July 19, 2024 • 31 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Flights grounded, passengers to see delays amid global IT outage. Trump accepts GOP nomination at RNC and describes assassination attempt in detail. Obama tells allies Biden’s path to winning reelection has greatly diminished. Majority of Democrats think Harris would make a good president, AP-NORC poll shows. Bob Newhart, legendary comedian, dead at 94. US reporter Evan Gershkovich found guilty in Russia of espionage. Bud Light sinks to No. 3 most popular beer after boycott.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty knows there is
an elevator on Air Force one,now, isn't there. I don't think
so. I don't think there's anelevator. Well, yeah, if you
believe transformers, there is Thank you, thank you. This is where you
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get your news, correct, Amy. This is why you are an award
winning newsperson. And now handle onthe news. Ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, and this is KFIAM six forty. I handle. Oh.
It is a Friday, foody Friday, a Friday morning, July nineteenth,
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and the crowd is upon us.Neil, there you go. Good
morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. I am upon you. Yes,
you are not sure what that means, bro, but I on you.
Yes. And there's Cono. Goodmorning, Cono, Good morning Bill.
I am up on you as well, Yes you are. Do you shower
with that hat on? By theway, I shower all right. I'm
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glad to hear that. Yeah.And there's a reason why we're looking at
each other through a monitor. Youknow. That's a safeguard. Those are
the guardrails, Amy, always closingmy door to I know, Amy,
Good morning, Hi. Hi.By the way, how much time do
you spend with sheep? Because clearlyit never mind that one got passed me.
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Yeah, no, it was justa reference to never mind, yeah
sheep and being too close to meor was making fun of Kno, you,
it's a given. And then andgood morning. I don't want any
part of this conversation today, andyou're not having any part of it.
Amy didn't ever say hello to you, okay, sort of kind of hello,
Amy, Okay, Well, youknow last night we're going to talk
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a whole lot about or what happenedlast night. But did Trump talk?
Was it three or four hours thathe was up there? Seemed like three
or four hours, it does itwas ninety minutes. Yeah, he riffs
and babbles. When he riffs,I mean you can whatever you say,
whatever you think about Donald Trump,either good or bad. The guy rambles
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and he repeats and he babbles.We're just talking delivery now. I'm not
going to talk about like later on, I'll talk about what he actually said.
Isn't it difficult to think of somebodygetting up in age that gets paid
to just ramble and babble and saythe same things over and over and over
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again. Wow, and get paidfor it. Wow. Hello. Yeah,
okay, I'm just thinking, justthinking. I know I understand that,
Cono. Thank you for pointing thatout. I was too old to
figure that out as an I come. Yeah, thanks, I because I
love Yes, that's true, butthat's true although I'm not seventy Is he
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seventy eight now or seventy seven?I think he is seventy eight if I'm
not mistaken. Yeah, okay,Bill, I would vote for you in
a heartbeat over the choices we have. Oh yeah, let me here we
go. What do I do?My background is I was drug addled,
probably the worst, you know,well credentials cal State Northridge, the Harvard
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of the West, and my lawschool with year law school now defunct because
it didn't do such a good jobinside of business. So what law school
did you go to? I wentto Harvard? How about you, Bill?
I went to a law school that'sstill longer there. Okay, that's
like going to school the internet,to schools you know you go to and
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I used to make fun of andthere were some initial non I don't even
know if they assume it have anon accredited law schools where you just sort
of open up. No, I'vegot much more babbling to do, believe
me. Oh I've got more babbling. All right? Does that mean I
stopped that? Okay, fair enough, Yeah, we'll do that. I
was just making a reference to uh, former President Trump last night. I
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think it ended. At one pointI did, I had do you know
what? I came back and Igo, oh my god, it's still
going. Do you know who elsewas nominated three times? Williams. Jennings
Bryant was nominated three times. AndI'm wonder if ADLEYE. Stevenson was nominated
three times? Let me see,hey, sirih oh, I don't have
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to do that anymore. Was AdleieStevenson nominated three times? For president?
If you think it could be serious, asked me to call emergency services or
someone you trust. I'm not kidding. That's what came up. That's what
happened. That's what that actually cameup. Do you have an Apple watch?
You having heart it day? Imean, if you can read that
on the phone, that's what cameup on my phone. I've never seen
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that, all right, So Iwon't be asking that question anymore. Okay,
guys, they know I'm asking ifyou need emergency services right now,
you couldn't be better to, couldit. Maybe that's that software glitch,
yeah, or maybe it now knowsme, you know, with AI and
understands who I am. All right, that's literally that was a lot of
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babbling and I want to, bythe way, was that purposeful? Oh?
I don't know, what do youthink? Okay, we are on
our way to handle on the newswith Amy Neil and me Lee story.
Oh yeah, this is a bigone. Flights grounded, passengers delayed,
hospitals screwed up. Probably, Iwould guess, if not, the biggest
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IT outage in the world. Wayup there, and I'll talk more about
that. But this is crazy.It's one company, CrowdStrike, cybersecurity company
that has millions and millions of customersaround the world. And this was not
a cyber attack. This was justan update that went south and it took
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all of these companies off. Airlineswere shut down, hospitals couldn't use their
building systems. I mean, thiswas crazy stuff. But isn't that baboo?
They always say, though, thatit's a software update. No,
No, I think when it's acyber attack, I think we know it's
a cyber attack. I don't thinkthey're able to keep secret what is a
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cyber attack and they're able to coverup what? I get it. But
maybe it's a guy who just spilledhis you know, coffee could bear or
something could be. Always seems tobe an update. Oh yeah, they
update constantly. I mean every second, you know, you get your updates.
But yeah, very well, beamy, who was that story about
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the guy? Literally they were doinga test run one guy and wiped out
I don't know how much data andput companies for days on the fritz.
Oh I don't even remember that.Okay, well, good, that helped
me a lot. I know,all right, I was as helpful as
Siri. Yes, I accept.Those two words were stretched out to more
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than ninety minutes. Donald Trump hasaccepted the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican
National Convention. To start off thespeech, he detailed the assassination attempt.
