August 11, 2025 • 26 mins
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UCLA and Newsom go to battle with Trump over grant freezes and $1BIL fine.The Safest Place to be: When fleeing a fire is no longer an option. Uber received reports of sexual misconduct every 8 minutes for 5 years, records show.
UCLA and Newsom go to battle with Trump over grant freezes and $1BIL fine.The Safest Place to be: When fleeing a fire is no longer an option. Uber received reports of sexual misconduct every 8 minutes for 5 years, records show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six fortyfi AM six forty bill Handle on a miserable Monday,
August eleven. A lot going on today, a lot of
lawsuits going on today. The courts are going to be
very busy. One of the issues that is coming to
(00:22):
the forefront is the fight with Governor Newsom and UCLA,
and that's a big one. For the last few weeks,
UCLA has been pretty careful to avoid clashes with the president. Well,
not so much anymore, because the Trump administration suspended over
half a billion dollars in grants, and as Harvard and
(00:47):
Columbia have paid one hundred million dollars some schools two
hundred million dollars in fines, UCLA has been hit with
a one billion dollar fine. Yep. And even two weeks ago,
UCLA was pretty optimistic. It didn't publicly criticize Trump by
(01:08):
name because what Trump was doing is going after the ivs,
private colleges Columbia, Brown, Harvard. Well, now it's UCLA, the
UC system. So July twenty one, twenty nine, UCLA announced
it settled a federal lawsuit with students who accused it
of discrimination paying out more than two million dollars to
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Jewish civil rights groups and millions more in legal fees,
and UCLA thought that was basically yet, okay, we're done,
we dodged a bullet. We're paying out money do million
dollars for accusations of anti semitism and wokeness. Well then
you had fourteen days after that, and out of that
(01:53):
came this massive federal freeze of half a billion dollars. Friday, Man,
it went through the roof when the governor responded to
the demand of the USC, the UC system paying a
billion dollar fine over a bunch of allegations anti semitism
on campus, illegal use of race, and missions and policies
(02:17):
that allow transgender athletes to compete. The transgender issue that's
really a non starter. I don't know why they make
a big deal about that. How many transgender students are there,
they're competing and I don't see it. And you have
these various organizations, the university organizations and school organizations that
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don't let you do it anyway. So this is simply
a political talking point. Now, the freezing of the federal money,
that's a big one. And why is that. Well, let's
first talk about what the money itself does. When we're
talking about a billion dollars, it's not going to go
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to UCLA or the UC system. This is federal money
that goes for research, medical research and the development of
vaccines and developments of medicine, and the testing various medical
devices as well as new medicines. This is a big deal.
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One of the United States, one of the we're the
best country in the world, Lautras. Where we are the
best country in the world is the medical research that
we do. We are ahead of the game when it
comes to medical research. And if someone is a high
end medical researcher. Let's say you're doing a PhD in
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some aspects of medicine and you go to the UC system,
there are grants available. You have students, graduate students that
are helping professors teach classes as well as working in
the laws. Without federal money, those don't exist. It's that simple. Now,
that's a big, big hit because it's our health involved.
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I mean, let me ask you, how how are you
affected that some transgender student is running in a high
school game and wins. Now, if you're the parent of
a student who lost because of that, all right, I
can see you being upset. Okay, fair enough, you're affected.
That is one parent or a small group of people.
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How about all the rest of us in this country
that gain and reap the benefits of good medical research
and to cut that off for political purposes. And this
is strictly for political purposes, nothing more, nothing less. Now
is there wokeness? Yeah? Yeah? Is DEI sort of having
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been taken over? Well? Yeah? Are the universities a bastion
for left wing philosophy? Yeah? Not communism, Okay, that's not true,
but pretty left wing and that's but that's what universities do.
They're insanely liberal. This is where we get our most
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liberal faction, I think, even more so than the unionists,
where the left wing aspect is far greater at the
university level.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, neil, okay, maybe not communism, but do you think
socialism is rampant in our colleges?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Do you know? It's No, I don't think it's a
financial issue in the colleges. It's more political, it's more wokeness,
it's more let's be fair, because minorities have been nailed
over the years, which is true, by the way, it
was a time when more minorities couldn't get in. And
now the issue is do we have a level playing field,
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of which a lot of these conservatives are talking about,
Let's get rid of all of this issue of race
accommodation and affirmative action, because what's really happening is affirmative action.
