August 28, 2025 • 24 mins
(August 28, 2025)
Trump adds Beverly Hills to his list of crime-ridden cities. Susan Monarez fired as CDC Director after policy dispute with RFK Jr. KFI entertainment reporter Heather Brooker joins the show for the ‘Entertainment Report.’ Today, Heather talks about Labor Dar weekend movie preview and a new animated TV show about… Jews.
Trump adds Beverly Hills to his list of crime-ridden cities. Susan Monarez fired as CDC Director after policy dispute with RFK Jr. KFI entertainment reporter Heather Brooker joins the show for the ‘Entertainment Report.’ Today, Heather talks about Labor Dar weekend movie preview and a new animated TV show about… Jews.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI AM six forty bill Handle Here. It
is a Thursday morning, August twenty eighth, tomorrow at eight thirty.
It's ask Handle anything, and this is always fun. Where
questions are recorded, I answer them, and the whole purpose
(00:24):
is to humiliate me, which is usually very successful, and
so without you we can't do it. It's collar driven. So
here is how it works. During the course of the show.
For example, you have another hour here and you go
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(00:47):
Neil pulls out the questions that the more moronic, by
the way, the better, and I answer them. We hear
them for the first time on the air, so it's
completely spontaneous and it's just great fun.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Moving on to Beverly Hills. What does Beverly Hills have
to do with Donald Trump? Well, the President has recently
described la as lawless, Chicago as a killing field, Baltimore
as a hellhole, Washington out of control. And so far
(01:21):
we know that National Guard and federal troops have gone
into Washington, d C. And also of course Los Angeles
when the protests were here. And the premise is that
lawlessness takes a dive when the president nationalizes those troops,
and of course it does.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And what the Washington D C.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Mayor who hates Donald Trump, had to admit crime is down.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I mean, think of the logic here. You throw a.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Few thousand more quote cops on the street, you think
crime is not going to go down.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
How do you get it to zero?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You throw fifty thousand cops additional on the street. So
now here in lies the philosophy, and that is what's
more important, and that is the concept of federal armed services.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They are not the police.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
They do not enforce laws in the United States, within
the United States territory possecomatatis law that's left to the police. Now,
the National Guard can be nationalized under certain circumstances, but
certainly not under these circumstances. No president has ever done this.
(02:38):
But do we change our philosophy. Do we go and
agree with President Trump and saying here's how we're going
to deal with crime. Forget about the Possecomatitus Act, forget
about that we are going to just send federal troops
to make our city safe. Uh yeah, you send enough
of them, and of course the city's going to be safe.
(02:59):
I mean, who's gonna jack a car if you know
that there's a National Guard guide, you know, two feet away,
you know that's just not gonna happen. Now, Beverly Hills.
Here's a fun one about Beverly Hills, he called, and
remember he lives here for a period time. He had
a house here that he sold for thirteen million dollars
(03:20):
a few years ago. It's probably worth fifty million dollars now.
And he called the city a great place. But he
has friends who leave the trunk and the doors of
their cars open because they know they're going to be
vandalized and don't want to risk getting the windows.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Or other parts of the vehicles damaged.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
He also said he happens to have another friend who
leaves his garage door open so that people just walk
into the garage and take whatever they want and leave
because crime is so rampant in Beverly Hills. Comments took
city officials by surprise, saying I ever heard of that,
(04:02):
And we're talking city officials now. Stolen items have increased
in Beverly Hills. In twenty twenty two, there was a
total of three hundred and twenty four theft reports, three
eighty six in twenty twenty three, and then it jumped
in twenty twenty four to four hundred and seventy two.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We're talking about cases of stolen items.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
City rows overall crime twenty twenty two up, twenty twenty three, up,
twenty twenty four down. And with the Beverly Hills police
have done as they're focusing on retail crime, mainly along
Rodeo Drive, that luxury goods corridor. They're not talking or
they're not concentrating on car theft. There was all kinds
of high profile in incidents though, those smashing grabs that
(04:50):
get enormous amount of news. So the police are concentrating
on that, beefing up patrol security details. They've also started
a drone surveillance program, and of course there's all kinds
of politics to that. So here's the basic premise. If
a city has a crime problem, and Beverly Hills, I mean, okay,
(05:16):
there's four hundred theft cases in Beverly Hills, I mean,
is that out of control?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I don't know what out of control means. When crime
goes down, I guess it's still out of contrime control.
