Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a hump day Wednesday, Good morning, September
Speaker 2: twenty or September fourth. I got twenty fourth, September fourth,
Speaker 2: and is another fun.
Speaker 3: Day because it's midway, which we call it hump day.
Speaker 3: And I don't have to explain it to you because
Speaker 3: you probably know.
Speaker 2: Guess who's back, Amy, Amy is back today.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Amy, good morning. Now you're no Heather Brooker.
Speaker 4: Granted, but let me appreciate that you say that to
Speaker 4: me every time I go on vacation.
Speaker 2: I understand that, but it's always a pleasure to have
Speaker 2: you back because Amy, even though she is on the
Speaker 2: A team, and which is this Warning team, is considered
Speaker 2: the A team. Well, thank you for being here, Amy,
Speaker 2: greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you for the backhanded compliment.
Speaker 3: I always appreciate it, always always.
Speaker 2: And then Neil is not here, But here comes the
Speaker 2: one and only what's his face over here?
Speaker 3: Wayne? Good morning? My memory flags. If you're not in
Speaker 3: front of me every day, I'm the Neil Emeritus.
Speaker 2: You are the Neil emeritus and he certainly is no
Speaker 2: Neil better, but certainly no Neil.
Speaker 3: I have to talk to Neil about that. You are
Speaker 3: on fire. I am on fire today, Ann, good morning.
Speaker 3: What I never mind.
Speaker 2: I was going to go into comparing you to Michelle,
Speaker 2: but Michelle's been here for twenty five years as my producer.
Speaker 2: You can't do that, and cono, cono. I've got to say, Okay,
Speaker 2: and I hate doing this, but then now you're the
Speaker 2: best board up I've ever had.
Speaker 3: No, that's true.
Speaker 2: You do the best job of music of anybody we've
Speaker 2: ever had. I just want to agree that's that's the truth.
Speaker 2: And I'll think of something to make fun of you
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: It's okay, I'll end it there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talking about making fun there is a show if
Speaker 2: you get Hulu called and.
Speaker 3: I think I've already talked about this.
Speaker 2: It's called The Righteous Gemstones, and it is it's a
Speaker 2: take off and a televangelist family. It is quite just
Speaker 2: a parody, but it's really not a parody because it
Speaker 2: really is that crazy with these mega churches. It is
Speaker 2: the funniest, most depraved television show I have ever seen
Speaker 2: in my life. And when you can get me impressed
Speaker 2: with depravity.
Speaker 3: You're going a long long way.
Speaker 2: I'm going to suggest it's an HBO show and it's
Speaker 2: on Hula and we get Hulu and through Hbo.
Speaker 3: U is it on?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 5: This is just for so people can find it easily.
Speaker 5: Is it actually also on Hulu directly? Or do you
Speaker 5: have the bundle?
Speaker 3: I have the bundle, so you are still you have
Speaker 3: to watch it on Max? I think so I get
Speaker 3: correct that there's now.
Speaker 5: A bundle of Hulu and Max that you get all
Speaker 5: together and pay one bill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a yeah. I don't do this. Lindsay you
Speaker 3: don't need letters. Oh that reminds me after my cominges.
Speaker 5: You don't need any letters from people saying I went
Speaker 5: to hul, I have Hulu and I went to Hulu
Speaker 5: and I couldn't find the Righteous Gems. You have to
Speaker 5: have Max, or you have to have the Hulu Max.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, but anyway, it's the Righteous Gemstones and
Speaker 2: you can look it up where you can find it.
Speaker 3: If you have it. It is for a fourth season.
Speaker 2: It is so good that it is actually worth signing
Speaker 2: up even for a trial run, just for that show.
Speaker 3: Have you seen it? By the way, Wayne oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Is am I right about this in terms of it's
Speaker 3: uttered depravity? Maybe you're underselling it is falling down laughing. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's yeah.
Speaker 2: The guy who created it is one of the stars.
Speaker 2: And the guy is I don't know where his mind
Speaker 2: goes McBride. Yeah, I don't know how he came up
Speaker 2: with this stuff. I mean, it's just you shake your head.
Speaker 2: So anyway, Uh, it's it's worth seeing.
Speaker 3: And are you going to read that letter yesterday?
