August 4, 2025 • 25 mins
(August 04,2025)
Proposed ballot measure could force a citywide vote on L.A. 2028 Olympic venues. A new law spared her from $500 daily HOA fine for an unapproved door. Trump defends firing labor statistics chief after weak jobs report. Dream Paris apartments for sale for bargain prices. The catch? Someone must die.
Proposed ballot measure could force a citywide vote on L.A. 2028 Olympic venues. A new law spared her from $500 daily HOA fine for an unapproved door. Trump defends firing labor statistics chief after weak jobs report. Dream Paris apartments for sale for bargain prices. The catch? Someone must die.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
AM six forty Bill Handle. It is a Monday morning,
August fourth. Now, I have talked many times about unions
and their power in the history of unions having been
priceless in the development of this country and the protection
of workers, to the point where unions became too powerful,
where business then became less.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's gone back and forth.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now, with that being said, I have always sort of
been kind of pro union. My father was a union
electrician for the entire time he was here in the
United States, and we lived a pretty comfortable middle class
life as he worked as a union electrician. Okay, with
that being said, unions sometimes can go berserk, I mean berserk.
(00:57):
Here's one for you and this unite here Local eleven
represents hotel and restaurant workers. They filed paperwork in June
for a ballot measure, putting a ballot measure in place
requiring LA voters to sign off on development or expansion
(01:18):
of major events centers like sports arenas, concert halls, hotels,
convention centers, either permanent or temporary. Now, it's the premise
here is we don't want you to build a hotel
because it really doesn't benefit the city as much as building,
(01:39):
for example, permanent housing. Because union workers aren't getting the
kind of return, they're not making enough money, they're losing wages,
and therefore we have to protect them. And we don't
like what you're doing City Hall in allowing the development
of a hotel, for example, that otherwise that land could
(01:59):
be used us otherwise to help people. Okay, with that
being said, if this thing passes, the major event centers,
we're talking about five major event centers that are going
to be built or currently being used for the Olympics
coming up in twenty twenty eight, and they are saying
(02:23):
we're going to put on the ballot whether or not
they can even be used, and then try to convince
voters somehow that the city Council doesn't know what it's
doing and it's hurting the people of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
In terms of what is going on.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
This has to do really with a thirty dollars an
hour wage, that's what it's about. And they're saying that
these temporary venues don't do much for us.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We want permanent venues. We want ignore the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Let's get serious about helping angelas well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Who's sweating bullets on this one city council. The people
who are running the twenty twenty eight Olympics. Because they're
already having all kinds of problems with for example, buses.
They don't know where they're going to get the buses
to move people around. Also sponsorships, they're not getting the
sponsorships that came to the table before. I mean, right
(03:26):
now it's sort of up in the air, and the
city gets to pay the first two hundred and seventy
million dollars of any losses, for example, if it.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Runs in the red.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So it's really important for the city to have a
successful Olympics because this is La City, twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yep. Great fun.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now here is where a lot of this stuff makes
absolutely no sense. United Here spokesperson Maria Hernandez was asked
about this, and she said this only applies to Olympic
venues that reach a certain size, not below a certain size.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
When asked, Okay, what.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Size are we talking about, We don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now you've got.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Cities like Long Beach, Carson, Englewood, Anaheim, Elmonty who are
also places where these venues take place, those are exempted.
It's only the city of Los Angeles where this would happen,
which of course is hugely embarrassing. If certain well certain attractions,
if you will, would not be allowed, and that's the problem.
(04:41):
This proposal could very well stop venues for example, on
bicycle you know, the bicycle racing, the marathon could be
on hold, the Supulvita.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Basin where they're doing skateboarding.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That could anything can and be stopped from being constructed there.
Bleachers for example, Oh no, no, we can't build bleachers.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I mean, I just don't get this now. The only good.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
News is this is so crazy, This is so stupid
that even if it goes onto the ballot, nobody in
their right mind in Los Angeles would say, we're not
going to have those venues built or those venues expanded,
because we can use that money or that area for
better services for the homeless, for other services of school programs.
(05:33):
I don't get any of this. Life is going to
hell in a handbak. I've already said that, haven't I.
This is life is going to hell in a handbasket morning,
you know what, That's what we're going to do. Start Monday.
