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Speaker 3: Sorry, cat.
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Speaker 1: We miraculously came back. It's a longer story. It actually
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Speaker 1: I remember telling my wife, why don't we just have
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Speaker 2: But we debate about the pet insurance because we pay
Speaker 2: all this money every month and.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Then, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Let's get Megan Barth on. Megan is with CaliforniaGlobe.com. And
Speaker 1: she had a story, which just the headline is enough
Speaker 1: to boil your blood. California paid 250 state workers more
Speaker 1: than $ 600, 000 each.
Speaker 1: Last year, one of them took home $ 2. 3 million. Megan, welcome.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm kind of sick to my stomach.
Speaker 4: You know, I wrote this a few days ago, and
Speaker 4: I just honestly couldn't believe every time I look into
Speaker 4: California and how you guys just basically take fire to money.
Speaker 4: But then the abuse of these civil servants, that they
Speaker 4: have just basically it's codified. The abuse that they inflict
Speaker 4: on the taxpayer is evident in this report.
Speaker 6: And I'm going to give you just one guy, okay?
Speaker 4: And what your listeners should understand is that these salaries
Speaker 4: are forever until these people die because this becomes part
Speaker 4: of their pensions. So this is why you are basically
Speaker 4: underwater by hundreds of millions of dollars in your pensions
Speaker 4: because of, and you know, I love cops. My grandfather
Speaker 4: was a cop, okay? I got nothing against cops. I
Speaker 4: think cops should be well-paid, right? But a CHP sergeant
Speaker 4: by the name of Leonard Kambuk, maybe he's listening, he
Speaker 4: booked in overtime in the last three years of his
Speaker 4: service nearly $ 900, 000 So guess what that did to his
Speaker 4: pension pay? His regular salary on average for years, from
Speaker 4: 2017 to about 2024, he ranged.
Speaker 6: From about $ 150, 000 to $ 190, 000. Now, you know, that kind
Speaker 6: of makes sense.
Speaker 4: It's a price of living increase, the CCI, okay?
Speaker 6: But his overtime.
Speaker 6: Is where the goods are.
Speaker 4: Because in 2017 through like 2021, he was booking about
Speaker 4: $ 30, 000 to $ 40, 000 of overtime.
Speaker 6: He had one outlier of like 63.
Speaker 4: But you go up to 2022, 2023.
Speaker 6: And 2024 for Leonard, And let's just remind the audience.
Speaker 4: Leonard retired in 2025. So these last three years were
Speaker 4: really important to Leonard, especially when it came to overtime.
Speaker 4: Because he went from booking like.
Speaker 5: $ 37, 000 in 2022, $ 162, 000.
Speaker 6: In 2023, $ 294, 000 in overtime.
Speaker 4: In 2024, $ 436, 423 in overtime.
Speaker 6: Giving Leonard Tombaugh.
Speaker 4: A CHP sergeant, a total pay and benefit package on
Speaker 4: his way out the door of $ 813, 500.
Speaker 6: Yes!
Speaker 4: And you guys got to pay Leonard, I think 90%
Speaker 4: of that, for the rest of Leonard's life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that could go on. He's probably not that old already, right?
Speaker 1: Because police retire relatively young, usually in their 50s. So
Speaker 1: we could have 40 more years of paying Leonard big
Speaker 1: fat pension checks. Yep.
Speaker 4: And Leonard's just one of thousands. So the guy that
Speaker 4: made the $ 2. 3 million, he's the head, the CIO of CalPERS,
Speaker 4: your pension fund.
Speaker 1: This is fascinating because this is the State Union Workers
Speaker 1: Pension Fund. And yeah, Stephen Gilmore is the chief investment officer,
Speaker 1: 2.3 million. But I noticed that the top 10, I
Speaker 1: think it's the top 10 earners in the state, all
Speaker 1: from CalPERS or these CalPERS top 10 earners. All right.
Speaker 1: So the top 10.
Speaker 4: The top 10 in CalPERS, they all made over a
Speaker 4: million dollars a year. Up to $ 2 million.
Speaker 1: Arnold Phillips, 1.7 is in second place. You go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 6: You want to think about the wolves of Wall Street?
Speaker 6: These are the wolves of the West Coast. But these
Speaker 6: are the wolves of taxpayers.
Speaker 4: I mean, taxpayers are responsible for each of these 10-person salaries.
Speaker 4: Stephen Gilmore, CIO, 2.3 million. Arnold Phillips. Managing Investment Director,
Speaker 4: $ 1. 73 million. Daniel Bienvenu, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, because you
Speaker 4: need a deputy, I guess.