He said, I'm going to tellyou one one time, and then I'm
not going to because it's too painful. And I thought that part of it
was really interesting. Here's the longestconvention speech though in modern history. Ninety
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three minutes. Yeah, it was. It started very introspective. It started
as the advisors that we as toldand knew Trump was going to him out
conciliatory, arguing for a United America. And then it devolved right into your
normal Trump bashing, bashing opponents,bashing the government, certainly bashing Biden,
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making up wild facts, I mean, just stuff that made no sense whatsoever,
just pulled him out of his rearend. And it was absolutely Ah,
it was typical Donald Trump. Idon't think he cannot control himself when
it comes to this stuff. Thisis in his DNA. The way he
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bashes, it's like trying to eatone French fry. You cannot do it.
It's impossible. He cannot not beTrump. It's impossible for him not
to be. Was he supposed tobe unifying the country or unifying the Republican
Party. He doesn't have to unifythe Republican Party. I mean they are
lockstep. They are in lockstep behindhim. Did you hear the fake controversy
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that the coat of the man whowas killed, the firefighter was killed,
that it was misspelled, his namewas misspelled, and so people flipped out.
But that's his actual jacket, andit was misspelled. See, I
thought I thought they rented it fromWestern Costume. No, it just down
the steel jacket. Wow, it'smissing an A on purpose because it couldn't
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fit the whole name on there,and he chose to have the A removed.
But everybody was blaming Trump like itwas a prop. And by the
way, I've never seen anything likethat with a prop being brought on the
stage for that reason. I mean, he's very obviously, very effective.
I've just never seen it. Iwas surprised that he rolls up his sleeves.
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Nothing up my sleeves, and thenwhosh, comes out the cards.
He is a showman. He isa showman. I mean the whole I've
never seen such a choreographed and wellcrafted convention. And this was all Trump,
all of it. I mean,that's it was very well done.
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I would hate to be the DNCin August. Oh yeah, I don't
even know. And the speeches werevery very short. You know, if
someone spoke for ten minutes during theconvention, that was a long time.
I mean, they kept it movingthey I thought it was. I thought
it was brilliantly done. Also,the biggest drop, the biggest balloon drop
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in the history of the world.They just kept coming. They did.
And by the way, how dowe know it's the biggest balloon drop in
the history of the world because wewere told it was the biggest balloon drop
in the history of the world.When Obama steps in. You got to
listen. Former President Barack Obama hastold allies in all you know, the
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most recent of days, that PresidentBiden's path to victory has greatly diminished and
he thinks the president needs to seriouslyconsider the viability of his candidacy. So
it's over. It's over now,it's just a question of doing it gracefully,
and rumors that will be done thisweekend. Yeah, it's over.
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It's over. Then the issue iswho gets it, and unfortunately it's going
to be Kamala Harris, and she'sgetting it by virtue of just being there,
that's all. But if nothing peoplewere already there and willing to hold
their nose for Joe Biden. Don'tyou think they'll just hold their nose for
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Kamala Harris? No, I thinkwell, certainly, I mean there'll be
Democrats who will, but I don'tknow that she's going to pull the independent
vote. That's that's my point.That's the point is that there's really no
there there is. I've often saidI'm a big fan of Pete Boodhag,
really am. I think he wouldbe absolutely terrific. He's moderate, I
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mean, he's on the liberal side. He's a Democrat, and I'm fine
with moderate Republicans. I'm fine withmoderate Democrats. I'm fine either way.
Nikki Hayley, I would have lovedto see be the nominee, and she
would have gotten my vote. Butthere's no there there with Kamalae Harris.
And the part that really pisses meoff is that the Democrats, a leadership
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of the Democratic Party is already sayingwe're gonna go for it. Joe Biden,
she would make a great president.And this is while he was staying
in the race. He said that. So, I mean, have we
really gotten to that point where it's, you know, by default one thing
about Donald Trump? There's nothing bydefault with Donald Trump, not even a
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little bit. You don't think theycould hop over her and put Buddha jedge
or anything like that. And no, they're gonna have to Well, first
of all, they're gonna have tohop over Joe Biden, who's gonna be
comatose on the ground that's for starters, then they're no, no, I'm
just gonna get it. He's goingto get it. And Trump is the
luckiest guy in the world, inthe world, and I mean the good
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news lucky that he the bullet.That's a good luck. You know that
that is a good place to bein terms of that luck. But the
rest of it, Look at howlucky he is. What's happening in the
Democratic Party imploding right now? Lookat how lucky he was with the court
cases. Last night he talked abouthow the dismissal of the document's case vindicated
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him, and the case fell apart. It only fell apart, not to
the merits of the case, isbecause the judge bought this ridiculous argument that
somehow the very appointment of Jack Smith, that the Special Council was unconstitutional the
way it was done. So it'sand it doesn't matter. By the way,
California, who is it the kingwith the stats? I think you
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did, Amy Where in California it'sexactly the same as it was prior to
the deblacle in terms of the supportCalifornia is baked in. No doesn't matter
what you do. If Joe Bidenstays in office and he runs and he
is dead by the time, andlet's say he dies. A lot of
arguments already there, but let's sayhe is actually dead, He'll still get
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the California vote. That'll happened.Okay, Well, President Harris does have
a nice ring to it. Atleast that's the word from a lot of
Democrats. They think the vice presidentwould make a good president. They did
a ap Nork Center of for PublicAffairs Research poll. Six and ten Democrats
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believe Kamala Harris would be a goodpick for the top spot spot. About
two and ten do not think sheis a good choice, and another too
inten say yeah, I don't knowenough to say, yeah, I'd love
to know what those six intend.These are Democrats, of course, keep
in mind, you know, it'sas Republicans would say, if a Republican
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is there, he would do agood job, and in Democrats she would
there. I'll tell you if shegets it, which I think she's going
to. The more people get toknow this woman, the fewer supporters she's
going to have. You don't thinkshe has any good traits. I mean
she hasn't shown them as VP.But I have no idea. I don't
know her personally. I do notlike Frankly, I just I just don't
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think there's any gravitas there, that'sall. I just don't think there's any
gravitas there. When she was theattorney general, to remember the lawsuit against
Nielsen in terms of which hit ourrating so hard. That's a long story
because of the waiting system. Anyway, just for political correctness, she joined
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California joined that lawsuit, and itwas just it didn't have to. It's
a long story. I want toget into that, but it was it
was a political decision as opposed toanything else. It was, I mean,
come on, you know, itwas just pandering. And that's what
I think she does. She panders. And that's just one example. All
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right. This was such a bummer. Bob Newhart is known for his stammering
and his deadpand very unflappable personality.Died. Stand up comedian, later television
movie star. Died. He wasninety four years old. One of his
best more recent movies was Elf.He was so great in that. But
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of course the Bob Newhart Show.Yeah, Bob Newhart show was fantastic.
