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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Thursday,
Speaker 1: kind of drizzly Thursday, September nineteenth. And it was only
Speaker 1: a few days ago when it was what one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen hundred and eighteen in Whitland Hills. Boy, weather
Speaker 1: it's changing rather rapidly, isn't it. Hey, how's the weather
Speaker 1: out there or what?
Speaker 2: Any of that?
Speaker 1: So a lot of conversation there now right kind of
Speaker 1: that's one thing about climate change. It really does make
Speaker 1: the conversation about weather a little more interesting. Okay, let
Speaker 1: me tell you one of the reasons why Sheriff Villanueva
Speaker 1: is no longer the sheriff of La County because the
Speaker 1: current Sheriff, Robert Luna, just announced that there is now
Speaker 1: a formal policy banning those deputy gangs or clicks of
Speaker 1: sheriff's deputies. There was a Loyal Law School report and
Speaker 1: that was published on January thirteenth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: So we're going back three.
Speaker 1: Years traces a fifty year history of deputy gangs within
Speaker 1: La County.
Speaker 2: Sheriff's department.
Speaker 1: And how do we know those gangs because they have tattoos.
Speaker 2: On their arms. It's like.
Speaker 1: Their shoulders or their wrists or whatever they hell, now,
Speaker 1: now the police department is going to be tatted up
Speaker 1: like crazy. It doesn't matter because the world the tattoos
Speaker 1: is very different than it was ten twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: But here's what viielland Waves said.
Speaker 1: These sheriffs who had these tattoos that signified there was
Speaker 1: a gang, they really weren't gangs. They were like bowling clubs.
Speaker 1: They were like softball teams. Okay, by the way, were
Speaker 1: there any softball teams or bowling teams among those deputies?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, And so new policy within the sheriff's department saying, oh, no,
Speaker 1: we are going to get rid of that one.
Speaker 2: We're banning all of this. Here's a Luna quote.
Speaker 1: Our employees are dedicated professionals who maintained the highest standards
Speaker 1: of integrity and service.
Speaker 2: I think so for the most part, the overwhelming.
Speaker 1: Number, I recognize the issue of law enforcement gangs has
Speaker 1: only involved a small fraction of the department. And this
Speaker 1: is where Vanueva said they didn't exist at all. Well,
Speaker 1: he was wrong clearly, so, Luna says, I also acknowledge
Speaker 1: that this long standing issue must be addressed appropriately to
Speaker 1: maintain the community's trust in US. Couldn't agree with him
Speaker 1: more because right now the trust in police departments, I
Speaker 1: won't say, is that a low ebb. The Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter movement came in, and I think the trust for
Speaker 1: cops was at the lowest ab there.
Speaker 2: It has come back. The pendulum is swinging.
Speaker 1: And as I I've always been incredibly pro pro police,
Speaker 1: and you could be pro police and still recognize there
Speaker 1: are bad apples. You tell me in any field, in
Speaker 1: any area of society where there aren't rogues. The problem
Speaker 1: is when you have rogues that are in the police department,
Speaker 1: a lot of harm is called well caused. Well no, actually,
Speaker 1: when you have rogues that do brain surgery, that's more
Speaker 1: harm to the individual. But for the most part, bad
Speaker 1: cops are bad cops. There's so few of them. Let's
Speaker 1: root them out instead of doing this broad brush and
Speaker 1: certainly when they are found, you can't have a sheriff
Speaker 1: for a police chief saying oh no, no, they don't exist.
Speaker 1: And that's for political purposes. I can't imagine other than that.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because VI on the web. He was head
Speaker 1: of a department and you didn't want to admit that
Speaker 1: there was anything wrong. And the sheriff, Alex fin we
Speaker 1: have a outplayed even just said it didn't happen. County
Speaker 1: leaders the board of supervisors said we have a problem.
Speaker 2: Nope, we don't. Critics have alleged for years that the
Speaker 2: gangs do exist. Nope.
Speaker 1: And so there were tattoos indicating that they were part
Speaker 1: of organizations like the Cavemen, the Executioners, bandidos.
Speaker 2: Now you know, what can I tell you?
Speaker 1: You know, when you have that, the first thing I
Speaker 1: think of is maybe there's a gang there. You know, Neil,
Speaker 1: I know you have a big tattoo of Mickey Mouse smiling.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean you're in a gang. I do not, sir,
Speaker 2: I do not. I do have a big tattoo of
Speaker 2: Harry Houdini, you do, and it's a really neat tattoo.
Speaker 2: It's on his calf.
