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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And they're being barred from graduation. At least nine of
those twelve students were suspended for five days. Untild you
cannot walk at graduation. Now, did they take their punishment,
learn their lesson? Did their parents give them a good
talking to? Scolding punishment? Now it looks like somebody went
on and hired some attorneys. Yeah, that's how we do
(00:22):
it these days. Everybody gets a score run stop it.
The attorney, Stephen Smith quoted said they've been treated the
worst of everybody. I guess because they went down the list.
Did you drink yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, no no, no,
no no, and they're going attorney's going. Well, some of
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them that said no did and this isn't fair. They
claimed the administrator singled out their clients after finding alcohol
and a party bus.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, if they're the ones.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Responsible, those normally are the ones that get singled out.
They were told if they admitted their involvement, the attorney
said they'd be treated better, and that there was a
denial line. Twelve kids went into the honest line. They
admitted it, that we admit it line, and the attorney said,
that's where we start having problems. At least nine of
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those twelve were suspended for five days until they couldn't
walk a graduation. The attorney said, there's twenty two deniers, Manny,
who were also drinking, and they were let off the hook.
Why you got to bring them in now? Do light
detector tests on them. The attorney, I'm quoting him again,
he said, what we're saying is the punishment was not
fairly doled out by due process, and the punishment is
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excessive and unfair with compared to everybody else who is
equally guilty. Well, a lot of times did people lie
you get away with it. Let's go listen to the
Clovis Unified Folkswoman Kelly here.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The concept of a senior contract is a long standing
practice in our district and lead of the same expectations
that we've laid out year over year.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh, so they signed something saying they would not act
a fool if they get to go to on the problem. Okay,
that's so they signed something, And she said, we're laying
out the policy. It's in the contracts they signed before
they get actually buy a prom ticket. I guess school
has changed. I can't imagine having to sign a contract
before I buy a prom ticket. President of FIGHT spokeswoman said,
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we are a district of our word for our kids,
so they can be deterred from behaviors that are dangerous
to them. So now the students are getting together, gonna
put out some flyers hashtag let them walk. We are
the oppressed. See that everybody's been Yeah. So here's what's
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something up. It's not the best audio, but here's some
of the students at the school board meeting. These are
the ones that were caught. And yes, they sound like
good kids. They sound the school girl talking about her
GPA and all the things she did. And one gallon
here very apologetic, and that's good. It's good to be remarseal,
but it still doesn't take away the fact that there's repercussion.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I asked you to see the.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Person I've run the endto during my time in this district.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You can give me the opportunity to walk out graduation
on May third, I mean a.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
State of involving alcohol on the way.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
To prom and when as by administration, I immediately came forward.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Because character counts.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Character counts. She came forward. That's true, character counts. Good
learning the lesson. I maintained a four point.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
To GPA and will graduate as a.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Soluted brand on the DP Solar.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I've been a four year varsity soccer player, a captain,
and earned all league honors.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Okay, all league honors, good GPA, that's all really good.
But you admitted that you know, boozing it up there
and know the stated that.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I feel is not able to see you walk which
I graduate.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Cost and celebrate sessions for a while soon across you.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
To do all that experience was humiliating.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And if you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Reconsider this.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Experience, I something tells me that, uh, they're not gonna
cave on this one. And if they do, then we'll
have another conversation about that. Like I said, those seniors
on the baseball busy, they got kicked off the team
and it was probably too early in the season there
or I don't know, I don't remember if they got
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to We had a smoking section at school, what am
I talking about? Of course they got to walk at graduation.
There was on the quad. If you were eighteen or over,
you could be in the smoking section. They never though,
no one ever came by IDs please, So you had
sixteen year olds, you know, it was the smoke, It
was the long hairs though, yeah, it was the Ronnie
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James dio. Guys. All right, let's continue with school districts Clovis.
We're gonna move off you for a moment and move
on to one of my favorite subjects, Trusty to fight
school district tourney. Roger Banagdar is going to be on
the show Wednesday. We're going to talk about this and
the Diddy trial. But Ed Smith at gvwire dot Com
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interviewed him tourney. Banagdar said, President Unified, she'd be looking
to settle a defamation suit against Trusty. Keisha Thomas. I'm
not going to keep playing the audio, but she did
say it on the gvwire dot com. She said that
coach a Rax at Bullard called her son the N word,
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and now she's trying to reverse that. Banagdar said, the
video wins the defamation case. Dan damages could be in
the tens of millions, yes, saying he never said it.
And she's running for city council in twenty twenty six
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and Miguel Aris's district. So coach a Rax football coach
at Bullard suitor for defamation. But she was on the
podcast over there you are Unfiltered and made the accusation,
and then she was in a deposition three years later
this year April, it showed her be an interview by
Arax's attorney. She denied making the accusations. So sorry, the
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evidence is there. You're contradicting yourself. One of you's lying,
and we know which one the first one that made
the comments, that miss Thomas, that's the one that was
lying right there was. She said that, now what that
can do to somebody's life, career, family, reputation. Defamation could
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cost hundreds of millions of dollars. This is attorney ban
actar he said, accusing someone of using that language against
a child even carries a heavy burden in this society.
I don't see how you can allege somebody's a bigot
and their bigotry was launched against a child. Incredibly, say
that person doesn't have damages. Before coach Arax left Bullard,
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the district can moved in from his coaching position. You know,
attorney's got the long list, but he's about lost wages,
potential costs of the district could be the damaged reputation.
District is definitely playing with fire in this The longer
they allow it to go banac Dar said. Hum banac
(07:27):
Dar said, because Thomas was invited on the show, the podcast,
and her role as a trustee, it'd be difficult for
the district to convince Jrors the district is not liable.
Her commentary was given airtime because she's a trustee, not
because she's a concerned mother. So that's where the district
comes into play. Beyond damages, there are legal fees. Attorney
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Banactar said, bills and cases like this can cost hundreds
of thousands or millions of dollars. Even though the suit
was filed in twenty twenty two, it still isn't that
old in the world of civil suits, said a Charal's
not yet been set in her deposition, Trustee Thomas said, drummroll, please,
the district is covering her legal fees. No, they're not.
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The district doesn't make money. The district doesn't make it
takes the taxpayers are covering her legal fees. I gotta
tell you right now, our kids deserve way better, way better,
ladies and gentlemen, this is exactly what a dysfunctional school
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district looks and sounds like. We need to give them better.
So pay attention and vote accordingly.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
This is the treportary show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Remember this memorial data honor the brave who gave everything
they stood for something way greater than themselves. Keep that
in mind as well. We'll talk coming up bottom of
the hour here as well. Presdent Unified School District, They're
gonna be soup big time. It sounds like Tony Roger
Banagtar is going to be in Wednesday on the show
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Coach a Rax being accused by trustee Keisha Thomas of
calling her son the end or by five nine two
thirty forty two forty two two thirty forty two forty
two number you to me, Beth and Fresne, Welcome to
the show.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Hi there, Hey, Well, so I called in the comment
about the Clovis, but I also have a comment about
the Presdent because I heard that while I was waiting.
