April 9, 2024 • 24 mins
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. You are
listening to the Bill Handle Show.And this is KFI Bill Handle on a
Taco Tuesday, April ninth, JoeBiden a new plan to forgive student loan
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debt in Wisconsin. I might adda little bit of politics there, but
twenty seven million people are going tobe affected, and positively for them,
not for conservatives who are dead setagainst it. Now. I asked Neil
to join me on this one becauseNeil obviously is our foody expert, and
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he hosts Saturday's The FOURK Report fromtwo to five pm, and I'm assuming
he's going to talk about this thisweekend. And that is restaurants now charging
a quote security fee and that well, it was Senate Bill four to seventy
eight, passed by the state lawmakerslast year, goes into effect July one.
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Declares that advertising displaying or offering aprice for goods or services that does
not include all mandatory fees or chargesviolates the state prohibition on unfair or deceptive
practices. That was a quote rightfrom the bill. And so here is
the problem with that is that shouldit be on the menu. Should people
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customers be told there is an extrafour point five percent for security because it
is so crazy out there. Shouldpeople be told or they just put it
into the prices and raise their pricesas if prices haven't been raised already.
Neil, your thoughts, well,this is an interesting situation because they don't
even know a Senate bill for seventyeight applies how it's going to apply to
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restaurants if it does. If itdoes apply to restaurants, you're looking at
the fact that they're saying this couldpossibly mean next to every single item on
the menu, you'd have to haveits showing there explaining how it will bump
that up by four zero point fivepercent. Some people are asking, why
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is it a percentage and not justa straight fee. Why aren't you saying,
hey, it's a dollar per customeror something like that rather than a
percentage. Where is it going toIn the case of this particular restaurant perch
in downtown Los Angeles, which ismultiple floors up, some people are saying,
even though you have to walk by, I think it's a convenience store.
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It's been a while since I've beenover there. But also you have
a metro station. And as youknow, metro stations are magnets for dregs
for the most part. Every yousee crime in any area, well that
where there is a metro station.Some people feel unsafe in these areas,
and so they're they're tacking on thesesecurity fees. But you know, how
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much is too much? Where's itgoing? And I don't know the answer
that either, but let me ask, And there it says it's exclusive for
security. If you put that upthere, I mean, this happened.
You remember the last oil crisis.The airlines, for example, and the
trucking companies charged a fuel searcharge rightthere. You paid two hundred dollars for
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airfare and they charged another three bucksand that was just a flat fee for
security. And I think everybody understoodthat. This one is a little interesting
in that they they're saying, we'regoing to tack on the extra security charge.
And it makes sense to do thatbecause people want extra security. There
are guards now in front of restaurants. We do need more security. So
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do you think it should be addedto the menu and just raised the device
is four point five percent? Forexample, let's say there is a security
charge for a professional services Okay,So normally you charge x hundred dollars an
hour x number, and if you'rean attorney, because that's what we strive
for is to make that kind ofmoney and fool everybody into thinking we do
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a great job. But just raiseyour prices five percent or four percent.
And it just so happens when taxesgo up. Right, you have sales
tax that goes from nine to nineand a half percent, They just put
it on the bill, taxes nineand a half percent. They don't say
extra point five percent. Well,see, that's the thing that's interesting.
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And why if you're looking for aparticular number, Let's say, and I
deal with a lot of the securityfor KFI in particular, so I have
intimate knowledge of how these things work. So let's say seventy five to eighty
five dollars an hour is the averagefor armed security. If you look at
that, each night they have theyhave to pay for that, you would
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think that they would do that basedon a particular amount, you know,
dollar per person, whatever it mightbe, and then that is a flat
fee and you wrap that into thecost of whatever You're right, that's the
point I'm making. Why would therestaurant do that. For instance, I
have a side business now everything thatmakes promotional items, right, everything the
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electricity, the rent to the building, the equipment, it all goes into
the price. You don't do aseparate equipment or electrical you know, so
you would wrap that into the costof everything. I don't know if it's
a way to say, hey,we're concerned about the security and letting people
know, but you should know thatby seeing the security there, seeing them
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walking around, the presence of security. This is causing a lot of concern.
