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You know, America is like a good scandal. Probably everybody in the world does. It breaks the boredom. You can take sides many times. And we have that with the Jeffrey Epstein situation. heinous man, now commiserating with Satan. I just can't even describe, you know, the evil that this guy embraced. And the federal government knows about some of that evil.

But they are not communicating to with the people what exactly they know. Now, it's a little bit complicated, as I wrote in my message of the day. There are innocent people that associated to some extent. Maybe they had lunch. maybe they just met them one time with Epstein. If those people names get put out into the public, their lives could be ruined. Now, I talked about this with Donald Trump, and I'll tell you about that in a moment. But Epstein is now the focus of attention for millions of millions of people.

They want to know if the federal government covered up anything. If there were famous people involved with him, doing dastardly things, and those are legitimate questions. And honest government will attempt to answer them as best it can while being responsible to the innocent. And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So it's a bad look right now. That's a cliche, I know. but with Attorney General Bondi saying one thing and then saying another thing

about the so-called Epstein files. I don't know what the files are. I don't know anything about it. But I do know the federal government has information on the man and what the man's activities comprise. They do. FBI has it. And we are not getting that.

Now, the Trump administration is transparent there has not been a modern-day president. I can't think of anybody in the last hundred years who's been more accessible to the press than Mr. Trump. He's on Air Force One. Every time he got a guess, he takes the questions, he's on the tarmac. He's accessible. Compared to him, and a Biden, you never saw Biden.

Biden wouldn't answer any question. You couldn't get close to him. Trump every day. So something's not right here. Okay, and I don't know what it is. Will I find out? I don't know about that either. I did request an interview with Cash Patel who turned me down.

That's not good. I know Mr. Patel have been very fair to him over the years. You've got flat out turned me down. Okay. But my obligation to report that to you. And it looks like the federal government, is hiding something. But that may not be true.

So that's where we are. And I don't like that feeling, and you don't either. I'm sure you don't. We want some definition here, right? Now, a bit of a timeline. August 10, 2019, all right? Epstein found dead in his New York City jail cell. I believe it's a suicide.

I don't believe the New York City coroner. made up the fact that the autopsy showed that he expired by hanging himself. I don't believe that. But millions of people believe that he was murdered to cover up something. That's a conspiracy theory, and it's in play. Now, I can't prove my point because I didn't do the post-mortar examination on Epstein. And the whole autopsy hasn't been released, most of it has, summary has. And then Epstein's brother brought in, you know, hired guns, got people who were paid

to tell Epstein's brother what he wanted to hear, that, well, it looks suspicious to me. You know how that game goes. Okay? So the conspiracy is underway. Does that mean anything? No. I mean, I wrote killing Kennedy. You got 10,000 Kennedy conspiracies.

and a lot of those people who pushed that and made money on. You want to know what happened in JFK, you read Killing Kennedy. That's what happened to it. Because we were able to get the primary reporting from the FBI.

So without any editing or any of that. We're very lucky to get that. Anyway, the chief medical examiner who was involved in the Epstein case, a woman named Dr. Barbara Samson, and she's an honest woman. You know, I mean, just no,

I don't think there's any possibility that she forged anything here, my opinion. Okay, so now what do we do? Well, clearly the Trump administration doesn't want to hold a press conference, and Bondi would have to do that. She could have to tell there, that of the FBI, but they don't want to do that. Again, it's not a good look. So, any skilled law enforcement agent knows what they can and can tell the public. Unless you're somebody under active criminal investigation, you can't put the name out.

That's wrong. You can destroy people's lives. But you can generally tell the folks, me and everybody else, here's what we got. And here's what the indictment was. This guy was going to get convicted. Evidence overwhelmed. And, you know, we've learned X, Y, and Z. Without giving names, you can do that.

It's not hard to do that. Here's a kicker on it. Merrick Garland should be in this press conference. Biden had this info for four years. Justice Department in Biden. It didn't do anything. Now, if Trump was involved, or anybody, any high-ranking Republican, believe me,

that would have been out in a second. New York Times would have had that. Washington Post would have had that in a second. If there were any Republican or conservative people involved with Epstein, boom, that would have been out. Okay. And on the other side, I think the Trump administration probably would have gone after anybody on the liberal side.

