Episode 241 - New California Laws in 2024

[00:00:00] If you're a California conservative, a libertarian, a moderate Democrat, believe in common sense,

[00:00:11] or just the same person.

[00:00:13] This is the Political Podcast for You.

[00:00:15] It's the California Underground Podcast.

[00:00:18] Well, what's going on everybody?

[00:00:28] Thanks for tuning into another episode of the California Underground Podcast, I'm your

[00:00:31] host Phil.

[00:00:32] And as always with me is my trustee co-host, the best and fastest researcher in the

[00:00:36] West Camille.

[00:00:37] How are you?

[00:00:38] Happy New Year to you.

[00:00:39] And good.

[00:00:40] Happy New Year to you too.

[00:00:41] How are you?

[00:00:42] Did you have a good holiday as well?

[00:00:44] Did you have a Merry Christmas and all that?

[00:00:47] Sure.

[00:00:48] Christmas was fun, I was just sick.

[00:00:50] Sorry, I'm checking on my due life.

[00:00:53] I feel like the whole world got sick.

[00:00:54] I got sick, my dad was sick.

[00:00:56] Everybody got sick over Christmas.

[00:00:58] But the funny thing is everyone I talked to was like, didn't take a COVID test, so yeah,

[00:01:05] no one's over it, which is how it should be really.

[00:01:08] If you think about it, it's like at this point it's just another respiratory thing and people

[00:01:14] are going to get sick and they're going to cough and they're not going to feel good

[00:01:16] and that's the end.

[00:01:17] Right.

[00:01:18] So, you can get like needing to know what's going on so that you know how to treat it but,

[00:01:24] yeah.

[00:01:25] Yeah, I mean, I had a lingering cough.

[00:01:27] I feel like a bunch of people I talked to had like a lingering cough as well.

[00:01:32] But it's over now in our immune systems that we were all blessed with that we have inherently

[00:01:37] I guess fought in my love.

[00:01:40] So before we get started, it's 2024.

[00:01:42] We got a full year ahead of us.

[00:01:45] That's our new time slot.

[00:01:46] We're now here at six o'clock because the poll that I put up last year said that we want

[00:01:52] the listeners wanted it to be at six o'clock and not eight o'clock.

[00:01:55] We're trying it out on Instagram right now.

[00:01:57] I apologize if the video looks a little weird so if you can hear us.

[00:02:00] It's your good tour of my fireplace.

[00:02:03] I see that.

[00:02:04] Yeah, it's kind of weird but you can listen in.

[00:02:07] We're going to kind of work on this the first time we're doing it this way.

[00:02:11] So we'll work on it.

[00:02:12] We'll work out the kinks a little bit.

[00:02:13] I think this is part of like Riverside's new streaming doing it this way and Instagram

[00:02:19] just rolled out this capability.

[00:02:21] So we'll see how it works and we'll work on it.

[00:02:24] But I know a lot of people are on Instagram and they like to follow us on Instagram and watch

[00:02:28] us on live.

[00:02:29] So if nothing else, put us on in the background and just listen to us like you're sitting

[00:02:32] and listening to a nice radio show.

[00:02:35] So 2024 before we get started, we're going to be talking about all the new bills and everything

[00:02:40] that's coming out.

[00:02:41] We're mentioning some wacky ones which we could get to.

[00:02:43] Some serious ones, some ones that passed, some that did not pass.

[00:02:47] One that was passed was had an injunction, was temporarily halted and then stay was lifted

[00:02:55] and we'll get to that one.

[00:02:57] I think anybody who knows what I'm talking about knows it's been following this knows

[00:03:00] what I'm talking about.

[00:03:03] But before we get to that, I just like to say, I think 2024 is going to be a very busy

[00:03:07] year for us.

[00:03:09] I'm excited.

[00:03:10] I think 2023 we grew a lot.

[00:03:13] Thanks in large part to Camille's persistence to keep kicking me in the butt to keep doing

[00:03:17] things.

[00:03:19] So thank you to Camille for that.

[00:03:21] And 2024 is what's that?

[00:03:25] I mean, you're saying because I know I can be really pushing and then you've been trying

[00:03:29] to get guests on my.

[00:03:32] It's accountability is what it is.

[00:03:35] Yeah, somebody said happy you guys are on IG.

[00:03:38] Yeah, we're going to talk about CCW laws.

[00:03:42] Thank you for tuning in and listening right now.

[00:03:44] Again, I apologize the video looks weird.

[00:03:46] I bet if I could do this, like I could probably wave at people doing it this way anyway.

[00:03:51] Yeah, 2024 is a election year not only that, it's a presidential election year.

[00:03:58] So that's going to make it even crazier and it's going to make it even busier.

[00:04:01] We don't focus so much on presidential stuff here on this show.

[00:04:05] We try and focus a lot more on California stuff.

[00:04:08] So we'll have a lot of guests.

[00:04:09] I'm sure we'll have a lot of candidates who are running.

[00:04:12] We have a guest coming on next week, Michael Oxford, who's running for a state Senate

[00:04:16] up in Santa Cruz.

[00:04:19] But we'll definitely be having a lot of guests on who are running assembly member of state

[00:04:23] senators, local candidates, stuff like that.

[00:04:26] We'd like to try and get out there and do more of those live podcasts like we did last year.

[00:04:31] We're trying to get a table at the Libertarian Convention coming up in February.

[00:04:37] So if anybody out there has connected to Libertarian Convention, can you please put us in touch

[00:04:41] with someone because we've been trying to get in touch with someone to get us a table

[00:04:46] and so far they haven't been super responsive.

[00:04:49] But we're going to work on that.

[00:04:50] And then I guess the GOP Convention, which who knows when that is, it was supposed to be

[00:04:58] in March, but oh, it's in May.

[00:05:00] It has been determined it's going to be in May.

[00:05:03] Make sense.

[00:05:04] Is that closer to the presidential primary?

[00:05:07] Is that why they're doing it that way?

[00:05:09] I have no idea.

[00:05:12] I figured they probably moved it so that they could have like presidential candidates and

[00:05:17] they can make more money off those like $500 tickets to see Ron DeSantis or whoever is

[00:05:22] left in the race by that time.

[00:05:24] I can't imagine there'll be a lot of people left in the race by that time.

[00:05:27] I think people are starting to peter out.

[00:05:29] It's probably going to come down to Nikki Haley and Trump.

[00:05:32] But yeah, any resolutions or anything in 2024 you're looking forward to, Camille?

[00:05:41] I don't make resolutions but then you made one that you just tagged me in.

[00:05:47] So I guess our resolution is that we're going to expose more frauds.

[00:05:53] Well yeah, because if anyone who's like an OG fan of California underground you understand

[00:05:59] that during election year you're going to get a bunch of people who are going to see the

[00:06:04] opportunity to make money off of citizens by running campaigns and promising stuff.

[00:06:12] And in the end they don't really care about you.

[00:06:14] They just want to make a ton of money.

[00:06:15] So that's always been one of our, what's that?

[00:06:20] We want to make a ton of money.

[00:06:22] Well, you can run for office and make a ton of money.

