August 21, 2024 • 24 mins
The Obamas, Doug Emhoff, GOP speakers and plenty of party music. Food industry is pushing back against Kamala Harris’s ‘price gouging’ plan. LA County got $88MIL to rehabilitate young people… most of it hasn’t been spent. California lawmakers call for heat protections for farmworkers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And this is kfi AM six forty Bill Handled here
on a day, Wednesday, August twenty one.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Some of the news I'm looking at some of the
big stories. Things heating up the Middle.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
East, the putative talks between Ramas and Israel basically are
falling apart, and Israel at this point is really upping
the game too.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So nothing is going well for those talks.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And Choker to ball Shocker, Robert Kennedy's running mate, hinted
that the ticket might drop out if and endorse Trump,
if Trump gives Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
A role in the administration. And for those people that
are utterly shocked, this happens all the time. This is
politics as we know it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Deals are always cut, for endorsements, for signing of bills,
all of it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Last night also was Night two of the DNC, and
last night the anticipation probably as great for Barack Obama
as was for Joe Biden Night one, as will be
for Kamala Harris Thursday, which is tomorrow when she accepts
the nomination. I mean, right up there is Barack Obama
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and he spoke Michelle Obama spoke and let me tell
you it's they wanted to take the high road, all right.
Michelle Obama talked about taking the high road, and then
they attack Donald Trump, and I thought, you know what,
if you're gonna take the high road, just oh, you're
gonna be on the defense of the whole the defense
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the whole time. So anyway, there was a lot of
personal attacks against Trump, a couple of funny lines by Walls,
But the I think the takeaway on this one was
that last night and throughout this entire convention, it's basically
a party.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean, there's no political there's there's no political basis here.
It's a great, big party accolades for the Democrats across
the country. Kamala Harris already got the nomination, so there's
no drama there. And the whole exuberance of the Democratic
Party it has gone from the people of the party
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have gone from morose dejection, virtually a guaranteed lock that
former President Trump would win the election. It's completely flipped.
And the exuberance. They threw the word hope a lot.
Michelle Biden, I mean Biden, Michelle Obama talked about hope,
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as did former President Barack Obama talked about hope going
back to his campaign, was the last time that Republic,
the Democratic Party was really incurag andcensed in I mean
all of it, if you can think about it, that engaged.
I mean, you know, all the e words, and so
(03:09):
the three that I thought were the most important speech,
Michelle Obama came pretty close to going too long. Barack
Obama went way over the top in terms of going
too long. He basically just kept repeating himself. It's I
was kind of surprised. It wasn't succinct, it wasn't to
(03:30):
the point. Now, my favorite last night Doug M. Huff,
the husband of Kamala Harris, the second gentleman. You know
that's still jarring that word, the second gentleman. And if
she wins, he becomes the first gentleman.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We're used to.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
First lady, that just rolls off the tongue. First gentleman. Well,
that's kind of neat that we would get a woman president.
Oh it would be the first woman president. Oh my god, Yeah,
there we go with the first woman whoever does anything.
So his speech backing up, of course, his wife was.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Self deprecating very natural, fun funny. It was just so
well done.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And the last little bit of it were the politics,
but it wasn't just the politics. It was all his
relationship and what should be your relationship with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I know what a leader she is. I know how
dedicated she is.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I know how involved she is with trying to make
this country a better country.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I've lived with it for decades.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I think they've Menuary ten years now, and maybe they
met a couple of years before that. Since we've gotten married,
I've known who she is, and now you have to know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I thought, you know, in the end, didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Sound like a political speech. You know, as wonderful a
communicator as is as are the Obama's still sounded like
a political speech. Tim Walls, when he speaks, that doesn't
sound like a political speech. He's a regular guy talking
to us and I love it. I love it, And
Doug Imholt, if she becomes president, I hope she uses
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this guy as the face of the American people as
often as she can.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
It was. It was absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
He also made a big deal about going to Hebrew
school when he was a kid, and I'm screaming yes,
I suffer through it too. Yes, you hated it like
I hated it. We are buddies, we are separated at birth.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The horror, the terror of Hebrew School. Just did it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I had a flashback and I ended up on the
floor moaning in a feudal position, just just remembering that.
