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Mark Levin
Newt Gingrich: Previewing New Book 'March to the Majority'
"As a playbook, because March of the Majority lays out how we negotiated with Bill Clinton and aroused public opinion, so that we got welfare reform, the largest single conservative reform in our lifetime. We have the largest capital gains tax cut in history, launching an entire extraordinary period of entrepreneurial growth. We cut regulations dramatically, helping small businesses, and we balanced the federal budget for four consecutive years for the only time in your lifetime. So there are a lot of lessons, we didn't do this because we were lucky, we did it because we worked very hard. We learned over 16 a year period, from 1978 to 1994, what worked and what didn't work. And in March, the majority, I'm giving people a chance to learn, in a free society, The what principles are the that work, how do you put together a majority, and then how do you use that majority to get the policy changes you want. That's why I think March the majority is very relevant for today, it's a history book. And do you get the sense that the Republicans in the House, McCarthy and others, are following the game plan pretty much? Well, I certainly think in the negotiations with Biden on debt the ceiling, there's no question that McCarthy outmaneuvered Biden dramatically. Biden thought he was going to get a debt ceiling with no cuts, no reforms. And it turned out that only only one out of every four Americans favored that. One of the projects I work on is called the America's New Majority the next day. and people can see it at americasnewmajorityproject .com. It was clear that only one out of every four Americans favored Biden's new majority.
The Dan Bongino Show
Tom Fitton: A Waste of 4 Hours to Testify in Front of FBI, Grand Jury
"Republican. No I know and the irony and why I wanted to have you on is I have some history with you and your group has gone after both Republicans and Democrats which is a thing good I mean for government corruption nobody should get a pass your group has a I mean it's it's it's by Lefties attacked as kind of a partisan operate but it's it's not and the irony is when you need them to turn around and do the right thing left -leaning groups like say the ACLU or the NAACP or someone like that to say hey listen you know this is this is kind of a step too far here in the wrong direction do you have a reason to be talking to Tom Fitton I mean he's done you know he's gone after people on both sides that's an anti -corruption group have you heard anything from that if they put out a statement saying oh my gosh this looks like a violation of civil liberties have you heard anything from any leftist group oh no no no I mean the usual suspects when when it became public I was testifying I didn't talk about it at the time but this is in early February you know the left mean he was celebrating writing you it know think oh Trump you know Tom is gonna turn on Trump and it's gonna be really big trouble and I went in there as I said on on Fox the other day it was like an MSNBC four for our struggle session they were arguing with me about matters of First Amendment policy for
The Dan Bongino Show
Tom Fitton: FBI Targeted Judicial Watch to Divert From Biden Scandal
"Hiding the Senate that were classified and so oh well how do we distract from that let's go after someone who would be you know who's been the number one defender of not Trump because I think Trump has right policies and such I just know he's a crime victim I know he has civil rights that are being abused and he's being targeted by this malicious agency the government and frankly the FBI and I go in there and what was really troubling about it is that one of the three I had three prosecutors can questioning me you imagine and that basically was about nothing so it was even worse than that but one of them said are you do you plan to talk about this and so he asked me that three times in a row and I said I don't know and he said well by the way you're able to if you want and I said you know what given your questions it's a little bit chilling I mean so this guy was trying to get me to swear under oath I that wouldn't be able to talk about I wouldn't talk about something that I had every right to what sort of corrupt is that and classified records words and all of that just know I was an eyewitness to the corruption they didn't ask me anything that suggests that there was anything sensitive or anything legally that they could be going after for for Trump on at least that I could see from my witness testimony what they were questioning me about and of course I know that generally from my work at Judicial Watch you know what if they brought in the head of the NAACP the head of the ACLU I'm the head of the largest government transparency group in the country one of the most well -known groups the in world the in the area of anti -fighting government corruption and they target me but let's talk about what Aragon does and what Putin does
The Dan Bongino Show
Tom Fitton: FBI Served Subpoena After Skin Cancer Surgery
"The process is punishment for them idea. I'd So like to welcome to show he's been here before Tom Fitton something happened to you Tom and I got to tell you I was freaked out this by I've warned my audience over and over that it's probably only a matter of time if you're a conservative activist before sadly you get an FBI knock on your door and you unfortunately did tell us what I did I had just gotten back I don't know almost at five o 'clock from skin cancer surgery at night but all day dealing with the procedures lying on the couch and you know an hour an hour and a half later uh it's at night it was November knock at the door was the FBI serving me with a subpoena or two nice FBI agents there male and female they hopefully pointed out that I had an Amazon package so delivered at the time but you know I'm opening the door with a giant bandage on my face and you know of course obviously they probably didn't know I had skin skin cancer surgery that day but when you use process and use a grand jury to go after someone you need to do it for good reasons because you interfere with their lives and you need to have a good reason for doing so so yeah I hold them accountable for messing with my messing with my life and my family's life for no good reason at a sense at a time because I didn't need to do it and of course you know our lawyer you know we had to go out that lawyers and such for me and you know and then of course Judicial Watch eventually got a subpoena document as well and you know said they I could come in and do a proffer and you know what a proffer is like yeah Dan you go in you have your lawyers there you're talking formally to you know to see what they need if I'm truly a witness what's the big deal you know what they did they they pulled the proffer author and
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
Algorand's Secret Plan Revealed!
"Has been kind of unfairly pushed down harder than other coins in my opinion and the morale of you know, the Algorand community the algo fam is fairly low. It's fairly low right now, but here's the thing there are a Misconceptions about what has actually happened with Algorand lately. First of all, the my algo hack happen, you know a good bit ago and a lot of people perceive that as you know Algorand got hacked. Listen Algorand didn't get hacked Algorand has never been hacked. My algo was a third -party wallet with the name my algo and people tied that and did the math in their heads really fast and said like oh like Algorand must have got hacked like Algorand had nothing to do with the creation of my algo or the reason it got hacked. Okay. So that's number one number two here is that Algorand was mentioned as a security in the bitrex case with the SEC to be clear. This is how the SEC is trying to do a workaround to call a crypto project of security instead of like going directly to court with them like they're doing with XRP. They tried to do this with nine other coins in the Coinbase case about the case for the guy that got hit for insider trading and they mentioned nine other coins that they called securities at the time there. But guess what when that case actually settled those nine coins called securities that was left out of the
Nudge
The Real Challenge of Card Counting Might Not Be What You Think
"The real challenge with card counting isn't counting the cards. It's making the casino think you're not counting cards. And this is tough. See, the human brain is a prediction making machine. The human brain is constantly anticipating and making predictions about what will happen next based on past experiences and patterns. This predictive ability that all of us have allows us to navigate the world around us and make decisions in real time. All of us experience this. When we watch a ball being thrown, our brain predicts where the ball will go and how we need to move to catch it. When we walk down a familiar street, our brain predicts what we'll see next based on our past experience. If we see something unexpected, such as a construction site, our brain registers that as a break in the prediction. When we taste food, our brain predicts what the flavor will be. If the flavor is unexpected or different from what we predicted, our brain registers the difference. When something unexpected or novel happens, our brain detects a prediction error essentially. This is why we often notice things that are out the ordinary or unusual, such as a car driving down the wrong lane on the road, a person wearing an unusual outfit, or a casual gambler who suddenly ups his bet by £500. Our brains are constantly monitoring the environment, comparing it to our predictions and detecting when there is a
Nudge
This Is Why Card Counters Can't Bankrupt Casinos
"Card counting is totally legal. But if casinos catch you counting, they'll ask you to leave. This is known in the card counting community as a backoff. Now, I think that's pretty unfair, stopping someone from playing just because they're winning too much. But it's legal. Casinos are private establishments. They have a right to refuse service. So if they notice someone counting, they'll tell them to leave. And not always in the most friendliest of ways. No, occasionally backoffs can be a pretty brutal experience. Yeah, backoff is in essence when a casino staff member will come up to you and just tell you that you can't play backjack anymore. And that's usually it. This doesn't necessarily mean that you've been kicked out of the casino. It just means that they don't want you to play backjack. And that is the sort of tamer ones tend to just be, they'll walk up to you. They'll say, hi, can we have a word? They'll take you away from the table. And they'll say something to the effect of, we've determined you're an advantage player. We're going to be backing you off from blackjack. You're welcome to play any other games you like, but no more blackjack. And that's just a nice, friendly way of doing it. And I'll say thanks, and then just carry on with my day and leave. Now, that's the sort of, that's the tamers. That's as easy as it will go. The more aggressive ones really do vary. And it just depends on the staff members in the casino that you get. So they just might be, they might want to ban you from the entire property. So that becomes, you know, trespassing. If you go back on, they might be really angry about it. They might be really aggressive. They might be demanding your ID, all sorts of things that they might do on the flip side. And I find that it really varies for me. There's a lot of the time, they're just, they're just pretty nice. Or if they're not nice, they'll just be at least very neutral about it. They might just say, we've made a business decision and we don't want you to play anymore. And they won't elaborate and they'll be talking to you like a robot. And that's fine. And other times, maybe they'll not back you off at all, but they'll just make the game
Nudge
Can Anyone Learn to Card Count? Expert Steven Bridges Weighs In