[00:06:28] Thank you.

[00:06:30] And yeah, that's always been something we've done is we've kind of looked into what we call

[00:06:36] grifters.

[00:06:38] People who are running just because they want to run and make money off of you.

[00:06:42] Some who made a professional career out of it and we called it.

[00:06:45] I just like to say Omar Navarro is definitely one of them that we called.

[00:06:50] I think we called that pretty much to a T correctly.

[00:06:53] Like we found that stuff and found that he was using it and then he got brought up on

[00:06:58] federal charges for using campaign money for personal finances and look at that.

[00:07:04] So yeah, that's a resolution.

[00:07:08] I don't know any other predictions for 2024 right off the bat before we get started

[00:07:12] on any of these laws politics ones.

[00:07:15] Nothing had predictions.

[00:07:17] It's going to be crazy.

[00:07:19] So it will be crazy.

[00:07:22] It's going to be crazy to see what happens obviously in the presidential race with Trump

[00:07:26] and all that stuff.

[00:07:29] I can't imagine Trump's not going to be the Republican nominee.

[00:07:33] We'll be hard pressed to think that Biden will actually be the Democrat nominee.

[00:07:37] Who knows you and I are still of the belief that Newsom is going to jump in at some point

[00:07:41] and run for president.

[00:07:44] Yeah, we'll see what happens.

[00:07:45] I mean, he's running out time to jump in and run for president.

[00:07:49] So he's also been so question on its that's related to this is do you think Larry Elders

[00:07:57] presidential run was a grift?

[00:08:01] I don't think it was a grift so much.

[00:08:05] I think it was I think Larry elder.

[00:08:08] I think he did it because he wanted to get recognition.

[00:08:11] He came out with a book too or something so that's kind of the same thing.

[00:08:16] I remember I had a conversation with him.

[00:08:18] I mean, okay, I don't know Larry elders.

[00:08:21] I met him once at a at a screening of a movie and I was like, hey, so what's next?

[00:08:27] What are you going to do?

[00:08:28] Anna, this was what in 2022?

[00:08:34] Yes, summer of 2022.

[00:08:36] Anna and I was just like, what's next with the plan with the pack?

[00:08:40] So this was after the government run and he was like, I'm going to run for president.

[00:08:45] And he said, it's not that I want to run against Trump, but I want to bring awareness to family

[00:08:50] issues and that's going to be my platform.

[00:08:53] And then I'm not sure if a book is about or not, but he didn't say I'm running for a

[00:09:00] grift.

[00:09:01] But he basically was like, I want to bring recognition to issues.

[00:09:04] That's why I'm running.

[00:09:06] Yeah, and that's fine.

[00:09:07] There are plenty of people who bring up their issue candidates.

[00:09:11] They bring up issues.

[00:09:13] They run because they know they can bring issues to sort of a more national spotlight.

[00:09:18] It's just be honest in terms of like our basically our definition of what a grifter is.

[00:09:26] Larry Elder does not fit that at all.

[00:09:28] I mean, Larry Elder was very successful before he left his radio show and stuff like that.

[00:09:32] So there was really no like financial benefit to him running.

[00:09:38] But if you want to bring it up, it would have been interesting to see him on the debate

[00:09:41] stage.

[00:09:42] I was kind of bummed that the heat in get on the debate stage.

[00:09:43] He's an incredible or a turn a great debater.

[00:09:46] Very, very smart guy.

[00:09:48] Formerly an attorney.

[00:09:49] I know that.

[00:09:51] So yeah, I don't think it was a grift at all.

[00:09:55] It was just he had his one issue.

[00:09:58] It didn't kind of really launch or go anywhere and that was the end of his campaign as opposed

[00:10:04] to someone like Chris Christie whose only job is to go out there and bash Trump.

[00:10:10] He's not really running for president to be serious.

[00:10:12] He's just running because he wants to bash Trump at any point and because Vivek is sort

[00:10:17] of the Trumpian candidate.

[00:10:19] That's why he kind of goes after Vivek all the time.

[00:10:22] But anyway, let's get started on these laws.

[00:10:25] We got a bunch of laws to go over and we're going to go over like the highlights because

[00:10:32] as you know in California legislators have to justify their existence and why they need

[00:10:38] to be full time.

[00:10:39] First off, if I was king of California and like you were like okay Phil, you can start

[00:10:43] to enact policy.

[00:10:45] And you don't have to you know, you just wave your decree and make policy.

[00:10:50] One of the first things I would do is I would make all legislators part time.

[00:10:55] There's no reason for legislators to really be full time.

[00:10:58] You know they're not really doing as much as I think people think they are and no offense

[00:11:04] to the people who we've had on the show.

[00:11:07] There might be some people who come on the show and agree with us.

[00:11:11] But you'll see that they like introduce all these bills and it's just thousands of bills

[00:11:19] get introduced every single year.

[00:11:21] And most of them don't make it out of committee.

[00:11:23] Most of them don't make it to the floor.

[00:11:25] You know, most don't make it to the vote.

[00:11:26] And most don't even get to Gavin Newsom's desk like a small portion of him came to the

[00:11:30] governor's desk.

[00:11:32] But it's just so many bills that we have to follow and we do our legislative updates,

[00:11:37] what went through committee, what's not going through, what's been blocked.

[00:11:41] And Kudos to assemblywoman Kate Sanchez who today announced that she introduced her own

[00:11:46] bill that would reduce the amount of bills that legislators can introduce.

[00:11:50] So Kudos to her for doing that because there is no reason to introduce all these bills.

[00:11:58] Someone just pointed out yes.

[00:11:59] We know our screen is split in half.

[00:12:03] Like we said, we're trying to just do this as like a, this first time doing it, it's

[00:12:07] the new time doing it on IG live.

[00:12:09] So we understand that but just hang out and listen and you'll still get the same effect.

[00:12:14] It's like listening to audio but you get to see our guitar and fireplace.

[00:12:19] So yeah, there's plenty of bills.

[00:12:21] We're just doing the highlights.

[00:12:22] I'm not even sure if we'll get through all the bills we want to talk about tonight.

[00:12:27] But we'll definitely give it to good old college try and not try and go too much over.

[00:12:34] Is there any that you want to start with before we get going on anything?

[00:12:37] I'll let you start.

[00:12:38] I mean, we discussed him beforehand obviously.

[00:12:41] Okay.

[00:12:42] I think I brought up just silly ones for the most part.

[00:12:46] There's important ones but.

[00:12:47] Camille likes the silly loss.

[00:12:52] It's like the date shake from to what was it last year.

[00:12:55] What we're talking about before we hopped on is that which again, kudos to Kate Sanchez

[00:13:00] because we actually our tax dollars paid these legislators to come up with these bills.

[00:13:08] And yet there are none of them are life changing at all for anyone but it's so the temple was

[00:13:14] paid and they spent their time doing that and it went through committees and then it passed

[00:13:19] like so we'll get to that.

[00:13:21] Yeah.

[00:13:23] All right, let's start off with our favorite senator.

[00:13:27] Oh boy.

[00:13:28] Scott Weiner.

[00:13:29] Yay.

