July 9, 2026 • 24 mins
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A sad kind of convenience… less interaction with other people. Vatican excommunicates breakaway group, in biggest schism in 156 years. ‘Please Control Your Children’: California restaurateur charges parents when their kids run wild; parental accountability.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
am six forty Clowly. I'm mister Lowely. I have no
Budy for just lovely, well done Cono, good song Bill.
(00:30):
And this is I want to share with you. A
story came out of the Atlantic and it's entitled A
Sad Kind of Convenience. And we've talked about the fact
that we are becoming estranged. We don't connect with people
anymore because we're not really working together anymore, remote working,
and we just don't hang and people used to. And
(00:54):
so what's happening is this is a story out of
physical media and the death of physical media. And I'll
tell you why. What's going on indicates even a greater loss. Now.
I don't know if you thought about this, but it
really got me thinking. Entertainment companies are moving and we
(01:15):
know that, but what does it mean people. They're moving
people into seamless digital spaces, convenience replaces, ownership, games without discs,
music on Spotify instead of vinyl. I mean, they have
vinyl records, but that's just sort of a hobby. It's
(01:36):
aficionado is that for some reason think that vinyl records
sound better. I've never understood that. Look at the games,
the video games, where do you do them? You do
them at home? You know, they used to have arcades.
That's where you did video games. Thanks still doing not
the way they used to. No, not in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, we go to an arcade okay, but that is
an arcade facility.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's just arcade games. But how about the ones in restaurants.
When I first started practicing law, I had there was
my office and in the same little complex I was
in a strip mall. There were it was a restaurant
two doors down that had an arcade game in it.
It was one of the early assault things where asteroids.
(02:19):
You remember that game, it was Asteroids. Yeah, and I
would go there. We'd go there a couple of times
a day. Well, they don't do that anymore. And there
used to be every place. And you want to play
an arcade game, you go to an arcade game facility
and that's it. I mean they used to be all
over the place. Not so much. They the whole point.
(02:42):
Remember that you put quarters in, and they were designed
to have you put quarters in. Well, now the games
are at home, and they're obviously not getting a game
or a quarter per game, because it would used to
be very short. Now you have games that go on
for hours because you've already bought the game. So supply
(03:04):
and demand is probably the explanation why the music industry
stops selling CDs, Why you don't have DVD bargain bins?
Remember those a dollar a DVD. When's the last time
you saw one of those? Game Stop? What happened to
game Stop? I'm going to see in one of those
in a long time. No, they're still around. How many?
(03:28):
How many have closed? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I got to tell you, I've got at least three
or four within a six mile range of us.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, you live in an area where it doesn't have
the stores, and I know this. I'm gonna give folks
a little inside baseball. Neil lives in the middle of
the ghetto and game stop. It's just easy to steal
and loot that place.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So, oh, you said game I thought you said gang
stop Stop?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well said, how about? Well, here's a stat for you.
When the PlayStation four was launched, this is twenty thirteen, Okay,
thirteen percent of the entire Sony video games line were
being purchased digitally. Only thirteen percent now it's eighty percent.
(04:25):
If that doesn't go to show you what has happened.
When it comes to vinyl records, they disappeared. Remember it
started with you had CDs and you had the well
the DVDs or video, but you also had all kinds
of digitally at Blu Ray, you remember that, and there
(04:46):
was there were dats and those have just disappeared. And
so now if you're talking about vinyl records, it's a
specialty hobby, is all it is. It's ooh, let's go
to a store. Are there any record stores? Is Amiba
Records still around?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, they moved not long ago to a new location,
but Amieba's still around absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And this is where you get just a real classics,
old classics. Do you know that new ones too? Taylor
Swift put her last album out on vinyl, in addition
of course to digital and Spotify, et cetera. I had
and boy, I don't know whatever happened to me. I lost
it And I had the promo record, the vinyl record
(05:31):
that was done as a promo of Charles Manson's songs
where he played the guitar and he sang. It was
a demo of something he was a demo was the
first one he did. Yeah, he tried to sell a
matter of fact, he tried to sell it to one
of the beach boys at the place that he rented it.
