September 20, 2024 • 23 mins
California voters are fed up with democrats’ inaction on crime. Homeless students can sleep safely in their cars at this California college… other campuses may say no. The cost of avoiding microplastics. Wellness resorts are so popular with boomers, some are moving in for good.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I Am six forty bill Handle here. It is a
Friday morning, September the twentieth. First of all, the podcast,
the Bill Handle Show podcast is up and running every
Tuesday and Thursday. It drops right at nine o'clock, but
the episodes are there because it's a podcast, and this
week the two podcasts Dying is better than being a
(00:30):
live Part one, Part two that was Tuesday and yesterday,
and it's on all of.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The Are we streaming here? No, we're not, We're just videoing.
I guess. Oh there's still pictures. Okay? Where was I podcast?
Tuesdays and Thursdays?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And this week, as I said, dying is better than
being a live part one, part two, and you can
hear the podcast on Apple, Spotify, the iHeartRadio app, and
it's the bill Show podcast and the billhandleshowpodcast dot com.
I'd left the yesterday out and I'm going, oh my god,
(01:08):
what happened to it?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So anyway, let's move on. California. Gee, are we liberal?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I don't know, the most liberal state in the Union,
And as you know, we passed Prop forty seven because
too many people were going to jail because we figured
that these criminals really aren't criminals. They are just people
who have been led astray, and they're good people and
all they need is rehab and throwing them in jail
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is not the way the society should go. Well, let
me tell you we're up to here with that. You know,
the pendulum swings, it always does. Pendulum is now swinging
back because there is Prop thirty six coming up that
basically does away with most of Prop forty seven. By
the way, the the Prosecutors Association saying we don't like
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thirty six.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It doesn't go far enough, not even close.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Bad guys are bad guys, and you can give me
all you want about how they've been raised.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You know, people that steal people had shoplift.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh to give you an idea of how bad shoplifting is, Oh,
my goodness. So the other day, all right, I went
in to buy a razor. My razor went south. So
I go into a Walmart to buy a razor, and
of course everything is locked up, I mean everything, if
you're interested in buying anything. What happens, Well, one of
the clerks have to go out and unlock the shelf
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that has now plexiglass in part of it, and so
I said, I want that razor because I knew which
one I wanted. And so she pulls it out and
then puts it in.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
A box.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
About the size of a shoe box, which is locked,
and then you go to the or who then unlocks
it with one of those devices they have, and then
you get to put it in a bag. It's twelve bucks.
That's shoplifting. And why is that a big deal, Because
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no one gets nailed anymore. Anything under nine hundred and
fifty dollars is a misdemeanor. You can do it as
often as you want. It used to be that if
you got hit two three times for shoplifting, you were
getting jail time. I mean, it got to be pretty serious.
Third time out was a felony. Not anymore, not under
Prop forty seven. You could shoplift four hundred times and
(03:33):
it's a misdemeanor. And you know what they do with misdemeanors.
They don't arrest anybody. Cops don't even bother anymore with shoplifting.
So you have people that shoplift are picked up. Occasionally
a cop will pop that person, put him into put
him into the local jail and of course fingerprint them
and let them out immediately, and then they go back
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and shoplift again. As a matter of fact, in some cases,
and this has actually happened, and this is not apocryphal.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
This has happened.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You've got someone who's a shoplifter, brought into prison and
was fingerprinted, a mug shot, got out and before the
cop left the prison or the jail building, guy was
out shoplifting again. And so people are just tired of it.
We've propped forty seven ourselves to death. Let me tell
(04:23):
you the numbers, and there are plenty of people. I mean,
you've got Gavin Newsom go, oh no, no, we don't
want Prop thirty six. Oh my god, that's horrible. Only
tell you they can fight at all they want maybe
go which I'm looking at the polls anyway, I think
the least amount of support Prop thirty six by everybody
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is thirty three percent.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It's sixty three thirty three right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Now to pass thirty six to undue parts of a
Prop forty seven, I mean the retail theft, the smashing grabs.
