January 1, 2025 • 31 mins
Wayne Resnick fills in for Bill Handel.
Wayne discusses new laws that take effect on Jan. 1, including an increase to the minimum wage, no more "legacy" admissions for college applicants, and child actor protection now extend to online child influencers.
Also, Wayne makes fun of a fingerless man for keeping several explosives in his freezer (next to the Bomb Pops, I'm sure). And random weirdos are waiting in line to drink water that a deer likely peed in. Ok, seriously, not everything is better "raw."
Wayne discusses new laws that take effect on Jan. 1, including an increase to the minimum wage, no more "legacy" admissions for college applicants, and child actor protection now extend to online child influencers.
Also, Wayne makes fun of a fingerless man for keeping several explosives in his freezer (next to the Bomb Pops, I'm sure). And random weirdos are waiting in line to drink water that a deer likely peed in. Ok, seriously, not everything is better "raw."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
It's the Bill Handles Show. Bill back from his vacation.
On Monday, Wayne Resnik here for another hour. Around nine o'clock,
we're expecting a press conference out of New Orleans with
updated information about the incident there where somebody plowed their
(00:33):
car into a group of people in the French Quarter
section who were celebrating New Year's Eve. Ten people killed,
at least thirty injured, and then the guy got out
of the car and started shooting. The cops shot at him,
and you ended up with two injured cops and one
(00:53):
dead perpetrator. It was a car with Texas plates. That's
about all we know about this person. But maybe whenever
this press conference starts, we'll get some more information. K
IF I will bring it to you as soon as
it starts. We have new laws for twenty twenty five.
(01:17):
It is an annual tradition in talk radio that is
close as close to January one as you can do it.
You talk about some of the new laws, Well, I
hit it right on the head January one, let's go
minimum wage up fifty cent increase for California's minimum wage workers.
(01:38):
The base pay now sixteen fifty an hour. Why did
you vote for that? No, In fact, you rejected in
the election in November. You rejected a ballot measure that
would have raised the minimum wage immediately to eighteen dollars
an hour. Well, not immediately, eighteen dollars an hour. By
(01:59):
twenty twenty six would have gone up now and would
have gone up again. You said no. But this increase
is due to the previous minimum wage law that is
adjusted for inflation, So it's inflation that is causing this
to happen. Starting in September of this year, colleges and
(02:23):
universities are banned from giving preferential treatment to family members
of alumni and donors, the so called legacy admissions. Now
they're already banned at the public universities, but starting in September, Stanford,
for example, USC will not be allowed to do it.
(02:46):
Let me tell you something. Those schools are quaked in
their boots because if they get caught, here's what's gonna happen.
Some people are gonna say this is too harsh. If
there is an allegation of a preferential admission, the Attorney
(03:07):
General will investigate and can request more information from the university.
I'm hyperventilating just thinking if that happened to me, if
somebody asked me for more information. This is my sarcastic
way of saying, there's really no enforcement mechanism. It's just
some kind of a law that they passed to I
(03:30):
don't know shame universities who do it, because I guess
it would be public anyway. But there's no way. I
don't know nobody's going to jail. I don't even think
there are any fines. It's just saying you shouldn't do it,
and if you do it, then we're gonna know about it,
and then we're gonna tell everybody that you did it.
(03:52):
The protections for child actors that have been in effect
for quite some time in the state of California. It's
called the Cougan Law, and it was passed a long
time ago because way back in the day, child actors
(04:14):
were being exploited and the parents were stealing all their money.
And there was this child actor, very popular, Jackie Coogan,
and apparently his parents spent all the money that he made,
and he made several million dollars, and so they passed
this law, the Cougan Law, and it requires parents to
set aside portions of the money for the child. And
(04:36):
you can't spend all the child's money if you've got
a precocious child. Actor Will now AB eighteen eighty comes
along and says, if your child is a vlogger or
an influencer, same rules apply. What else, You cannot be
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required to attend what they call captive meeting or captive
audience meetings. This is where an employer will require you
to come to a meeting, and then the meeting is
not necessarily about anything relevant. It might be a religious
message or a political message, or it might be a
speech about why unions aren't any good and you don't
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really want to join a union. Well, now, if you
if you make somebody go to one of these things,
or if you punish them for not going to one
of these things, you could be fined up to five
hundred dollars. And there's now a ban on discriminating against
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people because of their hair. This is designed to address
discrimination generally against people of color who also have hair
that is culturally associated with their race. And what it
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does is it says race also includes traits that are
associated with the race, like hair texture or hair styles.
So there's a little bit of stereotyping necessary in order
to protect somebody with natural hair or whatever it is
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from being discriminated against for their hair in the workplace.
Because I think what's really going on is the idea
is that probably if you say, oh, we had to
fire you because you had a big halfro that really
you fired the person because they're black. So if you're
using hair as a proxy for firing somebody because of
their race, you won't be able to do it anymore.