[00:13:30] Let's start off with him.

[00:13:31] As we all know, any fans of the show know that we discovered or expose the fact that he's

[00:13:37] beholden to big real estate.

[00:13:39] That's his biggest owner.

[00:13:41] So a new law that was passed as SB 423 and SB 4 both authored by San Francisco Democrat

[00:13:46] and human housing bill factory, Senator Scott housing shortage by making it easier to

[00:13:50] build.

[00:13:51] SB 423, the most closely watched housing bill of the year, renews winners, 2017 law that

[00:13:58] forces local governments to automatically green light apartments and other dense housing

[00:14:01] urban projects.

[00:14:02] So long as the developer said a certain share of units aside for lower income residents.

[00:14:07] As other bill which has been more interesting, it's really weird to see Scott Weiner posting

[00:14:12] this all over social.

[00:14:14] SB 4 dubbed as yes in God's backyard would clear the way for churches, synagogues, mosques

[00:14:20] and other houses of worship along with nonprofit colleges to build designated affordable housing

[00:14:25] on their properties without having to conduct environmental reviews, receive approval

[00:14:29] from local governments or request changes to zoning.

[00:14:35] Like I said, Scott Weiner is beholden to the real estate lobbyists, the biggest real estate

[00:14:42] lobbyists in the unions and the car and all that.

[00:14:45] So he's always pushing housing.

[00:14:47] This one was weird that it's yes in God's backyard that now a lot of these houses worship.

[00:14:52] Of course, the bigger irony of all housing bills that come from any Democrat in California

[00:14:57] is you wrote the laws like sequel that make it hard to build housing and now you're passing

[00:15:05] laws to kind of get around sequel.

[00:15:08] So and like you'll see a lot of these Democrats complain that oh there's too many regulations,

[00:15:13] environmental impact studies and all that stuff.

[00:15:15] And it's like dude, you were the one who came up with the law in the requirements that

[00:15:20] you have to do these environmental studies and now you're going around saying oh we're

[00:15:24] trying to solve the problem and we need affordable housing.

[00:15:27] Yeah, no, no, no, like we're trying to do that for years and now all of a sudden people

[00:15:32] like Scott Weiner jumping on it.

[00:15:35] I mean there's many reasons why it's not affordable but because of all the freaking regulations

[00:15:42] that someone has to go to to build a house suddenly like before they've even started building

[00:15:48] their you know six figures in.

[00:15:51] And then of course that's going to go back to the home fire, you know it costs so much

[00:15:57] build the house and okay if Scott we get him off of the bill I mean I'm automatically

[00:16:02] like out like it's just him but I do agree with okay remove all these environmental restrictions

[00:16:08] because they I remember reading what I was like a teenager about things going on in California

[00:16:14] where they stopped a housing project multiple times because they found endangered flies

[00:16:21] and needed to make sure that they did not hurt the flies.

[00:16:25] Ah okay yeah.

[00:16:28] Endangered flies.

[00:16:29] Flights don't ask me what breed of flies but they're endangered.

[00:16:34] They were endangered and so this housing project couldn't carry on until they could

[00:16:37] figure out a way to not hurt these flies.

[00:16:40] Yeah I mean if they want to get really serious about housing there's a really easy solution

[00:16:46] which is basically scrap all of this and start all over again.

[00:16:52] Just just basically go like okay all these regulations and all these environmental studies

[00:16:56] and all this stuff that has just like built upon itself over and over and over again

[00:17:01] just scrap it and start all over again because this whole like chipping away at it like

[00:17:06] Scott Wiener's bill is trying to do and allow like churches and mosques and all of them

[00:17:10] to like build housing in their backyard.

[00:17:14] It's it's acknowledging that there is a problem with zoning and regulations here in

[00:17:22] California without really addressing the issue which is just get rid of it all just start

[00:17:28] all over.

[00:17:29] Get rid of the bill don't add a new one.

[00:17:33] Yeah like just you know like sack up and just do it like introduce a bill and be like

[00:17:37] let's wipe all the housing stuff away.

[00:17:40] Let's start all over again because there's too much regulations and stuff layered on top

[00:17:44] of each other at this point to really make a difference.

[00:17:50] Like you said it gets to a point where it's so expensive because now they require builders

[00:17:57] to use a certain type of wood and they have to use a certain type of recycled metal

[00:18:00] and they have to use a certain type of this and they have to put this kind of electrical

[00:18:03] system in it like becomes this whole like everything costs more and housing is unaffordable

[00:18:09] in California because by the time the finished product is done and ready for someone to move

[00:18:13] in they have to charge half a million dollars or way more to make to even get a profit off

[00:18:20] of any of these housing.

[00:18:21] So just scrap it and start all over again.

[00:18:25] But I have a hundred dollars that sounds so cheap right?

[00:18:29] I know if I saw a house for like half a million dollars I'd be like let's put it in

[00:18:33] offer right now but then we'd be outbid by someone with cash for by $150,000 or something.

[00:18:42] Okay next one and he suggestions you want to move on to the next one or should we just

[00:18:49] keep going down the way?

[00:18:50] Not at the end of the studio, throw my mouse.

[00:18:52] Okay whenever you're ready to jump in and announce any wacky laws let me know.

[00:18:58] This next one we've been following this one for a while.

[00:19:01] This is SB 43 this expands the legal definition of gravely disabled so let me back up here.

[00:19:10] In case you've been living under a rock California has a homeless problem.

[00:19:16] California has not figured out how to address that homeless problem.

[00:19:20] The homeless problem has gotten so bad Democrats are starting to feel the wrath of voters going

[00:19:25] to meetings and city council and county meetings and stuff like that saying there's too

[00:19:29] many homeless.

[00:19:31] So they've thrown $20 billion at the problem for housing, that hasn't worked.

[00:19:39] They've tried to figure out how to get them off the streets with free housing and all this

[00:19:44] stuff hasn't really worked.

[00:19:47] So the Democrats, the champions of civil rights and privacy rights are now enacting a law

[00:19:57] or making it expanding a law in California that thereby infringes more on your civil rights.

[00:20:05] And what do I mean?

[00:20:07] There's this law called the Lanterman Petrus short act 1967.

[00:20:12] Basically what it is and to boil it down to give people a mental or the main white

[00:20:18] coats coming with the straight jacket and throwing you in a van and taking you a mental

[00:20:22] institution.

[00:20:24] That's that's a crude way to put it.

[00:20:27] Basically what it is, it's a conservatorship where you're so mentally incapacitated and

[00:20:34] you have such mental issues that basically the state says you have to be forced into

[00:20:41] a mental health care facility.

[00:20:45] Now this has been a really, really hard standard to meet.

[00:20:51] Obviously you don't want to just kind of apply and have anyone thrown into a mental mental

[00:20:55] institution.

[00:20:56] They've chipped away at it over years to make it harder and harder.

[00:21:00] Democrats now have figured out wait a second.

[00:21:04] If we expand this law to include substance abuse and chronic alcoholism and that you

[00:21:14] won't be able because of these two issues, substance abuse and alcoholism, you can't provide

[00:21:19] food or shelter for yourself.