It's it was always bad, it's never been particularly good.
So now we have everything is on video and we're
seeing all of it. There's even though the smashing grabs
are fairly I mean they're rare, but man, do they
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make the news.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It's it's never been so bad that places have been closing.
You've got locations closing, nor instruments up in a Bay area.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Just shut down.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Not shut down because they weren't doing business, shut down
because the theft was so great. They're losing money because
of theft, because of shoplifting as well as employee theft.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean, it's gone out of control.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Case in point, go get a razor at Walmart, have
them unlicked. But by the way, go get some Deoda
rent at Walmart behind the the behind the glass that
has to be opened by a clerk and then it
goes into that plastic box. I've never seen anything like this.
I said, this is crazy, this is nuts. So we're
(06:01):
swinging back and do some and some of the more
liberal liberal senators and assembly people go, oh no, no, no.
We still have to maintain our view of criminals are
really not criminals. I mean a lot of it has
to do also with the courts saying our prisons are
so overcrowded.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I mean, Wow. You know where prisons are not.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Overcrowded Sudan, South Sudan, where there's no such thing as
a misdemeanor. You get picked up for stealing, they just
kill you. It's it's not very expensive. It's the cost
of a bullet. All right, Am I suggesting you move
to Sudan, absolutely, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
All right. I want to do a homeless.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Story, but it's a story I haven't done before, and
it's another the sidebar story of homeless. And this has
to do with students at city colleges, community colleges who
really don't have any place to live. And here is
a stat that I found kind of stunning is out
of CAW Matters, two out of three of the state's
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community college students struggle to meet basic needs food, housing particularly,
and so a lot of them live in their cars.
There was a report from the Community College League of California.
Two out of three of the community college students in
California struggle to meet basic needs. Three out of five
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are housing insecure, which means they don't have a place
to live thirty days out of thirty days they just
don't know. Some of the cout couch surf or they
have a place to say, someone puts them up for
a bit.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And to help with this, there have been a whole
bunch of legislative measures tried to create safe parking options.
And everybody's looking at the Long Beach City College because
they have a program and have had one for three years. Okay,
So the most recent attempt to deal with this in
the state was Assembly Bill eighteen eighteen, would have required
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community college and the cal State systems to create pilot
programs to provide safe overnight parking for students. The bill
was killed in the Appropriations Committee, which really California, the
Appropriations Committee of the Assembly. And you know why, because
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it was too expensive. Appropriations Committee figures out how much
stuff costs. It would cost around five hundred thousand dollars
to establish these programs, an inditional two point twenty five
million in annual costs. Come on, guys, really two million
dollars out of a budget of how many billion. I mean,
(08:56):
I'm the first one to say we're spending too much
money for a lot of stuff, you know, entitlement programs,
But you've got students who don't have a place to live,
they're sleeping in their cars.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And you know what these schools do.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Traditionally they have victim no overnight parking, you're leaving. And
Long Beach City College has had this program for three years.
Well how did they get the money? Well, they funded
it by working with other departments and using existing contracts
and they were robbing Peter to pay Paul. So you
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now have this bill that has support from California Faculty
Association to set up these pilot programs. Students send it
for California community colleges, some districts. How you know who
is opposing it? The state university system. They do not
want students overnight parking.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Wow. Why is that?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Because they have their own programs and they don't want
to be told by the state how many parking space is,
how big the program is going to be. And I'm thinking, really,
come on, because you don't have enough funds, you don't
have enough resources. So starting in twenty twenty one, the
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program at Long Beach City College has allowed this allowed
these students to come on campus live on campus. Students
have access to the bathroom in the campus Safety Building,
which is next to this parking lot. They have access
to the locker room showers from six in the morning
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to nine in the morning at the stadium right next door.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Now, the numbers are very few and far between.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean, we're talking twenty five students in one program.