A lot of people feel that it'sbecause sales in general and a lot
of restaurants are down by about sevenpercent as it is since the pandemic and
not really coming back up. ButI think more of these things are causing
the demise. I think what's goingto end up happening is people are going
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to take it out of the tipand then you're going to have people that
are serving and the like get upsetand it's just a bad system. We're
feed to death, is what it's. Yeah, I junk fees if you
want to call it a junk fie. Although I think people would appreciate this
far more than paying extra money toput your bag on an airplane. And
I can see that. I'm thinkingboth sides of that as if I see
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a four and a half percent,I know it's not the restaurant charging more
money. I know that it literallyis going to security because a law says
it has to go only to security. Have you been to Perch restaurant,
by the way, I have,it's been some time, but yeah,
they do. They still have tableson these branches. It is on the
lobby. It's high, it isoff the top. So yes, that's
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why it can call it okay,fair enough, multiple floors if I remember,
all right, thank you very much, all right, and they'll forget
Saturday. I think you're going topick this up on Saturday. Oh yeah,
there's a lot of this going onin these fees, are you know,
connerving to a lot of people.Yesterday the Vatican came out with another
document, another I guess, opinionor statement, and it rejected the concept
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of gender fluidity, saying that sexchange is a threat to human dignity,
which is kind of interesting, bythe way, so is abortion. And
they've sort of calmed down on birthcontrol, but not really. Everybody thinks
that Pope Francis is this radical liberalpope. He's not. He's just nicer
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about being conservative. The last timethere was a real radical pope was in
the early sixties, Pope John thetwenty third, and he's scared it Vatican
too. He scared the hell outof the conservative higher end of the Catholic
Church and everybody else who was conservativetoo. So that's why we've had such
conservative popes popes ever since, because, oh no, we don't want to
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go back to a John the twentythird. If you guys don't think the
election of a pope is not onehundred percent political, you're out of your
mind. You know. It's notas if a pope is elected and all
of a sudden, Jesus on thephone with the pope and starts talking because
there is some kind of connection.You don't three minutes later get the phone
call. So you have a positionwith the Vatican that gender fluidity is a
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threat to human dignity twenty page clarationInfinite dignity, and it has to do
on moral issues. Really, it'sa polarization between progressive and conservative Catholic and
that keeps on growing and growing.Now under Francis there's a greater openness towards
the LGBTQ community. For example,a priest can bless same sex couples,
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however they have to be told orthe position is, I would rather have
you be straight, because what you'rereally doing is not really dignified. But
we're gonna give you. I'm gonnahave a blessing. Yes, you guys
have real feelings. Yes you peopleare human beings. Prior to that,
I gotta tell you it was canyou imagine LBGTQ people For those of you
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that are Catholics, and what wasit like? I mean, the church
was very difficult and so gender affirmingsurgeries explicit reject rejection here, putting it
in the same category as abortion euthanasiain terms of the damage that it could
cause to human dignity. So nowa personal story. When I first went
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into surrogate parenting, I had thesame issue. Not so much. Well,
they're still against it, by theway, as this is not God's
will to do surrogated parenting. Andmy position has always been, you know,
if God really I wanted us togo faster, you would have given
us instead of legs, you wouldhave given us train wheels. That is
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the way God works. Okay,he works, wonders, and so you
certainly can't take organ transplants, Neil, you are a violation of the human
dignity by taking someone else's kidney.This is not what God wanted. Didn't
want you to take organs from himto you or her her. And technically
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I'm part woman now, okay,exactly, I have non self standing up
since the surgery. Yes, wellsaid, Now my personal experience. Okay,
when I first started in surrogate parenting, first of all, I didn't
know if it was legal. Imean, I literally didn't know if I
was going to go to prison.Because women giving up children person into a
contract all kinds of issues. Oneof them was religious, because the Catholic
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Church's position was that children coming froma union that was not mom and dad,
not a married couple, was aviolation of God's will. So here
I am debating a monseigneur of thechurch. And we didn't even get past
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the creation of an embryo in apetrie dish. Going well back to the
sins of masturbation. I am notkidding you, by the way, producing
a seaman specimen in that little petriedish actually it's a little dixie cup that
then moves into a Petrie dish.When my kids were told g Dad where
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they come from, I just pointto the mantle and there's a little dixie
cup in a looseight base. Andwhat the And this monseigneur was actually telling
me of how this was a violationof God's will and God's plan by going
back to masturbation because that was againstthe church church teaching. I don't know
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if that's still the case. Ithink they have to really soft pedal that
because I'll tell you what I did. When the monseigneur talked about violation of
God's will and creation of a childonly by the union of a man and
a woman with no birth control,you imagine, because this is God's will,
I actually said to him, monseigneur, there are two types of men
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in this world, those that masturbateand liars. Which one are you?