So in any case, A to Doug m Hold big time,
A to Tim Walls, and I think B maybe a
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B to Michelle Obama, and a B minus to Obama,
our former president, Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
All right, I think we're done real quickly, though. Let
me get amy. Did you watch it? I did performance
wise grades?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Gosh. I actually I would give Michelle at least an
A minus.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
She that room.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Exploded when she took the stage, and she had them
like right here. I think she even got a better
reception than Obama did.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I think she did. Actually, she's very very popular.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And I liked him off too.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I think he I thought he was great.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
He made her a person.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, and he and he's so self deprecating. I just
love that kind of humor.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Neil.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The thing that stood out to me about him, I
think you have the most intimate person in her life
making like you said, humanizing her and the thing that
stood out one of the things that may be seen
as negative. People mock her laugh, he said, He goes,
you know, I love watching her laugh. He goes, I
love that laugh.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, it's out there and it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You know, she just laughs from the gut and and
real quickly we'll throw you into this.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yes, I loved it. I thought it was great. I
love the energy. It was finally positive. Everything's been so negative.
It's so true.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And they talked about that grade, the performers grade the performers.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Who do you give the highest grade to Michelle? Okay, yeah,
says Anne, all right, and I give it to Doug Aamholt.
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now, there's a lot about this, well, all of this
presidential is hugely entertaining, but mainly because of the players.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Mainly because former President Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He makes it fabulously entertaining. There's nothing boring about him.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And there's a lot I disagree with that's being bandied about.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And one of the things that I have to agree
with the Republican position on this one, and if Trump
spends more time talking about stuff like this than about
the personal attacks and the size of the crowds and
you know how good looking he is, or whatever the
hell else he's talking about. This is a legitimate one
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where I think the Republicans are dead.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
On, and that is.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
The fact that part of Kamala's parent, Kamala Harris's platform
is the argument that the food industry is price gouging.
And this had to do with stories about first aul
inflation and how much food costs and how people are
really struggling. The other one has to do with how
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much profits are made. There's a reason for that, and somehow,
in the world of democrats politics, progressive politics, big profits
are somehow immortal, and I don't get that. Then just
say it, we don't want a market system here anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, no, we do want a market system.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We just want the government to make sure that we
have controls. Well, we've tried price controls before. Nixon, Gerald
Ford whip inflation. Now by stabilizing saying there'll be no
more labor raises, there'll be no more food prices across
the board, you are not charging anymore for anything. And
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of course soon as those go off than it explodes,
which it always does.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And the only way those.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Would be maintained is Soviet Union style, the government determines
what the price is, and do we really want that?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And why would she do that?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, maybe she is so liberal that he actually believes
that that the food industry is making that much money.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
They're having record price profits. But so is everybody else.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I mean, so is well certainly everybody else that's raised
their prices. And I don't think to maybe maybe you
winnow out the food industry because people don't have to
go to restaurants, people don't have to take vacations, people
do not have to buy a new car. They can
hold off on the car, they can hold off on clothes,
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but you can't hold off on buying food.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That you can't do. And the prices have hit.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And I know you could always go from beef to chicken,
and then from chicken down to noodles, and then from
noodles to sand. I get that, but still even sand
is very expensive these days.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And where.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know what bugs me is that when government says
that you, as a corporation, as a company or what have,
you have to cut your prices, but they don't take
from themselves. Why don't they just cut taxes? You know,
why don't they take in less money and keep it
in the hands.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Because if you ever go to the funeral of any
Democratic lawmaker, on the tombstone reads I never met a
tax I didn't like.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's why. But will Rogers, Will Rogers modernized. Its just
price control makes no sense. Now is there price gouging?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I have no idea. There are some price gouging laws
out there. For example, during natural disasters or when New
York the price gouging went on. When all of a
sudden the lights went off and people weren't driving, you
couldn't see anything. Scandle sellers were making a fortune gouging,
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and so there are laws against that. There are also
laws that keep people from well here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You have Kroger that is buying whatever the hell is buying.