As a matter of fact, I think last year Long
Beach City College had twenty four.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Students that used the.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Entire program, and twelve of the twenty four found transitional
or permanent housing. And here is what the premise is
of this. These are not students that are permanently there.
Here's your housing, your car. This is while you are
waiting for housing and you've applied all over the place,
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and they're saying no, which I don't get. Cal Poly
Humboldt students received a mass email on October twenty five
of twenty twenty three, saying the city the university is
going to begin enforcing the parking policy that it had
previously overlooked sort.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Of just didn't pay attention to it.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They now would be evicting students who are found sleeping
in their vehicles overnight. Come on, I mean, really, you know,
at some point housing is so expensive. And by the way,
look at the people who go to community college in
many and this was made for these people.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
That is, you have older people.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Who want to reinvent their lives, want to get some
kind of a skill who are and make it many cases,
are poor and are looking to make themselves better and
are willing to work to create a skill set.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And they don't have any money.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
All they have is their car, and you're not going
to let them sleep overnight. And what does it cost
you to let them use the shower at the stadium.
What does it cost to give them some security?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
What does it cost?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It doesn't all right, microplastics And we've been talking about
that and how dangerous and persuas and pervasive and ubiquitous
the microplastics are.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
So this isn't just plastic.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This is and I want to be scientific here, I
want to get this correct. This is the itsy bitsy
tiny little parts of the plastic that we don't see.
Micro plastics that's in the air, It's in the water
we drink, the rain, the snow, the food, the dust
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in our house, the paint on the walls, the cosmetics
that we use, all of it, toothpaste, toothbrush. I mean,
and this is science.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
These are because there's a study that just came out
and was published even in they found in human testicles.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
In a big way.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That is why I said in the promo neo, we're
going to talk about micro plastics found in your scroat.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So it wasn't mine, It was not It was not gratuitous.
Why because you speak of a high voice and you wanted.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
To be a member of the Vienna Boys Choir.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It makes sense when you say micro around your scrow.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, scientists have been studying microplastic for twenty years, and
here's what's going on. Over that twenty years. The exposure,
the amount of microplastic has been growing exponential exponentially. By
twenty forty, they're saying it's gonna double. Okay, that's what
fifteen years from now. The body body of research now
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that's just been released links the chemical compounds and that pilates.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
pH what I'm not even gonna go there. How do
you pronounce this? All right? Who's going to pronounce this? pH?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Thh A L A T S Fullates And I don't
think that it's in reference to any sexual Philates Philate.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And best Finels, the Fennels.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I don't know, I'm really good, but it's connected to
hormone disruption, developmental abnormalities, even cancer, and what can we
do about it?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's no real answer. The scientists are just saying it's there,
and it's in your body, and you're going to have
all kinds of adverse effects, and your kids are gonna
have it even worse because they're finding it and a
lot of it in placent In placent Placentia's Placentia's little
town near here where kids are. I think it's placentas right,
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this show.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Is not even worth podcasting, recording or broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And avoiding these and you can avoid them maybe a
little bit. For example, the author of this article in
The Atlantic, who actually wrote this and was looking at
the study, was trying to find a way to un
microplastic herself and just looking for a couch.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Really couldn't find one.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
There are some that are less filled with microplastics that
are being emitted, but it's really hard.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Here is something that was looked at. Right.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let's say you're expecting a baby and you want to
buy a plastic free, plastic free baby products.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You know, for example, crib mattresses.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You can get an organic plastic free crib mattress for
thirteen hundred dollars. Okay, Now your regular one made of
polyestro fiber and wrapped in vinyl cost you thirty five dollars.
And the problem is is that it just reduces the
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amount of microplastics.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
So I'll tell you what's worse.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And the study found this out that one of the
worst aspects of microplastics in society is worrying about microplastics
in society and the stress that that causes. Because if
you are concerned about what's going in your kid's body,
I never had to worry about that. I couldn't care less.