"In essence, card counting is just basically keeping an eye on every card dealt and remembering the count. Steven acknowledges that this isn't easy, but it's also not as difficult as most people assume. It's really hard to judge if anyone can learn to card count because I think in a way it's a lot easier than people think, but it's also a lot more difficult than people think. So I did this video one time with Mike Boyd and his whole thing is learning skills in a rapid amount of time. He's a very intelligent guy. So we spent a few days where I taught him to count cards and he said something that I thought was really interesting and perfectly captured the difficulty of learning to count cards. He said that when he was getting into it, he thought that learning to count would be a really complicated system that once he understood would be relatively easy to implement. But in reality, it's actually a very simple system that's very difficult to implement. So each individual element of card counting in essence, isn't that difficult with the degree of practice, but it's when you have to start putting those elements together and multitasking whilst also trying to look like a person normal at the table, just playing blackjack that it becomes difficult. And the other element is that if you're a card counter, you have such a tiny margin for error. We only get a very small advantage over the house. So if we make any mistakes, it can totally wipe out that advantage. So card counting itself, can anybody learn it? Maybe, maybe not, but getting it to the point where you're actually playing well enough to gain an advantage, I think is very difficult. It's a simple system, but it's difficult to implement.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Crypto and the Fentanyl Epidemic
"Featured story is an opinion piece by CoinDesk's Daniel Kuhn. Our piece today is entitled, Why Elizabeth Warren is Wrong about Crypto and the Fentanyl Epidemic. For a while, crypto's role in the illegal and gray area drug trade seemed swept under the rug, or at least it was not getting the attention it could have, which is good and which the Fed shuttered back in 2013. It's good because some people have a tendency to moralize about drug use, and the less crypto is linked to crime in general, the less the entire industry will be stigmatized. However, it would arguably be better to be upfront about such things, assuming they're going on, as data now suggests. If crypto ever has a shot at finding a killer use case, or mass user base who understands why blockchains are important. U .S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, is calling for a greater crypto crackdown following new research from blockchain analytics firms Chainalysis and Elliptic that found Bitcoin and Tether, or USDT, have become cornerstone to the global fentanyl trade. These are the same research companies that put out annual reports showing a fraction of a fraction of crypto transactions can be tied to illicit use. Quote, crypto is helping fund the fentanyl trade and we have the power to shut that down, Warren said, continuing, it's time. End quote. The Senator is a longtime critic of crypto, who recently made an incomprehensible anti -crypto army campaign part of her re -election bid. But does the Senator have a point? I already know what the crypto faithful will say. Chainalysis estimates less than 1 % of total crypto transactions are related to crime, so it doesn't matter if Chainalysis is now saying there's evidence. At least $37 .8 million worth of crypto was sent to drug manufacturers in China since 2018. But hold that thought, we'll get back to it. First, let's try to place crypto's alleged use for drug sales in the context of the global drug trade. To start, it's difficult to judge just how large the fentanyl economy is, because it is, by nature, kept mostly out of sight. But if Chainalysis and ellipsis figures are to be meaningful, they need context. According to one source Chainalysis cited, total quote chemical exports, end quote, from China, assumed by most authorities to be the largest manufacturer and exporter of black and gray market drugs, surpassed $100 billion in 2021 alone.
The Breakdown
Bitcoin Prehistory
"All right, friends, welcome back to another Long Read Sunday. This week we are focusing in on the work of a radically under heralded writer. That is Byron Gilliam, or Gilliam if I pronounced it wrong, Byron, I apologize. Byron is the primary newsletter writer for Blockworks and pretty consistently combines Bitcoin, crypto and macro in a way that is extremely enjoyable to read. Today, to give you a little taste of Byron's writing, we're going to do a piece that looks backwards and a piece that looks forward. We start, of course, with the backwards. The piece is from a newsletter called Crypto's Family Tree on May 30th, and it kicks off with a Chinese proverb. To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root. The good news of crypto's long ancestry. Newsletter readers, I've learned, are a savvy bunch. So if I were to ask what the first blockchain was, I'm confident you'd immediately suss it out as a trick question and decline to answer. Unless that is, you've heard of Surety, which offered a blockchain -based timestamping service for digital documents starting way back in 1995. If, like everyone else, you associate blockchains with the distributed computing systems that are Bitcoin and Ethereum, you might question how Surety could classify as such. Running algorithms on a decentralized set of computers would have been impractical in the dial -up era of the 90s. But that's not the only way to do it. Surety held customer documents on its own servers, but achieved trustlessness in a most analog manner by printing its hashes once a week in the classified section of the New York Times. That admittedly does not sound very useful by today's standards. One week block times? But I offer it here as evidence that the history of blockchains predates Satoshi's white paper of 2008. And as a fun fact to drop into conversation at your next crypto conference. But here's an even funner fact to wow your crypto friends with. That first blockchain is itself predated by smart
The Dan Bongino Show
Chloe Cole: Speaking Against Gender-Transition Treatment for Minors
"Deforming them and changing them to such a degree where they have medical problems I mean I interviewed Chloe Cole who is so brave who's out there fighting she's only 18 years old she doesn't need to be in the fight in this degree she doesn't need to be attacked in the way that she does for telling the truth she was 12 when she thought a she man was she was just looking for self -acceptance she was just looking she was going through a tough time in life as we do at 12 years figure out who you are she went on puberty blockers by 13 double mastectomy at 15 regretted a year later the same people who encouraged her to do all that abandon her when she wanted to detransition when she realized that she had made a mistake listen to what she told me, play cut for her they call it life -saving care but it's really life -threatening if anything and it's absolutely not care i mean they say that things like puberty blockers and cross -sex hormones are reversible but none of the treatments I've i've been been on which i've had i've had my puberty blocks i've been on testosterone and i underwent double mastectomy none of them were safe and absolutely none of them were reversible i'll i'll never be able to get that loss growth or my breast back ever and on top of that
The Dan Bongino Show
FBI Director Wray to Submit Key Document on Biden Bribery Scheme
"It's great to be with you always an honor to be filling in for my friend Dan I gave you guys an update last hour but in case you hadn't heard yet so FBI director Christopher Ray is finally going to be turning over a key document alleging that Joe Biden was involved in involved in a bribery game the document allegedly details a five million dollar criminal plot involving Biden during his vice presidency agency and a foreign national so there's this back and forth with James Comer ahead of the oversight committee with with Christopher Ray Christopher Ray is finally relenting so it's a win for Republicans points on the board which is good to hear which is also you know like it's not news that you know Joe Biden is involved in all this and stuff remember when he was on camera literally bragging about getting the prosecutor general fired who was a breeze breeze my holdings in Ukraine you know he flew his son on Air Force Two shukans with Chinese businessman grease the wheels for that and if you want to talk about classified documents I mean he allegedly had classified documents from the time as advice or in the Senate which is pretty crazy because you have to go into a skiff it's like whole a whole thing you've got to sign in turn your phone over so it takes some real effort to take documents from air yet you know they're going after you know Trump on the classified documents stuff even though he had the ultimate authority to classified documents so
The Dan Bongino Show
Josh Hammer: The Israeli Government Despises George Soros
"Oh I can't go there. Yeah no totally and like I get it look I mean no wants one to be called a racist sexist bigot homophobe anti -semite whatever I mean I mean no one wants to be called that like it's necessarily an unpleasant thing but you know the left is they have ways it both on this one Lisa when it comes to kind of you know large Jewish donors in particular you know Sheldon Adelson passed away a couple years ago before he passed away he was a major donor to conservative Republican Party causes oftentimes pro -israel -zionist causes Paul Singer is a current Jewish billionaire who also donates to many similar causes and you know the left criticizes these guys all the time right for having kind of size influence but you know somehow then when a conservative criticizes Soros then you're anti -semitic I mean it just doesn't make sense I mean and that's holding aside many people don't even know that George Soros is Jewish I mean you know he frankly just to be very you know kind of blunt here doesn't have a very stereotypically sounding Jewish name many people criticize because he's a pretty evil man and then they're told that he's Jewish and they're like oh I actually didn't even know that so I mean this whole thing frankly just stinks to high heaven and I think the the idea here for Jews against Soros is again just a cobble together a lot of Jewish American patriots who oppose Soros's agenda and you know what's interesting Lisa it's actually not just Jewish Americans the Israeli government actually the Netanyahu government in Israel despises George Soros because he funds lots of causes that the Israeli government hates as well so actually the Netanyahu government's minister who handles anti -semitism is a man by the name of Amichai Sheekley and you know he defended Elon Musk recently after Elon Musk criticized Soros. Mihai Shinkley liked numerous of my tweets and my tweet thread the other
Mark Levin
Josh Hammer: Timeless Principles vs. Ad-Hoc Policies in Conservatism
"Policies that were appropriate given the problems the of country and really kind of the Western world faith at that time and principles as And well you know not conscious refers to national conservatism the Yemen Burke Foundation where I'm a research fellow is kind of the home for that we host these national conservatism conferences really kind of trying to build on the momentum That former President Trump kind of ushered in when he was elected president 2016 trying policies to immigration take certain trade foreign policy and study more kind of nationalist direction I would say trying to kind of take social and economic policy in a direction that really tries to make America a little more whole and communitarian away from the liberalization of prior decades Well I don't disagree with that necessarily but I do have some questions because I looked into some of this which national conservatism honestly I never heard of it before but that's my fault I haven't read about it One of my concerns here and I would like you to try dissuade me from this I'm concerned that that it could push sort of a government centric industrial policy and if not what are the limits on that? In other words I understand we don't have a free market but I also understand that it's the market system that creates all the wealth in this country Government doesn't create it regulations don't create it nothing creates it but we the people so what have do you in mind in that regard because I don't quite understand that? Well first of all I think it's worth pointing
The Breakdown
Wait, Crypto Caused the Fentanyl Crisis?!
