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L.A. School Unions Announce Strike Date | California Faulty DUI Tests · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: That is a big, big deal for sure. The other
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  Speaker 1: big news that we are looking at is the LA
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  Speaker 1: City School or LA School District unions have announced that
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  Speaker 1: April fourteen, we're going to have a strike, and that
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  Speaker 1: was announced yesterday. The two largest labor groups of LA unified,
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  Speaker 1: the Teachers' Union and Service Employees. By the way, there
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  Speaker 1: is an echo going on if someone can if there's
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  Speaker 1: not a mute on, there is the yesterday the teachers
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  Speaker 1: and the service employees announced there is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a strike if no contract is reached. The last contract
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  Speaker 1: ended in June, and they have been working without a contract.
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  Speaker 1: You don't hear at iHeart.
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  Speaker 2: We've been working about without a contract for like ten years,
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  Speaker 2: twelve years.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you just can keep on going even without a contract.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got four hundred thousand students Nation's second or
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  Speaker 2: the school district after New York, and thirty two thousand
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  Speaker 2: students in the adult school. What it means if the
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  Speaker 2: strike goes on, sixty thousand essential district workers teachers, counselors, nurses,
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  Speaker 2: bus drivers, janners, cafeteria workers, on and on are walking
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  Speaker 2: off the job. Now this is at the same time
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  Speaker 2: that Superintendent Alberto Carvallo is on paid administrative leave following
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  Speaker 2: an FBI raid on his Sanpete drove home, and so
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  Speaker 2: he's been put on leave. And the budget shortfall, so
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  Speaker 2: all of it is not good news. And LA Unified.
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  Speaker 2: I've been using as a poster child for one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst school districts in the United States. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not because it is badly managed, well, it is badly managed.
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  Speaker 2: It is not because there are school teachers that aren't
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  Speaker 2: doing their job well, there are a lot of those.
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  Speaker 2: It's because, number one, it is ungovernable. It's so unwieldy
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  Speaker 2: as a bureaucracy a school district that I have believed
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  Speaker 2: for a long time it has to be broken up
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  Speaker 2: or it has to be administered in a totally different way.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as teachers are concerned, teachers are so
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  Speaker 2: underpaid it is insane. Teachers are quitting. Not enough people
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  Speaker 2: are becoming teachers because it is just hard. It used
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  Speaker 2: to be that teachers had some kind of well, they
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  Speaker 2: had reputations and good reputations. It was mister Smith that
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  Speaker 2: was yes, ma'am. It was a lot of that when
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  Speaker 2: I was in school, and most of us were today,
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  Speaker 2: man teachers got they ain't got no respect. They're all
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  Speaker 2: Rodney Dangerfield and they can't you can't say anything. The
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  Speaker 2: teachers can't say anything. They can't even talk negatively about
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  Speaker 2: a student because the parents come right in threaten lawsuits.
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  Speaker 2: There was corporal punishment when I was in school. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you got swatted if you act it out. Today, if
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  Speaker 2: a kid acts out, the teacher has to apologize in many,
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  Speaker 2: many cases, and it's hard to get to get people
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  Speaker 2: to teach under those circumstances, especially in the inner schools
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  Speaker 2: and especially and this is not particularly anyone's fault in
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  Speaker 2: not the school district or certainly not the teachers, is
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  Speaker 2: you have a huge number of immigrants that have come
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  Speaker 2: over LA unified has I think, I don't know, sixty
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  Speaker 2: two percent, sixty five percent Hispanics, Latinos, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them are families that have not come over legally,
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  Speaker 2: and those kids have to be taught, and they should
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  Speaker 2: be taught because that's the law. Well, the problem is
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  Speaker 2: English really is the second language, and it is hard
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  Speaker 2: to teach class where the students don't speak English, and
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  Speaker 2: that's just a fact. We're not talking about value judgment here.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get rid of the illegal aliens. I'm simply talking
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  Speaker 2: about the factual basis that it is hard to teach students,
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  Speaker 2: particularly in the in the inner city, that do not
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  Speaker 2: speak English and come from families where the families aren't
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  Speaker 2: don't have very marketable skills, don't have educations, don't push education.
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  Speaker 2: Some some do, but it's not in their DNA. Why well,
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  Speaker 2: when's the last time you saw a highly paid cardio
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  Speaker 2: of vascular virgin who comes from Mexico sneaking over the border.
