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Speaker 2: Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty morning. Everybody handle morning, crew. It
Speaker 3: is a Taco Tuesday. It is May the day after
Speaker 3: Sinco Tobaio the sixth.
Speaker 2: And let us say hello to one and all.
Speaker 3: Will Cole Strever will start with you, Will I like
Speaker 3: I kind of like that shirt. Yeah, you look like
Speaker 3: a sort of a lesbian who has come to work
Speaker 3: and just put her clothes on, you know, flannel shirt,
Speaker 3: you know, stout boots. You know it's not.
Speaker 4: A flannel shirt. It's a button up short.
Speaker 2: It looks thank you so much.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever heard that before.
Speaker 3: It looked like, ah, it looked you know, you know,
Speaker 3: there's the lesbian costume. You know, the flannel, you know
Speaker 3: the stout shoes. Uh, you know, the very short nails. There,
Speaker 3: there's a whole look there, I've just defended every gay
Speaker 3: woman in the world.
Speaker 2: I unders direct your calls to bill handle dot com.
Speaker 2: Yeah I know.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, well that happens to not be my email,
Speaker 3: and it never ever will be given out. I don't
Speaker 3: think I even have an email at KFI do I kneel?
Speaker 3: And do I have an email? I think it's just
Speaker 3: at Bill Handle show. And I think you read them
Speaker 3: all right, yes, okay, good one.
Speaker 5: No one gets you help, but it presses delete all
Speaker 5: pretty much.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do we actually do you actually respond to any
Speaker 2: of them coming in?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, excellent, good morning Anne, Hello, and then Neil, good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Willie Wolf. You know I respond to some
Speaker 5: of the talkbacks sometimes.
Speaker 2: Oh do you Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: If there's a question or something I can help with,
Speaker 4: I try to.
Speaker 3: Inevitably, it's the same question, is he really a dick?
Speaker 3: And you always say yes.
Speaker 5: I put about twelve calls on and then I just
Speaker 5: go and turn them all on at the same time
Speaker 5: and say he's sorry, and then hang.
Speaker 2: Out do you know?
Speaker 3: I asked Anne what the other day legitimately, and I said,
Speaker 3: you know, people do hate me around the building and
Speaker 3: she said.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And then I asked what the percentages are? Did you say,
Speaker 3: like fifty percent of the people who genuinely hate me
Speaker 3: around the building.
Speaker 6: I think it's higher than that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you think so high?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, that's fantastic, Heather.
Speaker 2: You don't know me well enough yet to hate me,
Speaker 2: do you?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: But I don't think I would anyway.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he was on the fence.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hey, I want to point something out before we get
Speaker 3: started with today. And of course there's tons of news
Speaker 3: and that is as as everyone knows. Neil has been
Speaker 3: helping me. First of all, talk about my new Big
Speaker 3: Green Egg because I went cooking. He has it and
Speaker 3: uses it all the time. It's this barbecue kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's what do they call it? A Komodo cooker
Speaker 2: like you cook Komota.
Speaker 3: Dragons dragon exactly? Yeah, whatever the hell that kind of
Speaker 3: cooker is.
Speaker 2: But it's the Big Green Egg.
Speaker 4: Loving him learn all these times.
Speaker 3: And so I tried the brisket first one a couple
Speaker 3: of days ago. The brisket it turned out to be
Speaker 3: a hockey pucket. It should be tender, tender, And then
Speaker 3: Neil said, try something easier, chicken.
Speaker 2: So you know what I did yesterday, Neil?
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 3: I went to Costco and bought a five dollar chicken
Speaker 3: and it was one of the best things. That's the
Speaker 3: best deal and it's one of the most delicious chickens
Speaker 3: I've ever had.
Speaker 4: Did you cook? Did you cooked it yourself? Oh?
Speaker 2: God, no, I just bought chicken. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Oh, you're going to do great.
Speaker 5: So next time, what you do is you take it
Speaker 5: out of the plastic, you put it on the grill,
Speaker 5: you take a picture so you can post it on
Speaker 5: social media, and then you take it off and you
Speaker 5: eat it.