"Moving over to crypto, the US discourse continues to be defined by toxic politicians. Elizabeth Warren has found yet another way to jam her anti -crypto agenda into the limelight, this time unbelievably blaming crypto for the opioid epidemic. During a Senate banking hearing where senior administration officials were assembled to discuss how to counter China across national security, economic security, and foreign policy, Warren took the opportunity to question a Treasury official about crypto's use in purchasing fentanyl precursor chemicals from Chinese manufacturers. According to recent data, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic identified 90 China -based firms willing to supply fentanyl precursors and found that around 90 % of those firms accepted crypto payments. Elizabeth Rosenberg, the US Treasury Department's Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, answered Warren's question about the trade by acknowledging that quote, The reason why they would find this appealing is the same reason that other financial criminals would find it appealing, which is to say there's an element of pseudonymity that they seek. Now, getting to her real point, Warren responded with a renewed call for lawmakers to reconsider her digital asset anti -money laundering act, stating that the bill would be reintroduced in this Congress. Warren's bill would, of course, put in place onerous restrictions on the use of crypto to the point that some suggest it amounts to an attempt to ban the technology from US shores. Now, the Senator has precious little support for such draconian legislation, reportedly unable to even find sufficient sponsors among her colleagues to bring the bill to the Senate floor. Warren put a stamp on her point, saying crypto is helping fund the fentanyl trade and we have the power to shut that down. It's time. Lady of Crypto writes, Saying crypto funds fentanyl trade is baseless and an obvious play on people's fears. Cash has been used to fund drug trade for centuries. Not only is cash used to facilitate drug transactions, you can also roll it up and snort some drugs. Cash is the perfect tool for buying and using drugs. Ban cash. But crypto? A blockchain is a public ledger, which makes it far less attractive for facilitating drug transactions.
The Dan Bongino Show
Gregg Jarrett: The FBI Needs to Be Dismantled and Reconstructed
"On the scobes uh... monkey trial so that's a fascinating topic i want to talk about but are you a lawyer a dictator you are one of the guys who blew the doors off of the collusion hoax in the spygate scandal one of which was real spygate one of which wasn't and we're seeing the same playbook again greg of this is just incredible how many times the f -b -i's getting away with this i mean they have this document according to this whistleblower this ten twenty three they're not denying its existence where it's alleged that a reliable source to the fbi brought forward credible information about a five million dollar bribe to the guy sitting in the white house and the fbi is again just withholding if i mean what do we need to do to get some credibility back to this agency well i have long argued that the fbi needs to be mantled and reconstructed with honest people at the top and it's not you know it's not agents the in the field that those are honorable hard -working people they're brave they keep us safe no it's the seventh floor of the hoover building and you know commie and mccabe and understruck and jim baker and the whole gang kevin klein smith they ruined the fbi i they politicized uh... what was once the premier law enforcement and see in america they weaponized it for political purpose is and they did it obviously in the russia hoax and uh... you know they're still at it other running a protection racket along with the department of justice in merrick garland protecting the in family crime syndicate uh... there's a plethora of evidence of influence lean schemes that would normally constitute crimes but for
The Dan Bongino Show
Gregg Jarrett: The FBI Chose Not to Further Investigate the Bidens
"Me about this and you have a lot of experience in the spaces you know well that that source information where they go they go to the f b i in order for you to present in front of a judge to get an arrest or a search warrant that it will be sick prongs us worse can't just walk in and say great jerry rob the bank well you have any evidence no no but i think i think he's gonna it's not the way any of this works uh... we have to do is you have to show one of these two things you have to have presented reliable information in the past or the information if you're a first -time source has to be precise enough that the f b i can do some leg work and verify some independent facts you've given them that apparently what works the most according to the reporting of the great margot cleveland centerpiece in the federalist that at the whistle -blower saying that not only was this a trusted f b i suppose but the information was size so the f b i that they can your lawyer on that but the f b i has no reasonable exit ramp off this highway as to why they wouldn't have investigated this yeah absolutely and the fbi is taking the position oh you know we looked into it just trust us we took care of it nothing to see here let's move you'd have to be an idiot to believe and trust the fbi given their track record you know just look at the last presidential election in which they tried throw to it in favor and indeed throw it in favor of joe biden when they directed and pressured social media companies to censor and suppress the laptop story to protect joe biden no i don't trust the fbi and and james comer the chairman of the oversight committee who wants this smoking undocumented that's what it is uh... doesn't trust them either uh... you know they have no legitimate basis not to produce an unclassified document if they're concerned this is a confidential informant redact his name but they must comply with the subpoena and so the of the choice here is either criminal contempt of
The Dan Bongino Show
Disinformation Expert Explains How Lefties Fuel Right-Wing Infighting
"Bad guys it happens all the time these convinced people are leftist listen to this guy explain how they infiltrate our movement and us get to fight amongst each other check this out i don't think they secret so we manufacture a lot of infighting that's real effective and that's much more effective to paralyze organizations than exposing johnny because when johnny be leaves filled he'll by someone else so we try to really focus organization basically deep platforming is denying far -right fascist folk any sort of public sphere access you know denying them the ability to speak because the belief is the argument is that hate speech is more than speech its reality it's organizing its mobilization it's not an exchange of ideas in the marketplace and best one wins it's something else it's the strategic deployment of organizational energy and power and to deny people back to shut down their website to close their meetings to physically prevent them from assembling public this is the belief oh don't listen to me listen to them to my friends out there in the conservative libertarian republican and even the same democrat movement they're doing this on purpose you just heard him say it this guy who's part of this big information group trying to censor people that they love to foster a on division the right by basically infiltrating groups and getting the in -fight can you imagine a better in
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"TED Talks daily brings you a new TED Talk every weekday. We get it. It is grim out there sometimes. So take a few minutes away from the news to hear about the bigger ideas that are shaping this generation. Coming up, how can philanthropy be democratized? How do we close the orgasm gap? How is Gen Z fighting polarization and more? Listen to ted-talks daily to make your daily routine a little brighter. Find it now wherever you get your podcasts. Hi. I'm Ivan viria. I'm a staff writer for the LA times covering TV and I also co host our awards podcast, the envelope. I spend my days talking with the creative minds behind your favorite shows to find out what goes into their art. And we have been dedicated to keeping you informed every step of the way. But none of it would be possible without your support. Consider subscribing to the LA times. And you'll get access to diverse perspectives on the news of today all from the West Coast point of view. Head over to LA times dot com slash exclusive to subscribe today. And now comes our traditional moment of joy, where we ask our masters what's bringing them good vibes during these scary shaky times. Ron, what's bringing you joy right now? Um. Oh, wow, this is a first time. What is bringing me joy right now? You know, what's bringing me joy is spending time with family. The lunar new year just happened. And I got the chance to spend a lot of time with family and friends, got to see the Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco. And it's times like this that you kind of want to cherish that time as much as possible. Rosanna, what about you? I mean, it's really hard to think about joy right now, but I will say that I've been feeling some renewed hope and humanity just seeing how much of the world has come together to send help to turkey and Syria. So my two cents here would be to add that thousands and thousands and thousands of people will still need help days and weeks and months from now long after we've stopped talking about this earthquake as the news of the day. So don't forget to help even a year or 5 years from now. I'll be back next month with a happier answer. That I think that's very joyful just seeing, you know, people help. Helping is always joy. Humanity is always joy. Ron, Rosanna, thank you so much for this very special episode of masters of disasters. Thank you. Thank you. Everyone out there, please be safe. LA times subscribers are everywhere. Your friend, who does the research weeks before the election, or the coworker, who somehow always predicts awards show winners. Yeah, it's easy to spot a subscriber. Learn more at LA times dot com slash subscribe. And that's it for this episode of the times. Essential news from the LA times. Ashley Brown Castro brasilian David the letter with a hepatitis episode. It was edited by hiba Eller body and Mario Diaz mixed and mastered it. Our show is produced by Denise rakia berson David Toledo nationally Brown. Our editorial assistants are Roberto Rees and Nicholas Perez, our fellows Helen Lee, engineers are Mario Diaz marketing at the McKesson. Our executive producers are has shani Hilton and hibbert urbani and our theme music is by Andrew Evan. I'm Gustav Ariana. We'll be back Wednesday with all the news in this month. Gracias.
