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Midterm Anxieties, EV's Are No-Good for El Niño and The Year of the Heist · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the big stories.
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  Speaker 3: We're looking at a horrific story yesterday. A 16-year-old goes
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  Speaker 3: into an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, kills three little
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  Speaker 3: ones and a teacher, and several.
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  Speaker 2: Others were wounded.
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  Speaker 3: And the suspect was shot, it looks like, by a
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  Speaker 3: bystander and shot dead. And it's just another... horrific school shooting. Earlier,
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  Speaker 3: I talked about and we talked about how today the
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  Speaker 3: drills are all active shooter drills in elementary schools where
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  Speaker 3: kids are being trained and taught to how to react
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  Speaker 3: to active shooters. Completely crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The vote's coming up, of course, as we know, 18
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  Speaker 3: days from now, we'll see our midterms. And there is
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  Speaker 3: a question as to, which is getting more and more
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  Speaker 3: in the limelight.
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  Speaker 2: How legitimate is the vote?
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  Speaker 3: This morning, I was looking at the New York Times,
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  Speaker 3: and the Times did an article on the commercials that
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be seeing on both sides of the aisle.
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  Speaker 3: AI is involved in a very good percentage, more so
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  Speaker 3: with Republicans than Democrats. And they're trying to figure out why,
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  Speaker 3: because are Republicans more dishonest? No, not particularly. It seems
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  Speaker 3: that Democrats are more They question more a statement that
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  Speaker 3: is made by a politician where many Republicans don't question
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  Speaker 3: the philosophy at all. And so what's ending up happening
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  Speaker 3: is AI is being used to generate these insane ads
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  Speaker 3: like Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan was running for Senate.
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  Speaker 2: He's a Muslim.
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  Speaker 3: He's pretty left wing. He's being touted, being portrayed as
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  Speaker 3: a terrorist terrorist. And there's an ad in which he
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  Speaker 3: is laughing at an Israeli.
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  Speaker 2: Flag being burnt up.
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  Speaker 3: And he and a terrorist are at a table and
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  Speaker 3: they're talking and laughing with each other.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it's AI.
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  Speaker 3: And how influential is this stuff? Well, there's a poll
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  Speaker 3: that just came out.
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  Speaker 2: This is L.A.
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  Speaker 3: County voters. Nearly three quarters are worried that misinformation could
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  Speaker 3: confuse voters or undermine confidence. And a lot of them
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  Speaker 3: fear political interference and mail ballots going missing. And it
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  Speaker 3: turns out that the fear that elections are going south
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  Speaker 3: is becoming more and more rampant. We're quickly approaching where
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  Speaker 3: don't trust the elections. We're becoming Iraq, Saddam Hussein's Iraq,
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  Speaker 3: where 110% of the vote went to Saddam Hussein. And
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  Speaker 3: as I've said over and over again, we are now
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  Speaker 3: in a position that The argument is if a Republican wins,
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  Speaker 3: that is a free election.
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  Speaker 2: And if a Democrat wins, that is a rigged election.
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  Speaker 3: Simple.
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  Speaker 2: It's that simple.
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  Speaker 3: That's the definition of democracy for unfortunately too many Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: And I have yet to see a Democrat or very
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  Speaker 3: rarely a say the election was rigged when he or
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  Speaker 3: she lost. I think Hillary at one point did question
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  Speaker 3: a vote, but it's compared to the Republicans that are
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  Speaker 3: saying rigged, rigged, rigged, rigged, rigged. And we're not hearing
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  Speaker 3: this as much, but we're seeing the ads. We're seeing
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  Speaker 3: the ads question everything. And since the ads question the
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  Speaker 3: integrity of the vote and the ads are so well
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  Speaker 3: done and you can do anything with AI, then there
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  Speaker 3: is no issue as to how much influence there is.
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  Speaker 3: Now the only issue is to how much influence there is.
