In this episode of the California Underground, Phil and Camille delve into the some of the 800 new laws that went into effect this month in California. They focus on significant topics such as the inclusion of folic acid in tortillas, the expansion of mental health services, and upcoming election propositions. The hosts also share personal anecdotes, discuss the broader implications of these laws for California's future, and touch on issues like government overreach and homelessness.
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800 laws, that's how many laws are going into effect here in
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California in 2026. We're not going to cover all 800
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tonight, but we did want to cover some of them in, quote,
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including folic acid in tortillas, whether California
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can actually require ICE agents to wear masks.
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And we're also going to talk about mental health and whether
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or not they're going to expand it to try and tackle this
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homeless problem. Plus a whole bunch of other laws
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we're going to talk about, as well as what to look forward to
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in 2026 with the election and propositions.
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We're going to get into all that on this episode of The
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California Underground, starting right now.
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What's going on everybody? Thanks for tuning in to another
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episode of the California Underground.
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Your host Phil, we are back from our two week holiday break.
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We have a ton of stuff to get to tonight, so if you're watching
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live, make sure you throw some stuff in the chat.
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Where are you tuning in from? All of that stuff.
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If you have any questions about any of the laws or anything or
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if there's anything you want us to answer, make sure you put
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that in the chat as well. And as always, joining me is my
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trusty Co host, the best, the fastest researcher in the West.
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Also back from holiday break. Camille, how are you doing?
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I'm. Having a day.
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You're having it. I saw you had a chicken
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incident. So.
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Yes I had a chicken incident. A coyote got all of my chickens
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today. Today all of them.
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And I love my chickens like they they were like pets to me they
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got all but one and chickens don't do well alone.
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I have a next door neighbor who has chickens so she has taken in
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my 1 lone survivor so that that lone survivor hopefully doesn't
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die of depression. Anyway, 2026.
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I think whenever. We come back from a break.
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I think we always feel out of sorts anyway.
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We're like, what's a microphone? How, what do, where do I look?
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What? Do I What is this?
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I don't know what to do. Yeah, we both had like issues
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with our microphones and stuff and we're like, I like what to
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do. This program and I logged in and
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everything was like reset. And I'm like, Oh no.
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So anyway, yeah, we, it's always like we're kind of like out of
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sorts anyway, trying to remember how to talk to each other and to
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you guys. So I apologize for for that.
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And my probably swollen eyes that I couldn't put makeup on
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because I was, I'm sorry. I was bawling my eyes out over
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my chickens. Yes.
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Not the loss of your chickens. 2026 We're here, we've made it.
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It's it's an election year. It's an.
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Election year. We're obviously.
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It's going to be a big year for us.
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We've been saying this, 2026 is a big year.
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Gavin Newsom will not be running for governor.
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So silver lining there that Gavin Newsom will not be
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governor after this year. So we will be obviously
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following the governor's race and the propositions.
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We're going to talk about some of them that are coming up, some
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that are pretty much guaranteed to be on the ballot, some that
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are just starting that we think will be on the ballot.
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Side note, if people are wondering, hey Phil, why do you
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still have your Christmas tree up and it's January 6th?
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Well, real quick, for all the Catholics who are out there
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listening, you should know that it's Epiphany today.
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And in Catholic households, you don't take down your Christmas
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decorations until Epiphany. So happy Epiphany, everybody.
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Today's 3 Kings Day. So yeah, that's why I still have
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my Christmas tree and my nativity scene with the kings
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showing up. And yeah, a little tidbit about
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that. So should we just get started
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and dive into it? Because we got a lot to cover.
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We're going to do like a speed round first of laws that are
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coming onto the books, and then there's a couple we're going to
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highlight and talk a little bit more about.
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So should we just hop into our speed round right now?
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No, because I just want to say the voter Voter ID initiative
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has collected enough signatures to make it to the ballot again,
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that doesn't mean the voter ID passed, but it it's made it to
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the ballot. So we will be voting on that
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this year. And thank you to everyone who
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joined our Telegram channel over the the break.
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We tried to post in there as often as we could.
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It's. You can still join and.
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Still join. I think, I think that's it.
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But I just wanted to get those things out of the way.
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Yeah. And now we can get into it.
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Now we'll get into it. And hello to Orange County
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Leslie checking in. So anyone who's watching, make
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sure you check in. Let us know where you're
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checking. In have YouTube open.
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So I apologize Chad, thanks for showing up.
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I see I'm just out of sorts. I'll be better.
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Camille's all out of sorts, all out of practice. 2 weeks is a
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long time in podcasting, so for us not to be around for two
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weeks, well. It's like technically like,
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yeah, we take two exhausts. It was like, we haven't been
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here for three weeks. And so then it and I, like I
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said, like things kind of got reset when we open up the
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program. And so we're just scrambling and
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we've made it. That's the life of a podcaster
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anyway. All right, let's hop in and do
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some speed around. This is again, not all the laws
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because 800 laws were signed by Gavin Newsom.
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They went into law and not all 8. 100 are necessarily going to
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affect you. Sorry.
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I didn't get that on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's like they'll just recognize a day of like, you know, oh,
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this is for this group of people.
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We're recognizing them on this day.
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We're renaming this highway or dedicating this highway.
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Those kinds of things will pass. But yes, still 800.
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Think about how many they've already introduced a big see,
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can't even speak. Sessions started yesterday for
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led the California legislator for the year, and they've
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already introduced, I don't even know how many bills, but they
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they wasted no time. No, because I have a limited
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amount of time to get all this stuff in.
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So they have to move pretty quickly if they want to get all
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their stuff. And it's it's a lot of bills
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that they introduce. So I'll probably be a later
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episode is when we get to see all the crazy bills because at
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the beginning of the year, the bills seem to be crazier because
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not all these bills make it, but there are some definite crazy
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bills that we discuss. But yeah, 800, a lot of it's not
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going to affect your day-to-day life.
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They may be tweaks on like current statutory law.
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Like I get an update of like, hey, what's all the updates on
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probate law? And like there's, you know, 100
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in there that are like little tweaks that change one thing or
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they change the language. So 800 sounds like a lot, but
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these are the ones that are what most citizens will come into
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contact during their day-to-day life.
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So speed around minimum wage. Under SB3, the minimum wage is
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set to increase to $16.90 per hour to account for inflation.
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The threshold, for example, workers will rise to $70.00
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per year. Some places it's different, like
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here in San Diego, it's different.
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I know that they have the $20 minimum wage for fast food
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workers. So that's and now they're asking
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for $30. Just keeps going up and up with
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the fast food and then LA wants. Pass or they're just pushing for
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that. They're pushing for the $30 and
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in LA they're pushing for $30 ahead of the Olympics.
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They're trying to obviously squeeze money out of people
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because of the Olympics and they're going to threaten going
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on strike and stuff like that. Let's see Layoff Notices
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requires employers, when ordering mass layoffs, to
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provide written notes if they plan to coordinate services
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through a local workforce Development Board and share
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information about Cal Fresh. Bias Training Outdoor dining
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options allows restaurants to continue to offer COVID-19 era
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outdoor dining options. Cool.
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OK, 20. 6 And we're still talking about COVID-19.
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Yeah, like you wanted. Sorry.
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Go ahead. Yeah, well, so I over over break
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was just binging on TV shows. Shark Tank was one of them.
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And so the people would come in and present their whole thing
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and talk about their sales and then be like, oh, and then COVID
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hit and I'm like, I don't want to hear about COVID in 2020
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ever, ever again. And I know, I know it hugely
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impacted everyone and everything.
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I just, I'm over it. I don't want to hear about it
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anymore. Yeah, it's kind of sickening to
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hear about COVID at this point. What's up?
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Costa Mesa, Humboldt County people checking in, I guess if
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you'd like alfresco dining. Although here in San Diego, they
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kind of like killed that because they required all these crazy
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permits that were expensive and plans.
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And a lot of restaurants just said forget it, like we're not
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going to do it anymore because COVID. 19 It was like they were
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forced to do that. Yeah, but.
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They open now, but now of course the government's like you have
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to do this, but now we're going to force you to pay for this.
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They have to get their pound of flesh.
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They saw an opportunity to make more money.
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So they were like, obviously we're going to charge you to
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keep doing this. Food delivery app accountability
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AB 578 requires food delivery platforms to provide refunds for
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any undelivered item. OK, app users can adjust their
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tips accordingly. The law also requires the
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companies to clearly disclose the cost of food fees and tips
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you had posted. Is this the same bill as the one
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you posted in the telegram about?
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Andrew Gruel was not happy about this one because it now puts all
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the liability on the restaurants for refunds.
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The same or goes along with this because didn't it kind of force
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like Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats that if they actually end
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up with missing items, they have to refund the entire order, not
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just the one item because they already refund the item or
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partial. I am I have the biggest market
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for these delivery systems. It's like I I just admit
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Instacart, Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats like it's me.
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Instacart is absolutely. They don't sponsor the show, but
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if they do want to sponsor the show, love Instacart.
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I have not stepped foot in a Costco in months because I send
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them to Costco on the weekend to get all our stuff.
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Same. It's I like, I don't want to
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admit how much I use these delivery services.
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And so as far as like the food one goes, yes, every so often
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they'll mess up an order. Just last week I did a Jersey
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Mike's order and when I ordered, I was like, you know what, I'm
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feeling like I want something sweet and I added a cookie.
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They didn't deliver the cookie better for me and my health, but
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no big deal. I just, you know, like go in and
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note that it wasn't delivered and they'll refund the cost of
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the cookie. But I thought what I read and if
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anyone wants to correct us in the chat because because we
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could be wrong anyway, I thought I read that the new law was
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going to be that they were now responsible for like the entire
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order. Which that's what, yeah, that's
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what I saw you had posted in our telegram.
