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NEW California Laws 2026 | A Slice of Inheritance · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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Speaker 1: am six forty.
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Speaker 2: Long long. I am six forty bill handle here Monday morning,
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Speaker 2: January fifth. As we start the year, the big, big
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Speaker 2: story we are looking at is, of course, what was
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Speaker 2: happening in Nicholas Maduro, who is being brought now into
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Speaker 2: the courtroom Federal courthouse where he is going to be
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Speaker 2: arraigned on charges of what drug trafficking weapons charges and
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Speaker 2: effectually being a narco terrorist, part and parcel of the
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Speaker 2: group of people that are sending drugs the United States
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Speaker 2: and so as you no doubt know unless you live
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Speaker 2: under a rock, he was captured by the United States
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Speaker 2: forces on early Saturday morning based on well premise on
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Speaker 2: the President making that decision, and there was an extraordinary
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Speaker 2: military achievement, I mean just extraordinary.
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Speaker 1: And a movie's going to be made about this.
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Speaker 2: This is definitely movie material, okay, and that'll be talked
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Speaker 2: about a lot.
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Speaker 1: So here is we're starting a new year.
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Speaker 2: In California and the rest of the world. And what
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Speaker 2: does that mean in California in terms of our state legislature. Well,
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Speaker 2: every year California passes between eight hundred and one thousand
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Speaker 2: new laws, And what I want to do is talk
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Speaker 2: about some of the big ones that affect us, those
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Speaker 2: that have true importance in terms of not only socially,
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Speaker 2: but in terms of how we live in California is
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Speaker 2: at the forefront of social change, and we're right there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, start with health.
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Speaker 2: Fertility treatments, which is a huge issue for so many
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Speaker 2: people because some fifteen percent of the population are infertile.
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Speaker 2: And so here's a new law that large employer health
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Speaker 2: plans will be required to cover infertility treatments, which HEAREDO
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Speaker 2: four was considered just elective.
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Speaker 1: Nope, and this.
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Speaker 2: Includes in vitro fren and regardless gender identity or gender
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Speaker 2: sect orientation, where the insurance companies excluded those people. And
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Speaker 2: that's my wheelhouse where I dealt with that for years.
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Speaker 2: Cheaper insulin. A lot of people who are diabetics simply
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Speaker 2: don't have any money and they have to decide do
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Speaker 2: they take half a hit of insulin and still pay
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Speaker 2: their rent?
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Speaker 1: So cheaper insulin.
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Speaker 2: Large group health plans have to cap out of pocket
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Speaker 2: costs for insulin at thirty five dollars per month. Also,
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Speaker 2: California will start selling eleven dollars insulin pens through the
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Speaker 2: state's prescription program kel RX. And that is important. There's
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Speaker 2: no question that's important because that gets us to a
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Speaker 2: closer pace to well. Medicare for all is what they
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Speaker 2: call it, socialized medicine is really what it is.
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Speaker 1: Protection for immigrants, no surprise here.
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Speaker 2: Healthcare officials are prohibited from disclosing a patient's immigration status
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Speaker 2: or birthplace, or giving immigration authorities access to non public
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Speaker 2: spaces in hospitals and clinics without a search warrant. Although
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Speaker 2: does do the FEDS have the ability to go in there? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's an issue too. Something that we knew is a
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Speaker 2: mask ban. Law enforcement officers have to display their name
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Speaker 2: or badge number during operations and are banned from wearing
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Speaker 2: masks that can seal their identities while on duty, with
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Speaker 2: some exceptions. And that is a two edged sword. Why
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Speaker 2: do they wear masks? Well, one argument is because in
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Speaker 2: today's day and age and facial recognition, it is fairly
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Speaker 2: easy to take a picture of a comp or a
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Speaker 2: law enforcement officer, run it through facial a facial recognition program,
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Speaker 2: an algorithm, and know where that cop lives, where that
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Speaker 2: enforcement official lives, and literally where their kids go to school.