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  Speaker 3: And three quarters in this poll respondents in LA County
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  Speaker 3: expressed concern that false rumors and misleading information online is
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  Speaker 3: going to confuse workers and in some cases make them
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  Speaker 3: believe their vote doesn't count. Now, once presented with information
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  Speaker 3: about how the county handles elections, And now you have
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  Speaker 3: the majority saying, OK, we trust the election officials to produce.
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  Speaker 2: A legitimate, fair count.
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  Speaker 3: So the good news is the majority don't believe the
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  Speaker 3: election is rigged.
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  Speaker 2: The election is rigged.
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  Speaker 3: However, and let me go on the other side, some
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  Speaker 3: of these races are won by a fraction of a point.
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  Speaker 2: And all you.
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  Speaker 3: Need is a few of those believers saying that this
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  Speaker 3: is rigged, this is fraud, I'm not going to vote,
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  Speaker 3: or I believe what I just saw online, that Abdu'l-Sayed,
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  Speaker 3: for example, is a terrorist. And he does believe in
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  Speaker 3: blowing up parts of the United States. And he does
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  Speaker 3: believe that Israel controls the U.S. Well, actually, he does
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  Speaker 3: believe that. Unfortunately, that's what we're getting. And the polls
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  Speaker 3: are both good and bad. The polls say most of us,
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  Speaker 3: after learning how safe the elections are and the safeguards
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  Speaker 3: that are put into place, look at it and say, OK,
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  Speaker 3: elections are free. There is no widespread fraud, except you're
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  Speaker 3: going to see a few people lose because it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be really close. And we'll see what happens after
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  Speaker 3: the fact. We'll see when some of these states flip.
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  Speaker 3: Senate seats, certainly House seats flip. We'll see how how
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  Speaker 3: much and how many people attack the vote itself.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be very interesting, to say the least.
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  Speaker 3: OK, El Nino, the floods, EVs, the cars and how
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  Speaker 3: the two should not meet. And I'll tell you about
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  Speaker 3: that story when we come back.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 3: As I've been telling you before, I have a new
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  Speaker 3: dropped yet, but we already have some actually photos from
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  Speaker 2: Baggage. How unusual.
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  Speaker 3: You can look at that. And we have some pictures
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  Speaker 3: of the elephant that we adopted. We actually adopted an elephant,
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  Speaker 3: took it home. It's very hard to train an elephant.
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  Speaker 2: You know that?
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  Speaker 3: To housebreak an elephant. Well, it's very easy for them
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  Speaker 3: to break the house, but never mind. Anyway, and also
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  Speaker 3: feeding the giraffes is a lot of fun. Okay, now
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  Speaker 3: let's talk about EV owners here in California or all
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  Speaker 3: over the country. The problem is EV owners have EVs.
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  Speaker 3: And electric vehicles are kind of neat in many ways.
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  Speaker 3: For example, don't worry about the cost of gasoline. You
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  Speaker 3: can charge it at home. You never walk into a
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  Speaker 3: gas station. All kinds of neat stuff. Are there some downsides?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is range anxiety. That's why I gave
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  Speaker 3: up my EV. And the problem of weather and EVs.
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  Speaker 3: Because here's what's going on. We have El Nino-related storms.
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  Speaker 3: And we are going to see a lot of water
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  Speaker 3: in many places. And if you're looking at the news,
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  Speaker 3: how many of those places are flooded? So your car,
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  Speaker 3: let's say you're in a flood zone, all right? Let's
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  Speaker 3: say the water comes up to mid-height on the door, right?
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  Speaker 3: Now your car is going to get a mess, but
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  Speaker 3: you're still going to be driving it. It's not going
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  Speaker 3: to blow up. It's not going to explode, except if
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  Speaker 3: you have an EV. Then all of a sudden you
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  Speaker 3: have a real problem. Because those batteries, those sodium lithium batteries,
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  Speaker 3: when they get wet, particularly with saltwater, have the possibility
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  Speaker 3: of igniting and starting to burn.
