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Iran War: Two Week Ceasefire Agreed | Three Year Bachelor's Degrees · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1: six forty.
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Speaker 2: KIM six forty Bill Handle. Good morning, everybody. It is
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Speaker 2: a Wednesday morning, April eighth.
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Speaker 3: And the big news, of course, is the ceasefire is
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Speaker 3: in place between Iran and the United States. And this
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Speaker 3: happened an hour, not even an hour before the attack
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Speaker 3: against Iran was going to happen. That would bomb Iran
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Speaker 3: back into the Stone Age and destroy an entire civilization.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's pretty harsh rhetoric, to say the least.
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Speaker 3: So here we are with a ceasefire. Both sides have
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Speaker 3: claimed victory. The United States has claim victory and Iran
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Speaker 3: has claim victory as a result of the ceasefire. If
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Speaker 3: I had to guess, or if you ask me, I
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Speaker 3: think Iran got the better of it my opinion. And
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Speaker 3: there's some reality checks here in which both sides you go,
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Speaker 3: come on, really, all right, let's start with Iran, right.
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Speaker 3: Iran agreed to the ceasefire, all right. And the ceasefire
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Speaker 3: involved the very last claim that President Trump made of
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Speaker 3: Iran is opening the Strait of Hormuz immediately to international shipping,
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Speaker 3: which is being done. Iran agreed to it, and from
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Speaker 3: what I understand now, the strait is open. Now being
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Speaker 3: left out is the fact that it's the strait is
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Speaker 3: under the control of the Iranian military. Oops, so the
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Speaker 3: strait is open, but the Iranian military is controlling the straits. Well,
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Speaker 3: I don't think that was in our minds. See, it
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Speaker 3: was an international it was an international seaway prior to
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Speaker 3: the war, where Iran had nothing to do with controlling
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Speaker 3: the straits. Well, it's a little bit different right now.
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Speaker 3: And so the ceasefire is in place, and it's in
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Speaker 3: place for two weeks. And here is the problem, and
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Speaker 3: that is where are the negotiations going to go? Because
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Speaker 3: both sides it seems intractable because one demands of the
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Speaker 3: other side that positions that can't be met. For example,
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Speaker 3: what does the United States want? The United States wants
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Speaker 3: Iran to effectively dismantle its military, get rid of its
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Speaker 3: drone program, stop its ballistic missile program, stop manufacturing of
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Speaker 3: those weapons. In addition, the nuclear program, they figures about
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Speaker 3: nine hundred pounds of enriched uranium enough to make I
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Speaker 3: don't know, three four bombs. From what I understand, that
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Speaker 3: has to be dismantled, and that uranium has to be
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Speaker 3: transported someplace else and state sponsorship of terrorist groups. That's
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Speaker 3: what we are demanding of Iran. All right, Well, how
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Speaker 3: much of that is Iran going to give up during
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Speaker 3: the next two week negotiations. On the other side, let's
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Speaker 3: look at what Iran is demanding of the United States,
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Speaker 3: and that is getting rid of all of the bases
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Speaker 3: the United States. All military bases are to no longer
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Speaker 3: exist in the Mid East. Okay, that's one. Number two
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Speaker 3: is that sanctions will be lifted. All sanctions against Iran
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Speaker 3: will be lifted. I mean, it's just it's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 3: The state sponsorship. Are they still going to support terrorist groups?
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's there, that's what they live for. I mean,
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Speaker 3: keep in mind the mantra of Iran is, you know America,
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Speaker 3: the Satan kill Americans kill the United States. You think
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Speaker 3: that's going to change, Uh, it's not. So you have
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Speaker 3: these programs that Iran has that or the United States has.
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Speaker 3: It's it's just not going to change. Are we gonna
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Speaker 3: really are we going to get out of the Mid East? Oh?
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Speaker 3: And let's talk about reparations. They want the United States
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Speaker 3: to pay for the damage that the bombing. I mean,
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Speaker 3: that's hundreds of billions of dollars?
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Speaker 2: Is that going to happen?
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Speaker 3: Can you imagine the United States writing a check to
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Speaker 3: Iran to repair its facilities? So all of it, it
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Speaker 3: seems almost impossible. Where do you go when those are
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Speaker 3: the demands being met by each side?
