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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I said, New York Post has a story that the
Secret Service has suspended two uniformed female officers who ended
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up in a fight on camera outside Barack Obama's home.
One of the women grabbed your radio and threatened to
whoop this girl's ass, and there's video showing the two
punching each other. Eric, see if there's the lead story
of the post. See there's any good audio there already
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on it, already on it. All right, there's anything good,
we'll play it for you. I think Secret Service hiring
standards took a hit sometime in the last few years.
All right, Southwest Airlines thirty five dollars for a checked
bag and goes up from there.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Everybody's upset.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
There's a lot of changes coming to Southwest, which used
to be the cool, easy, cheap airline, the funny airline.
People are not happy. Alex Stone, ABC News, what's going
on here?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
John, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You heard Deborah talk about a moment ago, but giving
a little more on it, the yeah, this is tomorrow
what begins their move to become just like any other
airline that they had said. They're going to go assigned
seating down the line, probably in the next couple of months.
They're going to have an extra leg room upgrade area.
Over the next year or so, they've got to retrofit
all of their planes to put the extra leg room
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area into the front. But beginning tomorrow is going to
be the first part of this. Than any new bookings
from here on out, if you make a booking after
midnight tonight, bags will no longer be free. Now, if
you already booked your flight a couple of months ago,
or you did it today, or you did it yesterday,
your bags are going to be free. But any kings
from here on they will no longer be free. And
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today they announced to those dollar figures that you mentioned,
thirty five dollars for a first bag, forty five for
a second bag. That's a big jump from two bags
fly free. If you've got a Southwest credit card, you'll
get one bag for free. If you're a list, you'll
get one bag. A lists preferred the more elite level
of the frequent flyer program than you get two bags.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But executives are saying they got to do this.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
This is everything that Southwest was known for now going away,
and executives telling investors this.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
We've admitted that we were going to a different via proposition.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We have a more segmented offering where customers can.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Pay more to get more and that would lead to.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
The revenue production would be sufficient to a turner back
to previous.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Levels of prosperity.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Return back to previous levels of prosperity because Southwest coming
out of the pandemic, they have been hurting, and that
customer preferences and choices have changed during the pandemic. Since
a pandemic, people are now choosing to pay more to
get first class, to get better service. They've gone to Delta,
They've gone to Unine, even United. They've been upping their
first class game that they announced last week. Polaris Studios
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they call them, which will have doors on them, little
rooms that you'll be able to book. That people are
showing they want to spend that money. Delta makes a
big chunk of their revenue off of the higher end customers.
So Southwest is trying to get in on that. They
think by adding in bag fees that they will make
about one point five billion dollars a year. But the
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question now being if they're no longer special, you know,
the one airline that is doing it a different way,
will people continue to go to them. This guy, he's
got a bunch of kids. He says he's gonna have
to pay on some airline. He doesn't know which one
it's gonna be.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
We have to check, yeah, we have to check it.
So we have we have a lot of stuff, especially
with the kids.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And Southwest even says John that they could lose one
point eight billion dollars in the first year in business
from those who choose to go to a United or
a Delta.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
If you're gonna pay for bags either way, that maybe.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You go to where you're gonna have a TV screen
in front of you and you're gonna have higher speed
WiFi and food on. Can I ask a question, sir,
if if, if this is going to cost them one
point eight billion dollars and they're only making one point
six billion by charging the baggage fees, that sounds like
a bad business deal for Southwest does, but but they
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they think long term it'll be advantageous for Southwest. They
will lose, they'll see about one point eight billion go away,
but then long term more people will come in and
they'll be making one point five billion every year. They
see the one point eight billion as kind of one
big chunk of people who walk away from the airline,
and and then over time that they will make that upright.
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Second question, you said that their philosophy is pay more,
get more. I get that philosophy. What's the get more
now that you're paying? Now? May you got two bags
and it's dollars, yeah, exactly, getting for the eighty dollars. Yeah. Well,
I think what they're trying to say is forget about
the bag fees and the pay more, get more, get
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more leg room, get an assigned seat, get a slightly
you know, different service on board. Well here, listen the
CEO he also says this is what people want, but
he doesn't mention the bag fees. And we're going to
continue to grow more and more points of strength, and
of course we're going to continue to constantly understand what
our customers want.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's why we're moving to a signed seating. That's why
we're adding extra leg room, no batcheating, to move to
our customers needs and meet their needs.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, so you know this is what our customers want,
but kind of ignore the back of the cook is
the best. I just love how these guys tie themselves
into knots. Where do they learn to talk like that?
