November 13, 2025 • 23 mins
(November 13, 2025)
President Trump signs bill ending U.S government shutdown. House democrats release Epstein email from 2011. President Trump wants to revive shipping... he will need more mariners. College ‘direct admissions’ is growing in California and nationally.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're list Saints.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty the bill Handles show on demand
on the iheartradioff I AM six forty bill Handle here
on a Thursday morning, November thirteenth. Some of the stories,
a few of the stories were covering it's going to
be a weather story over the next few days, because
it looks like the rain is coming in tonight and
(00:22):
it's going to be a big one, that atmospheric river,
which no one understands what that is. And then the
other big story, this is the government reopening. We know
it's a matter of time, but it went forty three
days of a government shut down. And the government shutdown
is not just shut down. You can't do business. One
(00:43):
of the things about the United States budget is Congress
has to vote itself a budget where it cannot do
business unless it accepts the budget. It's like if you
have a business and you need a budget by the
end of the year, you can't go beyond unless you've
accepted the budget. For example, California, you have to have
(01:05):
a balanced budget otherwise everything stops.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The United States has much the same thing where the
US government Congress says okay, and the president they sign off.
We now have a budget, but it's very weird. Doesn't
stop the government completely. There are certain parts of the
government that are exempt the policing power. For example, you've
got the Secret Service, and you have Congress stays in
(01:31):
session and everybody gets paid, so it's certain parts of
the government don't get paid. This really shuts down air
traffic controller controllers, for example. And there's two kinds of
there are two types of employees with the government, those
that just don't get paid period and those that have
to go back to work and don't get paid air
(01:53):
traffic controllers. So we now have a budget in place,
everything goes back to normal theoretically. The politics of this
have been incredible, incredible. I've never seen anything like this.
The accusations are amazing. Republicans blaming Democrats, the Democrats blaming Republicans.
As a matter of fact, each side calls the shut down,
(02:16):
the Democratics shut down, or the Republicans shut down. Now
as of right now, it looks like the Republicans are
getting more blamed than the Democrats. No matter what Carol
Levitt is saying, no matter what the President is saying,
the Democrats did this. The Democrats did this to an
extent they did, because what President Trump and the Republicans
(02:38):
wanted is a continuing revolution resolution. Let's just say everything
the same while we figure out your issues. The problem
is that the issue at hand is the continuation of
the ACA subsidies, the Obamacare subsidies. The continuation they they
end at the end of the year. They were put
(02:59):
in place ten porarily because of COVID by Joe Biden
and the Republicans saying it's over. Democrats are saying, hey,
do you know how many people are going to lose
their medical insurance or they're going to be priced out
of their medical insurance by the tens of millions. And
therein lies the philosophy the Republicans say, you pass this resolution,
(03:22):
will talk about this crisis in medical care, particularly insurance.
What's covered, what's not. Frankly, the Democrats don't believe them.
I don't believe them. I don't believe the Republicans. They
haven't committed anything. They've committed to talking about it. This
is an administration that does not like social services. It's
(03:45):
that simple. That's a philosophy I mean. And by the way,
that's not a value judgment I'm making. I'm telling you factually,
because when you have a democratic administration, they love social services.
You know, when you look at every one of these
Democrats that are in power, every one of them share
(04:05):
exactly the same epitaph. Epitaph their tombstones will read much
like real Will Rogers, who said I never met a
man I didn't like on his tombstone, theirs will read
I never met a tax I didn't like. So we
have two ways of of doing government. In the meantime,
(04:27):
the cutting of social programs, energy programs is going balls
to the wall with the Trump administration. How much you
think they're spending on border enforcement. It's unbelievable how much
money is being poured into that. So the Democrats said,
this was the line that couldn't be crossed. We're done now.
(04:50):
We're not going to let the government move on. We're
not going to let this government be funded until we
get some kind of a deal on the extension of
Obama Care subsidies allowing tens of millions of people to
be insured. So one of two things are going to
happen now, and this is where the politics come back in.