They don't call it affirmative action. And there's a whole
slew of cases on how the universities have been able
to still use the fact that if you're coming from
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a poor minority family and let's say you are the
first one in you're in your family to go to college,
you have the advantage because of that. Now is that America?
And it is No, it's time. It's time that the
schools actually do don't show preference to the students. I mean,
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UCLA let pro palest Indian demonstrators on campus on campus grounds,
set up their encampment and wouldn't break it up, and
students Jewish students were blocked from attending class is and
UCLA did not clamp down amtocracy. No, No, it's a
political decision, lawyers. The court starts to hear the case
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of University California suing the federal government because in the
case of UCLA, which at this point was sort of
left alone by the Trump administration, has now been hit
front and center with a billion dollar fine. Yeha, Harvard
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was in the hundreds of millions, Columbia was I think
was it near one hundred million. But now the uc
system is getting nailed. And what is it about. It's
about anti semitism on campus that the Trump administration is
hitting straight on now. The complaint of anti semitism on
campus has been going on for many, many years, and
(07:56):
the administrations prior just sort of left it alone. Trump
is going balls to the wall against this one. He
doesn't want to hear it. He says, there's anti anti
semitism out there, We're going for it. It's not new,
by the way, it's just come to the forefront since
the war in Gaza started. So just for just to
(08:18):
set the record straight, there has been anti semitism for
years at the university level. As to they vest university
money from Israeli companies to deal with Israelis and Jews
on campus in a negative way. Why is it because
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they hate Jews? Well, yeah, that's a given. But also
Israel is viewed as quote the oppressor, the occupier among
the innocence, among the innocent victims, and they just have
bad luck to be palest Indian. And keep in mind
that for the state of Israel, it's all or nothing.
All they have to do is lose once and it's over.
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And they are not about to lose. They're not going down.
So they've developed in that part of the world the
most sophisticated, most lethal army and navy. Actually they do
have a navy. You know, they have submarines in Israel,
and not too many people know about it. There's a
submarine fleet out in the Mediterranean. So there has been
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anti semitism out there. Now the folks that are demonstrating
against Israel will say, oh, no, it's not anti Semitism,
it's anti Israel. Oh, it's pretty hard to not conflate
the two. Israel is a theocracy. It is a Jewish state,
although of course it lets in any religion to be
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to be worshiped there, unlike other places that are theocracies.
See how many synagogues there are in Iran, for example.
Check that one out. So what is the administration accusing
you see a UCLA of specifically, well, just a host
of problems number one, allowing and protecting anti Semitic protests,
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allowing them on campus grounds, not protecting Jewish students enough,
the wokeism, the DEI programs that are discriminatory against white people,
which by the way, they are on their face. And
the argument that's being made, and the only thing that
I've listened to, is that it has been unfair for
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so long. The pendulum is swinging back and it's time
for us to have an advantage for a while. All right,
that makes sense, And all the rest of us say,
how about a level playing field. That's not enough. We
never had a level playing field. Minorities could never get
into school, which is absolutely true. Alleged employment discrimination again
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Jewish employees and job applicants, civil rights complaints from Israeli
and Jewish students that were not dealt with the consideration
of race and admission practices. That's another one. And this
I was when I was in law school. There was
a case going through the courts and that was suing
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the university, particularly UCLA, not UCLA, you see. I think
it was you See Davis in which there was a
potential medical student, David Baki, who was turned down because
a black student of lesser. I'm not gonna say quality
of lesser. Qualifications according to the university standards, great point
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average LS at medical, so mcat and he Baki was
superior in all of those categories over the black student
who was put in based on affirmative action, straight out,
and he sued. He sued, and he won, and the
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Supreme Court in California said, you can't put people in
school based on race alone. So they figured out a
way to make race part of it. Of course, so
what does a school do. Well, it looks at your
geographical location, It looks at what your work history it is.
It looks like how many members your family have gone
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to school, and it looks like you're coming from minority area.
You can pretty well guess all of a sudden, you're
in school. That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I thought we weren't supposed to profile.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I thought that, oh, that's exactly what we do. That's
exactly what the universities do. So they get around it,
and the Trump administration is calling them on it. It's
calling them on it because it is a quota system.
