October 11, 2025 • 31 mins
Handel on the Law. Marginal Legal Advice.
A caller loaned an employee his personal car and he accidentally killed someone. The lawyers of the person who was killed are asking about assets, what happens next? Also, in California, can you do probate yourself without an attorney, when handling a will? And a caller is trying to avoid a realtor's potential defamation case when he puts signage on his lawn to prevent his neighbor from turning his home into a mental care facility.
A caller loaned an employee his personal car and he accidentally killed someone. The lawyers of the person who was killed are asking about assets, what happens next? Also, in California, can you do probate yourself without an attorney, when handling a will? And a caller is trying to avoid a realtor's potential defamation case when he puts signage on his lawn to prevent his neighbor from turning his home into a mental care facility.
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one five three four. Okay, welcome to you. Handle on
the law marginal legal advice where I tell you have
no case. Now this is a fun one. There are
lawsuits for defamation, and then there are lawsuits for defamation.
There are a bunch of rules incidentally about the lawsuits
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whenever someone argues they've been defamed. And there are two
kinds of people in the world of lawsuits for defamation
and and those two figures or those two types of
people are one private people. That is, you defame me publicly.
But I'm a private person, which I am not by
the way, I'm considered a public person because of the
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fact that I'm on radio. So that's the second category,
public people. And the rules for public people is they're
a lot looser. It's harder to sue private people. It's
easier to quote commit libel. So usually when public people
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are su ude, it's kind of hard to prove defamation.
And this was a lawsuit. Drake, the rapper had accused Lamar,
and I was horrible with names. Anyway, Lamar is Detric
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I think it is Detrick Lamar, Derek Lamar, Frendrick Lamar.
You see, I don't listen to that stuff, so what
can I tell you? Anyway, So Ken Drake accuses Kendrick
Lamar and the record company of defaming him because Kendrick
Lamar released promoted a rap disc called not Like Us,
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So Us Do? Judge Jeanette Vargas ruled that Lamar's criticisms
of Drake in this song not Like Us, including his
claim quote I hear you like him young in reference
to the accusation that there were sex with young people,
it did not amount to defamation. Now come on, guys,
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you're accusing someone of having sex with minors, and that's
not defamation. It wasn't and why wasn't it because a
reasonable listener could not have concluded that Not Like Us
was conveying objective facts about break Drake. So here's the rule.
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Making an accusation against someone that is horrific. Horrific can
go over the top and not be defamation because no
one believes it. In other words, if I defame you,
I'm uttering a fact and it is believable and it's plausible,
and therefore that's defamation. But if I accuse you of
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breaking into the New York Zoo, the Brooklyn Zoo and
having sex with five girafts before that caught you, that
is so ridiculous that it's not defamation. My favorite it's
not defamation was Jerry Fallwell, the tele evangelist I don't
know if you remember Hustler magazine, which was pretty out there.
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So Hustler Magazine had a cartoon of Jerry Fallwell running
out of an outhouse having just have sex with his
mother in the outhouse, and of course he sued for defamation.
He sued Hustler magazine. Now was that defamation? Jerry Fallwell
actually went onto the stand. He was put on the
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stand and was asked about it. Do you think you
were to faint? Yes? I was all right. So here's
this cartoon of you leaving the outhouse after having sex
with your mother in the outhouse. Do you think anybody
anybody out there would believe that that happened? Of course not. We'rediculous,
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I will. That would never happen to everybody knows it precisely.
It was so ridiculous, over the top. No one believed
it because it was so crazy, and so the case
was dismissed. Now this case accusing Drake of having sex
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with a minor or, saying I hear you like him young. Well,
you know, Drake's a public figure, or Kendrick is a
public figure, so a lot more leeway would go. See
how that works. Yeah, that was my favorite lawsuit boy.
If you can pull I don't know if you can.
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If there's a record or there's a video of that
cartoon out there someplace, or a photo, man, that's worth
looking at. It is absolutely hilarious and outrageous. All right,
we'll take a break and come back and we'll start
taking the phone calls. This is handle on the law.
A second with Hea, No, no, sorry, Heather, right, tent
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a minute, no no, and let's do that again. All right,
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h Raphael. Hello, welcome, Hello Raphael.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Built?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yes, sir, okay, just so I'll make it a fleet
and quick here for you. Basically, I own a business
and h I loan my personal vehicle to employee. I
was just pushing a car. Start about that anyway, pushing
a car, Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I that's fun. Oh yeah, that'll do it. Okay, So
you loaned you loaned your vehicle? Was it a company
vehicle or a private vehicle?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Private vehicle?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Okay, which is your car?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, I just okay, So you.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Owned your car to someone who happened to be an employee,
but it had nothing to do with business, right, correct?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Okay, all right, moving on, Okay. So then he's in
his neighborhood on his way back to work in the morning,
not on the clock, and there's morning doing it windshield
and this woman is jaywalking and he hits her and
she dies. Ooh yeah. So just wondering. My question about
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this whole thing is where do you see me being
liable for any of this?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, that's a good question. By the way, I don't
see much liability there. I mean, you're the registered owner,
so I think a fifteen thousand dollars is you're a limit. Now,
when someone dies, I guarantee you the lawyer is going
to go after everything your business. You personally doesn't mean
you're going to be liable, it's just they try to
grab everything because the damages are pretty substantial. If you've
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heard me do the show before, I always talk about
the damages. The more someone is hurt, the more severe
someone is injured during the course of an accident, the
more serious the case is, and lawyers will pick that
up and then start just scrambling for liability. What insurance
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can we go to? So they'll go after your business insurance,
they'll go after your home insurance. They'll certainly go after
your car insurance. But that's the only thing you're they're
going to argue that you're liable. There'll be depositions what happened,
exactly what happened, What did he say? When did it happen?
