December 19, 2025 • 24 mins
(December 19, 2025)
Brown University and MIT professor shootings linked, suspect found dead. New laws going into effect in California in 2026. 'It penetrates your bones': Day laborers protest noise machines installed at Home Depot.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bill Handle here Friday morning, December nineteenth. Next week it
is Christmas today, day five.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Of Hanukkah, and.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Now right through New Year, we're gonna have a really
modified schedule of personalities here on KFI. Okay, a big
story it broke yesterday, I mean huge, and that is
the shooting at Brown and the MIT professor who was
killed in Boston up here almost certainly to be connected.
(00:39):
Same guy did the shooting. And he is forty eight
year old Claudio Monuel Nevis Valente or Valente, and he
came the n ice eighth in two thousand from Portugal,
came in on a student visa. He later got his
green card in twenty seventeen because there was a program
(00:59):
and that is diverse immigrant visa program, which I don't
know if it exists anymore, I'd be shocked. And so
he was here perfectly legally and had no criminal record.
So he ended up shooting the professor in Brown University.
And the way they put this together it was good policing. However,
(01:22):
they didn't have a clue. The authorities had no clue
as to who it was except these videos where a
face couldn't be seen, and they were talking about recognizing
him because of his date and he's a heavy set guy.
They use stocky describing it. I don't know why they
(01:42):
never say he's fat, he was fat, and how.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Did they end up catching him?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, you hear constantly we need the public to give
any information because a huge I would say the majority
of cases that are solved like this, where the authorities
have no clue initially are solved because of tips that
(02:10):
are given to police.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
And that's what happened here.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now, whenever the public is asked for help, especially if
there's a reward that's to be issued or a.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Reward is available, the tips.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Come in like crazy, and one of the things the
police have to do is discern which ones are legitimate
which ones aren't. And the crazy ones are fairly easy,
but the ones that seem to have some legs or not.
And this is clearly what ended up happening. It looks
like he was acting alone, never had a problem before.
(02:47):
They don't know what the motive was for the killings.
On Saturday, he comes into a lecture hall at Brown
during an economic study session. Kills two wounds nine and
then two days later he shot and killed MIT professor
Nunio Larua I think, also from Portugal and Larua Lorero,
(03:10):
forty seven years old. Professor of nuclear science and engineering
and a physics was found shot at his home. I understand,
right there at his door, answering the doors, about forty
five miles north of Brown.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Now they think that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The two knew each other because they were at the
same academic program between nineteen ninety five and two thousand
at the university in Portugal. And then they don't know
what happened, what altercation happened that they don't The authorities
aren't saying did the two men communicate recently, except to
(03:49):
say that professor was specifically targeted, but no ties to
the victims at Brown. Now, this was the end of
a five day search. Early on stumped investigators until the
tip came in where they could track him down. Federal, state,
local enforcement spent a week scouring the region, and the
(04:11):
whole region everybody locked their doors, and it's the whole neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The whole area becomes paranoid.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Do you remember the freeway killer that.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That did all the killing?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I think, up and down the coast, and what was
the one in Los Angeles where the whole area just
was going crazy. Now the officials are saying that there
was this witness, actually a homeless guy I understand described
the encounter with Valente.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He blew the case right right open.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
A police official said he identified this by the way,
he's only identified as John. This witness and John first
noticed Valente on the Brown campus two hours before the shooting.
They were in a bathroom together. John described Valente as suspicious.
(05:13):
His clothes seem quote flimsy. I don't know what that means,
inappropriate for the cold weather.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I know what that means.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And so John follows him from the building, sees him
approaches gray Nissan CenTra that's where we got the information
about Etcentra Flora plates, and then walk away from the
car when you noticed he was being watched. And John
would later tell the cops that he followed Valente, who
appeared to be lingering on the blocks attempting to return
(05:41):
to the car, and the two confronted each other. John
confronted him and Valente says, I don't know you from nobody.