That's it, Monday mornings. You know, we know we have
Taco Tuesday. We know we have foody Friday. We know
we have Humpday Wednesday. We were thinking of what we're
going to do Monday and what we're going to do Thursday, Melons.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Melancholy, Mondays.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now we have any really that hasn't really been put
to bed, so we really haven't decided like the other
three which are now in stone, I like the idea
of life is going to hell in a handbasket Monday,
where we start the week depressing everybody, and by the
time Friday comes, it's suicide Friday. I got to think
(06:20):
about how we're going to do this show, and you
and I are going to have a really good love
conversation about.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You do not talk together on Mondays. She's bad off
as it is, don't make it worse.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
All right, some new change is big change in the
world of HOA Homeowner Associations, and I get so many
questions over the weekend unhandled on the law, on hoa's bill.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I've been screwed by my HOA. What do I do?
Can I as sue them?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What's it's a nightmare so there's a new law that
is changing the way hoa's are allowed to discipline homeowners
to Effectuly one here in California, and there's a quick
story about one homeowner find one hundred or five hundred
dollars per day because she renovated a doorway inside her house.
(07:11):
And the only reason she got nailed is because one
of the board members peaked through her garage sort of
noticed it and immediately reported it. And the CCNRS allows
any renovation, which it can do by the way CCNRS
can be written pretty broadly.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And so the.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
HOA nailed her, and she told him to go to
hell one hundred dollars a day, up to five hundred
dollars a day, thirty five hundred dollars per week until
she changed her doorway back. I mean it got that bad.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
July first Assembly Bill one thirty was signed into law,
and all of a sudden, it's one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's it. It's one hundred dollars. She said. It's a
game changer.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
For years, HOA has been able to bend entire communities
to their will on a whim.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's true they've stopped that. Two sides to this coin though.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh man, this is one of those where both sides,
the HOA versus the homeowner, both sides are absolutely right,
both sides are absolutely wrong. How does that work? What
is that going on? Well, first of all, this was
AB one thirty that changed how easing California Environmental Quality
(08:34):
Act is going to expedize housing.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And that's sort of with the point of it all, but.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Slipped in there is the way hoa's can discipline homeowners
disciplining Why, well, you have the wrong color in your house.
Everybody else has sort of a salmon colored house or white,
and all of a sudden you're neon Green. Well they
tell you, you know, you can't do that, and we'd
find you. Now it's one hundred dollars. Fine, that's it.
(09:00):
One time you pay one hundred dollars, you have your
neon greenhouse. Let's say you want to put up a
twenty foot spider skeleton for Halloween in front of your
house all year long.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Neil does that all the time. Is that a problem?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No, of course not. Hoa's would say you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
We had two twenty four inch high skulls in our
front yard all year round.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
No, HOA fees, no HOA live. There was defund the HOA. Yeah, HOA.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You look at the stats of hoa's, I mean, how
many there are in California.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's stunning, more than fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
The most homes within Hoa's almost five million, a million
more than Florida. Nearly two thirds of homeowners live in
HOA communities.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You don't, I do. And so it goes both ways.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You've got an HOA that it runs a muck and
can virtually do anything at once. And if you do
it wrong, say the wrong color, you don't go in
front of the architectural committee. For example, when I built
a Persian palace, I painted the house and I did
I put on a roof before going to the architectural committee.
Now it turned out that it's the same as everybody else.
(10:21):
Of course they would have said yes, and I think
they backdated and did say yes. But you know what
they had the power to do, take down that roof,
take it down and then submit the plan to us.
And of course they had to say yes because it
was in compliance with the rest of the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But they had the power to do that. Now they don't.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Now the HOA doesn't have that kind of crazy ass power.
On the other hand, homeowners can do whatever the hell
they want. Which way do you go on that, Well,
you need a reasonable homeowner and you need a reasonable HOA.