And when crime goes down and you bring in a
few thousand troops, it's going to drop even more so
the major cities. Oh, by the way, it's only democratic
cities that have a crime problem.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, there is.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No such thing as a city that is run by
a republican mayor in this country that has a crime problem.
It's the cities that are run by democratic mayors, and
they all have crime problems.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So let's say we look.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
At the say statistically FBI statistics, and we take the
top fifty cities that have a crime problem. They all do.
I mean, every city has a crime problem. It's just
a question of numbers. And you bring thousands of troops
into every city, you're not going to have a crime problem.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You just aren't going to have it.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Also, you can make it so punitive, which is certain countries.
Do you know there was a period of time, I
think it was Nicaragua or Ecuador where if you were
caught drunk driving and you killed someone, that was the
death penalty. The death penalty. Now they didn't keep it
very long. But can you imagine that stopped people from
(06:46):
drinking and driving. I wouldn't drink and drive if I
knew I was going to be put down if I
hurt somebody. So different philosophy. But Beverly Hills. Trunks open
in Beverly Hills or a trunk, but that, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Think about that. I heard about that in San Francisco.
I never heard about that. They were doing that in
San Francisco. All over the place, window that county, no
windows down, trunks open saying there's nothing in my car,
please don't break my windows.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
San Francisco one of the areas where crime is out
of control. I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, that's has a silly thing to say, though, I mean,
how many how many water droplets do you have to
get on your windshield before you turn on your windshield wiper?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Bill? Two? Yeah? Then the rain is out of control?
You know when things are out of control? Is the
homeless situation out of control? In Los Angeles? I would yeah,
I would think, Okay, well, how do you know?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Uh, it's question numbers and you're right, where is that line?
Where is that line? And I'll tell you what the
answer is, you bring in two thousand troops.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You bring in law law, you get more cops. Well,
it's the same. The city is not going to produce
more cops.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The city will not put up two thousand more cops
tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Carjacking is down.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Okay, I understand, I know, But to your point listening
to this for a moment. To get two thousand more
cops in the city of Los Angeles, for example, they
have to go through the economy, the academy. They're adding
cops at eighty or one hundred a year because of
the problems. The president can order two thousand military tomorrow
(08:33):
and we'll be on the streets. That's the point. Okay,
maybe three drops. I haven't decided yet. Okay, Ai schools, Now,
what is that about. Well, coming into Virginia is a
school called Alpha School, and students study for two hours
(08:55):
a day, that's it, using adaptive apps and personal lesson plans.
And that's in the morning, and then in the afternoon
they get all their fun, you know, learning how to
ride a bike if they're young enough for other classes, know,
pe or whatever the hell they want to do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Now, do they have teachers?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
They do not what the students have are guides are
guides people?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
They are not.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's an AI driven school coming to North Virginia this fall.
Plans to enroll up to twenty five students in grades
K to three.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And here's where this school sits.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
There's an intersection of two growing spaces in education, one
alternative schooling and the other one an explosion of online
learning platforms. Now does this make sense? First of all,
this is only for pretty wealthy people. It runs about
sixty five thousand dollars a year, so tuition is kind
(09:58):
of ridiculous, but effectively is a pilot program, even though
in and of itself is not a pilot program.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's just a legitimate way of learning. Would I do
this for my kids? Not with the money?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Would certainly I, you know, my eyebrows would go up
on the money part. But the model makes a lot
of sense. One of the things about going to school
and going to normal classrooms is the teachers today have
to teach to the lowest common denominator. They don't teach
to the brightest kids, leaving everybody else out. They teach
(10:30):
to the kids at the bottom of the classroom. And
so what do you do if you're gifted, or if
you're even in the middle, you're boared. Silly is what happens.
Kids are bored. There are a lot of interruptions. You're
going from class to class. This is two hours and
you're done. And that even includes stretching and relaxing. And
(10:50):
the program says, okay, take ten minutes, guys, let's do
jumping jacks or whatever. Do whatever the hell you want,
and the I will tell you right now, this is
going to be a huge success. It's akin to homeschooling,
except better. Homeschooling is usually a mom or dad sitting
down with a student and knocking off the normal syllabus,
(11:14):
if you will, of the Department of Education, what has
to be done. You have to obviously meet certain educational
criteria and you do it in three hours a day
because there are no interruptions, there are no other students.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That's what happens with this. This is individualized.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The algorithm, the AI aspect of this teaches a kid
at his or her speed, at his or her level.