The Republicans are absolutely going to win this one. There's
(05:11):
no question about it, because lack of insurance happens at
the beginning of next year. Lack of your groceries are
happening right now, and right now, it's a little bit
more important to feed the family than it is to
worry about medical insurance. Okay, government is in continuing resolution
has been passed only until January thirty one, and then
(05:34):
it starts all over again. The difference is is that
those people will not have medical insurance who have it
now or will not be able to afford the premiums
which are going to double in certain cases. And so
it's going to be a very different animal. It's not
going to be the it's not going to be proactive.
(05:56):
It's going to be happening at this moment. I'm talking
about January thirty one, and so the politics are going
to go I think the other way. The Republicans are
going to be blamed for the lack of subsidies, There's
no question about it, and they should because that's their position.
(06:17):
And you've got a whole lot of millions of Americans
who are not going to be very thrilled with a
lack of insurance or is so expensive they have been
priced out, so as of right now, government's back and action.
It's gonna take a little bit of time. The snap
payments are going to be back.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
How much are the Republicans going to get hit? How
much is the Trump administration going to get hit in
terms of approval rating? Stopping trying to stop snap payments,
even partial stamp payments from being made. They went to
court to stop it. Once the lower court said you
have to make those payments. Once that decision is made,
(06:56):
Carolyn Levitt got up on that lectern in the White
House press room and said, we are releasing those payments.
This administration wants to pay those people. But you said
no a week ago, and all you're doing is following
the court order. Well, see, everybody takes advantage of everything
that's happening. You know, you take the blame for nothing,
(07:20):
You take the credit for everything.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Good. Okay, enough of that.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The Epstein files come back and back and back again
to haunt the president. And as everyone knows, Jeffrey Epstein,
complete cockroach is dead. He committed suicide in prison on
his second go round of child molestation charges. His first time,
he was given the sweetheart deal of all time. Did
(07:46):
one year in prison, a federal prison, and it was
no one could believe it. And the other part of
no one can believe it Jelaane Maxwell, who is Epstein's
right hand and his buddy, a pimp, pimped for him,
who was convicted of child molestation, also sex with minors.
(08:06):
We've got twenty years in prison. Strangely got transferred to
a club met actually a club fed where minimum security prison.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
What is sick? Sexual offenders like this don't get transferred
to places like this. How did it happen? Well, there's
a whole story there.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But as far as these emails that were just released,
I tell you it doesn't bode well for the president.
And I have said and I think it's panning out,
and I've said this for months, is I don't think
the president is going to be tagged with doing anything
wrong being part of the sexual exploitation.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What I think he's going to.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Be tagged with is having a whole lot closer relationship
to Epstein than he has said. And any close relationship
to Epstein is toxic under any circumstances. And there are
a whole lot of people that are there in that category.
Because Epstein, it was a real player socially, he has
a lot of money, had big parties. Look what happened
(09:04):
to Prince Andrew So anyway, in an email he wrote
to himself on February first, twenty nineteen, This was a
few months before he was arrested on the sex trafficking
charges the second time and was in jail and he
killed himself. This is a quote from that email. Trump
knew of it, referring to the sexual misconduct. And he
(09:26):
came to my house many times during that period. He
never got a massage. And this was part of this
whole tranch of documents. And Trump said he had a
falling out in the mid two thousand with Epstein, and
it doesn't look like it. And Trump in twenty nineteen
(09:46):
said I had no idea referring to Epstein and the
sexual misconduct. I haven't spoken him in many, many years.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, it looks like he did.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And on Wednesday, of course, Trump accused the Demo crats
of resurfacing the scandal to distract from the forty three
day government shutdown. The Democrats are using the Jeffrey Epstein
hoax to try to deflect from their massive failures. In particular,
the most recent one, the shutdown. Well, here's the problem.
