November 20, 2025 • 23 mins
(November 20, 2025)
Mexico is now the United States’ top buyer. Investigation finds California isn’t strongly pushing DUI’s as alcohol related deaths increase. Trump administration made the citizenship test harder… what if every American had to take it? Most Americans say raising children is unaffordable.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
That is SOFI am six forty Bill Handle here. Good
morning everybody. You betcha. It is a Thursday morning, November twentieth.
Neil is going to be out this weekend at the
Wendy's in I think Mission via Ho.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I just write that down someplace.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Two three zero two two Alicia Parkway in Mission via Ho.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Come on out. We'll be there from two to five.
We'll have a good time. Hens. I'll be there. I'll
be there. Come out. Scream at me.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yo politics and call me a left wing radical hoaster,
or you can go the other way and call me
a super conservative fundamentalist. Either way, and I have both,
and I'm assuming Neil. Now, Neil doesn't do a lot
of politics.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You think I'm both all the time? Something fair enough,
I'm liberal? Someone think some conservative?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Both wrong right, no left.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Let's talk about something that we just discovered or just
came out. According to data from the US, Mexico is
now the world's top buyer of US goods, not China,
not Canada, which for years has been Mexico.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And there are a few reasons for that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Some of the reasons make a lot of sense, and
some of the reasons are politically.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Insane, I will even say stupid.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So even despite periodic political tensions, you know, between Mexico
and the US, we're still very entwined with Mexico and
the global trade. The entire entire pattern of global trade
has shifted in literally a couple of years. And so
number one is now Mexico. China used to be number one,
(02:05):
but now China is number two. This was released by
the US Commerce Department, and it showed how the President's
global tariffs really took a toll on overall trade in August.
Why because the tariffs about from about ninety countries went
(02:25):
into effect.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Okay, so why is Canada dropping.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And why is Mexico increasing its trade with the US. Well,
let's start with the tariffs on exports, both in China
and in Canada. The President has nailed Canada with tariffs.
And why is that? Well, do you remember the commercial
(02:53):
that Ontario did ripping into President Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Okay, I'll show you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You don't make commercials against me, you don't attack me personally.
Here's some tariffs you can deal with Mexico. Shine bomb
the president of Mexico. Well, let's put it this way.
You hear Shine Bob when she talks, she talks like
this and you can't really listen to what she says.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Because her head is so far up Trump's.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But that we're gonna make damn sure that Mexico is exempt. Also,
there are issues in terms of tariffs in general that
even low tariffs I have caused prices to go up.
Especially food prices have gone up dramatically, and food comes
(03:47):
from Mexico in a major way. And the prices for
food has exploded, probably more so than other products, more
so than cars. Housing probably has gone up more. But
that's very long term. So the President has now exempted
many many food stuff of which Mexico produces. And so
(04:12):
the tariffs have really helped Mexico. Not the tariffs against Mexico,
the tariffs against everyone else. So why is Mexico such
a big player and has become number one? Okay, let's
talk about logistics. It's right next to the United States.
It has a decent infrastructure, labor costs are a fraction
(04:36):
of what they are, and there's a skilled workforce that
is being created. So what are the leading exports to
the US cars. These are mainly US and European countries.
The cars are assembled in Mexico. Machinery, electronics, medical devices,
and what's indigenous to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And this is a bit one.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Fruits and vegetables have become a huge, huge part. For example, avocados.
We don't grow many avocados here, certainly not enough to
fulfill our need, our love of guacamole, for example, so
(05:20):
we import those from Mexico. Well, if you have a
major tariff, they get really expensive. If they have, the
prices of avocados go through the roof, which how much
is an avocado? Now the price of avocados has gone
absolutely crazy. I remember they used to be three for
two dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Now what are they are?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Twelve eighteen dollars a piece, twenty seven dollars a piece.
I mean, you go to Mexican restaurant and guacamole is
I'll take one order of guacamole. Yeah, that's sixty dollars.
It's pretty expensive. So what happens now we have reasons
prices and just that that's just one, just one example,
(06:04):
and when you look at examples of other food stuffs.
