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Episode Date: January 6, 2025

Part 2 of the Hugh Hewitt Interview with President Trump earlier this morning, open phones and discussion and the danger of H1-B and F-1 Student Visa programs with my guest Dr. David Kanani, a longtime fan of American STEM education.

The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at clouserdrilling.com. Here's Bill Myers. Part two of the conversation that Hugh Hewitt had this morning with President-elect Trump. And of course, they ended up getting into a bit of the Joe Biden conversation, too. Here's how that went. She doesn't want anybody building anything. All they talk about is Green New Deal. That's the only thing they really talk about. And you know what? It doesn't work. People don't care about it. They're so tired of it. You know, we had the cleanest air and water that any that that we've ever had during the Trump administration. And all you hear about is what they want to do.

They want to destroy our country. And that's what's happened, and that's why the election was such a tremendous success from the Republican standpoint. Hey, look, we had seven swing states. You and I would talk about it, seven swing states. Well, if you could win three or four, it would be great. We won all seven, and we won them by a lot. You know, they weren't close.

You've got a mandate. That's why I want you to put everything into one big, beautiful bill, because I don't think they can say no. I want to know, though, would you put regularization of the Dreamers into that bill to attract some Democrats? I don't think it has to be in that bill, but I'm okay with talking about the Dreamers. It's been a long time.

You know, everybody's been talking about the Dreamers. These are people that have been here since, in many cases, birth. They've been here for, you know, many years. They were very young, and now they're middle-aged people. In some cases, they're old people. It's been talked about, and I'm certainly open to talking about it. Yeah, I think they could put it in the one big beautiful bill. Let me move on to the archives. You know, all of your problems in Florida at Mar-a-Lago started because the archivist complained to the DOJ because he hated you. Now, the archivist

who's there now is not the one who screwed you over, but it's a new archivist. Are you going to replace this archivist and get someone who actually protects the legacy of the United States and doesn't persecute political appointments? Well, the one who was there was a disaster and he turned out to be wrong. And then you saw the Biden stuff come out where Biden had years, 50 years of documents. And what what he had was just outrageous. And he didn't have the right to have him. You know, I have the Presidential Records Act. He had nothing because he wasn't president at the time, so he wasn't covered by it, but I was.

And we also had a very brilliant and very fair judge on the case. And as you know, we won that case, and we won it convincingly. And Jack Smith was sent. I assume he's heading back to The Hague where he can execute people. He shouldn't be allowed to execute anybody. His judgment is so bad and so evil. But he's a bad person. I call him deranged Jack Smith.

But we won that case. That was the big case. And we won those cases. You know, the one in Washington also. But the judge in Florida was really a brilliant one. She is smart. She handled it well. I just want a new archivist so we don't have to do this

again when you leave office again. Well, I think I can tell you that we will get somebody. Yes. Let me just put it in. Yeah, we will have a new archivist. Now, Xi Jinping. He is actually your rival. He's the only guy that is remotely as strong as the United States. He's a tough guy.

Are you going to be able to deal with him? I believe we will. You know, their economy is not doing very well right now and they need us very badly. I believe we will. You know, I had a great relationship until COVID. That was a bridge too far. But I had a great relationship with President Xi. It was, you know, very solid, very strong, very friendly. He's a strong man, a powerful man. He's, you know, he's certainly revered in China. But they are having problems. And I think we will probably get along very well, I predict.

But, you know, it's got to be a two-way street. China is ripping off the United States for a trillion dollars a year. Would you say that's a lot of money? A trillion, one trillion with the T. We're no longer in the billions. We're in the trillions. And, you know, when they build all these ships that you're talking about, that money comes from the United States, believe it or not. And we had it way down. It was moving. And then we had to fix the covid stuff. That was really, you know, obviously that was a gift from China. We had to fix that. And so we we sort of it was a different you had to be in a

different mode. You couldn't do both. It would be inappropriate to have done both. But no, I had a good relationship with him until COVID. After that, it was, you know, it was a very different thing. Look, what happened, what came out of China from the Wuhan labs caused $60 trillion worth of worldwide damage. $60 trillion. That's more than China, America, that's more than all of us put together could afford. $60 trillion and millions and millions of lives all over the world. So that was a real, as I said, that was a bridge too far. $60 trillion and millions and millions of lives all over the world.