Speaker 5: You said? Yeah, yesterday you said that you were going
Speaker 5: to read a letter for the Listener for an unusual reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. Let me see if I have this here.
Speaker 2: It was uh, you know who sent that to me?
Speaker 2: Was uh it went to Michelle.
Speaker 3: Uh and I should well maybe maybe somebody can find
Speaker 3: it and uh no, knowing later that it was now
Speaker 3: you can wait, you know, Oh okay, and I'm sorry, yeah,
Speaker 3: and you can wait. And did you get that letter?
Speaker 3: By the way, did you get a copy of it?
Speaker 4: Nope?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, damn I have to call machine. You were
Speaker 3: so ladies and gentlemen, he was.
Speaker 2: So in here it is here, it is okay, here
Speaker 2: we go, hello, mister handle. And the reason I'm sending.
Speaker 2: Reading this letter is because it usually stubbed. My normal
Speaker 2: normally letter starts with dear Ahle with it spelled out,
Speaker 2: so this one.
Speaker 3: Dear mister Handel.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of your radio show, and I
Speaker 2: truly enjoy listening to it. However, I wanted to share
Speaker 2: a thought with you. Your show has a diverse audience, including
Speaker 2: both liberals and conservatives. I noticed that you occasionally comment
Speaker 2: on political matters occasionally, which I understand is your personal opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I generally say that, but his opinions can vary.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it might be more balanced to offer
Speaker 2: perspectives from both sides. For example, if you mentioned Rudy
Speaker 2: Giuliani drinking Trump's school aid, perhaps will be fair to
Speaker 2: also discuss the hundreds of affidavits from the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: that were.
Speaker 3: Dismissed by the courts. Yeah, that's part of drinking is
Speaker 3: kool aid.
Speaker 2: These affidavits were submitted by real people, many of whom,
Speaker 2: like myself, were immigrants. Will be interesting to hear why
Speaker 2: these affidavits were not upheld and why the individuals submitted
Speaker 2: them aren't facing legal consequences if their claims were false. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they were not upheld, every one of them, and yeah
Speaker 2: people have lost their law license, and yeah they're under
Speaker 2: criminal indictment.
Speaker 3: Could these be issues that are more complex than they appear?
Speaker 2: And then it goes on and you know, I believe
Speaker 2: your show's greatest value lies in focusing on listeners. Your
Speaker 2: site insights are valuable, but maybe political commentary could be
Speaker 2: reserved for a different segment like Handle on Politics. Thank
Speaker 2: you for considering my perspective and for all the work
Speaker 2: you do. And that's with respect, Alexei. The reason I
Speaker 2: brought this up is I get these respectful letters once
Speaker 2: the five years, and I want to point that out.
Speaker 2: But anyways, thank you.
Speaker 3: That was what I was going to say.
Speaker 2: I just got a very gracious letter, whether you disagree
Speaker 2: with me or not. And usually I replied to those
Speaker 2: letters with dear Fred or whatever, fu period, that's normally
Speaker 2: my response. All right, this time I wont okay, just
Speaker 2: want to bring that out. That's it probably wasn't worth
Speaker 2: spending the time.
Speaker 5: But no, now that well, see you said it was
Speaker 5: going to be a positive letter yesterday, and I thought,
Speaker 5: oh my god, he got a letter like kissing his butt.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, for paragraph after paragraph. But what
Speaker 5: it turned out to be, I think is an unusual thing.
Speaker 5: The solitous, solicitous and polite crackpot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I get bored with letters kissing my butt because they
Speaker 2: always come from me. My mother, before she died, would
Speaker 2: send them occasionally. All right, guys, let's do it handle
Speaker 2: on the news. We want to get through these fairly
Speaker 2: quickly with a me and Wayne and me lead story.
Speaker 2: All right, if you live in Rancho Palace Vertus, you
Speaker 2: can probably buy or if you want to buy land cheap,
Speaker 2: that's where you want to go. The ongoing landslides no
Speaker 2: more power now for two hundred of the homes, particularly
Speaker 2: in Portuguese Bend. It's because everything is falling down the hillside.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: Those homes are gone, and so are they. I don't
Speaker 2: even know if they can shore up that hill. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's ever going to happen.
Speaker 4: So officials have said that the slide is natural and
Speaker 4: too large to do anything about.
Speaker 3: Well there you go. Okay, it's tough.