Did he represent something? Did you represent yourself as something
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other than the owner of a business and the loan
of your car? Personally? But it's he's the one that
did the driving. So you're you're gonna get hit with
a whole lot of lawsuits. I guarantee you. Well, you're
gonna hit with a lawsuit. But everything you want. Now,
do you have car insurance?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I do, but it's very minimal.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well that's the well, okay, okay, so you have fifteen
thirty you have minimal alaball in California. All right, you
know what's you know, what's gonna what? That poor victim
is going to get fifteen thousand dollars, that's it. Yeah, yeah,
so you know, I mean, unfortuss she got hit by
the wrong car, the wrong person. Here's legal advice I'm
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gonna give you right now. If you are going to
be hit and be killed in a car accident, make
sure that whoever hits you is either an Amazon driver
a Coca Cola truck. That's very good. Uber is not
too bad. But you definitely want Amazon ups FedEx truck
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to nail you. Question about it all right, Curtis, Hi, Curtis, welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Hey, good morning, Bill.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yes, sir, I've got a realtor who's prevalent in our neighborhood,
who promotes people to rent their homes out to tournament
to mental care facilities where you have people who are
drug addicts and schizophrenics who get to come and go
at all hours and stuff like that. And I want
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to put signage up in my yard and a couple
of other neighbors are willing to do the same to basically,
just say, don't do business with this person.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
No, you know, I don't want to now, you don't
want to do that. You don't want to do that.
What you can say is, this person is applying for
my home to be a rehab a rehab center, a
rehab unit. What you want to do is just the
absolute truth. You don't want to accuse anything of other
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than what that person did. By the way, it's basically
the same thing. So let's say mister wonderful has decided
to apply to make your home a rehab a drug
rehab unit, which is not that easy to do in
a private home. You can put up a sign and
said X has applied to make my house a rehab unit.
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That it's going to do the same thing. By the way,
you know, the implication is there, and so there's no defamation,
there's no accusation. You're not telling people don't do it
with this guy was with his interference with contract, by
the way, trying to get him not to do a
lawful business. But what you're saying is, this is what
this guy is doing, and you want the biggest sign
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you can possibly have that the city allows you to have,
it'll do the same thing, and therefore there is zero
defamation defamation there, Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Bill, Yeah, click.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
What I was gonna do is I was just gonna
I was gonna email him and talk to him and
pretend as if I wanted to do the same my house.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Get him.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, you can do that, you can do Yeah, you
can do that.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Get him the list all the things that he will
do and how he promotes it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Sure you can tell you that. You say that and say,
here is make and I would put it in an
email by the way, and you go, here is the
email that I received from him, and uh, just make
a poster out of it and put it up and
you'll be fine. Okay, Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's the
way I would do. You have to remember, the truth
is an absolute defense, uh, to defamation, and so you
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want to no accusations, Just here's the truth, and there's
no place to go. Now. Is he gonna Is he
gonna suit you for defamation? Of course he is. But
is he gonna go any place with it? Of course not.
This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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Speaker 1 (15:54):
KFI handle here on a Saturday morning now eight hundred
and five two zero roll one five three four. If
you want marginal legal advice eight hundred five to two
zero one five three four. Welcome back, more Handle on
the Law. Uh, here we go, let's try this. Hello, Rick, Welcome,
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good morning.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
I live in the state of Missouri and i'd like
to know if there's a statue of limitation on fraud
and give you slight details.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Okay, give me the slight details. First, how are you defauded?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
A certain bank and a major insurance company started making
unauthorized withdraws through a fictitious name.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That wait, the hold on the bank did this. It
was the bank that performed this fraud, not someone else
using your name or not some hacker, not some crook,
not some forger. The bank itself did this, right.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
The insurance company, a well known one, mate unauthorized withdraws
from this account out.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, so it's one of those auto pay and they
took out the money. Okay, fair enough, And now what
what's your question?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
My question is is that fraud? And is there a
statue of limitations on fraud?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, there is a statute. By the way, you're in Missouri.
Do you happen to know where I live? No, sir,
I live in California. Do you happen to know how
often I have practice law in Missouri?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
No, sir.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Never. Do you happen to know how deep my legal
knowledge is about Missouri law?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
No, sir, not.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Even one iota. Now let me tell you what the
statute is in California, it is three years both civil
and criminal fraud. This is a civil fraud case, if
you will. So if you're within three years, that's the
good news. And let me give you the bad news.