They do give advantages or they do give priority to
students who are not as qualified to get in and
I'm going to talk about as qualified. I'm talking to
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pursuing through the rules of the university itself. And the
Trump administration is calling them on it and wokeism and
DEI programs, And let me tell you, there's nothing but
DEI programs through the universities. There's nothing but wocism through
the universities here in the United States. And he's putting
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a stock to it, and the schools are backing down
and that's not enough the Trump administration, I don't know
if they've dropped this. Not only they want the money,
not only do we want proof that these programs are gone,
but they also want the curriculum okayed by the federal
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government and want to know what the syllabus is and
want to know who's hired, want federal oversight of universities.
And that gets to be a little insane, doesn't it.
But again, is that is that a negotiating employee on
behalf of the government, of behalf of done Donald Trump?
Who knows? But I mean, there, U see, la, how
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do you come up with a billion dollars? I mean,
it's go over the course of years and they're gonna
have to write a check for it. But if federal money,
and this is the problem. The Feds control how much
money goes to universities, and these programs, these research programs
and education programs cannot exist without this federal money. It
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just so happened. The Feds, the administration never use that
as a tool for changing school policy. So part of
it I couldn't agree with. More part of it I
think is overreaching, and it is no. It's time. It's
time that the schools actually do don't show preference to
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the students. I mean, UCLA let pro palaced Indian demonstrators
on campus on campus ground, set up their encampment and
wouldn't break it up and students Jewish students were blocked
from attending classes, and UCLA did not clamp down immediately
on that. I think the argument of anti Semitism holds
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water here. All Right, I'm going to throw something at you,
and that is wildfires here in southern California. Where do
you go, Well, you get out, don't you well? Getting out?
What does that mean? While you jump in your car
or you run out the door. But wildfires are far
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quicker than you could ever run. In many cases, you
could ever drive. Some places are only one exit and
it's gridlocked to get out, and the fire overwhelms you.
So there is new thinking saying, you know what, maybe
stay in place?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, there are the fire experts actually say there are
three answers. Te National Institute of Something. I'm so good
at this. These are experts in fire response. This is
public and published in March, and here is what they say.
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When you have high risk communities and you're looking at
fire refuges, there are three different ones. The least effective
is a temporary fire refuge area, parking lot of sports fields,
open spaces, good brush clearance, that's critical for all of them.
And what it does is provide residents some short term
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protection in the worst case scenario, but are not really
really safe? Are they safer than trying to get the
hell out? And we've seen those videos of cars driving
through these walls of flame on both sides of the
road and hopefully they make it, although in the Paradise fire,
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what eighty three or eighty five people died. The second
most effective way of doing this is large outdoor safety
bones zones such as large community parks. That's enough distance
from the flammable material I mean smoking numbers are still
going to make it miserable for you, But you can
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theoretically safely wait out of fire far more, far safer
than trying to leave a fire when again there's gridlock
and there's only one way to get out. And then
community fire shelters buildings designed to not only with stand
flames but provide residents with clean air, water, and food
throughout a firestorm. Now that is one big deal. Has
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it happened before? Is it happening now? Well, our risk
is fire here in southern California. You go to Israel
and their risks are missiles coming in and bombs coming in.
So you know what they do. Every single building has
a bomb shelter or a safe place to be. Every building.
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How about the United States? Did we ever have something
like this? Sure in the fifties and sixties, bomb shelters
not only bomb shelters at home, but bomb shelters in
public places.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It wasn't there like the Civil Defense or something.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, yes it was. It was a whole the whole
area of this. There was a plan, there were facilities built. Uh,
they had medical equipment there, they had I mean it
was set up for radio.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You'll have the sirens around La You can see, yeah,
but no one knows.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, but no one knows that. No one knows who
they're connected to, or what they're connected to, or what
they You can't you can't use them once you have
his polls with yellows loud speakers, and that's it, no
idea you know how they're connected. But the point is
is what we did that because of the risk? Well,
today that risk is fires, and the safest way of
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doing it is do what Israel does. Do what we
used to do during the Cold War. I mean really
the Cold War there was fear of atomic weaponry being used.
And the problem with this is how do you make
buildings relatively safe from fires? You think that's an investment
or two, But are we going to have a choice.
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We're going to have more and more of these fires,
more man made fires. The wings are going to be stronger.
We have more brush, We have more drought, which means
that the brush we have is drier, and we are
looking at not so much us, well maybe but our kids.