So it's going to control so much of the market.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, if it controls that much of the market where
it can determine the prices, that's an anti trust suit.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Break it up. Government has to have a right to
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And frankly, the Republicans can't bitch about that with anti trust.
I mean they can bitch, but you know that's not
gonna sway anybody. But straight out, what find we're gonna
stop price gouging.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
What does that mean.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There's only one way to stop price gouging, and that's
to stop price raising, and that means price control. And
I tell you, even people that are liberal, and I
don't know, some liberals, real liberals, when it comes to
LGBTQ rights, when it comes to abortion rights, even when
it comes to being much softer immigration than would the
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Trump administration, even they have a problem with price control
except under very very limited circumstances.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Do you really want that? Oh, here's another one.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So let's say you have a natural disaster, right and
all of a sudden cars can't get around or for
whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The only thing that's really left is.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
The uber lift, and you have, all of a sudden,
hundreds of thousands of people want to take an uber
and they have dynamic pricing. Okay, two hundred bucks a trip,
three hundred bucks a trip to go ten miles. No,
you can't do that. There shouldn't be no such thing
as There should be no such thing as dynamic pricing.
(13:42):
What Disneyland doesn't have a right to raise its prices
ridiculously on holidays is that price gouging?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, Neil would say no, an Amy would say no.
I have a question, Neil.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
If it cost five hundred dollars a day to go
to Disneyland, is that too much?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes? Oh okay, so we now know, right, Yeah, it's like, okay, I.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Will tell you this though. The whole price inflation during
certain peak times. To me, that's great because why would
I want to go at a peak time?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, that makes sense. Sometimes people can only go at
a peak time.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I get it because of the holidays in the life
life for me.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I understand. So I'm glad there is a price for you.
It's like that old saw.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You're sitting next to a guy sitting next to a
woman at a bar, say, would you have sex with
me for a million dollars?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
She said yes? Would you have sex with me for
twenty dollars?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
She says no? Who do you think I am? Well,
that's already been established. Now we're just dealing.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
With the price, a little negotiation, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I want to share a story with you about La County,
and I'm a huge fan of La County, having lived
in La County from the time I was five years
of age, so I have seen the county. He change
a whole lot. Okay, twenty twenty one, La County Probation
Department was given eighty eight million dollars in grant money
to set up programs for troubled ute juveniles are held
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in criminal detention and are convicted and or waiting, and
has to do with rehab, job training, gang intervention, rehab
services for sex offenders. And what's a great, great project,
no question about it. So here's eighty eight million dollars.
Set up these programs and tell us about him. So
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here we are three years later, not even.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Ten million dollars of the eighty eight million dollars has
been spent.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
How is that possible? There's the money, it's sitting on
the table. Get a rehab program going. Well, okay, maybe
we haven't. And there are some reasons that are given.
Easier said than done. La County was first of all,
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they had to from scratch develop these programs. Why well,
here's what happened. The state, pursuing to a court order,
unloaded many many, many prisoners and especially in the juvenile system,
moving it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Over to La County.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And so now the county is saying, what do we do?
How do we handle juvenile state goes well, one of
the things you can do is start rehab programs, job training, etc.
And here's eighty eight million dollars in grant money to
do it. We'll pay for it. And they say, okay,
So here is what they're trying to do is figure
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out a way to do it.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I have no problem with the county saying, well, we
have to find mentors.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That's part of the part of the program.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
We have to rehab prisons and set up just the
physical aspects of job training. For example, if we're gonna
train maybe welders, you need a welding shop. We have
to find teachers, we have to find mentors. It's not
that easy. I tend to agree it's not that easy.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Three years. I mean, at what point do you go, Yeah,
it's a little long.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Here's what County Probation says, which is hilarious. Well, the audit.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
The auditors don't have a full accounting of the money
being spent this fiscal year. And what you're going to
do is see an amount that's substantially higher. How much higher?
Substantially higher? Okay, so that means more money than you're spending. Now, yes,
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how much more money substantially more money, fair enough, and
many new programs are about to pop up. This is
a story out of the La Times, how many programs
are going to pop up, substantially more programs. By the way,
that part is that I'm putting words into their mouth.