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Speaker 2: You don't.
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Speaker 3: And then there's reality checks. All right, The administration is
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Speaker 3: saying there's a new regime in Iran that now we
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Speaker 3: can talk to and they're smarter and they're willing to
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Speaker 3: come to the table. Well, there is no new regime.
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Speaker 3: It's the same regime, the IRG, the Revolutionary Guard, still
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Speaker 3: controls the country. There just happens to be new leadership,
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Speaker 3: that's all. And from all reports is that new leadership
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Speaker 3: is even harder anti US, anti Western world, even tougher
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Speaker 3: than under the old Ayah Toola that his son is
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Speaker 3: even more insane hardcore, which is kind of hard to believe.
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Speaker 3: So it's I mean, the good news is you're not
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Speaker 3: going to see the bombing and what you have seen
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Speaker 3: the United States unleash that kind of warfare. Yeah, I
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Speaker 3: think President Trump would have done it, so he was
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Speaker 3: almost against the wall. It got to the point where
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Speaker 3: he would have almost no choice, and Iran, knowing that
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Speaker 3: the president could very well do this, agreed. But look
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Speaker 3: what they agreed to. Yes, we'll open up the straits,
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Speaker 3: but we're going to control it. And there were ships
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Speaker 3: that did make it through during all of this, and
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Speaker 3: the reports are they had they did pay Iran for
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Speaker 3: the joys of going through the strait.
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Speaker 2: And that's the fear.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's going to happen, is that the
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Speaker 3: Strait of Horror move is going to be a toll
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Speaker 3: booth that ships will be paying Iran. And then talk
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Speaker 3: about how crazy all of this was. I mean, just
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Speaker 3: both sides are nuts on this. While we were bombing Iran,
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Speaker 3: I mean, in the middle of the attack, the president
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Speaker 3: released sanctions, he lifted sanctions against Iranian ships selling oil
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Speaker 3: in the middle of it. I mean, a lot of
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Speaker 3: it just doesn't make sense. But we'll see what happens
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Speaker 3: over the next two weeks. The good news is that
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Speaker 3: the attacks have stopped, except you now have a couple
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Speaker 3: of Midi states that are saying gull states they're saying
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Speaker 3: they're still being attacked.
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Speaker 2: I think UAE says there have been attacks this morning
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Speaker 2: and they've was.
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Speaker 3: It either Olman has stole or maybe Saudi Arabia has
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Speaker 3: intercepted some of the attacks some missiles that have come
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Speaker 3: into their country.
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Speaker 2: So we're sort of up in the air.
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Speaker 3: But I guess the good news is the last moment
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Speaker 3: this thing stopped. And then the question is what the
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Speaker 3: president have really done this? Yeah, I think he would have.
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Speaker 3: I think he would have. But Iran, you know, said okay, okay,
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Speaker 3: you get to cease fire. Now we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 3: And it ships are going through from what I understand,
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Speaker 3: so they're holding up there into the bargain and the
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Speaker 3: stop and the festivities, if you will. The attacks on
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Speaker 3: both sides have stopped, all right, So we'll see what
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Speaker 3: happens over the next few days, over the next two weeks.
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Speaker 3: I don't think much is going to happen in terms
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Speaker 3: of negotiation. I think we're gonna be the same place
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Speaker 3: all right.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: Let me give you some not so good news in
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Speaker 3: terms of tickets. The first ticket drop for residents of
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Speaker 3: Southern California happened. The pre sale ticket lottery happened, and
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Speaker 3: a lot of LA locals are saying, wait a minute,
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Speaker 3: this isn't good news because you go on to the
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Speaker 3: website and you find that events are ridiculously overpriced or
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Speaker 3: just unavailable. So much for the vision of Games for All.
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Speaker 3: According for to Mayor Karen Bass, this is another one
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Speaker 3: I think is going to be the nail in her
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Speaker 3: coffin that she is going to lose the election. So
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Speaker 3: this is the first big ticket roll out ahead of
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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty eight Olympics and the Paralympic Games in
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Speaker 3: LA and when it all happened, the LA twenty eight
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Speaker 3: committee describe the arrival of the games as not only
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Speaker 3: a boon to the city. It's true, I mean it's
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Speaker 3: going to make a bucket of money, but statements like
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Speaker 3: creating the Games together, the Games for All vision and
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Speaker 3: tickets to the events would start as low as twenty
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Speaker 3: eight dollars and that includes a.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four percent ticketing fee.