That's assuming Missouri follows California, most states do. They're about
the same. And that's not fraud. You have not been defrauded.
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What ended up happening. There's all kinds of mistakes being made.
You may have been screwed over, but you've been damaged
to the extent of money taken out wrongly by the
bank for whatever reason. But that is not fraud. They
you would have to prove that they intended to do
that to you. Something out there.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
I'm referring to the fraud against the insurance company, not
the bank.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, Well, let me ask you. How much money were
you screwed out of?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Several thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Okay, So you're going to go now against the insurance company,
and so you're filing a lawsuit against the insurance company.
Someone at the insurance company intended to screw you over,
and how do you prove that? Well, is there a recording?
HI take the money and screw Rick is there an email. Hey, guys,
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take the money and screw Rick. That's not fraud. Those
are damages, and I think that would fly, But not fraud.
Fraud is very difficult to prove, by the way, not
easy at all. Jack, Hello, Jack, Welcome, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Okay, I'm in California and my brother died in test date.
And I know that in California you can do it yourself, probate.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You can also die yourself. You know that you can
die by yourself. You know that too, under the law.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Okay, Yeah, I just want to let you know.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You know, I'm the legal expert. Okay. So he died
in test date, which means which means there is no will,
there is no document, there is no trust there is.
He's basically out there by himself, completely dead now, and
the beneficiaries are looking at him going, hey, we want
our money. How much money did your brother leave? By
the way, how much was he worth when he died?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
The pub would probably cover maybe a quarter of a million.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, so that's the money, all right. How many beneficiaries, Well,
how many siblings? Well, any children, let me go that way,
Any wife children?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Really? Odly? Three surviving family members which is.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Family members can be fourth cousins, children.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
No children, no children, a hold.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
On no wife, no children, okay, siblings, brothers, sisters, three
three brothers and sisters, three siblings. Okay, So you have
three beneficiaries who are equal equally entitled to the estate,
which means you have a quarter million dollars is going
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to be split three ways. Okay, next question, go ahead?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Oh next, Well that's the question. What about this? Do
it yourself?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
No? No, not not for it, not for a court now,
not for a quarter million dollars. Jack, you know, get
a probate attorney. You're gonna have to file a probate
of intestacy. And that's why I asked you how much
money we're talking about. Not only am I incredibly nosy,
so I always want to know. But you know, if
it's thirty thousand, if it's forty thousand dollars, if it's
twenty thousand dollars, there's something called a summary pro probate,
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which means you just fill out a little paperwork and
it's done. I mean, this is a full blown probate.
And so it's going to cost you know, a few
thousand dollars, of which the estate will pay for Okay,
so whoever fronts the money to the lawyer, the lawyer
might wait because there's money there. So that's how you
want to do it. Just yeah, get yourself, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Well I've heard about probate attorneys that they wanted they
can stretch this thing out.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Really yeah, yeah, yeah you want Yeah, Well no not really.
I mean yeah, some do, but you know that's any
anybody you gotta karme that can stretch the repair. You
have a plumber that can say, oh my god, you
need extra plumbing that happens across the board. And so yeah,
you want to go. And you don't want to do
a little bit of research, which means you want to
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do see some reviews. You want to talk to someone
who has used a probate attorney. Not the dead person
because they're difficult to talk to, but the people who
have filed for probate and have a good experience with
a probate attorney. That's where you want to go. Uh,
this is handle on the law. Can't fin he am
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six forty bill handle here ye he is a Saturday
morning legal shows here eight hundred five two zero one
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three four, Welcome back. More handle on the law. Michael, Hello, Michael, Yeah, Bill, Now, Michael,
(22:55):
I'm assuming there's something wrong with your voice medically right,
Yeah I can. Oh my god, I'm sorry. Uh did
they like remove your voice box kind of thing?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I have a couple of things going on.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Answers anyways, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I was writing a scooter and I crossed the intersection
of South Street and Studio Bigger and this guy came
from the northbound. You know, he's He made a right
right in front of, like behind me, and clipped me
and I went flying. He pulled over. I talked to
him briefly. I assumed was like writing, you know, almost
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in the traffic that he pulled over. We staged information.
I got my scooter and my shop around, hobble over
into the parking my shell gapation and uh I turned around.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He was gone, okay, okay, Uh, let me ask you this.
Did you get his information at all? Did you get now?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Nothing? You mean get his number? Nothing? Yeah, that's a problem. Well, U,
I mean you can subpoena those cameras, you can ask
for the cameras, and you know how badly were you hurt.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
That bad my back, I mean my lower back. I
can barely walk.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, so that's soft tissue, no broken bones or anything.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Right, there's no one on my arm.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Not Okay, here's the problem. You're gonna have to track
him down. Uh. And it's not easy to track someone
down where there's no information. You don't have a driver's uh. Uh,
a license plate, you don't have anything. All you're doing
is asking for cameras you go around the neighborhood. Uh.
(24:54):
And the problem is there really isn't enough injury for you.
H Because you got clipped and you have a not
on your arm and you've got back injuries. It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if you've gone flying. You could have
flying three hundred feet. You know, you could pretend you're
a flying squirrel for all that matters. Yeah, finding someone.