The President is exempted about one hundred different food stuffs
in terms of tariffs.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So Mexico has become the.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Biggest player and it's over three hundred and sixty billion dollars. Also,
the US is purchased from the Mexo's purchase from the
US meat and cereals like corn, both for animals and
human fuel, and it just helped Mexico increase its economy.
(06:42):
So those are the reasons, and a lot of them
just personal, just the president like Brazil. It's straight personal,
has nothing to do with the balance of trade. As
a matter of fact, we sell more to Brazil than
we buy. It's a positive balance of te Why you
need tariffs, Well, because Trump loves Bolsonario boll scenario, the
(07:06):
previous very right wing Trump ally who was president of Mexico.
Our president has actually interfered in the foreign affairs or
in the internal affairs of Brazil, saying drop the case
against Bolsonnaro, drop the case. Why why an outsider telling
(07:32):
us internally what we're gonna do. Well, I'm also going
to hit you with a fifty percent terraff from what
we buy from Brazil. Okay, California has always been at
the forefront of dealing with the UIs. I mean, that's
the reputation we had had noticed I use that word.
I was kind of shocked that this story came out.
(07:56):
For example, there was a thirteen year old kid here
in southern California on his way to school was hit
by a hit and run driver and was killed, and
the driver was booked for fell any DUI fell any
hit and run and murder.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, that is really rare.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Why because it's how the state handles the UI. Now,
we were the birthplace of the modern movement against trunk
driving in the nineteen eighties, but over the past decade
roadway deaths, alcohol related roadway deaths have shot up more
than fifty percent, that's for starters, which is more than
(08:40):
twice as much as the rest of the country, and
the penalties have dropped. Cal Matters looked at manslaughter and
homicide rates from twenty nineteen through twenty twenty four and
a bunch of other states laws about intoxicated driving, etc.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And what the.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Records show about California is way too often we fail.
California fails to differentiate between drivers who made quote a
dangerous mistake, but learn.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
From it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
From those who refuse to stop endangering lives. Drunk and
drugged driving is so common in California now that drivers
routinely rack up four to five sixty UIs. How do
you let someone with six DUIs drive? I would think
(09:35):
that theybe arrested the first one out.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
How do you get six.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And so? And one woman got her sixteenth? I don't
know why she isn't in prison for twenty years. So
here in California, which now has the weakest UI laws
in the country, drivers can't be charged with the felony
until their fourth DUI within ten years unless they injure someone.
(10:02):
In some states, a second UI as a felony. Okay,
By the way, that there's a kid, a young lady
Sarah of Dulaar who was walking with her fiance and
was hit by someone and the driver had drunk driving
Rutgers twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, twenty twenty all misdemeanors and
(10:26):
he served a couple of weeks before the crash. Her
parents buried her in her wedding dress. And we give
drunk drivers their licenses back faster than any state in
the Union.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It is crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Drivers were found to have as many sixty UIs and
were still able to get a license.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Even when the state does take away a license, drivers
stay on the road for years, racking up more tickets,
new DUIs and few consequences. Untially kills someone. That's when
it gets serious. I mean that is completely crazy. Drunk
vehicular manslaughter is not considered a violent felony. Now a
(11:21):
DUI that causes great bodily injury. Great bodily injury means
that a drunk driver who breaks someone's leg faces more
time behind bars as if they killed, more time than
with they killed someone, according to the law in California.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And it's really easy answer.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And that is these ignition interlock devices in car breathalyzers,
which so many states have, we don't have them. For
the most part, we don't have him. And well, there's
a couple of stats I'm not going to share with you.
But unlike most states, California does not require first time
(12:04):
drunk drivers to use these breathalyzers. Which unless you blow
into a breathalyzer and blow a zero, that car won't start. Now,
you can have a friend start your car. But let's
say you're drunk in a bar. Who's going to go
out and blow a breathalyzer for you. Nobody that's rational?
(12:30):
So would that help? Oh yeah, here's the other thing.
Even though state law does require the devices for repeat
offenders five six seven DUIs, those laws aren't even being enforced.
Judges in more than a dozen counties here in California
ordered breathalyzers for less than ten percent of drivers convicted
(12:53):
of a second DUI. There are states in a first
DUI you get a breathalyzer. So this fall, California lawmakers
introduced a bill that would require anybody convicted of a
DUI to use a breathalyzer. It was gutted by Sacramento.
