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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
The following is up be recorded program.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Now new presidents kicked in and it's absolutely fascinating as
to what Donald Trump is going to do now during
the course of the campaign, a couple of things that
just happened after the election. One is that the president
wants to take back the Panama Canal, just take it back.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
He wants to buy Greenland.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Now you wonder, okay, and there are some national security
issues involved. We really do need Greenland, although Greenland is
certainly an ally, and then there's mineral rights. There's a
lot of natural resources, so it'd be good for the
United States to have Greenland. Unfortunately, it is independent and
part of Denmark, which is an ally. So in light

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of that, okay, let me let me go into a.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
More local story, and that's Iowa.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now, there are parts of Iowa that are on the
border of Minnesota that actually would do better if they
were in Iowa. Okay, So you have a Republican senator
who wants to buy nine Minnesota counties and make them

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part of Iowa.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Straight out buy him. Here's a check, or maybe they
mortgage them. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
And you go, wait a minute, and his argument is
his name is Mike lot Orsa or however he pronounce it,
proposes a bill at the Land Investment XO expo, and
he comes up any posts on X make Minnesota Iowa again,

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our new Iowan's former Minnesota residents will have lower income,
lower sales business taxes, a more farm friendly state, a
better managed state.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
All right, Even if that argument is.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
True, I have never heard of a state buying another state's.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Land or counties or cities. So that's kind of interesting.
You know, this is we're in for interesting four years.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I have to tell you where we're going to maybe
invade Panama?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
You know, how do you take back Panama?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Here?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
We want it back without invading Panama. What if Greenland
says it's we're not for sale, what do you do?
And the president was asked, would you invade.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Greenland?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh, that's not off the table. You wouldn't commit to
not invading.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
So I mean, just the.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Bills that are introduced are so insane. Is any of
this gonna happen?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Of course not.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
But one of the things about President Trump is his
philosophy of you shoot for the moon, you make ridiculous,
you put a ridiculous position as a negotiating ployee. And
you know what seems to work because when he talked
about twenty five percent tariffs, sixty percent tariffs against Canada

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across the board, Canada caved instantly. The caved, well, let's
make this workout whatever you want. And that's based on
an insane premise. All right, Let's go ahead and phone calls.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Phone calls, phone calls. Carol, Hi, Carol, Hi.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, yesterday somebody called me and asked me if I
were me. I said yes, And subsequently they also wheedled
my birthday out of me. And now I'm afraid that
I'm put myself up for a sm and I need to.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Know how to Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Maybe, but all my got was your birth date, which Carol,
if I had your name, I can figure out who
you are because I know approximately where you live. You know,
a city or estate, because that's out there. I certainly
have your phone number because I've just called you, and
so all right, So let's say you have a name,

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and I have an idea which county you were born in,
and I go to that county, I pull birth records,
and therefore now you have a date there. You know,
I think you're okay because you didn't give them all
the information, but they're gonna have it.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
They have it anyway, Carol.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
They have my information, they have your information, and all
you can do is make sure you don't give anybody
who calls you any information on the phone, because legitimate
people asking for information will not call you unless you
know they're calling you.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I just got a call from the bank.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I just did something on a docu serve and I'm
a LifeLock, I'm a member of LifeLock. I'm a customer,
and they immediately contacted me and on text.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
But all they said is yes or no no? Did
you apply for this? Yes or no?

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Just confirmed. Same thing with bank transfers. My bank will
ask me if it's a substantial transfer. Bottom line, Carol,
is you're okay. I don't think you are any more
danger than you were before the phone call, but it's
a lesson, or let me go the other way. Do
you have a house? Do you own a house?

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, it's gone yes, because they have your phone number,
you're going to be living in a dumpster.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Okay. Do you have a car?

Speaker 5 (05:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Okay, good, so they can't get your car. Do you
have any money in the bank?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Lots?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay. Come Monday morning if you check, you won't have
any money left.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
They've taken it all. Just kidding you, Carol, don't worry
about it. Okay, You're going to be fine. You know,
if Carol, you see, I told her, just kidding now,
if Carol was not one hundred and forty years old,
I would have gone right to the edge on that one.
But you know, today I have a heart. I mean,

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can you imagine I actually have a heart?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
All right?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Talking about having a heart and caring about people who
live in chronic pain. And the reason I care is
I happen to live with someone who lives in serious
chronic pain. And she has a podcast about pain. It's
called the Pain Game podcast, and it's about people who

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live deal with treated people that live in pain all
day long. And she has pain all day long and
deal with it. Heroically and every episode.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Ends with a message of hope.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I would do it differently, but she does it in
terms of there's hope for you, hope for the people
you know and love. So listen to the Pain Game
podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, The Pain Game Podcast
Susan and Hello Susan.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Hi Bill, Yes, ma'am, there's always a pleasure listening to you.
So I have a question, please. I haven't established s
corporation for over ten years and also a revoke google trust.
So originally my husband and I were going to put
all the three propects we own into the corporation, but

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it ended up putting them into the trust. But for
years the accountant filed our income text as if the
properties were in the corporation. And now I wish to
dissolve the corporation. So I want to know why are
there remesic doing this?