Why are you harassing me? John posts the encounter on
Reddit and then the police had the beginning of the investigation,
and the car was rented and they put all the
pieces together, and at some point they were able to
(06:04):
know that Valente showed up at a storage facility, tracking
him down there, the cops show up, the SWAT team
comes up, the helicopters overhead, and they breach the storage
facility and there he is with his brains blown out.
I'm assuming that self inflicted gunshot wound is always in
the head for.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The most part.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And now the issue is there's a huge legal issue.
I mean, it's really serious. Who's going to clean up
the brains on the inside of that storage facility? I wouldn't,
but good news they caught the guy. The shame of
this is there's two aspects of this. One he should
have killed himself before shooting up at Brown and killing
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the professor. And two, he has saved the taxpayer a
ton of money.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
He probably doesn't have any money.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
This is a capital case except Massachusetts doesn't have the
death penalty, and it would cost a fortune to defend him.
And based on what we hear and see, and assuming
that all of this pans out, it's gonna cost a
lot of money. And he's gonna spend the rest of it.
He would spend the rest of his life in jail. Okay,
(07:18):
all right. Every year, right around this time I talk
about the new laws they kick in in California, because
when a law has passed, usually it kicks in the
first of the following year, unless it's one of those
that take three or four years to actually accomplish what
the law says. So at the beginning of the year,
(07:40):
I generally talk about the stupid, insane, moronic laws that
are state legislators who we pay a lot of money
to legislate that what they vote in. However, what I
want to do this time around is take a moment
or two and talk.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
About laws that actually do make sense.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You may not agree with these laws, but they do
make sense, and I think most people know.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
One of them is banning cat declining. I thought that
was already a law, and it clears not to be.
But starting January one, cat owners will be prohibited from
having cats declawed.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And why is that? Because if you look.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
At what they do to the cats to declaw them,
amputate the first bone in each of the cat's toes,
maybe severing tendons, to prevent claw extension.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Now, for those of.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You that have cats who ruin the furniture because they
scratch at furniture, that's what cats do.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Get a dog.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Just get a dog and have a dog pee on
the leg of the furniture. You know, that's easier to
clean than redoing the legs. And if it's a furnire
that is upholstered, get a dog now, or get some
kind of a pet. Get a parakeet, although you let
them out of the room or out of their cage
and they crap all over your furniture. So do whatever
(09:12):
you want. Declawing is permitted only when medically necessary. All right,
landlords are going to be required to provide working stoves
and refrigerators and apartments starting January first. Now they have
to provide water heaters for example.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's law.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And I've never seen a rental that didn't have a
stove in it, but I didn't know that that was
not necessary.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And refrigerators.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
People bring in their own refrigerators all day long, and
it's a problem. You bring in your own fridge and
you rent, and then you rent a place after that
that has a fridge, and what the hell do you
do so. Anybody who is renting now working stoves and
refrigerators in apartments starting January first, that makes a lot
of sense, all for that starting July first of next year,
(10:03):
giving these organizations, these businesses, or California's public schools in
this case, have at least must have at least one
gender neutral restroom. Now I guess at this point they
have men and women or boys and girls, and gender
neutral is something that is difficult for a lot of
(10:27):
people who are trans, for example. And this bill originally
passed in twenty twenty three, but delayed after President Trump
signed multiple executive orders impacting trans people. Do you know
what I found out about trans people? And I did
not know this, and that is it is a thing
for trans people who are moving from male to female
(10:52):
to have surgery and just taking off the nards and
leaving the penis intact and connected to their body. I
had no idea that that was a thing, just removing
the gonads.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I don't know. Maybe it was a financial thing where
you can do it at a vet.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I have no idea plastic bag ban, Okay, starting next year,
there are no plastic shopping bags. They don't exist. Now,
the band took place in twenty fourteen. But then there
was that loophole that the stores could sell these really
thick plastic bags that were supposed to be recyclable.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
They're not. They cannot be recyclable.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So the legislature said, okay, if we want bags that
are recyclable, you bring your own or its paper bags,
which I'm going I went to the store the other day.