The beach boy rented it and then he went back
(05:52):
to that place because he was really pissed off at them,
and it turned out to be Sharon Tate had rented
the place and he killed, you know, killed all those
people that were in the house. And it was he
was trying to get into the music business. Matter of fact,
I think you can look it up on YouTube, the
Charles Manson song and my favorite one is Oh Garbage
(06:14):
Pale or Oh Garbage Can, Oh Garbage Can, Oh garbage Can?
You can feed the whole world garbage Can. It's a
brilliant song that he did, Yeah, and what a singer
he was. But the point I'm making is that everything
is digital today. When's the last time you went to
a movie theater. I used to go two three times
(06:37):
a week. I have not been in a movie for
probably a year, and before that two years or three years,
and you'd go to a movie. The floor would be
sticky and you would pray that it was coke that
was on the floor. That's a different kind of theater bill.
They don't have those anymore either. There used to be
(07:00):
those theaters where these guys would ask for a box
of popcorn with a hole at the bottom. We're done,
See they're laughing. Okay, story about the Vatican and the Catholicism,
and I love this story. First of all, I have
(07:22):
a connection to Catholicism in a big way. And this
is me not joking. My dad, who was a Holocaust survivor,
had left Yugoslavia, which was controlled by the Nazis, and
he went into Italy escaping, and the Vatican at that
(07:42):
time took several thousand Jews and hid them because they
were leaving and were able to get out. And my
dad was one of them. And because of his he
was a real scholar. My dad, he spoke nine languages,
and so he ended up being a Jesuit priest. That
(08:03):
was what he basically masqueraded at. And he taught Latin,
he taught Ancient Greek because he spoke all of those,
and he ended up teaching Catechism, a Jew teaching Catechism.
Just a great story. So I have an affinity to
(08:23):
what happened in the Vatican during World War Two. Now
there's a story about excommunication right where the priests or
in this case, the pope excommunicates people and that is
the ultimate, especially for religious Catholic, the ultimate way to
die while you're still alive. So there is a breakaway
(08:45):
group of the Roman Catholic Church, and what they are
doing is they're trying to go back to what the
church was, the Mass in Latin, the very strict interpretation
of the Bible. And you've had popes that had become
more liberal. Actually started nineteen sixty two Vatican two, where
(09:08):
a Pope John the twenty third really opened up the
church and he died after only four years, and he
was so frighten. Or the Vatican, the curia, the people
that actually are elected, the cardinals that elect a new pope,
because at some time you've got a pope that's running
for pope, a cardinal and all of a sudden, I
(09:28):
guess Jesus comes down and says, this is the guy
I want. I've never understood that and becomes the Vicar
of Christ. But in any case, there's this group that
has broken away, the Society of Saint Pius the tenth,
seven hundred and fifty priests, thousands of worshippers, and Pope
(09:51):
Leo said, oh no, you keep on going like this,
you're excommunicated. You are thrown out of the Catholic Church.
That is a very big deal to be excommunicated. And
this is probably one of the most liberal popes we
have had in many, many years. By the way, after
(10:12):
John the twenty third, the Vatican was so frightened of
what where the church was going because of his liberalism.
They made sure there were super conservative popes that were
put in. Even Pope Pope John. Oh my god, that
(10:33):
I actually forget the pope's name was now a saint.
That goes my mind. So many popes there, yeah, well, yes,
you know that's yeah. I mean, you can't even try
to try to take a test on how many popes
there are out there, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's a little fun fact for you. By the way,
Mel Gibson, Oh yeah, famed actor. He goes to a
Latin church. Yeah, he does, the Church of the Holy Family.
It's gated, it's private, it's located in a Gura Hills,
and the entire mass is entirely in Latin.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The Old School. Well, according to Pope Leo and others.
The Vatican has said the society is barred now from
officiating marriages, can't hear confessions when taking the eucharists the
cracker during Eucharis, the priest can no longer put cheese
whiz on the cracker. It is no longer allowed. I mean,
(11:31):
the Church was becoming more liberal and they're going back.
By the way, the number of followers are between three
hundred and six hundred thousand people. That is a big deal.
And in terms of bringing Catholics back into the fold,
it's real simple. You say you're Catholic, you toe the line.