Speaker 1: That's $ 1.
Speaker 6: 6 million.
Speaker 5: And it just keeps going on.
Speaker 4: The CEO of CalPERS, Marcy Frost, she made $ 1.
Speaker 5: 6 million.
Speaker 1: There's 15 CalPERS officers and executives cleared $ 1 million last year.
Speaker 1: Hang on the line. I want to talk about some
Speaker 1: of the other categories here. These prison psychiatrists. This is
Speaker 1: going to make you bang your head against the wall.
Speaker 1: When we come back, more with Megan Barth from CaliforniaGlobe.com.
Speaker 1: 250 state workers made more than $ 600, 000 last year. $ 2. 3
Speaker 1: million went to the top earner.
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Speaker 1: going to be talking with Carl DeMaio after 5 o'clock,
Speaker 1: the Republican Assemblyman, about Newsom getting dealt a defeat by
Speaker 1: his own party. He was trying to put a cap
Speaker 1: on how much money power companies would have to pay
Speaker 1: out for all the wildfires they caused. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that coming up. Megan Barth is continuing with us from CaliforniaGlobe.com.
Speaker 1: She has discovered that there's $ 600, 000 of your tax money
Speaker 1: going to 250 state workers. One of them, who runs
Speaker 1: the pension fund, is getting $ 2. 3 million. Megan, let's talk
Speaker 1: about these prison psychiatrists.
Speaker 4: You know, honestly, I didn't even know there was such
Speaker 4: a thing that was part of the state government.
Speaker 6: But here we are. I live in Nevada. I'm sure
Speaker 6: we have them, too.
Speaker 4: The prison state psychiatrist, Samita Gandhi, $ 873, 872 a year for life.
Speaker 4: Olivia Del Pilar, $ 841, 878 a.
Speaker 5: Year for life. And Damon Walcott, $ 822, 971 a year for life.
Speaker 6: What do they do? Are they the ones who decide
Speaker 6: that some.
Speaker 4: Of these crazy?
Speaker 1: Psychotics can be let out early?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question. I was saying earlier that
Speaker 5: I'm going.
Speaker 4: To be digging more into this because honestly, you know,
Speaker 4: living in Nevada for as long as I have, I
Speaker 4: hadn't realized that the state has gotten completely, I was
Speaker 4: in California for 20 years. There weren't these jumps. And
Speaker 4: I've been reporting on the news for 20 years, I think.
Speaker 6: And I don't remember these jumps.
Speaker 4: Clearly, there is an incentive for union employees to basically
Speaker 4: stack their overtime in the last two to three years
Speaker 4: of their employment before they retire. Because how does one sergeant,
Speaker 4: California Highway Patrol, Leonard Kahnbach, how does he book $ 436, 000
Speaker 4: in overtime in one year?
Speaker 5: Are there that many days?
Speaker 1: Are there that many hours? It doesn't seem mathematically possible,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what the formula is when they
Speaker 1: start getting a time and a half or double time
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 6: Correct.
Speaker 5: And so, but there is an incentive.
Speaker 4: There is a clear incentive to, for quote-unquote civil servants.
Speaker 4: When I think of servants, I don't think of servants
Speaker 4: making $ 2. 3 million a year. I don't think of servants
Speaker 4: booking $ 436, 000 in overtime and retiring at $ 813, 000. Servants and
Speaker 4: those salaries just don't equate. I just can't wrap my
Speaker 4: head around it, but here we are.
Speaker 1: About 15 years ago, the budget was $ 100 billion. It's
Speaker 1: now three and a half times that. The budget has
Speaker 1: grown three and a half times as much in 15
Speaker 1: years because of stuff like this.
Speaker 6: That's correct.
Speaker 4: And what you have now, when you look at Gavin's
Speaker 4: latest budget, he's got like $ 11.
Speaker 6: 8 billion just in the next four years for extra pensions.
Speaker 4: CalPERS, the pension fund, is upside down by $ 153 million,
Speaker 4: and Stephen Gilmore, who got.
Speaker 6: A bonus.
Speaker 4: Because he, I guess, got 11.6% return. This is funny math.
Speaker 1: No, and the unions own the place, the public service unions.
Speaker 1: Thank you. They've got the deed to the Sacramento government.
Speaker 1: And there seems to be no way to stop them.