It's only plastic bag. It's only paper bags. Trader Joe's
early on only paper bags. So that's going to be
happened by law. Next here, and food delivery platforms Uber
(12:06):
door Dash must give you a full refund if an
order is not delivered or if the wrong order is delivered.
Did you know that they didn't have to give you
a refund the wrong order is delivered.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now I order Dominos.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I just happen to like their pan pizza a lot
and they send the wrong order, They'll just send a
new pizza. If they're late and you go, hey, these guys,
you were half an hour late, They'll just send you
a new pizza. And so now it's the food delivery platforms.
And here's something that we really dive into here, and
that is the volume for ads on streaming services. Streaming
(12:48):
services will not be allowed to play ads louder than
the show that's being watched. Now, that's already regulations in
the television broadcast. I don't think radio has that limitation
because one of the things that commercials that run on
KFI and I hear these, they run commercials hot, which
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means in many cases they are substantially louder.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And you go, come on, guys, and it's a thing.
It's a thing.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And then parking tickets if you can't afford it, if
you're unable to pay you, if you're homeless or have
financial hardship, you can request a payment plan. And that
didn't happen except judges Intervisual individually did that. And then
really controversial police and ICE mask ban. Most law enforcement officers,
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including the FEDS, are prohibited from wearing face coverings while
conducting official business.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That's state law.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And that's of course in direct response to ICE agents
coming out with masks. Is that going to go any place?
Absolutely not. These are federal police, and the FEDS completely
supersede any state law. So that is I think a
pyrrhic victory doesn't mean much. Okay, did you ever see
(14:14):
the movie Scanners. It's an old sci fi movie, that is,
it's a fifties maybe sixties, and it's really bad. Well,
in the movie there is the protagonist sends out this
very high pitch tone and whoever hears it, their head
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explodes and brains go flying all over.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
The place brain material.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, that's exactly what's happening at a home depot in
Cyprus park. They should be filming the Scanners two there
because since late November home depot installed three machines in
the parking lot that emit this very high pitched tone,
and the noise, typically kept on all day, is a
(15:08):
piercing sound that penetrates your very bones. And that's according
to Jose, that's all the name we have because he
a day labor illegal, probably and he is afraid to
give a last name because what do you think, fear
of ice picking him up. So there's an organization I
(15:28):
didn't know it existed, the Instituto de Educacionapolade del Sor
di California IDEPSKA. It's a nonprofit that supports day labors.
Day labors being those usually Hispanics. Matter of fact, I've
never seen someone who is not Hispanic who is a
day labor and they used to sit at driveways at
(15:50):
Home Depot, at Low's, at major hardware stores because people
needed day labors be picked up. And I must say
that there's been a time when I hired day labors
for day labor, because if you need someone for four
hours or six hours, you're doing some landscaping, you're tearing
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down a fence, and you're buying the material. At a
major hardware store read Home Depot, Lows or any other
major or even minor stores, they're there in the driveway
and hoping to be picked up and give it a job,
taken advantage of in many cases. And I've also used
(16:35):
them when I needed day laborer. I mean, I'll it
reminds me of the Simon and Garfunkels song The Boxer,
and one of the lyrics is there are times I
was so lonesome I took some comfort there. Great lyric well,
there were times that I was so lonesome for labor.
I took some comfort there. And for the most part
(16:57):
they are I'm guessing now Illy Well Ice will tell
you that's for sure. So anyway, the Instituto held a
press conference at Home depot Wednesday, the very one and
calling for the company to remove those machines. There's three
of them, and of course oppose the ice raids taking
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place in its parking lots. And this is part of
a growing number of protests that are targeting corporate cooperation
with immigrant enforcement. Now, home depots locations across the country
have been a prime target for ice raids, and we
know why because that's where you find a group of
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illegal immigrants, undocumented and they hang out. They are hoping
for work because they can't apply for regular jobs. I
mean they can, but the employer has to pay them
under the table or they have to come up with false,
false social security numbers, and it takes some level of
sophistication do that, and these folks don't have that level
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of sophistication or are unable to meet those requirements. So
they hang out in driveways or next to the driveway.