That's a big problem. I used to be in the
a union rep for Fresdent Unified and that is a problem.
There's a lot of kids that falsely accused teachers of
racial swears. That's actually a big problem. I don't know
if the lawyers listening to that, but that might be
something they want to go check into. But the reason
(09:48):
I really called was because of the graduation thing and
Clovis Unified. I did my student teaching out there, and
I also grew up here in FRESNOE and went to
Clovis Unified schools. That's actually even a long standing thing. Uh.
And under California Code Educational Code, students have a right
to the diploma if they passed and they do all
the requirements and the credits and all of that and
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all the school work. They do not have a right
to being in the graduation ceremony. That's actually considered like
a privilege the and the schools the State of California
has given districts they have they have the ability to
set the rules for that, like what constitutes kids not
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being able to be in the graduation ceremony. So they're
gonna have a tough time fighting that, But it doesn't
surprise me because that's kind of them, not in just Clovis,
but in Fresno too. And parents have money, they give
a lawyer up even though their kids definitely did something wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Right, So it's kind of like you got the right
to write in a car, but you know, it's a
privilege to drive. You have the right to the diploma,
but it's a privilege to be out in the ceremony.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
They can get they can't keep that diploma from them,
although they will if you have like outstanding debt.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, hold on, hold on, I was about to tell
you when I graduated, my name announced, went up, got
to diploma, walked off.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You open up that padded little thing they handed us
in and I opened it up and there was a
note that I had to bring back a science book.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Mm hm, yeah, they'll keep it. And even then you
can kind of fight that. But anyways, you have a
right to get your diploma and your transcripts, but they
don't have to allow you to walk, especially if and
then under the state of this is California code that
this falls under, because not everything falls under board policies.
A lot of stuff that's more broader, like parking lots
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and school code buildings that goes under California code. I
know a lot of this because I used to be
a rep for the Union side to sit in on
a lot of meetings. But so this though is under
California stay and what they have deemed would be something
that gets you out of a ceremony would be violating
school rules. So if Clovis Unified made that a school rule,
which a lot of them do a lot, even Fresi
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inside has behavior you know, off off of school, behave
like these kids that got arrested for the shooting, which
I know some of those people, and they better keep
they better keep their word Clovis Unified, or they're going
to start having a lot of problems because a lot
of these kids that are committing these crimes are coming
from these good families that get whatever they want. They're
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just used to getting whatever they want type of situation.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well have you well, I have you on the line here.
I think you'd be a good person. I'm going to
bring this back up again that story from three years
ago in twenty twenty two and the fres Of Unified
elementary student died after having an asthma attack at the school.
Have you heard anything of that being followed up with.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I'm yeah, there's a good I can pull you at
GV wired dot com. They did a good coverage of this.
After Fresnel Unified student dies, district punishes whistleblower, So you
can go search that out.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
That would be interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I complained because when I had a room at Bungalow,
we had asthma problems, and what I had the sanitor
open up the air conditioning vent because every time I'd
turn the air on, like you could see kind of
like stuff coming out of it and it's so caked on.
They do the filters, but they never clean the inside
of those things. And you know what they said to.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Me, They go ark, I mean the ducks. The air duck's.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Horrible, disgusting. It was so bad. I called environmental. I
always go above the principle. They never liked that, but
I mean, they don't ever do anything. If you don't
do that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well, a lot of that, the dangerous stuff we can't.
I was gonna say, the danger stuff, well you can't
see so if you're seeing it with your eyes, it's
really bad.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And you know what they said, the guy I wish
I had my This was like in twenty fifteen though,
so like I didn't have my phone with all the
bells and whistles that can like instantly record and stuff.
Because what I got told was their vacuums are so horrible.
It would be better, Like I said, do I have
a dyce in and oh, bring that in and we'll
tell us when you have it, and we'll come back
and we'll clean it out with my vacuum from home.
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Because they're the district. Vacuums are so bad, that's what
they said. That was their excuse is, well, we do it,
but the vacuums are so bad that we have you better.
If you have a vacuum. I'm like, I'm not bringing
my vacuum from anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, at twenty thousand dollars a student, you think we
could afford decent vacuums.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Well, and if they're trying to go after a rax too,
which he's a great coach, and again that lady, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Be a big fat law suit. Yeah, thank you. I
appreciate it. Thanks for checking it in bed. Appreciate it
right there, big fat lawsuit. And I think that might
kind of tarnish a city council run. And you would
think it would be a recall that's Jesse's Smallette stuff,
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minus the gas can and noose and a subway sandwich.
It's not funny total, it's crimes against people. Jesse Smalllette
was a crime against anybody that supported Trump. Okay, We're
gonna come back and talk with Ed Henderson a closed
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truck center about like heading out. You know, we got
mountains real close and all that, which brings me smack
dab right back around to Tiffany. Tiffany from Georgia, the
miracle spark suspicion again. This is the words of this outdoorsman,
Jeff Illo. He said, when I saw her story, I went,
(15:24):
something's not ending up. She said hello at the Sheriff's
office last Friday. She was wearing a blanket, and Jeff said, wait,
that's not necessary. He said, that was a warning flag
for me. He said. Tiffany's story started with the avalanche
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locked her pat turned a vacation into a nightmare. Iello
quoted said, there's no avalanche in this air at the
time of the year, in late April. The conditions don't
exist for it. Well, let's go to the National Weather Service.
Little to no snowpack at the time. There were at
least two systems that did bring some snowfall. However, but
this journey was a month and for fifteen days she
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was officially lost. Her parents in Georgia hadn't heard from her,
she said. She repeated calls to nine one one. It failed.
But at her press conference, she said, and I'm going
to quote her, eventually got mad at my GPS and
decided ask Siri, where's the near Starbucks. She said it
was like, it's eighteen miles from here. She said that
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at the press conference. So that's called internet connection. I
alwo said, no service. You can't get a call to
nine one one. But right after that, you're asking Siri
where the closest Starbuck is. Sirih doesn't work unless you
have connectivity. That's that you know there's an investigation going
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on after that press conference because it's at the Sheriff's office. Guys,
they sit in there and work with really really smart,
deceitful people. They listen, they read, they hear, they read
the face, the body language they hear. They've had years
of this. So the moment she said, I asked Siri,
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I bet their ears with ding.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Ding.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
They had people working overtime, man out, risking their own safety,
out in that rough terrain trying to find this woman.
They asked Tiffany's father about his daughter's story. He said,
my daughter doesn't get false statements to us or to anybody.
We're one hundred percent behind her. Interesting though, the parents
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close to go FUNDB how long does that go? A month?
We have and I'm not saying we don't know yet.