It understands that very easily. If it has to repeat
it does does it teach quicker? If you are that smart?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It does?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And two hours a day is enough to do as
well as going to school for five or six eight hours.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I mean, think about this. You're in school.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I remember being in school from what eight maybe seven thirty.
Some of my class started when I was going to
school and at school left at three thirty, but you
had forty five minutes for lunch.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You had two recesses.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You go from class to class, especially starting in junior high,
and there's attendance that's taken, and I mean just ozon
and on. How much time is being spent not actually
in the classroom learning, and then the teacher is up
there and some teachers are horrible and some teachers are great.
(12:37):
And how much information do they cram in and at
what level do they do it? And how do they
read the understanding level of the students? And the testing
that goes on, well, here the testing is immediate. It's
how much you know and the program reads it. I
mean it's a great idea. Is it going to work?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I think this is where AI is going to kick
in and do a hell of a job. Education absolutely
needs to be turned around. It is not good. Our
system in this country is not good. Now when you
talk about the higher education. We talk about PhD level,
you're talking about the top schools, UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford, the ivs.
(13:25):
Those are the best in the world. I mean, you
can't beat that. But go down, go down the ladder.
High school literacy, for example, you know where we are
in literacy in the world. I think we're nineteenth or
twentieth in literacy.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I mean, it's just this makes sense. This makes a
lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
There is a woman by the name of Susan Manarez
who you probably haven't heard her name, but about a
month ago she was confirmed as the director of this
She is no longer the director of the CDC. She
has just been fired. She refused to step down. They
asked for her resignation and she said no.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They said, okay, we're going to fire you. Why.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well, she had a policy disagreement with Robert F. Kennedy,
Junior Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And why was she fired? What was the issue? Well,
the problem.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Is is that Robert Kennedy has no medical background. He
is a vaccine skeptic who doesn't believe in vaccines particularly,
and he's been forced a couple of times to say, okay,
the measles vaccine sort of works, but he's really reluctant
(14:52):
to do that. I mean, the stuff that he's done
is nothing but astounding her ouser less than a month later,
As you know, I came as a result of her
basically saying that Robert Kennedy is screwing everything up. A
(15:13):
quote from her attorney's statement said, Secretary Kennedy and AHHS
have set their sights on weaponizing public health for political
gain and putting millions of American.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Lives at risk. So let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Do you believe that Robert Kennedy is the secretary based
on his skills, on his knowledge of medicine or was
it a political decision?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Straight politics, Pete Hegsith, straight politics.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Gabbard, straight politics.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
The credentials that someone needs to be in this administration
is loyalty, that's it.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Cash Pttel, head of the FBI, straight politics. So this one,
she said, it's weaponizing. I don't want any part of this,
so she's can. In addition, you had three resignations on
top of that, CDC Chief Medical Officer Deborah Howry, National
Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease Director, National Center for
(16:19):
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Director. That's zoonotics is when
diseases go from animals to people. And he said in
his resignation letter that the changes to the imminization schedule
threatened the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.
(16:41):
I'm unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC
as a tool to generate policies and materials that don't
reflect scientific reality. Straight out they don't. By the way,
she was the administration's second nominee for the role BECAU
because in March, the President withdrew his first nomination. Former
(17:03):
Republican Congressman in vaccine critics straight out vaccines cause autism
and they're horrible for you, and at Kennedy ally, and
this was hours before his confirmation hearing they just didn't
want to do this.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Kennedy has targeted vaccine policy.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In May, he withdrew the federal recommendation for COVID shots.
He's changed who should get COVID shots. And by the way,
that's important because when the CDC decides or recommends shots
or no shots, and for how long and who should
get them and at what age insurance companies look at that,
(17:45):
the medical community looks at that really strongly, and that's
all been shot to hell. In June, Kennedy fired all
the members of the CDC's Expert Vaccine Advisory Board, all
of a group of doctors, a group of immunologists, epidemiologists
(18:07):
who volunteer to sit on this board and give advice
to the Department, to the CDC, all of them being
pro vaccine because all of them knowing what vaccines do.
