July 17, 2024 • 23 mins
Musk says he’s moving SpaceX and X Headquarters from California to Texas after warning Gov. Newsom. Biden will push for major Supreme Court reform as he seeks campaign momentum. Tenants fighting eviction will get free lawyers in unincorporated LA County… more for us to pay for? Stores are already rolling out holiday items... is this really healthy?
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. It is
a Wednesday morning, July seventeen.Oh, I was going to ask Amy
what the weather is like today.I still think it's gonna be hot.
She's running around someplace. I don'tpay attention in the morning when she gives
us a weather report, mainly becauseI'm producing. I'm not producing, I'm
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preparing the show. So it's notthat I don't like Amy, which probably
true anyway. All right, that'son a whole different level. Now I
want to share with you a story, and this has to do with politics,
politics and politics. Elon Musk saidyesterday on X of course that he's
moving the headquarters of SpaceX and Twitternow X going to Texas and why well,
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he's just sick of California specifically.Now. The latest the new state
law that bans teachers from telling familiesabout student gender identity changes. Bottom line
is your kid leaves for school inthe morning, goes into the restroom,
changes into address, says I ama woman, I am a girl,
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and I want to be referred toas a her. And school can't tell
the parents at all, not allowedto do that, and he said,
Okay, come on, that wasit. That was the last straw.
You cross the line with that one. Now, this is a blow Southern
California because SpaceX has really been theanchor of this space economy that we have
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here. Musk posted final straw becauseof this law and many others that preceded
it, attacking both families and companies. SpaceX now moves its headquarters from Hawthorne
to Starbase, Texas. And thishas to do with the law signed by
the governor after this battle between theconservative school board concerned about parental rights and
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on the other side LGBTQ activists worriedabout vulnerable youths. And it is this
is where we are at the crossroads. Nicky Nicki Haley yesterday said we really
are at the crossroads. I meanwhich way the company country is going.
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Joe Biden said the same thing.Usually that's a croc. You hear that
every single presidential campaign we have todecide which way the country is going.
This is going to be the determinativepresidential election. This time around, they're
they're actually telling the truth. Muskhas made big changes on X, laid
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off thousands of executives and employees andthis is simply just the latest in his
fight with California. And so youknow, three years ago Tesla moved to
Austin from Palo Alta. We're talkingthe headquarters, high cost of housing,
long commutes. Now there's still thefactory in Fremont where the Tesla is manufactured,
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because it's hard to move a carfactory headquarters that's easy to move.
And by the way, on aquick one, he paid forty four billion
dollars for Twitter and it was worthtwenty five billion dollars that day. He
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overpaid by twice and then is tryingto figure out how to make money and
that really doesn't matter. He's theworld's richest man at this moment two hundred
and fifty to two hundred and seventyfive billion dollars depending on the stock is
doing. And of course, afew conservatives, for example, Republican leader
James Gallagher in the Assembly said GavinNewsom's anti parent agenda isn't just bad for
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families now, it's doing serious damageto California's economy. Don't know if that's
true yet. What I do knowis California under Gavin Newsom is moving pretty
far left. I thought you couldn'tget more left. California is sort of
the top of the heat when itcomes to liberal progressive, although do they
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even use the word liberal anymore.I think it's progressive. You can't call
yourself a liberal at all. Youcan still call yourself a conservative, but
not a liberal anyway. So heis off to Texas and the space the
factory with make spaceships and Hawthorn isstill there because, as I said,
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it's hard to move factories, andhe's got a point. First of all,
it's mainly the expense. I wouldthink companies doing business in California.
It's very difficult you work in California, especially if you make any kind of
decent money. Decent money, ifyou make enough money, you're paying huge
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taxes California state taxes. Your home, I mean home is ten thousand,
is a million dollars for a twobedroom, one bath house just down the
street. That's ten thousand dollars ayear in taxes, or eleven thousand dollars
a year in taxes. I mean, it gets crazy. And then of
course that mansion tax, not thata lot of us have homes that are
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worth over five million dollars. Butif you do and you sell it add
another four percent to the mix.That's not California. I think that's La,
the city of La. But ingeneral, you know how many businesses
are going to up and move.And the controversy here is that when you
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talk about these liberals are just saying, oh, this is just an excuse.