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  Speaker 2: The batteries burn.
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  Speaker 3: Very difficult to put out those fires. You've heard of
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  Speaker 3: those kids who in school have the vapes, the vape pens,
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  Speaker 3: which also have these batteries in them. And we've seen
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  Speaker 3: video of them. They explode and just catch fire. Computers,
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  Speaker 3: for example, in the overhead bin on a flight.
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  Speaker 2: The laptop caught fire.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the fun stories are when those kids
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  Speaker 3: have vapes and they explode.
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  Speaker 2: In their pockets.
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  Speaker 3: Which... was in fact the inspiration for Jerry Lee Lewis
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  Speaker 3: when he wrote Great Balls of Fire. It's that he
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  Speaker 3: noticed that these vape pens just exploded, lit on fire
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  Speaker 3: in people's pockets. It is all kidding aside, not that
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  Speaker 3: that was a funny joke or not, is that these
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  Speaker 3: batteries are susceptible to fire, to ignition when exposed to water.
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  Speaker 3: And here is the problem. is where are the batteries
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  Speaker 3: in an EV? They're at the bottom of the car.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't take too many inches of water before the
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  Speaker 3: batteries get wet, particularly saltwater, which is a tremendous conductor
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  Speaker 3: of electricity. And the batteries then tend to ignite and
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  Speaker 3: they get really dangerous. So here is what the manufacturers
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  Speaker 3: are telling you. The safety people are telling you, if
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  Speaker 3: you have an EV and it gets wet, if you
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  Speaker 3: have an EV and water comes up to where the
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  Speaker 3: batteries have been submerged, you stop right there.
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  Speaker 2: You're done. You do not start the car.
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  Speaker 3: You do nothing except call a tow yard, call the manufacturer.
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  Speaker 3: I do believe that insurance is involved because obviously you have,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully you have comprehensive insurance.
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  Speaker 2: And it is that dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Electric vehicles are simply susceptible to starting a fire when
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  Speaker 3: the batteries are inundated with saltwater. So tropical storm Rachel
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  Speaker 3: last weekend, floodwaters. came into the Balboa Peninsula and Newport
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  Speaker 3: Beach and exposed all those cars that were parked and
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  Speaker 3: even were driving through the area and exposed to standing water,
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  Speaker 3: which looks like the batteries have been corroded, we don't know,
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  Speaker 3: and created those hidden hazards. The problem is that sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it is weeks later that the sodium batteries ignite, and
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  Speaker 3: that burns just insanely hot. It gets very, very dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: So here is a whole slew of EVs. Let's say
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  Speaker 3: in Newport Beach, right? You're in Malibu or on the
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  Speaker 3: Balboa Peninsula, and hundreds of cars are flooded. Every one
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  Speaker 3: of those cars should not be driven. Do you wait
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  Speaker 3: until the battery dries out? No, you don't drive it
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  Speaker 3: at all. Now, normally, if a battery goes out in
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  Speaker 3: my car, in your car, if you're driving an internal
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  Speaker 3: combustion engine, you replace the battery. If the battery goes south,
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  Speaker 3: how much does that cost you? What's the battery these days?
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  Speaker 3: A couple hundred dollars? I don't even know what a
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  Speaker 3: new battery costs. A decent battery, you know, 200 bucks
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  Speaker 3: to pop in. Try to put in a new set
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  Speaker 3: of batteries in an electric vehicle. I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: of anybody that has had to replace batteries in an EV.
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  Speaker 2: Neil, you're sort of nodding. Do you know anybody who has? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to reconnect. We lost him for a minute. Okay, thanks, Mario.
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  Speaker 3: But it has to be tens of thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 3: for those batteries to be replaced. And insurance, I don't
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  Speaker 3: even know because I remember my insurance.
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  Speaker 2: Policy when I had my EV. Hey, did you need me?