Kennedy fires every one of them and replaces them with
(18:28):
hand pick advisors and several of the anti vaccine crowd.
I mean, it is kind of crazy, to say the least.
There's one quote that I love, after the statement from
her attorneys saying that she was targeted because she refused
(18:52):
to rubber stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.
I quoted that the White House responded as her attorney's
statement makes it abundantly clear Susan Monarez is not aligned
with the President's agenda of making America healthy again. Getting
(19:15):
rid of vaccines makes America healthy again. I don't know
if that scares you, it certainly does me because of
the craziness that's going on.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I mean, where do you go with all of this?
Heather Brooker?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I did not know Heather that you were an entertainment maven.
You have a podcast entertain Me with Heather Brooker. Wow, Okay,
I thought Moe was the only one out there, But
it looks like you're in that league.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I am.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah, Mo and I both share a lot of similar
passions for movies and TV shows and things like that.
But yeah, Also, Hi, nice to meet you. Last time
I saw you, you looked at me like you had
no idea who I was.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I know it takes a while, how many it does?
It sometimes takes a long while.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I was like, Hi, Hi, I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You don't have a name, if you don't have a
name tag, Hello, my name is. We're in trouble now.
A couple of movies I want to talk about. Uh,
there is a movie called It's a remake of the
War of the Roses, and I loved War the Roses Roses.
I mean that was one of It's funny, it's well written,
(20:31):
well directed. And also there's a new animated TV show
about Jews, which I end up understanding.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
It costs a lot more to go in and see.
So yeah, go ahead, no, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
So this weekend, Labor Day weekend, there are a couple
of new movies coming out, As you mentioned, the remake
of the War of the Roses.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It's called The Roses.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
It stars what I think are two of the greatest
actors of our time. We've got Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch,
and they bring that very British sensibility to this remake.
You know, if you were a fan of the original,
you remember Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. They had that chemistry.
Remember that you just thought, oh, they make divorce look
(21:13):
so fun.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
They did.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It was a great movie. And I'm a huge fan
of Benedict cumber Bund or whatever.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Benedic Cumberbund, yes as his friends call.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Him, just a just a terrific action He.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Is truly incredible, And in this movie they have that
chemistry and the writing is so smart. It's quick witted,
it has very relatable moments, it's fast paced, and if
you were a fan of the original, you'll definitely love
this revisit. It also feels fresh enough where you're like, oh,
I don't feel like I'm watching a total rehash.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
All right, real quickly, new animated TV show about Jews
entitled We Love the Fed.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Nope, nope, Oh I got that wrong. Not yeah, you
were close, You were close. It's called Long Story Short
and it's a new Netflix animated series eight episodes, and
it follows a family called the Shwoopers, and they combine
their names the Schwartz and the Coopers and now they're
the Shwoopers. And what's great about this is that it
(22:15):
they do play on some of the stereotypes of Jewish
people and Jewish families, but it's really heartfelt, like there
are moments where you're like, I know this family. I
can relate to this family. It's from the creators of
BoJack Horsemen. I don't know if you're familiar with that song.
I'm not, but it's a very irreverent, pushes the envelope,
and it's comedy, and so this follows that same kind
(22:39):
of line of comedy as well, and it's got a
different style of animation. People are either gonna love it
or they're gonna not. You know, they're gonna hate it.
But it's a really funny show and we need more
shows like this showing different types of families. I mean,
we've had Bart Simpson forever. He's been ten for forty years,
you know, and we have American Dad, and you've got
(23:00):
family Guy, and this is a new interesting take on
a Jewish family living in America.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oi. Oi, that's right, bye, Yeah, I have to watch it.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You have to, all right, Heather, Thanks, you're welcome. Kind
of great fun, all right.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Just kind of man.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
No, I love it, I love it. All right.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We are done, and I want to remind you that
I am taking phone calls right now, starting in just
a few minutes off the air for handle on the
law marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have
absolutely no case, and I'll tell you what also, we
don't have and you don't have commercials, and we don't
(23:41):
have traffic, that's right, will no traffic, We don't have breaks, weather,
none of that, and of course no patience on my part,
so that makes it re flies through pretty quickly. The
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Speaker 2 (24:02):
And that's off the air now.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You can still listen to Gary and Shannon through the
phone while you are waiting. Not very long and we'll
be back tomorrow. It starts all over again with Will
and Amy at five am, and then there's Neil and
Moi coming in from six to nine, and then of
course Cono and what's her face?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
And over there who take care of the show.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
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You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI AM six forty bill Handle Here. It
is a Thursday morning, August twenty eighth, tomorrow at eight thirty.