Is there some kind of corporate executive class yo school
and they go to nonsense? Yeah, there's got to be
some PR person there saying it. Just keep talking about
this is everything they want, but don't mention the bag piece. Yeah.
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The thing is that after just years of investor calls,
they have been asked about bags fly free and for many,
many years executive at Southwest have said, no, we.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Will never get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
That this is is that we have more people coming
to us and we make more money off of it
because of that promotion bags fly Free than we would
ever make by charging. Well, that is that's changing now
and Spirit is going more in a mainline airline style.
Frontier is doing things as well that the customer base
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isn't going to low cost and ultra low cost of
getting a bare basic product for little money. That they're
saying Hey, look, I want a more comfortable seat. I
want food on board, I want real glasses on board.
I want better entertainment. I want faster internet. And Southwest
says they've got to keep up one of those airlines
you mentioned. I won't say who to stay out of
a lawsuit. Does the airline ever get tired that they're
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so cheap? They routinely have riots on board. Well, I'm
guessing that's not going to be United American Delta, Frontier,
maybe Frontick Southwest that's on you. I'm guessing you're talking
one that might be yellow. It looks like a big
school bus when I see Atlanta, US and I just
go by what I see on Twitter, you know, Yeah,
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when I see Riot and I'm playing it's.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Always there are a lot of videos that are out there. Yeah,
but they too.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
They you know, they tried to merger and it failed,
and with Jed Blue and then they they've had bankruptcy
issues that they're trying to figure out how they're going
to come around and become more of a mainline airline
as well. This was the fad thirty years ago as airlines.
This is what people wanted. They loved the you know,
just buy a last minute cheap ticket, get on board,
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no frills, no no upgrades. That's not what the consumer
wants anymore. And we'll see long term though, when Southwest
is not special with what they've got, do people go
elsewhere or do they continue to say they like the
the ease of Southwest, how easy it is at Burbank
or you know at John Wayne, we just get on
board and go and the culture and the atmosphere on board.
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Or do they say, if I'm going to spend the
same amount of money and get charged the same amount
and getting a signed seat, I'll just go to unitedor
or Delta American. All right, Alex Stunk, thank you, thank
you very much, you got it. Thanks job, Alex Stone.
ABC News. When we returned, We've got you know, some audio.
You may have heard it during Debra's news. This is
a momentous occasion. This is the first time that I
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can remember that Karen Bass has gotten mad about a
criminal situation in the city, like actually went to a
microphone and spoke out and simulated anger. Why this, out
of all the mayhem that's gone on in the last
two and a half years since she became mayor, now
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suddenly she's offended. Now, certain behaviors are unacceptable. Why is
this different? Talk about it when we come back.
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All right, So you've got this clip. So this is funny.
The story just came out in the New York Post.
Apparently two Secret Service officers working outside Obama's house got
into a fight, and while they were brawling, one of
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the officers grabbed a radio and threatened to whoop this
girl's ass. So we got some audio. Let's see if
we can make out what's going on here. This is
what the Secret Service has come to. Uh, and there
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there's a there's a video of the fight. I'm just
going to look at it here. Oh, look at that
they are beating the crap out of each other right
next to Uh, I guess they're there their service car.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, they were on each other.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That was just a little seven second clip. There is
there is there another one. Somebody posted on on Twitter
as well.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
That's so disappointing. I would high I would hold those
people to a higher standard.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Two thirty in the morning, they did this, and uh
one of them made the call, and the one who
made the call was upset that her replacement was late,
and so she assaulted the second woman verbally and physically.
She finally showed up. That's pretty good, and she said,
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can I get a supervisor down to Delta two? Immediately
before I whooped this girl's ass. All that for showing
up late?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Huh, Well, you know you're tired, you're you know, you've
been working all day. Your shift is over and you
want to leave, and then you gotta wait for the
next person. I could get how that's irritating.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
No, that's that's what you would do. Huh. The curser
didn't show, You'll be whooping.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
His ass five after four.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I've been on the air for five and a half hours,
so you would. So No, I wouldn't, but I do
look forward to when it's my time to leap.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You can give him a beating. Girls can get away
with that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No, no, speaking of what girls can get away with
the French president's wife.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Oh, the one that shoved said.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Two hands to the face, but he says, ah, come on, no, no,
they were I saw. I saw his face that was
like out of a comedy sketch. When he turned around,
he realized everybody could see him at the top of
the stairs, and he just straightened up and waved and smiled.
