April 16, 2025 • 27 mins
(April 16, 2025)
Newsom expected to announce California lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs today. Fake service dogs hurt the credibility of real service dogs and harms users. L.A. Sheriff’s Department spent $458MIL in overtime… here’s why. These pay phones let you say goodbye to someone ‘before it’s too late.’
Newsom expected to announce California lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs today. Fake service dogs hurt the credibility of real service dogs and harms users. L.A. Sheriff’s Department spent $458MIL in overtime… here’s why. These pay phones let you say goodbye to someone ‘before it’s too late.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listen sings I Am six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
AM six forty Bill Handle here on.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Ampday, Wednesday, April sixteenth. Coming up later on eight thirty,
We've got doctor Jim Keeney full body of ries.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Personal story on that one.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Coming up at seven twenty, Fake Service Dogs, personal story
on that one. And then one of my favorite seven
point fifty is so treakly sweet it becomes vomitous.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I do that occasionally on this story.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
All right, Now, another lawsuit, the fight between the Trump
administration and the state of California. Today, Governor Gavin Newsom
is going to announce a lawsuit contesting President Trump's executive
authority to enact those international tariffs without congressional approval. Now,
how is it that is state can sue the president
(01:04):
on an issue that is strictly federal, as in the TIFFs,
and you have to have you have to be damaged.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's number one rule.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, Newsom is saying, you bet, California has been damaged
because these tariffs stop business just cold. For example, China,
we do six hundred and seventy five billion dollars in
two Way.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Trade that was last year with China.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And if that stops any great extent, and believe me,
it's stopping, the amount of money that California gets in
taxes disappears. And that is the damage that California is undergoing.
But it gets deeper than that. And this is where
the minutia, where the devil's in the details. There's the
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International Emergency Economic Powers Act. A president can argue under
this Emergency Economic Powers Act imposing tariffs. It's never been
done by a president under these circumstances. Right now, there's
a ten percent baseline tariffs on all imported goods from
anywhere in the world, higher taxes on good from Mexico, Canada,
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and China, although there is a pause on many of them,
which of course the stock market is reeling back and
forth because there's a change every day. And then because
the backlash on high end electronics smartphones, computers, etc.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
TVs.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Trump held that off also, although now we're being told
that it's still coming back.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's just a different bucket. The bottom line is Number one,
California is going to lose billions. That's the damage.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Number Two, the president doesn't have the authority to do
this and it's Congress is the only entity that has
the ability to invoke these kinds of tariffs. But Congress,
with the Republican majorities, have given up all, virtually all.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Of its powers. It is so inclined to give.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The president, this particular president, its powers to where the
Congress is basically emasculated.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Is that right? Is that the word I want? I think?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What balls being cut off?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, well it certainly doesn't add masculinity.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's true. Good point.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
In any case, Congress has said, Okay, that's fine, you
can do whatever you want. And you've got Republican senators
and congress people who go to these town halls.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And man, they're getting a lot of backlash from people
who are.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Losing jobs, small businesses that may very well be put
out of business.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It is. It is rough and there.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You know, I was talking to my partner yesterday about
we've stopped all of the coming shipments. We have Chinese
goods that we import, cookwar made out of aluminum and
their stuff in China ready to ship that are in
the warehouses, are already in the ports, ready to ship
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to us.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And we put a hold on it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We just don't know what tariffs are going to be
hit because it's when we pay for it. The tariffs hit,
and we pay a lot of it when it hits,
when it hits the United States, when it hits the brokers,
the international brokers' warehouses here in southern California. We have
no idea. We have no idea. It's kind of crazy
out there. So the governor is saying, the President doesn't
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have the ability to arbitrarily invoke those teriffs.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And he is doing it now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
The complaint is going to be asking the US District
Court to say only Congress has the ability to impose tariffs.
The President is going to to say he invoked it
under emergency powers, much like the war on the war
on the cartels, where the President has said this is
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a war and under the War Powers Act, I am
allowed to do what I'm allowed to do, and the
severer libertarian you're saying, wait a minute, you can't just
arbitrarily call, for example, the number of illegal migrants coming
in an invasion a militarily invasion, and under his declaration
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that an invasion happens, the powers just widened right up.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Same thing with tariffs.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
We have a national emergency because we have an imbalance
of trade and we're getting nailed, which he is right,
by the way, it is not a level playing field.
So it becomes a national economic emergency to save the
United States.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, we'll see what the courts have to say.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And unfortunately, the Supreme Court really likes presidential power. So
you got Congress that loves presidential power. You have the
court that loves presidential power. Now where do you go
with that? Well, as I said, it's a different world.