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"Buildings. I backtrack my, I have some hope. And yeah, I mean, this just brings to mind this saying that Ron and I hear a lot in the earthquake world. Earthquakes don't kill people buildings do. If an earthquake happened in like the middle of nowhere and there were no buildings where people, life goes on. But it's the buildings that collapse onto you that is what leads to all this devastation. And you know what Ron just said, I think the thing that really stood out to me when I was covering the New Zealand quake is that the building codes, the older buildings, especially in California, reflect a lot of the older buildings that you see collapsing in other parts of the world. And so you can't just say, oh, that's happening in turkey, we're different. And I feel like this earthquake is just such a sobering wake-up call and yeah, like Ron said, some of the laws have been passed, but a lot of the work in the follow through has not happened. I retract my statement. No, but the optimism is warranted. I mean, San Francisco, the stuff that I'm getting out of San Francisco is that they are moving towards some kind of resolution. Hopefully soon, relatively soon. In terms of non ductal concrete issues. So I think that hope is there. And I think if cities keep on moving, toward getting these buildings retrofitted, that'll help. I mean, and to be fair, Long Beach, San Jose, they are trying to work on retrofitting soft story apartment buildings, which represents huge progress. And so there is hope, but you would also hope that we could do multiple things at the same time rather than doing things one by one. So where's the safest place then? To be in during an earthquake. Camping in a field far away from any trees. What's really true is that when do you feel shaking if you're inside drop cover and hold on? It's something that I think people who grew up in California know by heart, but maybe. People who moved here, they may want to run out and probably one of the worst things you can do, especially if you're in a brick building is to run out because those bricks from that kind of snazzy Brooke building that might feel cool. The thing that usually happens is that the brick falls onto the sidewalk. So you want to drop cover and hold on, wait until the shaking happens. If it looks like there's any structural damage, calmly, exit the building because you don't know when that aftershock is going to happen. Yeah, and not to be doom and gloom. So earthquakes don't kill people buildings do, and then after the buildings come the fires and I think that it isn't just this one moment in time that happens as we're seeing in turkey and Syria too, but the number of fires that can spark and really ripple across even broader areas beyond the epicenter and where the earthquake actually hit can be devastating as well. Fires fires fires everywhere, not enough water to put them out. So basically the two of you are saying we should always be freaked out about what earthquakes can cause. So how can we prepare to be less freaked out about them? So I think a big part of it is just being prepared, right? We put people on the moon, we should be able to engineer our buildings to better resist earthquakes. So if you're a homeowner, you don't want your home sliding off in a quake. That'll cost hundreds of $1000 to repair. If you have a home built before 1980 and there's a few steps between the ground and in your house, go to earthquake brace bolt dot com, you might be eligible for money to retrofit your home. If you're a building owner of an apartment that has these kind of flimsy poles holding up the building for car ports, you know, really look at getting that apartment retrofitted. Ding. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. And everyone, if you smell gas after shaking, you do the research now to know, do you have a tool to shut off your gas? That's going to be a big help. And you know, if you're forward thinking, maybe consider installing an automatic earthquake shutoff valve, so when there's intense shaking in a quake, the gas automatically shuts off, yes, you'll have to get it turned back on. But there are a bunch of people who would imagine that better to get that shut off right after the quake before the House blows up. What about you, Rosanna? So I have this habit where every 6 months, I set a reminder that goes off of my phone to check my earthquake kit. The things I usually have to refresh are like the canned foods and granola bars that do expire and also just refreshing my cases of bottled water because the plastic can get a little warpy after a few years. And I actually just swapped out my earthquake water supply yesterday. I have ten new one gallon jugs under my bed and I'm boiling the water from the old ones to cook and clean and stuff and I guess this would be my unapologetic plug to check out on shaken are series that are amazing team on the utility dust did a couple months ago on just breaking down all the things that you can do to prepare your earthquake kit. Gustavo, how much water are you supposed to store? I have one of those big packs that I buy from Home Depot. So whatever that is. Also, I should say, now would be a really good time Gustavo to finally strap in your bookcases for people who can't see what Ron and I see every time we tape with Gustavo, he records in this cave where he's surrounded by shelves and shelves and shelves of books and stuff that can all topple down on top of him in
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"Right? So think of it when you're dealing with a toddler and you're trying to figure out is it going to be just a little bit of a meltdown or like a long meltdown. That's kind of the same thing with earthquakes actually. The thing is where's the baby bottle for the earthquake? Exactly, right? So basically, it's like we know what earthquakes, how the earthquakes start. But when you see the earthquake start, you just don't know if it's going to just end at a magnitude two, or if it'll be something much worse. So that's part of the issue is that they are just very random. And there's just no way to do it. It's pretty much the stuff of science fiction to think that you could immediately know hours or days in the future or weeks in the future exactly when a damaging earthquake is going to happen at the exact time. But doesn't California have an app that tells you when an earthquake is happening? That's right, but the app is basically alerting people farther away from the earthquake that an earthquake has started. And it's on your way. So it's basically like, you know, just letting you know a few seconds before the shaking arrives. But the earthquake has already started. It's just an early warning system, so to speak. All right. But even if you can't predict, I think these early warnings, I just wanted to really hammer on the point. Even a few seconds can make a difference. They can prevent gas leaks if we have automatic shutoffs. If you're in the middle of getting brain surgery, the surgeon would know to stop and do whatever protocol they can do. And the few seconds of a heads up that they have. I do think these early warnings, even though they're not actually predicting earthquakes, could make a huge difference. Yeah, no, totally. And Rosanna, we were talking earlier about just economic devastation. And so when an earthquake of this magnitude happens, how long is the recovery process? Yeah, I mean, the first thing that comes to mind actually is just the timing of any given earthquake in some ways is everything. With the one that just hit turkey and Syria, recovery teams are currently trying to sift through all the rubble while it's snowing and raining and, you know, the people who have been trapped for days waiting for rescue, they're trapped in freezing temperatures. There's never a good time for an earthquake as large as this one, but right in the middle of winter might actually be the worst. You're really racing against the clock here with how long someone's able to survive in such extreme weather before rescue team actually finds and reaches the person. And even when it's not snowing, it's usually pure chaos after an earthquake this large. Roads, water supply, salt towers, so many of the systems that we rely on to communicate to travel to reach people can crumble in an instant. You know, I've been thinking a lot in these last few days about just how you even physically count an account for more than 12,000 bodies in such a short span of time. And none of this is even recovery, right? We're still in the rescue and survival phase of this earthquake. Maybe Ron could talk more about what it takes to actually recover and rebuild and whether people even come back to a place after they've been displaced by disaster. I mean, Ron, you went back to New Zealand like 7, 8 years after the 2011 earthquake, right, to see how Christ church had recovered, and you were telling me a lot of downtown still felt like a ghost town. Yeah, it really did. And the unfortunate thing, we all talk about recovery as if we can get back to exactly what it was like before the earthquake. But the troubling secret is, is that you don't ever get there. I mean, if you look at the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, you could argue that San Francisco never really truly recovered. Or that it took many, many decades to do so because a lot of people just moved out of San Francisco. Moved to the east bay. Even if you look at downtown Los Angeles after the northridge quake, there were a lot of brick buildings, and all those lots that now exist like randomly and downtown LA. You know, a lot of those were taken down after the 94 northridge earthquake. So earthquakes will irreparably change a place forever. And it's about how do you improve the situation going forward. But you can never really get back to where you were before the earthquake. Yeah, and in a place like Syria and turkey and that whole area with just the geopolitics and the conflicts that already happening, I mean, I think even in a place like California rebuilding is so bureaucratic and so political, I'm a heartbroken and she's like, I don't even know where to start to think about what recovery will look like in the areas that I've been hit. So that's why it's so important to prevent the damage before it happens. That's the best way to avoid having to even think about