I put in solar in my house and we went
to the I'm a big fan of paying attention to
(11:08):
HOA because I've seen the horror stories so when you
get on the wrong side of them. So before we
installed solar, we went to the board. The president of
the board who runs our HOA, I mean, she does
a brilliant job, and we said do we apply. She goes, nah,
I just do it. No one's gonna say no, come on,
putting solar. Half the roofs half solar. Now, if I
(11:30):
had an HOA that was crazy i installed it, they
could have very well say take it down. You didn't
get our permission. I mean, it's that crazy. So now
it's one hundred dollars. Fine, Well, how about this.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You can't do an Airbnb.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You can't take a piece of property within an HOA
and make it short term rentals. Virtually every every HOA
that I know of has that. You can't start Airbnb,
at least new ones. You can't start airb be in
your neighborhood. Well, guess what.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Now, you pay a hundred bucks fine and you can
rent it out all day long.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The answer reasonable homeowner, reasonable HOA. So now I'll ask
you this, what are the chances of a reasonable homeowner
and a reasonable HOA living side by side in perfect harbon.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
E Cono and I are gonna buy a place next
door to you now, and we're gonna rent it and
we're gonna paint it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Purple and throw parties every night.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We're gonna make a mint. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I promised myself I wouldn't I would stay somewhat away
from the Trump situation, and on this one I really can't.
And this has to do last week with the firing
of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Commissioner
Erica mcintarch.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I think is a way of pronounce it.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And that's because the Bureau came out with numbers that
are not very good. The number of jobs or have
decreased far more than what is expected, and that doesn't
do well for the administration or on our economy, and
so Trump fires her. And here's the problem, because this
(13:28):
is supposed to be the new Golden age of economics,
and those numbers don't vode well. And what it shows
is the ever growing power of President Trump. Now this
could backfire because you've got the trust of investors, companies,
organizations that depend on the statistics that the Bureau of
(13:52):
Labor Statistics gives out. A matter of fact, even the
FED uses it to decide monetary policy. And when countries
don't firewall that. In other words, you've had an independent bureau.
I mean, even though it's part of the executive branch.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
What you have.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, look what happened Argentina or Greece where they came
up with rosy statistics which masked the economic problem they had.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
They had to file for bankruptcy. The whole country basically
went under.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Or China with their invention of fantastical numbers that we
couldn't be doing better. Now, the president does believe, and
this is fair, that he is immune from consequences and
he has well total control, and if you look at
what's going on, he is not wrong. He totally dominates Congress.
(14:46):
They do whatever he wants them to do. Mike Johnson
admitted that he's testing constitutional limits of what a president
can and cannot do. Where has he been successful top
U universities and posting his ideology one and the top
universities are caving. I've never seen a presidency say to
(15:08):
universities you either do this or don't do this, or
your federal funding is gone.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And they're caving.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The media has been attacked like crazy because it's the
fake news.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Purge of government scientists.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
If you look at the scientists, if you look at
those who believe in climate change, if you look at
the scientists that the medical scientists that were on that
committee advising the CDCs to vaccinations, every one of them fired,
just totally cleaned out.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It just keeps on coming. And what's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It's the attack on the credibility of government data that
doesn't go his way. And there is some stuff going
on in the economy. I mean, it's wavering at this point.
Prices are going up. No, not that doesn't go up anyway.
And by the way, not that Trump is wrong about
the tariffs. The issue is can he arbitrarily just wake
(16:07):
up on Monday morning and issue massive tariffs across the board,
in which Congress normally does it. Well, if you ask
Mike Johnson, Congress has no business getting in the way
with the president wants, and as he said, it is
our job to make sure he gets what he wants.
That is what Congress is here for, is to back
(16:30):
him up. So a former commissioner for the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, a guy named William Beach, said, the BLS
is the finest statistical agency in the entire world, and
the numbers are trusted all over the world.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Now do the numbers change?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
This is one of the complaints that Donald Trump has,
and that is the numbers. Certain numbers were given and
then they go back and then they go, okay, we're
changing the numbers, which happens all the time because they
look at many different kinds of statistics. They come in
at different times and it can change from one to another.
(17:08):
You know, for example, our economy is going up at
two point three percent per year, and then they rework
the numbers and a month later it's actually two point
two percent or two point four percent. That's simply the
way it works. The problem is, in this case, if
the numbers aren't going the right way, big issues. People
(17:28):
get fired, and that's what happened with the Chief of
the Bureau and then senior aides went on the Sunday
shows to make a case for the firing of the
head of a BLS. And here's when Kevin has said,
the director of the White House Economic Council quote, the
President wants his own people there so that when we
(17:51):
see the numbers, they're more transparent and more reliable. When
we tell you the numbers, that's transparency. I mean, what's
up is down. US Trade Representative Jamison Greer said, if
you want to be able to have somewhat reliable numbers,
there are always revisions, but sometimes you see these revisions
(18:14):
go in extreme ways. The president is the president. He
can choose who works in the executive branch. There's no
such thing as independence.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It is crazy. But let me tell how big a
deal this is.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You know, usually those people that are against Trump will say, Okay,
it's over in for three and a half years and
then we're going to go back to normalcy, or then
we're going to go back to the other side, or
then we may go back to idiocy if you are
a Mauga supporter.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Is that Trump's these economic programs are going to gather
their own momentum and infect confidence in government stats.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's going to outlive his presidency.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Why well, because these as governments, markets, our government programs.
