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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handled on demand from KF I
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  Speaker 1: am six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Dogs or not cheap either.
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  Speaker 3: No, but if someone is that advanced in Alzheimer's, you
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  Speaker 3: just buy a fluffy slipper and I just say here,
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  Speaker 3: this is your dog, and that will run you two
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  Speaker 3: dollars and nine nine cents at Walmart.
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  Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handle, and.
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  Speaker 2: Good good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Ever, but a Wednesday Hodayday, January seventh, yesterday we remembered,
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  Speaker 4: didn't celebrate, but commemorated.
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  Speaker 2: No, I remember January sixth.
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  Speaker 3: And five years ago and today's January seventh. And this
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  Speaker 3: is the anniversary of the Palisades and eating fire.
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  Speaker 2: Which we're going to talk about a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start with Neil. Good morning Neil.
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  Speaker 3: That's Neil doing his impression of Helen Keller. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, he does an excellent, excellent job. Neil will
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  Speaker 3: be joining us next week. He's out all of this
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  Speaker 3: week on vacation.
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  Speaker 5: Amy, Good morning, Good morning Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there's your disney Land sweater.
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  Speaker 5: Oh it's brand new, of course it is now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, now we're talking about end of the world.
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  Speaker 3: This is fun on the back that says Disneyland. That's
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  Speaker 3: the six inch letters.
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  Speaker 6: It's called a spirit jersey and it's my Crouella de
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  Speaker 6: Ville for one hundred and one Dalmatius looks black white.
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  Speaker 2: Did you buy it?
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  Speaker 6: So?
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  Speaker 2: I see? Did you buy it at Disneyland? Of course?
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask how much it was? So you're real.
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  Speaker 3: That's not horrible, but but you know you want Disneyland.
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  Speaker 3: You're you know, your torso really isn't big enough to
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  Speaker 3: really work on it. What we need is a very
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  Speaker 3: broad shouldered lesbian to really have the letters.
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  Speaker 5: Go across by Disneyland.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, in terms of letters.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, Dalmatian spots on the Disneyland.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're right, it does. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, the lesbian quote, as I'm parroting Chief
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  Speaker 3: Daryl Gates when he was asked about women joining the
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  Speaker 3: l A Police Department, and he said, mostly we want
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  Speaker 3: women with big upper body strength, and those are lesbians.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well he didn't say the word lesbians, but he did
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  Speaker 3: say because no, he actually inferred really strong upper body strength, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And the implication and he went on and the let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you this, and the implication was exactly what
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  Speaker 3: he said. And oh god, there's have been some public statements.
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  Speaker 3: They got people in so much trouble. Who is that
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  Speaker 3: baseball cono? You know that? I mean we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: going back coas Karinas who said that African Americans don't
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  Speaker 3: have the necessities to be coaches and oh it was
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  Speaker 3: on a night line and Ted Copple said, excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: do you want to take that back? And he goes, no,
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  Speaker 3: not at all. He got bounced. So there's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of racism out there, to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: Less.
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  Speaker 3: So, by the way, I'm quoting stuff that's years and
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  Speaker 3: years old. Okay, so much for that, Cono. Good morning,
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  Speaker 3: good morning, good morning. And by the way, I have
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  Speaker 3: a dear friend of mine and Britain talks about well,
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  Speaker 3: let me put it this way, gay women as wearing
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  Speaker 3: flannel shirts and having stout shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Or you're shaking your head, Will, You're shaking your head
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  Speaker 2: and it's comfortable shoes. Comfortable shoes. Okay, well that works too,
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  Speaker 2: that works too.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So anyway, good morning Will, good morning Bill, and
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  Speaker 3: good morning Anne. Hid And now you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: deal with the emails, aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes you are.
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  Speaker 6: That's why she's smiling. She just knows she's gonna have
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  Speaker 6: a fun day ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've once got you know.