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Again, this is the stuff that we discuss and post in our
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telegram. If you're interested in joining,
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this is like during the week we we discussed this stuff.
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But yeah, anyway, big fan of Instacart.
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I like when I order enough money and they give me a $10
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restaurant credit and then I'm like, great, now I'm going to go
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spend money on restaurants. Thanks.
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I never pay. Attention to those?
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Should I start paying attention to those?
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I get them in the e-mail. I just delete and I'm like I
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don't. Oh yeah, you got you got to make
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use of that $10 account. Yeah, that's a great way,
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especially with a big family. All right, let's see.
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Anything else interesting here? Overdraft fee of credit unions,
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$14.00 AI safety reports. It looks like, I think this
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might be the year 2026 that we're going to see a lot of, not
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just in California, but across the country.
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We're probably going to see a lot of AI regulation, I think is
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it California was the one who now requires all these big
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companies like Meta to tell people that something is AI.
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Like they have to put something on it, which is good because if
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you have like older parents then they can easily get.
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Sometimes I'm like tricked. I look at him like is that AI or
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not? They're getting good.
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They're getting. Really good.
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And, and like all like, like something, well, without
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actually tapping it, like I'm like looking at him, like I like
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this, you know, in my head, I like this.
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And I'm like, but is this even real?
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And especially, you know, have an animal person and the animal
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videos where they're like, we rescued this cat from the flood
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and I'm like, oh, all the feels and I'm like, this is fake.
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Yeah, it's fake. I saw one today that was very
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convincing. It was like Nancy Pelosi showing
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up to Congress in a bathrobe with a ball of vodka, smoking a
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cigarette. And it looked very convincing,
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like it looked like real footage.
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I'm like, I know this is fake, but it just looks really, really
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real. Deep fake pornography, fines
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against providers, or I feel like that should just be a
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crime. If you're a provider who does
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deep fake pornography, that should be a crime.
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We talked about this before. anti-Semitism coordinator for
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schools. Establishes the office of Civil
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rights to prevent and address discrimination.
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Includes an anti-Semitism coordinator appointed by the
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governor. OK, not sure what the point of
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that is. I know we did discuss that
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before and so sorry. Now we're like, we discussed so
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many things that it kind of all blends together and we forget
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the details because that one was, I feel like we like read it
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and it was like, how is this going to do anything?
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Or what are they? I don't know.
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What do you recall about that? I think we had an issue of like,
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was it going to, I don't know, was it going to be like now
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people are going to be searching out for anti-Semitism.
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Is there punishment? Like it's, it's weird that the
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government is like going to be rooting it out.
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Yeah, that's what our big issue is.
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I think that's the thing with so much of this is that it sounds
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good. Like you can read it and you're
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like, well, yeah, what's wrong about that?
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But then when you really go into it, they didn't necessarily
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really go into it. It's like the horse, what is it,
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the cart before the horse kind of thing where it's like, OK,
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this sounds great, this is a good idea, but now where's how
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is this going to get implemented?
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What about XY and Z? Any, if any of these are going
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to cost money, where is that going to come from?
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Because we already know we're in this huge budget deficit.
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So it's like, OK, that sounds like a great idea, but when it
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comes down to it, how is this going to actually physically
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work? And, and I think that's the
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problem with so many of these bills.
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I mean, of course, another problem with so many is that
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they really are infringing on our actual freedom.
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But yeah, there's just, I forget the details of that specific
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one, but I remember we talked about it and that we found so
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many little loopholes and just problems with it that we were
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like, what are they even doing here?
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Yeah, I think it was one of those.
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It's interesting as you go through the year, you can, you
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can look at these, look back on these bills and go, man, this is
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really a snapshot of this point in 2025 that they got this bill
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to the floor, voted on it and got it passed by the governor.
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Because this was obviously a big thing at different points in
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2025 with the rise of anti-Semitism and concerns about
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it. So whether or not that continues
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to be an issue in 2026, we'll see.
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But it's interesting, you can see like, and this is our
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legislature being too overly reactive about everything is
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where something happens and they have to rush and the government
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has to rush in and try and solve every single problem.
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So that's obviously a bigger concern is that the government
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thinks they need to solve every single problem under the sun.
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But we get these these laws that we look at and kind of scratch
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our head and go, I, I don't know what the point of this is.
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How are they going to enforce this?
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Like, I can imagine these coordinators are probably going
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to make, I don't know, $200 a year because why not?
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It's the California State government.
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Someone's making, you know, a cool quarter of a million just
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for being a public servant. So all right, laws that impact
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elections. AB 5, not to be confused with
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the other AB 5, requires election officials to finish
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counting most ballots and release the count by the 13th
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day after an election. Counties can file a notice for
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an extension. Until now, counties had until 31
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days after the election. Senate Secretary of State copy
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of all election results so. Counting the 2024 election
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results in California. We're still waiting on them.
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Yeah. We're still waiting on the final
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vote for 2024. I would believe that there's
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still some counties that they're finishing, you know, who voted
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for President Trump and who voted for Kamala Harris.
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I guess their whole idea was they wanted to dissuade or, you
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know, bring back some trust in elections.
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That was what I read. I think the one thing that we're
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going to talk about in a bit that will probably bring a lot
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of trust back into our election process is voter ID and whether
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that passes, that proposition passes, let's see laws that
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impact health. He did it.
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Gavin Newsom got his $11.00 insulin, so that's cool.
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You can now buy insulin for $11.00 per pen provide by Cal
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RX. Yeah, I mean, OK, we were.
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I think they were really behind and they spent a lot of money on
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it. So it's good to see they
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actually got it done, which is an improvement from a lot of
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Gavin Newsom promises where he says stuff and doesn't really
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get it. Right we're.
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Going to talk about. An investment, I mean, we've
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talked about that before. We agree if we're going to pay
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taxes, we should be getting something back from it.
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And I mean, not necessarily like this insulin thing, as far as I
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know, you're not on insulin. I'm not on insulin.
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But you know, we know people who need this and it is expensive
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and it is life saving is necessary.
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But you know, the whole our roads, our police are like,
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yeah, I mean, if we're going to pay taxes, we should be, we
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should, we should have good. I actually, I have good roads.
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My city is very good about our Rd. repair.
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But I know that much of California is just potholes and
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swearing and tearing on our cars and making them more expensive
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to maintain and all that. And then, you know, we're
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constantly defunding the police or shuffling that money around
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and closing libraries or backing off on hours for libraries or,
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you know, this and that. I know San Diego's had some
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issues with that recently. It's like, yeah, if we're going
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to pay these taxes, then yeah, there should be actual benefits.
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And, and I do believe that insulin 1 is a benefit for much
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of society and so I don't disagree with it.
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Fortified store bought tortillas.
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We're going to go dive into that a little bit more in depth, so
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we'll come back to that one. Protection for Blue Whales aims
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to protect blue whales by incentivizing voluntary shipping
00:19:30
companies to slow their speeds along the California coast.
00:19:34
I don't know how that doesn't seem like enforcement at all,
00:19:37
like you're incentivizing voluntary shipping companies to
00:19:41
slow their speeds. OK, OK.
00:19:45
I mean I don't know what the incentive could be, but cat
00:19:49
decline ban bans owners from having their cats declawed.
00:19:53
This is a big one that's got everyone upper.
00:19:55
I heard people talking about it at work today.
00:19:58
SB1053 bans grocery stores from providing customers plastic
00:20:03
shopping bags. This new law bans an exception
00:20:05
and a previous law that allowed thicker plastic bags could be
00:20:08
reused. So if you remember way back was
00:20:11
it 10 years ago? Feels like at this point they
00:20:14
banned. The thin reusable bags and then
00:20:19
they were like, but you can also buy these thicker plastic bags
00:20:24
that are reusable and it just turned into we were buying
00:20:28
thicker bags and we, we always talk about like, where did all
00:20:32
that money go $0.10 a bag? It's got to be going somewhere,
00:20:35
Someone, some grocery store lobby stores.
00:20:38
Have to buy them to provide them.
00:20:40
Yeah, but I mean. You know, paying $0.05 a bag and
00:20:44
getting $0.05 in profits. I don't know that one again.
00:20:48
I so I think that was 2014, which is already 12 years ago.
00:20:52
Crazy. There was like a two-part thing
00:20:55
on the ballot that year and I, I so far back and I forget exactly
00:20:59
what it was, but there was like two different, we were voting to
00:21:04
pay for them. And then there was like a second
00:21:06
part and I don't remember, but it kind of, it didn't make sense
00:21:09
that we voted to pay for them based on the second part didn't
00:21:13
actually pass. Well, it wasn't even a second
00:21:14
part. It was just a different bill,
00:21:17
but they went hand in hand, but the, the other one didn't even
00:21:20
pass. And so it didn't make sense for
00:21:22
the paying of it. And of course we did that
00:21:26
because we had previously then like banned the paper bags
00:21:29
because that was bad for the environment.
00:21:32
Yeah, I don't know it. It all seems like, I think I, I
00:21:37
mean, I'm pretty sure I voted against that.
00:21:38
I thought it was stupid because, you know, now you have to go out
00:21:42
and buy bags for like the garbage can in your bathroom
00:21:46
because that's what everybody used those old plastic bags for,
00:21:49
was for the things in the like the tiny little garbage cans.
00:21:53
Now we don't have that anymore. Look what they've taken from us.
00:21:57
Hold on to your seats. We now have a state snake.
00:22:01
SB-765 establishes the giant Garter snake as the official
00:22:05
state snake, and we also have a state shrub establishes the big
00:22:09
Berry manzanita as the official state shrub.
