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July 4, 2024 26 mins
Wayne Resnick fills in for Bill for Handel. Newsom pulls initiative like a little fraidy cat! News about your privates… data that is. Heat wave and how we’ve been ‘accidentally cooling the planet.’ The happiest countries in the world are ‘totally’ different depending on how you ask.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. What beverage
should you be drinking on this Julyfourth? Are Independence Day? Well,
of course liberty. Now these jokesare stupid, but they're also harmless.
And you'll notice that there haven't beenany knock knock jokes on this July fourth.

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Why are there no knock knock jokesabout the United States of America?
You know why? Because freedom rings? Hey, everybody's Appill Handle show KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app. Bill's out today. I'm
Wayne Resnik. And some of thestories that we're watching for you here.

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One of them is President Biden hada conference call with his campaign staff where
he repeatedly and explicitly said he willkeep running for reelection. He will not
bow out of the race. Heis in it to win it. And
another big story that we're watching isthis one here. An extreme long duration

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heat wave in California and other partsof the country as well, but who
cares about them? That's expected tolast through at least Tuesday of next week,
depending on where you are in thestate. Triple digit temperatures expected for
vast portions of the state. Excessiveheat warnings are going to be in effect

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the whole time. They're talking aboutDeath Valley possibly experiencing the hottest week recorded
anywhere on Earth, although they alsosaid there's about a twenty to twenty five
percent chance of that happening. Itwill obviously be extremely dangerously hot out there,
record breaking heat in other parts ofthe state. Southern California might have

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it just a little better than someof the other parts of the state,
but that's cold comfort. Sorry forthe wordplay. There excessive heat arnings for
the inland valleys, for the deserts, for the mountains through the weekend.
If you are in a coastal areabut not right on the beach, it'll

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be I guess bad, but notas bad. They're talking about highs from
eighty five to ninety five degrees,and the peak temperatures are expected today through
Saturday. The deserts they're gonna supposedlyget over one hundred and ten, the
mountains one hundred to one hundred andtwelve, the valleys ninety eight to one

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hundred and eight, and the coastalplains. Now this is get ready eighty
to ninety four, so somebody isgoing to have a high of eighty degrees
and we need to know where theirhouse is. That's what I think.

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Obviously, there's severe health risks fromthis kind of thing, so I will
just tell you that because of theholiday, some of the normal cooling centers
are not open, and I'll justgive you these four resources. We don't
have time to give you every singleresource, but they're opening some augmented cooling
centers. They're going to run fromten am to nine pm today through Monday,

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and one of them is at theFred Roberts Recreation Center on Hondura Street
in La One, at the MidValley Senior Center I'm kester and Panorama City.
Lakeview Terrace Rec Center in Lakeview Terracehas one, and the Jim Gilliam
Rec Center on South Librea in thecity. So if nothing else, there's

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these four places you can go ifyou need to and definitely don't be shy.
In the meantime, what is theanswer to this apparent the hotter temperatures
and warming of the planet. Well, if what these scientists are saying is
true, the answer may be moreair pollution. My tongue is in my
cheek when I say that we reallyshould look at more air pollution as a

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solution, But the science's tongue isnot in its cheek. Apparently, for
decades, as we have been burningfossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases and warming
the planet, this is the traditional, mainstream science accepted view of what is

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going on here, we have alsobeen cooling the planet at the same time
from the same activity, because whenyou burn fossil fuels, you release greenhouse
gases, and you also release otherkinds of particulate pollution, for example,

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sulfur aerosol, and when you releasesulfur aerosols into the air, it's very
dangerous to living creatures, respiratory problems, cancers. Some estimates are that air
pollution contributes to one in ten deathsworldwide. And major countries have agreed,

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and over the past few decades,the United States went first, then the
European Union got involved. Now yougot China and India all trying to reduce
their sulfur dioxide emissions. And wehave greatly, we've greatly reduced these emissions.
But guess what else these emissions weredoing. They were first of all

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these particles that go in the airare very reflective and they literally bounced the
sun back away from us. Andthey also make the clouds brighter, which
also helps block sun away from us. So the bottom line is what they're
saying is without the particulate pollution,global warming would be even worse than it