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They didn't say. They did say we have programs. The
story does not tell us which programs. I'm sure they
were asked. And for the most part, LA County, especially
the Probation Department, doesn't usually comment on this, except when
they comment on this.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You know, we don't comment on pending legislation. Yeah, you do.
When you're suing people, you do.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Matter of fact, you have press conferences about it and
press releases. Oh and when you're a defendant, you don't
comment on pending litigation.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
The other thing, some cities are reluctant to have youth
transferred from state prisons to facilities within the city. You
have some cities that say absolutely not. LA County, Oh,
will take the money. Whatever money you can give us,
we'll take the only problem is that there has to
be a quid pro quo.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
In other words, will give.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You the money and you get to spend it on
what we agreed to. This is a grant, which means
someone had to apply for the grant from the from
La County and the Probation Department. So they're asking for
the money. You know, the state doesn't come on knocking
on the front door of the administration building of a
probation department and.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Drop off sacks of cash.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So something is in kosher here in Denmark, even though
it's not Denmark, it's here.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
In La County.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Now is there a silver lining here? To some extent,
there is because this is not use it or lose it.
This money just stays with the county and it's open ended.
Now it's just political pressure. All you need is a
couple of guys who wanted to go to a welding class,
didn't go to a welding class, got out and took
out a kindergarten class, wiped them out.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Okay, maybe we should have done it. That's when you're
gonna see real action, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Now last segment, I ripped into the County of Los Angeles.
Now it's time to rip into the state of California.
And this one you would never think actually happened or
is happening.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
State lawmakers are responding to report.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That the agency ensuring worker safety in California, CalOSHA, has
sharply cut back on enforcement where outdoor heat protection laws read.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Very vulnerable people.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We're talking about the outdoor vegetable pickers, the people that work,
as you know, in the hot sun, and we have
a lot of hot sun. But that's in general, just
outdoor heat protection is well, let me put it this way,
between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty three, the cal OSHA
(21:03):
inspections field inspections dropped by nearly thirty percent. The number
of violations dropped by more than forty percent. Now, is
it because employers decided that they were going to have
these absolutely crazy attitudes? Do they have an attitude that
(21:25):
they don't care about the workers?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Is that possible? Well, the numbers seem to be that way.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Assembly Member Liz Ortega, a Democrat, of course, chair of
the Labor and Employment Committee, says, I'm disappointed.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm actually inferry infuriated. Why.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Because there's the accusation from legislators, there's the accusation from workers,
there's the accusations from people involved in protecting workers. And
in the end, you look at cal OSHA, OSHA is
the occupational safety and Health administration. It's all about safety
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worker and part of it in recent years has been
about that sun because it is getting hotter and hotter
the sun. Did you know that the sun is actually
moving closer and closer to the Earth.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I mean by miles and miles every day as you know.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
That, Actually it's I think by a quarter of a
millimeter of a meter. On top of that, it's like
point zero zero zero three inches a year. So maybe
I'm exaggerating a little bit, but we know it's getting
a lot hotter, and we know it's climate change that
is legitimate, and we know that cal OSHA has to
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step up its protection. So it has with industrial protection,
it has with safety, it has with protection that people
have to wear when it comes to factories, manufacturing, construction,
hard hats. I mean, it's all mandatory, but somehow the
sun protection business of cal Osha.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
They sort of dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And look who is head of cal Osha, or actually,
look who is head of the government that oversees the
head of CalOSHA. Why it is the governor of the
state of California, Gavin Newsom. Now, of all the people
that I would think would be the least suspect in
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screwing over workers that work out doors and Klosha is
not protecting them. Wouldn't that be Gavin Newsom, the liberal
of all liberals? So the bottom line or Tega the commission.