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It's going to be a mess, it really is. I
can see building in your house. Some homes have a
safe rooms. People who have a lot of money put
in safe rooms in their house where a door locks
and bad people can't even get in. There's no way
you run in there, you close the door. You have
equipment in there, you have guns in there if you
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need it, you have food. They're safe. Maybe it's going
to be any new house that's built has to have it.
I mean, they already passed a law where any new
house has to have solar and that's a big hit.
So that's where we're going, Okay, Uber, It turns out
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that Uber received reports of sexual assault or sexual misconduct
in the US that between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty two,
every eight minutes there was a report. It's according to
court records that is in a lawsuit, and this figure
is far higher than when the company had disclosed previously. Now,
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Uber has promoted itself as one of the safest transportation options,
publishing safety reports, marketing campaign campaigns that said ninety nine
point nine percent of US trips occur without incident. No
by that, But there are now unsealed records part of
that litigation show that Uber logged four hundred thousand reports
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of sexual assault or misconduct in that five year period.
Now previously released safety reports by Uber said that there
were twelve thousand and five hundred assaults. Let me see
four hundred thousand versus twelve thousand, five hundred. That's quite
a discrepancy for the same period. Now, then that didn't
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include the total number of incidents in all categories, which
the four hundred thousand did include. And Uber has not
released publicly data since twenty twenty two, and it looks
like incidents have increase. So why is this happening. Well,
you've got the financial aspect of this, expanding its customer base,
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so it's not going to pitch its numbers, limiting legal exposure,
preserving their independent business model, independent contractor. And there's an
internal report in twenty twenty one says our purpose slash
goal is not to be the police. Our goal, our
bar is much lower lower, and our goal is to
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protect the company. Now here's what Uber said about those figures,
that seventy five percent of those four hundred thousand reports
involve less serious conduct, flirting, comments on appearance, explicit language.
And the company says the figures are on audited, so
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you know, just the report's coming in and here's the
number that they say, which may put this inive if
this number is true, and there's no reason to refute it.
So you've got four hundred thousand reports of all over
the place, and some of them are fairly minor. And
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Uber says there was six point three billion trips in
the US over the same period. So these reports of
the number of incidents accounted for point zero zero six
percent of rides. And if you look at the serious
assault complaints that is point zero zero zero zero two percent.
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I mean, that number is just ridiculously low. That's what
Uber is saying. They also are saying they studied patterns
as sexual assault cases for years and what a shocker
they found out most occur late at night on weekends,
often with pickups near bars. Women were most frequently the victims.
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Offenders were typically men, either drivers or passengers, and the
drivers had prior complaints and low ratings both did oh,
I would have never guessed that, would you? And have
they done things to ameliorate the situation? Well, yeah, pairing
female riders with female drivers, the fellow being a safety
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risk cess dispatch algorithm to avoid high risk matches. I mean,
looks here's what they say they're doing all of it.
So let me ask the women in this group, Amy,
would you jump in a car with a male driver?
Do you have any problem with Uber? Even Lyft?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't think I've ever even had a female driver
on Uber.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I haven't either. Have you ever had a driver that
speaks English on Uber? I never have? Yes, yeah, I've
had one that I think came off the boat from
Pakistan yesterday afternoon and jumping on a car, an Uber
or a Lyft in this case Uber. The story is Uber.
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Would you have doubts? Have you jumped into a car
with an Uber driver? Of course? Do you have any
problem with it? Do you have any risk? Do you
think of any problem?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think you're.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Overs always initially a little like kind of do once
over and make sure you feel pretty comfortable with the person.
But I don't have enough concern that I wouldn't take
an Uber.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, yeah, I think you have to look at the
politics of Pakistan. I think that has a lot to
do with the fear of jumping in with a driver. Lindsey,
by the way, is always concerned about that. She's just
one of those people. But she looks at figures and
that's just one of her things, is looking at women.
(25:52):
Being treated badly. Okay, I think I'm done on that one.