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  Speaker 2: I'm back, bud. No, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: I did for a second, but then I realized the
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  Speaker 3: last person I wanted to talk to you was you
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  Speaker 3: at that point.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know.
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  Speaker 3: I know. And that's why the show does as well
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  Speaker 3: as it does because we connect so well.
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  Speaker 2: Does insurance pay for it?
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  Speaker 3: I'll go back to my policy when I had my
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  Speaker 3: EV that I just gave up a couple months ago.
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  Speaker 3: And it did not talk about replacing batteries.
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  Speaker 2: It just didn't. And that's a whole new world of
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  Speaker 2: replacing them.
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  Speaker 3: Also, we heard about, this is just another tangent here.
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  Speaker 3: We've heard about what happens when the batteries run out,
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  Speaker 3: when they no longer have power. And there were stories
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  Speaker 3: that I read about and shared with you that they
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  Speaker 3: took these car batteries and they could reuse them into
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  Speaker 3: home systems or they could reuse them into other battery
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  Speaker 3: technology systems. because car batteries need a very constant flow
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  Speaker 3: and other applications don't.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the whole world too. What happens with car batteries?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to find out.
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  Speaker 3: And EVs are going crazy, especially now. Try to get
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  Speaker 3: an EV. You know, I just got a new car
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted a hybrid. You can't get hold of
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  Speaker 3: a hybrid for months. So I now have just a
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  Speaker 3: straight gas engine and gas is $ 6. 40 a gallon. Let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you how thrilled I am. So I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: a lot more walking.
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  Speaker 1: All of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mess.
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  Speaker 3: But the bottom line is I spun this around and
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  Speaker 3: went off on tangents is if you have an EV,
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  Speaker 3: the car gets wet, you're done driving. Unless you want
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  Speaker 3: to have a really nice fire where at least you
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  Speaker 3: should bring your marshmallows and chocolate and graham crackers, if
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  Speaker 3: nothing else.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom, his team, his posting team, his team that
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  Speaker 3: uses or uses the Internet for everything Gavin Newsom wants
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  Speaker 3: to do, say, attack Trump, defend against Trump.
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  Speaker 2: How much does he spend and who pays for it?
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  Speaker 2: We'll come back with that.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: A foodie Friday with Neil.
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  Speaker 3: Neil and I jump into all manner of food. Some
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  Speaker 3: of the stories we are looking at, a horrific story
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  Speaker 3: yesterday in Bend, Oregon, at an elementary school. A 16-year-old
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  Speaker 3: shot dead three children and a teacher before he was
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  Speaker 3: killed by a bystander who rushed into the school. as
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  Speaker 3: the shots were being fired, obviously considered a hero. And
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  Speaker 3: then the Dodgers lost big time. They were swept by
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers. So they're finished for this season. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: you look at the world of politics, just for a
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  Speaker 3: moment here, there is nobody as good as the president
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to using the Internet, posting. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the guy is a master at it. No one comes close.
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  Speaker 3: He has taken it to two levels, to new levels.
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  Speaker 3: Not only making proclamations about what he thinks, what he
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  Speaker 3: thinks should happen, what has happened, what he is going
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  Speaker 3: to do, attacks on people, defending himself. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: uses it masterfully.
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  Speaker 2: Masterly? Masterfully. He uses it with a great master-ness. Damn,
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  Speaker 2: I'm good at this stuff. Now, does anybody come close?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Gavin Newsom.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: And what he's done, he's taken the governor's press shop into....
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  Speaker 3: Just frankly, a content-generating media operation. So last month, he
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  Speaker 3: was signing a bill about tax credits for local news outlets.
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  Speaker 3: And he reminisced about days when reporters were all around
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  Speaker 3: him when he was mayor of San Francisco. And they
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  Speaker 3: were all over him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, today, no.