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Speaker 2: I mean that can be It can be done. And
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Speaker 2: on the other side is hey, we have the right
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Speaker 2: to do that. There are plenty of times when law
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Speaker 2: enforcement officials do wear masks to protect themselves, and it's
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Speaker 2: an issue of if you're being arrested, you should have
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Speaker 2: the ability of know who did it. Two edges for
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Speaker 2: two edge sword on that one. I'm going through some
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Speaker 2: of the big big ones. Sexual assault reporting. Now, this
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Speaker 2: is you think it's already here, but this is reporting
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Speaker 2: on sexual assault, not the actual sexual assault that happened
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Speaker 2: to a victim who can go in and sue.
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Speaker 1: This is a two year window opening up.
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Speaker 2: On January first and expires December thirty one, twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: And it's against private employers or institutions that engage in
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Speaker 2: a cover up of sexual exploitation. So it's not the
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Speaker 2: actual physical exploitation or the assault.
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Speaker 1: It's simply.
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Speaker 2: Reporting that if you engage in a cover up, well
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Speaker 2: that's part of the civil civil charge against you that.
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Speaker 1: You can be sued.
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Speaker 2: There's one on divorce amicable with amicable divorce.
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Speaker 1: If a couple wants.
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Speaker 2: An amical dissolution of their marriage. And this is a
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Speaker 2: fun one. This is a handle on the law. Well,
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Speaker 2: they're going to have an easier, less costly way to
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Speaker 2: go their separate ways. And that's under a new bill
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Speaker 2: SB fourteen twenty seven, which passed in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: And here is why this makes sense. If you're going
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Speaker 2: to get divorced, if there are issues as to property
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Speaker 2: or custody, and you still agree with each other, you
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Speaker 2: have to have a formal divorce decree, a fairly complex
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Speaker 2: divorce decree that has to be signed by the judge.
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Speaker 1: What this bill.
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Speaker 2: Does is say, you know what, we're going to let
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Speaker 2: you make a simple divorce, just file the paperwork. If
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Speaker 2: everybody agrees and it doesn't matter, you can have a
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Speaker 2: multi zillion dollar divorce decree. And as long as both
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Speaker 2: agree to it, then you don't have to go into
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Speaker 2: that complicated case where all the assets have to be written,
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Speaker 2: where it gets the paperwork has to be done and
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Speaker 2: you have to hire an attorney. You've heard those commercials
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Speaker 2: about simple divorces. You go on the internet and cost
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Speaker 2: you like four hundred dollars for a divorce. You know
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Speaker 2: you can do it now in California, which heretofore you
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Speaker 2: couldn't do.
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Speaker 1: Makes a lot of sense. By the way, amical divorce.
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Speaker 2: I love that the new bills that have taken into
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Speaker 2: effect that came into effect January first here in California.
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Speaker 2: Keeping in mind that California is at the forefront of
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Speaker 2: social change in the United States. For the most part,
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Speaker 2: we are known for being liberal. We are known for,
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Speaker 2: depending on which way you look at it, being the
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Speaker 2: engine of social change in a positive way, or being
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Speaker 2: the woke of all time, the woke state of all time.
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Speaker 2: All right, the plastic bags, this affects every one of us.
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Speaker 2: You go to the supermarket, no such thing as of
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Speaker 2: nossing as plastic bags anymore of any kind. And now
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Speaker 2: we went from the single used plastic bags, which are horrible,
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Speaker 2: to the recycled plastic bags, which were horrible, and they're
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Speaker 2: supposed to be recycled.
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Speaker 1: They're not recycled.
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Speaker 2: And now it's all paper bags, nice thick ones, I
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Speaker 2: might add, which you can use again, except when you
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Speaker 2: go to the produce section, you have these really flimsy
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Speaker 2: bags that are just they fall apart and they're d
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Speaker 2: they're able to be composable, decompose, and they're not compostable.
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Speaker 2: Is that what I'm looking for? Plastic bags gone. It's
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Speaker 2: only paper bags now, which makes sense. Food delivery I
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Speaker 2: didn't even know this existed. Uber Eat Stoor Dash required
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Speaker 2: others get a full refund if the order is not
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Speaker 2: if the order is not delivered. Can you imagine they
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Speaker 2: still charge for the order if it's not delivered or
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Speaker 2: they can now Nope, nope, can't do it anymore. Rental
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Speaker 2: car estimates. The companies are required to provide customers with
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Speaker 2: a good faith estimate of total charges, including taxes and fees.