As you leave a home depot, and so what home
depot is doing in Cyprus park is filming scanners, high
pitched noise penetrates and your brain explodes.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well maybe not that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Home depots have been the target of ice raids all
over the country because of obvious reasons. So what they
did in order to number one, not have the ice raids,
they sort of ice raids tend to disrupt business in
those parking lots. And at the same time, they just well,
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a lot of people are uncomfortable and do and feel
very strongly about illegal migrants that are there waiting for work,
their day labors or waiting for work. So about fifty
people have already been detained at this location this year.
So they put up these machines so day labors would
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not hang around. And a lot of places, a lot
of these stores where you had the migrants, the illegal
aliens and who you assume that you don't really know
that ice will tell you after the fact, but they
used to be in the driveway, literally in the driveway,
almost blocking people. A lot of these stores set up
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a center, set up a part of the parking lot
that segregated where day labors hang out. And that makes
a lot of sense because if someone wants a day
labor just goes over to that place and is not
inundated with folks. If you ever been to a home
depot or any of these stores that sell you know, lumber, concrete,
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et cetera, I don't know if you've ever been accosted.
I certainly have, and so a spokesman for Home Depot said,
we've used several initiatives to keep our stores safe, including
human and technology resources, which of course that includes these
machine machines. I guess the Home Depot is really careful
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to say. The company does not coordinate with ICE or
BARD to patrol. We're not involved in the operations. We
aren't notified about enforcement activities or when they're going to happen,
and we have nothing to do with them. And what
this IDEPSKA organization is, which is basically a day labor organization,
hands out ear plugs.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
They're handing out ear plugs to help, and it helps
a little bit, but not enough. Councilwoman Eunice Is Hernandez,
who represents the city's first district, says, the devices like
this are used to torture against our people. I don't
know them to torture. I mean, I think that's the point.
(21:10):
I think it's just too people stay away and Home
Depot well, they rely on the community, including customers who
shop inside and day labors who want work and they're
outside the storefront and the argument in favor of these
organizations who represent day labors, and I don't know what
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the organization really wants. It gets to allow day labors
to hang out there and you know, you bring your
pickup truck and they're waving and you literally just grab someone.
It's a tough way to get these labors who it's
horrible for them. I mean, they've come to the United
States to feed their families who are basically not eating.
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They come here with no marketable skills, with no education whatsoever,
and all they can produce is labor. And we're talking
about labor, manual labor, and they're being picked up because
they are illegal. When they work, they're making three times
ten times as much money as they can from Mexico,
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and that's usually where they're coming from.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And your heart breaks for them.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And this noise, this high pitched noise, according to and
virtually everybody, is just another layer of stress today labors
who are struggling to get work. And a couple times,
I must admit, it's been a lot of years, a
couple of times I have gone and picked up some
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day labors when I needed landscaping done where my landscaper
was going to charge me just a ton of money,
for example, to weed the hill behind my house, for
installing an irrigation system, and the landscaper gives me a price.
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But that includes hiring people and paying Social Security and
having insurance, and it's a ton of money, more than
just going down to the home depot with a pickup
truck and they jump in and you hire them for
four hours, eight hours, and you pay cash and it's
a lot less money. And then some people don't even
pay a living wage, and I usually paid far more
(23:28):
than minimum wage because I'm one of these people that have.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And this is the liberal in me.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
So don't take this too seriously, where I do believe
if you're working, you should be able to eat and
no matter what in this country. All right, coming up, ooh,
this is a fun one. And this is about what
are we doing at eight o'clock? Let me see. Oh, yeah,
(23:54):
we're doing the Jesus story, right, ann I think we are.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Nope, we're not doing the Jesus story. What story are
we doing? Are? Okay? Good?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Because I've sort of mixed them up today. All right,
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Speaker 1 (24:08):
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Speaker 2 (24:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bill Handle here Friday morning, December nineteenth. Next week it
is Christmas today, day five.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Of Hanukkah, and.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Now right through New Year, we're gonna have a really
modified schedule of personalities here on KFI. Okay, a big
story it broke yesterday, I mean huge, and that is
the shooting at Brown and the MIT professor who was
killed in Boston up here almost certainly to be connected.