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Speaker 3: So the pre sale launched, I think it was last
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Speaker 3: Thursday when it launched, and by ten am Friday, if
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Speaker 3: you were an aspiring ticket buyer, all artistic gymnastic events
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Speaker 3: were marked unavailable, as well as the opening ceremony. Now
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Speaker 3: one of my bucket lits is to go to an
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Speaker 3: opening ceremony of the Olympics, because they're getting better and better,
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Speaker 3: and even though they're great on TV, it's nothing like
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Speaker 3: being there. So here was my choice. Either I get
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Speaker 3: a car or I go to the Olympics, and a
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Speaker 3: car lasts a little longer than three hours.
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Speaker 2: Opening ceremony.
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Speaker 3: Also part of that opening ceremony is you know when
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Speaker 3: you have that procession of athletes from four hundred and
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Speaker 3: ninety six countries and you go, I mean, come on, really,
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Speaker 3: I mean there are countries you've never heard of that
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Speaker 3: are in that procession.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's hours and hours. Okay. So there were a.
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Speaker 3: Few available tickets to swimming and athletic events, track and
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Speaker 3: field starting at eleven hundred dollars, right, why not eleven
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Speaker 3: hundred bucks for a ticket?
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Speaker 2: And by Monday.
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Speaker 3: There were just a handful of events successible for less
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Speaker 3: than one hundred and fifty dollars a ticket. Just a
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Speaker 3: handful handball for example, women's cricket, where the stands are
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Speaker 3: very very quiet, you never hear any clapping and no
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Speaker 3: thank you, thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Judo.
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Speaker 3: Now, if you wanted to see the women's basketball bronze
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Speaker 3: medal game, that starts at four hundred bucks, and that's oh,
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Speaker 3: here's one opening ceremonies. The option to purchase I'm sorry,
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Speaker 3: closing ceremonies are now at five thousand dollars apiece. And
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Speaker 3: so oh, here's the way and made it easy for
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Speaker 3: US Angelino's people in southern California can go to the
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Speaker 3: Olympic events for free. All you have to do is
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Speaker 3: volunteer to work throughout the games. So if you want
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Speaker 3: to work, you get to see the games. Fantastic, good God.
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Speaker 3: And then more tickets are available April ninth tomorrow through
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Speaker 3: the nineteenth. That is a lottery. And the bottom line
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Speaker 3: is Olympics. The Olympics are kind of out of reach
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Speaker 3: for most people. If you ever look at the history
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Speaker 3: of the Olympics, the first Olympics nineteen thirty two. Here
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Speaker 3: in Los Angeles track and Field, you could walk up
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Speaker 3: to the ticket line or a ticket office at the
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Speaker 3: track and Field at the Coliseum. Just walk up and
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Speaker 3: buy your ticket for twenty five cents and go in
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Speaker 3: and get a great seat to see track and field.
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Speaker 3: Try doing that today. And Amy, you were just talking
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Speaker 3: about a listener who called in.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we had a guy and because we were
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Speaker 4: talking about this on wake up call yesterday about how
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Speaker 4: tough it is to get the tickets and that they're
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Speaker 4: costing so much. And he said, oh, I got tickets
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Speaker 4: and it was two hundred and fifty bucks for two
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Speaker 4: tickets to see the Bronze Metal round of hockey. I said, wow,
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Speaker 4: that's great. And then I said, hmm, isn't hockey in
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Speaker 4: the Winter Games? And I go what kind of hockey?