You don't toe the line, you're excommunicated. And Pope Leo
(11:57):
did this. Pope Leo is actually talked about women clergy
marrying non Catholic because it used to be that you,
a Catholic, could only get married to another Catholic. Otherwise
there was no marriage. You know, I got married in
the most one of the most Catholic countries in the world, Italy,
(12:20):
right where the Vatican is. Here's a little factoid that
you probably didn't know, and I didn't know that in Italy,
a religious ceremony where a priest actually officiate officiates. Is
not a legal marriage. The only marriage that is recognized
(12:40):
by the state in Italy is a marriage done by
basically a clerk at city hall. All the other marriages
that you see where priests, those are all they're simply ceremonial.
There is no validity whatsoever. We're here. Of course, the official,
who is a clergy person signs off and that is
(13:03):
a legal marriage. But you didn't know that. So I
got married City Hall, Laguna Beach and that's my official marriage.
So much for that excommunication. You're done right, No crackers
(13:24):
for you. Okay, before we dive into the topic about
how miserable and horrible your kids are, Neil, the Dodgers.
The Dodgers. Indeed, sir, they are back.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Your official home for Dodgers Baseball is AM five to
seventy LA Sports tonight or tomorrow night. Rather, you're back
to back World champion Dodgers take on the Diamondbacks with
the first pitch at seven. Listen on AM five to
seventy LA Sports and streaming on the iHeart Radio app
live from the Gallpin Ford broad Cast booth.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, I want to tell share with you a story
about a Bay Area restaurant owner named you U Xu. Yes,
that's what they call me on a regular basis, u
U ju u u juw. Yeah. And so there he
is owning his restaurant. I'm assuming it's a Chinese restaurant,
shay Zhu. I think so. Anyways, it's a Michelin star restaurant,
(14:27):
so you know, it's very good. So he is witnessing
a customer changing his child's diaper on top of one
of the booths in the restaurant. Holy god. Yeah. And
I mean the good news is there weren't people there
that were eating, but I mean right in front of
(14:47):
the entire restaurant. And he said, okay, that's it. We're
putting a stop to this right now. Now. He had
already been thinking about how to deal with customer behavior
at the restaurant, You shay Zu, and he said, you know,
kids fooling around trashing the place, and he said, I
have to put a stop to it. Now. Keep in mind,
(15:09):
most restaurants will allow almost anything to keep a customer base,
and they're not gonna it's very rare they throw someone out. Uh.
But uh, for example, he has a digital menu and
a lot of restaurants do, and you access to a
QR code and at the top of the digital menu,
which is there on the table in huge letters, please
(15:33):
control your children. Now, it's a family friendly restaurant, but
he said, we are not a playground. Please ensure children boldface,
all caps, remain seated at all times and respectful of
fellow guests and the dining environment. Running around, shouting, making
(15:54):
noise with you, potensils, et cetera will not be tolerated.
And I'm sure all of us have gone to restaurant
where these kids running around. One of the things that
I can't stand is being on an airplane and a
kid is screaming next to me, and no matter how
much I tell the parents take the kid outside, it
(16:15):
never works. And he says guests who don't respond, don't
respect the policy, will be asked to leave, and the
restaurant's going to hold parents financially liable for all the
damage caused by their kids, which by the way, is
the law. But the restaurant owner are going to do that.
Probably not well, he's changed at all, and people are
(16:37):
really looking at it. And the policy has been around
for about a year. It went viral last week and
then all of a sudden, you have restaurants that are
jumping on board. And he said regarding kids, we're a
casual restaurant, but we're not chuck e cheese. And there
are stories about kids doing all kinds of damage. In
(17:00):
one story, a kid literally broke one of those card
processing machines and got billed. Parents got bill for three
hundred and twenty seven dollars and they had to pay.
Now he has another restaurant, a Michelin recognized restaurant. The
guy's a hell of a chef named Wonderful. It's Hu
non style Chinese food and it does the same thing.
(17:22):
And said, this is an interesting guy who runs a restaurant.
Several years ago, he was railing against junk fees on bills.
This is a restaurant owner who was screaming, no junk bills,
junk fees, no hidden search charges. And he files lawsuits,
(17:43):
by the way, against these restaurants. And there was a
restaurant that he sued that he said an arcade rigged
with his claw machines. You've seen those with that claw machine,
which you I've never seen anybody actually get a toy
out of there. And he said they are rigged and
said that basically became a casino for children, but it's
(18:08):
the children's behavior goes squarely on to the parents and
he will sue. And the general reaction on the internet
has been overwhelmingly positive. I can see that we said
the quiet part out loud and he instituted this policy,
especially since he made the notice at the top of
the menu, the digital menu that's on that's on the table,
(18:32):
very prominent, very bold, and he said the number of
incidents have in fact fallen to virtually zero. That makes
sense to me. And parents are accountable, they are anyway legally,
but he's holding them to it. Okay, let me tell
you what's going on with the card rooms in southern California.