(13:15):
There were enough votes that didn't where the law.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Didn't come to fruition.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So we've gone from the most stringent strict laws and
procedures against the UI and mad mothers against truck drivers.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Actually started here in California.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And we're at the forefront, and now we are dead last.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It's a shanda. It is a shame, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
In September, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a
new test, a civics test for immigrants when applying for citizenship.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's new, it's harder.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Now there's an article in The New York Times where
this author spent a year sitting in social studies, government
history classes, and public schools across the country, and she
said very few of those students she met of any
age could pass the new citizenship test.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Second of all, very.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Few of the schools would even the schools would even
administer it. And the requirement to commit dates and names
and places is completely at ads with the curriculum that's
become standard in school and even among progressive teachers and
school officials. No, in the history test administered in twenty
twenty two by NEEP the National Assessment of Educational Progress,
(14:42):
which is widely cited as the federal exam, fourteen percent
of eighth graders got a proficient level. At least forty
percent fell below basic. I mean, they're just not classing,
So what's going on. Numbers have been dismal for a
very long time. And look at this, most students didn't
(15:07):
know anything about the Jim Crow Laws when the Civil
War was actually fought, and they were taking American history
classes at the time.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So why does the US even administer these tests?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, it assumes that you need to know some history
and background on how our government works in order to
be an engaged citizen. So Illinois, just give you an example.
Illinois high school history and civic standards take up oh wow,
three quarters of one page and have no dates at all.
(15:46):
So here is and by the way, I'm going to
have fun the next segment. But here is a question
I want to ask you, and this one is no
one would be able to answer. The Naturalization Act required
prospective citizens to demonstrate their attachment to the principles of
the Constitution when you are trying to become a citizen.
(16:11):
When was the natural Act Naturalization Act past?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Any idea? Holy hell? Seriously, Yeah, I know it's I'm
not asking you to know that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I'm just giving you it's a factoid because no one
would know this. I don't know it, you know, one
out of one hundred, one out of a thousand would know.
But this is just a fun factoid.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
One. When was the Naturalization Act past?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Seventeen ninety exactly correct, seventeen ninety five. You yeah, of
course he googled it. Don't do that again. It was
a great bit that I was doing.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Uh, they just say Google, They just just take it will.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Wow, who became natural Okay, all right, I'm over some
of the questions and there's no way I would have
been able to answer them.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
No, I know that is something and no one be
able to ask unless you googled it like Will did,
and even then he got it wrong. It wasn't the
seventeen ninety it was seventeen ninety five. So you're half blind, okay,
And I gotta tell you, I don't know how anybody.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Can fail it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
First of all, you have to answer twelve out of
twenty correct instead of the old six out of ten.
It includes a larger pool of questions one hundred and
twenty eight as an increase from previous.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
One hundred, a broader range of topics.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And I'm looking at these questions and I'm going, oh,
come on, how do you well? A few of these
questions are difficult, but all you have to do is
answer twelve.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Out of twenty.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And so as I look at these questions, you have
four different ways of answering this, which is kind of interesting,
and some are pretty close. You know. For example, the
US Constitution starts with the words we the People. Who
(18:08):
is we the people? Anybody want to that would be
we the people? Actually, yes, we the people. Does that
mean self government? Popular sovereignty, consent of the govern people
should govern themselves?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
A social contract? Pick one? A good I think they're good.
All right? How many amendments the Constitution? Twenty seven?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Okay, good for you.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
No kidding? How many people do that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness? Where is that
written declaration of independence? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
All right? The US Constitution? The US Constitution.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Name name one document that influenced the Constitution?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Those letters?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh the right that was that's one of them.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That's the Federalist papers that were written.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yep, that's good.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
But would the test Yeah, it would as well.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
No, you sound like I'm more on fair enough? And
then there easy one.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
How much How many senators are there?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yep? How long is the term for a senator?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Six years?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's correct? Name your senators?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
No idea correct name?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You're congress person in your district? No, that's correct. We
keep ongoing. The President of the United States can only
serve two terms? Why and what gives him? Why is
he limited? And what's a little bit of history of it?
