WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:05.080 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:08.880 six forty KFI AM six forty Bill Handle. 3 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:13.759 Here it is a Thursday morning, May fifteenth, as we 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:16.600 basically start the show after Handle on the news. 5 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:19.280 Sorry about that. 6 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:28.600 Governor Gavin Newsom super I would say super liberal, not 7 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:30.160 crazy liberal, but pretty liberal. 8 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:33.280 A little slick for me, definitely. 9 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.399 Everything he is doing now is anticipation of his run 10 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:40.439 for the nomination of the presidency in twenty twenty eight. 11 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:43.759 There's very little doubt about that. So we start with 12 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.479 that premise. Now let's move to another premise. I'm going 13 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.600 to connect the two. Pardon me, and it is it's 14 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.280 tough being poor in the United States. Not easy, it's 15 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.560 tough being poor in many parts of the United States. 16 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:08.040 If you're going to be poor, probably California is the 17 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:11.879 best place to do it, especially if you are an 18 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.319 undocumented person and you've got some medical issues going on. 19 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:22.200 And why well, because Governor Newsom and California being the 20 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:29.079 first date offering free medical to everyone who can't afford it, 21 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.480 including undocumented. You can't ask ge do you have your 22 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.000 papers or not? And the problem is is that's breaking 23 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:39.439 the state. We just don't have the money to pay 24 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.480 for it, and someone's got to give. So are you 25 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:47.439 going to not give free medical to American citizens or 26 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:48.719 people who are here legally? 27 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:51.280 Are you going to. 28 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.920 Include illegal immigrants to the point where illegal doesn't even 29 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.200 matter anymore? And there are a lot of people who 30 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.920 argue there's no such thing as illegal, it doesn't exist. 31 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.319 The concept is irrelevant. 32 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:07.599 Vicenti Fox, when he was president of Mexico, said it perfectly. 33 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.680 The line between the United States and Mexico is just 34 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:17.159 that a line. The two countries are really one country 35 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.560 when he was referring to immigration going north like crazy, 36 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.159 because it's only a line in the sand, like when 37 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.520 you go to Nevada, when you go to Arizona and 38 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:29.759 you're now entering Nevada, it's a line. 39 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:32.000 It's just it's a billboard, and that's it. 40 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.159 There's no difference in terms of traveling back and forth. 41 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.879 So what the governor has done is said, Okay, we 42 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:44.840 really can't afford to give medical care underdic medical which 43 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:49.080 is our version of basically Medicare or Medicaid, which is 44 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:52.039 a federal government. We have our version in California called 45 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.280 a medical and the premise is poor people get free 46 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:57.080 medical if you can't afford it, if you're below the 47 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:00.560 poverty line or whatever that line is, you get free 48 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:05.000 medical and included everybody. Well, there ain't enough money for 49 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:08.479 everybody now, so where do you cut it? Well, I'll 50 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:11.719 tell you where now Newsom is cutting it, and that's 51 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:14.560 at the line of illegal immigration, which by the way, 52 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:19.319 is pretty popular today. You know there are illegal immigration. 53 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.120 First of all, it is both a legitimate issue. It's 54 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:28.599 also an issue that is there just for public consumption, 55 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:34.919 and it's a scapegoating issue. Truly, illegal immigrants are getting 56 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:37.520 the brunt of the blame for almost everything. Look at 57 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:42.520 the ads that they're running right now. Nao, what's her 58 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:49.439 face the Department of Homeland Security. What's her name, Christy Naomi. 