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Speaker 2: If you ever rented a car, the junk fees they
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Speaker 2: put on the rental is insane. And then they do
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Speaker 2: a hard sell in terms of additional insurance.
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Speaker 1: And there's a whole world to that.
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Speaker 2: It's not insurance, it's different, and I'll explain that at
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Speaker 2: some other point.
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Speaker 1: Volume control this. We're involved with this.
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Speaker 2: I need Cono to jump into The advertisers will not
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Speaker 2: be able to air or we won't be able to
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Speaker 2: air advertisements that are louder than the shows or content.
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Speaker 1: This happens all the time. The deal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even know that it was going to
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Speaker 3: be passed as a law. But when you watch like
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Speaker 3: Hulu or you watch Disney You'll be watching your show
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Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, the TV's blaring, and
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Speaker 3: it's because the ads are on, and then it'll go
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Speaker 3: back to the volume that you had it.
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Speaker 1: Hey, this happens to us too, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: We run commercials hot, don't we.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna not confirm nor deny those accusations.
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Speaker 1: It's not your fault. I don't know what you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: Bill uh. Okay, minimum wage increase.
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Speaker 2: You knew that was gonna happen sixteen fifty to sixteen ninety. Oh,
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Speaker 2: there's a new state holiday. You didn't know about this.
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Speaker 2: I guarantee you. We have a new state holiday added
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Speaker 2: to California's official list of state wide holidays. Public schools
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Speaker 2: can close, state employees can take the day off, and
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Speaker 2: the name of.
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Speaker 1: The holiday is Diwali Dewali.
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Speaker 2: It is Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights,
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Speaker 2: occurs in late October early November and is celebrated by
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Speaker 2: members of the Hindu seekh and I think Jayan or Giant.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how to pronounce that fas and it
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Speaker 2: symbolizes the victory of light over darkness.
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Speaker 1: Okay, new state holiday.
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Speaker 2: What happens when we have the Satanists come in and
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Speaker 2: ask for a Satan or a Satanic holiday, saying, hey,
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Speaker 2: if they get Dwali, we can get Satanism here.
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Speaker 1: Okay, damn right? All right?
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Speaker 2: Then you have a few other ones protecting kids from Ai.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of AI stuff in there, and less
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Speaker 2: red tape for restaurants approval process for independent restaurants that
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Speaker 2: want Toro fit. And that's being steamlined or streamlined because
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Speaker 2: in fact, it's impossible to open up restaurants. When I
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Speaker 2: used to live before the Persian Palace, I lived near
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Speaker 2: downtown in La and I befriended a guy who owned
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Speaker 2: an Indian restaurant. I love the food, and he all
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Speaker 2: wanted to open up a second Indian restaurant, and he
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Speaker 2: couldn't do it because the AQMD, the Air Quality Management
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Speaker 2: Board or department said put all kinds of limitations on
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Speaker 2: his tandory oven and he couldn't open. Kind of crazy
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Speaker 2: it is, Oh lifts and Uber drivers can you unionize
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Speaker 2: even though they're ten ninety nine employees? Gender neutral bathrooms?
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Speaker 2: Every school now has to have one directed mission public
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Speaker 2: high school students who meet the California State University's minimum
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Speaker 2: eligibility requirements will be automatic admitted to one of the
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Speaker 2: CSU campuses. I can't even imagine how many people. And
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Speaker 2: then cell phones in classrooms. July one can prohibit or
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Speaker 2: limit the use public schools of cell phones by students.
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Speaker 1: And in this one we knew it was going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Immigration raids.
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Speaker 2: Federal agents are barred from non public areas of public
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Speaker 2: schools unless they have a warrant or they have a
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Speaker 2: court order. There's a bill about anti semitism. A state
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Speaker 2: Office for Civil Rights will be created to combat anti
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Speaker 2: Semitism and other forms of discrimination in the schools public schools.
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Speaker 2: We have an official snake now in California. The Garter
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Speaker 2: snake is the official stake. Declawing a cat in California
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Speaker 2: is illegal unless it's medical medically necessary. And a few bills.