Yes, ninety four years old.I mean, you can't get too upset
about that. Did I ever tellyou I actually had lunch with Bob Newhart?
No? Actually I was at thetable next to him in a restaurant,
so close enough. Yeah, yeah, and I waved to him.
He kind of ignored me, butI consider that having lunch with him.
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Wow. Okay, well that wasfast. Evan Gerskevich, the first American
journalist to be arrested on espionage chargessince the Cold War in Russia anyway,
has been found guilty of spying andwas immediately sentenced to sixteen years in prison
in a Russian court. The trialonly lasted two days. That is a
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very long trial for something like thisin Russia. I mean it was preordained,
no surprise at all. Everybody expectedit and they came right through.
I think the only surprise is thatthe prosecution asked for eighteen years and the
judge came down with sixteen years.Usually it's the other way around, your
honor, we suggest sixteen years.No, no, here's twenty eight.
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Enjoy yourself because they do that alot too. So the poor guy is,
well, he's going to be ableto get out, because I think
Putin's already talking about a prisoner swap, although Paul Wheeland has been in for
what six seven years already? Whywould you go to that place? You're
crazy, crazy. I would beshocked if there was any reporter from any
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news outlet sitting, especially American orany European news news outlet. If you're
in Russia. You're right, whywould anybody go there? All right?
Netflix continues to find ways to screwyou and me. They're going to start
phasing out its Basic plan. That'sthe cheapest advertising free plan costs eleven ninety
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nine per month in the United States, and it will go the way of
the Dodo bird. Yeah, thisis it's now getting to be prohibitively expensive.
You have to choose effectively. One. I'm at two hundred and fifty
bucks and I have the Netflix.I don't know if it's premium or not,
but Standard plan will be fifteen dollarsand fifty cents a month. Yeah.
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They're just recreating cable at this point. They are now they're making twenty
different cables. Yeah. Yeah,what's you have to buy them all?
Yeah? What's it ever seen?The Standard plan and the premium plan.
I mean, the standard is fifteenfifty and the premium is twenty three bucks
a month. What do you getif it's if you have AD free,
you have AD free. So Idon't quite understand. Maybe for higher you
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know, higher resolution TVs or something, maybe you get eight four K eight
K. I don't know. Idon't know. I don't know. But
that's that's a big difference too,all right. So and I like Netflix,
and I like it a lot too, I do. But yeah,
but it's sixteen bucks a month.We're twenty three dollars a month now,
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it's getting a little crazy. Standardlimits you who downloads on two devices always
happens. Premium allows up to sixgot it there, it is, Thank
you for that, Amy, You'rewelcome here. Here he goes again.
President Biden has announced another round ofstudent loan debt forgiveness, this one affecting
thirty five thousand public sector workers,including teachers, nurses, and firefighters.
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It will cost one point two billiondollars. The Biden administration is already fighting
two legal challenges to other student loanrepayment plans that it launched last year.
There were known as the Save theSaving on a valuable education plan. Well,
yeah, the legal issue is doesBiden have the authority to do this
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without Congress? And those are thefights that are going on. And in
the meantime, the underlying issue,should the taxpayer subsidize the Well, it's
the only way this loan forgiveness issubsidized by the taxpayer. And I don't
know. I think it's going tochange dramatically with President Trump, by the
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way, I think it's it's notgoing to be too much longer that we
stop referring to Donald Trump as formerPresident Trump. All Right, I think
he's going to be President Trump.Just to make it clear, we all
knew where you were going, Okay, I just I didn't. Wasn't super
cryptic. I was a little confused. That's like the person who says I'm
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going to go to the bathroom,if you know what I mean. That's
a very good point. That's actuallya very picking up what you're putting down.
Yes, this story just sucks.The largest housing provider for migrant children
engaged in pervasive sexual aboose abuse.So you've got Southwest key programs in and
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their employees, including supervisors in thelike, raped, tortured or solicited sex
and nude images of children beginning intwenty fifteen, maybe even earlier. That
is what the Justice Department is claimin a lawsuit filed just this week.
Yeah, now this is a civillawsuit. You would think if the accusation
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against these people is part of theirlawsuit, why they haven't been arrested for
this? I don't understand. Well, No, two employees have been indicted
on criminal charges, and so that'sokay, So that's too out of I
don't know. I would guess tensof thousands of employees will find out how
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pervasive this is. But if younotice that, you know, any organization
of any size that deals with anyonewho is vulnerable, the accusations are out
there. It is are we reallythat sick as a society? Or is
this simply some outliers and that hasbeen blown up? You know, much
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more? I would imagine. It'snot the totality of the areas. No,
I understand, But you know,the point is, for example,
do you think there are any moreand I'm going to go back to politics,
do you think there are any morerapists and the criminal elements and murderers
out of illegal immigrants coming in thanthere were twenty years ago as a percentage.
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I don't hi, there's five peopleworking on the show right now.