You got Bill Clinton associated with Epstein, some extent. I mean, they crossed paths. But none of that ever came out. Just keep that in mind. But Merrick Garland knows as much as Pam Bondi knows. Where's Merrick? Where's that? I don't hear the media screaming about, well, bring in Merrick Garland or the former FBI chief, which is naming, escapes me, I'm old, under Biden, right? Get them both together. So anyway, the story's not going to go away. And it's going to hurt President Trump.

I don't think it'll hurt him dramatically. But, you know, leadership is keep your promise. Transparency. So let's get this done. That's a memo. Now, another big criminal case, and he made it a criminal case, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Joe Biden's personal physician. He took the fifth today. So he walks in to the House and the Oversight Committee, that's Comer, and they ask him two questions.

Okay? Was he ever told a lie about the President's health? And he believed Mr. Biden was unfit to execute his duties, two questions. And then O'Connor says, I am taking the Fifth Amendment because whatever I say might incriminate me. Okay? He's entitled to do that. But now the FBI's got to put him under active criminal investigation. You say, I'm not going to talk to a congressional committee because I might have committed a crime.

There, that's it. You got to go, then. The FBI has got to go, okay. Now we're going to issue subpoenas, we're going to search your home, we're going to get all your records, we're going to do everything. O'Connor is still going, well, you know, patient doctor privilege. No, no, that will never hold up in federal court. They'll knock that out immediately. I mean, the responsible judges.

So I'm not surprised. Are you surprised? So, you know, Biden announced he has cancer. His doctor didn't know that, and the cancer just didn't magically appear. That's something that takes time to develop. This is really bad, really, really bad. Anyway, so Comer says, it's clear there was a conspiracy to cover up, President Biden's cognitive decline and maybe physical decline.

Okay, I believe that. I think Commer's absolutely right. O'Connor's lawyer says that it does not understand. intend to honor one of those well-known privileges in our law, the patient physician privilege. Okay, counselor, take it into federal court. You can't have a sitting president unable to perform his duties and his doctor lying about it. I mean, that goes way beyond any kind of privilege. And the Trump administration, and I did not know this until we started researching it,

it waived executive privilege. It can do that. And so, no, now, you can't, you know, if Biden had invoked him before he left, maybe. Not now. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, New episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day.

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So it's all a doctor-patient. That is going to take years. But the FBI should be aggressively looking at this. All right, I got a guy I booked today I want to talk to. His name is Jose Antonio Vargas. He comes to us from Berkeley, California. He's got a book out and paperback. Originally, he wrote this book in September 18, but he's upgraded it.

In the introduction of the book, he cites me, quote, since publicly declaring my undocumented status to tell 11, greeted by the likes of Bill O'Reilly as the most famous illegal in America, I visited cities and towns of 49 states, engaging all kinds of people. Most Americans I discovered have no idea the immigration system works, what the immigration citizenship process requires. how difficult, if not downright impossible, it is, for undocumented people to get legal. All the while undocumented workers like me pay billions to taxes through a government that

detains and deports us. That sounds pretty dastardly to me. And as I said, Mr. Vargas joins us from Berkeley, California. So you and I don't see this eye to eye, Mr. Vargas. But we do have some common ground. I believe that Congress should make it easier for foreign nationals to work in this country. They have to have a clear. sheet, they have to have no crime, they have to be responsible people, they probably have to put up some kind of collateral to get in here, but all that can be done. But I do not agree with you that the immigration process is that difficult, and I'll cite the stats. Okay, so there are four million legal Filipino immigrants in this country right now, at least that stat is three

years old, so you've got probably about five or six million. Population of Philippines, is 117 million, so we'd be pretty generous to the islands, all right? The last five years have been about a million new green cards. I think that should be tripled to three million, okay? And there are 400, there are four million new U.S. citizens in five years. So you say that they don't understand. Well, four million do. Any reply to those stats?