Speaker 2: Your house goes to zero value, and I don't think
Speaker 2: there's insurance for that.
Speaker 3: I don't think homeowner's insurance covers that.
Speaker 4: What about earthquake insurance.
Speaker 3: The ground is moving, it's not earthquake.
Speaker 2: It's not earthquake. I don't think that it is covered.
Speaker 2: I really don't, all right.
Speaker 4: Amy, the US is going after Hamas leaders. The Justice
Speaker 4: Department announced criminal charges have been filed against leader Jaha
Speaker 4: Seinoir and a half dozen senior militants in connection with
Speaker 4: the October seventh, twenty twenty three massacre in Israel. It's
Speaker 4: expected to be mostly symbolics, and Sinoir is believed to
Speaker 4: be hiding in tunnels in Gaza, and the Justice Departments
Speaker 4: is three of the six defendants are believed now to
Speaker 4: be dead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is symbolic.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're not going to see him come to
Speaker 2: see a New York musical, Broadway musical anytime soon where
Speaker 2: they can pick him up. So he's going to matter
Speaker 2: of fact, he's going to stay in the tunnels for
Speaker 2: a very long time, even after this war is done,
Speaker 2: because he'll be killed. You know, he'll be assassinated by Israel.
Speaker 2: It's second he pokes his head out and the other ones,
Speaker 2: I think, what, three of them are dead already because
Speaker 2: Israeli's got to them.
Speaker 3: So all right, political move fair enough?
Speaker 4: I have a question then for both you and Wayne,
Speaker 4: and that is why spend time and effort on this
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 2: That's a good question, because you want to make you
Speaker 2: you want to establish symbolism is what you want to do.
Speaker 4: It's simply take money on this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well, I'm sorry the government is pissing away
Speaker 2: money on something.
Speaker 3: Oh what a shocker that one is.
Speaker 2: How about the trials of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton
Speaker 2: in the Senate? Completely superfluous because there was no chance.
Speaker 3: It was totally political on both sides.
Speaker 2: The attempt to impeach ma orcis totally political.
Speaker 3: That's what our government does, all right.
Speaker 5: The man who was arrested last Thursday in the disappearance
Speaker 5: of his neighbors has been charged formally and is expected
Speaker 5: to be arraigned today. Michael Sparks is accused of murdering
Speaker 5: Dan and Stephanie Minard, who went missing about the twenty
Speaker 5: fourth of August along with their dog. They quickly surmised
Speaker 5: that they should check out the property of mister Sparks,
Speaker 5: the neighbor. They found some human remains, and they found
Speaker 5: mister Sparks hiding under his house with a rifle. Apparently
Speaker 5: he tried to kill himself, but the rifle did not
Speaker 5: go off, and they knocked down his house and arrested him,
Speaker 5: and now he will face charges in their murder. Apparently
Speaker 5: they the Minards and Sparks, had a contentious neighborly relationship.
Speaker 5: It was well understood they did not like each other.
Speaker 3: Is Park gonna sue the police for destroying his house?
Speaker 5: I mean he can try, But when there's a police
Speaker 5: action and there's the search for possible victims of murder
Speaker 5: and things, and police do.
Speaker 3: That, you do not. It's called qualified immunity.
Speaker 5: Yes, So, plus he may never have reason to go
Speaker 5: back to that house again for his whole life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think.
Speaker 2: So it's very rough finding dead people on your property
Speaker 2: and you're with a gun and now and all the evidence.
Speaker 3: It's going to have a tough time with that. One.
Speaker 4: TikTok trend may come back to bite you. Chase Bank
Speaker 4: is issuing a warning saying those viral videos you might
Speaker 4: be seeing on TikTok are really just check fraud. So
Speaker 4: the video started circulating over the weekend and it was
Speaker 4: showing Chase ATM customers depositing fraudulent checks for large amounts
Speaker 4: of money, and then quickly withdrawing the cash before the
Speaker 4: check has the time to bounce. Chase is saying that
Speaker 4: that's actually check fraud, it's a criminal offense. And they're
Speaker 4: also saying that people who do that end up with
Speaker 4: huge negative balances because they pull out cash, and then
Speaker 4: they eventually get charged for it.
Speaker 3: Why would you think it wouldn't be a crime. Why
Speaker 3: did I don't get this?