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"The ultimate disaster that's always on the back of the minds of Californians has happened. The big one hit. In turkey and Syria, rescuers are racing to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings, brought down by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks. At the time of this recording over 35,000 people confirmed dead, and the counts rising. With morgues and cemeteries overwhelmed in many areas of the turkey quake zone, bodies lie wrapped in blankets, rugs and tarps in the streets of some cities. Rescue teams from all over the world quickly descended upon the wreckage, including those from the Los Angeles County fire department. President Joe Biden says the U.S. is providing $85 million in initial earthquake aid to turkey and Syria. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes so far in the 21st century and the carnage in turkey and Syria has many of us in California beyond thinking. How could we prepare when something like this happens here? I'm Gustav ariano. You're listening to the times. Essential news from the LA times. It's Monday, February 13th, 2023. Today, we explore the aftermath of this earthquake, look at some of the deadliest ones in history, and ask whether we ever learned from them. Now, this is technically an episode of mass of disastrous. But I'm not going to ask for music at this time, Maestro. Because honestly, I'm scared. I don't like earthquakes. Don't like them at all. Ever since I fell from the top bunk during the 1987 Whittier narrows one here in Southern California. And that one was just a magnitude 5.9. A broken collarbone is nothing compared to what's going on right now, of course. But still, I'll admit it. I'm scared. So thank God we have our masters of disasters here to calm us in these shaky times. Joining us as always in the earthquake chair is Ron land, Ron, what song do you think when you're scared? I just start counting. Usually it's when an earthquake is actually happening and just start counting. Yeah, no, anything to just keep you calm. Although county, that's scary 'cause what happens if you count more than ten? Exactly. Anyways, our Cassandra the coast has always as Rosanna sha who also used to cover earthquakes. Do you miss covering them Rosanna? I feel like I never quite escaped them. I mean, we do live in California. And this will probably be the theme of today, but you should never, ever stop thinking about earthquakes. Yeah, too often too many of us do sadly. So Ron, what made the earthquake in turkey so devastating? So this was a supersized quake directly underneath a heavily populated area. A magnitude 7.8 quake is massive. It's something that we haven't seen in California since the 1906 great earthquake that nearly wiped off San Francisco. People might remember being afraid of the northridge earthquake of 94, which was a magnitude 6.7. But if you think about it, the strongest shaking really only affected the San Fernando valley. If you're an Orange County, it wasn't that bad. But a 7.8 would be catastrophic with violent shaking all over Southern California. And you know what's crazy about that 94 quake, it wasn't that bad in Orange County and yet the swimming pool of my parents. It completely emptied out and flooded our living room just because of the waves. Yeah, no, it got that bad. And it's not just the earthquakes themselves Ron. There's always aftershocks and in turkey just hours later, there was also a big aftershock. So how did that further affect what's happening? Right. So first, let's explain what an aftershock is. And aftershock is just a fancy word for a follow-up earthquake. It doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be not a big deal, which I think a lot of people think of. And think of earthquakes as relieving strain, people think that strain is relieved, but that strain doesn't just disappear. It will also transition onto other faults. And that transitioning onto other faults is what causes subsequent earthquakes. And so in the turkey, the turkey quakes are really interesting. So you had the first 7.8 quake that happened before dawn in the dark. And then 9 hours later, there was this 7.5 quake, which is a mega quake in and of itself with an epicenter of 60 miles away. And we all saw on TV how buildings collapse from that one. So it's just super important to remember that sometimes it's the second quake that's going to be the one that could kill you. We have examples of that, you know, a lot of people probably remember the ridgecrest quakes from a few years back. There was that quake that happened at night. And then just a little while later, it was actually a bigger quake that happened sometime later. And one thing to remember is that the last time supersized Quaker 7 point happened in Southern California was in 1857. And it was actually preceded by two smaller quakes, a 6.1 and a 5.6 in central California, and then we got the mass of 7.8 quake. So just remember that when the 7.8 happens, wherever you are, that doesn't necessarily mean it's over, there could be a pretty big massive quake just like we saw in turkey, a subsequent quake that could be the one that causes the problem for wherever you are in that area. And Ron, any time there's an earthquake that big, 7.8, 7.5 in areas with a lot of people, thousands are going to die, like what we've seen in turkey in Syria. When was the last time we had an earthquake this deadly? Yeah, I mean, just in 1999, there was an earthquake in northwestern turkey that killed about 17,000 people. Unfortunately, we have had even deadlier earthquakes. The Haiti earthquake in 2010, that killed somewhere in excess of 200,000 people. Oh my God. Yeah, and I mean, there's just so many over our lifetime. Rosanna, any come to mind to you? Yeah, I mean, to have to run this list, there was also that devastating earthquake in China in 2008 in the citron province where I think there was more than 87,000 people that died, that earthquake was also a magnitude 7.9. And I mean, I'll just add that it's surreal just to talk about so many earthquakes that killed thousands of people. Tens of thousands. Yeah, and the first earthquake I actually personally followed as a reporter was the one that hit New Zealand in 2011. That was a 6.2 earthquake that ruptured right under the city of Christchurch, which has a similar kind of building makeup as downtown Los Angeles. And that earthquake alone felt pretty huge to me. Like watching an entire concrete office building completely collapse onto itself. And the death total there was only a 185 people, which was extremely overwhelming to me at the time. So I'm honestly still processing the tens of thousands of people that have been killed in these other earthquakes and the thousands and thousands of people that were killed in turkey and Syria. The death toll just keeps growing every day every hour I check the news. And we often talk about the death toll after an earthquake, but the number of people displaced and also the number of people who have serious injuries that often get forgotten or are buried in the bottom of a report, but that's also worth noting. It's not just the tens of thousands of people that are dead. It's also the many thousands and millions that are still alive that have to live with the aftermath of just so much devastation. Yeah, and the people in turkey and Syria are going to have to deal with this for years, if not decades. So Ron, we now have cars that can drive themselves and chat bots that can write crappy essays. Why are we still so bad at predicting
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"The letter arrived at the Los Angeles department of water and power in early September, but we also saw a similar letter cropping up at other public agencies. And the letter warned that forcing an employee at the LA DWP to wear a mask, get tested or be vaccinated against COVID would be, quote, an affront to a Christian and a violation of federal laws that ban religious discrimination. This letter and others like it have become must have tools for California public employees who don't want to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The document looks and sounds very official. It was signed by someone who describes himself as the pastor of true hope ministry. A veritable cottage industry has sprung up to help employees fight workplace mandates. Using religious freedom as their shield. It can be purchased online for $195 as part of a vaccine exemption concierge program. I'm Gustav Ariana, you're listening to the times, daily news from the LA times. It's Monday, February 28th, 2022. Today, my colleagues large a Nelson and Connor sheets bring us their investigation into this murky world. They look into what constitutes a deeply held religious belief. How those beliefs can play out in the workplace, and what employers can do about questionable religious exemption requests. Laura Connor, welcome to the times. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Laura, how did this investigation begin? Well, I've been covering vaccine issues for the better part of a year kind of off and on. Starting around the time that the vaccine was first brought to market in California. We're fighting for government intrusion into someone's ability to choose whether or not they need to be vaccinated. Following its distribution and then kind of the rise of these exemption policies and how different workplaces are handling issues of the vaccine. The New York City mayor's office says more than a thousand workers who failed to comply with the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate have been fired. We shouldn't be told that we're going to lose our jobs that we're going to lose our freedoms that our children aren't going to be able to go to school. Stand up and stop these mandates. And I learned about this organization called true hope ministry and the people who run it, David and Peggy hall through other stories that we've done. Hey Friends, it's Peggy hall here, and I am back with Peggy to the rescue. Peggy is a vocal anti mask advocate in Orange County, and she runs a website with her husband that has classes and consulting packages that teach people how to avoid mask and vaccine mandates. And she's also prolific on YouTube and on Facebook Live. Friends, let's talk about the 5 steps you need to do in order to get your religious exemptions. You can download this flyer. She gives detailed step by step instructions on how employees can request an exemption from vaccine mandates for religious reasons. Like invoking your federal rights. Just like you can not require a Muslim to remove her veil and you can not require a seek to remove his turban. You can not force me to not breed and requesting reasonable accommodation. Do not accept unpaid leave as an accommodation. It's not an accommodation. Peggy has dozens of videos like this. She's not a lawyer, but she walks people through the legal protections that are in place, including federal, anti discrimination laws that can help them avoid vaccine mandates in their workplaces. So wait, this woman helps people prepare their religious exemption letters in order to avoid these vaccine requirements and she does this all via YouTube channel? Yeah, on YouTube and on her website, her website sells these consulting packages that teach people how to get a religious exemption from the vaccine. There's one option that includes access