It's ask Handle anything, and this is always fun. Where
questions are recorded, I answer them, and the whole purpose
(00:24):
is to humiliate me, which is usually very successful, and
so without you we can't do it. It's collar driven. So
here is how it works. During the course of the show.
For example, you have another hour here and you go
to the iHeartRadio app, click onto the bill Handle show
and then click on the microphone in the upright head
quarter and then record fifteen twenty seconds to ask your question.
(00:47):
Neil pulls out the questions that the more moronic, by
the way, the better, and I answer them. We hear
them for the first time on the air, so it's
completely spontaneous and it's just great fun.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Moving on to Beverly Hills. What does Beverly Hills have
to do with Donald Trump? Well, the President has recently
described la as lawless, Chicago as a killing field, Baltimore
as a hellhole, Washington out of control. And so far
(01:21):
we know that National Guard and federal troops have gone
into Washington, d C. And also of course Los Angeles
when the protests were here. And the premise is that
lawlessness takes a dive when the president nationalizes those troops,
and of course it does.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And what the Washington D C.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Mayor who hates Donald Trump, had to admit crime is down.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I mean, think of the logic here. You throw a.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Few thousand more quote cops on the street, you think
crime is not going to go down.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
How do you get it to zero?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You throw fifty thousand cops additional on the street. So
now here in lies the philosophy, and that is what's
more important, and that is the concept of federal armed services.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They are not the police.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
They do not enforce laws in the United States, within
the United States territory possecomatatis law that's left to the police. Now,
the National Guard can be nationalized under certain circumstances, but
certainly not under these circumstances. No president has ever done this.
(02:38):
But do we change our philosophy. Do we go and
agree with President Trump and saying here's how we're going
to deal with crime. Forget about the Possecomatitus Act, forget
about that we are going to just send federal troops
to make our city safe. Uh yeah, you send enough
of them, and of course the city's going to be safe.
(02:59):
I mean, who's gonna jack a car if you know
that there's a National Guard guide, you know, two feet away,
you know that's just not gonna happen. Now, Beverly Hills.
Here's a fun one about Beverly Hills, he called, and
remember he lives here for a period time. He had
a house here that he sold for thirteen million dollars
(03:20):
a few years ago. It's probably worth fifty million dollars now.
And he called the city a great place. But he
has friends who leave the trunk and the doors of
their cars open because they know they're going to be
vandalized and don't want to risk getting the windows.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Or other parts of the vehicles damaged.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
He also said he happens to have another friend who
leaves his garage door open so that people just walk
into the garage and take whatever they want and leave
because crime is so rampant in Beverly Hills. Comments took
city officials by surprise, saying I ever heard of that,
(04:02):
And we're talking city officials now. Stolen items have increased
in Beverly Hills. In twenty twenty two, there was a
total of three hundred and twenty four theft reports, three
eighty six in twenty twenty three, and then it jumped
in twenty twenty four to four hundred and seventy two.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We're talking about cases of stolen items.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
City rows overall crime twenty twenty two up, twenty twenty three, up,
twenty twenty four down. And with the Beverly Hills police
have done as they're focusing on retail crime, mainly along
Rodeo Drive, that luxury goods corridor. They're not talking or
they're not concentrating on car theft. There was all kinds
of high profile in incidents though, those smashing grabs that
(04:50):
get enormous amount of news. So the police are concentrating
on that, beefing up patrol security details. They've also started
a drone surveillance program, and of course there's all kinds
of politics to that. So here's the basic premise. If
a city has a crime problem, and Beverly Hills, I mean, okay,
(05:16):
there's four hundred theft cases in Beverly Hills, I mean,
is that out of control?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I don't know what out of control means. When crime
goes down, I guess it's still out of contrime control.
And when crime goes down and you bring in a
few thousand troops, it's going to drop even more so
the major cities. Oh, by the way, it's only democratic
cities that have a crime problem.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, there is.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No such thing as a city that is run by
a republican mayor in this country that has a crime problem.
