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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:05Speaker 1: six forty.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Six forty Friday morning, July thirty one, Ask candle anything
- 0:16Speaker 2: at the bottom of the eight o'clock hour. Footy Friday
- 0:20Speaker 2: at eight o'clock with Neil m MOI. Some of the
- 0:24Speaker 2: stories we are looking at. Mortgage rates climb to their
- 0:27Speaker 2: highest averages in the of the year, so that's not fun.
- 0:32Speaker 2: An agreement has been made Hamas will disarm and it
- 0:37Speaker 2: looks like it's the first step in a multi phase
- 0:40Speaker 2: peace planned and the war and there's a bunch of
- 0:42Speaker 2: other terms. Israel has to withdraw completely, Hamas has to
- 0:48Speaker 2: let Israel know where all the tunnels are so they
- 0:50Speaker 2: can be blown up. And there has to be tons
- 0:53Speaker 2: of money to rebuild Gaza, of which only eighty percent
- 0:57Speaker 2: has been decimated, where there's very very few buildings left standing.
- 1:03Speaker 2: All right, The fight between Disney and the Trump administration
- 1:06Speaker 2: is going on, and it is heating up, and it
- 1:10Speaker 2: is in testify. It has intensify.
- 1:14Speaker 3: There's the word I'm looking at.
- 1:16Speaker 2: And what the FCC wants to do is basically force
- 1:20Speaker 2: ABC to give up and just unload their local television stations. Now,
- 1:31Speaker 2: the FCC does not control networks. It only controls individual
- 1:35Speaker 2: television stations, and those stations are licensed individually by the FCC.
- 1:42Speaker 2: So the move is from the Trump administration getting really
- 1:46Speaker 2: pissed off at Disney that owns ABC h and asking
- 1:51Speaker 2: ABC or those stations to renew their licenses early. The
- 1:56Speaker 2: application is every two years, and they wanted an earlier
- 2:01Speaker 2: application process just for the ABC stations, mind you, not
- 2:05Speaker 2: for other stations. And ABC is saying, this is real simple,
- 2:11Speaker 2: this is retaliation, intimidation, retribution.
- 2:16Speaker 3: And it's all on behalf of the president.
- 2:19Speaker 2: So the FCC Brendan Carr, took a very rare step
- 2:24Speaker 2: and demanded that Disney defend the broadcast licenses of eight
- 2:29Speaker 2: ABC stations, the biggest ones. And this is a problem
- 2:34Speaker 2: because if ABC loses its eight biggest stations, obviously ABC
- 2:39Speaker 2: is weakened, weakened big time. And according to Disney, the
- 2:43Speaker 2: FCC has spent the last eighteen months searching for some
- 2:46Speaker 2: pretexts for yanking these licenses. According to Disney attorneys, Disney
- 2:52Speaker 2: said the commission found none, said there are no license
- 2:58Speaker 2: regulations that have been violated, and the stations easily meet
- 3:02Speaker 2: the requirements. And what ABC is saying is that this
- 3:08Speaker 2: move against ABC by the FCC has everything to do
- 3:14Speaker 2: with Trump's dislike ABC's network programs. Late April, when Jimmy
- 3:21Speaker 2: Kimmel made a joke about Trump's health and First Lady
- 3:24Speaker 2: Millennia Trump, the FCC launched its investigation one day after
- 3:31Speaker 2: the President ripped into ABC.
- 3:34Speaker 3: One day and for the first.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Time in history, the FCC Commission is ordered an entire
- 3:39Speaker 2: group of local TV stations to undergo simultaneous license renewal
- 3:43Speaker 2: proceedings before their current licenses expired. It's never been done
- 3:50Speaker 2: where all of these stations are asked.
- 3:53Speaker 3: To earlier apply for their license.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Wow, and the FCC, he said, here's why we're doing this,
- 4:02Speaker 2: and we launched the investigation early last year. We want
- 4:06Speaker 2: to scrutinize Disney's internal diversity equity inclusion programs to see
- 4:12Speaker 2: if ABC has violated anti discrimination laws.