The debate went south very very quickly, and by the way that I have
a good point I did. Idid, And what the Church is not
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respecting and accepting is there are peoplethat are just wired wrong from birth.
They are one sex and believe thatthey not only believe they are another sex.
There are men who are biologically menwho know they are women and then
go through the process of transing.Is that a verb by the way to
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trans we trans in the middle oftransing. I don't know the answer to
that. And obviously you know whatside. I'm sorry, transitioning. Yeah,
that's not the same. It's obviouslyyou know where I sit. I'm
very pro choice. I'm fine withLGBTQ people. I have to think that's
perfectly normal. Ten percent of society, I understand, is gay, and
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I truly believe in how people canbe in the wrong body where they're really
the other sex. I buy thatone hundred percent. And we now have
the technology to deal with it,the surgical technology. So for all the
men who are listening to me inradio land, in the audience right now,
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I completely state my position once again, there are two types of men
in this world, men who masturbateand liars. How's that for deep thoughts?
Very metaphysical, isn't it? It'sdeep deep thinking. Okay, We're
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done with that, buck nice.Are we gonna get some emails on that
one or not? I don't thinkso. I thought it was a little
more monophysical uh oh okay, no, I get no. I got that.
You didn't have to put your handup. I completely got that.
Neil, all right now Prop fortyseven, oh man, what controversy?
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So? Riverside County Sheriff Chad Biancois leading the charge, slamming Gavin Newsom
over crime in general, particularly pointinga Prop. Forty seven reclassifying several crimes
as misdemeanors that were penalties, andhe is trying to pass reform with something
that's going to be on the ballotin November if they get enough signatures,
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which looks like they will. He'sleading an effort to reverse that twenty twelve
ballot measure that he says directly contributingto the homelessness and crime crisis. Now
is that true? I don't know, but certainly the perception is we know
crime is going up, but homelessnessis going up. Maybe the two were
connected. Maybe crime has nothing todo with Prop forty seven, even though
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we're told about that. He says, we're in a very trying time now
when it comes to public safety,especially from a law enforcement perspective. This
thing really sucks. Prop forty seven, passed in twenty twelve reclassified a number
of felonies, including retail and propertytheft, as misdemeanors. Petty theft of
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goods valued under nine hundred and fiftydollars is a misdemeanor, even for multiple
offenses. You can do this allday long. And it was there was
no such thing as the second thirdbecoming a felony used to be. Bianco
said, quite frankly, we werelied to and misled by our state.
And the name and the description ofthe ballot measure was the Safe Schools and
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Safe Streets Initiative, and he saidit had nothing to do with schools,
nothing. And so there is thisballot coming up, which now is the
Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft ReductionAct, which turns a lot of Prop.
Forty seven around where judges have moreleeway. It takes away those definitions
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of misdemeanor. Now it does talkabout judges when a case of drug addiction
and drugs possession. They're not farapart when it comes to crime. Oh
are they far apart? Newsom saidhe doesn't want to. He doesn't want
changes seven. This changes Prop fortyseven. It basically goes from top forty
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seven to prop forty six. Well, that's not true. That's the way
I would read it. And hesaid, we've got to redo this completely.
