May 9, 2024 • 28 mins
Federated University Police Officers' Association President Wade Stern comes on the show to talk about Gascon not pressing charges against 44 individuals who were arrested at the UCLA anti-Israel protest encampment. A Boeing 737 jet skidded off the runway in Senegal. The US Department of Education is looking into an anti-Semitism complaint about the Berkeley Unified School District. The City of Long Beach saw a drop in homeless people by 71 people after spending $60 million people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Talk now with Well, there were forty four people arrested
at UCLA for well, actually forty four people were stopped
from occupying and vandalizing buildings on the UCLA campus. And
this was done by the UCLA Police Department. And we're
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going to talk now to Wade Stern, president of the
Federated University Police Officers Association, because while these forty four
people have been were arrested, is the La County DA
going to ever charge them, maybe with felonies for example,
let's get Wade stern On here to explore this whole issue.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Wade, how are you great?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So these forty four people, it's this specific incident where
they were all arrested and they were found ready to
burst into these administrative buildings and occupy them, and they
had all sorts of tools.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Explain the background of this case.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So what you saw in those pictures that you saw
them at all, with the locks and the epoxy and
the super glue and the bolt cutters and the pipes
is highly sophisticated. This is nothing new that we see
in the UC system. This is something that I've been
seeing over the last twenty two years. In fact, we
have officers that are trained to be able to breach
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those types of buildings to be able to go get
those people. And so this is nothing new that we've
seen them. The sophistication aside, this is the same stuff
that you're seeing nationally at riots and where they're taking
over other buildings and so this and along with the
manuals that they had and the propaganda that they had,
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you know, this sophistication is not to be taken lightly.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This is serious and these are outside anarchist groups that
recruit the students and train them.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And then they execute their plan.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, we've seen this before at other campuses. I've spent
time at all ten campuses, and yes, these are the
same people that are coming onto the other ten campuses.
Though they get arrest thirty five students out of the
forty four at the end of the day, these students
are you know, aren't funding this themselves.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So right now, there's been no form of felony charges
against anybody yet from George Gascon's office.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Nope, we have heard nothing about them filing any charges.
You know. Interesting enough, last week, when you know Mayor
Bass's house was broken into, the DA announced formal charges
on that, and you know, here it is, we're waiting.
It's May ninth, and we have no information about, you know,
charges being filed by the District Attorney's office. And it
just gives the longer this goes, it's giving these people
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more power to do what they're going to do, and
that's the fear for us.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And these are all adults. The students are all adults,
or at least nearly all. And then you've got at
least nine outsiders that were that were caught as well,
and I don't understand not treating them like the vandals
that they are. I mean, and this because this was organized,
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because this was premeditated, because they had so much I mean,
you're talking about metal pipes and the bolt cutters and
the padlocks and the chains, all that, all that stuff
you listed. You've got plenty of evidence here and that
they were going to cause quite an issue if they
had gotten inside.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You know what's interesting enough is, like I said before,
we've been dealing with this for many years. This is
the first time that I've actually seen a press release
out in the last twenty two years that actually shows
pictures of this type of stuff and kind of such
a long press release.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You know, why are they doing this now?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Because this is the stuff they don't want to show sometimes, right,
this is the stuff they don't want you to see.
But it is happening on college campuses across the United
States and across the you know, all of our ucs,
and I'm glad that, you know, they were finally able
to bring this to light and show people what's really
happening at the campuses and why we have police and
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you know, highly trained police to be able to deal
with this. But it also brings up the other issue
of you know, the Community Safety Plan, and there the
UC's attempt that you know, a tiered and holistic response
to these protests in which you know, they brought security
guards in who aren't trained in de escalation, who aren't
treed in you know, civil disobedience, and we saw a
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lot of those videos, those poor souls being in the
middle of this and you know also you know, being
accosted and attacked and it's not fair to them. Also
in the in the year's past, that would be police
that are there. But again with the community Safety Plan,
you know, in this new tiered and holistic response of
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how we're going to handle this, that was a layer well.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I mean we discussed the other day on the air
Steve Gregor from CAFI News. You know, he looked through
the plan from twenty fourteen that the UC system had
taken a year and a half to put together on
how these situations ought to be handled. And I don't
think anybody opened up that report at UCLA this year.
I mean, they didn't follow any of the recommendations that
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nobody's been trained in a number of years that's been
defunded as well, and so that's why the response was
so terrible.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, yeah, I mean I have to agree with you.
I have to agree with you. I'm a member of
the SRT team as well, and we haven't trained since
you know, twenty twenty. We used to train regular league
yearly with each other. And you know what's happened is
is when we originally started the SRT Team, it was
funded by the Office of the President. And when I
mean Office of the President, I mean for the university
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that's President Drake's office. And within the first year or so,
the budget, you know, went to each campus, so it
was up to each campus then to fund the SRT
Team and keep it going. So you know, not all
campuses are funded the same and that has also led
to the demind is of the SRT Team, I think,
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as well as you know, the defunding of police, and
we can't you know, discount that and defunding of the
police has a lot to do with this. But you're
absolutely right. Until we brought up our union, brought up
the Robinson Edley report, you know, in the forty nine recommendations,
I think they looked at this and said, you know,
what is this, and they certainly haven't been following it,
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and we hope moving forward that you know, they start
following this guideline and get trained because they're the ones
calling the shops, right, They're the ones making decision.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's my final question.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Is any of this going to change now that you
had this internationally broadcast riot at UCLA and everybody saw
how poorly the university was prepared to deal with the situation.