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  Speaker 3: I've been sued five times in my entire history, mainly
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  Speaker 3: for handle on the law when I gave such rotten
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  Speaker 3: legal advice that lawyers actually file the complaint, and over
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  Speaker 3: the course of my years, and this has to do
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  Speaker 3: with my surrogacy stuff when it didn't go quite right
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  Speaker 3: and the couple ended up suing me. And so in
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  Speaker 3: one case, the surrogate sued me because she didn't get
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  Speaker 3: the money she was promised under the contract, the couple
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  Speaker 3: didn't put in the money, on and on and on.
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  Speaker 2: But it was one of the lawyers who ended.
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  Speaker 3: Up settling the case because I sued his ass off
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  Speaker 3: said you have to settle the case because I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to allege that you are a racist and that will
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  Speaker 3: destroy your career. And my attorney just responded with, get
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  Speaker 3: in line.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 3: That was the one line you want to allege that,
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  Speaker 3: Just get in line. And so just that allegation cost
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  Speaker 3: him a ton of money. You can't do that, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's extortion big time. So I think that's enough of that.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think Are you trying to say you're
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  Speaker 3: not racist? That's correct, and I'm not or I or
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  Speaker 3: I am anti everybody? How can you be a racist
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  Speaker 3: if you hate everybody across the board, including yourself? So
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  Speaker 3: where is the racism? I am not pointing out a
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  Speaker 3: specific religion, ethnicity, background, the place of birth.
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  Speaker 2: Across the board.
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  Speaker 3: So therefore, well, wait, that's how really quickly, that's how
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  Speaker 3: Handle on the Law became a national show. I shared
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  Speaker 3: this story with you. I Handle On the Law was
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  Speaker 3: picked up by Premier Radio as a national show, and
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  Speaker 3: I got a call from one of the corporate corporate
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  Speaker 3: suits at that time. It was a Cox Radio that
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  Speaker 3: owned KFI, and he said, Bill, you're opening up in
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  Speaker 3: what twelve thirteen states?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And your license only in California. I said yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: he isn't there do you see a problem with you
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  Speaker 3: giving advice to people in another state in which you
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  Speaker 3: are only licensed in California? And I said, see, you're
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  Speaker 3: presupposing that I actually know California law. If I don't
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  Speaker 3: know law in every state across the board, then I
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  Speaker 3: have no problem giving a legal advice.
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  Speaker 2: And he thought about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that works, and that's how I handle on the
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  Speaker 3: law became a national show. Okay, guys, all right, will
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  Speaker 3: like they say good morning to you, didn't I?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, good morning?
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  Speaker 3: Of course I always forget saying good morning. Will That
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  Speaker 3: goes to show you how high on the food chain
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  Speaker 3: you are awesome in my life. Okay, let's do it, guys,
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  Speaker 3: It's time for handle.
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  Speaker 2: On the news.
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  Speaker 3: Amy and Neil is not here and me and lead story. Well,
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  Speaker 3: yesterday the governor issued a proclamation that says today January
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  Speaker 3: seventh is a day of remembrance for the La Fires,
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  Speaker 3: the Eaton fires, Alta Dina, and the Palisades fires. And
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  Speaker 3: he ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown
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  Speaker 3: at half staff. And the two fires were I mean
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  Speaker 3: just they were covered internationally. In Palisades, the Santa Ana
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  Speaker 3: wins reached ninety miles per hour, scorching twenty three thousand,
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  Speaker 3: almost twenty four thousand acres, twelve lives lost, sixty eight
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  Speaker 3: hundred structures. Same afternoon, the Eating fire just above Altadena
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  Speaker 3: that consumes fourteen thousand acres, kills nineteen people and levels
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  Speaker 3: ninety four hundred homes and buildings. You put all that
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  Speaker 3: together and you have about sixteen thousand homes and businesses
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  Speaker 3: that were destroyed. I don't know in the history of
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  Speaker 3: the United States we've ever had that. I do not
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  Speaker 3: know that. And today we're going to talk about at
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  Speaker 3: seven o'clock Palisades fire report because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: controversy as to how it started and how it was
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  Speaker 3: dealt with, and did the fire department do the right
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  Speaker 3: thing and was there lying.