(19:56):
Twenty second is good? Are you guys looking this up?
I don't know, Yeah, I see you looking down and
your fingers are flying. Okay, the twenty second Amendment which
limits it for two terms, and it doesn't ask why. Okay,
who appoints the federal judges? What do you mean the
(20:19):
president who appoints federal judges?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Well, the president appoints them. The conquerors has to.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Okay, the president does appoint them. That is correct, that's
all it asks. But you're right, it's the president appoints.
What does the cabinet do?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It opens and closes so you can get snacks.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That is also correct.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yes, okay, So assuming if that's the first answer, which
is correct, let's.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Go to what does the cabinet do? They enforce laws?
And Nope, they certainly do not. They just advise.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
They advise, that's it advises. They do not support the law.
We have more and more.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Wait a second, if the executive branch enforces law and
it's headed by the president, wouldn't they.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
They do not enforce. No, they don't have enforcement powers.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
The Department of Justice can right.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Justice is enforced yeah, uh, and not a cabinet position.
That's not a capital Well, the Department of Justice is,
but they don't enforce the laws.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
They arrest people.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
But it's the courts that actually enforce all right, Uh,
what are the uh?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Oh, who can be a citizen of the United States?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Anybody?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
How many ways can you be a citizen? How many
ways can you be a citizen? Born here? Born is one? Uh?
You could be a uh Mary? No, no, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Take a test, nope.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Do you become a citizen?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
To become a citizen? Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
If you are naturalized, you have to take a test
to become a citizen. You are born here, You're already
a citizen. How old and this is not in the test.
I'm just throwing this at you. How old does someone
have to be to become president of the United States?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Forty five?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Thirty seven? Thirty five thirty? That's close.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Wait, what's the what's Congress then? Because there that threshold.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Onrest I think is thirty. I believe Congress is thirty.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
A thirty five year old president?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Wow, you can end that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Well, the youngest was forty two, which isn't far off.
We had forty to forty two year old presidents. Teddy
Roosevelt became president by assassination William McKinley and the first
the only elected president at forty two was jfk Okay.
I mean, we can go on forever, but that's it.
You guys would basically pass what guys's pass twelve out
(22:46):
of twenty. Yeah, and you guys have it, okay, KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
That is SOFI am six forty Bill Handle here. Good
morning everybody. You betcha. It is a Thursday morning, November twentieth.
Neil is going to be out this weekend at the
Wendy's in I think Mission via Ho.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I just write that down someplace.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Two three zero two two Alicia Parkway in Mission via Ho.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Come on out. We'll be there from two to five.
We'll have a good time. Hens. I'll be there. I'll
be there. Come out. Scream at me.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yo politics and call me a left wing radical hoaster,
or you can go the other way and call me
a super conservative fundamentalist. Either way, and I have both,
and I'm assuming Neil. Now, Neil doesn't do a lot
of politics.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You think I'm both all the time? Something fair enough,
I'm liberal? Someone think some conservative?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Both wrong right, no left.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Let's talk about something that we just discovered or just
came out. According to data from the US, Mexico is
now the world's top buyer of US goods, not China,
not Canada, which for years has been Mexico.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And there are a few reasons for that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Some of the reasons make a lot of sense, and
some of the reasons are politically.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Insane, I will even say stupid.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So even despite periodic political tensions, you know, between Mexico
and the US, we're still very entwined with Mexico and
the global trade. The entire entire pattern of global trade
has shifted in literally a couple of years. And so
number one is now Mexico. China used to be number one,
(02:05):
but now China is number two. This was released by
the US Commerce Department, and it showed how the President's
global tariffs really took a toll on overall trade in August.
Why because the tariffs about from about ninety countries went
(02:25):
into effect.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Okay, so why is Canada dropping.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And why is Mexico increasing its trade with the US. Well,
let's start with the tariffs on exports, both in China
and in Canada. The President has nailed Canada with tariffs.
And why is that? Well, do you remember the commercial
(02:53):
that Ontario did ripping into President Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Okay, I'll show you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You don't make commercials against me, you don't attack me personally.
Here's some tariffs you can deal with Mexico. Shine bomb
the president of Mexico. Well, let's put it this way.