Speaker 2: Oh it's a good idea. It's a good idea.
Speaker 4: You will go.
Speaker 5: How did he get that rotisseriy chicken on his big
Speaker 5: green egg?
Speaker 4: Yes, that doesn't have a rotisseri So I am.
Speaker 2: Making a chicken salad today. I can't wait now.
Speaker 3: And we're about to start our our contest for you,
Speaker 3: you five of you plus a guest to join us,
Speaker 3: and I think it's June seventh, and we'll tell you
Speaker 3: how to do it June seven. Are getting very excited
Speaker 3: about that because we are giving away an evening at
Speaker 3: the Anaheim White House with all of us, and it's
Speaker 3: going to be pretty terrific stuff. I know, if you've
Speaker 3: never been to Anaheim White House, you're in for a
Speaker 3: huge treat as far as the food is concerned. And
Speaker 3: it'll be all of us there, Heather, They're not you,
Speaker 3: the people that are regulars here. Will I have to
Speaker 3: reluctantly invite because he is part of, you know, our
Speaker 3: borning crew.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: All right, I like to change my answer from the
Speaker 6: top of the show if I can.
Speaker 2: I thought, you see I'm working on each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, because you know will Is, we used to
Speaker 3: have people in airplanes and we don't anymore.
Speaker 2: Well we actually we do, but that's it's a different model.
Speaker 3: So Will Is now in the studio pretending he is
Speaker 3: in a plane.
Speaker 2: Yes, moves his hand around.
Speaker 3: And pretends he's in an airplane like you do with
Speaker 3: a two year role, and you're trying to feed him
Speaker 3: with a spoon.
Speaker 6: We do pa that sounder that that makes it sound
Speaker 6: like there's some kind of helicopter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we should do or be honest and say Will
Speaker 3: Coleschreiber Kfi on the ground.
Speaker 2: We can do that too.
Speaker 6: There it is right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the flying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have flown many times on this show, but
Speaker 3: that has a lot to do with what I've ingested
Speaker 3: that morning. Okay, I think we're ready to go, don't you. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: let's do it.
Speaker 2: By the way, Heather, as far as June seventh, I
Speaker 2: wasn't kidding.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's let's do it.
Speaker 3: Guys, it's time for handle on the news with Heather.
Speaker 2: Who you probably won't be seeing June seventh.
Speaker 3: Never get you know, Heather, Because I'm doing so much
Speaker 3: of it, I now am shamed into inviting you.
Speaker 6: You know, well I'm not coming because I'm good. Thank goodness,
Speaker 6: you're off the hook.
Speaker 2: Than It's like the you know I've told you about
Speaker 2: my elevator philosophy of life. Will you haven't heard it?
Speaker 4: Have you?
Speaker 2: And Heather?
Speaker 3: You haven't heard of my elevator philosophy of life. Here
Speaker 3: it is, You're in an elevator. Someone is running as
Speaker 3: the doors are closing, is running to get on the elevator.
Speaker 3: You go, oh oh, and you start punching the panel,
Speaker 3: not the button, the panel so the doors continue to
Speaker 3: close or you punch the close button.
Speaker 2: And here's what happens. Number one, no one gets in the.
Speaker 3: Elevator to screw up your ride up to grab a
Speaker 3: floor before you want to get up there, and you
Speaker 3: get the credit for trying to open the door.
Speaker 2: It's a win win. If they don't get on, they
Speaker 2: think you're helping them. It doesn't get better.
Speaker 6: Okay, great analogy.
Speaker 2: Okay, here it is. I'll let's do it, guys.
Speaker 3: Time for handle on the news on this Taco Tuesday
Speaker 3: with Heather Brooker, Neil and Me lead Starry Fire. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's some doings at the LA Fire Department, the union
Speaker 3: that represents the firefighters. The president, Freddie Escobar, has been suspended.