(18:56):
We had Kyle Kirkland, president of California Gaming Association and
on and he also owns one of the club's Club
One in casino, the Club One Casino in Fullerton. And
here's what ended up happening. Card clubs are they're allowed
to offer games like blackjack, and blackjack is particularly important,
(19:17):
and they've been able to do that for years and years,
even though there are rules that don't let you do that,
but they they were able to do it as a
run around, and I don't want to give the reasons
why and how they were able to do it. It's
a little complicated. And he says Club one his play,
sixty percent of the revenue comes from blackjack, because I
can't survive on forty percent. And card rooms in La
(19:41):
County generate more than two billion dollars in economic activity,
nine thousand jobs. And the cities that would be much
more affected by removing that ability to offer blackjack, Bell Gardens,
Hawaiian Gardens, the casinos represent seventy percent of the general
(20:01):
fund of the entire city. So here's what ended up happening.
The Native Americans Native American community, what they did is
convince the legislature to pass a law or pending a
law that would basically not allow blackjack, would not allow
(20:23):
table games at the casinos, which effectively would shut them down.
And why Well, because the Indian tribes offer those same
card games, and there are plenty of people who do
not want to go to an Indian or a reservation
because there's the card club right up the street and
(20:45):
commerce and Bell Gardens and there it is. I mean,
you have to drive a long way to go to
those casinos. Now those casinos are spectacular. I mean they
have shows, they have restaurants, they have I mean it's
on a whole different level. Hard clubs are basically card clubs.
But at the same time they were playing in the
(21:05):
Indian casino said no, no, because we want all the business.
So they convinced the legislature to at least to introduce
this bill and they were going to have it done.
So when ended up happening and the state came in
there by the way, the state came in to do
exactly that and in fact made a decision, a legislative decision,
(21:28):
not a the legislation executive decision. That's the California Office
Administrated Law green lit the new rules in February, and
the California Gaming Association filed a lawsuit instantly to invalidate them,
and they got a preliminary junction in junction in May
blocking the state from imposing these new rules taking away
(21:49):
the ability of card rooms to offer table games poker, blackjack,
particularly blackjack. That is really what is at stake here,
and so preliminary injunction came into being. Now you have
the California Gaming Association, which represents the card rooms and
(22:11):
there are seventy of them across California, about twenty thousand employees.
And it's estimated, according to the Gaming Commission or the
gaming folks, that tax revenue generated by these card rooms
about five hundred million dollars a year. This is a
twenty nineteen analysis that was commissioned by the group. And
(22:34):
so Proposition one A, by the way, passed by California
voters in two thousand, gave the tribes the right to
conduct Nevada style gaming like casino banked card games, and
I was a big fan of that. I do believe
that Indians, in the Native Americans should be able to
offer card games. They used to do just bingo. When
(22:54):
this all started, it would be bingo. And there was
one of the reservations I remember which one that has
a massive casino and as a massive hotel. It was
bingo under a tent. And then the law was passed
in two thousand and it exploded. And I was totally
in favor of that. Why because the US government, over
(23:15):
the course of dealing with Indian tribes since the eighteen hundreds,
broke every single treaty that existed everyone, So okay, it
was time for the natives Native Americans to get on
board and get some benefit from the state. Now this
(23:35):
has gone beyond them getting benefit from the state. They
wanted to stop this, and the judge just held that
California was the name of it. The California Bureau of
Gambling Control exceeded their authority by introducing that change, and
(23:56):
so you know that's going to be appealed, and we'll
probably deal with this again. Okay, we're done, guys, that's
it finished. Tomorrow we come back again. I'm going to
finish my little marshmallow tree so good. And Amy comes
aboard with Will at five o'clock wake up call, Neil
(24:18):
and I jump aboard, and of course Ann and Kono
are always here. I come in the morning and there's
Ann just getting up from sleeping on the couch because
she's been here all night Gary and she's I got
a dedicated group of people here. Gary and Shannon up next.
