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Speaker 2: a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: April fifteenth tax day. Unless you live in La County.
Speaker 2: Because of the fires, the IRS has said you have
Speaker 2: until October fifteenth to file your taxes. Also, it was
Speaker 2: the morning of April fifteenth that Abraham Lincoln died. All right, Harvard,
Speaker 2: Harvard is in a well, they're playing chicken with the
Speaker 2: federal government and what's going on. Well, Harvard is very
Speaker 2: proud of its DEI program, is very proud of inclusivity,
Speaker 2: is proud of the various studies that it makes that
Speaker 2: it has offers to students. And the Trump administration, not
Speaker 2: a big fan of DEI and other programs, has demanded
Speaker 2: that Harvard simply stopped that.
Speaker 1: And Harvard told them to go pound, saying, so okay.
Speaker 2: So the so what the administration has done is we're
Speaker 2: gonna stop funding. We're not going to give you federal funding.
Speaker 2: Nine billion dollars a year is what Harvard gets over
Speaker 2: the course of grants, et cetera.
Speaker 1: During the year. It's a massive amount. No other school
Speaker 1: comes close for that.
Speaker 2: Well, the Trump administration said two point two billion dollars
Speaker 2: is now frozen because the school rejected Trump's demand. The
Speaker 2: Trump administration demanded the school yield to extensive government oversight,
Speaker 2: sweeping changes to governance, admissions, hiring practices.
Speaker 1: And this was a tough one.
Speaker 2: By the way, the administration is saying that the review
Speaker 2: of the nearly nine billion dollars in federal funding to Harvard,
Speaker 2: of which two point two billion is now gone. They're saying,
Speaker 2: we're it's raising two point two billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: This is part of the administration's crackdown at what it
Speaker 2: calls rampant anti semitism and leftist ideology on college campuses
Speaker 2: around the country, but particularly Harvard.
Speaker 1: Actually, Columbia was the one that first started this with the.
Speaker 2: Palace Propalestanian demonstrations, and the government knocked out four hundred
Speaker 2: million dollars to Colombia.
Speaker 1: Harvard, which of course is the top of the heap.
Speaker 2: It's the best institution in the United States, considered the
Speaker 2: best UH and probably in the top five internationally, is
Speaker 2: really at the forefront of this now because of its positioned,
Speaker 2: because of the amount of money that the government gives it.
Speaker 2: So Harvard's coming back and said, oh, we're working to
Speaker 2: combat anti semitism, and we remain open to dialogue about
Speaker 2: what the university has done and is planning to do
Speaker 2: and to improve the experience of every member of its community.
Speaker 2: But we're not caving into your And Harvard is saying
Speaker 2: these demands violate First Amendment rights of the school, exceed
Speaker 2: the statutory limits of the government's authority under federal civil
Speaker 2: rights law, of course, because that's one thing about the
Speaker 2: Trump administration that is being argued back and forth, and
Speaker 2: that is that the government itself is exceeding its constitutional
Speaker 2: limitations way beyond what any other administration has ever attempted
Speaker 2: to do. And the federal civil rights law that's being violated,
Speaker 2: according to Harvard, threaten its values and threaten its ability
Speaker 2: to even teach.
Speaker 1: And it's not going to teach. What the government tells
Speaker 1: it to teach ain't going to happen, and we're just
Speaker 1: not going to do it.
Speaker 2: Government doesn't have the right to take a private university
Speaker 2: and tell a private university what programs it can have,
Speaker 2: what programs it must eliminate, what teachers must be hired
Speaker 2: or not hired, based on wildly leftist feelings and ideology.
Speaker 1: By the way, what does explain to me what is.
Speaker 2: A left leaning teacher has wild leftist ideology?
Speaker 1: I don't know where that line is. Do you.
Speaker 2: Is liberal considered wildly leftists? Or do you have to
Speaker 2: be more than liberal? I have no idea where that
Speaker 2: line is. So Harrison Fields, a spokesperson for the White House,
Speaker 2: said that universities are not entitled to federal funding.
Speaker 1: It's not an entitlement. It is something the government gives.
Speaker 1: It is more of a privilege.
Speaker 2: President Trump is working to make higher education great again
Speaker 2: by ending unchecked anti semitism, ensuring federal taxpayer dollars do
Speaker 2: not fund Harvard support dangerous dangerous racial discrimination or racially
Speaker 2: motivated violence. And Harvard or any institution that violates Title
Speaker 2: six is by law and not eligible for federal funding.
Speaker 2: So they're going beyond we're not going to.