(10:18):
The shutdown is over and the Republicans won, Yet the
Epstein emails and files continue to haunt the president and
they will. This is why the administration has fought like
crazy to not have the entire file release. Department Justice
(10:41):
is holding on to this stuff. They have all of it,
and the Oversight Committee wants it. In Congress, even Republicans
want it because this is we're talking about raping fourteen
year olds. I mean, this is something Republicans are saying, Okay,
(11:02):
you know what. We have to find out everything about this,
every bit of it. And the Trump administration is fighting
it like crazy. Why not because I think Trump did
anything wrong. I don't, but because of the radioactivity of
being anywhere near Epstein. And then the argument did Trump
(11:23):
actually know of the sexual misconduct? And I don't know
about that. That one's up in the air, but I'm
pretty sure that he never participated, but he was a
lot closer. And of course Mike Johnson is naturally doing
exactly what Trump wanted, and he is doing everything he
(11:45):
could to keep the file secret.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And what he wouldn't do is swear in Grivalja.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Who is the congressman, I think from Arizona who just
got elected, wouldn't swear her in for thirty days. He's
because she is the vote that puts it over the
edge to demand that the Department of Justice turn over
those files. Johnson fight said, But there's a procedure which
you can bypass the speaker and demand it. And that's
(12:16):
exactly what is happening right now. So how toxic is
this going to be? You know, even if it goes
no further than this, I think the President can yell hoax, hoax,
hoax all he wants. You know, some stuff just sticks
no matter what. All right now, what I do want
(12:38):
to get into is what we do with our maritime
fleet the United States. And this is where President Trump
is saying, hey, let's revive us shipping. We don't do
enough of it and we don't. Let me give you
a statistic that kind of floored me, and that is,
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in the last ten years, the United States manufactured thirty
eight large commercial vessels US shipyards.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Thirty eight of them.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
China over seventy five hundred of these commercial vessels. The
way the law works in the United States is horrific.
The American law says that for international commercial shipping on
American vessels and flying under the American flag, that means
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it's register in the US, follows the Coastguards regulation, employs
only American citizens.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That means it's not happening. So what is the answer.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And I think the administration is right on because this
is an area that has been ignored and that is
working as a mariner, building more ships and working as
a mariner right now as an American city, and you
can go and work for well almost any fleet.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Mariners earn over one hundred thousand dollars a year six
months of paid leave a year.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Who is not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
There are seven maritime academies in the US, seven of them,
six state and the US United States Merchant Marine Academy
that's in New York. Now, the federal academy perfectly free
to attend. The other ones, the state ones are they
cost money. And let me give you another stat that's
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kind of just mind bending. The number of students graduating
with Coastguard qualifications, okay, which all the academy give last
year was eight hundred and ten. How about that eight
hundred and ten. Now, there is an organization called the
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Military Sealift Command. These are a fleet of ships that
supply the US Navy. Those supply ships that you see
with fuel and goods and material are usually civilian ships
crewed by civilians.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
They can't find mariners, they can't find people to work.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
How about this a first officer two hundred and twenty
thousand dollars along with a seventy one thousand dollars signing bonus,
and you can't get enough of them? Well, first of all,
you got to go to school. Okay, it's one of
these four year degree things. But I don't know how
many jobs out there. Right out of college you go
for what two hundred grand a year? Now, the fleet,
(15:40):
the Military Seelift Command, it took vessels out of regular service.
They didn't have enough civilian employees. They didn't have enough
people to run these ships. I mean, it is kind
of crazy. So why do they have so few? Because
when you look into it, the work is brutal. If
you don't have enough mariners on a ship, which means
the ones that you do have are working twice as
(16:01):
hard and the burnout rate is unbelievable. One of this
is what this was a wall Street Journal New York
Times article, and one of these guys was interviewed, Nathan Weimoth,
a chief engineer on a tramper, which means it went
from place to place, not a specific route that was
(16:22):
hired for. He said he had six months of paid
short leaves, but he works so long when he was
at sea that we actually look at the hours work
there longer than the six months he had off twelve
hours a day, six or seven days a week.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And it's total burnout.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
But if you're willing to not see your family for
six months at a time, which is I'd be thrilled
to do that. If you're willing to not be anywhere
near your home and be on a ship. The pay
is pretty high and I'm assuming the benefits are pretty good.
And it's just one of those fields that not enough
(17:05):
people were going to and.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It pays huge money. So what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is, occasionally, as unemployment explodes and you're going to see
it die, I believe because of AI etcetera is getting
worse and worse, I'm going to be throwing in these
jobs occasionally. Where it's good money, it's not very well.