Speaker 2: Why anybody would not understand you're in a heap of
Speaker 2: trouble if you do this.
Speaker 5: It because it was being presented as a glitch. Sometimes
Speaker 5: you'll hear ho this ATM is just spitting out twenty
Speaker 5: dollars bills, And so because it was sold as a
Speaker 5: glitch in the system, people assumed they.
Speaker 3: Would get away with it.
Speaker 5: Rather than understanding that what they were doing is fraud,
Speaker 5: they thought, oh, there's a glitch, so it's.
Speaker 3: Not my fault. You know what it is.
Speaker 5: If it's a glitch in their system, then it's not
Speaker 5: my fault. But isn't this same if the bank accidentally
Speaker 5: puts a million dollars in your account?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get that. All the money right, it's not
Speaker 3: your way.
Speaker 2: It's like the vending machines where you put your your
Speaker 2: money in the item doesn't come out, so you kick
Speaker 2: the vending machine and all of a sudden it malfunctions
Speaker 2: and all this stuff comes pouring out. Oh boy, you
Speaker 2: know people have actually been arrested and have gotten ten
Speaker 2: to twenty years for taking candy bars from machines like that.
Speaker 3: Wow, I just made that up. But yeah, that's so
Speaker 3: excessive for what you described.
Speaker 5: Yes, but anyway, Yeah, these I don't know if be
Speaker 5: charged necessarily because you'd have to prove intent and if.
Speaker 3: They're like, well they saw on TikTok that there was
Speaker 3: a glitch. That's still but they are. They're waking up.
Speaker 3: It's already happening.
Speaker 5: They're waking up, and their account balance now is negative
Speaker 5: twenty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: And even if it was themselves out.
Speaker 4: Even if it was a glitch, they deposited fraudulent checks.
Speaker 3: They know that is a good point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know what, Amy, you're the smartest one
Speaker 5: on the show.
Speaker 2: Purpose story, But that's because she got caught and she
Speaker 2: knows exactly how this works.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: A former aid to the Governor of New York has
Speaker 5: been charged as acting for an agent of the Chinese government.
Speaker 5: Linda's son, a former deputy chief for Kathy Hokeel, has
Speaker 5: been charged with violating that Foreign Agents Registrations Act. You
Speaker 5: see a lot of news stories called FARA. Also with
Speaker 5: visa fraud, also with alien smuggling, also a money laundering conspiracy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and her.
Speaker 5: Husband's charged with it looks like the money part of
Speaker 5: whatever they were up to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing that at seven o'clock because that's a
Speaker 2: good Well, it's a hell of a story, it really is.
Speaker 2: It's it's just well, I want to say, mind boggling.
Speaker 3: But this goes to show you how what dear friends
Speaker 3: are Chinese Chinese neighbors if you want to on the
Speaker 3: other side of the Pacific.
Speaker 4: Amy, guess what the plea is gonna be. Former President
Speaker 4: Trump has directed his attorneys to plead not guilty on
Speaker 4: his behalf following a revised indictment from Special Council Jack Smith. Again,
Speaker 4: this is the refiling of charges of that Trump tried
Speaker 4: to block the results of the twenty twenty presidential election.
Speaker 4: He filed the superseding indictment last week based on the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court ruling that said that Trump had some immunity
Speaker 4: while he was in office. Now, the new indictment basically
Speaker 4: says that Trump took those actions as a candidate or
Speaker 4: a private citizen, and that's.
Speaker 3: Going to be the legal argument.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Supreme Court goes official acts as president, the
Speaker 2: president do whatever the hell he wants, complete immunity.
Speaker 3: So what Jack Smith done. Okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 2: We'll go ahead and take the same charges, and then
Speaker 2: we'll simply describe those acts as non presidential as a candidate,
Speaker 2: as you just pointed out. So now comes the argument
Speaker 2: in front of the court. It's not going to be
Speaker 2: immunity versus not immunity anymore. It's going to be where
Speaker 2: these official acts or not official acts.
Speaker 3: That's going to be the argument.
Speaker 2: And I think if it goes forward, I think Trump's
Speaker 2: gonna have a very tough time with this unless he
Speaker 2: gets elected. Then it disappears instantly that goes by way
Speaker 2: of the wind.