This could all be legit, but it it. Yeah, I'm
smelling something smelling here right. I'm not going to put
it in the category yet of like women that you know,
raise gofund me off their kids cancer and the kid
didn't have cancer. That kind of stuff. This would be
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in that ballpark because you're putting other people's lives.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
This is the Trevor carry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's like to welcome into the studio. Ed Henderson Clovis
truck ed. What day does it feel like to you? Man?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Feels like a Friday? Done that?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What is it about that? I wonder about that?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Ready for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Everybody's working for it, right, and then we what do
we do on the weekend. We get in our trucks
and we get out of here. Ed, what was I'm
gonna assume you've owned the truck if you owned Clothes
Truck Center and you hadn't own the truck. I the
interview's over. I think what was your first truck?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
My first truck was a fifty six Chevy Picket.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Okay, that's cooler than my first and only ever it's
I had a two thousand and one Ford Ranger. It's
not really a truck, but it was good enough to
put the kids' bikes in the back. And they had
those little flip down seats in the back that are
probably illegal now. I wonder I imagine those yeah on
the back right there. When did you? Where were you
pro created? Where were you born? I was born in
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La Okay, La La, or one of the little Lla.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Queen of Angels Hospital in La California. It was a
little different then, a little different there.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Could you run around on your bike as a kid
and all that and feel pretty safe?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
How'd you end up up this way?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I just didn't like the big city of La And
then my cousins and aunt and uncle lived up here.
He worked for a pack bell and so we now
were you? I was eight years old. We first scarred
coming up here. My parents and my Jack and Jack
and Betty were good friends my cousins, so we came
up for Thanksgiving and they just loved the countryside, love
the agriculture, just loved outdoors and LA was nothing but
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you know concrete.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And I bet you there are people up here that go, man,
you're from LA and there where you were liking where
they were up here? Right? And I say that to
people that if I hear anybody here, this is oh,
I've been in the value. I say, eighty percent of
America would love what we have here. I agree, yeah,
I agree, Yeah, they don't. We don't understand. And I
always say that a lot of people that complain about
it are always comparing themselves to postcards. Yeah, you know
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the Golden gate Bridge, Saucelito, you know, Santa Monica, the well,
the Palisades, almost but no one that said, do you
know anybody down there that got affected by that?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Actually, my sister was real close in the in the
Alta Dina fire. It was just not even a mile
from her backyard.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
My mom and dad had some friends that just got
back in their house this long boy. But it somehow
the news hits and we're all just ah and then
put just life moves on, doesn't it. It's like it's
not talked about much. Al must gotten by now. It
is almost forgot. How did you or when did you
start Clovis Truck Center nineteen ninety eight. What were you
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doing before that?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I was in the grocery business and I had got
hurt on the job. We had knee surgery, so it
was out for six eight months, and then I decided
to look into something new. And my brother had started
his LINEX business in LA and so I went down
to help them. I was own construction for that too,
So he helped them build a shop and saw what
it was and all the spray on bedliner stuff, and
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looked into it and bought my territory with back then
and have been here ever since. Now.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Cars are important to people. There's some sports cars that
are really important to people. But a truck's almost like
a dog, isn't it. Yeah, it's your best friend, it
really is. Don't you wish you had that fifty six?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Now? Yeah? Sure do?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But what would that be worth? I see some of
these auction shows. I can't believe the value. And you
know how many people probably, well you've probably seen some
fifty six Chevy trucks. It makes you feel sick that
you didn't have it anymore, But everybody goes I had
that car, and boy, I got rid of that to
get an eighty three reliant K car, got rid of
that old late sixties whatever that they didn't think they
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need anymore. I had a seventy four red Volkswagen convertible bug.
That was my first ride that I had an eighty four,
But I wish I had that. Now I see the
prices on some of those olds wagons. How do you
juice up trucks? Somebody right now has got a truck,
How can ed juice them up?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It just depends what they're looking for. They're looking for
rims and tires, lifts, you know, lowers if they look
near a camper shell or ladder rack. We have so
many different accessories for any walk of life.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
All right, give me I like specifics. Okay, you got
a truck and people go, well, you see some of
those trucks that are up highlight that ballpark? Me on
what somebody would have to come out the pocket to
not get to get a truck up like that? What
is that ballpark run?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
If you want to go between two to four inch lift,
you're probably looking about three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They seem higher than that, though.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well some some are. Then you get into the high
dollar stuff. If you're going six eight inches with then
you're changing everything under undercarriage. You know what.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
A lot of people with pickups with the theft and
all that, now you really can't. It doesn't matter where
you are. I had a former boss here who had
his tailgate stolen in the target parking lot in the
middle of the day. There was a new tailgate of
a pickup truck and bam. Do you do security stuff
like that to keep people stuff locked down their vehicle?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah? We have secrety locks for the tailgates.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
What what all? What all does that imply? Is it?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's just basically just a just a little lock that
goes on one side of the tailgate that that's the
access point so they can lift it off, you know,
so he just locks that down.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Are you finding people coming in more now going hey
give me something to lock this because we used.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
To while back, but now it's even the dealership, even
the manufacturers are putting locks on their tailgates.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So they're kind of coming that way that way as well.
Now what about OI? It took me in the in
the commercial I do. I was like, how do you pernect?
I now know how to say it too. Cover Tono covers.
Now those are the lockdowns over the back right correct,
and that way you can put your golf clubs, you
can do your groceries whatever you want, your luggage and
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all that in there. Are you kind of an outdoorsy
I would assume maybe closest truck center with all the
stuff that you guys do. What what's your favorite thing
to do out there.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
On my free time? Well, or what we do at
the store.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No, yeah, when you get to go be ed on
the weekend and take some of your jacked up trucks
and go do your thing.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'd like to do it to the lake and get
on the water all right.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Like on a boat or are you actually a ski guy?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I used to be a ski guy when I was younger.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, that's have you seen how they do that body
skin like surfing now on a lake. It's like a
surfing thing.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That they're doing the boat.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah. Tal Cloud was doing it and I was like, Tao,
I can't believe you're you're pulling that off. Well, so
people are looking to get out and go do some
things up there. What's your favorite place to go hit?
I enjoy playing flat it's close, it's a big Lake.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It's far enough out of town if you want to
relax a little bit, but close enough of something. How
many miles it's maybe twenty five miles.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
From here, maybe thirty, he said, if something happens, but
that is something to think about it. If you get.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Boating accident or something.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's right. Yeah, Well, people want to come by Clovis
Truck Center, give them their GPS there to stop by.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We're on Clover Avenue, just south of the rodeo grounds.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And you've been there. How many years we've.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Been We've been twenty eight years in business here in Clobus.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, and I'm going to give you the five
things right now to tell people out there that have
a truck that they can get done there at your place.
What's the number one thing that you do the most
business own? Would you say?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Tunnel covers?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay? Number two steps for people that have to get
up in a big truck. Yeah, like some of my height,
maybe like that?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Okay? Three bedliners, I know what those are, all right?
Four probably window test, probably window tent.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Window tent. Is there a big number? Five?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I would have to say customer service, customer service.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
There you go. That's a good one ed right there
as well, closed truck center just south of the rodeo grounds.