These are not very well known and I just love
talking about employment. Okay, okay, there is a something called
(17:35):
college direct admissions. Now you can pre register for college.
They have early admission, but you have to apply direct admissions.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You don't apply. An email goes.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Out from the schools, from the four year colleges to
kids who are kids you know, who are out of
high school, who meet the criteria, and it says you've
been admitted. And the theory is it's going after those
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kids who are disenfranchised, are on the lower socioeconomic ladder.
They're lower on the ladder because it's just more difficult
for them. You have to know how to work the system.
An application to college is not an easy thing. I mean,
you have to obviously take the tests, and then you
(18:29):
get to write the essay as to why you want
to go to school and you come up with some
complete lie and what you want to do for the
rest of your life, and then you're in front of
a admissions officer or at least the application.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Is and it's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, with these direct admissions, it is not a lot
of work. Now, California has just started it. Six other
states or seven other states have already done this and
it looks like it's fairly successful because the number of
people that are wanted, and that is first generation or
(19:05):
second generation Americans coming from the first people to go
to college in their families. I mean that, you know
the story of people who it's just not easy to
go to college. Well, they're getting more and more of them.
They've almost doubled those figures with a direct admission. So
who is in this case, it was the cal State
system that by law is now involved in direct admissions
(19:29):
after the pilot program. I think it was at cal
State Riverside. I don't even know if there is a
cal State Riverside. It was one of the schools.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Is there a cal State Riverside?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I don't, Okay, I don't even know. Yeah, well, you know,
I understand. But this is not for uc The ucs
are exempt from this. It's not there. Yes, this is
only cal State and it's cal State. San Luisbispo, for example,
is exempt. They're not doing this because frankly, well it's
(20:01):
a high end school. That's what that's about. For example,
it's impossible impossible to get into UCLA, right, you can't
do it, give it up. You want to go to
UC channel islands you can get in. So the cal
State system is saying, and this, I guess is some
kind of a pilot program or full time. I don't
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know if it's ever going to go to the UC system.
But the schools are the entire is the entire system
except two schoolers or exempt one of San Luis Obispo.
And strangely enough, cal State Northridge is not involved with
this program because there was a huge move to move
cal State Northridge into the community college system and remove
(20:45):
it from California State University because Northridge gives you such
quality education. Having graduated from cal State Northridge, I can
see why it should be a junior college, right Kono?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Sure? Bill? Yeah? Uh? Amy didn't go off. Also, Amy
didn't go to cal State Northriach. I did not. I
went to Oregon State University. Yeah. I was onto cal
State San Bernardino and cal State Fullerton. Yeah. Likes college. No,
I do you know what I have? Actually? Are you
ready for this?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I am looking at cal State Long Beach, uh for
some histories. I'm thinking of getting a master's degree in
history because I like history so.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Much about it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I do because I'm just and and and well and
my life is different now. I mean I used to
be you know all, I used to be the surrogacy center.
I work all day after the show and uh uh
now I get do you I guess you call a
semi retired. Does that make sense? Where I do the
show and then basically by noon, Now what do I do?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Are you gonna do it? From student union? You'll do
the show? Uhout be wild?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
But anyway, it's uh, this directed mission thing seems to
be working.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
And it is designed for.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
People, first of all, to make it easier to go
to college, to apply for college, and to try to
get those students that were just difficult to apply. I mean,
I've applied well, cal Staton Northoris was not that difficult.
My law school, for example, that was a tough one.
I remember going in and seeing the admissions counselor at
(22:25):
my law school, what your law school? And I was wondering,
why was the admissions person putting mirrors under people's noses?
And it turned out that if you had condensation, you
were admitted to the school. That was the requirement. By
the way, that school is no longer there. Just to
(22:48):
let you know, my law school is no longer It's
just out there. I think Starbucks is in the building,
and then I think they also have maybe an Amazon
warehouse there. Okay, we're done, all right, Joe Larsguard is
coming up and we're going to talk about some how
(23:09):
the money news and there's some fun stuff fifty year
mortgage that the President just pitched and we was talking
about with Joel. Does that make sense, as well as
other topics, So don't go away.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
This is by the way, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Kidding about cal State northridget It really is a superb
institution of higher learning. It's called Harvard of the West.