Speaker 5: They'll find they will find the superseding indictment in the
Speaker 5: pocket of Jack Smith at the bottom of a river.
Speaker 3: That's probably Trump.
Speaker 4: Come not Trump.
Speaker 2: While Clinton was having sex with the prosecutor, I think.
Speaker 4: Didn't Clinton have a number of people kind of mysteriously.
Speaker 2: One Vince Foster. Vince Foster, no all right, you guys,
Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna go into.
Speaker 5: That yfi where the case stands for conspiracy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and by the way, I just we can't go
Speaker 2: too far. I think I think Hillary killed him, just
Speaker 2: straight out.
Speaker 3: Do you really wait, are you being a butt heead
Speaker 3: right now? Or do you really think that? I don't
Speaker 3: think she killed him.
Speaker 2: I think if she did, she's smart enough. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be saying it. She would have gotten away with it,
Speaker 2: and I would not being accusing her of that. Never mind,
Speaker 2: I can go very different, many levels on that one.
Speaker 3: All right, all right.
Speaker 5: The Dow fell a little over six hundred points yesterday,
Speaker 5: one and a half percent, largely in response to a
Speaker 5: manufacturing report that showed five straight months of declines in
Speaker 5: manufacturing that made people think that the great hikes that
Speaker 5: the Fed did for inflation also hurt the economy too much. However,
Speaker 5: you may recall a month ago you were talking bill
Speaker 5: about a thousand point drop in the Dow to start
Speaker 5: the month of August, and by the end of August
Speaker 5: it it almost completely rebounded. In fact, it got almost
Speaker 5: close to its all time record. So it's still early
Speaker 5: in the month, and Friday's the big day because when
Speaker 5: the jobs report comes out, Yeah, and that will determine
Speaker 5: whether the Fed cuts rates by a quarter point or.
Speaker 3: Half a point.
Speaker 2: Now, this has so many political implications. This issue, these
Speaker 2: numbers are going to be literally one of the turning points.
Speaker 3: I believe in the presidential coming up.
Speaker 2: One of the things that Trump is saying about the economy,
Speaker 2: it's never been worth and it's the fault of the
Speaker 2: Harris administration because Biden doesn't exist anymore. And so what
Speaker 2: the Harris administration is going to do is about the
Speaker 2: Pence administration and what happened during the economy there.
Speaker 3: And we'll see. If the stock market.
Speaker 2: Stays pretty high, I think that's going to take a
Speaker 2: lot of Trump's position, his accusations away. If it stays,
Speaker 2: if it drops dramatically, and this is not the you know,
Speaker 2: September is a bad way to start and August was miserable,
Speaker 2: then it's going to lend credence to the Biden will
Speaker 2: the Harris administration. Biden doesn't exist anymore. As I said,
Speaker 2: then look at the economy. It's going south. So we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens.
Speaker 4: We'll see Ukraine's government is showing some cracks in the
Speaker 4: last couple of days, they've had several people bail on
Speaker 4: the government. Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dimitri Kuleba became the first
Speaker 4: top official or the latest stop official to resign. That
Speaker 4: happened today, head of expected major government reshuffle. Two of
Speaker 4: Ukraine's vice premiers, three ministers, the head of the state
Speaker 4: Property fund, and a top official in Zelensky's presidential office
Speaker 4: have all quit in the last day.
Speaker 3: I wonder why.
Speaker 2: I mean, we know that Russia has really nailed Ukraine
Speaker 2: and parts of Ukraine with these ballistic missiles, a hospital
Speaker 2: and a military barracks. Somehow I guess the blame is
Speaker 2: being shifted to the cabinet.
Speaker 3: I don't know where that connection is.
Speaker 5: I think Zelensky's playing politics now because isn't he coming
Speaker 5: to the UN Yes later this month, and he's going
Speaker 5: to meet with Biden. And this doesn't really answer the
Speaker 5: mystery bill that you're bringing up, but it has something
Speaker 5: to do with he wants a different kind of cabinet
Speaker 5: when he shows up and meets with Biden.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somehow, maybe his begging for arms munitions will have
Speaker 2: more credence, more effect. I don't know, we're going to
Speaker 2: find out, probably when the visit happens.
