WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.360 You're listenings KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handle Show 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:06.719 on demand on the iHeartRadio F. 3 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:16.839 And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's 4 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:22.359 not Bill Handle, indeed not Bill Handled. Chris Merrill back 5 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.440 and ya this morning. Thank you so much for making 6 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:27.480 us a part of your morning. Kf I AM six forty. 7 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.600 Before we dive right into the news here, Amy, I 8 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:32.640 just wanted to commend you because you asked the question 9 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.039 I wanted the answer to so badly when you were 10 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:39.520 talking to the woman from the Sandy Yes, talking about 11 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:40.439 the eagles. 12 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.200 Right, and I wanted to know what was going to 13 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:43.840 happen with. 14 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:47.200 The the body of the one that didn't survive that storm. 15 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:50.359 And we found the answer to that if people weren't listening, 16 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:51.719 what did Sandy say? 17 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.479 So what happened was was the one eagle that died 18 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:59.520 in that snowstorm Shadow the mail took a couple like 19 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:03.439 a day or later, took the little baby's body out 20 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.760 of the nest bowl where the other two were and 21 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:07.879 basically put it on the side of the nest. And 22 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.640 then like a day later, Jackie the mom said you 23 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.480 can't have him here and picked him up and flew 24 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:16.519 off with him and then dropped him in the. 25 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:17.879 Forest in the woods. Wow. 26 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:20.560 I mean it's just like but it's like crazy that 27 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:23.120 you're just like she was like, no, I can't have 28 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.200 him here. I don't want to look at this anymore. 29 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:27.480 He needs to go and you know, rest in peace 30 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:28.799 or whatever an eaglet does. 31 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.480 Yeah, And you have to wonder what kind of emotions 32 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:34.400 they're actually going through, because I know we tend to 33 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:37.079 anthropomorphize these animals. 34 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:38.280 And we go, okay, well this is the emotion. 35 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.480 But I wonder what emotions they are or if it's 36 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.680 sort of a I mean I don't want to be 37 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:44.920 crass about it, but almost like a house cleaning, like 38 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:46.840 you know, this doesn't belong here any longer. 39 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.840 Yeah, it could be. Yeah, when she's lost so fascinating 40 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.200 to me. Yeah, when she's lost the eglets in the past, 41 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:55.920 I mean it's it's bizarre, like they just you know, 42 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.200 they're in the nest still and they just sit and 43 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:01.439 stare at them, and sometimes the other chicks will like 44 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:03.319 curl up next to them and stuff. I mean, it's 45 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.319 just weird to I mean, it's and it's beautiful and 46 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.520 amazing and sad to watch how they respond to. 47 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.039 So experience, isn't it all the emotions that are wrapped 48 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.280 up into one and that, Yeah, it's. 49 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:14.479 To watch them. 50 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.159 Well, it was a great question, and I'm so glad 51 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:18.599 that you asked that and talked about it, because I 52 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:20.159 think a lot of us wanted to know. All Right, 53 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:22.520 I mean, it's awkward, but you know, they got two 54 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:23.159 other chicks they. 55 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:23.560 Have to raise. 56 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:26.000 It's circle of life stuff. And actually, and like we've 57 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.439 talked about, by that chick not making it, it actually 58 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:32.120 might have given the other two a better chance to 59 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.800 survive because they only have a fifty percent chance of 60 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:35.919 making it to adulthood. 61 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:40.159 Yeah. Wow, that's so interesting to me, so interesting. 62 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.800 All right, let's uh, let's get into the news that 63 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.400 we have here, including the breaking news yesterday, because as 64 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.319 we know, during any Trump administration, we learned from the 65 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:50.280 first one, it is a. 66 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:51.680 Fire hose of chaos. 67 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:55.080 So we go from the signal app controversy to don't 68 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.439 pay attention to that we are going to drop massive 69 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:01.680 tariffs on what, for meat people is the largest purchase 70 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:04.840 they will ever make in their lives. President Trump yesterday 71 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.479 announcing twenty five percent tariffs on all cars shipped to 72 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.680 the United States. That is a significant escalation in the 73 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:14.319 global trade war, or they might say the global trade battle. 