- 4:17Speaker 3: That is what the administration is hanging its hat on.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Diversity DEI inclusion is in and of itself discriminatory because
- 4:27Speaker 2: it brings minorities in a higher position, gives them preference
- 4:33Speaker 2: over white folks. So one of the big deals is
- 4:39Speaker 2: the inquiry over the view, and the view has an
- 4:43Speaker 2: exemption granted to news programs that are not obligated to
- 4:47Speaker 2: provide equal time for opposing opposing views. Now, the equal
- 4:54Speaker 2: time rule which we used to be part of, if
- 4:58Speaker 2: I went out for examp and I brought in a
- 5:01Speaker 2: political or John or brings in a political interview of
- 5:05Speaker 2: one side, it used to be that you have to
- 5:07Speaker 2: give the other side the same amount of time. Still
- 5:10Speaker 2: on the books, but not enforced at all. Well, the
- 5:14Speaker 2: FCC wants to bring that back. And then my question is, uh,
- 5:19Speaker 2: is that happening also to Fox when it talks about
- 5:24Speaker 2: when it brings Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Mark Levin on
- 5:29Speaker 2: for their programs, which are about as anti Trump as
- 5:32Speaker 2: you can get. Now, the same thing goes on CNN.
- 5:36Speaker 2: Do they are they required to bring in the opposite view?
- 5:40Speaker 2: Is MSNBC, which is now called whatever.
- 5:43Speaker 3: The hell is called? Uh? Yeah, I have no idea
- 5:46Speaker 3: what it's an ms now?
- 5:48Speaker 1: Now?
- 5:49Speaker 2: Yeah, are they required because there that is insanely liberal?
- 5:54Speaker 3: Well, it just isn't. It's just not being done, although
- 5:57Speaker 3: it's probably going to have to. Uh.
- 5:59Speaker 2: The FC is going balls to the wall against anything
- 6:04Speaker 2: or anybody or any network or a company that is
- 6:07Speaker 2: anti Trump. It's a case of retribution, simple as that,
- 6:12Speaker 2: you say anything against the president, he uses the powers
- 6:18Speaker 2: of the presidency, the executive branch, in this case, the FCC,
- 6:22Speaker 2: to go after that organization. Man well, as I said
- 6:27Speaker 2: many many times before, we are in a whole new
- 6:30Speaker 2: world to say the least. Okay, I have a question
- 6:33Speaker 2: to ask you. You've heard me tell you that one
- 6:38Speaker 2: of the big, big deals. Whenever one passes a law,
- 6:42Speaker 2: whenever the legislature or we do a proposition passes the law,
- 6:46Speaker 2: the problem is always unintended consequences. I was involved very
- 6:51Speaker 2: heavily in creating the surrogacy laws in the state of
- 6:55Speaker 2: California early on, because I was one of the few
- 6:58Speaker 2: people that knew what the hell I was talking about.
- 7:00Speaker 2: We spent more time talking about unintended consequences than the
- 7:06Speaker 2: law itself. And let me give you an example of
- 7:08Speaker 2: what's going on. In twenty twenty four, we the people
- 7:13Speaker 2: of California passed Prop.
