BHS - 8A - New CA Laws | Fingerless Man Keeps Explosives in Freezer

of the car and started shooting. The cops shot at him, and you ended up with two injured cops and one dead perpetrator. It was a car with Texas plates. That's about all we know about this person. But maybe whenever this press conference starts, we'll get some more information. K IF I will bring it to you as soon as it starts. We have new laws for twenty twenty five. It is an annual tradition in talk radio that is close as close to January one as you can do it.

You talk about some of the new laws, Well, I hit it right on the head January one, let's go minimum wage up fifty cent increase for California's minimum wage workers. The base pay now sixteen fifty an hour. Why did you vote for that? No, In fact, you rejected in the election in November. You rejected a ballot measure that would have raised the minimum wage immediately to eighteen dollars

an hour. Well, not immediately, eighteen dollars an hour. By twenty twenty six would have gone up now and would have gone up again. You said no. But this increase is due to the previous minimum wage law that is adjusted for inflation, So it's inflation that is causing this to happen. Starting in September of this year, colleges and universities are banned from giving preferential treatment to family members

of alumni and donors, the so called legacy admissions. Now they're already banned at the public universities, but starting in September, Stanford, for example, USC will not be allowed to do it. Let me tell you something. Those schools are quaked in their boots because if they get caught, here's what's gonna happen.

Some people are gonna say this is too harsh. If there is an allegation of a preferential admission, the Attorney General will investigate and can request more information from the university. I'm hyperventilating just thinking if that happened to me, if somebody asked me for more information. This is my sarcastic way of saying, there's really no enforcement mechanism. It's just some kind of a law that they passed to I don't know shame universities who do it, because I guess

it would be public anyway. But there's no way. I don't know nobody's going to jail. I don't even think there are any fines. It's just saying you shouldn't do it, and if you do it, then we're gonna know about it, and then we're gonna tell everybody that you did it. The protections for child actors that have been in effect

for quite some time in the state of California. It's called the Cougan Law, and it was passed a long time ago because way back in the day, child actors were being exploited and the parents were stealing all their money. And there was this child actor, very popular, Jackie Coogan, and apparently his parents spent all the money that he made, and he made several million dollars, and so they passed this law, the Cougan Law, and it requires parents to

set aside portions of the money for the child. And you can't spend all the child's money if you've got a precocious child. Actor Will now AB eighteen eighty comes along and says, if your child is a vlogger or an influencer, same rules apply. What else, You cannot be required to attend what they call captive meeting or captive audience meetings. This is where an employer will require you to come to a meeting, and then the meeting is

not necessarily about anything relevant. It might be a religious message or a political message, or it might be a speech about why unions aren't any good and you don't really want to join a union. Well, now, if you if you make somebody go to one of these things, or if you punish them for not going to one of these things, you could be fined up to five hundred dollars. And there's now a ban on discriminating against

people because of their hair. This is designed to address discrimination generally against people of color who also have hair that is culturally associated with their race. And what it does is it says race also includes traits that are associated with the race, like hair texture or hair styles. So there's a little bit of stereotyping necessary in order to protect somebody with natural hair or whatever it is from being discriminated against for their hair in the workplace.

Because I think what's really going on is the idea is that probably if you say, oh, we had to fire you because you had a big halfro that really you fired the person because they're black. So if you're using hair as a proxy for firing somebody because of their race, you won't be able to do it anymore. Now there's another law. I'm not going to talk about it now because it makes me so mad. I'm going to talk about something else to kind of cool down, and then I'm going to talk about it a little

bit later in the show. Another law about where you could park your car. That is the proof of an ongoing problem with local governments. But when we come back from some news from Michael Monks, we are going to talk about robots everywhere, including in the kitchens of restaurants where there's no human being in there. Yes, the robot report. Next on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. AFI Am six forty Live everywhere on the

iHeartRadio app. This is the Bill Handles Show. Welcome Bill is back from his vacation on Monday. I'm Wayne Resnik. We're looking for a press conference around nine am our time. The situation in New Orleans where a guy rammed his car into a bunch of revelers in the French Quarter celebrating New Year's Eve and then got out and started shooting. The police engaged him, gunfire was exchanged. Two of the

cops were injured. The guy's dead, and we hope to get some more information about what's going on there, whether it's true that they found improvised explosive devices also in the area, or whether that is just a rumor, and maybe a little information about why this person might have done it. We'll bring that to you when it happens. Also closer to home, flu cases are spiking here in