It's a different world, which is why I said during
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the news, Uh, the new tourism ploy play by the
governor two Canadians who are stopping to come in droves,
canceling vacations.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean in a big, big way.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And it's affecting our tourism distance that our tour ism
uh business. It's really affecting everybody. And well we'll see
how far the court's allowed the president to go. We
know Congress is going to allow him to go anywhere.
It's the new world, everybody, the new world.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now here's the story that is a troubling and unfortunately growing,
and it's about fake service dogs. One of the things
about service dogs is they are extraordinarily well trained my
daughter Pamelet has a service dog, and I'll tell you
about that in a second, because it is just a
terrific story. I think in any case, the difference between
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a fake service dog and a real service dog is
maybe six hundred hours of training and an extraordinarily bright
animal who maybe five percent of applicants make it through.
It's very, very difficult to have become a real service dog,
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and people are coming out and there's no national requirement.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
By the way, in terms of licensing.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I mean, there are certifications, but you can get a
certification from almost any place. Real organizations give certifications, and airlines,
for example, recognize those I mean, and remember support animals.
For God's sake, anybody could They asked my support animals.
So they were bringing ferrets on airplanes and birds and pigs.
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This is my emotional support animal.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They stop that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now you've got service animals primarily dogs. Now I know
there's one organization on that for some reason, I don't
know how they do it. They train seeing eye chickens
because they're not that expensive to yet. But as I said,
a real service dog is almost impossible to train and
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to get. Very very few make the grade. So people
come up with their fake service dogs. They go into
restaurants and the dogs pee on the legs of the
chair or they grab food. Now, a real service dog
would come into a restaurant, you sit outside right, sit
right next to you, buy the chair, doesn't ask for
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food and just sits there and waits until his or
her owner gets up, leaves and doesn't move. Same thing
getting on an airplane with a real service dog. I
don't know if you've ever been on a plane with
a service dog. Usually they get the bulkhead seat at
the very front and the dog just sits at the
feet of its owner and does not move, does not whimper,
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doesn't cry, doesn't move around, just sit there and they
are totally socialized. That's what they're trained to do, and
these fake ones are ruining it for the real ones.
So now the story of my daughter who has a
service dog. My daughter wanted a dog for years and
years and my ex kept on.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Saying nope, nope, nope, So my daughter didn't end around.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now she is on anti anxiety drugs because this is.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The my genes.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So my two daughters are on anti anxiety drugs and
at Kaiser, you need a psychiatrist to get those drugs.
And I go once a year, for example, for fifteen
minutes to have the psychiatrist go ahead and give me
a prescription and ask questions, are you any changes? Are
you okay? You know anything going on? I go no,
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But I have this incredible desire to run over kittens.
That was last time. And the shrink said what what
and started typing furiously. I said, I'm joking. Stop it.
So anyway, Pamela got her shrink to prescribe a service dog.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay for anxiety.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
She also has a medical condition with her heart beats
fast and Kendall Man can read it immediately and goes
over there and calms her down.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I mean, Kendall is an amazing dog.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So let me tell you how much it costs to
get a service dog. Now, in many cases, the dogs
are free because these are charities that run them to
train the dogs, and there's a waiting list. People that
have the money just pay for the dog, the training
and are you ready for this? That dog, Kendle cost
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me twenty eight thousand dollars. That's how expensive it is
to train a dog. And this is a nonprofit that
trains the dogs and it can take years. Matter of fact,
Pamela waited eighteen months to get Kendle because not only
is the training extraordinary, but they actually matched the personality.
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When Pamela went to get Kendal, there were a group
of dogs and a group of people that were there.
Kendall literally ran out into the room Pamela was sitting.
She was cross legged. Kendall jumped into her lap. Boom done.
So she knew. So let me tell you about the
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end of this story. By the way, it was a nonprofits.
I was at least able to deduct the money. And
that is that these dogs are so highly trained that
the owner has to keep on working with the dogs.
You know, you have to practice over and over again
and work with the dogs. And my daughter doesn't do that.
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So you know what I have. You know what she has?
She has a twenty eight thousand dollars dog. It's a dog,
the same kind of dog you go to a shelter
and you pay two hundred bucks for the shots.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But it's a great dog. It is a great dog. Huh.