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(24:39):
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
am six forty Clowly. I'm mister Lowely. I have no
Budy for just lovely, well done Cono, good song Bill.
(00:30):
And this is I want to share with you. A
story came out of the Atlantic and it's entitled A
Sad Kind of Convenience. And we've talked about the fact
that we are becoming estranged. We don't connect with people
anymore because we're not really working together anymore, remote working,
and we just don't hang and people used to. And
(00:54):
so what's happening is this is a story out of
physical media and the death of physical media. And I'll
tell you why. What's going on indicates even a greater loss. Now.
I don't know if you thought about this, but it
really got me thinking. Entertainment companies are moving and we
(01:15):
know that, but what does it mean people. They're moving
people into seamless digital spaces, convenience replaces, ownership, games without discs,
music on Spotify instead of vinyl. I mean, they have
vinyl records, but that's just sort of a hobby. It's
(01:36):
aficionado is that for some reason think that vinyl records
sound better. I've never understood that. Look at the games,
the video games, where do you do them? You do
them at home? You know, they used to have arcades.
That's where you did video games. Thanks still doing not
the way they used to. No, not in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, we go to an arcade okay, but that is
an arcade facility.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's just arcade games. But how about the ones in restaurants.
When I first started practicing law, I had there was
my office and in the same little complex I was
in a strip mall. There were it was a restaurant
two doors down that had an arcade game in it.
It was one of the early assault things where asteroids.
(02:19):
You remember that game, it was Asteroids. Yeah, and I
would go there. We'd go there a couple of times
a day. Well, they don't do that anymore. And there
used to be every place. And you want to play
an arcade game, you go to an arcade game facility
and that's it. I mean they used to be all
over the place. Not so much. They the whole point.
(02:42):
Remember that you put quarters in, and they were designed
to have you put quarters in. Well, now the games
are at home, and they're obviously not getting a game
or a quarter per game, because it would used to
be very short. Now you have games that go on
for hours because you've already bought the game. So supply
(03:04):
and demand is probably the explanation why the music industry
stops selling CDs, Why you don't have DVD bargain bins?
Remember those a dollar a DVD. When's the last time
you saw one of those? Game Stop? What happened to
game Stop? I'm going to see in one of those
in a long time. No, they're still around. How many?
(03:28):
How many have closed? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I got to tell you, I've got at least three
or four within a six mile range of us.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, you live in an area where it doesn't have
the stores, and I know this. I'm gonna give folks
a little inside baseball. Neil lives in the middle of
the ghetto and game stop. It's just easy to steal
and loot that place.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So, oh, you said game I thought you said gang
stop Stop?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well said, how about? Well, here's a stat for you.
When the PlayStation four was launched, this is twenty thirteen, Okay,
thirteen percent of the entire Sony video games line were
being purchased digitally. Only thirteen percent now it's eighty percent.
(04:25):
If that doesn't go to show you what has happened.
When it comes to vinyl records, they disappeared. Remember it
started with you had CDs and you had the well
the DVDs or video, but you also had all kinds
of digitally at Blu Ray, you remember that, and there
(04:46):
was there were dats and those have just disappeared. And
so now if you're talking about vinyl records, it's a
specialty hobby, is all it is. It's ooh, let's go
to a store. Are there any record stores? Is Amiba
Records still around?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, they moved not long ago to a new location,
but Amieba's still around absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And this is where you get just a real classics,
old classics. Do you know that new ones too? Taylor
Swift put her last album out on vinyl, in addition
of course to digital and Spotify, et cetera. I had
and boy, I don't know whatever happened to me. I lost
it And I had the promo record, the vinyl record
(05:31):
that was done as a promo of Charles Manson's songs
where he played the guitar and he sang. It was
a demo of something he was a demo was the
first one he did. Yeah, he tried to sell a
matter of fact, he tried to sell it to one
of the beach boys at the place that he rented it.
The beach boy rented it and then he went back
(05:52):
to that place because he was really pissed off at them,
and it turned out to be Sharon Tate had rented
the place and he killed, you know, killed all those
people that were in the house. And it was he
was trying to get into the music business. Matter of fact,
I think you can look it up on YouTube, the
Charles Manson song and my favorite one is Oh Garbage
(06:14):
Pale or Oh Garbage Can, Oh Garbage Can, Oh garbage Can?