Companies all over the world rely on these stats that
the Bureau of Labor Statistics gives out. And if now
they are questioned and they're said, this is fake news,
(19:21):
when they go the other way, it can go fake
news either way, because right now the President is telling
us at this moment, these stats that came out on Friday,
this is fake news. I had to fire the person
that was responsible. So now let's go the other way
when the numbers are good. What's to stop Marcus from
(19:42):
saying that's fake news too, that no matter which way
you go, it's fake news. And we can't get reliable
numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
This is no joke.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I mean, this is an ag you see that is
critical to our economy. So you know, uh, all right,
we're done with that. Monday. Your life is falling apart Mondays.
That's another thing that I want to tie away. We
(20:20):
have to we have to figure out a way talking
about Monday suicide. Monday, Uh, your miserable Monday life is
a loser Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Haven't decided which way we're going to go on that.
I like miserable Monday.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I'm sorry, miserable Monday. It does you know what, miserable Monday.
I think we may go that way. I think we
may go that way.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Sounds different when Amy says it. No, it's miserable Monday. Hey, uh,
all right.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I want to tell you a story about what's going
on in France.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
God, I love what's going on in France.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
There is something called via je uh and it's basically
the same thing as life estates here in the United
States and.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
In uh VJA.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Elderly homeowners seventies eighty nineties sell their properties a huge discounts,
sometimes for half the market value, and they get a
monthly payment from the buyer and they get to live
in the house for the rest of their lives and
when they die then the property goes to the buyer
and everybody is happy. Theoretically, it is a gamble or
(21:24):
sure particularly on the buyer's side. It's part real estate,
part roulette. When property listings are done. By the way
in this VJA business, the buyer's the seller's age is
part of the listing because you have to know, and
the older the seller, the more expensive it's going to
be because the.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Buyer is going to get in there earlier.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So in France, the seventy year old man has a
life expectancy of around sixteen years, so he's got sixteen
years to go, so.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
The discount is fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Women live about five years old longer, so seventy five
years of age would be about the same discount. There
is a great story. This is why this came up.
Alain Josselyne bought this Evett Brissett's family home in nineteen
ninety five and she's been around too long for him.
(22:19):
He's been paying her five hundred euros a month. We're
now at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on top
of the purchase some and so she ended up dying.
And when she died they looked at him because no
one knew him before his before her death the nursing home.
She was a nursing home at the time, and claimed
(22:42):
that Justlyne locked the door behind him when he entered
the room. And after that they found Madame Badissett with
madeline crumbs all.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Over her body.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
She had choked on a made line, and there were
the crumbs all over her body. He got convicted of
death by Madleen. Now Americans are doing this too, They're buying.
So for example, if you want a pied a terre
in Paris, this could be what.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You de tay. Yeah, that's at a little apartment. Yeah,
like I should fast place. Yeah yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, if you're willing to play the long game, you
may do it.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And Americans are doing this like crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Look at the prices of this stuff in good neighborhoods
Saint Germaine, for example, an apartment sells for an average
of one point seven million dollars. One hundred square feet
nine hundred square feet for one point seven million dollars.
That's about fourteen hundred dollars per square foot. That is insanity.