Well, first of all, thank you for having me. Second of all, I do think we have more in common than you think. And I think a lot of it has to do with what shared facts we have. Thank you for citing all those statistics. Actually, let me give you a little bit more statistics. So estimated 5 million Filipinos, about 1.4 million of that in California, where I grew up since 1993, there are actually more Filipinos in California than there are people. in New Hampshire, Delaware, and Rhode Island, right?

That's how big the Filipino population in this country has gotten. And to your point, I'm grateful that the United States has been generous to the Philippines. And I think a lot of that also has to do it. You know, the Philippines was a property of the United States. We were actually the first country that became a part of the American Empire in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. So we have a long history together, right? So the Philippines was a colony of Spain for 350 years, and then the Americans came for almost 50 years.

That's why apparently when you go to the Philippines where I haven't been since I was 12, the Philippines is the most Americanized of all the Asian countries. So I just wanted to point that out. Now, to address your question, and I've been thinking a lot about this since we just celebrated July 4th weekend. Apparently, during the founding fathers, era, when the 13 colonies declared independence from the British Empire, there were 2.5 million people in the colonies. Right now in this country, and I don't know if I believe these estimates,

I don't know, Bill, if you do, estimates say that we have 12 million undocumented people in this country. I think there's more than 12 million. I don't really, I don't believe that number. I want to, look, I want to advance your belief system. Now, you're an accomplished man, okay? You won a Pulitzer Prize working for the Washington Post. You've contributed to this country. The name of your book is Dear America, Notes of an undocumented citizen. But you are dead.

You have a visa. You're here. Nobody's going to kick your door and grab you at this point. But it's been a struggle, and it's been a struggle that's unfair to you because you were a people smuggler brought you here when you were 12. Your family wanted that to happen. Yeah. This is not your fault.

You had no... I had no... But, Bill, to your point, it took me 31 years. I had what's called an old visa, right? So I had to leave the country, this country, since I... To get the visa, but I want to go all the way through that.

What I'm trying to say to you and to the audience is there are ways to do it. Not easy, but nothing worthwhile is easy. You did it. Millions of other foreign nationals have come here legally. The people who come here illegally, okay, they have no right to feel entitled to be here. Now, I'm not saying they should all be mass deported. I'm not.

I want to get you taken a few things. Joe Biden opened the border, okay? Did you support that? When you say open the border meaning what? You mean what all those refugees were coming? Don't give me any of this. You know exactly what I mean. He opened the border, at least 12 million people poured across it,

many of whom asked for asylum, not in the legal way in the ports of entry. Did you support the Biden program or not? Yes or no? No. No. I do not. What was your objection? My, okay, a couple objections.

The 12 million people did not come through during Biden's era. They've been coming for decades. No, but at least 12 million did. At least 12. Every estimate, it's 12 to 15 under Biden, poured in here, most of whom asked for asylum, violating American law because they didn't go to the port of entry. That's the stat from the federal government. You want to quibble?

It gets us nowhere. Yeah. So what objection did you have to the Biden thing? What was your objection to that Biden? My objection is, I think the fact that we don't have an orderly system, like what you just said a few minutes ago, there should be a process that people ought to follow to come to this country. Okay. And I agree. We're on common graph.

Yes. But what if they don't follow it? Come on. What if they don't? Well, Bill, it's a problem. We have the right to kick them out. Well, wait a say. Yes.

Yes, we do. And however, that's why we have. 12 million people in this country legally because there's no process for people to follow. But there is a process for people. There is. As somebody bill who lived through this, I had to wait 31 years for this window of an opportunity to follow. Okay. I know it.

I know that. But do you know how many immigration attorneys there are in California? Oh, thousands. Thousands. And they're getting people to stay here. by using our system of due process. So don't tell me there's no way that you can become a legalized citizen

because there is. So Bill, why are there 12 million undocumented people in the country then if there's a process for them to follow the legalized? Because they don't want to follow it or they don't have the money to follow it. One of the two. That, by the way, is I think the biggest myth in journalism that we have to break,

that people don't want, are too lazy to follow a process. Look at the dreamers. The dreamers in this country had to pay $500,000, about $800,000 of them or so, had to pay $500 so that this government doesn't deport them so that they can work legally. Okay. Look, there's always going to be that kind of a thing. Trump is actually, he's actually sympathetic to dreamers.