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That's fine. I don't care what you eat, and I
don't care. My kids were breastfed and you know, oh
you can't. I'd be careful about it. What's in the milk? Now?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I don't care. You just you figure it out.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But stress, worrying is stress, and it can't you more
harmful to your health. Maybe the stress and the worrying
about microplastics.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It is in our life. That's it. The fish have it, uh,
the animals, the plants.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I mean, it is now imbued in everything we do.
So I just want to give you a heads up.
And this is not you're going to die, This is
your kids are going to die. Or sure, more importantly,
how about this, Your kids are going to be genetically
won't even be genetic because of microplastic they have a
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good chance of being abnormal. And I'm not kidding because
that's going to be more and more of a chance
I can't imagine in the future. You know, the only
job those kids will have is standings for flipper.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That is not nice. Okay, we're done. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
What's going on among baby boomers. Baby boomers like me,
baby boomers who have a lot more money than I do.
And there are resorts now, these wellness resorts. And when
I say wellness resorts, we're not just talking about your
normal spa and the massage and the you sit around
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with cucumbers on your eyes and all this cream and
all that.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
No, no, we're talking about yoga.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We're talking about dancing around trees eating bushes for lunch.
You know, the the normal, crazy, well the abnormal crazy
wellness resorts. But those have become big, big news among
boomers and they are going up like crazy, and I
mean by the dozens, and you know where they're going
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up in Mexico. In Mexico because property prices in Mexico
are so far less and you can absolutely get a
really good deal. For example, Sudas del Corasson Aberze Resorts Collection,
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it's in Punta Demita on is that puta Demita No
Punta Demita point on.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Pacific's the Pacific Coast.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Residency resident villas started four million dollars, okay, okay, So
if you you don't want to spend that much, it's
a little bit less than that at Shaw Mexico near Cancun,
and those residences range from two million up to eight
million dollars. But you get preferential access to the wellness
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facilities right next door, and you get quarterly checkups and
they're on staff doctors and the biomarkers to provide health recommendation.
Can't you do that with a just an Apple watch
and get all of that? And those are three hundred bucks. Also,
these live in spas, these resorts are popping up in
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ski resorts. I mean a lot of that is resorts
are already there and they're putting up these very high
priced residences around there.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
There is one Velevida or Valevere, a.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Sixty acre Wellness community in Deer Valley Ski Resort in
Park City, and they're building one hundred and fifteen residences
right around there, and those go from only four million
dollars to twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I'm assuming the monthly fee on that one.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
The upkeep is pretty high too, the HOA Association, and
they have spot treatments like reichi.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
What is reiche By the way, I have no idea
what reichy is?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Reiki?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Reichi? What the hell is that? It's this thing that
is very, very painful. It's a form of massage where
they're like manipulating your body and it hurts. So it's
supposed to be good for you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So do you do you call the person who doesn't
mistress and please hurt me more?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Why would you pay money for that? Because this is
good for you?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Of course it is. You know, a good whipping is
always good for you. But they have acupuncture, which, of
course I know what that is.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Cupping. That's another one that I really enjoy.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
The cupping, right, take a coffee cup and put it
on your back and sucks up the skin.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It's basically body hickeys.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And the reason the why people pay for these things
is amazes me.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You know, I believe in acupuncture. I believe in I
believe pressure. I think has that, I think science bot.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, now the reiki, reiky rake uh you know, rake
your forest floors or whatever the hell they do.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That I don't get. Although I know about rolfing. Yeah,
driving too much, I know.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, that's that's very good. I wish I had thought
of that. Not ralphing, but rolfing. It's a type of
massage where it hurts. Also, by the way, I have
been led before and it hurts like hell, and that's
why I would never do it again. But will you
talk about loosening up?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I will hurt you money time for half the what
they charge you.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
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I Am six forty bill Handle here. It is a
Friday morning, September the twentieth. First of all, the podcast,
the Bill Handle Show podcast is up and running every
Tuesday and Thursday. It drops right at nine o'clock, but
the episodes are there because it's a podcast, and this
week the two podcasts Dying is better than being a
(00:30):
live Part one, Part two that was Tuesday and yesterday,
and it's on all of.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The Are we streaming here? No, we're not, We're just videoing.