I mean, are they seriously going to go back to
the old way of basically, you know, enforcing their policies
and forcing the law and empowering the police to do
what police do.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Are they going to do this? Are they going to
wait till it all blows over?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I think the real question is for how long are
they going to do it? Yes, they're going to do it.
They're starting to do it now, you're seeing the press releases.
I imagine we're going to get more equipment and more training.
You know, it's like everything else, you wait until something
bad happens and then you try to fix it, right,
and this is what's going to happen. But that's how
the Robinson Elli report came out, right. I was there
during those incidents at Davis and Berkeley during those times,
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and then the report came out and we said, finally
we're going to get that's how the SRT team was,
you know, founded, and how we got this equipment. But
it was how long is the funding going to last?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And how long?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You right?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And how long? So no doubt that the money is
going to come, no doubt we're going to get money,
no doubt we're going to get trained. But how long
are they going to sustain it for? Is the real question?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Wade Stern, president of the Federated University Police Officers Association,
thank you for coming on with us on this.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And you know, there's a there's a pattern here. We've
got seemingly unrelated stories over the last few days, but
it's all the same pattern. It was to defund the
police insanity of twenty twenty, and it led to what
Wade was just describing at UCLA and the other uc campuses,
where they had a plan to deal with protests that
get out of control and violent and they simply didn't
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put money into the training anymore. And nobody's been trained
for the last four years or more. And what did
we just talk about on the Los Angeles public school campuses. Right,
they've doubled the number of violent incidents in the past
few years. Why because they cut the police budget by
a third. And they're always with these ambassadors. The ambassadors
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or the security guards or safe passage people.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
They've always got euphemisms.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
They're unarmed. If you're unarmed, you're useless. You have to
be armed, and you have to be empowered to enforce
the law. If you're not empowered to enforce the law
and you're not armed, you are useless. You might as
well send out all whole battalion of grandmothers. It's not
gonna do anything because crazy people and violent people don't
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respect anything other than a weapon. If they know you
have a weapon, they'll stop what they're doing. Maybe, but
that's the only way you have a chance to enforce
the law. And this is all just It's like the
metro system too. They took the police off the metro system.
Ambassadors on the Metro system, right, safe passage people on
the LA school system. I don't know what the hell
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they were calling the people in UCLA, but they weren't
armed police that could shut down a violent incident. Quickly
because they have the legal authority to do it and
they have a weapon.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
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Speaker 1 (10:47):
Deborra and I were just talking because I get up
like about five thirty in the morning, and I start
looking to see what's going on in the world, news
stories that we want to discuss on the air, and
my phone will ding and it's always you.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well, I find stories that I want to share them.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And somehow you beat me to it, and you find
these stories ahead of me, you know, at five thirty
in the morning, and it's usually a plane crash stories
or planes in distress. Yes, now this was. We've got
two examples here, and I know you're going to be shot.
They're both Boeing planes. No, yes, uh, first one passenger.
(11:26):
There's video going around passengers fleeing a burning trans Air
seven thirty seven plane after it's skidded off the runway
in Senegal. Senegal would be in Africa, right, yes, okay,
Boeing aircraft. Eleven people hurt, four severe injuries.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I haven't been to Africa, by the way, so you
can't blame me, all right, So none of these have nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
To do with me. Okay, no, no Deborah connection.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
This happened in the in the city of Dakar in Senegal,
and this was the second Boeing problem in two days.
The day before in Paris at Charles de Gaul Airport,
a Boeing seven sixty three, This was a FedEx plane
skidded on its nose. The landing gear malfunctioned, so there
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was no tire to take the roll and the plane
went right down to the ground skidding away. I love
the way it's downplayed though in this new story. Boeing
aircraft have been reported to have experienced several serious incidents.
What's your definition of several? To me, that's like maybe
three four. Yeah, we're well into double digits this year here.
(12:44):
And how come air Bus you hardly hear anything, and
there are other airline manufacturers internationally you never hear anything.
It's Boeing. Well we know the answer to this. Oh,
by the way, what happened with the Boeing icecraft?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh yeah, that's right. Well I think that I think
maybe tomorrow, right, I think they said later later this week,
so tomorrow's Friday.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Haven't heard anything. If that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, it was supposed to be a few days ago
and the astronauts already strapped into the plane.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Oh and you know what, there's another one by the way,
another another incident. Boeing planes front tire burst upon landing
at an airport in southern Turkey.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Today, they've had a lot of tire problems, tires and
landing gear. I know what's up with that. Yeah, so I.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Know you were talking about going into space.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, yeah, because they said they were going to reschedule
it quickly and last it was such a serious problem
that but because the problem they had that delayed the launch.