It's the cities that are run by democratic mayors, and
they all have crime problems.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So let's say we look.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
At the say statistically FBI statistics, and we take the
top fifty cities that have a crime problem. They all do.
I mean, every city has a crime problem. It's just
a question of numbers. And you bring thousands of troops
into every city, you're not going to have a crime problem.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You just aren't going to have it.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Also, you can make it so punitive, which is certain countries.
Do you know there was a period of time, I
think it was Nicaragua or Ecuador where if you were
caught drunk driving and you killed someone, that was the
death penalty. The death penalty. Now they didn't keep it
very long. But can you imagine that stopped people from
(06:46):
drinking and driving. I wouldn't drink and drive if I
knew I was going to be put down if I
hurt somebody. So different philosophy. But Beverly Hills. Trunks open
in Beverly Hills or a trunk, but that, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Think about that. I heard about that in San Francisco.
I never heard about that. They were doing that in
San Francisco. All over the place, window that county, no
windows down, trunks open saying there's nothing in my car,
please don't break my windows.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
San Francisco one of the areas where crime is out
of control. I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, that's has a silly thing to say, though, I mean,
how many how many water droplets do you have to
get on your windshield before you turn on your windshield wiper?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Bill? Two? Yeah? Then the rain is out of control?
You know when things are out of control? Is the
homeless situation out of control? In Los Angeles? I would yeah,
I would think, Okay, well, how do you know?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Uh, it's question numbers and you're right, where is that line?
Where is that line? And I'll tell you what the
answer is, you bring in two thousand troops.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You bring in law law, you get more cops. Well,
it's the same. The city is not going to produce
more cops.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The city will not put up two thousand more cops
tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Carjacking is down.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Okay, I understand, I know, But to your point listening
to this for a moment. To get two thousand more
cops in the city of Los Angeles, for example, they
have to go through the economy, the academy. They're adding
cops at eighty or one hundred a year because of
the problems. The president can order two thousand military tomorrow
(08:33):
and we'll be on the streets. That's the point. Okay,
maybe three drops. I haven't decided yet. Okay, Ai schools, Now,
what is that about. Well, coming into Virginia is a
school called Alpha School, and students study for two hours
(08:55):
a day, that's it, using adaptive apps and personal lesson plans.
And that's in the morning, and then in the afternoon
they get all their fun, you know, learning how to
ride a bike if they're young enough for other classes, know,
pe or whatever the hell they want to do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Now, do they have teachers?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
They do not what the students have are guides are
guides people?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
They are not.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's an AI driven school coming to North Virginia this fall.
Plans to enroll up to twenty five students in grades
K to three.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And here's where this school sits.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
There's an intersection of two growing spaces in education, one
alternative schooling and the other one an explosion of online
learning platforms. Now does this make sense? First of all,
this is only for pretty wealthy people. It runs about
sixty five thousand dollars a year, so tuition is kind
(09:58):
of ridiculous, but effectively is a pilot program, even though
in and of itself is not a pilot program.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's just a legitimate way of learning. Would I do
this for my kids? Not with the money?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Would certainly I, you know, my eyebrows would go up
on the money part. But the model makes a lot
of sense. One of the things about going to school
and going to normal classrooms is the teachers today have
to teach to the lowest common denominator. They don't teach
to the brightest kids, leaving everybody else out. They teach
(10:30):
to the kids at the bottom of the classroom. And
so what do you do if you're gifted, or if
you're even in the middle, you're boared. Silly is what happens.
Kids are bored. There are a lot of interruptions. You're
going from class to class. This is two hours and
you're done. And that even includes stretching and relaxing. And
(10:50):
the program says, okay, take ten minutes, guys, let's do
jumping jacks or whatever. Do whatever the hell you want,
and the I will tell you right now, this is
going to be a huge success. It's akin to homeschooling,
except better. Homeschooling is usually a mom or dad sitting
down with a student and knocking off the normal syllabus,
(11:14):
if you will, of the Department of Education, what has
to be done. You have to obviously meet certain educational
criteria and you do it in three hours a day
because there are no interruptions, there are no other students.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That's what happens with this. This is individualized.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The algorithm, the AI aspect of this teaches a kid
at his or her speed, at his or her level.