This is a conservative agenda that justhates what we do, that is
anti poor people. It's which wayare we going to go on that?
Am I going to stay in California? I don't think so. I think
when I retire and it's all saidand done, I'm basically out of here
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because I just it's too expensive.You don't get what you're paying too much
for what you get in this state. That's going to it. It's like
going to an overpriced restaurant, payinga lot of money and not getting what
you should for the money. That'swhat California is about. Now. President
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Biden, of course, is sweatingbullets. To say the least, his
campaign, i think it's fair tosay, is disintegrating before our very eyes.
And you've got a number of Democrats, and it's a growing number of
Democrats are telling him bail out.The problem with bailing out is who do
you have left? And the onlyone who is the heir apparent. I
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don't know why they make this call. The air apparent to the president is
the Vice President JD. Vance wasthe first thing that was said when he
was selected as a VP nominee.He's the heir apparent of the Republican Party.
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I don't get that. By theway, how did President Quayle do
when he was Vice President Bush?Not too well, right in any case.
So what Joe Biden is doing ishe's grasping for straws. One of
the things he is doing. Andhe has announced major changes Supreme Court.
Mm hm. Pack the court?Why because there are a bunch of Republicans
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on it, a bunch of conservatives. And the answer is you add a
whole lot of judges who are liberal. That's what Senate Democrats want to sort
of switch the tenor of the court. Isn't that special? Huh? Now,
when it was a liberal court,you didn't hear that being said by
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them, And I have not heardRepublicans arguing for that at all, even
when the court was wildly liberal.FDR tried that Franklin Roosevelt tried that.
At the early stages of his presidency. It was a very very conservative court,
and half of the programs that FDRthrew on the table were declared unconstitutional.
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And he said, Okay, I'mgoing to simply add more judges to
the Supreme Court. I mean,there's nothing in the Constitution that says there
have to be nine justices. Matterof fact, before the Civil War,
there were seven justices on the court, and so it changed eighteen sixty seven
something like that. It changed,and now we have nine. Now it's
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simply part of our culture, butnot constitutionally mandated. So can he packed
the court? Yeah, Congress sixtypercent of the Senate and Congress says yes.
Is that going to happen? Ofcourse not. Of course not.
It's not going to happen. Sothat is it's not just a long shot,
it's beyond a long shot. Isit him telling his constituency. I
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do not like the makeup of thiscourt. I am president, and therefore
I'm going to make sure the courtnow follows our philosophy. Donald Trump got
three nominations in one term. Idon't know the last time that happened.
It could have been FDR the lasttime that happened. And the conservatives are
and the liberals are going, ohmy god, the court has gone the
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other way. Hey, welcome toAmerica. Okay, here are the rules
when when there is a vacancy onthe court, the President nominates, the
Senate confirms. That's it. Thoseare the rules. Oh no, the
liberals will say, no, no, no, we don't want to do
that. We want to change therules or in this case, the number
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of justice on the court that canbe done. By the way, By
the way, FDR was nailed forthat, I mean nailed. Even his
most ardent followers said, you aredreaming. He also wants term limits for
justices on the Supreme Court. Thatone makes more sense. He wants eighteen
years, which means every two yearsthere would be another justice appointed, you
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know. I mean, term limitsdo make sense, especially on the court.
I mean you could literally die onthe bench. There was one California
Appeals Court judge I forgot his name, Coombs or whatever if Fetnah was a
federal judge on the Appeals Court inCalifornia First District, and the clerks and
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I'm not exaggerating here. One ofthe jobs that a clerk had to do
with changes diapers, and he wasa justice. It is a lifetime appointment,
and nobody's removing you from the bench. Nobody. And because that is
constitutional, well, that can bechanged. Is it going to change?