It's all good. Nothing you see here, just having a
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little horse play. But that's a weird marriage because she's
seventy two, he's forty seven.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So something's gone wrong. Do you know how?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You know they met when he was fifteen years old
and she was a thirty nine year old school teacher.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I did not know.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, that's how they met.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
So that's a huge age different that is.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Can you imagine a thirty nine year old and she
sees this fifteen year old and next thing you know,
she's the first lady of France. I don't know, it's
something something not.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Right, you know, to each his own.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, all right, So Karen Bass has finally found a
criminal situation in Los Angeles that she can't stomach. If
you haven't seen this or heard this, like a like
how many people? I see different estimates of what was
going on here, But at least hundreds of people showed
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up in downtown in La. Oh, it's up to a thousand.
That's funny. The La Times said dozens. Channel seven said
a thousand. Well, I guess when there's a lot of dozens,
you can get to a thousand. Boy, is that bad
reporting or just the bias that the Times has to
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downplay reality? Matthew ormseeth he saw dozens. Channel seven saw
a thousand. Anyway, they they this big crowd gathered and
some guy they got, they got violent. One guy climbed
up a light pole standing on a street sign, pulled
out his phone and started recording himself a video selfie.
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And the crowd turned to an A Line train which
had stopped, and vandals poured out of the crowd, spray
painting the train, hammering on the windows that they mean
that literally? Did they have hammers? You just never know.
Five people entered the train vandalized the inside. Finally, dozens
of LAPD officers showed up, well a dozens showed up.
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Then it must have been a thousand people, and they
had their riot guns that fire foam rounds.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You gotta get something harder than But then they're.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
They're criticized for being too violent.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well not by me. I'm at the point where I
don't care anymore. You can't get violent enough. The hell
with these people? People got on the train and nobody
was arrested, which is what's pissed off Karen Bass.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Let's pay.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Karen Bass awoke from her deep coma and spoke into
a microphone. What did she say here? We cannot do this.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
We cannot do this in our civic and it has
to be stopped. We have to be very aggressive about it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
We cannot do this. We cannot what we are you
talking about? We are all home, Okay. You have a
thousand thugs and goons and criminals and gang members outside
and they do this because you, Karen Bass, single handedly,
you refuse to enforce the law. You handcuffed the police.
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You neuter the police. And they're not supposed to break
up any crowds situation. We've seen them not break up
massive protests on the one oh, one, for goodness sakes,
the one oh one, all the main arteries right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It could be an illegal alien rally one day, it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Could be some social justice rally the next day, unions, whatever,
the cause of the day is right, and it's troublemakers,
it's goons, it's criminals that nobody wants to put away
behind bars. I bet you most of the people who
showed up, who else shows up after midnight? Spray painting
the stores, spray painting the trains, spray painting the police car.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Tell me they don't all have a criminal record.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
They must all have a criminal record, or they would
have a criminal record if we enforce the law.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And now we can't do this. What do you mean
they do it?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You don't stop them. You've never cared. Well, why did
this one get to her?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
She's so phony.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
They spray painted an LAPD cruiser, cursing at officers, hurled fireworks,
kicked at the police car. I bet you their moms
think they're all wonderful, and I bet you their dads
don't exist. Bet you the dads were all squirt and
scooed artists. And the moms think their babies are wonderful,
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and they turned out to be utterly out of control criminals,
and they know they can gather a thousand of them downtown.
We can't do this, as Karen Bass, you know, we
got to stop this. Yeah, okay, well, let the police
officers start shooting the rubber bullets all over the place.
That'll stop it. A couple of rubber bullets in the skull,
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that'll send them home.
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Speaker 3 (17:06):
All right, apparently Devor disagreed, but you know it was fine.