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Speaker 4: And he said, well, ice hockey And he said are
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Speaker 4: you sure and he goes, oh, no, he got field
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Speaker 4: hockey tickets, which is great. Field hockey is great, but
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Speaker 4: I think he was really excited that he got a
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Speaker 4: bargain on ice hockey tickets.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's going to come a time where, you know,
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Speaker 3: the only tickets that are going to be available in
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Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks are a dwarf hockey. I
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Speaker 3: don't know if you knew that was an event, but
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Speaker 3: it's really very exciting. We're so lucky that I don't
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Speaker 3: do these games. You know, there's just no issue. They
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Speaker 3: wouldn't lay it well, they would be very entertaining. Okay, guys,
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Speaker 3: we're done with that by now. There's something really interesting
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Speaker 3: going on with AI, and that is we really don't
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Speaker 3: know what's AI and what is especially now the AI
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Speaker 3: is getting better. There's something called slop spreads, and slop
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Speaker 3: spreads are social and media feeds that are basically saying,
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Speaker 3: we're going out of our way to tell consumers that
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Speaker 3: we're not using AI. Marketers are doing that why because
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Speaker 3: we as consumers don't want to buy from companies that
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Speaker 3: use AI. So American Eagle Outfitters says in one of
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Speaker 3: their ads, we commit no AI generated bodies or people.
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Speaker 3: And there is their ads depicting Pamela Anderson. She's prompting
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Speaker 3: a chatbot to create models, but then reveals these are
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Speaker 3: all real people, no AI involved. I mean, there is
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Speaker 3: a backlaunch going on like crazy. There was a research
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Speaker 3: firm that just did a survey. Sixty eight percent of
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Speaker 3: consumers regularly question whether the contact they say is real,
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Speaker 3: and fifty percent would rather spend their money with brands
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Speaker 3: that don't use generative AI in marketing. Now here is
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Speaker 3: the question I have, and Neil, you probably know about
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Speaker 3: this more than anybody, and that is, we are a
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Speaker 3: company that doesn't use AI, and here's why. How do
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Speaker 3: we know that AI is not being used? To send
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Speaker 3: that message? Because AI is so good and no one
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Speaker 3: knows what the hell's going on?
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Speaker 1: You know what's crazy is there's a popping up in
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Speaker 1: a lot of YouTube channels right now is people buying
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Speaker 1: from these companies online, most of them from overseas that
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Speaker 1: show products. Now, they can show a product that doesn't
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Speaker 1: exist and say buy this, and then when they get
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Speaker 1: it and delivered, it's nothing like the photo. The photo
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Speaker 1: was simply generated on AI, so it's not a real product,
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Speaker 1: and the one that you get is ridiculous. I mean,
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Speaker 1: not even anything close there was. I had a woman
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Speaker 1: show up at a neighbor's house and I went out
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Speaker 1: and I said, can I help you because she looked confused,
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Speaker 1: and she said, I'm supposed to meet so and so here,
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Speaker 1: and I said, there's no one by that name that
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Speaker 1: lives there. And she shows me. She goes, I'm supposed
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Speaker 1: to babysits and shows me a photo that to me
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Speaker 1: was obviously AI, and I said, that's an AI photo.
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Speaker 1: That's like she was being tricked by somebody with an
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Speaker 1: AI photo. It's it's getting like anybody can use these tools,
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Speaker 1: you can go on and.
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Speaker 3: Now we just don't We just don't know. It's crazy. Now,
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Speaker 3: As you said, there are some obvious signs. If you
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Speaker 3: have a baby picture where the baby looks like Abraham
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Speaker 3: Lincoln with a beer and all of it.
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Speaker 1: I get it, the placement, the lighting and that there's
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Speaker 1: things that you can look for obviously.
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Speaker 2: But it's crazy. Yeah, But it's.
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Speaker 3: Getting harder and harder, isn't it, Neil, Yes, AI is
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Speaker 3: getting so good you're not gonna be able to tell
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Speaker 3: the difference at all.
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Speaker 1: There's a trick you can do, Like there's people that
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Speaker 1: do it in real time, so it's like a deep fake,
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Speaker 1: but in real time. So you're looking at them like
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Speaker 1: we're looking at each other now through cameras. You're looking
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Speaker 1: at them and they're talking to you, and there's a trick.
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Speaker 1: You have to have them hold up three fingers in
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Speaker 1: front of their face, and that confuses the AI model
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Speaker 1: and lets you know if the person's real or using
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Speaker 1: a deep fake face. There's certain things that you can
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Speaker 1: learn how to trick it or to see used to
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Speaker 1: be able to tell someone to turn to the left
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Speaker 1: or the right because it didn't do profiles well. But
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Speaker 1: they keep getting better and better and better, even in
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Speaker 1: real time.