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  Speaker 2: Or covering up in the report that came out afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll cover that at seven Mistakes. That's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: story two is, isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Mistakes were made.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Ellie were watered down. Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Ellie's fire chief Jamie Moore talked to the Fireboard Commission
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  Speaker 6: yesterday and said that there were mistakes made in that
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  Speaker 6: after action report on the Palisades fire. As Bill just mentioned,
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  Speaker 6: they watered some things down to keep people from looking
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  Speaker 6: too bad. He says, it's now clear multiple drafts were
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  Speaker 6: edited to soften language and reduce explicit criticism of department
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  Speaker 6: leadership in the final report.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting choice of words. The report was watered down. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: one more before we take a break.
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  Speaker 5: Doing nothing turned deadly.
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  Speaker 6: A former police officer school police officer is facing criminal
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  Speaker 6: charges in Uvalde, Texas, because they're saying he didn't do
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  Speaker 6: anything at rob Elementary School in the minutes before a
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  Speaker 6: shooter showed up and started firing inside an elementary school.
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  Speaker 6: Police officer now accused of failing to protect the children,
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  Speaker 6: stood by without making a move to prevent the carnage.
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  Speaker 6: That's according to prosecutors the school officers Adrian Gonzalez. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 6: say the officer only went inside rob Elementary after the
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  Speaker 6: damage had been done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the only cop who has been charged and
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  Speaker 3: is being criminally charged. He's being prosecuted and tried. And
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  Speaker 3: it was seventy seven minutes from the first call until
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  Speaker 3: the police they went into the room and were able
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  Speaker 3: to shoot the killer. And he was killing people throughout
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  Speaker 3: the entire time, over two rooms, just shooting them point blank,
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  Speaker 3: and the cops didn't go in. They were gutless wonders
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  Speaker 3: and could have saved lives. And I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: his defense is. Well, I think his defense is nobody
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  Speaker 3: told him to go in, which I think is why
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  Speaker 3: today there's such a push to where if there's an
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  Speaker 3: active shooter, if there is even an accusation of the
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  Speaker 3: possibility the police rush, it goes straight in and they
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  Speaker 3: can't be concerned with their lives. They have to go
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  Speaker 3: after the shooter because don't be a cop otherwise.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Will the US take Greenland?
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  Speaker 6: White House Press Secretary Caroline love It says President Trump
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  Speaker 6: and his advisors are talking about a range of options
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  Speaker 6: to acquire Greenland, and utilizing the US military is always
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  Speaker 6: an option.
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  Speaker 3: And now I Anne and I agree that we can't
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  Speaker 3: do every topic Donald Trump in the administration, even though
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  Speaker 3: every day you can.
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  Speaker 2: Easily do a topic. Today we have to.
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  Speaker 3: So coming up at seven thirty, we will do another
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  Speaker 3: episode of Crazy and it has to do with Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: and it's you know, you know, sometimes you shake your
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  Speaker 3: head and sometimes you shake your head off your shoulders,
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  Speaker 3: and that's this one.
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  Speaker 5: And we'll tell on the Greenland.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the Greenland story, Like why didn't.
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  Speaker 6: They start with saying, you know what, Greenland's very important important.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to work with them.
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  Speaker 6: To come up because as they said, no, we're going
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  Speaker 6: to take it, we need it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, because you got Donald Trump and just really
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  Speaker 3: quickly and I'll talk more about that at seven thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Greenland is not only a member of NATO. Second of all,
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  Speaker 3: it is one of the strongest allies the US has.
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  Speaker 3: The US had thirty one bases on Greenland, US basis
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  Speaker 3: of which Greenland Denmark actually controls. Greenland gladly accepted US troops.
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  Speaker 3: The US closed thirty of them. There's one base remaining
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  Speaker 3: and the President said, we want it. And Steven Miller
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  Speaker 3: is completely nuts in terms of revisionist history.
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk and he is a senior advisor to the President.
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  Speaker 3: I'll talk more about that coming up at seven thirty,
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  Speaker 3: because this one is just you gotta shake your head
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  Speaker 3: on this one.
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  Speaker 2: This one you go come on, guys, really come on.