Speaker 1: And occasionally what sometimes you see is sometimes you don't
Speaker 1: because it disappears and it does a good job of
Speaker 1: coming in and out it escapes. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the actual on you surprised me. I'm not you
Speaker 2: see you being funny.
Speaker 1: That's okay, Well, thank you for that, Neil, And NEI
Speaker 1: only thinks he's gonna be tomorrow.
Speaker 2: You're dreaming. Anyway, there were.
Speaker 1: Fights, there were bar fights. And the point is is
Speaker 1: the Robert Luna has as head of the department, done
Speaker 1: two things. Number one, recognized there was a real problem
Speaker 1: with Alex feeing the way but not even recognizing it
Speaker 1: or not saying anything about it or pooh pooing it
Speaker 1: or sweeping under the rug. And number two, he's done
Speaker 1: something about it. This policy now says this will stop.
Speaker 1: You cannot be a member at all disciplinary actions. I
Speaker 1: mean he's gonna throw them out. I mean they'll be
Speaker 1: hearings throwing them out. You can't be a member. And
Speaker 1: on top of that, you cannot shut up about it
Speaker 1: if you know someone is a member.
Speaker 2: So he has finally come down.
Speaker 1: This policy was unveiled yesterday and finally the.
Speaker 2: Sheriff's department dealing with this issue.
Speaker 1: Here's the interesting part about this, at least I find
Speaker 1: this interesting, is this has been going.
Speaker 2: On for fifty years.
Speaker 1: According to the Loyola Law School report that was published
Speaker 1: three and a half years ago, it's fifty years of
Speaker 1: this well, at least Luna is coming to the table.
Speaker 1: When's he up for reelection? By the way, is it November?
Speaker 1: I don't think so that he is coming. I think
Speaker 1: it is November.
Speaker 2: Isn't it all right? We're done with that now.
Speaker 1: Some big news yesterday, the Teamsters announced that they will
Speaker 1: not endorse either Trump or Harris in the presidential and
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said that is a win for him, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't disagree with. I think he's
Speaker 1: right on why because the Teamsters religiously endorse the Democrat.
Speaker 1: Last time Democrat was not endorsed, and I'm talking about
Speaker 1: a Republican being endorsed, but there was no endorsement. Was
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton when he ran. That's how long ago it was,
Speaker 1: I mean like thirty years ago. So this is huge
Speaker 1: news on this one. So the union said it was
Speaker 1: left with few commitments. On the top of the Teamsters
Speaker 1: issues with either former President Trump or Vice President Harris.
Speaker 1: Found no support, no definitive support among its members for
Speaker 1: either party's nominee.
Speaker 2: Actually that's not true.
Speaker 1: It found more support for Donald Trump than it did
Speaker 1: for Harris. And I'm going to talk about that in
Speaker 1: a minute, because I'm sitting here just not understanding this.
Speaker 1: I'm stunned by this.
Speaker 2: Then I have an idea of why.
Speaker 1: So the Teamsters represent freight drivers and warehouse workers said no,
Speaker 1: thank you to this at all. Now, unions all over
Speaker 1: the country have already endorsed Kamala Harris. This is the
Speaker 1: only major union that is saying no, and not to Trump,
Speaker 1: but also not to Harris. O'Brien, the president of the Union,
Speaker 1: Sean O'Brien, who went and spoke in front of the
Speaker 1: Republican National Convention. By the way, he tried to speak
Speaker 1: in front of the Democratic National Convention and they said no.
Speaker 2: That may be one of the reasons.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but he basically touted Trump, not
Speaker 1: in terms of his political but he says a mean
Speaker 1: sob and he thanked the Republican Convention the RNC for
Speaker 1: allowing him to speak.
Speaker 2: So what is going on here?
Speaker 1: Well ahead of the announcement yesterday, the Union released an
Speaker 1: electronic member poll Trump sixty percent support, Harris thirty four percent.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And then there was a separate poll conducted by the
Speaker 1: union fifty eight percent for Trump, thirty one percent for
Speaker 1: Harris among Union members, And you go, what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on national polls show that she gets union
Speaker 1: and support.
Speaker 2: What is going on with this? Because Harris comes from.
Speaker 1: An administration, and that is the Biden Harris administration, which
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has said proudly he is the most pro
Speaker 1: union president we've ever had.
Speaker 2: He's right.
Speaker 1: No one refutes that she comes from that. She has
Speaker 1: not refuted it. She has not changed her position. She
Speaker 1: walked the picket lines in favor of unions, she has
Speaker 1: worked for.