And thank you for the local business because as we know, boy,
that's how it thrives. How bad in closing here?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
How bad was the lockdown time period? I asked all
the business people like that, how the recovery back has
been pretty up here?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Or it was? Okay?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You affected? Did people have maybe a little extra money
to go throw it something like? In addition, yeah, a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
But we're essential business then, so we still do the
city trucks, We still do the fire still do the
PD cars. So we were essential, so we still we
were able to stay open.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
See, I didn't even know you do all that now,
I'm okay, tell me.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
We do all the fleetwork for the city of Fresno,
city of Clovis, all the PD for Clovis. Yeah, we
do lot.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
So some of the law enforcement vehicles need to maybe
go off roady a little bit more, you kind of
jack them up like that.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh, not as much as that. As far as like
for the clothes PD. They have the dogcatcher vans and
we coated the top side of the vans and it
took twelve degrees off the top side of their car
for the refrigeration of their site where the dogs are at.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Okay, so it's just not personal. You can do business
fleets as well. All right, Yeah, look at that. Can
I put that one in the next commercial?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Sure? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I like that idea ed a happy Memorial Day? And
I also everybody, uh, we got to remember that those
individuals so for something greater than themselves. And tell me
Clovis is not a patriotic town. It's very petruck That's
why I love it. Yeah, and they also know how
to celebrate life. I've never seen a city of that
(27:16):
size draw in like more people than the population. They're
like the Green Bay Packers. Close is like the Green
Bay Packers, And you know what, everybody gets along. You
don't normally get events where you even mixing some alcohol,
and you don't have all these bad there's no broken windows.
I'm sure somebody's acting a fool at a time. That
(27:37):
happens anywhere, but it's a it's a great safe place
to be.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It is it is.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I think they call it a way of life, don't
they a way of life? And Closed Truck Center is
part of that way of life. God bless you, thank you,
and Happy Memorial Day to you and yours sir.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You too, thank you to you. Got you.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
This is the Tremor Jerry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
The dead clothes trucks coming in. Of course, they brought
to you a sponsored country music of Mondays. You're not
going to hear any Sheila e on Mondays. No, No,
that's why we're kicking it all off here today. Delaware again.
Never ad anybody go, hey, where are you from? I'm
from Delaware. He may know anybody from Delaware. No, do
(28:19):
you well, Biden, but we don't know him, know him.
Delaware is now the eleven state in the Union to
legalize killing yourself with the help of a doctor. Boy,
if that isn't compassion and dignity, I don't know what
it is. Sick people off yourself. I know you feel
like a burden.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
God knows, He makes the body stop. He knows the
day he wove you in your mom's womb. He knows
the day that you're going home or somewhere else. The
End of Life Options Act takes effect next year, allows
mentally capable adults who've been diagnosed with a terminal illness,
given six months or less live to request a prescription
(29:03):
to self administer and in their lives. Now, I know
somebody right now is yelling in their car. You don't
know what it's like. You're right. I don't know what
it's like. I don't know what it's like to go
through with a loved one and see them basically shrink
their lives. You see the decay of death over a
course of time. That's why I always say lovely they
(29:27):
were ninety eight and they passed away peacefully in their sleep. Canada,
they've already started with the terminally ill, but it never
ends there. Canada now hasn't passed, but in Manitoba they're
talking about allowing euthanasia for kids and teenagers deemed mature
miners by the Canadian government. Medically assisted suicide. That yeah,
(29:54):
that's the that's the devil has to be well. I
was talking with their closed struction are about places to
go and get away. We are so close. We are
very much blessed with all the things that we have
around us to go do. And of course the big
one is Yosemite. That's good to Yosemite. What is that? Oh,
(30:17):
it's natural. The big trans Pride flag strand across.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Some carry hate. We carry the largest trans pride flag
to ever be flown in a national park and unfurled
it on the side of our cap to prove a
point that trans is natural. The Trump administration and transphobes
would love to have you believe that being trans is unnatural.
But species that can transition sexes can be found on
(30:44):
every continent and in every ocean.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
On planet Earth.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So call it a protest, call it a celebration. We
are bringing elevation to liberation. They try to erase us
from government websites and education systems and libraries. So we
raise this flag higher than ever before. So every trans
person knows that they have people that love them in
their corner. The People United will never be defeated.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
All right, Maybe you see him with a I don't know,
a T shirt on and some jeans or something. De
was all dressed up like a village people park ranger
with makeup on and had a skirt on. Total dude.
You can see some growth, hair growth, some beer growth. Yeah,
(31:32):
these trench gender activists, big flag. What are they doing
it for? They're going to teach President Trump a lesson
and that it's natural. It's fifteen hundred feet up the rock,
fifty five feet wide, thirty five feet tall. That was
that was some climb just to orchestrate to have that
thing hung up there. Trends is natural, Yeah, okay Na,
(32:00):
and it's not. It's cool. If your kid at three's
buzzs light Year, if he's twenty three still thinking he's
buzz light Year, you would not go along with that,
would you. Update Park officials have asked the activists to
remove the transgender pride flag. According to the group that
hung it up there, I don't know if you saw
(32:20):
this video, but it was a California high school athlete
girl track and field. Just a hero, just a hero
because it takes guts these days. See. She came in
second place in the CIF Southern Sectional finals. Her name
is Reese. She's sixteen years old. She said a personal record,
(32:41):
she shattered the school's record and the triple jump as well.
And she had her glory stolen from a boy dressing
up as a girl. If we had an honest competition,
sixteen year old Reese would have been because they do
the podium like the Olympics. First, second, third, Reese would
(33:03):
have been up in first place, but she lost to
a dude named ab Hernandez. How much further did ab
jumped and Reese did four feet further. So there's Reese,
sixteen years old, standing on the second place podium with
a metal around her neck, and there's ab Hernandez with
(33:25):
a smirk on his face that on the right hand
side was the third place girl. So after everything's announced,
medals put out all that, everybody was moving down and
leaving the podium. Ab had stepped off his first place
perch up there, and what did Reese do? She took
(33:46):
a bold step. She got up there, and she stood
up in first place, put her hand in the air
the top spot. What happened? The crowd erupted in cheers.
Off the podium. She had a rifle spot as the champion.
Congrats thees Hogan, the real champion in the California Interscholastic
(34:09):
Federation Southern Section finals. Provo rees, isn't this sad that
we live in this such a lion to themselves world?
Now you're going, wait, I thought we handled this in
President Trump signed yeah, an executive order. President Trump sat
(34:30):
down and said, no more boys and pannies in the
triple jump in the southern section five. Yeah, no, No, California,
other Blue states out there decided we're going to defy
that order. We're going to continue to allow men to
to spike volleyballs into girls' faces. The CIF is now
(34:56):
under a Title nine investigation. Good this young girl Reese
and her other friends or other athletes that are girls,
or protect girls' sports, or these t shirts to the meet.
I don't know if you've heard about how Colorado is
(35:17):
now becoming the testing ground for evil, almost passing California
Governor Jared Poliser. He is part of the cult the
LGBTQIA Plus from the Denver Post, a Christian summer camp
near Bailey expects to be shut down by state regulators
unless the federal judge decides it can legally separate campers
by sex rather than by their gender identity.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
They assistant Trevor carry show Mondo Valley's power dog
And they're being barred from graduation. At least nine of
those twelve students were suspended for five days. Untild you
cannot walk at graduation. Now, did they take their punishment,
learn their lesson? Did their parents give them a good
talking to? Scolding punishment? Now it looks like somebody went
on and hired some attorneys. Yeah, that's how we do
(00:22):
it these days. Everybody gets a score run stop it.