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Do you have auto insurance by any chance? No? I do,
because you got your okay, you got some uninsured motorists.
If you have comprehensive on your auto insurance. This is
a tough one. It really is, because I don't even
know if it's worth the you know, going at it,
because your injuries just aren't that great. I mean it's
(25:38):
I hate to say that. I mean, you've got bigger
problems than that, much bigger problems, So I don't Yeah, yeah, yeah,
well yeah, I mean I'd be more concerned. Five hour
chemo treatment. Wow, that's no fun at all. Yeah. I
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don't even know what to say. I really don't. Ron, Hi, Ron, welcome.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Yeah, Hi Bill. I got a question for you. Last
two years, I've lived in a rented a house with
three bathrooms. The upstairs bathroom is leaking sewer into the kitchen.
We had to turn it off. We had the manager
to fix it. He hasn't. It's been up there for
you know, months and months, and all.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
The months you've been living there, paying your rent for
months and months with the upstairs bathroom leaking sewage into
your kitchen, the kitchen sink, I'm assuming right? And how
long has this been there? How long has this been
going on?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Run about two years?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Two years you've allowed this happened. What do you do
with the kitchen sink? I mean, do you wash your Jessey?
Isn't there? Do you use it?
Speaker 8 (26:48):
It leaks on the floor by the refuserator?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
But the question is the question is do I have
a case about all the rent paying on the toilet upstairs.
We had to turn it off because.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You know what, I well, not only do you have
a case you don't have to pay rent.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
You don't have to pay rent.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
No, you don't pay rent. And you tell him you
fix this and I'm not going to pay rent until
you fix it.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Well, that is that is a problem. We paid rent
for the whole house. We couldn't.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, well no, but just the sewage. No, the sewage
part is enough. The sewage part is enough because that
gets dangerous stuff. I mean, you're talking about back to
even better, even better. So no, you just stop paying rent.
He may what he may do is a file lawsuit
against you for unlawful detainer that you're not paying your rent.
(27:42):
Throw you out. You're gonna win that case. Let me
tell you, you're going to win that case. And I
would even go further. Yeah, okay, I would even go
further than that, and that is sue for the back rent.
But you know the back rent. I mean, you can't
defend yourself based on stupid. That doesn't work. I don't
even know if you can get back rent or not.
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Have no idea, right, Steven Hi, Stephen.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Oh, I'm in a hell of a mess. I live
out in the rural area of twenty nine Palms. I've
been living there forty one years and all I have
is a tough shed, a little trailer, and a water tank.
I'm off grid and code enforcement has been finding me
for almost three years now, and I just I'm seventy
(28:31):
three years old and I just can't keep up with
these fines. And they said the next step, you're going
to go to administrative court, and I go, I have
no junk on here, no abandoned cars, it's nothing like that.
And I got ten acres. I'm out of the water district.
They want me to be hooked up for water. I
have it hauled in, have been for forty one years.
So I don't know what's going to happen in administrative court.
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When I go, how old are you, I'm seventy three.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Seventy three, I'm about to say, yeah, you can just
wait a couple more years. You won't be dead and
you have to wait about administrative hearing. What I would do, well,
first of all, I don't know what the code is specifically,
but forcing you to hook up to water and you
have effectively a vacant piece of land that no one
lives on there. Correct, it's basically just a storage area.
(29:22):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Well? No, I've lived there for forty one.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay, you've lived there, so there's a home on there.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
No, not a legal one. That's my problem.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah. Yeah they may yeah, yeah, they can come in
and you're going to have an administrative hearing and you're
probably gonna lose, and you just keep on appealing it.
And the way I see it is, I think you're
gonna get screwed because the law is the law. I mean,
here's the enforcement code. You live on a piece of property,
you have to hook up to the city facilities. The
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fact you've been not doing it for forty one years.
One of your argum says, I'm grandfathered in. Are you
a grandfather by any chance?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yes? I am.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
See there you go. That's your argument. I'm grandfathered in
because I'm a grandfather. See, I think that works. That
would work with me. Let me tell you about bad breath. No,
you don't have bad breath. I'm sorry, because you don't
have morning breath, because you never wake up in the morning,
because you don't sleep. You never drink coffee, so clearly
(30:29):
you don't have coffee breath. Certainly, onions, garlic, anything that
causes bad breath you never eat. So you don't have
to listen to this. Now the rest of us, well, yeah,
so what do we do when we have bad breath?
Let me brush our teeth of course in the morning, etc.
And then during the day, if you know you're starting
to smell like a rhino in heat, the wrong end
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of a rhino and heat, you pop a breath mit
and that takes care of the bad breath in your
mouth for a period of time. But it doesn't take
care of the problems in your stomach because you you
swallow the food and it churns and burns with all
the stomach acids, and that can cause bad breath can
start there, can stay there. And this is where Zelmans
(31:11):
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There is the mint part of it. These little capsules
that are covered with a good strong mint that you
pop in your mouth, two or three of them. You
suck on the mint and then you swallow it bight
into the capsules and they get to work in your gut.
That works that's a double hit. No Mint does that.