I guess. Oh there's still pictures. Okay? Where was I podcast?
Tuesdays and Thursdays?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And this week, as I said, dying is better than
being a live part one, part two, and you can
hear the podcast on Apple, Spotify, the iHeartRadio app, and
it's the bill Show podcast and the billhandleshowpodcast dot com.
I'd left the yesterday out and I'm going, oh my god,
(01:08):
what happened to it?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So anyway, let's move on. California. Gee, are we liberal?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I don't know, the most liberal state in the Union,
And as you know, we passed Prop forty seven because
too many people were going to jail because we figured
that these criminals really aren't criminals. They are just people
who have been led astray, and they're good people and
all they need is rehab and throwing them in jail
(01:37):
is not the way the society should go. Well, let
me tell you we're up to here with that. You know,
the pendulum swings, it always does. Pendulum is now swinging
back because there is Prop thirty six coming up that
basically does away with most of Prop forty seven. By
the way, the the Prosecutors Association saying we don't like
(02:02):
thirty six.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It doesn't go far enough, not even close.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Bad guys are bad guys, and you can give me
all you want about how they've been raised.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You know, people that steal people had shoplift.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh to give you an idea of how bad shoplifting is, Oh,
my goodness. So the other day, all right, I went
in to buy a razor. My razor went south. So
I go into a Walmart to buy a razor, and
of course everything is locked up, I mean everything, if
you're interested in buying anything. What happens, Well, one of
the clerks have to go out and unlock the shelf
(02:39):
that has now plexiglass in part of it, and so
I said, I want that razor because I knew which
one I wanted. And so she pulls it out and
then puts it in.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
A box.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
About the size of a shoe box, which is locked,
and then you go to the or who then unlocks
it with one of those devices they have, and then
you get to put it in a bag. It's twelve bucks.
That's shoplifting. And why is that a big deal, Because
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no one gets nailed anymore. Anything under nine hundred and
fifty dollars is a misdemeanor. You can do it as
often as you want. It used to be that if
you got hit two three times for shoplifting, you were
getting jail time. I mean, it got to be pretty serious.
Third time out was a felony. Not anymore, not under
Prop forty seven. You could shoplift four hundred times and
(03:33):
it's a misdemeanor. And you know what they do with misdemeanors.
They don't arrest anybody. Cops don't even bother anymore with shoplifting.
So you have people that shoplift are picked up. Occasionally
a cop will pop that person, put him into put
him into the local jail and of course fingerprint them
and let them out immediately, and then they go back
(03:55):
and shoplift again. As a matter of fact, in some cases,
and this has actually happened, and this is not apocryphal.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
This has happened.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You've got someone who's a shoplifter, brought into prison and
was fingerprinted, a mug shot, got out and before the
cop left the prison or the jail building, guy was
out shoplifting again. And so people are just tired of it.
We've propped forty seven ourselves to death. Let me tell
(04:23):
you the numbers, and there are plenty of people. I mean,
you've got Gavin Newsom go, oh no, no, we don't
want Prop thirty six. Oh my god, that's horrible. Only
tell you they can fight at all they want maybe
go which I'm looking at the polls anyway, I think
the least amount of support Prop thirty six by everybody
(04:47):
is thirty three percent.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It's sixty three thirty three right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Now to pass thirty six to undue parts of a
Prop forty seven, I mean the retail theft, the smashing grabs.
It's it was always bad, it's never been particularly good.