Speaker 2 (08:01):
There are none.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
You can dissolve the corporation easily, and that's for one thing,
And you can taste take whatever property that you transferred
into the trust since it is revocable, and change the
trust completely, so you've got complete.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Power across the board.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
So there really aren't any ramifications into whatever tax ramifications
there are, you're changing it from the property owned by
a business to a property owned by a trust or
not a trust, or goes back in your name. I
think it really doesn't matter, and you want to ask
your account here. But if you own everything, if you
own everything, you're fine. There's not a problem at all

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on that one.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Laurie, Hi, Laurie, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
This is a difficult question to have to do with
the immunity of a judge who's not on the bench,
and the judge does not wear a black robe.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
That doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
Okay, Well, if you have proof that a judge is
committing criminal acts that are not part of the scope
of their employment as a judge, tacking into websites, you know,
can you sue them for damages?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh? Sure in state?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Or sure sure?

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Immunity that a judge has that the bench has, uh,
does not include a judge committing crimes. That judge is
held to whatever criminal acts as an individual.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
So that's not a problem. Now did this happen to you?

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Okay, so the stake court or federal doesn't really matter.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
But let me ask, uh, what were you in front
of the judge for and what did the judge do?

Speaker 6 (09:45):
No, judge, this judge was never my judge.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Okay, just a judge. All right, judge, all right? What
kind of criminal acts did the judge do?

Speaker 6 (09:55):
Posting phony websites about me under my name, tacking in
to the online computer system changing.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah and okay, so yeah, you've got
criminal acts going on in his mind.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Have you been damaged? Have you been damaged? How have
you been damaged?

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Well, in my personal life, my professional life has been
ruined by your.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, how is your professional life.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
You've lost you've lost clients, you've lost business. Yes, you
can prove that that's a lawsuit, Yes, that is a lawsuit.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
But the answer is yeah yeah, so yeah, so we'll
hire a lawyer and go for it. Yeah, judges are
not immune. What if a judge commits murder, Well, I've
got immunity.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's uh. I can do that. Or rob a bank.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Well I'm allowed to do that because I'm a judge.
Now it doesn't matter the judges in a black robe
or not.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
No.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh, okay, alex Hi, alex Hi Bill.

Speaker 8 (10:58):
Me and my girlfriend are a big fan, So thank you,
thanks for all you do. Sure, yeah, yeah, so my
I was involved in the Eaten fire. I had an apartment.
It didn't burn down, but it was in the immediate
evacuation zone. Our our unit now is deemed safe to
you know, go back. The evacuation order was dropped. But

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we don't have any running, We don't have any electricity,
and the gas isn't on yet.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (11:27):
I I contacted our landlord, the management company, to see
if we're still if we can get the rent pro
rated for the amount that we were you know, displaced
and like evacuated, and they said that, they said that
we're still going to have to pay the full rent.
There isn't going to be any credit because okay.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
You're talking about the management company said that, all right,
So how long? So how long it has a place
been uninhabitable that you couldn't get in at all?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
And now how long is it you're allowed in but
you have no gas, you have no electricity.

Speaker 8 (12:01):
It was uninhabitable I want to say, probably for like
five days or okay.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
And how long okay, then you move back in, and
how long is it that you don't have gastro electricity?

Speaker 2 (12:11):
How long have you been in.

Speaker 8 (12:12):
There since the seventh Okay?

Speaker 1 (12:15):
So you've got you've got a few weeks. Now, is
the landlord supposed to collect rent? No, because you can't
live there, all right. So with that being said, the
law says that the landlord isn't collecting or cannot collect rent,
And if you stop paying the rent, then the landlord
may end up filing a three day notice to pay

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rent or quit. The landlord will not win. You will
win the case. Now, let's get practical for a moment. If,
per chance, one in one hundred, the landlord does win,
and now you are evicted, and the landlord is going

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to be able to get three times as much rent
for the property or more rent. I mean there's certain
you know, the state says no more than ten percent
because that's price gouging.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
But how long does that continue on? I don't know.
So how much are you paying your rent?