Speaker 2: The union pension plans. I mean, this is a woman.
Speaker 1: Who you go, how is that possible that she isn't
Speaker 1: getting the endorsement? And then I'm thinking, okay, let's think
Speaker 1: of the reasons why. I can really only think of
Speaker 1: one reason, and other than just personal like or dislike.
Speaker 1: But the union members. You don't have the president of
Speaker 1: the Teamsters or any union saying, you know what, we're
Speaker 1: endorsing Harris or Trump because we just like them more,
Speaker 1: that's all.
Speaker 2: It's a likability issue. You don't hear that from the unions.
Speaker 1: So here I'm trying to figure out what is going
Speaker 1: on because at first glance, Harris is much more pro
Speaker 1: union than Trump. But here, especially after Trump with that
Speaker 1: Elon Musk interview where he congratulated Musk for basically saying
Speaker 1: union members, you fire them.
Speaker 2: I think it's the greatest thing in the world. You
Speaker 2: show them someone doesn't like the way you're doing your business,
Speaker 2: you fire them, and you did, and I think that's great.
Speaker 1: So why would Trump get that kind of support? And
Speaker 1: I think it is because he is pushing the tariffs.
Speaker 1: He is saying, we are going to tariff the hell
Speaker 1: out of anything made overseas to where we're going. If
Speaker 1: we want to buy something, it's going to be American
Speaker 1: workers who manufacture it.
Speaker 2: That is powerful stuff.
Speaker 1: And if you're looking at which way, if I'm working
Speaker 1: and I see a potential president who says, I really
Speaker 1: am protecting you, and here is how I'm protecting you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to make sure that all that stuff that's
Speaker 1: made overseas will not be here. We cannot buy it.
Speaker 1: That's how I'm protecting your jobs. That resonates. I think
Speaker 1: that resonates. Is that the reason, Well, we're not given
Speaker 1: the reason. You know, you'll hear a labor analysts give
Speaker 1: you tons of reason, But at first glance, that's the
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I can think of because I
Speaker 1: don't get it. I don't get how sixty percent of
Speaker 1: the teamsters are supporting Trump other than that, well, some.
Speaker 2: Of them just like the guy.
Speaker 1: You know, there are plenty of people that I'll tell
Speaker 1: you one thing. People who like Trump like Trump a
Speaker 1: lot more than people who like Harris.
Speaker 2: Like Harris.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump's supporters are on a level that I've
Speaker 1: never seen before ever. You know, where I live, across
Speaker 1: the street they are a couple of Trump supporters and
Speaker 1: I drive down the street where they have an American flag. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: now the American flag equals supporting Trump.
Speaker 2: I don't get that either.
Speaker 1: But Trump flags, and I mean Trump flags that you
Speaker 1: would see flying over capitals that big.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know they're on there.
Speaker 1: You know the flagpole is on the roof and the
Speaker 1: flag hits the ground and that's twelve feet, that's fourteen feet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't see that anyplace else. And so I think
Speaker 1: that's a lot of the reason. And I do think
Speaker 1: that terrorf issue is a lot of the reason.
Speaker 2: So we'll find out. We're gonna see.
Speaker 1: We only we have less than a couple of months
Speaker 1: to go before this thing hits.
Speaker 2: Boy, what a run this is going to be. Man,
Speaker 2: what a presidential we're going to see.
Speaker 1: Going back to the year two thousand and By the way,
Speaker 1: I was absolutely in this population. I bought a minivan
Speaker 1: because I became a soccer mom. My kids that year
Speaker 1: were five years old, born in nineteen ninety five, and
Speaker 1: I wasn't alone. About over a million people one point
Speaker 1: three million vans were sold last year. That figure is
Speaker 1: down eighty percent. There used to be a dozen manufactures.
Speaker 1: Now it's only four Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, and Kia, and
Speaker 1: they have one each.
Speaker 2: So what happened to the minivan, Well, it was always
Speaker 2: kind of ugly.
Speaker 1: It was always kind of boxy, and you sort of
Speaker 1: had to have it if you had kids, especially if
Speaker 1: you had two or more kids.
Speaker 2: You simply had to have it.
Speaker 1: You have the cup holders getting in and out, with
Speaker 1: the sliding door. It was just the perfect vehicle for
Speaker 1: moms or families, and I was one of those moms.
Speaker 2: It was popular, but I'll tell you what it never was.
Speaker 2: It was never cool.