[00:21:22] Wait a second.

[00:21:23] Now we can have courts, deem these people incompetent, sweep them off the street, throw them

[00:21:29] into mental institutions.

[00:21:34] That's what Democrats have basically done.

[00:21:35] This is what Gavin Newsom is championed.

[00:21:37] He has come out with this thing called care court.

[00:21:42] It's going to be implemented and rolled out in several counties.

[00:21:45] San Diego is one of them, I think LA is not on San Francisco.

[00:21:48] I don't know if Orange County is one of them but it's like the bigger counties are going

[00:21:52] to go first.

[00:21:54] Basically the Democrats have gotten so desperate to figure out housing that they've expanded

[00:21:59] this law to basically start to grab people off the street and throw them into mental institutions.

[00:22:08] I think it's just kind of funny that Democrats who are all about civil rights and letting

[00:22:13] people do whatever they want have now come to this conclusion that it's best to just use

[00:22:16] the government to scoop them off the streets.

[00:22:19] What are your thoughts?

[00:22:20] Well, a few seconds ago you described this bill as they decided to expand this bill

[00:22:27] and that's where I just, that's where they lose me.

[00:22:30] Once again we're expanding bills.

[00:22:32] We're not doing away with, we're just expanding and we already know, yes there's some

[00:22:40] actual facilities that are helping people but we already know they're not.

[00:22:44] They're literally just like from everything that we've heard and been told so many times

[00:22:48] they're basically taking them to drug safe houses.

[00:22:51] It's not really safe but it's like, and I'm not saying that all homeless people are

[00:22:55] drug addicts.

[00:22:56] I have worked with homeless people and they're not all drug addicts, you know there's different

[00:23:00] situations it happens but it's like they're not helping them recover and you know releasing

[00:23:10] them back into society as functioning people.

[00:23:14] They're encouraging this behavior while we also know that they pay homeless people to

[00:23:21] live here which encourages homeless people to come from other states because hey we can

[00:23:26] still be homeless but have money in California.

[00:23:29] And so they need to end that or we're never going to see an end to this and I don't think

[00:23:34] that we'll ever actually see an end to homelessness but let's you know bring it's ridiculous

[00:23:40] the out of control and we're encouraging.

[00:23:43] And these so called safe places and mental facilities are just, they're just going

[00:23:47] to medicate them.

[00:23:48] They're going to allow them to use their drugs or whatever but like at least it's under supervision

[00:23:53] they're not doing anything to help these people get out of their situations.

[00:23:58] Yeah, it's one of those things I think what I see is that who supported it was the big

[00:24:05] city mayor's coalition which includes mayors from the states 13 biggest cities.

[00:24:13] I mean that's not surprising if you're a mayor of a large city in California you are

[00:24:20] hearing it from your constituents that homelessness is a problem and you're hearing it from

[00:24:25] your constituents that mental issues with homelessness has become a real problem.

[00:24:31] And what else are you going to do at a certain point you've run out of solutions so the fact

[00:24:36] that someone authored this bill and said hey why don't we just make it easier to just

[00:24:40] nab them off the street.

[00:24:43] But you're right why don't we also enforce the laws in terms of you know, loitering or

[00:24:53] vagrancy or any of these things that we should be doing we should be putting a hard and

[00:25:00] we've talked about this before with homelessness there has to be sort of like a line for society

[00:25:05] to go this is where society is.

[00:25:09] Excuse me, this is where society is if you want to be a member of society you have to act

[00:25:15] in a certain way.

[00:25:17] When you cross that line over in society and you start to do things that are not in

[00:25:24] line with what normal people in a functioning society would do you sort of there has

[00:25:29] to be a stop to it.

[00:25:32] And I think the problem is California has let that line go way out and like homeless have

[00:25:36] just really kind of pushed that line farther and farther out to the point where tax pay and

[00:25:42] citizens are now fearing for their lives and they go outside they don't know if like this

[00:25:48] homeless person I'm walking up on who is clearly under the influence of some sort of drug

[00:25:53] or alcohol.

[00:25:55] Are they going to attack me am I in trouble?

[00:25:58] Do I have to walk to the other side of street it becomes this whole issue of like well

[00:26:02] I'm a normal functioning person of society.

[00:26:05] What do we do in this case where someone's not a normal functioning person in society

[00:26:08] so to your point I think we still have to get hard on homelessness there has to be a

[00:26:13] line in the sand of like okay you can't do this anymore.

[00:26:17] Like we've dumped twenty billion dollars worth of taxpayer money into providing housing

[00:26:23] giving you an opportunity and if you don't take it then like we don't know what else

[00:26:27] to do like you can't it's the old line you don't have to go home but you can't stay here

[00:26:32] like you just can't anymore.

[00:26:36] So there are there's a lot to fix on homelessness and you're right it's we can't continue

[00:26:42] hanging out money we can't continue to give stipends we can't get like San Francisco

[00:26:47] can't continue to give six hundred dollars a month in cash payments there has to be

[00:26:51] you have to make it uncomfortable but also give people that option of somewhere to go

[00:26:56] to get help whether it's charities or housing or something like that but it just it can't

[00:27:01] continue the way it is and Democrats have just gotten really desperate now with this bill

[00:27:07] where they just don't want to hear from constituents anymore because let's be honest that's

[00:27:13] all they care about right now so they don't want to hear about from their constituents

[00:27:15] anymore that there's too many homeless I'm tired of looking at homeless people there's

[00:27:20] crazy homeless people on my street I can't walk my dog I can't take my kids to the park

[00:27:24] because there's homeless people in the park that's all they care about they just don't want

[00:27:29] to hear from their constituents anymore so they've enacted or expanded this this broader

[00:27:33] law which basically allows people to get scooped up off the street thrown into these institutions

[00:27:38] so it hasn't really got into effect yet but I'll be interested to see what happens.

[00:27:44] This is I'm gonna sell like I'm joking I don't remember if San Francisco passed this one

[00:27:51] at Palm Springs I thought did where if you are if you identify as LGBTQ plus they're giving

[00:27:59] you a certain amount of money do you know if that passed in San Francisco?

[00:28:03] I don't know I didn't hear about that because there's you know San Francisco you get 600

[00:28:09] issued whatever for if your homeless you also get reparations payments and I'm wondering

[00:28:16] like how many of these can you you know if you come in and you're black and you identify

[00:28:20] as LGBTQ and homeless like how many payments are you getting from the government?