You can feed the whole world garbage Can. It's a
brilliant song that he did, Yeah, and what a singer
he was. But the point I'm making is that everything
is digital today. When's the last time you went to
a movie theater. I used to go two three times
(06:37):
a week. I have not been in a movie for
probably a year, and before that two years or three years,
and you'd go to a movie. The floor would be
sticky and you would pray that it was coke that
was on the floor. That's a different kind of theater bill.
They don't have those anymore either. There used to be
(07:00):
those theaters where these guys would ask for a box
of popcorn with a hole at the bottom. We're done,
See they're laughing. Okay, story about the Vatican and the Catholicism,
and I love this story. First of all, I have
(07:22):
a connection to Catholicism in a big way. And this
is me not joking. My dad, who was a Holocaust survivor,
had left Yugoslavia, which was controlled by the Nazis, and
he went into Italy escaping, and the Vatican at that
(07:42):
time took several thousand Jews and hid them because they
were leaving and were able to get out. And my
dad was one of them. And because of his he
was a real scholar. My dad, he spoke nine languages,
and so he ended up being a Jesuit priest. That
(08:03):
was what he basically masqueraded at. And he taught Latin,
he taught Ancient Greek because he spoke all of those,
and he ended up teaching Catechism, a Jew teaching Catechism.
Just a great story. So I have an affinity to
(08:23):
what happened in the Vatican during World War Two. Now
there's a story about excommunication right where the priests or
in this case, the pope excommunicates people and that is
the ultimate, especially for religious Catholic, the ultimate way to
die while you're still alive. So there is a breakaway
(08:45):
group of the Roman Catholic Church, and what they are
doing is they're trying to go back to what the
church was, the Mass in Latin, the very strict interpretation
of the Bible. And you've had popes that had become
more liberal. Actually started nineteen sixty two Vatican two, where
(09:08):
a Pope John the twenty third really opened up the
church and he died after only four years, and he
was so frighten. Or the Vatican, the curia, the people
that actually are elected, the cardinals that elect a new pope,
because at some time you've got a pope that's running
for pope, a cardinal and all of a sudden, I
(09:28):
guess Jesus comes down and says, this is the guy
I want. I've never understood that and becomes the Vicar
of Christ. But in any case, there's this group that
has broken away, the Society of Saint Pius the tenth,
seven hundred and fifty priests, thousands of worshippers, and Pope
(09:51):
Leo said, oh no, you keep on going like this,
you're excommunicated. You are thrown out of the Catholic Church.
That is a very big deal to be excommunicated. And
this is probably one of the most liberal popes we
have had in many, many years. By the way, after
(10:12):
John the twenty third, the Vatican was so frightened of
what where the church was going because of his liberalism.
They made sure there were super conservative popes that were
put in. Even Pope Pope John. Oh my god, that
(10:33):
I actually forget the pope's name was now a saint.
That goes my mind. So many popes there, yeah, well, yes,
you know that's yeah. I mean, you can't even try
to try to take a test on how many popes
there are out there, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's a little fun fact for you. By the way,
Mel Gibson, Oh yeah, famed actor. He goes to a
Latin church. Yeah, he does, the Church of the Holy Family.
It's gated, it's private, it's located in a Gura Hills,
and the entire mass is entirely in Latin.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The Old School. Well, according to Pope Leo and others.
The Vatican has said the society is barred now from
officiating marriages, can't hear confessions when taking the eucharists the
cracker during Eucharis, the priest can no longer put cheese
whiz on the cracker. It is no longer allowed. I mean,
(11:31):
the Church was becoming more liberal and they're going back.
By the way, the number of followers are between three
hundred and six hundred thousand people. That is a big deal.
And in terms of bringing Catholics back into the fold,
it's real simple. You say you're Catholic, you toe the line.
You don't toe the line, you're excommunicated. And Pope Leo
(11:57):
did this. Pope Leo is actually talked about women clergy
marrying non Catholic because it used to be that you,
a Catholic, could only get married to another Catholic. Otherwise
there was no marriage. You know, I got married in
the most one of the most Catholic countries in the world, Italy,
(12:20):
right where the Vatican is. Here's a little factoid that
you probably didn't know, and I didn't know that in Italy,
a religious ceremony where a priest actually officiate officiates. Is
not a legal marriage. The only marriage that is recognized
(12:40):
by the state in Italy is a marriage done by
basically a clerk at city hall. All the other marriages
that you see where priests, those are all they're simply ceremonial.