But it's a real service dog. It really is.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh. The other thing about service dogs and Kendall, to
a great extent, does this. Obviously I'm exaggerating a bit,
but not much. And that is service dogs. When they
have their vests on, they go to work. I mean,
they do what they're supposed to do. Take that vest
off and they're just dogs, and they romp and they
play and they have a good time. Put the vest
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back on, they go to work, and they're extraordinary. They
really are extraordinary. I should have put a picture of
Kendle up there romping around. Okay, so let me tell
you about the La Sheriff's Department. You hear of sheriffs
and police officers getting astronomical money in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. That's not their base pay. They just
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work insane number of overtime. The La County Sheriff's Department
spent four hundred and fifty eight million dollars on overtime
last year. And why why so much overtime? I mean
this is crazy. Well, because there aren't enough sheriffs and
the work still has to be done. And these these cops,
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these sheriffs, are not just given overtime. They're mandated to
work overtime. And they're not particularly happy.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They make a lot of money, but you reach a
point and they have reached the point where they're saying,
we don't want the overtime. Now, how many people say
no to overtime? I don't know anybody who does. But
if you're a sheriff and you're mandated to work all
of this overtime, and at some point the money is
just it's nice, but it's not worth what it costs
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in lifestyle to earn that money. More people leaving the
department than joining it. In March fourteen hundred and sixty
one of the roughly ten thousand deputy jobs sat empty.
They couldn't fill the jobs right. Fifteen hundred jobs. Additional
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nine hundred plus were held by people that were out
on leave. And if they're out on leave, that means
their work still has to be covered, and that is overtime.
So some of these sheriffs work. Sheriffs are working dozens
of hours forced overtime each month.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Now here's a figure.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Last year, deputies worked more than four point three million
hours of overtime. Richard Pippen, who's president of the Association
of LA Deputy Sheriffs, the union that represents sheriffs, is
worried about the effect on Public Safety said in thirty
five years, I've never seen anything this bad.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Deputy morale is at rock bottom due.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
To the forced overtime, not just because of the Black
Lives Matter movement and the murder of George Floyd, which
put cops on a whole different level in terms of
how they're perceived by the public. It is not easy
to be a Copity Moore, they used to be admired.
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They also were a bunch of racists too, But it
used to be that cops were admired, they were looked
up to.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Gone those days.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
At the same time, where all of these jobs are
not being filled and the overtime is happening, the number
of people leaving has exploded. More than sixty percent have
had It has increased more than sixty percent from.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
This peaked in twenty twenty two, more than six hundred
deputies left the department.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It hasn't been filled.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Those jobs are still empty and the Sheriff's department shrink
and by the start of this year there's the twelve
percent dropped and last year and we're way way under
same thing with LAPD. There is a huge struggle to
get ten thousand cops on the street. It's well, let
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me give you an idea, LAPD and we have a
city of I don't know how many million in Los Angeles.
But if you look at per capitive, if you look
at the number of cops per the population, LA has
the fewest number of police than any police department, any
major police department in the country.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Houston has more cops than LA does.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
New York has I don't know how many thousands more cops.
You know what you know the shortage of powdered sugar
is in New York. Neil, that's a joke about cops
in New York going to the donut shop kah and
having donuts because they're not working.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I'm gonna take your word on this one.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yes, that is a joke about police officers. I see.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Okay, thank you very much. So fewer people are able
to work. Overtime costs have skyrocketed. So let's go year
to year. Twenty to twenty twenty one, the department spent
one hundred eighty million dollars on overtime. The next year
it was two hundred and ninety seven million dollars. A
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year later it was three hundred and ninety seven million dollars.
Last year it was four hundred and fifty eight million dollars,
almost half a billion dollars in overtime. That's crazy, and
there's just more work on top of that. Think about this.
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You've got body cams, additional work for deputies. They have
to review video footage before they could write incident reports.
Better data tracking that has to be done, which the
cops have to do themselves because of combating racial profiling,
More paperwork every time a cop pulls someone over.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I mean, on and on.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can give you example after example of how difficult
it is to be a cop, to be an La
County sheriff, to be an Orange County sheriff.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I mean, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
More paperwork, more difficult, more over time, fewer people doing
the work.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I mean, it is not fun.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And they have to reverse it because frankly, no one
wants to be a cop anymore. And thank goodness, the
standards are still pretty high. I don't think they've reduced standards.
I mean a few things they've reduced. Tattoos are now allowed.