The attorney, Stephen Smith quoted said they've been treated the
worst of everybody. I guess because they went down the list.
Did you drink yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, no no, no,
no no, and they're going attorney's going. Well, some of
(00:43):
them that said no did and this isn't fair. They
claimed the administrator singled out their clients after finding alcohol
and a party bus.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, if they're the ones.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Responsible, those normally are the ones that get singled out.
They were told if they admitted their involvement, the attorney
said they'd be treated better, and that there was a
denial line. Twelve kids went into the honest line. They
admitted it, that we admit it line, and the attorney said,
that's where we start having problems. At least nine of
(01:15):
those twelve were suspended for five days until they couldn't
walk a graduation. The attorney said, there's twenty two deniers, Manny,
who were also drinking, and they were let off the hook.
Why you got to bring them in now? Do light
detector tests on them. The attorney, I'm quoting him again,
he said, what we're saying is the punishment was not
fairly doled out by due process, and the punishment is
(01:36):
excessive and unfair with compared to everybody else who is
equally guilty. Well, a lot of times did people lie
you get away with it. Let's go listen to the
Clovis Unified Folkswoman Kelly here.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The concept of a senior contract is a long standing
practice in our district and lead of the same expectations
that we've laid out year over year.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh, so they signed something saying they would not act
a fool if they get to go to on the problem. Okay,
that's so they signed something, And she said, we're laying
out the policy. It's in the contracts they signed before
they get actually buy a prom ticket. I guess school
has changed. I can't imagine having to sign a contract
before I buy a prom ticket. President of FIGHT spokeswoman said,
(02:22):
we are a district of our word for our kids,
so they can be deterred from behaviors that are dangerous
to them. So now the students are getting together, gonna
put out some flyers hashtag let them walk. We are
the oppressed. See that everybody's been Yeah. So here's what's
(02:43):
something up. It's not the best audio, but here's some
of the students at the school board meeting. These are
the ones that were caught. And yes, they sound like
good kids. They sound the school girl talking about her
GPA and all the things she did. And one gallon
here very apologetic, and that's good. It's good to be remarseal,
but it still doesn't take away the fact that there's repercussion.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I asked you to see the.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Person I've run the endto during my time in this district.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You can give me the opportunity to walk out graduation
on May third, I mean a.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
State of involving alcohol on the way.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
To prom and when as by administration, I immediately came forward.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Because character counts.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Character counts. She came forward. That's true, character counts. Good
learning the lesson. I maintained a four point.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
To GPA and will graduate as a.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Soluted brand on the DP Solar.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I've been a four year varsity soccer player, a captain,
and earned all league honors.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Okay, all league honors, good GPA, that's all really good.
But you admitted that you know, boozing it up there
and know the stated that.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I feel is not able to see you walk which
I graduate.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Cost and celebrate sessions for a while soon across you.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
To do all that experience was humiliating.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And if you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Reconsider this.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Experience, I something tells me that, uh, they're not gonna
cave on this one. And if they do, then we'll
have another conversation about that. Like I said, those seniors
on the baseball busy, they got kicked off the team
and it was probably too early in the season there
or I don't know, I don't remember if they got
(04:26):
to We had a smoking section at school, what am
I talking about? Of course they got to walk at graduation.
There was on the quad. If you were eighteen or over,
you could be in the smoking section. They never though,
no one ever came by IDs please, So you had
sixteen year olds, you know, it was the smoke, It
was the long hairs though, yeah, it was the Ronnie
(04:48):
James dio. Guys. All right, let's continue with school districts Clovis.
We're gonna move off you for a moment and move
on to one of my favorite subjects, Trusty to fight
school district tourney. Roger Banagdar is going to be on
the show Wednesday. We're going to talk about this and
the Diddy trial. But Ed Smith at gvwire dot Com
(05:08):
interviewed him tourney. Banagdar said, President Unified, she'd be looking
to settle a defamation suit against Trusty. Keisha Thomas. I'm
not going to keep playing the audio, but she did
say it on the gvwire dot com. She said that
coach a Rax at Bullard called her son the N word,
(05:30):
and now she's trying to reverse that. Banagdar said, the
video wins the defamation case. Dan damages could be in
the tens of millions, yes, saying he never said it.
And she's running for city council in twenty twenty six
(05:51):
and Miguel Aris's district. So coach a Rax football coach
at Bullard suitor for defamation. But she was on the
podcast over there you are Unfiltered and made the accusation,
and then she was in a deposition three years later
this year April, it showed her be an interview by
Arax's attorney. She denied making the accusations. So sorry, the
(06:19):
evidence is there. You're contradicting yourself. One of you's lying,
and we know which one the first one that made
the comments, that miss Thomas, that's the one that was
lying right there was. She said that, now what that
can do to somebody's life, career, family, reputation. Defamation could
(06:41):
cost hundreds of millions of dollars. This is attorney ban
actar he said, accusing someone of using that language against
a child even carries a heavy burden in this society.
I don't see how you can allege somebody's a bigot
and their bigotry was launched against a child. Incredibly, say
that person doesn't have damages. Before coach Arax left Bullard,
(07:04):
the district can moved in from his coaching position. You know,
attorney's got the long list, but he's about lost wages,
potential costs of the district could be the damaged reputation.
District is definitely playing with fire in this The longer
they allow it to go banac Dar said. Hum banac
(07:27):
Dar said, because Thomas was invited on the show, the podcast,
and her role as a trustee, it'd be difficult for
the district to convince Jrors the district is not liable.
Her commentary was given airtime because she's a trustee, not
because she's a concerned mother. So that's where the district
comes into play. Beyond damages, there are legal fees. Attorney
(07:50):
Banactar said, bills and cases like this can cost hundreds
of thousands or millions of dollars. Even though the suit
was filed in twenty twenty two, it still isn't that
old in the world of civil suits, said a Charal's
not yet been set in her deposition, Trustee Thomas said, drummroll, please,
the district is covering her legal fees. No, they're not.
(08:14):
The district doesn't make money. The district doesn't make it
takes the taxpayers are covering her legal fees. I gotta
tell you right now, our kids deserve way better, way better,
ladies and gentlemen, this is exactly what a dysfunctional school
(08:36):
district looks and sounds like. We need to give them better.
So pay attention and vote accordingly.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
This is the treportary show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Remember this memorial data honor the brave who gave everything
they stood for something way greater than themselves. Keep that
in mind as well. We'll talk coming up bottom of
the hour here as well. Presdent Unified School District, They're
gonna be soup big time. It sounds like Tony Roger
Banagtar is going to be in Wednesday on the show
(09:12):
Coach a Rax being accused by trustee Keisha Thomas of
calling her son the end or by five nine two
thirty forty two forty two two thirty forty two forty
two number you to me, Beth and Fresne, Welcome to
the show.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Hi there, Hey, Well, so I called in the comment
about the Clovis, but I also have a comment about
the Presdent because I heard that while I was waiting.