Speaker 3: Why because he's accused of spending two hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: five thousand dollars without receipts. Now at this point, is
Speaker 3: the accusation that he put that money in his pocket?
Speaker 3: I don't think so, but let me say the accusation
Speaker 3: is out there. Two hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. Now,
Speaker 3: the former secretary of the union, Adam Walkler Walker Walker,
Speaker 3: transferred money from a union fund directly into his personal account.
Speaker 2: Is what the accusation is.
Speaker 3: And then the former Treasurer Domingo Albaton also accused of
Speaker 3: spending hundreds of thousands of dollars without sharing receipts.
Speaker 2: So big doings.
Speaker 4: So they just do it dive investigation with Latin forensics.
Speaker 3: You know, it could be that he just didn't have
Speaker 3: proper receipts. You know, the money was not.
Speaker 5: Two hundred and fifty thousand, two hundred and sixty five thousand,
Speaker 5: maybe it was one purchase.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it just says there's not proper documentation, doesn't say
Speaker 6: he did anything nefarious.
Speaker 2: That's correct, all right.
Speaker 6: The Trump administration announces yesterday they're going to be paying
Speaker 6: a thousand bucks for illegal immigrants who want to self
Speaker 6: undocumented immigrants who want to self deport. DHS Secretary Christy
Speaker 6: Noam says self deportation is quote the safest way to leave.
Speaker 6: I think we actually run a commercial or spot from
Speaker 6: her saying that encouraging people to go on the app
Speaker 6: and oh I didn't know that, Yeah, where I've heard
Speaker 6: it several times where she says encouraging people to log
Speaker 6: onto their newly redesigned CBP app register to self deport.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to do this more at seven o'clock
Speaker 3: and how this program works and why it theoretically and
Speaker 3: it maybe save money and people. And the only issue
Speaker 3: is what kind of food do they get on the airplane?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 6: That's how are they getting reimbursed?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 6: How are we are? We just like the people who
Speaker 6: are how are they getting paid when they go on
Speaker 6: the app? Do they enter like their bank information and
Speaker 6: the government just like.
Speaker 3: They get paid in cash. I don't think they im
Speaker 3: yuessing And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2: What else could they do?
Speaker 3: They're being deported, they're leaving, they don't have uh, they
Speaker 3: have bank accounts.
Speaker 6: But if we don't make good on it, we don't
Speaker 6: pay them, are they going to come back? Like there's
Speaker 6: no recourse for them if we don't pay them.
Speaker 3: There probably isn't a recourse for them. But the optics
Speaker 3: it would not be terrific. Yeah, it all in vouchers
Speaker 3: for drinks on the baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah it could be all right, let's move on.
Speaker 5: Los Angeles County has declared a community wide outbreak of
Speaker 5: hepatitis A yay yeah hey el ay el, a very
Speaker 5: highly contagious viral disease cause problems with liver even death.
Speaker 5: And unfortunately this is not hitting the people you think
Speaker 5: it would. We have such a high homeless contingent here
Speaker 5: in LA that those are usually the folks that hit this.
Speaker 5: But now we're getting people who haven't traveled recently, who
Speaker 5: aren't homeless or use illicit drugs, which are common factors,
Speaker 5: and they're seeing a rise in this. Seven deaths have
Speaker 5: been linked to the now thirteen month old outbreak, so
Speaker 5: they're looking into this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how contagious as hepatitis A without transference of blood
Speaker 3: and stuff, I mean, just breathing in the same room.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine.
Speaker 2: It's very I can't either, I have to ask Jim.
Speaker 6: At this point, it says it can be contracted by
Speaker 6: unknowingly ingesting contaminated food and drink and it you know,
Speaker 6: so if somebody has equal matter on their hands or
Speaker 6: a cut or anything like that at your you know,
Speaker 6: not to be too gross early in the morning, but
Speaker 6: it can be very contagious.
Speaker 2: Is that part of your stand up routine?