74 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:17.439 Hard to say what semantics they'll use. It would also 75 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:23.000 address the parts that are being manufactured outside of the 76 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:25.719 United States as well. Now the tariffs are aimed at 77 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:29.360 expanding America's auto manufacturing prowess. And for decades, because of 78 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:31.919 the free trade agreement which was signed during the Clinton 79 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:35.840 years and then renegotiated and resigned during Trump won, automakers 80 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.159 have treated Canada, Mexico, and the United States as one 81 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:41.159 big country, no tariffs among them. They can move freely 82 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.800 between them. But now they can't. Remains to be seen 83 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.759 exactly what's going to happen when it comes to the 84 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:53.280 retaliatory effects of this. Will China retaliate, Will Japan retaliate? 85 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.439 Will South Korea retaliate? Well, we see European countries. Remember 86 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.759 we've got the Volkswagen, which is your Audi's and your 87 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:04.759 poor and your volks are coming from Europe, your Mercedes BMW's, 88 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.840 Will they retaliate. We don't know how this is exactly 89 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.520 going to play out. What we do know is most 90 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.520 auto industry experts are saying the price on the vehicles 91 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:19.319 will increase, at least temporarily. Even if these manufacturers bring 92 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.639 things back here to the United States, or they do 93 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.000 more manufacturing and more assembly here in the United States, 94 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.639 there will be a time where this has to ramp up. 95 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.879 It's not an instantaneous thing, which means prices are going 96 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.079 to go up as a result, shares General Motors plunging 97 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:38.040 more than seven percent after hours Ford and Stalantis. Stalandis 98 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:41.000 makes the Jeeps and the Rams used to be used 99 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:45.279 to be Chrysler. They fell by four percent. Ford and 100 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:51.639 Stalantis did so. Interestingly enough, the German automakers didn't lose 101 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:53.639 as much in their stocks. They're down, but they're down 102 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.480 less than two percent, whereas the American manufacturers. 103 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.720 Are down more than that. So really really interesting to 104 00:04:58.720 --> 00:04:59.959 watch how this is going to play out. 105 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.279 It's also curious, and we'll talk more about this at 106 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:08.040 seven thirty this morning. I'm so curious as to how 107 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.839 long this tariff will remain in effect. And we already 108 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:13.319 heard the President Amy had the clips this morning. We 109 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.399 already heard the President almost hedging on this a little bit, 110 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:18.000 as the President said. 111 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.560 Well, you know, with China, maybe you know, maybe we. 112 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.279 Work on the TikTok issue, and maybe we can get 113 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:26.560 them to hand over some control of TikTok and then 114 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.199 we'll reduce some of the auto tariffs. So it stands 115 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.639 to reason that everything we've seen from this administration is 116 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.480 a negotiating tactic. It stands to reason that this would 117 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:39.040 be used for negotiations in some way, shape or form 118 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:41.279 as well. Now, what does he want from the other countries? 119 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:42.279 We don't know. 120 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:44.879 Is this all about putting another star in the flag 121 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:49.839 for Canada? Probably not, But again I hate the pull 122 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.079 of trump Ism, but we'll have to wait and see. 123 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:53.199 Amy. 124 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.480 Oh and before we move on, I'm gonna ask you again. 125 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:59.560 You said yesterday or you said the day before, heads 126 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.920 will rule over this signal thing, and then yesterday yesterday 127 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:04.959 you said, oh my gosh, I'm wrong, nobody's going to 128 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:07.399 lose their job. Do you have a new prediction today? 129 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:08.959 Are you sticking with your second prediction? 130 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:11.160 We'll staying with where I was yesterday, So up in 131 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.000 the air, although I did see that it is we're 132 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.480 moving away from the journalist it's the journalist's fault to 133 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:24.000 it's the app's fault. So well, I talk, We've got 134 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:25.439 some of that in the wake up call as well, 135 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:27.040 and excuse me, you did wake up a goal. Well 136 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:28.879 they got some of that in handle on the news. 137 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.439 Yeah, whatever, it's early. 