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Now there's another law. I'm not going to talk about
it now because it makes me so mad. I'm going
to talk about something else to kind of cool down,
and then I'm going to talk about it a little
bit later in the show. Another law about where you
could park your car. That is the proof of an
ongoing problem with local governments. But when we come back
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from some news from Michael Monks, we are going to
talk about robots everywhere, including in the kitchens of restaurants
where there's no human being in there. Yes, the robot report.
Next on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. AFI Am six forty Live everywhere on the
(07:26):
iHeartRadio app. This is the Bill Handles Show. Welcome Bill
is back from his vacation on Monday. I'm Wayne Resnik.
We're looking for a press conference around nine am our time.
The situation in New Orleans where a guy rammed his
car into a bunch of revelers in the French Quarter
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celebrating New Year's Eve and then got out and started shooting.
The police engaged him, gunfire was exchanged. Two of the
cops were injured. The guy's dead, and we hope to
get some more information about what's going on there, whether
it's true that they found improvised explosive devices also in
(08:08):
the area, or whether that is just a rumor, and
maybe a little information about why this person might have
done it. We'll bring that to you when it happens.
Also closer to home, flu cases are spiking here in
southern California. According to the California Department Public Health. Across
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the whole state, they describe the flu activity levels as moderate,
but Southern California has a disproportionately high number of flu cases.
So do with that information anything that you want, or
don't do anything. Sometimes when you go eat at a restaurant,
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and this usually is a big deal at a fancy restaurant,
but it doesn't have to be. Sometimes you may be
invited back to the kitchen. If you're like a regular customer,
or if it's a particularly expensive meal, you may be
invited back to go to the kitchen and see it
and maybe meet the chef. This is a big deal.
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But imagine you are invited to go back to the
kitchen and there's nobody in the kitchen, not a human
being to be found. Maybe it's the mayor d comes
over and says, oh, would you'd like to see the kitchen.
You're such a good diner, And then there's nobody there. Well,
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how's the food getting made? The answer is the button kit.
Button Kit is a robot chef. Not only can button
kit cook the meal, botton kick button Kit. I'm gonna
say it wrong every time. It's kind of a tongue twister,
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botton kit. I'm just gonna start saying the robot okay,
can we agree? Thank you? The robot can also clean up.
You don't need a chef. You don't need a dishwasher,
you just need botton Kit. So you can upload the recipe.
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You can even upload the recipe through the cloud remotely,
or it has a touchscreen botton Kit, and you can
touch the thing you want and you can alter it
like you could say, I want the I'm just making
up a thing pod Thai noodle medium spicy or something
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like that. And it's programmed. It knows all this stuff
and boom, there it goes. It gets out of bowl
and it chops the thing and it dispenses the seasonings,
and the bowl magically becomes the cooking pan and it
cooks the thing up and it does the thing and
it dumps it on the plate. Yeah. Now, this is
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part of a bigger trend of robots showing up all
over the place. But the company behind button Kit, the
chef Robot, which is mostly in Asia right now but
has set up business here in the United States. They're
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saying the company says, oh no, no, we're not trying
to replace human chefs. That's not the point of botton Kit.
There still will be human chefs. No chefs are going
to be harmed by the robot chef. The human chefs
will still be involved in the recipe creation. I mean,
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you still have to have a chef come up with
the recipes that they want to serve at the restaurant.
And also the chef will be able, the human chef
will be able to participate a little bit in the cooking.
They can add their personal touch in the last part
when the robot's done so, if he's made the pod
time medium spicy, and then the chef wants to like
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place I don't know, the basil leaf, a decorative basil
leaf on top of it, He'll still be able to
do that, or she'll still be able to do that,
or they'll still be able to do that. And in
the meantime, you know, robots, like a robot chef in
a kitchen is not really public facing. But there is
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a trend now where robots are entering the public world.
They're not just in the factory or the warehouse or
the kitchen. They're in the retail store or the museum.
They're doing stuff right in front of you, and sometimes
they're doing stuff with you, like talking to you. This
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is the new trend, and they say it's because of
AI and specifically the technology that run uns chat GPT
is making this possible to improve the brain power of
these robots. This really sounds like the first act of
a science fiction movie that ends with the robots killing
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all the people and living amongst themselves. But we're still
in the first act at this point. I don't know
how much brain power we need a robot to have,
although you know, even an advanced robot is also kind
of a dummy. There's a lot of things that you
can program a robot to do, and they can do
it better or faster or more accurately than a human,
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or more consistently accurately than a human. There are other
things that are really really hard for robots to do
that are dead simple for you, like picking something up
and moving it. That's a big deal because you have
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to use code. Right now, You program code and it
tells the robot how to pick up something and move it,
which means they can only pick up the thing they're
programmed to pick up, and they can only move it
however their program to move it. Whereas I could ask you,
could you please pick up anything in the room, whatever
it is, you don't know what I'm gonna ask, and
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I can ask you to pick up anything, and I
can ask you to put it anywhere else and you
can do it no problem. A C student can do it,
no problem. But a smart robot right now can't do it.