(00:39):
Same guy did the shooting. And he is forty eight
year old Claudio Monuel Nevis Valente or Valente, and he
came the n ice eighth in two thousand from Portugal,
came in on a student visa. He later got his
green card in twenty seventeen because there was a program
(00:59):
and that is diverse immigrant visa program, which I don't
know if it exists anymore, I'd be shocked. And so
he was here perfectly legally and had no criminal record.
So he ended up shooting the professor in Brown University.
And the way they put this together it was good policing. However,
(01:22):
they didn't have a clue. The authorities had no clue
as to who it was except these videos where a
face couldn't be seen, and they were talking about recognizing
him because of his date and he's a heavy set guy.
They use stocky describing it. I don't know why they
(01:42):
never say he's fat, he was fat, and how.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Did they end up catching him?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, you hear constantly we need the public to give
any information because a huge I would say the majority
of cases that are solved like this, where the authorities
have no clue initially are solved because of tips that
(02:10):
are given to police.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
And that's what happened here.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now, whenever the public is asked for help, especially if
there's a reward that's to be issued or a.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Reward is available, the tips.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Come in like crazy, and one of the things the
police have to do is discern which ones are legitimate
which ones aren't. And the crazy ones are fairly easy,
but the ones that seem to have some legs or not.
And this is clearly what ended up happening. It looks
like he was acting alone, never had a problem before.
(02:47):
They don't know what the motive was for the killings.
On Saturday, he comes into a lecture hall at Brown
during an economic study session. Kills two wounds nine and
then two days later he shot and killed MIT professor
Nunio Larua I think, also from Portugal and Larua Lorero,
(03:10):
forty seven years old. Professor of nuclear science and engineering
and a physics was found shot at his home. I understand,
right there at his door, answering the doors, about forty
five miles north of Brown.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Now they think that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The two knew each other because they were at the
same academic program between nineteen ninety five and two thousand
at the university in Portugal. And then they don't know
what happened, what altercation happened that they don't The authorities
aren't saying did the two men communicate recently, except to
(03:49):
say that professor was specifically targeted, but no ties to
the victims at Brown. Now, this was the end of
a five day search. Early on stumped investigators until the
tip came in where they could track him down. Federal, state,
local enforcement spent a week scouring the region, and the
(04:11):
whole region everybody locked their doors, and it's the whole neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The whole area becomes paranoid.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Do you remember the freeway killer that.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That did all the killing?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I think, up and down the coast, and what was
the one in Los Angeles where the whole area just
was going crazy. Now the officials are saying that there
was this witness, actually a homeless guy I understand described
the encounter with Valente.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He blew the case right right open.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
A police official said he identified this by the way,
he's only identified as John. This witness and John first
noticed Valente on the Brown campus two hours before the shooting.
They were in a bathroom together. John described Valente as suspicious.
(05:13):
His clothes seem quote flimsy. I don't know what that means,
inappropriate for the cold weather.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I know what that means.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And so John follows him from the building, sees him
approaches gray Nissan CenTra that's where we got the information
about Etcentra Flora plates, and then walk away from the
car when you noticed he was being watched. And John
would later tell the cops that he followed Valente, who
appeared to be lingering on the blocks attempting to return
(05:41):
to the car, and the two confronted each other. John
confronted him and Valente says, I don't know you from nobody.
Why are you harassing me? John posts the encounter on
Reddit and then the police had the beginning of the investigation,
and the car was rented and they put all the
pieces together, and at some point they were able to
(06:04):
know that Valente showed up at a storage facility, tracking
him down there, the cops show up, the SWAT team
comes up, the helicopters overhead, and they breach the storage
facility and there he is with his brains blown out.