to a weekly call where people can ask questions about their own situations at work, and that costs a $195. There's also a package that promises a private 20 minute phone call with Peggy and her husband and that costs $495. And people who buy those consulting packages get access to a letter from this organization called true hope ministry that they can submit to their employer, explaining that their religious beliefs don't allow them to take the vaccine. And that letter is signed by Peggy's husband, David hall, who describes himself as a pastor. When I asked him where he was ordained, he said he was, quote, ordained by the Holy Spirit under the authority of Jesus Christ. The true hope ministry letter is not available for free online, but there are others that are. I mean, there's churches and nonprofit legal groups that share sample letters online for people to copy, and employees copy and paste these messages and submit them in their workplaces. And those are spread through word of mouth, on Facebook, and on telegram, the messenger app, among people who are trying to find ways to get out of vaccine mandates. So Connor, these letters get sent to different employers all over the place, which employers did you and Laura decide to investigate. So we submitted records requests for more than 20 public agencies across California, and we chose public agencies because they're subject to public records request law. And we looked for communications from employees seeking religious exemptions and communications between the employees and their employers. And we reached out to major universities fire departments, law enforcement agencies, and other agencies throughout Southern California and beyond. We received 2200 documents over 2200 documents in response. We could see what people stated in their exemption requests, but we couldn't see their names in some cases their positions. But we were able to see what people were telling their employers about their religious beliefs. So really, this was a way to peel back the curtain and see how this whole system works. What we found was broadly across all these different agencies. There's a critical mass of people requesting exemptions. Some agencies, including the Orange County sheriff's office, almost half the people were required to be vaccinated had requested religious exemptions. Some people personally expressed their own religious beliefs. Some people clearly use their own language, use their own wording to do so, but a large percentage of these requests included language that was either downloaded off the Internet or excerpted from online materials. Several letters that we reviewed included statements identical to those on the website of defending the republic, a Texas group led by Sidney Powell and conspiracy theorists and lawyer connected to former president Trump. And some letters, including the one from true hope ministry included inaccurate information and raised concerns about the vaccine that were not related to religion. For instance, they had heard that it could have negative impacts on their health or other erroneous concerns. And others were written by pastors who have online congregations and they would claim these some of these people as members of their congregations, whether or not there was really any direct link between them prior to the obtaining of the exemption. Experts have said that because the protections of this law are expansive, this system is also ripe for abuse. It's really difficult to prove whether someone who's requesting a vaccine exemption is lying. And there are some employers that are the exception to this rule and are kind of taking a deeper look at what employees are saying. But many companies and the public employers that we looked at, some of them are not willing to take the time or the effort or risk the possibility of a lawsuit to really dig into these.
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"I just wonder, I was going to ask you, you know, after all this time, as an editor, what keeps you awake at night. And I just wonder whether thinking about Marie does that? Yeah, look, we love Marie and a very incredibly sad about what happened. And we really worry about our foreign correspondence in war zones. I mean, Anthony Lloyd was kidnapped in Syria. It was one of the worst days of my life. And he amazingly managed to escape got shot in the process. It got away. And the dangers for foreign correspondence now are incredible, especially across the Middle East. Where they're actually taking captive and would have been traded. I think Anthony would have been traded and quite possibly executed. So it was shocking what's happening. And it already northern Africa. It's almost impossible to report because of Islamic State expanding. And the dangers are incredible. So people are getting we know very little really what's happened in Syria because reporters aren't going in. So terrible things may be happening. And they go unreported because of the hostility, whereas before they would help foreign correspondence. They would look after them, and that's disappeared. Do you worry about the pressure that you put on foreign correspondents for example? I wonder whether you've had to dial it down as it becomes more data. No, we try to encourage them not to take the risks, but they are by nature often risk takers. And in Marie's case, she was taking risks the foreign editor tried to get her out. But Marie was an extraordinary person and just wanted to report it. And there is no doubt she was deliberately targeted by assets people and killed. And do you still ten years on reflect on that and worry about whether there was anything more you could have done? I don't think we've did an extraordinary amount of detail looking into what happened. I don't think because she was her own person and determined to do what she wanted to do. I don't think we could have stopped her. The photographer with her trying to get her out. And she wouldn't. Because she was formidable. And had taken risks. I mean, she'd lost an eye and Sri Lanka. But she was extremely very person. You've been editor of the times for 9 years. You're at The Sunday Times for 18 years before that. You've just turned 70, happy birthday. Are you planning to retire any time soon? Not unless I'm retired. Any side of that? I love it. Look, it's incredibly privileged job. And every day is interesting and different and I come in with a spring in my step thinking, what's going to happen today and how do we report it? So I'm incredibly lucky to do this job. How many more prime ministers do you think you'll see while you're out there? And last question, you're a giant of fleet street. What do you think your legacy will be? I hope that we've made the times and Sunday times successful financially stable with good journalists. We're going to incredibly talented journalists on these titles. And that they will survive for another 200 plus years. That's a key objective. We had just guardians of these titles, and we have to establish them to be successful for the future. Good luck with that, John with their times, thank you so much for joining us on the media show today. Thank you very much..
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"So, talking with Jessica got us thinking, what more can we learn from even earlier pandemics? We covered 20th century ones with Jessica, but what about the Black Death, smallpox, cholera? All the other ones that ravaged the world in earlier centuries. Those arguably even left bigger pockmarks on society. What can those pandemics from the past teach us about how we live today? Frank's note and knows he's professor emeritus of history at Yale and has spent the last 40 years looking at how pandemics have changed society. Frank, welcome to the times. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be with you. You've said before that each pandemic had its own personality and its own time and place. What do you mean by that? I mean that, first of all, microbes have no agency. They don't have a design to infect us. And they reach us only through ways that we ourselves create. Something that we often forgot. A good example would be you mentioned asiatic cholera, which is the most dreaded disease of the 19th century. It was the perfect disease spread by the oral fecal route for the era of the industrial revolution in its takeoff with massive urbanization that was unplanned and had an infrastructure that was overwhelmed by people moving to cities working in factories and workshops and all the rest of it. And this led to catastrophic sanitary conditions, but the establishment of the sanitary revolution in the 19th century transformed that. We don't any longer experience asiatic cholera as a major problem..
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"Shut all disasters be forgot and never brought to mind. That would be a wonderful life, but ain't this one. 2021 was a bad year for disasters, drought, oil spills, bomb cycles, wildfire omicron, yet if you're listening, you survive. Angular, you're listening to the times, daily news from the LA times. It's Tuesday, December.
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"Carlos Morales is the founder of east side bike club in Los Angeles, a group dedicated to empowering Latino cyclists and giving them a presence in the city and county. He also owns Stan's bike shop in a zuza, California. So if you hear any clanging in the background, it's because people are working on bikes. Carlos, welcome to the times. Thank you very much. Your life is bikes, all bikes. So how do you get into this life and how did it lead to you creating the side bike club? Back in 2008, the doctors, Carlos, your morbid obese, at the time, I wait 400 pounds. The doctors words were saying part of if you don't lose weight now, you know a lot of people and those people are gonna be at your funeral. And that's when it really hit hard and then I started to get on a bike in northeast Los Angeles. And I asked my Friends that I need your help to ride and my initial ride started with by officers back in 2008. Streets and cities in general. They're not designed with cyclists in mind. So that's why a lot of times cyclists will be stopped for supposedly an infraction, whatever, and they don't even know that they're in fraction on anything, you know. So what is it like to navigate that area northeast LA LA county on a bicycle? What are the bigger issues? Well, actually, the issues are many dealing with motorists first of all opening the doors on you, giving you what's called a right hook or a left hook where you're coming down and they cut you off at a driveway or what have you. Another issue is education. The motorist, the cyclists and the pedestrians that we have to live together on the streets of LA, the third element is law enforcement. Carlos, you've talked about how friendly police were with you on the east side bike clubs and I go run..