(23:52):
And if you talk about another place that is right
around the corner from there, Limo, which is also a
huge place where people love to go, those prices go
from one hundred and one thousand, seven hundred dollars to
two thousand dollars per square foot. So you can see
(24:15):
why this is growing. This viage is growing.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Now. The most fun story of the Vija.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The reason this story came up because the guy just
got convicted for the Madeleine death. Probably the most famous
case Jeung Jean Galment.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
She's the world's longest living person.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
She signed Vija contract at the age of ninety, So
how long is she gonna last? Right? How about another
thirty two years? She died at one twenty two. The
buyer died, then the son of the buyer died, then
(24:55):
his son. Finally, third generation was able to get it,
and she ended up with a zillion dollars and she
was there until her death.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
There's Roulette for you.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Jeanne Coleman one hundred and twenty two years of age. Boy,
that makes the Guinness World Record holder, doesn't it all?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Right? You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Catch My Show Monday through Friday six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
AM six forty Bill Handle. It is a Monday morning,
August fourth. Now, I have talked many times about unions
and their power in the history of unions having been
priceless in the development of this country and the protection
of workers, to the point where unions became too powerful,
where business then became less.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's gone back and forth.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now, with that being said, I have always sort of
been kind of pro union. My father was a union
electrician for the entire time he was here in the
United States, and we lived a pretty comfortable middle class
life as he worked as a union electrician. Okay, with
that being said, unions sometimes can go berserk, I mean berserk.
(00:57):
Here's one for you and this unite here Local eleven
represents hotel and restaurant workers. They filed paperwork in June
for a ballot measure, putting a ballot measure in place
requiring LA voters to sign off on development or expansion
(01:18):
of major events centers like sports arenas, concert halls, hotels,
convention centers, either permanent or temporary. Now, it's the premise
here is we don't want you to build a hotel
because it really doesn't benefit the city as much as building,
(01:39):
for example, permanent housing. Because union workers aren't getting the
kind of return, they're not making enough money, they're losing wages,
and therefore we have to protect them. And we don't
like what you're doing City Hall in allowing the development
of a hotel, for example, that otherwise that land could
(01:59):
be used us otherwise to help people. Okay, with that
being said, if this thing passes, the major event centers,
we're talking about five major event centers that are going
to be built or currently being used for the Olympics
coming up in twenty twenty eight, and they are saying
(02:23):
we're going to put on the ballot whether or not
they can even be used, and then try to convince
voters somehow that the city Council doesn't know what it's
doing and it's hurting the people of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
In terms of what is going on.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
This has to do really with a thirty dollars an
hour wage, that's what it's about. And they're saying that
these temporary venues don't do much for us.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We want permanent venues. We want ignore the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Let's get serious about helping angelas well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Who's sweating bullets on this one city council. The people
who are running the twenty twenty eight Olympics. Because they're
already having all kinds of problems with for example, buses.
They don't know where they're going to get the buses
to move people around. Also sponsorships, they're not getting the
sponsorships that came to the table before. I mean, right
(03:26):
now it's sort of up in the air, and the
city gets to pay the first two hundred and seventy
million dollars of any losses, for example, if it.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Runs in the red.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So it's really important for the city to have a
successful Olympics because this is La City, twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yep. Great fun.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now here is where a lot of this stuff makes
absolutely no sense. United Here spokesperson Maria Hernandez was asked
about this, and she said this only applies to Olympic
venues that reach a certain size, not below a certain size.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
When asked, Okay, what.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Size are we talking about, We don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now you've got.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Cities like Long Beach, Carson, Englewood, Anaheim, Elmonty who are
also places where these venues take place, those are exempted.
It's only the city of Los Angeles where this would happen,
which of course is hugely embarrassing. If certain well certain attractions,
if you will, would not be allowed, and that's the problem.
(04:41):
This proposal could very well stop venues for example, on
bicycle you know, the bicycle racing, the marathon could be
on hold, the Supulvita.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Basin where they're doing skateboarding.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That could anything can and be stopped from being constructed there.
Bleachers for example, Oh no, no, we can't build bleachers.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I mean, I just don't get this now. The only good.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
News is this is so crazy, This is so stupid
that even if it goes onto the ballot, nobody in
their right mind in Los Angeles would say, we're not
going to have those venues built or those venues expanded,
because we can use that money or that area for
better services for the homeless, for other services of school programs.
(05:33):
I don't get any of this. Life is going to
hell in a handbak. I've already said that, haven't I.
This is life is going to hell in a handbasket morning,
you know what, That's what we're going to do. Start Monday.