So there's a long way to go before a robot
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is going to be smarter than me, that's for sure.
We'll get some news from Michael Monks and then I
have called an audible. We had something we were gonna do,
but I saw one of the new laws in California
that took effect, and I'm not it's making me mad
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because it's part of a huge problem. If you dare
to be a person who drives a car, I'm gonna
tell you what's been going on and why if it
feels like your local government is against you, I'm gonna
tell you why it feels that way. Spoiler alert, it's
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because they are. It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Bill Handle on
demand from KFI AM six forty. KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. It's the Bill
Handle Show. He's back from vacation. On Monday, Wayne resumes
(15:49):
sitting in until nine and one thing I want to
tell you about very quickly, this story that we're looking at.
Federal prosecutors are trying to keep a guy behind bars
and not get out on bail after they made the
largest seizure of homemade explosives in FBI history. This is
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some guy named Brad Spafford who lives in Isle of
Wight County, Virginia, which I'm assuming is way in the
middle of nothing. It's about one hundred and eighty five
miles south of DC. They arrested him for having a
short barreled rifle and then they found over one hundred
and fifty homemade bombs. Then he had some stuff in
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his freezer that it's called HMTD. It's an explosive and
it HMTD is so volatile that it will explode if
the temperature changes a few degrees. And he had that.
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And here's the reason I'm telling you about this guy,
because it didn't happen here, happened on the other side
of the country. But he has how many fingers do
you have? Yes, he has two. And this is one
of the big deals that the prosecutors are making in
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telling the judge you should never let this guy out
on bond. Is even after losing his own fingers, he
still had over one hundred and fifty homemade bombs in
this highly volatile explosive at his house in the freezer.
Not a special explosive freezer, No, the regular family freezer
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where the Swanson frozen dinners are and the Ben and
Jerry's are kept, and then this stuff is in there.
So originally the judge said, well, I'm gonna let him out,
and the prosecutor said, we have some more evidence. So
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now the judge's looking at that trying to decide what
to do with this guy. Talk about not learning, and
I'll talk about this not learning. There's a new law
that is taken effect that says you cannot park now
within twenty feet of an intersection, even if the curb
is not red. You obviously notice as you drive around
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that as you get close to the intersection, then the
curb is red and you know, oh yeah, don't park there. Well,
some curbs are not red and you have been allowed
to park there. No longer red or not. You can't
park your car within twenty feet of an intersection. Which
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in some parts of the country where they also do
have this law, it doesn't necessarily matter because anywhere you
go there's plenty of parking, but in southern California, in
parts of LA in particular, they're how much is not
So they're definitely taking away parking to protect pedestrians. That's
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what the point of this is. If a car is
parked too close to the intersection, I guess the pedestrian
can't see the traffic as well, and instead of just
being really careful and kind of leaning out and taking
some responsibility for not getting smashed by a car, they're
just walking out dooty do. And then they go did
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and see there was a car perk there. So here's
the thing. And I don't have a ton of time,
and I don't need a ton of time because I
saw this new law and I said, yep, here we
go again. If you feel like there's a bias against
you as a driver, it's because there's a massive bias
against you as a driver. And it wasn't always this way,
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you know. When the car first came out, it was
one of the most amazing and important invention of human history.
It changed lives, It changed how business is done, It
changed how work and home life was balanced. It changed
the economy and the FEDS built a lot of freeway
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system and a lot of stuff, and states and local
governments they were very happy to spend money building roads
to accommodate these cars because these cars were amazing and magical.
Now cars are evil. So here's the thing. Why does
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it feel like there's a bias against us for driving
our cars? Reason one. One thing that's happened to state
and local governments over the decades is they have become
more and more financially unstable and leveraged, running deficits, having
to get cutting services, unable to simply operate. Roads are
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very expensive to build, so a road project that would
help alleviate car traffic is a very expensive proposition, and
if you're part of a city council or a county
commission or a state agency, you don't want to commit
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to spending that kind of money because you don't have it.
You know what's not as expensive bike lane bustling. Taking
a traffic lane and giving it over to the bikes.
That doesn't cost very much money at all. Putting up
pylons to separate a bike lane from the rest of
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the street doesn't cost very much money. So because governments
have become so financially irresponsible. Now they look at road
projects to help alleviate your traffic in your car as evil.
And then there's a completely different thing that's happened with
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state and local governments. They've become more political and activist.
Sixty years ago, local governments they really were just like,
all right, we got to have the roads and the
police and the fire and the water and the thing,
and what's the best way to do it. Then they
started getting involved in causes. They started getting involved in
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trying to operate a city in a way to try
to get people to behave certain ways that they want.