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That's Zelman's not available Trader Joe's or Walmart or Costco.
It's only available online at Zelman's Z E L M
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is Handle on the Law.
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one five three four. Okay, welcome to you. Handle on
the law marginal legal advice where I tell you have
no case. Now this is a fun one. There are
lawsuits for defamation, and then there are lawsuits for defamation.
There are a bunch of rules incidentally about the lawsuits
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whenever someone argues they've been defamed. And there are two
kinds of people in the world of lawsuits for defamation
and and those two figures or those two types of
people are one private people. That is, you defame me publicly.
But I'm a private person, which I am not by
the way, I'm considered a public person because of the
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fact that I'm on radio. So that's the second category,
public people. And the rules for public people is they're
a lot looser. It's harder to sue private people. It's
easier to quote commit libel. So usually when public people
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are su ude, it's kind of hard to prove defamation.
And this was a lawsuit. Drake, the rapper had accused Lamar,
and I was horrible with names. Anyway, Lamar is Detric
(05:20):
I think it is Detrick Lamar, Derek Lamar, Frendrick Lamar.
You see, I don't listen to that stuff, so what
can I tell you? Anyway, So Ken Drake accuses Kendrick
Lamar and the record company of defaming him because Kendrick
Lamar released promoted a rap disc called not Like Us,
(05:46):
So Us Do? Judge Jeanette Vargas ruled that Lamar's criticisms
of Drake in this song not Like Us, including his
claim quote I hear you like him young in reference
to the accusation that there were sex with young people,
it did not amount to defamation. Now come on, guys,
(06:10):
you're accusing someone of having sex with minors, and that's
not defamation. It wasn't and why wasn't it because a
reasonable listener could not have concluded that Not Like Us
was conveying objective facts about break Drake. So here's the rule.
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Making an accusation against someone that is horrific. Horrific can
go over the top and not be defamation because no
one believes it. In other words, if I defame you,
I'm uttering a fact and it is believable and it's plausible,
and therefore that's defamation. But if I accuse you of
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breaking into the New York Zoo, the Brooklyn Zoo and
having sex with five girafts before that caught you, that
is so ridiculous that it's not defamation. My favorite it's
not defamation was Jerry Fallwell, the tele evangelist I don't
know if you remember Hustler magazine, which was pretty out there.
(07:14):
So Hustler Magazine had a cartoon of Jerry Fallwell running
out of an outhouse having just have sex with his
mother in the outhouse, and of course he sued for defamation.
He sued Hustler magazine. Now was that defamation? Jerry Fallwell
actually went onto the stand. He was put on the
(07:38):
stand and was asked about it. Do you think you
were to faint? Yes? I was all right. So here's
this cartoon of you leaving the outhouse after having sex
with your mother in the outhouse. Do you think anybody
anybody out there would believe that that happened? Of course not. We'rediculous,
(08:00):
I will. That would never happen to everybody knows it precisely.
It was so ridiculous, over the top. No one believed
it because it was so crazy, and so the case
was dismissed. Now this case accusing Drake of having sex
(08:23):
with a minor or, saying I hear you like him young. Well,
you know, Drake's a public figure, or Kendrick is a
public figure, so a lot more leeway would go. See
how that works. Yeah, that was my favorite lawsuit boy.
If you can pull I don't know if you can.
(08:44):
If there's a record or there's a video of that
cartoon out there someplace, or a photo, man, that's worth
looking at. It is absolutely hilarious and outrageous. All right,
we'll take a break and come back and we'll start
taking the phone calls. This is handle on the law.
A second with Hea, No, no, sorry, Heather, right, tent
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a minute, no no, and let's do that again. All right,
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h Raphael. Hello, welcome, Hello Raphael.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Built?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yes, sir, okay, just so I'll make it a fleet
and quick here for you. Basically, I own a business
and h I loan my personal vehicle to employee. I
was just pushing a car. Start about that anyway, pushing
a car, Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I that's fun. Oh yeah, that'll do it. Okay, So
you loaned you loaned your vehicle? Was it a company
vehicle or a private vehicle?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Private vehicle?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Okay, which is your car?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, I just okay, So you.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Owned your car to someone who happened to be an employee,
but it had nothing to do with business, right, correct?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Okay, all right, moving on, Okay. So then he's in
his neighborhood on his way back to work in the morning,
not on the clock, and there's morning doing it windshield
and this woman is jaywalking and he hits her and
she dies. Ooh yeah. So just wondering. My question about
(10:39):
this whole thing is where do you see me being
liable for any of this?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, that's a good question. By the way, I don't
see much liability there. I mean, you're the registered owner,
so I think a fifteen thousand dollars is you're a limit. Now,
when someone dies, I guarantee you the lawyer is going
to go after everything your business. You personally doesn't mean
you're going to be liable, it's just they try to
grab everything because the damages are pretty substantial. If you've
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heard me do the show before, I always talk about
the damages. The more someone is hurt, the more severe
someone is injured during the course of an accident, the
more serious the case is, and lawyers will pick that
up and then start just scrambling for liability. What insurance
(11:29):
can we go to? So they'll go after your business insurance,
they'll go after your home insurance. They'll certainly go after
your car insurance. But that's the only thing you're they're
going to argue that you're liable. There'll be depositions what happened,
exactly what happened, What did he say? When did it happen?