Speaker 1: Give you money.
Speaker 2: What the administration is saying, we can't give you money
Speaker 2: because of Title six.
Speaker 1: Of the Civil.
Speaker 2: Of the anti discrimination laws that were pasted civil rights laws,
Speaker 2: and you're not eligible for federal money. So therefore we're
Speaker 2: freezing the money. And this is getting really really interesting.
Speaker 2: Back we go to what's happening between Harvard and the
Speaker 2: Trump administration, where Harvard is accused of allowing anti Semitism
Speaker 2: and not doing enough about it. By the way, the
Speaker 2: president of Harvard, I think what she resigned last year,
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken. Why because they did allow anti
Speaker 2: semitism in these protests, these pro Palestinian protests, there was
Speaker 2: no question about it. Jewish students were not allowed to
Speaker 2: go to class. It was kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: They turned that around.
Speaker 2: And I have to give the Trump administration some credit
Speaker 2: for that because they said we're not going to take
Speaker 2: it now. Anti Palestinian demonstrations, eh, that's a different story.
Speaker 1: There just aren't that many of them.
Speaker 2: In any case, Harvard because of their DEI program, because
Speaker 2: of what is perceived that they're leftist professors and leftist ideology.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration said no, either you changed the way
Speaker 2: you do things, or you're not getting money. And the
Speaker 2: Harvard's saying no, and the Trump administration is also saying no.
Speaker 1: That an impasse.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, two point two billion dollars of grants
Speaker 2: a federal money flowing to Harvard is just stopped.
Speaker 1: And the government is saying, you know what, you're not
Speaker 1: entitled to it.
Speaker 2: We can't give it to you because of your racism,
Speaker 2: because you are not allowing an even playing field, a
Speaker 2: level playing field. So these programs I go back to
Speaker 2: when I was referring to cal State Northridge, the kind
Speaker 2: of DEI programming that happened the Pan African Studies. I
Speaker 2: told you about that when I went to my first
Speaker 2: day of class of African Studies and the professor comes
Speaker 2: in with a dashiki and had some African name and
Speaker 2: literally wrote on the blackboard that white man is the devil.
Speaker 1: Try to do that today.
Speaker 2: And then I talked about the first I think it
Speaker 2: was the first Chicano American studies, the Chicano Studies at
Speaker 2: cal State Northridge, and it was crazy. I mean it
Speaker 2: was the Chicano Club was allowed on the campus and
Speaker 2: they were and there was a huge wall that was
Speaker 2: painted that was on university grounds, on a building that
Speaker 2: the school allowed, and it called for the overthrow of
Speaker 2: the US government and to establish the new state of
Speaker 2: Aslan Aztla n taking California, New Mexico and Arizona and
Speaker 2: removing them from the United States and creating a new,
Speaker 2: a new country, as it.
Speaker 1: Were, by way of revolution. On the campus.
Speaker 2: Come on, I mean that was how crazy it was.
Speaker 2: Now is it that nuts? Yeah, I don't think it's
Speaker 2: that nuts anymore. I think it'd be surprised. I'd be
Speaker 2: surprised if it were. I haven't been to the campus
Speaker 2: in a very long time.
Speaker 1: But it's it's a different world. And the Trump administration
Speaker 1: is saying we're stopping right now with this. We are
Speaker 1: not going to let you do what you are doing.
Speaker 2: And it's not just a sort of nudge. They're saying,
Speaker 2: we're going to oversee it. You want federal money, We're
Speaker 2: going to put our people to audit everything you do.
Speaker 1: We are going to look at your programs. We are
Speaker 1: going to deter whether.
Speaker 2: They're quote too inclusive, meaning they're leaning too much towards
Speaker 2: the minority.
Speaker 1: The minorities in.
Speaker 2: School the gays, LGBTQ plus people and the black people,
Speaker 2: and when not the black people, the black population, and
Speaker 2: the Latino population, and the Asian population. Although Asians aren't
Speaker 2: considered minorities in the schools because they do so well
Speaker 2: at the ucs, it actually they're considered a reverse of
Speaker 2: a minority that they cannot use their argument that they're
Speaker 2: a minority to help them get positions because they're automatically
Speaker 2: excluded from that argument because they do so.
Speaker 1: Damn well, look at UC Berkeley.