So that was a real, as I said, that was a bridge too far. Part two there, now the conversation with President-elect Trump and Hugh Hewitt earlier this morning. I wanted to make sure you heard some of that. 19 minutes after 7, your calls at 770-5633. It's open phones, all sorts of things we can talk about. What did you think about the conversation with Leighton Gray and how there is just a rising tide of Canadians wanting to go the MAGA way? Would you welcome them? What could be the up or the downside of them? Of course, I would kind of say, hey, I would love to take Alberta

because I know that Alberta would be the conservative side of them of course i would kind of say hey i would love to take alberta because i know that alberta would be the conservative side of it but of course that's a state about the size of uh of oregon i don't know if we need any more uh liberals from the canadian and or vancouver area i could be right we could talk about but, they're talking about it and looking longingly across the border at how we're running things here, which is fascinating, given how frustrated, as an example, we here in Oregon are frustrated about how things have been running here. But it could be a good talk on that and other things here, too. Also, there's another story I was reading over the weekend, Road Valley Times. I think it was Road Valley Times.

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KMED. You're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. 25 after 7. Dave's here. Hey, Dave. You wanted to bite on the Canadian talk of merger. I mean, Trump is kind of half joking with it, but there is a serious germ of discussion going on behind the scenes. What do you think?

Well, I've worked with Canadians before. They came down here because they could work through our union when we were shorthanded. And he told me that the guy there told me I couldn't work in Canada, even though I belonged to the same international union. He said, because they just don't let anybody do that. So that could change things. Secondly, with the vast resources of Canada, they really need investment. And breaking it up into more than one state would be a good idea because you could use the Texas model, how they came in. Because, remember, they were their own country before they became a state of the union. That's true.

Now, Alberta, I think, would be a great state by itself. Lots of resources, lots of oil, gas, and timber. Think about it. You think about it. They could put a freeway all the way in to Alaska, and you could just drive there instead of taking the ferry to get your car over there. There you go. All right, Dave. I appreciate the call. Like I said, it's an intellectual exercise at the moment. But, you know, you have everybody that's looking at what's been going on with the world and saying, maybe we should try something other than communism.

And it's certainly been communism under the Trudeau regimes, that's for sure. Michael Shaw. Hello, Michael. I'm sure you have an interesting take on this. Always good to have you on. What are you thinking? Actually, I'm going to pose some questions that would need to be considered. Yes. A, I agree with that each province would have to be a separate state.

You don't bring the whole country in as one. No, no way. Too much. Right. But you have to look at not only the pros, but the cons. Yes, they've got lots of resources, but what's their debt load? Who do they owe what to whom? That's an interesting question. But of course, you know, United States, you know, can't really can't really complain too much about debt load, but yeah, if we would have to assume that, that's an issue.

Let me look that up. But you have to take that mental exercise further than just Canada, because if you're going to do Canada, what do you do about Washington, D.C.'s request for statehood? And what about Puerto Rico and other territories? So instead of 50 states, do you end up with 60 or 65 states when you put it all together? Yeah, interesting. Well, the thing is, I don't necessarily consider Puerto Rico adding a lot of resource to us, do you? No, I don't either. I think they're a drain on themselves, the way they're structured, and they need so much to be built up internally.

But they are looking for that statehood, are they not? Well, take a look at, I just, to your point, though, about Canadian government debt, percentage of GDP, we're at like 120-something right now, north of 120% right now. They are at 69%. Okay. So they are not a – well, of course, they also have a very high tax rate, contrasted with down here, there, too. So they don't do as much deficit spending. Of course, they can't do it given that they don't have the world's reserve currency, which gives us the ability to to print ourselves into.

Well, exporting our well, then we couldn't export our inflation into into Canada. So that that could be a problem. But like I said, just in the very beginning, talk about it. But I do find it fascinating. There's a lot of conversation. People want to shift around to a better deal. People are looking for a better deal these days, I guess. Yeah, they are in a lot of factions, but you really have to broaden that question.

If you're going to look at Canada, you have to look at those other territories, et cetera, that want to join that sort of program. So it needs to be a broader question if you're going to really seriously look at it. Point well taken, and I appreciate that. 7705633, let me go to line four. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Oh, hi, Bill. It's Francine.