But Jose, for you to come on here and say there's no process for foreign nationals that come here legally is simply not true. They advertise on television. The immigration attorneys are at there. Come to me. I'll get you here. I'll get you there. It's a booming industry. Bill, how many immigrants are there in the country today?

Do you know how many? Illegal immigrants or? No, no. Immigrants in general. Overall, how many? How many million? Number it's 50 million, something like that? About 49 million.

Of that 49 million, of that 49, this is according to the Pew Research Center, which is a non-partisan organization. Within that 49 million, 12 million are undocumented, right? Those 12, again, and you and I both know that just destroys your argument. Because you're saying there's no pathway and most of the people are here legally. No, no, no, no. But please hear me out here. The 12 million people live within 49 million people, right?

There are people in that family, like in my own family, that could call lawyers and naturalize themselves and actually adjust and change their status. I was one of those 12 million people that couldn't just do that. I had to wait 31 years for this very specific thing so that I could legalize myself. Okay, Jose, I understand that,

and I'm sympathetic to it, and Congress should. It's Congress's fault. It's Congress's fault. They could make new laws that impose order, But for the left to scream that we have a Gestapo that we're throwing people out and this and we're cruel and that's just hype. So last word. One thing that we must agree on, this may be an opportunity.

If there was ever an opportunity, look, we've been talking about illegal immigration since I moved to this country in 1993, right? If there was ever an opportunity to actually fix this problem and come up with a solution. this would be it. All right, and I agree. You and I could probably come up with this problem, figure this out in two weeks, okay? But these pinheads in D.C. all have agendas, one side or the other.

I agree 100%. The book is, Dear America, notes of an undocumented citizen, Jose Antonio Vargas, Jose, thanks to taking a fire. We appreciate you coming on tonight. Thank you for having me. Power, politics, and the people behind. the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist and the host of the brand new podcast,

Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, newsmakers and even the president of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, Every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast, you don't want to miss an episode. Joining us from L.A. Smith, sitting right in front of a house he just bought. I'm giving you some jazz. Okay, look, I'm a simple man, as you know. And I believe that this hip-hop stuff teaches disrespect and encourages it.

Bad language, don't even wear no condoms, you know, all of that stuff. And kids as young as what, 10, 11, 12, listen to this. Instead of me, listening to Four Tops and the Temptations and Smokey Robinson and all these people, they're listening to this. And I think that the level of disrespect among younger people has risen because of this kind of stuff. Am I wrong? I'm in no position to say definitively, Bill, that you're wrong. Where I was pushing back on you is when you talked about hip hop as if hip hop are the originators of all of this.

When we talk about disrespect, when we talk about some of the lyrics that are spewed, and I'm like, if you listen to rock music, have you listened to heavy metal music? Have you listened to some of the stuff spanning decades? Have you seen people worship in the devil engaging in sanctinism? It's preaching about violence and whatever. I mean, we've seen all of this in the past, and that had nothing to do with hip hop. So when you came out on Cuomo show and you talked about hip hop, it's one thing to say that you don't like it. But it was almost as if you isolated your opinion to that as opposed to really embracing what really has been happening with the music industry, with Hollywood, and some of the things that they've been perpetuating and disseminating for decades long even before hip hop came along that was my issue but i don't do the

i don't do the uh justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior and you're absolutely right i mean a lot of this rock stuff is garbage but this hip hop industry is directed at not just african-american children but children many of whom are marginalized they don't have people in the house, father in the house. Look, I wouldn't let my kids listen to Megan the stallion and Florilla or whatever's name. That could not come into my house. Am I wrong? No, you're not wrong. You're not wrong. You're wrong if you're saying them. I would say to you there's certain songs I'm not going to allow you to listen to. Like, for example, the artist that I grew up listening to, whether it was run DMC, it was KRS 1, it was Eric B and Rock Kim, public enemy, et cetera, et cetera.