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Speaker 2: That was some of the big ones. I want to
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Speaker 2: spend a moment talking about bills that are in place
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Speaker 2: right now in California. Peacocks have the right of way
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Speaker 2: in the City of Arcadia, straight out Baldwin Park. This
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Speaker 2: is a fun one. No riding a bicycle in a
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Speaker 2: swimming pool. I guess they had a problem with that.
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Speaker 2: That is designed to prevent damage to the bicycles and
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Speaker 2: the pools.
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Speaker 1: Makes sense.
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Speaker 2: No washing your car your neighbor's car without permission. Well,
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Speaker 2: otherwise you get shot, don't you. And it's illegal to
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Speaker 2: do it.
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Speaker 1: LA. You can't wash your neighbor's car without their consent.
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Speaker 2: Okay, come on, okay, now what fun One frog jumping contest,
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Speaker 2: because we do that a lot California. You can't eat
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Speaker 2: a frog that dies in a frog jumping contest. And
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Speaker 2: if a frog dies during the competition, not only it
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Speaker 2: cannot be eaten, it has to be destroyed as soon
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Speaker 2: as possible. And Will is nodding his head. No cursing
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Speaker 2: on a mini golf course.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what No cursing on the mini golf course.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine who doesn't curse? Yeh, who doesn't curse?
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Speaker 2: No silly string in Lodye. You know it makes sense
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Speaker 2: because silly string is kind of gets in the way
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Speaker 2: and it gunks up, and once you get covered in
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Speaker 2: silly string, that's no fun. Okay, So that one makes sense.
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Speaker 2: Here's one that I really like. In San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: Elephants have to be on a leash.
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Speaker 2: On Market Street. That's a problem. And you can't wipe
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Speaker 2: your car with used underwear?
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Speaker 1: Damn it?
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Speaker 2: How dare you say I can't do that? What do
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Speaker 2: you think I use my underwear for?
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Speaker 1: Hey Bill, I have a legal question for you about this. Yes,
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Speaker 1: so they pass all these laws. How are you supposed
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Speaker 1: to know that you can't use used underwear to wipe
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Speaker 1: your car down? I mean, like, who would know that
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Speaker 1: unless they were listening to your show? How did they
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Speaker 1: enforce that? Uh? If you're not aware? Yeah, because no
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Speaker 1: cop knows that law either.
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Speaker 2: It's the fact that it's on the books is completely insane.
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Speaker 2: But I guess somebody passed it someone. Maybe it was
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Speaker 2: a legislator who threw it on the consent calendar, and
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Speaker 2: there you go.
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Speaker 1: You have it.
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Speaker 2: Go figure and San Francisco illegal to transport bread cakes
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Speaker 2: or pastries for human conception and open baskets on public streets.
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Speaker 1: Laws in California. Don't you love it? Okay?
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Speaker 2: I want to tell you a story that happened to
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Speaker 2: me when my kids were like eight years old and
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Speaker 2: they always wanted a pet, and Marjorie would not let
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Speaker 2: him have a pet because she never had a pet.
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Speaker 2: And it takes her a lot of responsibility to have
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Speaker 2: a pat so she always said no.
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Speaker 1: And my daughter.
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Speaker 2: Pamela, who is a phenomenal manipulator, I'm driving her around
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Speaker 2: and she said, Dad, I really want a dog. And
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Speaker 2: I said, you know you can't have a dog. You
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Speaker 2: know your mom says no to a dog. And you
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Speaker 2: know I'm not about to veto it because we have
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Speaker 2: to be on the same page. And she said, you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't have any friends and I could tell it.
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Speaker 2: I could if we had a dog, I could tell
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Speaker 2: it my secrets and I could have a best friend. Well,
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Speaker 2: you know, I start crying and she wrapped me around
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Speaker 2: her little finger. And I come home and say, you
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Speaker 2: know what, I've decided that we have to have a dog.
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Speaker 2: And Marjorie said, no dog. And I said, Andy, we
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Speaker 2: really have to have a dog. And she made it
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Speaker 2: really clear. She said, here's the bottom line. It's either
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Speaker 2: me or the dog.
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Speaker 1: And I went well.