You hear Shine Bob when she talks, she talks like
this and you can't really listen to what she says.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Because her head is so far up Trump's.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But that we're gonna make damn sure that Mexico is exempt. Also,
there are issues in terms of tariffs in general that
even low tariffs I have caused prices to go up.
Especially food prices have gone up dramatically, and food comes
(03:47):
from Mexico in a major way. And the prices for
food has exploded, probably more so than other products, more
so than cars. Housing probably has gone up more. But
that's very long term. So the President has now exempted
many many food stuff of which Mexico produces. And so
(04:12):
the tariffs have really helped Mexico. Not the tariffs against Mexico,
the tariffs against everyone else. So why is Mexico such
a big player and has become number one? Okay, let's
talk about logistics. It's right next to the United States.
It has a decent infrastructure, labor costs are a fraction
(04:36):
of what they are, and there's a skilled workforce that
is being created. So what are the leading exports to
the US cars. These are mainly US and European countries.
The cars are assembled in Mexico. Machinery, electronics, medical devices,
and what's indigenous to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And this is a bit one.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Fruits and vegetables have become a huge, huge part. For example, avocados.
We don't grow many avocados here, certainly not enough to
fulfill our need, our love of guacamole, for example, so
(05:20):
we import those from Mexico. Well, if you have a
major tariff, they get really expensive. If they have, the
prices of avocados go through the roof, which how much
is an avocado? Now the price of avocados has gone
absolutely crazy. I remember they used to be three for
two dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Now what are they are?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Twelve eighteen dollars a piece, twenty seven dollars a piece.
I mean, you go to Mexican restaurant and guacamole is
I'll take one order of guacamole. Yeah, that's sixty dollars.
It's pretty expensive. So what happens now we have reasons
prices and just that that's just one, just one example,
(06:04):
and when you look at examples of other food stuffs.
The President is exempted about one hundred different food stuffs
in terms of tariffs.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So Mexico has become the.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Biggest player and it's over three hundred and sixty billion dollars. Also,
the US is purchased from the Mexo's purchase from the
US meat and cereals like corn, both for animals and
human fuel, and it just helped Mexico increase its economy.
(06:42):
So those are the reasons, and a lot of them
just personal, just the president like Brazil. It's straight personal,
has nothing to do with the balance of trade. As
a matter of fact, we sell more to Brazil than
we buy. It's a positive balance of te Why you
need tariffs, Well, because Trump loves Bolsonario boll scenario, the
(07:06):
previous very right wing Trump ally who was president of Mexico.
Our president has actually interfered in the foreign affairs or
in the internal affairs of Brazil, saying drop the case
against Bolsonnaro, drop the case. Why why an outsider telling
(07:32):
us internally what we're gonna do. Well, I'm also going
to hit you with a fifty percent terraff from what
we buy from Brazil. Okay, California has always been at
the forefront of dealing with the UIs. I mean, that's
the reputation we had had noticed I use that word.
I was kind of shocked that this story came out.
(07:56):
For example, there was a thirteen year old kid here
in southern California on his way to school was hit
by a hit and run driver and was killed, and
the driver was booked for fell any DUI fell any
hit and run and murder.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, that is really rare.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Why because it's how the state handles the UI. Now,
we were the birthplace of the modern movement against trunk
driving in the nineteen eighties, but over the past decade
roadway deaths, alcohol related roadway deaths have shot up more
than fifty percent, that's for starters, which is more than
(08:40):
twice as much as the rest of the country, and
the penalties have dropped. Cal Matters looked at manslaughter and
homicide rates from twenty nineteen through twenty twenty four and
a bunch of other states laws about intoxicated driving, etc.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And what the.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Records show about California is way too often we fail.
California fails to differentiate between drivers who made quote a
dangerous mistake, but learn.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
From it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
From those who refuse to stop endangering lives. Drunk and
drugged driving is so common in California now that drivers
routinely rack up four to five sixty UIs. How do
you let someone with six DUIs drive? I would think
(09:35):
that theybe arrested the first one out.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
How do you get six.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And so? And one woman got her sixteenth? I don't
know why she isn't in prison for twenty years. So
here in California, which now has the weakest UI laws
in the country, drivers can't be charged with the felony
until their fourth DUI within ten years unless they injure someone.