It's in this day and age, whether it's Eminem, it's Jay-Z, it's Nas who's been around forever, along with a plethora of others. There's some songs I wouldn't allow my kids to listen to. There are other songs I don't mind. It all depends on a particular song and a particular lyrics that are being spewed

as opposed to me denigrating an artist because of a particular song. That's what I'm saying to you. Okay, but remember, okay, the unbelievable amount, of African-American children who are living without a father. It is a problem that this country has never seen at this level. You give those kids role models who are using the F-word every two seconds,

we've got tattoos all over them, who can't speak proper English, and you are saying that this is what is going to be imitated. Look, Willie Mays was my idol growing up, all right? It couldn't have been a better idol for me than Willie Mays. It just couldn't have been, all right? And he drove me to play baseball for 15 consecutive years. And then I went over to the Turn on W.A.B.C. AM radio to listen to all of these black artists whose music was uplifting. That helped me.

It didn't hurt me. Now, the role models, many of them, are hurting these kids. You've got to admit that. I'm not denying. I'm not, I have no problem admitting that. I have no problem acknowledging that parents, and it extends beyond the black community, white, Hispanic. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, everybody's complaining about it. You're absolutely right. I'm not here to say that you're wrong. I just want you to contextualize things properly. So we're talking about the subject right now, Bill. And you can look at it that way, and you have every right to. I'm not going to knock you for that. But allow me to retort.

Let's go into your wheelhouse for a second. Right now, we're looking at an unemployment rate in the United States of America that's hovering around 4 to 4.1%. In the black community, it's at 16%. Amongst young black males, particularly between the ages of 16 and 19, for example, I think I read the number at being at about 19.8%. I've often been on the air saying this, when white folks catch a cold, black folks catch pneumonia. It's always worse for us. There's always an uphill battle to climb

to get to your point. It makes it even harder when other obstacles get in the way that we know would potentially derail, particularly somebody from an African-American community on a come-up looking for opportunities. But what happens? The music industry comes along and they're talking to you about making money. And here's how we want you to make the money. And so you have young minds that are being influenced, but most importantly are trying to get a leg up or trying to earn their stripes or trying to find a way to pay their bills and to take care of themselves and their family, etc.,

that are presented with these opportunities. So when you talk about a hip-hop industry, you might talk about the artist, and I might say somebody like Bill O'Reilly is informed enough to know it extends far beyond that particular artist because those artists answer to somebody. Somebody makes those albums. They promote those albums.

They market those albums. They disseminate that to the massive. Yeah, but the artist is created, it is creating the scenario that if you are a certain person, you can use that language. The reason that the minority unemployment is higher is because of the presentation. If you're an African American in this country and you present yourself in a way the employer believes that is going to help the business, you'll get the job. Not always.

No system is perfect. But believe me, you have a just so good a chance to get that job. And you don't want to work for a racist anyway, okay? Right. So, but if you go in and you can't speak English and you're going the F word every two minutes and you've got a tattoo of a panther on your neck, there's a good chance you're not going to get the job. That is totally true. But that is not a vast majority of African Americans out in this world.

And you have to take that into consideration as well. Now, you might look at some members of the hip hop community, and you might see them acting a certain way, which is unfortunate, and we don't hesitate to call them out for that. But we also see a lot of these hip hop artists doing fantastic things within the community, within the world. Okay, but that doesn't justify, look, Jay-Z sold crack. All right, kill people, all right?

I have no respect for him. None. Zero. Well, he's, and he's a friend of mine. Okay, I'm sorry, well, I'm sorry, but I'm a truthful man. He sold crack. So am I. So if he would come out and he would say, I was absolutely wrong, don't use crack, all right?

That was horrible. And I'm saying to you is you can do two things at once. You can admit exactly what Bill O'Reilly said. And then turn around and say, excuse me, this is what I had to do to survive because the opportunity. I don't believe that for a second. Well, tell me, tell me, someone, you don't believe that. No, because there are most African Americans. Americans don't sell crack.