Speaker 6: By the ones? And then I got.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
Speaker 6: Good for you as a guy with the drum that
Speaker 6: goes good times, Good times. Ice House Saturday night. We'll
Speaker 6: see you there, all right. Trump's trade war with Canada.
Speaker 6: It's kind of, you know, kind of blowing up in
Speaker 6: his face, that's what they're saying. Anyway, Prime Minister Canadian
Speaker 6: Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to be visiting the
Speaker 6: President this morning. As a matter of fact. That meeting
Speaker 6: should be getting underway any moment now, and so a
Speaker 6: lot of people are saying it's going to be a
Speaker 6: little contentious obviously because of the tariffs and the you know,
Speaker 6: the war of words that's been happening back and forth
Speaker 6: between the US and one of our closest allies. So
Speaker 6: it'll be interesting to see what comes out of this
Speaker 6: meeting today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the President said, we don't need Canada, as you know,
Speaker 3: so they're going to suffer more than we are.
Speaker 2: And well, I mean, we may not need care Canada.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, thirty percent of all of our lumber used in
Speaker 3: the country is from Canada. You have steel, you have aluminum,
Speaker 3: you have energy, particularly the Northeast.
Speaker 2: It's it's a hit. I mean, there's no question. For
Speaker 2: Canada it's a hit.
Speaker 3: But for the United States it is being downplayed that
Speaker 3: it's not going to be that big a deal.
Speaker 2: For us. Just wait, you'll see it's.
Speaker 3: Going to be a big trade wars or a big
Speaker 3: deal across the board.
Speaker 6: Everybody suffers three forty nine billion dollars now we got
Speaker 6: from Canada.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of maple syrup. All right.
Speaker 5: A seventy year old fella drove through Jennifer Anderson's closed fence,
Speaker 5: causing a big scare to the celebrity and our security
Speaker 5: team as they all the security guards rushed held the
Speaker 5: man prone until police arrived. This was in a bel
Speaker 5: air home, no reason. They think that it might have
Speaker 5: been an attempted burglary, but they haven't really given a
Speaker 5: whole lot of information. It's possible that the guy's love
Speaker 5: life was doa It could be.
Speaker 3: And you know, she has a reputation for uh, very good.
Speaker 3: She has a reputation for living very moderately, you know that.
Speaker 3: So when they did the story, I first thought that
Speaker 3: somehow they mistook her house for a hotel and.
Speaker 2: Nope, that was her house. There it is.
Speaker 5: It got through the first level of motes and yeah,
Speaker 5: you know full not just a security guard, a secure team.
Speaker 3: The friends money, Oh yeah, it's astronomical.
Speaker 4: Imagine so well, even the.
Speaker 2: Last few years.
Speaker 3: The last few years, it was a million dollar an
Speaker 3: episode for each of them. And how many episodes did
Speaker 3: they do? Twenty two episodes each per season, So there's
Speaker 3: twenty two million dollars per year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 3: well it depends on whether they own syndication rights or
Speaker 3: not or part of the syndication.
Speaker 2: And I guess is yeah, they probably.
Speaker 4: Did million and partly Andiston gets twenty million annually right
Speaker 4: now for syndication, just syndication.
Speaker 6: Frienends, not on their movies or anything.
Speaker 4: Handle you should do a sitcom called No Friends.
Speaker 3: That's very good. That's actually very good. Okay, that may
Speaker 3: be line de jure, that could be not bad.
Speaker 6: That's young all right. So Israel launched an airstrike in
Speaker 6: Yemen last night, just one day after a hooty attack
Speaker 6: on Tel Aviv over the weekend. The group fired a
Speaker 6: ballistic missile in the area of Ben Garyon airport. And
Speaker 6: they're ramping up their attacks over there, just ahead of
Speaker 6: Trump's visits. So some getting a little getting even more dangerous,
Speaker 6: more scary over there.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know why anybody goes up against Israel.