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No? No, And then thebroad immunity for presidents of the Supreme Court
just said, Trump has broad immunitythat can be changed. All you need
is a federal law that changes theimmunity concept. And then at that point
the Supreme Court has to rule theother way, saying this is the law,
this is legislation, it's not unconstitutional, the definition of immunity that a
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president has or doesn't have. Sowhere's he going to go with any of
that? No place, no place. It's truly grasping for straws. And
it's unfortunate. It is a madgrab for anything that will bring I guess
the word is credibility to his campaign. And how long ago was it that
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the Republican Party was in disarray andpeople were saying the Republican Party is falling.
I think it was the beginning ofTrump's control of the party, as
moderate Republicans were fighting the Trump isand well, Trump has won that battle.
So that's turned around. Now youhave the Republican Party firmly in Trump's
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pocket. I mean to the pointwhere I've never seen anything like this,
and you have the Democrats in totaldisarray. And if you happen to be
a Democrat and you are somehow pushingfor Joe Biden. And by the way,
I believe that the choice between thetwo of them is no choice.
It is horrific. We've had thatfor years. Look at the choice,
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Hillary or Trump? Come on,you know, can you do worse on
either side? And so here's whoI blame. If I were that liberal,
if I were a Joe Biden's supporter, and he's way too liberal for
me. But I lean more towardsBiden's policy than I do Trump's. If
I were a fanatic Joe Biden's supporter, I would be so angry with Joe
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Biden saying what you do just hubristhat you have because you decided what you
want to do is good for thecountry, no matter how old you are,
no matter what. And as Ibelieve that Donald Trump does put himself
over the country, there is noquestion I do. Joe Biden also put
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himself over the good of the country. By thinking that. Well, same
thing with Trump, that he isthe country and Joe Biden thinks he is
the country no matter how old.Look at the choices we have. All
right, So we're not going tohave fifteen people on the court or thirteen
people on the court. All right, it's not going to happen now,
right now, he's calling for it. But yeah, and the Republicans are
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going, you're crazy. Wait tillyou've got a democratic government, democratic party
in place and in control. Allright, now, I'm going to give
you a little to history, okay. Nineteen sixty three, the Supreme Court
ruled in a case called Gideon versusWainwright that if you are too poor to
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afford representation in a criminal case,the state must provide you a free attorney.
Nineteen sixty six was Miranda, whichnow you've seen this a million times
movies and TV. You have theright to remain silent if you cannot afford
an attorney, one will be appointedfor you at no cost. That's in
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criminal proceedings. And the Supreme Courtupheld that. So when you're being charged
criminally, a fundamental right under theSupreme Court ruling in Gideon is you get
an attorney paid for by the stateor the county, or in the federal
case, federal crime, it's theFeds. The public defenders off. So
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now let's look at LA County.They want to extend that you get a
free attorney because you have the right. What right are they talking about?
The right to have an attorney,and that is offered by offered by the
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state, and the state will payif you are poor and you are being
evicted. Now there is something that'skind of a spin. Four people don't
have representation when they're being evicted becausethey can't they can't afford it. So
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therefore the state and this LA Countypilot program that they're extending is unanimous decision
by the board of supervisors. Therefore, the county will pay for representation for
these people in court whenever dealing withan eviction. And by the way,
it does work an attorney you havea much better chance, I am.
Evictions have to be so specific andthe the landlord I mean has to cross
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every T and dot every I andif there's one part of it wrong,
boom, viction is gone. Yougot to start all over again. And
there are defenses with the vast majorityof victions because you simply can't pay the
rent. So what does the courtdo, what does the law do defend
against not paying the rent? Oh? No, you subsidize, You get
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money to you give money to people. Because is homelessness or the right to
have a home a fundamental right?This is the difference. This is we
have to decide which way to go. And we have an insane number of
homeless people in La County. JustLa County, seventy five thousand homeless.