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  Speaker 3: He actually told an assembled— Capitol Press Corps, it was
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  Speaker 3: holding a press conference.
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  Speaker 2: There's not a lot of you out there. There really isn't.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at the past two decades of media contraction,
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  Speaker 3: what happens is government officials don't talk anymore to the press,
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  Speaker 3: don't have the press to talk to. And what they
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  Speaker 3: do is they go to now the Internet. They talk
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  Speaker 3: directly with voters and constituents on their platforms, their own platforms.
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  Speaker 3: So what does that allow them to do? Well, dodge
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  Speaker 3: the tough questions, dodge independent media coverage. Menlo College political
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  Speaker 3: science professor Melissa Michelson, I think is her name, says
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  Speaker 3: that they're not controlling the narrative. And so let's go online. Now,
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  Speaker 3: politicians want to do this forever. But with the Internet,
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  Speaker 3: with the ability to post in recent years online, And
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  Speaker 3: a stat that I find stunning, half of the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: adults get news through social media. And if you can
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  Speaker 3: control social media, there is no sense of obligation to
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  Speaker 3: the truth, no oversight, no one looking at you. You
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  Speaker 3: just post what you can post and post what you
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  Speaker 3: want to post. So now he has been, and this
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  Speaker 3: is what we're talking about, Newsom has this whole team.
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  Speaker 3: 24 people on his press office, all of them working
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  Speaker 3: on internet.
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  Speaker 2: He never stops posting.
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  Speaker 3: He picks fights on X, especially with the right-wing media,
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  Speaker 3: especially with Republicans in general, especially with Donald Trump. And
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  Speaker 3: some of the communications are done on the campaign accounts
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  Speaker 3: because they're clearly campaign communications, but a lot from the
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  Speaker 3: taxpayer-funded governor's office of communications.
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  Speaker 2: And what has that done?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Newsom is now the leading Democrat against the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 3: and he's very proud of it.
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  Speaker 2: This is a tough one. I look at this, I go,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really paying for this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: He rarely takes questions from media in Sacramento. And why?
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't have to.
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  Speaker 3: He's doubled his communications staff since the pandemic, added a
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  Speaker 3: full-time photographer who makes $ 212, 000 a year. That's a good gig,
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  Speaker 3: and the state pays for it. In January of 2020,
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  Speaker 3: he had, this is his first term, he had 12
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  Speaker 3: people in the communications office. Now he has 24 full-time
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  Speaker 3: employees paid for by the taxpayer. There was a time
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  Speaker 3: during Jerry Brown, when he was governor, Jerry Brown was
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  Speaker 3: governor before the internet came along. He had 12 people
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  Speaker 3: on his staff and he just didn't bother a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the time. Can you imagine saying that of Newsom?
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  Speaker 3: Does he not have an opinion on everything? Of course
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  Speaker 3: he does.
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  Speaker 2: Brown wouldn't even weigh in on the issues. Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: He had eight people at his office and that includes
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  Speaker 3: unpaid interns.
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  Speaker 2: It's the internet. And it's Newsom. So whenever you see.
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  Speaker 3: A Donald Trump post that has anything peripherally to do
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  Speaker 3: with California or basically any issue, that's soon followed up
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  Speaker 3: with Newsom. The wars they have are Internet wars. And
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  Speaker 3: Newsom realizes that in order to get anywhere near as
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  Speaker 3: good as Donald Trump is on posting news, He has
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  Speaker 3: to follow his lead and that is what he is doing.
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  Speaker 3: So we're having the, why do we even need debates anymore?
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  Speaker 3: Because we've got the internet wars, which are a lot
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  Speaker 3: more fun. You can do anything with internet, with the internet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you can post, which of course you do, but also AI,
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  Speaker 3: you can make commercials, you can draw things. Look at
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  Speaker 3: the stuff that the president has done that are just
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  Speaker 3: completely insane. Look at the stuff that Newsom has done.
