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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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you have absolutely no case. I did this story and
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the Biden administration. Guaranteed, the White House outlined a new
initiative that's going to make it easier for customers. That's
us to cancel subscriptions. How difficult is it for you
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to cancel subscriptions? I got rid of a Direct TV
subscription and it was just it was like pulling teeth.
Why are you canceling because I've moved? Why don't you
give us a service? Would you like some internet service? No?
I don't. Hey tell me really? Why? Now try to
add a subscription? Tell you how long that takes? Also
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getting refunds, resolving customer service complaint, and of course this
is a follow up to the junk fees program that
the Biden administration has. The other thing the White House
intends to do is crack down on the doom loops.
And this is when you call and you and you
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get the menu. Start with if this is English, they
put if this is Espanol pesa numro dose, okay, fair enough,
and then you start going through the menu over and
over again. The other day, I had an att issue
because I had an att issue, and it took me
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six minutes to finally reach somebody. And I did reach someone,
by the way, in the Philippines, because you can always
tell the Filipino accident. Of course you can. And when
you hear karaoke being sung in the background, you know
it's the Philippines. And I and the person basically had
no idea what I wanted to do because it was
a little unusual. It wasn't your normal conversation. And this
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is what I got. My computer is it working? I
have you up and it's not doing what it should do.
Let me get my supervisor. And I was switched over
to either a call center or some kind of a
service center in the United States, and someone who knew
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what he was doing. We got through what I had
to get through. Well can you imagine getting spending six
minutes to get through to the Filipino guy who had
no idea what I wanted to do. By the way,
I don't want to seem like I'm simply targeting Filipinos.
It's not fair. I also want to target Indians for
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Indian call centers just as much. Hello, my name is Bob.
It's always funny, you know. And whenever I get an
Indian call center, because you know, their hours are very
different than ours, I mean way off. So these people
work in the middle of the night, as I always ask,
So how's the weather over there? A little humid? Huh huh,
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no sense of humor at all. Any case, we're going
to see some things change dramatically, and uh, it's good news.
It's good news consumers. We finally get a little bit
of help. Okay, let's go ahead and take some phone
calls and let me see. All right, we'll start with you, Frank, Hi, Frank, welcome.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Bill.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh sure, I had a minivan.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
There was part on the street legally, and when I
went to go out there the next morning, they're ready
to go to work.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It was towed away.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You found out what police, and they did it legally.
I have nothing against the Santa Police.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
They're a good agency. By wait a minute, what do
you mean, Hold on, what do you mean they did
it legally. You're parked on the street legally, you said,
and then they told you away legally. Some's got to
give either you were illegal or they did something wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
This is what happened. I had expired tags on my van.
An individual who lives in the neighborhood who did not
like me, and I did not know who he was,
got at the sixth thirty to seven o'clock in the
morning and called the Santanta police and they came and
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then they told away my van for expired tads. What
the Santanta Police didn't know, because this is a poorty
written law, was that I paid all my fees, so
I was technically legal. But I was waiting for two
new catalytic converters to be sent to the repair shop
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so I can have them in stare.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, no, you weren't technically illegal. You were technically illegal.
The fact that you had to wait for catalytic converters
is that the problem. It is not okay sant Ana Police.
Now here's the part that I find interesting. Usually you
just get a ticket for having an unregistered vehicle unless
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the law says that if it's parked, they can tow
it away. I have never heard of them just picking
it up. But it's they're getting stricter and stricter and strict.
And keep in mind also that this is a revenue
call for the city.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know that, right, But here's something you need to know, Bill,
this was a poorly thought out, poorly written law and
an individual and in the neighborhood. Okay, I'm the only
African American that lives in a ninety nine percent ethnic
Mexican Latino neighborhood. This individual knew me. There's only one
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reason why he would get up early in the morning
to have my van towed away. And to this date,
I don't know who he was, but I have a
good idea as to why he did it. And so
they called the police, and the Santa police were obliged
to come out there, and he said, yeah, look at this,
have it towed away. So there's nothing in the law
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that said the police had to contact me.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
There was nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, So what's so what's your question, Frank?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
If I find out who did this, can I sue
them in court and get back all? That's what I
was asking for.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You assume them for calling the police, uh because you had,
uh a car that was not registered or show that
it was not registered and the police came out and towed.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
It away, but they had expired tags.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Okay, but what are you assume? What are you going
to sue them.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
For uh harassment?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And they just call the police. They don't harass you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yes, but there was no real logical reason for them.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It doesn't have to be sure it is a car
is illegal. There's a car across the street that's illegal. Sure,
that's that's the logical reason. Now is it really is it?
Is it racism?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, I guess so. But technically you weren't innocent. You
were parked with tags uh non registered tags and you're
waiting for the cantalytic converter. They don't care. You were
parked on the street with a non registered or a
vehicle that has gone beyond its registration. That's the violation
straight out now. The fact that they told you I
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don't know what the Santa Anna ordinance is, and I
get and it's it's Orange County, so I don't know
what the county ordinance is. But nothing was done illegally.