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Speaker 3: It's getting to the point where we truly just don't
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Speaker 3: know in many cases what you're getting and what you're
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Speaker 3: not getting, and it's I don't know what to do
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Speaker 3: about that. I mean, I don't shop online. You know,
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Speaker 3: Lindsay does all the shopping online, but people who shop
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Speaker 3: a lot online, and you know we have Amazon coming
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Speaker 3: every day to the house. Uh, it's I just don't
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Speaker 3: even know how how it's going to work. I really don't.
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Speaker 3: For example, the three fingers all right, so it shows
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Speaker 3: instead of three fingers, only one finger shows, and you say,
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Speaker 3: what did I do to offend you?
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Speaker 1: It actually distorts the face. It's pretty crazy. It's pretty crazy,
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Speaker 1: and I've seen people be you know, tripped up by that.
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Speaker 2: There's all the.
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Speaker 1: Technologies get getting better and better and better to the
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Speaker 1: point where you have to be you know, you have
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Speaker 1: to be an expert to be able.
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Speaker 2: To I know, it's all it's all fake news.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we know we have fake news going on,
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Speaker 3: and now we're going to have fake ads. Well we
17:48
Speaker 3: have fake ads, and uh, you know, where where do
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Speaker 3: you go? And I don't know, you know. And one
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Speaker 3: of the things about AI, we have no idea how
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Speaker 3: life is going to change. All we do know is
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Speaker 3: it's changing dramatically and rapidly and saving money. I mean
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Speaker 3: it's you know, Ai. Oh, there's just a quick story.
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Speaker 3: So I uh, I have a new sponsor. I'm not
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Speaker 3: going to get into the into the the baseball inside
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Speaker 3: baseball here, but I'm looking at the copy and I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: wait a minute, this is not the way I do copy.
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Speaker 3: This is not the way I broadcast because I have
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Speaker 3: my own style. Everybody has their own style of doing
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Speaker 3: doing commercials. And I said, where did you get this
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Speaker 3: chatch ept right? AI wrote the copy? Wow, and I
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Speaker 3: knew it was Ai. Well, I have a great story
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Speaker 3: you share, but no, I want to stay employed here.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 4: If they would have been smart, Bill, they would have said,
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Speaker 4: because you're you're on AI, they can find you. I
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Speaker 4: would have been smart for them to say write a spot,
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Speaker 4: as Bill Handle would say it, huh.
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Speaker 3: Well, salespeople are not known for having the highest IQ
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Speaker 3: of people in the industry. I'm not going to make
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Speaker 3: any general statements here, but let's say we don't have
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Speaker 3: a immense organization here.
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Speaker 2: We don't hear at KFI in the building.
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Speaker 3: Okay, something new is afoot and it's not your feet.
19:31
Speaker 3: Sixty colleges so far have adopted a three year bachelor's degrees,
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Speaker 3: and it's starting to grow like crazy. Now, here's the
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Speaker 3: difference between a three year bachelor's degree. There's always been
19:41
Speaker 3: three year bachelor degrees, but it's four years crammed into
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Speaker 3: three years. I mean, you still do one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty units, and people have done it, and it's crazy
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Speaker 3: making there's so much work, but you can do it. Well,
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Speaker 3: this is a legitimate three year degree ninety units, and
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Speaker 3: it's between an a sociate's degree which is sixty units
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Speaker 3: and a full four year degree which is one hundred
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Speaker 3: and twenty units. And what does that mean? That means
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Speaker 3: it's a new degree that came up.
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Speaker 2: And why is that?
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Speaker 3: Well, there are certain degrees that you don't need four years.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of elective stuff in a four year
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Speaker 3: degree that you really don't need. It just rounds you
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Speaker 3: out as an individual, whatever the hell that means. I've
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Speaker 3: never understood that you are more rounded. The only rounding
20:31
Speaker 3: it is overeating, as far as I'm concerned. The bad
20:34
Speaker 3: food in the cafeteria, lots and lots of starch and
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Speaker 3: lots of carbs.