Speaker 1: You could throw out the politicians. Nobody does. But you'd
Speaker 1: still have the unions owning the next guy who becomes governor.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 1: And then they complain that they have to show up
Speaker 1: for work.
Speaker 4: Let me give you this statistic that just popped out
Speaker 4: to me from my report. Civil service headcount, so this
Speaker 4: is the number of state employees, rose 23% between 2017
Speaker 4: and 18 and 2024 to 25.
Speaker 6: Last year, more than.
Speaker 4: 1,700 state workers banked over $ 100, 000 in overtime alone.
Speaker 1: Well, there's no restraint on this at all.
Speaker 6: Correct.
Speaker 1: You have one party rule. The union sets the terms
Speaker 1: of the contract, and Newsom and the rest of them
Speaker 1: just say yes. You want more? And they go, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll give you more. That's the extent of the negotiations.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 6: You got it.
Speaker 4: So until there is political change, you know, perhaps in California,
Speaker 4: nothing's going to change. But the unions are going to
Speaker 4: have to be taken on by somebody because this is unsustainable.
Speaker 4: You know, the left loves to talk about sustainability of this, that,
Speaker 4: and the other, and that's why we have to use
Speaker 4: paper straws that don't work and all this crap.
Speaker 6: This is not sustainable.
Speaker 4: This is fiscal Armageddon. Someone's going to have to pay
Speaker 4: for this. And at the rate that the businesses are
Speaker 4: leaving California.
Speaker 1: Someone has to fill the hole. Yeah, and this is
Speaker 1: why the tax rates are where they are. People wonder
Speaker 1: why the tax is so high. Because you have the
Speaker 1: unions looting the place, among a hundred other things. Megan Barr,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on.
Speaker 5: Anytime.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: CaliforniaGlobe.com. You should read this. Read this. Well... Don't read
Speaker 1: it after you eat dinner because it'll probably make you
Speaker 1: throw up. Carl DeMaio coming up after 5 o'clock. Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom lost on– it's very rare that he gets a loss.
Speaker 1: Usually everything gets rubber-stamped by the Democratic Assembly and State Senate,
Speaker 1: but Newsom's a lame duck, and he wanted to give
Speaker 1: protection on his way out the door to the power
Speaker 1: companies that started all the bad fires, because he wants
Speaker 1: their campaign contributions for president, the corrupt bastard. And the
Speaker 1: Assembly and the State Senate said no. Talk to Carl
Speaker 1: DeMaio about this when we come back. Deborah Mark is
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Speaker 1: Listen to this. I heard.
Speaker 1: Sean Duffy, who's the head of the Department of Transportation
Speaker 1: in the Trump administration on Fox Business this morning. And
Speaker 1: he was explaining this big crackdown going on. And Megan
Speaker 1: Barth has a story on this as well. A crackdown
Speaker 1: on the trucker schools around the country who have been
Speaker 1: allegedly training illegal aliens who don't speak English to drive
Speaker 1: all those huge trucks you see on the freeways. And
Speaker 1: those things are terrifying. Now, legitimate truckers who are trained
Speaker 1: and somewhat educated and know English, that's hard work. They
Speaker 1: get paid really well, and they should. But a lot
Speaker 1: of these trucks are driven by literally guys who crawled
Speaker 1: across the border off the street yesterday. Wait till you
Speaker 1: listen to this, because one of the worst states in
Speaker 1: the country for these fraudulent trucking schools, California, of course. Anyway,
Speaker 1: DOT issued an emergency order, shut down 110 trucker schools
Speaker 1: around the country. Fraudulently certifying drivers who later failed English tests.
Speaker 1: English language proficiency tests. California had 11 of these. Texas
Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania had 13. Florida had 10. And some of
Speaker 1: these schools were online with no physical location. Here's one
Speaker 1: California trucking school, Platinum Plus Truck Driving School in Fresno.
Speaker 1: 36 drivers were certified there. Found out they couldn't speak English.
Speaker 1: Couldn't pass a test. One of the trainees was involved
Speaker 1: in a fatal crash in Oklahoma. These guys can't read
Speaker 1: the signs. They don't know what the signs mean. They
Speaker 1: perform all kinds of illegal maneuvers.
Speaker 6: And.