It understands that very easily. If it has to repeat
it does does it teach quicker? If you are that smart?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It does?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And two hours a day is enough to do as
well as going to school for five or six eight hours.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I mean, think about this. You're in school.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I remember being in school from what eight maybe seven thirty.
Some of my class started when I was going to
school and at school left at three thirty, but you
had forty five minutes for lunch.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You had two recesses.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You go from class to class, especially starting in junior high,
and there's attendance that's taken, and I mean just ozon
and on. How much time is being spent not actually
in the classroom learning, and then the teacher is up
there and some teachers are horrible and some teachers are great.
(12:37):
And how much information do they cram in and at
what level do they do it? And how do they
read the understanding level of the students? And the testing
that goes on, well, here the testing is immediate. It's
how much you know and the program reads it. I
mean it's a great idea. Is it going to work?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I think this is where AI is going to kick
in and do a hell of a job. Education absolutely
needs to be turned around. It is not good. Our
system in this country is not good. Now when you
talk about the higher education. We talk about PhD level,
you're talking about the top schools, UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford, the ivs.
(13:25):
Those are the best in the world. I mean, you
can't beat that. But go down, go down the ladder.
High school literacy, for example, you know where we are
in literacy in the world. I think we're nineteenth or
twentieth in literacy.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I mean, it's just this makes sense. This makes a
lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
There is a woman by the name of Susan Manarez
who you probably haven't heard her name, but about a
month ago she was confirmed as the director of this
She is no longer the director of the CDC. She
has just been fired. She refused to step down. They
asked for her resignation and she said no.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They said, okay, we're going to fire you. Why.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well, she had a policy disagreement with Robert F. Kennedy,
Junior Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And why was she fired? What was the issue? Well,
the problem.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Is is that Robert Kennedy has no medical background. He
is a vaccine skeptic who doesn't believe in vaccines particularly,
and he's been forced a couple of times to say, okay,
the measles vaccine sort of works, but he's really reluctant
(14:52):
to do that. I mean, the stuff that he's done
is nothing but astounding her ouser less than a month later,
As you know, I came as a result of her
basically saying that Robert Kennedy is screwing everything up. A
(15:13):
quote from her attorney's statement said, Secretary Kennedy and AHHS
have set their sights on weaponizing public health for political
gain and putting millions of American.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Lives at risk. So let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Do you believe that Robert Kennedy is the secretary based
on his skills, on his knowledge of medicine or was
it a political decision?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Straight politics, Pete Hegsith, straight politics.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Gabbard, straight politics.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
The credentials that someone needs to be in this administration
is loyalty, that's it.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Cash Pttel, head of the FBI, straight politics. So this one,
she said, it's weaponizing. I don't want any part of this,
so she's can. In addition, you had three resignations on
top of that, CDC Chief Medical Officer Deborah Howry, National
Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease Director, National Center for
(16:19):
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Director. That's zoonotics is when
diseases go from animals to people. And he said in
his resignation letter that the changes to the imminization schedule
threatened the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.
(16:41):
I'm unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC
as a tool to generate policies and materials that don't
reflect scientific reality. Straight out they don't. By the way,
she was the administration's second nominee for the role BECAU
because in March, the President withdrew his first nomination. Former
(17:03):
Republican Congressman in vaccine critics straight out vaccines cause autism
and they're horrible for you, and at Kennedy ally, and
this was hours before his confirmation hearing they just didn't
want to do this.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Kennedy has targeted vaccine policy.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In May, he withdrew the federal recommendation for COVID shots.
He's changed who should get COVID shots. And by the way,
that's important because when the CDC decides or recommends shots
or no shots, and for how long and who should
get them and at what age insurance companies look at that,
(17:45):
the medical community looks at that really strongly, and that's
all been shot to hell. In June, Kennedy fired all
the members of the CDC's Expert Vaccine Advisory Board, all
of a group of doctors, a group of immunologists, epidemiologists
(18:07):
who volunteer to sit on this board and give advice
to the Department, to the CDC, all of them being
pro vaccine because all of them knowing what vaccines do.
Kennedy fires every one of them and replaces them with
(18:28):
hand pick advisors and several of the anti vaccine crowd.
I mean, it is kind of crazy, to say the least.
There's one quote that I love, after the statement from
her attorneys saying that she was targeted because she refused
(18:52):
to rubber stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.