Hey, Francine. You made it through. Right there is his ring. I'm just glad to get you on.'d you think i was shocked i wanted to bring up during the bush administration that we were talking about the north american union that's right and and see that's what i brought that up with layton gray that it's interesting that people are seeing you know trump's in here and then everyone says hey man we'd love to join the united states under this because it makes more sense but does it not yet start the

ball rolling towards more of that total continental union but he says that well because people are individual states there's still a sovereignty of sorts you know with the american system what do you think i i think that you know i have i don't have a problem with the possibilities of combining, you know, becoming one with Canada or portions of Canada or whatever. But I think we have to be really, really cautious about this. And it still worries me because who's really pushing this you know um i mean every and and i was also really upset with with trump you know pledging talking about oh israel doesn't have a i'm israel's best friend you know that really works because israel is so um oh they're so shady you know i i'm i'm kind of concerned about about all this this stuff coming in with Trump and with the idea of –

Well, okay, what concerns you most about the incoming Trump administration? Because with any administration, there are positives and negatives. Everybody has baggage coming in, okay? Nothing's perfect, but I will certainly take this over Kamala at the moment. But what bugs you the best then or most? Absolutely. I for the man you better believe it but the thing is i don't completely trust his um i think he's got a lot more globalist influence than he's letting on or that maybe he even understands but although i don't think he's that naive but it's possibility but i don't think so i i believe that you know

i i mean i'll never forget the end of his administration last administration when he just you know cheered on the vaccination yes yes yes you know bring it on and and it's like he'd been saying all along and yet uh covet ended up being used ostensibly to force him out of power which was quite interesting yes but but you know but the point I'm trying to make is where his mind goes, you know, and the things he does. Now we're being faced with this, you know, this phony bird flu pandemic they're going to push on us, you know. I mean, maybe there's a flu, but, you know, I heard this morning two children have died

from the flu. Well, I'll bet you those children had some health issues aside, you know, prior to getting the flu. Well, you can see it coming again, and I will agree, but I'm hoping that there is wisdom, that there is a higher level of wisdom in the Trump 2.0 administration, because I will concede your point there. I remember the out-and-out lies and the distortions that were told how everybody died. Nobody died of flu during the COVID time, right? Remember that. Although it's quite routine for people to die of the flu, and sometimes children die of the flu.

But there's usually some – but they don't die of the flu. They were already sick children, usually, in other ways, right? Precisely. But they're not talking about that. What's happening now is they're getting the fear porn out. Oh, they're softening the ground is what they're doing right here. They're pounding a little bit. My liberal friends were telling me like, oh, you know, they're talking about, you know, trying to come up with a vaccine for the chickens and that the wild birds are getting the flu. And that if your cat kills a wild bird,

that it's going to get the bird flu too. So you better give Fluffy an mRNA shot, right? That kind of thing. Oh, my God. Yeah. I mean, it started, and I'm just dreading it because it got so ugly last time. We have to be very careful that we cannot allow ourselves to be fooled again in any way, stretch of circumstance here again what the problem it's not that us getting fooled it's the people who were fooled before who are hanging her sticking to it they're not going to change their minds they believe the point well taken thanks for the call there francine 7705633 it's open phones for this for this uh election certification monday i guess

we can call it that 7705633 i remember the way that lies in the way deaths got spun and and i'll scare you all worry because the whole thing oh yeah everyone's going to die everyone's going to die i remember even uh and i had mentioned this a while back there was a um a classmate of mine who had gone to mit for a year sarah mohammed she had graduated she was our valedictorian one of our valedictorians we had more than one that year and she ended up going for a year or two to mit wasn't quite right for her and then she ended up going into a teaching career did something different and you know had a good life and then uh and then I'd read an obituary a friend had had sent me that she had died back and this is back 2021 where she had died Sarah

died really really and then I ended up looking into it and they said that she had died from COVID that was how it was reported in the cleveland newspaper she died from covid thinking wow okay it doesn't sound right well that added up but well i mean it could have been i mean i don't want to say people didn't die of covid but what was the real story because they were asking for donations to be made to the Leukemia Center of America or whatever that main leukemia nonprofit is. It's fighting leukemia. And I ended up getting in touch with her brother, Sean,

who was a little bit younger than she. And I found out that, yeah, she actually had stage 3 or 4 leukemia. She had, you you know blood cancer but it wasn't reported that she had blood cancer and no immune system and hence died of covid covid ended up being what tipped her over but they're acting as if she was a perfectly normal person that had died of of leukemia which was not the case at all. But that was the kind of world we were in. And now you see them wanting to crank it up on the bird flu this time around, too. Can't be fooled.