Speaker 1: They've killed people, including here in California. And Newsom allowed this,
Speaker 1: and he's fought the Trump administration on this. This is
Speaker 1: what's wacky. Illegal aliens can't speak English, get licenses from
Speaker 1: these fraudulent truck schools. All of this should be under
Speaker 1: state supervision. Newsom allowed it all. When he was exposed,
Speaker 1: went to court. When they brag about all the lawsuits
Speaker 1: against the Trump administration, this is the kind of crap
Speaker 1: we're talking about here. Officials said every one of these
Speaker 1: 110 schools that were shut down across the country had
Speaker 1: passed at least 10 drivers who were later pulled over
Speaker 1: and cited for failing their English language proficiency requirement. So
Speaker 1: do the math on that. 110 schools, at least 10 drivers.
Speaker 1: That's over 1,100 drivers. See, the federal law is you
Speaker 1: have to be able to communicate and understand in English.
Speaker 1: And it's been like that forever. Only now. when Biden
Speaker 1: let in, everybody, literally everybody on the planet could come
Speaker 1: to this country. And next thing you know, they're driving
Speaker 1: an 18-wheeler down Interstate 5. And they don't know what
Speaker 1: they're looking at. They don't know the laws. They don't
Speaker 1: know the language. They're just sitting in this big thing
Speaker 1: with a ton of goods in the back. Sean Duffy said,
Speaker 1: you have to speak English to operate a commercial motor vehicle.
Speaker 1: I didn't create that rule. Trump didn't create that rule.
Speaker 1: They're actually trying to defend and explain themselves when this
Speaker 1: was obvious all my life. So much of this stuff,
Speaker 1: did you ever question? Did you ever question in your
Speaker 1: life whether a guy driving an 18-wheeler, one of these
Speaker 1: big tractor trailers, did you ever question whether he should
Speaker 1: speak English or not? My dad came to this country
Speaker 1: from Poland. I've talked about this many times. It took
Speaker 1: him five years to become a citizen. He had to
Speaker 1: go to classes to learn English. Now, he didn't speak
Speaker 1: it really well. could understand it. He didn't understand me,
Speaker 1: but he could understand English. That was a separate school
Speaker 1: to understand me. Nobody went to that school. Homeland Security
Speaker 1: Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, he said it's the sanctuary laws. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another reason they're so proliferate. They have proliferated here
Speaker 1: in California, the stupid sanctuary laws. So you could be
Speaker 1: an illegal alien. You could be an illegal alien criminal.
Speaker 1: You could be an illegal alien criminal who can't speak English.
Speaker 1: You'll get a fraudulent driver's license from a corrupt illegal
Speaker 1: trucking company or this trucking school. They did a sweep
Speaker 1: at more than 200 driving schools across 23 states. They
Speaker 1: not only found this illegal driver problem, They found identity
Speaker 1: document fraud. These guys are driving around with fake IDs.
Speaker 1: Now they're probably voting too. Unauthorized employment, labor exploitation, money laundering,
Speaker 1: cartel activity. Oh my God, cartel activity. So these guys,
Speaker 1: they come from Mexico and they get a license to
Speaker 1: drive a truck. They're probably driving the drugs around, dropping
Speaker 1: off the meth and the fentanyl. drug and human smuggling networks.
Speaker 1: That's right. They've got a truckload of teenage girls in
Speaker 1: the back that they're going to sell in prostitution. Department
Speaker 1: of Transportation has already revoked tens of thousands of improperly
Speaker 1: issued licenses. Just here in California, tens of thousands. Newsom
Speaker 1: has run such a corrupt state. The feds have withheld
Speaker 1: transportation funding from the state. We're going to sue over that.
Speaker 1: And a significant share of these commercial driving licenses violated
Speaker 1: federal standards. I'll give you an example of what the
Speaker 1: consequences of this case you forgot. There was a truck
Speaker 1: driver named Jashanpreet Singh of Yuba City, 21-year-old illegal alien
Speaker 1: who broke the law when he came into the United States,
Speaker 1: but released by the Joe Biden crowd. He was driving
Speaker 1: a semi truck and plowed it into several vehicles, including
Speaker 1: a van and the back of another semi, killed three people,
Speaker 1: injured four. He never hit his brakes. He never tried
Speaker 1: to maneuver out of the way. He just kept rumbling
Speaker 1: down the road and wiped out, killed three people, injured four.
Speaker 1: California had given him a commercial driver's license. Now, also,
Speaker 1: the Department of Transportation is proposing to close another 160 schools.
Speaker 1: They closed 110. There's another 160 on the block. They found... 40%
Speaker 1: failed basic requirements. Unqualified instructors. No space to practice driving
Speaker 1: the truck. The trainees left unmonitored. One of the places
Speaker 1: had a classroom that was the back of a truck.