59 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.120 I'm very bad with names, but Christine there, it is 60 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.879 Christine Olam and she is talking about the horrors of 61 00:03:55.879 --> 00:04:00.560 illegal immigration, and she mentions three horrible crimes were committed 62 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.879 by illegals and therefore we should kick all of them 63 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:04.680 out and you've got to get out of here. And 64 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.080 I mean, just all in all, I mean there's a 65 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.240 lot of scapegoating, escapegoating going on. So what the governor 66 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:14.240 did yesterday is he came up with his budget which 67 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:25.240 cuts medical payments to illegal immigrants. Now there are different 68 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:29.279 kinds of illegal immigrants, well, at least financially and at 69 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:33.079 least age wise. Okay, the first time illegal immigrants were 70 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:37.600 given the right to have health care covered by the state, 71 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:39.759 it was Jerry Brown actually did it, but it was 72 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:40.519 only for kids. 73 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:43.839 That was in the seventies, and then. 74 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:49.199 It became for people fifty years and older, and now 75 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:52.199 it's everybody, including the undocumented. 76 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:57.480 Well guess what those days are a changing for. 77 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:02.000 Both political reasons because again, and I'm a cynic when 78 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:03.920 it comes not that I'm in general not a cynic anyway, 79 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:05.839 but when it comes to Newsom, I think he is 80 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.279 as sleazy a politician as is out there. I mean, 81 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.399 everything he now does is anticipation of his rent for president. 82 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.079 I'm convinced of that, and. 83 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:18.839 So politically it makes more sense because he has to 84 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.360 move towards the middle. He has to now look at 85 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:26.879 all the voters. And the easiest political path is to say, 86 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:30.920 if we have to cut, let's cut and not affect 87 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:35.720 people who are here legally American citizens who pay the taxes, 88 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.399 Because the argument is illegal aliens don't pay taxes, which 89 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:38.800 is a crock. 90 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:39.519 Of course they do. 91 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:44.399 And so we have a new budget, and why are 92 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:48.519 we going broke? Well, the state goes up and down. 93 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:52.199 Because that's the other thing about California. The state of California, 94 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:57.199 its revenue is based primarily on income taxes, state income tax. 95 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.120 A lot of states don't have in KIP tax at all. 96 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:03.000 I mean, you go to the state of Washington, you 97 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:05.079 go to Nevada, you go to Florida. 98 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:06.680 There's also sing as income tax. 99 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:10.040 Well, California not only has income tax the highest in 100 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:14.399 the country, but it relies on that income tax for 101 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:18.040 the majority of its revenue. And here's the problem with 102 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.959 relying on income tax when you have a graduated tax system, 103 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:26.759 which we do, is that the wealthier people pay the taxes. 104 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.879 That's the reality. This myth about the middle class paying 105 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.639 the taxes. The middle class doesn't pay the taxes. It's 106 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.560 the wealthy that pay the taxes. Now, whether you agree 107 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.240 with it or not, different issue. But if the wealthier 108 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:45.319 paying the taxes, how do the wealthy do financially? Well, 109 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:49.759 when the economy is up, they make a lot more money. 110 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:55.040 The wealthy are not at an hourly they're on investments. 111 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:01.519 There are high paid jobs. And when the economy does great, 112 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.959 they do great, they make more money and the state 113 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.600 gets more money. When the economy doesn't do great, they 114 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:12.439 make less money. Investments are worth less. Incomes drop, which 115 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:14.160 means there's less money for California. 116 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:18.240 And it is so volatile in this state that from. 117 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:20.040 Year to year you really don't know. We are at 118 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:22.240 the vagaries of the market. We are at the vaguers 119 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:24.879 vagaries of the economy more so than any other state. 120 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:28.079 So now we're in. 121 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:31.800 A position where, oh, we're looking at deficits of tens 122 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.560 of billions of dollars. You know, we were in surplus 123 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.759 twenty five billion dollars a few years ago, annual surplus 124 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:41.040 of twenty five billion dollars. Well, those days have changed, 125 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.800 and so illegal immigrants are going to get nailed on this. 126 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:50.199 You're not going to see them get free healthcare. Then 127 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.839 the issue, of course becomes free. I happen to believe 128 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:57.759 in socialized medicine, you know that. And frankly, oh, I 129 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.759 just had an experience with and we were in Italy 130 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:04.759 and she had an issue going on, she had some 131 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.639 breathing issues, and we went right to the emergency room. 132 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:13.920 Non citizens, right, we're on American passports. They didn't ask 133 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.959 if we're here legally or not legally. They went ahead 134 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:20.560 and did the treatment. It was first class, world class medicine. 