I understand that, but you're using a specific incident. I'm going to a macro perspective. There are an abundance of situations involving males in the African-American community where trying times present themselves and challenges present themselves. I was fortunate and blessed enough to have a mother and a father in the home, Bill. Yeah, me too. And that's why I feel terrible about the unsupervised children, not just African-Americans, about all of them who get involved with this hip hop, which is going to hurt them.

Last question. Wouldn't it be better? Not simple of that, but okay. Wouldn't it be better for the world if Motown came back and all of the good songs that we still listen to 50, 60 years later, okay, dominated the music industry and not this other garbage. Wouldn't that be better? I think a lot of it exists now.

You've got a lot of beautiful artists out here. Have you ever listened to Joe? Have you ever listened to an abundance of other guys out there with some great music? Some great albums out there and whatever. Everybody can't be Prince, Michael Jackson, The Temptations, the Four Tops. You forgot to mention the Osley brothers. Let's not forget about that. Teddy Pentegras, Luther Vantros.

You had a whole bunch of artists that were absolutely fabulous. I got to stop you there. On Cuomo tonight, if we have time, You asked me about going to the Isley Brothers concert, okay? I was the only white guy in there. The only white guy. I remember you told me. Okay.

You told me that. And the crowd. But see, here's your problem. This is your problem. You think you're loved because you, you know, Bill O'Reilly is right and he tells the truth. That's not why you're respected and why you can walk anywhere, even when people disagree with you. Do you know what the real reason is, Bill? Even if we think you're wrong, we know you mean what you say.

You believe it. You feel it. We could go on and on about this particular conversation. I could have corrected you on a few things. But I know that your foundation, the foundation of your belief has some merit, and you're bold enough and brave enough to say it. And to say it respectfully rather than hide it behind some curtains.

So that's where it comes from. But it ain't because we think you write all the time. No, no. And I don't want you to think I'm right. I just try to make an overwhelming case, and that's what the three Americans is all about. That's why it's sweeping the country. You've got three separate guys who all have belief systems who throw it on out there, and then people can say, all right, that's a bit, that's it.

Hey, Steve, we'll see you. You could be nice. You could be nice at a Chris Ford. You'd be, you could be nice. You could be nice. You know, he doesn't deserve it. Okay, I mean, that's right. He just doesn't deserve it.

All right, I'll see you soon. Eggs are Alvinus. I appreciate it. Thank you, babe. Okay, some relief at the airports for you. You don't take your shoes off anymore. TSA put out a memo. They're going to roll it out. You don't take your shoes off when you go through the security line.

It will save some time. It was always annoying. A little interesting timeline. The shoe thing started December 2001, three months after 9-11. And it was because Richard R. the British terrorist tried to blow up a plane with explosives hidden his shoe. But that's where it started. In 2006 in America, the TSA said everybody takes their shoes off.

Then you could get some elevated security status where you didn't have to take it off. Now, what you need is a real ID document, passport, or a license. I have a driver's license to real ID. to show and get in a line where you don't have to take your shoes off. But that's an improvement because this TSA intrusion, I'm sure you've been on the lines as I have. It really can get people into trouble on connecting flights. There's a follow up on Kilmar, Abrago Garcia. He was the guy in Maryland who was deported to El Salvador.

Supreme Court ruled to add to say, bring him back. He is back, 29 years old from Maryland. Now he's charged with human trafficking, and he allegedly did that in Tennessee. Okay? So the case is in Tennessee, but it's being overseen by a federal judge Paula Zixis, Z-I-N-I-S, in Maryland. Now, she may grant bail to Garcia. It's still being held. If that happens, ICE says immediately he's going to be picked up and deported.

That would not be good. I want the guy charged and tried for human trafficking because he was used by the progressive left to try to undermine homeland security. That's a big story. Now, if this guy turns out to be a human trafficker, that destroys what I said to beginning of the program, this entire progressive thing. It's another brick in the wall.

Okay? So that is in motion. Smart lives. So price of food is absolutely insane. And I did a commentary for our flagship, W.A.B.C. radio today. I'm on there with common sense at 9 p.m. every night on W.A.B.C. And I said, look, one of the reasons this guy, Mandani is even competitive in a New York City mayoral race is because of the price of food. There is a restaurant on Eastern Long Island named Roses in Amagansett is charging $34 for a cheeseburger.