Speaker 1: That's where they taught the class, inside the back of
Speaker 1: a truck. They didn't have a classroom for this. They
Speaker 1: didn't have a track to drive the trucks on. So
Speaker 1: you're getting people... And they're getting hired because there's a
Speaker 1: huge need for truck drivers. But guess who gets squeezed out?
Speaker 1: The legal truck drivers. And their wages are depressed. These
Speaker 1: trucks are 80,000 pounds. 80,000 pounds. They can't read the signs.
Speaker 1: They can't understand the dispatchers. They can't talk to a
Speaker 1: state trooper. Nusiv thought it was okay, and so did
Speaker 1: everybody in his bureaucracy. And people died, and our narcissistic
Speaker 1: sociopath doesn't care. It's just like, hey, your family dies
Speaker 1: in a fire? He doesn't care. In fact, he wants
Speaker 1: to protect the utility companies that started the fire. And here?
Speaker 1: Did your family get killed by an unlicensed illegal alien driver?
Speaker 1: He doesn't care. He wants to protect that guy. Coming up.
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Speaker 1: The PETA people are acting up again with stupid stuff.
Speaker 1: People for the ethical treatment of animals, who we talked
Speaker 1: to one of their spokesholes recently because they continue to
Speaker 1: do nothing to help Joey Tucci and all the suffering
Speaker 1: animals on Skid Row. Well, PETA paid money to set
Speaker 1: up a memorial at Pitzer College in Claremont in the
Speaker 1: dining hall. Get this. Honoring animals that are killed for food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: The memorial honors the cows, the pigs, the chickens, and
Speaker 1: all the other animals who've been served as food at
Speaker 1: the college.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: First memorial.
Speaker 4: In the nation.
Speaker 1: First memorial in the nation. Isn't eating them a way
Speaker 1: of memorializing them? It's a way of honoring them.
Speaker 4: No, it's not.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. No. Sure, they're so tasty and
Speaker 1: they're so nutritious.
Speaker 2: No, they would rather be pets.
Speaker 1: You want a pig as a pet?
Speaker 2: If I had a big yard, I would love to
Speaker 2: have a little farm.
Speaker 1: These animals wouldn't exist. At least they enjoy a short
Speaker 1: time living on the planet. Okay, John, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, John. Otherwise, they'd never exist. No.
Speaker 6: Then.
Speaker 2: Why do they have brains? Why do they feel pain?
Speaker 2: If they were only here to go in your stomach,
Speaker 2: then doesn't it make sense that they wouldn't feel pain,
Speaker 2: that they would not have brains, that they would just be,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't even know how to describe it.
Speaker 2: But no, they feel pain. They're animals.
Speaker 1: Because they feel pain, I can't eat them.
Speaker 6: Correct.
Speaker 2: Don't shake your head, Eric.
Speaker 1: Just because they feel pain, it brings me comfort. Yes.
Speaker 1: I need sustenance.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is that they're innocent animals that are
Speaker 2: being killed for you to eat. There's plenty of other
Speaker 2: food that you can eat. You don't have to eat animals.
Speaker 1: Wait, so you only want us to eat the defective ones?
Speaker 2: No, I don't want you to eat any of them.
Speaker 2: I don't want them killed.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm hungry.
Speaker 2: Have some quinoa. I live on that. I'm fine.
Speaker 1: You're five feet tall and 100 pounds. You see what happens? Okay.
Speaker 1: We're grown men. Okay. We have to go out and
Speaker 1: fight wars.
Speaker 2: Women fight wars, too.
Speaker 1: Those women eat meat.
Speaker 2: Maybe not.
Speaker 1: There's nobody five feet tall and 100 pounds fighting a war.
Speaker 2: My question, though, for PETA, because I think this is great,
Speaker 2: you know? Hats off to you, PETA. But why don't
Speaker 2: we have a memorial on Skid Row memorializing the animals
Speaker 2: that have been killed by the.
Speaker 1: Drug dealers and the drug users? They haven't lifted one
Speaker 1: finger on the Skid Row problem. Come on, PETA.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 1: Come on. So going by your logic, right, how much
Speaker 1: pain are the dogs of Skid Row.
Speaker 2: Yes and they're not even being eaten no they're.
Speaker 1: Being experimented on for drugs yes.
Speaker 2: So if anybody from PETA is listening why don't you
Speaker 2: erect a memorial in skid row for all the animals
Speaker 2: that have been tortured and abused.
Speaker 1: Better yet why don't you go and stop take the
Speaker 1: animals forcibly rescue them they're always doing stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Around the world right why are we not doing that.