And as you talk about you being the only African
American and it's Hispanic, and you argue, maybe that's racism
and discrimination. Frank it very well might be. It sure
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sounds like it, but you can't do a damn thing
about it. You'll never be able to prove it. You
can't even bring that up because there's no proof. So
there isn't anything you can do, and there's nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
People in the neighborhood and I love it, are good
decent people.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Then you got one that doesn't want you. They don't
like African Americans. I understand, But you know, there's nothing
you can do. There's nothing you can do, you know,
I mean take a bigseball bat and bash his knees in.
I mean short of that, I mean there is nothing
legally you can do. I can hear the uh you know,
I I can feel it, you know with Frank, Yeah,
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it probably was discrimination. Yeah, there's no question. The problem
is how he called the police because my part, my
car was illegally parked, and therefore it was because of
the fact I'm African American. I don't think that's going
to go any place. Uh, Summit or su Meet? Do
I have that right? How do you pronounce?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
My name is Summit?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Submit? Okay? Where are you from? Submit? I'm from India, Oh, India. Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
It's my honor to speak to you. But let me
thank you to the point, I know, let me get
my worden. Oh my goodness, you cannot believe how much
KFA is a part of my life. You are the
radio hosts. That's very really and how much educational and
keep me up to current affairs, you know, So enough
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blowing smoke up her.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Kay, thank you. Let's let's get to your point. Let's
get to your question.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Yeah, so this is the deal.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
So this is you know, I've been divorced since two
thousandth and and so my ex and she's you know,
and we have a long like nine years of tug
of war and stuff like that. So the kid, I
have two of them. One is thirty four, one is
thirty seven. The twenty seven is with me at home,
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and the mom wants to come to us to uh
meet the son. It's kind of you know, around that
same time, I'm going to India to see my mom. So,
uh and uh my request is you know my you know,
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I need your advice as to work.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, So what's your question? I got it? What's your question?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
The question is, you know she has you know, we
have had a long history of you know, suing. She
has sued me left.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Okay, I understand I already you know we went through that.
It's been a very difficult lawsuit, divorce, a lot of
uh not amicable. Okay. So what's your question?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Yeah, so you know, I mean, can I get her
to write can I write up something to say that hey,
you won't sue me.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Or you won't. What is she going to sue you for.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Anything that happens while she is in my you know,
staying at my home.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Then just don't let her stay at your home.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
No, no, you know, I'm just trying to save her
some money. You know, no.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Good, right, she screws you during the divorce, right, you
spend years going through the divorce, probably spend thousands or
tens of thousands of dollars of lawyers, and you want
to save her some money, okay? Is no, Okay, here's
what I'm gonna suggest you do. Get lots of insurance,
get a nice homeowner's policy, and whatever happens to her,
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it's covered. And she lives in India, right.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Oh no, she's all over the world.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
R wow, Wow, she has that kind of money.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Well she's a she's a professor, and oh good for her,
I mean, okay, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The point is there really isn't anything to write up.
The kids are adults. You are letting her stay there
be because on the goodness of your house, of your
of your heart. And if something happens, can she sue
you only for something like falling down in the house
and arguing you didn't meet code, or there was carpeting
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that was frayed or curled up and she fell on
it or whatever. But that's what you have insurance for
and there's nothing to write up, and you know, again
you want to save her money, and yet you are
concerned about protecting yourself against her. You know what that
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sounds like. That doesn't sound real smart. A lot of
yes DearS in your family, all right, So yeah, a
lot of yes dear, yes dear.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
But in the end, I should certainly again tell you, sir.
You know you cannot believe how much you guys are
a part of Oh thank you.
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handle Hello Todd, Hey, good morning Bill. Hey.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
As to be as concise as I can, I was
co producing a film about the life story of the
other co producer. We were very far along in the film.
He passed away and the executors. Executors interrupted the production,
and I am I have several hundred thousand involved in
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the production from my side of the cook financing, and
I'm a probate window is going to close in about
thirty days, and I'm there's another moving part, which is
all the time that was booked out to finish this
thing is now in pause, and I'm wondering, what is
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my movie? Yeah, protect mind.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
There are a lot of movie pieces here. Okay, let
me throw a couple of questions. First of all, do
the actors act with their clothes on? That's the first
thing in this film they do. Does any part of
this film take place in a barn?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Serious, no, okay. I was just curious as to the
content of the film. Okay. So with that, I'm assuming
there was a contract. It had to be a written
contract between you and your co producer. Correct, Yes, Okay,
so that's still a valid contract and the people that
are handling the probate have to honor that. There's no question.
(17:13):
It's basically it. You're in the position of a creditor
but it's it's it's it's sort of a creditor that
he owes the money to the film and he's dead,
and now you have the executors actually holding it up. Well,
probate isn't even closed yet, so I don't think that
the executors can even write checks until granted the okay
(17:36):
by the court. So I see, you know, where do
you go with this one? I know not that I
do this kind of law, but I just think the
guys are you're out of luck other than get it started.