Speaker 5: Well, if you're a DirecTV subscriber and you're upset that
Speaker 5: you don't have ESPN right now or ABC or any
Speaker 5: other Disney owned channels, you can get compensation from DirecTV,
Speaker 5: but they're not just going to give it to you.
Speaker 3: You have to apply for it.
Speaker 5: That's instead of just giving everybody a credit on their bill.
Speaker 5: They have a place you can go, a special website.
Speaker 5: You can apply for the credit and it'll show up
Speaker 5: in a future bill.
Speaker 3: At least twenty dollars. That's the minimum you apparently can get.
Speaker 2: That's why I bailed out of DirectTV because it is
Speaker 2: so sports centric, more than any other platform other than
Speaker 2: sports channels, and it was and ESPN is the most
Speaker 2: expensive programming that cable and or satellite has, and for
Speaker 2: people that don't like sports particularly, I was paying a
Speaker 2: lot of money for sports. The only time I watch sports,
Speaker 2: I really watch sports is during the when Olympics and curling,
Speaker 2: which is my favorite sport in the world.
Speaker 5: Because you like to see people doing you'd look at
Speaker 5: it and say, look at them doing housework.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because you know it's the stone that comes
Speaker 2: by and then they take the broom and it's always
Speaker 2: some janitorial team working for a major corporation that wins.
Speaker 3: Always because they practice eight hours a day. If you're a.
Speaker 5: Direct TV customer and you want to apply for that credit,
Speaker 5: call vin because Bill Bill's not going to help you
Speaker 5: figure out how to get it.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely not. Let's do one more for taking a break. Amy.
Speaker 4: Bird flu has arrived in California yet. Three dairy herds
Speaker 4: have had outbreaks of the H five N one bird flu.
Speaker 4: But they're saying it's not because of exposure to disease birds,
Speaker 4: rather due to interstate transportations. So they're saying the three
Speaker 4: dairies farms are in Central Valley. The strain of the
Speaker 4: virus that infected California herds was nearly identical to one
Speaker 4: found in Colorado dairy. Heurd's suggesting the infections were the
Speaker 4: result of interstate transfer of cattle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can always tell You don't need the government
Speaker 2: to tell you about bird flu when it comes out.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is look at the prices
Speaker 2: at KFC, and you know exactly how extensive bird flu
Speaker 2: is are. We done?
Speaker 5: Yes, Okay, So the Sheriff's Department is considering demoting a
Speaker 5: sergeant for what they're saying is gossip. There's obviously more
Speaker 5: to the story, and here it is, Sergeant Rosa Gonzalez.
Speaker 3: Follow this bill because it's.
Speaker 5: I can't tell if it sounds like pure retaliation or not.
Speaker 5: She was working at the station that had the gang
Speaker 5: known as the Bandidos, and she complained that the Bandidos
Speaker 5: were creating a climate of misogyny at the station, that
Speaker 5: there was retaliation, and that they would sometimes not respond
Speaker 5: to calls for backup for people who are not in
Speaker 5: the group. And the county said, no, that's not happening.
Speaker 5: But they settled her whistleblower case for a million dollars.
Speaker 5: She stayed working there, They promoted her to sergeant. They
Speaker 5: moved her over to a different department, a lateral move.
Speaker 5: She started to report things that she felt were wrong
Speaker 5: in her new position at the Personnel Administration Bureau in
Speaker 5: terms of hiring practices and so forth that she felt
Speaker 5: were not kosher, and then they sent her a letter
Speaker 5: and they said, we're going to demote you because we
Speaker 5: looked at what you said and it's not true, and
Speaker 5: therefore you were spreading rumors and gossip, and now we
Speaker 5: might demote you.
Speaker 3: You know, this problem started, this whole slew.
Speaker 2: These cases started when they let women in the police force.
Speaker 3: That went to hell in a handbasket. All right, let's move.
Speaker 5: On, oh man, COVID funding fun when you get home.
Speaker 4: Later, COVID funding is going away, and so are jobs.
Speaker 4: So there is talk now that thousands of teachers and
Speaker 4: school staffers across the US are risk of losing their
Speaker 4: jobs as districts start to balance their budgets and get
Speaker 4: ready for a shortfall because COVID nineteen relief money is expiring.