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was. It reminds me of thejoke and now I forget which comedian said
this, but it was about thathe likes to turn on the air conditioner
in the heater at the same timeand and let him fight it out.
And they're saying that is what hasbeen happening. So as we have reduced
this air pollution, now the globalwarming effects are being intensified because the air

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pollution was kind of holding back globalwarming. You know your buddy holds you
back in a you're in a barand you're gonna punch somebody and they hold
your arms behind you. Don't doit. Don't do it. I guess
the air pollution was holding global warming'sarms so it couldn't beat us up as
badly. But now the air pollutionhas mostly gone away. Is there anything

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good I can tell you coming outfrom all of this? There is,
I think, and that is this, what if we could put other particles
into the air that do the samething but don't have the health detriments of
the sulfur compounds. And there wasa study going on up in Alameda where
they released sea salt aerosols into theatmosphere to see, hey, wonder if

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they could make the clouds brighter andreflect sunlight. And even though they said
it was safe, for some reasonthey stopped doing it. And I would
suggest we figure out a way toexplore that as one possibility. Let's talk
about your private parts, not thattalking about your information. Some of it

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is private, some of it youwant to be private, but it really
can't be. And there's a lotof lot of things going on right now
in and around your private parts.I will just just for a brief it's
not really a digression, just fora brief personal anecdote about your private parts

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getting exposed all over the place.Is yesterday in the mail, I received
what is my seventh letter all fromdifferent companies, seventh letter in the last
two years, informing me of adata breach that has compromised all of my
information and offering me two years offree identity monitoring, which now I wish

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that you could run them consecutively becauseI would get free identity monitoring for the
next fourteen years. And I'm guessing, because I'm not special, I'm guessing
many of you have received multiple noticesabout breaches. I'm wondering if these identity
monitoring companies, if most of theirbusiness now are people who are signing up

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with complementary service being paid for bya company whose systems were breached. Here's
another thing that's going on up inSacramento. A grand jury has issued a
report and has found that the SacramentoSheriff's Office is probably violating the law by

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sharing information. This has to dowith those automatic automated license plate recognition systems,
which when we first heard about them, it was that the Highway patrol
was using these license plate recognition systemswhere you know, it takes a picture
of your license plate and then itcan transform the picture into the numbers and

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letters on your license plate. Andwhat they were doing and this seems to
me, it does seem like avery legitimate use. Let's say you've got
a big list of Amber alert carsyou're looking for stolen cars that you're looking
for cars that were used in seriouscrimes that you're looking for, and you
have the list of the cars you'relooking for. What this allows to happen

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is you scan tons of license platesand then if you get a match,
you're alerted right away. It's avery efficient way to try to find these
cars. And I don't feel likethere's any privacy problems. I don't think
there's any big government problems with thatuse. But then, of course other
law enforcement agencies started to use thistechnology, and we started to have some

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questions about where are you using it, when are you using it, why
are you using it, and whatare you doing with the information, Because
it's a world apart from we're scanningall the license plates that are driving up
the five looking for matches on arestolen carless. That's one thing, and
then you get to like, oh, we're keeping track of every single car

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that comes into and out of acertain neighborhood and we're holding onto that information
for two years. So up inSacramento they passed Senate Bill thirty four.
It's set out some rules for howlaw enforcement agencies could use and access this
data. And one of the bigthings in this law was, in essence,

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you cannot give this information to anyagency that's not in California. There
might be circumstances where you can't giveit to another agency in California, but
never can you give it to anagency in another state. Now, remember

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I said, a grand jury reportjust came out, and what they found
is that up in Sacramento, thesheriff's office was sharing license plate information all
over the country, which would appearto be blatantly against the law. One
of the particular concerns here, Idon't think it's the only concern, but

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one of them has to do with, you know, what happened with abortion,
and now some states have criminalized abortion, and the concern is that the
Sacramento shaff's office was sharing license platedata with other states that have strong criminal
abortion bans. The idea being thateven if they didn't realize it, they

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might be helping states like I don'tknow, Idaho and Alabama and Mississippi prosecute
people who came to California to getabortion services. And I feel like that's
something we don't don't want happening.So, in any event, this report
comes out and that says this isgoing on, but it's not really new

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news because of the reason that therewas a grand jury investigation in the first
place is because a couple of yearsago, actually it might be about four
years ago now, they found outit was found out that the Sacramento Sheriff's
Office was sharing this information. Andat the time, the Sheriff's department issued
a statement and he said, that'sbs man, that is crap. And