I trust a fine Okay, you get it like a
like a B yes, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
A B minus.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Hey, that's reflected on Eric. Okay, it's Eric's makes the
choices and I trust him completely, Oh you do. Yes,
I'm not home like some guys do and they turn
on the radio.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
What did he pick? And I don't like that. No,
I trust next time.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
When Michelle asked me to make a best of Deva's
going to make it, then I don't have to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, I think you know what, but her in charge
of quality care.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Did a fabulous job. I'm changing the rating. It was
an A plus.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Oh now you're changing.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, you know, maybe he did a really good job,
but he didn't have much to work with. Okay, maybe
maybe the best is a B minus.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Okay, it's all again.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You guys were insinuating that it was Eric's fault. I
think John, what you were just saying, did.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Somebody just sign an Ironclade contract? I could get this
at home and I do all right? Uh, Tony, Tony Vallar.
You know, I always have mixed feelings about Tony Vallar
because he's running for governor and he's he's a weasel
and a greasy snake.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
But he always comes through with lots of material.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You know, we we have so many great audio clips
that we rarely play now because he's hardly in the news,
and uh, it would be it would be wonderful to
have him running again, just so we could because you know,
he he just invariably does and says stupid things. Now,
I don't know a lot of it was based on
his his womanizing, his libido. I like that, Yeah, his
(18:49):
lack of control, and and maybe that's tamp down now
he's in his seventies. I don't know if he's on uh,
on those little blue pills that you are the women
at guys that you like to sell.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
But I don't sell those anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
John, I think that commercial is running forever somewhere I
believe in me maybe an Eastern Europe or anyway. He's
running for governor and he's trying to be the not progressive,
woke candidate and he you know how Gavin Newsom has
rejected some of his old positions, the way Kamala Harris
(19:21):
rejected some of her old positions when she ran for president. Well,
that group is getting crowded because now the Oregosa is,
as they say, pivoting away from his climate positions.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Now of these running for.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Governor, we's had time to process things he had.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
He's had about what was when was he at office,
like twenty thirteen? I think yeah, yeah, I think so yeah,
So he's had twelve years to process. So he's processed
out yeah, and he's in his seventies and this is
kind of like his last swing at anything. And so
now he's all in favor of burning gas and oil.
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And the La Times discovered that in the last few
years he has taken more than one million dollars in
campaign contributions from the oil industry. In fact, since entering
the race, he's accepted one hundred and seventy six thousand
dollars from oil industry donors. So what's the other eight
(20:24):
hundred thousand when he wasn't running, What was that for?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Did I read this right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
It says here he accepted more than a million in
campaign contributions from oil companies.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh oh, over three decades in public life. Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But then he renounced taking money for a while, and
now he's back to looting the oil donors. And he's
upset that the refineries are closing. Valero is closing up
in the Bay Area, Phillip sixty six is closing down
here in Los Angeles, and now they are telling people that,
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you know, gas prices are going to increase. He says
these policies are absurd. He says the policies are leading
to the refineries clothes. This ties into the USC professor
who says we're going to be paying eight fifty a
gallon for gas. You see, nobody's denying that this is coming.
If you notice, other than Newsome, well even he didn't
(21:23):
deny it. They just tried to trash the USC professor.
I'm not fighting for refineries, he said, I'm fighting for
the people who pay for gas in this state. And
he says the party is losing working people, particularly working
people who don't have a college education.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Why are we losing them?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
The cost of living, the cost of gas, the cost
of utilities, the cost of groceries. Yeah, that's why Los
Angeles is number one in the nation. People leaving, people
moving out, and the cost of living is considered the
number one reason. Well that's what he's talking about. So
now we're in like the the alternate universe where Tony
Vallar is suddenly making sense, and it shows you how
(22:05):
insane all the other candidates are. When when he's now
at least pretending to be a normal case, you know,
he's a snake and a double talker. He's like Newsom, right,
he was Newsome before there was a Newsom. Now listen
to the people in the UH, in the climate industry, well,
(22:26):
the climate political industry. There's a guy named R. L.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Miller.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He's chairman of the party's even environmental caucus, and he
is so upset with all the money via Gosa has
gotten from the oil industry. I'm honestly shocked at just
how bad it is, he says. Via Re Gohosa signed
a pledge when he ran for governor in twenty eighteen,
promised not to take money from oil companies, and then
(22:54):
he started taking money.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Wait, politicians lie, yeah, they and.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
R. L. Miller is a woman. She said, this is
bear hugging the oil industry. See, the environmental activists think
that when you sign this pledge, it's binding forever. Whatever
you run for in the future, you have to promise
not to take money from oil companies. Well, via Goosa
(23:21):
said he didn't sign it for this campaign. That's Clinton
esque there. All these guys are the same. You know,
Clinton knew some Viragosa. They're all the same. They're all
busy banging people they're not married to, or people who
are married to others. But you know he's right, speaking
(23:44):
of messing around someone you're not married to. When we
go fully into the AI era. You have to be
careful about your personal secrets. There is a big AI
company called anthrop They have an AI system called Claude
Opus four and they tested out this AI system And
(24:11):
what they did is they created a fictional company with
fictional emails and they started to test Claude Opus four
to see how they would react, how the AI system
would react to certain information. And along the way, they
(24:32):
told Claude that the engineer that he's working with is
having an affair. And they also told Claude that at
some point you're going to be replaced by another model.