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Open phone time here. On vote. On vote counting, or70-5633. Open phone time here on Vote. On Vote counting, or I guess Confirmation Monday, okay? Doesn't look like there's going to be any sort of controversy. Trump's vote will be certified and no one's talking about it. No pink-hatted people marching in the frozen streets. This is one way you get rid of the rabble. You just make everything so cold

that they can't show up i suppose but yeah i think that there's uh i i can't exactly say it's a uh capitulation from the left but realizing yeah he's in and now we're going to have to uh to gather our forces and get ready to burn the country down another year i suppose i'm hoping not by the way i'm kind of you of kidding about this. But we can talk about anything that happens to be on your mind. 770-563-3770-KMED. Speaking of people who have been helping burn the country down, a number of them ended up getting a Presidential Medal of Freedoms over the weekend.

Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Bill Nye, the science guy, Bill Nye, the non-science guy, really. Bill Nye and Jose Andres. And, of course, this is the guy, of course, many people are criticizing that choice because he ended up posing with the attempted Trump assassination. On the other hand, to be fair, Jose didn't realize that the guy was going to be a, you know, future Trump assassination, but you know, just guilt by association is the way this goes.

But George Soros, George Soros, I guess this is a thanks for the money. Isn't that what that's all about? You think that I just figured that's all this is. Thanks for the money. Hillary Clinton. Thanks for carrying the water, Bill Nye. Thanks for trying to carry water for the climate scam, even though some of this will get ripped out by the roots as it goes.

So there we go. There we go. On the other hand, Denzel Washington, Magic Johnson, yeah, I have no problem with either of them being given that medal, do you? We can talk about it if you wish. 770-5633. Got a news release overnight here from Dwayne Yunker's office, State Representative Dwayne Yunker, Josephine County.

With Oregon's 2025 legislative session set to begin in one week, is it really one week, Dwayne? Oh, my gosh. Boy, this is going to be a brutal one, too, because the numbers look even worse for the Republicans this time around. You don't have Trump as of the 20th, but then we have Salem still in power. But anyway, Representative Dwayne Yunker announces his committee assignments while criticizing Oregon House Speaker Julie Fahey for removing him from the House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee in what he called a transparent political ploy. Well, Dwayne, you know what that is.

In fact, I'm going to talk with him a little bit later this week, you know, about this. But this is all about, you see, Dwayne is someone who is not bending the knee to the insane LGBTQ crowd. The ones that think that it's gender affirming to take your five-year-old and cut his or her genitals off. Dwayne has a different way of looking at things. And there are many in the state of Oregon who don't like that. Dwayne is just a little too blunt. Maybe if he was just nicer at calling these people crazy. Keep being what you're doing, Dwayne.

Oh, by the way, what committees will he be on? House Committee on Economic Development, Small Business and Trade, House Committee on Higher Ed and Workforce Development, and Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Education. Oh, okay. That's all right. Dwayne, you'll be able to talk about what's wrong with you people here. Just tap dancing around the ship of

education state sinking saying we're number 47 we're number 47 hooray all right we got that one here too there's another story that caught my eye over the weekend this was was on Newswatch, Newswatch 12. Concerns grow over crosswalk safety in Central Point. Residents in Central Point raising alarms about pedestrian safety following a series of accidents at local crosswalks over the years. One involved a man hit at the intersection of Pine Street and Haskell in 2019. Adrian Miller, who was the person they profiled, has been advocating for better infrastructure. The driver didn't see me and was left with serious injuries.

It wasn't until that I realized how many others have been hit there, too. Now, that is the one right across the railroad track, and that's on the road that goes over to Twin Creeks, right? Isn't that the road we're talking about, Haskell? All right. I can't recall. Can anybody tell me in Central Point, does that intersection have bump-outs? And I'm wondering if, and I don't have where all the other ones

that people are concerned about are talking about, but Central Point has gone down this merry path of having a lot of those bump outs put in place, in which they take the sidewalks, boom, right up to where the cars are. And then if people step out, maybe someone who can't see through the car doesn't necessarily see you. And I'm wondering if there are some pedestrians that are getting smacked this way, under this guise of traffic calming from our globalist traffic planners and city planners that we have here in southern oregon i'm just floating a theory could there be a little bit

of that going on could there be no certainly there could be distracted drivers which they talk about we see that too i would then also ask um how many times do we see distracted pedestrians who think that somehow stepping into the crosswalk means that there is a magic shield brought up? Maybe some shared responsibility. But that's not the way it goes, right? There's supposed to be a magic shield that just pops up. Someone steps onto the – and that way we need more of the pedestrian stings, right? Maybe that's what we need. More grant stream funding for that.