Going back a little bit was the flammable tape. They
had a miles worth a miles worth of flammable tape
wrapped around all the circuitry inside the spacecraft. So, by
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I guess, by hand, they had to go inside the panels,
unwrap a miles worth of tape and then rewrap it
with some kind of tape that is not flammable.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You think that would be basic.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yes, And I'm and I'm googling, and I don't see anything.
I don't have an update on when that's going to.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So it's still in the shop. The astronauts call and say, hey,
you know it might be another week or two. Our
mechanic is off this week.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
He's sick, and you know we'll get to it. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Nobody wants to go on it anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So it's totally scrubbed.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
We got when we come back, the uh Berkeley let
me get her title, right, we like the president of
the oh, the Berkeley superintendent. This is the Berkeley public
school system in the city got hauled before Congress to
explain all the all the ugly anti Jewish behavior going
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on at the Berkeley schools. You're not going to believe
what the students are experiencing in Berkeley.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
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Speaker 1 (15:14):
On from one until four and after four o'clock John
cobelt Show on demand. It's same show, it's podcast version,
and you could pick up on what you missed. We
covered a lot of stuff today. I'll give you a
rundown a little bit, but we've got to talk about
the Berkeley situation because there is some really vicious, hateful
stuff going on against Jewish kids in the city of Berkeley,
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in the Berkeley Public School district. This is one of
those things that I had to read several times. I
couldn't really believe it, but they and you know how
uptight and woke everybody is in Berkeley, especially in the
school system there. But apparently it's open season on Jewish kids.
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I mean, there's just nothing's being held back. And what's
going on is that there's an official civil rights complaint
and an investigation into the Berkeley Unified School District and
it's gotten to the point where the superintendent at Berkeley
and Nikiya Ford Marthel was dragged in to testify before
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Congress this week. Now here's some of the stuff that's
going on. The La Times opens with a story about
a mother named Elana Pearlman. She's got a fourteen year
old son, Ezra. He's black and Jewish, and she asked
him the other day, do you feel safe? And he said, yeah,
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I'll be fine. I'm black. In other words, his black
skin protects him against his Jewish heritage. She thought going
to Berkeley was a good idea that'd be very tolerant
of people like who are Jewish and black. Well, it
turns out he had to hide his Jewish identity because
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of the hostility. His art teacher projected resistance art on
a large screen. That's a fist punching through a star
of David on a map of Israel. Then his classroom
wall was filled with signs promoting a walkout against genocide,
and they would post the daily death toll of Palestinians
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as was classmates joined a walkout. This is eleven days
after the Hamas attack, and some of the students started
shouting kill the Jews. Administrators at Berkeley Unified failed to
stop teachers and students engaging in severe and persistent harassment
and discrimination against Jewish children. That's according to a federal
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civil rights complaint that's been filed with the US Department
of Education by the Lewis Brandy Center for Human Rights
and the Anti Defamation League. They say that Berkeley Unified
District leaders knowingly allowed classrooms and schoolyards to become a
viciously hostile environment. An elementary school teacher, they said, directed
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second graders to write anti hate messages such as stop
bombing babies on sticky notes, and then posted the notes
outside the classroom of the school's only Jewish teacher. Now
there's photos of this in case you don't believe it,
I've got this color photo and you could tell it's
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little kid writing. And one teacher had instructed their students
to put these sticky notes on the Jewish teacher's door.
Stop killing babies, No one is superior, said one, stop
killing my people, along with a a slur against the
Jews that I'm not going to say here, stop genocide,
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Stop bombing babies. Yeah, stop bombing babies was very common,
and so one teacher tells her kids to post these
at another teacher's tour, and the kids do it. Here's
some of the chants on the campus. Kill the Jews,
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Kill Israel, f the Jews KKK. So this superintendent, and
Niki Afford Morthell testifies before Congress, and what she said
is that our babies sometimes say hurtful things, our babies.
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We are mindful that all kids make mistakes, and we
know our staff are not immune to missteps either, and
we don't ignore them when they occur. So these are
all babies making mistakes. When you have teachers telling them
to write all this hateful stuff and they start chanting this.
None of this has ever been permitted against any group
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before that I can remember. Since I was a little kid. Well,
you talk about never again, it's happening again, and it
happens in small ways. I've heard so many times in
life people say, I don't understand. How did the German people,
how did they go along with the Nazis? How did
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they go along with Itler? Well, here you go in
Berkeley you have the school promoting it. It's so egregious
that they try to get the superintendent to explain yourself
before Congress and she goes, oh, well, that's just.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
My baby saying the wrong things.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Some of these babies are eighteen years old. It's all
over the place. The Teachers' Union in Oakland endorsed a
pro Palestinian teaching in December and provided educators with lesson
plans that Jewish families said were anti Israel and discriminatory.