And we all know with global warming and pollution that
one of the things that has been decided is people
should be encouraged to give up their car and ride
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a bike or take public transportation or if it's close enough,
walk over there. So they don't want to spend the
money or where they can't, they can't really spend the
money because they're too irresponsible on building out the roads.
But they also wouldn't probably if they could, because they
now make decisions to disadvantage drivers and give basically privileges
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to bikers and pedestrians. And this law is a perfect
example of deciding that it's more important to try to
predect to protect some dumb ass from walking out into
the middle of the street where he can't see the traffic,
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then to maybe have enough parking for you when you
go to patronize a business or pick up your kid
from a ballet class. They're making their choices, they're showing
their preferences. This law is an example of that, and
it's only gonna get worse. There's never getting better. There's
never gonna be a pay some things. There's a pendulum
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swing tough on crime. Let's have criminal justice reform. No,
let's get tough on crime again. There will never be
a pendulum swing back to paying for infrastructure for cars.
Let's get some news from Michael Monks, and then we're
gonna finish the show. Everybody's talking about should you drink
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raw milk? And experts say no, But did you know
there's something else you can drink that's raw that you
didn't even know could be raw. I will tell you
what's going on. It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app, KFI AM sixty live everywhere on
(24:50):
the iHeartRadio app. This is the bill handles show. Wayne
Resnick's sitting in for a few more minutes sometime around nine,
So in the next ten minutes or so, we're expecting
a press conference out of New Orleans with updates on
the the I don't even know what to call it.
I know they're calling it a terrorist attack. Somebody plowed
(25:11):
into a group of revelers in the French Quarter with
his car, killed, at least ten injured, at least thirty
others got out, started shooting. Cops shot back. Two of
the cops were injured. The guy is dead, and we'll
bring that press conference to you as soon as it happens. Also,
(25:34):
huge blackout hit almost all of Puerto Rico yesterday. There
was an underground power line that one of the most
important power lines in their whole grid, and it failed
and they think it could be another two days before
everybody is back online. Now, there's been some coverage in
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the news of the controversy about raw milk, and you
know there's there. I guess there's a growing group of
people who say we want to be allowed to drink
raw milk, and the government says, oh no, it's dangerous.
It could have a bunch of crap in it and bacteria,
and it needs to be pasteurized, and that's why we
pasteurize it. So here's the thing, because there's always something weirder,
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no matter what's in the news, and you go kind
it's so weird. There's always something weirder. So if you
were to drive up in northern California, in Marin County,
there's there's a pull out there on the road. It's
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very small if you if you're not looking for it,
you probably we might not even notice it, except that
you might see a group of people there and some
of them have driven hours, they've said, in traffic to
get there. And that's Red Rock Spring for you. See,
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the people gathered there have decided they will only drink
water that comes from the pipes of Red Rock Spring.
They will not drink tap water, they will not drink
bottled water. They will only drink this water. And they
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call it raw water. Now you may call it untreated water,
but they call it raw water. They do not want
to drink the water that goes through the government's water
treatment systems, even though that's where you get rid of
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the bacteria that could kill you or Parrisie or certain
chemical toxins that could, I don't know, make your child
not develop properly in their brain. And this is I'm
not saying it's big business, because it really isn't a business.
It's a trend. It's a fad maybe. And most of
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these people are part of the health freedom movement. This
is the health freedom movement is we don't like vaccine mandates,
we don't like mask mandates, we don't want fluoride in
our water. We don't want our milk to be pasteurized,
and we don't want our water being treated. We want
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to drink it right out of the spring, naturally. And
they're going to have an ally now in the federal
government Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who President elect Trump is
picked to lead health in Human Services. He uh, you know,
he's spoken out on a lot of these things. He's
not on the record yet about raw water, so I
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don't know where he stands on that, but he has
talked about flora. He wants the flooride out of the water.
So people are so into this that they crowd source
maps of springs that you can go to and drink
natural right out of the ground raw water at Red
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Rock Spring which is near. If you're trying to place it,
it's mere Stinton Beach. If you know where that is,
it doesn't matter. You're not gonna if your life. I
want to drive up there now and drink that raw water,
then God speed to you. You have to wait in line.
You can wait at forty five minutes an hour just
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to drink this raw water. And it's not just there,
you might say, h northern California, of course, what do
you expect. Oh no, No, it's all over the country.
There's a place in South Carolina where there are two
spigots in the ground and they bring up water from
some underground spring. And people flock to this place in
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the middle of rural South Carolina to get water from
these two spigots. And then you've got people, you know,
trying to capitalize on the traffic. They're selling oranges and
pecans and watermelon, all this stuff. It's it's like a stuckies,
except it's for people to get water out of the ground.
In Oklahoma, there's people who drive for hours because there's
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a natural well there that they say it has healing
water in it. Because it's raw, there might be so
little something to it. If it's coming directly out of
the ground, and it comes through layers of the soil.