southern California. According to the California Department Public Health. Across the whole state, they describe the flu activity levels as moderate, but Southern California has a disproportionately high number of flu cases. So do with that information anything that you want, or don't do anything. Sometimes when you go eat at a restaurant, and this usually is a big deal at a fancy restaurant, but it doesn't have to be. Sometimes you may be

invited back to the kitchen. If you're like a regular customer, or if it's a particularly expensive meal, you may be invited back to go to the kitchen and see it and maybe meet the chef. This is a big deal. But imagine you are invited to go back to the kitchen and there's nobody in the kitchen, not a human being to be found. Maybe it's the mayor d comes over and says, oh, would you'd like to see the kitchen. You're such a good diner, And then there's nobody there. Well,

how's the food getting made? The answer is the button kit. Button Kit is a robot chef. Not only can button kit cook the meal, botton kick button Kit. I'm gonna say it wrong every time. It's kind of a tongue twister, botton kit. I'm just gonna start saying the robot okay, can we agree? Thank you? The robot can also clean up. You don't need a chef. You don't need a dishwasher, you just need botton Kit. So you can upload the recipe.

You can even upload the recipe through the cloud remotely, or it has a touchscreen botton Kit, and you can touch the thing you want and you can alter it like you could say, I want the I'm just making up a thing pod Thai noodle medium spicy or something like that. And it's programmed. It knows all this stuff

and boom, there it goes. It gets out of bowl and it chops the thing and it dispenses the seasonings, and the bowl magically becomes the cooking pan and it cooks the thing up and it does the thing and it dumps it on the plate. Yeah. Now, this is part of a bigger trend of robots showing up all over the place. But the company behind button Kit, the chef Robot, which is mostly in Asia right now but

has set up business here in the United States. They're saying the company says, oh no, no, we're not trying to replace human chefs. That's not the point of botton Kit. There still will be human chefs. No chefs are going to be harmed by the robot chef. The human chefs will still be involved in the recipe creation. I mean, you still have to have a chef come up with the recipes that they want to serve at the restaurant.

And also the chef will be able, the human chef will be able to participate a little bit in the cooking. They can add their personal touch in the last part when the robot's done so, if he's made the pod time medium spicy, and then the chef wants to like place I don't know, the basil leaf, a decorative basil leaf on top of it, He'll still be able to do that, or she'll still be able to do that, or they'll still be able to do that. And in the meantime, you know, robots, like a robot chef in

a kitchen is not really public facing. But there is a trend now where robots are entering the public world. They're not just in the factory or the warehouse or the kitchen. They're in the retail store or the museum. They're doing stuff right in front of you, and sometimes they're doing stuff with you, like talking to you. This is the new trend, and they say it's because of AI and specifically the technology that run uns chat GPT is making this possible to improve the brain power of

these robots. This really sounds like the first act of a science fiction movie that ends with the robots killing all the people and living amongst themselves. But we're still in the first act at this point. I don't know how much brain power we need a robot to have, although you know, even an advanced robot is also kind of a dummy. There's a lot of things that you can program a robot to do, and they can do it better or faster or more accurately than a human,

or more consistently accurately than a human. There are other things that are really really hard for robots to do that are dead simple for you, like picking something up and moving it. That's a big deal because you have to use code. Right now, You program code and it tells the robot how to pick up something and move it, which means they can only pick up the thing they're programmed to pick up, and they can only move it

however their program to move it. Whereas I could ask you, could you please pick up anything in the room, whatever it is, you don't know what I'm gonna ask, and I can ask you to pick up anything, and I can ask you to put it anywhere else and you can do it no problem. A C student can do it, no problem. But a smart robot right now can't do it. So there's a long way to go before a robot is going to be smarter than me, that's for sure. We'll get some news from Michael Monks and then I

have called an audible. We had something we were gonna do, but I saw one of the new laws in California that took effect, and I'm not it's making me mad because it's part of a huge problem. If you dare to be a person who drives a car, I'm gonna tell you what's been going on and why if it feels like your local government is against you, I'm gonna tell you why it feels that way. Spoiler alert, it's because they are. It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere

on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. It's the Bill Handle Show. He's back from vacation. On Monday, Wayne resumes sitting in until nine and one thing I want to tell you about very quickly, this story that we're looking at. Federal prosecutors are trying to keep a guy behind bars and not get out on bail after they made the

largest seizure of homemade explosives in FBI history. This is some guy named Brad Spafford who lives in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, which I'm assuming is way in the middle of nothing. It's about one hundred and eighty five miles south of DC. They arrested him for having a short barreled rifle and then they found over one hundred and fifty homemade bombs. Then he had some stuff in his freezer that it's called HMTD. It's an explosive and it HMTD is so volatile that it will explode if

the temperature changes a few degrees. And he had that. And here's the reason I'm telling you about this guy, because it didn't happen here, happened on the other side of the country. But he has how many fingers do you have? Yes, he has two. And this is one of the big deals that the prosecutors are making in telling the judge you should never let this guy out

on bond. Is even after losing his own fingers, he still had over one hundred and fifty homemade bombs in this highly volatile explosive at his house in the freezer. Not a special explosive freezer, No, the regular family freezer where the Swanson frozen dinners are and the Ben and Jerry's are kept, and then this stuff is in there. So originally the judge said, well, I'm gonna let him out,

and the prosecutor said, we have some more evidence. So now the judge's looking at that trying to decide what to do with this guy. Talk about not learning, and I'll talk about this not learning. There's a new law that is taken effect that says you cannot park now within twenty feet of an intersection, even if the curb is not red. You obviously notice as you drive around that as you get close to the intersection, then the

curb is red and you know, oh yeah, don't park there. Well, some curbs are not red and you have been allowed to park there. No longer red or not. You can't park your car within twenty feet of an intersection. Which in some parts of the country where they also do have this law, it doesn't necessarily matter because anywhere you go there's plenty of parking, but in southern California, in parts of LA in particular, they're how much is not

So they're definitely taking away parking to protect pedestrians. That's what the point of this is. If a car is parked too close to the intersection, I guess the pedestrian can't see the traffic as well, and instead of just being really careful and kind of leaning out and taking some responsibility for not getting smashed by a car, they're just walking out dooty do. And then they go did and see there was a car perk there. So here's

the thing. And I don't have a ton of time, and I don't need a ton of time because I saw this new law and I said, yep, here we go again. If you feel like there's a bias against you as a driver, it's because there's a massive bias against you as a driver. And it wasn't always this way, you know. When the car first came out, it was one of the most amazing and important invention of human history. It changed lives, It changed how business is done, It

changed how work and home life was balanced. It changed the economy and the FEDS built a lot of freeway system and a lot of stuff, and states and local governments they were very happy to spend money building roads to accommodate these cars because these cars were amazing and magical. Now cars are evil. So here's the thing. Why does it feel like there's a bias against us for driving

our cars? Reason one. One thing that's happened to state and local governments over the decades is they have become more and more financially unstable and leveraged, running deficits, having

to get cutting services, unable to simply operate. Roads are very expensive to build, so a road project that would help alleviate car traffic is a very expensive proposition, and if you're part of a city council or a county commission or a state agency, you don't want to commit to spending that kind of money because you don't have it. You know what's not as expensive bike lane bustling. Taking a traffic lane and giving it over to the bikes.

That doesn't cost very much money at all. Putting up pylons to separate a bike lane from the rest of the street doesn't cost very much money. So because governments have become so financially irresponsible. Now they look at road projects to help alleviate your traffic in your car as evil. And then there's a completely different thing that's happened with state and local governments. They've become more political and activist.

Sixty years ago, local governments they really were just like, all right, we got to have the roads and the police and the fire and the water and the thing, and what's the best way to do it. Then they started getting involved in causes. They started getting involved in trying to operate a city in a way to try to get people to behave certain ways that they want.

And we all know with global warming and pollution that one of the things that has been decided is people should be encouraged to give up their car and ride a bike or take public transportation or if it's close enough, walk over there. So they don't want to spend the money or where they can't, they can't really spend the money because they're too irresponsible on building out the roads.

