DV #47: Police Won't Be Paid For Riot Overtime
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The City of Los Angeles is learning a hard lesson -- sometimes you run out of other people's money! The coronavirus pandemic shut down Los Angeles for three months and then saw riots, looting, and protests that forced the LAPD to work copious amounts of overtime. The LAPD has announced that these officer won't be paid for their work and they will instead receive time off. All nonessential overtime for the city will be suspended except for staffing at the Bridge Home -- a nearly lawless center for the homeless.
Also on today's episode we discuss some new research from our favorite site LockdownSkeptics.org. The article argues that we unnecessarily implemented the lockdown when we knew that the virus primarily affected the elderly and nursing home residents.
Also on today's episode we discuss a couple's disastrous trip to Costa Rica, a new "quarantine cheese" discovered in France, retail tyrants and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Anne McElheny. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Phelanekalier. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Ann and Phelam Scoop Daily Virus, where we discuss the latest news, views, advice and madness of the pandemic. |
| 0:14.0 | So, yes. |
| 0:15.0 | It's Blooms Day. |
| 0:16.0 | It's June, what, the 16th? |
| 0:18.0 | June the 16th. |
| 0:19.0 | Bloom's Day. |
| 0:20.0 | Blooms Day. Which has the unfortunate ability to remind |
| 0:25.2 | me of just how little I've achieved during the pandemic lockdown. Some people were going to |
| 0:30.5 | write a novel during the pandemic lockdown. Some people were going to read a novel. Did you really |
| 0:35.0 | intend to read Ulysses during the lockdown film? Was this ever even a passing thought? No, but I could have. I could have. I think that's a good way to think about it because I think sometimes people literally, I mean, I remember when I was in college, people used to talk about people taking two months off to read Ulysses because it's meant to be very difficult to read, right? Because it's like one sentence or something. |
| 0:55.5 | I think you're confusing Finnegan's way. Okay, Ulysses is difficult to read, but apparently it's the book that keeps on giving once you read it. Oh, really? Yes. Well, today is Bloomsday. For those people who don't know what Bloomsday represents during the 16th, It was, well, James Joyce's first date. |
| 1:11.9 | It was to commemor Joyce's first date. |
| 1:11.6 | It was to commemorate his first date with Nora, with his the woman he married. |
| 1:15.6 | Noor. |
| 1:16.6 | That's part of it. |
| 1:17.6 | So Ulysses is set in one day in Dublin in 1904, I think it is. |
| 1:23.6 | It's June the 16th, which is also the same day that James Joyce famously had his first date |
| 1:32.0 | with Nora Barnacle. |
| 1:33.3 | I believe they went to the movies. |
| 1:35.2 | And one of the things that they said about Ulysses is that, and I think, I mean, obviously |
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