So now we have everything is on video and we're
seeing all of it. There's even though the smashing grabs
are fairly I mean they're rare, but man, do they
(05:14):
make the news.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It's it's never been so bad that places have been closing.
You've got locations closing, nor instruments up in a Bay area.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Just shut down.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Not shut down because they weren't doing business, shut down
because the theft was so great. They're losing money because
of theft, because of shoplifting as well as employee theft.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean, it's gone out of control.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Case in point, go get a razor at Walmart, have
them unlicked. But by the way, go get some Deoda
rent at Walmart behind the the behind the glass that
has to be opened by a clerk and then it
goes into that plastic box. I've never seen anything like this.
I said, this is crazy, this is nuts. So we're
(06:01):
swinging back and do some and some of the more
liberal liberal senators and assembly people go, oh no, no, no.
We still have to maintain our view of criminals are
really not criminals. I mean a lot of it has
to do also with the courts saying our prisons are
so overcrowded.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I mean, Wow. You know where prisons are not.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Overcrowded Sudan, South Sudan, where there's no such thing as
a misdemeanor. You get picked up for stealing, they just
kill you. It's it's not very expensive. It's the cost
of a bullet. All right, Am I suggesting you move
to Sudan, absolutely, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
All right. I want to do a homeless.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Story, but it's a story I haven't done before, and
it's another the sidebar story of homeless. And this has
to do with students at city colleges, community colleges who
really don't have any place to live. And here is
a stat that I found kind of stunning is out
of CAW Matters, two out of three of the state's
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community college students struggle to meet basic needs food, housing particularly,
and so a lot of them live in their cars.
There was a report from the Community College League of California.
Two out of three of the community college students in
California struggle to meet basic needs. Three out of five
(07:35):
are housing insecure, which means they don't have a place
to live thirty days out of thirty days they just
don't know. Some of the cout couch surf or they
have a place to say, someone puts them up for
a bit.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And to help with this, there have been a whole
bunch of legislative measures tried to create safe parking options.
And everybody's looking at the Long Beach City College because
they have a program and have had one for three years. Okay,
So the most recent attempt to deal with this in
the state was Assembly Bill eighteen eighteen, would have required
(08:12):
community college and the cal State systems to create pilot
programs to provide safe overnight parking for students. The bill
was killed in the Appropriations Committee, which really California, the
Appropriations Committee of the Assembly. And you know why, because
(08:33):
it was too expensive. Appropriations Committee figures out how much
stuff costs. It would cost around five hundred thousand dollars
to establish these programs, an inditional two point twenty five
million in annual costs. Come on, guys, really two million
dollars out of a budget of how many billion. I mean,
(08:56):
I'm the first one to say we're spending too much
money for a lot of stuff, you know, entitlement programs,
But you've got students who don't have a place to live,
they're sleeping in their cars.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And you know what these schools do.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Traditionally they have victim no overnight parking, you're leaving. And
Long Beach City College has had this program for three years.
Well how did they get the money? Well, they funded
it by working with other departments and using existing contracts
and they were robbing Peter to pay Paul. So you
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now have this bill that has support from California Faculty
Association to set up these pilot programs. Students send it
for California community colleges, some districts. How you know who
is opposing it? The state university system. They do not
want students overnight parking.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Wow. Why is that?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Because they have their own programs and they don't want
to be told by the state how many parking space is,
how big the program is going to be. And I'm thinking, really,
come on, because you don't have enough funds, you don't
have enough resources. So starting in twenty twenty one, the
(10:15):
program at Long Beach City College has allowed this allowed
these students to come on campus live on campus. Students
have access to the bathroom in the campus Safety Building,
which is next to this parking lot. They have access
to the locker room showers from six in the morning
(10:38):
to nine in the morning at the stadium right next door.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Now, the numbers are very few and far between.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean, we're talking twenty five students in one program.