There is no validity whatsoever. We're here. Of course, the official,
who is a clergy person signs off and that is
(13:03):
a legal marriage. But you didn't know that. So I
got married City Hall, Laguna Beach and that's my official marriage.
So much for that excommunication. You're done right, No crackers
(13:24):
for you. Okay, before we dive into the topic about
how miserable and horrible your kids are, Neil, the Dodgers.
The Dodgers. Indeed, sir, they are back.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Your official home for Dodgers Baseball is AM five to
seventy LA Sports tonight or tomorrow night. Rather, you're back
to back World champion Dodgers take on the Diamondbacks with
the first pitch at seven. Listen on AM five to
seventy LA Sports and streaming on the iHeart Radio app
live from the Gallpin Ford broad Cast booth.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, I want to tell share with you a story
about a Bay Area restaurant owner named you U Xu. Yes,
that's what they call me on a regular basis, u
U ju u u juw. Yeah. And so there he
is owning his restaurant. I'm assuming it's a Chinese restaurant,
shay Zhu. I think so. Anyways, it's a Michelin star restaurant,
(14:27):
so you know, it's very good. So he is witnessing
a customer changing his child's diaper on top of one
of the booths in the restaurant. Holy god. Yeah. And
I mean the good news is there weren't people there
that were eating, but I mean right in front of
(14:47):
the entire restaurant. And he said, okay, that's it. We're
putting a stop to this right now. Now. He had
already been thinking about how to deal with customer behavior
at the restaurant, You shay Zu, and he said, you know,
kids fooling around trashing the place, and he said, I
have to put a stop to it. Now. Keep in mind,
(15:09):
most restaurants will allow almost anything to keep a customer base,
and they're not gonna it's very rare they throw someone out. Uh.
But uh, for example, he has a digital menu and
a lot of restaurants do, and you access to a
QR code and at the top of the digital menu,
which is there on the table in huge letters, please
(15:33):
control your children. Now, it's a family friendly restaurant, but
he said, we are not a playground. Please ensure children boldface,
all caps, remain seated at all times and respectful of
fellow guests and the dining environment. Running around, shouting, making
(15:54):
noise with you, potensils, et cetera will not be tolerated.
And I'm sure all of us have gone to restaurant
where these kids running around. One of the things that
I can't stand is being on an airplane and a
kid is screaming next to me, and no matter how
much I tell the parents take the kid outside, it
(16:15):
never works. And he says guests who don't respond, don't
respect the policy, will be asked to leave, and the
restaurant's going to hold parents financially liable for all the
damage caused by their kids, which by the way, is
the law. But the restaurant owner are going to do that.
Probably not well, he's changed at all, and people are
(16:37):
really looking at it. And the policy has been around
for about a year. It went viral last week and
then all of a sudden, you have restaurants that are
jumping on board. And he said regarding kids, we're a
casual restaurant, but we're not chuck e cheese. And there
are stories about kids doing all kinds of damage. In
(17:00):
one story, a kid literally broke one of those card
processing machines and got billed. Parents got bill for three
hundred and twenty seven dollars and they had to pay.
Now he has another restaurant, a Michelin recognized restaurant. The
guy's a hell of a chef named Wonderful. It's Hu
non style Chinese food and it does the same thing.
(17:22):
And said, this is an interesting guy who runs a restaurant.
Several years ago, he was railing against junk fees on bills.
This is a restaurant owner who was screaming, no junk bills,
junk fees, no hidden search charges. And he files lawsuits,
(17:43):
by the way, against these restaurants. And there was a
restaurant that he sued that he said an arcade rigged
with his claw machines. You've seen those with that claw machine,
which you I've never seen anybody actually get a toy
out of there. And he said they are rigged and
said that basically became a casino for children, but it's
(18:08):
the children's behavior goes squarely on to the parents and
he will sue. And the general reaction on the internet
has been overwhelmingly positive. I can see that we said
the quiet part out loud and he instituted this policy,
especially since he made the notice at the top of
the menu, the digital menu that's on that's on the table,
(18:32):
very prominent, very bold, and he said the number of
incidents have in fact fallen to virtually zero. That makes
sense to me. And parents are accountable, they are anyway legally,
but he's holding them to it. Okay, let me tell
you what's going on with the card rooms in southern California.