What is Can you look up the national anthem of
Pakistan because when we do this story, I want to
next time have that playing in the background and you
can give that. Yeah, I didn't know that I've ever
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had a Pakistani driver, all right, Indian, all right, Colombian.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I've had all kinds of people exactly. Okay, someone writing
their manuscript for TV.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh, that's southern California. That's everybody, that's every waiter out there. Hey,
are you in showbiz? Would you like to look at
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six fortyfi AM six forty bill Handle on a miserable Monday,
August eleven. A lot going on today, a lot of
lawsuits going on today. The courts are going to be
very busy. One of the issues that is coming to
(00:22):
the forefront is the fight with Governor Newsom and UCLA,
and that's a big one. For the last few weeks,
UCLA has been pretty careful to avoid clashes with the president. Well,
not so much anymore, because the Trump administration suspended over
half a billion dollars in grants, and as Harvard and
(00:47):
Columbia have paid one hundred million dollars some schools two
hundred million dollars in fines, UCLA has been hit with
a one billion dollar fine. Yep. And even two weeks ago,
UCLA was pretty optimistic. It didn't publicly criticize Trump by
(01:08):
name because what Trump was doing is going after the ivs,
private colleges Columbia, Brown, Harvard. Well, now it's UCLA, the
UC system. So July twenty one, twenty nine, UCLA announced
it settled a federal lawsuit with students who accused it
of discrimination paying out more than two million dollars to
(01:30):
Jewish civil rights groups and millions more in legal fees,
and UCLA thought that was basically yet, okay, we're done,
we dodged a bullet. We're paying out money do million
dollars for accusations of anti semitism and wokeness. Well then
you had fourteen days after that, and out of that
(01:53):
came this massive federal freeze of half a billion dollars. Friday, Man,
it went through the roof when the governor responded to
the demand of the USC, the UC system paying a
billion dollar fine over a bunch of allegations anti semitism
on campus, illegal use of race, and missions and policies
(02:17):
that allow transgender athletes to compete. The transgender issue that's
really a non starter. I don't know why they make
a big deal about that. How many transgender students are there,
they're competing and I don't see it. And you have
these various organizations, the university organizations and school organizations that
(02:39):
don't let you do it anyway. So this is simply
a political talking point. Now, the freezing of the federal money,
that's a big one. And why is that. Well, let's
first talk about what the money itself does. When we're
talking about a billion dollars, it's not going to go
(03:00):
to UCLA or the UC system. This is federal money
that goes for research, medical research and the development of
vaccines and developments of medicine, and the testing various medical
devices as well as new medicines. This is a big deal.
(03:22):
One of the United States, one of the we're the
best country in the world, Lautras. Where we are the
best country in the world is the medical research that
we do. We are ahead of the game when it
comes to medical research. And if someone is a high
end medical researcher. Let's say you're doing a PhD in
(03:47):
some aspects of medicine and you go to the UC system,
there are grants available. You have students, graduate students that
are helping professors teach classes as well as working in
the laws. Without federal money, those don't exist. It's that simple. Now,
that's a big, big hit because it's our health involved.
(04:09):
I mean, let me ask you, how how are you
affected that some transgender student is running in a high
school game and wins. Now, if you're the parent of
a student who lost because of that, all right, I
can see you being upset. Okay, fair enough, you're affected.
That is one parent or a small group of people.
(04:32):
How about all the rest of us in this country
that gain and reap the benefits of good medical research
and to cut that off for political purposes. And this
is strictly for political purposes, nothing more, nothing less. Now
is there wokeness? Yeah? Yeah? Is DEI sort of having
(04:57):
been taken over? Well? Yeah? Are the universities a bastion
for left wing philosophy? Yeah? Not communism, Okay, that's not true,
but pretty left wing and that's but that's what universities do.
They're insanely liberal. This is where we get our most
(05:21):
liberal faction, I think, even more so than the unionists,
where the left wing aspect is far greater at the
university level.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, neil, okay, maybe not communism, but do you think
socialism is rampant in our colleges?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Do you know? It's No, I don't think it's a
financial issue in the colleges. It's more political, it's more wokeness,
it's more let's be fair, because minorities have been nailed
over the years, which is true, by the way, it
was a time when more minorities couldn't get in. And
now the issue is do we have a level playing field,
(06:02):
of which a lot of these conservatives are talking about,
Let's get rid of all of this issue of race
accommodation and affirmative action, because what's really happening is affirmative action.
They don't call it affirmative action. And there's a whole
slew of cases on how the universities have been able
to still use the fact that if you're coming from
(06:23):
a poor minority family and let's say you are the
first one in you're in your family to go to college,
you have the advantage because of that. Now is that America?