You've got they're going for more women, certainly in ethnic groups,
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and the women are now allowed to wear mustaches, which
in certain ethnic groups they do. And it's not automatic
non hiring. If you admit smoking marijuana, you smoke, you
can't do it now. But yeah, and the tattoos, I mean,
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you can't have knuckle tattoos. You can't have tattoos on
your neck. Although that's got to big spider tattoos on
your neck. That's not allowed, so they have to be
covered up. Hm. My kids wanted to be cops, I
do it. I'd let them. It's a good job, it's
a very good career. Now I went to go into
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a story that is so sweet and treauly and cloying
that it calls for a bucket to throw up in.
And it has to do with an art project called
the Goodbye Line. And this was created by a woman,
Alexis Wood and her partner Adam Trunell, and they both
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were in the tech industry and they came up with
an art project. But it's far more than an art project.
It's far more than an art project. Let me explain it.
I can't even put it into words as to how
it is.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
All right, we start with payphones.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
There used to be tens of thousands of payphones around,
certainly Los Angeles. This is LA time story, so they
talk about Los Angeles mostly, but any city in southern California,
in La proper now within the city limits, there are
one hundred and forty nine payphones left.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Real payphones.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Didn't even know they existed anymore, but there are you
can put I don't even know how much it costs.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I haven't actually seen one.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
A working one is a quarter you put in fifty
cents a visa card. I don't even know. So anyway,
here is the premise of the goodbye line. Over the
one hundred and forty nine active payphones in LA. You
find a payphone, you dialate toll free number which is free,
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and you say goodbye to someone. Goodbye. That's the premise.
And anyone can listen to these messages of grief and
loneliness and introspection that are after their talked into, after
it's put on the phone is then put onto social media,
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and most of the time saying goodbye. It's a question
of mourning. My husband just died. I want to say goodbye.
I didn't have a chance. I lost a loved one.
I didn't have a chance to say goodbye. I got fired.
I didn't have a chance to say goodbye to a
career that I loved. So what happens is you go
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to those phone calls. There's a sticker on them and
invites passerbys to make a free call to a recorded
line to say goodbye. And the founders didn't know what
to expect. And you know they're calling to remember to
pay respects, to turn the page to themselves.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Sometime.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
One voice said, I'd like to apologize to my family.
I hope you all make it to heaven. I'm sorry
I didn't make it. Can't even ama, iagin know what
that person did. The goodbyeline is new and it's found,
but it's starting to explode. Yes, this payphone works, the
stickers read and then the instruction continue. Some days these
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will be gone, like you, me and everyone else, inviting
readers to leave a message before it's too late. Now
we're going to get to the point where what they
want to do is have people actually commit suicide in
those phone booths. That's the next step. That's what I
would do. It's time. I know it's tough for you.
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I know you think that life is not worth living,
and you're right. Life isn't, so why don't you go
ahead and end it right here? Problem is who cleans
up the phone booth when the suicide is done the
wrong way. There was one caller singing a song urging
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people to say goodbye to anyone anything, because you never
know when it's your time. Someone else says, it's not
the same without you. The messages are edited. They're posted
on social media for everyone to hear and share. I
am assuming that they are anonymous, because if they're not,
can you imagine what would happen on social media?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
There's snapshots of grief a grief are desired to connect
audio logues of loneliness in LA And the big deal
here is, as far as the founders is that they're
finding that grief is communal. Sharing grief is something that
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actually helps people. I don't know enough about grief because
my life is nothing but grief and I share it.
Nobody cares, so I guess it's a little bit different
for me. The messages have gone from light to heavy,
but they're almost all rooted, according to the founders, And
I'm going to quote in a desire to tap into
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a broader community, one of the founders says, we learned
that loss and grief is a process, and mourning isn't
something that's purely private.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You know, when you think about it.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's true because when you look at wakes in the
Irish community, right the body sits in the living room
an open casket. Everybody gets drunk and sings Danny Boy
with a liquor dripping off of their lips. In the
Jewish religion, you have everybody goes to the house of
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the family member who died and eats more than you
could ever ever imagine. Because the Jewish mantra has never
changed since the time of Abraham. They came, they killed this,
let's eat, so that hasn't changed. People just get together
and they worn So I guess this is just the
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next step. And people are now doing this on cell phones.
And it's also geographical Hollywood Westlake skid Row, people get
deeper into their trauma.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Other places it's lighter.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Just it goes on and on. It's Did that impress
anybody as to how sweet that was? Because I normally
don't do a sweet topic treaty very much.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'd live around these areas that have pay phones. Still
they're not the best areas.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
There's no one in Beverly Hills going and crying on
the phone.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh you know what, you're right, I'd forgotten. There's one.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yes, there's one right around the house, corner from your house.