I'm assuming that self inflicted gunshot wound is always in
the head for.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The most part.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And now the issue is there's a huge legal issue.
I mean, it's really serious. Who's going to clean up
the brains on the inside of that storage facility? I wouldn't,
but good news they caught the guy. The shame of
this is there's two aspects of this. One he should
have killed himself before shooting up at Brown and killing
(06:47):
the professor. And two, he has saved the taxpayer a
ton of money.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
He probably doesn't have any money.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
This is a capital case except Massachusetts doesn't have the
death penalty, and it would cost a fortune to defend him.
And based on what we hear and see, and assuming
that all of this pans out, it's gonna cost a
lot of money. And he's gonna spend the rest of it.
He would spend the rest of his life in jail. Okay,
(07:18):
all right. Every year, right around this time I talk
about the new laws they kick in in California, because
when a law has passed, usually it kicks in the
first of the following year, unless it's one of those
that take three or four years to actually accomplish what
the law says. So at the beginning of the year,
(07:40):
I generally talk about the stupid, insane, moronic laws that
are state legislators who we pay a lot of money
to legislate that what they vote in. However, what I
want to do this time around is take a moment
or two and talk.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
About laws that actually do make sense.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You may not agree with these laws, but they do
make sense, and I think most people know.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
One of them is banning cat declining. I thought that
was already a law, and it clears not to be.
But starting January one, cat owners will be prohibited from
having cats declawed.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And why is that? Because if you look.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
At what they do to the cats to declaw them,
amputate the first bone in each of the cat's toes,
maybe severing tendons, to prevent claw extension.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Now, for those of.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You that have cats who ruin the furniture because they
scratch at furniture, that's what cats do.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Get a dog.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Just get a dog and have a dog pee on
the leg of the furniture. You know, that's easier to
clean than redoing the legs. And if it's a furnire
that is upholstered, get a dog now, or get some
kind of a pet. Get a parakeet, although you let
them out of the room or out of their cage
and they crap all over your furniture. So do whatever
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you want. Declawing is permitted only when medically necessary. All right,
landlords are going to be required to provide working stoves
and refrigerators and apartments starting January first. Now they have
to provide water heaters for example.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's law.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And I've never seen a rental that didn't have a
stove in it, but I didn't know that that was
not necessary.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And refrigerators.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
People bring in their own refrigerators all day long, and
it's a problem. You bring in your own fridge and
you rent, and then you rent a place after that
that has a fridge, and what the hell do you
do so. Anybody who is renting now working stoves and
refrigerators in apartments starting January first, that makes a lot
of sense, all for that starting July first of next year,
(10:03):
giving these organizations, these businesses, or California's public schools in
this case, have at least must have at least one
gender neutral restroom. Now I guess at this point they
have men and women or boys and girls, and gender
neutral is something that is difficult for a lot of
(10:27):
people who are trans, for example. And this bill originally
passed in twenty twenty three, but delayed after President Trump
signed multiple executive orders impacting trans people. Do you know
what I found out about trans people? And I did
not know this, and that is it is a thing
for trans people who are moving from male to female
(10:52):
to have surgery and just taking off the nards and
leaving the penis intact and connected to their body. I
had no idea that that was a thing, just removing
the gonads.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I don't know. Maybe it was a financial thing where
you can do it at a vet.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I have no idea plastic bag ban, Okay, starting next year,
there are no plastic shopping bags. They don't exist. Now,
the band took place in twenty fourteen. But then there
was that loophole that the stores could sell these really
thick plastic bags that were supposed to be recyclable.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
They're not. They cannot be recyclable.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So the legislature said, okay, if we want bags that
are recyclable, you bring your own or its paper bags,
which I'm going I went to the store the other day.
It's only plastic bag. It's only paper bags. Trader Joe's
early on only paper bags. So that's going to be
happened by law. Next here, and food delivery platforms Uber
(12:06):
door Dash must give you a full refund if an
order is not delivered or if the wrong order is delivered.