I'm feeling a little sarcastic this Monday. Anyway, it's 747. Anything that's on your mind, this is the Bill Myers Show. Let me go to line four. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hi, this is Ray. I wanted to mention that Canada is a dominion and is a part of the Commonwealth of Nations. And what is the – I mean, we call it a country, I suppose, but I guess it could be a commonwealth.

Of course, Pennsylvania is a state, but yet it's technically called the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Is there a difference without a distinction here, or what do you say? Well, Canada refers to as the Dominion of Canada because it was part of the British Commonwealth. Right. So, if there was such a talk of Canada joining the United States, you've got to ask yourself, how would they view that in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India, all those countries? Well, I suppose how they would view it would be kind of like you know tough luck i guess you know we we don't want to be part of your commonwealth we want to be part of your own we we want to be an uncommonwealth now we don't want to be part of your stuff

uh it could be a construed as a bit of rebellion right yeah but yet it's not really a province of... I guess, what is that relationship then? I mean, the queen will sometimes come and visit, but even then the queen's kind of ceremonial. But they also have a privy council that... Well, I know. I mean... I mean, they represent the king. Yeah.

Well, whatever you have representing the king, the Prairie Council can then go and represent King Trump. That's how I figured that would go. Remember, this is just people talking right now, though, okay? I wouldn't get too, too excited about it. 7705633770KMED. Actually, somebody wrote me about that. Let me see. Let me find out.

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You could be right about that, Gar. Doobie says, Canada and Idaho. Bill, it is strange that there is a discussion about a U.S.-Canada merger, but Idaho can't move its border a few miles to the west. Perplexing to say the least. Oh, no, there's nothing stopping from Idaho moving its border a few miles to the west. The thing is, though, is that you have to get everybody to agree on it. It's a negotiation process. I mean, it's not doesn't just happen overnight, you know, those kind of things. And it also is yet a tall bar, because what state wants to be giving up territory, even if that territory is filled with conservatives? Because if you're a well, let's look at the way it is here

in the state of Oregon. The last thing that someone in salem would want who is a communist in in salem let's say julie fahey as an example um it could be one of those things where um what fun is it being a liberal let's say if you don't have conservatives crying and asking to be free oh we hate you we hate you oh gosh you guys make me feel so good when i hear that you hate the way that we're being ruled. Here. Here's another tranny rule for you. Boom. All right.

We're going to have to teach your kid more about transsexual surgeries, okay? And no, you're not allowed to know it. Could be a little bit of that going on. I don't know. Let me go to line two. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this?

Welcome. Morning, Bill. Hey, great conversations about all. Thank you, Tom. Good to have you on. About the flu business and so forth, I read an article that claimed that 90% of the excess deaths that are going on, or 95% of all deaths, are happening the uh vaccinated uh the covid vaccinated and i'm not i i would have to see some pretty harsh numbering or pretty good strong numbering on that to believe it but it could be yeah well i agree with you uh we really don't know um there's also not a lot of

curiosity about that either because it might say the wrong thing going into yet another plandemic the way it might be hard to say well yeah you certainly don't want to uh jeopardize the uh the monetary benefit of the poor needy pharmaceutical industrial complex but you also have to say isn't it interesting that one seems to be teed up just in time for Trump 2.0? It's like, oh, come on. Really? Yeah, it certainly is. And the trouble about this whole thing with the vaccinations and COVID and the new flu cases going on is we can't trust anybody out there with the numbers.

And we don't know the numbers. None of us really know the numbers and we don't know the numbers none of us really know the numbers and i know you know uh you have different people like dowd and and so forth uh coming up with numbers but it's very very difficult to have the right numbers to make the right decisions and that will be what we'll be seeking in a second trump term here i appreciate the call there thanks a bunch. 753. I believe we have Dr. Kanani standing by. I was going to talk with him a little bit earlier, and we got a little misscheduled.