[00:28:26] I mean just check the box I guess I don't know do they get to qualify from one of these

[00:28:32] this is a sincere question like yeah okay I have all the things and now I'm getting 2000 bucks

[00:28:39] a month yay yeah and I mean nobody in California has money right now um I didn't maybe Orange

[00:28:49] County has money because they maybe Orange County is the only one that has their their stuff

[00:28:55] together or like any of the counties up in like the stage Jefferson but like San Francisco's broke

[00:29:00] LA's broke like I'm sorry because I didn't need to come across doubted that way I'm just saying

[00:29:05] like I know for us it's like you know I do get to stay home but it's becoming increasingly harder it's

[00:29:12] yeah I mean

[00:29:14] I mean California does not have money and we're going to talk about that in a couple weeks on

[00:29:19] a different episode about why California doesn't have any money um but I think reparations should be

[00:29:26] probably dead in the water now that we're 68 billion dollars in the in the red um okay so

[00:29:33] speaking of that and dead of the water things California ID this is so kind of randomly off topic

[00:29:40] they keep extending that do you think that's gonna end up being thrown out

[00:29:47] California ID real ID that California is switching you know they delayed it because of COVID and

[00:29:53] it's delayed again and delayed again and like right now you have to have it by May of 2025

[00:29:59] so just a little over a year but they've extended so many times that I'm starting to think

[00:30:03] that's gonna just be done with or just be like no this obsolete um no that one I actually

[00:30:10] think is is going to go through eventually just because you needed to like use it as an

[00:30:16] ID to get on a plane correct that's not not yet not yet yeah you need to get your real ID done

[00:30:28] yeah so I think sooner or later like it's gonna force people to get a real ID because if you want

[00:30:34] to get on a plane unless you use a passport you're gonna have to get a real ID um but yeah you're

[00:30:40] right it is one of those things I keep going to the airport and I see like it just keeps getting

[00:30:44] delayed until I feel like I've been seeing like get your real ID by this year and then it's like

[00:30:49] nice next year and then it's two years and then it's like who knows like when it's actually gonna

[00:30:53] go into effect um I mean just get I don't know just get your real ID if you want to fly on planes

[00:31:00] just makes it a lot easier um is there like a wow fill did it hold out is there a hold out for

[00:31:08] like why people want to keep their old ID I don't know it doesn't really change but now it

[00:31:14] just time and money for you to go get a different ID true yeah nobody likes to go to the DMV

[00:31:22] and what is this money going towards it's not fixing our roads well no now none of the money that's

[00:31:28] supposed to go to roads ever goes to roads um it gets siphoned off into other projects it gets

[00:31:33] siphoned off into the high speed rail which they're trying to bring back from the dead I guess

[00:31:37] I saw that news today that they're trying to bring back the the high speed rail and that they're all

[00:31:43] excited because they think they're gonna actually finish it this time and they're gonna have a

[00:31:47] rail line between Fresno and other parts of Central Valley you know those really big populate

[00:31:53] areas that people are trying to get to um okay this is uh speaking of dead in the water this

[00:32:00] is another one that I actually thought was kind of interesting um can we have you ever served on a jury

[00:32:07] no okay do you know how much you get into the daily stipend to serve on a jury and stay

[00:32:14] $15 right uh it's $15 oh yeah okay so $15 is barely covers your lunch

[00:32:23] while you're in jury duty um they actually tried to get this bill passed it would expand the

[00:32:30] stipend from $15 to $100 you had to like qualify for like you had to show like income as to why

[00:32:37] you needed $100 a day um I don't think that's a horrible I don't think it's a horrible idea because

[00:32:45] there's a lot of people who just don't show up for jury duty I think you should get you should be

[00:32:49] judged by a diverse group of your peers I don't think it should just be it always ends up being

[00:32:53] like retired people who sit on juries um because they have time and they don't have to worry about money

[00:33:00] um so I don't think it was a bad idea I think $15 is kind of ridiculous to serve on a jury

[00:33:08] no it's a rule now it's you have to prove that you need the $100 or that they're you're in

[00:33:14] so what you've said well the when you get a jury summons what happens is you can say

[00:33:21] I can't serve on a jury because of financial economic hardship um

[00:33:27] let's see there was press feeding for several years and now it's I'm a homeschool mom if

[00:33:31] I'm gone my kids don't get educated so there you go those those are your ways to get out of it

[00:33:37] but some people say well I can't I'm not gonna get time off I don't make enough money

[00:33:41] I'd lose up all this money and like I can't I just can't take time off um so you do lose out on a good

[00:33:48] portion of the population you just can't serve on a jury um I don't know if $100 makes it up but

[00:33:56] it does make a big difference I think more people would be inclined to sit on a jury if they

[00:34:02] were being compensated properly because since I've never done it

[00:34:07] it's you call in the day before or the morning over how does it what's the process now?

[00:34:13] um I mean here in San Diego the process is you take your little ticket

[00:34:19] you show up to the court house the day of there's a huge room where there's like hundreds and

[00:34:24] hundreds of people uh you have a number and then they call your number randomly and then you

[00:34:32] go up and they either dismiss you or they send you to a courtroom where you go through

[00:34:38] a voidier and then you get picked for a jury and how long approximately before your number is called

[00:34:45] could be an hour could be all day long so it's until you're dismissed let's say you're there for five

[00:34:53] six seven eight hours what is your wage now for being there uh you know the compensator for

[00:35:02] that's the weird thing you don't get compensated for showing up you get compensated when you sit on

[00:35:06] the jury right right so you could wait all day and not and you've now lost that day and you don't

[00:35:15] get any stipend for it and you've spent your gas money to go there so that's why saying we shouldn't

[00:35:22] if we're gonna raise $200 great raise a $200 but don't make someone prove that they need that

[00:35:27] their dollars like no yeah i mean the kinks the kinks definitely need to be worked out this is

[00:35:36] why new some vetoed it um he said well i appreciate the authors work to create a more equal justice

[00:35:40] system this policy needs to be part of budget discussions um the estimated cost i think where was

[00:35:48] it said it was like four to nine million dollars was the estimated cost a year now compare that

[00:35:56] to how much we're going to be spending on uh health care for undocumented

[00:36:05] persons i guess that's the proper proper like PC way to say undocumented persons

[00:36:10] um that was the biggest news i think coming into January is this expansion of medical

[00:36:16] this wasn't really a bill we were talking about this before we hopped on um but they've expanded

[00:36:22] medical to include um those who are undocumented uh and i think it's going to be around four billion

[00:36:32] dollars is what it's gonna be um oh the latest expansion of medical will cost about two point six

[00:36:38] billion dollars on top of a three hundred and thirty billion dollar budget so um right we're at a

[00:36:47] 68 billion deficit this year right um and then governor newsome also signed sp770 in october

[00:36:57] presented by you know who to force all californians out of their existing health coverage including

[00:37:03] Medicare employer based coverage and affordable care act Obamacare plans and into untested

[00:37:07] government run system with no ability opt out or choose private coverage instead so universal

[00:37:13] health care is basically on its way um so good news for health care here in california um

[00:37:21] miss i don't know how much more people have to like is this one of those issues you think do you

[00:37:27] think this is an issue that cuts across party lines or do you think it cuts directly down party

[00:37:32] lines you think like it crosses party lines were we're kind of like sane californians whether

[00:37:37] you're red bluer whatever kind of look at this and go like wait a second i'm paying six seven

[00:37:43] eight hundred dollars a month for my family for health insurance probably more for families i don't

[00:37:48] know how much it is for a full family and then to hear that they're giving away medical insurance

[00:37:54] to undocumented immigrants who show up i wish it was a non-partisan issue in the sense that

[00:38:01] the majority of california would be sane enough to say that's a really bad idea but it's likely split