Speaker 1: The first one came out in nineteen eighty three, and
Speaker 1: this is when Leiahkoca, who had run Forward, came onto
Speaker 1: Chrysler and he saved Chrysler. It's one of the few
Speaker 1: times the government came in loan money to a major
Speaker 1: corporation and the money was paid back early and the
Speaker 1: government actually made money. I don't know the last time
Speaker 1: that happened, but it broke all kinds of new ground.
Speaker 1: This is Leiacca. They came up with this. He had
Speaker 1: jump seats, he had the rear storage for easy loading.
Speaker 1: There was I mean, before that, you had the big
Speaker 1: box utility vehicles, the vans, full size vans, or you
Speaker 1: had the station wagons.
Speaker 2: Remember those.
Speaker 1: I grew up with those, and it's just not the same. Nope,
Speaker 1: the minivan was the answer. And the initial two models
Speaker 1: that Chrysler sold, the Dodge Caravan and the Plymouth Foyaguer.
Speaker 2: Well, let me put it this way.
Speaker 1: Overall mini minivan sales that year or that decade, by
Speaker 1: the end of the decade reached seven hundred thousand a year.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is pretty impressive. But again, it wasn't cool.
Speaker 1: It was kind of ugly. And then what came around
Speaker 1: to kill the minivan.
Speaker 2: Part of it.
Speaker 1: I was one of the population where I just didn't
Speaker 1: care about my kids anymore. I don't care walk, take
Speaker 1: a bike, drive a motorcycle. I'm fine with that, But
Speaker 1: what really killed the minivan.
Speaker 2: Was the suv.
Speaker 1: The suv came into existence and that effectively wiped out
Speaker 1: the minivan.
Speaker 2: And look at how many sedans.
Speaker 1: Do you see versus or versus SUVs out there or crossovers.
Speaker 1: I mean, and if you buy a car today, a
Speaker 1: sedan will cost you thousands of dollars less than the
Speaker 1: SUVs because everybody wants an suv.
Speaker 2: I bought my first suv.
Speaker 1: I went from a minivan to sedan's because my kids, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it was my wife.
Speaker 2: Who ended up driving the kids all over the place.
Speaker 2: I really was in the soccer mom.
Speaker 1: And my kids never played soccer, and the places that
Speaker 1: we took our kids I don't even remember. But it
Speaker 1: was the minivan. You know what I thought the best
Speaker 1: thing about minivan's cup holders. I thought that was such
Speaker 1: a great idea. I mean, there aren't enough cup holders
Speaker 1: in any vehicle. You know, I have an SUV, my
Speaker 1: EV and BMW and you know Germans and this is
Speaker 1: made in Germany. I guess they don't drink on the road.
Speaker 1: There are two cup holders and you have to reach
Speaker 1: under and grab them. I don't understand that kind of
Speaker 1: think it's great car, but they don't drink. And American
Speaker 1: cars now have a bunch of cup holders that started
Speaker 1: with the suv.
Speaker 2: So the minivan is kind of dead.
Speaker 1: They're done, and it's sort of a you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of look on it nostalgically, you know, because that
Speaker 1: was a big part of my life for a bunch
Speaker 1: of years when my little ones were little. Okay, talk
Speaker 1: about entertaining. The last presidential debate between Kamala Harris and
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was a hoot, and probably the most memorable
Speaker 1: part of it was Donald Trump saying in Springfield, they're
Speaker 1: eating the dogs, the people that came in, They're eating
Speaker 1: the cats, they're eating the pets, the people that live there.
Speaker 2: Okay, why not? Sure?
Speaker 1: Then that is reference to immigration, clearly because Haitians have.
Speaker 2: Moved into Springfield in Illinois. So how did that start?
Speaker 1: Well, a lady but Erica Lee wrote on Facebook a
Speaker 1: post put a post up that she had heard that
Speaker 1: a neighbor's cat had disappeared and that one of their
Speaker 1: Haitian neighbors might have taken the animal. So she posted
Speaker 1: this rumor on Facebook, they're eating their cats, They're eating
Speaker 1: the dogs. And then she decided after posting. She decides
Speaker 1: to go back to her neighbor and asks for proof. Right,
Speaker 1: she posts the rumor and then goes to the neighbor
Speaker 1: and go, I'd like some proof. Well, it turned out
Speaker 1: that that cat who had gone missing wasn't the cat
Speaker 1: of the neighbor's daughter, as she had been told afterwards,
Speaker 1: if there was a cat like that, it belonged to
Speaker 1: a friend of a friend of the neighbor's daughter. And lisays,
Speaker 1: at that point, we're playing the game of telephone. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to reach her because she had personally no information
Speaker 1: about any abducted cats.