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  Speaker 3: Not quite as insane, but getting very close. I love politics,
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  Speaker 3: don't you?
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Here's something else that's going on.
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  Speaker 3: The robberies of these museums that we talked about. And
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  Speaker 3: the biggest story last year, maybe it was, no, it
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  Speaker 3: was this year, the great Louvre robbery. You know, that famous,
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  Speaker 3: famous museum in Paris, the Louvre. Yeah, that too.
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  Speaker 2: Both of them. They're right next to each other. You
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: got the Louvre and you got the Louvre. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be back.
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  Speaker 4: Amy?
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  Speaker 2: I missed the Louvre last time when I was in Paris. Yeah, well,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: there you are.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: It's a foodie Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Milwaukee Brewers swept the Dodgers last night. It's over for
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers and the Brewers move on. Interesting lawsuit. The
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against California asking it
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: to not count 20,000 ballots because of the possibility of fraud.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: And you can bet those lawsuits are going to come
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: hot and heavy between now and the day of the election.
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  Speaker 3: which is what, we're 18 days out, 17 days out? Now,
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  Speaker 3: last year, we all talked about, and it was international news,
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  Speaker 3: big time, the Louvre was broken into. And more than
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: $ 100 million worth of France's crown jewels were stolen. Eight
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: people have been arrested. Nobody has, they haven't found any
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  Speaker 3: of it yet. And here's what's going on. Things have
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: changed pretty dramatically in terms of these thefts. It used
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: to be that artwork was stolen. That was the big news.
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  Speaker 3: You can't really resell artwork. You can't resell a Renoir artwork.
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  Speaker 3: When everybody knows, all the museums, the top collectors know
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  Speaker 3: exactly how many there are out there. Now, stealing a
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: piece of jewelry, let's say you're stealing crown jewels, of
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: which there is an 80-carat diamond in it. You can
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: take that 80-carat diamond and cut it up into smaller diamonds,
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  Speaker 3: and no one's going to know the difference. You can't
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: cut up a painting, but you sure can cut up jewelry,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what seems to be going on. So there
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  Speaker 3: are people, and now we're talking about organized rings, organized
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  Speaker 3: gangs of jewel thieves. professionals who are breaking in and
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  Speaker 3: dealing it.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like a movie. A distraction is held.
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  Speaker 3: And even if the alarm goes off and it's going
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  Speaker 3: to take the cops five minutes to show up, for example,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: you have the security guards, the ones that are local,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: they're at the facility, they're overcome or killed, unfortunately, usually
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: just tied up, overcome and bound and gagged. And now
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: the thieves go to work. It's a smash and grab
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: and And they're out in three minutes. And that's what
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: happened with the Louvre. I think it was five or
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: seven minutes that all of that artwork was.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Taken, all that jewelry was taken. So what is happening?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you have museums all over the world really doubling
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  Speaker 3: down on security. The Louvre has added layers and layers
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  Speaker 3: of security. But therein lies a problem too, because you're
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: not just guarding jewelry. Keep in mind, this is a museum.
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  Speaker 3: 30,000 people a day go through the Louvre. And so
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: how do you keep that accessible so they can see
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: the artwork or the jewels or the paintings and at
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: the same time provide security?
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  Speaker 2: That is difficult to do.
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  Speaker 3: Also, a lot of these museums that have priceless works
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: of art, These small museums, you had very wealthy collectors
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: who decide they're going to either set up their own
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: museum or donate to small museums.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have the money for this kind of security.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, this kind of security is huge, huge dollars.
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  Speaker 2: So unfortunately, we're going to see that happening.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: And it's a shame where you now have saturation of
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: surveillance cameras, additional guards, additional technology.
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  Speaker 2: And are art thieves going to be able to bypass that?
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: The bad guys are always first, and we try to
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: somehow catch up with them. Rarely does that work. All right,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: coming up, Foodie Friday with Neil Saavedra. We've got a
• 23:12
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