That's it, Monday mornings. You know, we know we have
Taco Tuesday. We know we have foody Friday. We know
we have Humpday Wednesday. We were thinking of what we're
going to do Monday and what we're going to do Thursday, Melons.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Melancholy, Mondays.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now we have any really that hasn't really been put
to bed, so we really haven't decided like the other
three which are now in stone, I like the idea
of life is going to hell in a handbasket Monday,
where we start the week depressing everybody, and by the
time Friday comes, it's suicide Friday. I got to think
(06:20):
about how we're going to do this show, and you
and I are going to have a really good love
conversation about.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You do not talk together on Mondays. She's bad off
as it is, don't make it worse.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
All right, some new change is big change in the
world of HOA Homeowner Associations, and I get so many
questions over the weekend unhandled on the law, on hoa's bill.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I've been screwed by my HOA. What do I do?
Can I as sue them?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What's it's a nightmare so there's a new law that
is changing the way hoa's are allowed to discipline homeowners
to Effectuly one here in California, and there's a quick
story about one homeowner find one hundred or five hundred
dollars per day because she renovated a doorway inside her house.
(07:11):
And the only reason she got nailed is because one
of the board members peaked through her garage sort of
noticed it and immediately reported it. And the CCNRS allows
any renovation, which it can do by the way CCNRS
can be written pretty broadly.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And so the.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
HOA nailed her, and she told him to go to
hell one hundred dollars a day, up to five hundred
dollars a day, thirty five hundred dollars per week until
she changed her doorway back. I mean it got that bad.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
July first Assembly Bill one thirty was signed into law,
and all of a sudden, it's one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's it. It's one hundred dollars. She said. It's a
game changer.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
For years, HOA has been able to bend entire communities
to their will on a whim.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's true they've stopped that. Two sides to this coin though.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh man, this is one of those where both sides,
the HOA versus the homeowner, both sides are absolutely right,
both sides are absolutely wrong. How does that work? What
is that going on? Well, first of all, this was
AB one thirty that changed how easing California Environmental Quality
(08:34):
Act is going to expedize housing.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And that's sort of with the point of it all, but.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Slipped in there is the way hoa's can discipline homeowners
disciplining Why, well, you have the wrong color in your house.
Everybody else has sort of a salmon colored house or white,
and all of a sudden you're neon Green. Well they
tell you, you know, you can't do that, and we'd
find you. Now it's one hundred dollars. Fine, that's it.
(09:00):
One time you pay one hundred dollars, you have your
neon greenhouse. Let's say you want to put up a
twenty foot spider skeleton for Halloween in front of your
house all year long.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Neil does that all the time. Is that a problem?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No, of course not. Hoa's would say you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
We had two twenty four inch high skulls in our
front yard all year round.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
No, HOA fees, no HOA live. There was defund the HOA. Yeah, HOA.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You look at the stats of hoa's, I mean, how
many there are in California.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's stunning, more than fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
The most homes within Hoa's almost five million, a million
more than Florida. Nearly two thirds of homeowners live in
HOA communities.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You don't, I do. And so it goes both ways.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You've got an HOA that it runs a muck and
can virtually do anything at once. And if you do
it wrong, say the wrong color, you don't go in
front of the architectural committee. For example, when I built
a Persian palace, I painted the house and I did
I put on a roof before going to the architectural committee.
Now it turned out that it's the same as everybody else.
(10:21):
Of course they would have said yes, and I think
they backdated and did say yes. But you know what
they had the power to do, take down that roof,
take it down and then submit the plan to us.
And of course they had to say yes because it
was in compliance with the rest of the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But they had the power to do that. Now they don't.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Now the HOA doesn't have that kind of crazy ass power.
On the other hand, homeowners can do whatever the hell
they want. Which way do you go on that, Well,
you need a reasonable homeowner and you need a reasonable HOA.
I put in solar in my house and we went
to the I'm a big fan of paying attention to
(11:08):
HOA because I've seen the horror stories so when you
get on the wrong side of them. So before we
installed solar, we went to the board. The president of
the board who runs our HOA, I mean, she does
a brilliant job, and we said do we apply. She goes, nah,
I just do it. No one's gonna say no, come on,
putting solar. Half the roofs half solar. Now, if I
(11:30):
had an HOA that was crazy i installed it, they
could have very well say take it down. You didn't
get our permission. I mean, it's that crazy. So now
it's one hundred dollars. Fine, Well, how about this.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You can't do an Airbnb.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You can't take a piece of property within an HOA
and make it short term rentals. Virtually every every HOA
that I know of has that. You can't start Airbnb,
at least new ones. You can't start airb be in
your neighborhood. Well, guess what.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Now, you pay a hundred bucks fine and you can
rent it out all day long.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The answer reasonable homeowner, reasonable HOA. So now I'll ask
you this, what are the chances of a reasonable homeowner
and a reasonable HOA living side by side in perfect harbon.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
E Cono and I are gonna buy a place next
door to you now, and we're gonna rent it and
we're gonna paint it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Purple and throw parties every night.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We're gonna make a mint. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I promised myself I wouldn't I would stay somewhat away
from the Trump situation, and on this one I really can't.