- 7:14Speaker 3: Thirty six. Oh boy did we pass it.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Seventy percent of the vote we got, and it combines
- 7:21Speaker 2: addiction treatment with punishment. It was going to put California
- 7:28Speaker 2: on the path of dealing with chronic homelessness and in incarceration,
- 7:34Speaker 2: sort of putting the two together. And this came about
- 7:37Speaker 2: when we saw those videos of packs of smash and
- 7:40Speaker 2: grab thieves and drug markets in San Francisco seemed to
- 7:43Speaker 2: be everywhere. So you have a group of tough on
- 7:46Speaker 2: crime conservatives put the two issues together, created Prop thirty six,
- 7:51Speaker 2: a bunch of new laws that would put combine addiction
- 7:56Speaker 2: treatment with punishment for those who refu used or failed
- 8:00Speaker 2: to kick their drug habits. Okay, voters loved that, so
- 8:06Speaker 2: here we go. That was twenty twenty four, two years later,
- 8:09Speaker 2: and now the realities of Prop thirty six have come
- 8:12Speaker 2: into the forefront, not what most voters thought. They were approving,
- 8:17Speaker 2: unintended consequences, and right now the implementation of Prop thirty
- 8:22Speaker 2: six is a mess. It's putting California on a path
- 8:26Speaker 2: of dealing with chronic homelessness through incarceration. That's what it's
- 8:33Speaker 2: actually doing. It's putting people who are drug addicted into prison,
- 8:39Speaker 2: which didn't happen before.
- 8:41Speaker 3: Now. The promise of.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Prop thirty six is that people struggling with addiction would
- 8:47Speaker 2: have access to treatment, complete that treatment, and it wouldn't
- 8:50Speaker 2: impact their record if they did that otherwise they go
- 8:55Speaker 2: to prison. Okay, less than one percent of the people
- 9:00Speaker 2: actually realize that benefit.
- 9:02Speaker 3: Many, many menny.
- 9:04Speaker 2: More like ninety nine percent are getting arrested for these
- 9:10Speaker 2: drug addiction programs or through drug violating. Drug addition law
- 9:15Speaker 2: and Prop. Thirty six created a brand new crime, a
- 9:19Speaker 2: treatment mandated felony. If you don't go into one of
- 9:25Speaker 2: these treatment centers or programs, you will be charged with
- 9:28Speaker 2: a felony. Where heretofore it was a misdemeanor, they created
- 9:33Speaker 2: a felony if you don't go. In forty thousand new
- 9:39Speaker 2: felony arrests statewide on drug or theft charges, many of
- 9:44Speaker 2: them on repeat offenders, petty theft, drug prediction, drug possession charges,
- 9:51Speaker 2: all misdemeanors that have become felonies. A stat ten nine
- 10:00Speaker 2: hundred and thirty six thirty seven felony drug cases tracked
- 10:03Speaker 2: by twenty nine courts. They looked at one three hundred
- 10:08Speaker 2: and five defendants elected to receive the treatment program. They
- 10:12Speaker 2: would take their chances. We'll go into treatment of those
- 10:17Speaker 2: who successfully completed the treatment and had their charges dismissed.
- 10:22Speaker 2: So let's start with ten thous or eleven thousand, and
- 10:24Speaker 2: then you have thirteen hundred elected to receive the treatment.
- 10:28Speaker 2: How many people successfully completed and had the charges dismiss
- 10:32Speaker 2: thirty six people.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Boy, there's a stat thirty six people. So is it
- 10:41Speaker 3: time to undo that program? You bet?
- 10:44Speaker 2: Because Prop thirty six is an utter complete failure. And
- 10:48Speaker 2: one of the things I hate about propositions is they
- 10:52Speaker 2: are written by the proposition proponents and can say anything
- 10:58Speaker 2: they want, which is why, for example, Prop one hundred
- 11:03Speaker 2: people's people's moving against taxes. When you look at it,
- 11:09Speaker 2: it's really in favor of taxes. Here's a rule of thumb.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Whenever you see a proposition explained to you during an
- 11:17Speaker 2: ad go the other way because that's what that's what
- 11:22Speaker 2: the proposition is about. And always look at who is
- 11:26Speaker 2: promoting it, because that tells you everything, who is promoting it.
- 11:31Speaker 3: There's one right now.
- 11:32Speaker 2: It talks about how horrific the law is going to be,
- 11:37Speaker 2: and you're going to get nailed, You're going to pay
- 11:39Speaker 2: too much, it's going to ruin your purchasing power through
- 11:43Speaker 2: your credit cards, and then at the bottom paid for
- 11:47Speaker 2: by the people who control credit card transactions. Okay, all right,
- 11:54Speaker 2: we're done with that. Unintended consequences it's a mess. And
- 11:58Speaker 2: originally propositions were created because there was too much corruption
- 12:03Speaker 2: in the state legislature. Now it's gone the other way.