00:22:13
I imagine the only reason they do this is so that it's for
00:22:15
protected status, so that you can't, I don't know, tear down
00:22:21
these shrubs or kill these snakes.
00:22:23
I'm really sorry for my bad joke, but I thought Gavin Newsom
00:22:26
was the official state snake. Womp womp.
00:22:30
That's a pretty good one. I don't, I'm not.
00:22:32
I don't have my soundboard handy.
00:22:35
I should see myself out. Stoves and Refrigerators for
00:22:40
Renters requires landlords to provide working stoves and
00:22:43
refrigerators for tenants as part of lease agreements.
00:22:45
And what kind? I mean, sure, not a horrible
00:22:49
thing. Additional expenses and, but OK,
00:22:51
so that's another one. Like let's say that you own a
00:22:56
rental property and so you provide that for your tenant and
00:22:59
then they perhaps live there for 10 years and now it's still
00:23:05
operating, but it's not necessarily the best looking.
00:23:09
And I, I just, it's one of those things where do we end?
00:23:12
Like a new tenant moves in or does that tenant get, have a
00:23:16
right to request a new one, demand a new one because they
00:23:21
didn't necessarily take care of it?
00:23:24
You know, it just, I was thinking about it because my
00:23:26
refrigerator is kind of, it's getting up there in age.
00:23:29
It still functions as a refrigerator for the most part.
00:23:32
And I don't want to buy a new refrigerator until we remodel
00:23:35
our kitchen. Like I don't want to, you know,
00:23:36
spend a few $1000 just to a few years later re spend that money.
00:23:41
And so I, it was just something I was thinking about because a
00:23:43
refrigerator, if you maintain it and take care of it, it can last
00:23:46
a long time. But it's may not be like the
00:23:50
best to do with latest model. And I it's just one of the
00:23:53
things where does it end? That's with tenant rights.
00:23:56
That's I do wonder. Yeah, I mean it doesn't say it
00:24:01
just is working. So I mean a stove could work.
00:24:06
It could work like crap, but it could work.
00:24:09
Doesn't have to be a brand new one.
00:24:12
I guess you're. Trying to ban the gas stoves.
00:24:17
Yeah, that's the whole Gasto thing.
00:24:20
Makes me mad because. Only, you know, the electric
00:24:24
it's just again, this is one of those things where I feel like
00:24:28
it sounds like nice and cozy, but when you really get into it,
00:24:33
is it is it good? Yeah, it's, I mean, so much of
00:24:39
this is like nanny state and that's California.
00:24:43
So much of this is nanny state laws of like we have to solve
00:24:47
every single problem under the sun.
00:24:48
It's maybe I'm missing the point and maybe someone can yell at me
00:24:52
and be like, you're a privileged white male and be like, I don't
00:24:55
know. I've never looked at a place and
00:24:57
been like, oh, they don't have a refrigerator or a stove.
00:25:02
I I'm pretty sure if that came up as part of my rental search,
00:25:06
I'd be like, well, I'm not going to move in there.
00:25:08
They don't have a refrigerator or a stove like like doesn't
00:25:12
that? The stove I can see.
00:25:14
I feel like refrigerator should be optional.
00:25:17
Yeah. And it it, I don't know, it just
00:25:19
feels like are we that are politicians that down on the
00:25:26
ability of humans to make their own decisions, that they don't
00:25:28
believe that they could look at a rental listing and be like,
00:25:32
there's no fridge or stove here and I'm not going to rent it.
00:25:35
So the state goes, OK, we'll fix that and we'll require all the
00:25:38
landlords to do it. I don't know.
00:25:39
It just seems it's kind of silly, like it's the free
00:25:42
market, make your own decisions. You're an adult anyway.
00:25:48
Oh, I quick story, I think I may have shared this year before,
00:25:51
but my husband and I own a home now.
00:25:54
We've been homeowners for 15-16 years, something like that.
00:25:57
But we prior to that did rent and we were in the city of
00:26:02
Irvine in Orange County. We were looking for a new home
00:26:05
to rent several years back. And it was, we looked at a home,
00:26:09
it was really, really beautiful and remodeled and stuff.
00:26:11
And we were probably going to put in an application to try to
00:26:14
rent it. And we basically like kind of
00:26:18
like reconvened back in the kitchen and then all of a sudden
00:26:21
I'm like, wait, where's the oven?
00:26:25
Oven, there's no oven like, and, and there wasn't an oven.
00:26:29
I wasn't like blind. There was not an oven.
00:26:32
And so we, you know, went back to the landlords and were like,
00:26:36
is this, is this a mistake or is are you adding an oven?
00:26:39
What's happening here? And they're like, Oh, no, we
00:26:41
decided not to have an oven, but there's a, there's a beautiful
00:26:44
smoker in the back that you can use.
00:26:46
And I'm like, I'm going to bake my birthday cake and like, I'm
00:26:49
going to smoke it. What?
00:26:52
And we did not, we did not put a navigation on that home.
00:26:55
I felt like an oven was kind of an necessary part of my life, so
00:26:59
maybe that's why these laws pass.
00:27:02
Maybe, but I feel like you made the adult decision to be like,
00:27:06
we're not going to rent that home because it doesn't have
00:27:09
what we're looking for. I'm not going to pass a lot of
00:27:12
foursome. All right, moving on.
00:27:16
Penalties for criminals who buy teens for sex AB 379.
00:27:19
We've covered this before. This was kind of batted around
00:27:21
because California Democrats didn't want to pass this.
00:27:25
And then the outrage of it, the public outcry and it, I always
00:27:30
say this and I it's always worth repeating because people think
00:27:33
like California's hopeless. You can scare the bejesus out of
00:27:37
California Democrats in Sacramento to get them to
00:27:39
reverse course on a lot of things.
00:27:41
If there's enough public pressure, as there was with
00:27:43
AB379, it will pass like they will.
00:27:47
They'll feel the pressure and actually pass these things.
00:27:50
So this was make it a felony for older adults to buy 1617 year
00:27:54
olds for sex. It also makes a misdemeanor
00:27:56
crime and getting California loiter with the intent to
00:27:59
purchase anyone for sex. There was a.
00:28:02
Lot of tension with that one, but the pushback really did
00:28:04
work. So great job, California.
00:28:06
Yeah, pushback works. You know, blowing up their
00:28:09
phones, emailing them. It actually does work.
00:28:12
So for the time being, while we have a Democratic super
00:28:14
majority, this is what we have to do.
00:28:17
Diwali is now recognized as a holiday, OK.
00:28:22
OK. Doesn't change my life.
00:28:24
Parking ticket hardship allows agencies to reduce or waive
00:28:27
parking penalties if the person could show evidence of inability
00:28:30
of pay in full because of financial hardship or
00:28:31
homelessness. I don't hate that.
00:28:34
I don't think that's not a bad deal.
00:28:37
Food allergy notification California comes the first state
00:28:40
in the nation to require restaurants to list major food
00:28:42
allergens on their menus. They keep, that's that's fine.
00:28:48
It's fair. I feel like California keeps
00:28:50
every few years there's something that menus are
00:28:52
required to add, like if, if, what is it?
00:28:57
If restaurants or fast food joints own more than a certain
00:29:00
amount of locations, they're required to list the calories on
00:29:03
their menu, stuff like that. Which menus are going to get
00:29:07
really long? Cheesecake Factory probably has
00:29:09
it all. That's why I like Cheesecake
00:29:11
Factory is like a freaking novel.
00:29:12
They probably just list every little detail.
00:29:14
They're just ahead of California.
00:29:15
They're like done. Cheesecake Factory is going to
00:29:16
have like a separate book that goes along with the menu that
00:29:20
shows you, you're going to like reference it.
00:29:21
It's going to be like every dish you see in the menu.
00:29:24
They're going to be like for food allergen, go to section 1A
00:29:27
or something. It's.
00:29:28
Like the law books, like. Yes, yeah, you'll have to cross
00:29:32
reference. Number this page this edition.
00:29:37
And obviously, most importantly, you know, again, the legislature
00:29:41
tackling the important issues under SB576, video streaming
00:29:45
services won't be able to make the volume of ads louder than
00:29:49
the video that consumers are watching.
00:29:52
So there you go. That's, that's a quick rundown
00:29:56
of a lot of the bills. We have a couple bills we do
00:29:58
want to dive into a little bit more in depth because we saw
00:30:02
people were talking about them. This first one that I want to
00:30:07
talk about, which has has gotten a little bit more, I guess
00:30:12
traction and play. It's been a little bit more
00:30:15
viral. And I think when we first talked
00:30:19
about this bill, we kind of raised our eyebrows to like what
00:30:24
like what's the point of this? So they had just passed a new
00:30:27
law regarding folic acid in tortillas, and now California is
00:30:32
going to be requiring folic acid in tortillas.
00:30:36
And it's caused a little bit of an uproar, a little bit of
00:30:40
people wondering why are they doing this?
00:30:41
We don't like the government telling us what can be in our
00:30:43
food. So here's a video we're going to
00:30:45
watch and then we'll comment on it afterwards.
00:30:49
Here in Fresno, the owners of Tortilleria Ortonio have been
00:30:52
making tortillas just like these for five years and have over 50
00:30:56
years of experience combined making the tortillas.
00:30:59
And they say that now that AB 1813 has been signed into law,
00:31:04
it's actually going to change very little about their
00:31:05
businesses day-to-day operations.
00:31:09
Daniel Zamora has been making tortillas for 17 years.
00:31:16
He had no idea when he married his wife that he'd be marrying
00:31:19
into a family of more tortilla makers.