All Right, KFI am six forty.
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I am six forty the bill Handles show on demand
on the iheartradioff I AM six forty bill Handle here
on a Thursday morning, November thirteenth. Some of the stories,
a few of the stories were covering it's going to
be a weather story over the next few days, because
it looks like the rain is coming in tonight and
(00:22):
it's going to be a big one, that atmospheric river,
which no one understands what that is. And then the
other big story, this is the government reopening. We know
it's a matter of time, but it went forty three
days of a government shut down. And the government shutdown
is not just shut down. You can't do business. One
(00:43):
of the things about the United States budget is Congress
has to vote itself a budget where it cannot do
business unless it accepts the budget. It's like if you
have a business and you need a budget by the
end of the year, you can't go beyond unless you've
accepted the budget. For example, California, you have to have
(01:05):
a balanced budget otherwise everything stops.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The United States has much the same thing where the
US government Congress says okay, and the president they sign off.
We now have a budget, but it's very weird. Doesn't
stop the government completely. There are certain parts of the
government that are exempt the policing power. For example, you've
got the Secret Service, and you have Congress stays in
(01:31):
session and everybody gets paid, so it's certain parts of
the government don't get paid. This really shuts down air
traffic controller controllers, for example. And there's two kinds of
there are two types of employees with the government, those
that just don't get paid period and those that have
to go back to work and don't get paid air
(01:53):
traffic controllers. So we now have a budget in place,
everything goes back to normal theoretically. The politics of this
have been incredible, incredible. I've never seen anything like this.
The accusations are amazing. Republicans blaming Democrats, the Democrats blaming Republicans.
As a matter of fact, each side calls the shut down,
(02:16):
the Democratics shut down, or the Republicans shut down. Now
as of right now, it looks like the Republicans are
getting more blamed than the Democrats. No matter what Carol
Levitt is saying, no matter what the President is saying,
the Democrats did this. The Democrats did this to an
extent they did, because what President Trump and the Republicans
(02:38):
wanted is a continuing revolution resolution. Let's just say everything
the same while we figure out your issues. The problem
is that the issue at hand is the continuation of
the ACA subsidies, the Obamacare subsidies. The continuation they they
end at the end of the year. They were put
(02:59):
in place ten porarily because of COVID by Joe Biden
and the Republicans saying it's over. Democrats are saying, hey,
do you know how many people are going to lose
their medical insurance or they're going to be priced out
of their medical insurance by the tens of millions. And
therein lies the philosophy the Republicans say, you pass this resolution,
(03:22):
will talk about this crisis in medical care, particularly insurance.
What's covered, what's not. Frankly, the Democrats don't believe them.
I don't believe them. I don't believe the Republicans. They
haven't committed anything. They've committed to talking about it. This
is an administration that does not like social services. It's
(03:45):
that simple. That's a philosophy I mean. And by the way,
that's not a value judgment I'm making. I'm telling you factually,
because when you have a democratic administration, they love social services.
You know, when you look at every one of these
Democrats that are in power, every one of them share
(04:05):
exactly the same epitaph. Epitaph their tombstones will read much
like real Will Rogers, who said I never met a
man I didn't like on his tombstone, theirs will read
I never met a tax I didn't like. So we
have two ways of of doing government. In the meantime,
(04:27):
the cutting of social programs, energy programs is going balls
to the wall with the Trump administration. How much you
think they're spending on border enforcement. It's unbelievable how much
money is being poured into that. So the Democrats said,
this was the line that couldn't be crossed. We're done now.
(04:50):
We're not going to let the government move on. We're
not going to let this government be funded until we
get some kind of a deal on the extension of
Obama Care subsidies allowing tens of millions of people to
be insured. So one of two things are going to
happen now, and this is where the politics come back in.
The Republicans are absolutely going to win this one. There's
(05:11):
no question about it, because lack of insurance happens at
the beginning of next year. Lack of your groceries are
happening right now, and right now, it's a little bit
more important to feed the family than it is to
worry about medical insurance. Okay, government is in continuing resolution
has been passed only until January thirty one, and then
(05:34):
it starts all over again. The difference is is that
those people will not have medical insurance who have it
now or will not be able to afford the premiums
which are going to double in certain cases. And so
it's going to be a very different animal. It's not
going to be the it's not going to be proactive.