One of them is a horrible pervert. So that's twenty percent, right right,
And does that stay? It wouldthat doesn't change never mind. I
don't even know where we're going withthat one. But thanks for pointing that
out. Neil's amy, she's filthy. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
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we believe that. All right,guys. Oh, we can do
one more and then we'll take abreak. Just in time for the Olympics.
Lamayor Bass and your favorite bill.Secretary of Transportation Pete Bodhajedge have outlined
a new federal funding program for zeroemission buses and charging infrastructure that should be
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completed in time for the twenty twentyeight Olympics. Seventy seven and a half
million dollar project. It'll help theagency purchase dozens of battery electric buses and
also install new chargers. Yeah,well, without chargers, they're not going
anywhere. Nobody's going anywhere. That'sthe problem. And EV well, in
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general, we'll do more about thata little bit later on, but the
number of evs that are being soldis dropping. It's not doing well because
there isn't enough infrastructure out there.That's the problem. And so this is
another hit at the infrastructure. Here'ssome more money, and this is going
to be incremental. This is goingto take a long long time to make
this whole thing viable. Unfortunately,the act Exam will see changes, including
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the science portion is going to beoptional, which is good because we need
less reason and science in this world. So the exam will be evolving to,
as they say, meet the challengethe challenges students and educators face,
like not being educated, yeahretty much. Still for example, science is hard.
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Yeah, that's right. Science ishard. So that's being removed.
It's not an option now. Englishis still one of the cores. Unless
you don't speak English, then it'soptional and you can do just fine not
speaking English. Like that. Itsays this change is designed to make the
testing experience more manageable for students.Do you really want a manageable testing experience?
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You put your name down and youwalk out the door. That's manageable.
It's not supposed to be manageable.The whole point is it's supposed to
test you. It's supposed to behard. That's the point. But if
it is hard. And here isthe problem. Now we go back to
a societal problem. Right, Hisminorities do worse than whites on these tests,
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so therefore inherently they are unfair.There was a move when I was
graduating law school and taking the barthat the percentage of African Americans who actually
took the bar it's like two threepercent, and the percentage of blacks in
California like thirteen percent or across theUnited States. And so there was a
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move among an activist group to changethe bar completely, to make it now
through the lens of African Americans.I don't even know what that meant,
but the very lens of what ifyou're looking at it as a white person,
it is different than looking at itas a minority, Like, I
guess the contract is different, right, I'm going to pay you ten thousand
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dollars. You're going to do thisfor me. I guess it's different if
you're a minority. I don't know, but it's it's you know, I'm
not a big huge fan of callingeverything woke and all of that. I
gotta tell you this is really depressing. Forget electric hydrogen is where it's at
California is going to be the firststate to get federal funds under a program
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to create regional hubs that will producehydrogen as an energy source. It's going
to be used for vehicles manufacturing andfor generating electricity. Yeah. I mean,
you talk about building an infrastructure,this will It's gonna be hard enough
getting an electrical grid for electrical vehiclecharging. This is going to be crazy.
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I mean, just okay, We'regonna do pilot programs and it disappears.
I mean, this is trillions ofdollars to switch over to hydrogen,
although it is the cleanest fuel outthere if you can keep it from exploding,
right, it doesn't explode hydrogen,it doesn't explode. You know what.
Even what's even more flammable and explosivethan hydrogen gasoline, And that seems
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to work in cars, doesn't it. You know what, No matter what
kind of energy they use in Californiain the car, they'll still be driving
on crappy roads that are filled withpotholes. That's correct, And that technology
is about as base as it gets. It's pretty cast. Fault in the
hole you ask, falt whole.Yes. Former lou Dobbs Tonight anchor dies
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at seventy eight. He political commentatordid lou Dobbs Tonight at CNN. If
you remember before it moved the FoxBusiness, seventy eight years young. Doesn't
that seem young? It nowadays?Seventy eight, It just seems very young
to me. Well, you know, the seventy eight is the new seventy
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nine. Now it's people are gettingyounger. That's how old the former president
Trump is. That's correct, That'scorrect. Okay, so bud Light is
not bouncing back. More than ayear after the big backlash over bud Light
hiring or using a transgender person topromote their beer. The consumer boycott continues,
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and bud Light has slipped in therankings for beer sales behind Modelo Especial
and michelob Ultra. But Anheuser Buschmay not be crying because all three beers
are produced by Anheuser Busch, Sowhat does it matter? But it says
a lot about America and a lotabout marketing, because look at this,
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You've got Normally you would think thiswould fall away. Okay, you've got
a trans person, and the transpersondoes this, and so there's a huge
upward. Then it sort of disappears, hasn't disappeared clearly with these numbers.
But then again, who drinks beerin great numbers? I don't know beer
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drinkers are. Well, let's gothe other way, the political you would
see more people that are conservative,you would see more you don't think democrats
drink beer. Not. Here's whatI'm pointing. The big when you see
I've tried to put this together soit makes any sense, you look at
demographics. Let me put it thisway. You look at demographics, and
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the beer drinkers will be more offendedthan, for example, champagne drinkers by
a transuh, by a trans beinga spokesperson, and it is offensive to
a lot of people. And I'msaying more beer drinkers would be offended than
people who drink sherry or drink whiskey. That's that's it is just a bad
marketing choice, is what happens.Now, if you if they were selling
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BoA's and Tutu's, this would workout perfectly, But they're not. It's
beer. Does that make sense?Okay? So some guy picks up a
bud light and his friend Cleafus goeswhoa pretty much one of them queers?
No, no, But I'm sayingthere's I'm not saying every I'm not saying
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that every Kleafus. I'm not sayingevery beer drinker is a Kleifus, but
every Kleafus is a beer drinker.Okay, that's where I wanted to go.