Speaker 2: How many Asians are there relative to the number of
Speaker 2: Asians in the general population. So Harvard is saying no
Speaker 2: to all of it. They're going to say, we're a
Speaker 2: private university. You are not going to tell us what
Speaker 2: to do, what classes, what governance, what oversight you are
Speaker 2: going to have, how we have to report to you,
Speaker 2: tell you why we are hiring someone and why that
Speaker 2: person is not a leftist, wild ass leftist.
Speaker 1: Professor, and proved to you. I mean, all of that.
Speaker 2: The government wants, all of that the Trump administration wants,
Speaker 2: and Harvard is just not backing down.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're at an impasse.
Speaker 2: But here's the problem is the government gives, through pel
Speaker 2: grants and through loans and through grants and general research grants,
Speaker 2: an amazing amount of money to Harvard in the billions
Speaker 2: and billions of dollars. They're just saying no and arguing
Speaker 2: this is the government arguing that the DEI programs that
Speaker 2: the school is in fact engaging, they are in and
Speaker 2: of themselves racist, and therefore the government not only should
Speaker 2: not give money under Title sakes of the Civil Rights Act,
Speaker 2: but can't give money to a racist university. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a hell of an argument, Iceline. I wonder if
Speaker 2: they're putting that up anymore. I have to look that up,
Speaker 2: whether it's a thing anymore or not.
Speaker 1: No idea.
Speaker 3: There's some circles. There's some circles.
Speaker 1: What they's still talk for it still talk about it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're giving me kind of a weird smile.
Speaker 4: No, you go on social media and stuff, there's still groups,
Speaker 4: huh talk about taking it back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, taking it.
Speaker 2: It was never Oceline, it was Mexico, and they're not
Speaker 2: talking about bringing.
Speaker 1: It back to Mexico. They're talking about a.
Speaker 2: New country a which incidentally, oh incidentally, African Americans were
Speaker 2: not particularly welcome either.
Speaker 1: In Icelan.
Speaker 2: It was not only anti white, it was anti everybody
Speaker 2: else at the same time.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh.
Speaker 2: Because of the tariffs and what's going on with the
Speaker 2: terraff wars and the craziness in the economy, we have
Speaker 2: not been talking much about illegal immigration.
Speaker 1: But that is continuing.
Speaker 2: That is a huge problem throughout the United States and
Speaker 2: probably the primary reason Donald Trump was elected it was
Speaker 2: on the illegal immigration issue.
Speaker 1: This is where the Democrats just lost it completely. And
Speaker 1: he continues on.
Speaker 2: One of the things about Donald Trump, as I have
Speaker 2: said many times, is he walks the talk and talks
Speaker 2: the walk. I mean tell you exactly what he's going
Speaker 2: to do. And there's no secret here, no hidden agenda.
Speaker 2: This is what he does. Now he makes some claims
Speaker 2: that is what he's going to do, which is kind
Speaker 2: of impossible, but his basic philosophy hasn't changed, especially in
Speaker 2: the world of illegal immigration. So with that being said,
Speaker 2: let me tell you about a company called Geogroup. It's
Speaker 2: a private prison firm has about one hundred private prisons
Speaker 2: throughout the United States where it houses Feds, federal prisoners,
Speaker 2: and eight prisoners. And it is a company that was
Speaker 2: started back in the seventies I think by an immigrant,
Speaker 2: a Greek immigrant, and it has created a division that
Speaker 2: makes digital tools to track immigrants and these tools are
Speaker 2: being used increasingly by the federal government to be used
Speaker 2: in deportation. And it gets really interesting in terms of
Speaker 2: the technology. One of the things they have is a
Speaker 2: facial recognition powered app to confirm any person who is
Speaker 2: in this program to verify location and identity. And this
Speaker 2: is what this is about. When you think about it
Speaker 2: on the surface, it makes a lot of sense. Someone
Speaker 2: comes in to claim asylum, okay, and cross the border,
Speaker 2: and they immediately want to get arrested, and they turn
Speaker 2: themselves into the border control and then border control processes
Speaker 2: them and they sometimes go into detention center or they're
Speaker 2: really least and given a date to show up and
Speaker 2: the fear, of course they don't show up, and the
Speaker 2: detention centers cost a fortune to maintain these people. So
Speaker 2: what Geogroup did is come up with this technology and
Speaker 2: it is either on an app on a cell phone
Speaker 2: or a smart watch, or an ankle bracelet or an anklet,
Speaker 2: and it keeps track of these folks and the government
Speaker 2: knows exactly where they are. If they don't show up
Speaker 2: at a hearing, they can be tracked, they can be
Speaker 2: picked up, they can immediately be deported. And of course
Speaker 2: similar libertarians are going crazy with this. How you can't
Speaker 2: monitor people like that, Yes you can. The loss certainly
Speaker 2: allows that.