It's possible that it does get filtered of some of
some pathogens, but nobody really knows for sure, and there's
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no way that it's as clean as treated water. There
absolutely could be arsenic in there the soil E coli.
God knows what's in there. So the next time somebody says,
do you want to go drink some raw, they might
not be talking about milk. They might be talking about
H two O. All right, that's me. Wayne Resnick and
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Gary Shannon are next. This is KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
It's the Bill Handles Show. Bill back from his vacation.
On Monday, Wayne Resnik here for another hour. Around nine o'clock,
we're expecting a press conference out of New Orleans with
updated information about the incident there where somebody plowed their
(00:33):
car into a group of people in the French Quarter
section who were celebrating New Year's Eve. Ten people killed,
at least thirty injured, and then the guy got out
of the car and started shooting. The cops shot at him,
and you ended up with two injured cops and one
(00:53):
dead perpetrator. It was a car with Texas plates. That's
about all we know about this person. But maybe whenever
this press conference starts, we'll get some more information. K
IF I will bring it to you as soon as
it starts. We have new laws for twenty twenty five.
(01:17):
It is an annual tradition in talk radio that is
close as close to January one as you can do it.
You talk about some of the new laws, Well, I
hit it right on the head January one, let's go
minimum wage up fifty cent increase for California's minimum wage workers.
(01:38):
The base pay now sixteen fifty an hour. Why did
you vote for that? No, In fact, you rejected in
the election in November. You rejected a ballot measure that
would have raised the minimum wage immediately to eighteen dollars
an hour. Well, not immediately, eighteen dollars an hour. By
(01:59):
twenty twenty six would have gone up now and would
have gone up again. You said no. But this increase
is due to the previous minimum wage law that is
adjusted for inflation, So it's inflation that is causing this
to happen. Starting in September of this year, colleges and
(02:23):
universities are banned from giving preferential treatment to family members
of alumni and donors, the so called legacy admissions. Now
they're already banned at the public universities, but starting in September, Stanford,
for example, USC will not be allowed to do it.
(02:46):
Let me tell you something. Those schools are quaked in
their boots because if they get caught, here's what's gonna happen.
Some people are gonna say this is too harsh. If
there is an allegation of a preferential admission, the Attorney
(03:07):
General will investigate and can request more information from the university.
I'm hyperventilating just thinking if that happened to me, if
somebody asked me for more information. This is my sarcastic
way of saying, there's really no enforcement mechanism. It's just
some kind of a law that they passed to I
(03:30):
don't know shame universities who do it, because I guess
it would be public anyway. But there's no way. I
don't know nobody's going to jail. I don't even think
there are any fines. It's just saying you shouldn't do it,
and if you do it, then we're gonna know about it,
and then we're gonna tell everybody that you did it.
(03:52):
The protections for child actors that have been in effect
for quite some time in the state of California. It's
called the Cougan Law, and it was passed a long
time ago because way back in the day, child actors
(04:14):
were being exploited and the parents were stealing all their money.
And there was this child actor, very popular, Jackie Coogan,
and apparently his parents spent all the money that he made,
and he made several million dollars, and so they passed
this law, the Cougan Law, and it requires parents to
set aside portions of the money for the child. And
(04:36):
you can't spend all the child's money if you've got
a precocious child. Actor Will now AB eighteen eighty comes
along and says, if your child is a vlogger or
an influencer, same rules apply. What else, You cannot be
(04:56):
required to attend what they call captive meeting or captive
audience meetings. This is where an employer will require you
to come to a meeting, and then the meeting is
not necessarily about anything relevant. It might be a religious
message or a political message, or it might be a
speech about why unions aren't any good and you don't
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really want to join a union. Well, now, if you
if you make somebody go to one of these things,
or if you punish them for not going to one
of these things, you could be fined up to five
hundred dollars. And there's now a ban on discriminating against
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people because of their hair. This is designed to address
discrimination generally against people of color who also have hair
that is culturally associated with their race. And what it
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does is it says race also includes traits that are
associated with the race, like hair texture or hair styles.
So there's a little bit of stereotyping necessary in order
to protect somebody with natural hair or whatever it is
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from being discriminated against for their hair in the workplace.
Because I think what's really going on is the idea
is that probably if you say, oh, we had to
fire you because you had a big halfro that really
you fired the person because they're black. So if you're
using hair as a proxy for firing somebody because of
their race, you won't be able to do it anymore.
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Now there's another law. I'm not going to talk about
it now because it makes me so mad. I'm going
to talk about something else to kind of cool down,
and then I'm going to talk about it a little
bit later in the show. Another law about where you
could park your car. That is the proof of an
ongoing problem with local governments. But when we come back
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from some news from Michael Monks, we are going to
talk about robots everywhere, including in the kitchens of restaurants
where there's no human being in there. Yes, the robot report.