- 12:06Speaker 2: All right, how do you deal with schools well and
- 12:11Speaker 2: active shooters and security? And we already know active shooter.
- 12:17Speaker 2: They have all kinds of drills, active shooter drills, which
- 12:20Speaker 2: is crazy, by the way, because we used to have
- 12:22Speaker 2: drills when I went to elementary school, and they were
- 12:26Speaker 2: anti Russian atomic bomb drills where you would dive under
- 12:31Speaker 2: the desks and then put your ass against the window,
- 12:35Speaker 2: put your head, your hands over your knees or over
- 12:39Speaker 2: your neck on your knees hands, and when the bomb comes,
- 12:44Speaker 2: I guess the windows would blow in and your head
- 12:47Speaker 2: would be blown off one thousandth of a nano second
- 12:51Speaker 2: before your butt would fry.
- 12:53Speaker 1: You know what's odd? There is a question about that
- 12:59Speaker 1: in the ass handle anything today?
- 13:01Speaker 2: Is there really yeah about you and that very topic? Okay,
- 13:05Speaker 2: well that's really odd, that is very odd. So anyway,
- 13:08Speaker 2: now it is active shooter drills. Now there are always
- 13:12Speaker 2: fire drills, which is a given, and earthquake drills which
- 13:17Speaker 2: have happened forever. But we have switched from the atomic
- 13:22Speaker 2: bomb coming in from Russia drills to the active shooter drills. Also,
- 13:28Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever seen those towers with
- 13:31Speaker 2: the big yellow megaphone kinds of things, the speaker.
- 13:36Speaker 1: All the old ones. Yeah, used to be their raids.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Yeah, and those were specifically for atomic bomb attacks, that's
- 13:43Speaker 2: what they were.
- 13:44Speaker 1: There's a couple in my neighborhood.
- 13:46Speaker 3: And they don't work anymore.
- 13:47Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, they're not connected to anything,
- 13:48Speaker 2: but think it was long gone. And every Friday, or
- 13:52Speaker 2: excuse me, the last Friday of the month at ten o'clock.
- 13:56Speaker 3: It would be the drill. You'd hear the siren go off.
- 14:00Speaker 2: And I was a kid, and of course the joke
- 14:02Speaker 2: was always when the Russians dropped the bomb on the
- 14:07Speaker 2: last Friday of the month at ten o'clock, and everybody
- 14:11Speaker 2: think it was a drill. And I asked that question
- 14:13Speaker 2: to one of the experts that used to have experts
- 14:16Speaker 2: in that world, and I was told, what you hear
- 14:20Speaker 2: in that siren is a fraction of what you're going
- 14:24Speaker 2: to hear if it ever really does happen. And then
- 14:27Speaker 2: they were building bomb shelters. I remember Sears was obviously
- 14:32Speaker 2: a huge department store and they were selling bomb shelters
- 14:36Speaker 2: at sears and in the parking lot they had built.
- 14:41Speaker 2: The contractor had built a bomb shelter underground in the
- 14:45Speaker 2: parking lot. I mean, it was crazy in those days.
- 14:48Speaker 2: We are getting just as crazy now as far as
- 14:52Speaker 2: active shooter and securities, active shooter drills and security. So
- 14:57Speaker 2: schools and at least three states their pilot programs are
- 15:02Speaker 2: going to be equipped with drones this year that will
- 15:07Speaker 2: zoom through halls, be able to smash windows, spray pepper,
- 15:15Speaker 2: spray active shooters when the teachers report them or then
- 15:21Speaker 2: there were security people see them on their TV screens.