And it is No, it's time. It's time that the
schools actually do don't show preference to the students. I mean,
(06:45):
UCLA let pro palest Indian demonstrators on campus on campus grounds,
set up their encampment and wouldn't break it up, and
students Jewish students were blocked from attending class is and
UCLA did not clamp down amtocracy. No, No, it's a
political decision, lawyers. The court starts to hear the case
(07:11):
of University California suing the federal government because in the
case of UCLA, which at this point was sort of
left alone by the Trump administration, has now been hit
front and center with a billion dollar fine. Yeha, Harvard
(07:33):
was in the hundreds of millions, Columbia was I think
was it near one hundred million. But now the uc
system is getting nailed. And what is it about. It's
about anti semitism on campus that the Trump administration is
hitting straight on now. The complaint of anti semitism on
campus has been going on for many, many years, and
(07:56):
the administrations prior just sort of left it alone. Trump
is going balls to the wall against this one. He
doesn't want to hear it. He says, there's anti anti
semitism out there, We're going for it. It's not new,
by the way, it's just come to the forefront since
the war in Gaza started. So just for just to
(08:18):
set the record straight, there has been anti semitism for
years at the university level. As to they vest university
money from Israeli companies to deal with Israelis and Jews
on campus in a negative way. Why is it because
(08:39):
they hate Jews? Well, yeah, that's a given. But also
Israel is viewed as quote the oppressor, the occupier among
the innocence, among the innocent victims, and they just have
bad luck to be palest Indian. And keep in mind
that for the state of Israel, it's all or nothing.
All they have to do is lose once and it's over.
(09:00):
And they are not about to lose. They're not going down.
So they've developed in that part of the world the
most sophisticated, most lethal army and navy. Actually they do
have a navy. You know, they have submarines in Israel,
and not too many people know about it. There's a
submarine fleet out in the Mediterranean. So there has been
(09:22):
anti semitism out there. Now the folks that are demonstrating
against Israel will say, oh, no, it's not anti Semitism,
it's anti Israel. Oh, it's pretty hard to not conflate
the two. Israel is a theocracy. It is a Jewish state,
although of course it lets in any religion to be
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to be worshiped there, unlike other places that are theocracies.
See how many synagogues there are in Iran, for example.
Check that one out. So what is the administration accusing
you see a UCLA of specifically, well, just a host
of problems number one, allowing and protecting anti Semitic protests,
(10:12):
allowing them on campus grounds, not protecting Jewish students enough,
the wokeism, the DEI programs that are discriminatory against white people,
which by the way, they are on their face. And
the argument that's being made, and the only thing that
I've listened to, is that it has been unfair for
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so long. The pendulum is swinging back and it's time
for us to have an advantage for a while. All right,
that makes sense, And all the rest of us say,
how about a level playing field. That's not enough. We
never had a level playing field. Minorities could never get
into school, which is absolutely true. Alleged employment discrimination again
(11:00):
Jewish employees and job applicants, civil rights complaints from Israeli
and Jewish students that were not dealt with the consideration
of race and admission practices. That's another one. And this
I was when I was in law school. There was
a case going through the courts and that was suing
(11:21):
the university, particularly UCLA, not UCLA, you see. I think
it was you See Davis in which there was a
potential medical student, David Baki, who was turned down because
a black student of lesser. I'm not gonna say quality
of lesser. Qualifications according to the university standards, great point
(11:42):
average LS at medical, so mcat and he Baki was
superior in all of those categories over the black student
who was put in based on affirmative action, straight out,
and he sued. He sued, and he won, and the
(12:05):
Supreme Court in California said, you can't put people in
school based on race alone. So they figured out a
way to make race part of it. Of course, so
what does a school do. Well, it looks at your
geographical location, It looks at what your work history it is.
It looks like how many members your family have gone
(12:27):
to school, and it looks like you're coming from minority area.
You can pretty well guess all of a sudden, you're
in school. That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I thought we weren't supposed to profile.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I thought that, oh, that's exactly what we do. That's
exactly what the universities do. So they get around it,
and the Trump administration is calling them on it. It's
calling them on it because it is a quota system.
They do give advantages or they do give priority to
students who are not as qualified to get in and
I'm going to talk about as qualified. I'm talking to
(13:00):
pursuing through the rules of the university itself. And the
Trump administration is calling them on it and wokeism and
DEI programs, And let me tell you, there's nothing but
DEI programs through the universities. There's nothing but wocism through
the universities here in the United States. And he's putting
(13:20):
a stock to it, and the schools are backing down
and that's not enough the Trump administration, I don't know
if they've dropped this. Not only they want the money,
not only do we want proof that these programs are gone,
but they also want the curriculum okayed by the federal
(13:41):
government and want to know what the syllabus is and
want to know who's hired, want federal oversight of universities.