Dozens of Jewish families have filed requests to transfer out
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of the Oakland district. In San Francisco, same thing, Anti Israeli,
anti Jewish content shared in classrooms and student walkouts. All
these left wing enclaves terribly hateful of Jews.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know where this is all going to go here, And.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Now you have Biden stabbing Israel in the back by
withholding the weapons because he doesn't like the way they're
conducting the war.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
There's only one.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Way to conduct the war. You've got to kill all
the Hamas soldiers. There's no plan be there. Either kill
all the Hama soldiers and destroy all their military equipment,
or you don't, and they're going to come after you
and try to again because they're all for it. All
the slogans that these kids were chanting at the Berkeley
schools are the same slogans the Hamas terrorists are chanting.
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It's exactly the same all these demonstrations. It's not pro Palestine,
it is pro killing Jews, pro terrorists, pro Hamas. Everybody
I know has public relations spin and euphemisms and alternate
explanations and alternate definitions. No, no, no, it is clearly
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a killing the Jew movement that is spreading now in
schools here in the US, in the most progressive enclaves
and districts.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That that is indisputable. What's going on? More coming up?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
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Speaker 2 (22:52):
Coming up in minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
There's been a theme today It's about the complete failure
of all the idiotic student progressive ideas that has so
drastically changed our day to day life in southern California
in the last few years. You know, from defund the police,
which is messed up, the school district, metro trains, the universities,
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and of course you know city life itself worst one
of the worst ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
In civilization history.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And right up there at the top of the charts
is really absurd homeless policies. Not forcing people into drug treatment,
forcing them into mental health care, letting them die in
the streets. We went through that before and they're so ineffective.
It's so ridiculous. And Eric, get cut number three ready,
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I'll give you the This is from NBC four and McCollough, Medina.
They went to Long Beach where they're crowing because there
was a two percent drop in the homeless count went
from thirty four one hundred to forty seven to thirty seven,
thirty three, seventy six.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You know what that is.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That's seventy one fewer homeless people they found in January
compared to the January before. Seventy one. You know how
much money they spent to reduce homelessness by seventy one
people by two percent. They spent sixty million dollars in
Long Beach. Listen to this clip here from Channel four.
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Things are trending in the right direction because we took action.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Standing in front of a graph that shows the first
decline in the homeless population since twenty seventeen, Mayor Rex
Richardson says it's progress, albeit smalland three hundred and seventy
six on house people counted in January this year compared
to three thousand, four hundred and forty seven last year.
That is just seventy one less homeless people after spending
upwards of sixty million dollars of local, state, and federal
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tax payer money. That equates to suggests over eight hundred
and forty five thousand dollars a person.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Well, I can tell you it's not working.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
I've seen berry a homeless advocates as the city's efforts
have been a failure.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
We've spent millions and millions of dollars and most of
the homeless are not better.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Off with Thurin Wells, who's been homeless for a decade,
says the sixty million dollars spent should have had more
of an impact on him than the thousands of others
still on the streets and still struggling.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
There's nothing about today that would infer that this was
a failure.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Richardson says the city did successfully turn the tide from
a record sixty two percent homeless increase during the pandemic
and did cut youth homelessness almost in half. But Barry
says the proof is in the number of homeless actually
house During the Homeless Emergency Year, the city moved just
two hundred and twenty seven people out of homelessness onto
their own feet. According to city data, seven hundred and
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seventy three are currently in permanent housing programs. Barry says
the city's housing for strategy has become a revolving door
for too many addicted and mentally unstable people who are
given temporary housing without demanding treatment first.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
If you actually enforce the crime and the laws in
the city and then give people a choice between go
to rehab or go to jail, I can tell you
from experience, don't go to rehab.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
The city says that they are committed to the housing
first supproach. Meantime, the mayor does acknowledge that quote. There
needs to be a lot more work ahead of us,
but he does says that they are doing better than
other cities in the region.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
What a fool, what an absolute clan Rex richardson the
Long Beach Mayor, you got seventy one fewer homeless after
spending sixty million dollars and he says, there's there's nothing
in those stats that suggest failing. What are you gonna
do Conways here?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, I read that. I couldn't believe that.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
You know, why not give each one of those seventy
one homeless guys eight hundred and ninety thousand dollars, I know,
and tell them to move out of town?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's right, and they do all your drugs in the desert.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Somewhere, right, and they would prefer that as well, you know,
if they'd give in that.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
But as you know, look, there's a lot.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Of people that make money off the homeless problem, a
lot of people, and so it's not going to go away.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's a great industry, yeah it is.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
But but we can't get in on it, you know,
because we're not in the right party.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
You know, you open up a nonprofit, the Conway nonprofit
for the home kidding, do it?
Speaker 8 (27:18):
We have Alex Stone coming on. TikTok is fighting for
their life. Now they're going to label everything that's AI created.