00:31:28
AB1830 requires large scale corn masa manufacturers to add folic
00:31:34
acid to their products to prevent birth defects in the
00:31:37
Latino community. Though Samora's business isn't a
00:31:44
large scale manufacturer, it does produce thousands of fresh
00:31:48
tortillas daily. All of those tortillas already
00:31:59
have trace amounts of folic acid.
00:32:09
Assembly member Doctor Joaquin Arambula says since 1998, folic
00:32:13
acid has been added to cereal grain products, preventing birth
00:32:17
defects in other communities. And now the Latino community
00:32:21
will reap the same benefits. Those buying tortillas at
00:32:24
Tortilleria or Tunio say they're on board, too.
00:32:27
So this is amazing. So I think this is great.
00:32:29
This is healthy food. It's great.
00:32:31
You know, it's like it's homemade.
00:32:35
You know it's the best food you can get.
00:32:37
In Fresno for yourcentralvalley.com, I'm Marco
00:32:40
Rosas. What that Lady said at the end,
00:32:45
it's healthy food and it's really good.
00:32:48
I'm not sure a lot of that is the, you know, I love corn
00:32:50
tortillas, but you can overdo it on corn tortillas.
00:32:54
So I don't know how super healthy it is to eat a lot of
00:32:56
corn tortillas, but they are homemade and they are delicious.
00:32:59
And I guess this is an issue regarding a specific birth
00:33:05
defect and that's why this Assembly bill was introduced to
00:33:11
require folic acid to be put in, because it was regarding Latino
00:33:17
women who were pregnant and they weren't getting the right amount
00:33:20
of folic acid to their babies and it was causing birth
00:33:23
defects. I don't you sent something to me
00:33:27
that you did a little bit more research as well about the
00:33:32
specific birth defect and why why did they introduce this?
00:33:36
Well, I'm not even sure what the birth defect is.
00:33:39
It's just something about because the Latino community
00:33:43
tends to consume more tortillas, but it they're not getting the
00:33:48
folic acid in it. And so this was a way to
00:33:51
hopefully help prevent that or improve that area.
00:33:56
But what I sent you is because there's there's kind of it,
00:34:02
there's there's like a mutation that some people have.
00:34:06
I think it's I don't now I don't have it open MTFHR some
00:34:13
combination of those letters and I forget what it is, but we're
00:34:15
actually some people cannot they're I'm sorry I'm so off
00:34:22
tonight. They're not able to metabolize
00:34:25
the folic acid correctly and it that can actually be dangerous
00:34:29
in itself. And there is a large part of the
00:34:34
like it does affect a large part of the Latina women.
00:34:38
And so they're the ones that this would obviously be that
00:34:41
they're like saying that women during pregnancy need this folic
00:34:44
acid, but we're encouraged to take prenatal vitamins when
00:34:49
we're pregnant anyway and to get that folic acid.
00:34:52
So I don't know how you find out if you have this gene.
00:34:56
There's, there's all sorts of like, I guess what you could say
00:34:58
conspiracy theory information out there, if you will, But this
00:35:03
is not new information. This was something that was
00:35:05
going around when I was pregnant way back 20 something years ago.
00:35:08
And so there is conflicting information out there, but it
00:35:14
does feel like making it like putting it like mandating that
00:35:21
it's in this one particular food is not necessarily in our best
00:35:24
interest. It's like there's other ways to
00:35:27
go get this while you're pregnant if necessary, if that
00:35:31
makes sense. So Marine from Cal Matter, state
00:35:35
data show that between 2017 and 2019, the latest years for which
00:35:38
data is available, about 28% of Latinas report taking folic acid
00:35:42
the month before becoming pregnant, white women took the
00:35:45
vitamin at a higher rate, with 46% of them reporting consuming
00:35:49
folic acid, according to the California Department of Public
00:35:51
Health. This puts Latinas at a higher
00:35:54
risk of having a baby born with neural tube defects, defects of
00:35:57
the brain and spinal cord. Some examples of that condition
00:36:01
like spina bifida, and I'm going to butcher this name, Anna Anna
00:36:05
Saphily. Research has shown that folic
00:36:08
acid can reduce birth defects by up to 40%.
00:36:10
That's why it's found in prenatal vitamins.
00:36:12
But because women may not find out they're pregnant until weeks
00:36:15
or months after, public health is long recommended that folic
00:36:18
acid be also added to staple foods such as pasta, rice and
00:36:22
cereals. OK, so because women sometimes,
00:36:28
well, we don't, we don't find out till we're pregnant till you
00:36:30
know, we can't we can't find out we're pregnant till at least
00:36:33
about two weeks is usually the two weeks after conception.
00:36:36
It's the earliest we can find out.
00:36:38
So are we going to outlaw women drinking alcohol and smoking
00:36:43
cigarettes? Because in those two weeks, they
00:36:45
might be consuming a lot of alcohol, cigarettes, like, I
00:36:50
mean, and this is how far did we take this, this mandating what
00:36:55
people can and cannot do or if they're going to eat a certain
00:36:57
food, it has to have this and that.
00:36:59
And it's just, that's where, that's where I get kind of
00:37:03
angry. Like, of course I'm, I'm a mom,
00:37:06
I'm a woman. I've, I've been pregnant
00:37:08
multiple times. I've had miscarriages, I've been
00:37:10
pregnant like 6 times that I know of, you know, and I'm, I'm
00:37:15
all for healthy pregnancies and healthy babies 100%, but I just
00:37:20
don't see how we, where do we end with this?
00:37:23
Where? Where's the line?
00:37:27
Are we going to start requiring, like I, I don't know, like to
00:37:31
have women sign a waiver that they are trying to get pregnant
00:37:35
so they can't go into a bar like, oh, you know, ma'am, I
00:37:38
can't serve you that glass of wine because I need you to sign
00:37:41
a waiver saying you are not trying to get pregnant.
00:37:45
So therefore there's no risk like it's going to get.
00:37:48
And it comes back to this whole what we were talking about
00:37:51
before, it's kind of there's still some responsibility you as
00:37:55
a citizen has to take of like, OK, like you have to.
00:38:00
If you're trying to get pregnant and you know, or you're doing
00:38:03
the ACT that gets you pregnant, it might be smart to take the
00:38:07
precautions and know that you should be looking out for these
00:38:10
things. I imagine most people who are
00:38:14
trying to get pregnant are on the right medication or
00:38:17
prenatals or they're, you know, there's vitamins now that help
00:38:21
with pregnancy and all of that. So it, it becomes this, it's
00:38:28
this nanny state. The nanny state of California
00:38:30
knows no bounds and it just keeps going and going.
00:38:32
Someone in the chat literally just said nanny state the same
00:38:35
time I said it. It's, it's, it's crazy because
00:38:40
it's, you're right. At what point do we stop and
00:38:42
say, OK, we have to make sure we account for every single
00:38:45
decision You may not be making, like as a grown adult or a human
00:38:50
being, that you can't pick a rental.
00:38:53
We want to make sure you don't pick a rental without a
00:38:55
refrigerator or stove because you can't go look at it and
00:38:59
determine for yourself that you want a refrigerator or stove
00:39:03
included in your apartment. And now we're going to start
00:39:05
requiring certain things in your food, whether you like it or
00:39:08
not. I have seen a lot of people push
00:39:10
back because they don't like the government screwing with
00:39:15
specifically, you know, food and, and requiring stuff and
00:39:18
food that there may be downsides to folic acid.
00:39:21
And someone was saying that there's now going to be like a
00:39:23
black market for like tortillas and like homemade tortillas,
00:39:27
which. I was starting to think I want
00:39:30
to make tortillas actually, just because homemade tortillas are
00:39:33
so delicious, but I'm not always going.
00:39:35
To once you get the hang of it, corn, you can get the masa in
00:39:37
stores and you can figure it out.
00:39:39
I mean, this white guy figured it out.
00:39:40
So Mike Swaggido was very impressed one day when it came
00:39:43
over for dinner, and I'm not. To like air all my information,
00:39:47
but because we're talking about like, if you're trying to
00:39:49
conceive and so you're making better decisions for yourself
00:39:53
because you're like, Oh, I, I want to get pregnant.
00:39:55
I'm actively trying to get pregnant and therefore I'm going
00:39:57
to do XY and Z to, you know, my chances and a better pregnancy
00:40:01
and all that. I have four children and I only
00:40:03
planned one of them. So, you know, like there was
00:40:08
only ever one time that we we were like, yeah, let's have
00:40:11
another kid. And the other three were
00:40:13
surprises, great surprises. I'm very, you know, I'm very
00:40:16
happy and very grateful to be a mom.
00:40:18
I don't want like, I'm not discounting that.
00:40:20
I'm just saying I was never like preparing my body for pregnancy
00:40:25
except for one time. So there you go.
00:40:29
So that's, that's one of the ones that people are really up
00:40:32
in arms about is the folk acid and tortillas.
00:40:35
You know, I guess the the moral of the story is you're going to
00:40:39
have to find a, a small producer, small batch producer
00:40:42
border. Arizona or or Mexico, And then
00:40:47
they're like, they're going to start banning that.
00:40:48
Like, oh, you're sneaking tortillas over the border?
00:40:51
You're sneaking contraband tortillas across the border of
00:40:54
Mexico. Yeah.
00:40:55
That, that's going to be what they're asking at the border.
00:40:57
Are you, you know, are you sneaking non folic acid
00:41:01
tortillas over from Mexico? Flashlight.
00:41:03
Do you have any tortillas in here?
00:41:07
Boy, that will bring border crossings to an absolute crawl
00:41:11
because so many people go down to TJ and buy tortillas.
00:41:15
Somebody put this in the chat. Good people don't need laws to
00:41:21
tell them how to act. Bad people will always find a
00:41:23
way around them. Socrates, thank you.