(18:56):
We had Kyle Kirkland, president of California Gaming Association and
on and he also owns one of the club's Club
One in casino, the Club One Casino in Fullerton. And
here's what ended up happening. Card clubs are they're allowed
to offer games like blackjack, and blackjack is particularly important,
(19:17):
and they've been able to do that for years and years,
even though there are rules that don't let you do that,
but they they were able to do it as a
run around, and I don't want to give the reasons
why and how they were able to do it. It's
a little complicated. And he says Club one his play,
sixty percent of the revenue comes from blackjack, because I
can't survive on forty percent. And card rooms in La
(19:41):
County generate more than two billion dollars in economic activity,
nine thousand jobs. And the cities that would be much
more affected by removing that ability to offer blackjack, Bell Gardens,
Hawaiian Gardens, the casinos represent seventy percent of the general
(20:01):
fund of the entire city. So here's what ended up happening.
The Native Americans Native American community, what they did is
convince the legislature to pass a law or pending a
law that would basically not allow blackjack, would not allow
(20:23):
table games at the casinos, which effectively would shut them down.
And why Well, because the Indian tribes offer those same
card games, and there are plenty of people who do
not want to go to an Indian or a reservation
because there's the card club right up the street and
(20:45):
commerce and Bell Gardens and there it is. I mean,
you have to drive a long way to go to
those casinos. Now those casinos are spectacular. I mean they
have shows, they have restaurants, they have I mean it's
on a whole different level. Hard clubs are basically card clubs.
But at the same time they were playing in the
(21:05):
Indian casino said no, no, because we want all the business.
So they convinced the legislature to at least to introduce
this bill and they were going to have it done.
So when ended up happening and the state came in
there by the way, the state came in to do
exactly that and in fact made a decision, a legislative decision,
(21:28):
not a the legislation executive decision. That's the California Office
Administrated Law green lit the new rules in February, and
the California Gaming Association filed a lawsuit instantly to invalidate them,
and they got a preliminary junction in junction in May
blocking the state from imposing these new rules taking away
(21:49):
the ability of card rooms to offer table games poker, blackjack,
particularly blackjack. That is really what is at stake here,
and so preliminary injunction came into being. Now you have
the California Gaming Association, which represents the card rooms and
(22:11):
there are seventy of them across California, about twenty thousand employees.
And it's estimated, according to the Gaming Commission or the
gaming folks, that tax revenue generated by these card rooms
about five hundred million dollars a year. This is a
twenty nineteen analysis that was commissioned by the group. And
(22:34):
so Proposition one A, by the way, passed by California
voters in two thousand, gave the tribes the right to
conduct Nevada style gaming like casino banked card games, and
I was a big fan of that. I do believe
that Indians, in the Native Americans should be able to
offer card games. They used to do just bingo. When
(22:54):
this all started, it would be bingo. And there was
one of the reservations I remember which one that has
a massive casino and as a massive hotel. It was
bingo under a tent. And then the law was passed
in two thousand and it exploded. And I was totally
in favor of that. Why because the US government, over
(23:15):
the course of dealing with Indian tribes since the eighteen hundreds,
broke every single treaty that existed everyone, So okay, it
was time for the natives Native Americans to get on
board and get some benefit from the state. Now this
(23:35):
has gone beyond them getting benefit from the state. They
wanted to stop this, and the judge just held that
California was the name of it. The California Bureau of
Gambling Control exceeded their authority by introducing that change, and
(23:56):
so you know that's going to be appealed, and we'll
probably deal with this again. Okay, we're done, guys, that's
it finished. Tomorrow we come back again. I'm going to
finish my little marshmallow tree so good. And Amy comes
aboard with Will at five o'clock wake up call, Neil
(24:18):
and I jump aboard, and of course Ann and Kono
are always here. I come in the morning and there's
Ann just getting up from sleeping on the couch because
she's been here all night Gary and she's I got
a dedicated group of people here. Gary and Shannon up next.
KFI Am sixty. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
(24:39):
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