It says for a good time, and there's your phone number.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well that's Tracy's.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I feel better, all right, guys, we're done with that
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Ampday, Wednesday, April sixteenth. Coming up later on eight thirty,
We've got doctor Jim Keeney full body of ries.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Personal story on that one.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Coming up at seven twenty, Fake Service Dogs, personal story
on that one. And then one of my favorite seven
point fifty is so treakly sweet it becomes vomitous.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I do that occasionally on this story.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
All right, Now, another lawsuit, the fight between the Trump
administration and the state of California. Today, Governor Gavin Newsom
is going to announce a lawsuit contesting President Trump's executive
authority to enact those international tariffs without congressional approval. Now,
how is it that is state can sue the president
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on an issue that is strictly federal, as in the TIFFs,
and you have to have you have to be damaged.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's number one rule.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, Newsom is saying, you bet, California has been damaged
because these tariffs stop business just cold. For example, China,
we do six hundred and seventy five billion dollars in
two Way.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Trade that was last year with China.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And if that stops any great extent, and believe me,
it's stopping, the amount of money that California gets in
taxes disappears. And that is the damage that California is undergoing.
But it gets deeper than that. And this is where
the minutia, where the devil's in the details. There's the
(01:53):
International Emergency Economic Powers Act. A president can argue under
this Emergency Economic Powers Act imposing tariffs. It's never been
done by a president under these circumstances. Right now, there's
a ten percent baseline tariffs on all imported goods from
anywhere in the world, higher taxes on good from Mexico, Canada,
(02:16):
and China, although there is a pause on many of them,
which of course the stock market is reeling back and
forth because there's a change every day. And then because
the backlash on high end electronics smartphones, computers, etc.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
TVs.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Trump held that off also, although now we're being told
that it's still coming back.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's just a different bucket. The bottom line is Number one,
California is going to lose billions. That's the damage.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Number Two, the president doesn't have the authority to do
this and it's Congress is the only entity that has
the ability to invoke these kinds of tariffs. But Congress,
with the Republican majorities, have given up all, virtually all.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Of its powers. It is so inclined to give.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The president, this particular president, its powers to where the
Congress is basically emasculated.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Is that right? Is that the word I want? I think?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What balls being cut off?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, well it certainly doesn't add masculinity.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's true. Good point.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
In any case, Congress has said, Okay, that's fine, you
can do whatever you want. And you've got Republican senators
and congress people who go to these town halls.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And man, they're getting a lot of backlash from people
who are.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Losing jobs, small businesses that may very well be put
out of business.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It is. It is rough and there.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You know, I was talking to my partner yesterday about
we've stopped all of the coming shipments. We have Chinese
goods that we import, cookwar made out of aluminum and
their stuff in China ready to ship that are in
the warehouses, are already in the ports, ready to ship
(04:15):
to us.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And we put a hold on it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We just don't know what tariffs are going to be
hit because it's when we pay for it. The tariffs hit,
and we pay a lot of it when it hits,
when it hits the United States, when it hits the brokers,
the international brokers' warehouses here in southern California. We have
no idea. We have no idea. It's kind of crazy
out there. So the governor is saying, the President doesn't
(04:41):
have the ability to arbitrarily invoke those teriffs.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And he is doing it now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
The complaint is going to be asking the US District
Court to say only Congress has the ability to impose tariffs.
The President is going to to say he invoked it
under emergency powers, much like the war on the war
on the cartels, where the President has said this is
(05:12):
a war and under the War Powers Act, I am
allowed to do what I'm allowed to do, and the
severer libertarian you're saying, wait a minute, you can't just
arbitrarily call, for example, the number of illegal migrants coming
in an invasion a militarily invasion, and under his declaration
(05:32):
that an invasion happens, the powers just widened right up.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Same thing with tariffs.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
We have a national emergency because we have an imbalance
of trade and we're getting nailed, which he is right,
by the way, it is not a level playing field.
So it becomes a national economic emergency to save the
United States.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, we'll see what the courts have to say.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And unfortunately, the Supreme Court really likes presidential power. So
you got Congress that loves presidential power. You have the
court that loves presidential power. Now where do you go
with that? Well, as I said, it's a different world.
It's a different world, which is why I said during
(06:17):
the news, Uh, the new tourism ploy play by the
governor two Canadians who are stopping to come in droves,
canceling vacations.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean in a big, big way.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And it's affecting our tourism distance that our tour ism
uh business. It's really affecting everybody. And well we'll see
how far the court's allowed the president to go. We
know Congress is going to allow him to go anywhere.