- 15:26Speaker 2: At least nine schools, three in Florida, five in Georgia,
- 15:30Speaker 2: one in Colorado. I'm surprised we don't have one here
- 15:32Speaker 2: in California. We'll actually have storage boxes that house these aircraft,
- 15:38Speaker 2: if you want to call it. These drones. They're plastic,
- 15:41Speaker 2: they're non lethal, although they could easily be made made lethal.
- 15:45Speaker 2: I like that the idea of spraying a hallway with
- 15:50Speaker 2: kids they're running away, just the just the entertainment value
- 15:53Speaker 2: of that. The drones can be activated by teachers and
- 15:57Speaker 2: are capable of reach reaching a shooter within fifteen seconds.
- 16:04Speaker 3: See any problems with that, I don't know. Maybe there's
- 16:10Speaker 3: a problem or two.
- 16:14Speaker 2: After Uvaldi in Texas where the police didn't break into
- 16:20Speaker 2: the door of those classrooms in which those kids were
- 16:24Speaker 2: shot up and killed, that sort of changed the thinking
- 16:28Speaker 2: of security.
- 16:30Speaker 3: How much more can we do?
- 16:32Speaker 2: And at least nine schools three and four to five
- 16:35Speaker 2: in Georgia, one in Colorado are now testing drones, drones,
- 16:40Speaker 2: security drones, Drones that go down the hallway, drones that
- 16:45Speaker 2: can break open a window and get into a classroom.
- 16:50Speaker 2: Drones activated by teachers can reach a shooter within fifteen seconds,
- 16:56Speaker 2: flashing strobes, blaring siren, spraying pepper spray, ramming into the
- 17:05Speaker 2: active shooter, even at sixty miles per hour. Bill Kinge
- 17:09Speaker 2: was a retired Navy seal and co founded this company,
- 17:12Speaker 2: Mythral Defense. Once I get the drones on you, you just
- 17:15Speaker 2: can't escape them. Now, by the way, there's a multi
- 17:18Speaker 2: billion dollar industry high tech security on campuses. Now they
- 17:23Speaker 2: are a problem or two on that one. For example,
- 17:26Speaker 2: how do you know who's an active shooter and who isn't.
- 17:29Speaker 3: And let's say there is.
- 17:31Speaker 2: An active gun, Yeah, well a gun works, yeah, And.
- 17:35Speaker 1: So they're actively shooting.
- 17:37Speaker 3: Yeah, that helps.
- 17:38Speaker 2: So you have a bunch of people running down the hallway,
- 17:40Speaker 2: you don't know which one is the bad guy, So
- 17:43Speaker 2: let's send the drone down and pepper spray everybody.
- 17:46Speaker 1: All right, how's that any different than an officer. It's
- 17:49Speaker 1: not like the drones guessing they don't have eyes in
- 17:52Speaker 1: the drone. I know, but it's not fully autonomous. I
- 17:56Speaker 1: have to make decisions sayers on the ground.
- 17:59Speaker 2: That's the other is that is this just a supplement
- 18:04Speaker 2: to guns or is it beyond that where it's more
- 18:08Speaker 2: easily to make mistakes. And on the side of the drone,
- 18:17Speaker 2: the pro drone people said, the technology and this is
- 18:21Speaker 2: Georgia State represented Matt Dubnick. Dubnik, who is chairman of
- 18:26Speaker 2: the House Appropriations Educations Subcommittee, said, hey, this could protect schools.
- 18:30Speaker 3: That don't have the resource officers on campus.
- 18:34Speaker 2: And when you have police officers that show up, I
- 18:38Speaker 2: think it best three minutes later, four minutes, five minutes,
- 18:42Speaker 2: when the cops show up. These are up in fifteen seconds.
- 18:47Speaker 2: They're put in these boxes the teacher and I don't
- 18:50Speaker 2: know who runs them. Someone runs them, whether it's a
- 18:54Speaker 2: trained teacher, which I would think the teachers will have
- 18:58Speaker 2: an app or from panic buttons to some of the drones.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Professional drone pilots can fly them remotely.
- 19:06Speaker 3: For example.