[00:38:08] and i have a feeling at least extreme leftists probably agree with it while the majority of

[00:38:13] anyone to the middle to the right is like no this is did that answer your question is that we were asking

[00:38:21] yeah i just i think you know we keep talking about like a certain point does california go too insane

[00:38:27] that it starts to shake and wake up people who are more in the middle or maybe their middle left

[00:38:34] leaning i wonder if this is one of those issues that like starts to wake people or they're like

[00:38:40] wait a second how much are we spending on free health insurance for those who are undocumented and

[00:38:45] then they look at their health insurance bill and they're like wait a second how much am i spending

[00:38:49] on health insurance why am i like i wonder if that's just an issue that does start to cut across lines

[00:38:56] that people kind of go is this a bridge too far i would hope it kind of wakes up a lot of people to

[00:39:04] the point where they go like what do we spend any money on and then on top of the fact that we have

[00:39:07] a sixty eight sixty eight billion dollar deficit i think that combined with each other kind of goes

[00:39:13] we're already in a huge deficit yet somehow we can afford to pay for this but we can't afford to

[00:39:20] pay people a hundred dollars to serve on the jury so someone said in the chat you have to have

[00:39:27] a real idea to buy a gun nowadays so there you go if you want to purchase a firearm you need a real idea

[00:39:37] because when you i mean we bought one recent well no i guess it wasn't that reason uh without it

[00:39:43] maybe it's new um so yeah that's uh that's the new thing that's happening right now

[00:39:51] um i don't know i think as as gavan news and if he's trying to moderate himself for presidential run

[00:39:58] this this was not the move i understand in the in the scope of california politics it makes sense

[00:40:06] but if you're running for president it makes absolutely no sense so um well looks like okay

[00:40:13] we're a lot of that is going to be our own like your i don't know i mean who pays for your

[00:40:20] health care if your work does or whatever but like your yours is probably going to go up mine's

[00:40:24] probably going to go up to start covering these things um you know that's that's generally how it works

[00:40:30] and then we learned now if you want to buy a home and you have good credit your mortgage is

[00:40:36] gonna have fees tacked on for those who don't have good credit and so it's like now it's like okay

[00:40:43] i had to pay for my health care that's just gonna cost more to help others

[00:40:47] and my mortgage if i want to buy a home to help others and it's like

[00:40:52] it's not the government's job to to do it you can't legislate morality like this like

[00:40:58] i know uh Christians on the left who scream like well we need to feed the poor yeah we need to

[00:41:04] feed the poor but what the government's doing isn't isn't doing it's the snot it's not how we do it

[00:41:11] right we're all broke and we're all gonna go to feed the poor

[00:41:14] because we're not gonna let me feed ourselves yeah it's pretty soon we're all gonna be poor

[00:41:20] and then who feeds us when we're all poor like how can we be charitable when we're all trying to

[00:41:24] make ends meet exactly um that's what we talked about on our episode before the break was um with

[00:41:32] the Christian caucus uh basically the like you're saying the the notion that like people say oh

[00:41:40] how can you call yourself a Christian and like not vote for like universal health care like what

[00:41:45] do you hate people and want people to die like do you not want to help poor people and it's like well

[00:41:48] yeah i want to help poor people but i want to help poor people and the government's a horrible

[00:41:53] steward of helping people like the sooner we all realized that the government is a horrible

[00:41:57] horrible steward of helping poor people and that like then the sooner we can stop voting to give

[00:42:04] them more and more power and more money um but anyway let's see next one uh there was another

[00:42:12] one decriminalized psychedelic drugs that didn't pass scott weiner again um so they tried to get

[00:42:19] that through uh limit hand count votes in election this did pass AB 969 would ban hand counting of votes

[00:42:27] except in very narrow circumstances and regular elections with the thousand registered voters are

[00:42:31] fewer eligible vote and special elections with 5,000 voters or fewer um and this is in response

[00:42:38] to shasta county board supervisors voting in january to end the county's contract with dominion voting

[00:42:44] um so after that you know again this comes to this issue of separation powers and sort of

[00:42:52] the system we have in california where it's such a big state really every county is kind of like

[00:42:57] its own state uh should be able to govern yourselves as is i think i'm in favor of like decentralized

[00:43:04] sacramental and linked counties do more their own decisions and run the way they want to

[00:43:10] so they wanted to do all hand counting uh for votes um after 2020 election and um didn't go over

[00:43:20] so well sacramental didn't like that so they nixed that and now they banned all hand counting of

[00:43:25] votes in california so no more hand counting it's got to be by machine you shaking your head thoughts

[00:43:34] it's just sorry it's the same old sacramental involving themselves in local politics and

[00:43:43] i am not by any means a political expert not that politically smart but

[00:43:49] and you can correct you seriously correct me if i wrong i feel like if i could share any advice the

[00:43:55] biggest advice that i would say is local elections matter most like i wish everyone would stop freaking out

[00:44:02] over congress and presidents yes they matter but like oh my gosh your local elections matter so much

[00:44:08] please pay attention to them please the control so in real life

[00:44:13] yeah i mean we don't want to sound like a broken record but um they do matter um let me look at

[00:44:20] look at who we had uh sonia shawan couple about a month ago at this point um and look at what

[00:44:28] just one person being elected to school board and how that reverberated throughout the state because

[00:44:34] of what she did on local level and what she was able to do on a local level created a new narrative

[00:44:41] in a discussion in california about like parental rights which then creates this bigger issue so it

[00:44:47] does matter who is on your local i mean it when i remember during covid i used to tell people like

[00:44:54] every local office matters from governor all the way down to school board like even school board

[00:44:59] matters the most and now school boards have become you know very important in parental rights and

[00:45:04] protecting parental rights so um they all matter and and i i think counties should matter you

[00:45:11] should care about your county supervisors um here in san diego one of our county supervisors has

[00:45:16] more allegations against them for sexual harassment but that's another hold another topic um so it

[00:45:23] matters it does make a big difference who's in your work because he keeps inserting themselves into

[00:45:29] local politics it's just it's very frustrating well again it's it's sort of the um irony of democrats

[00:45:38] is that they're always screeching about how you know Donald Trump is a danger or a threat to our

[00:45:45] democracy but then when local official and local elections are democratically held and people vote

[00:45:53] in certain politicians they're like well no no no no you can't have those types of politicians we

[00:45:57] don't respect those types of decisions um so they like democracy but not when it goes against them

[00:46:05] that's always the ironic thing about democrats and sacramina always puts its nose in

[00:46:12] um another bill that died which i thought was absolutely ludicrous they wanted to this is sb 799

[00:46:23] would they would give unemployment to those who are going on strike workers who go on strike

[00:46:30] and of course the california labor federation was a big proponent a slew of unions also supported

[00:46:38] not surprising um and it basically what yeah it would give you unemployment if you

[00:46:45] went on strike now to me this just screamed as a huge bailout and gift for the unions

[00:46:54] if you know anything about california politics the unions have a lot of power and by doing so

[00:47:01] you now allow people to go on strike more easily which gives unions more power which gives them