They're going to give it a label it says AI created.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Blake Trolley is going to come on. The electric bill
is about to go up.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Whatever you're paying for electricity right now, it's gonna get higher,
It's gonna get higher.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And then Dean Sharp as well.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Plus a massive fire erupted in Santa Fe Springs with
a company I used to work for, Mike Thompson RV
very said, like night like these fifteen or sixteen RV's
caught on fire, and probably you know, we'll get into
the story, but I really enjoy the RV business and
to see an RV go up in flames like that
is troubling to me.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Really breaks your Heart's kay, dog with you, ding Don Conways,
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
We are going to.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Talk now with Well, there were forty four people arrested
at UCLA for well, actually forty four people were stopped
from occupying and vandalizing buildings on the UCLA campus. And
this was done by the UCLA Police Department. And we're
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going to talk now to Wade Stern, president of the
Federated University Police Officers Association, because while these forty four
people have been were arrested, is the La County DA
going to ever charge them, maybe with felonies for example,
let's get Wade stern On here to explore this whole issue.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Wade, how are you great?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So these forty four people, it's this specific incident where
they were all arrested and they were found ready to
burst into these administrative buildings and occupy them, and they
had all sorts of tools.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Explain the background of this case.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So what you saw in those pictures that you saw
them at all, with the locks and the epoxy and
the super glue and the bolt cutters and the pipes
is highly sophisticated. This is nothing new that we see
in the UC system. This is something that I've been
seeing over the last twenty two years. In fact, we
have officers that are trained to be able to breach
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those types of buildings to be able to go get
those people. And so this is nothing new that we've
seen them. The sophistication aside, this is the same stuff
that you're seeing nationally at riots and where they're taking
over other buildings and so this and along with the
manuals that they had and the propaganda that they had,
(02:25):
you know, this sophistication is not to be taken lightly.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This is serious and these are outside anarchist groups that
recruit the students and train them.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And then they execute their plan.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, we've seen this before at other campuses. I've spent
time at all ten campuses, and yes, these are the
same people that are coming onto the other ten campuses.
Though they get arrest thirty five students out of the
forty four at the end of the day, these students
are you know, aren't funding this themselves.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So right now, there's been no form of felony charges
against anybody yet from George Gascon's office.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Nope, we have heard nothing about them filing any charges.
You know. Interesting enough, last week, when you know Mayor
Bass's house was broken into, the DA announced formal charges
on that, and you know, here it is, we're waiting.
It's May ninth, and we have no information about, you know,
charges being filed by the District Attorney's office. And it
just gives the longer this goes, it's giving these people
(03:33):
more power to do what they're going to do, and
that's the fear for us.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And these are all adults. The students are all adults,
or at least nearly all. And then you've got at
least nine outsiders that were that were caught as well,
and I don't understand not treating them like the vandals
that they are. I mean, and this because this was organized,
(04:00):
because this was premeditated, because they had so much I mean,
you're talking about metal pipes and the bolt cutters and
the padlocks and the chains, all that, all that stuff
you listed. You've got plenty of evidence here and that
they were going to cause quite an issue if they
had gotten inside.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You know what's interesting enough is, like I said before,
we've been dealing with this for many years. This is
the first time that I've actually seen a press release
out in the last twenty two years that actually shows
pictures of this type of stuff and kind of such
a long press release.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You know, why are they doing this now?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Because this is the stuff they don't want to show sometimes, right,
this is the stuff they don't want you to see.
But it is happening on college campuses across the United
States and across the you know, all of our ucs,
and I'm glad that, you know, they were finally able
to bring this to light and show people what's really
happening at the campuses and why we have police and
(04:59):
you know, highly trained police to be able to deal
with this. But it also brings up the other issue
of you know, the Community Safety Plan, and there the
UC's attempt that you know, a tiered and holistic response
to these protests in which you know, they brought security
guards in who aren't trained in de escalation, who aren't
treed in you know, civil disobedience, and we saw a
(05:22):
lot of those videos, those poor souls being in the
middle of this and you know also you know, being
accosted and attacked and it's not fair to them. Also
in the in the year's past, that would be police
that are there. But again with the community Safety Plan,
you know, in this new tiered and holistic response of
(05:42):
how we're going to handle this, that was a layer well.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I mean we discussed the other day on the air
Steve Gregor from CAFI News. You know, he looked through
the plan from twenty fourteen that the UC system had
taken a year and a half to put together on
how these situations ought to be handled. And I don't
think anybody opened up that report at UCLA this year.
I mean, they didn't follow any of the recommendations that
(06:08):
nobody's been trained in a number of years that's been
defunded as well, and so that's why the response was
so terrible.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, yeah, I mean I have to agree with you.
I have to agree with you. I'm a member of
the SRT team as well, and we haven't trained since
you know, twenty twenty. We used to train regular league
yearly with each other. And you know what's happened is
is when we originally started the SRT Team, it was
funded by the Office of the President. And when I
mean Office of the President, I mean for the university
(06:39):
that's President Drake's office. And within the first year or so,
the budget, you know, went to each campus, so it
was up to each campus then to fund the SRT
Team and keep it going. So you know, not all
campuses are funded the same and that has also led
to the demind is of the SRT Team, I think,
(07:03):
as well as you know, the defunding of police, and
we can't you know, discount that and defunding of the
police has a lot to do with this. But you're
absolutely right. Until we brought up our union, brought up
the Robinson Edley report, you know, in the forty nine recommendations,
I think they looked at this and said, you know,
what is this, and they certainly haven't been following it,
(07:24):
and we hope moving forward that you know, they start
following this guideline and get trained because they're the ones
calling the shops, right, They're the ones making decision.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's my final question.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Is any of this going to change now that you
had this internationally broadcast riot at UCLA and everybody saw
how poorly the university was prepared to deal with the situation.