135 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:22.680 And I'm on the way out. 136 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.079 I'm taking out my credit card and I say, so, 137 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:26.839 where do I pay? 138 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:27.720 You don't pay. 139 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.000 We don't have a mechanism for you to pay. We 140 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:36.000 do it through taxes. Different model, different system, different model. 141 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.000 All right, here's the story I want to share with you. 142 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.120 And this has to do with parental leave. And that's 143 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.879 going back to what I said before. Some places, the 144 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:48.879 United States is not the greatest place in the world 145 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.200 in certain areas. Okay, I'm not an exceptionalist. So and 146 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.440 you they have the greatest country in the world. Okay, yes, 147 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:58.000 now in terms of medical care and maybe not so 148 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:02.200 much in terms of the the entire concept of parental. 149 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.919 Leave, not so much. You go to Europe, you go 150 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:05.799 to Scandinavia. 151 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.639 Do you know that in Sweden and Norway parents can 152 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:11.279 get a year off with pay. 153 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:14.720 When a newborn comes into the what comes into their family, 154 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:16.519 and that's both mother and father. 155 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:22.000 And pay for a new baby coming in an adoptive baby. 156 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.159 It doesn't matter well here in California and here in 157 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:25.559 the United States not so much. 158 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:32.440 Okay, Now, teachers are in a different category. State employees 159 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:37.240 are in a different category than private sector employees. In California, 160 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.879 the employees do not have access to the state's paid 161 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:45.840 family leave or state disability insurance program. They're on their 162 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:49.799 own program. Also, teachers don't pay in Social Security. It's 163 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:53.399 a different program they have. Now, keep in mind, seventy 164 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:58.360 three percent of teachers are women, which means that a 165 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:02.320 whole lot more of them are having babies. Then in 166 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:05.159 areas where there's a lot of men, we're talking about 167 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:09.600 parental leave, we're talking about maturity leave. Now, teachers' jobs 168 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.559 are protected for twelve weeks, can't get canned. But a 169 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.200 lot of people can't afford to take those twelve weeks 170 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.519 because the jobs are protected, but they are not paid for. 171 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.080 So what the teachers do is plan a pregnancy around 172 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.159 summer vacation, because if they take off during the year, 173 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:32.799 right non summer, they're basically having a baby when it's 174 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:33.279 not summer. 175 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.799 They have to go through their sick leaf as part 176 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:37.879 of it. It's just this. 177 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:42.559 Weird loophole, and one English teacher said, it seems a 178 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.039 crazy time to have reproductive choice around your work schedule. 179 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.039 So a new resolution was passed by the LA Unified 180 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:54.519 School District Board this week unanimously, and it's going to 181 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.879 bolster paid family leave for teachers and other district workers 182 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:05.919 and improve parental support in trying to attempt to make 183 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:08.200 LAUSD a quote district of choice. 184 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.639 What does that mean, Well, so people can teach. 185 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:15.200 So the school board actually has teachers that want to 186 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:20.360 come to LAUSD. Now you can go to other school 187 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.720 districts where teachers get sixty seventy eighty thousand dollars a 188 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:27.559 year and have great benefits, not so much LA Unified. 189 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.679 So these bills have passed. What they're trying to do 190 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.279 is make up for that. There were two bills that 191 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:37.360 would have given paid family leave by the way at 192 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.840 birth in the state. The first one was passed vetoed 193 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:44.399 by Jerry Brown when he was governor in twenty seventeen. 