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  Speaker 2: Bank managers don't sneak over the border. You have people
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  Speaker 2: with no marketable skills. You have people that do not
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  Speaker 2: have an education because they're the ones that want a
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  Speaker 2: better opportunity. That's the fact. It's a tough way to go,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to see a strike probably. All right,
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  Speaker 2: this is a story out of San Diego. You know
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  Speaker 2: what people are doing. Pet owners are doing in San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: They're going down to Tijuana to have their pets treated.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing for dental, by the way, but I'll talk
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  Speaker 2: that at a different time. Mexi Vet Express, based in
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  Speaker 2: San Diego, takes pets to veterinary clinics in Tijuana on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of owners. Company coordinates appointments, transports the animal, provides
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  Speaker 2: updates to owners while the pets receive care. So this
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  Speaker 2: is a story at NBC dot com, actually NBC San
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  Speaker 2: Diego about a guy named West Daniel, and he had
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  Speaker 2: three rescue dogs, nutche Mymi and Tank array M. And
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't afford vet care in the US and San Diego,
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  Speaker 2: so he said, and I'm going to Tijuana at least
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  Speaker 2: half off. They're gonna do full dental cleanings for veterinary visits.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably gonna cost around two thousand dollars even in Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: It would be twice as much in the States.
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  Speaker 2: And the cost of doing it here, of having a
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  Speaker 2: pet here is insane.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna cost him, well, premiums cost him about four
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars a month, and if he didn't have coverage, well,
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  Speaker 2: if he took the same coverage, it would be seven
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars a month.
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  Speaker 1: So he went to a veterinarian here.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do it. It's dangerous. It's so dangerous because those
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  Speaker 2: vets are not well trained. Well they are, and so
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  Speaker 2: there was one veteran that he talk to that share
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  Speaker 2: stories of batch procedures perform south of the border, because
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  Speaker 2: batch procedures aren't done here north of the border. And
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  Speaker 2: the San Diego County Veterinary Medical Association was asked for
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  Speaker 2: a comment and said, we do not endorse or advice
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  Speaker 2: on receiving veterinary care from anyone who is not licensed
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  Speaker 2: to practice in the United States. So, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: he did it and he is thrilled doing it. Anna Djinski,
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  Speaker 2: owner of mexivet Express. They take about eighty pets to
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  Speaker 2: Tijuana veterinary clinics each week and the demand is growing.
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  Speaker 1: There's one.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the one that I find interesting because the one
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  Speaker 2: that Wes went to there was a taco stand right
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  Speaker 2: next door to the clinic. And man, that is so problematic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would have second thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Taco Gatto.
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  Speaker 2: That's very strong, that's actually very good line. Azure, how
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  Speaker 2: much do you spend on your cats, amy.
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  Speaker 1: On one particular cat, both of them, veterinary costs and insurance, etc. Well,
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  Speaker 1: until about three months ago, it was negligible. But then
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  Speaker 1: the little Shelby got sick, and I've spent over five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars on her.
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  Speaker 2: Since Holy what cat in the world is worth five
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  Speaker 2: my baby?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Shelby a handle after your crack about having
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  Speaker 3: her stuffed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now your listeners are saying that they want you to
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  Speaker 3: pay for Shelby's surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to happen in this lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got two dogs, right, how much does it
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  Speaker 2: cost you for veterinary care?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're puppies and I just got health insurance for them. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and how much is that? How much is that about
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars per dog per month? Oh that's cheap, But
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  Speaker 1: then they're puppies too, it's going to go up like crazy. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we have two dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Their teeth are falling out because I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: pay for teeth cleaning and if they get sick, okay,
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  Speaker 2: God bless them. You know you guys figure that out
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  Speaker 2: on your own. It's just way too expensive. Will do
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  Speaker 2: you have any animals?
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  Speaker 1: Just some ashes from old cats that died. Oh, because
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  Speaker 1: it looks like you've eaten some of them. Wow wow wow, Okay, No,
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  Speaker 1: the cats are very inexpensive now that they're in boxes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are, they are for sure. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: row of dead dogs at my house. Lindsey keeps all
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  Speaker 2: of her dogs, and there are five boxes of dogs,
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  Speaker 2: and she wanted to put them in the living room
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  Speaker 2: on shelving. I go, if you think I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: have a whole row of dead dog or dead dogs
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  Speaker 2: in boxes, you are crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I told you I would design you some custom earns
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  Speaker 3: that look like books.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I do that for you?
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  Speaker 2: I forgot you do you know we're going to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not going to talk about it because we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna The funny part is going to be just the
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  Speaker 2: titles on the books.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, Yeah, we're gonna have a good time. That's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Uchi goes about dog e heaven about old Yeller. That's
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  Speaker 1: not bad. You know we have I'm just thinking we
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  Speaker 1: can have a great time with that. Really can make
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  Speaker 1: you a customed Manora. How many dogs does she have?