Speaker 8 (13:15):
It's nineteen hundred, all.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Right, And let's say you're out for three weeks, okay,
before it comes back to your normal.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
So now.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Effectively you're only within one week, so one week out
of nineteen hundred wherever that is six hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Do you have any place to go?

Speaker 8 (13:36):
Yeah? Right now, I'm staying with the family. Kind of
just couching.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Okay, now, let me ask you this.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
If you don't have an apartment, you're not going to
get one, not in the Eaton fire area, not in
the Palisades fire area.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
And then you have to just figure out a practical approach.
And let's say you win, which you will, Okay, you
will prevail. Now you have a landlord that hates you
and wants you out.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, that's now, that's the practical Do you suck it
up and pay twelve hundred bucks in rent, especially when
it's not costing you any money because you're living with
family legally, I'm telling you you're on solid ground practically speaking.

Speaker 8 (14:21):
What do you do exactly?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, so that is so it's yeah, you're gonna win.
But you know, winning may not be the best thing
in the world either either way, you're screwed, you know.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, yeah, either way. But you know, the good news
is you have your place. You kept all of your belongings.
You're not out there scrambling for a place to live.
Some people homeless, some people living in shelters. I mean
people who have money who would never live in a shelter.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I mean it was a disaster. So there is the answer.

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Speaker 2 (16:22):
Hello Alicia, A Hi Bill.

Speaker 9 (16:26):
I have a question about my father and his wife
sold a property and kept the proceeds from the sale
of the house, and he didn't tell the adult executor
or the beneficiaries of the home.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, I don't understand. Was the home and a trust?

Speaker 9 (16:50):
It is a trust, all right?

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Who is the trustee? Is it your dad?

Speaker 10 (16:57):
Well?

Speaker 9 (16:57):
They were both listed as the trustees. Because this is
not the first marriage.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
For them, it doesn't matter. I just asked. Was the
property in the trust's name?

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (17:12):
And what kind of power did they have under the trust?
Could they sell it and keep the money or who?
Let me ask you, who's the beneficiaries under the trust?
If they both die?

Speaker 9 (17:23):
Well, he had his beneficiaries listed as his children. She
had her beneficiaries listed as her children.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Okay, So the property should go to the kids if
one dies. Well, if one dies depends on how the
property is held. But so they sold the property and
kept the money and you're one of the beneficiaries. Yes, okay,
in violation of the trust instrument, I'm assuming, right, Okay.

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How much money do they keep and how much did
they sell it?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
For Alicia?

Speaker 9 (17:58):
About seven hundred hundred and forty nine thousand dollars okay.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
How much money do they put in their pocket?

Speaker 9 (18:06):
Not sure the house was paid for?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Then they put seven hundred and forty nine thousand dollars
in their pocket because it was one hundred percent equity, right, yeah,
I would you.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Know the particulars.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Since I don't do trust in a state, it's certainly
worth calling a trust in a state lawyer that there's
enough money there that the beneficiary is under the trust.
What he what he and his wife did, is violate
the terms of the trust and kept money when they
shouldn't have.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Or if the money.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Is if the if the property is sold and the
money is put into the trust, as opposed to them
taking it personally, that they're allowed to do if the
trust allows them to do it. Do you have a
cop Have you seen the trust?

Speaker 8 (18:53):
I have?

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (18:54):
Okay, and say that specifically.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, Well, it may allow them to do it, which
is why you want to talk to a trust and
a state lawyer and.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Show the lawyer the trust.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Hey, here you go, and here's what happened, and you'll
get the answer pretty quickly. And you may you may
have a case. And I don't know, Kelly, how unusual.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
I don't know. Hello Kelly, Welcome, Hi Bill.

Speaker 11 (19:21):
I am the lead plaintiff in a privacy case against
a hospital for basically selling information from the hospital's websites
to Facebook and Twitter and Meta and all these different things.
So my question is that is where my medical group
is through that hospital as the lead plaintiff who's getting

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sued by a big law firm for big money because
it's a big hospital, would they say, oh, you can't
use us anymore, so I lose my doctors and my
medical group and all the things that.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Okay, well, let me ask this. Do you have insurance
through that hospital? Do you have private insurance? Or they
just say we don't want you as a patient.