Did he represent something? Did you represent yourself as something
(11:52):
other than the owner of a business and the loan
of your car? Personally? But it's he's the one that
did the driving. So you're you're gonna get hit with
a whole lot of lawsuits. I guarantee you. Well, you're
gonna hit with a lawsuit. But everything you want. Now,
do you have car insurance?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I do, but it's very minimal.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well that's the well, okay, okay, so you have fifteen
thirty you have minimal alaball in California. All right, you
know what's you know, what's gonna what? That poor victim
is going to get fifteen thousand dollars, that's it. Yeah, yeah,
so you know, I mean, unfortuss she got hit by
the wrong car, the wrong person. Here's legal advice I'm
(12:36):
gonna give you right now. If you are going to
be hit and be killed in a car accident, make
sure that whoever hits you is either an Amazon driver
a Coca Cola truck. That's very good. Uber is not
too bad. But you definitely want Amazon ups FedEx truck
(12:58):
to nail you. Question about it all right, Curtis, Hi, Curtis, welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Hey, good morning, Bill.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yes, sir, I've got a realtor who's prevalent in our neighborhood,
who promotes people to rent their homes out to tournament
to mental care facilities where you have people who are
drug addicts and schizophrenics who get to come and go
at all hours and stuff like that. And I want
(13:29):
to put signage up in my yard and a couple
of other neighbors are willing to do the same to basically,
just say, don't do business with this person.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
No, you know, I don't want to now, you don't
want to do that. You don't want to do that.
What you can say is, this person is applying for
my home to be a rehab a rehab center, a
rehab unit. What you want to do is just the
absolute truth. You don't want to accuse anything of other
(14:00):
than what that person did. By the way, it's basically
the same thing. So let's say mister wonderful has decided
to apply to make your home a rehab a drug
rehab unit, which is not that easy to do in
a private home. You can put up a sign and
said X has applied to make my house a rehab unit.
(14:22):
That it's going to do the same thing. By the way,
you know, the implication is there, and so there's no defamation,
there's no accusation. You're not telling people don't do it
with this guy was with his interference with contract, by
the way, trying to get him not to do a
lawful business. But what you're saying is, this is what
this guy is doing, and you want the biggest sign
(14:44):
you can possibly have that the city allows you to have,
it'll do the same thing, and therefore there is zero
defamation defamation there, Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Bill, Yeah, click.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
What I was gonna do is I was just gonna
I was gonna email him and talk to him and
pretend as if I wanted to do the same my house.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Get him.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, you can do that, you can do Yeah, you
can do that.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Get him the list all the things that he will
do and how he promotes it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Sure you can tell you that. You say that and say,
here is make and I would put it in an
email by the way, and you go, here is the
email that I received from him, and uh, just make
a poster out of it and put it up and
you'll be fine. Okay, Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's the
way I would do. You have to remember, the truth
is an absolute defense, uh, to defamation, and so you
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want to no accusations, Just here's the truth, and there's
no place to go. Now. Is he gonna Is he
gonna suit you for defamation? Of course he is. But
is he gonna go any place with it? Of course not.
This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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Speaker 1 (15:54):
KFI handle here on a Saturday morning now eight hundred
and five two zero roll one five three four. If
you want marginal legal advice eight hundred five to two
zero one five three four. Welcome back, more Handle on
the Law. Uh, here we go, let's try this. Hello, Rick, Welcome,
(16:15):
good morning.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
I live in the state of Missouri and i'd like
to know if there's a statue of limitation on fraud
and give you slight details.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Okay, give me the slight details. First, how are you defauded?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
A certain bank and a major insurance company started making
unauthorized withdraws through a fictitious name.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That wait, the hold on the bank did this. It
was the bank that performed this fraud, not someone else
using your name or not some hacker, not some crook,
not some forger. The bank itself did this, right.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
The insurance company, a well known one, mate unauthorized withdraws
from this account out.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, so it's one of those auto pay and they
took out the money. Okay, fair enough, And now what
what's your question?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
My question is is that fraud? And is there a
statue of limitations on fraud?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, there is a statute. By the way, you're in Missouri.
Do you happen to know where I live? No, sir,
I live in California. Do you happen to know how
often I have practice law in Missouri?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
No, sir.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Never. Do you happen to know how deep my legal
knowledge is about Missouri law?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
No, sir, not.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Even one iota. Now let me tell you what the
statute is in California, it is three years both civil
and criminal fraud. This is a civil fraud case, if
you will. So if you're within three years, that's the
good news. And let me give you the bad news.
That's assuming Missouri follows California, most states do. They're about
the same. And that's not fraud. You have not been defrauded.
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What ended up happening. There's all kinds of mistakes being made.
You may have been screwed over, but you've been damaged
to the extent of money taken out wrongly by the
bank for whatever reason. But that is not fraud. They
you would have to prove that they intended to do
that to you. Something out there.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
I'm referring to the fraud against the insurance company, not
the bank.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, Well, let me ask you. How much money were
you screwed out of?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Several thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Okay, So you're going to go now against the insurance company,
and so you're filing a lawsuit against the insurance company.