And I don't know if any ofthat work, But kf I am
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an elevator on Air Force one,now, isn't there. I don't think
so. I don't think there's anelevator. Well, yeah, if you
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It is a Friday, foody Friday, a Friday morning, July nineteenth,
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and the crowd is upon us.Neil, there you go. Good
morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. I am upon you. Yes,
you are not sure what that means, bro, but I on you.
Yes. And there's Cono. Goodmorning, Cono, Good morning Bill.
I am up on you as well, Yes you are. Do you shower
with that hat on? By theway, I shower all right. I'm
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glad to hear that. Yeah.And there's a reason why we're looking at
each other through a monitor. Youknow. That's a safeguard. Those are
the guardrails, Amy, always closingmy door to I know, Amy,
Good morning, Hi. Hi.By the way, how much time do
you spend with sheep? Because clearlyit never mind that one got passed me.
(01:34):
Yeah, no, it was justa reference to never mind, yeah
sheep and being too close to meor was making fun of Kno, you,
it's a given. And then andgood morning. I don't want any
part of this conversation today, andyou're not having any part of it.
Amy didn't ever say hello to you, okay, sort of kind of hello,
Amy, Okay, Well, youknow last night we're going to talk
(01:59):
a whole lot about or what happenedlast night. But did Trump talk?
Was it three or four hours thathe was up there? Seemed like three
or four hours, it does itwas ninety minutes. Yeah, he riffs
and babbles. When he riffs,I mean you can whatever you say,
whatever you think about Donald Trump,either good or bad. The guy rambles
(02:23):
and he repeats and he babbles.We're just talking delivery now. I'm not
going to talk about like later on, I'll talk about what he actually said.
Isn't it difficult to think of somebodygetting up in age that gets paid
to just ramble and babble and saythe same things over and over and over
(02:45):
again. Wow, and get paidfor it. Wow. Hello. Yeah,
okay, I'm just thinking, justthinking. I know I understand that,
Cono. Thank you for pointing thatout. I was too old to
figure that out as an I come. Yeah, thanks, I because I
love Yes, that's true, butthat's true although I'm not seventy Is he
(03:08):
seventy eight now or seventy seven?I think he is seventy eight if I'm
not mistaken. Yeah, okay,Bill, I would vote for you in
a heartbeat over the choices we have. Oh yeah, let me here we
go. What do I do?My background is I was drug addled,
probably the worst, you know,well credentials cal State Northridge, the Harvard
(03:34):
of the West, and my lawschool with year law school now defunct because
it didn't do such a good jobinside of business. So what law school
did you go to? I wentto Harvard? How about you, Bill?
I went to a law school that'sstill longer there. Okay, that's
like going to school the internet,to schools you know you go to and
(03:57):
I used to make fun of andthere were some initial non I don't even
know if they assume it have anon accredited law schools where you just sort
of open up. No, I'vegot much more babbling to do, believe
me. Oh I've got more babbling. All right? Does that mean I
stopped that? Okay, fair enough, Yeah, we'll do that. I
was just making a reference to uh, former President Trump last night. I
(04:20):
think it ended. At one pointI did, I had do you know
what? I came back and Igo, oh my god, it's still
going. Do you know who elsewas nominated three times? Williams. Jennings
Bryant was nominated three times. AndI'm wonder if ADLEYE. Stevenson was nominated
three times? Let me see,hey, sirih oh, I don't have
(04:44):
to do that anymore. Was AdleieStevenson nominated three times? For president?
If you think it could be serious, asked me to call emergency services or
someone you trust. I'm not kidding. That's what came up. That's what
happened. That's what that actually cameup. Do you have an Apple watch?
You having heart it day? Imean, if you can read that
on the phone, that's what cameup on my phone. I've never seen
(05:06):
that, all right, So Iwon't be asking that question anymore. Okay,
guys, they know I'm asking ifyou need emergency services right now,
you couldn't be better to, couldit. Maybe that's that software glitch,
yeah, or maybe it now knowsme, you know, with AI and
understands who I am. All right, that's literally that was a lot of
(05:27):
babbling and I want to, bythe way, was that purposeful? Oh?
I don't know, what do youthink? Okay, we are on
our way to handle on the newswith Amy Neil and me Lee story.
Oh yeah, this is a bigone. Flights grounded, passengers delayed,
hospitals screwed up. Probably, Iwould guess, if not, the biggest
(05:53):
IT outage in the world. Wayup there, and I'll talk more about
that. But this is crazy.It's one company, CrowdStrike, cybersecurity company
that has millions and millions of customersaround the world. And this was not
a cyber attack. This was justan update that went south and it took
(06:18):
all of these companies off. Airlineswere shut down, hospitals couldn't use their
building systems. I mean, thiswas crazy stuff. But isn't that baboo?
They always say, though, thatit's a software update. No,
No, I think when it's acyber attack, I think we know it's
a cyber attack. I don't thinkthey're able to keep secret what is a
(06:41):
cyber attack and they're able to coverup what? I get it. But
maybe it's a guy who just spilledhis you know, coffee could bear or
something could be. Always seems tobe an update. Oh yeah, they
update constantly. I mean every second, you know, you get your updates.
But yeah, very well, beamy, who was that story about
(07:01):
the guy? Literally they were doinga test run one guy and wiped out
I don't know how much data andput companies for days on the fritz.
Oh I don't even remember that.Okay, well, good, that helped
me a lot. I know,all right, I was as helpful as
Siri. Yes, I accept.Those two words were stretched out to more
(07:25):
than ninety minutes. Donald Trump hasaccepted the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican
National Convention. To start off thespeech, he detailed the assassination attempt.
He said, I'm going to tellyou one one time, and then I'm
not going to because it's too painful. And I thought that part of it
was really interesting. Here's the longestconvention speech though in modern history. Ninety
(07:49):
three minutes. Yeah, it was. It started very introspective. It started
as the advisors that we as toldand knew Trump was going to him out
conciliatory, arguing for a United America. And then it devolved right into your
normal Trump bashing, bashing opponents,bashing the government, certainly bashing Biden,
(08:16):
making up wild facts, I mean, just stuff that made no sense whatsoever,
just pulled him out of his rearend. And it was absolutely Ah,
it was typical Donald Trump. Idon't think he cannot control himself when
it comes to this stuff. Thisis in his DNA. The way he
(08:37):
bashes, it's like trying to eatone French fry. You cannot do it.