Speaker 4: So they got like one hundred and eighty nine point
Speaker 4: five billion dollars over the past few years through the
Speaker 4: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency really Fund under the American
Speaker 4: Rescue Plan Act. And now that money is expiring and
Speaker 4: school districts are saying, oh bummer, we use that to
Speaker 4: hire teachers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is across the board with governmental money.
Speaker 2: During COVID Biden went kind of nuts, and you can
Speaker 2: argue both sides of it because the country was in
Speaker 2: such trouble. Businesses were shut down, schools were shut down,
Speaker 2: so all this money came pouring out and people just
Speaker 2: you know, there's your newline.
Speaker 3: Ohh, I got all this money. Businesses, Oh I got
Speaker 3: all this money. School boards, Oh I got all this money,
Speaker 3: and let's spend it. Well, you know, it runs out.
Speaker 2: And this is why credit card debt has gone through
Speaker 2: the roof. This is why businesses are now in trouble,
Speaker 2: school boards because the money that free money, if you will.
Speaker 2: But dealing with COVID, I mean there was legitimate money,
Speaker 2: all though huge amounts of fraud. And what is the
Speaker 2: government going to do set up a whole bureaucracy to
Speaker 2: determine fraud or send the money out and save people.
Speaker 3: But this is not unusual, so hey, guess what.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the money is run out and people have to
Speaker 2: plan for it.
Speaker 3: And one of the things that got nailed were.
Speaker 5: Schools only, but because they decided to expand their staffing
Speaker 5: with money that they knew was temporary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, except here's what happens.
Speaker 2: When money comes in from the government for any program,
Speaker 2: it never runs out as far as it runs. Even
Speaker 2: with programs that our sunseted where you only have X
Speaker 2: number of years, it doesn't matter. We get money from
Speaker 2: the government, let's spend it.
Speaker 3: It's forever. Sounds like a democrat, doesn't it.
Speaker 5: Well, that's what happened here in California with all the
Speaker 5: COVID money in Newso they started all these new programs
Speaker 5: and then that money went away and then we have
Speaker 5: big deficits again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: You know, Joe Biden wants to forgive your student loan
Speaker 5: and he came up with a huge plan to just
Speaker 5: like wipe out everybody's student loan program. The Supreme Court said,
Speaker 5: you can't do that, that's way too much. Then he
Speaker 5: came up with this saving on a valuable education plan.
Speaker 5: Save that's blocked now in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 5: They're still litigating it, and now a group of seven states,
Speaker 5: all led by Republicans, have filed a new lawsuit. They
Speaker 5: just filed it yesterday, blocking any new loan forgiveness from
Speaker 5: the Biden administration. This time they're saying, you came up
Speaker 5: with some rules, and maybe those rules are kosher, but
Speaker 5: you apparently are going to start giving people relief too soon.
Speaker 5: There's a law that says any new rule has to
Speaker 5: wait sixty days before you can implement it, and you're
Speaker 5: not waiting sixty days.
Speaker 2: Lawsuit, okay, And again the political aspects of this, you know,
Speaker 2: you know how I feel about Trump.
Speaker 3: But one of the things is going.
Speaker 2: To happen if Harris gets elected is you're going to
Speaker 2: see these forgiveness programs being just moving ahead.
Speaker 3: As quickly as possible. And it costs the government unbelievable
Speaker 3: amounts of money. It costs us unbelievable amounts of money.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, student debt is it one
Speaker 2: point two or one point three trillion dollars?
Speaker 3: And if the government forgives it all.
Speaker 2: And then there's the other side of the coin saying, well,
Speaker 2: education has gotten so expensive it has blown past inflation.
Speaker 2: So you know, I paid back my student loan. But
Speaker 2: then again, my student loan was thirty thousand dollars. And
Speaker 2: that's for a law school education, A bad one, a
Speaker 2: horrific education.
Speaker 3: You've done all right, Yeah, but it's believe me, it
Speaker 3: wasn't because I was such a phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Lawyer, having graduated from my law school, which is now defunct.
Speaker 2: I might add, have you noticed that, just quickly before
Speaker 2: it will stop right here, have you noticed that certain
Speaker 2: schools are still around Harvard, Yale, Stanford and my school
Speaker 2: went under. I just want to point that out. Oh,
Speaker 2: I think we do have time for one more.
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Speaker 4: in the neck and chest.
Speaker 3: Okay, why don't we stop it right there?
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