Someone at the insurance company intended to screw you over,
and how do you prove that? Well, is there a recording?
HI take the money and screw Rick is there an email. Hey, guys,
(18:56):
take the money and screw Rick. That's not fraud. Those
are damages, and I think that would fly, But not fraud.
Fraud is very difficult to prove, by the way, not
easy at all. Jack, Hello, Jack, Welcome, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Okay, I'm in California and my brother died in test date.
And I know that in California you can do it yourself, probate.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You can also die yourself. You know that you can
die by yourself. You know that too, under the law.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Okay, Yeah, I just want to let you know.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You know, I'm the legal expert. Okay. So he died
in test date, which means which means there is no will,
there is no document, there is no trust there is.
He's basically out there by himself, completely dead now, and
the beneficiaries are looking at him going, hey, we want
our money. How much money did your brother leave? By
the way, how much was he worth when he died?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
The pub would probably cover maybe a quarter of a million.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, so that's the money, all right. How many beneficiaries, Well,
how many siblings? Well, any children, let me go that way,
Any wife children?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Really? Odly? Three surviving family members which is.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Family members can be fourth cousins, children.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
No children, no children, a hold.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
On no wife, no children, okay, siblings, brothers, sisters, three
three brothers and sisters, three siblings. Okay, So you have
three beneficiaries who are equal equally entitled to the estate,
which means you have a quarter million dollars is going
(20:48):
to be split three ways. Okay, next question, go ahead?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Oh next, Well that's the question. What about this? Do
it yourself?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
No? No, not not for it, not for a court now,
not for a quarter million dollars. Jack, you know, get
a probate attorney. You're gonna have to file a probate
of intestacy. And that's why I asked you how much
money we're talking about. Not only am I incredibly nosy,
so I always want to know. But you know, if
it's thirty thousand, if it's forty thousand dollars, if it's
twenty thousand dollars, there's something called a summary pro probate,
(21:24):
which means you just fill out a little paperwork and
it's done. I mean, this is a full blown probate.
And so it's going to cost you know, a few
thousand dollars, of which the estate will pay for Okay,
so whoever fronts the money to the lawyer, the lawyer
might wait because there's money there. So that's how you
want to do it. Just yeah, get yourself, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Well I've heard about probate attorneys that they wanted they
can stretch this thing out.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Really yeah, yeah, yeah you want Yeah, Well no not really.
I mean yeah, some do, but you know that's any
anybody you gotta karme that can stretch the repair. You
have a plumber that can say, oh my god, you
need extra plumbing that happens across the board. And so yeah,
you want to go. And you don't want to do
a little bit of research, which means you want to
(22:13):
do see some reviews. You want to talk to someone
who has used a probate attorney. Not the dead person
because they're difficult to talk to, but the people who
have filed for probate and have a good experience with
a probate attorney. That's where you want to go. Uh,
this is handle on the law. Can't fin he am
(22:33):
six forty bill handle here ye he is a Saturday
morning legal shows here eight hundred five two zero one
five three four eight hundred five two zero one, five,
three four, Welcome back. More handle on the law. Michael, Hello, Michael, Yeah, Bill, Now, Michael,
(22:55):
I'm assuming there's something wrong with your voice medically right,
Yeah I can. Oh my god, I'm sorry. Uh did
they like remove your voice box kind of thing?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I have a couple of things going on.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Answers anyways, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I was writing a scooter and I crossed the intersection
of South Street and Studio Bigger and this guy came
from the northbound. You know, he's He made a right
right in front of, like behind me, and clipped me
and I went flying. He pulled over. I talked to
him briefly. I assumed was like writing, you know, almost
(23:40):
in the traffic that he pulled over. We staged information.
I got my scooter and my shop around, hobble over
into the parking my shell gapation and uh I turned around.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He was gone, okay, okay, Uh, let me ask you this.
Did you get his information at all? Did you get now?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Nothing? You mean get his number? Nothing? Yeah, that's a problem. Well, U,
I mean you can subpoena those cameras, you can ask
for the cameras, and you know how badly were you hurt.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
That bad my back, I mean my lower back. I
can barely walk.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, so that's soft tissue, no broken bones or anything.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Right, there's no one on my arm.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Not Okay, here's the problem. You're gonna have to track
him down. Uh. And it's not easy to track someone
down where there's no information. You don't have a driver's uh. Uh,
a license plate, you don't have anything. All you're doing
is asking for cameras you go around the neighborhood. Uh.
(24:54):
And the problem is there really isn't enough injury for you.
H Because you got clipped and you have a not
on your arm and you've got back injuries. It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if you've gone flying. You could have
flying three hundred feet. You know, you could pretend you're
a flying squirrel for all that matters. Yeah, finding someone.
(25:16):
Do you have auto insurance by any chance? No? I do,
because you got your okay, you got some uninsured motorists.