I mean, are they seriously going to go back to
the old way of basically, you know, enforcing their policies
and forcing the law and empowering the police to do
what police do.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Are they going to do this? Are they going to
wait till it all blows over?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I think the real question is for how long are
they going to do it? Yes, they're going to do it.
They're starting to do it now, you're seeing the press releases.
I imagine we're going to get more equipment and more training.
You know, it's like everything else, you wait until something
bad happens and then you try to fix it, right,
and this is what's going to happen. But that's how
the Robinson Elli report came out, right. I was there
during those incidents at Davis and Berkeley during those times,
(08:24):
and then the report came out and we said, finally
we're going to get that's how the SRT team was,
you know, founded, and how we got this equipment. But
it was how long is the funding going to last?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And how long?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You right?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And how long? So no doubt that the money is
going to come, no doubt we're going to get money,
no doubt we're going to get trained. But how long
are they going to sustain it for? Is the real question?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Wade Stern, president of the Federated University Police Officers Association,
thank you for coming on with us on this.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And you know, there's a there's a pattern here. We've
got seemingly unrelated stories over the last few days, but
it's all the same pattern. It was to defund the
police insanity of twenty twenty, and it led to what
Wade was just describing at UCLA and the other uc campuses,
where they had a plan to deal with protests that
get out of control and violent and they simply didn't
(09:15):
put money into the training anymore. And nobody's been trained
for the last four years or more. And what did
we just talk about on the Los Angeles public school campuses. Right,
they've doubled the number of violent incidents in the past
few years. Why because they cut the police budget by
a third. And they're always with these ambassadors. The ambassadors
(09:37):
or the security guards or safe passage people.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
They've always got euphemisms.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
They're unarmed. If you're unarmed, you're useless. You have to
be armed, and you have to be empowered to enforce
the law. If you're not empowered to enforce the law
and you're not armed, you are useless. You might as
well send out all whole battalion of grandmothers. It's not
gonna do anything because crazy people and violent people don't
(10:06):
respect anything other than a weapon. If they know you
have a weapon, they'll stop what they're doing. Maybe, but
that's the only way you have a chance to enforce
the law. And this is all just It's like the
metro system too. They took the police off the metro system.
Ambassadors on the Metro system, right, safe passage people on
the LA school system. I don't know what the hell
(10:28):
they were calling the people in UCLA, but they weren't
armed police that could shut down a violent incident. Quickly
because they have the legal authority to do it and
they have a weapon.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Deborra and I were just talking because I get up
like about five thirty in the morning, and I start
looking to see what's going on in the world, news
stories that we want to discuss on the air, and
my phone will ding and it's always you.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well, I find stories that I want to share them.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And somehow you beat me to it, and you find
these stories ahead of me, you know, at five thirty
in the morning, and it's usually a plane crash stories
or planes in distress. Yes, now this was. We've got
two examples here, and I know you're going to be shot.
They're both Boeing planes. No, yes, uh, first one passenger.
(11:26):
There's video going around passengers fleeing a burning trans Air
seven thirty seven plane after it's skidded off the runway
in Senegal. Senegal would be in Africa, right, yes, okay,
Boeing aircraft. Eleven people hurt, four severe injuries.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I haven't been to Africa, by the way, so you
can't blame me, all right, So none of these have nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
To do with me. Okay, no, no Deborah connection.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
This happened in the in the city of Dakar in Senegal,
and this was the second Boeing problem in two days.
The day before in Paris at Charles de Gaul Airport,
a Boeing seven sixty three, This was a FedEx plane
skidded on its nose. The landing gear malfunctioned, so there
(12:20):
was no tire to take the roll and the plane
went right down to the ground skidding away. I love
the way it's downplayed though in this new story. Boeing
aircraft have been reported to have experienced several serious incidents.
What's your definition of several? To me, that's like maybe
three four. Yeah, we're well into double digits this year here.
(12:44):
And how come air Bus you hardly hear anything, and
there are other airline manufacturers internationally you never hear anything.
It's Boeing. Well we know the answer to this. Oh,
by the way, what happened with the Boeing icecraft?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh yeah, that's right. Well I think that I think
maybe tomorrow, right, I think they said later later this week,
so tomorrow's Friday.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Haven't heard anything. If that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, it was supposed to be a few days ago
and the astronauts already strapped into the plane.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Oh and you know what, there's another one by the way,
another another incident. Boeing planes front tire burst upon landing
at an airport in southern Turkey.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Today, they've had a lot of tire problems, tires and
landing gear. I know what's up with that. Yeah, so I.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Know you were talking about going into space.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, yeah, because they said they were going to reschedule
it quickly and last it was such a serious problem
that but because the problem they had that delayed the launch.
Going back a little bit was the flammable tape. They
had a miles worth a miles worth of flammable tape
wrapped around all the circuitry inside the spacecraft. So, by
(14:03):
I guess, by hand, they had to go inside the panels,
unwrap a miles worth of tape and then rewrap it
with some kind of tape that is not flammable.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You think that would be basic.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yes, And I'm and I'm googling, and I don't see anything.