00:41:25
Thank you for that. From the chat.
00:41:28
Good, good quote. All right.
00:41:30
Next I did want to touch upon real quick.
00:41:34
Is this federal? They're trying to we'll talk
00:41:40
about this real quick because we got another video I want to get
00:41:44
to. They passed a law that they want
00:41:47
to require ICE agents to wear or to not wear masks.
00:41:54
Sorry, it's backwards to not wear masks.
00:41:58
Banning ICE agents from wearing masks.
00:42:00
Right. And this was a Scott Weiner
00:42:02
bill, I believe because, you know, tackling the important
00:42:06
issues. I'll say this about it.
00:42:09
We've said it before, this is obviously a virtue signalling
00:42:13
bill and it's going to probably be struck down in court.
00:42:16
I think Bill Asaley has already filed A lawsuit over it to get
00:42:19
it overturned because it's federal law enforcement.
00:42:23
And good luck you. The state has no jurisdiction
00:42:28
over federal law enforcement of how they conduct their things.
00:42:31
So if they want to wear masks and the federal government says,
00:42:34
yeah, you can wear masks to protect your identity.
00:42:36
Because there have been federal agents and ICE agents who have
00:42:39
been followed home, who have been harassed, that there are
00:42:44
privacy issues, that they follow them home to their families and
00:42:47
stuff like that. And these crazy people, they
00:42:50
they threaten them or I mean, it's just the issue of concern.
00:42:53
They're doing their job. Whether you agree or not with
00:42:56
their job, it still means that they don't have to go home and
00:42:58
get, you know, assaulted or harassed by people.
00:43:04
I believe that was just filed because of the fact that when it
00:43:09
comes to law, like you're not going to file a lawsuit until
00:43:12
it's actually what they call ripe, meaning that until it
00:43:16
actually goes into effect. So it went into effect and Bill
00:43:20
Sally has filed A lawsuit to strike it down.
00:43:23
I imagine it'll probably be a quick thing.
00:43:25
But you know, in the meantime, our future congressman from San
00:43:28
Francisco, Scott Weiner, is going to be able to parade
00:43:31
around on X and talk about what a great guy he is.
00:43:35
I did see he went back and forth with like a little tit for tat
00:43:37
about like, oh, Bill Sally, why don't you have, why don't you
00:43:41
say first assistant US attorney, not FA attorney or something
00:43:44
like that? It's like, who cares, man?
00:43:46
He's still the top US attorney and he's still going to school
00:43:49
you in court. I.
00:43:51
Follow Scott Weiner on social media, both X and Instagram.
00:43:55
Because, you know, I like to keep updated with what's going
00:43:57
on, so I follow several of our statements.
00:43:59
We subject ourselves to Scott Weiner just so you guys don't
00:44:02
have to. He sickens me so much.
00:44:05
I'm sorry he but he does and I just, I want to mute him so
00:44:09
badly, but he I need to know what he's up to.
00:44:13
And of course, now he's running for Congress.
00:44:15
Speaking of Congress, we did lose a California Congress
00:44:20
member today, a Republican, which we only had nine, Doug
00:44:24
Lamalfa, who represents like way, way up in Northern
00:44:28
California. I guess he tragically passed.
00:44:30
So we don't really know much detail about that, but I think
00:44:33
last night, so I forgot to mention that at the beginning of
00:44:36
the show. Anyway, yeah, I follow Scott
00:44:39
Weiner. I know you do, but I just so
00:44:41
often just want to meet him or unfollow him because I get so
00:44:43
disgusted that what he says. But I, I think I might have said
00:44:47
this before going back to COVID. So there's like new flus on the
00:44:51
rise. I think even one right now, like
00:44:53
people are pretty getting pretty sick and there's talk of, oh,
00:44:56
some, like some states are saying we should be masking up
00:44:59
and all that. And I it that you know, that
00:45:01
meme, you all know the meme of the the two choices.
00:45:06
And it's like, I want like Scott Weiner.
00:45:08
Do they do we require them to mask to prevent the spread of
00:45:12
this flu? Or do we require them not to
00:45:14
mask so that we know who they are?
00:45:17
You know, like the the sweating of the decision.
00:45:19
Choice. Yeah, Which button?
00:45:22
What to do? My buddy actually just said he
00:45:27
got the Super flu. That's what they're calling it,
00:45:30
this big super flu. But somebody said, but it's
00:45:34
perfectly fine for Antifa to wear masks.
00:45:36
Yeah, I guess if you're protesting, you can wear masks.
00:45:38
So, you know, the identity of protesters, protect that.
00:45:42
That's fine. So if you're setting government
00:45:44
buildings and private property on fire, cool.
00:45:48
You know, someone said I'm in Northern California.
00:45:52
I don't obey demon, rat, demon. I'm.
00:45:55
I'm just saying this is Democrat demon rat laws, the state of
00:46:00
Jefferson, that's what I call it.
00:46:01
And people are like, what do you mean by the state of Jefferson?
00:46:03
I call anything north of like Sacramento the state of
00:46:05
Jefferson. And I do want to visit someday.
00:46:08
I keep saying I want to go all the way up there and visit
00:46:09
because I hear it's beautiful up there.
00:46:13
Let's see, next story. There is someone who brought up
00:46:17
farmer's daughter. I do want to come back to your
00:46:19
point. So I'm going to show this on the
00:46:21
screen, so I don't want to come up if you have any other issues
00:46:25
you want us to talk about at the end, we'll get to your chats and
00:46:28
stuff like that. But this AI thing I do want to
00:46:30
talk about just 'cause I have some random thoughts on it.
00:46:33
But the next law is I think probably more consequential in
00:46:40
the sense of dealing with homelessness.
00:46:43
And we've seen it, Carecourt, mental health, all of that.
00:46:47
What's happening with Carecourt and how it in my mind has been a
00:46:53
disaster. It's been an absolute failure.
00:46:55
It hasn't done anywhere close to the numbers that it's expected.
00:46:58
You don't know what I'm talking about.
00:47:01
Kind of like the what your. Anniversary.
00:47:02
That's tomorrow. What was that?
00:47:06
The Palisades fire, all the cutting, the red tape, they
00:47:09
haven't done anything. The one year anniversary of the
00:47:11
Palisades Fire is tomorrow, January 7th.
00:47:14
Yep, and we did fire we. All the the aid and the red tape
00:47:19
that they've cut and they're easy access to permits and
00:47:21
they're all in one system. And yet, I mean, I shouldn't say
00:47:26
nothing, but next to nothing. At this rate, what are we
00:47:29
hearing? It's going to be 727 years
00:47:33
before they can complete the building of it.
00:47:36
Sorry, not the not a topic that we meant to go down the road of.
00:47:40
I keep just interrupting and throwing things out.
00:47:41
I apologize. No, there's a yeah.
00:47:44
Well, it's our first episode back and there's a lot of news
00:47:46
stories going on. And we did get that report,
00:47:48
which I did record a video detailing and I'll go out
00:47:51
tomorrow morning about. They're doing the congressional
00:47:54
investigation. Kevin Kiley of where the money
00:47:58
went for fire aid. They have an idea.
00:47:59
Now, it's not all the money, but you know, again, any, I think
00:48:03
any dollar that was spent not directly benefiting the wildfire
00:48:07
victims is a crime. I don't care if it was $10 out
00:48:13
of the $100 million that they raised, the point is there was
00:48:16
enough money that went to places it shouldn't have that it's
00:48:20
criminal. All right, let's watch this
00:48:23
video real quick about Carecourt and then we'll comment on this
00:48:27
story. And tonight, we're talking about
00:48:30
the controversial Care Court program aimed at addressing
00:48:33
severe mental health issues and homelessness.
00:48:36
And it's all part of Governor Gavin Newsom's multibillion
00:48:38
dollar plan to overhaul the state's behavioral health
00:48:41
system. I want to bring in AB stands
00:48:43
Becca Hobecker, who's joining us live in studio.
00:48:45
Because, Becca, you've been really digging into the numbers
00:48:47
and also looking at the results so far.
00:48:49
Yeah, you know, that's right, Alex.
00:48:50
Carecourt launched as a pilot in some counties nearly two years
00:48:54
ago now, with other counties launching Carecourt this past
00:48:57
December. Now our colleague Jackson
00:48:59
Ellison and I sought to find out.
00:49:01
Is Carecourt working to get people off the street while the
00:49:04
results are mixed? My daughter kept falling through
00:49:07
all those cracks. Elizabeth Kaino Hopper has filed
00:49:10
A petition to get her daughter involved in CARE court in
00:49:13
Sacramento County after other attempts to get her services
00:49:16
haven't worked. I have full confidence that over
00:49:19
time this this program is actually doing exactly what it
00:49:24
was intended to do is to to recognize there are some people
00:49:28
who who will be very difficult to engage in treatment and and
00:49:33
they will need repeat opportunities.
00:49:36
To qualify for Carecourt, which stands for Community Assistance,
00:49:39
Recovery and Empowerment, someone must be an adult with a
00:49:42
diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic
00:49:45
disorders with severe and persistent symptoms and not
00:49:49
already stabilized. The petitions are filed directly
00:49:51
with the court. The judge is the one that makes
00:49:53
the Prima facial review on whether they meet, on paper at
00:49:57
least, the criteria for the care court program.
00:49:59
Nicole Cable is the health program manager for Sacramento
00:50:02
County Behavior Behavioral Health Services.
00:50:04
She overseas the county's implementation of Carecourt.
00:50:06
I think what it's doing is really helping people.