As a matter of fact, I think last year Long
Beach City College had twenty four.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Students that used the.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Entire program, and twelve of the twenty four found transitional
or permanent housing. And here is what the premise is
of this. These are not students that are permanently there.
Here's your housing, your car. This is while you are
waiting for housing and you've applied all over the place,
(11:19):
and they're saying no, which I don't get. Cal Poly
Humboldt students received a mass email on October twenty five
of twenty twenty three, saying the city the university is
going to begin enforcing the parking policy that it had
previously overlooked sort.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Of just didn't pay attention to it.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They now would be evicting students who are found sleeping
in their vehicles overnight. Come on, I mean, really, you know,
at some point housing is so expensive. And by the way,
look at the people who go to community college in
many and this was made for these people.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
That is, you have older people.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Who want to reinvent their lives, want to get some
kind of a skill who are and make it many cases,
are poor and are looking to make themselves better and
are willing to work to create a skill set.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And they don't have any money.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
All they have is their car, and you're not going
to let them sleep overnight. And what does it cost
you to let them use the shower at the stadium.
What does it cost to give them some security?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
What does it cost?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It doesn't all right, microplastics And we've been talking about
that and how dangerous and persuas and pervasive and ubiquitous
the microplastics are.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
So this isn't just plastic.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This is and I want to be scientific here, I
want to get this correct. This is the itsy bitsy
tiny little parts of the plastic that we don't see.
Micro plastics that's in the air, It's in the water
we drink, the rain, the snow, the food, the dust
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in our house, the paint on the walls, the cosmetics
that we use, all of it, toothpaste, toothbrush. I mean,
and this is science.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
These are because there's a study that just came out
and was published even in they found in human testicles.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
In a big way.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That is why I said in the promo neo, we're
going to talk about micro plastics found in your scroat.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So it wasn't mine, It was not It was not gratuitous.
Why because you speak of a high voice and you wanted.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
To be a member of the Vienna Boys Choir.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It makes sense when you say micro around your scrow.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, scientists have been studying microplastic for twenty years, and
here's what's going on. Over that twenty years. The exposure,
the amount of microplastic has been growing exponential exponentially. By
twenty forty, they're saying it's gonna double. Okay, that's what
fifteen years from now. The body body of research now
(14:25):
that's just been released links the chemical compounds and that pilates.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
pH what I'm not even gonna go there. How do
you pronounce this? All right? Who's going to pronounce this? pH?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Thh A L A T S Fullates And I don't
think that it's in reference to any sexual Philates Philate.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And best Finels, the Fennels.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I don't know, I'm really good, but it's connected to
hormone disruption, developmental abnormalities, even cancer, and what can we
do about it?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's no real answer. The scientists are just saying it's there,
and it's in your body, and you're going to have
all kinds of adverse effects, and your kids are gonna
have it even worse because they're finding it and a
lot of it in placent In placent Placentia's Placentia's little
town near here where kids are. I think it's placentas right,
(15:38):
this show.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Is not even worth podcasting, recording or broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And avoiding these and you can avoid them maybe a
little bit. For example, the author of this article in
The Atlantic, who actually wrote this and was looking at
the study, was trying to find a way to un
microplastic herself and just looking for a couch.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Really couldn't find one.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
There are some that are less filled with microplastics that
are being emitted, but it's really hard.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Here is something that was looked at. Right.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let's say you're expecting a baby and you want to
buy a plastic free, plastic free baby products.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You know, for example, crib mattresses.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You can get an organic plastic free crib mattress for
thirteen hundred dollars. Okay, Now your regular one made of
polyestro fiber and wrapped in vinyl cost you thirty five dollars.
And the problem is is that it just reduces the
(16:57):
amount of microplastics.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
So I'll tell you what's worse.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And the study found this out that one of the
worst aspects of microplastics in society is worrying about microplastics
in society and the stress that that causes. Because if
you are concerned about what's going in your kid's body,
I never had to worry about that. I couldn't care less.