(10:02):
In some states, a second UI as a felony. Okay,
By the way, that there's a kid, a young lady
Sarah of Dulaar who was walking with her fiance and
was hit by someone and the driver had drunk driving
Rutgers twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, twenty twenty all misdemeanors and
(10:26):
he served a couple of weeks before the crash. Her
parents buried her in her wedding dress. And we give
drunk drivers their licenses back faster than any state in
the Union.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It is crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Drivers were found to have as many sixty UIs and
were still able to get a license.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Even when the state does take away a license, drivers
stay on the road for years, racking up more tickets,
new DUIs and few consequences. Untially kills someone. That's when
it gets serious. I mean that is completely crazy. Drunk
vehicular manslaughter is not considered a violent felony. Now a
(11:21):
DUI that causes great bodily injury. Great bodily injury means
that a drunk driver who breaks someone's leg faces more
time behind bars as if they killed, more time than
with they killed someone, according to the law in California.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And it's really easy answer.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And that is these ignition interlock devices in car breathalyzers,
which so many states have, we don't have them. For
the most part, we don't have him. And well, there's
a couple of stats I'm not going to share with you.
But unlike most states, California does not require first time
(12:04):
drunk drivers to use these breathalyzers. Which unless you blow
into a breathalyzer and blow a zero, that car won't start. Now,
you can have a friend start your car. But let's
say you're drunk in a bar. Who's going to go
out and blow a breathalyzer for you. Nobody that's rational?
(12:30):
So would that help? Oh yeah, here's the other thing.
Even though state law does require the devices for repeat
offenders five six seven DUIs, those laws aren't even being enforced.
Judges in more than a dozen counties here in California
ordered breathalyzers for less than ten percent of drivers convicted
(12:53):
of a second DUI. There are states in a first
DUI you get a breathalyzer. So this fall, California lawmakers
introduced a bill that would require anybody convicted of a
DUI to use a breathalyzer. It was gutted by Sacramento.
(13:15):
There were enough votes that didn't where the law.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Didn't come to fruition.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So we've gone from the most stringent strict laws and
procedures against the UI and mad mothers against truck drivers.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Actually started here in California.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And we're at the forefront, and now we are dead last.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It's a shanda. It is a shame, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
In September, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a
new test, a civics test for immigrants when applying for citizenship.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's new, it's harder.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Now there's an article in The New York Times where
this author spent a year sitting in social studies, government
history classes, and public schools across the country, and she
said very few of those students she met of any
age could pass the new citizenship test.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Second of all, very.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Few of the schools would even the schools would even
administer it. And the requirement to commit dates and names
and places is completely at ads with the curriculum that's
become standard in school and even among progressive teachers and
school officials. No, in the history test administered in twenty
twenty two by NEEP the National Assessment of Educational Progress,
(14:42):
which is widely cited as the federal exam, fourteen percent
of eighth graders got a proficient level. At least forty
percent fell below basic. I mean, they're just not classing,
So what's going on. Numbers have been dismal for a
very long time. And look at this, most students didn't
(15:07):
know anything about the Jim Crow Laws when the Civil
War was actually fought, and they were taking American history
classes at the time.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So why does the US even administer these tests?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, it assumes that you need to know some history
and background on how our government works in order to
be an engaged citizen. So Illinois, just give you an example.
Illinois high school history and civic standards take up oh wow,
three quarters of one page and have no dates at all.
(15:46):
So here is and by the way, I'm going to
have fun the next segment. But here is a question
I want to ask you, and this one is no
one would be able to answer. The Naturalization Act required
prospective citizens to demonstrate their attachment to the principles of
the Constitution when you are trying to become a citizen.
(16:11):
When was the natural Act Naturalization Act past?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Any idea? Holy hell? Seriously, Yeah, I know it's I'm
not asking you to know that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I'm just giving you it's a factoid because no one
would know this. I don't know it, you know, one
out of one hundred, one out of a thousand would know.
