yeah,
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter. A couple of them really important.
Speaker 2: One of them is that medical debt is no longer
Speaker 2: on your credit report. The credit reporting agencies cannot use
Speaker 2: medical debt as part of your credit. And boy does
Speaker 2: that makes sense because the vast majority of debt of
Speaker 2: bad credit is based on medical debt, and medical costs
Speaker 2: in this country are so astronomical, so insanely astronomical, that
Speaker 2: you know, you get caught up in any kind of
Speaker 2: an emergency surgery, you're screwed. Even with an insurance company
Speaker 2: paying eighty percent. You know, if there's one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars operation, which is not unusual, you're still stuck with
Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars. Who the hell can pay that?
Speaker 1: Is that retroactive?
Speaker 3: Does that mean that it will come off of I
Speaker 3: don't think so, And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer, but I will tell you
Speaker 2: in terms of debt. Now, I have a Kaiser plan
Speaker 2: which I pay big, big money for, but my copays
Speaker 2: are non existent basically.
Speaker 1: And when I had my.
Speaker 2: Open heart surgery, we talked about replacing my valve, which
Speaker 2: went south. And most people want my vocal cords replaced.
Speaker 2: But I got my heart valve replaced, and I saw
Speaker 2: the bill. It was one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: The vast majority of that was the investigating of whether
Speaker 3: you had one or not.
Speaker 2: Very well said, there's a whole story there around for it.
Speaker 2: Ok here's one a ban on octopus farming. Now, is
Speaker 2: there such a thing as octopus farming in California? No,
Speaker 2: there are no octopus farms. But it's a statement about
Speaker 2: how bright octopus And by the way, it's not octopi,
Speaker 2: it's octopuses. That that's a very strange woman. U.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna leave that one alone. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: you're smiling. I'm sorry. I thought that. I thought that
Speaker 1: was reasonably funny.
Speaker 3: Crude by the look on Cono's face, nobody in radio
Speaker 3: land heard that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you? By the way, did you edit that?
Speaker 1: You know? I did? Absolutely? Oh, come on, my shoulders
Speaker 1: pretty high that my ears perked, So no one, Michael, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a shame. Anyway, I was.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to describe that, but you can
Speaker 2: guess as to uh how I I octopus says not
Speaker 2: octopo up in it?
Speaker 1: Are you keep dumping on anywhere? Are you dumping at it?
Speaker 1: Again and again? Well? No, not all of them?
Speaker 2: The one, okay, fair enough, all right, so let's just
Speaker 2: move on instead of having a great time with editing
Speaker 2: or not editing. The point is that there there are
Speaker 2: no octopus farms in California. But a statement is made,
Speaker 2: and this is California at its best making statements, and
Speaker 2: this is protecting animals in this case. And the argument is,
Speaker 2: and it's legit. Octopuses are very smart. They actually do
Speaker 2: have the ability to be and they are a lot
Speaker 2: smarter than most creatures. And they you've seen them. They
Speaker 2: can change color, they can change shapes, they are they're
Speaker 2: extraordinary animals.
Speaker 1: They truly are.
Speaker 2: They can you know, for example, I've seen films in
Speaker 2: which a handler of an octopus or someone who had
Speaker 2: a pet, and they do they are made, they are
Speaker 2: pets for people. Obviously they're in tanks. Would say giraffe,
Speaker 2: and then immediately the octopus looks like a giraffe. It's
Speaker 2: just amazing. It really is tesla. And there it looks
Speaker 2: like a tesla. But anyway, octopus farming is now illegal,
Speaker 2: even though it is not not done in California.
Speaker 1: Again a statement, then we go.
Speaker 2: We expand schools can't require parental notification of child's gender preference.
Speaker 1: That's sort of.
Speaker 2: It says school boards cannot pass resolutions that require school
Speaker 2: staff to notify parents if they believe a child is
Speaker 2: a transgender. It expands on previous law. Here's a one boy.
Speaker 1: This is a real argument about political correctness.
Speaker 2: The state must update its history social science curriculum. The
Speaker 2: students must study Menendez versus Westminster School District of Orange County.
Speaker 2: That's a nineteen forty five case regarding discrimination. This had
Speaker 2: to do with Mexican American parents. Children well refuse admission
Speaker 2: to local public schools and that case said no, you
Speaker 2: can't discriminate. And this was nine years before Brown versus Board.
Speaker 2: That must be taught. That case must be must be taught,
Speaker 2: which is okay. Now we're talking about the history. The
Speaker 2: same thing goes with the history of the slavery of
Speaker 2: Native Americans during the years of the comcissadors and Father Sarah. No,
Speaker 2: it'd be the Father Sierra Huniprio Sarah. He is he
Speaker 2: actually enslaved people to build the missions, and we don't
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 1: Remember in school, we studied this and we.
Speaker 2: Built little models of the missions out of sugar cubes
Speaker 2: or whatever the hell we did, and we thought it
Speaker 2: was great. And you have the Sierra Highway, and Father
Speaker 2: Sarah is given the credit and he did build all
Speaker 2: those missions, leading out the fact that it was slave
Speaker 2: labor that he used of the Indians.