194 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:49.120 The second one passed in twenty nineteen, vetoed by Gavin 195 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:54.320 Newsom because he cited costs. There's a third one now 196 00:11:54.360 --> 00:12:01.440 going through the Assembly. So what the bill is saying, 197 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:04.720 this is the package that there's two issues, the state 198 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.320 issue in LA unified both of them working in concert, 199 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.480 and this is my fun one. The bill going through 200 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:16.639 is called Parental Package LAUSD as an equitable Employer of 201 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:21.559 Choice for Thriving Families and the acronym for that cleverly 202 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:25.240 enough is Eketif boy, they're clever, aren't they? 203 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:28.039 Wow? Not bad? 204 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:32.679 And what it includes is infertility support services, fair enough, 205 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:39.919 paid time off, childcare, lactation spaces. 206 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:41.919 Now what am I missing here? Amy? 207 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:47.279 And aren't lactation spaces basically between your waist and your neck? 208 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:51.919 And they have to define that in the law. I 209 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.039 think they mean a place. The place go oh oh, 210 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:59.240 okay said that private place? Got it all right? 211 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:01.799 I knew that something wrong there when I read that, 212 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:07.720 And so you know, I get so confused sometimes. 213 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:12.279 That breast can do that to you. I can do 214 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.399 at a time too. That's the other thing. You've ever seen. 215 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:22.879 A bar misfit with conjoined twins. They use a bra 216 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:28.480 as a Yamaica. Oh I got plenty more, I bet 217 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:38.320 you do. Anyway, bottom line is teachers get screwed. Parents 218 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.240 get screwed because we don't have the concept of paid 219 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.440 family leave, which we should have but the costs again, 220 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:51.240 the costs become astronomical. You can't have it all, and 221 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.200 we want it all. So we just have this entire 222 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.480 litany of what we have to spend money on, what 223 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.720 we want to spend Bunney want money on. 224 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.240 It's not easy. So this one is new. 225 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:06.360 This is going to be paid pregnancy leave, and it's 226 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:07.840 it's a good thing if. 227 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:08.360 You're a parent. 228 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:14.080 All right, we're doing that one Tonight, the Dodgers take 229 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.519 on the Athletics at the Dodger Stadium, with. 230 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:18.320 The first pitch at seven o'clock. 231 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:21.440 Listen to all Dodger games AM five seventy LA Sports 232 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.000 live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast. 233 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:27.240 Booth and stream all Dodger games and HD. 234 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.960 On the iHeartRadio app. The keyword is AM five seventy 235 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:33.440 LA Sports. And what a perfect time to put that 236 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.279 plug for the Dodger game in because I want to 237 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.360 introduce you to a gentleman by the name of Travis Chock. 238 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:43.159 And first of all, Travis, thanks for taking the time. 239 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:47.440 Always appreciated, No, really appreciate you guys having made this 240 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:48.240 is super exciting. 241 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:49.480 Yeah as well, you should. 242 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:53.799 Okay, this is and I didn't know about this until 243 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.320 number one I read about it. Oh, by the way, 244 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:58.879 the success from scratch segment, which we're doing right now 245 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.759 is brought to you by net Suite, by Oracle. 246 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:03.440 That's important. They make this happen. 247 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:09.039 And I didn't know much about baseballism at all until 248 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.399 Cono and and and my producer, the producer Cono, our 249 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.879 board operator. Just love what you do, and especially CONO 250 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:23.159 have gotten very involved in quote the business of baseballism, 251 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:27.440 or at least buying from your company. Explain what this is, 252 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.759 because you know baseball is that's a weird name for 253 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:31.039 a company. 254 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.600 So we are a baseball lifestyle title brand that allows 255 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.039 fans to kind of give an outlet to what they 256 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.039 wear and show their passion for the game. So I 257 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:42.600 slogan is Bill Football Players one by all, We're a 258 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:44.559 baseball inspired lifestyle brand. 259 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.799 Okay, so what does that mean? Just clothing is what 260 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.159 you offer? Do you do anything else? Do you do jerseys? 261 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.200 Pants? I mean normal clothing, hoodies, that sort of thing. 262 00:15:55.960 --> 00:16:01.559 Yeah, so we're you know, we're T shirts, hoodies, you know, Polos, caps, shorts, 263 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:04.159 jogger as well. We like to call ourselves like the 264 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:08.360 Lula element of baseball okay, and. 265 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.720 I'm assuming obviously you have licensing with all of Major 266 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:13.440 League Baseball. 