That's Bianco. Newsom says, no, we don't. We just have
to tweak it now. Not everythingis bad, it's not hunky dory,
but the basic premise is solid.And I agree and I disagree. When
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it comes to drug possession, youknow what I got to tell you,
you can you can use all thedrugs you want if it doesn't translate into
into crime. And we're trying toconnect that, and there's a lot of
evidence on both sides, so Ican see that now. As far as
turning theft into misdemeanors, yeah,talk to an owner of a retail store
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and see how he or she feelsabout that and that it lies a big
problem. And talk to those storesin San Francisco that have shut down your
nord Strom, as I think wasone big one, because this is theft
is just crazy. We can't surviveanymore. Yeah. What does Newsom say
about that, Well, it's notquite as bad, and look at the
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issues. And Bianco's saying, yeah, look at the issues, Look what's
happening, And he oh wow,he rips into Newsom. He says,
we have a complete failed political agendain this date. It's been a social
experiment. We're talking about Prop fortyseven that has been led by the governor
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from his time as mayor of SanFrancisco into Lieutenant governor into governor. His
entire political career has been either wellProp twenty seven because it goes back so
long, and we now have alieutenant governor who who is as adamant in
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terms of upholding Prop. Forty sevenor yes, and so, Newsom said,
the critics are using this as anexcuse and are unaware of some of
the facts. Not to say everythingis perfect, and we want to fix
some of the ambiguities, but wecan do it without reforming or going back
to the voters themselves. Wrongo bongo. That's what California's proposition system is all
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about. When you disagree with whatthe government is doing, and enough people
disagree with it, there's a propositionon the ballot. Very hard to do
in California. It takes a tonof money. First of all, five
hundred and something thousand signatures, fivehundred and forty something thousand signatures. You
have to have just to get onthe ballot, which really mean you need
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about seven hundred thousand signatures because theyeveryone is checked against your address, everyone
is checked for your signature. Isit the same? So they toss about
a third of them, and soyou need five hundred and forty eight thousand
whatever that number is, it's rightin there. That have to be right
on and that puts it on theballot. And you know, to Newsom,
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hey, you know, welcome toCalifornia law. Do you have a
problem with that? And if enoughpeople are against it? Enough people were
certainly for it in twenty twelve,and a lot of people think it's an
abject failure. That's why Newsom ishe sort of ignores the problems that we're
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having and doesn't connect because we areso liberal. Well, it's true.
It's like George Gascon. He mightas well be at the defense table,
you know, when he dies.He's never met a defendant he didn't like.
That's a Will Rogers reference, bythe way, All right, tomorrow,
Jim Keeney joins, us, I'mgoing to talk about this topic because
he did this, and this hasto do with medical residents and whether they
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are going to unionize or not,and they're moving for unionization. Now here's
how residency works. To become boardserified, finish medical school, take the
boards. There you go, you'rea doctor, and then you enter a
residency program anywhere from three to fiveyears. JIM is a board certified er
specialist. Residency programs pay nothing andthe typical work week sixty to eighty hours
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a week and almost no money.As a matter of fact, they're in
some Californias has figured out that residentsmake sixteen dollars dollars an hour because they
work so hard, and it isone of the tools that hospital is use
to keep expenses down. If youcan possibly imagine, keeping expenses down in
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a hospital is just a baptism andfire that every resident goes through. It's
just it's been around for medicine forever. Well, you've got doctors that are
saying, hang on a minute,we're not going to work that hard and
we're not going to work for thatlittle money because we are still real doctors.
And at the same time, thehospitals are saying, but you're being
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trained, and you need this trainingso effectively, your apprentices and the higher
up the food chain you go interms of For example, the chief resident
does a lot of surgery. He'shead of the other residents. He's in
his last year or she is inthe last year of residency, and they
will do surgeries. And if you'revery, very lucky, you even when
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you go to see a top surgeon, quite often the resident will do a
lot of it. And you reallywant to be to have your surgery done
by a resident who is in hisseventy ninth hour of an eighty hour work
week. By the way, I'mnot kidding on that one. That really
happened. All right, Jim isgoing to expand on that tomorrow morning when
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he comes in and we do medicalnews. Boy, can he tell us
some stories about residency that he wentthrough. All right, that's it,
guys. Tomorrow we come back startingall over again five o'clock with wake up
call, and Amy and the restof us are here from then on.
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Taco Tuesday, April ninth, JoeBiden a new plan to forgive student loan
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debt in Wisconsin. I might adda little bit of politics there, but
twenty seven million people are going tobe affected, and positively for them,
not for conservatives who are dead setagainst it. Now. I asked Neil
to join me on this one becauseNeil obviously is our foody expert, and
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he hosts Saturday's The FOURK Report fromtwo to five pm, and I'm assuming
he's going to talk about this thisweekend. And that is restaurants now charging
a quote security fee and that well, it was Senate Bill four to seventy
eight, passed by the state lawmakerslast year, goes into effect July one.