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"Syphilis cases were already surging nationwide before the arrival of COVID-19. Then the pandemic hit. Clinics at screen people for sexually transmitted diseases closed. Health workers who focused on syphilis cases were reassigned to COVID-19 duties. It's a maelstrom that allowed syphilis to explode. There's a way out of this epidemic. Syphilis is curable. And if we can get more pregnant people tested and treated in time, that'll protect their babies, too. So are we going to do it? Emily Albert ray is covers public health for the Los Angeles Times and has covered this issue. Emily, welcome to the times. Thanks so much for having me. Remind us of what syphilis is and why it's so dangerous. So syphilis is a bacterial infection. It's usually sexually transmitted. It can cause sores. And if it's not treated, it can become much more serious. It can eventually affect your internal organs and your nervous system. And it can be extremely serious for babies who can be infected with it in the womb if the pregnant person has syphilis. So it increases the risk of stillbirth as well as neurological problems, bone deformities, blindness potentially. And it can also make it more.
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"Let's back up back before the protests before silva's stood on those steps. Gus screamed at to beginning silva's beginning. When he was a baby he was found by lapd. Officers near sixth and san pedro streets in skid row less than a mile from that spot where the young protesters screamed in his face last year. My mom was a crack addict and a prostitute so she was working I was found on top of a dumpster in a car seat Officers had observed me. They contacted a the social services. I was taken immediately What not sure if my mother was arrested but You know further moving. I was put in to a foster home. Because of his biological mother's addiction silva battled with developmental delays from the exposure. I in foster care later. He was adopted in raising a blended family. His mom's white his dad's latino. He grew up in baldwin park and west covina in the nineties and early two thousands and have a lot of latino neighbors and friends but few black ones and as a teenager he says he was racially profiled on multiple occasions by police. I remember certain occasions when i will be walking. And officers would see me and they probably see a black male and they they slow down they look and i kind of like get that uncomfortable feeling like oh crap. I already knew what was going on. I'm being profiled and i kind of my heartbeat would go mar. It's get sweaty just the whole Shebang and i kind of look over. And i kind of wave and what i get back was just a dirty look. And you're kinda like okay. What's going on. And then they pulled over on the street and then you continue walking and then they slowly follow you. That was not on a day to day basis but the happened frequently after high school. Civil was not thinking about becoming a police officer. I you worked at a pizza place. Then at best buy then. He started working as a case manager with homeless clients trying to find them housing that last job he really liked. It seemed important him and it was on the job when silva met. Lapd officer who also worked with people experiencing homelessness that officer told silva he'd make a great cop at first civil wasn't so sure he knew some people and his family would be very skeptical but the more he thought about it the more. It seemed like something he'd like so he took the lead he joined the police department and graduated from the police academy in twenty thousand nineteen and after a probationary period and rampart division. He requested a permanent placement. In the central division the central division is home to some of la's poorest neighborhoods and poorest residents it's also home to skid row where officer silva was found as a baby. He wanted to be there to give back. So let's fast forward now back to the night where that viral video was captured silva normally worked patrol downtown. But that night had been given protests duty. A grand jury in louisville kentucky had declined to charge police officers there in the fatal shooting of a black woman named brianna taylor and some big crowds had gathered downtown. La civil was stationed outside of lapd headquarters. I remember Gearing up Going right there in front of a police headquarters standing on the steps holding my post. I remember all the protesters kind of Walking by the first time and they weren't as rowdy they walked through. They went all the way down spring street and at once they started working their way back. That's when we heard over the radio that hey things are kind of getting out of hand. They were starting to kind of vandalize businesses as the crowd grew in front of headquarters silva moved up and stood near the line of gates. A few young protesters in horror masks came up and they started taunting him tossing out racial slurs and flashing the middle finger and his face. By that time. I've been. I was well trained and i was kind of used to it. But i'm not gonna lie in the beginning i was. Shell shocked because that's something that black individuals don't really use towards each other and especially the way that they said. It was with medicine their voice. So we'll said he watched. The protesters is enhanced for threats but didn't see any from his perspective. They were just venting frustration and anger in an immature way. It was one of a lot of encounters in the past year. And a half in which silva's dual identity as a black man and a police officer has left him straddling one of the nation's most volatile cultural faultlines and feeling criticized for not landing solidly on either side so said he's also had difficult encounters with fellow police officers last year. He was involved in a situation. Where a black man being questioned on the street by an aggressive white officer asked to speak with silva instead and the white officer hit so vaughan arm and referred to the color of his skin. Smacks me on the arm. Here's a black skin officer. Civil said he felt that other officers had said black skinned with disgust. And he said he's had other officers. Tell him to never show any solidarity or compassion or understanding for black lives matter protesters or other activists in the street. He said a lot of activists and a lot of his fellow officers seem to have drawn battle. Lines separating the two groups but he doesn't really see it that way silva doesn't think the lapd should be refunded because he thinks police play an important role in public safety in that l. a. Needs good cops but he also thinks that social service providers people doing work with the homeless he used to do are also incredibly important. Should be funded as well. He doesn't like the way protests turned violent and spurred property damage across the city but he also doesn't dismiss the black lives matter movement wholesale. The message that i get from them when things aren't burning and when it's not as hectic as hey our lives matter to retired we want the same amount equal rights. We want the same amount equal pay. What the same amount of equal opportunities whether it be within school or workplace and our everyday regular lives we want equal and we want it now silva told me that he truly believes that the way to achieve better police community relationships is for police officers and community members to start getting to know each other better to start seeing each other as human beings not just badges or crime statistics. He knows it won't be easy but he remains optimistic about being a police officer. Do we have a long way ahead of us. Yes we do Especially with the protests that we go through day to day on a day to day basis But like. I said it's all about sitting down with black lives matter and kind of reaching a resolution. We can do it old school. Where we hey. Nobody leaves until each side is heard out But at the end of the day were police officers. Who do our job. And we got to serve the community. And we've got to do what's best for everyone Do wanna go home safely and see our family. Yes but We'll we put our life on the line to serve our community. Yes we will. That's what we signed up for the lapd like other agencies. I've covered doesn't always allow individual officers to speak with the media and that can make it hard for journalists like me to capture the perspective of those officers in our coverage. It's also difficult for officers to talk about problems lake racism within their own department because their colleagues don't always have the best reaction at a time. When everyone is trying to figure out a better path forward in american policing i think officers perspectives are worth hearing covering the lapd can be an intense job. People have really strong opinions on issues. I write about and they let me know it. Readers have accused me of blindly loving and defending the police. They've accused me of hating the police and tearing them down unfairly..
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"When california voters approved the ballot initiative in two thousand eighteen to legalize marijuana backers predicted a simultaneous boom for the state's economy and a clampdown on the violence long associated with growing and selling drugs instead the opposite has happened. The state legislature recently approved the hundred million dollar plan to help. Struggling legal vendors and growers studies have shown illegal dispensaries continue to outnumber legal ones and all sorts of crimes murders human trafficking. Outright slavery are happening at illegal pot farms as more continuing to sprout up. Jacqueline cosgrove covers los angeles county government for the los angeles times. They along with our colleague. Louis sagan recently did a deep dive into the matter. Jacqueline welcome to the times. Thank you so much for having me. I describe the area where all these illegal grows are happening. Joshua tree antelope valley lake los angeles. What's the landscape out there. Look like i mean essentially once you can spot one of these grows. You can spot any of them. So you're just driving along in the desert the two lane highway near pear bossom or knee nak or really anywhere in the allah valley. And you look out into the desert and you'll see a greenhouse that is probably illegal marijuana grow and so you'll just see like this expensive desert and then like boop boop they're like all the gross one resident describes him as little caterpillars on the foothills though us like the topography also to like hide the grows and so i think they also kind of scout locations where they can use a dip in the desert to hide within they also will dig out these huge mounds of earth to also hide the grows behind these big berms. It's.
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"We'll have more after this break. Frank carson was a criminal defense attorney who spent years accusing police and prosecutors of corruption. Then they charged him with murder. I'm christopher gothard writer and host of the l. a. times podcasts. Dirty john and detective trap. I'm inviting you to follow and listen to my new podcast. That trials of frank carson. This eight episodes series is a story of power politics and the law. In california's central valley new episodes of the trials of frank carson are available to find them search for the trials of frank carson. Wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you trey who took a smallest role in blood in blood out an experienced that allowed him to return to san quentin for the first time since he was an inmate. There this time as an actor during filming he was able to roam almost freely inside a facility that for him was the site of so many horrors early passages in the book describe mortal dangers lurking around every corner at san quentin and in a state of full circle. He even got to shoot a few scenes inside c. five five zero his actual former cell in the prisons south block. I consider my life a complete gift from god. cut remember nineteen sixty eight. I made a deal. I said you know what if you let me die with dignity. I'll say your name every day. And i'll do whatever i can for my fellow inmate. I said inmate. Because i never thought i was getting out of jail a year later. He left prison for good. And despite many bumps along the road tranquil transformed into a dedicated recovery counselor and sponsor recovery ultimately is the driving force of the memoir. Trae who has more than four hundred credits to his name. Now a remarkable achievement for someone who could hardly have imagined a film career as he prayed at soledad prison and nineteen sixty eight today he recognizes how far hollywood has to go to expand opportunities and roles beyond tough prisoner number one on the topic of latino representation the subject of a recent series of stories in the times trae who says he welcomes the growing advocacy. But what's needed to move the needle. He argued is more direct investment from high powered producers of latin american descent specifically. Everybody we were were not represented were not represented not represent you know. I have to say the reason. We're not represented. Is that people on top not caucasian. Latin american people do not want to produce phil but your point about the the representations issue that we just don't have enough latino financiers of films producers is what you're saying exactly you know and it's stop clients.