I don't have an update on when that's going to.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So it's still in the shop. The astronauts call and say, hey,
you know it might be another week or two. Our
mechanic is off this week.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
He's sick, and you know we'll get to it. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Nobody wants to go on it anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So it's totally scrubbed.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
We got when we come back, the uh Berkeley let
me get her title, right, we like the president of
the oh, the Berkeley superintendent. This is the Berkeley public
school system in the city got hauled before Congress to
explain all the all the ugly anti Jewish behavior going
(15:01):
on at the Berkeley schools. You're not going to believe
what the students are experiencing in Berkeley.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
On from one until four and after four o'clock John
cobelt Show on demand. It's same show, it's podcast version,
and you could pick up on what you missed. We
covered a lot of stuff today. I'll give you a
rundown a little bit, but we've got to talk about
the Berkeley situation because there is some really vicious, hateful
stuff going on against Jewish kids in the city of Berkeley,
(15:38):
in the Berkeley Public School district. This is one of
those things that I had to read several times. I
couldn't really believe it, but they and you know how
uptight and woke everybody is in Berkeley, especially in the
school system there. But apparently it's open season on Jewish kids.
(16:00):
I mean, there's just nothing's being held back. And what's
going on is that there's an official civil rights complaint
and an investigation into the Berkeley Unified School District and
it's gotten to the point where the superintendent at Berkeley
and Nikiya Ford Marthel was dragged in to testify before
(16:24):
Congress this week. Now here's some of the stuff that's
going on. The La Times opens with a story about
a mother named Elana Pearlman. She's got a fourteen year
old son, Ezra. He's black and Jewish, and she asked
him the other day, do you feel safe? And he said, yeah,
(16:47):
I'll be fine. I'm black. In other words, his black
skin protects him against his Jewish heritage. She thought going
to Berkeley was a good idea that'd be very tolerant
of people like who are Jewish and black. Well, it
turns out he had to hide his Jewish identity because
(17:08):
of the hostility. His art teacher projected resistance art on
a large screen. That's a fist punching through a star
of David on a map of Israel. Then his classroom
wall was filled with signs promoting a walkout against genocide,
and they would post the daily death toll of Palestinians
(17:31):
as was classmates joined a walkout. This is eleven days
after the Hamas attack, and some of the students started
shouting kill the Jews. Administrators at Berkeley Unified failed to
stop teachers and students engaging in severe and persistent harassment
and discrimination against Jewish children. That's according to a federal
(17:54):
civil rights complaint that's been filed with the US Department
of Education by the Lewis Brandy Center for Human Rights
and the Anti Defamation League. They say that Berkeley Unified
District leaders knowingly allowed classrooms and schoolyards to become a
viciously hostile environment. An elementary school teacher, they said, directed
(18:21):
second graders to write anti hate messages such as stop
bombing babies on sticky notes, and then posted the notes
outside the classroom of the school's only Jewish teacher. Now
there's photos of this in case you don't believe it,
I've got this color photo and you could tell it's
(18:42):
little kid writing. And one teacher had instructed their students
to put these sticky notes on the Jewish teacher's door.
Stop killing babies, No one is superior, said one, stop
killing my people, along with a a slur against the
Jews that I'm not going to say here, stop genocide,
(19:05):
Stop bombing babies. Yeah, stop bombing babies was very common,
and so one teacher tells her kids to post these
at another teacher's tour, and the kids do it. Here's
some of the chants on the campus. Kill the Jews,
(19:26):
Kill Israel, f the Jews KKK. So this superintendent, and
Niki Afford Morthell testifies before Congress, and what she said
is that our babies sometimes say hurtful things, our babies.
(19:52):
We are mindful that all kids make mistakes, and we
know our staff are not immune to missteps either, and
we don't ignore them when they occur. So these are
all babies making mistakes. When you have teachers telling them
to write all this hateful stuff and they start chanting this.
None of this has ever been permitted against any group
(20:13):
before that I can remember. Since I was a little kid. Well,
you talk about never again, it's happening again, and it
happens in small ways. I've heard so many times in
life people say, I don't understand. How did the German people,
how did they go along with the Nazis? How did
(20:34):
they go along with Itler? Well, here you go in
Berkeley you have the school promoting it. It's so egregious
that they try to get the superintendent to explain yourself
before Congress and she goes, oh, well, that's just.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
My baby saying the wrong things.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Some of these babies are eighteen years old. It's all
over the place. The Teachers' Union in Oakland endorsed a
pro Palestinian teaching in December and provided educators with lesson
plans that Jewish families said were anti Israel and discriminatory.
Dozens of Jewish families have filed requests to transfer out
(21:14):
of the Oakland district. In San Francisco, same thing, Anti Israeli,
anti Jewish content shared in classrooms and student walkouts. All
these left wing enclaves terribly hateful of Jews.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know where this is all going to go here, And.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Now you have Biden stabbing Israel in the back by
withholding the weapons because he doesn't like the way they're
conducting the war.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
There's only one.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Way to conduct the war. You've got to kill all
the Hamas soldiers. There's no plan be there. Either kill
all the Hama soldiers and destroy all their military equipment,
or you don't, and they're going to come after you
and try to again because they're all for it. All
the slogans that these kids were chanting at the Berkeley
schools are the same slogans the Hamas terrorists are chanting.