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  Speaker 1: We have two dogs? No, but Howie died? How many?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I think we have five dogs? Five of the one.
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  Speaker 1: Five boxes a little short, but I can you accustomed, Manora? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: We make a flat half dozen in a little while.
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  Speaker 2: I have a story for you, a legal story which
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  Speaker 2: I tend to be partial to because, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: I am an attorney with a vast but very shallow
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of the law. It's very wide, quarter inch deep
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  Speaker 2: at best. So this is a story that sort of
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  Speaker 2: grabbed my attention, and it has to do with DUI tests. So,
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  Speaker 2: by a decade ago, there's a Semi Valley medical supply
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  Speaker 2: company that began providing the California Department of Justice your
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  Speaker 2: analysis tests for law enforcement agencies around the state that
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  Speaker 2: their own labs. Well you got small police departments.
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  Speaker 1: They don't, so.
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  Speaker 2: They go to outside labs. They outsource them and this
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  Speaker 2: medical supply company. And when scientific went ahead and did
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  Speaker 2: the test, turns out that the tests were in fact faulty.
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  Speaker 2: So now you have a number of criminal cases across
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  Speaker 2: California it's potentially up for review. There's about sixty law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement agencies seven DA's office that were informed that cases
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  Speaker 2: in their jurisdiction could be affected.
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  Speaker 1: Now the good.
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  Speaker 2: News for the agencies or for the yes the law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement agencies. Uranalysis tests are rarely used to prospct UIs,
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  Speaker 2: But there was an audit and the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 2: then looked at it and said, okay, only a small
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  Speaker 2: number of California DUIs and other cases involving urinalysis were
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  Speaker 2: really affected, a tiny little number. So boy did they
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  Speaker 2: get off virtually scott free. And now it's up to
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  Speaker 2: the local jurisdictions to take a deeper dive and see
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  Speaker 2: what they're going to do in terms of these tests.
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  Speaker 2: So how is it that these tests are faulty? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it turns out that the test kits this is for
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  Speaker 2: ten years up until about now and when Scientific supplied
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  Speaker 2: these kits that did not contain the necessary amount of
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  Speaker 2: a chemical compound sodium fluoride to prevent urine samples from fermenting.
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  Speaker 2: So what was happening is that the urine specimens came
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  Speaker 2: out and created a fine wine, the you know twenty
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  Speaker 2: eighteen urine wine, because the urine had fermented. Well, when
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  Speaker 2: you have fermentation, what comes out as a result of fermentation, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: what happens? What's the major product of fermentation? U?
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  Speaker 1: Sugar?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, you're making sugar and then it turns
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  Speaker 3: to alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, but it's but it turns out sugar
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  Speaker 2: hadn't quite reached alcohol yet. Although it's interesting because if
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  Speaker 2: you are drunk enough, then you're going to pee alcohol probably.
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  Speaker 2: In any case, these urine tests were fermenting and it
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  Speaker 2: turned out that there's a lot more alcohol in there,
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  Speaker 2: but the wine wasn't very good and that is what
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  Speaker 2: caused these falls. Positives or straight out increased alcoholic content.
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  Speaker 1: So there are undoing that.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, there are other tests that turned out
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  Speaker 2: to be breathalyzers that turned out to be faulty blood samples,
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  Speaker 2: particularly breatha. The lizer's not so much because those are
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  Speaker 2: calibrated I think every day. But you had blood tests
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  Speaker 2: where they go into machinery. You know, it's a scientific
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  Speaker 2: machinery that does the testing, and those could be faulty,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of those out there.
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  Speaker 1: So don't drink, okay and drive.
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  Speaker 2: I don't drink, so it's easy for me to say, Actually,
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  Speaker 2: people like going out with me because I'm always a
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  Speaker 2: designated driver.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me put it this way.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like going out with me, but they do
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  Speaker 2: because I'm always a designated driver, so they can get plastered.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't drive drunk. But I'd rather drive drunk
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  Speaker 3: than have you drive me sober.
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  Speaker 2: That's true, By the way, that is not an exaggeration.
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  Speaker 2: You can ask Neil. He's been in the car many
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  Speaker 2: times with me. It is not a pleasant experience.
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  Speaker 1: I was with in the car with you when you
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  Speaker 1: drove over a man's foot.
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  Speaker 3: I did, actually, and had no idea until I told
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  Speaker 3: you you just ran over that man.
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  Speaker 1: That is a true story.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I ran over someone's foot and then
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  Speaker 2: I started screaming at him, how what are you doing
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  Speaker 2: putting your foot under my wheel? And he goes, I didn't.
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