Do you think that the executor is going to go
ahead and fund the film per the agreement that was made.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
They're they're making noise in that direction. But I also
have the issue of the time that I can't recover,
which is.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
No I know, but that's I don't think you're going
to get that because it's no one's fault. They weren't negligent. Now,
I think, okay, and this is me now playing now
playing trust in a state lawyer. Can the executor go
in and must the executor go in and ask the
court h to release money to maintain the film on
(18:28):
an on an emergency basis? Because this is an emergency basis.
As far as you getting your money back for all
the time that you spent, Hey, you know what, it's
nobody's fault. It happens, you know, it's it's just one
of those things that you you had the bad luck
to have a co producer die on you. Actually he
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had worse luck than you did. But that is a
different discussion.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a sizable estate.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But first of all, I know you got to I
think you have to talk to the executor. Well, first
of all, you got to talk to a trust and
a state lawyer and go what do I do? That's
the first thing. I mean, like Monday, you make a
phone call to a trust and a state lawyer. You
do your diligence, You put that up. You look to
see if the complaints with the state bar reviews. Anybody
you know who's died, well you can't ask them because
(19:17):
they're dead. But anybody who's dealt with a family member
who's died or a business partner who's died, you have
to do a little bit of research and then advertise
for as. I don't think you can find. No, there's
nothing for you to file Todd. It's it's a probate
that has to be opened. That's why you want to
(19:39):
talk to a trust and a state lawyer. Maybe you
can on an emergency basis, because we're talking soundstage rental. Uh,
you know that you have and you're booking, and then
you've got everybody is on a train.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Schedule, very high profile, a person who is the thinker
of the documentary as well.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, so you got you got time, You've got time
elements involved. And obviously the more successful the people. If
you were able to land really good competent or highly
competent people, they're not just sitting around and waiting. They're
probably busy. They probably have dates already booked. So that's
why you want a trust and a state lawyer. And
(20:24):
there may be some kind of an exigent emergency filing.
Maybe you can file. And I don't know the answer.
I don't think it's up to you. I think it's
up to the executor. But it's good question. By the way,
I don't tell you that's I don't think I've ever
had that question before. It is no, it is a
unique situation. I'm sure it's happened before, or people have died.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I mean they've asked me. And I've given them the
spreadsheets of all of the investments from my side, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well that's good news. I mean, that's good news. And
now you have people. Now it's just a question of
time if they're willing to work with you. Now, the
only issue is time and the ability of the executors
to have access to the money, because they don't just
walk in with a will and say here you go.
It's appropriate. A judge has to okay it. So now
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it's that's a good question, and it's absolutely an exiting
in the situation here. John, Hi, John, welcome?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Does know about the money?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Hello? John? Oh, this is bad.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Okay, there you go? Sorry?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How are you doing? Bill good Martin?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Two thousand and four, my dad gifted me a small
unit apartment. The deal was she was gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Continue collecting the rent until he passed away. And this
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
A year and a half ago, I come to find out.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
After talking to.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
My dad the apartments are not under my name. I
have a document here that's signed over back to my dad.
A quick wait, wait, wait, okay, hold on, So the
prop your dad put the property in your name.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Correct, and me and my wife's name.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Okay, okay. And then there is now a document, a
quick claim deed that is signed by you and your
wife transferring the property to whom to my father again
to your father again. Okay. Did you in fact sign
that quick claim deed? No? Okay, so now you have
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a fraudulent document. My question is, does my father get
into legal trouble? No? I mean, well, someone forged your name.
Uh and on top of that, some notary forged or
was there to accept the forgery. You know, can he
get into legal trouble? No, it's going to be civil.
(22:52):
And you go to your dad and just say, hey, listen,
you gave it to me, give it back. My dad
is getting dementia. Now okay, well then you go then
then what you do? All right? Fair enough, So now
you get to go into court and unravel the quick
claim deed that you ostensibly signed, which you didn't to
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your dad. And especially since you're talking about you're not
talking have a bona fide buyer down the road, someone
actually paid real money and the whoever had ripped and
he got ripped off. This is an easy one, and
that is you're simply gonna ask the court to undo
the quick claim deed, uh and give you back the property.
(23:34):
And your dad's not going to get in trouble and
he has dementia anyway. Yeah, so I wouldn worry about because,
you know, let me ask to me if he's if
he's in the middle of dementia, even if they put
him in prison, theoretically, all you have to do is
say this is a rich Carlton to him, and he'll
think it is okay, okay, you got it all right.
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I wasn't expecting that from Okay fred Rick, Hello, Frederick Bill,
how are you? Yes, sir?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Hey, let me, Uh, this is.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Gonna be a little complicated.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm gonna try to condense it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
My partner and I we have a remodel in real
estate business down here in San Diego. We helped people
fix their homes up to sell them for more, kind
of like your you know your add scale, Yeah, on
a smaller scale. So a client contacted us.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We went and looked at her home.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
It was like a little cabin sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
When we went.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Inside, it was so disgusting. She had five dogs peeing
and pooping inside, and there was mold, and so we
basically told her, hey, we can't take this project on it.
It's just it's just too much. So she begged us.