It's the new world, everybody, the new world.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now here's the story that is a troubling and unfortunately growing,
and it's about fake service dogs. One of the things
about service dogs is they are extraordinarily well trained my
daughter Pamelet has a service dog, and I'll tell you
about that in a second, because it is just a
terrific story. I think in any case, the difference between
(07:18):
a fake service dog and a real service dog is
maybe six hundred hours of training and an extraordinarily bright
animal who maybe five percent of applicants make it through.
It's very, very difficult to have become a real service dog,
(07:39):
and people are coming out and there's no national requirement.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
By the way, in terms of licensing.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I mean, there are certifications, but you can get a
certification from almost any place. Real organizations give certifications, and airlines,
for example, recognize those I mean, and remember support animals.
For God's sake, anybody could They asked my support animals.
So they were bringing ferrets on airplanes and birds and pigs.
(08:07):
This is my emotional support animal.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They stop that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now you've got service animals primarily dogs. Now I know
there's one organization on that for some reason, I don't
know how they do it. They train seeing eye chickens
because they're not that expensive to yet. But as I said,
a real service dog is almost impossible to train and
(08:32):
to get. Very very few make the grade. So people
come up with their fake service dogs. They go into
restaurants and the dogs pee on the legs of the
chair or they grab food. Now, a real service dog
would come into a restaurant, you sit outside right, sit
right next to you, buy the chair, doesn't ask for
(08:52):
food and just sits there and waits until his or
her owner gets up, leaves and doesn't move. Same thing
getting on an airplane with a real service dog. I
don't know if you've ever been on a plane with
a service dog. Usually they get the bulkhead seat at
the very front and the dog just sits at the
feet of its owner and does not move, does not whimper,
(09:18):
doesn't cry, doesn't move around, just sit there and they
are totally socialized. That's what they're trained to do, and
these fake ones are ruining it for the real ones.
So now the story of my daughter who has a
service dog. My daughter wanted a dog for years and
years and my ex kept on.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Saying nope, nope, nope, So my daughter didn't end around.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now she is on anti anxiety drugs because this is.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The my genes.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So my two daughters are on anti anxiety drugs and
at Kaiser, you need a psychiatrist to get those drugs.
And I go once a year, for example, for fifteen
minutes to have the psychiatrist go ahead and give me
a prescription and ask questions, are you any changes? Are
you okay? You know anything going on? I go no,
(10:12):
But I have this incredible desire to run over kittens.
That was last time. And the shrink said what what
and started typing furiously. I said, I'm joking. Stop it.
So anyway, Pamela got her shrink to prescribe a service dog.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay for anxiety.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
She also has a medical condition with her heart beats
fast and Kendall Man can read it immediately and goes
over there and calms her down.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I mean, Kendall is an amazing dog.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So let me tell you how much it costs to
get a service dog. Now, in many cases, the dogs
are free because these are charities that run them to
train the dogs, and there's a waiting list. People that
have the money just pay for the dog, the training
and are you ready for this? That dog, Kendle cost
(11:15):
me twenty eight thousand dollars. That's how expensive it is
to train a dog. And this is a nonprofit that
trains the dogs and it can take years. Matter of fact,
Pamela waited eighteen months to get Kendle because not only
is the training extraordinary, but they actually matched the personality.
(11:36):
When Pamela went to get Kendal, there were a group
of dogs and a group of people that were there.
Kendall literally ran out into the room Pamela was sitting.
She was cross legged. Kendall jumped into her lap. Boom done.
So she knew. So let me tell you about the
(11:56):
end of this story. By the way, it was a nonprofits.
I was at least able to deduct the money. And
that is that these dogs are so highly trained that
the owner has to keep on working with the dogs.
You know, you have to practice over and over again
and work with the dogs. And my daughter doesn't do that.
(12:20):
So you know what I have. You know what she has?
She has a twenty eight thousand dollars dog. It's a dog,
the same kind of dog you go to a shelter
and you pay two hundred bucks for the shots.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But it's a great dog. It is a great dog. Huh.