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Speaker 2: She jumps into the car and drives off, and several
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Speaker 2: hours later, Pamma says to me, g Dad, do we
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Speaker 2: where's Mom? And I said, I have no idea. Is
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Speaker 2: she coming home? I said, absolutely, no idea. But we're
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Speaker 2: still getting the dog, aren't we doesn't matter if Mom
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Speaker 2: comes home now. I just wanted to share that with
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Speaker 2: you because it is connected to the inheriting story I'm
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Speaker 2: about to tell you.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to share that with you.
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Speaker 2: And the inherited story is how you leave your kids.
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Speaker 2: Dogs are not who you leave your assets to. I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about your will, your trust. And the reason it's
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Speaker 2: all connected is because DNA tests are now triggering a
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Speaker 2: whole wave of surprise errors. Whoops, I'm now a cousin
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Speaker 2: and I'm entitled to a part of the estate. Especially
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Speaker 2: happens when people don't leave a will and all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden there's an estranged relative out there that's in line.
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Speaker 1: You go, oops, and now you have a contested will.
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Speaker 2: All because of the DNA testing kits twenty three and
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Speaker 2: meters ancestry DNA, et cetera. And it has created a
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Speaker 2: legal ripple effect leaving some families completely blindsided when there's
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Speaker 2: a new biological child showing up, or a cousin or
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Speaker 2: someone that would be in line. And so a lot
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Speaker 2: of families think, and this is I get these questions
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Speaker 2: all the time. Unhandle on the law. You think your
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Speaker 2: estate is planning is airtight. I have a will, I
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Speaker 2: have a trust. Do I have a problem? I go, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you might have a problem, you do. The problem is
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Speaker 2: the DNA tests that proved you can be related to
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Speaker 2: someone who has money, who has not written an airtight
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Speaker 2: will or a trust, who has a document that has
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Speaker 2: holes in it. Okay, one in five Americans have taken
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Speaker 2: a DNA test, And there was a Wall Street Journal
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Speaker 2: article out there that says, surprise, airs are popping up
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Speaker 2: like crazy because of the DNA tests.
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Speaker 1: So what are lawyers doing? And I say this on
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Speaker 1: handle on the law. Usually I have.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely no idea what I'm talking about on handling the law.
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Speaker 2: This one I actually do, because as much as I'd
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Speaker 2: like to tell you, I'm a great attorney.
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Speaker 1: And okay, so what a lawyer should do.
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Speaker 2: Why you should go to a lawyer is because maybe
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Speaker 2: you don't want the money to go to a cousin
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Speaker 2: you've never exist, that you didn't know existed, or in
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Speaker 2: a strange child that you haven't talked to in forty years.
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Speaker 1: I get those questions all the time. Why is that?
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Speaker 2: Because the writer of the will leaves his or her
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Speaker 2: estate to his or her children. Well, even though I
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Speaker 2: haven't talked to the family for forty years. Guess what,
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Speaker 2: I'm still a children, which is why these cases settle
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Speaker 2: up very quickly, even if the claim is very thin,
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Speaker 2: and a will contest almost always occurs if there is
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Speaker 2: huge money and a will is not written, and I
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Speaker 2: mean air tight and going to an experienced, truly not
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Speaker 2: only experience, but someone who has seasoned a trust and
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Speaker 2: a state lawyer that's had the education that you need
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Speaker 2: in this subspecialty. If you've got serious money, I tell people,
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Speaker 2: you have to go to one of these people. I
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Speaker 2: guarantee you there's gonna be a will contest out there,
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Speaker 2: and you have to make it as air tight as possible.
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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna explain some of the rules to you
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Speaker 2: when we get back. Why that's so important and by
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Speaker 2: the way, it's really important to me, really important. Why
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Speaker 2: is that because my kids, well, let me put it
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Speaker 2: this way, on my deathbed, my kids will be there
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Speaker 2: and they will be tapping their watches saying, come on, dad,
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Speaker 2: speed this thing up. We've got places to go. And
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Speaker 2: so I'm very careful. The other thing they don't know,
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Speaker 2: by the way, and they don't listen to the show.