Did you know that they didn't have to give you
a refund the wrong order is delivered.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now I order Dominos.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I just happen to like their pan pizza a lot
and they send the wrong order, They'll just send a
new pizza. If they're late and you go, hey, these guys,
you were half an hour late, They'll just send you
a new pizza. And so now it's the food delivery platforms.
And here's something that we really dive into here, and
that is the volume for ads on streaming services. Streaming
(12:48):
services will not be allowed to play ads louder than
the show that's being watched. Now, that's already regulations in
the television broadcast. I don't think radio has that limitation
because one of the things that commercials that run on
KFI and I hear these, they run commercials hot, which
(13:11):
means in many cases they are substantially louder.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And you go, come on, guys, and it's a thing.
It's a thing.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And then parking tickets if you can't afford it, if
you're unable to pay you, if you're homeless or have
financial hardship, you can request a payment plan. And that
didn't happen except judges Intervisual individually did that. And then
really controversial police and ICE mask ban. Most law enforcement officers,
(13:44):
including the FEDS, are prohibited from wearing face coverings while
conducting official business.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That's state law.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And that's of course in direct response to ICE agents
coming out with masks. Is that going to go any place?
Absolutely not. These are federal police, and the FEDS completely
supersede any state law. So that is I think a
pyrrhic victory doesn't mean much. Okay, did you ever see
(14:14):
the movie Scanners. It's an old sci fi movie, that is,
it's a fifties maybe sixties, and it's really bad. Well,
in the movie there is the protagonist sends out this
very high pitch tone and whoever hears it, their head
(14:37):
explodes and brains go flying all over.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
The place brain material.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, that's exactly what's happening at a home depot in
Cyprus park. They should be filming the Scanners two there
because since late November home depot installed three machines in
the parking lot that emit this very high pitched tone,
and the noise, typically kept on all day, is a
(15:08):
piercing sound that penetrates your very bones. And that's according
to Jose, that's all the name we have because he
a day labor illegal, probably and he is afraid to
give a last name because what do you think, fear
of ice picking him up. So there's an organization I
(15:28):
didn't know it existed, the Instituto de Educacionapolade del Sor
di California IDEPSKA. It's a nonprofit that supports day labors.
Day labors being those usually Hispanics. Matter of fact, I've
never seen someone who is not Hispanic who is a
day labor and they used to sit at driveways at
(15:50):
Home Depot, at Low's, at major hardware stores because people
needed day labors be picked up. And I must say
that there's been a time when I hired day labors
for day labor, because if you need someone for four
hours or six hours, you're doing some landscaping, you're tearing
(16:12):
down a fence, and you're buying the material. At a
major hardware store read Home Depot, Lows or any other
major or even minor stores, they're there in the driveway
and hoping to be picked up and give it a job,
taken advantage of in many cases. And I've also used
(16:35):
them when I needed day laborer. I mean, I'll it
reminds me of the Simon and Garfunkels song The Boxer,
and one of the lyrics is there are times I
was so lonesome I took some comfort there. Great lyric well,
there were times that I was so lonesome for labor.
I took some comfort there. And for the most part
(16:57):
they are I'm guessing now Illy Well Ice will tell
you that's for sure. So anyway, the Instituto held a
press conference at Home depot Wednesday, the very one and
calling for the company to remove those machines. There's three
of them, and of course oppose the ice raids taking
(17:18):
place in its parking lots. And this is part of
a growing number of protests that are targeting corporate cooperation
with immigrant enforcement. Now, home depots locations across the country
have been a prime target for ice raids, and we
know why because that's where you find a group of
(17:43):
illegal immigrants, undocumented and they hang out. They are hoping
for work because they can't apply for regular jobs. I
mean they can, but the employer has to pay them
under the table or they have to come up with false,
false social security numbers, and it takes some level of
sophistication do that, and these folks don't have that level
(18:06):
of sophistication or are unable to meet those requirements. So
they hang out in driveways or next to the driveway.