267 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:14.320 I would I would. 268 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.720 Guess that, yes, we got the major League license, I 269 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.000 want to say, four years ago. 270 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:21.080 Okay. How difficult was that? 271 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:24.720 It was a process. It was also, you know, a 272 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:27.200 decision making a thing by us because we were a 273 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:28.840 brand that was for the love of the game, and 274 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:30.159 we didn't know if we wanted to go to the 275 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:32.919 MLB route. But as you know, we grew bigger, we 276 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.799 kind of warmed up to the idea because we saw 277 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:37.679 that people were buying our stuff from different regions and 278 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:39.879 they had the passion for Major League Baseball. So we 279 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:41.039 just had to pull the trigger. 280 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.200 In twenty twenty one, all right, let's start about how 281 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:46.679 I start talking about how this started, because that's a 282 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.720 whole story onto itself. I know, you and a bunch 283 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:51.919 of buddies. Let's just go through from the beginning. How 284 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:53.480 did baseballsm come to be? 285 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:58.080 Yeah, it's a pretty wild story. So myself and three 286 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:01.039 other teammates we started a youth based camp at University 287 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:04.440 Oregon and we played college baseball there and we started 288 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.279 a youth baseball camp. I didn't know what we wanted 289 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:08.880 to call it, but I was looking online trying to 290 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.839 find domains, and I found that the domain baseballism dot 291 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:15.200 com was not taken, so we went with that name 292 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:16.960 for the camp name. We ran the camp for two 293 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:18.559 years out of college, and then we went our separate 294 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.920 ways and I was coaching. I had another friend who 295 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.000 was a lawyer, and other guy was a finance manager, 296 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.279 and another guy was in sports sales. But everywhere we 297 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:29.880 went we would wear our old camp shirt and people 298 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:31.640 would ask us, where'd you get that shirt? Where'd you 299 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.480 get that shirt? So I made a run of shirts. 300 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.160 So this was in twenty and twelve. I made a 301 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:39.440 run of shirts. They sold out in a week at 302 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.119 the baseball academy I was working at and I said, guys, 303 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:44.599 I think we got something here. Let's try to relaunch 304 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.440 this thing as a clothing brand. So we launched our 305 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:50.480 website in twenty thirteen as baseballs in dot Com. Kind 306 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:53.079 of rebranded ourselves from a camp to a lifestyle parle brand, 307 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:55.720 and it's been pretty crazy ever since. So we went 308 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.960 from a youth baseball camp to one of the largest 309 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:00.519 baseball parl brands country. 310 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:06.119 So when I think in terms of a sports branded 311 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:10.960 clothing line. I'm thinking uniforms. I'm thinking straight out jerseys 312 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:16.160 and caps. This goes beyond that in that you're talking 313 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:21.039 about what sports wear and jerseys in addition to jerseys, 314 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:22.200 but also jacket sweater. 315 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:22.880 Is that sort of thing. 316 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:27.000 Yeah, So we that was one of the biggest challenges 317 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:28.720 for us as we started our company is that people 318 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.000 would come into our store and be like, can I 319 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:32.480 get a helmet? Can I get a bat Can I 320 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:34.200 get a pair of batticcles? And like, we don't do that. 321 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:36.440 You know, we we stay off the field for the 322 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:39.640 most part. The only main piece of a pair that 323 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:41.480 we sell those on the field is the baseball cap. 324 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.519 But we wanted something that we could wear around, you know, 325 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:49.200 around town, out to dinner that made us feel like, 326 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:51.319 I still feel like baseball people, even though we didn't 327 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.000 play the game anymore, in a subtle way. And so 328 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:56.920 that's kind of how Baseballism was born, is like I 329 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.880 used to wear you know, Polo, I used to wear LACA, 330 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:02.240 and I looked up those logos and I don't play polo, 331 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:05.519 I don't play tennis. I want to represent baseball. And 332 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:07.839 so we wanted to go that route of just being 333 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:10.119 a brand that baseball people could wear and express their 334 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.599 love for the game without you know, wearing a jersey, 335 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:16.240 you know, or wearing like, you know, an obnoxious MLB 336 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:17.279 shirt or something like that. 337 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:20.200 Yeah, how what's your price point for this stuff? Where 338 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:22.960 would you put yourself in the expense list? 339 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:26.960 I would say we're high qualities, so we're in upper middle. 