And that gets to be a little insane, doesn't it.
But again, is that is that a negotiating employee on
behalf of the government, of behalf of done Donald Trump?
Who knows? But I mean, there, U see, la, how
(14:04):
do you come up with a billion dollars? I mean,
it's go over the course of years and they're gonna
have to write a check for it. But if federal money,
and this is the problem. The Feds control how much
money goes to universities, and these programs, these research programs
and education programs cannot exist without this federal money. It
(14:25):
just so happened. The Feds, the administration never use that
as a tool for changing school policy. So part of
it I couldn't agree with. More part of it I
think is overreaching, and it is no. It's time. It's
time that the schools actually do don't show preference to
(14:48):
the students. I mean, UCLA let pro palaced Indian demonstrators
on campus on campus ground, set up their encampment and
wouldn't break it up and students Jewish students were blocked
from attending classes, and UCLA did not clamp down immediately
on that. I think the argument of anti Semitism holds
(15:12):
water here. All Right, I'm going to throw something at you,
and that is wildfires here in southern California. Where do
you go, Well, you get out, don't you well? Getting out?
What does that mean? While you jump in your car
or you run out the door. But wildfires are far
(15:32):
quicker than you could ever run. In many cases, you
could ever drive. Some places are only one exit and
it's gridlocked to get out, and the fire overwhelms you.
So there is new thinking saying, you know what, maybe
stay in place?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, there are the fire experts actually say there are
three answers. Te National Institute of Something. I'm so good
at this. These are experts in fire response. This is
public and published in March, and here is what they say.
(16:16):
When you have high risk communities and you're looking at
fire refuges, there are three different ones. The least effective
is a temporary fire refuge area, parking lot of sports fields,
open spaces, good brush clearance, that's critical for all of them.
And what it does is provide residents some short term
(16:38):
protection in the worst case scenario, but are not really
really safe? Are they safer than trying to get the
hell out? And we've seen those videos of cars driving
through these walls of flame on both sides of the
road and hopefully they make it, although in the Paradise fire,
(17:00):
what eighty three or eighty five people died. The second
most effective way of doing this is large outdoor safety
bones zones such as large community parks. That's enough distance
from the flammable material I mean smoking numbers are still
going to make it miserable for you, But you can
(17:21):
theoretically safely wait out of fire far more, far safer
than trying to leave a fire when again there's gridlock
and there's only one way to get out. And then
community fire shelters buildings designed to not only with stand
flames but provide residents with clean air, water, and food
throughout a firestorm. Now that is one big deal. Has
(17:43):
it happened before? Is it happening now? Well, our risk
is fire here in southern California. You go to Israel
and their risks are missiles coming in and bombs coming in.
So you know what they do. Every single building has
a bomb shelter or a safe place to be. Every building.
(18:05):
How about the United States? Did we ever have something
like this? Sure in the fifties and sixties, bomb shelters
not only bomb shelters at home, but bomb shelters in
public places.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It wasn't there like the Civil Defense or something.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, yes it was. It was a whole the whole
area of this. There was a plan, there were facilities built. Uh,
they had medical equipment there, they had I mean it
was set up for radio.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You'll have the sirens around La You can see, yeah,
but no one knows.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, but no one knows that. No one knows who
they're connected to, or what they're connected to, or what
they You can't you can't use them once you have
his polls with yellows loud speakers, and that's it, no
idea you know how they're connected. But the point is
is what we did that because of the risk? Well,
today that risk is fires, and the safest way of
(19:08):
doing it is do what Israel does. Do what we
used to do during the Cold War. I mean really
the Cold War there was fear of atomic weaponry being used.
And the problem with this is how do you make
buildings relatively safe from fires? You think that's an investment
or two, But are we going to have a choice.
(19:31):
We're going to have more and more of these fires,
more man made fires. The wings are going to be stronger.
We have more brush, We have more drought, which means
that the brush we have is drier, and we are
looking at not so much us, well maybe but our kids.
(19:52):
It's going to be a mess, it really is. I
can see building in your house. Some homes have a
safe rooms. People who have a lot of money put
in safe rooms in their house where a door locks
and bad people can't even get in. There's no way
you run in there, you close the door. You have
equipment in there, you have guns in there if you
(20:14):
need it, you have food. They're safe. Maybe it's going
to be any new house that's built has to have it.