The assembly member says, you know what, cal OSHA is
simply not doing its job in this committee. Her testimony
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from farm workers accusing Kalosha of not enforcing safety laws,
and the agency has repeatedly offered the same excuses, and
what are the excuses.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, we're trying, we have the laws.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
We don't have enough inspectors, all right, and it's going
in to.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Take one or two great pickers to collapse and die
of heat exhaustion. Then you may see something happening. It's
always the case, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
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And this is kfi AM six forty Bill Handled here
on a day, Wednesday, August twenty one.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Some of the news I'm looking at some of the
big stories. Things heating up the Middle.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
East, the putative talks between Ramas and Israel basically are
falling apart, and Israel at this point is really upping
the game too.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So nothing is going well for those talks.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And Choker to ball Shocker, Robert Kennedy's running mate, hinted
that the ticket might drop out if and endorse Trump,
if Trump gives Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
A role in the administration. And for those people that
are utterly shocked, this happens all the time. This is
politics as we know it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Deals are always cut, for endorsements, for signing of bills,
all of it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Last night also was Night two of the DNC, and
last night the anticipation probably as great for Barack Obama
as was for Joe Biden Night one, as will be
for Kamala Harris Thursday, which is tomorrow when she accepts
the nomination. I mean, right up there is Barack Obama
(01:21):
and he spoke Michelle Obama spoke and let me tell
you it's they wanted to take the high road, all right.
Michelle Obama talked about taking the high road, and then
they attack Donald Trump, and I thought, you know what,
if you're gonna take the high road, just oh, you're
gonna be on the defense of the whole the defense
(01:43):
the whole time. So anyway, there was a lot of
personal attacks against Trump, a couple of funny lines by Walls,
But the I think the takeaway on this one was
that last night and throughout this entire convention, it's basically
a party.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean, there's no political there's there's no political basis here.
It's a great, big party accolades for the Democrats across
the country. Kamala Harris already got the nomination, so there's
no drama there. And the whole exuberance of the Democratic
Party it has gone from the people of the party
(02:25):
have gone from morose dejection, virtually a guaranteed lock that
former President Trump would win the election. It's completely flipped.
And the exuberance. They threw the word hope a lot.
Michelle Biden, I mean Biden, Michelle Obama talked about hope,
(02:49):
as did former President Barack Obama talked about hope going
back to his campaign, was the last time that Republic,
the Democratic Party was really incurag andcensed in I mean
all of it, if you can think about it, that engaged.
I mean, you know, all the e words, and so
(03:09):
the three that I thought were the most important speech,
Michelle Obama came pretty close to going too long. Barack
Obama went way over the top in terms of going
too long. He basically just kept repeating himself. It's I
was kind of surprised. It wasn't succinct, it wasn't to
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the point. Now, my favorite last night Doug M. Huff,
the husband of Kamala Harris, the second gentleman. You know
that's still jarring that word, the second gentleman. And if
she wins, he becomes the first gentleman.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We're used to.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
First lady, that just rolls off the tongue. First gentleman. Well,
that's kind of neat that we would get a woman president.
Oh it would be the first woman president. Oh my god, Yeah,
there we go with the first woman whoever does anything.
So his speech backing up, of course, his wife was.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Self deprecating very natural, fun funny. It was just so
well done.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And the last little bit of it were the politics,
but it wasn't just the politics. It was all his
relationship and what should be your relationship with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I know what a leader she is. I know how
dedicated she is.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I know how involved she is with trying to make
this country a better country.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I've lived with it for decades.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I think they've Menuary ten years now, and maybe they
met a couple of years before that. Since we've gotten married,
I've known who she is, and now you have to know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I thought, you know, in the end, didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Sound like a political speech. You know, as wonderful a
communicator as is as are the Obama's still sounded like
a political speech. Tim Walls, when he speaks, that doesn't
sound like a political speech. He's a regular guy talking
to us and I love it. I love it, And
Doug Imholt, if she becomes president, I hope she uses
(05:23):
this guy as the face of the American people as
often as she can.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
It was. It was absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
He also made a big deal about going to Hebrew
school when he was a kid, and I'm screaming yes,
I suffer through it too. Yes, you hated it like
I hated it. We are buddies, we are separated at birth.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The horror, the terror of Hebrew School. Just did it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I had a flashback and I ended up on the
floor moaning in a feudal position, just just remembering that.