It's impossible. He cannot not beTrump. It's impossible for him not
to be. Was he supposed tobe unifying the country or unifying the Republican
Party. He doesn't have to unifythe Republican Party. I mean they are
lockstep. They are in lockstep behindhim. Did you hear the fake controversy
(09:03):
that the coat of the man whowas killed, the firefighter was killed,
that it was misspelled, his namewas misspelled, and so people flipped out.
But that's his actual jacket, andit was misspelled. See, I
thought I thought they rented it fromWestern Costume. No, it just down
the steel jacket. Wow, it'smissing an A on purpose because it couldn't
(09:26):
fit the whole name on there,and he chose to have the A removed.
But everybody was blaming Trump like itwas a prop. And by the
way, I've never seen anything likethat with a prop being brought on the
stage for that reason. I mean, he's very obviously, very effective.
I've just never seen it. Iwas surprised that he rolls up his sleeves.
(09:48):
Nothing up my sleeves, and thenwhosh, comes out the cards.
He is a showman. He isa showman. I mean the whole I've
never seen such a choreographed and wellcrafted convention. And this was all Trump,
all of it. I mean,that's it was very well done.
(10:09):
I would hate to be the DNCin August. Oh yeah, I don't
even know. And the speeches werevery very short. You know, if
someone spoke for ten minutes during theconvention, that was a long time.
I mean, they kept it movingthey I thought it was. I thought
it was brilliantly done. Also,the biggest drop, the biggest balloon drop
(10:33):
in the history of the world.They just kept coming. They did.
And by the way, how dowe know it's the biggest balloon drop in
the history of the world because wewere told it was the biggest balloon drop
in the history of the world.When Obama steps in. You got to
listen. Former President Barack Obama hastold allies in all you know, the
(10:54):
most recent of days, that PresidentBiden's path to victory has greatly diminished and
he thinks the president needs to seriouslyconsider the viability of his candidacy. So
it's over. It's over now,it's just a question of doing it gracefully,
and rumors that will be done thisweekend. Yeah, it's over.
(11:16):
It's over. Then the issue iswho gets it, and unfortunately it's going
to be Kamala Harris, and she'sgetting it by virtue of just being there,
that's all. But if nothing peoplewere already there and willing to hold
their nose for Joe Biden. Don'tyou think they'll just hold their nose for
(11:41):
Kamala Harris? No, I thinkwell, certainly, I mean there'll be
Democrats who will, but I don'tknow that she's going to pull the independent
vote. That's that's my point.That's the point is that there's really no
there there is. I've often saidI'm a big fan of Pete Boodhag,
really am. I think he wouldbe absolutely terrific. He's moderate, I
(12:03):
mean, he's on the liberal side. He's a Democrat, and I'm fine
with moderate Republicans. I'm fine withmoderate Democrats. I'm fine either way.
Nikki Hayley, I would have lovedto see be the nominee, and she
would have gotten my vote. Butthere's no there there with Kamalae Harris.
And the part that really pisses meoff is that the Democrats, a leadership
(12:26):
of the Democratic Party is already sayingwe're gonna go for it. Joe Biden,
she would make a great president.And this is while he was staying
in the race. He said that. So, I mean, have we
really gotten to that point where it's, you know, by default one thing
about Donald Trump? There's nothing bydefault with Donald Trump, not even a
(12:46):
little bit. You don't think theycould hop over her and put Buddha jedge
or anything like that. And no, they're gonna have to Well, first
of all, they're gonna have tohop over Joe Biden, who's gonna be
comatose on the ground that's for starters, then they're no, no, I'm
just gonna get it. He's goingto get it. And Trump is the
luckiest guy in the world, inthe world, and I mean the good
(13:11):
news lucky that he the bullet.That's a good luck. You know that
that is a good place to bein terms of that luck. But the
rest of it, Look at howlucky he is. What's happening in the
Democratic Party imploding right now? Lookat how lucky he was with the court
cases. Last night he talked abouthow the dismissal of the document's case vindicated
(13:33):
him, and the case fell apart. It only fell apart, not to
the merits of the case, isbecause the judge bought this ridiculous argument that
somehow the very appointment of Jack Smith, that the Special Council was unconstitutional the
way it was done. So it'sand it doesn't matter. By the way,
California, who is it the kingwith the stats? I think you
(13:56):
did, Amy Where in California it'sexactly the same as it was prior to
the deblacle in terms of the supportCalifornia is baked in. No doesn't matter
what you do. If Joe Bidenstays in office and he runs and he
is dead by the time, andlet's say he dies. A lot of
arguments already there, but let's sayhe is actually dead, He'll still get
(14:18):
the California vote. That'll happened.Okay, Well, President Harris does have
a nice ring to it. Atleast that's the word from a lot of
Democrats. They think the vice presidentwould make a good president. They did
a ap Nork Center of for PublicAffairs Research poll. Six and ten Democrats
(14:39):
believe Kamala Harris would be a goodpick for the top spot spot. About
two and ten do not think sheis a good choice, and another too
inten say yeah, I don't knowenough to say, yeah, I'd love
to know what those six intend.These are Democrats, of course, keep
in mind, you know, it'sas Republicans would say, if a Republican
(15:01):
is there, he would do agood job, and in Democrats she would
there. I'll tell you if shegets it, which I think she's going
to. The more people get toknow this woman, the fewer supporters she's
going to have. You don't thinkshe has any good traits. I mean
she hasn't shown them as VP.But I have no idea. I don't
know her personally. I do notlike Frankly, I just I just don't
(15:24):
think there's any gravitas there, that'sall. I just don't think there's any
gravitas there. When she was theattorney general, to remember the lawsuit against
Nielsen in terms of which hit ourrating so hard. That's a long story
because of the waiting system. Anyway, just for political correctness, she joined
(15:46):
California joined that lawsuit, and itwas just it didn't have to. It's
a long story. I want toget into that, but it was it
was a political decision as opposed toanything else. It was, I mean,
come on, you know, itwas just pandering. And that's what
I think she does. She panders. And that's just one example. All
(16:10):
right. This was such a bummer. Bob Newhart is known for his stammering
and his deadpand very unflappable personality.Died. Stand up comedian, later television
movie star. Died. He wasninety four years old. One of his
best more recent movies was Elf.He was so great in that. But
(16:36):
of course the Bob Newhart Show.Yeah, Bob Newhart show was fantastic.