Speaker 1: No they won't do that why won't they do.
Speaker 2: That pita you'll get more coverage doing that instead this college.
Speaker 1: They do silly stuff so they're gonna call you i
Speaker 1: guess it's a sculpture or it's.
Speaker 2: A good it's a good it's a cute story i
Speaker 2: mean i obviously like it But I just think they
Speaker 2: would get more play, and it would be better for humanity.
Speaker 1: It's not going to change anybody's diet. If I was
Speaker 1: a college student, I'm still ordering the cheeseburger every day.
Speaker 1: That's you. I'm laughing at the memorial. That's you. I'm
Speaker 1: mocking the memorial. So you don't think we should eat
Speaker 1: living things, Debra?
Speaker 2: Okay, I know that there's a catch here, so I'm
Speaker 2: trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: I've got to answer that. Do you think we should
Speaker 1: eat living things?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: Well, then you shouldn't eat plants. Plants are living things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew it. My brain didn't work fast enough,
Speaker 2: but I knew there was a catch.
Speaker 1: Now, listen to this. I thought, you know, the coddling
Speaker 1: of college students started about 10 years ago, 12 years ago.
Speaker 1: I remember 2014. First, I started noticing this. I thought
Speaker 1: it had faded out some with the demise of the
Speaker 1: woke obsession, but Harvard Law School. No bigger law school
Speaker 1: in the country. Supreme Court justices come from Harvard Law School.
Speaker 1: But now they're so worried about the sensitivities of freshmen
Speaker 1: that as part of the orientation program, they are providing
Speaker 1: low sensory rooms on campus established for orientation. And they
Speaker 1: have weighted blankets, dim lighting, fidget toys, in case these
Speaker 1: law students need a break from the noise. Now, to
Speaker 1: be in law school, you've got to be probably at
Speaker 1: least 22 years old. You have 22-year-old people. During World
Speaker 1: War II, 22-year-olds were sent to fight the Nazis and
Speaker 1: the Japanese. Now, these coddled little wieners get blankets, dim lighting,
Speaker 1: fidget toys. Fidget toys! Also, another campus space was refashioned
Speaker 1: as a wellness lounge for orientation. So the would-be lawyers
Speaker 1: will mix and mingle with their classmates while relaxing in
Speaker 1: our massage chairs and enjoying low-key crafts and activities.
Speaker 2: I didn't have any of this.
Speaker 1: This is what you have in toddler camp. When I
Speaker 1: was eight years old, I'd go to a camp at
Speaker 1: a local school, and that's what they had. They had crafts.
Speaker 1: And fidget toys. You can make your own toys. Oh,
Speaker 1: and the document that lists all these amenities has a
Speaker 1: link to a map. A map of gender-inclusive restrooms. So
Speaker 1: you know where you're going to see the men dressed
Speaker 1: as women. on their way to getting their law degrees.
Speaker 1: Second day of orientation includes a team problem-solving field trip
Speaker 1: at a gaming center. Its experience is described as like
Speaker 1: a video game, but you do it in real life
Speaker 1: or being part of a movie in real life, but
Speaker 1: you don't experience it from the audience. It's called Bodeborg.
Speaker 1: It's like being in an escape room. This is the
Speaker 1: second day of law school. This is so sad. Now
Speaker 1: college students are treated as infants, and they welcome this.
Speaker 1: They welcome being treated as infants. If I went to
Speaker 1: a school, and here's your blankie, here's your fidget toy,
Speaker 1: here's the gender-inclusive restroom map. I'd start punching people. I'd
Speaker 1: be kicking them in the shins. It's like my family's
Speaker 1: just giving you $ 100, 000 for this tuition. I don't want
Speaker 1: your freaking fidget toy. I don't want the day at
Speaker 1: Boda Borg. Infants, toddlers, and you see them now. They
Speaker 1: come and work at a real office, and they're children.
Speaker 1: They're oversensitive, and they pout a lot. We come back.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to return to a story we
Speaker 1: opened with because we have Carl DeMaio on to talk
Speaker 1: about it. He's a Republican assemblyman, and he's going to
Speaker 1: explain what went on in Sacramento the last few days.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom wanted to pass a bill that would protect
Speaker 1: the power companies from damages. For the fires that they start,
Speaker 1: you know, when they murder people and burn down entire towns. Well,
Speaker 1: they want protection from that. And the Democrats in the
Speaker 1: legislature said no. Talk about it when we come back.
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