So in any case, A to Doug m Hold big time,
A to Tim Walls, and I think B maybe a
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B to Michelle Obama, and a B minus to Obama,
our former president, Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
All right, I think we're done real quickly, though. Let
me get amy. Did you watch it? I did performance
wise grades?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Gosh. I actually I would give Michelle at least an
A minus.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
She that room.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Exploded when she took the stage, and she had them
like right here. I think she even got a better
reception than Obama did.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I think she did. Actually, she's very very popular.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And I liked him off too.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I think he I thought he was great.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
He made her a person.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, and he and he's so self deprecating. I just
love that kind of humor.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Neil.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The thing that stood out to me about him, I
think you have the most intimate person in her life
making like you said, humanizing her and the thing that
stood out one of the things that may be seen
as negative. People mock her laugh, he said, He goes,
you know, I love watching her laugh. He goes, I
love that laugh.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, it's out there and it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You know, she just laughs from the gut and and
real quickly we'll throw you into this.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yes, I loved it. I thought it was great. I
love the energy. It was finally positive. Everything's been so negative.
It's so true.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And they talked about that grade, the performers grade the performers.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Who do you give the highest grade to Michelle? Okay, yeah,
says Anne, all right, and I give it to Doug Aamholt.
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now, there's a lot about this, well, all of this
presidential is hugely entertaining, but mainly because of the players.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Mainly because former President Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He makes it fabulously entertaining. There's nothing boring about him.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And there's a lot I disagree with that's being bandied about.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And one of the things that I have to agree
with the Republican position on this one, and if Trump
spends more time talking about stuff like this than about
the personal attacks and the size of the crowds and
you know how good looking he is, or whatever the
hell else he's talking about. This is a legitimate one
(08:26):
where I think the Republicans are dead.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
On, and that is.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
The fact that part of Kamala's parent, Kamala Harris's platform
is the argument that the food industry is price gouging.
And this had to do with stories about first aul
inflation and how much food costs and how people are
really struggling. The other one has to do with how
(08:53):
much profits are made. There's a reason for that, and somehow,
in the world of democrats politics, progressive politics, big profits
are somehow immortal, and I don't get that. Then just
say it, we don't want a market system here anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, no, we do want a market system.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We just want the government to make sure that we
have controls. Well, we've tried price controls before. Nixon, Gerald
Ford whip inflation. Now by stabilizing saying there'll be no
more labor raises, there'll be no more food prices across
the board, you are not charging anymore for anything. And
(09:38):
of course soon as those go off than it explodes,
which it always does.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And the only way those.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Would be maintained is Soviet Union style, the government determines
what the price is, and do we really want that?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And why would she do that?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, maybe she is so liberal that he actually believes
that that the food industry is making that much money.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
They're having record price profits. But so is everybody else.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I mean, so is well certainly everybody else that's raised
their prices. And I don't think to maybe maybe you
winnow out the food industry because people don't have to
go to restaurants, people don't have to take vacations, people
do not have to buy a new car. They can
hold off on the car, they can hold off on clothes,
(10:35):
but you can't hold off on buying food.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That you can't do. And the prices have hit.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And I know you could always go from beef to chicken,
and then from chicken down to noodles, and then from
noodles to sand. I get that, but still even sand
is very expensive these days.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And where.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know what bugs me is that when government says
that you, as a corporation, as a company or what have,
you have to cut your prices, but they don't take
from themselves. Why don't they just cut taxes? You know,
why don't they take in less money and keep it
in the hands.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Because if you ever go to the funeral of any
Democratic lawmaker, on the tombstone reads I never met a
tax I didn't like.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's why. But will Rogers, Will Rogers modernized. Its just
price control makes no sense. Now is there price gouging?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I have no idea. There are some price gouging laws
out there. For example, during natural disasters or when New
York the price gouging went on. When all of a
sudden the lights went off and people weren't driving, you
couldn't see anything. Scandle sellers were making a fortune gouging,
(11:57):
and so there are laws against that. There are also
laws that keep people from well here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You have Kroger that is buying whatever the hell is buying.
So it's going to control so much of the market.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, if it controls that much of the market where
it can determine the prices, that's an anti trust suit.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Break it up. Government has to have a right to
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And frankly, the Republicans can't bitch about that with anti trust.