Speaker 3: So they shoot a ballistic missile, it lands on airport grounds,
Speaker 3: doesn't hit the runway or any buildings or anything. And
Speaker 3: Israel was unable to shoot it down. And now what happens, Well,
Speaker 3: Israel comes back and hits dozens of who they targets, buildings, camps,
Speaker 3: killing a bunch of people. You know, Okay, go up
Speaker 3: against Israel. Hey, Hamas did a great job, didn't that.
Speaker 3: Boy were they clever? And what they did? October seventh,
Speaker 3: Look what happened to Gaza? All right, Oh, here's a story.
Speaker 5: Neil, don't fly into Newark, man, what a mess. Tons
Speaker 5: of delays, but some scary stuff. So air traffic controllers
Speaker 5: lost communication with aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport in
Speaker 5: New Jersey. Hundreds of delays for more than a week,
Speaker 5: and some of them are making special government leave for
Speaker 5: traumatic situations to recover from stress. So you've got like
Speaker 5: a complete breakdown. They couldn't see here or talk to
Speaker 5: the planes. This happened on Monday, April twenty eight. National
Speaker 5: Air Traffic Controllers Association came out and said, listen, this
Speaker 5: is a mess. We've got outdated equipment, this system completely failed,
Speaker 5: and now you've got five FAA employees taking forty five
Speaker 5: days of leave.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a big story.
Speaker 3: I'm doing that at seven to twenty because there's a
Speaker 3: lot of spins on this one, one of them being
Speaker 3: a new national holiday Don't Talk to the Planes day.
Speaker 3: But that was only out maybe thirty seconds or a minute,
Speaker 3: But that in itself.
Speaker 4: Seconds or a minute when it comes to airtime.
Speaker 3: With people with people with the planes landing and taking off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a little bit. That is a little bit.
Speaker 2: That's a little bit tough.
Speaker 6: All right. So jockey Junior Alvarado is facing fines for
Speaker 6: excessive use of the whip in the Kentucky Derby. Apparently
Speaker 6: you cannot use the crop more than six times, and
Speaker 6: he used it at least seven times, so he is
Speaker 6: facing some fines there.
Speaker 3: You know, I know people that would look at the
Speaker 3: story in a whole different way with a whips.
Speaker 5: I kind of feel like you were going to go there,
Speaker 5: and then I'm like, nah, okay, he went there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I went there, set up a tent and all of that.
Speaker 5: President Trump still Monday, you.
Speaker 3: Know, one strike, you know it's and he said, you
Speaker 3: know I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, I mean, this is
Speaker 3: the Kentucky Derby. I'm ahead of everybody. And he's accused
Speaker 3: of one whipping too much, one use of the whip
Speaker 3: too many from six to seven, and he's going to
Speaker 3: get nailed ten percent of his earnings. And he picked
Speaker 3: up thirty one thousand, and so that would be he
Speaker 3: would pay thirty one thousand out of the three hundred
Speaker 3: and ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: That's not a bad dollar.
Speaker 3: For winning the Kentucky Derby. Yeah, but it's also pretty
Speaker 3: rarefied air.
Speaker 6: But also you would think that he's you know, because
Speaker 6: he's a professional. You would know you'd be in control
Speaker 6: and know how do you would think?
Speaker 5: So, Yeah, that's the exact thought I had, Heather, was
Speaker 5: your a professional?
Speaker 4: That's what you do? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Now did with a horse naing and basically in horse
Speaker 3: language asking for more.
Speaker 6: It doesn't say in this article. I'll look into that,
Speaker 6: all right.
Speaker 5: President Trump said yesterday he had nothing to do with
Speaker 5: that depiction of him as the pope that was shared
Speaker 5: on the White House social media. I don't know about that,
Speaker 5: he said, I had nothing to do with it. And
Speaker 5: it's funny because you got to love the way he
Speaker 5: looks at things. He said, hey, come on, Because people
Speaker 5: were asking the media's asking him about, you know, the
Speaker 5: cath Licks and all that stuff, and he said they
Speaker 5: can't take a joke. And reporters, he thought it was
Speaker 5: the Catholics, you mean, the fake news the loved it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing that's fun The Catholics loved that,
Speaker 3: you know. In reality is I think it was more
Speaker 3: of a joke than anything else. And do I think
Speaker 3: he posted it, Who the hell knows. But it's almost like, well,
Speaker 3: the Catholics loved it, like Mormons loved the Book of Mormon.