And this has to do last week with the firing
of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Commissioner
Erica mcintarch.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I think is a way of pronounce it.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And that's because the Bureau came out with numbers that
are not very good. The number of jobs or have
decreased far more than what is expected, and that doesn't
do well for the administration or on our economy, and
so Trump fires her. And here's the problem, because this
(13:28):
is supposed to be the new Golden age of economics,
and those numbers don't vode well. And what it shows
is the ever growing power of President Trump. Now this
could backfire because you've got the trust of investors, companies,
organizations that depend on the statistics that the Bureau of
(13:52):
Labor Statistics gives out. A matter of fact, even the
FED uses it to decide monetary policy. And when countries
don't firewall that. In other words, you've had an independent bureau.
I mean, even though it's part of the executive branch.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
What you have.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, look what happened Argentina or Greece where they came
up with rosy statistics which masked the economic problem they had.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
They had to file for bankruptcy. The whole country basically
went under.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Or China with their invention of fantastical numbers that we
couldn't be doing better. Now, the president does believe, and
this is fair, that he is immune from consequences and
he has well total control, and if you look at
what's going on, he is not wrong. He totally dominates Congress.
(14:46):
They do whatever he wants them to do. Mike Johnson
admitted that he's testing constitutional limits of what a president
can and cannot do. Where has he been successful top
U universities and posting his ideology one and the top
universities are caving. I've never seen a presidency say to
(15:08):
universities you either do this or don't do this, or
your federal funding is gone.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And they're caving.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The media has been attacked like crazy because it's the
fake news.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Purge of government scientists.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
If you look at the scientists, if you look at
those who believe in climate change, if you look at
the scientists that the medical scientists that were on that
committee advising the CDCs to vaccinations, every one of them fired,
just totally cleaned out.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It just keeps on coming. And what's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It's the attack on the credibility of government data that
doesn't go his way. And there is some stuff going
on in the economy. I mean, it's wavering at this point.
Prices are going up. No, not that doesn't go up anyway.
And by the way, not that Trump is wrong about
the tariffs. The issue is can he arbitrarily just wake
(16:07):
up on Monday morning and issue massive tariffs across the board,
in which Congress normally does it. Well, if you ask
Mike Johnson, Congress has no business getting in the way
with the president wants, and as he said, it is
our job to make sure he gets what he wants.
That is what Congress is here for, is to back
(16:30):
him up. So a former commissioner for the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, a guy named William Beach, said, the BLS
is the finest statistical agency in the entire world, and
the numbers are trusted all over the world.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Now do the numbers change?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
This is one of the complaints that Donald Trump has,
and that is the numbers. Certain numbers were given and
then they go back and then they go, okay, we're
changing the numbers, which happens all the time because they
look at many different kinds of statistics. They come in
at different times and it can change from one to another.
(17:08):
You know, for example, our economy is going up at
two point three percent per year, and then they rework
the numbers and a month later it's actually two point
two percent or two point four percent. That's simply the
way it works. The problem is, in this case, if
the numbers aren't going the right way, big issues. People
(17:28):
get fired, and that's what happened with the Chief of
the Bureau and then senior aides went on the Sunday
shows to make a case for the firing of the
head of a BLS. And here's when Kevin has said,
the director of the White House Economic Council quote, the
President wants his own people there so that when we
(17:51):
see the numbers, they're more transparent and more reliable. When
we tell you the numbers, that's transparency. I mean, what's
up is down. US Trade Representative Jamison Greer said, if
you want to be able to have somewhat reliable numbers,
there are always revisions, but sometimes you see these revisions
(18:14):
go in extreme ways. The president is the president. He
can choose who works in the executive branch. There's no
such thing as independence.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It is crazy. But let me tell how big a
deal this is.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You know, usually those people that are against Trump will say, Okay,
it's over in for three and a half years and
then we're going to go back to normalcy, or then
we're going to go back to the other side, or
then we may go back to idiocy if you are
a Mauga supporter.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Is that Trump's these economic programs are going to gather
their own momentum and infect confidence in government stats.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's going to outlive his presidency.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Why well, because these as governments, markets, our government programs.