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  Speaker 3: And there's some scary stuff to this story too, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll share that with you at seven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, you don't want to miss that. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to miss that.
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  Speaker 6: Mickey's mad about the money. Actor Mickey Rourke says he
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  Speaker 6: is not asking his fans for financial help on gofund
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  Speaker 6: me to avoid eviction. Remember we told you that he's
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  Speaker 6: like sixty thousand dollars behind in rent payments apparently, and
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  Speaker 6: got an eviction letter last month. So his manager apparently
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  Speaker 6: set up a GoFundMe page and asked people to help.
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  Speaker 6: They had a goal of raising one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 6: and they did. They hit it yesterday. But Mickey Work says, hey,
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  Speaker 6: that is not me. If I needed money, I would
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't ask for no EF and charity.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you would think, And I'm fine with that
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  Speaker 3: because there's all kinds of GoFundMe fraud out there where
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  Speaker 3: people pretend to have all kinds of ailments and real problems.
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  Speaker 2: And so you have Rourke saying nope, not me, which
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  Speaker 2: I buy.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's his manager that puts that is exactly, and
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  Speaker 6: that's exactly the next sentence.
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  Speaker 2: It was his manager that set it up.
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  Speaker 6: So but why did she? I mean, is he sixty
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  Speaker 6: thousand dollars? Is he sixty thousand dollars behind and not paying?
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  Speaker 6: Is there something going on mentally well?
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  Speaker 2: And keeping more seventy three? If he is paying five
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 5: A month which was raised to seven thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but let's let's go back to five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: a month that he hasn't paid, because I think that's
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  Speaker 3: the figure, five thousand dollars a month, and at sixty
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars, that's a year before he receives an eviction
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  Speaker 3: letter that he hasn't paid the rent. Let me tell
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  Speaker 3: you if I own, if I own, if I'm an
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  Speaker 3: apartment or I own a building or an apartment building,
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  Speaker 3: I do not wait a year before sending a letter
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  Speaker 3: saying you owe me money. This story is really weird,
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  Speaker 3: and he's a great actor. I love Mickey Rourke. He's
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  Speaker 3: done some great stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Tragedy years in the making.
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  Speaker 6: Apparently the guy who has been identified as the shooter
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  Speaker 6: at Brown University he killed two students and then also
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  Speaker 6: killed an mit professor a couple of days later, apparently
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  Speaker 6: planned the attack for years and left behind videos in
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  Speaker 6: which he confessed to the murders.
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  Speaker 5: But never gave a motive.
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  Speaker 6: The guy's name was Claudio Valente, forty eight, went to
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  Speaker 6: Brown at one time, like twenty years ago. He was
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  Speaker 6: also a Portuguese national. He killed himself and was found
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  Speaker 6: in a storage facility in New Hampshire a few days
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  Speaker 6: after the shootings.
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  Speaker 3: It's a weird story, is it, And no motive, and
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  Speaker 3: he leaves his video and says I'm not going to apologize.
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  Speaker 3: It's and he was there twenty years ago, and we're
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  Speaker 3: told that he actually was a student there with the
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  Speaker 3: MIT professor. They both were in school there about the
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  Speaker 3: same time. So if it's a grudge, it's a grudge
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  Speaker 3: he's held for twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: You know. They try to study motives all the time.
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  Speaker 3: After something crazy like this happens, the police come in
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  Speaker 3: and say, we're looking at motives. I mean, there's no
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  Speaker 3: investigation as to how the murder took place.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's easy, but we want to know why.
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  Speaker 3: It's all different. Every single time it's different. And so
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  Speaker 3: let me ask you this. He has a motive. He
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  Speaker 3: doesn't say I'm going to kill people. I just hate people.
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  Speaker 3: How many of those do you think the police have?
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  Speaker 3: And then when someone does kill people? And oh, let's
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  Speaker 3: look at his social media's okay, so the guy's mentally
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  Speaker 3: mentally ill. How many mentally o people will go on
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  Speaker 3: the internet every day?
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  Speaker 2: Cono? Okay, moving on.