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this letter that was written from Ithink it was the ACLU and the EFF
this letter that says we're doing thisand violating the law, this is bogus.
They're just trying to stir up antilaw enforcement sentiment and make it easier
for criminals to get away with it. That's what they first said at the

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time, but then not too longafter they had to turn around and acknowledge
that it was going on. Herewe are some years later, and apparently
it is still going on. Idon't know what the next step is.
I don't know what you do toa law enforcement agency that's breaking the law
this way. And I'm not sosure that the sharing of your license plate.

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Man, I just don't think youshould break the law. You know,
you have no right of privacy,you have no expectation that nobody can
see your license plate when you takeyour car into public. So it's not
so much the gathering of it,it's what's done with it all Right here
in California, just a couple ofdays after making a huge announcement, our

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Governor Gavin Newsom has turned around andrenegged on that announcement. It has to
do with Proposition forty seven and thevarious efforts to undo, well as much
of Prop forty seven as the differentpeople trying to undo it want it undone.

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So, first of all, youknow, very quickly Prop forty seven,
what the hell? We all hateit, but do we remember why
we got it. We voted inProp forty seven and the main thing that
it did is, you know,is it took some felony offenses and it
said these are now misdemeanors, andthen that means you're not going as nobody's

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going to state prison for these things. And the two big areas were having
to do with drugs and having todo with stealing. And then we saw
a rise in organized retail theft,these kinds of smash and grabs, people
going into a CVS and just fillinga cart with whatever they wanted and walking

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out with it, and now somestores you go into and everything's behind the
plexiglass, and so there was athere was a thought that maybe Prop.
Forty seven wasn't the best idea forthe quality of life of the people of
California, and so different groups ofpeople decided they wanted to do something about
it. And right now the bigwinners in this is California District Attorney's Association

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because they have an initiative that's goingto be on the ballot in November that
you can vote for that's going toroll back much of Prop forty seven.
It's going to bring back felony statusfor certain drug crimes and theft crimes.
It's going to say that if youhave fentanyl and you also have a gun,

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that that's more serious than just havingfentanyl, and few other things that
they want to do. Well,here's the thing. So that's the DA's
getting together, going to the people, gathering the signatures, getting an initiative
for you to vote on. Thelegislators in Sacramento. They don't want us
I guess to have the control overthis question, but they also recognize that

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something, something needs to be done. So they said, here's what we'll
do. We'll write a couple oflaws getting tough on crime instead. How
about that, We'll do it ourway, and maybe you'll take your initiative
off the ballot. And the dasssaid no, thank you, And so
the legislature said, fine, thenhere's what we're gonna do. We're gonna

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put in our laws a provision thatsays if people vote for your initiative,
they can't have our laws. Andthen I guess it'll be a battle of
which approach is better. They'll bevying for your vote. Well, then
the legislature decided, well, aslong as we're doing that, why don't
we get our own ballot initiative inthere too. Let's really confuse it.

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Let's give people so many options theywill have no idea which is the best
option for their desires. And theymade this big announcement, we have this
ballot initiative that we're the to puton it's our reforming prop forty seven initiative.
And now it's gone already they've alreadyturned around and said, never mind,
we're not gonna we're not gonna pursueit. We're not gonna put it

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on the ballot. We're not gonnado it because the outcry was deafening at
them doing it. So here's thething. Okay, this usually gets talked
about in terms of people who weresoft on crime and people who are tough
on crime, and people who aretough on crime. Look at people who

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are soft on crime and say,what's wrong with you? Why do you
why do you think a criminal ismore important than a victim? And the
people who are soft on crime lookat the people who are tough on crime
and say, you don't realize thatbeing tough on crime makes it worse.
And here's a study here and anotherone there, and a data set over

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here, and that even though it'scounter into it that the tougher you get
on crime, the more crime thatyou get. So it all has to
do with, you know, howtough are you on crime and what's the
right amount of tough. But what'sunderneath this is something that has no opinion.

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It is a fact, and thatis California can only lock up a
certain number of people at any onetime. Now, for some reason,
the reform prosecutors, the people whodon't want to roll back anything in Prop.