Next on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. AFI Am six forty Live everywhere on the
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iHeartRadio app. This is the Bill Handles Show. Welcome Bill
is back from his vacation on Monday. I'm Wayne Resnik.
We're looking for a press conference around nine am our time.
The situation in New Orleans where a guy rammed his
car into a bunch of revelers in the French Quarter
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celebrating New Year's Eve and then got out and started shooting.
The police engaged him, gunfire was exchanged. Two of the
cops were injured. The guy's dead, and we hope to
get some more information about what's going on there, whether
it's true that they found improvised explosive devices also in
(08:08):
the area, or whether that is just a rumor, and
maybe a little information about why this person might have
done it. We'll bring that to you when it happens.
Also closer to home, flu cases are spiking here in
southern California. According to the California Department Public Health. Across
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the whole state, they describe the flu activity levels as moderate,
but Southern California has a disproportionately high number of flu cases.
So do with that information anything that you want, or
don't do anything. Sometimes when you go eat at a restaurant,
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and this usually is a big deal at a fancy restaurant,
but it doesn't have to be. Sometimes you may be
invited back to the kitchen. If you're like a regular customer,
or if it's a particularly expensive meal, you may be
invited back to go to the kitchen and see it
and maybe meet the chef. This is a big deal.
(09:15):
But imagine you are invited to go back to the
kitchen and there's nobody in the kitchen, not a human
being to be found. Maybe it's the mayor d comes
over and says, oh, would you'd like to see the kitchen.
You're such a good diner, And then there's nobody there. Well,
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how's the food getting made? The answer is the button kit.
Button Kit is a robot chef. Not only can button
kit cook the meal, botton kick button Kit. I'm gonna
say it wrong every time. It's kind of a tongue twister,
(09:58):
botton kit. I'm just gonna start saying the robot okay,
can we agree? Thank you? The robot can also clean up.
You don't need a chef. You don't need a dishwasher,
you just need botton Kit. So you can upload the recipe.
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You can even upload the recipe through the cloud remotely,
or it has a touchscreen botton Kit, and you can
touch the thing you want and you can alter it
like you could say, I want the I'm just making
up a thing pod Thai noodle medium spicy or something
(10:40):
like that. And it's programmed. It knows all this stuff
and boom, there it goes. It gets out of bowl
and it chops the thing and it dispenses the seasonings,
and the bowl magically becomes the cooking pan and it
cooks the thing up and it does the thing and
it dumps it on the plate. Yeah. Now, this is
(11:01):
part of a bigger trend of robots showing up all
over the place. But the company behind button Kit, the
chef Robot, which is mostly in Asia right now but
has set up business here in the United States. They're
(11:21):
saying the company says, oh no, no, we're not trying
to replace human chefs. That's not the point of botton Kit.
There still will be human chefs. No chefs are going
to be harmed by the robot chef. The human chefs
will still be involved in the recipe creation. I mean,
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you still have to have a chef come up with
the recipes that they want to serve at the restaurant.
And also the chef will be able, the human chef
will be able to participate a little bit in the cooking.
They can add their personal touch in the last part
when the robot's done so, if he's made the pod
time medium spicy, and then the chef wants to like
(12:10):
place I don't know, the basil leaf, a decorative basil
leaf on top of it, He'll still be able to
do that, or she'll still be able to do that,
or they'll still be able to do that. And in
the meantime, you know, robots, like a robot chef in
a kitchen is not really public facing. But there is
(12:30):
a trend now where robots are entering the public world.
They're not just in the factory or the warehouse or
the kitchen. They're in the retail store or the museum.
They're doing stuff right in front of you, and sometimes
they're doing stuff with you, like talking to you. This
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is the new trend, and they say it's because of
AI and specifically the technology that run uns chat GPT
is making this possible to improve the brain power of
these robots. This really sounds like the first act of
a science fiction movie that ends with the robots killing
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all the people and living amongst themselves. But we're still
in the first act at this point. I don't know
how much brain power we need a robot to have,
although you know, even an advanced robot is also kind
of a dummy. There's a lot of things that you
can program a robot to do, and they can do
it better or faster or more accurately than a human,
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or more consistently accurately than a human. There are other
things that are really really hard for robots to do
that are dead simple for you, like picking something up
and moving it. That's a big deal because you have
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to use code. Right now, You program code and it
tells the robot how to pick up something and move it,
which means they can only pick up the thing they're
programmed to pick up, and they can only move it
however their program to move it. Whereas I could ask you,
could you please pick up anything in the room, whatever
it is, you don't know what I'm gonna ask, and
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I can ask you to pick up anything, and I
can ask you to put it anywhere else and you
can do it no problem. A C student can do it,
no problem. But a smart robot right now can't do it.
So there's a long way to go before a robot
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is going to be smarter than me, that's for sure.