Speaker 1: Those folks to be monitored and quickly.
Speaker 2: This is becoming a big, big part of Geogroup's finance
Speaker 2: finances because that part of the business is growing like crazy,
Speaker 2: and so This was set up to keep tabs on
Speaker 2: unauthorized immigrants who face potential deportation, and it makes a
Speaker 2: lot of sense both financially and.
Speaker 1: In terms of keeping control.
Speaker 2: However, the argument, of course is that this is unconstitutional,
Speaker 2: that this is an invasion of privacy. The problem is
Speaker 2: you don't have many constitutional protections when you're here illegally.
Speaker 2: You certainly do as to do process, right, they have
Speaker 2: to arrest you there, I mean warrants, although they can
Speaker 2: pick you up simply for being illegal, for example, or
Speaker 2: acting illegally while you're an illegal immigrant for example.
Speaker 1: Let's say I'll give you anything.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know they didn't make any sense, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna bring it down to a point where maybe it does.
Speaker 1: Neil stop giving me that.
Speaker 2: Look, And that is, you are ordered by an immigration
Speaker 2: judge to say within a certain area, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the locator shows that you are someplace. It's
Speaker 2: their version of fine mine, and you're in violation, and
Speaker 2: you can be picked up because if part of your
Speaker 2: release is you've got to stay there, and you don't
Speaker 2: stay there and you go over here. The government is
Speaker 2: told about it, Border patrols told about it, and they
Speaker 2: know where you are.
Speaker 1: And here is the argument.
Speaker 2: The government loves this because it makes it so much easier.
Speaker 2: It costs three dollars a day, for example, to keep
Speaker 2: track of someone who has been released in the country
Speaker 2: pending in a hearing they claim asylum. We don't know
Speaker 2: if asylum is going to be granted or not. It's
Speaker 2: a judge that makes that determination. There's a backlog of years.
Speaker 2: So either they're in detention, which costs one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars a day, or they're released and now they
Speaker 2: are monitored with this technology to cost three dollars a day.
Speaker 1: And so for the government it's a great deal and
Speaker 1: for the.
Speaker 2: People not so great a deal because now they're being monitored.
Speaker 2: But you know, when you come here illegally, and by
Speaker 2: the way, people who do come here illegally, I mean
Speaker 2: they're not coming here to commit crimes.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Trump says they're murderers and rapists. They're not now, no
Speaker 1: more so than anybody else.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna argue that illegal migrants coming over actually commit
Speaker 2: fewer crimes per capita than the general population because what
Speaker 2: they want to do is they just want to stay
Speaker 2: here and feed their families. And so they go under
Speaker 2: the radar so you don't see them if they're driving illegally,
Speaker 2: driving at eighty miles an hour down the street, they.
Speaker 1: Just don't do that.
Speaker 2: Good company, you may want to invest in this thing.
Speaker 2: By the way, part of this I love this. Immigrants
Speaker 2: send selfies of where they are and what they're doing,
Speaker 2: and that goes through a start a smart link app, which.
Speaker 1: The GEO Group they do the By the way, the Geo.
Speaker 2: Group people actually are doing the overseeing of this. It's
Speaker 2: not the government that all of this information is given to.
Speaker 2: It's given to Geogroup that then sends it to the
Speaker 2: government when it is appropriate.
Speaker 1: Wow, yep, eighteen thousand employees.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's a growth business technology use in
Speaker 2: a way that a lot of people are very unhappy.
Speaker 2: But you know, if we're going to have a program
Speaker 2: and we're going to monitor those illegal migrants in this country,
Speaker 2: makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: All right. Yesterday there was an earthquake.
Speaker 2: It was a magnitude five point two tembler I love
Speaker 2: that word, they tembler. And it was a huge success.
Speaker 2: So how does an earthquake become a huge success. Well,
Speaker 2: because the early warning system kicked in and Neil, you
Speaker 2: had mentioned this was the first time that you experienced
Speaker 2: it or it kicked in this successfully, and I don't
Speaker 2: know the answer.
Speaker 3: It was the first time that.
Speaker 4: The warning came prior to the earthquake, and I think
Speaker 4: that's because other ones were closer to me, and this
Speaker 4: was in San Diego.
Speaker 2: Okay, this was your Okay, your particular experience and the technology.