Speaker 3: Uh they which which uh, the the play, the musical.
Speaker 6: Excellent, by the way, the Book of Mormon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's absolutely spectacular and it's it is good.
Speaker 3: And Mormons, all the Mormons that I've ever talked to,
Speaker 3: really do like it because it is funny. Uh, it
Speaker 3: is not done with any malice whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's just wonderful. Trump.
Speaker 3: You know, he's looked at a little bit differently among
Speaker 3: various groups. And the funny I'll tell you what was funny,
Speaker 3: not so much that was put up. You know, I
Speaker 3: think it was more of a joke even with him.
Speaker 3: It's the Catholics loved it. And if you see what's
Speaker 3: happening in Italy and around the world. The reaction is
Speaker 3: just insane.
Speaker 2: If you look at social media.
Speaker 6: Yeah people are upset. Yeah, well it's me. Secretary of
Speaker 6: Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered significant cuts through the highest
Speaker 6: ranks of the US military. He signed a memo that
Speaker 6: was well, it basically says he must reduce the number
Speaker 6: of four star generals and admirals by at least twenty percent.
Speaker 6: So he is they're cutting back over there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're cleaning it up. I mean they're sweeping
Speaker 3: it up, not necessarily cleaning it up. And the DEI
Speaker 3: and the story goes beyond that, and that is that
Speaker 3: you have minorities, A disproportionate number of women have been fired.
Speaker 3: The chief of staff is have was fired who happens
Speaker 3: to be African American. And there is obviously an allegation
Speaker 3: of racism involved. And here is I think why I
Speaker 3: don't think it's racism per se, I really don't. It's
Speaker 3: the philosophy is that if you are a minority, you
Speaker 3: are there because of a DEI program.
Speaker 2: And that's the tough one.
Speaker 3: And it was one of those situations where I once
Speaker 3: went to a very high end doctor and I remember
Speaker 3: what I had some It was a heart thing, and
Speaker 3: I went to a cardiologist who happened to be African American,
Speaker 3: and we just started talking. I always asked, where'd you
Speaker 3: go to medical school? I always ask the doctors, and
Speaker 3: I say, do you speak Spanish when you were in
Speaker 3: medical school in Guadalajara. I do that as a matter
Speaker 3: of course. And he was saying how much he resented
Speaker 3: affirmative action programs because he came out of Harvard Med
Speaker 3: and near the top of his class, and he hated
Speaker 3: the fact that it was that people assumed it was
Speaker 3: an affertive affirmative action program that he came out of.
Speaker 3: And I think the assumption among these very highly placed
Speaker 3: individuals that they are there because of DEI, which I
Speaker 3: think is a croc. For the most part, you don't
Speaker 3: get to that level of management and that high level
Speaker 3: in the military with a DEI program. And it's like
Speaker 3: Colin Powell, come on, guys, you know he got there
Speaker 3: because of a DEI program when he was head of
Speaker 3: the Joint Chiefs and then he became Secretary of State.
Speaker 5: All right, well, Trump is in the news again. Trump
Speaker 5: administration unveiled news steps to target federal funding to have
Speaker 5: it university. They announced with yesterday they're cutting off all
Speaker 5: new federal research grants.
Speaker 2: Big move from.
Speaker 5: The administration, their latest effort to demand political policy changes
Speaker 5: from the elite university. This is a major clash going
Speaker 5: on there, they say, and they being The Education Secretary
Speaker 5: of Linda McMahon, says that Harvard is in consistent violations
Speaker 5: of its own legal duties in every way. She said,
Speaker 5: Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations. It's
Speaker 5: ethical and fiduciary duties, it's transparency responsibilities, and any semblance
Speaker 5: of academic rigor.