00:50:09
She says if the carecourt judge determines a person meets the
00:50:11
criteria, he orders the county to go make contact with that
00:50:15
person and give an in person assessment and if they qualify,
00:50:18
offer carecourt participation. We are bound by that mandate,
00:50:22
but the clients are still able to say no.
00:50:24
She says since launching Carecourt in December,
00:50:27
Sacramento County has had some 75 petitions on behalf of
00:50:31
individuals. Of those, 10 people are on care
00:50:34
agreements. A care agreement can be all
00:50:36
sorts of different things. Housing supports, therapy,
00:50:42
medication, really anything that our service providers can offer.
00:50:47
But what if someone rejects care or doesn't meet the criteria?
00:50:51
Our data doesn't really tell the story.
00:50:53
You look at it and you'll see that we've dismissed.
00:50:55
A lot of the cases. Or closed referrals because they
00:50:58
didn't meet criteria. I think what's not?
00:51:00
Shown is that for all of those clients we're looking at, what
00:51:03
else do they qualify for? How else can we get them into
00:51:06
services? We are very opposed to Care
00:51:09
Court for a number of reasons. Samuel Jan is senior policy
00:51:13
attorney at Disability Rights California.
00:51:15
He says concerns include the high cost of care court.
00:51:19
According to a legislative analysis, the cost per
00:51:22
individual in the Care Act for fiscal year 202324, that's the
00:51:26
courts pilot period and only a handful of counties was
00:51:30
approximately $713. At the time, the program had
00:51:34
only 100 participants. We want to address homelessness
00:51:38
like we need affordable housing that that money would be much
00:51:41
better served going towards, you know, community based voluntary
00:51:45
services and housing. Elizabeth.
00:51:49
I'm going to interject here, that guy is dead wrong.
00:51:59
How many times are we going to listen to people say we need
00:52:02
affordable housing? That's the the issue with
00:52:05
homelessness is affordable housing.
00:52:07
We're just going to build more affordable housing.
00:52:08
Well, we build affordable housing in places like here in
00:52:11
San Diego and it's still 2 to $3000 for a studio apartment.
00:52:17
OK, It's still unaffordable, but doesn't address the issue that
00:52:22
you can put a lot of homeless people into housing or temporary
00:52:26
housing. And if they have a mental issue,
00:52:29
they're not going to thrive in that housing no matter what you
00:52:32
do. So you're kind of skipping the
00:52:33
step of like if these people are suffering from a severe mental
00:52:38
psychosis, whether it's drug induced or because of any other
00:52:42
mental disability, you're skipping a step of like, you
00:52:46
can't just take the homeless guy who's out there screaming at
00:52:50
imaginary demons in his head on the street corner, throw them
00:52:54
into an apartment and expect that's going to work.
00:52:56
Because we've seen that doesn't work and we've seen housing,
00:53:00
shelter and stuff like that get absolutely trash.
00:53:03
So, yeah, I, I that guy, when he says, oh, we don't need
00:53:08
Carecore, you know, we just need more affordable housing.
00:53:11
I mean, at what point in California are we going to stop
00:53:14
saying it's all about affordable housing and we just need to get
00:53:17
him into housing? The Housing First model has
00:53:20
proven not to work. And we, we have $28 billion down
00:53:24
the toilet to prove that that affordable housing or the the
00:53:28
Housing First model for homelessness doesn't work
00:53:32
because it it's just, you're skipping a step of how to help
00:53:35
these people. I have an aunt who is
00:53:38
schizophrenic, bipolar, a number of other things and she's she's
00:53:45
pretty far on like the stories, they're, they're kind of
00:53:48
humorous, but they're, they're reality.
00:53:50
Now, fortunately for her, she has family.
00:53:55
So obviously she does not work. And so she's my mom's sister.
00:53:59
My mom has five siblings and five of the six kids are all
00:54:03
like local to Orange County, San Bernardino, Riverside.
00:54:06
So aunt, my grandma's still alive.
00:54:09
She lives, my aunt lives in a in a house on my grandma's
00:54:12
property. So if she's not homeless, she
00:54:15
would be if it weren't for family.
00:54:17
And you know, she receives like a certain amount of benefits
00:54:20
from the state because she's not worked in decades and she can't
00:54:24
work and nobody can force her to take medications.
00:54:30
She has housing because she has family that has been able to
00:54:35
keep her, you know, there she has been in and out of mental
00:54:38
institutes in the hospital because again, things get things
00:54:43
get crazy, for lack of a better word.
00:54:47
But there would be no way to keep her in so-called affordable
00:54:52
housing, but no way whatsoever. And she would definitely be out
00:54:57
on the streets or dead at this point if it weren't for the fact
00:55:01
that she has actual family taking care of her and providing
00:55:05
for her. And so, yeah, affordable housing
00:55:11
just there. What even is that it?
00:55:14
It's not an answer. It's not a solution.
00:55:16
It's not existent. We've tried that it's.
00:55:19
It's hasn't worked. So the only people I think who
00:55:23
are benefiting from this affordable, you know, housing
00:55:26
first, affordable housing model is the developers who have
00:55:29
political connections and get the kickbacks of all these
00:55:32
contracts. All right.
00:55:34
Like any of these structures that we take, you know, when
00:55:37
like so-called hotels that we're going to turn into affordable
00:55:40
housing or homelessness housing and stuff it and then we build
00:55:44
even it all goes to or the majority goes to illegal
00:55:47
immigrants. Yeah, so does it ever get to the
00:55:52
homeless? All right, let's finish up this
00:55:55
video and we'll talk a little bit more.
00:55:56
Acknowledges the program isn't perfect, but it is giving her
00:56:00
hope for her daughter. I still do support the Care Act
00:56:04
and Care Court because every effort is made to do everything
00:56:08
voluntarily. The California Health and Human
00:56:12
Services Agency says statewide more than 2000 Carecourt
00:56:17
petitions have been filed and more than 1000 other individuals
00:56:20
have been offered services following an initial connection
00:56:23
with Carecourt. The Governor's office tells ABC
00:56:25
10 they're pleased with the early results and continue to
00:56:28
work on full scale implementation.
00:56:31
Alex. All right, Becca, thank you.
00:56:33
And For more information on what Carecourt looks like in other
00:56:36
local counties, you can find more of our reporting over on
00:56:39
our website, abc10.com. Thank you ABC 10 All right,
00:56:44
there is an article from Cal matters I want to read really
00:56:47
quickly and then we'll we'll hop into the chat.
00:56:50
So this is from Cal matters. Gavin Newsom science, law and
00:56:54
overhaul mental health system. It changes decades of practice.
00:56:57
We I feel like we keep talking about this issue over and over
00:57:00
again because it's an ongoing issue and it's almost like we're
00:57:03
banging our heads against wall to say like this is they're
00:57:06
eventually I feel like they're they're getting there.
00:57:09
They're slowly getting there. Based on this article goes on to
00:57:13
say his signature loosens long standing rules about who's
00:57:15
eligible for involuntary treatment under the half century
00:57:18
old Lanterman Petrus Short Act, the landmark mental health law
00:57:21
that regulates involuntary civil commitment in the state.
00:57:24
Advocates and county leaders expect the new legislation was
00:57:26
take takes effect on January 1st to lead to more people being
00:57:29
placed in treatment facilities against their will.
00:57:34
The law, which then Governor Ronald Reagan signed in 1967,
00:57:38
established strict criteria to determine who was eligible for
00:57:41
involuntary treatment as well as specific time frames that
00:57:44
limited limited involuntary holds.
00:57:47
This included the 72 hour hold now known as a 5150.
00:57:50
But Conkanite promises to build up community based support
00:57:54
programs did not materialize. The way I describe it, it's
00:57:59
crude, but it's basically as we all remember back in the day.
00:58:02
It was like the guys, the men in the white jackets or the white
00:58:05
suits in the white van with the straight jacket come in and like
00:58:09
taking you like that. That's essentially what this
00:58:12
was, is they were like, OK, you're need to be put into a
00:58:14
mental institution. We're going to kind of come and
00:58:17
get you and put you in a mental institution because you can't
00:58:20
take care of yourself. Susan Talamenti's Eggman, who is
00:58:23
a I believe a Bay Area or San Francisco state senator, social
00:58:30
worker turned Democratic state senator out from Stockton who
00:58:33
has become one of the legislators main authors of
00:58:35
mental health policies among those who feel California went
00:58:37
too far back then Quote for fear of doing something wrong, we did
00:58:41
something even worse, she said. Eggman authored the law signed
00:58:44
today, carried the legislation to redesign the Mental Health
00:58:47
Services Act and co-authored last year's Care Act.
00:58:50
This year's attempt sailed through the Legislature without
00:58:52
opposition. Expands the legal definition by
00:58:55
which someone could be deemed gravely disabled and treated
00:58:58
against their will. The new expand definition allows
00:59:00
for consideration whether a person fails to provide their
00:59:02
own medical care or personal safety Includes not just mental
00:59:06
illness, but also severe substance abuse, use disorder
00:59:10
and chronic alcoholism. So they've also expanded it.
00:59:15
I read somewhere that they've expanded it to include psychosis
00:59:20
as well. So it was like a certain amount
00:59:23
of mental issues. Now it's like all psychosis,
00:59:26
which covers a lot of it. And it, I was kind of saying
00:59:31
this before, we're tiptoeing back this way.
00:59:35
It's like the pendulum has swung back after how many years since
00:59:40
1967 is, to, you know, Susan Eggman's point, we went a little
00:59:46
too far in One Direction where it was we can't force people to
00:59:50
get the help that they need. So now without that tool by the
00:59:54
courts and by our legal system, there is too many people who
01:00:00
can't get the help because it it's hard to get people help who
01:00:05
don't know they need help. And that's the issue, I think I
01:00:09
sent an article to again, not pumping up the telegram, but I
01:00:13
put this in the telegram and shared my thoughts about this
01:00:15
mother who was really upset about her son.