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Forty seven, when they make theirarguments to you, they don't talk
about that. They talk about,oh, it's this research shows it's better
to do it this way, andwhat about compassion and all of that,
which is fine, But they don'tcome out and say, we can't make
everything a felony and we can't sendeverybody to prison because we're not allowed to,

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because the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates of America said we're not allowed
to. And that's because for decadesnow, I think we're going on somewhere
around fifty years of California being foundin constitutional violation for the overcrowded prisons,

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which led to a specific order toreduce the prison population by about half,
which went all the way up tothe Supreme Court, because California is like,
nobody can tell us, no judgecan tell us to do this,
and the Supreme Court said, yesthey can. When you're violating the Constitution
with overcrowding the way that you havebeen for decades, Yes they can.

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So here's the thing, Yes wecan reform Prop. Forty seven. That
doesn't mean we can send more peopleto state prison, but it also doesn't
mean that we shouldn't reform it.There's two approaches to crime, generally speaking,

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depending on your view of it.I'm gonna go just a little long
here, and I apologize, butI just want to get this out.
So one approach is mandatory minimum sentences, really harsh penalties, and taking discretion
away to do anything else. Hey, everybody's getting at least ten years.
That's it. We're done. Theother approach, so it's basically limiting what

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the courts can do. And theother thing happens from the other direction,
with something like a PROP forty seven, for example, where you say,
well, we're gonna limit the courtstoo, but in the other direction.
So one approach says you cannot belenient no matter what, and the other
approach says you cannot be harsh,no matter or what. Neither of those

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approaches have worked. The truth ofthe matter is discretion and individualization of what
you do with someone who's committed acrime is the key to controlling crime and
not having our prison system forever underthe thumb of the federal courts for being

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unconstitutional. But there doesn't seem tobe anybody that's terribly interested in talking about
that, at least not now.All right, let's talk about being happy.
I'm going to tell you the fivehappiest countries in the world based on
a long running survey. They arefive happiest countries in the world Paraguay,

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Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Indonesia. What that seems wrong, doesn't it?
Because we always hear about it's Finlandand Denmark, those countries that are
the happiest countries. What is goingon here? Oh well, here's what's

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interesting. I have here a listof the five happiest countries in the world,
according to a long running survey,and they are Finland, Denmark,
Iceland, Sweden, Israel. Allright, something's not right here. And
what's not right here is that wehave competing surveys to generate a list of

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the happiest countries on the planet.And what does that mean? You know
what it means. It means thatyou don't know how to find out if
people are happy. How can youfind out, really, especially collectively,
if a group of folks are actuallyhappy? What is happiness? How do

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you measure it? What could Iask you to with scientific accuracy gauge how
happy you are? But they tryso here's the problem. They're two competing,
big, long running surveys. Oneof them is the Gallop Global Emotions
Report, which has just come out, and that's the one that's the one

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that says what's its face Finland andDenmark and all those things. And then
the other one is called the WorldHappiness Report, and that's the one that
says Paraguay, Panama and those things. They're asking completely different things. So

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in the Gallop Report, what theyask you about are emotional experiences in and
around the time that they're asking youdaily emotional experiences. Yes, did you
feel well rested yesterday? Were youtreated with respect all day yesterday? Did

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you smile or laugh a lot yesterday? And you know, the more people
say, oh, yes, thatwas great, the higher the score.
And they come up with a positiveexperience index. And then they ask you
about some bad things. Were yousad yesterday? And they come up with
a negative experience index And they putthe two together and you get a score.

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And in this survey things look prettygood. Positive emotions got up to
a seventy one out of one hundred, which is the highest since the pandemic.
Negative emotions have actually dropped for thefirst time in ten years. And
that's how they do that one.But the World Happiness Report says, we
don't care about any of like whathappened to you yesterday? We just want

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to know this. Imagine there areten steps on the ladder. The bottom
rung is the worst possible life foryou to have. The top rung is
the best possible life for you tohave. Where are you on the ladder.
So when you ask people about theirexperiences positive and negative right now,

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you get a list of countries likeParaguay and Panama and Guatemala. When you
ask people to simply rank themselves ona ladder of life, you get Finland,
Denmark, and Iceland, etc.United States not in the top ten
in either of these measures. Let'scome on, let's fix that. This

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