138 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.279 But then, well I've got more on this too at 139 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.480 seven o'clock as well, the signal fallout. 140 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.720 Okay, Christie's headed south of the border. You have a 141 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:47.879 Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noam visited the prison in El 142 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.160 Salvador where all those Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration 143 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.439 have been held since their removal from the United States. 144 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:00.480 The administration says they are gang members of Trend. They 145 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.360 are Ragua, and they said that's why they were sent there. 146 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:09.879 Noam got to see where they are living now, and 147 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.360 there's a bunch of them. It's a huge prison. Apparently, 148 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:16.800 inmates are packed into cells. They're not allowed outside. Not 149 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:18.759 a place you want to be. They hold you in 150 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.639 cells of seventy people and you're in the cell for 151 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:23.000 twenty three and a half hours a day. 152 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:26.800 Okay, So yard time is limited, is what you're saying. 153 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:31.480 And apparently even the yard time is not outside all right. 154 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.360 So it's like when I was in elementary school in 155 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:36.720 the Great White North and there was a snowstorm and 156 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:40.079 we had recess. We had recess was in the gymnasium 157 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.399 or the cafetorium, as it were, So maybe that's where 158 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.639 their yard time is. Rumor has it that indeed Christy 159 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.439 Nome was scared straight when she went there and does 160 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:54.000 not in fact want to be held hostage in El 161 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.759 Salvadorian prison. Did she say that, oh, this is great, 162 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.199 this is so what a wonderful place this is. 163 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:01.480 No, there's two ways to spend this. 164 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:03.800 They either say this is a really nice place and 165 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.079 why are people complaining, or they say this is the 166 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.399 worst place on earth, and if you're in the United States, 167 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.040 you should get out now before you end up here. 168 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:12.480 That's what she said. She stood in front of several 169 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:17.079 of the prisoners and said, don't come here, don't break 170 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.199 our laws, or you could end up here. 171 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:23.319 That sounds like not a lot of fun for any 172 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:27.279 of us, a vacation nobody wants to take. Continuing, the 173 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.160 Trump administration now canceling funding for dozens of studies that 174 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:33.440 look for new vaccines and treatments for COVID nineteen and 175 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:38.080 other pathogens that could potentially cause future pandemics. What they 176 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.519 say is, oh, the pandemic's over, so we don't need 177 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:45.080 to we don't need to keep looking at things so done. 178 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.480 The research is not, however, just about COVID. Nine of 179 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.919 the terminated awards funded centers that conduct research on antiviral 180 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:56.960 drugs to combat so called priority pathogens that, of course. 181 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.679 Could lead to new pandemics. 182 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:04.679 According to one senior National Institute of Health official, this 183 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:09.000 includes the antiviral projects designed to cover a wide range 184 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.879 of families that could cause outbreaks or pandemics. But Amy King, 185 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.039 I think there's a positive here. There could be a 186 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.320 really silver line. There could be a real silver lining 187 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:21.759 to this dark cloud. 188 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:23.120 And what might that be. 189 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:27.159 Well, yesterday you were talking about the city of Los 190 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.600 Angeles is in the hole like a billion dollars, right, 191 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:31.679 And Mayor bast went to Sacramento and said, can you 192 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.200 give us two billion dollars? And part of the reason 193 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.440 that we are short on our budget is because we 194 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.440 got really lazy when we had those COVID funds coming in. 195 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.200 So the economy was kind of tanking. We did the 196 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.000 bailouts a couple of rounds during Trump won and another 197 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:53.039 big round during Biden, and the local and state governments 198 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:54.519 took that money and then all of a sudden, we 199 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.519 had we had surpluses. If you remember, the state of 200 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:01.159 California was plus something like fifty years seventy five billion dollars. 201 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.320 Right, So if you got it, spend it right right. 