(01:10):
Declares that advertising displaying or offering aprice for goods or services that does
not include all mandatory fees or chargesviolates the state prohibition on unfair or deceptive
practices. That was a quote rightfrom the bill. And so here is
the problem with that is that shouldit be on the menu. Should people
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customers be told there is an extrafour point five percent for security because it
is so crazy out there. Shouldpeople be told or they just put it
into the prices and raise their pricesas if prices haven't been raised already.
Neil, your thoughts, well,this is an interesting situation because they don't
even know a Senate bill for seventyeight applies how it's going to apply to
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restaurants if it does. If itdoes apply to restaurants, you're looking at
the fact that they're saying this couldpossibly mean next to every single item on
the menu, you'd have to haveits showing there explaining how it will bump
that up by four zero point fivepercent. Some people are asking, why
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is it a percentage and not justa straight fee. Why aren't you saying,
hey, it's a dollar per customeror something like that rather than a
percentage. Where is it going toIn the case of this particular restaurant perch
in downtown Los Angeles, which ismultiple floors up, some people are saying,
even though you have to walk by, I think it's a convenience store.
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It's been a while since I've beenover there. But also you have
a metro station. And as youknow, metro stations are magnets for dregs
for the most part. Every yousee crime in any area, well that
where there is a metro station.Some people feel unsafe in these areas,
and so they're they're tacking on thesesecurity fees. But you know, how
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much is too much? Where's itgoing? And I don't know the answer
that either, but let me ask, And there it says it's exclusive for
security. If you put that upthere, I mean, this happened.
You remember the last oil crisis.The airlines, for example, and the
trucking companies charged a fuel searcharge rightthere. You paid two hundred dollars for
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airfare and they charged another three bucksand that was just a flat fee for
security. And I think everybody understoodthat. This one is a little interesting
in that they they're saying, we'regoing to tack on the extra security charge.
And it makes sense to do thatbecause people want extra security. There
are guards now in front of restaurants. We do need more security. So
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do you think it should be addedto the menu and just raised the device
is four point five percent? Forexample, let's say there is a security
charge for a professional services Okay,So normally you charge x hundred dollars an
hour x number, and if you'rean attorney, because that's what we strive
for is to make that kind ofmoney and fool everybody into thinking we do
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a great job. But just raiseyour prices five percent or four percent.
And it just so happens when taxesgo up. Right, you have sales
tax that goes from nine to nineand a half percent, They just put
it on the bill, taxes nineand a half percent. They don't say
extra point five percent. Well,see, that's the thing that's interesting.
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And why if you're looking for aparticular number, Let's say, and I
deal with a lot of the securityfor KFI in particular, so I have
intimate knowledge of how these things work. So let's say seventy five to eighty
five dollars an hour is the averagefor armed security. If you look at
that, each night they have theyhave to pay for that, you would
(05:02):
think that they would do that basedon a particular amount, you know,
dollar per person, whatever it mightbe, and then that is a flat
fee and you wrap that into thecost of whatever You're right, that's the
point I'm making. Why would therestaurant do that. For instance, I
have a side business now everything thatmakes promotional items, right, everything the
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electricity, the rent to the building, the equipment, it all goes into
the price. You don't do aseparate equipment or electrical you know, so
you would wrap that into the costof everything. I don't know if it's
a way to say, hey,we're concerned about the security and letting people
know, but you should know thatby seeing the security there, seeing them
(05:48):
walking around, the presence of security. This is causing a lot of concern.