That's a big problem. I used to be in the
a union rep for Fresdent Unified and that is a problem.
There's a lot of kids that falsely accused teachers of
racial swears. That's actually a big problem. I don't know
if the lawyers listening to that, but that might be
something they want to go check into. But the reason
(09:48):
I really called was because of the graduation thing and
Clovis Unified. I did my student teaching out there, and
I also grew up here in FRESNOE and went to
Clovis Unified schools. That's actually even a long standing thing. Uh.
And under California Code Educational Code, students have a right
to the diploma if they passed and they do all
the requirements and the credits and all of that and
(10:10):
all the school work. They do not have a right
to being in the graduation ceremony. That's actually considered like
a privilege the and the schools the State of California
has given districts they have they have the ability to
set the rules for that, like what constitutes kids not
(10:30):
being able to be in the graduation ceremony. So they're
gonna have a tough time fighting that, But it doesn't
surprise me because that's kind of them, not in just Clovis,
but in Fresno too. And parents have money, they give
a lawyer up even though their kids definitely did something wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Right, So it's kind of like you got the right
to write in a car, but you know, it's a
privilege to drive. You have the right to the diploma,
but it's a privilege to be out in the ceremony.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
They can get they can't keep that diploma from them,
although they will if you have like outstanding debt.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, hold on, hold on, I was about to tell
you when I graduated, my name announced, went up, got
to diploma, walked off.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You open up that padded little thing they handed us
in and I opened it up and there was a
note that I had to bring back a science book.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Mm hm, yeah, they'll keep it. And even then you
can kind of fight that. But anyways, you have a
right to get your diploma and your transcripts, but they
don't have to allow you to walk, especially if and
then under the state of this is California code that
this falls under, because not everything falls under board policies.
A lot of stuff that's more broader, like parking lots
(11:36):
and school code buildings that goes under California code. I
know a lot of this because I used to be
a rep for the Union side to sit in on
a lot of meetings. But so this though is under
California stay and what they have deemed would be something
that gets you out of a ceremony would be violating
school rules. So if Clovis Unified made that a school rule,
which a lot of them do a lot, even Fresi
(11:56):
inside has behavior you know, off off of school, behave
like these kids that got arrested for the shooting, which
I know some of those people, and they better keep
they better keep their word Clovis Unified, or they're going
to start having a lot of problems because a lot
of these kids that are committing these crimes are coming
from these good families that get whatever they want. They're
(12:17):
just used to getting whatever they want type of situation.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well have you well, I have you on the line here.
I think you'd be a good person. I'm going to
bring this back up again that story from three years
ago in twenty twenty two and the fres Of Unified
elementary student died after having an asthma attack at the school.
Have you heard anything of that being followed up with.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I'm yeah, there's a good I can pull you at
GV wired dot com. They did a good coverage of this.
After Fresnel Unified student dies, district punishes whistleblower, So you
can go search that out.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
That would be interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I complained because when I had a room at Bungalow,
we had asthma problems, and what I had the sanitor
open up the air conditioning vent because every time I'd
turn the air on, like you could see kind of
like stuff coming out of it and it's so caked on.
They do the filters, but they never clean the inside
of those things. And you know what they said to.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Me, They go ark, I mean the ducks. The air duck's.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Horrible, disgusting. It was so bad. I called environmental. I
always go above the principle. They never liked that, but
I mean, they don't ever do anything. If you don't
do that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well, a lot of that, the dangerous stuff we can't.
I was gonna say, the danger stuff, well you can't
see so if you're seeing it with your eyes, it's
really bad.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And you know what they said, the guy I wish
I had my This was like in twenty fifteen though,
so like I didn't have my phone with all the
bells and whistles that can like instantly record and stuff.
Because what I got told was their vacuums are so horrible.
It would be better, Like I said, do I have
a dyce in and oh, bring that in and we'll
tell us when you have it, and we'll come back
and we'll clean it out with my vacuum from home.
(13:53):
Because they're the district. Vacuums are so bad, that's what
they said. That was their excuse is, well, we do it,
but the vacuums are so bad that we have you better.
If you have a vacuum. I'm like, I'm not bringing
my vacuum from anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, at twenty thousand dollars a student, you think we
could afford decent vacuums.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Well, and if they're trying to go after a rax too,
which he's a great coach, and again that lady, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Be a big fat law suit. Yeah, thank you. I
appreciate it. Thanks for checking it in bed. Appreciate it
right there, big fat lawsuit. And I think that might
kind of tarnish a city council run. And you would
think it would be a recall that's Jesse's Smallette stuff,
(14:41):
minus the gas can and noose and a subway sandwich.
It's not funny total, it's crimes against people. Jesse Smalllette
was a crime against anybody that supported Trump. Okay, We're
gonna come back and talk with Ed Henderson a closed
(15:02):
truck center about like heading out. You know, we got
mountains real close and all that, which brings me smack
dab right back around to Tiffany. Tiffany from Georgia, the
miracle spark suspicion again. This is the words of this outdoorsman,
Jeff Illo. He said, when I saw her story, I went,
(15:24):
something's not ending up. She said hello at the Sheriff's
office last Friday. She was wearing a blanket, and Jeff said, wait,
that's not necessary. He said, that was a warning flag
for me. He said. Tiffany's story started with the avalanche
(15:44):
locked her pat turned a vacation into a nightmare. Iello
quoted said, there's no avalanche in this air at the
time of the year, in late April. The conditions don't
exist for it. Well, let's go to the National Weather Service.
Little to no snowpack at the time. There were at
least two systems that did bring some snowfall. However, but
this journey was a month and for fifteen days she
(16:07):
was officially lost. Her parents in Georgia hadn't heard from her,
she said. She repeated calls to nine one one. It failed.
But at her press conference, she said, and I'm going
to quote her, eventually got mad at my GPS and
decided ask Siri, where's the near Starbucks. She said it
was like, it's eighteen miles from here. She said that
(16:30):
at the press conference. So that's called internet connection. I
alwo said, no service. You can't get a call to
nine one one. But right after that, you're asking Siri
where the closest Starbuck is. Sirih doesn't work unless you
have connectivity. That's that you know there's an investigation going
(16:54):
on after that press conference because it's at the Sheriff's office. Guys,
they sit in there and work with really really smart,
deceitful people. They listen, they read, they hear, they read
the face, the body language they hear. They've had years
of this. So the moment she said, I asked Siri,
(17:17):
I bet their ears with ding.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Ding.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
They had people working overtime, man out, risking their own safety,
out in that rough terrain trying to find this woman.
They asked Tiffany's father about his daughter's story. He said,
my daughter doesn't get false statements to us or to anybody.
We're one hundred percent behind her. Interesting though, the parents
(17:44):
close to go FUNDB how long does that go? A month?
We have and I'm not saying we don't know yet.