Speaker 2: She just posted this rumor that she had heard. Well,
Speaker 2: she's deleted it. She's not very happy with it.
Speaker 1: And of course that took off like crazy. You talk
Speaker 1: about something that went viral. Also to the point where
Speaker 1: the president or former president is saying, as a political statement,
Speaker 1: the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio are eating the pets, they're
Speaker 1: eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, and you would
Speaker 1: sort of shake your head and go, really, no, not really,
Speaker 1: that's how crazy this presidential has become. Jd Vance pops
Speaker 1: in and effectively admits number one that it's not true,
Speaker 1: and two defends it.
Speaker 2: If I have to make up.
Speaker 1: Stuff that's not true to get America's attention, I will
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Are we going back to the Democrats are eating kids?
Speaker 1: There are these pedophile groups of Democrat congress people under
Speaker 1: a pizza parlor that are eating children, sacrificing little ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess if that's what it takes. By the way,
Speaker 1: the local authorities in Springfield have gone nuts. They've debunked it.
Speaker 1: And here's the problem is that the threats have now
Speaker 1: come in in Springfield. They've shut down hospitals, shut down
Speaker 1: the schools.
Speaker 2: They're reeling with this. And of course JD.
Speaker 1: Van said, Hey, that had nothing to do with it,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the threats that had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with us. Now, is it true that there are
Speaker 1: Haitians in Springfield? You bet fifteen to twenty thousand being
Speaker 1: called illegal.
Speaker 2: They're not illegal. They're there legally because of the asylum program.
Speaker 1: Now you can argue politically asylum, yes, asylum, no, that's
Speaker 1: a legitimate argument. But don't tell me they're there illegally
Speaker 1: when they are there legally. Okay, that is just dumb.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to argue that
Speaker 1: immigration is a horrible thing, which, by the way, a
Speaker 1: lot of people do. And I am more in favor
Speaker 1: of curtailing immigration than I am in allowing large numbers
Speaker 1: of people in. I think the whole asylum program is
Speaker 1: kind of crazy, and even the Biden administration has cut
Speaker 1: way down on it because.
Speaker 2: It's politically it's non palatable.
Speaker 1: And I think that I would allow more asylum seekers
Speaker 1: if he could, because that's just his thinking. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big jump from too many Haitians who are
Speaker 1: there illegally and they're not that are destroying the city
Speaker 1: while all the city officials say, no, they get here legally.
Speaker 2: The employers love them.
Speaker 1: Now are the city services overwhelmed, Yeah, they're straining. But
Speaker 1: put all of that together and go forward with those
Speaker 1: Haitian immigrants are eating.
Speaker 2: The dogs and cats. I mean, even for those of
Speaker 2: you that are not.
Speaker 1: Particularly Kamala Harris fans, all right, and you are going
Speaker 1: to go the other way. Really, So one of two things. One,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what's being said. Oh by that, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Your politics are your politics, and you're voting
Speaker 1: the way you're voting, and this is just all fluff.
Speaker 1: This is just part of the ridiculous statements that are
Speaker 1: made this presidential or even worse, you actually believe they're
Speaker 1: eating the dogs and cats, and please don't say that,
Speaker 1: so please. I can't imagine a large swath of America
Speaker 1: believing that dogs and cats are being eaten in Springfield,
Speaker 1: at least I don't.
Speaker 2: All right, So what's the bottom? What's the takeaway here?
Speaker 1: The woman, the one woman who started that rumor said oops, boy,
Speaker 1: And it was a friend of a friend who actually
Speaker 1: she found out started it and she posted it.
Speaker 2: And it just exploded. Boy. I'd like to start a rumor.
Speaker 1: What if I say I saw a Martian who just
Speaker 1: came out of a meeting with Kamala Harris, and would
Speaker 1: that explode saying, oh my god, she has aliens that
Speaker 1: are now going to be part of her administration if
Speaker 1: she gets elected.
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer of that.
Speaker 1: Would that go viral? We should try it and start
Speaker 1: that rumor, would you?
Speaker 2: I'm on it, okay that I want.
Speaker 1: You to post that I saw Kamala Harris, or I
Speaker 1: saw a Martian leave a meeting with her and say
Speaker 1: I'm going to do everything in my power to get
Speaker 1: her elected so we're going to post that and we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. God, I hope that rumor goes. And
Speaker 1: then maybe Kamala Harris had a love child with Elvis.
Speaker 2: That's another one. There's a lot we can do with
Speaker 2: all of that.
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