Speaker 11 (20:01):
No, I have private insurance.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Money they just.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Say we don't want we don't want you as a patient.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Okay, yeah, that's what they're saying, we don't.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Want you as a patient. I mean, they have the
right to say no to any patient. That's not a problem, however,
because they're being sued.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know. You didn't do anything wrong, you didn't.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Act out, So I don't think they would say no.
I don't think they would. It would just the optics
of it are horrible, and there may be some liability
on that part if they bounce you just for having
filed a lawsuit.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
You using your legal rights.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
So as far as I'm concerned, I don't think so.
But then again, do I practice that kind of law?

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Of course? How does that work? Greg? Hello? Greg? Welcome?

Speaker 10 (20:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh ahead?

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Hell, Yes, I'm here.

Speaker 12 (20:59):
Yeah, I am sixty five years old, officially certified handicap.
I have paulineuropathy and a back issue you post lambingecomy syndrome. Anyways,
I decided to go to a get a pedicure here
like thirteen months ago, and then over roughly an eighteen
nineteen month period, I went maybe ninety ten times, and

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my feet to be bleeding every once in a while.
One time I got home, I felt pain. Later that
night I looked and saw that it looked like she
shook a grinding to it. Anyways, take a long story short,
I got infected and I had to go December first
to the prompt Care. I put on antibiotics. I had

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to soak my feet three times a day, and it's
just starting to get better.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, and you have a case here, you have a case.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
First of all, my first question is are you are
you straight? Just a curious question?

Speaker 3 (22:08):
You mean my gay? Oh?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, okay, because I've never I've never seen a straight
man have a pedicure in my life.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
You know that, don't you. That's for starting. Well, then
you can't know if you get pedicures. You can't know.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
If you get pedicures, you can't be straight. I'm sorry,
I mean I think that's the.

Speaker 12 (22:28):
It even tried to hook me up with some girlfriends.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Oh okay, I'm you're and you're the pedicure, the pedicares,
the manicures tried to.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Hook you up with a girlfriends.

Speaker 12 (22:39):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Uh do you speak Vietnamese?

Speaker 12 (22:41):
I'm telling to Okay, all.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Right, fair enough.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
This is a little bit problematic for you because as
it gets infected, as it hurts, you could put on
antibiotics yourself, and you've got to connect the what they
did to the infection, which isn't hard to do, and
how long when when you talk about it got infected?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
How serious and infection? Because you're doing fine now or
starting to heal? How long were you not healed?

Speaker 3 (23:12):
I got all right?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, you know what, I don't know if you have
a case. It's one of those things. Yeah, hold on,
I understand.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's one of those things where there may be negligence
and they this cause injury.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
UH don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
But even if they did, are the damages strong enough
for a lawyer to pick it up? Let me suggest
go to handle on the law dot com and these
are personal injury lawyers and they would handle this sort
of thing, and they'll they'll tell you and they're very good.
They're very honest. They're very honest about saying, now you
don't have a case.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
I know them, And so go to handle on the
law dot com and just just see where they go there.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Ok, all right? Uh you notice what he sure insisted
that he was straight a lot, didn't he? I mean
he was adamant. Now protests too much? You got that? Now?

Speaker 1 (24:04):
I want to tell you a little bit about pain.
If you hurt, or you know someone who hurts and
hurts all the time, chronic pain, Let me suggest listening
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people living in pain or those that have trauma that
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(24:26):
these people, and the host, Lindsay Soprano, deals with chronic pain.
Twenty four to seven. I've known her for seven years
now and she has this hell of pain Game podcast,
this podcast, and every episode ends with a message of hope.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Now I would tell you your life is over, just
suck it up. She doesn't.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
She actually gives a lot of hope and really does
a lot of help. Season three is about to happen,
So listen to the Pain Game Podcast wherever you listen
to podcasts. The Pain Game Podcast. Jacob, you've been up
there for a bit.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Hello Jacob, Welcome, Hey Bill, how are you horrible? But
let's go on with your question.

Speaker 10 (25:10):
Okay, I was injured while working for the County of
Los Angeles. I fell off of a roof and sustained
some injury on my neck and so forth. I've taken
to the hospital blah blah blah. They said my neck
was out by six millimeters and now I'm having trouble.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Okay, medical trouble.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
And originally, when you went to the hospital the first
time out. The doctor diagnosed you with blah blah blah,
got it, all right, what were you doing on a
roof working for the county? I'm just curious.

Speaker 10 (25:51):
Well, I was a field engineer in.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
All right. I was just wondering, that's it. I mean,
just you know, make sure that that it.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Was a legitimate county business that you were doing, which
certainly sounds like.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
All right. So this is years later, right, and all
of a sudden this thing goes south on you correct, right?