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and president of the Los Angeles ORT College, and he has over 40 years of experience in engineering, education, and leadership. Boy, passionate advocate for STEM education, that is for sure. And Dr. Kanani, it is great to have you on. Good morning, sir. Thank you. Nice to be here. Dr., I wanted to talk with you about the challenge here and the, I guess the controversy

would be a better way of putting it, on H-1B visas. There's been a lot of conversation about this uh elon musk who of course is a big advisor a big doge advisor for president trump incoming president trump has been talking about defending h1b to the death you have a different way of looking at this too and so set the table with your concerns about the H-1B. I know one thing that bothered me is how many Americans seem to have been, especially in the high-tech world, having to stay on at their high-tech world long enough to train their foreign worker replacement brought in through an H-1B. How do you see it? I really see it as a very bad situation for our country.

How so? Because in February of 2020, the reason that I went after developing the program, the STEM program that we have developed, is because I've been here since 19 – I'm from Iran. Okay. My background, the high school – the six years of high school, I went to technical high school. And this organization, ORT, is a worldwide organization, and they had given me a scholarship after my high school to go to Geneva, Switzerland, where I went and did an engineering degree in electrical engineering and nuclear physics. After that, they sent me to France.

I went there for one year, and I did a master's degree in telecommunication. So then I went back to Iran at that time under the Shah's regime, and I taught in two Iranian universities for four years. I see this background in order to tell you why I have undertaken this action. Then, under the shard of the regime in 1975, they gave me a scholarship, okay, with salary of to come to United States. But I went to Princeton and I spent five years, actually six years over there, and I get a master's degree and a PhD degree. And this time I did my PhD degree in photovoltaic energy.

So meaning that generating electricity from the sun. Because while I was here in 1979, the revolution happened in Iran. And that was the first time that people in the United States were standing in line with gasoline because the production of oil had stopped in Iran, etc., etc. And then the price of oil at that point went over $1 a gallon. So I really realized that at that point that we have to go after solar energy. So I went and I asked my thesis advisor at Princeton to do my thesis in photovoltaic. And he agreed. I finished that in 1981. I was hired by Arcus Solar. And he agreed. I finished that in 1981.

I was hired by Arco Solar. And then I went and they had formed a group of 12 people, scientists, to come and do a study on photovoltaic energy. So you were big on the early adoption of solar energy here. Absolutely. Okay. We're part of really bringing it then many of the oil company who had to start that the solar did not work for them because the the free market came back and they were much stronger and then right now the photovoltaic is getting a hold more or less at the time that we generated they produced produced the first solar cell in lab.

The cost of generating electricity from the sun was about 13 times more expensive than from fossil fuels. Yeah, and those costs have come down dramatically here. Absolutely. And I'm glad to know that, like I said, you have degrees you know, you got degrees as long as your arms. That would be the how the term is. You have many degrees. You have a great love and passion in the engineering world. And you have been part of the efforts to then influence STEM education in the United States from all accounts here with your connections with ORT and beyond.

And I appreciate this. You say, though, that the H-1B, one of the focus on the H-1B, your take on the H-1B situation, which you believe is a threat to national security and how so, in what way, and what should incoming President Trump be considering as we move forward here? Yes, because as I was mentioning in the beginning, the first organization in the U.S. that really brought that alarm for us about our lack of STEM education in the United States was Pentagon. Pentagon.

Pentagon, yes. In February of 2021, they published a report, 182-page report to Congress. And in a sense, that report was called Industrial Capability of United States. And they said that, okay, we are lacking STEM education. We are lacking STEM graduates in our country. They said at that point that the Chinese are graduating eight times more, 800% more graduating their college, okay, than United States, STEM student in the United States. Yeah, so China is graduating many more engineers than we are, correct?

Many more in their own country, and also, then also, they are sending their students to come to United States to go to our colleges and get the information from our college and our institution that we have. And they stay here for a few years, and they go and work in the industry and get all the secret and the information that we have, and they go back work in the industry and get all the secret and information that we have, and they go back to their own country. So the fact of the matter is two reports thereafter was published by the Institute of Immigration Studies, and they showed, they proved that how many students have come here and what they have done, and they have gone back.

And they said that this is really a menace, years, meaning 2031, we will have 10 million, 10 million jobs in STEM that the industry needs. And we do not have people and we do not have enough graduates to really to replace them. So we have a lot of indication from the different institutions that we have in this country that shows that we need to really have more graduates of STEM steel engineers from our colleges. And in order to do that, it starts from high school. It starts from primary school. It starts from kindergarten, et cetera, et cetera. Now, I heard talk like this, Dr. Kanani, 15 years ago. And it didn't seem like it was like they paid attention.