Yes, ninety four years old.I mean, you can't get too upset
about that. Did I ever tellyou I actually had lunch with Bob Newhart?
No? Actually I was at thetable next to him in a restaurant,
so close enough. Yeah, yeah, and I waved to him.
He kind of ignored me, butI consider that having lunch with him.
(17:02):
Wow. Okay, well that wasfast. Evan Gerskevich, the first American
journalist to be arrested on espionage chargessince the Cold War in Russia anyway,
has been found guilty of spying andwas immediately sentenced to sixteen years in prison
in a Russian court. The trialonly lasted two days. That is a
(17:26):
very long trial for something like thisin Russia. I mean it was preordained,
no surprise at all. Everybody expectedit and they came right through.
I think the only surprise is thatthe prosecution asked for eighteen years and the
judge came down with sixteen years.Usually it's the other way around, your
honor, we suggest sixteen years.No, no, here's twenty eight.
(17:48):
Enjoy yourself because they do that alot too. So the poor guy is,
well, he's going to be ableto get out, because I think
Putin's already talking about a prisoner swap, although Paul Wheeland has been in for
what six seven years already? Whywould you go to that place? You're
crazy, crazy. I would beshocked if there was any reporter from any
(18:12):
news outlet sitting, especially American orany European news news outlet. If you're
in Russia. You're right, whywould anybody go there? All right?
Netflix continues to find ways to screwyou and me. They're going to start
phasing out its Basic plan. That'sthe cheapest advertising free plan costs eleven ninety
(18:37):
nine per month in the United States, and it will go the way of
the Dodo bird. Yeah, thisis it's now getting to be prohibitively expensive.
You have to choose effectively. One. I'm at two hundred and fifty
bucks and I have the Netflix.I don't know if it's premium or not,
but Standard plan will be fifteen dollarsand fifty cents a month. Yeah.
(19:03):
They're just recreating cable at this point. They are now they're making twenty
different cables. Yeah. Yeah,what's you have to buy them all?
Yeah? What's it ever seen?The Standard plan and the premium plan.
I mean, the standard is fifteenfifty and the premium is twenty three bucks
a month. What do you getif it's if you have AD free,
you have AD free. So Idon't quite understand. Maybe for higher you
(19:30):
know, higher resolution TVs or something, maybe you get eight four K eight
K. I don't know. Idon't know. I don't know. But
that's that's a big difference too,all right. So and I like Netflix,
and I like it a lot too, I do. But yeah,
but it's sixteen bucks a month.We're twenty three dollars a month now,
(19:51):
it's getting a little crazy. Standardlimits you who downloads on two devices always
happens. Premium allows up to sixgot it there, it is, Thank
you for that, Amy, You'rewelcome here. Here he goes again.
President Biden has announced another round ofstudent loan debt forgiveness, this one affecting
thirty five thousand public sector workers,including teachers, nurses, and firefighters.
(20:15):
It will cost one point two billiondollars. The Biden administration is already fighting
two legal challenges to other student loanrepayment plans that it launched last year.
There were known as the Save theSaving on a valuable education plan. Well,
yeah, the legal issue is doesBiden have the authority to do this
(20:37):
without Congress? And those are thefights that are going on. And in
the meantime, the underlying issue,should the taxpayer subsidize the Well, it's
the only way this loan forgiveness issubsidized by the taxpayer. And I don't
know. I think it's going tochange dramatically with President Trump, by the
(20:57):
way, I think it's it's notgoing to be too much longer that we
stop referring to Donald Trump as formerPresident Trump. All Right, I think
he's going to be President Trump.Just to make it clear, we all
knew where you were going, Okay, I just I didn't. Wasn't super
cryptic. I was a little confused. That's like the person who says I'm
(21:19):
going to go to the bathroom,if you know what I mean. That's
a very good point. That's actuallya very picking up what you're putting down.
Yes, this story just sucks.The largest housing provider for migrant children
engaged in pervasive sexual aboose abuse.So you've got Southwest key programs in and
(21:44):
their employees, including supervisors in thelike, raped, tortured or solicited sex
and nude images of children beginning intwenty fifteen, maybe even earlier. That
is what the Justice Department is claimin a lawsuit filed just this week.
Yeah, now this is a civillawsuit. You would think if the accusation
(22:08):
against these people is part of theirlawsuit, why they haven't been arrested for
this? I don't understand. Well, No, two employees have been indicted
on criminal charges, and so that'sokay, So that's too out of I
don't know. I would guess tensof thousands of employees will find out how
(22:29):
pervasive this is. But if younotice that, you know, any organization
of any size that deals with anyonewho is vulnerable, the accusations are out
there. It is are we reallythat sick as a society? Or is
this simply some outliers and that hasbeen blown up? You know, much
(22:52):
more? I would imagine. It'snot the totality of the areas. No,
I understand, But you know,the point is, for example,
do you think there are any moreand I'm going to go back to politics,
do you think there are any morerapists and the criminal elements and murderers
out of illegal immigrants coming in thanthere were twenty years ago as a percentage.
(23:12):
I don't hi, there's five peopleworking on the show right now.