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, yeah, I think you definitely have an issue with
the disability. There's no question you need a disability attorney
because that's pretty solid.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
How old are you? Oh wow, well yeah, because you're ready.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
No no, no, no, I think that's great. No, no,
don't mis understand.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Are you working? Are you working now?

Speaker 5 (26:35):
No?

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay, you're retired to see that is the oh wow part.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
And because you're disabled and you can't work is what
disability is about. Okay, either permanently disabled or you've got
a short term disability workers comptcetera.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
But you're not working.

Speaker 10 (26:54):
So what you have and I will be employed by FEMA?

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well yeah, but if you're going to be employed. You
can't argue that you can't be employed. So I think
the disability part is a little tough. And as far
as any lawsuit, you can't because disability at least this
is federal, No, this is county, right, and I don't

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know about the government, private industry.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
It's no fault where it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
You can't sue, especially in this case for damages against
the state, which is.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Workers Scott disability.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Theoretically you could see the homeowner for the injury, but
as far as the homeowner or a previous roofing contractor
or who screwed it up and caused your injury, you
know your way down the line, the statue of limitations
is over.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
So the bottom line, you're kind of screwed. What are
you gonna do for FEMA?

Speaker 10 (27:55):
I'm not sure yet, Just do so filled observations and
damage assessment.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Okay, Well, here's okay legal advice to you. Don't get
involved in going on roofs because that's not a good
idea for you.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Paul, Hello, Paul, welcome.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yes, hi, this case is about identity theft and basically
someone stole my identity and actually my contractor's license and
they went out and did a job project, and they
basically stole seventy thousand dollars cash from the homeowner. Okay,

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when I explained to the CSLB that this was I
didn't do this, that he stole my license, they didn't
believe me. Basically, they met the California State Attorney General.
So I went round around explaining to him. They they
didn't buy it. They prosecuted me anyway.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Wow, hold on a minute, and so there it is.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
There is a con track, there's the license, and there
is the contract itself with the homeowner that that signature
was so close to what your signature is that you
can't easily prove that ain't you or you.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Never did the job, or the homeowner never met you
and would say I don't know who you are. None
of that happened.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah, my signature isn't even he didn't even fake my signature.
He used another company.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Okay, that's that's weird.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
And how about the homeowner, the homeowner recognized you.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
The homeowner was in on it too?

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Oh boy, yeah, you've got you've got you've got problems
if the homeowner was in on it too. Wait a minute,
the seventy was stolen from the homeowner.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I don't understand how.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
It turns out. That turns out that the the the
sproadster was duped her.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
And mis okay, got it? All right? Well, all right,
so you were prosecuted. Were you convicted? Were you convicted?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
There's more?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
No, I don't have time for more. I assume Okay,
I got it. It was all set up. Were you convicted?

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, it was all set up. So I appealed, I went,
I won.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Were you convicted? Were you convicted of a crime?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay, So it was an administrative decision made by the
contractor's license board.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
All right, you appealed it, and what happened?

Speaker 3 (30:30):
I won in superior court.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Good? So now what now?

Speaker 3 (30:36):
There? Now there because I had to pay the seventy
thousand to keep the license in Okay, now what? Okay?
So now I'm going after the Attorney General Contractors Board
for the money.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Okay, you can try it. Crickets, all right, So what
do you mean its crickets on their side. If you
file a lawsuit against them, they can't be crickets.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
They have to answer.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, that's what that's what's next now. But just trying
to make everyone.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, you're doing anything. You're doing everything you're supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
So what's your question, Paul, Here's the key thing I
want everyone to know of public awareness. The Contractors Board
falsifies information in order to.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Wait a second. As a general rule, they falsify.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
You know that two cases they falsified information.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, in two cases they did. I don't know what
to tell you about that. So here, all right, you've
gone public and you've said the Contractor's Board falsifies information.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
You've said that on the radio. I can't prove it
because this is an allegation you made. It could be true.
By the way, I'm not arguing it doesn't do you
any good.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
When we went to Superior Court, the judge call wrote
a whole Okay, I get it.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
So that's that's what you go after. Okay, you see
them for that, and you take the judge's opinion. I mean,
you're doing everything you can do. Now, if you have
bad breath, there's not a whole lot you can do.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, that's not true.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
You can brush your teeth and you can suck on
a mint, but that goes away pretty quickly. You know,
the bad breath is still there and you know within
an hour or two, it's just horrific.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Again.

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Speaker 2 (33:03):
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