As you leave a home depot, and so what home
depot is doing in Cyprus park is filming scanners, high
pitched noise penetrates and your brain explodes.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well maybe not that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Home depots have been the target of ice raids all
over the country because of obvious reasons. So what they
did in order to number one, not have the ice raids,
they sort of ice raids tend to disrupt business in
those parking lots. And at the same time, they just well,
(18:54):
a lot of people are uncomfortable and do and feel
very strongly about illegal migrants that are there waiting for work,
their day labors or waiting for work. So about fifty
people have already been detained at this location this year.
So they put up these machines so day labors would
(19:16):
not hang around. And a lot of places, a lot
of these stores where you had the migrants, the illegal
aliens and who you assume that you don't really know
that ice will tell you after the fact, but they
used to be in the driveway, literally in the driveway,
almost blocking people. A lot of these stores set up
(19:39):
a center, set up a part of the parking lot
that segregated where day labors hang out. And that makes
a lot of sense because if someone wants a day
labor just goes over to that place and is not
inundated with folks. If you ever been to a home
depot or any of these stores that sell you know, lumber, concrete,
(20:04):
et cetera, I don't know if you've ever been accosted.
I certainly have, and so a spokesman for Home Depot said,
we've used several initiatives to keep our stores safe, including
human and technology resources, which of course that includes these
machine machines. I guess the Home Depot is really careful
(20:27):
to say. The company does not coordinate with ICE or
BARD to patrol. We're not involved in the operations. We
aren't notified about enforcement activities or when they're going to happen,
and we have nothing to do with them. And what
this IDEPSKA organization is, which is basically a day labor organization,
hands out ear plugs.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
They're handing out ear plugs to help, and it helps
a little bit, but not enough. Councilwoman Eunice Is Hernandez,
who represents the city's first district, says, the devices like
this are used to torture against our people. I don't
know them to torture. I mean, I think that's the point.
(21:10):
I think it's just too people stay away and Home
Depot well, they rely on the community, including customers who
shop inside and day labors who want work and they're
outside the storefront and the argument in favor of these
organizations who represent day labors, and I don't know what
(21:31):
the organization really wants. It gets to allow day labors
to hang out there and you know, you bring your
pickup truck and they're waving and you literally just grab someone.
It's a tough way to get these labors who it's
horrible for them. I mean, they've come to the United
States to feed their families who are basically not eating.
(21:54):
They come here with no marketable skills, with no education whatsoever,
and all they can produce is labor. And we're talking
about labor, manual labor, and they're being picked up because
they are illegal. When they work, they're making three times
ten times as much money as they can from Mexico,
(22:16):
and that's usually where they're coming from.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And your heart breaks for them.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And this noise, this high pitched noise, according to and
virtually everybody, is just another layer of stress today labors
who are struggling to get work. And a couple times,
I must admit, it's been a lot of years, a
couple of times I have gone and picked up some
(22:44):
day labors when I needed landscaping done where my landscaper
was going to charge me just a ton of money,
for example, to weed the hill behind my house, for
installing an irrigation system, and the landscaper gives me a price.
(23:06):
But that includes hiring people and paying Social Security and
having insurance, and it's a ton of money, more than
just going down to the home depot with a pickup
truck and they jump in and you hire them for
four hours, eight hours, and you pay cash and it's
a lot less money. And then some people don't even
pay a living wage, and I usually paid far more
(23:28):
than minimum wage because I'm one of these people that have.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And this is the liberal in me.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
So don't take this too seriously, where I do believe
if you're working, you should be able to eat and
no matter what in this country. All right, coming up, ooh,
this is a fun one. And this is about what
are we doing at eight o'clock? Let me see. Oh, yeah,
(23:54):
we're doing the Jesus story, right, ann I think we are.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Nope, we're not doing the Jesus story. What story are
we doing? Are? Okay? Good?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Because I've sort of mixed them up today. All right,
this is KF I am six forty.
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