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  Speaker 6: He doesn't have a number for you.
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  Speaker 5: Can you google it? ConA, how many mental.
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  Speaker 2: Actually that I will? Actually I wasn't asking for a number, but.
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  Speaker 5: I was trying to suffer.
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  Speaker 6: I know you were fifty million barrel gift. President Trump says,
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  Speaker 6: Venezuela is going to turn over between thirty and fifty
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  Speaker 6: million barrels of oil.
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  Speaker 5: To the US.
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  Speaker 6: He says, this oil will be sold at its market price,
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  Speaker 6: and that money will be controlled by me, says Trump.
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  Speaker 6: And he says he's doing it that way to ensure
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  Speaker 6: it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and
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  Speaker 6: the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Now question here, I don't know how it benefits the
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  Speaker 3: people of Venezuela when the Trump administration or the United
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  Speaker 3: States says you're going to give us thirty to fifty
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  Speaker 3: million gallons of oil. Also, keep in mind that the
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  Speaker 3: US uses twenty million barrels I'm sorry, twenty million barrels
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  Speaker 3: of oil every day, so that's two days worth. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what that actually means. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: that's part of crazy at seven thirty. You know what,
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  Speaker 3: we only have one segment at seven thirty, I got
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  Speaker 3: to say, and we have to do the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the show and all day tomorrow on this stuff because
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  Speaker 3: it's that nuts. Yeah, which we won't but we should.
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  Speaker 5: Well it's another case of what have you done for me? Lately?
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  Speaker 6: The Baltimore Ravens one often and one Big over the
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  Speaker 6: last eighteen seasons with John Harbaugh as the head coach,
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  Speaker 6: but The Ravens fired Harbor yesterday after a disappointing season.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't get into the Super Bowl, and obviously and
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  Speaker 6: they missed the playoffs. Steve Biscotti, the Raven's owner, said,
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  Speaker 6: following a comprehensive evaluation of the season and the overall
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  Speaker 6: direction of our organization, I decided to make a change
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  Speaker 6: at head coach. Today I informed John that he has
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  Speaker 6: been relieved of his duties.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One of the reasons is the loss you were talking about,
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  Speaker 3: and Harbaugh hates Italian food. Okay, Biscotti the owner, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: let me put that together for you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's move on.
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  Speaker 6: President Reagan's oldest son has died. Michael Reagan died. The
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  Speaker 6: Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation announced his death on x calling
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  Speaker 6: him a steadfast guardian of his father's legacy. He was
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  Speaker 6: a contributor to NEWSMAC and also was known for his
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  Speaker 6: talk radio program, The Michael Reagan Show.
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  Speaker 2: He was eighty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me give you a personal story about Michael Reagan.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: He did a radio talk show for a few years,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: and he was in the Premiere building when I was
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: doing a broadcasting handle on the Law out of the
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: same building. So he was down the hall, and we
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: used to hang together. We would have coffee, and I
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: loved him, just a great guy, and he would do
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: me tell me story after a story about growing up
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: with Ronald Reagan, and just terrific stories.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: So I asked him one day.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: And keep in mind that Michael Reagan and maure and
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Reagan were adopted and the other two children of the
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Reagan's were talking about Nancy Reagan, and I was Patty
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: and ron I believe were biological kids of the Reagans
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: of Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan. And so I asked Michael.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I said, hey, Mike, let me ask you a question.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: You know, Nancy Reagan has quite a reputation for not
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: being a nice person, as a matter of fact, being
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: a psycho bitch.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Did she show any deference?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Did she show any you know, did she give any
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: favors or have a favorite, showed favoritism to her biological
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: children versus you and Maureen, who she was basically a
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: step mom to. And he goes, no, absolutely not. She
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: treated all four of us the same. She hated all
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: four of us and treated all of us like crap.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, anyway, great stories, He came up with and
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: moving on, okay.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Kid funding cut off.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: The Trump administration is halting billions of dollars in federal
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: funding for social services programs in five states that are
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: led by Democrats because of allegations of The decision by
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: the administration comes after Health and Human Services announced last
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: week that it had frozen federal childcare funding for Minnesota
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: because of blatant fraud in public assistance programs.