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Speaker 2: So it's easy for me to say this I'm disinheriting them,
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Speaker 2: and they don't know that. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: it's going to get really tough when I die and
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Speaker 2: the will is read, all the money I have is
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Speaker 2: going to the whales, and they know I hate the whales.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm going to do to my kids, all right.
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Speaker 2: I want to continue and finish up with a handle
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Speaker 2: on the law segment. And this is a question that
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Speaker 2: I'm asked constantly handle on the law eight t eleven
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Speaker 2: o'clock Saturday mornings, Marginal Legal Advice, where I tell you
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Speaker 2: you have no case.
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Speaker 1: And this has to do with inheriting.
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Speaker 2: And because of the new DNA testing, relatively new that
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Speaker 2: takes inheritances and wills and trusts and just makes them
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Speaker 2: infinitely more complicated. Why because they're not written well or
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Speaker 2: they sometimes are not written specifically to disinherit people.
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Speaker 1: And here's the question that I have.
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Speaker 2: There is a cousin bill that we had that hasn't
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Speaker 2: talked to us for forty years.
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Speaker 1: I've taken care of my mom.
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Speaker 2: I was there every moment, I paid for so much,
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Speaker 2: and she died and all of a sudden, this cousin
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Speaker 2: comes in and says, hey, I'm entitled. Why because as
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Speaker 2: mom left the will said to my children, oops, Which
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Speaker 2: is why it is so important to have an expert
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Speaker 2: trust and a state lawyer write up a trust or
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Speaker 2: write up a will, usually both.
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Speaker 1: It's usually to rollover trust. And so.
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Speaker 2: I've had questions where people have been screwed like crazy.
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Speaker 1: You have to be careful.
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Speaker 2: So how do you make sure that someone is inherited
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Speaker 2: and disinherited? Well, if you don't have a will, you
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Speaker 2: want to write one right now. And the will has
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Speaker 2: to clearly state all of the errors. You do not
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Speaker 2: leave language like descendants. If you want to intentionally exclude people,
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Speaker 2: even unknown biological kids or people that are not part
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Speaker 2: of who you intended.
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Speaker 1: Gone makes sense?
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Speaker 2: Am I disinheriting anybody? Well, I'm disinheriting my children and
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Speaker 2: they don't know it. As I said, now, one of
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Speaker 2: the things, and this is a story I want to
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Speaker 2: share with you that I may have talked about before,
25:15
Speaker 2: is my daughters and my will or the trust. Actually,
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Speaker 2: and I happen to be really against tattoos. I am
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Speaker 2: not a big fan of tattoos. And I let them know.
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Speaker 2: You get a tattoo, you're out of the will. You're done.
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Speaker 2: So until they were twenty eight years old, there was
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Speaker 2: no tattoo. My daughter Barbara's want of tattoos forever, and
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Speaker 2: I said, oh fine, you're just not going to get
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Speaker 2: any money, So what do you want to do. I
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Speaker 2: guarantee you that's going to be the most expensive tattoo
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Speaker 2: you've ever had. So there was no tattoo in our
25:55
Speaker 2: lives until she was twenty eight, two years ago. What
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Speaker 2: I used to do before that is I would hold
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Speaker 2: up my trust and I would look at them and
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Speaker 2: tell one or the other I was unhappy with something
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Speaker 2: that one of my daughters did, if they acted out
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Speaker 2: or I just was unhappy with the decision they made,
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Speaker 2: I would hold up the trust and I say, you
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Speaker 2: know what, I'm leaving all the money to your sister.
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Speaker 1: Okay. That got him in line.
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Speaker 2: And I would do it with the other sister and go,
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm leaving money to your sister. I had
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Speaker 2: him in line perfectly. I mean, there was no issue.
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Speaker 2: They loved me, they listened to me. It was terrific.
26:39
Speaker 2: So now Barbara is now at twenty eight, so Dad,
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Speaker 2: I want a tattoo, and you know what do you do?
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Speaker 1: She's an adult. How can I control her life?