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And people can't afford to live hereanymore. They just can't. And if
you lose your job or you haveurgency like a tire blows out, your
engine blows out, you're not makingthe rent and you get evicted. And
can you fight it? You couldsure as hell delay it. How do
you delay? Right? An unlawfuldetainer is filed against someone. First,
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it's a three day notice to payrent or quit. Can't come up with
it in three days, then theunlawful detainer is filed. You have five
days to respond to that. Thenthey move forward. If you come up
with an affirmative defense, mold orany issue, just come up with it,
then that is delayed another several weeks. And then if the court orders
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an eviction, it's more several moreweeks before you are tossed out. You
can delay this thing, and ifyou have a lawyer, that's what's going
to happen. And LA County issaying, you know what, we want
to supply lawyers for poor people whojust can't afford their own lawyers. Okay,
is this where we want to go? And by the way, I'm
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sort of on the fence on thisone. I believe that poor people should
get every break. But at thesame time, landlords have to make a
living too. They have to paythe mortgage, They have to pay the
mortgage payments on their mortgage. Soyou know which way do you go on?
This is the ability to be ina home of fundamental right, and
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if not, an attorney will beappointed for you at no cost, just
like you committed a your accuse committinga crime. Well, I don't know.
California is sorta of going to bea given. This is a pilot
program that they're going to expand inLA County. And one of the supervisors
who pitched this and actually led theway on this one says, we hope
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that every city in La County willfollow this lead. Now some states have
that. There are three or fourstates that have something like that, So
California is not at the forefront ofthis. But I tell you it's going
to cost us hundreds of millions ofdollars. And again, what do we
do with our money? What dowe do with our laws? Which way
do we go? Move to Yemen? Housing is very inexpensive, food is
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relatively cheap because they eat sand.So I think that's that's an answer.
Okay, let's move on. Neilis joining me, and we are going
to talk about holiday items. Rightalready. It's July seventeen. And guess
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what Halloween stuff is out there?Now? I know you do some great
Halloween stuff in the past. Funohday, my god, you've done stuff
that's as good as a theme park. I mean, you really have done
nuts. Let me ask you,is you know we always talk about it's
getting earlier and earlier for Christmas shoppingfor things, giving shopping. It used
to be Christmas start of the dayafter Thanksgiving. Now Christmas shopping starts about
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February February second, February third.So here we are July seventeen, and
this is a story about how ifyou go to for example, Michael's,
they have a Halloween section. Ifyou go to Costco their seasonal section,
back to School, et cetera.Halloween costumes. That went to Costco the
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other day they have this monstrous,like fifteen foot high and audio animatronic thing
that's like three hundred dollars that youwould only see. Oh yeah, that
is that is becoming the standard now. It's it's not static decorations anymore.
They're either way oversized, you know, like they're fifteen twenty foot skeletons and
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they even have any dog and theymove and well, yeah, there's some
of them even have kits, aftermarket kits, so you can get the
skeleton and then you can get atother things later like lighting for the inside
of the chest cavity or the eyesor or things like that. But the
animatronics, they're huge. There's anew series coming out this year that should
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be coming soon to home Depot andit's Star Wars and there's an actual life
sized Darth Vader. Yeah, it'sit's very very cool and it is for
multiple holidays. So the lightsaber isa candy cane for Christmas and then and
then They have a pumpkin that iscarved like the Death Star for Halloween and
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so you can use it for multipleholidays. That is seriously cool. I'm
saying I used to find that stuff. But that's but let me answer you
the question. I mean, thebasic question is is it becoming earlier and
earlier and earlier, because I meanwe always think that, but it absolutely
is it absolutely? But you mentionedone store in particular, Michaels. Now,
Michaels is a craft and hobby store. The whole purpose of being ahead
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of it is because the assumption isyou're going to be making things. So
they have blank pumpkins that somebody's gonnaI don't know, bedazzle or whatever you're
gonna do, but you're going towant lead time because you're going to decorate
it, or some people are decoratingthem and then selling them doing you know,
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crafts and the like that you're goingto need to run up to.
So you're always going to see inMichaels and craft stores Joanne's any of these,
you're going to see those patterned materialsand all those things come out early.
But with other places like Home Depot, Lows, Costo, they're pushing
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it out earlier because they find thatsales go up for one and there was
even studies last year. I believethat people that keep decorations in their house
up longer for the holidays shar arehappier, They get something out of it.
There are there is a response toit, and so you know,
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people are putting them up earlier andleaving them up later. Like you got
hobby lobby, You walk in andthey give you a glitter to put on
your MyPillow to really make it impressive. Yeah, okay, no about that.