Companies all over the world rely on these stats that
the Bureau of Labor Statistics gives out. And if now
they are questioned and they're said, this is fake news,
(19:21):
when they go the other way, it can go fake
news either way, because right now the President is telling
us at this moment, these stats that came out on Friday,
this is fake news. I had to fire the person
that was responsible. So now let's go the other way
when the numbers are good. What's to stop Marcus from
(19:42):
saying that's fake news too, that no matter which way
you go, it's fake news. And we can't get reliable
numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
This is no joke.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I mean, this is an ag you see that is
critical to our economy. So you know, uh, all right,
we're done with that. Monday. Your life is falling apart Mondays.
That's another thing that I want to tie away. We
(20:20):
have to we have to figure out a way talking
about Monday suicide. Monday, Uh, your miserable Monday life is
a loser Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Haven't decided which way we're going to go on that.
I like miserable Monday.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I'm sorry, miserable Monday. It does you know what, miserable Monday.
I think we may go that way. I think we
may go that way.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Sounds different when Amy says it. No, it's miserable Monday. Hey, uh,
all right.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I want to tell you a story about what's going
on in France.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
God, I love what's going on in France.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
There is something called via je uh and it's basically
the same thing as life estates here in the United
States and.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
In uh VJA.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Elderly homeowners seventies eighty nineties sell their properties a huge discounts,
sometimes for half the market value, and they get a
monthly payment from the buyer and they get to live
in the house for the rest of their lives and
when they die then the property goes to the buyer
and everybody is happy. Theoretically, it is a gamble or
(21:24):
sure particularly on the buyer's side. It's part real estate,
part roulette. When property listings are done. By the way
in this VJA business, the buyer's the seller's age is
part of the listing because you have to know, and
the older the seller, the more expensive it's going to
be because the.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Buyer is going to get in there earlier.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So in France, the seventy year old man has a
life expectancy of around sixteen years, so he's got sixteen
years to go, so.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
The discount is fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Women live about five years old longer, so seventy five
years of age would be about the same discount. There
is a great story. This is why this came up.
Alain Josselyne bought this Evett Brissett's family home in nineteen
ninety five and she's been around too long for him.
(22:19):
He's been paying her five hundred euros a month. We're
now at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on top
of the purchase some and so she ended up dying.
And when she died they looked at him because no
one knew him before his before her death the nursing home.
She was a nursing home at the time, and claimed
(22:42):
that Justlyne locked the door behind him when he entered
the room. And after that they found Madame Badissett with
madeline crumbs all.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Over her body.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
She had choked on a made line, and there were
the crumbs all over her body. He got convicted of
death by Madleen. Now Americans are doing this too, They're buying.
So for example, if you want a pied a terre
in Paris, this could be what.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You de tay. Yeah, that's at a little apartment. Yeah,
like I should fast place. Yeah yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, if you're willing to play the long game, you
may do it.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And Americans are doing this like crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Look at the prices of this stuff in good neighborhoods
Saint Germaine, for example, an apartment sells for an average
of one point seven million dollars. One hundred square feet
nine hundred square feet for one point seven million dollars.
That's about fourteen hundred dollars per square foot. That is insanity.
(23:52):
And if you talk about another place that is right
around the corner from there, Limo, which is also a
huge place where people love to go, those prices go
from one hundred and one thousand, seven hundred dollars to
two thousand dollars per square foot. So you can see
(24:15):
why this is growing. This viage is growing.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Now. The most fun story of the Vija.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The reason this story came up because the guy just
got convicted for the Madeleine death. Probably the most famous
case Jeung Jean Galment.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
She's the world's longest living person.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
She signed Vija contract at the age of ninety, So
how long is she gonna last? Right? How about another
thirty two years? She died at one twenty two. The
buyer died, then the son of the buyer died, then
(24:55):
his son. Finally, third generation was able to get it,
and she ended up with a zillion dollars and she
was there until her death.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
There's Roulette for you.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Jeanne Coleman one hundred and twenty two years of age. Boy,
that makes the Guinness World Record holder, doesn't it all?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Right? You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Catch My Show Monday through Friday six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
The Bill Handel Show News
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!