She was like, well, can you help me please because
I need to sell this and I said, you know,
we said to her, hey, we can sell it, but
you've got to fix some stuff up here. It's ridiculous.
So anyway, she begged us for a referral. We gave
(24:55):
her a referral to a handing map that we've used
for like painting and you know, just being six stuff. Anyway,
but it was up to her whether or not she
wanted to hire this guy, and vice versa, whether he
wanted to work with her because it was bad.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Fast forward a few months.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Apparently they're in conflict over whether or not he did
all the work and whether or not he basically took
money from her to work and get done. All right,
fair enough, so go ahead, I'm sorry no.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And what happened a result of that?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Okay, So we got contacted by a lawyer and now
we're involved in a lawsuit where they're suing us for
referral liability.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, I know they're not yet, believe it. They're going
no place on this. First of all, do you do
your your your business. Do you have insurance insurance?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Okay, we have insurance.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Okay, you turn it over to your insurance company first
and foremost. They may say no, they may not cover
you for this is referral liability. You are liable because
you referred someone to us who screwed us over. Okay,
to this lady. Now, do you have liability? No? No,
you had no knowledge this guy did screw her. Maybe
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he didn't even screwer. That's their dispute. What is that
to do with you. Nothing, It's the lawyer was blowing smoke, Frederick.
And the reason you turned over to your insurance company
is that in the event that this lawyer decides he
is going to file a lawsuit just for nuisance value
to get a few thousand dollars because he's a shlock
(26:33):
of a lawyer, which sure sounds that way to me,
just by the very nature of your question. The insurance
company takes care of it. They deal with it, you know,
and it's it's gonna go away. It's gonna go away.
They have a little bit, I'm.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Sorry, it's gonna add a little bit to this cann
add a little bit to this, which complicates it. So
we did get involved. We did get we're one of
the people in the lawsuit. We did get that paperwork.
We were served.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, I interested.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
His claim?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Is it? His claim is its elder abuse? Because she's over.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That's even more stupid. You referred someone and somehow you
are engaged. You are liable for elder abuse. What did
you get out of this referral? By the way, nothing exactly. So, uh,
you engaged an elder abuse by referring a handyman to her?
That because you wouldn't take the job. Forget about the
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baking and all that, because that's that has no influence.
So he's gonna say, no, that never happened, and that
no one cares. What they care about is are you liable?
Did you get any money from it? Did you know
this guy's a screw up? Did you know he was
going to cause whatever damage? None of that is the case.
They have to prove all of that, Frederick, right, Yeah,
(27:48):
where are they going to go? And I wouldn't worry
about it. We did.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
We wrote the lawyer the email all right, laid out
on our side, okay, and so on.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
As a lawyer do too. Bad. He still wants money
and wants take you to court. All right, fine, let's
go to court.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
That's fine, that's kind of what That's what we've told him.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Don't be afraid of you know what, don't be afraid
of these people. You know why, because they don't go
to court. They don't go to court because these are
losing cases and they're just trying. They're just trying to
get money from you. That's what it's all about. The
second a lawyer, uh that your insurance company, for example,
has or you hire, that writes him back, saying, okay,
(28:31):
let's go to court file the lawsuit. We're going into depositions,
we're going into litigation. And by the way, that lawyer
is gonna get nothing. He's not gonna do it. He's
not gonna do anything. I hate lawyers that do that.
I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. It
drives me completely nuts. Um all right, Susan, Hello, Susan, Oh,
(28:55):
Simian Belle.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
The question I have is, could you explain what public
defender does? Okay, there's a situation where someone has a
criminal matter and then they cannot.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Afford a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So the county is going to give him.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Criminal defend.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, you've just described exactly what a public defender does.
Defends a criminal complaint. Uh, who can't for someone who
can't afford it?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
That's it, And that comes out of you see the
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
The private private attorneys.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
There's a combination of the two. First of all, there's
a public Defender's office, which is a county office. There's
also a state public defender. There's also a federal public defender.
Uh so Uh, it's and it's money. It's the taxpayers
that pay for it. And when there is a conflict,
For example, you've got two people who have been charged
(29:58):
in they each point fingers at each other. There one
public defender cannot represent both the public defender's office, so
they have to hire a private lawyer. So it's both,
it's both private and public defenders, and they but the
state pays for all of it. Anyway, when someone is poor,
they absolutely get the right and will get a lawyer
(30:19):
representing them. Comes out of the miranda warnings. You've seen
this on TV. You have the right to remain silent.
If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed
for you. That's the public defender, or it's someone paid
for by the state. So that's how it works. I
don't want to go beyond that because this is in
law school. I did teach law school for five years
(30:41):
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of them through, and if you want to call in
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because I have no patience with people, and on top
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(01:06):
you have absolutely no case. I did this story and
this is going to be one of the legacies of
the Biden administration. Guaranteed, the White House outlined a new
initiative that's going to make it easier for customers. That's
us to cancel subscriptions. How difficult is it for you
(01:27):
to cancel subscriptions? I got rid of a Direct TV
subscription and it was just it was like pulling teeth.