Fair enough, We're done, guys. KF I am six forty live
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demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. It is
a Wednesday morning, July seventeen.Oh, I was going to ask Amy
what the weather is like today.I still think it's gonna be hot.
She's running around someplace. I don'tpay attention in the morning when she gives
us a weather report, mainly becauseI'm producing. I'm not producing, I'm
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preparing the show. So it's notthat I don't like Amy, which probably
true anyway. All right, that'son a whole different level. Now I
want to share with you a story, and this has to do with politics,
politics and politics. Elon Musk saidyesterday on X of course that he's
moving the headquarters of SpaceX and Twitternow X going to Texas and why well,
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he's just sick of California specifically.Now. The latest the new state
law that bans teachers from telling familiesabout student gender identity changes. Bottom line
is your kid leaves for school inthe morning, goes into the restroom,
changes into address, says I ama woman, I am a girl,
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and I want to be referred toas a her. And school can't tell
the parents at all, not allowedto do that, and he said,
Okay, come on, that wasit. That was the last straw.
You cross the line with that one. Now, this is a blow Southern
California because SpaceX has really been theanchor of this space economy that we have
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here. Musk posted final straw becauseof this law and many others that preceded
it, attacking both families and companies. SpaceX now moves its headquarters from Hawthorne
to Starbase, Texas. And thishas to do with the law signed by
the governor after this battle between theconservative school board concerned about parental rights and
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on the other side LGBTQ activists worriedabout vulnerable youths. And it is this
is where we are at the crossroads. Nicky Nicki Haley yesterday said we really
are at the crossroads. I meanwhich way the company country is going.
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Joe Biden said the same thing.Usually that's a croc. You hear that
every single presidential campaign we have todecide which way the country is going.
This is going to be the determinativepresidential election. This time around, they're
they're actually telling the truth. Muskhas made big changes on X, laid
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off thousands of executives and employees andthis is simply just the latest in his
fight with California. And so youknow, three years ago Tesla moved to
Austin from Palo Alta. We're talkingthe headquarters, high cost of housing,
long commutes. Now there's still thefactory in Fremont where the Tesla is manufactured,
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because it's hard to move a carfactory headquarters that's easy to move.
And by the way, on aquick one, he paid forty four billion
dollars for Twitter and it was worthtwenty five billion dollars that day. He
(03:29):
overpaid by twice and then is tryingto figure out how to make money and
that really doesn't matter. He's theworld's richest man at this moment two hundred
and fifty to two hundred and seventyfive billion dollars depending on the stock is
doing. And of course, afew conservatives, for example, Republican leader
James Gallagher in the Assembly said GavinNewsom's anti parent agenda isn't just bad for
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families now, it's doing serious damageto California's economy. Don't know if that's
true yet. What I do knowis California under Gavin Newsom is moving pretty
far left. I thought you couldn'tget more left. California is sort of
the top of the heat when itcomes to liberal progressive, although do they
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even use the word liberal anymore.I think it's progressive. You can't call
yourself a liberal at all. Youcan still call yourself a conservative, but
not a liberal anyway. So heis off to Texas and the space the
factory with make spaceships and Hawthorn isstill there because, as I said,
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it's hard to move factories, andhe's got a point. First of all,
it's mainly the expense. I wouldthink companies doing business in California.
It's very difficult you work in California, especially if you make any kind of
decent money. Decent money, ifyou make enough money, you're paying huge
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taxes California state taxes. Your home, I mean home is ten thousand,
is a million dollars for a twobedroom, one bath house just down the
street. That's ten thousand dollars ayear in taxes, or eleven thousand dollars
a year in taxes. I mean, it gets crazy. And then of
course that mansion tax, not thata lot of us have homes that are
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worth over five million dollars. Butif you do and you sell it add
another four percent to the mix.That's not California. I think that's La,
the city of La. But ingeneral, you know how many businesses
are going to up and move.And the controversy here is that when you
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talk about these liberals are just saying, oh, this is just an excuse.