A lot of people feel that it'sbecause sales in general and a lot
of restaurants are down by about sevenpercent as it is since the pandemic and
not really coming back up. ButI think more of these things are causing
the demise. I think what's goingto end up happening is people are going
(06:11):
to take it out of the tipand then you're going to have people that
are serving and the like get upsetand it's just a bad system. We're
feed to death, is what it's. Yeah, I junk fees if you
want to call it a junk fie. Although I think people would appreciate this
far more than paying extra money toput your bag on an airplane. And
I can see that. I'm thinkingboth sides of that as if I see
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a four and a half percent,I know it's not the restaurant charging more
money. I know that it literallyis going to security because a law says
it has to go only to security. Have you been to Perch restaurant,
by the way, I have,it's been some time, but yeah,
they do. They still have tableson these branches. It is on the
lobby. It's high, it isoff the top. So yes, that's
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why it can call it okay,fair enough, multiple floors if I remember,
all right, thank you very much, all right, and they'll forget
Saturday. I think you're going topick this up on Saturday. Oh yeah,
there's a lot of this going onin these fees, are you know,
connerving to a lot of people.Yesterday the Vatican came out with another
document, another I guess, opinionor statement, and it rejected the concept
(07:23):
of gender fluidity, saying that sexchange is a threat to human dignity,
which is kind of interesting, bythe way, so is abortion. And
they've sort of calmed down on birthcontrol, but not really. Everybody thinks
that Pope Francis is this radical liberalpope. He's not. He's just nicer
(07:45):
about being conservative. The last timethere was a real radical pope was in
the early sixties, Pope John thetwenty third, and he's scared it Vatican
too. He scared the hell outof the conservative higher end of the Catholic
Church and everybody else who was conservativetoo. So that's why we've had such
conservative popes popes ever since, because, oh no, we don't want to
(08:09):
go back to a John the twentythird. If you guys don't think the
election of a pope is not onehundred percent political, you're out of your
mind. You know. It's notas if a pope is elected and all
of a sudden, Jesus on thephone with the pope and starts talking because
there is some kind of connection.You don't three minutes later get the phone
call. So you have a positionwith the Vatican that gender fluidity is a
(08:35):
threat to human dignity twenty page clarationInfinite dignity, and it has to do
on moral issues. Really, it'sa polarization between progressive and conservative Catholic and
that keeps on growing and growing.Now under Francis there's a greater openness towards
the LGBTQ community. For example,a priest can bless same sex couples,
(09:00):
however they have to be told orthe position is, I would rather have
you be straight, because what you'rereally doing is not really dignified. But
we're gonna give you. I'm gonnahave a blessing. Yes, you guys
have real feelings. Yes you peopleare human beings. Prior to that,
I gotta tell you it was canyou imagine LBGTQ people For those of you
(09:22):
that are Catholics, and what wasit like? I mean, the church
was very difficult and so gender affirmingsurgeries explicit reject rejection here, putting it
in the same category as abortion euthanasiain terms of the damage that it could
cause to human dignity. So nowa personal story. When I first went
(09:46):
into surrogate parenting, I had thesame issue. Not so much. Well,
they're still against it, by theway, as this is not God's
will to do surrogated parenting. Andmy position has always been, you know,
if God really I wanted us togo faster, you would have given
us instead of legs, you wouldhave given us train wheels. That is
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the way God works. Okay,he works, wonders, and so you
certainly can't take organ transplants, Neil, you are a violation of the human
dignity by taking someone else's kidney.This is not what God wanted. Didn't
want you to take organs from himto you or her her. And technically
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I'm part woman now, okay,exactly, I have non self standing up
since the surgery. Yes, wellsaid, Now my personal experience. Okay,
when I first started in surrogate parenting, first of all, I didn't
know if it was legal. Imean, I literally didn't know if I
was going to go to prison.Because women giving up children person into a
contract all kinds of issues. Oneof them was religious, because the Catholic
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Church's position was that children coming froma union that was not mom and dad,
not a married couple, was aviolation of God's will. So here
I am debating a monseigneur of thechurch. And we didn't even get past
(11:16):
the creation of an embryo in apetrie dish. Going well back to the
sins of masturbation. I am notkidding you, by the way, producing
a seaman specimen in that little petriedish actually it's a little dixie cup that
then moves into a Petrie dish.When my kids were told g Dad where
(11:37):
they come from, I just pointto the mantle and there's a little dixie
cup in a looseight base. Andwhat the And this monseigneur was actually telling
me of how this was a violationof God's will and God's plan by going
back to masturbation because that was againstthe church church teaching. I don't know
(12:03):
if that's still the case. Ithink they have to really soft pedal that
because I'll tell you what I did. When the monseigneur talked about violation of
God's will and creation of a childonly by the union of a man and
a woman with no birth control,you imagine, because this is God's will,
I actually said to him, monseigneur, there are two types of men
(12:28):
in this world, those that masturbateand liars. Which one are you?