202 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.799 Well, if all of a sudden we don't have the 203 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:09.639 means to see another pandemic coming, and if we don't 204 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:11.960 have the ability to fight that pandemic with something like 205 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.840 Operation Warp Speed, which was a Trump initiative to try 206 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.720 to get the vaccine out faster during during the COVID pandemic, 207 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.600 then it's entirely possible the economy tanks again and we 208 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:25.679 have to have another bailout, which could provide funding to 209 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:28.159 the City of Los Angeles that they don't have right now. 210 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.480 See Oh see, yeah, great. 211 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:32.720 See how that works. 212 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.000 You're smart that thank you. 213 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.559 All we need is a good pandemic and suddenly all 214 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:40.960 of our financial bows go away because we just borrow 215 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:42.519 against the national debt. 216 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:43.440 All right to you? 217 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:48.159 Uh, speaking of debt. Facing a one billion dollar deficit, 218 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:53.360 LA City lawmakers have moved forward to spend more money. 219 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:54.240 Oh good. 220 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.879 City Council approved a package emotions aimed at protecting illegal 221 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:01.679 immigrants in Los Angeles at ten to was a ten 222 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:06.320 to nothing vote. They said, we're going to move forward. 223 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.200 At least that's not final approval yet, but move forward 224 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.799 with policies to require businesses to notify the city of 225 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:17.120 all ICE enforcement activity, as well as informed workers of 226 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.320 their rights ahead of raids. And the council directed staff 227 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.559 to identify more than five hundred thousand dollars to maintain 228 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:25.279 immigration legal services. 229 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.399 So this was the thing that sticks out to me 230 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:33.759 is it would require businesses to notify the city. So, 231 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.360 in other words, if you have if you're running a 232 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.120 restaurant and you get word that ICE is coming, or 233 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:42.799 if ICE shows up, they knock on the door and 234 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:45.639 they see we want to see who's here and whatnot, 235 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.919 then then your restaurant would have to contact the city. 236 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.840 In other words, it's a half a million dollars to 237 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:57.960 enforce a snitch system. So snitch out ICE as quickly 238 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:00.480 as you can so that the city knows what ICE is doing. 239 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.759 Now, what are they gonna do with that information? I 240 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:04.120 don't know. 241 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:05.679 That's a good question. 242 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.320 Oh, you told us ICE is here. What are we 243 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:08.639 gonna do? 244 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:11.720 Put on a social media post complaining about it, or 245 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.559 we're gonna make a TikTok that says ice is coming, 246 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:18.279 Ice is coming, but half a million dollars later, and 247 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.440 now you have a new reporting requirement that your restaurant 248 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.720 don't worry about seating that six top. You got to 249 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:28.080 call the city, sit on hold, because as we all know, 250 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:31.919 contacting the city is always always an expedient process. 251 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:34.000 And what if you don't make and what if you 252 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:35.720 don't call, can you get in trouble? 253 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:38.200 Well, I would assume that's gonna be a high priority 254 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:40.080 to make sure that you get fined for not calling them, 255 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:41.919 because they got to make up this five hundred thousand 256 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:45.200 dollars that they're spending on the snitch hot hot line. Yeah, 257 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:46.759 I don't know how do they enforce it. I don't 258 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:48.519 have any idea. I don't think they think through this. 259 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.559 I think they think, oh, we're gonna do We're gonna 260 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.399 do this thing. We want to we want to fight 261 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:56.120 the policy, we want to protect the citizens, and let's 262 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.320 put the onus on everybody else. And if they don't 263 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.080 accept this onus because they've got their own stuff going on, 264 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:03.600 then we're gonna wrap them all up in it. 265 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:05.480 I don't have any idea what their plan is. I 266 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.039 don't think they have any idea what their plan is. 267 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:10.080 Just to clarify the five hundred thousand dollars is actually 268 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:14.799 for legal aid. They had a series of motions that 269 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:17.519 they said, yeah, let's move forward with these. One of 270 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.279 them was for legal aid, another one was the snitch program. 