(05:56):
It's going to be happening at this moment. I'm talking
about January thirty one, and so the politics are going
to go I think the other way. The Republicans are
going to be blamed for the lack of subsidies, There's
no question about it, and they should because that's their position.
(06:17):
And you've got a whole lot of millions of Americans
who are not going to be very thrilled with a
lack of insurance or is so expensive they have been
priced out, so as of right now, government's back and action.
It's gonna take a little bit of time. The snap
payments are going to be back.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
How much are the Republicans going to get hit? How
much is the Trump administration going to get hit in
terms of approval rating? Stopping trying to stop snap payments,
even partial stamp payments from being made. They went to
court to stop it. Once the lower court said you
have to make those payments. Once that decision is made,
(06:56):
Carolyn Levitt got up on that lectern in the White
House press room and said, we are releasing those payments.
This administration wants to pay those people. But you said
no a week ago, and all you're doing is following
the court order. Well, see, everybody takes advantage of everything
that's happening. You know, you take the blame for nothing,
(07:20):
You take the credit for everything.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Good. Okay, enough of that.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The Epstein files come back and back and back again
to haunt the president. And as everyone knows, Jeffrey Epstein,
complete cockroach is dead. He committed suicide in prison on
his second go round of child molestation charges. His first time,
he was given the sweetheart deal of all time. Did
(07:46):
one year in prison, a federal prison, and it was
no one could believe it. And the other part of
no one can believe it Jelaane Maxwell, who is Epstein's
right hand and his buddy, a pimp, pimped for him,
who was convicted of child molestation, also sex with minors.
(08:06):
We've got twenty years in prison. Strangely got transferred to
a club met actually a club fed where minimum security prison.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
What is sick? Sexual offenders like this don't get transferred
to places like this. How did it happen? Well, there's
a whole story there.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But as far as these emails that were just released,
I tell you it doesn't bode well for the president.
And I have said and I think it's panning out,
and I've said this for months, is I don't think
the president is going to be tagged with doing anything
wrong being part of the sexual exploitation.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What I think he's going to.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Be tagged with is having a whole lot closer relationship
to Epstein than he has said. And any close relationship
to Epstein is toxic under any circumstances. And there are
a whole lot of people that are there in that category.
Because Epstein, it was a real player socially, he has
a lot of money, had big parties. Look what happened
(09:04):
to Prince Andrew So anyway, in an email he wrote
to himself on February first, twenty nineteen, This was a
few months before he was arrested on the sex trafficking
charges the second time and was in jail and he
killed himself. This is a quote from that email. Trump
knew of it, referring to the sexual misconduct. And he
(09:26):
came to my house many times during that period. He
never got a massage. And this was part of this
whole tranch of documents. And Trump said he had a
falling out in the mid two thousand with Epstein, and
it doesn't look like it. And Trump in twenty nineteen
(09:46):
said I had no idea referring to Epstein and the
sexual misconduct. I haven't spoken him in many, many years.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, it looks like he did.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And on Wednesday, of course, Trump accused the Demo crats
of resurfacing the scandal to distract from the forty three
day government shutdown. The Democrats are using the Jeffrey Epstein
hoax to try to deflect from their massive failures. In particular,
the most recent one, the shutdown. Well, here's the problem.