Now, you've got to be a complete moron to buy that. However, there are rich people who don't care about $34. Oh, I want the burger and they'll buy it. And that's why it's on the menu and the restaurant's selling them. Poorer people, less affluent people who have to care about money. That makes them angry. Now, smart life. A couple of apps could save you some pretty significant money on food.

Pen, paper, remember I say every day? If you go to lifehacker.com, lifehacker.com, they have a big food waste thing there. And you can get food at a very, very, very low price. The main one that we found was too good to go. This is found in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2016, it's got 100 million registered users. What this is, is restaurants go to this too good to go in areas all over the world. And say, look, we'll bundle food for this price, usually very low, but you don't know what's in there. You don't know what the restaurants are

giving you. It's not like you order. But you get a bundle of food for a very low price delivered to you. And in USA, it's New York, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, on and and on and on. So you can get it. Too good to go. They call them surprise bags. Now, if you are just getting by and food prices are hammering you, you might want to check out lifehacker.com and too good to go. First two is T-O-O-O. Good, T-O-G-O. Smart life.

All right, final thought of the day, we all need laughs. I need a lot of laughs because my technical life has fallen apart. I'd be nuts because I can't fix it. Okay, our pal, Jeffer, Hearn, you can get them on Rumble.com. slash jeff a herne rumble.com slash jeffreherne and he's like gutfeld he looks at the and he makes fun of political stuff so jeff is uh on the fact that in los angeles uh county the beaches go all away you know it's huge la county biggest in the country and they need a lot of lifeguards there roll the tape in fact lea county's 134 highest paid lifeguards earned a whopping 70 million

dollars last year. All while the county struggles with funding for the police and fire department. Maybe Mayor Bass should not have cut $49 million from the firefighting budget. All she would have had to do is handle this rogue wave, that is, lifeguard salaries. So stop slamming taxpayers so hard need to be carried out on backboards. Lifeguards already work at the beach. Do we need to pay them so much that they can also buy beachfront property? And in California, lifeguarding is pretty easy. Many days, people are not even allowed to swim to begin with. Since the only thing higher than lifeguard salaries is the amount of E. coli bacteria loading around in our beach water.

Drowning is a terrible thing, whether it's in the water or in debt. And it's one thing to pay $70 million to the cast of Baywatch. You get Pamela Anderson. But here we're paying that much for the cast of L.A. County beaches. We don't even get Yasmine Bleath. Okay. Now, as a former lifeguard, I'm kind of sympathetic to paying the guys and the gals. money. It's a tough job. It was so hard that I got out of it and I became a water safety

and structure and made a lot more money. I taught urchins and adults how to swim. It was fascinating. And I didn't make a lot of money. I was working for the town of Babylon on Long Island. But the water safety paid a lot better than the ocean. And the ocean was. was arduous. I mean, you know, I test? Did you have to pass here on Long Island, a guard those beaches, the town and state beaches? Whoa. I don't know if the rock could do that. Anyway, it's a hard job because the elements you're in, the elements, skin cancer like, oh my God, and you run into so many loons on that beach, and you've got to be polite and respectful. I don't know why the beach attracts so many crazy people.

One final thing. When I taught, it was easy to teach the little kids to swim. Okay? I just play around with them, have some fun. They liked it. They splash around. I got them all swimming. Probably 100%.

The adults was hard. Because they didn't want to put their face in the water. They had fear of the water. And I say, look, you ever take a shower? You wash your face? The nozzle comes down with the water in your face. I mean, that's what you've got to look at. And then I would just have them put their face in the water and just, you know, and then breathe and then this and that.

But that was a challenge to teach adults when they get to that status in life and they still don't on a swim. There's a resistance there. So anyway, I'm sympathetic to the lifeguard salaries. We love Jeff Ahern. Thank you for sending the tape to us, Jeff. Everybody have a really good weekend. New column on Sunday. Thank you very much for watching and listening on a radio all across America.

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