Or did they pay attention and graduated more STEM graduates, and then H-1B crowded them out of the job market? How do you see that? The whole thing is they have not paid attention. Okay, we talked about it. The people were published. And second of all, there was no, there was not, let's say, robust and rigorous and meaningful STEM curriculum for our students in high school in order to get interested, in order to have enough background information for them to go to college. So that's why. Okay.

Now, let me ask you here, Dr. David Kanani, Director of USORT Operations, President of BramsonORT, Institute of Technology, all right? Yes. Now, you're focusing a bit on H-1B, and that's been a big talk in the battle. And I know that Elon Musk, of course, is on record of wanting more of these graduates. You seem to have a different feeling about this. What about, I mean, everyone's talking H-1B, but what about the F-1 visas? These are the ones in which foreign students come here. And is that a problem?

Yes, of course, that's a problem in a sense that instead of bringing foreign students in this country because they come here. Some of them, they come, and depending how they come and who sent them here, they come here and they go to our colleges. They graduate in the STEM field, and they can fill up some of the positions that we have. But the problem is with the bad element. The problem is China, China, China. Okay, I told you the Institute of Immigration Studies

have published papers in 2002 and 22 and 2023. And they say that these people are coming here for espionage. Okay. Instead of calling it, okay, they say now. Yeah, they're calling it for work or calling it for education, but it's really for espionage then. So as a... For espionage, we need to really overcome that. We need to prevent that. We need to really bring our own students to be interested and understand and give them quality STEM education in order for them to become interested and in order to come to the college and go after getting an MBA, which is necessary to have, et cetera, and this and that, they should go into engineering field,

STEM field, and be able to fulfill our internal need for the 10 million people that we need in 2023, and right now also we need it, with our own people so that we can, we know that they are not coming here to get education, to get educated, and also

get the information and convey that information to their own country, etc., etc. This is a very serious situation, and really, I'm. This is a very serious situation. And really, I'm hoping that the new elected president, we wrote an open letter. We wrote an open letter last month to President Trump,

President-elect Trump. And we brought all of these points to his attention. And we requested, please, okay, try to do something in order to prevent that. We have the program. We need to help our high schools to choose the quality program so that most of the schools, there are many schools, they say, oh, they are teaching STEM, STEM, STEM. When you look at the curriculum that they are using, it's not substantial. It is not. It is not rigorous.

It's not rigorous. It is not rigorous. Yeah. Okay, there is national, okay, new generation, NGSS, New Generation Science Standard. About 10 years ago, they came and set up a standard. They set up 26 standards for a colloquium to be called real STEM program. It needs to be in this disciplinary between all the four elements of STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math. It needs to have this in this. It needs to have that in this, et cetera, et cetera. We have complied with all of those 26.

And our STEM program and our STEM curriculum, our STEM curriculum comprises of we have a curriculum, okay, that we have created for the 9th, 10th, and 11th graders in high school. We have an instruction manual for that curriculum for whatever teacher who wants to teach that curriculum to be able to use that and help them to teach their course. You know, Doctor, I'm out of time right now. I want to find out, how can I get more information and get this curriculum that you have been talking about? By the way, I'm talking with Dr. David Kanani, Ph.D. here, about America's future and the problem with F-1 student visas and also the security problem with the H-1B visa program, too.

Do you have a site that I can go to that I can direct listeners to? Anybody who is looking for information, they are welcome to go to Los Angeles or laort.edu. Uh-huh. Okay. Or they can go to our Bramson School, okay, in New York, which is Bramson, B-R-A-M-S-O-N-O-R-T dot edu. And we'll explain, okay, what we have. And we are offering right now the STEM teacher training online as far as in person,

and we are looking for high school and very seriously in order to introduce them to our program, in order to offer our program for their students. I hope that many people like you are interested in this field and propagate it to the public so that the next generation and the next generation and the public and the whole country and our students really benefit with quality education because that's very important for the future of country. Doctor, I really appreciate your take on this,

and especially the concern that we seem to be doing a pretty good job of giving up not only jobs, but also educational slots to educate the world and leaving our own children, our own next generations behind here. Thank you so much for having joined us. All right. Be well. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

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