WEBVTT - Oh SNAP! | Dodgers Back-to-Back Champions 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.200 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:09.719 AM six forty. Let's go, we go it please Tale 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.120 you can do it out guy, KI am six forty 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:14.640 Bill Handle. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:19.360 It is a Monday morning, November third lot going on today. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.120 To say the least, what do we do have going on? Well? 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:28.040 Saturday is thanksgrilling Neil and I are broadcasting his show 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.800 from the Wild Fork Food Store and Lagoon and Miguel, 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.360 So let's check that out and don't forget on a Friday, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.960 it's ask Handle anything and boy, there is some fun 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.559 questions there. So if you want to ask Handle, let's 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.240 be anything that's anything, go to the iHeartRadio app during 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.239 the show and click on the Bill Handle show up 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:53.360 right hand corner microphone and record your question, which I. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.680 Theoretically answer every Friday. I actually I do. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.480 Hey, today is a big day because today the Trump 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:04.640 Administry is facing that deadline to report to the federal 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:10.320 judges snap food stamp order. It's at noon today and 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.280 it's requiring the administration to update the federal judge who 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:19.640 last week ordered the Agriculture Department to disperse the SNAP 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:25.000 funds Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds food stamps. Tens of 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.360 millions of Americans are without their November SNAP benefits. Over 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:34.479 forty million Americans need governmental help to eat. They are 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.560 food insecure. The shame of it is this country, one 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.479 of the wealthiest countries on the planet, is not feeding 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.000 its own people. We have a system where people just 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.520 don't eat, which I find insane. And what's happening. A 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:52.480 story that came out of NBC News Texas, California stadium 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.240 parking lots were jammed mass distribution sites where people were 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:01.560 picking up the food bank stores. Food banks are out. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:07.320 If you look at the video, it's insane. So SNAP 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:08.720 expected to run dry. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:09.440 It has. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.720 A lot of state governments are trying to fill in, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.480 but the president said any state that tries to fill 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:24.160 in taking the place of SNAP, he will cut their money. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.280 I don't get that. One. Explain that to me. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.440 I mean, for those of you that are pro Donald Trump, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.560 and I understand there's lots of you, and you have 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.400 good reasons to be that way. I mean, I understand 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.160 your philosophy versus the other side, But explain the philosophy 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.120 when states come in and spend their own money to 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.040 feed people, the government says, then we're not going to 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.040 give you money. We're not going to either reimburse which 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.320 there are governmental programs, or we're going to make sure 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.760 that it's miserable for you. And what it is, as 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.680 Neil pointed out correctly, I think and handle on the news, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.239 is that these people are. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:06.440 Pawns of the government. And the argument is on both sides. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.160 You can say, of Democrats, it's more important for you 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:17.920 to deal with the Obamacare, the extension of Obamacare versus 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:18.720 feeding people. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:19.600 How dare you do that? 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.480 Republicans are saying exactly the opposite. I mean, it is 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.960 a political football that's going back and forth, ping pong ball. Actually, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.280 and so the judge of lawsuits were filed twenty five 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.120 states filed lawsuits, I might add, saying that these funds 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.400 have to be dispersed, and they have to be dispersed. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.960 Now. Now the government says, we don't have that money. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.200 It's eight billion dollars a year a month than all 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.840 we have is five billion. And so the judge says, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.160 then release that five billion dollars. At least that's something. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.080 And interestingly enough, the Trump administration, this is what Donald 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.320 Trump said, I think it was yesterday or Saturday. We 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.440 have to wait until the courts figure this out before 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.120 we release the money. Well, the problem is there's money 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:13.800 in that account for emergencies for exactly this sort of thing, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:19.960 except the Trump administration is arguing legally that money is 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.640 supposed to be reserved only for situations like natural disasters. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.320 Running out of STAP money is not a natural disaster. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:31.240 You could argue that. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.280 Now, on the other hand, where the Armed services got 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:43.960 their paycheck where reserve money didn't exist, the government argued 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.159 that that was okay. And here is the bottom line. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:52.520 It is more important to pay the military, which by 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.200 the way, I think is hugely important. Don't misunderstand. Not 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.560 to pay the military is insane as far as I'm concerned. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.800 But they're okay with people not having enough money to eat, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.200 which actually floors me. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.040 I mean, I just don't get it. I don't get 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:06.440 any of this. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.360 I am just stunned for the government to say, well, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.839 we don't know if legally we're allowed to do this. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:13.520 Are you kidding? 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.440 You know, it's interesting that the president thinks he has 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.479 ultimate insane power on anything else. Wakes up in the morning, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.680 I'm going to tariff, I'm going to change the tariff. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.440 I'm going to do all this over here, and you go, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.479 but but Congress doesn't let you. It's not the law. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.880 I don't care what the law says. I am going 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.560 to do this, except when it comes to food stamps. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.279 Now I have to figure out the judges and the 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.000 courts have to tell me whether I have the ability 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.400 to do this. And all you do is point to 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.960 that provision emergency funding. Well, we don't know what emergency 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.440 really means. You know, it's natural disaster, it's not Is 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.280 it an earthquake? Is that a hurricane? You know, we 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.159 really don't know. Emergency. Well, i'll tell you right now. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.560 Forty million people not getting enough to eat, in my opinion, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:06.159 is true emergency. Having people having kids not have breakfast 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:11.680 this morning or tomorrow morning, that's an emergency. And even 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:16.159 with states scrambling to try to get money into the 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.520 system so the kids can eat, President comes down and says, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.160 if the states get involved. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.560 In doing this, I'm going to nail the states. I 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.200 mean that one. I have a very hard time with. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.160 I really, do you know. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:36.359 I get the President arguing in terms of ice and 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.800 the power he has to arrest or not arrest people, 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.719 and to go forward. I get the argument there, I 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.359 truly do. I don't get this argument. I do not 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.880 get this argument with holding money so people don't have 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:50.520 enough to eat. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.080 Explain that one to me, please. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.440 And the White House was asked for comment and it 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.840 deferred to the Office of Management and Budget, which gave 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:00.880 no comment. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.280 Hopefully this thing ends very very quickly. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.880 Unfortunately, right now the Republicans the Democrats are at an impasse, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.720 all right, and we are waiting for Petros to join 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.640 us because Petros, of course one of the sports casters, extraordinary, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.360 probably one of the well I love Petros and he's 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.200 on a five seven LA sports. Is he there yet 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.680 as we're working, or I'm going to have to pretend 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:30.760 I know what I'm talking about? 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:31.160 Is there? 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.760 Oh? There you are, Petros? Good morning, God Bell, how 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.120 are you. I'm good, Thanks for joining us. I know 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.320 you're kind of busy this morning. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.080 I have one question I want to ask you that 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.840 you know I'm not the maven of sports. You and I, well, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.400 you have made a lot of fun with me over 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.560 the years about how I know so little about it. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.520 But correct me if I'm wrong on this one. First 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:56.240 of all, the game Saturday's game was the first full 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.600 baseball game that I've watched on TV in probably fifty years. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.240 I am not a baseball you know. That's a long time. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.160 I've seen bits and pieces, but this was the whole game. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.640 Correct me if I'm wrong on this one. The Blue 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.880 Jays outplayed the Dodgers throughout the entire series. They were 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.920 just a better team. And yet of course they lost. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.120 And I'm saying because lightning in a bottle in a 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:20.920 few instances, would you respond to that? 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.800 Well, that was some narrative from some of the bitter 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:31.720 Canadian types from the Toronto side of it after the game, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.640 because the Dodgers just did hit well throughout, I mean 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.440 ever since the second half of that extra innings game 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.319 all the way through. They just did not have the 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.800 offense that they normally have. And you could say that 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.400 the Blue Jays were stingy. You can say that the 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.360 Blue Jays were tough. You could say that the Blue 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:58.079 Jays were very stubborn as far as letting the Dodgers 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.640 have any kind of pausetive feelings or big innings. But 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:04.480 I don't know if you can say that the better 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.360 team because they have it's a seven game series. You 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.680 have to win four games, as you know, to win 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.880 the championship. Of course, Dodgers won four. I mean they 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.240 won four games. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.200 But let me ask you this, if you have how 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.920 much much would you say, is well go back to 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.120 lightning in a bottle where if you're looking at it 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:25.120 big picture. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.160 Maybe I'm wrong on this because Colono brought this up too. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.240 Hey, you win, you win, You can call it whatever 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.679 you want, and you win, and that's the better team. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.959 But okay, yeah, that can be an argument, and certain 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.360 less with the Jay say so in terms of magic moments, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.680 I've heard a game for the Ages series of the Ages. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.400 You want to comment on that, and do you buy that? 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.040 Yeah? I think that As we've kind of watched this 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.840 Dodger team over the years, our perspective has kind of 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.320 been skewed because you see things, especially in the last 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.679 couple of years, that you just don't see in baseball 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.760 that no one's ever seen a guy like shohey Otani 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.280 do what he's doing. And it's really hard to compare 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.600 it to anything because it's not something that's really ever 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:17.200 happened before. So that alone, that part of it alone 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.160 is pretty astounding. And then the factor in what Yoshinobu 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.880 Yamamoto did, which pitchers don't really do anymore, go on 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.720 no rest and get out there and look ice cold 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.839 even though they're in the toughest situation that you can 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.800 imagine in sports. That's the kind of stuff that made 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.160 it really special. And then an eighteen inning game, like 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:44.120 you said, an extra innings game. I mean, I understand 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.040 your perspective about the better team, but I work in 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.839 football and deal with coaches after losses all the time, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.880 and everybody always says, well, if only this happened, if 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.040 only this happened, But what about this this was? I mean, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.080 the margins are really, really, really said when you're trying 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.160 for a championship, and we saw that very much throughout 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:05.680 the series. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.520 When are they ever going to return to a player, 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:14.959 a pitcher doing all nine innings. It's you know, when 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.480 I started watching baseball. To give you an idea, the 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.160 last time I actually watched the game, watched the game 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.800 and went to a game and actually knew who the 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.880 players were. It was Don Drysdale, Sandy Cofax. With the pitchers, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.520 Jim Gillian was first, Mary Wills was shortstop. Seriously, that's 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.360 when I knew all the Dodgers. So it's been a 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.080 couple of years, but Dodgers, but pitchers went went nine 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.520 innings unless they were thrown out and just and just imploding. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:41.440 Why do they do that anymore? 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.959 Well, this guy Yamamoto had a pension for doing it 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.880 in Japan, and then all of a sudden he was 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.440 able to do it this year. But it doesn't happen 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:57.559 anymore because pitchers throw a lot harder all the time 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.960 than they used to. They are always searching for something 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:09.240 they call spin right now or velocity, and that leads 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.760 to more tired arms. It leads to a lot more surgeries, 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.280 Tommy John surgery. A lot of these guys have Tommy 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:21.240 John surgery before their career even gets started, when they're young. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.120 And I think it's the pressure that we put on 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.280 the arms of the pitcher playing year round that they 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.400 play year round baseball, you know, in youth baseball now, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.440 and it tires them out, and everything's just become a 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:40.120 lot more specialized. And the real answer, probably deep down, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.720 is that everybody's a lot softer than they used to be. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.680 Yeah, okay, I'll buy that. And you know, short of 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.840 either a no hitter or a perfect game. You're just 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.400 not going to see a pitcher go all the way. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:52.080 Is that correct? 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.640 You just well you see it, but it just happens 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:00.440 a lot less, probably seventy five percent less the time 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.120 that's used to Although maybe with the way that Y'a 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.000 Mamoto performed in this World Series, maybe you'll see a 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.439 trend go back to that. I mean, we've had baseball 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.959 for over one hundred years, and trends kind of change 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.640 and things kind of move, and we end up going 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.280 back to a lot of stuff. It happens in football too. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:23.000 All right. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.600 I know you're going to be really business warning covering 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.079 what is happening. I just want to quickly remind you 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.439 don't forget your can of gasoline and your matches, Okay, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:31.240 enjoy yourself. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.520 All right, Well I have that, and yeah I have that, 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.840 and I also have my hairspray and my liners. So 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:38.320 we're good. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.880 Yeah, we're all good. Petros. Thanks for taking the time. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.880 Take take care anytime. Bill. I'm here for you whatever 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:45.320 you want. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.319 I know, I love it, love having you on. I 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:48.880 don't know why we don't do enough. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.199 Of that that Bill I've to handle on the news. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:52.959 I'll come back. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.000 I love it. I love it when you do. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.120 All right, so Petro so well, they'll be all day 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.040 coverage today on AM five to seven LAS Sports, and 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.920 obviously LA is celebrating in a very big, big way. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:12.920 I'm not because you know, eh, but this is a 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.600 big deal. Okay, I wanna yeah, don't a big. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.040 Deal, bill it is, but you know it's a big deal. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.360 When the Lakers win, it's a big deal. I'm just 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.520 not in. I'm just not into that stuff. To be fair, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.960 the Lakers haven't won much in a while, so no, when. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.720 The Lakers did win, that was another one when they 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:33.440 were the dynasty that absolutely dominated the NBA or the 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:38.480 LFB or the s whatever. Okay, Now, guess who's coming 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.760 to town for the Prop fifty vote, and that is 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.280 going to be the federal overseers. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.240 Federal election monitors are coming. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:53.600 The Department of Justice deploying election monitors to five California 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:54.920 counties on election day. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:56.880 This was announced on. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:02.280 Friday, and why it's to quote insure transparency, ballot security, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:07.160 and compliance with federal law. Now, while that seems outrageous, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.480 doesn't it. Oh my god, look what the feds are doing. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.000 They're going to oversee our election by the way, it 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:17.600 happens a whole lot, believe me. And this one is 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:23.600 because the Republicans, actually the California Republican Party actually requested 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:28.400 election monitors and the Feds are going, yeah, that'll work. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:34.600 We're going to come in and oversee the Prop fifty elections. Now, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.480 keep in mind that this is not lightning in a bottle. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.840 This is not an outlier. It happens all the time 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:46.320 when federal judges order it, sometimes state judges, when requests 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.600 are made and Department of Justice goes forward. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:50.000 It happens. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:55.640 But now it's simply the political the political backlash. I'll 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.440 tell you what I have not heard yet, and I 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.200 don't know whether we're going to hear it. Maybe it's 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.400 good news. I have not heard from any Republican for 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:09.239 source at this point saying if Prop fifty wins, it's 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:14.680 a rigged election. I have not heard that. I guess 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.360 that's good news, isn't it that we're staying away from 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.840 that point? Now, what are they going to do? 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:20.760 Well? 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.440 What does observing mean? Does that mean overseeing the counting? 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:29.480 Does that mean only day of the election. Again, we 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.480 don't know at this point, and there have been just 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.800 it's been a long track record of civil rights violations 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.640 that the Department of Justice has been monitoring. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.520 Now here, it's not a civil rights violation. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.320 I think anybody's arguing that it's just the numbers, And 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.840 why is it such a big deal that the FEDS 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.840 want to oversee and make sure that this election is 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:55.560 I guess legitimate. Is because the whole concept of Prop. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:00.040 Fifty is in response to what Texas did in in 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:06.119 terms of redistricting at the request of President Trump. Texas 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:11.720 was not going to redistrict until President Trump said to Texas, redistrict, 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:17.760 take this legislature, state legislature, which is Republican, changed. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:18.240 The rules or not. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.920 In the case of Texas, it wasn't a rule change, 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.800 it was changed your procedure, your policy to redistrict to 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:30.720 create more Republican seats. And California is fighting that directly 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.520 with Prop fifty, saying that it's rules now, that it's 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:40.200 procedure that's in law has to be changed to enable 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.320 California to do exactly what Texas did. It is become 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.720 a political football. Now has it become a political football 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.760 in terms of a fair election? I have not heard that. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:53.879 I have not heard that I think to the credit 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.640 of everybody. I think it's just a legitimate political fight 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:03.399 where the Republicans are arguing, we keep our redistricting plan 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.920 exactly the same it is in law, and the Democrats 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.440 are saying, wait a minute, we have to fight fire 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.960 with fire if the Republicans are doing that in Texas 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:14.760 and other Southern states, and we've got to do the 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:15.200 same thing. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.119 Otherwise we've lost. Otherwise, it's guaranteed. 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:25.600 That there will virtually always be a Republican majority because 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:30.480 the way the restricting redistriction works is so horrific. The 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.680 California model makes all the sense in the world. California 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:40.520 has an independent commission because of the the history of jerrymandering. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.199 You ever seen jerry mannering is you look at a 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.919 map of a district and it makes no sense whatsoever. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.200 It goes in and out, and the little peninsulas and 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.720 a little seems like islands, and just I mean, it's horrible, 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:58.239 and that has been going on forever. Well, we in 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.879 Californias the proposition that says we're going to take that 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.720 away from the legislature. We're going to give the redistricting 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.320 based on the census. Every ten years. We're going to 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.520 give this independent commission. They're going to be the ones 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.720 to redistrict and they have to be looking at it objectively. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.800 There'll be Republicans on an equal number of Democrats, and 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.320 there'll be other leaders and they'll I don't even know 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:24.720 the makeup of that commission, but it's not political. Where 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.480 in Texas and other states they don't have that independent 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.720 commission so they can change the rules day and night. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.679 That's what Prop fifty is about, is taking away the 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.200 independent commission, bringing back to the legislature which can fight 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.600 fire with fire. And that's what's happening in Prop fifty 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:45.760 and the Feds, I mean obviously the Republican, the Republican, 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.560 the administration which is Republican. At President Trump specifically, who 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:53.520 asked the redistricting to happen, he is not a big fan. 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:55.879 Of what California is about to do. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.879 By the Prop fifty is going to pass, overwhelming him, Amlichino. 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:03.600 Right now, it is going to happen. Okay, here is say, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.760 maybe a sign of the times. Car repossessions are at 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.520 a fifteen year high. Does that mean there's an economic recession? 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.040 Because usually you know it makes sense car repos are 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.440 going up, up, up, which means the recession has to 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:18.919 be on top of us, not. 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.440 Necessarily, not necessarily. 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.880 Two point two million cars already repossessed this year, expecting 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.680 to be passed three million by the end of the year. 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:32.520 And so here are the debates. Economists are debating like crazy, 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.600 does this number of car repossessions and the fact that 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:43.240 they are growing, does that signal deeper trouble for the economy. 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.879 Alan Jen who's an economics professor at the University of 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:48.879 San Diego, really looks into this and he says, some 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.200 people think that we're headed for a recession. Other people 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:56.160 think that will remain positive. But we're growing only very slowly. 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.920 And he says, and this is his position, and rising 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:06.080 repossessions do not necessarily mean a recession is coming. But 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.479 all it does show is the economy is slowing. That 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:16.800 means it's still growing, but it is slowing. And the 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:23.240 slowing part of it mainly is jobs and wages. If 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.639 people aren't getting raises or new jobs, they could be 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:30.359 impacted in terms of their ability to make payments, particularly 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.200 with the cost of other products increasing. 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.080 YEA a little complicated here. 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.800 There are a lot of moving pieces on this one, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.720 and of course the pandemic is involved like crazy, as 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:43.119 it does with everything. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:44.920 So here's what's going on. 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.000 Inflation is continuing to drive up price of housing and food. 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.600 It was to a point a couple of years ago 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:55.480 where wages were increasing at a greater rate than inflation. 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:59.840 It is turned around again where inflation is beating wages 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:06.120 and households because of the cost of food and housing 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.879 are simply pushing car payments lower on the list of priority. 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.000 You got to live someplace and you have to eat. 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:18.840 Now getting a car, keeping a car, how do you 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.560 go to work, Well, you can figure out another way 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:23.480 of going to work. You can take the bus, you 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.600 can carpool, you can do whatever. You can't carpool with 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:32.840 food or housing. And so Jin traces us back to 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:37.760 the pandemic where we had extra savings and we're spending 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:43.320 big ticket items and not really paying attention to prices 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.040 or interest rates. Because when you have a pile of 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:50.359 money that you're saving, guess what, You're not going to 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:54.320 really pay attention to the cost of things or the 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:56.960 interest rates. So a lot of car buyers ended up underwater. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:58.800 I get this call all the time on handle on 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.320 the law. My car has been totaled. But they tell 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:05.000 me I owe more money than the car is worth. 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:09.360 You bet you do. A lot of car buyers ended 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:14.560 up underwater. So what happens is what do people do, 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:16.480 and they don't care about their credit. They walk away 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:19.760 from the car. Just walk away because at the end 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:21.320 of all, at the end of it all, if the 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:25.440 car is worth less than is worth less than the 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:30.000