But it's a real service dog. It really is.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh. The other thing about service dogs and Kendall, to
a great extent, does this. Obviously I'm exaggerating a bit,
but not much. And that is service dogs. When they
have their vests on, they go to work. I mean,
they do what they're supposed to do. Take that vest
off and they're just dogs, and they romp and they
play and they have a good time. Put the vest
(13:08):
back on, they go to work, and they're extraordinary. They
really are extraordinary. I should have put a picture of
Kendle up there romping around. Okay, so let me tell
you about the La Sheriff's Department. You hear of sheriffs
and police officers getting astronomical money in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. That's not their base pay. They just
(13:31):
work insane number of overtime. The La County Sheriff's Department
spent four hundred and fifty eight million dollars on overtime
last year. And why why so much overtime? I mean
this is crazy. Well, because there aren't enough sheriffs and
the work still has to be done. And these these cops,
(13:54):
these sheriffs, are not just given overtime. They're mandated to
work overtime. And they're not particularly happy.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They make a lot of money, but you reach a
point and they have reached the point where they're saying,
we don't want the overtime. Now, how many people say
no to overtime? I don't know anybody who does. But
if you're a sheriff and you're mandated to work all
of this overtime, and at some point the money is
just it's nice, but it's not worth what it costs
(14:26):
in lifestyle to earn that money. More people leaving the
department than joining it. In March fourteen hundred and sixty
one of the roughly ten thousand deputy jobs sat empty.
They couldn't fill the jobs right. Fifteen hundred jobs. Additional
(14:47):
nine hundred plus were held by people that were out
on leave. And if they're out on leave, that means
their work still has to be covered, and that is overtime.
So some of these sheriffs work. Sheriffs are working dozens
of hours forced overtime each month.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Now here's a figure.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Last year, deputies worked more than four point three million
hours of overtime. Richard Pippen, who's president of the Association
of LA Deputy Sheriffs, the union that represents sheriffs, is
worried about the effect on Public Safety said in thirty
five years, I've never seen anything this bad.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Deputy morale is at rock bottom due.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
To the forced overtime, not just because of the Black
Lives Matter movement and the murder of George Floyd, which
put cops on a whole different level in terms of
how they're perceived by the public. It is not easy
to be a Copity Moore, they used to be admired.
(15:52):
They also were a bunch of racists too, But it
used to be that cops were admired, they were looked
up to.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Gone those days.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
At the same time, where all of these jobs are
not being filled and the overtime is happening, the number
of people leaving has exploded. More than sixty percent have
had It has increased more than sixty percent from.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
This peaked in twenty twenty two, more than six hundred
deputies left the department.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It hasn't been filled.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Those jobs are still empty and the Sheriff's department shrink
and by the start of this year there's the twelve
percent dropped and last year and we're way way under
same thing with LAPD. There is a huge struggle to
get ten thousand cops on the street. It's well, let
(16:52):
me give you an idea, LAPD and we have a
city of I don't know how many million in Los Angeles.
But if you look at per capitive, if you look
at the number of cops per the population, LA has
the fewest number of police than any police department, any
major police department in the country.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Houston has more cops than LA does.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
New York has I don't know how many thousands more cops.
You know what you know the shortage of powdered sugar
is in New York. Neil, that's a joke about cops
in New York going to the donut shop kah and
having donuts because they're not working.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I'm gonna take your word on this one.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yes, that is a joke about police officers. I see.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Okay, thank you very much. So fewer people are able
to work. Overtime costs have skyrocketed. So let's go year
to year. Twenty to twenty twenty one, the department spent
one hundred eighty million dollars on overtime. The next year
it was two hundred and ninety seven million dollars. A
(18:07):
year later it was three hundred and ninety seven million dollars.
Last year it was four hundred and fifty eight million dollars,
almost half a billion dollars in overtime. That's crazy, and
there's just more work on top of that. Think about this.
(18:29):
You've got body cams, additional work for deputies. They have
to review video footage before they could write incident reports.
Better data tracking that has to be done, which the
cops have to do themselves because of combating racial profiling,
More paperwork every time a cop pulls someone over.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I mean, on and on.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can give you example after example of how difficult
it is to be a cop, to be an La
County sheriff, to be an Orange County sheriff.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I mean, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
More paperwork, more difficult, more over time, fewer people doing
the work.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I mean, it is not fun.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And they have to reverse it because frankly, no one
wants to be a cop anymore. And thank goodness, the
standards are still pretty high. I don't think they've reduced standards.
I mean a few things they've reduced. Tattoos are now allowed.
You've got they're going for more women, certainly in ethnic groups,
(19:31):
and the women are now allowed to wear mustaches, which
in certain ethnic groups they do. And it's not automatic
non hiring. If you admit smoking marijuana, you smoke, you
can't do it now. But yeah, and the tattoos, I mean,
(19:52):
you can't have knuckle tattoos. You can't have tattoos on
your neck. Although that's got to big spider tattoos on
your neck. That's not allowed, so they have to be
covered up. Hm. My kids wanted to be cops, I
do it. I'd let them. It's a good job, it's
a very good career. Now I went to go into
(20:13):
a story that is so sweet and treauly and cloying
that it calls for a bucket to throw up in.