I mean, they already passed a law where any new
house has to have solar and that's a big hit.
So that's where we're going, Okay, Uber, It turns out
(20:38):
that Uber received reports of sexual assault or sexual misconduct
in the US that between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty two,
every eight minutes there was a report. It's according to
court records that is in a lawsuit, and this figure
is far higher than when the company had disclosed previously. Now,
(21:00):
Uber has promoted itself as one of the safest transportation options,
publishing safety reports, marketing campaign campaigns that said ninety nine
point nine percent of US trips occur without incident. No
by that, But there are now unsealed records part of
that litigation show that Uber logged four hundred thousand reports
(21:25):
of sexual assault or misconduct in that five year period.
Now previously released safety reports by Uber said that there
were twelve thousand and five hundred assaults. Let me see
four hundred thousand versus twelve thousand, five hundred. That's quite
a discrepancy for the same period. Now, then that didn't
(21:48):
include the total number of incidents in all categories, which
the four hundred thousand did include. And Uber has not
released publicly data since twenty twenty two, and it looks
like incidents have increase. So why is this happening. Well,
you've got the financial aspect of this, expanding its customer base,
(22:12):
so it's not going to pitch its numbers, limiting legal exposure,
preserving their independent business model, independent contractor. And there's an
internal report in twenty twenty one says our purpose slash
goal is not to be the police. Our goal, our
bar is much lower lower, and our goal is to
(22:34):
protect the company. Now here's what Uber said about those figures,
that seventy five percent of those four hundred thousand reports
involve less serious conduct, flirting, comments on appearance, explicit language.
And the company says the figures are on audited, so
(22:54):
you know, just the report's coming in and here's the
number that they say, which may put this inive if
this number is true, and there's no reason to refute it.
So you've got four hundred thousand reports of all over
the place, and some of them are fairly minor. And
(23:15):
Uber says there was six point three billion trips in
the US over the same period. So these reports of
the number of incidents accounted for point zero zero six
percent of rides. And if you look at the serious
assault complaints that is point zero zero zero zero two percent.
(23:40):
I mean, that number is just ridiculously low. That's what
Uber is saying. They also are saying they studied patterns
as sexual assault cases for years and what a shocker
they found out most occur late at night on weekends,
often with pickups near bars. Women were most frequently the victims.
(24:02):
Offenders were typically men, either drivers or passengers, and the
drivers had prior complaints and low ratings both did oh,
I would have never guessed that, would you? And have
they done things to ameliorate the situation? Well, yeah, pairing
female riders with female drivers, the fellow being a safety
(24:24):
risk cess dispatch algorithm to avoid high risk matches. I mean,
looks here's what they say they're doing all of it.
So let me ask the women in this group, Amy,
would you jump in a car with a male driver?
Do you have any problem with Uber? Even Lyft?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't think I've ever even had a female driver
on Uber.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I haven't either. Have you ever had a driver that
speaks English on Uber? I never have? Yes, yeah, I've
had one that I think came off the boat from
Pakistan yesterday afternoon and jumping on a car, an Uber
or a Lyft in this case Uber. The story is Uber.
(25:07):
Would you have doubts? Have you jumped into a car
with an Uber driver? Of course? Do you have any
problem with it? Do you have any risk? Do you
think of any problem?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think you're.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Overs always initially a little like kind of do once
over and make sure you feel pretty comfortable with the person.
But I don't have enough concern that I wouldn't take
an Uber.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, yeah, I think you have to look at the
politics of Pakistan. I think that has a lot to
do with the fear of jumping in with a driver. Lindsey,
by the way, is always concerned about that. She's just
one of those people. But she looks at figures and
that's just one of her things, is looking at women.
(25:52):
Being treated badly. Okay, I think I'm done on that one.
What is Can you look up the national anthem of
Pakistan because when we do this story, I want to
next time have that playing in the background and you
can give that. Yeah, I didn't know that I've ever
(26:14):
had a Pakistani driver, all right, Indian, all right, Colombian.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I've had all kinds of people exactly. Okay, someone writing
their manuscript for TV.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh, that's southern California. That's everybody, that's every waiter out there. Hey,
are you in showbiz? Would you like to look at
my script? All right? This is KFI AM sixty. You've
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