271 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:22.960 The other one was to inform workers of their rights. 272 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.399 So there's several things going on. 273 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.159 It's an unfunded snitch program. Thank you. 274 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:30.320 I appreciate that clarity because now we know that there 275 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:32.759 won't be anybody answer the phone when you call the snitch. 276 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:35.559 Unbelievable. 277 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:39.919 So have you ever missed an email at work? An 278 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.720 important email? Have you ever sent an email that is 279 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.440 very important? And you probably click on that little flag 280 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:49.559 that says high priority. Everyone needs to take a good 281 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:54.120 hard look at this and then crickets. Nothing comes back. 282 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.279 You don't hear a word. Do you follow up or 283 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:02.080 do you walk away? The Aly County Sheriff's Department announcing 284 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.200 they planned to retest about four thousand DNA samples because 285 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:08.679 they learned that the agency used the testing kits over 286 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:10.960 a roughly eight month period that were found by the 287 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:14.919 manufacturer to occasionally deliver incomplete results. 288 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.360 According to the Department. 289 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.919 Officials at Scientific Services Bureau learn only Monday about a 290 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.440 notice that was sent to the agency last year by 291 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:27.480 a DNA testing kit manufacturer that said a specific lot 292 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:31.039 of kits were prone to the intermittently poor performance with 293 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.919 potential to cause incomplete results in profiles. That notice was 294 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.639 sent to the department in August of twenty twenty four, 295 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.120 directed to a person who's no longer with the department, 296 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:46.039 which means it went into the email ether it is 297 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.240 lost in the void. The notice by the manufacturer recommended 298 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:51.200 that the use of the effected kits be discontinued, but 299 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:53.720 the department kept using them for about eight months because 300 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.639 the person who got the email again wasn't there any longer. 301 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.720 So how many investigations have been impacted? I don't know. 302 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.440 Sheriff's Department says in a statement, however, that the use 303 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:05.799 of the affected kits may have led to incomplete or 304 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:10.799 suboptimal results, but not likely to have falsely identified any individual. 305 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:15.519 Tell that to the defense attorneys. So this is an 306 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.360 interesting one too, because not only do I believe that 307 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:22.159 the manufacturing company should have issued more than just one email, 308 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:23.840 which of course probably ended up in the junk mail 309 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:29.039 folder anyway, but my wife recently left the company involuntarily. 310 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.799 The problem is my wife and her department were wiped 311 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:34.799 out because the company is trying to I think they're 312 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:37.720 trying to sell, so they're trying to, you know, make 313 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:39.159 their balance sheets look right. 314 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:42.600 So my wife gets these emails. It says. 315 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.840 Security access code to get to this whatever. So she says, 316 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:51.799 somebody at the company is trying to log into this 317 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:55.120 other it's a portal. She works at health insurance, so 318 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.720 she tries to get money from health insurs so it's 319 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.000 a it's a portal, so somebody's trying to log in, 320 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:05.639 for instance, to medical right, but in order to log in, 321 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:08.600 you have multi factor authorization. So she'll get a notice 322 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:12.000 this says, here's your multi factor authorization code. And she 323 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.759 looks at it and she goes, oh, somebody at that 324 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:17.320 company is trying to log in. But what they don't 325 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:20.360 realize is they fired the person who has the multi 326 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:24.440 factor authorization phone, meaning her, So she just deletes it. 327 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:28.600 So the company is left going, how do we access 328 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:32.879 this portal? And the company that runs the portal is saying, well, 329 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:35.840 you just have to use your multi factor authorization. Meanwhile, 330 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.480 her own company is saying, well, that person's not here anymore, 331 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:39.480 and they go, well. 332 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:40.600 That's the only way we can let you in. That's 333 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:41.799 the other authorized user. 334 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:45.440 So imagine if you are the person at at the 335 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.480 sheriff's department, former person of the sheriff's department, who got 336 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:51.320 the email and they went, huh, that's probably info they'd 337 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:52.960 want to know. Probably shouldn't have gotten. 