Why are you canceling because I've moved? Why don't you
give us a service? Would you like some internet service? No?
I don't. Hey tell me really? Why? Now try to
add a subscription? Tell you how long that takes? Also
(01:47):
getting refunds, resolving customer service complaint, and of course this
is a follow up to the junk fees program that
the Biden administration has. The other thing the White House
intends to do is crack down on the doom loops.
And this is when you call and you and you
(02:08):
get the menu. Start with if this is English, they
put if this is Espanol pesa numro dose, okay, fair enough,
and then you start going through the menu over and
over again. The other day, I had an att issue
because I had an att issue, and it took me
(02:32):
six minutes to finally reach somebody. And I did reach someone,
by the way, in the Philippines, because you can always
tell the Filipino accident. Of course you can. And when
you hear karaoke being sung in the background, you know
it's the Philippines. And I and the person basically had
no idea what I wanted to do because it was
a little unusual. It wasn't your normal conversation. And this
(02:57):
is what I got. My computer is it working? I
have you up and it's not doing what it should do.
Let me get my supervisor. And I was switched over
to either a call center or some kind of a
service center in the United States, and someone who knew
(03:18):
what he was doing. We got through what I had
to get through. Well can you imagine getting spending six
minutes to get through to the Filipino guy who had
no idea what I wanted to do. By the way,
I don't want to seem like I'm simply targeting Filipinos.
It's not fair. I also want to target Indians for
(03:40):
Indian call centers just as much. Hello, my name is Bob.
It's always funny, you know. And whenever I get an
Indian call center, because you know, their hours are very
different than ours, I mean way off. So these people
work in the middle of the night, as I always ask,
So how's the weather over there? A little humid? Huh huh,
(04:01):
no sense of humor at all. Any case, we're going
to see some things change dramatically, and uh, it's good news.
It's good news consumers. We finally get a little bit
of help. Okay, let's go ahead and take some phone
calls and let me see. All right, we'll start with you, Frank, Hi, Frank, welcome.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Bill.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh sure, I had a minivan.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
There was part on the street legally, and when I
went to go out there the next morning, they're ready
to go to work.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It was towed away.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You found out what police, and they did it legally.
I have nothing against the Santa Police.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
They're a good agency. By wait a minute, what do
you mean, Hold on, what do you mean they did
it legally. You're parked on the street legally, you said,
and then they told you away legally. Some's got to
give either you were illegal or they did something wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
This is what happened. I had expired tags on my van.
An individual who lives in the neighborhood who did not
like me, and I did not know who he was,
got at the sixth thirty to seven o'clock in the
morning and called the Santanta police and they came and
(05:29):
then they told away my van for expired tads. What
the Santanta Police didn't know, because this is a poorty
written law, was that I paid all my fees, so
I was technically legal. But I was waiting for two
new catalytic converters to be sent to the repair shop
(05:50):
so I can have them in stare.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, no, you weren't technically illegal. You were technically illegal.
The fact that you had to wait for catalytic converters
is that the problem. It is not okay sant Ana Police.
Now here's the part that I find interesting. Usually you
just get a ticket for having an unregistered vehicle unless
(06:11):
the law says that if it's parked, they can tow
it away. I have never heard of them just picking
it up. But it's they're getting stricter and stricter and strict.
And keep in mind also that this is a revenue
call for the city.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know that, right, But here's something you need to know, Bill,
this was a poorly thought out, poorly written law and
an individual and in the neighborhood. Okay, I'm the only
African American that lives in a ninety nine percent ethnic
Mexican Latino neighborhood. This individual knew me. There's only one
(06:50):
reason why he would get up early in the morning
to have my van towed away. And to this date,
I don't know who he was, but I have a
good idea as to why he did it. And so
they called the police, and the Santa police were obliged
to come out there, and he said, yeah, look at this,
have it towed away. So there's nothing in the law
(07:10):
that said the police had to contact me.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
There was nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, So what's so what's your question, Frank?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
If I find out who did this, can I sue
them in court and get back all? That's what I
was asking for.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You assume them for calling the police, uh because you had,
uh a car that was not registered or show that
it was not registered and the police came out and towed.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
It away, but they had expired tags.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Okay, but what are you assume? What are you going
to sue them.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
For uh harassment?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And they just call the police. They don't harass you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yes, but there was no real logical reason for them.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It doesn't have to be sure it is a car
is illegal. There's a car across the street that's illegal. Sure,
that's that's the logical reason. Now is it really is it?
Is it racism?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, I guess so. But technically you weren't innocent. You
were parked with tags uh non registered tags and you're
waiting for the cantalytic converter. They don't care. You were
parked on the street with a non registered or a
vehicle that has gone beyond its registration. That's the violation
straight out now. The fact that they told you I
(08:36):
don't know what the Santa Anna ordinance is, and I
get and it's it's Orange County, so I don't know
what the county ordinance is. But nothing was done illegally.