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Speaker 2: But this is getting some traction.
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Speaker 3: Why because well, students like it because it saves buckets
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Speaker 3: of money. And the reason colleges like it because students.
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Speaker 3: First of all, it attracts more students and a lot
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Speaker 3: of schools that really need more students.
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Speaker 2: Also, it helps with a draw out rate.
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Speaker 3: And employers are fine with it because the training they need,
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Speaker 3: the kind of background that a degree brings to the
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Speaker 3: table is still as valuable, because do you think an
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Speaker 3: employer cares that you have had some kind of an
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Speaker 3: elective class that means absolutely nothing. I mean, I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to remember how many elective classes I took, and some
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Speaker 3: of them were just downright stupid, and I can't remember
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Speaker 3: many of them because I was stone the whole time
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Speaker 3: that I was in college. I was so ripped, so frankly,
21:35
Speaker 3: I don't even remember college, to be honest with you.
21:38
Speaker 3: I went to school in Canada for a couple of years.
21:40
Speaker 3: There was not one moment that I was not stoned.
21:43
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, when I went back to
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Speaker 3: Vancouver to visit, I couldn't find the streets, I couldn't
21:51
Speaker 3: find the area that the college was in, and I
21:54
Speaker 3: went there every day. So Okay, the point is is
21:58
Speaker 3: I took some elective courses that meant nothing. And that's
22:02
Speaker 3: the whole point of this three year degree. And it
22:05
Speaker 3: is growing like crazy, and accrediting agencies and agencies that
22:11
Speaker 3: oversee universities that all have to be accredited, they're approving
22:15
Speaker 3: these bachelor's degree that require fewer credits. Previously all of them,
22:20
Speaker 3: of course said no, but today they're under scrutiny themselves.
22:25
Speaker 3: So you have a situation that just makes more sense.
22:30
Speaker 3: I mean, I would do this. I would love to
22:32
Speaker 3: have had a three year degree, although I don't remember
22:36
Speaker 3: if it were three years or four years anyway, but
22:40
Speaker 3: this has been climbing since twenty nineteen, and it really
22:43
Speaker 3: does is we think the purpose of a college education.
22:47
Speaker 3: Universities and colleges asking themselves, what are we doing? Why
22:50
Speaker 3: are we doing it? What do students really need? And
22:55
Speaker 3: it's something that is happening. It makes sense, It really
22:59
Speaker 3: makes sense. Why is that the cost of a college
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Speaker 3: degree is insane?
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Speaker 2: Today?
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Speaker 3: My daughter Barbara is decided she's in love with Scotland.
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Speaker 3: She went there and just fell in love with that.
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Speaker 3: So she's starting school in Scotland. She's a taking she's
23:17
Speaker 3: starting university in a new course. And I had to
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Speaker 3: write the check for the tuition. Now, thank goodness, I
23:24
Speaker 3: have a five twenty nine plan that pays for her
23:26
Speaker 3: education that I funded the day my kids were born.
23:30
Speaker 3: That day I opened it up. And so there's enough
23:34
Speaker 3: money to pay for education. What if you didn't and
23:37
Speaker 3: you're writing money and it's not deductible, by the way,
23:41
Speaker 3: it's well, you know, how do you come up with
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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for your kids' education?
23:47
Speaker 2: You don't. And by the way, what does an education
23:49
Speaker 2: mean today? You know, not much.
23:53
Speaker 3: My daughter Pamela, you know, finished her undergrad degree in
23:58
Speaker 3: computer science and she can't get a job in what
24:03
Speaker 3: her field is. And so with her bachelor's degree, she's
24:08
Speaker 3: unemployed with her degree, and with her master's degree, she'll
24:12
Speaker 3: be unemployed because she's starting a master's program. Hey, welcome
24:16
Speaker 3: to the new world of education. She's become a baker,
24:20
Speaker 3: although she loves baking. You know, she's a really great cook.
24:25
Speaker 3: So at least we get, you know, a baker at home. Boy,
24:28
Speaker 3: that was worth all the money, wasn't it. Okay, we're
24:32
Speaker 3: done with that.
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Speaker 2: Coming up.
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Speaker 3: Oh, here's a good one. And airlines are using older
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