Speaker 3: So now that gets interesting because I don't know what
Speaker 3: that means any of that. It's pretty vague, and I
Speaker 3: guess according to the Trump administration, it's one of those
Speaker 3: will decide what academic rigor is, and if you don't
Speaker 3: make it on our level, we're cutting off all the funding.
Speaker 2: Harvard is not backing down.
Speaker 3: And the two big issues, I mean, this is all
Speaker 3: crap ola, but the two big issues DEI programs and
Speaker 3: the other one anti semitism, allowing anti semitism on campus
Speaker 3: and allowing professors to basically propound anti semitism and so
Speaker 3: Harvard is saying, Nope, you're not going to tell us
Speaker 3: what to do. In terms of funding, they're saying the
Speaker 3: government saying, no funding, no money. And Harvard gets a
Speaker 3: fortune ten times more than almost any other school in
Speaker 3: terms of grants, and so Harvard is just won't back down.
Speaker 5: So what's the DEI stuff? Is that a federal law
Speaker 5: now that you can't do that and are no, No, Well,
Speaker 5: you know what you can't do is discriminate. And what
Speaker 5: the administration is.
Speaker 3: Saying, by definition DEI is discriminating effectively against white people.
Speaker 3: That if you are pushing programs that give women, minorities,
Speaker 3: gay people, any kind of preference, which de programs do,
Speaker 3: by definition, the administration is saying, this is racistem We're
Speaker 3: not going to let it happen. The rest of it
Speaker 3: is kind of crap ol. You're not meeting rigorous standards. Really,
Speaker 3: Harvard not meeting rigorous academic standards.
Speaker 2: Give me a break. It's it's all that. And they're suing.
Speaker 2: I mean, Harvard is suing.
Speaker 3: They're saying, you're discriminating against us because the administration not
Speaker 3: only once the DEI program has disappear, but also once
Speaker 3: all of its academic uh uh, it's uh uh, it's
Speaker 3: what sort of I'm looking for requirements overseen by the government.
Speaker 3: The government is saying. The administration is saying, we want
Speaker 3: you to report to us and we will tell you
Speaker 3: what's appropriate and what's not.
Speaker 2: Harvard's saying, not a chance, no way.
Speaker 5: What did the Department of Education do if not look
Speaker 5: at the curriculum of schools?
Speaker 3: Because I don't think the Department of Education can look.
Speaker 2: At the curriculum of schools.
Speaker 4: What do they do the launch program?
Speaker 3: Not really they do in federal they do in federal programs.
Speaker 3: But these are you know, these are medical grants. These
Speaker 3: are research grants. And the Department of Education, as long
Speaker 3: as it's around, is saying we don't like you with
Speaker 3: the DEI programs. You don't let's let us oversee your
Speaker 3: educational process.
Speaker 2: We're gonna cut off medical.
Speaker 3: Research grants which have nothing to do with what is
Speaker 3: going on in the teaching area. All right, guys, we
Speaker 3: are done Feenne and coming up.
Speaker 2: You don't go back.
Speaker 4: You don't want Heather to do storyline? I know I was.
Speaker 6: Waiting for it. This is the banger at the end
Speaker 6: of the show. We need to kick her.
Speaker 2: Now go ahead, all right, go ahead, all.
Speaker 6: Right, listen. I know you're all excited. Rihanna is having
Speaker 6: another baby. And she made the reveal and made the
Speaker 6: announcement last night at the met Gala in New York.
Speaker 6: She was dressed in a Mark Jacob's pinstripe and revealed
Speaker 6: her baby bumps. So congratulations to Rihanna.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Jeez. I feel better.
Speaker 3: Hey, and let's change the show and do every segment
Speaker 3: until the end of the show on Rihanna. On Rihanna
Speaker 3: revealing her third pregnancy, I think it's that big a deal.
Speaker 6: Okay, good, I've got some more information. It was a
Speaker 6: Trump cleansing of the palette. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: All right, we're done, guys, now we're done. This is
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