I mean they can bitch, but you know that's not
gonna sway anybody. But straight out, what find we're gonna
stop price gouging.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
What does that mean.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There's only one way to stop price gouging, and that's
to stop price raising, and that means price control. And
I tell you, even people that are liberal, and I
don't know, some liberals, real liberals, when it comes to
LGBTQ rights, when it comes to abortion rights, even when
it comes to being much softer immigration than would the
(12:56):
Trump administration, even they have a problem with price control
except under very very limited circumstances.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Do you really want that? Oh, here's another one.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So let's say you have a natural disaster, right and
all of a sudden cars can't get around or for
whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The only thing that's really left is.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
The uber lift, and you have, all of a sudden,
hundreds of thousands of people want to take an uber
and they have dynamic pricing. Okay, two hundred bucks a trip,
three hundred bucks a trip to go ten miles. No,
you can't do that. There shouldn't be no such thing
as There should be no such thing as dynamic pricing.
(13:42):
What Disneyland doesn't have a right to raise its prices
ridiculously on holidays is that price gouging?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, Neil would say no, an Amy would say no.
I have a question, Neil.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
If it cost five hundred dollars a day to go
to Disneyland, is that too much?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes? Oh okay, so we now know, right, Yeah, it's like, okay, I.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Will tell you this though. The whole price inflation during
certain peak times. To me, that's great because why would
I want to go at a peak time?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, that makes sense. Sometimes people can only go at
a peak time.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I get it because of the holidays in the life
life for me.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I understand. So I'm glad there is a price for you.
It's like that old saw.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You're sitting next to a guy sitting next to a
woman at a bar, say, would you have sex with
me for a million dollars?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
She said yes? Would you have sex with me for
twenty dollars?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
She says no? Who do you think I am? Well,
that's already been established. Now we're just dealing.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
With the price, a little negotiation, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I want to share a story with you about La County,
and I'm a huge fan of La County, having lived
in La County from the time I was five years
of age, so I have seen the county. He change
a whole lot. Okay, twenty twenty one, La County Probation
Department was given eighty eight million dollars in grant money
to set up programs for troubled ute juveniles are held
(15:16):
in criminal detention and are convicted and or waiting, and
has to do with rehab, job training, gang intervention, rehab
services for sex offenders. And what's a great, great project,
no question about it. So here's eighty eight million dollars.
Set up these programs and tell us about him. So
(15:37):
here we are three years later, not even.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Ten million dollars of the eighty eight million dollars has
been spent.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
How is that possible? There's the money, it's sitting on
the table. Get a rehab program going. Well, okay, maybe
we haven't. And there are some reasons that are given.
Easier said than done. La County was first of all,
(16:07):
they had to from scratch develop these programs. Why well,
here's what happened. The state, pursuing to a court order,
unloaded many many, many prisoners and especially in the juvenile system,
moving it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Over to La County.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And so now the county is saying, what do we do?
How do we handle juvenile state goes well, one of
the things you can do is start rehab programs, job training, etc.
And here's eighty eight million dollars in grant money to
do it. We'll pay for it. And they say, okay,
So here is what they're trying to do is figure
(16:46):
out a way to do it.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I have no problem with the county saying, well, we
have to find mentors.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That's part of the part of the program.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
We have to rehab prisons and set up just the
physical aspects of job training. For example, if we're gonna
train maybe welders, you need a welding shop. We have
to find teachers, we have to find mentors. It's not
that easy. I tend to agree it's not that easy.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Three years. I mean, at what point do you go, Yeah,
it's a little long.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Here's what County Probation says, which is hilarious. Well, the audit.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
The auditors don't have a full accounting of the money
being spent this fiscal year. And what you're going to
do is see an amount that's substantially higher. How much higher?
Substantially higher? Okay, so that means more money than you're spending. Now, yes,
(17:50):
how much more money substantially more money, fair enough, and
many new programs are about to pop up. This is
a story out of the La Times, how many programs
are going to pop up, substantially more programs. By the way,
that part is that I'm putting words into their mouth.