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Luckily i look back on it. I get goosebumps. So sit back. Relax and enjoy stories of south west fifty years of flying. Because you never know who. You'll meet the next time you hear. Is this seat open trae. Who grew up in the bario culture of the san fernando valley in the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixty s from an early age. He understood the true distance between the glitter of nearby hollywood and his world of drug dealing and bare knuckle. Violence grabbed you by the throat and threaten threatening to break every bone in. Your body was abused. I didn't know giving marijuana when you were eight. Was sharing it stuff like this. Trae hall writes that eventually got him hauled into a police station for the first time at the age of ten from that point on. He spent years engaging in criminal mayhem in the san fernando valley and up and down the state cycling through juvenile and state prisons and never expecting to come out alive but over the course of trails life. His experience with criminality would collide with hollywood one. Crystallizing episode came when trump. Who was wayne offers to appear in two films in the early nineteen ninety s one was american me to be directed by edward james olmos. The other was blood in out by taylor. Halford both sought to tell the story of the founding of the mexican mafia trae ho with his chest of tattoos and years of time served would have been a great fit in eater film. There was a problem though. The mexican mafia or ma is highly secretive and torius for its ruthless. Executions word was already getting around the penitentiary system. That the american meese script took some offensive narrative liberties related to prison rate into the ms fraternal codes. In order that we're upsetting real world. Gang leaders the proposed film would also explicitly use the term. Na which is another big no-no you ever. Jeans is great actors. Unbelievable actor but you gotta. We walked into into jerry's deli in encino okay. He walks in worrying county jail shirt but to the opening and do look like like an easterly. Chiloe and so. I'm trying to figure out dow's doing this to be my friend or i didn't. I didn't understand that kind of getting into character. The first question we asked was. Hey did you get permission from joe to do. The job organ was the leader of the mexican mafia and the mexican mafia l- was was not like the john gotti who wanted to be in the papers. Okay just before a second meeting with almost tranquil. Got a message. Joe morgan the guy trae who warned about wanted to talk to him the infamous joe quote unquote. Peg-leg morgan incarcerated at the time at county jail was then the living dawn of the according to traco. Joe morgan doesn't call people unless he saying you're dead. Who took the call the home phone of his friend eddie. Bunker an old industry insider who he met in prison. Joe morgan got right down to business on. Never forget it. He had to be the age old. What's up and he goes down. You know what medicine serious owns understand. Europe for that movie of american me and yeah. I'm up for both of them up for a month for blood in blood out do. He's which are you gonna do. I says you gonna do blood in blood out on. Never forget joe morgan's oh yeah oh. That's a cute one this movie about about mexican killers and said quinton. That's the cute one so we talked needs to even to daddy you. Don't you could do the other one. you could do. American me of you want nothing would happen. But i know i wouldn't israel. I wouldn't disrespect the people that i know almost not respond to a request for comment about the passage in the book or about trucco statements for this story in the book trek. Oh emphasizes again. His admiration for almost and his advocacy for latinos and people of color in hollywood almost made american me as a morality. Play to warn you about the dangers of prison life. Yet the stories ripple effects in the real world were unmistakable to consultants. Who worked on the film were killed including a beloved gang intervention worker named anna lisa. I think four people got killed out here directly because that movie and about eight or nine killed in prison directly behind that move..
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"One of the most fascinating and honestly bad ass figures in hollywood today. Danny trae ho. What i had was this look of a criminal. I had the look of a bad guy. You know guys that bad guys. Tell me well. You really look like a pack. We spoke over. Zoom treacle wore a cap and he and of seventy seven. He's one of the most beloved genre actors around even over the pandemic distance trae who's fierceness onscreen as the perpetual prisoner or inmate is evident in conversation. He spoke with emotion and sometimes snorted a rubbed his face with both hands. It was as if he was bracing himself against the pain of experience in the state penitentiary system. That took up half his life. I was doing a film. With mickey rourke and we were doing in new mexico and i played this insane killer and and it was strange. The direct route say okay. Let's do that we do it. And he's a danny hon. You do it. It's like you go to this maniac and then all of us. I watch you and you go what i say. Cut you immediately. Go over and play with your kids. And he says most accurate they get into that zone and they want to stay there. When i'm playing that insane crazy person. It's like i been there. I've seen that. I've lived that you know i don't i don't want to be there. There's times that. I've been acting. And then i stop and i'm gonna throw up because that place that you can go to is is very very real. It's like i love working with like all the wanna be tough guys and convy killer in hollywood because you look at a menu. No as tough as you are you would be paying protection to some little five foot six mexican. That's how tall danny trae. Ho really is by the way. But it's his face that captures people's attention. It's famously mangled. By the years. He spent in prison offering an ideal expressive palette for the actor he became he can convey rage and humor like few other villains on screen. Some of these stories have been told. The many have informed his wildly prolific word and the most important are collected in his new memoir. Trae ho my life of crime. Redemption and hollywood he co authored with his longtime friend and fellow. Actor donal lobe. You know if there was a group of us standing on a corner. When i was young the cops into lovey with a you compare always just i just had the phaser the body that stuck out but as far as hollywood. I don't think i ever been discriminated against. I work all the time. And i was a inmate number one bad guy and i didn't know that i was being stereotype. I just do. I was working in fact the young lady probably fresh out an interview school. You know she asked me a danny. Don't you think you're being typecast. And i didn't know what that was about. What what do you mean. Well you're always playing the mean. Chicano dude with tattoos and thought about as i am the means chicano due to adapt dues trae who got his break in the business after visiting a film shoot in one thousand nine hundred eighty five. He was there to help someone onset. Who's battling through addiction addiction recovery. Then his career took off at first quietly with a string of tiny rolls as prisoner inmate or tuck inmate run but by nineteen ninety-five pray ho shared a riveting death scene with robert deniro in michael mann's movie heat one of my all time favorites and one of many displaying trae skill at portraying someone on the brink of death he says even deniro wasn't crises death of the century so funny when i was doing that to get a compliment from robert deniro and he helped me up off the ground. There's a lot of talk in the hollywood community about the constant use of the gangster. Trowell kind of bob ewell stories but at the same time some actors will say well. That's giving us work. We're training in our craft were reflecting the streets. Where do you lie on that argument. And how do you some of these films. You know that you were under leader career in today's mindset days as long as the bad guy dies or goes to prison. I don't care okay. You know what i mean. It's like i won't do a movie or the best guy lives in. I got ninety six deaths. Now i think and i got the record for death in film you know just. I worked a lot for me. Is i like yeah. Let's tell those stories. Yeah let's let's get them right you. Let's get right. it's you know what. Why do you. Why or why are prisons full of african american and mexican. Because you know jobs aren't available. There's a lot of things going on that. They're putting us in prison right now. I honestly believed that. Probably fifteen percent of the people that are in prison belong in prison. You know what i mean. We could do other things with with with the other. Fifteen percent you said percentage fifteen hundred eighty five percent of people in prison. Don't don't need to be there. Yeah i honestly believe that we could do something else. Non-violent drug addicts do not belong in prison most of the dealers they got in prison. Were dealing to support their habits. You don't mean it was like you got a i got a quarter. I'm going to cut it up. And i'm going to sell this. I'm going to use this. You know don you know it's like i. I know some of the big dealers that were in prison. Why do you think people still want to see these kinds of films and love. Even american people still watch it. People watch blending dow On your in withdraw. Their people want identify with violence. First of all secondly they wanna see heroic characters and like. I said as long as the bad guy loses. I'll do it in one thousand nine hundred five legendary filmmaker robert rodriguez gave trae a ho a signature role in desperado. He played a colombian assassin. Contract to kill antonio banderas is character and in two thousand one. Rodriguez specifically created four trae. Ho the role of marceca in spy kids a role that eventually became a franchise on its own that established perhaps the only character in film history to straddle the genres of children's adventure and grind house horror trickles role as much as iconic but his tough guy movie roles seemed to be just a fraction.