- 19:07Speaker 2: You have monitors the way we do the alarm monitors,
- 19:12Speaker 2: home monitors, where you know, people can look at cameras.
- 19:17Speaker 2: So they've been tested, but never in real life, never
- 19:22Speaker 2: been involved in a shooting, never has actually been used.
- 19:28Speaker 2: And this all happened, as I said Uvaldi, and then
- 19:31Speaker 2: this guy who started it, he took the technology out
- 19:33Speaker 2: of Russian and Ukrainian military forces using drones to attack
- 19:37Speaker 2: each other, so he figured a non lethal version would
- 19:42Speaker 2: have saved lives in Uvaldi and he said, the first
- 19:46Speaker 2: one and twenty seconds are absolutely critical because that's when
- 19:52Speaker 2: most of the shooting happens. And to get cops there
- 19:56Speaker 2: within two minutes is very difficul Golt because it's considered
- 20:02Speaker 2: immediate response. When cops show up in five minutes, and
- 20:06Speaker 2: what he is saying is by then incredible damage is done.
- 20:12Speaker 2: People have died because it's the first two minutes, and
- 20:16Speaker 2: the drones could be activated at anytime, and they're meant specifically
- 20:20Speaker 2: for potentially lethal situations. I think, does it reach a
- 20:27Speaker 2: point where drones are armed.
- 20:31Speaker 1: You can already buy. I keep up on a lot
- 20:33Speaker 1: of security stuff that you can already buy. They exist.
- 20:38Speaker 1: And guns, gun turrets obviously not legal in California, gun
- 20:44Speaker 1: turrets that have less than lethal and lethal options that
- 20:49Speaker 1: are AI track the AI track intruders on your in
- 20:54Speaker 1: your yard, in your you know, if you have a
- 20:57Speaker 1: very large.
- 20:57Speaker 3: And guns yeah that shoot and kill people.
- 21:00Speaker 1: Yeah, you can buy Century units that are robots that
- 21:03Speaker 1: will go through your house with cameras while you're asleep
- 21:05Speaker 1: at night. And if you have a dog. No, they
- 21:09Speaker 1: know the family, they know everybody through AI and anybody
- 21:12Speaker 1: that's not supposed to be there. There's all kinds of
- 21:14Speaker 1: crazy tech. It's just whether it's going to be legal.
- 21:16Speaker 2: And yeah, California wouldn't let that happen. In Texas is
- 21:19Speaker 2: probably mandatory because boomer if you don't have one, booby
- 21:24Speaker 2: traps are completely illegal.
- 21:25Speaker 1: Yeah, but would you would have to trespass or do
- 21:28Speaker 1: something to have them triggered.
- 21:30Speaker 2: My favorite anti uh intruder, anti bad guy weapon was
- 21:36Speaker 2: a former police chief chief in South Africa, because in
- 21:40Speaker 2: South Africa people come up with guns. You have a
- 21:43Speaker 2: stop sign and literally people come up on both sides.
- 21:46Speaker 2: Bad guys can stake a gun literally through the window
- 21:50Speaker 2: even when the window is up, and they say give me,
- 21:52Speaker 2: give me all your valueabiles, or I kill you, and
- 21:54Speaker 2: sometimes they do. So you had a South African cop,
- 21:58Speaker 2: former cop, and what he did he is he put
- 22:02Speaker 2: these basically blowers under the car facing outwards. So you
- 22:11Speaker 2: had these basically flame throwers and someone's seen them and
- 22:16Speaker 2: sae as someone comes up and it fried the guy's
- 22:19Speaker 2: legs right off. He went to jail for that, but
- 22:22Speaker 2: it was there were no legs left of that guy.
- 22:26Speaker 2: Those legs were burnt to a crisp that worked.
- 22:29Speaker 1: Tear gas that can shoot out of the sides of cars.
- 22:32Speaker 3: Falco.
- 22:34Speaker 2: Okay, we're done, guys. Coming up, it is Foody Friday
- 22:37Speaker 2: with Nil Savedra.
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