If you have comprehensive on your auto insurance. This is
a tough one. It really is, because I don't even
know if it's worth the you know, going at it,
because your injuries just aren't that great. I mean it's
(25:38):
I hate to say that. I mean, you've got bigger
problems than that, much bigger problems, So I don't Yeah, yeah, yeah,
well yeah, I mean I'd be more concerned. Five hour
chemo treatment. Wow, that's no fun at all. Yeah. I
(25:58):
don't even know what to say. I really don't. Ron, Hi, Ron, welcome.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Yeah, Hi Bill. I got a question for you. Last
two years, I've lived in a rented a house with
three bathrooms. The upstairs bathroom is leaking sewer into the kitchen.
We had to turn it off. We had the manager
to fix it. He hasn't. It's been up there for
you know, months and months, and all.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
The months you've been living there, paying your rent for
months and months with the upstairs bathroom leaking sewage into
your kitchen, the kitchen sink, I'm assuming right? And how
long has this been there? How long has this been
going on?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Run about two years?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Two years you've allowed this happened. What do you do
with the kitchen sink? I mean, do you wash your Jessey?
Isn't there? Do you use it?
Speaker 8 (26:48):
It leaks on the floor by the refuserator?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
But the question is the question is do I have
a case about all the rent paying on the toilet upstairs.
We had to turn it off because.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You know what, I well, not only do you have
a case you don't have to pay rent.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
You don't have to pay rent.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
No, you don't pay rent. And you tell him you
fix this and I'm not going to pay rent until
you fix it.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Well, that is that is a problem. We paid rent
for the whole house. We couldn't.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, well no, but just the sewage. No, the sewage
part is enough. The sewage part is enough because that
gets dangerous stuff. I mean, you're talking about back to
even better, even better. So no, you just stop paying rent.
He may what he may do is a file lawsuit
against you for unlawful detainer that you're not paying your rent.
(27:42):
Throw you out. You're gonna win that case. Let me
tell you, you're going to win that case. And I
would even go further. Yeah, okay, I would even go
further than that, and that is sue for the back rent.
But you know the back rent. I mean, you can't
defend yourself based on stupid. That doesn't work. I don't
even know if you can get back rent or not.
(28:03):
Have no idea, right, Steven Hi, Stephen.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Oh, I'm in a hell of a mess. I live
out in the rural area of twenty nine Palms. I've
been living there forty one years and all I have
is a tough shed, a little trailer, and a water tank.
I'm off grid and code enforcement has been finding me
for almost three years now, and I just I'm seventy
(28:31):
three years old and I just can't keep up with
these fines. And they said the next step, you're going
to go to administrative court, and I go, I have
no junk on here, no abandoned cars, it's nothing like that.
And I got ten acres. I'm out of the water district.
They want me to be hooked up for water. I
have it hauled in, have been for forty one years.
So I don't know what's going to happen in administrative court.
(28:53):
When I go, how old are you, I'm seventy three.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Seventy three, I'm about to say, yeah, you can just
wait a couple more years. You won't be dead and
you have to wait about administrative hearing. What I would do, well,
first of all, I don't know what the code is specifically,
but forcing you to hook up to water and you
have effectively a vacant piece of land that no one
lives on there. Correct, it's basically just a storage area.
(29:22):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Well? No, I've lived there for forty one.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay, you've lived there, so there's a home on there.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
No, not a legal one. That's my problem.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah. Yeah they may yeah, yeah, they can come in
and you're going to have an administrative hearing and you're
probably gonna lose, and you just keep on appealing it.
And the way I see it is, I think you're
gonna get screwed because the law is the law. I mean,
here's the enforcement code. You live on a piece of property,
you have to hook up to the city facilities. The
(29:56):
fact you've been not doing it for forty one years.
One of your argum says, I'm grandfathered in. Are you
a grandfather by any chance?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yes? I am.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
See there you go. That's your argument. I'm grandfathered in
because I'm a grandfather. See, I think that works. That
would work with me. Let me tell you about bad breath. No,
you don't have bad breath. I'm sorry, because you don't
have morning breath, because you never wake up in the morning,
because you don't sleep. You never drink coffee, so clearly
(30:29):
you don't have coffee breath. Certainly, onions, garlic, anything that
causes bad breath you never eat. So you don't have
to listen to this. Now the rest of us, well, yeah,
so what do we do when we have bad breath?
Let me brush our teeth of course in the morning, etc.
And then during the day, if you know you're starting
to smell like a rhino in heat, the wrong end
(30:50):
of a rhino and heat, you pop a breath mit
and that takes care of the bad breath in your
mouth for a period of time. But it doesn't take
care of the problems in your stomach because you you
swallow the food and it churns and burns with all
the stomach acids, and that can cause bad breath can
start there, can stay there. And this is where Zelmans
(31:11):
comes in. Zelman's MINTI mouth far more than just the mint.
There is the mint part of it. These little capsules
that are covered with a good strong mint that you
pop in your mouth, two or three of them. You
suck on the mint and then you swallow it bight
into the capsules and they get to work in your gut.
That works that's a double hit. No Mint does that.
(31:32):
That's Zelman's not available Trader Joe's or Walmart or Costco.
It's only available online at Zelman's Z E L M
I N S. Zelmans dot com, zelmans dot com. This
is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
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