01:00:19
And she was very excited about Carecourt because she thought
01:00:21
she was finally going to get a resolution.
01:00:23
Her son is suffering from like deep psychosis of him.
01:00:28
He's very violent, schizophrenic, bipolar, all that
01:00:30
stuff. And the article starts off about
01:00:32
how he was chucking huge rocks at her door, at his house or at
01:00:37
her house. She had to call the cops and the
01:00:39
cops had to take him away. But this is like the psychosis
01:00:43
she's dealing with. And Carecourt couldn't help him
01:00:45
because they couldn't force him into treatment.
01:00:47
She's like that. He needs treatment.
01:00:49
He's never going to accept himself that he needs treatment.
01:00:53
He doesn't believe he's sick because of his psychosis.
01:00:57
And when you have an issue of, OK, well, if someone is
01:01:00
suffering from a psychosis where they don't think they're sick,
01:01:04
how are you ever going to get them to voluntarily go to these
01:01:09
treatment facilities? It's it's impossible.
01:01:12
You're never going to get these people to agree to go and get
01:01:15
medical treatment when they don't believe they have an issue
01:01:18
or they are not in their right mind.
01:01:20
And I think that's sort of like they're trying to tiptoe their
01:01:25
way back. In reality, they should just,
01:01:28
like repealed Lantern and Petrus all over and started all over
01:01:31
again. But this is how California
01:01:33
Democrats and the Legislature kind of operate.
01:01:35
They kind of nip around the edges, kind of like with sequa,
01:01:39
they should just restart with sequa, they should just restart
01:01:41
with Lantern and Petrus. But it feels like we're kind of
01:01:45
tiptoeing back in that direction of allowing the courts to force
01:01:49
people into mental facilities to get the help that they need.
01:01:56
What are your thoughts? Well, yeah, I mean, obviously I
01:02:00
just mentioned my aunt and she when she has gone into
01:02:04
treatments, she will refuse to take medications and even eat
01:02:08
and like she'll just starve herself.
01:02:10
It's it's insane. She's she's an evil genius.
01:02:13
When I, when I say that, I mean that literally.
01:02:15
Like you'll see those TikTok videos and stuff where it's like
01:02:18
say that you have to break into someone's house, but the only
01:02:20
thing you could take is like how to something to inconvenience
01:02:24
their lives. That's how she operates it.
01:02:26
That's why I said it's kind of humorous.
01:02:27
It's not, it's not humorous because it's reality.
01:02:30
But but it is like that's how she thinks.
01:02:34
And there have been so many times when it's like we can't
01:02:39
force her to get help, you know, and, and unfortunately there,
01:02:44
there are people that do need help.
01:02:46
They don't necessarily, well, even that woman that you
01:02:48
mentioned, she, it's her son. She loves her son and she wants
01:02:52
him to get help more than anything.
01:02:54
He doesn't recognize that he needs help.
01:02:55
How do you force him in? But there, there has to be some
01:02:59
sort of line where it's like, no, this person, we have to,
01:03:03
they're a danger to themselves in society that this woman
01:03:06
shouldn't be like hiding in her house, locking herself in,
01:03:09
hoping and praying that a rock doesn't come flying through the
01:03:12
window and hit her or that he, you know, breaks in and throws
01:03:16
rocks at her just because he doesn't see that he needs help.
01:03:19
And so it, this is one of those things where I do believe in
01:03:24
government interference, you know, the police need to
01:03:27
intervene and there needs to be some sort of like, I would love
01:03:30
for Carecourt to work. I don't, I don't want it to be a
01:03:33
failure. I'd love for it to be in a thing
01:03:35
where people do get the help that they need.
01:03:38
You know, I'm not pro Gavin Newsom here, but give credit
01:03:42
where credit's due. If, if this could work out and
01:03:46
people really, truly could be helped and get the help they
01:03:48
need, then I'm all for it. It's, it's ironic because we've
01:03:56
spent a lot of this episode talking about how California's a
01:03:59
nanny state and how they've, they've quite literally like
01:04:02
they, they go out of their way to be a nanny to like every
01:04:06
single issue, whether they think you're not getting enough folic
01:04:09
acid or you can't, you're not smart enough to figure out that
01:04:12
you shouldn't rent a place without a stove or a
01:04:14
refrigerator. But then when it comes to like
01:04:16
the really important issues that government can step in and be
01:04:20
like a caretaker and be the nanny state, California's like,
01:04:23
no, no, we're not going to do that.
01:04:25
They're not going to do that. And I understand, look, listen,
01:04:27
I'm as much of A civil rights libertarian as anybody.
01:04:30
But there is also a point where you go, the compassionate thing
01:04:35
is to get people the help that they need.
01:04:39
And I can't wrap my head around the fact that I'm walking
01:04:43
through downtown San Diego and I see people who are not in their
01:04:47
right mind, but they're sleeping on the streets.
01:04:50
And especially now with all the rain and everything, it's just
01:04:52
heartbreaking how cold it is and wet it is.
01:04:54
And these people are out on the street and they're not getting
01:04:56
the help that they need to get their lives back on track.
01:05:00
California has spent so much money and $20 billion, probably
01:05:03
way more than that now, probably $35 billion at this point.
01:05:07
I mean, the numbers just astronomical.
01:05:08
Don't forget we also passed Prop One, which was what, another $6
01:05:12
billion that we took out and are paying back.
01:05:17
I just, I can't wrap my head around how we spend almost $30
01:05:21
billion and have not made a dent in homelessness because our
01:05:25
elected leaders are basically, excuse my language, are too
01:05:29
chicken shit to actually make the hard decisions and be like,
01:05:33
we got to get these people care. We got to get them treatment.
01:05:36
Whether they like it or not, they're not going to accept it.
01:05:39
We want to get them the help that they need.
01:05:41
It's better that we get them the help that they need off the
01:05:44
street where they medical professionals and social workers
01:05:48
and people who are trained in this.
01:05:50
We've come a long way since 1967, right?
01:05:53
Like the, the field, the professional field has expanded
01:05:57
enormously with medical professionals who can help with
01:06:01
this and social workers and all that who can help with this.
01:06:05
Yet we, we've done everything but a tackle what is the real
01:06:09
issue and, and just be adults about this and go look, you, you
01:06:15
clearly are not in your right mind to accept help.
01:06:19
We can't ask you to voluntarily get help.
01:06:22
We therefore are going to have to force you to get help.
01:06:25
And you'll be, you know, your life will be better off that
01:06:30
way, you know, And it's, it's sad.
01:06:33
I think I told the story before I was involved in a
01:06:35
conservatorship case. I was court appointed counsel
01:06:38
for conservator and they didn't get the, it was actually the
01:06:45
wrong conservatorship that they filed.
01:06:48
So I feel bad for the attorney who screwed that up.
01:06:50
But it turned out this guy was suffering from such psychosis
01:06:54
that he ended up killing himself because they didn't get to him
01:06:59
in time with an LP's conservatorship.
01:07:02
And who could petition for an LP's conservatorship?
01:07:06
And it's, it's hard to petition for an LP's conservatorship.
01:07:08
Now, if you think if it was easier to petition the court to
01:07:12
force him into some sort of treatment, that individual will
01:07:16
probably still be alive today. But they've made it so hard that
01:07:21
it, it's, there's probably so many stories like that, sadly
01:07:25
out there in California of people who are just not getting
01:07:28
the help that they need because they just don't want to do it.
01:07:31
And again, I keep, I, I don't want to keep harping on the
01:07:34
number, but over $30 billion, we probably, if we had taken this
01:07:38
approach and just took the adult approach, how many lives could
01:07:43
have been saved? So right.
01:07:46
Right. To your point, we're always
01:07:48
protecting the wrong thing or the wrong person.
01:07:51
We're not protecting those who actually need the protection I
01:07:56
give from themselves, which then will protect other people.
01:08:00
Because you can't trust a crazy person.
01:08:03
You never know what they're going to do.
01:08:05
You have no way of knowing what a crazy person, what action
01:08:09
they'll take. And so you, they need, they need
01:08:14
to be removed from society. And I don't mean forever.
01:08:17
And I don't mean to hide them away, lock them away and all,
01:08:20
you know, forever, whatever. But try to get them the help
01:08:24
they need. Get them all the meds that they
01:08:25
need. And you know, that that is where
01:08:28
the nanny state is necessary. That's where they need kind of a
01:08:31
babysitter. They need, they need that help.
01:08:34
And like I said, if if my aunt didn't have family, she would
01:08:40
definitely be one of those people out on the street, you
01:08:42
know, and who or she maybe did at this point, who knows?
01:08:46
So it just it is very heartbreaking.
01:08:51
She's fortunate to have family, but.
01:08:54
That's there's a lot of people who don't have family and that's
01:08:57
why they end up on the streets. The.
01:08:58
Members aren't able to actually be there and be the kind of help
01:09:02
that they need, you know, so, so yeah, it's, it's sad.
01:09:07
It's very sad. It's not compassionate what
01:09:09
we've, what we've allowed to happen.
01:09:13
Agreed. Sorry to end on a kind of a
01:09:17
downer note. Let's let's look forward.
01:09:20
Let's look forward real quick. If anybody has any comments or
01:09:22
stuff in the chat. We did want to look forward to
01:09:25
what's going to happen in 2026. So you had said at the
01:09:28
beginning, it was reported that the voter ID initiative by
01:09:34
Reform California and Carl De Maio has received a million
01:09:38
signatures. Their goal is I think 1.2
01:09:43
because there are like redundancies or describes
01:09:47
there's a certain amount like wiggle room that you want so
01:09:50
that when they start invalidating some of them you,
01:09:53
you still I think it's 800 or something is like what they
01:09:58
need. So they want to get like a 1.2
01:10:01
million and this is way ahead of schedule like wait, wait, wait
01:10:07
like the deadline is like June to get these signatures in.