But they also wouldn't probably if they could, because they now make decisions to disadvantage drivers and give basically privileges to bikers and pedestrians. And this law is a perfect example of deciding that it's more important to try to predect to protect some dumb ass from walking out into the middle of the street where he can't see the traffic, then to maybe have enough parking for you when you go to patronize a business or pick up your kid

from a ballet class. They're making their choices, they're showing their preferences. This law is an example of that, and it's only gonna get worse. There's never getting better. There's never gonna be a pay some things. There's a pendulum swing tough on crime. Let's have criminal justice reform. No, let's get tough on crime again. There will never be a pendulum swing back to paying for infrastructure for cars. Let's get some news from Michael Monks, and then we're

gonna finish the show. Everybody's talking about should you drink raw milk? And experts say no, But did you know there's something else you can drink that's raw that you didn't even know could be raw. I will tell you what's going on. It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, KFI AM sixty live everywhere on

the iHeartRadio app. This is the bill handles show. Wayne Resnick's sitting in for a few more minutes sometime around nine, So in the next ten minutes or so, we're expecting a press conference out of New Orleans with updates on the the I don't even know what to call it. I know they're calling it a terrorist attack. Somebody plowed into a group of revelers in the French Quarter with his car, killed, at least ten injured, at least thirty others got out, started shooting. Cops shot back. Two of

the cops were injured. The guy is dead, and we'll bring that press conference to you as soon as it happens. Also, huge blackout hit almost all of Puerto Rico yesterday. There was an underground power line that one of the most important power lines in their whole grid, and it failed and they think it could be another two days before everybody is back online. Now, there's been some coverage in the news of the controversy about raw milk, and you

know there's there. I guess there's a growing group of people who say we want to be allowed to drink raw milk, and the government says, oh no, it's dangerous. It could have a bunch of crap in it and bacteria, and it needs to be pasteurized, and that's why we pasteurize it. So here's the thing, because there's always something weirder, no matter what's in the news, and you go kind it's so weird. There's always something weirder. So if you were to drive up in northern California, in Marin County,

there's there's a pull out there on the road. It's very small if you if you're not looking for it, you probably we might not even notice it, except that you might see a group of people there and some of them have driven hours, they've said, in traffic to get there. And that's Red Rock Spring for you. See, the people gathered there have decided they will only drink water that comes from the pipes of Red Rock Spring. They will not drink tap water, they will not drink

bottled water. They will only drink this water. And they call it raw water. Now you may call it untreated water, but they call it raw water. They do not want to drink the water that goes through the government's water treatment systems, even though that's where you get rid of the bacteria that could kill you or Parrisie or certain chemical toxins that could, I don't know, make your child

not develop properly in their brain. And this is I'm not saying it's big business, because it really isn't a business. It's a trend. It's a fad maybe. And most of these people are part of the health freedom movement. This is the health freedom movement is we don't like vaccine mandates, we don't like mask mandates, we don't want fluoride in our water. We don't want our milk to be pasteurized, and we don't want our water being treated. We want

to drink it right out of the spring, naturally. And they're going to have an ally now in the federal government Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who President elect Trump is picked to lead health in Human Services. He uh, you know, he's spoken out on a lot of these things. He's not on the record yet about raw water, so I don't know where he stands on that, but he has talked about flora. He wants the flooride out of the water.

So people are so into this that they crowd source maps of springs that you can go to and drink natural right out of the ground raw water at Red Rock Spring which is near. If you're trying to place it, it's mere Stinton Beach. If you know where that is, it doesn't matter. You're not gonna if your life. I want to drive up there now and drink that raw water, then God speed to you. You have to wait in line. You can wait at forty five minutes an hour just

to drink this raw water. And it's not just there, you might say, h northern California, of course, what do you expect. Oh no, No, it's all over the country. There's a place in South Carolina where there are two spigots in the ground and they bring up water from some underground spring. And people flock to this place in the middle of rural South Carolina to get water from these two spigots. And then you've got people, you know, trying to capitalize on the traffic. They're selling oranges and

pecans and watermelon, all this stuff. It's it's like a stuckies, except it's for people to get water out of the ground. In Oklahoma, there's people who drive for hours because there's a natural well there that they say it has healing water in it. Because it's raw, there might be so little something to it. If it's coming directly out of the ground, and it comes through layers of the soil.

It's possible that it does get filtered of some of some pathogens, but nobody really knows for sure, and there's no way that it's as clean as treated water. There absolutely could be arsenic in there the soil E coli. God knows what's in there. So the next time somebody says, do you want to go drink some raw, they might not be talking about milk. They might be talking about H two O. All right, that's me. Wayne Resnick and

Gary Shannon are next. This is KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.