[00:47:06] more negotiating power um and basically it's just to kick back to the unions thankfully

[00:47:15] you know broken clock is right choice today uh Gavin Newsom did veto this this is not law

[00:47:22] he said the expansion of eligibility for unemployment benefits could increase california's

[00:47:26] outstanding federal debt projected at nearly 20 billion and could lead to increased taxes on employers

[00:47:31] quote furthermore the state is responsible for the interest payments on the federal UI loan and

[00:47:36] today has paid 362.7 million dollars in interest with another 300 and 2 million due this month

[00:47:43] in his veto message now is not the time to increase costs or incur this sizeable debt

[00:47:48] unless it's 2.6 billion dollars of medical for undocumented migrants um so yeah I was glad that

[00:47:58] this was actually vetoed because you know what call me old fashioned but if you're gonna strike

[00:48:06] there there's gotta be some risk involved right like you can't if you're still gonna get paid

[00:48:13] to go out and strike then i mean people will just strike at any point right

[00:48:18] like there's really no there's no risk there's no like downside to striking you can just be like

[00:48:23] wanting to go strike and i'll get paid my unemployment and then i'll just sit on the the picket line

[00:48:29] this gotta be i feel like there's gotta be a little pain if you're gonna strike like you

[00:48:32] you're you're this passionate about something you're willing to give up your job and money to go

[00:48:38] stand on a picket line right like i mean i'm just old fashioned like that you know if you're

[00:48:45] gonna go strike and protest you should probably you know you should have a little skin in the game

[00:48:52] makes you want to get back to work right um any thoughts on that before we go the next one

[00:49:01] no i agree with you agree 100 percent all right we're gonna kind of go more rapid fire

[00:49:09] since we're coming up almost on an hour fast food workers got a raise

[00:49:13] a b 12 28 is now $20 an hour and in response quickly pizza hot laid off all of their delivery drivers

[00:49:22] in all of California about 1200 delivery drivers so well done on that instead of getting paid

[00:49:28] $20 an hour those workers are now making zero dollars an hour so they did not see any increase

[00:49:35] in their hourly wage uh tax guns and ammo this did pass a b 28 by assembly member Jesse Gabriel

[00:49:44] woodyne health democrat when imposed an 11 percent excite tax on retailers and manufacturers for sale

[00:49:50] of guns or ammunition um i think who is it said they're gonna sue over this one of the gun rights

[00:49:59] groups was gonna sue over this um what it attacks have to go to like i mean usually they say this

[00:50:07] you know like is this gonna go to some sort of gun safety fund like

[00:50:13] uh bringing an estimated 160 million annually for violence intervention programs school safety

[00:50:18] improvements in law enforcement efforts to confiscate guns so from people who are prohibited

[00:50:24] from owning them so that's what it's gonna go to i mean it doesn't stop a lot of people it

[00:50:29] sucks um if you are a gun owner it people aren't gonna stop buying it um you know what was this

[00:50:38] does somebody said i always say this is not oh this is Gavin Newsom said this is not a general income

[00:50:43] tax from my perspective it's more of a sin tax so that's what Gavin Newsom thinks of you buying

[00:50:51] guns and ammunition is it's a sin to buy guns and ammunition here in the state of California

[00:50:56] this last one i want to get to because it's it's interesting and we've been following it and

[00:51:02] speaking of gun owners s b 2 was the law regarding carrying concealed weapons um so little background

[00:51:10] about it for those who don't know uh supreme court came out with the decision last year it was an

[00:51:16] amazing decision and the brewing decision basically it said everybody has a right to carry

[00:51:21] and conceal it's part of your second amendment rights it's our natural right to defend ourselves

[00:51:25] um it's part of our nation's history to carry and conceal so basically they said there should be no more

[00:51:29] good cause everyone should be it should be easier for everyone to carry and conceal um so

[00:51:36] made it a lot easier especially here in California that uh notoriously makes it hard to get a carrying

[00:51:42] and conceal permit in some counties like San Francisco or any places like that um now they couldn't

[00:51:49] use good cause to like block people to get carrying conceal basically it was everybody went from

[00:51:55] may issue to shall issue as long as you don't have like felonies or anything um so there was a

[00:52:01] onslaught of people applying for permits so there was a small part in these supreme court decision

[00:52:09] where they said you can name certain places based on our history as sensitive places now these are

[00:52:16] places that throughout our history we wouldn't carry firearms you know like government buildings is one

[00:52:25] trying to think of other places basically all government buildings school stuff like that like you

[00:52:30] can't carry firearms there but other than that like private businesses you can carry a firearm to

[00:52:35] protect yourself as long as they don't have a metal detector to try and keep you out um parks any

[00:52:41] other public areas stuff like that walking along the sidewalk so a lot of these states these blue

[00:52:47] states go aha so you said as long you can't carry insensitive places therefore we're going to

[00:52:54] write a bill that says you can't carry in private businesses you can't carry in schools you can't

[00:53:01] carry in parks you can't carry in church you can't carry here you can't carry on the sidewalk

[00:53:08] next to a private business you can't carry on a sidewalk next to a church you can't carry on a

[00:53:12] sidewalk but a lot so basically you now have a bill that allows you to carry and conceal from your home

[00:53:21] to your driveway to your car and that's about it you that's really it oh and you could

[00:53:27] carry in private businesses as long as there was a sign on the front of the business that said

[00:53:33] carrying conceal firearms are welcome as if any businesses actually going to put that out there

[00:53:39] so obviously SB2 was signed into law immediately gets struck down federal court uh judge said

[00:53:47] gross misrepresentation of the Second Amendment what Bruin said there was a preliminary injunction

[00:53:53] huge win SB2 not going into effect um now they had this administrative stay which was for like

[00:54:00] a week or so that has just been lifted um and most people including myself legally think this has

[00:54:09] no legs and it's going to get struck down in federal court it was supposed to go into effect

[00:54:15] federal courts have up well district court struck it down so it's on constitutional as a pilton

[00:54:20] ninth circuit we'll see where it goes from there i imagine it's going to get struck down one way or

[00:54:25] another um so good news is if you're carrying conceal permit holder you can now carry under the old

[00:54:34] rules before SB2 because there is currently an injunction so that's where we're at um any thoughts

[00:54:41] on SB2 well great it's great to say it's you know currently struck down and obviously i really hope

[00:54:49] it stays that way especially in California that will set a huge precedent for the entire nation i hope

[00:54:58] yeah and i mean you know what i've always said i've always said and um my belief is let them pass these crazy

[00:55:08] laws because they're going to get struck down and you're just creating more case precedence

[00:55:15] for the second amendment i mean great you know like we had this one supreme court decision which was huge

[00:55:22] now we're going to have more of these cases going up i think Hawaii is going to be another one where

[00:55:27] Hawaii also tried this whole sense to place this thing so i mean just keep trying to put these crazy

[00:55:32] laws out there have them be struck down create more case precedent and just further strengthen

[00:55:37] the argument that you have a right to carry conceal so um you know as a carrier can see older myself

[00:55:44] i think it's great news i think it's gonna the fact that they left the injunction in place