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  Speaker 5: That adds up to the billions of dollars.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems to be the case that there was
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: that much fraud, at least what we're hearing. But have
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: you noticed that the only states and cities in which
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: fraud is alleged by the Feds are Democrat led states
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: and cities. There is no fraud that exists in Republican
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: led states, those are well led, those do not have protests,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: for example, that are deemed an invasion an insurrection against
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the government of the United States. I find this fascinating
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and it's just straight out it just it floors me
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: with this kind of both favoritism and this kind of discrimination,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: and the Republican legislator say nothing. They just let it
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: all happen. Quick question, let's say Trump does invade Greenland, right,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: which is it's just going to change the world completely.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Do you think the Republicans are going to back him up?
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Do you think the Republicans in Congress will say yep?
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Jim Jordan, who is one of his stanchest supporters, who said,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I think ahead of the Foreign Relations Committee, I trust
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: this president no matter what, no matter what the president does,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I trust this president.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you do with that anyway.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I think Jim Keeney is going to talk a little
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: bit about some federal health programs that have just been nailed,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: and we'll do.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: That at our normal eight thirty time.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, here's another story I'm going to do, I believe,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: and that is a story about you Haul.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Californians are becoming ex Californians in big numbers. You Hall
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: puts out an annual growth index. They track migration trends
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: by seeing where the U haul trucks are coming from
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: and going to and going back to or not, and
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: California ranked last. It's recorded its largest exodus of do
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: it yourself movers of any state in the US for
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: twenty twenty five, although fewer people left in twenty twenty
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: five than left in twenty twenty four, So I guess
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: it's slowing down a little.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: A little bit.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: But this is a really interesting statistic which I'm going
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: to talk about, and that is, you have the massive
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: amounts of people leaving California based on what U haul says,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: and the U haul has looked at sort of the
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: definitive source for this sort of stuff, and the population
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: of California remains the same and huge numbers of people
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: are leaving.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: How is that possible.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going to dive into that at what time we're
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: going to be doing that at eight o'clock this morning.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Twenty percent of new car loans at the end of
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: last year, which is, of course just a few days ago.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: We're over one thousand dollars per month. Now usually I
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: mean I remember three four hundred dollars a month, and
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: that wasn't too many years ago, you know. Then I
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: jumped to seven hundred dollars a month, and all of
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: a sudden, now it's getting expensive.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Now you're really feeling it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And at one thousand dollars a month, And is that
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: for a three year loan?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Probably not no, because now more people are doing those
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: eighty four month loans.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I know, that's insane.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Now cars do last much longer. You know, there's this
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: myth about cars aren't as well built as they were before. Well,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: you know what, before you had to change oil every
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: three thousand miles, and cars did not last one hundred
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: thousand miles. Today are the last one hundred and fifty
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: thousand miles if you take care of it. So when
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: you talk about the cost of a car, you know,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I bought my girls when they were eighteen years old.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: They bought each of them a car, and which is,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: by the way, their birthday, and there are holiday gifts
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: for the next ten years every time.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm talking twelve years ago.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I bought them the car and they still ask g Dad,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: what's our birthday present? And I go, hey, walk outside
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: and tell me what's on the driveway. Okay, that's your
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: birthday present. And that was twelve years ago. The point
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: is the cars are going to last, and so you know,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: are they worth it day?
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: But can anybody afford it? No, because they're so damn expensive. Also,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: repairing cars today, Wow, it's anyway, it's pretty depressing.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: My mechanic quit because like retired, and I said, why
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: are you retiring? And he said, I'm so tired of
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: having customers come in and then going, well, that's going
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: to be seven thousand dollars to fix. Says the cost
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: of repairing cars is skyrocketed.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, survey says, Let's go around the room and Kno,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: are you making car payments?
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I am? And how much are they? Six hundred? Can
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: you imagine what a piece of crap your car is?
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Alas man?
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, No, I'm just obviously, but over how many? Over
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: how long a period of time?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it?