But this is just a fun factoid.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
One. When was the Naturalization Act past?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Seventeen ninety exactly correct, seventeen ninety five. You yeah, of
course he googled it. Don't do that again. It was
a great bit that I was doing.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Uh, they just say Google, They just just take it will.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Wow, who became natural Okay, all right, I'm over some
of the questions and there's no way I would have
been able to answer them.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
No, I know that is something and no one be
able to ask unless you googled it like Will did,
and even then he got it wrong. It wasn't the
seventeen ninety it was seventeen ninety five. So you're half blind, okay,
And I gotta tell you, I don't know how anybody.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Can fail it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
First of all, you have to answer twelve out of
twenty correct instead of the old six out of ten.
It includes a larger pool of questions one hundred and
twenty eight as an increase from previous.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
One hundred, a broader range of topics.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And I'm looking at these questions and I'm going, oh,
come on, how do you well? A few of these
questions are difficult, but all you have to do is
answer twelve.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Out of twenty.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And so as I look at these questions, you have
four different ways of answering this, which is kind of interesting,
and some are pretty close. You know. For example, the
US Constitution starts with the words we the People. Who
(18:08):
is we the people? Anybody want to that would be
we the people? Actually, yes, we the people. Does that
mean self government? Popular sovereignty, consent of the govern people
should govern themselves?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
A social contract? Pick one? A good I think they're good.
All right? How many amendments the Constitution? Twenty seven?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Okay, good for you.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
No kidding? How many people do that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness? Where is that
written declaration of independence? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
All right? The US Constitution? The US Constitution.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Name name one document that influenced the Constitution?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Those letters?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh the right that was that's one of them.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That's the Federalist papers that were written.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yep, that's good.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
But would the test Yeah, it would as well.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
No, you sound like I'm more on fair enough? And
then there easy one.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
How much How many senators are there?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yep? How long is the term for a senator?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Six years?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's correct? Name your senators?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
No idea correct name?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You're congress person in your district? No, that's correct. We
keep ongoing. The President of the United States can only
serve two terms? Why and what gives him? Why is
he limited? And what's a little bit of history of it?
(19:56):
Twenty second is good? Are you guys looking this up?
I don't know, Yeah, I see you looking down and
your fingers are flying. Okay, the twenty second Amendment which
limits it for two terms, and it doesn't ask why. Okay,
who appoints the federal judges? What do you mean the
(20:19):
president who appoints federal judges?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Well, the president appoints them. The conquerors has to.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Okay, the president does appoint them. That is correct, that's
all it asks. But you're right, it's the president appoints.
What does the cabinet do?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It opens and closes so you can get snacks.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That is also correct.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yes, okay, So assuming if that's the first answer, which
is correct, let's.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Go to what does the cabinet do? They enforce laws?
And Nope, they certainly do not. They just advise.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
They advise, that's it advises. They do not support the law.
We have more and more.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Wait a second, if the executive branch enforces law and
it's headed by the president, wouldn't they.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
They do not enforce. No, they don't have enforcement powers.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
The Department of Justice can right.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Justice is enforced yeah, uh, and not a cabinet position.
That's not a capital Well, the Department of Justice is,
but they don't enforce the laws.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
They arrest people.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
But it's the courts that actually enforce all right, Uh,
what are the uh?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Oh, who can be a citizen of the United States?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Anybody?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
How many ways can you be a citizen? How many
ways can you be a citizen? Born here? Born is one? Uh?
You could be a uh Mary? No, no, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Take a test, nope.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Do you become a citizen?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
To become a citizen? Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
If you are naturalized, you have to take a test
to become a citizen. You are born here, You're already
a citizen. How old and this is not in the test.
I'm just throwing this at you. How old does someone
have to be to become president of the United States?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Forty five?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Thirty seven? Thirty five thirty? That's close.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Wait, what's the what's Congress then? Because there that threshold.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Onrest I think is thirty. I believe Congress is thirty.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
A thirty five year old president?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Wow, you can end that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Well, the youngest was forty two, which isn't far off.
We had forty to forty two year old presidents. Teddy
Roosevelt became president by assassination William McKinley and the first
the only elected president at forty two was jfk Okay.
I mean, we can go on forever, but that's it.
You guys would basically pass what guys's pass twelve out
(22:46):
of twenty. Yeah, and you guys have it, okay, KFI
AM six forty seven.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
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