This is a conservative agenda that justhates what we do, that is
anti poor people. It's which wayare we going to go on that?
Am I going to stay in California? I don't think so. I think
when I retire and it's all saidand done, I'm basically out of here
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because I just it's too expensive.You don't get what you're paying too much
for what you get in this state. That's going to it. It's like
going to an overpriced restaurant, payinga lot of money and not getting what
you should for the money. That'swhat California is about. Now. President
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Biden, of course, is sweatingbullets. To say the least, his
campaign, i think it's fair tosay, is disintegrating before our very eyes.
And you've got a number of Democrats, and it's a growing number of
Democrats are telling him bail out.The problem with bailing out is who do
you have left? And the onlyone who is the heir apparent. I
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don't know why they make this call. The air apparent to the president is
the Vice President JD. Vance wasthe first thing that was said when he
was selected as a VP nominee.He's the heir apparent of the Republican Party.
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I don't get that. By theway, how did President Quayle do
when he was Vice President Bush?Not too well, right in any case.
So what Joe Biden is doing ishe's grasping for straws. One of
the things he is doing. Andhe has announced major changes Supreme Court.
Mm hm. Pack the court?Why because there are a bunch of Republicans
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on it, a bunch of conservatives. And the answer is you add a
whole lot of judges who are liberal. That's what Senate Democrats want to sort
of switch the tenor of the court. Isn't that special? Huh? Now,
when it was a liberal court,you didn't hear that being said by
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them, And I have not heardRepublicans arguing for that at all, even
when the court was wildly liberal.FDR tried that Franklin Roosevelt tried that.
At the early stages of his presidency. It was a very very conservative court,
and half of the programs that FDRthrew on the table were declared unconstitutional.
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And he said, Okay, I'mgoing to simply add more judges to
the Supreme Court. I mean,there's nothing in the Constitution that says there
have to be nine justices. Matterof fact, before the Civil War,
there were seven justices on the court, and so it changed eighteen sixty seven
something like that. It changed,and now we have nine. Now it's
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simply part of our culture, butnot constitutionally mandated. So can he packed
the court? Yeah, Congress sixtypercent of the Senate and Congress says yes.
Is that going to happen? Ofcourse not. Of course not.
It's not going to happen. Sothat is it's not just a long shot,
it's beyond a long shot. Isit him telling his constituency. I
(09:09):
do not like the makeup of thiscourt. I am president, and therefore
I'm going to make sure the courtnow follows our philosophy. Donald Trump got
three nominations in one term. Idon't know the last time that happened.
It could have been FDR the lasttime that happened. And the conservatives are
and the liberals are going, ohmy god, the court has gone the
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other way. Hey, welcome toAmerica. Okay, here are the rules
when when there is a vacancy onthe court, the President nominates, the
Senate confirms. That's it. Thoseare the rules. Oh no, the
liberals will say, no, no, no, we don't want to do
that. We want to change therules or in this case, the number
(09:52):
of justice on the court that canbe done. By the way, By
the way, FDR was nailed forthat, I mean nailed. Even his
most ardent followers said, you aredreaming. He also wants term limits for
justices on the Supreme Court. Thatone makes more sense. He wants eighteen
years, which means every two yearsthere would be another justice appointed, you
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know. I mean, term limitsdo make sense, especially on the court.
I mean you could literally die onthe bench. There was one California
Appeals Court judge I forgot his name, Coombs or whatever if Fetnah was a
federal judge on the Appeals Court inCalifornia First District, and the clerks and
(10:37):
I'm not exaggerating here. One ofthe jobs that a clerk had to do
with changes diapers, and he wasa justice. It is a lifetime appointment,
and nobody's removing you from the bench. Nobody. And because that is
constitutional, well, that can bechanged. Is it going to change?
(11:01):
No? No, And then thebroad immunity for presidents of the Supreme Court
just said, Trump has broad immunitythat can be changed. All you need
is a federal law that changes theimmunity concept. And then at that point
the Supreme Court has to rule theother way, saying this is the law,
this is legislation, it's not unconstitutional, the definition of immunity that a
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president has or doesn't have. Sowhere's he going to go with any of
that? No place, no place. It's truly grasping for straws. And
it's unfortunate. It is a madgrab for anything that will bring I guess
the word is credibility to his campaign. And how long ago was it that
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the Republican Party was in disarray andpeople were saying the Republican Party is falling.