The debate went south very very quickly, and by the way that I have
a good point I did. Idid, And what the Church is not
(12:48):
respecting and accepting is there are peoplethat are just wired wrong from birth.
They are one sex and believe thatthey not only believe they are another sex.
There are men who are biologically menwho know they are women and then
go through the process of transing.Is that a verb by the way to
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trans we trans in the middle oftransing. I don't know the answer to
that. And obviously you know whatside. I'm sorry, transitioning. Yeah,
that's not the same. It's obviouslyyou know where I sit. I'm
very pro choice. I'm fine withLGBTQ people. I have to think that's
perfectly normal. Ten percent of society, I understand, is gay, and
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I truly believe in how people canbe in the wrong body where they're really
the other sex. I buy thatone hundred percent. And we now have
the technology to deal with it,the surgical technology. So for all the
men who are listening to me inradio land, in the audience right now,
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I completely state my position once again, there are two types of men
in this world, men who masturbateand liars. How's that for deep thoughts?
Very metaphysical, isn't it? It'sdeep deep thinking. Okay, We're
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done with that, buck nice.Are we gonna get some emails on that
one or not? I don't thinkso. I thought it was a little
more monophysical uh oh okay, no, I get no. I got that.
You didn't have to put your handup. I completely got that.
Neil, all right now Prop fortyseven, oh man, what controversy?
(14:43):
So? Riverside County Sheriff Chad Biancois leading the charge, slamming Gavin Newsom
over crime in general, particularly pointinga Prop. Forty seven reclassifying several crimes
as misdemeanors that were penalties, andhe is trying to pass reform with something
that's going to be on the ballotin November if they get enough signatures,
(15:07):
which looks like they will. He'sleading an effort to reverse that twenty twelve
ballot measure that he says directly contributingto the homelessness and crime crisis. Now
is that true? I don't know, but certainly the perception is we know
crime is going up, but homelessnessis going up. Maybe the two were
connected. Maybe crime has nothing todo with Prop forty seven, even though
(15:31):
we're told about that. He says, we're in a very trying time now
when it comes to public safety,especially from a law enforcement perspective. This
thing really sucks. Prop forty seven, passed in twenty twelve reclassified a number
of felonies, including retail and propertytheft, as misdemeanors. Petty theft of
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goods valued under nine hundred and fiftydollars is a misdemeanor, even for multiple
offenses. You can do this allday long. And it was there was
no such thing as the second thirdbecoming a felony used to be. Bianco
said, quite frankly, we werelied to and misled by our state.
And the name and the description ofthe ballot measure was the Safe Schools and
(16:18):
Safe Streets Initiative, and he saidit had nothing to do with schools,
nothing. And so there is thisballot coming up, which now is the
Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft ReductionAct, which turns a lot of Prop.
Forty seven around where judges have moreleeway. It takes away those definitions
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of misdemeanor. Now it does talkabout judges when a case of drug addiction
and drugs possession. They're not farapart when it comes to crime. Oh
are they far apart? Newsom saidhe doesn't want to. He doesn't want
changes seven. This changes Prop fortyseven. It basically goes from top forty
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seven to prop forty six. Well, that's not true. That's the way
I would read it. And hesaid, we've got to redo this completely.