I quoted that the White House responded as her attorney's
statement makes it abundantly clear Susan Monarez is not aligned
with the President's agenda of making America healthy again. Getting
(19:15):
rid of vaccines makes America healthy again. I don't know
if that scares you, it certainly does me because of
the craziness that's going on.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I mean, where do you go with all of this?
Heather Brooker?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I did not know Heather that you were an entertainment maven.
You have a podcast entertain Me with Heather Brooker. Wow, Okay,
I thought Moe was the only one out there, But
it looks like you're in that league.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I am.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah, Mo and I both share a lot of similar
passions for movies and TV shows and things like that.
But yeah, Also, Hi, nice to meet you. Last time
I saw you, you looked at me like you had
no idea who I was.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I know it takes a while, how many it does?
It sometimes takes a long while.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I was like, Hi, Hi, I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You don't have a name, if you don't have a
name tag, Hello, my name is. We're in trouble now.
A couple of movies I want to talk about. Uh,
there is a movie called It's a remake of the
War of the Roses, and I loved War the Roses Roses.
I mean that was one of It's funny, it's well written,
(20:31):
well directed. And also there's a new animated TV show
about Jews, which I end up understanding.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
It costs a lot more to go in and see.
So yeah, go ahead, no, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
So this weekend, Labor Day weekend, there are a couple
of new movies coming out, As you mentioned, the remake
of the War of the Roses.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It's called The Roses.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
It stars what I think are two of the greatest
actors of our time. We've got Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch,
and they bring that very British sensibility to this remake.
You know, if you were a fan of the original,
you remember Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. They had that chemistry.
Remember that you just thought, oh, they make divorce look
(21:13):
so fun.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
They did.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It was a great movie. And I'm a huge fan
of Benedict cumber Bund or whatever.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Benedic Cumberbund, yes as his friends call.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Him, just a just a terrific action He.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Is truly incredible, And in this movie they have that
chemistry and the writing is so smart. It's quick witted,
it has very relatable moments, it's fast paced, and if
you were a fan of the original, you'll definitely love
this revisit. It also feels fresh enough where you're like, oh,
I don't feel like I'm watching a total rehash.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
All right, real quickly, new animated TV show about Jews
entitled We Love the Fed.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Nope, nope, Oh I got that wrong. Not yeah, you
were close, You were close. It's called Long Story Short
and it's a new Netflix animated series eight episodes, and
it follows a family called the Shwoopers, and they combine
their names the Schwartz and the Coopers and now they're
the Shwoopers. And what's great about this is that it
(22:15):
they do play on some of the stereotypes of Jewish
people and Jewish families, but it's really heartfelt, like there
are moments where you're like, I know this family. I
can relate to this family. It's from the creators of
BoJack Horsemen. I don't know if you're familiar with that song.
I'm not, but it's a very irreverent, pushes the envelope,
and it's comedy, and so this follows that same kind
(22:39):
of line of comedy as well, and it's got a
different style of animation. People are either gonna love it
or they're gonna not. You know, they're gonna hate it.
But it's a really funny show and we need more
shows like this showing different types of families. I mean,
we've had Bart Simpson forever. He's been ten for forty years,
you know, and we have American Dad, and you've got
(23:00):
family Guy, and this is a new interesting take on
a Jewish family living in America.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oi. Oi, that's right, bye, Yeah, I have to watch it.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You have to, all right, Heather, Thanks, you're welcome. Kind
of great fun, all right.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Just kind of man.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
No, I love it, I love it. All right.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We are done, and I want to remind you that
I am taking phone calls right now, starting in just
a few minutes off the air for handle on the
law marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have
absolutely no case, and I'll tell you what also, we
don't have and you don't have commercials, and we don't
(23:41):
have traffic, that's right, will no traffic, We don't have breaks, weather,
none of that, and of course no patience on my part,
so that makes it re flies through pretty quickly. The
number eight seven seven five to zero eleven fifty, starting
in just a few minutes, eight seven seven five to
zero eleven fifty.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And that's off the air now.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You can still listen to Gary and Shannon through the
phone while you are waiting. Not very long and we'll
be back tomorrow. It starts all over again with Will
and Amy at five am, and then there's Neil and
Moi coming in from six to nine, and then of
course Cono and what's her face?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
And over there who take care of the show.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
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