This could all be legit, but it it. Yeah, I'm
smelling something smelling here right. I'm not going to put
it in the category yet of like women that you know,
raise gofund me off their kids cancer and the kid
didn't have cancer. That kind of stuff. This would be
(18:06):
in that ballpark because you're putting other people's lives.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
This is the Trevor carry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's like to welcome into the studio. Ed Henderson Clovis
truck ed. What day does it feel like to you? Man?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Feels like a Friday? Done that?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What is it about that? I wonder about that?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Ready for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Everybody's working for it, right, and then we what do
we do on the weekend. We get in our trucks
and we get out of here. Ed, what was I'm
gonna assume you've owned the truck if you owned Clothes
Truck Center and you hadn't own the truck. I the
interview's over. I think what was your first truck?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
My first truck was a fifty six Chevy Picket.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Okay, that's cooler than my first and only ever it's
I had a two thousand and one Ford Ranger. It's
not really a truck, but it was good enough to
put the kids' bikes in the back. And they had
those little flip down seats in the back that are
probably illegal now. I wonder I imagine those yeah on
the back right there. When did you? Where were you
pro created? Where were you born? I was born in
(19:05):
La Okay, La La, or one of the little Lla.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Queen of Angels Hospital in La California. It was a
little different then, a little different there.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Could you run around on your bike as a kid
and all that and feel pretty safe?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
How'd you end up up this way?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I just didn't like the big city of La And
then my cousins and aunt and uncle lived up here.
He worked for a pack bell and so we now
were you? I was eight years old. We first scarred
coming up here. My parents and my Jack and Jack
and Betty were good friends my cousins, so we came
up for Thanksgiving and they just loved the countryside, love
the agriculture, just loved outdoors and LA was nothing but
(19:43):
you know concrete.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And I bet you there are people up here that go, man,
you're from LA and there where you were liking where
they were up here? Right? And I say that to
people that if I hear anybody here, this is oh,
I've been in the value. I say, eighty percent of
America would love what we have here. I agree, yeah,
I agree, Yeah, they don't. We don't understand. And I
always say that a lot of people that complain about
it are always comparing themselves to postcards. Yeah, you know
(20:07):
the Golden gate Bridge, Saucelito, you know, Santa Monica, the well,
the Palisades, almost but no one that said, do you
know anybody down there that got affected by that?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Actually, my sister was real close in the in the
Alta Dina fire. It was just not even a mile
from her backyard.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
My mom and dad had some friends that just got
back in their house this long boy. But it somehow
the news hits and we're all just ah and then
put just life moves on, doesn't it. It's like it's
not talked about much. Al must gotten by now. It
is almost forgot. How did you or when did you
start Clovis Truck Center nineteen ninety eight. What were you
(20:43):
doing before that?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I was in the grocery business and I had got
hurt on the job. We had knee surgery, so it
was out for six eight months, and then I decided
to look into something new. And my brother had started
his LINEX business in LA and so I went down
to help them. I was own construction for that too,
So he helped them build a shop and saw what
it was and all the spray on bedliner stuff, and
(21:05):
looked into it and bought my territory with back then
and have been here ever since. Now.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Cars are important to people. There's some sports cars that
are really important to people. But a truck's almost like
a dog, isn't it. Yeah, it's your best friend, it
really is. Don't you wish you had that fifty six?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Now? Yeah? Sure do?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But what would that be worth? I see some of
these auction shows. I can't believe the value. And you
know how many people probably, well you've probably seen some
fifty six Chevy trucks. It makes you feel sick that
you didn't have it anymore, But everybody goes I had
that car, and boy, I got rid of that to
get an eighty three reliant K car, got rid of
that old late sixties whatever that they didn't think they
(21:47):
need anymore. I had a seventy four red Volkswagen convertible bug.
That was my first ride that I had an eighty four,
But I wish I had that. Now I see the
prices on some of those olds wagons. How do you
juice up trucks? Somebody right now has got a truck,
How can ed juice them up?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It just depends what they're looking for. They're looking for
rims and tires, lifts, you know, lowers if they look
near a camper shell or ladder rack. We have so
many different accessories for any walk of life.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
All right, give me I like specifics. Okay, you got
a truck and people go, well, you see some of
those trucks that are up highlight that ballpark? Me on
what somebody would have to come out the pocket to
not get to get a truck up like that? What
is that ballpark run?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
If you want to go between two to four inch lift,
you're probably looking about three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They seem higher than that, though.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well some some are. Then you get into the high
dollar stuff. If you're going six eight inches with then
you're changing everything under undercarriage. You know what.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
A lot of people with pickups with the theft and
all that, now you really can't. It doesn't matter where
you are. I had a former boss here who had
his tailgate stolen in the target parking lot in the
middle of the day. There was a new tailgate of
a pickup truck and bam. Do you do security stuff
like that to keep people stuff locked down their vehicle?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah? We have secrety locks for the tailgates.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
What what all? What all does that imply? Is it?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's just basically just a just a little lock that
goes on one side of the tailgate that that's the
access point so they can lift it off, you know,
so he just locks that down.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Are you finding people coming in more now going hey
give me something to lock this because we used.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
To while back, but now it's even the dealership, even
the manufacturers are putting locks on their tailgates.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So they're kind of coming that way that way as well.
Now what about OI? It took me in the in
the commercial I do. I was like, how do you pernect?
I now know how to say it too. Cover Tono covers.
Now those are the lockdowns over the back right correct,
and that way you can put your golf clubs, you
can do your groceries whatever you want, your luggage and
(23:53):
all that in there. Are you kind of an outdoorsy
I would assume maybe closest truck center with all the
stuff that you guys do. What what's your favorite thing
to do out there.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
On my free time? Well, or what we do at
the store.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No, yeah, when you get to go be ed on
the weekend and take some of your jacked up trucks
and go do your thing.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'd like to do it to the lake and get
on the water all right.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Like on a boat or are you actually a ski guy?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I used to be a ski guy when I was younger.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, that's have you seen how they do that body
skin like surfing now on a lake. It's like a
surfing thing.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That they're doing the boat.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah. Tal Cloud was doing it and I was like, Tao,
I can't believe you're you're pulling that off. Well, so
people are looking to get out and go do some
things up there. What's your favorite place to go hit?
I enjoy playing flat it's close, it's a big Lake.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It's far enough out of town if you want to
relax a little bit, but close enough of something. How
many miles it's maybe twenty five miles.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
From here, maybe thirty, he said, if something happens, but
that is something to think about it. If you get.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Boating accident or something.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's right. Yeah, Well, people want to come by Clovis
Truck Center, give them their GPS there to stop by.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We're on Clover Avenue, just south of the rodeo grounds.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And you've been there. How many years we've.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Been We've been twenty eight years in business here in Clobus.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, and I'm going to give you the five
things right now to tell people out there that have
a truck that they can get done there at your place.
What's the number one thing that you do the most
business own? Would you say?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Tunnel covers?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay? Number two steps for people that have to get
up in a big truck. Yeah, like some of my height,
maybe like that?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Okay? Three bedliners, I know what those are, all right?
Four probably window test, probably window tent.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Window tent. Is there a big number? Five?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I would have to say customer service, customer service.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
There you go. That's a good one ed right there
as well, closed truck center just south of the rodeo grounds.