That's Bianco. Newsom says, no, we don't. We just have
to tweak it now. Not everythingis bad, it's not hunky dory,
but the basic premise is solid.And I agree and I disagree. When
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it comes to drug possession, youknow what I got to tell you,
you can you can use all thedrugs you want if it doesn't translate into
into crime. And we're trying toconnect that, and there's a lot of
evidence on both sides, so Ican see that now. As far as
turning theft into misdemeanors, yeah,talk to an owner of a retail store
(17:55):
and see how he or she feelsabout that and that it lies a big
problem. And talk to those storesin San Francisco that have shut down your
nord Strom, as I think wasone big one, because this is theft
is just crazy. We can't surviveanymore. Yeah. What does Newsom say
about that, Well, it's notquite as bad, and look at the
(18:21):
issues. And Bianco's saying, yeah, look at the issues, Look what's
happening, And he oh wow,he rips into Newsom. He says,
we have a complete failed political agendain this date. It's been a social
experiment. We're talking about Prop fortyseven that has been led by the governor
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from his time as mayor of SanFrancisco into Lieutenant governor into governor. His
entire political career has been either wellProp twenty seven because it goes back so
long, and we now have alieutenant governor who who is as adamant in
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terms of upholding Prop. Forty sevenor yes, and so, Newsom said,
the critics are using this as anexcuse and are unaware of some of
the facts. Not to say everythingis perfect, and we want to fix
some of the ambiguities, but wecan do it without reforming or going back
to the voters themselves. Wrongo bongo. That's what California's proposition system is all
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about. When you disagree with whatthe government is doing, and enough people
disagree with it, there's a propositionon the ballot. Very hard to do
in California. It takes a tonof money. First of all, five
hundred and something thousand signatures, fivehundred and forty something thousand signatures. You
have to have just to get onthe ballot, which really mean you need
(19:48):
about seven hundred thousand signatures because theyeveryone is checked against your address, everyone
is checked for your signature. Isit the same? So they toss about
a third of them, and soyou need five hundred and forty eight thousand
whatever that number is, it's rightin there. That have to be right
on and that puts it on theballot. And you know, to Newsom,
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hey, you know, welcome toCalifornia law. Do you have a
problem with that? And if enoughpeople are against it? Enough people were
certainly for it in twenty twelve,and a lot of people think it's an
abject failure. That's why Newsom ishe sort of ignores the problems that we're
(20:36):
having and doesn't connect because we areso liberal. Well, it's true.
It's like George Gascon. He mightas well be at the defense table,
you know, when he dies.He's never met a defendant he didn't like.
That's a Will Rogers reference, bythe way, All right, tomorrow,
Jim Keeney joins, us, I'mgoing to talk about this topic because
he did this, and this hasto do with medical residents and whether they
(21:02):
are going to unionize or not,and they're moving for unionization. Now here's
how residency works. To become boardserified, finish medical school, take the
boards. There you go, you'rea doctor, and then you enter a
residency program anywhere from three to fiveyears. JIM is a board certified er
specialist. Residency programs pay nothing andthe typical work week sixty to eighty hours
(21:32):
a week and almost no money.As a matter of fact, they're in
some Californias has figured out that residentsmake sixteen dollars dollars an hour because they
work so hard, and it isone of the tools that hospital is use
to keep expenses down. If youcan possibly imagine, keeping expenses down in
(21:56):
a hospital is just a baptism andfire that every resident goes through. It's
just it's been around for medicine forever. Well, you've got doctors that are
saying, hang on a minute,we're not going to work that hard and
we're not going to work for thatlittle money because we are still real doctors.
And at the same time, thehospitals are saying, but you're being
(22:17):
trained, and you need this trainingso effectively, your apprentices and the higher
up the food chain you go interms of For example, the chief resident
does a lot of surgery. He'shead of the other residents. He's in
his last year or she is inthe last year of residency, and they
will do surgeries. And if you'revery, very lucky, you even when
(22:41):
you go to see a top surgeon, quite often the resident will do a
lot of it. And you reallywant to be to have your surgery done
by a resident who is in hisseventy ninth hour of an eighty hour work
week. By the way, I'mnot kidding on that one. That really
happened. All right, Jim isgoing to expand on that tomorrow morning when
(23:03):
he comes in and we do medicalnews. Boy, can he tell us
some stories about residency that he wentthrough. All right, that's it,
guys. Tomorrow we come back startingall over again five o'clock with wake up
call, and Amy and the restof us are here from then on.
Also quick reminder phone calls for handleon the law, which I am going
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to begin momentarily, and I'll bedoing it off the air eight seven seven
five to zero eleven fifty eight sevenseven five to zero eleven fifty. Remember
you can listen to the programming hereright on the phone, and I'm going
to go through this, I said, really quickly, so you're going to
(23:48):
get your call answered as I abuseyou, which I love to do.
As you know, i'd love totell you you have absolutely no case.
Eight seven seven five to zero elevenfifty. We will catch you tomorrow morning
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