Speaker 1: We never studied that. We didn't. It was just all
Speaker 1: great stuff either what I don't recall that one. No,
Speaker 1: we didn't. It was not part of the curriculum. Well,
Speaker 1: this law now says it's part of the curriculum. As
Speaker 1: you study the construction of the.
Speaker 2: Missions going up and down the state, starting in the San.
Speaker 1: Diegoor and ending up the area and ending.
Speaker 2: Up near the San Francisco And I don't know with
Speaker 2: the nord the most northern and the most southern one
Speaker 2: I should and I did. And it's about every twenty
Speaker 2: miles that there is a mission, and so there would
Speaker 2: be a place for travelers to stay at the missions.
Speaker 2: And there are some that are still completely whole. I
Speaker 2: think the San Fernando Mission is pretty intact.
Speaker 1: Oh you have many, sure, Yeah, and there it's pretty hard.
Speaker 1: I remember visiting them as a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're still around, but you now we have
Speaker 2: to know how they were built. Also, in terms of tenants,
Speaker 2: tenants facing evictions if they get if they get a
Speaker 2: notice of eviction, usually a three day notice to pay
Speaker 2: or quit. You haven't paid your rent. Here's your three
Speaker 2: day notice. They have five days to respond under the law.
Speaker 2: New law says they now have ten days to respond,
Speaker 2: just to make it easier. So you're seeing tenants rights expanding. Also,
Speaker 2: there will be money for US help, legal help for
Speaker 2: tenants who can't afford to defend themselves. And so this
Speaker 2: is a state where it's good to be a tenant,
Speaker 2: not in Arizona, not Nevada. You're a tenant, you don't
Speaker 2: pay the rent. Let's say the rents do at ten
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, you're out by four. Not in California.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Those are just some of the bills that were passed
Speaker 2: and are now law starting January first. And I could
Speaker 2: go on and on and on. Hey, let me share
Speaker 2: this story with you. And that is the Tesla that
Speaker 2: explode in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: And the police got the information in terms of who
Speaker 2: it was, what happened, where it was driven from, from
Speaker 2: where it was rented, which was an app almost immediately
Speaker 2: because Tesla had all of that information already and for
Speaker 2: the police that is invaluable. Why because the deep dive
Speaker 2: by Tesla into the driver, Well, it sort of proves
Speaker 2: that your.
Speaker 1: Tesla, like I've heard many times, is not a car.
Speaker 1: It's a computer on four wheels.
Speaker 2: And here's the problem with not just Tesla, but many
Speaker 2: of the latest cars. Where you've been, they know where
Speaker 2: you are going, they know access to your contacts, your
Speaker 2: call logs, your tics.
Speaker 1: They can get into all of it.
Speaker 2: Conversations you have in the car with people, for example,
Speaker 2: screaming at your passenger too much teeth. I don't want
Speaker 2: to even go into that. That's kind of rude, cono.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you didn't edit that, thank goodness. And so
Speaker 2: this was absolutely invaluable in helping find out who it
Speaker 2: was and the motivation, and it.
Speaker 1: Became almost instantaneous. That's the good news.
Speaker 2: Bad news is how do you feel about your car
Speaker 2: knowing everything about you?
Speaker 1: Which means of course the car company the car doesn't care.
Speaker 2: But the car company General Motors was sued in August
Speaker 2: by the Texas Attorney General selling data from one point
Speaker 2: eight million drivers to insurance companies.
Speaker 1: In terms of.
Speaker 2: Driving, how fast do you go on the road, how
Speaker 2: fast are you going when you turn corners?
Speaker 1: How many times do you cross lanes? It is tough.
Speaker 1: And this was where the tesla it's this guy.
Speaker 2: It was suicide where this green Beret, active green beret
Speaker 2: was on leave, blew himself up first killing himself and
Speaker 2: blew himself up and had left a suicide note saying
Speaker 2: it was a lot of PTSD what the police said.
Speaker 2: I mean, clearly there were no politics involved, unlike the
Speaker 2: guy in New Orleans who had been radicalized with his car.
Speaker 2: Now that was a pickup truck that was rented and
Speaker 2: that was a little harder to figure out who, what where,
Speaker 2: and they took a lot of investigation. The good news
Speaker 2: with the information they have today for law enforcement, it's
Speaker 2: great for everybody else. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're bothered by the company. Your car company know everything
Speaker 2: about you. I got to tell you the fact they
Speaker 2: can read my text because they can get into my phone.
Speaker 2: I use ways, and I use ways with my iPhone.
Speaker 2: I don't use the GPS on the car. Well, that
Speaker 2: means my phone is connected, which means you can get
Speaker 2: into my phone. And since it's going through the car,
Speaker 2: the car BMW for example, which I happen to drive,
Speaker 2: I guess they know all about me. For example, you've
Speaker 2: got a German car company that knows I'm Jewish.
Speaker 1: That's problematic, big problem.
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