(10:18):
The shutdown is over and the Republicans won, Yet the
Epstein emails and files continue to haunt the president and
they will. This is why the administration has fought like
crazy to not have the entire file release. Department Justice
(10:41):
is holding on to this stuff. They have all of it,
and the Oversight Committee wants it. In Congress, even Republicans
want it because this is we're talking about raping fourteen
year olds. I mean, this is something Republicans are saying, Okay,
(11:02):
you know what. We have to find out everything about this,
every bit of it. And the Trump administration is fighting
it like crazy. Why not because I think Trump did
anything wrong. I don't, but because of the radioactivity of
being anywhere near Epstein. And then the argument did Trump
(11:23):
actually know of the sexual misconduct? And I don't know
about that. That one's up in the air, but I'm
pretty sure that he never participated, but he was a
lot closer. And of course Mike Johnson is naturally doing
exactly what Trump wanted, and he is doing everything he
(11:45):
could to keep the file secret.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And what he wouldn't do is swear in Grivalja.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Who is the congressman, I think from Arizona who just
got elected, wouldn't swear her in for thirty days. He's
because she is the vote that puts it over the
edge to demand that the Department of Justice turn over
those files. Johnson fight said, But there's a procedure which
you can bypass the speaker and demand it. And that's
(12:16):
exactly what is happening right now. So how toxic is
this going to be? You know, even if it goes
no further than this, I think the President can yell hoax, hoax,
hoax all he wants. You know, some stuff just sticks
no matter what. All right now, what I do want
(12:38):
to get into is what we do with our maritime
fleet the United States. And this is where President Trump
is saying, hey, let's revive us shipping. We don't do
enough of it and we don't. Let me give you
a statistic that kind of floored me, and that is,
(13:01):
in the last ten years, the United States manufactured thirty
eight large commercial vessels US shipyards.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Thirty eight of them.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
China over seventy five hundred of these commercial vessels. The
way the law works in the United States is horrific.
The American law says that for international commercial shipping on
American vessels and flying under the American flag, that means
(13:33):
it's register in the US, follows the Coastguards regulation, employs
only American citizens.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That means it's not happening. So what is the answer.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And I think the administration is right on because this
is an area that has been ignored and that is
working as a mariner, building more ships and working as
a mariner right now as an American city, and you
can go and work for well almost any fleet.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Mariners earn over one hundred thousand dollars a year six
months of paid leave a year.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Who is not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
There are seven maritime academies in the US, seven of them,
six state and the US United States Merchant Marine Academy
that's in New York. Now, the federal academy perfectly free
to attend. The other ones, the state ones are they
cost money. And let me give you another stat that's
(14:34):
kind of just mind bending. The number of students graduating
with Coastguard qualifications, okay, which all the academy give last
year was eight hundred and ten. How about that eight
hundred and ten. Now, there is an organization called the
(14:56):
Military Sealift Command. These are a fleet of ships that
supply the US Navy. Those supply ships that you see
with fuel and goods and material are usually civilian ships
crewed by civilians.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
They can't find mariners, they can't find people to work.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
How about this a first officer two hundred and twenty
thousand dollars along with a seventy one thousand dollars signing bonus,
and you can't get enough of them? Well, first of all,
you got to go to school. Okay, it's one of
these four year degree things. But I don't know how
many jobs out there. Right out of college you go
for what two hundred grand a year? Now, the fleet,
(15:40):
the Military Seelift Command, it took vessels out of regular service.
They didn't have enough civilian employees. They didn't have enough
people to run these ships. I mean, it is kind
of crazy. So why do they have so few? Because
when you look into it, the work is brutal. If
you don't have enough mariners on a ship, which means
the ones that you do have are working twice as
(16:01):
hard and the burnout rate is unbelievable. One of this
is what this was a wall Street Journal New York
Times article, and one of these guys was interviewed, Nathan Weimoth,
a chief engineer on a tramper, which means it went
from place to place, not a specific route that was
(16:22):
hired for. He said he had six months of paid
short leaves, but he works so long when he was
at sea that we actually look at the hours work
there longer than the six months he had off twelve
hours a day, six or seven days a week.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And it's total burnout.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
But if you're willing to not see your family for
six months at a time, which is I'd be thrilled
to do that. If you're willing to not be anywhere
near your home and be on a ship. The pay
is pretty high and I'm assuming the benefits are pretty good.
And it's just one of those fields that not enough
(17:05):
people were going to and.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It pays huge money. So what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is, occasionally, as unemployment explodes and you're going to see
it die, I believe because of AI etcetera is getting
worse and worse, I'm going to be throwing in these
jobs occasionally. Where it's good money, it's not very well.
These are not very well known and I just love
talking about employment. Okay, okay, there is a something called
(17:35):
college direct admissions. Now you can pre register for college.