We'll get some news from Michael Monks and then I
have called an audible. We had something we were gonna do,
but I saw one of the new laws in California
that took effect, and I'm not it's making me mad
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because it's part of a huge problem. If you dare
to be a person who drives a car, I'm gonna
tell you what's been going on and why if it
feels like your local government is against you, I'm gonna
tell you why it feels that way. Spoiler alert, it's
(15:27):
because they are. It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Bill Handle on
demand from KFI AM six forty. KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. It's the Bill
Handle Show. He's back from vacation. On Monday, Wayne resumes
(15:49):
sitting in until nine and one thing I want to
tell you about very quickly, this story that we're looking at.
Federal prosecutors are trying to keep a guy behind bars
and not get out on bail after they made the
largest seizure of homemade explosives in FBI history. This is
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some guy named Brad Spafford who lives in Isle of
Wight County, Virginia, which I'm assuming is way in the
middle of nothing. It's about one hundred and eighty five
miles south of DC. They arrested him for having a
short barreled rifle and then they found over one hundred
and fifty homemade bombs. Then he had some stuff in
(16:34):
his freezer that it's called HMTD. It's an explosive and
it HMTD is so volatile that it will explode if
the temperature changes a few degrees. And he had that.
(16:56):
And here's the reason I'm telling you about this guy,
because it didn't happen here, happened on the other side
of the country. But he has how many fingers do
you have? Yes, he has two. And this is one
of the big deals that the prosecutors are making in
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telling the judge you should never let this guy out
on bond. Is even after losing his own fingers, he
still had over one hundred and fifty homemade bombs in
this highly volatile explosive at his house in the freezer.
Not a special explosive freezer, No, the regular family freezer
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where the Swanson frozen dinners are and the Ben and
Jerry's are kept, and then this stuff is in there.
So originally the judge said, well, I'm gonna let him out,
and the prosecutor said, we have some more evidence. So
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now the judge's looking at that trying to decide what
to do with this guy. Talk about not learning, and
I'll talk about this not learning. There's a new law
that is taken effect that says you cannot park now
within twenty feet of an intersection, even if the curb
is not red. You obviously notice as you drive around
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that as you get close to the intersection, then the
curb is red and you know, oh yeah, don't park there. Well,
some curbs are not red and you have been allowed
to park there. No longer red or not. You can't
park your car within twenty feet of an intersection. Which
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in some parts of the country where they also do
have this law, it doesn't necessarily matter because anywhere you
go there's plenty of parking, but in southern California, in
parts of LA in particular, they're how much is not
So they're definitely taking away parking to protect pedestrians. That's
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what the point of this is. If a car is
parked too close to the intersection, I guess the pedestrian
can't see the traffic as well, and instead of just
being really careful and kind of leaning out and taking
some responsibility for not getting smashed by a car, they're
just walking out dooty do. And then they go did
(19:29):
and see there was a car perk there. So here's
the thing. And I don't have a ton of time,
and I don't need a ton of time because I
saw this new law and I said, yep, here we
go again. If you feel like there's a bias against
you as a driver, it's because there's a massive bias
against you as a driver. And it wasn't always this way,
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you know. When the car first came out, it was
one of the most amazing and important invention of human history.
It changed lives, It changed how business is done, It
changed how work and home life was balanced. It changed
the economy and the FEDS built a lot of freeway
(20:16):
system and a lot of stuff, and states and local
governments they were very happy to spend money building roads
to accommodate these cars because these cars were amazing and magical.
Now cars are evil. So here's the thing. Why does
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it feel like there's a bias against us for driving
our cars? Reason one. One thing that's happened to state
and local governments over the decades is they have become
more and more financially unstable and leveraged, running deficits, having
to get cutting services, unable to simply operate. Roads are
(21:08):
very expensive to build, so a road project that would
help alleviate car traffic is a very expensive proposition, and
if you're part of a city council or a county
commission or a state agency, you don't want to commit
(21:29):
to spending that kind of money because you don't have it.
You know what's not as expensive bike lane bustling. Taking
a traffic lane and giving it over to the bikes.
That doesn't cost very much money at all. Putting up
pylons to separate a bike lane from the rest of
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the street doesn't cost very much money. So because governments
have become so financially irresponsible. Now they look at road
projects to help alleviate your traffic in your car as evil.
And then there's a completely different thing that's happened with
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state and local governments. They've become more political and activist.
Sixty years ago, local governments they really were just like,
all right, we got to have the roads and the
police and the fire and the water and the thing,
and what's the best way to do it. Then they
started getting involved in causes. They started getting involved in
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trying to operate a city in a way to try
to get people to behave certain ways that they want.
And we all know with global warming and pollution that
one of the things that has been decided is people
should be encouraged to give up their car and ride
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a bike or take public transportation or if it's close enough,
walk over there. So they don't want to spend the
money or where they can't, they can't really spend the
money because they're too irresponsible on building out the roads.