(22:09):
It's exactly the same all these demonstrations. It's not pro Palestine,
it is pro killing Jews, pro terrorists, pro Hamas. Everybody
I know has public relations spin and euphemisms and alternate
explanations and alternate definitions. No, no, no, it is clearly
(22:31):
a killing the Jew movement that is spreading now in
schools here in the US, in the most progressive enclaves
and districts.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That that is indisputable. What's going on? More coming up?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (22:52):
Coming up in minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
There's been a theme today It's about the complete failure
of all the idiotic student progressive ideas that has so
drastically changed our day to day life in southern California
in the last few years. You know, from defund the police,
which is messed up, the school district, metro trains, the universities,
(23:16):
and of course you know city life itself worst one
of the worst ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
In civilization history.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And right up there at the top of the charts
is really absurd homeless policies. Not forcing people into drug treatment,
forcing them into mental health care, letting them die in
the streets. We went through that before and they're so ineffective.
It's so ridiculous. And Eric, get cut number three ready,
(23:46):
I'll give you the This is from NBC four and McCollough, Medina.
They went to Long Beach where they're crowing because there
was a two percent drop in the homeless count went
from thirty four one hundred to forty seven to thirty seven,
thirty three, seventy six.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You know what that is.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That's seventy one fewer homeless people they found in January
compared to the January before. Seventy one. You know how
much money they spent to reduce homelessness by seventy one
people by two percent. They spent sixty million dollars in
Long Beach. Listen to this clip here from Channel four.
(24:27):
Things are trending in the right direction because we took action.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Standing in front of a graph that shows the first
decline in the homeless population since twenty seventeen, Mayor Rex
Richardson says it's progress, albeit smalland three hundred and seventy
six on house people counted in January this year compared
to three thousand, four hundred and forty seven last year.
That is just seventy one less homeless people after spending
upwards of sixty million dollars of local, state, and federal
(24:53):
tax payer money. That equates to suggests over eight hundred
and forty five thousand dollars a person.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Well, I can tell you it's not working.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
I've seen berry a homeless advocates as the city's efforts
have been a failure.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
We've spent millions and millions of dollars and most of
the homeless are not better.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Off with Thurin Wells, who's been homeless for a decade,
says the sixty million dollars spent should have had more
of an impact on him than the thousands of others
still on the streets and still struggling.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
There's nothing about today that would infer that this was
a failure.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Richardson says the city did successfully turn the tide from
a record sixty two percent homeless increase during the pandemic
and did cut youth homelessness almost in half. But Barry
says the proof is in the number of homeless actually
house During the Homeless Emergency Year, the city moved just
two hundred and twenty seven people out of homelessness onto
their own feet. According to city data, seven hundred and
(25:45):
seventy three are currently in permanent housing programs. Barry says
the city's housing for strategy has become a revolving door
for too many addicted and mentally unstable people who are
given temporary housing without demanding treatment first.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
If you actually enforce the crime and the laws in
the city and then give people a choice between go
to rehab or go to jail, I can tell you
from experience, don't go to rehab.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
The city says that they are committed to the housing
first supproach. Meantime, the mayor does acknowledge that quote. There
needs to be a lot more work ahead of us,
but he does says that they are doing better than
other cities in the region.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
What a fool, what an absolute clan Rex richardson the
Long Beach Mayor, you got seventy one fewer homeless after
spending sixty million dollars and he says, there's there's nothing
in those stats that suggest failing. What are you gonna
do Conways here?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, I read that. I couldn't believe that.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
You know, why not give each one of those seventy
one homeless guys eight hundred and ninety thousand dollars, I know,
and tell them to move out of town?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's right, and they do all your drugs in the desert.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Somewhere, right, and they would prefer that as well, you know,
if they'd give in that.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
But as you know, look, there's a lot.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Of people that make money off the homeless problem, a
lot of people, and so it's not going to go away.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's a great industry, yeah it is.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
But but we can't get in on it, you know,
because we're not in the right party.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
You know, you open up a nonprofit, the Conway nonprofit
for the home kidding, do it?
Speaker 8 (27:18):
We have Alex Stone coming on. TikTok is fighting for
their life. Now they're going to label everything that's AI created.
They're going to give it a label it says AI created.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Blake Trolley is going to come on. The electric bill
is about to go up.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Whatever you're paying for electricity right now, it's gonna get higher,
It's gonna get higher.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And then Dean Sharp as well.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Plus a massive fire erupted in Santa Fe Springs with
a company I used to work for, Mike Thompson RV
very said, like night like these fifteen or sixteen RV's
caught on fire, and probably you know, we'll get into
the story, but I really enjoy the RV business and
to see an RV go up in flames like that
is troubling to me.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Really breaks your Heart's kay, dog with you, ding Don Conways,
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