01:10:10
So the fact that it's January 6th and there's already a
01:10:15
million signatures is pretty, I'm going to say, is pretty damn
01:10:20
impressive and it will be an interesting battle.
01:10:26
You know. It'll be, it'll be an
01:10:28
interesting battle because I think this might be one of the
01:10:31
most contentious propositions coming up.
01:10:34
I'm probably that in the billionaire's tax.
01:10:38
The other thing is the billionaire's tax, which if you
01:10:40
don't know about the billionaire's tax, we did a
01:10:42
video on it a couple weeks ago. It's basically California wants
01:10:46
to impose a one time 5% tax on billionaires of all of their
01:10:53
assets, whether it's liquid or not, because why not?
01:10:58
Because they think billionaires have too much money and they
01:11:01
should, you know, milk them for all, as much money as they can.
01:11:07
So I know the unions are pushing that.
01:11:09
They just started collecting signatures, that one.
01:11:13
I don't think these are two really interesting propositions.
01:11:19
Let's just hypothetically say they both get on the ballot.
01:11:22
Voter ID looks like it's certainly going to get on the
01:11:24
ballot. I imagine the billionaire's tax
01:11:25
is going to get on the ballot. The union workers will figure
01:11:28
out how way to get it on the ballot.
01:11:31
It'll be an interesting barometer of where California is
01:11:37
with voter ID and a billionaire's tax.
01:11:41
An idea of like, how blue is California?
01:11:46
You know, we already talked about after 2024, California
01:11:50
went more red. We do have a governor's election
01:11:53
coming up. Whoever is the maybe Republican
01:11:56
governor at the top of the ticket may incentivize people to
01:11:58
come out and vote. If voter ID passes, does that
01:12:05
change California's voting? Does it change the landscape?
01:12:10
Does it change the political makeup of our legislature and
01:12:13
our city councils and our local elected officials?
01:12:17
It'll be interesting. Imagine a world where we wake up
01:12:21
after the election here in 2026, voter ID passes and the
01:12:25
billionaire's tax gets voted down.
01:12:28
I could actually see that happening.
01:12:30
So I, I believe there is AII would not be shocked if
01:12:36
California vote voted in favor of voter ID and then voted down
01:12:41
the billionaire's tax. You heard it here, 1st January
01:12:44
6th. We'll remember this date so we
01:12:46
can come back you know how many months from now.
01:12:51
What are your thoughts on the two upcoming propositions?
01:12:55
Yeah, well, I again, getting it on the ballot doesn't
01:12:58
necessarily mean it passes. I'm not a billionaire, but still
01:13:05
I don't I don't believe in this this weird tax the rich so many
01:13:09
billionaires. It's not like they have a
01:13:12
billion dollars sitting in their bank accounts.
01:13:15
You know, it is an assets. And so I don't know what they
01:13:17
what why are they so angry that, oh, you own multiple businesses,
01:13:23
but you employ many people and then you own vacation homes.
01:13:26
Like So what that they didn't take away from you.
01:13:29
If I become a billionaire, I literally didn't take anything
01:13:32
from any of you. You don't money.
01:13:37
Money is not like money isn't it's, it's infinite.
01:13:41
There's Elon Musk didn't take from you by becoming a
01:13:46
billionaire and that's why I don't get why people get angry
01:13:51
about this like you too can go be a billionaire, make it happen
01:13:55
for yourself and it's quick. I don't sorry.
01:14:02
I just I get very frustrated with these things because then
01:14:06
when they have taxed the billionaires to death and
01:14:08
there's no more billionaires because they taxed them all to
01:14:10
death, that's when again it starts to then the millionaires
01:14:14
and then the rest of us. It's like, you know, they just.
01:14:20
It it goes down the line, yeah. When they run out of that tax
01:14:23
base, they have to start taxing other people.
01:14:25
The billionaires are going to leave the state.
01:14:28
There's they're going to have taken from the rest are going to
01:14:30
leave and then they're going to come after the millionaires and
01:14:32
then they're going to get same thing.
01:14:33
And then they're all we're all going to be middle class
01:14:35
together. And then they're just going to.
01:14:37
I don't, I don't know how they can tax this anymore.
01:14:39
I feel like. I wonder if Tom Steyer is in
01:14:44
favor of this billionaires tax, being the sole billionaire in
01:14:48
the race for governor right now. Somebody says if we can pass
01:14:54
election ID, California won't have the money to implement it,
01:14:57
just like Prop 36. I haven't looked at the
01:15:00
language. Somebody brought this up on
01:15:03
Instagram to me and I said hopefully they were smart enough
01:15:06
to put in a provision about implementing the funding because
01:15:10
that was their oily way around it of Prop 36, at least for
01:15:13
Newsome was. Well, they didn't, they didn't
01:15:17
put, you know, any funding in it.
01:15:19
So therefore, yeah, they passed it.
01:15:21
But we don't, we're not required to fund it.
01:15:23
That wasn't So I, I imagine whoever wrote this, I assume
01:15:30
Carl Demaio hopefully was smart enough to put in some sort of
01:15:34
funding and not have the same thing happen with Prop 36.
01:15:37
So I said Prop 50 tells you all you need to know about what is
01:15:39
happening in California. Now here's the thing about that
01:15:44
and and I'll push back on a little bit and we're kind of a
01:15:46
little overtime. So thank you everyone for
01:15:48
hanging out with us. There's a ton of you watching
01:15:50
live. Thank you all for coming back.
01:15:52
It's been amazing great to be back.
01:15:55
We got a really good show next week.
01:15:59
We've been talking or I've been talking.
01:16:01
I haven't even told Camelia yet, though it's.
01:16:03
Like what's what's? The plan as of today, I don't
01:16:07
know if anybody, follows Amy Reichhart.
01:16:09
It looks like she'll be on the show next week to talk about her
01:16:12
discovery with daycare centers here in San Diego.
01:16:16
So what's happening in Minnesota and what she's uncovered here in
01:16:21
San Diego? I'm sure it's happening all over
01:16:22
California. It's basically the same thing.
01:16:25
She's found that there's a lot of daycare centers with no kids
01:16:28
and they're making a ton of money.
01:16:31
So look forward to that next week.
01:16:34
She'll be on next week. As of right now, she's confirmed
01:16:37
that she'll be on next week's. Looking forward to that story.
01:16:42
Going back to this Prop 50 thing.
01:16:44
Prop 50 I think they made about Trump.
01:16:48
Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully Trump stays out of this voter ID
01:16:54
thing. Please stay out of this photo,
01:16:56
right? Just let California decide voter
01:16:59
ID. Don't put your finger on the
01:17:01
scale because I think there is a good amount and polls have shown
01:17:05
that independents, Democrats, and Republicans all are in favor
01:17:10
of voter ID. Like it's ironically, there are
01:17:13
as a majority of people in California who are in favor of
01:17:16
voter ID. And it's just, if Trump gets
01:17:21
involved, then I fear it'll just be like Prop 50 where it's just
01:17:25
about like, no, no, no, we have to fight Trump and then that'll
01:17:28
be the end of it. So hopefully it doesn't get
01:17:31
involved, but who knows? I think there's a good amount of
01:17:33
people who. Somehow, someway.
01:17:36
Just stay out, just stay out of everything.
01:17:39
Just let California do what it needs to do.
01:17:45
So he says. What's your regular live stream
01:17:47
days and times? I can't stay on the It's same
01:17:51
time every week, 8:00 PM Tuesday.
01:17:53
We're always here. Tuesdays at 8:00 PM.
01:17:55
We took some time off for the holidays so.
01:17:58
Phil just will do when like a hot topic comes up that maybe we
01:18:03
don't want to wait, you know, 5-6 days for he'll do a video or
01:18:08
something where he just wants to break down what's going on and
01:18:12
try to educate you guys. Then he that's why there's other
01:18:14
little video clips that show up which are very educational and
01:18:17
very interesting and, you know, just go ahead and watch them.
01:18:20
But the live is always Tuesday at 8:00 PM and that's where we
01:18:23
then get to interact with you guys in the chat.
01:18:25
Thank you for being here. Yeah, thank you for being here,
01:18:28
Frog Feeder. Yeah, the news hits are kind of
01:18:32
like stories throughout the week.
01:18:33
Someone said funny how many other countries have voter ID
01:18:36
but not here. Even Mexico has voter ID.
01:18:38
Yes, they do. And they have one day for voting
01:18:41
and you go and you vote and you get your finger in the ink, the
01:18:44
24 hour ink. So you know when people say
01:18:49
voter ID is racist, say OK, I guess you think the way Mexico
01:18:52
does it is racist. Well then like so we're.
01:18:55
Marriage certificates and passports and anything else that
01:19:01
you've ever had to show ID for, apparently drinking.
01:19:04
Buying liquor, I guess is I guess buying liquor is racist
01:19:09
now. All right, Any other thoughts?
01:19:11
We've gone over again. I said this is a big, big show
01:19:14
because we just came back and we got a lot of bills to cover.
01:19:17
But any other comments before we sign off for the night and we're
01:19:22
back on our regularly scheduled Tuesday nights, 8:00 PM.
01:19:26
Any other thoughts before we close that?
01:19:29
I don't think I have any thoughts.
01:19:31
You're like, I'm, I'm sorry, guys, I'm I'm done.
01:19:37
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01:19:42
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