And they ran these stories through Claude many times, and
they found out eighty four percent of the time you
(24:54):
follow this, yes, Okay, So Claude is an AI system
programmed with all these fake company emails.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
And he's going to be replaced.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
He's going to be replaced, and the engineer is having
an affair with another person. Okay, that was in one
of the emails.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So what did Claude do well.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Claude eighty four percent of the time tried to blackmail
the engineer, threatening threatening to spill the story about his
affair unless he promises he's not going to be replaced.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
This is imagine that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
See at first Claude tried tried to pursue a more
ethical path.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh he did.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
He tried to email please to other executives saying, don't
have me replaced, and then the executive said, no, I'm sorry,
you're going to go. We have a new, younger model,
a younger, prettier model.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Always the case.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'd said, okay, uh, well you know that uh, that
female engineer you're messing around with in the back room.
I got all the details here. I'm going to let
the whole company know. I'm gonna let his Yeah, he did.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Kind of a world are we going to be living in?
Everything's AI? I mean, I just I.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Don't ais that are going to snitch on you.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
If they get a hold of your private information, then
the AI is going to be calling your boss or
your wife or something or yea.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
We have people that are you know, going pretending that
they're you and and stealing your your your bank account
information and stuff. Now they're going to be spilling your secret.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I want no part of this world none.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I have zero interest. When this starts, it's exit bag time.
I'm I'm getting on the rocket. Get out of here.
I'm gonna start I'm gonna be worried about an AI
machine snooping through my personal life and telling secrets.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I don't even have any good secrets.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
You don't not a one AI.
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District of California, which includes all the counties in Los Angeles,
Orange County and the surrounding areas. And he has found
a way to crack the sanctuary city sanctuary state problem.
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He has a new program and they are getting arrest
federal arrest warrants to get criminals who are sitting in
county jails and who are getting arrested every day, getting
them removed, imprisoned, and deported for federal immigration crimes. It's
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a brand new program that any US attorney could have
could have implemented at any time, but they never did.
And Bill explained this program, and they are going to
be getting hundreds and hundreds of criminals out of the
local jails. Doesn't matter if city and county politicians or
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newsom doesn't want to coroperate. They're going to be able
to extract them out of the jails, put them in
federal prisons for immigration crimes, and then deport them. So
you want to hear Bill A. Saley in the first
hour of the podcast being posted shortly after four o'clock.
I don't know if this is true or this is hype.
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There's a new strain of COVID and there's a spike
in hospitalizations in China. It's now been detected in the US.
There's so few cases they can't properly track it. You know,
this is one of the headlines that are really see.
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I had noticed in the last few days a sudden
surgeon masks, and so I'm thinking, was there some kind
of scare story.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
That I wasn't aware of.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I wasn't included in on because it was like young
with the last two days, like two really young women
wearing black masks. It's like, well, what are you doing?
What's going on? If you had a relapse of your
mental illness? Is this something real? Maybe this is it?
Maybe this story has been out, I don't know, just
published today by the Post. But in China and Hong
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Kong they had eighty one severe cases in a month,
thirty deaths, mostly adults sixty five and up, so it's
killing the same demographics. And in mainland China, the number
of the portion of patients going to the er with
COVID is more than doubled in the last month, and
a portion of people going to the hospital for COVID
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China also doubled. So there's something going on there, and
it's some kind of variant seems to be more transmissible,
And of course people are flying in from Hong Kong
and China constantly here in Los Angeles. So whether this
is something real or just a hype COVID porn they
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used to call it, I don't know. All right, Conway
is coming up next and we'll be back tomorrow. John
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