[00:55:50] as opposed to like this stay pending appeal which is usually what the kind of BS that they usually do

[00:55:56] whether like we got a ruling but now it's stay pending appeal it happens in a lot of second amendment

[00:56:02] cases it's great that the injunction is going to be throughout like the whole appeal so that's great

[00:56:08] news shows that we're probably on the right side or right track um and that this is eventually

[00:56:14] going to get struck down all right so we got a couple minutes left uh those are all the bills

[00:56:20] i want it to go over again they were like so many that you could go over oh last one the band book

[00:56:28] bands yeah ab 10 78 do you want to talk about that one you go ahead

[00:56:38] sure uh so basically like we were talking about with school boards ab 10 78 with penalized school

[00:56:45] boards that band books and other educational materials based solely on the materials inclusion

[00:56:49] of history related to black latino asian native american all gbtq people and other groups

[00:56:55] it would have meant the existing education code which requires teaching materials to include

[00:56:59] the experience in perspective of diverse racial ethnic and lgbtq groups in curriculum um again

[00:57:05] this is part of this whole they weren't they didn't like that school boards were starting to question

[00:57:14] materials that were in the library and we had sonia shawan and basically what they said is there's

[00:57:19] a process it has to go through and it doesn't get banned it gets moved to a different part of the

[00:57:26] library not accessible to like children who it's inappropriate for correct correct like they would

[00:57:33] maybe move it to the middle school or high school area or you know fifth grade and upper whatever

[00:57:39] yeah so it wasn't a book band it was this book is not appropriate for children of this age

[00:57:49] but obviously again sacrameno doesn't like the fact that there's local elections and these

[00:57:56] locally elected officials who were making decisions so they came in and came up with ab 10 78

[00:58:03] i can imagine this might get sued and brought up in court i i just like i don't

[00:58:09] i'm not on board with banning all the books um i know sub of my favorite books that i heard at high

[00:58:17] school i think like catcher in the ride i think is banned in keel for new right now or at least in

[00:58:22] many districts i'm not sure but i had heard it was banned um i loved that book but uh like

[00:58:29] i reading is great but we can't ban book banning because at some point there's

[00:58:36] going to be something that i think the majority will disagree with both sides down the line like

[00:58:41] they're gonna be like no this cannot be we have to because and where where do they if the

[00:58:45] if the graphic books are okay then what makes the graphic videos not okay too like

[00:58:53] yeah this is one of those it's a slippery slope bill and so i don't agree with it because

[00:58:59] of that like i am i'm like i said i'm just not for like ban all the books but there really does need to

[00:59:05] be some judgment here and there needs to be parent involvement and it shouldn't be local if the

[00:59:10] parents in that district feel that those books like they vote that they're inappropriate and they

[00:59:16] don't want them in the schools then they should be banned move to whatever you know and again these

[00:59:21] books are being banned from schools you can still buy it on amazon pick it up at your local library

[00:59:26] whatever like it's not like this book just got burned for eternity uh so i hate the extreme like

[00:59:33] it's banned like no if you really want your kid to read it just go buy it go borrow it whatever

[00:59:37] and this on exists you can get it probably next day or same day delivery you know um exactly

[00:59:43] you can probably get it on kindle for 99 cents immediately like and but yeah it's just again

[00:59:51] slippery slope where does this end what there's something's going to enter the school system but

[00:59:56] they're gonna be like oh no our hands are tied it's allowed and like i said like where do we stop now

[01:00:01] with videos like movies yeah of what what isn't isn't okay somebody just ask why can i see your faces

[01:00:10] again so our first time doing ij live um with this software so we'll figure it out but hey we're

[01:00:17] here we're live and you're listening to us and thank you to everyone who's been tuning in um it's

[01:00:22] great a lot of activity on instagram live we're bringing something back to coffee in california politics

[01:00:27] days um the good old days the the old the throwback days right um anyway any weird laws before we finish

[01:00:38] up we talked about the mushroom one i was telling you i just would like to let everyone know that we

[01:00:43] officially have a state mushroom i know you were all waiting for that so california has a mushroom

[01:00:49] to go with our poppy and bear flag well yeah anyway we have a mushroom um what mushrooms it

[01:00:58] doesn't say in this does this let's see uh there's also the gender neutral toy display

[01:01:05] any special protections to the mushroom is just meant to highlight and honor a unique

[01:01:12] california species i don't okay so i guess we have a unique uh species of and then um

[01:01:21] you can park your scooter in your apartment now oh and you know your your e-scooters and electric

[01:01:27] bites could be charged in your apartment okay and security deposits that was actually kind of an

[01:01:35] important one they now um you know longer need two months rent because it wasn't used to be like

[01:01:41] the security deposit plus possible fight i haven't rented in so long i don't remember but it was

[01:01:46] like two months worth and i think they could only charge you now one month's worth for the security

[01:01:51] deposit uh yeah that was on here strengthen some renter's rights yeah eight you can't do two

[01:01:58] months now it's only one month uh i mean of course the way how prices are going will all be renters anyway

[01:02:03] soon so good news for a lot of us um the one about sp407 which was the scottweeter bill uh of course

[01:02:16] the for lgbtq foster children won't be placed in homes with unsupportive caregivers of that lifestyle

[01:02:25] so that's that's a new thing is you know if you want to foster children you need to make sure

[01:02:29] you're lgbtq friendly i'm not trying to say that wrong i just rushed to it so i'm really not trying to

[01:02:36] be like a broad about lgbtq um and then in the fight for global uh climate change uh california is

[01:02:45] banned the sale of gas powered law and equipment because that's gonna that's gonna make the difference

[01:02:51] against fighting against china and india when it comes to pollution well for it going to do when

[01:02:56] gas sales go down and then they realize they're just gonna increase the price of gas again

[01:03:02] probably because you sure like to goug us all that um so that's a that's a preview of i mean you can

[01:03:09] go probably down in the rabbit hole and see all the laws that were enacted this year in california

[01:03:16] there were a lot and there's a lot every year and right now they're coming up with more crazy laws

[01:03:20] as we speak um because every year they have to come up with more crazy laws to justify why they

[01:03:25] need to have a full time position um so that's our preview uh keep an eye on everything else any

[01:03:31] final thoughts before we sign off for the night or first episode i can go into the

[01:03:36] office but anyone can connect just to Kate sanchez because she offered that law not law for the bill

[01:03:43] yeah let's get Kate sanchez on we've been trying to get her on for a while now um so we'll we'll try and

[01:03:48] get her on talk about that um yeah next week we're having a guest uh michael oxford who is running

[01:03:56] for state senate in santa kru so that should be he'll be the first candidate of 2024 uh then after

[01:04:03] that i think is why we're in a deficit and then uh we're gonna have another follow-up episode about one

[01:04:10] of our the first grifter episode of 2024 will be a follow-up episode on Carl demio who's now running

[01:04:18] for state assembly um so we'll be doing our homework and getting all our ducks in a row for that one

[01:04:26] i think that's basically for our first episode of the year we had a lot to talk about

[01:04:31] any final thoughts or right okay well then i'll end every episode as i as i usually do which is

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