(18:12):
They didn't say. They did say we have programs. The
story does not tell us which programs. I'm sure they
were asked. And for the most part, LA County, especially
the Probation Department, doesn't usually comment on this, except when
they comment on this.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You know, we don't comment on pending legislation. Yeah, you do.
When you're suing people, you do.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Matter of fact, you have press conferences about it and
press releases. Oh and when you're a defendant, you don't
comment on pending litigation.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
The other thing, some cities are reluctant to have youth
transferred from state prisons to facilities within the city. You
have some cities that say absolutely not. LA County, Oh,
will take the money. Whatever money you can give us,
we'll take the only problem is that there has to
be a quid pro quo.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
In other words, will give.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You the money and you get to spend it on
what we agreed to. This is a grant, which means
someone had to apply for the grant from the from
La County and the Probation Department. So they're asking for
the money. You know, the state doesn't come on knocking
on the front door of the administration building of a
probation department and.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Drop off sacks of cash.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So something is in kosher here in Denmark, even though
it's not Denmark, it's here.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
In La County.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Now is there a silver lining here? To some extent,
there is because this is not use it or lose it.
This money just stays with the county and it's open ended.
Now it's just political pressure. All you need is a
couple of guys who wanted to go to a welding class,
didn't go to a welding class, got out and took
out a kindergarten class, wiped them out.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Okay, maybe we should have done it. That's when you're
gonna see real action, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Now last segment, I ripped into the County of Los Angeles.
Now it's time to rip into the state of California.
And this one you would never think actually happened or
is happening.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
State lawmakers are responding to report.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That the agency ensuring worker safety in California, CalOSHA, has
sharply cut back on enforcement where outdoor heat protection laws read.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Very vulnerable people.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We're talking about the outdoor vegetable pickers, the people that work,
as you know, in the hot sun, and we have
a lot of hot sun. But that's in general, just
outdoor heat protection is well, let me put it this way,
between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty three, the cal OSHA
(21:03):
inspections field inspections dropped by nearly thirty percent. The number
of violations dropped by more than forty percent. Now, is
it because employers decided that they were going to have
these absolutely crazy attitudes? Do they have an attitude that
(21:25):
they don't care about the workers?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Is that possible? Well, the numbers seem to be that way.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Assembly Member Liz Ortega, a Democrat, of course, chair of
the Labor and Employment Committee, says, I'm disappointed.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm actually inferry infuriated. Why.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Because there's the accusation from legislators, there's the accusation from workers,
there's the accusations from people involved in protecting workers. And
in the end, you look at cal OSHA, OSHA is
the occupational safety and Health administration. It's all about safety
(22:02):
worker and part of it in recent years has been
about that sun because it is getting hotter and hotter
the sun. Did you know that the sun is actually
moving closer and closer to the Earth.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I mean by miles and miles every day as you know.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
That, Actually it's I think by a quarter of a
millimeter of a meter. On top of that, it's like
point zero zero zero three inches a year. So maybe
I'm exaggerating a little bit, but we know it's getting
a lot hotter, and we know it's climate change that
is legitimate, and we know that cal OSHA has to
(22:40):
step up its protection. So it has with industrial protection,
it has with safety, it has with protection that people
have to wear when it comes to factories, manufacturing, construction,
hard hats. I mean, it's all mandatory, but somehow the
sun protection business of cal Osha.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
They sort of dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And look who is head of cal Osha, or actually,
look who is head of the government that oversees the
head of CalOSHA. Why it is the governor of the
state of California, Gavin Newsom. Now, of all the people
that I would think would be the least suspect in
(23:24):
screwing over workers that work out doors and Klosha is
not protecting them. Wouldn't that be Gavin Newsom, the liberal
of all liberals? So the bottom line or Tega the commission.
The assembly member says, you know what, cal OSHA is
simply not doing its job in this committee. Her testimony
(23:47):
from farm workers accusing Kalosha of not enforcing safety laws,
and the agency has repeatedly offered the same excuses, and
what are the excuses.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, we're trying, we have the laws.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
We don't have enough inspectors, all right, and it's going
in to.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Take one or two great pickers to collapse and die
of heat exhaustion. Then you may see something happening. It's
always the case, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
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