And thank you for the local business because as we know, boy,
that's how it thrives. How bad in closing here?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
How bad was the lockdown time period? I asked all
the business people like that, how the recovery back has
been pretty up here?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Or it was? Okay?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You affected? Did people have maybe a little extra money
to go throw it something like? In addition, yeah, a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
But we're essential business then, so we still do the
city trucks, We still do the fire still do the
PD cars. So we were essential, so we still we
were able to stay open.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
See, I didn't even know you do all that now,
I'm okay, tell me.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
We do all the fleetwork for the city of Fresno,
city of Clovis, all the PD for Clovis. Yeah, we
do lot.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
So some of the law enforcement vehicles need to maybe
go off roady a little bit more, you kind of
jack them up like that.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh, not as much as that. As far as like
for the clothes PD. They have the dogcatcher vans and
we coated the top side of the vans and it
took twelve degrees off the top side of their car
for the refrigeration of their site where the dogs are at.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Okay, so it's just not personal. You can do business
fleets as well. All right, Yeah, look at that. Can
I put that one in the next commercial?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Sure? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I like that idea ed a happy Memorial Day? And
I also everybody, uh, we got to remember that those
individuals so for something greater than themselves. And tell me
Clovis is not a patriotic town. It's very petruck That's
why I love it. Yeah, and they also know how
to celebrate life. I've never seen a city of that
(27:16):
size draw in like more people than the population. They're
like the Green Bay Packers. Close is like the Green
Bay Packers, And you know what, everybody gets along. You
don't normally get events where you even mixing some alcohol,
and you don't have all these bad there's no broken windows.
I'm sure somebody's acting a fool at a time. That
(27:37):
happens anywhere, but it's a it's a great safe place
to be.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It is it is.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I think they call it a way of life, don't
they a way of life? And Closed Truck Center is
part of that way of life. God bless you, thank you,
and Happy Memorial Day to you and yours sir.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You too, thank you to you. Got you.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
This is the Tremor Jerry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
The dead clothes trucks coming in. Of course, they brought
to you a sponsored country music of Mondays. You're not
going to hear any Sheila e on Mondays. No, No,
that's why we're kicking it all off here today. Delaware again.
Never ad anybody go, hey, where are you from? I'm
from Delaware. He may know anybody from Delaware. No, do
(28:19):
you well, Biden, but we don't know him, know him.
Delaware is now the eleven state in the Union to
legalize killing yourself with the help of a doctor. Boy,
if that isn't compassion and dignity, I don't know what
it is. Sick people off yourself. I know you feel
like a burden.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
God knows, He makes the body stop. He knows the
day he wove you in your mom's womb. He knows
the day that you're going home or somewhere else. The
End of Life Options Act takes effect next year, allows
mentally capable adults who've been diagnosed with a terminal illness,
given six months or less live to request a prescription
(29:03):
to self administer and in their lives. Now, I know
somebody right now is yelling in their car. You don't
know what it's like. You're right. I don't know what
it's like. I don't know what it's like to go
through with a loved one and see them basically shrink
their lives. You see the decay of death over a
course of time. That's why I always say lovely they
(29:27):
were ninety eight and they passed away peacefully in their sleep. Canada,
they've already started with the terminally ill, but it never
ends there. Canada now hasn't passed, but in Manitoba they're
talking about allowing euthanasia for kids and teenagers deemed mature
miners by the Canadian government. Medically assisted suicide. That yeah,
(29:54):
that's the that's the devil has to be well. I
was talking with their closed struction are about places to
go and get away. We are so close. We are
very much blessed with all the things that we have
around us to go do. And of course the big
one is Yosemite. That's good to Yosemite. What is that? Oh,
(30:17):
it's natural. The big trans Pride flag strand across.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Some carry hate. We carry the largest trans pride flag
to ever be flown in a national park and unfurled
it on the side of our cap to prove a
point that trans is natural. The Trump administration and transphobes
would love to have you believe that being trans is unnatural.
But species that can transition sexes can be found on
(30:44):
every continent and in every ocean.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
On planet Earth.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So call it a protest, call it a celebration. We
are bringing elevation to liberation. They try to erase us
from government websites and education systems and libraries. So we
raise this flag higher than ever before. So every trans
person knows that they have people that love them in
their corner. The People United will never be defeated.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
All right, Maybe you see him with a I don't know,
a T shirt on and some jeans or something. De
was all dressed up like a village people park ranger
with makeup on and had a skirt on. Total dude.
You can see some growth, hair growth, some beer growth. Yeah,
(31:32):
these trench gender activists, big flag. What are they doing
it for? They're going to teach President Trump a lesson
and that it's natural. It's fifteen hundred feet up the rock,
fifty five feet wide, thirty five feet tall. That was
that was some climb just to orchestrate to have that
thing hung up there. Trends is natural, Yeah, okay Na,
(32:00):
and it's not. It's cool. If your kid at three's
buzzs light Year, if he's twenty three still thinking he's
buzz light Year, you would not go along with that,
would you. Update Park officials have asked the activists to
remove the transgender pride flag. According to the group that
hung it up there, I don't know if you saw
(32:20):
this video, but it was a California high school athlete
girl track and field. Just a hero, just a hero
because it takes guts these days. See. She came in
second place in the CIF Southern Sectional finals. Her name
is Reese. She's sixteen years old. She said a personal record,
(32:41):
she shattered the school's record and the triple jump as well.
And she had her glory stolen from a boy dressing
up as a girl. If we had an honest competition,
sixteen year old Reese would have been because they do
the podium like the Olympics. First, second, third, Reese would
(33:03):
have been up in first place, but she lost to
a dude named ab Hernandez. How much further did ab
jumped and Reese did four feet further. So there's Reese,
sixteen years old, standing on the second place podium with
a metal around her neck, and there's ab Hernandez with
(33:25):
a smirk on his face that on the right hand
side was the third place girl. So after everything's announced,
medals put out all that, everybody was moving down and
leaving the podium. Ab had stepped off his first place
perch up there, and what did Reese do? She took
(33:46):
a bold step. She got up there, and she stood
up in first place, put her hand in the air
the top spot. What happened? The crowd erupted in cheers.
Off the podium. She had a rifle spot as the champion.
Congrats thees Hogan, the real champion in the California Interscholastic
(34:09):
Federation Southern Section finals. Provo rees, isn't this sad that
we live in this such a lion to themselves world?
Now you're going, wait, I thought we handled this in
President Trump signed yeah, an executive order. President Trump sat
(34:30):
down and said, no more boys and pannies in the
triple jump in the southern section five. Yeah, no, No, California,
other Blue states out there decided we're going to defy
that order. We're going to continue to allow men to
to spike volleyballs into girls' faces. The CIF is now
(34:56):
under a Title nine investigation. Good this young girl Reese
and her other friends or other athletes that are girls,
or protect girls' sports, or these t shirts to the meet.
I don't know if you've heard about how Colorado is
(35:17):
now becoming the testing ground for evil, almost passing California
Governor Jared Poliser. He is part of the cult the
LGBTQIA Plus from the Denver Post, a Christian summer camp
near Bailey expects to be shut down by state regulators
unless the federal judge decides it can legally separate campers
by sex rather than by their gender identity.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
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