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Okay, he's doing it for twelve years. Amy, Are you
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: paying car payments? No?
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: But I have a really old car.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, and that's really the way to do it. Will
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: car payments Nope? Same as Amy, okay. And car payments yes, okay?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: How much per month?
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Like three fifty?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: What did you? What did you? What are you buying?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Like a model T? What?
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: What?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: I got?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: A Pacade twenty twenty one? Oh? Okay, fair enough?
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: And I LEAs my cars, by the way, for business purposes.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I used to buy them, but now I lease them.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: And you know the cost of leasing a car, I
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: mean I paid per months.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Wait, we all had to say, what are you paying
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: for month?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I just told you per months.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Are you paying over a thousand a month?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Actually I am for one car. Yeah yeah, I think
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: it's eleven dollars a month. But I you know, I've
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: got you know, the Blasto five thousand Beamer, which I'll
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: never do again, ever do it again. My next car
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: is going to be a five year old SUV as
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: soon as my lease is up, because this is crazy.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I mean even I just go come on, guys, really
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: all right?
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: Moving on, AI strip shows are sparking some outrage.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: So Elon Musk has his chatbot Grock and.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: Apparently there is a spicy mode that can generate adult
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: content and it's generating naked people like you know, or
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: it's making you know, it's taking you bill and making
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: you naked and then putting it out there for the
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: world to see.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Well I did that with Will and I'm still in
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: therapy over that.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Anyway, social media they're taking a lot of heat for it,
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: and even some countries are talking about regulating it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: To well, yeah, when an eight year old can go
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: on and bring up porno straight porno, yeah, you'd think.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Some stuff not worth selling.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: China has banned some exports to Japan if those exports
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: can be used as military things like maybe navigation systems
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: or drones. Of course, this happens during heightened tensions between
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: China and Japan over Taiwan.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's getting really tough. Taiwan is getting closer. I mean,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: China is getting closer and closer to attacking Taiwan, saying
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: that Taiwan is the province of China and has literally
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: since the Chinese Revolution. So here's a question. China is
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: not sailing to not selling to Japan. How does Japan
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: tell the difference between Chinese goods and theirs? Okay, let's
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: move on.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: What's in a name?
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Well, the US Patent and Trademark Office says that the
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: Las Vegas Athletics or the Vegas Athletics cannot be a
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: trademarked name. The a's requested it, the Patent and Trademark
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: Office said, Nope, the nickname athletics is too generic and
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: could be confused with other activities, even if associated with
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: Las Vegas.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: Apparently.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and keep in mind that the Philadelphia Athletics, where
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: athletics were used in the name and athletics are still
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: going on that started in nineteen oh one, So it's
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: kind of hard to argue. Although athletics is a pretty
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: generic it's a pretty generic phrase.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: So why are they trying to trademarket just for sales
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: of stuff?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I think they're trying to number one sales. Yeah, because
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: people could. You could turn around and put a T
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: shirt out that says athletics. Now you can't do it
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: in the same font. You can't do it in the
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: same size, because you would want to be able to
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: argue that there is no confusion. But you know, the
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: argument is that the patent office says, yeah, yeah, it
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: can be confusing. And my only point is, really, this
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: has been around since nineteen oh one.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Give me a break. That's the point here.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: The new Caltech president is out of this world because
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: he's an astrophysicist. His name is ray Ja Wardona. He
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: also was the provost of Johns Hopkins University. He's next
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: president at cal Tech, which is one of the nation's wealthiest,
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: most elite universities. The campus board of trustees announced the
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: appointment yesterday after a month long search to replace president
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: Thomas Rosenbauma said in April he would be resigning.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: An interesting factoid which we should know is that the
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL is run by cal Tech. A
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: partner of mine. Her husband is a works for JPL
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: and also teaches a cal Tech because they go back
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: and forth. So we're done with the news, all right.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Went through all the stories. Anne, good for you.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Look at Anne applauding you.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it's you have to guess as to how quickly.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: The story timing too perfect. Yeah, timing was good. Timing
• 33:04
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