And as you talk about you being the only African
American and it's Hispanic, and you argue, maybe that's racism
and discrimination. Frank it very well might be. It sure
(08:58):
sounds like it, but you can't do a damn thing
about it. You'll never be able to prove it. You
can't even bring that up because there's no proof. So
there isn't anything you can do, and there's nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
People in the neighborhood and I love it, are good
decent people.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Then you got one that doesn't want you. They don't
like African Americans. I understand, But you know, there's nothing
you can do. There's nothing you can do, you know,
I mean take a bigseball bat and bash his knees in.
I mean short of that, I mean there is nothing
legally you can do. I can hear the uh you know,
I I can feel it, you know with Frank, Yeah,
(09:42):
it probably was discrimination. Yeah, there's no question. The problem
is how he called the police because my part, my
car was illegally parked, and therefore it was because of
the fact I'm African American. I don't think that's going
to go any place. Uh, Summit or su Meet? Do
I have that right? How do you pronounce?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
My name is Summit?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Submit? Okay? Where are you from? Submit? I'm from India, Oh, India. Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
It's my honor to speak to you. But let me
thank you to the point, I know, let me get
my worden. Oh my goodness, you cannot believe how much
KFA is a part of my life. You are the
radio hosts. That's very really and how much educational and
keep me up to current affairs, you know, So enough
(10:34):
blowing smoke up her.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Kay, thank you. Let's let's get to your point. Let's
get to your question.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Yeah, so this is the deal.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
So this is you know, I've been divorced since two
thousandth and and so my ex and she's you know,
and we have a long like nine years of tug
of war and stuff like that. So the kid, I
have two of them. One is thirty four, one is
thirty seven. The twenty seven is with me at home,
(11:01):
and the mom wants to come to us to uh
meet the son. It's kind of you know, around that
same time, I'm going to India to see my mom. So,
uh and uh my request is you know my you know,
(11:21):
I need your advice as to work.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, So what's your question? I got it? What's your question?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
The question is, you know she has you know, we
have had a long history of you know, suing. She
has sued me left.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Okay, I understand I already you know we went through that.
It's been a very difficult lawsuit, divorce, a lot of
uh not amicable. Okay. So what's your question?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Yeah, so you know, I mean, can I get her
to write can I write up something to say that hey,
you won't sue me.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Or you won't. What is she going to sue you for.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Anything that happens while she is in my you know,
staying at my home.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Then just don't let her stay at your home.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
No, no, you know, I'm just trying to save her
some money. You know, no.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Good, right, she screws you during the divorce, right, you
spend years going through the divorce, probably spend thousands or
tens of thousands of dollars of lawyers, and you want
to save her some money, okay? Is no, Okay, here's
what I'm gonna suggest you do. Get lots of insurance,
get a nice homeowner's policy, and whatever happens to her,
(12:37):
it's covered. And she lives in India, right.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Oh no, she's all over the world.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
R wow, Wow, she has that kind of money.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Well she's a she's a professor, and oh good for her,
I mean, okay, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The point is there really isn't anything to write up.
The kids are adults. You are letting her stay there
be because on the goodness of your house, of your
of your heart. And if something happens, can she sue
you only for something like falling down in the house
and arguing you didn't meet code, or there was carpeting
(13:17):
that was frayed or curled up and she fell on
it or whatever. But that's what you have insurance for
and there's nothing to write up, and you know, again
you want to save her money, and yet you are
concerned about protecting yourself against her. You know what that
(13:37):
sounds like. That doesn't sound real smart. A lot of
yes DearS in your family, all right, So yeah, a
lot of yes dear, yes dear.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
But in the end, I should certainly again tell you, sir.
You know you cannot believe how much you guys are
a part of Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
That's very sweet. I appreciate that. I love it. That's sweet,
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handle Hello Todd, Hey, good morning Bill. Hey.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
As to be as concise as I can, I was
co producing a film about the life story of the
other co producer. We were very far along in the film.
He passed away and the executors. Executors interrupted the production,
and I am I have several hundred thousand involved in
(16:10):
the production from my side of the cook financing, and
I'm a probate window is going to close in about
thirty days, and I'm there's another moving part, which is
all the time that was booked out to finish this
thing is now in pause, and I'm wondering, what is
(16:31):
my movie? Yeah, protect mind.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
There are a lot of movie pieces here. Okay, let
me throw a couple of questions. First of all, do
the actors act with their clothes on? That's the first
thing in this film they do. Does any part of
this film take place in a barn?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Serious, no, okay. I was just curious as to the
content of the film. Okay. So with that, I'm assuming
there was a contract. It had to be a written
contract between you and your co producer. Correct, Yes, Okay,
so that's still a valid contract and the people that
are handling the probate have to honor that. There's no question.
(17:13):
It's basically it. You're in the position of a creditor
but it's it's it's it's sort of a creditor that
he owes the money to the film and he's dead,
and now you have the executors actually holding it up. Well,
probate isn't even closed yet, so I don't think that
the executors can even write checks until granted the okay
(17:36):
by the court. So I see, you know, where do
you go with this one? I know not that I
do this kind of law, but I just think the
guys are you're out of luck other than get it started.