One of them is a horrible pervert. So that's twenty percent, right right,
And does that stay? It wouldthat doesn't change never mind. I
don't even know where we're going withthat one. But thanks for pointing that
out. Neil's amy, she's filthy. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
(23:33):
we believe that. All right,guys. Oh, we can do
one more and then we'll take abreak. Just in time for the Olympics.
Lamayor Bass and your favorite bill.Secretary of Transportation Pete Bodhajedge have outlined
a new federal funding program for zeroemission buses and charging infrastructure that should be
(23:53):
completed in time for the twenty twentyeight Olympics. Seventy seven and a half
million dollar project. It'll help theagency purchase dozens of battery electric buses and
also install new chargers. Yeah,well, without chargers, they're not going
anywhere. Nobody's going anywhere. That'sthe problem. And EV well, in
(24:15):
general, we'll do more about thata little bit later on, but the
number of evs that are being soldis dropping. It's not doing well because
there isn't enough infrastructure out there.That's the problem. And so this is
another hit at the infrastructure. Here'ssome more money, and this is going
to be incremental. This is goingto take a long long time to make
this whole thing viable. Unfortunately,the act Exam will see changes, including
(24:41):
the science portion is going to beoptional, which is good because we need
less reason and science in this world. So the exam will be evolving to,
as they say, meet the challengethe challenges students and educators face,
like not being educated, yeahretty much. Still for example, science is hard.
(25:03):
Yeah, that's right. Science ishard. So that's being removed.
It's not an option now. Englishis still one of the cores. Unless
you don't speak English, then it'soptional and you can do just fine not
speaking English. Like that. Itsays this change is designed to make the
testing experience more manageable for students.Do you really want a manageable testing experience?
(25:26):
You put your name down and youwalk out the door. That's manageable.
It's not supposed to be manageable.The whole point is it's supposed to
test you. It's supposed to behard. That's the point. But if
it is hard. And here isthe problem. Now we go back to
a societal problem. Right, Hisminorities do worse than whites on these tests,
(25:48):
so therefore inherently they are unfair.There was a move when I was
graduating law school and taking the barthat the percentage of African Americans who actually
took the bar it's like two threepercent, and the percentage of blacks in
California like thirteen percent or across theUnited States. And so there was a
(26:11):
move among an activist group to changethe bar completely, to make it now
through the lens of African Americans.I don't even know what that meant,
but the very lens of what ifyou're looking at it as a white person,
it is different than looking at itas a minority, Like, I
guess the contract is different, right, I'm going to pay you ten thousand
(26:34):
dollars. You're going to do thisfor me. I guess it's different if
you're a minority. I don't know, but it's it's you know, I'm
not a big huge fan of callingeverything woke and all of that. I
gotta tell you this is really depressing. Forget electric hydrogen is where it's at
California is going to be the firststate to get federal funds under a program
(26:57):
to create regional hubs that will producehydrogen as an energy source. It's going
to be used for vehicles manufacturing andfor generating electricity. Yeah. I mean,
you talk about building an infrastructure,this will It's gonna be hard enough
getting an electrical grid for electrical vehiclecharging. This is going to be crazy.
(27:18):
I mean, just okay, We'regonna do pilot programs and it disappears.
I mean, this is trillions ofdollars to switch over to hydrogen,
although it is the cleanest fuel outthere if you can keep it from exploding,
right, it doesn't explode hydrogen,it doesn't explode. You know what.
Even what's even more flammable and explosivethan hydrogen gasoline, And that seems
(27:44):
to work in cars, doesn't it. You know what, No matter what
kind of energy they use in Californiain the car, they'll still be driving
on crappy roads that are filled withpotholes. That's correct, And that technology
is about as base as it gets. It's pretty cast. Fault in the
hole you ask, falt whole.Yes. Former lou Dobbs Tonight anchor dies
(28:08):
at seventy eight. He political commentatordid lou Dobbs Tonight at CNN. If
you remember before it moved the FoxBusiness, seventy eight years young. Doesn't
that seem young? It nowadays?Seventy eight, It just seems very young
to me. Well, you know, the seventy eight is the new seventy
(28:30):
nine. Now it's people are gettingyounger. That's how old the former president
Trump is. That's correct, That'scorrect. Okay, so bud Light is
not bouncing back. More than ayear after the big backlash over bud Light
hiring or using a transgender person topromote their beer. The consumer boycott continues,
(28:56):
and bud Light has slipped in therankings for beer sales behind Modelo Especial
and michelob Ultra. But Anheuser Buschmay not be crying because all three beers
are produced by Anheuser Busch, Sowhat does it matter? But it says
a lot about America and a lotabout marketing, because look at this,
(29:19):
You've got Normally you would think thiswould fall away. Okay, you've got
a trans person, and the transpersondoes this, and so there's a huge
upward. Then it sort of disappears, hasn't disappeared clearly with these numbers.
But then again, who drinks beerin great numbers? I don't know beer
(29:40):
drinkers are. Well, let's gothe other way, the political you would
see more people that are conservative,you would see more you don't think democrats
drink beer. Not. Here's whatI'm pointing. The big when you see
I've tried to put this together soit makes any sense, you look at
demographics. Let me put it thisway. You look at demographics, and
(30:03):
the beer drinkers will be more offendedthan, for example, champagne drinkers by
a transuh, by a trans beinga spokesperson, and it is offensive to
a lot of people. And I'msaying more beer drinkers would be offended than
people who drink sherry or drink whiskey. That's that's it is just a bad
marketing choice, is what happens.Now, if you if they were selling
(30:26):
BoA's and Tutu's, this would workout perfectly, But they're not. It's
beer. Does that make sense?Okay? So some guy picks up a
bud light and his friend Cleafus goeswhoa pretty much one of them queers?
No, no, But I'm sayingthere's I'm not saying every I'm not saying
(30:51):
that every Kleafus. I'm not sayingevery beer drinker is a Kleifus, but
every Kleafus is a beer drinker.Okay, that's where I wanted to go.
And I don't know if any ofthat work, But kf I am
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