Speaker 2: The science as I understand it is pretty simple, and
Speaker 2: that is, the earth starts to shaken, and the sound
Speaker 2: goes through the The sound goes through the rocks, et cetera,
Speaker 2: goes through Basically, the speed of sound is it's going
Speaker 2: through the earth. So by the time it reaches five
Speaker 2: miles away, eight miles away, ten miles away, when it's
Speaker 2: going at seven hundred and fifteen miles an hour, I
Speaker 2: think that's how quickly the sound goes through. It is
Speaker 2: and the sh shaking can be read by sensors.
Speaker 1: The shaking, it takes a while. That's it. See I'm
Speaker 1: mister scientists.
Speaker 2: But in any case, the sensors pick up the shaking,
Speaker 2: and the sensors were quicker than the actual waves of
Speaker 2: the earthquake are traveling over land. In other words, if
Speaker 2: you have a quake at a given area, and you're
Speaker 2: going to feel it.
Speaker 1: Ten miles away.
Speaker 2: Sensors picking the earth shaking move quicker to tell you
Speaker 2: that there's a quake a coming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't know that it works for the epicenter.
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: No, the epicenters you're right on top of I mean,
Speaker 2: you're right at the epicenter, it's right there.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about rest of us. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: And the further away you are, the further way you are,
Speaker 2: the weaker it gets.
Speaker 1: Not the speed of sound.
Speaker 4: And we were when I was in management at KFI,
Speaker 4: you were hating many many many years ago. We would
Speaker 4: go out to Caltech and we were working with them
Speaker 4: to be a partner radio station for all this tech.
Speaker 4: So I got to see it being you know, being
Speaker 4: created and the early tests and it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: It's just, you know, it's just the.
Speaker 2: Technology is telling us about it, and we get it
Speaker 2: on our smartphones. We get in on our devices and
Speaker 2: it shakes and everybody here. I mean, it was in
Speaker 2: what or it was North San Diego County was the epicenter, right,
Speaker 2: I'm in South Orange County. I didn't feel it, by
Speaker 2: the way, I just don't feel anything, but Lindsay felt it.
Speaker 2: You guys felt it, and you got the the alert,
Speaker 2: which is kind of neat. And the analogy I'm trying
Speaker 2: to I was trying to make an analogy here and
Speaker 2: here it is. I finally figured it out because I
Speaker 2: sound like a scientific moron most of the time, and
Speaker 2: that is it's almost like the air bags in a car.
Speaker 2: You have a head on collision and the air bags
Speaker 2: actually depl before the kinetic energy hits you where you
Speaker 2: are going to be hit by the collision itself, so
Speaker 2: you're being boom, you get the collision, and of course
Speaker 2: you're going to be whiplash back and then forward. Well,
Speaker 2: technology is such that they can't actually explode that air
Speaker 2: bag out before the force of the collision, and that's
Speaker 2: nanosecond so I guess the it works this way the
Speaker 2: same way on a bigger scale, So it's kind of neat.
Speaker 2: And the way it works on the smartphone, everybody has
Speaker 2: it or you can get it for free, and there's
Speaker 2: a couple of programs that's what is it my let
Speaker 2: me get this.
Speaker 1: What are the two that are out there? Amy? I
Speaker 1: have them both.
Speaker 5: I keep on the Shake alert.
Speaker 1: Shake Alert, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's it comes out from every year from McDonald when
Speaker 2: they come out with a new shake it always changes.
Speaker 5: And there's my shake app too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are the two.
Speaker 3: Alert is one of my favorites.
Speaker 5: Oh, I have a good shamrock shake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quick question?
Speaker 2: Can you I think I have them both? And do
Speaker 2: they both buzz the phone at the same time? I
Speaker 2: know the phone vibrates if you have it on silent
Speaker 2: or does it bypass out like Amber alerts A your
Speaker 2: the phone goes off no matter what.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 5: I don't think it does. I'm trying to remember what
Speaker 5: happened yesterday because it hit it ten oh eight yesterday
Speaker 5: and my phone vibrated. I don't think it did that
Speaker 5: alert like you get when you do.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got the audio alert.
Speaker 1: I had my.
Speaker 4: Phone vibrated and my watch vibrated my Apple Watch.
Speaker 5: Oh, my watch probably vibrated too. I just wasn't paying
Speaker 5: attention because there was an earthquay.
Speaker 3: I handle didn't know what was happening. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 3: wear a rod and he was just happy something was working.
Speaker 2: Well. I get very happy when I keep the phone
Speaker 2: in my front pocket. And it vibrates, but that's for
Speaker 2: an entirely different reason. Okay, this is KFI A M six.
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