Do you think that the executor is going to go
ahead and fund the film per the agreement that was made.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
They're they're making noise in that direction. But I also
have the issue of the time that I can't recover,
which is.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
No I know, but that's I don't think you're going
to get that because it's no one's fault. They weren't negligent. Now,
I think, okay, and this is me now playing now
playing trust in a state lawyer. Can the executor go
in and must the executor go in and ask the
court h to release money to maintain the film on
(18:28):
an on an emergency basis? Because this is an emergency basis.
As far as you getting your money back for all
the time that you spent, Hey, you know what, it's
nobody's fault. It happens, you know, it's it's just one
of those things that you you had the bad luck
to have a co producer die on you. Actually he
(18:50):
had worse luck than you did. But that is a
different discussion.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a sizable estate.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But first of all, I know you got to I
think you have to talk to the executor. Well, first
of all, you got to talk to a trust and
a state lawyer and go what do I do? That's
the first thing. I mean, like Monday, you make a
phone call to a trust and a state lawyer. You
do your diligence, You put that up. You look to
see if the complaints with the state bar reviews. Anybody
you know who's died, well you can't ask them because
(19:17):
they're dead. But anybody who's dealt with a family member
who's died or a business partner who's died, you have
to do a little bit of research and then advertise
for as. I don't think you can find. No, there's
nothing for you to file Todd. It's it's a probate
that has to be opened. That's why you want to
(19:39):
talk to a trust and a state lawyer. Maybe you
can on an emergency basis, because we're talking soundstage rental. Uh,
you know that you have and you're booking, and then
you've got everybody is on a train.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Schedule, very high profile, a person who is the thinker
of the documentary as well.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, so you got you got time, You've got time
elements involved. And obviously the more successful the people. If
you were able to land really good competent or highly
competent people, they're not just sitting around and waiting. They're
probably busy. They probably have dates already booked. So that's
why you want a trust and a state lawyer. And
(20:24):
there may be some kind of an exigent emergency filing.
Maybe you can file. And I don't know the answer.
I don't think it's up to you. I think it's
up to the executor. But it's good question. By the way,
I don't tell you that's I don't think I've ever
had that question before. It is no, it is a
unique situation. I'm sure it's happened before, or people have died.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I mean they've asked me. And I've given them the
spreadsheets of all of the investments from my side, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well that's good news. I mean, that's good news. And
now you have people. Now it's just a question of
time if they're willing to work with you. Now, the
only issue is time and the ability of the executors
to have access to the money, because they don't just
walk in with a will and say here you go.
It's appropriate. A judge has to okay it. So now
(21:16):
it's that's a good question, and it's absolutely an exiting
in the situation here. John, Hi, John, welcome?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Does know about the money?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Hello? John? Oh, this is bad.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Okay, there you go? Sorry?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How are you doing? Bill good Martin?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Two thousand and four, my dad gifted me a small
unit apartment. The deal was she was gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Continue collecting the rent until he passed away. And this
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
A year and a half ago, I come to find out.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
After talking to.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
My dad the apartments are not under my name. I
have a document here that's signed over back to my dad.
A quick wait, wait, wait, okay, hold on, So the
prop your dad put the property in your name.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Correct, and me and my wife's name.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Okay, okay. And then there is now a document, a
quick claim deed that is signed by you and your
wife transferring the property to whom to my father again
to your father again. Okay. Did you in fact sign
that quick claim deed? No? Okay, so now you have
(22:30):
a fraudulent document. My question is, does my father get
into legal trouble? No? I mean, well, someone forged your name.
Uh and on top of that, some notary forged or
was there to accept the forgery. You know, can he
get into legal trouble? No, it's going to be civil.
(22:52):
And you go to your dad and just say, hey, listen,
you gave it to me, give it back. My dad
is getting dementia. Now okay, well then you go then
then what you do? All right? Fair enough, So now
you get to go into court and unravel the quick
claim deed that you ostensibly signed, which you didn't to
(23:13):
your dad. And especially since you're talking about you're not
talking have a bona fide buyer down the road, someone
actually paid real money and the whoever had ripped and
he got ripped off. This is an easy one, and
that is you're simply gonna ask the court to undo
the quick claim deed, uh and give you back the property.
(23:34):
And your dad's not going to get in trouble and
he has dementia anyway. Yeah, so I wouldn worry about because,
you know, let me ask to me if he's if
he's in the middle of dementia, even if they put
him in prison, theoretically, all you have to do is
say this is a rich Carlton to him, and he'll
think it is okay, okay, you got it all right.
(23:59):
I wasn't expecting that from Okay fred Rick, Hello, Frederick Bill,
how are you? Yes, sir?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Hey, let me, Uh, this is.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Gonna be a little complicated.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm gonna try to condense it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
My partner and I we have a remodel in real
estate business down here in San Diego. We helped people
fix their homes up to sell them for more, kind
of like your you know your add scale, Yeah, on
a smaller scale. So a client contacted us.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We went and looked at her home.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
It was like a little cabin sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
When we went.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Inside, it was so disgusting. She had five dogs peeing
and pooping inside, and there was mold, and so we
basically told her, hey, we can't take this project on it.