I think it was the beginning ofTrump's control of the party, as
moderate Republicans were fighting the Trump isand well, Trump has won that battle.
So that's turned around. Now youhave the Republican Party firmly in Trump's
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pocket. I mean to the pointwhere I've never seen anything like this,
and you have the Democrats in totaldisarray. And if you happen to be
a Democrat and you are somehow pushingfor Joe Biden. And by the way,
I believe that the choice between thetwo of them is no choice.
It is horrific. We've had thatfor years. Look at the choice,
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Hillary or Trump? Come on,you know, can you do worse on
either side? And so here's whoI blame. If I were that liberal,
if I were a Joe Biden's supporter, and he's way too liberal for
me. But I lean more towardsBiden's policy than I do Trump's. If
I were a fanatic Joe Biden's supporter, I would be so angry with Joe
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Biden saying what you do just hubristhat you have because you decided what you
want to do is good for thecountry, no matter how old you are,
no matter what. And as Ibelieve that Donald Trump does put himself
over the country, there is noquestion I do. Joe Biden also put
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himself over the good of the country. By thinking that. Well, same
thing with Trump, that he isthe country and Joe Biden thinks he is
the country no matter how old.Look at the choices we have. All
right, So we're not going tohave fifteen people on the court or thirteen
people on the court. All right, it's not going to happen now,
right now, he's calling for it. But yeah, and the Republicans are
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going, you're crazy. Wait tillyou've got a democratic government, democratic party
in place and in control. Allright, now, I'm going to give
you a little to history, okay. Nineteen sixty three, the Supreme Court
ruled in a case called Gideon versusWainwright that if you are too poor to
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afford representation in a criminal case,the state must provide you a free attorney.
Nineteen sixty six was Miranda, whichnow you've seen this a million times
movies and TV. You have theright to remain silent if you cannot afford
an attorney, one will be appointedfor you at no cost. That's in
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criminal proceedings. And the Supreme Courtupheld that. So when you're being charged
criminally, a fundamental right under theSupreme Court ruling in Gideon is you get
an attorney paid for by the stateor the county, or in the federal
case, federal crime, it's theFeds. The public defenders off. So
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now let's look at LA County.They want to extend that you get a
free attorney because you have the right. What right are they talking about?
The right to have an attorney,and that is offered by offered by the
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state, and the state will payif you are poor and you are being
evicted. Now there is something that'skind of a spin. Four people don't
have representation when they're being evicted becausethey can't they can't afford it. So
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therefore the state and this LA Countypilot program that they're extending is unanimous decision
by the board of supervisors. Therefore, the county will pay for representation for
these people in court whenever dealing withan eviction. And by the way,
it does work an attorney you havea much better chance, I am.
Evictions have to be so specific andthe the landlord I mean has to cross
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every T and dot every I andif there's one part of it wrong,
boom, viction is gone. Yougot to start all over again. And
there are defenses with the vast majorityof victions because you simply can't pay the
rent. So what does the courtdo, what does the law do defend
against not paying the rent? Oh? No, you subsidize, You get
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money to you give money to people. Because is homelessness or the right to
have a home a fundamental right?This is the difference. This is we
have to decide which way to go. And we have an insane number of
homeless people in La County. JustLa County, seventy five thousand homeless.
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And people can't afford to live hereanymore. They just can't. And if
you lose your job or you haveurgency like a tire blows out, your
engine blows out, you're not makingthe rent and you get evicted. And
can you fight it? You couldsure as hell delay it. How do
you delay? Right? An unlawfuldetainer is filed against someone. First,
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it's a three day notice to payrent or quit. Can't come up with
it in three days, then theunlawful detainer is filed. You have five
days to respond to that. Thenthey move forward. If you come up
with an affirmative defense, mold orany issue, just come up with it,
then that is delayed another several weeks. And then if the court orders
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an eviction, it's more several moreweeks before you are tossed out. You
can delay this thing, and ifyou have a lawyer, that's what's going
to happen. And LA County issaying, you know what, we want
to supply lawyers for poor people whojust can't afford their own lawyers. Okay,
is this where we want to go? And by the way, I'm
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sort of on the fence on thisone. I believe that poor people should
get every break. But at thesame time, landlords have to make a
living too. They have to paythe mortgage, They have to pay the
mortgage payments on their mortgage. Soyou know which way do you go on?