340 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.960 Our T shirts are anywhere from twenty nine to forty dollars, 341 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:35.960 and our hoodies are from sixty to ninety five dollars. 342 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:39.759 And how much are your clothing actually is license and 343 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:44.519 has names of teams on there or Major League Baseball MLB. 344 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:46.279 I don't even know if anybody does that, but. 345 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:50.880 Yeah, I mean so, I mean, we didn't start MLB 346 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:53.720 licensing until twenty twenty one, so I want to say 347 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:55.720 right now, it's kind of like a growing part of 348 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:58.279 our business. It's maybe five to ten percent of our 349 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:00.240 business is MLB licensed stuff on the ret This is 350 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:02.079 just lifestyle stuff, our own. 351 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:05.119 Brand in line got it all right? What a story? 352 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:09.200 I love it, Travis, Thanks for spending time with us. Also, 353 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:14.160 people want to get hold of you. It's baseballism dot com. 354 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:15.279 It's that simple, right. 355 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:18.559 Baseballism dot com. We got something for you if you 356 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:19.079 love the game. 357 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:24.000 Take care, greatly appreciated, Take care, Travis. Great story, Thank 358 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:25.319 you all right, great great story. 359 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:28.839 Success from Scratch brought to you by Netsweet by Oracle 360 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:31.480 get the cfo's Guide to AI and Machine Learning at 361 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:33.960 NetSuite dot com slash. 362 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.440 Handle and we're going to be bringing weekly stories bringing 363 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:37.440 it back. That's kind of neat. 364 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:39.680 Not only are these great fun stories, we got a 365 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:43.640 sponsor for it too, which is a double win. So 366 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:46.440 this is where sales actually pays attention to the show. 367 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:50.319 Okay, now here's a fun topic. 368 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:52.039 Oh man, I love this when I first saw it, 369 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.519 and that has to do with a Katari jet. It's 370 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:59.160 a seven forty seven Dash eight. It's four hundred million bucks. 371 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:00.599 I don't know if you saw a pick of it. 372 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.519 It's kind of a nice plane to have. It's about 373 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:07.359 as high end as you can go. Four hundred million dollars, 374 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:09.400 you know. I don't know what they normally go for 375 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:13.480 retail price, the seven forty sevens. I'm assuming they go 376 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:15.799 up a bit if you like put in tinted windows 377 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:17.440 or put really new. 378 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:20.000 Rims, you know, on the wheels, they can go up 379 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.119 a little bit, but for the most part, this is 380 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:23.559 about as high end as you can get. 381 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:26.799 So what the Katari government, actually the royal family of 382 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.240 the Qatar is doing is there they want to donate 383 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:34.160 it to the president, not specifically, but it's going to 384 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:36.039 the way it's worked out or the way Trump has 385 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.160 is going to be donated to the Pentagon, and then 386 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:41.000 when he is out of office, it goes to the 387 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:42.240 Presidential Library. 388 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:44.640 Okay, that gets kind of interesting. 389 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.640 And the reason is it's going to be a temporary 390 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:51.759 Air Force one because you have the two new ones 391 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:55.960 that are now being built. First of all, you know 392 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:58.480 how old Air Force one is right now, it's forty 393 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:04.400 years old. Look at the cockpit, it's all analog. It's 394 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:07.640 you don't see TV screens in the cockpit. You see dials. 395 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:10.480 I mean, it is that old. 396 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:13.160 And when you look at the kitchen, which is you know, 397 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:15.599 it's a small kitchen for the airplane where they actually cook. 398 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:18.599 What you do is you see wear and tear. 399 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:23.440 You see the stainless steel, for example, has marks on 400 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:25.240 where it's been rubbed away. 401 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:27.119