It's just it's just too much. So she begged us.
She was like, well, can you help me please because
I need to sell this and I said, you know,
we said to her, hey, we can sell it, but
you've got to fix some stuff up here. It's ridiculous.
So anyway, she begged us for a referral. We gave
(24:55):
her a referral to a handing map that we've used
for like painting and you know, just being six stuff. Anyway,
but it was up to her whether or not she
wanted to hire this guy, and vice versa, whether he
wanted to work with her because it was bad.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Fast forward a few months.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Apparently they're in conflict over whether or not he did
all the work and whether or not he basically took
money from her to work and get done. All right,
fair enough, so go ahead, I'm sorry no.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And what happened a result of that?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Okay, So we got contacted by a lawyer and now
we're involved in a lawsuit where they're suing us for
referral liability.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, I know they're not yet, believe it. They're going
no place on this. First of all, do you do
your your your business. Do you have insurance insurance?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Okay, we have insurance.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Okay, you turn it over to your insurance company first
and foremost. They may say no, they may not cover
you for this is referral liability. You are liable because
you referred someone to us who screwed us over. Okay,
to this lady. Now, do you have liability? No? No,
you had no knowledge this guy did screw her. Maybe
(26:11):
he didn't even screwer. That's their dispute. What is that
to do with you. Nothing, It's the lawyer was blowing smoke, Frederick.
And the reason you turned over to your insurance company
is that in the event that this lawyer decides he
is going to file a lawsuit just for nuisance value
to get a few thousand dollars because he's a shlock
(26:33):
of a lawyer, which sure sounds that way to me,
just by the very nature of your question. The insurance
company takes care of it. They deal with it, you know,
and it's it's gonna go away. It's gonna go away.
They have a little bit, I'm.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Sorry, it's gonna add a little bit to this cann
add a little bit to this, which complicates it. So
we did get involved. We did get we're one of
the people in the lawsuit. We did get that paperwork.
We were served.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, I interested.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
His claim?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Is it? His claim is its elder abuse? Because she's over.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That's even more stupid. You referred someone and somehow you
are engaged. You are liable for elder abuse. What did
you get out of this referral? By the way, nothing exactly. So, uh,
you engaged an elder abuse by referring a handyman to her?
That because you wouldn't take the job. Forget about the
(27:25):
baking and all that, because that's that has no influence.
So he's gonna say, no, that never happened, and that
no one cares. What they care about is are you liable?
Did you get any money from it? Did you know
this guy's a screw up? Did you know he was
going to cause whatever damage? None of that is the case.
They have to prove all of that, Frederick, right, Yeah,
(27:48):
where are they going to go? And I wouldn't worry
about it. We did.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
We wrote the lawyer the email all right, laid out
on our side, okay, and so on.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
As a lawyer do too. Bad. He still wants money
and wants take you to court. All right, fine, let's
go to court.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
That's fine, that's kind of what That's what we've told him.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Don't be afraid of you know what, don't be afraid
of these people. You know why, because they don't go
to court. They don't go to court because these are
losing cases and they're just trying. They're just trying to
get money from you. That's what it's all about. The
second a lawyer, uh that your insurance company, for example,
has or you hire, that writes him back, saying, okay,
(28:31):
let's go to court file the lawsuit. We're going into depositions,
we're going into litigation. And by the way, that lawyer
is gonna get nothing. He's not gonna do it. He's
not gonna do anything. I hate lawyers that do that.
I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. It
drives me completely nuts. Um all right, Susan, Hello, Susan, Oh,
(28:55):
Simian Belle.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
The question I have is, could you explain what public
defender does? Okay, there's a situation where someone has a
criminal matter and then they cannot.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Afford a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So the county is going to give him.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Criminal defend.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, you've just described exactly what a public defender does.
Defends a criminal complaint. Uh, who can't for someone who
can't afford it?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
That's it, And that comes out of you see the
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
The private private attorneys.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
There's a combination of the two. First of all, there's
a public Defender's office, which is a county office. There's
also a state public defender. There's also a federal public defender.
Uh so Uh, it's and it's money. It's the taxpayers
that pay for it. And when there is a conflict,
For example, you've got two people who have been charged
(29:58):
in they each point fingers at each other. There one
public defender cannot represent both the public defender's office, so
they have to hire a private lawyer. So it's both,
it's both private and public defenders, and they but the
state pays for all of it. Anyway, when someone is poor,
they absolutely get the right and will get a lawyer
(30:19):
representing them. Comes out of the miranda warnings. You've seen
this on TV. You have the right to remain silent.
If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed
for you. That's the public defender, or it's someone paid
for by the state. So that's how it works. I
don't want to go beyond that because this is in
law school. I did teach law school for five years
(30:41):
and loved every minute of it until they fired me. Unusual, right,
why not? Okay, let me end with your breath, which
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a moment and say goodbye. But for those of you
that are on the phone, stay put. I'm going to
answer your calls off the air until we get all
of them through, and if you want to call in
(32:32):
a few minutes, let's say the lines are busy. You know,
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