And it has to do with an art project called
the Goodbye Line. And this was created by a woman,
Alexis Wood and her partner Adam Trunell, and they both
(20:34):
were in the tech industry and they came up with
an art project. But it's far more than an art project.
It's far more than an art project. Let me explain it.
I can't even put it into words as to how
it is.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
All right, we start with payphones.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
There used to be tens of thousands of payphones around,
certainly Los Angeles. This is LA time story, so they
talk about Los Angeles mostly, but any city in southern California,
in La proper now within the city limits, there are
one hundred and forty nine payphones left.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Real payphones.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Didn't even know they existed anymore, but there are you
can put I don't even know how much it costs.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I haven't actually seen one.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
A working one is a quarter you put in fifty
cents a visa card. I don't even know. So anyway,
here is the premise of the goodbye line. Over the
one hundred and forty nine active payphones in LA. You
find a payphone, you dialate toll free number which is free,
(21:43):
and you say goodbye to someone. Goodbye. That's the premise.
And anyone can listen to these messages of grief and
loneliness and introspection that are after their talked into, after
it's put on the phone is then put onto social media,
(22:05):
and most of the time saying goodbye. It's a question
of mourning. My husband just died. I want to say goodbye.
I didn't have a chance. I lost a loved one.
I didn't have a chance to say goodbye. I got fired.
I didn't have a chance to say goodbye to a
career that I loved. So what happens is you go
(22:29):
to those phone calls. There's a sticker on them and
invites passerbys to make a free call to a recorded
line to say goodbye. And the founders didn't know what
to expect. And you know they're calling to remember to
pay respects, to turn the page to themselves.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Sometime.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
One voice said, I'd like to apologize to my family.
I hope you all make it to heaven. I'm sorry
I didn't make it. Can't even ama, iagin know what
that person did. The goodbyeline is new and it's found,
but it's starting to explode. Yes, this payphone works, the
stickers read and then the instruction continue. Some days these
(23:15):
will be gone, like you, me and everyone else, inviting
readers to leave a message before it's too late. Now
we're going to get to the point where what they
want to do is have people actually commit suicide in
those phone booths. That's the next step. That's what I
would do. It's time. I know it's tough for you.
(23:38):
I know you think that life is not worth living,
and you're right. Life isn't, so why don't you go
ahead and end it right here? Problem is who cleans
up the phone booth when the suicide is done the
wrong way. There was one caller singing a song urging
(24:03):
people to say goodbye to anyone anything, because you never
know when it's your time. Someone else says, it's not
the same without you. The messages are edited. They're posted
on social media for everyone to hear and share. I
am assuming that they are anonymous, because if they're not,
can you imagine what would happen on social media?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
There's snapshots of grief a grief are desired to connect
audio logues of loneliness in LA And the big deal
here is, as far as the founders is that they're
finding that grief is communal. Sharing grief is something that
(24:48):
actually helps people. I don't know enough about grief because
my life is nothing but grief and I share it.
Nobody cares, so I guess it's a little bit different
for me. The messages have gone from light to heavy,
but they're almost all rooted, according to the founders, And
I'm going to quote in a desire to tap into
(25:09):
a broader community, one of the founders says, we learned
that loss and grief is a process, and mourning isn't
something that's purely private.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You know, when you think about it.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's true because when you look at wakes in the
Irish community, right the body sits in the living room
an open casket. Everybody gets drunk and sings Danny Boy
with a liquor dripping off of their lips. In the
Jewish religion, you have everybody goes to the house of
(25:42):
the family member who died and eats more than you
could ever ever imagine. Because the Jewish mantra has never
changed since the time of Abraham. They came, they killed this,
let's eat, so that hasn't changed. People just get together
and they worn So I guess this is just the
(26:04):
next step. And people are now doing this on cell phones.
And it's also geographical Hollywood Westlake skid Row, people get
deeper into their trauma.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Other places it's lighter.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Just it goes on and on. It's Did that impress
anybody as to how sweet that was? Because I normally
don't do a sweet topic treaty very much.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'd live around these areas that have pay phones. Still
they're not the best areas.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
There's no one in Beverly Hills going and crying on
the phone.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh you know what, you're right, I'd forgotten. There's one.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yes, there's one right around the house, corner from your house.
It says for a good time, and there's your phone number.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well that's Tracy's.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I feel better, all right, guys, we're done with that
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