They have early admission, but you have to apply direct admissions.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You don't apply. An email goes.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Out from the schools, from the four year colleges to
kids who are kids you know, who are out of
high school, who meet the criteria, and it says you've
been admitted. And the theory is it's going after those
(18:09):
kids who are disenfranchised, are on the lower socioeconomic ladder.
They're lower on the ladder because it's just more difficult
for them. You have to know how to work the system.
An application to college is not an easy thing. I mean,
you have to obviously take the tests, and then you
(18:29):
get to write the essay as to why you want
to go to school and you come up with some
complete lie and what you want to do for the
rest of your life, and then you're in front of
a admissions officer or at least the application.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Is and it's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, with these direct admissions, it is not a lot
of work. Now, California has just started it. Six other
states or seven other states have already done this and
it looks like it's fairly successful because the number of
people that are wanted, and that is first generation or
(19:05):
second generation Americans coming from the first people to go
to college in their families. I mean that, you know
the story of people who it's just not easy to
go to college. Well, they're getting more and more of them.
They've almost doubled those figures with a direct admission. So
who is in this case, it was the cal State
system that by law is now involved in direct admissions
(19:29):
after the pilot program. I think it was at cal
State Riverside. I don't even know if there is a
cal State Riverside. It was one of the schools.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Is there a cal State Riverside?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I don't, Okay, I don't even know. Yeah, well, you know,
I understand. But this is not for uc The ucs
are exempt from this. It's not there. Yes, this is
only cal State and it's cal State. San Luisbispo, for example,
is exempt. They're not doing this because frankly, well it's
(20:01):
a high end school. That's what that's about. For example,
it's impossible impossible to get into UCLA, right, you can't
do it, give it up. You want to go to
UC channel islands you can get in. So the cal
State system is saying, and this, I guess is some
kind of a pilot program or full time. I don't
(20:22):
know if it's ever going to go to the UC system.
But the schools are the entire is the entire system
except two schoolers or exempt one of San Luis Obispo.
And strangely enough, cal State Northridge is not involved with
this program because there was a huge move to move
cal State Northridge into the community college system and remove
(20:45):
it from California State University because Northridge gives you such
quality education. Having graduated from cal State Northridge, I can
see why it should be a junior college, right Kono?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Sure? Bill? Yeah? Uh? Amy didn't go off. Also, Amy
didn't go to cal State Northriach. I did not. I
went to Oregon State University. Yeah. I was onto cal
State San Bernardino and cal State Fullerton. Yeah. Likes college. No,
I do you know what I have? Actually? Are you
ready for this?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I am looking at cal State Long Beach, uh for
some histories. I'm thinking of getting a master's degree in
history because I like history so.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Much about it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I do because I'm just and and and well and
my life is different now. I mean I used to
be you know all, I used to be the surrogacy center.
I work all day after the show and uh uh
now I get do you I guess you call a
semi retired. Does that make sense? Where I do the
show and then basically by noon, Now what do I do?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Are you gonna do it? From student union? You'll do
the show? Uhout be wild?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
But anyway, it's uh, this directed mission thing seems to
be working.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
And it is designed for.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
People, first of all, to make it easier to go
to college, to apply for college, and to try to
get those students that were just difficult to apply. I mean,
I've applied well, cal Staton Northoris was not that difficult.
My law school, for example, that was a tough one.
I remember going in and seeing the admissions counselor at
(22:25):
my law school, what your law school? And I was wondering,
why was the admissions person putting mirrors under people's noses?
And it turned out that if you had condensation, you
were admitted to the school. That was the requirement. By
the way, that school is no longer there. Just to
(22:48):
let you know, my law school is no longer It's
just out there. I think Starbucks is in the building,
and then I think they also have maybe an Amazon
warehouse there. Okay, we're done, all right, Joe Larsguard is
coming up and we're going to talk about some how
(23:09):
the money news and there's some fun stuff fifty year
mortgage that the President just pitched and we was talking
about with Joel. Does that make sense, as well as
other topics, So don't go away.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
This is by the way, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Kidding about cal State northridget It really is a superb
institution of higher learning. It's called Harvard of the West.
All Right, KFI am six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
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