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Speaker 2: So I said, okay, you can have one small tattoo,
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Speaker 2: one small little tattoo. Well, there you go. Pandora's box
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Speaker 2: was opened. She has become so tatted up that she
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Speaker 2: could be the tattoo lady in the circus. Actually that's
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Speaker 2: not true, but it opened up the Pandora's box. You know,
27:18
Speaker 2: we took the genies now oid of the bottle, but
27:22
Speaker 2: again it was that's how much control I had over them,
27:27
Speaker 2: literally with my will, because it is air tight, and
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Speaker 2: I disinherit people who otherwise would have the ability if
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Speaker 2: it hadn't written a will correctly.
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Speaker 1: Might have come in.
27:43
Speaker 2: Let's say I had a I had a piccadillo when
27:48
Speaker 2: I was younger, and all of a sudden, there's a
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Speaker 2: kid out there that I didn't even know there's a
27:53
Speaker 2: kid out there, And all of a sudden someone reads
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Speaker 2: in the paper that I die, and I don't know
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Speaker 2: what kind of obituary I'm going to get. I guarantee
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Speaker 2: you that it will not be a paid obituary, because
28:09
Speaker 2: no one in my family is going to pay money
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Speaker 2: the three hundred or five hundred dollars to run an obituary.
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Speaker 1: In the LA Times.
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Speaker 2: So somehow the news goes out that I have died,
28:21
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, this child that I never
28:25
Speaker 2: knew occurred is there, and it's how.
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Speaker 1: Do you prove it? It used to.
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Speaker 2: Be blood tests, but those are not specific enough. You
28:36
Speaker 2: could argue all kinds of legal issues, like you should
28:41
Speaker 2: have put my name on the birth certificate. You knew
28:45
Speaker 2: about it, you mentioned it, you told people about it,
28:49
Speaker 2: and that was.
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Speaker 1: Kind of flaky.
28:51
Speaker 2: Today with DNA tests and they're good on both sides.
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Speaker 2: They actually prove that someone is related or prove that
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Speaker 2: someone is not related. So if you are looking at
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Speaker 2: someone not getting any money.
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Speaker 1: Be specific, be specific.
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Speaker 2: You want to know contest clause, which if anybody does
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Speaker 2: come in and contest the will, it's one dollar. You've
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Speaker 2: heard about that before, and that's it. And then you
29:28
Speaker 2: have the revocable trust that holds the assets, not the
29:33
Speaker 2: will itself, and provides a very detailed term for asset distribution,
29:39
Speaker 2: and the trustee then has the ability to in fact
29:44
Speaker 2: make decisions depending or follow the terms of the trust.
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Speaker 2: My trustee is my best friend Saville, who is a
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Speaker 2: trustee for my trust, and kids don't want him to
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Speaker 2: do it. Because they are going to He's going to
30:02
Speaker 2: be rougher than hell on it.
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Speaker 1: He really is. All right, guys, enough of that. I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to share that with you, and it says story.
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Speaker 2: They came out, actually came out in Wall Street Journal
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Speaker 2: about the DNA testing and how that is affecting people
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Speaker 2: inheriting or not inheriting money. All right, guys, we are
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Speaker 2: done for our first day back on a Monday, January fifth,
30:24
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty something days to go till Christmas.
30:29
Speaker 2: Of Christmas shopping is here, and tomorrow we come right
30:34
Speaker 2: back again. Amy and Ann and Will and con O
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Speaker 2: and Neil is not here this week.
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Speaker 1: Not here, Blacker.
30:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this may be the first time that I
30:48
Speaker 2: have not made fun of Ann and Cono. That changes
30:56
Speaker 2: tomorrow when we're back to our regular broadcasting.
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Speaker 1: Coming up. It's Gary and Shannon, and we'll see what
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Speaker 1: they do.
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Speaker 2: My guess is you're then gonna talk a moment or
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Speaker 2: two about the Moduro extraction, the Maduro arrest.
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Speaker 1: And it's Gary's birthday. Oh, it is Gary's birthday.
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Okay, do we know how old he is? Does he
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Speaker 1: share that?
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Speaker 2: Because I have no idea because he looks young for
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Speaker 2: his age. Gary has aged pretty well unless he's thirty five,
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Speaker 2: then he looks like then he looks like crap for
31:33
Speaker 2: his age. All my guys, we're done. Coming up Gary
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Speaker 2: and Shannon Tomorrow morning, we're back again. This is KFI
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