This is the ability to be ina home of fundamental right, and
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if not, an attorney will beappointed for you at no cost, just
like you committed a your accuse committinga crime. Well, I don't know.
California is sorta of going to bea given. This is a pilot
program that they're going to expand inLA County. And one of the supervisors
who pitched this and actually led theway on this one says, we hope
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that every city in La County willfollow this lead. Now some states have
that. There are three or fourstates that have something like that, So
California is not at the forefront ofthis. But I tell you it's going
to cost us hundreds of millions ofdollars. And again, what do we
do with our money? What dowe do with our laws? Which way
do we go? Move to Yemen? Housing is very inexpensive, food is
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relatively cheap because they eat sand.So I think that's that's an answer.
Okay, let's move on. Neilis joining me, and we are going
to talk about holiday items. Rightalready. It's July seventeen. And guess
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what Halloween stuff is out there?Now? I know you do some great
Halloween stuff in the past. Funohday, my god, you've done stuff
that's as good as a theme park. I mean, you really have done
nuts. Let me ask you,is you know we always talk about it's
getting earlier and earlier for Christmas shoppingfor things, giving shopping. It used
to be Christmas start of the dayafter Thanksgiving. Now Christmas shopping starts about
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February February second, February third.So here we are July seventeen, and
this is a story about how ifyou go to for example, Michael's,
they have a Halloween section. Ifyou go to Costco their seasonal section,
back to School, et cetera.Halloween costumes. That went to Costco the
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other day they have this monstrous,like fifteen foot high and audio animatronic thing
that's like three hundred dollars that youwould only see. Oh yeah, that
is that is becoming the standard now. It's it's not static decorations anymore.
They're either way oversized, you know, like they're fifteen twenty foot skeletons and
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they even have any dog and theymove and well, yeah, there's some
of them even have kits, aftermarket kits, so you can get the
skeleton and then you can get atother things later like lighting for the inside
of the chest cavity or the eyesor or things like that. But the
animatronics, they're huge. There's anew series coming out this year that should
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be coming soon to home Depot andit's Star Wars and there's an actual life
sized Darth Vader. Yeah, it'sit's very very cool and it is for
multiple holidays. So the lightsaber isa candy cane for Christmas and then and
then They have a pumpkin that iscarved like the Death Star for Halloween and
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so you can use it for multipleholidays. That is seriously cool. I'm
saying I used to find that stuff. But that's but let me answer you
the question. I mean, thebasic question is is it becoming earlier and
earlier and earlier, because I meanwe always think that, but it absolutely
is it absolutely? But you mentionedone store in particular, Michaels. Now,
Michaels is a craft and hobby store. The whole purpose of being ahead
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of it is because the assumption isyou're going to be making things. So
they have blank pumpkins that somebody's gonnaI don't know, bedazzle or whatever you're
gonna do, but you're going towant lead time because you're going to decorate
it, or some people are decoratingthem and then selling them doing you know,
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crafts and the like that you're goingto need to run up to.
So you're always going to see inMichaels and craft stores Joanne's any of these,
you're going to see those patterned materialsand all those things come out early.
But with other places like Home Depot, Lows, Costo, they're pushing
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it out earlier because they find thatsales go up for one and there was
even studies last year. I believethat people that keep decorations in their house
up longer for the holidays shar arehappier, They get something out of it.
There are there is a response toit, and so you know,
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people are putting them up earlier andleaving them up later. Like you got
hobby lobby, You walk in andthey give you a glitter to put on
your MyPillow to really make it impressive. Yeah, okay, no about that.
Fair enough, We're done, guys. KF I am six forty live
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