338 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:57.399 Rid of me. Whoop delete. That's exactly what I'm telling you. 339 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:58.759 That is what's going on here. 340 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:02.519 Somebody saying, oh, that's probably important for them to have 341 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:06.240 no whoop dalite all done. 342 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:10.720 Skis putting at least a pause on a Trump plan, 343 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:14.079 and this one they're doing it voluntarily. The Social Security 344 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:17.400 Administration announced that it is pushing back the rollout of 345 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.680 a new measure by two weeks and also lowering the 346 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.880 number of people who are going to be affected by it. 347 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.960 So the planned policy was supposed to kick in on Monday, 348 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:32.960 would have required everybody filing benefit applications who cannot verify 349 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:37.160 their identities through their online mysocial security account to go 350 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.559 to a field office to complete the claim. Currently, you 351 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:43.480 can apply over the phone too. Now, the new identity 352 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:47.880 verification policy will only apply to those filing for retirement, 353 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:53.400 survivors or family benefits. It kicks in April fourteen. People 354 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:58.519 applying for disability benefits, supplemental security income, Medicare will continue 355 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.440 to have the option of flyle filing over the phone, 356 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.240 so they're scaling it back a little bit and delaying 357 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:04.920 it a little bit. 358 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:07.880 What we know is that one of the big hits 359 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.079 to the budget of the United States is the social 360 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:17.039 program payouts, the Medicare, Medicaid, social Security, and one way 361 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.920 to try to balance the budget is to cut some 362 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.319 of those payoffs, modify Social Security. We've been hearing since 363 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:25.720 we were first into the workforce, social Security won't be 364 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:28.599 there when we're ready to retire. And yet the idea 365 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:33.960 of removing something like that is deeply, deeply unpopular, mostly 366 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.160 because we've been paying into it our whole lives and. 367 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:37.880 Now you're telling me I can't get anything out of it. 368 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:41.119 So one way that you can reduce that is by 369 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.880 stopping some people from being able to collect their benefits 370 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:47.799 by making it more difficult. So this is great, what 371 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:51.359 a great plan. We'll just to make Social Security inaccessible 372 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:55.319 for a number of people, especially I mean old folks, 373 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:59.400 you know, boomer's trying to get into the retirement They 374 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:05.359 were sometimes digitally challenged, and this is a great way 375 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:09.079 to keep them from taking their money, and that really 376 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:10.200 helps to balance a budget. 377 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:14.680 That's a it's called a quiet cut like. 378 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:16.599 That to to get Social Security? 379 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:18.680 Is it sixty six now, right? 380 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:20.759 So you're not talking about like eighty five and ninety 381 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:21.440 year old people. 382 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.039 Oh you know, I know some boomers that are sixty 383 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:25.759 six and they. 384 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:27.720 Act like eighty five or nineteen year old. 385 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:28.039 Yeah. 386 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.480 Yeah, I'll tell you what though, I hit my mid 387 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:34.759 forties and all of a sudden, I realized exactly what 388 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:37.799 my parents were experiencing as the development of the Internet 389 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:40.880 and then social media and everything else grew up. Because 390 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:44.640 now AI is becoming such an influence in the world, 391 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:47.799 and so fast too. I mean, we didn't have AI 392 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:49.720 anything until a couple of years ago, and now all 393 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:51.079 of a sudden, it's AI everywhere. 394 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:51.960 And who's keeping up. 395 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:53.319 And who's not? And what can I do and all 396 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.279 this stuff? And I can't keep up with AI. My 397 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:58.039 wife is pretty good at it, and she's older than 398 00:19:58.079 --> 00:19:59.599 I am. She hates when I tell people that, But 399 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:03.799 this a I'm sort of sitting back going, you know what, 400 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:05.759 let me know when I need to learn AI. But 401 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:08.839