(17:23):
That's fine. I don't care what you eat, and I
don't care. My kids were breastfed and you know, oh
you can't. I'd be careful about it. What's in the milk? Now?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I don't care. You just you figure it out.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But stress, worrying is stress, and it can't you more
harmful to your health. Maybe the stress and the worrying
about microplastics.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It is in our life. That's it. The fish have it, uh,
the animals, the plants.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I mean, it is now imbued in everything we do.
So I just want to give you a heads up.
And this is not you're going to die, This is
your kids are going to die. Or sure, more importantly,
how about this, Your kids are going to be genetically
won't even be genetic because of microplastic they have a
(18:11):
good chance of being abnormal. And I'm not kidding because
that's going to be more and more of a chance
I can't imagine in the future. You know, the only
job those kids will have is standings for flipper.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That is not nice. Okay, we're done. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
What's going on among baby boomers. Baby boomers like me,
baby boomers who have a lot more money than I do.
And there are resorts now, these wellness resorts. And when
I say wellness resorts, we're not just talking about your
normal spa and the massage and the you sit around
(18:52):
with cucumbers on your eyes and all this cream and
all that.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
No, no, we're talking about yoga.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We're talking about dancing around trees eating bushes for lunch.
You know, the the normal, crazy, well the abnormal crazy
wellness resorts. But those have become big, big news among
boomers and they are going up like crazy, and I
mean by the dozens, and you know where they're going
(19:20):
up in Mexico. In Mexico because property prices in Mexico
are so far less and you can absolutely get a
really good deal. For example, Sudas del Corasson Aberze Resorts Collection,
(19:41):
it's in Punta Demita on is that puta Demita No
Punta Demita point on.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Pacific's the Pacific Coast.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Residency resident villas started four million dollars, okay, okay, So
if you you don't want to spend that much, it's
a little bit less than that at Shaw Mexico near Cancun,
and those residences range from two million up to eight
million dollars. But you get preferential access to the wellness
(20:17):
facilities right next door, and you get quarterly checkups and
they're on staff doctors and the biomarkers to provide health recommendation.
Can't you do that with a just an Apple watch
and get all of that? And those are three hundred bucks. Also,
these live in spas, these resorts are popping up in
(20:40):
ski resorts. I mean a lot of that is resorts
are already there and they're putting up these very high
priced residences around there.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
There is one Velevida or Valevere, a.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Sixty acre Wellness community in Deer Valley Ski Resort in
Park City, and they're building one hundred and fifteen residences
right around there, and those go from only four million
dollars to twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I'm assuming the monthly fee on that one.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
The upkeep is pretty high too, the HOA Association, and
they have spot treatments like reichi.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
What is reiche By the way, I have no idea
what reichy is?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Reiki?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Reichi? What the hell is that? It's this thing that
is very, very painful. It's a form of massage where
they're like manipulating your body and it hurts. So it's
supposed to be good for you.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So do you do you call the person who doesn't
mistress and please hurt me more?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Why would you pay money for that? Because this is
good for you?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Of course it is. You know, a good whipping is
always good for you. But they have acupuncture, which, of
course I know what that is.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Cupping. That's another one that I really enjoy.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
The cupping, right, take a coffee cup and put it
on your back and sucks up the skin.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It's basically body hickeys.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And the reason the why people pay for these things
is amazes me.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You know, I believe in acupuncture. I believe in I
believe pressure. I think has that, I think science bot.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, now the reiki, reiky rake uh you know, rake
your forest floors or whatever the hell they do.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That I don't get. Although I know about rolfing. Yeah,
driving too much, I know.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, that's that's very good. I wish I had thought
of that. Not ralphing, but rolfing. It's a type of
massage where it hurts. Also, by the way, I have
been led before and it hurts like hell, and that's
why I would never do it again. But will you
talk about loosening up?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I will hurt you money time for half the what
they charge you.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
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