But they also wouldn't probably if they could, because they
now make decisions to disadvantage drivers and give basically privileges
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to bikers and pedestrians. And this law is a perfect
example of deciding that it's more important to try to
predect to protect some dumb ass from walking out into
the middle of the street where he can't see the traffic,
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then to maybe have enough parking for you when you
go to patronize a business or pick up your kid
from a ballet class. They're making their choices, they're showing
their preferences. This law is an example of that, and
it's only gonna get worse. There's never getting better. There's
never gonna be a pay some things. There's a pendulum
(24:06):
swing tough on crime. Let's have criminal justice reform. No,
let's get tough on crime again. There will never be
a pendulum swing back to paying for infrastructure for cars.
Let's get some news from Michael Monks, and then we're
gonna finish the show. Everybody's talking about should you drink
(24:28):
raw milk? And experts say no, But did you know
there's something else you can drink that's raw that you
didn't even know could be raw. I will tell you
what's going on. It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app, KFI AM sixty live everywhere on
(24:50):
the iHeartRadio app. This is the bill handles show. Wayne
Resnick's sitting in for a few more minutes sometime around nine,
So in the next ten minutes or so, we're expecting
a press conference out of New Orleans with updates on
the the I don't even know what to call it.
I know they're calling it a terrorist attack. Somebody plowed
(25:11):
into a group of revelers in the French Quarter with
his car, killed, at least ten injured, at least thirty
others got out, started shooting. Cops shot back. Two of
the cops were injured. The guy is dead, and we'll
bring that press conference to you as soon as it happens. Also,
(25:34):
huge blackout hit almost all of Puerto Rico yesterday. There
was an underground power line that one of the most
important power lines in their whole grid, and it failed
and they think it could be another two days before
everybody is back online. Now, there's been some coverage in
(25:56):
the news of the controversy about raw milk, and you
know there's there. I guess there's a growing group of
people who say we want to be allowed to drink
raw milk, and the government says, oh no, it's dangerous.
It could have a bunch of crap in it and bacteria,
and it needs to be pasteurized, and that's why we
pasteurize it. So here's the thing, because there's always something weirder,
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no matter what's in the news, and you go kind
it's so weird. There's always something weirder. So if you
were to drive up in northern California, in Marin County,
there's there's a pull out there on the road. It's
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very small if you if you're not looking for it,
you probably we might not even notice it, except that
you might see a group of people there and some
of them have driven hours, they've said, in traffic to
get there. And that's Red Rock Spring for you. See,
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the people gathered there have decided they will only drink
water that comes from the pipes of Red Rock Spring.
They will not drink tap water, they will not drink
bottled water. They will only drink this water. And they
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call it raw water. Now you may call it untreated water,
but they call it raw water. They do not want
to drink the water that goes through the government's water
treatment systems, even though that's where you get rid of
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the bacteria that could kill you or Parrisie or certain
chemical toxins that could, I don't know, make your child
not develop properly in their brain. And this is I'm
not saying it's big business, because it really isn't a business.
It's a trend. It's a fad maybe. And most of
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these people are part of the health freedom movement. This
is the health freedom movement is we don't like vaccine mandates,
we don't like mask mandates, we don't want fluoride in
our water. We don't want our milk to be pasteurized,
and we don't want our water being treated. We want
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to drink it right out of the spring, naturally. And
they're going to have an ally now in the federal
government Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who President elect Trump is
picked to lead health in Human Services. He uh, you know,
he's spoken out on a lot of these things. He's
not on the record yet about raw water, so I
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don't know where he stands on that, but he has
talked about flora. He wants the flooride out of the water.
So people are so into this that they crowd source
maps of springs that you can go to and drink
natural right out of the ground raw water at Red
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Rock Spring which is near. If you're trying to place it,
it's mere Stinton Beach. If you know where that is,
it doesn't matter. You're not gonna if your life. I
want to drive up there now and drink that raw water,
then God speed to you. You have to wait in line.
You can wait at forty five minutes an hour just
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to drink this raw water. And it's not just there,
you might say, h northern California, of course, what do
you expect. Oh no, No, it's all over the country.
There's a place in South Carolina where there are two
spigots in the ground and they bring up water from
some underground spring. And people flock to this place in
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the middle of rural South Carolina to get water from
these two spigots. And then you've got people, you know,
trying to capitalize on the traffic. They're selling oranges and
pecans and watermelon, all this stuff. It's it's like a stuckies,
except it's for people to get water out of the ground.
In Oklahoma, there's people who drive for hours because there's
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a natural well there that they say it has healing
water in it. Because it's raw, there might be so
little something to it. If it's coming directly out of
the ground, and it comes through layers of the soil.
It's possible that it does get filtered of some of
some pathogens, but nobody really knows for sure, and there's
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no way that it's as clean as treated water. There
absolutely could be arsenic in there the soil E coli.
God knows what's in there. So the next time somebody says,
do you want to go drink some raw, they might
not be talking about milk. They might be talking about
H two O. All right, that's me. Wayne Resnick and
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